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MiniComment You have to be careful about women s rights these days Ask Bill Brydon coordinator of management development for Sheridan College He wrote a letter Inviting businessmen to attend a weekend at the college and forgot to include business women He denies any intention of dis criminating against women in the letter admitting only the wording of the letter was unfortunate He said the invitation was intended for both men and women The one objectionable paragraph which triggered protests from both in and outside the college suggested the gentlemen plan on a stimulating business experience for yourself and a weekend of pleasure away from home for your wife Brydon now says the role could be reversed and the businesswoman could bring her husband if she likes or leave him at home to do the dishes Either way he loses What this country needs is a soap that will prevent a telephone ring in the bathtub or the washroom Festooned with the business section of Acton looked appropriately attractive for Sunday Decoration Day parade and observances Just a few sheets of bunting maybe but indicative of cooperative efforts between several town organizations both social and municipal After you hear two different eye witness accounts about an automobile accident you begin to wonder about history Premier Davis has been asked to reserve any comment on the proposed foot wide hydro corridor from to Pickering until citizen groups have the opportunity to study a report soon to be released by Ontario Hydro A spokesman for the Coalition of Concerned Citizens said they want to prepare a case on an equal basis and so asked to premier to reserve comment The CCC is hopeful they may have partially won their case with word there is a contingency plan that is going to use two existing This would be good news for many in this district who could have lost homes and parcels of land to the marching towers The Ontario Legislature was told that the provincial Government has purchased 20 rail commuter coaches for the Go Transit system from Toronto to Georgetown The system will run every half hour during rush periods on present CN tracks and could have some real significance for this area as well as towns along the route Watch for real estate values to jump Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn If you are buying a fur coatwatch out It take a magician to turn a rabbit into a Russian leopard it takes a furrier A fur jacket made of dyed rabbit has no snob appeal but call it Russian leopard electric seal or Baltic tiger and who t wear one Same with dyed skunkAlaska sable sounds better The furrier name for a ringtail cat is California mink sheared lamb is American broadtail Vicuna Fox Is dyed sheepskin A furrier can call a rabbit by 35 other names- Sou in doubt about the original fur ask the furrier But you will probably look better in Belgian beaver than plain old rabbit Companies decline to comment Decoration Day OUR READERS WRITE Change for the sake of change had to do some shopping At my favourite grocery store I went to where I get my stuff It wasn t there any more They had moved It the corner Just to make me look around I had to ask the grinning clerk For everything I found When I got home disgusted Toe furniture had changed place My favourite chair just there I sat down in the space Im of to set the doctor A no less I know 1 nave to learn to live In all this changing mess They are changing men in Parliament And what Is even worse K The changes have us all confused Wc know whom to curse There used to be some reason For changing things around Bui now it plain confusion So nothing can be found m glad the Great Designer Still keeps on the tracks We d be making human creatures Without their fronts or backs We ve changed some future things to come The atom bomb is here When the ve changed and spoiled the place They leave this human sphere Victor Smith 2 THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Bus and Editor Office Copyright 1B72 Company officials decline comment on the strike This is a sentence newspapers nave turned into a cliche Although organized labor and professional associations make every use of the media to ensure the public knows why they are on strike executives of corporations and companies smallandlarge seem to be tonguetied when they are strike bound As a result the public often gets a poor opinion of the company they don have a case which would look good in print This newspaper ran into the situation last week when we attempted to report both sides of the strike at the Acton plant Officials of the Union were most cooperative and gave our reporter their reasons for the strike commenting freely on the issues Company representatives politely declined to comment We are surprised at the timidity of some employers when it comes to disputations with the union through the press It can be a game of course with each trying to upstage the other but the concerned newspaper is anxious to publish both sides of a controversy In this age when communications play an integral part in society we are surprised that employers do Preserve our escarpment We think the Ontario Government is serious in their determination to proceed as quickly as possible to implement further policies for the con servation and public use of the Niagara Escarpment A senes of six public meetings Is being held this summer by a government task force set up to recommend provuicial land acquisition and development policies for the Escarpment which follows a line through this district The first meeting is scheduled for Milton on Wednesday June at which local authorities organizations and individuals are invited to submit verbal presentations briefs and letters The Government would like all groups and organizations interested in the future of the Escarpment to have the opportunity to advise the task force on what they think should be done to achieve the goals outlined We have a vested interest in the Escarpment living in the district where it is the most pronounced natural feature elevating us well over feet above sea level The high ridge is also a repository for gravel pits and For a writer facing a deadline with nothing in his head but a vacuum is about as joyous an occasion facing his wife at a in after phoning her at m to tell her he going to have two drinks not three or four but two with the boys on the way homo from work hope those figures haven t confused you but perhaps you get the general idea Sometimes however coincidence creates a column I had nothing in my head for this week column Not even fog Just vacuum Good old coincidence come to the rescue Today I met in the halls one of my English teachers He a mature chap and pretty tough Been through a war and twenty five years of marlagc spent a stretch as a weekly editor and has raised three children How much tougher can you But he was almost in tears They can read he mumbled brokenly they can read I patted his luck and wiped his eyes as we department heads do though I reserve weeping on my shoulder for women only and gradually found out that he was talking about a Grade 9 class in the four year stream there I consoled Of course they can read Neither with a few exceptions can my Grade students Kids supposed to learn to read any more It might destroy their sensitivity Now you Just go and show them a nice little movie or let them express themselves on the tape recorder Or let them lean out the window and watch the cars going by and then have them write a poem But don t correct the spelling in the poem You U destroy their creative spirit Just go on back in there and stimulate them That one thing my teachers hate to admit When they come to the chief they get quarries which play a part in this area financial picture as well as scooping large unpicturesque holes In the face of the rock In the province passed an Act to regulate and preserve the Escarpment making it necessary for pit and quarry owners to apply for permits before they would be allowed to operate Under the Niagara Escarpment Protection Act 1970 the Minister may refuse a permit where in his opinion the operation of a mine would be against the interest of the public in preserving the character of the formation that includes the Niagara escarpment and the avail ability of its natural attributes for enjoyment of the public The wording of the Act never really insists but certainly suggests the Governments aim In preserving the escarpment is for recreational and naturalistic pursuits rather than saving the mineral resources for mining interests Among other things the escarpment is a haven for walkers along the Bruce Trail When it rises majestically above the level agricultural lands in Halton it Bill Smiley f inspiration motivation and a fresh new approach Some of them even say they try to stick it out to the end of the term Well I felt pretty good as we all do after giving meaningless advice but that to write a column about Got home after school and opened my mail There was a very nice letter from Margaret Oakville who taught for years and soys she a single regret on leaving it The Profession though there were many good years and abundance of pleasant memories That cheered me up for some reason Maybe I even stay on another year and collect my twelveyear pins on which will amount to a month every second In same mad was another letter from an old friend with a clipping enclosed It was an article by Norm Ibsen about the rapid rise in Illiteracy or the decline in literacy or whatever you want to call what happening to our youth A Professor Gold chairman of the University of Waterloo department blames the school system because it turning out students incapable of expressing themselves They can t communicate I quote the writer of the column Mr Ibsen who says with tongue In cheek Maybe it because they re being not relegate more importance to public relations Wc would think the image of the company both as an employer and good citizen would be more Important than some are willing to give Perhaps the press has been unkind to corporations and companies in the past and this reflects in the current lack of communications In any event we hope the day Is long gone when the employer or the Union are pictured as heinous bloodsuckers of society This is not intended to be a comment on the situation at the Acton plant which we will leave to the Union and company representatives to thresh out but rather an expression of frustration in journalism provides tremendous vistas for the beauty lover Because of its rugged character It is also a sanctuary for birds and wild life affording the visitor a glimpse of how Ontario must have looked when the first settlers climbed Iheir way to its summits cursing r than blessing the obstacle In the way of crown grants Some settlers tried to scratch a living from its rugged contours A few succeeded where fruit trees and vines prospered but the great majority quit after spending fruitless years of picking stones and cultivating thin They left a heritage of old stone fences and rock piles dividing barren land into fields page out of history The escarpment must be preserved for the people of the province to appreciate Any Government efforts towards that goal we staunchly support Any new developments quarries mines pits or hydro lines would destroy its natural charm should be discouraged in order to maintain the Niagara Escarpment s face taught by language arts specialists instead of teachers Maybe But I take exception to the professor sweeping generalization about students expressing themselves They can They do Even the best and mildest of boys But it shakes you a bit to hear some sweet little girl of sixteen drop her books or stub her toe and launch into a communication that would curl the of a World War 1 However I agree with the professor that thi whole is the fault of the school The universities the high schools which blame the elementary schools which blame home environment or This is patent nonsense My father got ti rough Grade and wrote a beautiful copperplate script with Intelligence My mother had Grade and wrote wittily and jr That was my home environment You tan blame the elementary schools They do whit they with what they get in the fate of a department of education that is about as consistent in its aims as a dart in a windstorm And you can substitute another consonant for the in dart If you wish You urn blame the high schools who do what they can with an ever Increasing mass of illiterates What the hell what does it matter if a brilliant science student or a math student who will be working with slide rule and computer writes a sentence like t veryone should have a good education so they tun go to colli and make a lodda bread People worry about literacy falling Into the hands of an elite group In my opinion it would be the best thing that could happen to It would take us back to the glorious days of the Elizabethans and let slobs fall where they may SSSSlSSSlSSiSS Back Issues of The Free Press Taken from Ibe Iikdc of the Free Thursday June About items and the continual bark of three auctioneers were features of the annual community auction sponsored by the Acton men club Hindle Amos and Gibson were the auctioneers and the club netted about St parish hall was the scene of a pleasant get together Friday for the men who had contributed voluntary labor towards the building Over sat down to the supper The event fulfilled the earnest wishes of the rector Rev Mrs C was convener Lorraine graduated from the University of Toronto in arts In Knox church Acton the senior branches and four junior branches of the Women InsUtutes of the county met for Iheir district annua Mrs Alfred Long presided at the meeting of the Duke of Devonshire chapter of the 0 E at the home of Mrs George Mason Present were four students who had won chapter awards Beverley Smith Marjorle Elizabeth and Frank Mason The high school examination exemption list was read Kathleen Stanley Jean McCrae Janice Baker Betty Mae Lambert Nancy Lambert Ruth Smith Bettj Williamson and Barbara Turner Taken from the sine of toe Free Press Thursday June I 19Z2 George Henry Gordon of Milton Heights is another man who thought he could operate a whiskey still with He boasted that the license Inspector would never catch him It was his outfit that Revenue Officer was after last fail at Speyside Gordon moved his outfit a few hours before A second visit to another point was equally unsuccessful But Inspector never lets up until the lawbreaker is enmeshed and forced to pay for his violation of the law By travelling a devious route bv automobile and the execution of a stealthy Hank movement last Wednesday Inspector and Officer Macdonald were able to steal upon the establishment at Milton Heights this time and thus passes the industry that has earned the sobriquet of Gordon Distillery The officers secured a quantity of rye mash and seven gallons of whiskey which the manufacturer claimed to be equal to the best In view of the evidence Gordon pleaded guilty and was fined and costs The first outside game of the season was played at the bowling green and Acton defeated Georgetown Acton bowlers were McDonald W J Wood G Hynds J Mcintosh T Henderson Hynds and W J Gould Taken from the Issue the Free Thursday June Scotchmen in Canada have taken up a ire project At nine clock on Jubilee night it is the intention of the 200 camps of the ions of Scotland across Canada to light a bonfire The biggest bonfire Acton ever saw will blaze on Cobble Hill that evening Much interest Is being manifested in the Queen Jubilee celebrations at the school tomorrow afternoon At 30 each department will be presented with a portrait of Queen Victoria The scholars will decorate the school and then there will be parade ending at the town hall A notice was Inserted in the Ontario Gazette by the provincial Secretary asking the people give all the assistance possible to the explorers who are to be sent out by the King of Sweden and Norway on a balloon excursion to the North Pole A merrygoround created excitement at Rockwood the past week and also noise of the crankpiano brand An Acton Boy a Big Contract Messrs Mann and Mackenzie have secured the contract from the C for the building of the Crow Nest Pass railway This is Dan Mann a native of Acton whose father Hugh Mann is one of our respected citizens The cost of per mile