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Are major league baseball players justified in going on strike to protest team owners‘ demands for a salary cap? Yes:22 No: 28 And what is Parizeau‘s response? Well, he‘d like the support of the educated Quebeckers who work in Ottawa yet live in Hull and environs, so he has promised them jobs in an independent Quebec. More bureaucracy....just what a ‘new‘ govâ€" emment needs to dig itself out of a fiscal quagmire. Parizeau‘s latest economic pronouncement follows in that same vein. The PQ boss said his government would initiate a $300â€"million small business fund wherein the government would guarantee $50,000 loans for up to three years. According to party literature, this move would create 10,000 new businesses and employee 30,000 people. This is pure fantasy in the third most indebted province in the country, after Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. There isn‘t any money to be passed out unless it‘s borrowed and the cost for that option would make it even harder for a PQ govâ€" emment to live up to even minimum government obligations, let alone new initiaâ€" tives. Call it Alice in Wonderland economics. But even with this grandiose program, Parizeau has got it all wrong. The province‘s director on the board of the Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses, knows what‘s wrong. Too bad Parizeau wasn‘t listening. According to Pierre Cleroux, the problem is not with business not having access to money but rather crippling taxation levels and reams of government bureaucracy that is the undoing of many businesses. But the electorate didn‘t see the election in those terms. They wanted to hear some concrete economic policies from the PQ boss and they have been long on promises and very short on substance. When he started the campaign, Parizeau was pretty cocky about his chances but he‘s mellowed somewhat over the past couple of weeks. In the early days on the hustings, Parizeau was constantly talking about sovereignty and the glories that would come to Quebecers if they divorced themselves from the rest of looks as though the electorate will opt for change and elect a Parti Quebecois government under Jacques Parizeau. As far as Quebec politics go, the campaign has been lacklustre with both Parizeau and Liberal Premier Daniel Johnson opting for the political high groundâ€" a rarity in that province. W’lth just over two weeks to go until Quebeckers head to the polls, it still In Parizeau, Quebeckers have a loose canon on the deck of their political ship. He too often shoots from the lip first and worries about damage control later. It has gotten him into trouble numerous times throughout the campaign and he shows no sign of reversing that trend. We wish CPO much success and especially congratulate them for choosing Oakville for their home. Quebec countdown RESULTS OF JULY 8TH POL! Results of the poll will be published in the next Friday edition of :the Oakville Beaver. Callers have until 12 noon Thursday to register their vote. Do you intend to vote in the Nov. 14th municipal election? Cast your ballot by calling 845â€"5585, box 5008 to vote. h4 un c n w ud o C An American photograâ€" pher. by the name of Thomas Adams discovered the glop during a trip to Mexico in the midâ€"nineâ€" teenth century. He brought a mess of it back to the United States and spent several months trying unsuccessfully to render it into commercial rubber. One day in a state of frusâ€" trated absentmindedness, he stuck a dab of the goo in his mouth and started chewing it â€" just as Mexicans had been for several centuries. Adams discovered that he liked it. He called up a businessâ€" That honor must go to the Indians of Mexico, who for long generations, were in the habit of gathering gum from the chicle tree and tucking it in their mouths to keep their throats moist during overland treks. "Hey Joe....you got chewing gum?" Good old gum. Our gift to civilization. And we didn‘t even invent it. abomination. It will exhaust the saliâ€" vary glands and cause the intestines to stick togethâ€" er. 39 â€"Anonymous Korean POW, 1951 â€"Anonymous doctor, 1869 Want to take care of your teeth? Just try chewing some gum doun un n en 0n 04 tb ts a € conâ€" demn...the r u b bery Humankind has been chewing gum (and expectoâ€" rating unsightly blobs of it) all over the world since old Adams first put it on the market back in 1872. Who can estimate the uncountâ€" able tons of hardened chaw that has festooned the botâ€" toms of theatre seats, classâ€" room desks, and restaurant tables from Manitouwadge And not just Chiclets â€" Dentine, Wrigleys, Big Red, Beechnut, Excel, Trident, Chlorets, and Double bubble, as well. Which is why, nearly a hundred years later, we still buy Adams "Chiclets". Adams was on his way to becoming a multiâ€"millionâ€" aire. But he never forgot the origin of his personal Klondike â€" the humble Mexican chicle tree. Undeterred, Adams startâ€" ed his very own chewing gum business. Before long, he had a sixâ€"storey factory with 250 employees, all dedicated to the manufacâ€" ture and distribution of chewing gum. man and tried to interest him in the idea of selling "chewing gum". The busiâ€" nessman looked at Adams as if he was out of his mind. 33000R RRNUOOE O Mister Hewitt must be turning over in his grave. i0 3 5)Y t 5 12 .0 9 / 2409 4 .0 22 "What â€"_they â€"really enjoyed," says Kleber, "was being able to chew gum in school." Healthy gum. Chewing allowed right in class. No such problem with the elementary school pupils who first tried Doctor Kleber‘s healthy chewing gum. They worked for free. ‘*You can get monkeys to chew gum," he says, "but only for a couple of minâ€" utes. After that, they just take it out and stick it in their hair." _ Not surprisingly, Mister Kleter had no shortage of guinea pigs to test his gum. But the very worst thing I know about chewing gum is that it has:: become respectable. A dental scientist by the name of Carl Kleber has developed a gum that conâ€" tains minute abrasives that grind against the surface of your teeth as you chew. Just like toothpaste. Mister Kleber‘s gum actually cleans and polishes your teeth as you chew it. to Mandalay? It has not been universalâ€" ly loved. A suspiciously puffy cheek would earn you six of the best from my Grade 6 teacher Mister Hewitt. In Singapore, you can still go to jail for chewâ€" ing gum in public.