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Cash better than promises Taxpayers in this district should be Interested in a news report about the of regional government in the new City of Cambridge an amalgamation of Gait Preston and and parts or Waterloo and North Dumfries townships It to start the now city The money camo from tax payers pockets Special assistance from the province has never materialized The mayor of Cambridge Millar accosted Premier William Davis at a C conference at University last week to complain Nature sets the scene for yuletide Bill SMILEY It seems that in the Seventies the whole world la lurching an most of do In our lives from one crisis to another Crippling strikes crippling food prices crippling political and now the energy do called A crisis may be defined as a turning point Perhaps It a time we reached some turning points and did some turning In new direct Ions What bo many people of the affluent post war yearn don 1 realize Is that crises are nothing now generation faces them meets ihom and rcwlvcs them somehow War depression another war Ihe bomb All these have been universal crises In his century Besides those big ones a hike in price of beef Is less than monu mental and even tho expected energy trials Is small potatoes I must be hungry If the energy crisis becomes more than newspaper headlines and shortages and rationing occur It might the best thing that has happened lo the fatcat Western world for generations are In grave danger of turning into Blobs physically mentally emotionally and morally Maybe wc need a good purge In the form of a sharp cut back In our soft way of living Get rid of some of the fat oven it it requires a surgeon s knife Take a day in the lite of an average family very often Ihe husband in these degenerate days gets up first and turns the thermostat up to seventy Tho beast In the starts gulping more energy Our friend shaves with his electric razor He goes down and gets his orange out of boant that has been burning electricity all night producing nothing Then ho 11ms on two burners on the electric stove one for coffee one for bacon and eggs When they re ready ho Jams bread Into the electric toaster environment and burning energy The kids waffle off to a school which n probably burning for mora tons of coal a day than it needs to That school has thousands of lights which arc on even on a bright day At home friend wife throws the laundry Into an automatic washer which uses large quantities of hot water which has taken a fair amount of to produce Then It goes Into the automatic dryer run by electricity Then she tackles the Ironing and we all know what heats an Iron In this day She decides to wash her hair More hot water Then she sits under the electric dryer with fresh coffee made on the stove burner At this time of year probably half the lights In the house are on merrily chewing up the watts And so It goes right across the land all daylong The television set burns Juice for into the night Advertising signs pop on and rat more Juice Industry wastes and burns energy with a lavish hand Right now in our kitchen electric glowing red It will bo for the next two hours Know what a In it One large potato being baked Multiply tho being consumed by this one family by about five million in Canada alone and I Ihlnk you II agree that wo re a pretty extravagant even lot when It comes o being prodigal with natural resources that arc going to be ex haunted and can never be replaced And I haven even mentioned such as electric toothbrushes and electric carving knives Don get me wrong I m no Spartan I II drive to work rather than walk And leave that great hulking mating monster that required so much energy to be built and burns up so much moro sitting In the parking lot alt day The point Is I could walk to work wouldnt hurt me In fact It would be jolly good for mo And I don expect my wife to get out the scrubboard and wash her hair In rain water But it might be Jolly good for her If she had to Women and men have too much time these days to sit around and worry about their nerves Our fairly Immediate ancestors dldn t have time for nerves and ulcers They need pick up pills to get going There was no alternative to Just getting going They t need three martinis to whet their appetites They were just plain hungry Nor did they need sleeping pills to get off at night They were just plain pooped I not scared of an energy crisis It might even be interesting Anyway I have my own energy crisis every day when the alarm goes off at That s what I call a real crisis Back Issues of The Free Press Taken from the Issue of the Free Press Thursday December IT Acton looked like a Christmas card Monday Traffic crawled many were stuck Dozens of cars were held up on Milton mountain or the hill at Rock wood Fortunately no serious accidents were reported Taxis were busy A giant Christmas tree has been erected by the post office The Men held their annual turkey draw and the winners were Clare Pickett Garfield McFadden Bill Denny B Schneider Clark Mrs Chris Swock homer Bob Rum ley H It Force Bertha and F Harley About en joyed bingo Ed and Bill Benson announced the games In the town hall The annual municipal dinner was held at Hilltop Lodge Grin Over honored Warden George Leslie at the warden dinner In the Legion hall Georgetown One hundred used to be the limit Tor the number attending but this year that was double Christmas customs in other lands were described to members of the music study group In costume were Mrs Mrs J and Mrs C Heller while Mrs Calder told of Christmas In Scotland and Mrs Hards in England At a cantata was given by the young people of the different churches Mrs D Armstrong conducted the program assisted by Miss Joan Pickering at the piano George and Mrs William Black contributed vocal numbers and Miss Janet Day was reader At the conclusion Don took flash photos of the young people In their costumes Acton junior farmers hockey team retained their record of no wins when they played Nerval Monday Clone scored one goal J W Robertson of from Korea this week Hoboes and Bell ape je new councillors Acton Machine bmfor exemption of tales carried by a ste to one Blow and bis associates will no doubt take immediate steps looking to the erection of the new plant now that the confidence and support of the people of the town has been so strongly manifested The fact stares the Free Library Board in the face that the shelving modotlon in the Library Room in the town hall is taxed now with the books belonging to the library The space allotted to the public Is very inadequate The need for a reading room is growing more and more Imperative Acton has one of the best selected libraries of between and S volumes in the province but our accom modations ore not uptodate A committee was appointed to look Into the whole matter The weekly social gatherings which are held every Thursday evening at the Station Hotel arc proving very popular They are under the auspices of the Sons of England All the stores In Acton will be open Wednesday afternoons during the month of December The radio fever is growing and numbers of homes are Installing equipment for wire less receiving outfits Auctioneer Kerr sold the old school building of No to Mr T The old desks bearing the carved names of scholars of four generations sold for SO cents for the lot The meetings in Acton called out the electors en masse At John Barbers meeting on Friday evening for the Liberals and Col Kern on Saturday for the Con- sen the capacity of the town hall was taxed to the utmost The chieftain of the in Ontario was to be present Satur- The services of Acton Cornet Band were engaged and the band and a number of torch bearers escorted Mr Whitney to his hotel The meeting was addressed by Mr Whitney in an interesting spee of an hour and a half Others also made brief addresses The trustees of Acton public school devoted their meeting to the fitting up of the room for the new fifth department 24 double desk with separate Ittlnjp and four rear separate seats were ordered The snowstorm Sunday night and Monday was a record breaker Between 1G and IB Inches fell Some people think they 11 sell lots if storms like that keep up The question of who should clear the snow from the street crossings Is still an un settled one Even the oldest settlers cannot remember such a snowstorm No damage beyond the blocking of roads was done here A large number of the electric light poles have been erected Cough and Consumption Cure A man in the early stages of that terrible destroyer had the sense to take it and today there a healthier man in Canada 25c and SI a bottle If it fails to cure the druggist will refund your money THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Business and Editorial Office 0vtr1lJrBfclnow Copyright about of regionalizing She asked for help for these one time costs She said the province had previously Indicated to Cambridge that funds would be available to them but they were later refused by Treasurer John White Some of the new requirements included for added fire department costs for bus burns for a public works communications system for street name changes for an official plan and bylaw 4 for a now city crest and city limit signs and for of labor pay rates General administration Interest costs totol extra legal costs new stationery and sup plies 16900 and a new chain of office for tho Mayor It should be recalled when regional government was being sold to North Halton It was suggested the loss of Industrial assessment by carving four rather than three areas out of would be offset by provincial giants The experience in Cambridge should keep us all aware are sometimes not worth wind It lakes to make them The Free Press Wed Dec Onus is now on teachers An article on tho Youth Pago last week by Sue Shoemaker noted there was mixed reaction to he action by Minister of Education Tom Wells making English and Canadian Studies compulsory credits again in high schools Principal Dave did not think it would make much ference at the Acton school because at least per cent of the students arc taking English now Mr Kntz and vice principal Ian Downic both feci English is already compulsory there It may be Acton high school is the exception to the general level of English in the provinces high schools Wc welcome the change in making English and Canadian studies compulsory across the province In a world where com Is an Important ingredient everyones lives it Is essential ail students should receive expert guidance and teaching in the use of English leaving the choice lo the student with socalled Mickey Mouse options was hardly fair to them As Harold Swallow head of the history department at the Acton school observed students coming into grade nine from public school arc not always capable of making the right decisions and Ihe choices they make at the grade nine level may exclude them from taking certain courses later on It is also Important in our estimation that students have an understanding of the background and geography of their own country Canadian studies presume will expose students to a bettor understanding of Canada not we hope the expense of other subjects such as Mathematics and which wo feel also should he compulsory lobe sure this compulsion and captive audience in going lo place a greater onus on the teachers are those students who will bo bored with the subject and wont mind showing they arc tuned Into wave length It Is going lo be up to the teachers to make the subjects interesting and In If the schools arc really In leiostod in heir students they will sol high standards and challenges to stimulate lively Interest in all tilings Canadian Steel curtain coming our way Ormond Solandt will make the decision as to whether the new town of Halton Hills has a steel curtain of hydro towers marching right down through its centre past the village of Hearings of the Solandt Com mission ended last week with Ontario Hydro representatives still insisting the towers go through Mime of the most scenic parts of the countryside in Esquesmg Era and Erin townships in pre to a route which was drawn up by the Interested Citizens of North and Wellington Their route would have skirted this area by taking the north south line from the Bruce power station at Douglas Point to near Camp Borden down Highway and then across Highway John Schneider spokesman for Ihe group attended many of the Commission hearings and said the main complaint by representatives of Hydro was that security was Want no new gravel pits opened Following is the text of a letter sent to Erin township council by Erin and Erin Township Concerned I liens Association following a meeting over opening of new gravel pits in the township November 30 Enn Township Council Hillsburgh Ontario Attention Lang Gentlemen At a recent meeting the Erin and Enn Township Concerned Citizens Association directed me to relay to you their feelings with respect to gravel pits This Association of concerned citizen under no conditions want any pits opened in this area Village area or Erin Township area This motion was passed unanimously Our Association has members being formed only three weeks ago There are also others who expressed the same desire No pits to us in writing and that too is growing every day We trust during your deliberations this will be into serious const deration Yours truly Erin and Erin Townships Concerned Citiiens Association threatened by using this route However he feels Hydro Is Just being stubborn because security Is threatened more in the area of the Bruce power station than It would be in the route his group has proposed Hydro representatives also have a predeliction for declaring the silent majority does not want hydro lowers lo follow major tones such as and High way although the independent study done by Bruce Hewletts firm shows the public wants the lines to follow communications corridors rather than slice through the countryside carve it up with curtains The allusion to the majority sounds like a text from one of Spiro speeches Mr Schneiders proposals for the lines made sense and reprc of Ontario Hydro have yet to show sufficient reason why they not be seriously con It seems the major Hydro complaint against lines along 401 especially through the Niagara Escarpment is Impact although there certainly are many fine pieces of farmland In this area just us scenic as the Niagara liscarpment could have towers through them stones high and crossunns feet wide Mr Hewlett has recommended the lines go underground through the Escarpment Hydro says it would cost million as opposed to million if the towers are over Mr points out this Is only io cents a monlh on the average hydro home bill meanwhile acting is the one man provincial inquiry must choose among foir alter natives to cross the escarpment We sincerely hope he is able to make an independent decision based on the facts which have been presented at the various hearings across the study area and at Queen Park We trust he will not yield to pressures from those who have only their own reputations at stake and not necessarily the in terests of the people who must live within sight and sound of he towers