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The Free Press Wednesday May TALENTED RAY SAITZ took a weekend walk in Acton park the son of Mr and Mrs Sid Snitz Mowbray Place He to soak in the first real warm days of Spring and capture some graduates from the Sheridan College Applied Arts and of his impressions on film They are reproduced hero Ray is Technology this year where he specialized in photography Sugar and Spice by bill smiley This is going to be a long tough summer for parents of young people In the senior high school and university brackets Theyre going to be stuck with bored restless children And the only thing worse than having a bored restless child on your hands Is a severe case of the with complications The reason its going to be a bad summer is that there are no Jobs for the majority of young people who would normally be working H9 other day Wt poll one senior grades- Moat of them are bound for university or nursing or some such I asked how many had a job lined up for the summer Out of people two had One will work for his father on a dairy farm The other a girl will punch a cash register and only got the job because shed worked at it last So there we have frustrated young 1 have the greatest sympathy not them so much as for their parents Nothing will break up a good family relationship more quickly than having a health- young animal lolling about the house all summer They cat as though every meal were their last one They get lazier and lazier staying up late and sleeping in late They have no for recreation and get surlier and surlier They develop a feeling of being useless and unwanted and resent any darn bad about the spoiled brats you say and I agree But that doesnt alter the situation Id live for the summer with a porcupine that had an ulcer than a student without a Job Thousands of them will hit the road like the hoboes of the Great Depression drifUng about the country bumming meals a place to sleep and losing their selfrespect in the process And just as the hoboes used to raise enough for the occasional gallon of wine some of these kids will panhandle or steal to get money in get high on drugs Whats the answer Dont ask me Im a question man not an answer man Then lets ask some questions Is it partly the kids fault Some of them would rather bum all summer than clean themselves up to the minimum standards of a pretty free society Others have never done a dirty days work in their lives not stoop to menial chores M first job was cleaning out lavatories And a great many of them simply sneer at the whole ethic Its all right for the old man but Im going to do my own thing not work But I think the majority of these kids would welcome a job of any kind Tough toe nails for them There arent the jobs Industry doesnt want them for practical reasons They have to be trained for even the simplest factory work and by the time theyre producing theyre off to school again Industry prefers to hire people who arc going to be content to put round pegs in round holes for years at minimum wages And speaking of wages the tourist Industry which used to absorb so much student labor cant afford it any more Minimum wage laws in Jobs that used to be supplemented by tips have made many resort operators turn their backs on students Why hire an awkward girl waitress with no experience at a buck fifty an hour or whatever when you can hire experienced waitresses from the vast pool of unemployed for the same figure Is it the governments fault Partly The million the federal government put up to alleviate the students situation was too little and too late and had so many strings attached to it that Mr Benson might just as well have thrown It into the Ottawa River it has done Is create another branch on the vast oak of bureaucracy Thats where a good chunk of the money will go Its like foreign aid By the time the wheat or whatever it is trickles down through the bureaucrats to the natives students theres only a mouthful left Any reader with a modicum of comprehension will have realized by this time that my daughter is home from university without a job Anyone have a job for a twentyyearold with big brown eyes a charming grin and auburn hair Qualifications plays a mean piano and guitar and sings types as quickly and accurately as her father has a sunny disposition except when shes loafing around home without a Job fair cook washes dishes faster than an automatic Oh yes has a terrific figure London Our flight from to outside lundon England changed the objective of our tour from study to tourist because lndon we were the tpical tourists Again history seems to leap at you from every corner and while I was impressed with the transportation system in England I found walking Introduced me to many things might otherwise miss and I preferred it Of course we took the tour we saw Windsor Castle and the Tower of London we saw the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace we walked around Piccadilly Circus down to Trafalgar Square and Nelsons column and through the British Museum of Art We sampled the food in the hotels and in the pubs We tried the restaurants and we visited the theatres So many from this area are familiar I prefer not to bore you with the details Perhaps 1 could explain that I was one of those who never got warmed up in England The weather seemed constantly cold and hitter the winds strong and the sun made no lengthy appearance The temperature in the hotel never seemed to rise above a chill and keeping warm seemed to require extra clothes to what we had required anywhere else The grass was green and the daffodils were struggling to open The crocus were evident in the lawns but still closed My final evening in London was spent alone over fish and chips in a little restaurant on Piccadilly Circus Some more walking and a return to the hotel facing an early morning and a six hour loss of time as I prepared to return to Canada Perhaps I might be permitted a few reflections on my time in London Our major difficulty in communicating in English seemed to be with the staff of the hotel at which we stayed Tbey were of West Indian or Pakistan origin or hadnt mastered Conflict and Contrast transit including the train bus taxi and underground is something to behold I had heard of the underground but never anticipated its depth Extremely long escalators are required to get to the sections of the tube which were home to so during the air raids of the war looking across the horizon chimney pots are in abundance and the full page ads in the newspapers are proclaiming the need for central heating There ire impressive open spaces and parks It was a drean rainv as we left with a 14 degree temperature and strong chilling blast The 13 degree temperature in Ottawa as we armed about 14 hours later didnt seem to be as penetrating as what was experienc ing some miles EN CONCLUSION With the conclusion of what seems to have been a lengthy series I wanted to express my appreciation to those who have commented and indicated interest It is rewarding if it has been possible to transmit some of the enthusiasm and excitement that I experienced during the trip but often words are weak allies It was a kind of dream trip first of all perhaps because it provided an opportunity for a brief but look at some areas of the world we read so much about and in which history stretches to the ancients In retrospect it seems to have been a dream because it was now a number of weeks ago and being packed into the concentrated period of two weeks it was akin to the brevity of dreams Private bills affect us It is significant that Guelph General Hospital is asking the Ontario Legislature to increase the number of commissioners on the hospital board by three with one of the trio to be a resident of Halton County This has been seen as another reflection of fairly strong ties between Guelph and township but it is also equally important to Acton and area residents where both Guelph General and St Josephs hospitals are most frequently used In fact there is a a belt across the northern end of Halton which could extend at least as far south as Sideroad and as far east as Ballinofad which uses the Guelph hospital facilities It is unfortunate that county support for hospitals is restricted to Halton when such a large chunk of the north finds it more convenient well as preferring to use the Guelph hospitals There should be some compensating factor when boundary lines indicate only political delineation In Actons case although there have been rumblings about being included in a proposed Guelph- regional area It is obvious that area is only partially oriented towards Guelph We are politically tied with Halton although there may be second thoughts about this if the proposed private bill to change municipal representation at county council happens to receive the legislatures assent Certainly Burlington and Oakville ore swinging the bulk of the weight In the county now and we fail to sec any areas where they are not receiving their fair share of county benefits The north end helps support their hospitals although few would use the facilities If political are designed to eliminate the voice of the north the south of the county may find the north reluctant to be Included In any political setup where the south has ALL the say and makes the decisions And we can start with hospitals as the subject Although Guelph General recently made some representation to to provide a percentage of funds for A cure for all our ills Each year when the Chase Almanac arrives the writer tenders a genuine sigh of relief Theres not a misery going or household problem current the Almanac cant cure or solve For instance if your dog or cat continually jumps on the bed try this pin inflated balloons around the edge and in the middle of the bed The Almanac says the first balloon the animal breaks will mark the last time it jumps on the bed Dont forget to remove the balloons before you stumble into your boudoir in in the dark or it may be the first time you acquire an explosive touch Car windows all frosted up Cant find your scraper Just use your plastic credit card to scrape that frost off Simple isnt it But who would ever have thought of it without the almanac Want to make 100 pounds of good soap for It requires 6 lbs of potash four pounds of lard and quarterpound of resin Ooops the recipe came from the years ago column Where else could you find a list of the world boxing champions from John Sullivan in until the present in the same cover as youd find a list of the worlds highest mountains The Almanac has something tor everyone including all the weights and measures which used to be on the back of school exercise books In a technological age where a wonderday is common how many of us con remember the fabulous wonders described by the ancients Aha the Almanac can It lists the seven wonders of the world and describes them to boot Is your bed cold at night Dont get a wife or husband Warm it by slipping the nozzle of your hair dryer underneath the covers It will be warm as toast in no time Got a low beam in your attic or cellar where everyone bumps their head Put some strips of foam rubber on the danger spot Your friends will love you for it says the almanac And what would an almanac be without weather forecasts for the entire year May calls for clearing skies and rising temperatures by the end of the month The almanac is full of information including horoscopes and advertise ments for a certain kind of tonic nerve foods blood tonics and regulators cough syrups and just about everything the Free Press of years ago carried as regular fare capital development this county turned them down without recognizance of the large number of patients from Acton who use the hospitals facilities This is strange business because the hospital has made no distinction about political boundaries when treating illness Guelph General is a civic venture with eight representatives on the board from the city The board has recognized the extent of its service by asking for three new members including Wellington County and Halton The commissioners feel It is time residents outside the city had a voice in setting hospital policy We would also add it is time the residents of the north end of the county recognized there is a responsibility towards hospitals which look after our needs It is also apparent the two private bills before the Legislature could have a more meaningful effect on lives here in the top end of than is apparent on the surface So really book is an anachronism that continues to flourish in spite of the march of modern medicine and more sophisticated magazines that debunk much of what the almanac publishes Potpourri People are funny They want the front of the bus the back of the hall and the middle of the road When all is said and done usually means more is said than is done Anyone is welcome to use our lawn mower providing they dont take it out of our yard A shoulder strap often is all that keeps an attraction from becoming a sensation The best alarm clock these mornings are the birds They are on spring time The building faces in downtown London are generally clean and the efficiency of the POSING IN picturesque Lahr their trip honied with a stop in London Germany the group of newsmen began for a touristeye view 20 years ago Taken from the issue of the Free Press Thursday May 17 1951 On Wednesday the high school was dismissed and made their way to the park where the track and field events were to lake place Lending a helpful hand at recording the Jumps and races were Rev Rev Currey Rev Armstrong Blow D Wiggins Dr Sirrs Oder Dr and the teachers Junior champions were David and Janice Baker intermediate Don and Anna Marie Spitzer and senior champs Crawford Douglas and Cole Other winners Juniors Kathleen Evelyn Saunders Vera Smith Peggy Oakes Betty May Lambert Diane- Dawkins Saunders Pave McVey B Skilling W Ross Morton Bob Coon Paul intermediates Frances Fletcher Lorraine Carolyn Oakes Pauline Helen Barbara Barter Shirley Wilson Jack Davidson Russell E Daigle Bill Coon Richard Mason Fred Gordon seniors Lorraine Mullin Greer JoAnn Veldhuis Betty Price Jane Elliott Betty Lawson Crawford Douglas D Davidson Bob Bruce Fred J Ware Bill McHugh In the battle for North athletic honors intermediate champion was Janice Baker of Acton The kindergarten primary pupils and their teacher Miss J entertained their mothers to tea Helping Miss were Helen Elaine Rachlin Sargent Joyce Halltday Lorraine Tyler and Morton Charles was again named secretary of the Halton Childrens Aid Society is one of the directors K Browne has been made Honorary Right Worshipful Past Grand Master of the Black Knights of the Grand Lodge of Western Ontario 50 years ago Taken from the Issueof the Free Press Thursday May The officers of Acton Horticultural Society delivered about a thousand boxes of salvia asters and verbenas to members this week in addition to the seeds and bulbs already distributed Fred Wright of the Infantry Battalion has received belated notice from the Secretary of State for War at London Eng that he was mentioned in a despatch from Field Marshall Sir John French on May 1915 for gallant and distinguished services in the field In addition to this of ficial notice he has received two of the oak leaf decorations so greatly coveted by the military men One of the town shopkeepers has been known to sell candies peanuts and ice cream cones to children at his place on Sundays and it is also currently reported he Is in the habit of selling cigarettes on Sunday All these are violations of the law The electrical storm on Sunday evening proved disastrous to the Ross barn on the fourth line Mr S Holmes has Just completed years of railroading experience between and of which have been spent as the agent Ui Acton He is celebrating with a trip with Mrs Holmes to the United States Mr Holmes father also completed a half century of railroad service Permanent electric lighting Is being installed at the park so that any garden party or other function may have the premises lighted without special arrangement A reasonable charge for this very desirable service will be made 75 years ago THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Business and Editorial Office Taken from the of the Free Thursday May 1834 The Municipal Assessor has completed his duties for The total assessment this year is an increase over last year of In addition to this there is the assessment for school purposes of the glove factories of W Storey and Son and Arnold Bros of The assessments are as follows real estate personal income 800 The population Is enumerated at 132 an increase of the year There are children between the ages of and IS 222 between and and 97 between 16 and The assessor has 79 dogs assessed to their owners of them male and female There Is a general increase over last vear There is talk of the organization of a bicycle club in Acton We have cyclists here now who ride wheels and thts number will no doubt increase as the season ad vances A full list of bicyclists and their makes of bike is given Among them Watkins T Gibbons Kirkness Edward J Moore George Rev J C Mclntyre Miss Jessie Nicklin James Brown John Davidson Miss Bella Hill James J Matthews The first political meeting of the present campaign was held in the town hill Toe chair was taken by Mr George Hume of Milton who Is reputed to be the prospective candidate In for the McCarthyites Alex Karr of Toronto spoke fluently In Hands Off Manitoba The Separate School question is an issue Arbor Day was observed in the public school The grounds were tidied a few maples planted and the afternoon was given as a holiday