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Home IMewapaper of Hills WEDNESDAY IW A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Main St South Georgetown Ontario WILLIAM Publisher BOB Editor Second Clan Mill Must show need first for addition It has only been six months since the question of an addition to the town offices was laid to restalbeit a council elected last year primarily on the basis of op position to the proposal During the interim since a signature petition was circulated opposing the proposal until a need has been established a staff reporter has concluded that some departments are facing increasingly cramped con ditions that in one instance regulations of the Industrial Relations Act may be infringed and that there Is a need to consolidate the various functions of government But it is still too soon for council to be considering taking a proposal such as this to an architect This council would have done well to allow the motion of last years objections to subside for a few months and allow more arguments pro and con to be maae in a mood or understanding The Herald last week spoke with a number of people on the streets of Hal ton Hills to find their opinions on the need for an addition to the com munitys town offices We generally found that most people did not un derstand the need nor were they versed enough to understand that regional government functions are not normally carried out at the local level This minisurvey although far from being scientific illustrates a common problem in municipal politics a lack of communication by the members of council If a proposal such as the addition to the town offices is to be considered as a need then council should be prepared to provide proof to the electors that this is the solution to a long term problem Red tape is our fault So you think theres too much red tape in government The fault dear fellow citizen lies not with the public servant but with the public We accuse the bureaucrats only because we wish to divert at tention from the real culprits Our selves Such is the thesis advanced by political scientist Herbert Kaufman in a book being published by the Brooking Institution entitled Red Tape Its Origins Uses and Abuses Why is the public at fault you may well ask Because every time the govern ment is asked to protect one group of people from another group of people as in relations between buyers and sellers or between employers and employees red tape results Much of the great volume of governmental requirements and prohibitions that we encounter on all sides owes it existence to the governments endeavors to keep some people from being hurt by other people writes The public is again to blame because of its distrust of government There are watchdogs who watch watchdogs watching watchdogs Kaufman notes The result is more red tape But by far the greatest generator of red tape according to Kaufman is our complex system of taxation There is a lot to what the man says As long as there arc human beings and organized societies there will governments and red tape But do the bureaucrats who handled the stuff have to enjoy it so much Don Oakley Take a bow bow Hal ton Hills Arts Council should stand up and take a bow for its efforts in bringing Camerata to North Hal ton What the council has shown is that cultural events such as the first concert last week by the in ternationally renowned Canadian chamber music ensemble can be accepted and supported by the North community But The Heralds reviewer Gerald Manning also noted that the sanctuary of Holy Cross Church is a little too resonant for the calibre of music presented One way of over coming this problem he points out Is to put another people into the church However the raising of the concern also points toward a serious look at a North Halton cultural community centre A centre such as this has been tossed about in North for several years but no action has been taken because of the cost As this community continues to grow over the next decade and the arts council becomes more active the Georgetown Little Theatre continues to produce professional calibre plays another look should be made Unity issue is smokescreen The federal governments policies on unemployment and the economy will likely be released next week when parliament reconvenes Saturday is International Carrier Day At the end of the long chain of people whose work it is to produce newspapers are the boys and girls who deliver it to your home For many readers it is the only direct contact they have with the people in the newspaper business And for many of the carriers delivering newspapers is often the first job theyve had the first time they assume the responsibility that comes with work the first time they respond to a job and do it even though though theyd rather stay in bed on extra hour and who wouldnt or have more play time after school Delivering newspapers is like anything else no guarantee that success or riches will come your way but many are the men and women prime ministers included who count the work as the first they did This Saturday marks In ternational Carrier Day when boys and girls around the world are honored for their work in getting the community news to the people We at The Herald would like to thank our carriers for the work they do You may be the In the chain but you are far from the least Thank you good luck In the future and keep up the good work AROUND THE RIM Just a few notes as an observer By BOS RUTTER Herald Some of Interest Clltt president of the Ontario Federation of Labor took on the Maoists Wednesday In a confront lion which an observer was very interesting to watch The Maoists charged that Pilkey the and its announced attempt to help the unemployed are donothing efforts charac teristic of the present system they dedicated to overthrow But the moat pointed criticism of was their comments that be was no different than the ineffective politicians who sat next to him on tbe stage rebutted the criticism with an equally pointed comments lie told the group which attended the meeting In force that their attempts to mobilize mobilize the workers appeared to make Karl Marx seems like a rightwinger He also condemned their bombs and guns approach to changing the system saying that any such attempt would probably find them In the third row back behind the Should there be little of or nothing contained in the throne speech to help the sagging Canadian economy then the charges levelled lost week by Ontario Federation of Labor President Clifford Pilkey have some basis in fact Mr charged that national unity has become a smokescreen behind which Prime Minister Trudeau has hidden and thus avoided dealing with the pressing economic questions The OFL has released a package designed to help stimulate the economy Parliamentarians would do well to study its contents and seriously consider some of the suggestions Among the various recom mendations are suggestions for im proved policies toward public transit energy alternatives and massive low income housing With a construction industry unemployment rate in Metropolitan Toronto of about 30 per cent all these areas of Initiative could help rejuvenate the Canadian economy stabilize rental and housing costs and provide needed ac commodation The ripple effect throughout the economy would be felt as more disposable income for those becomes available in the or less income bracket With unemployment running between seven and eight per centor about one million workers without jobsand with the Canadian economy working at about per cent ef ficiency it is nothing short crime if Ottawa continues to ignore the danger signs Mr Pilkey la right when he says the present situation la dangerously close to the hungry 30s workers One of the more interesting exchanges from the floor where a Communist arty of Canada supporter took on the comments by the Maoists and defended the appearance or the politicians and the efforts of the labor movement in holding the full- employment meeting Buzz Hargrove a United Auto Workers representative said later tie wouldnt mind similar confronts at future meetings to place Issues in prospec tive Hargrove also took opportunity to knock Maoists for their inaction and radical rhetoric by saying they should do something other than stand outside meetings like this telling your bullshit papers to Ihe people who cant afford it possible that the meeting Wednesday might also bring about a change In the women seeking employment in th auto Industry Recently Ford Motor Company In hired two women for the assembly line after many years of refusing to hire women because there were no facilities available for them but a Brampton woman raised serious questions about American Motors hiring practices as she related an Incident in which she was rejected for a Job Terry Jones parliamentary assistant o Provincial Secretary for Social Development Margaret Birch said he would look Into the details of the case under human rights legislation The woman claimed the excuse was given was the lack of facilities for a Brampton MPP BUI Davis con spicuous by his absence at the meeting Wednesday and he received criticism for not appearing or sending a representative Mr Davis has been on a foreign in vestment trip to Janan But tfhlle Mr Do vis may have come in for some criticism the heaviest waa reserved for two federal members of parliament Small Business Minister Tony Abbott MP for came under scathing for having delayed the meetings and giving no excuse for not appearing last you cove CAR BUT FOR THIS PUG TO will SoiAR THIS Gimme gimmewhere will it end By GERRY ROUGH We live in an age of glmmie where everyone wants a bit of action a piece of the proverbial pie It appears that even those who have not directly contributed are also looking for their share Some of our young people seem to believe that unemployment or welfare is a right even though they have not put In enough working hours to collect or have any serious disability that would entitle them to welfare An age of Im entitled Just because Im here We constantly demand higher wages but when the cost of that Increase Is past on to the consumer In constantly rising prices the result is a chain reaction that can only culminate In the most disastrous results In Germany between the years of 1921 to as It cost a billion marks to ride the million marks to buy a paper Workers had to be paid twice a day in order to be able to buy Ihe most meagre Women needed large shopping bags Just to carry their money around Paper money devalued until it became cheaper to paper a wall in marks than to buy wallpaper Now economists tell us that it could never happen here The trouble with that statement is that so many things that one group or another told us could never happen are indeed happening We were told of Increases In food prlcea of 10 per cent thai rose to per cent then in tome areas SO per cent Coffee prices border on the ridiculous and at present an Into coffee prices in Ontario may prove then t be even higher than the United States or other parts of Canada The point of whole thing Is where will all end We want more and If not well go on strike Sound fa miliar The power of strike la to force demands however Justified to be met Striking and the results of striking teem to hasten inflation Arbitration Is a slow process perhaps that Is why we see such an Increase in strikes Today we want and need everything to be done quickly It Is hard if not Impossible to tell men and women with families to support that demands Tor wage Increase in order to maintain a certain lifestyle Is still under negotiation when rents and mortgage pay ments are falling due Yet at the same time we cannot see the strike as a solution to such problems Like all good things the power of striking has been carried to the extreme If each group in turn strikes mailmen teachers doctors or nurses you eventually end up right back where you started from only worse In the case of public services provincial intervention is likely When the government has step In and order strikers back to work your right back to arbitration again only this time its compulsory right of workers to fair working conditions and the ability to make a decent living wage is paramount In a democracy The right to dispute to collective bargaining voluntary arbritallon is more lhan necessary in a true deomcracy How ever when the power of collective bargaining breaks down and the vote of ihe collected members is to cease work and strike and one strike leads to another and each in turn to higher prices transferred to tbe consumer perhaps then the right to strike should be denied to all Any strike is really the power of force not reason When we lose ability to reason things out were losing the whole I listened recently to the Swiss consul speak about working conditions In Switzer land He spoke of fact that the people of Switzerland know that they have a very small country that its the people themselves who realize they cannot ask for more than the country can provide Perhaps this Is the answer for ourselves When we realize that there Is a limit to what we can ask for a limit to wages to benefits that things cannot go on indefinitely That even In a country as large and as prosperous as ours we can only produce and consume so much and when consumption production you have a serious The breakdown of the ability to reason things out Is Ihe breakdown In democracy Perhaps as the distinguished British histor ian Arnold has said we are witnessing Ihe end of a certain way of life The end of anything is a very painful process ahead Ilea the fear of the unknown but all ends lead lo new beginnings A chance of a new beginning Is a hope for the future In order see our hopes realized we have assure ourselves and our children that what lies ahead will be a beginning a better world not an end week Mr Hargrove bis concern over unemployment was demonstrated by bis publication last April of a letter to con stituents in which he identified national unity Inflation transportation and Immigration as the four issues farina Cans1 After the Brampton Labor Council In formed Abbott about the unemployment problem it was raised in the next newsletter second to car rusting Hargrove says MP Dr Frank also come in for criticism for always being cut of the country when important constituency business such as the full employment meetings were being held Those area members of the legislature attending the meeting attempted to answer concerns of people who filled the Legion Hall Speaking briefly were Terry Jones MPP for Misslssauga Doug Kennedy MPP for South Julian Reed MPP for Hal tonBurlington and DufferinSlmcoe MP Ross Milne Even if coffees dear Grossman can do nothing about it ByDONOHEARN Queen t Park Bureau Of The Herald Two Mel Swart of backed up by Ed Philip of Etobicoke have been pressing hard on the government and particularly ihe new Ministry of Con sumer and Commercial Relations on coffee They have pointed out cases where on their evidence there is a great disparity between store prices Tor coffee in the United States and Canada Swart has been on this point for son time And until very recently he hasnt anywhere PUBLICITY POWER Grossman admits least by implication that if the situation is as the members claim and one of their claims is that one brand of instant coffee costs in Niagara Palls and In Welland lust across the border under present legislalon there is nothing he could do directly about it order a roll back in the price But he docs feel the consumer should know the score And he will hold an inquiry at which tbe food industry will be Invited present side which he Intends will bring out the actual situation If the inquiry finds that NDP case Is right there will be nothing he con actually do about il But with inquiry and its results made public there will be the Jawboning power of publicity REVIEW BOARD This Incident opens up the whole question of consumer prices There Is already some pressure and now will probably be more for Ihe province lo control retail prices The province taking over regulatory powers over retail prices is really an un lion Aside from ihe fact that bureaucracy involved would be awesome this would be anathema lo our political principles But it is not impossible to visualize a review board such as there now is In Manitoba which would look at prices and expose flagrant abuses through publicity Looking Through Our Files THIRTY YEARS AGO President James Waumsley presided at the October meeting of the Branch of the Garage Operators Association held in the Odd Fellows flail In Milton on October Mrs Jack McGlbbon of Georgetown woe a Rogers Majestic radio on the Mother Parkers radio program last Saturday night Mrs McGibbons number called during Ihe program and she correctly identified the tune being played on tbe air Last Wednesday afternoon the pupils from Milton Acton and Georgetown public schools met In the Georgetown Park where they competed In their second annual Inter- School athletic meet Georgetown was suc cessful in winning trophy for the second consecutive year and from the interest effort training and good sportsmanship displayed Ihey well deserved TWENTY YEARS AGO Another nearperfect day crowned the efforts of directors of Agricultural Society in presenting another standout fall fair in Georgetown on Saturday Threats of rain early In the day failed to materialize and It turned out to be a perfect sunny afternoon with just the right tang in the air to make It fall weather With enrolment In the Ihree Georgetown public schools approaching the mark a staff of academic teachers a music supervisor and partlime assistants is in charge of primary education for young Georgetown this year Ha lions new Member of Parliament Sandy Best will take his seal when parlia ment convenes In Ottawa on Thanksgiving Day He will be one of the fortunate Canadians to be present on an historic occasion when Queen Elizabeth will officially open parliament TEN YEARS AGO At 1030 am on October the General Assembly of United Nations will be called order The scene however will not be New York City but the auditorium of Georgetown district high school For In this centennial year Georgetown has been chosen to host the Model United Nations The program of lighting is to go ahead as planned by Chinguacousy Township engineer Kenneth Corny A total of lights are lo be located in the area Phone