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the Herald Home Newspaper of Hills THE HERALD WEDNESDAY JANUARY A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Mam St South Georgetown Ontario WILLIAM I Ins Mull Registered Number Maximum becomes minimum It may have seemed perfectly reasonable to Halton Region finance committee to announce spending restrictions for The various boards committees and commissions have to plan ahead and guidelines serves useful purpose But as Prime Minister has discovered guidelines also tend to be misunderstood Tell someone his demands or budget must not exceed a set figure and heU consider the maximum as being the minimum When Mr suggested v ages be increased b no more than On Parliament percent most folks assumed they were automatically entitled to a 10 percent raise at the very least And so it will likely be with the regional budgets The Region a finance committee may as well take it for granted that when it orders budgets to be limited to a percent increase over expenditures few of the budgets will come In under the limit We may live In inflationary times but that shouldn t mesmerize us into accepting the theory that everything has o go up nil BUREAU l STOOD IN A for AND TOR How do you make a UIC employee happy The federal government spends untold millions on studies commissions and inquiries without ever pigmenting the mendations but it really a shame that It didn l embrace without reservations the suggestions made by a con suiting firm regarding low morale In the Unemployment Insurance Commission relations would never been the At a cost to the federal treasury of some the privatelyowned firm came up with a series of novel suggestions to improve moralenifty little ideas that would undoubtedly have employees whistling their way in work Nothing so crass as money or general working conditions No air what the firm suggested among other things was that on suitable occasions the commission should send to every em home a book about Canada And there would be a magnificent bonus with thlsa message from the commission chairman which should emphasize the value the commission places on the employee services and loyalty And also among the goodies would be a rpm record containing a message from the chairman And that doesnt send morale into orbit Imagine getting a telegram of thanks and good wishes on the second anniversary of the proclamation of the new Unemployment Insurance Act I bet you think were kid ding But no these are actual recommendations advanced with many others at the tajtpa expense to increase And after more than a year the books the telegrams and the records still aren t arriving It must be tough on employee morale Spokesmen for the com mission say this report was only one of several com missioned to improve between the commission and the public and while this one emphasized Internal morale there were never any plans to implement all recommendations AMORALEBOOSTERT It a real pity because generally acknowledged that the commission s morale it You can just Imagine the low morale employee Bitting at home In his living room complaining to his wife about his hideous day at the com mission when the doorbell rings and there Is a uniformed messenger carrying a bundle of gilts What s your class If I cation he might ask ask Grade two clerk says the man with the low morale Here Is a gilt wrapped in brown paper from the com mission says the messenger The colored wrapping is for the senior employees Goodness gracious ex claims the man with the low morale as he rips open the package to show his wife 1 Look at this magnificent little book It all about the history of early sealing operations in James Boy And look here Is a pre printed message from the chairman Boy 1 feel like a new Then imagine his surprise perhaps during an intimate dinner party the doorbell rings again and a telegraph messenger is standing there with another morale booster Happy fourth anniversary of the passing of our Act May your holidays be Joyous The way public service grow this could put Christmas out of business In no But the pay off la yet to come Perhaps Christmas Eve would actually be the best time for another ringing of the doorbell when a messenger dressed as Santa Chtus could deliver that rpm record from the commission The low morale employee could be sitting In front of a crackling fire reading The night before Christmas to eager eyed children while his wife snuggled up to him saying something like I feci like a miracle Is about to happen When one of the children races to the door and sees Santa standing beside a public service van all realize a miracle has Indeed happened The parcel Is ripped open his are turned down can arc lit and the whole gathers around the fi for this moment of Inspiration Perhaps there could be appropriate music In the background as the voice might say Yes Virginia ploymcnt insurance is hap piness It ten necessary to go further with the imagination The effect on morale would be incredible With such star increase In suicides there would be new Job openings and promotions for thousands It makes you wonder whether the by shelving such suggestions really loves Its employees Park Commentarylll Labor votes student jobs and teachers the best of By DON Queen Park Bureau Of the Herald TORONTO It a lime of year when ones mind turns to things he would like to see done over the month scan Prime In my mind would be regular and strict formulas far votes particularly labor votes Let all votes be by secret ballot No more of that show of hands stuff And when It la a quest on of a strike or ratification vote let them be government supervised with Independent scrutineer There Is a lot that Is good In the labor movement today there also la some bad And much that la bad can be traced to loose voting procedures Public votes where workers against their will are shamed into voting with the mob or with their leaden And then there ore the where votea are held off until the end of meetings when those supporting the leadership will carefully have stayed on while others who would bo have drifted off For now these voting procedures have been a curse of labor They have maintained radical in office and have led to much unnecessary upset Its only a dream But it would be wonderful to see voting regularized PROGRAMS Then there Is money Once again this year we will see a huge deficit Thegovernmcnt will claim It is cutting costs And to a degree though not a very great degree this is correct But how reassuring It would be to sec a real attack some steps that really hurt For example how about those thousands of summer lobs for children How many of these ore redundant borne such the Junior ranger programs are practical and worthwhile But many many others ore qui to simply make work projects Let Bavc millions by doing away with them If youth wants to work In he summer there is always work on the forms As it Is now we import agricultural workers In the And remember when kids use I to swarm to the farms and love If TEACHER STRIKES A final dream Take away that right to strike from school teachers Give them regular and then com Itration or final settlement Tt simple fact is that a c strike is unjust to our en If ro longed it could Impair th for the rest of their Uvea Teachers I dealing with goods or commercial services They are dealing with penile One might almost any wl souls this sets them apart they look terribly on picket lines -Viewpoint- Women merely ask Who am by This week viewpoint takes a look at what is becoming a very tiresome topic the myth of women liberation Now before all the liberated women reading this column head for the pen and ink far ye old poison pen letter we ore not referring to the obviously needed platforms Equal pay or equal work sexual discrimination because of being mole or female equal opportunity for Job ad These are not male or female rights they arc human rights and should be available to all The myths we are referring to are the offshoot interpretations that nave made women liberation a place for all ilia One myth that would seem applicable to women s lib is If you are trapped at home with young babies you have to get out In the world to see what is happening Most people I know both mole and female find out what Is happening In the world from one of three sources the newspaper the TV or the radio All of these they tend on the average to look at when they get home from work Therefore the poor trapped housewife has more time at her control to see what la happening In the world thaneltherherworklngslaterormalo counterpart Another myth la a book out called How to Decide A Guide for Women The author Dr Judith Prince says the Idea to give women practice in decision making cat my shirt or blouse as the case may be But books such as the one above wilt be gobbled up by women seeking to liberate themselves women who have been brainwashed on just what liberation is all about The inability to make a decision is a human falling having nothing with being either male or female I think that Dr Prince book discriminates against men After all menneedtolearntobedeclsvetoo Throughout the whole ballyhoo of women liberation is a generation of women between heir late and middle 50 asking the god awful question Who Am It is a sad commentary on century life when people can put in years on this planet ana still feel don t know who they are or where tliey are headed Why Because they accepted the myth that women s lib was a cureall for all They accepted the myth that their problems- were due to sexual reslrlc lions male chauvinistic put downs They were held back because To that I con only reply Poor disillusioned fools who wear Jean jackets and Jeans not because they are comfortable but as a bodge to shout Look at me I m with it These women did change They forsook the upbringing of the 30 and and tried to live as their daughters and grandda ugh The problem here Is that social values and moral attitudes swing back and forth like a pendulum on a clock The mood today seems to be indicative of swing back to more stable sexual and moral attitudes Marriage disappeared and many young people seem to prefer it to a you do your thing I II do mine relationship Consequently all the and yearold swingers might find that in another five or ten years they have to change all over again and run even harder to stay in the same place If a woman truly asks herself between and who am I she has definitely bought herself a myth The early years at home raising a family In the 30 a and were as porta any job at any level in this country There is an old adage about Tor want of a nail the war was lost The nail held the shoc in place the horse the rider the rider the battle and the battle the war In the same sense the woman held the family unit in place Men did govern the home but women reigned In It Times change a woman has more freedom of vmvlcc If her choice is based on what right for her circumstances en she a ahead of the game Not everyone needs to reject a full time life at home and go to work Another fashionable trend today Is the return to night school Just about everyone is taking a course on this or that Again there is nothing wrong with this provided that Is Is not someone else a expense I know women who take so many courses that they keep the Colonel and his fried chicken in business The point is that self realization self Improvement or seven self gratification don seem to notice when their youngster school Rather ian it There is nothing about leaving a husband because he docsn understand the real you Taking a job as a waitress while trying to raise two or three little ones Is wrong That woman may be out of the house away from the trapped feeling away from mole dominance but she sure Ian liberated Liberation meons freedom and freedom is a point of view Two men looked out from prison bars one saw mud and one saw stars That liberation being trapped is a state of mind not necessarily a slate of being The woman that yells and screams and takes tranquilizers because she la trapped at home with small children Is a victim of the crudest of propaganda you control your time in effect you control How the woman at home or at work chooses to spend her time Is the A young mother can choose constructive pursuits built around a time schedule for a young family or she can sit and feel trapped and be miserable So can any man on any Job For some women the answer is to go to work But for most that means doubling or tripling an already heavy work load in a misguided sense of fulfillment We don t need women liberation We need people liberation When we can look past black or red mole or female rich or poor and look at people according to their personal worth we will all be liberated Vvc la The Home Front Theyre not getting older theyre getting worse Do you ever suffer from feeling hat motherhood Is a bum trip I If where I went wrong because It renlly dldn I start out that way Not only did becoming mother I even thought my children were rather cute as babies All required back In the good old days was a bottle of milk and a burp to salicj Now It takes platform and school trips to Quebec Unfortunately the problems grow at tho same rote as tho baby and I am definitely having more trouble getting my act together with every day el u lu time thnt she was dropping out of kin dergurten Having adjusted to my golden morning silence like a duck takes water I hastily suggested that ahe should possibly give matter a little more She reached tho conclusion that she would school on the days when a bus ride Obviously she going to be the most widely travelled illiterate the school system has ever accidentally produced Louisa approaching her 12th birthday all too quickly is a female version of and Hyde I wait with bated breath for her dally appearance at the breakfast table to see if she la in her role of school wrestling plon she literally tears the boys limbs from limb or that of the The first requires bubble gum and blue Jeans and the extensive preparations for the second manage to effectively throw tho carefully timed bathroom schedule off course Either way however the Grade Six bovs arc obviously destined to lose Now If our Prime liter trouble with a bilingual nation ho should try the problems experienced In lingual homo Richard la in French Immersion course and appears to hove been d to the no of saturation At dinnertime he unconsciously In French his fatlici answers him in Iibi an I have to sadly admit that the one rem nant of my high school french la plume ma a phrase that I thought would see mil luugh anything cover enough areas in general conversation I tried tossing It into the conversational pot one day In an effect to impress them with my worldly knowledge Pardon Mama enquired Richard looking puzzled I gave up Yeah Nostalgia overwhelms me now when I recall the past and fondly remember the days when a case of diaper rash was the biggest crisis In my life Years Ago Search for Norval girl From the flies of the Herald jk pastor of Georgetown Pentecostal Church conducted his first service In the former First Baptist Church on Main St Georgetown in a a officially Installed Georgetown a 1071 town council will operate under a different system than has been customary While council will continue to meet or alternate Mondays the committee meetings will meet on Thursday in the weeks Contd 17