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i j pubrahed by heme newspaper limited 22 main street south georgetown ontario w c mihn publisher page 4 thursday april 10th 1969 ebharial comment tough job but arent they all t perhaps no tougher than the business world- but more apparent is the job situ- tion in professional sports til one couldnt hlp burbe shocked -af- jjter sundays hockey playoff when toronto jtook ijori the chin four straight from bos- jton to hear a news flash that punch irrv lach had been fired as coach and manager this despite getting his team into the playoffs almost every year for ten years and winning three or four stanley cups were sfiil shocked but after thinking it over we wonder if this is much differ ent than other fields of work there are movie stars who win academy awards then flop in a couple of movies and are heard from no rrjpre and there are men with responsible business positions who suddenly disappear or end up wihs- a minor position demoted because they have made an error lost some of their zip or been in the way of an up and coming younger man the difference is that when one has a position in the wpflcj of entertainment or politics a situation like the one that took place sunday is in the public domain ev eryone has an opinion on a hockey coachs efficiency everyone thinks they know how good or how badly he does his job firing of a man of imlachs stature is national hews and being in the enter tainment world it becomes dramatic a pro duction in itself in business its different even the hardest boss wouldnt disj miss a man at the christmas party nor would he tell a newspaper reporter two minutes later that mr x would be no lonf ger with the firm it would be done with more finesse discreetly but it would be none the less final none the less an upset to a man who had given his best to his job its a tough cruel world one which could stand more compassion more use of the christian virtues to which most of us give only lip service students are after me crown of thorns halton east mp where were the economists when the ontario department of edu cation embarked on its massive new pro gram of consolidating school districts we were among those who doubted the ad vance publicity about economy being one of the factors in the decision now the department finds itself in a bind with municipalities screaming at the increased taxes which face them so bad was the situation last week that the gov ernment decided to investigate the whole setup for in some towns education taxes will be boosted more than one hundred per cent no cjpubt some compromise will be worked out t no government in power is going to shoulder the blame for increas ing local taxes chances are the excess costs will come from the province in the hopes that the voters will forget all about it forgetting that the money will come from them al beit in a more roundabout way whats to do easy to criticize but what would you do is the logical question for one to put to the above we dont pretend to be an expert on education but we have some experience in business and we can see no reason why a government department cannot operate on business lines education can no more be static than coating paper producing plastic products or automobile parts as some of our geor getown industries do but improvements can be made grad ually tested for efficiency financially anal yzed before a reckless plunge into the un known education in ontario has already an al most unsolvable financial problem with its teachers federation perhaps the most pow erful union in the country from twenty years ago when a teacher was grossly un derpaid we have reached the stage where salaries are on a higher level than similar jobs in industry and where teachers are not satisfied with guaranteed yearly increa ses of three or four hundred dollars but each year negotiate a further increase in base rate more and more we hear that public school teachers will someday be required what people in ontario must realize i is that unless we are going to bankrupt our province someone has to step in and run our affairs on a much more business- j like basis those who dare to criticize are ac- 1 cused of being reactionary of not wanting to give our young people the best avail- 1 able it has become popular to mouth plati tudes about nothing is too good for our children without adding a rider as long as we can afford it we still jim snow reports er we all know the contribut- was speed too fast for road or ion the late mr forsee made to j traffic conditions accounting the safety programs of ontario for 13 l of the total inattentive and i am very pleased indeed i driving was the second most that the department has seen common error at 11 sixty per fit to honour mr forsee in this j cent of the drivers involved in way only a limited quantity of fatal collisions were reported to prints are available but anyone be driving improperly in some wishing to borrow the film way in nonfatal collisions that should write to the ontario de- figure was 57- pedestrian fat- partment of transport high- alilies dropped during the year ways safety branch room 358 by 145 ferguson- block queens park toronto 5 following the release of j these statistics the minister an nounced the proposed crack if you hear that my house has been burned or that stud ent rioters have occupied my study and taken axes to my typewriter dont be surprised the student militants are after lie their hackles were raised when i suggested in a recent column that they get away with everything but murder i said itand i mean if there shouldnt be on law for the rich and another for the poor and there shouldnt bit one aj for some poor devil of a kid who gats six months for steal ing something worth 55 and another law for students who commit arson destroy proper ty and are hailed as martyrs from halifax one barrie sandham launches an attack after condescendingly telling me that he is not a regular reader of my column but glart- ces over it once in a while while admitting that he is not one of them he defends student activists without them says he nothing would be ac complished in getting rid of thedead hand of administration in the universities in that case why are you not one of them young bar rie are you one of the hun dreds of thousands who sit back and let a few do the dirty work and then gef on the gravy train when the smoke has cleared theres a mixed meta phor i defy even an irishman to better his letter is too long to quote but he adopts a familiar type of logic in it when you cant refute the argument at tack the speaker so he accuses me of writing something ser ious being a subscriber to time magazine hiding behind chin like a shovel thats 100 percent the other 20 percent is for spelling and grammar er rors though perhaps this is un fair as you are obviously col lege student as though this werent en ough comes a searing letter dripping with sarcasm from a young lady in red deer alia it encloses a paragraph from my column out of context and is on behalf of all militant students 7 somehow i emerge as the villain we have destroyed parks universities and comput- ecsy but you and yptir gleeful following hive broken the men tal barriers and -destroyed- the values and inhibitions that held us back someone had to un leash the hounds and i dont think they should go- unnot iced who the hounds then she compares me with her dad who apparently wasnt strict enough then we kids let ourselves go sometimes but what an orgy of unrestrained jealousy your generation hat had dear girl say it isnt so i havent broken a mental bar rier or destroyed any values or inhibitions including my own for years and i have never yet unleashed a single hound i too let myself go sometimes but unrestrained jealousy pity is the emotion i feel most often towards young people this week the this week the honourable ir- down drive who breakl els opinions writ- win haskell the minister of iaws bv his department ln rl transport announced the slat- which is expected lo also prov l t k- a istical results of his department idc ercatcr safcty to a motor- p bemr doublechinned legislature relating to motor vehicle collls- on he ontario highways f the still maintain that people cannot continued its examination of de- ions during the year the num- j introducing nearly 100 am operate a collective life any differently j partmental estimates and is now ber of registered motor vehicles en to the ontario high than an individual if one earns a dollar and spends two then the day of reckoning must come sooner for the individual than it does for the province but come it must the idea of equal education for all is a fine utopia at which to aim but to foist it on the unwitting voters with one fell swoop puts us on the disaster fringe dear boy expenditures rose by 49 and the estimated way traffic act to the legisiati cen fotjvrte proposed by the department of ure mr haskett pointed outjfy evcr read time except social and family services for mately 267 billion miles col- that tne tougher penalties for in the dentis office nev the coming year j lisions injuries and property serious offences and the over- mde behind i damage all grew at a faster ratc of thc ent system of the department of transport than the increase in motor veh- deterrents would achieve has announced the preparation icle population during 1968 grcacr dc of traffic safety ditch dikser teacher to of a new traffic safety film the there were 1586 traffic deaths he said tne chanbcs w aimed agcr dont sling mud though new film is entitled the reid compared with 1719 deaths in irresponsible drivers who ini sometimes rocks- and have a forsee memorial film and is 1967 this was the lowest num- v collisions by their shocking now available it outlines the ber of deaths in four others opinions write for canadians from plum- a ber to politician doctor to teen- then she attacks newspaper man you sura know how to uw the old axe if we stole their politicians car theyd have it back tomorrow you can take their nam and reputation and gat paid for it nonsonso iowa if you stole a car yotrtf- em arrested if i stole a name or reputation id ba sued for libel final excerpt the smart ones work behind the scenes and let others go to jail be sides youve solved the prob lem of eternal youth tm afraid i doat get the connec tion but id be happy o serve a jail term if the latter state ment were true you should have my bursitis kid along with my falling hair teeth and arches i all i can say is student ac- tivism yes student terror- ism no to have a university degree and those who 80 boys potential for big brother the big brothers of canada held an open meeting thursday evening at cedarvale to discuss the possibility of forming a branch of this organization in georgetown mr herb kcllond of hamilton past president of big brothers of canada addressed the group of interested georgetowoers giving the background of the movement and citing numerous examples of fatherless boys who have been aided by big broth- mrs geraldlne barnes a georgetown resident who is ac- tively interested in the organi zation reported on a survey taken in local schools which showed that there are at least 80 fatherless boys in george town many of whom could ben efit from a big brother pro gram mr pat dillon a former geor getown ares resident and a member of toronto big broth crsmade the point that former- ly a fatherless boy would often j have an uncle charlie to take hint under his wing but that in our mobile society of today there is often- no male relative nearby to act as a father substi tute this is where the big bro ther organization can help although attendance at this exploratory meeting was encour aging it was disappointing that more service clubs were not re presented only the jaycees who are the organizing force of tht georgetown big brother movement the kinettes and the ymywca sent representatives another meeting is planned in the near future georgetown herald published by horn newspapers limited georgetown ontario walter c biahn publisher garfield mccilvray production superintendent frank muuin advertising manager terry hacley aileen bradley news feditor accountant valerie tost anne currie reporter leslie clark dave hastings myles gilson john mcclemenul george young i printing of distinction years disrespect for the laws of traf- variety of activities carried out however the total number of fj by the oakvillc safety council collisions increased by 7 and throughout the year and would the total number of persons in- on wednesday the hon- be of interest to any community jured rose by es to a total ofourable george gomme the safety council or group wishing i 71520 the amount of property minister of highways present- to form a safety council in damage rose by 124 to a total ed the legislature with the their area the film is dedicat- of 896 million dollars mr highway construction program ed to the late reid forsee oak- haskett stated the most common of the department for the year now possess this receive a much higher i vie council chairman driver error in fatal collisions 1869 70 the main highway pro- salary land cbcs safety clinic produc- according to the police reports continued on page 5 and yet does a degree pieced togeth er from winter extension courses and at tendance at summer school with no stipu lation that the subject matter be designed to public school teaching make any better teacher and could it not be that the strain of study and assignments can hamper a teachers efficiency while he grinds towards his ba to this we have now added an ad ministrative hierachy with salaries which stagger the business world we are intro ducing new features like open classrooms eliminating grading end exams without training teachers to cope with the new con cepts now we talk of lay assistants to help but if the teachers federation re acts like other labour unions there will be small chance of doing this unless the assist ants get the same pay scale our solution then 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