the HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established A Division Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Guelph Street Georgetown Ontario L7G 3Z6 PAUL J TAYLOR Publisher and Genera Manager DAVE BOBLIGHTBOURM Advertising Manager PHONE Second Hi I Reentered Number Page 4 SECTION A THE HERALD Wednesday September Need is there Are the police within their rights to be charging those loitering on Acton s Mam Street We think so A town Main Street should be open to everyone and no one should feel afraid about walking past a bunch of youths blocking the sidewalk In Acton s case there are grounds to support that some people feel threatened to walk by the vicinity of the Mam and Mill Street corner The police are acting on complaints from citizens so then- ticketing t being initiated from within the force Theyre trying to respond to a need to serve the residents of Acton We should point out that merchants in the area havent complained to police but some of their customers have When police give warnings before they charge loiterers theyve been fair with the people charged As Deputy chief Bob Middaugh has said there is an alternative if you don want a ticket dont break the law There is cause for concern when we hear about in cidents where a police officer s life is threatened and where a citizen is attacked for coming to the aid of a police officer If Toronto lawyer AI can defuse the situation he will be doing the town a big favor The last thing we need re bitter feelings between the police and our youth Better we solve the problems through meetings with both parties Otherwise there will be resentful citizens and police constables who will find it hard to understand the other side of the question and will have a lingering distrust of the system Extra caution Students of all ages will be tramping off to school starting today full of energy and a carefree attitude that lingers from the summer As drivers it our responsibility to be extra cautious when children are on their way to school We teach our children to be safe pedestrians but of their impulsive behavior comes in conflict with obeying safety rules We must realize our duty to help reduce traffic cidents involving children by being extra cautious I SEINIOR Either you ire well or you are tick If you are well there nothing to worry about But If you ore sick there are too many things to worry about Either yon will get well or you will die If you get well there Is nothing to worry about It you die there only two thing to worry about Either you will go to heaven or hell If you goto heaven there Is nothing to worry about But If you go to hell you be Jam busy shaking hands with You won have time worry Petersburg September is Ihe month when he various clubs and organizations begin their fall activities It Is the lime to remind seniors of ho groups which interest them The Golden Triangle meets the first and third Tuesday of each month at 1 in St Andrews United Church Mountain view The first meeting Tuesday Sept IB will be a membership meeting plans for the fall Include an autumn colour tour in October atrip to the theatre in November and a Christmas light tour possibly to Slmcoe in December Drivers are urgently needed It anyone can in this capacity call Madge Whitfield at or the The Belles and meet in Hall I second and fourth Mondays The first meeting Monday Sept 10 is a games afternoon If you are sixty or over you might be interested in the Golden Ago Bowling Club which meets at the Georgetown Bowl 12 Mountoinview Rd every Friday beginning Sept at lpm Last year over seventy members met for fun and fellowship The aim of the club is enjoyment rather than bowling ability New members are needed no previous experience necessary Come and Join the fun If interested call Barb at 8770474 and she will gladly put your name on a learn The Halton Helping Hands is presently undergoing some adjust ments The Georgetown office is now open for a limited time on Thursdays If you wish the office can be contacted that day at 1177 other wise you will get a recorded message with instructions For speedier service call the Oakville office at loll free from the Georgetown area The hours are This organization also needs volunteers o do odd Jobs for the frail elderly and permanently physically disabled If you can spare a few hours call the above number On Sept I9at7pm roomNlQOm Georgetown District High School accountable members of the Board or Education are going lo be present lo answer questions physical changes required o school buildings to make them meet the needs of the physically handicapped This is a public meeting and all are welcome Ready Willing and Disabled by Norman Kunc disabled with cerebral palsy is a book expressing the idea that Integration into regular schools is Ihe first Step integrating a disabled person into society Being segregated from the community In special schools until age he did not discover Ihe potential he would need to compete with ablebodled Competition and challenge should start early to more easily facilitate success No one knows better what their capabilities are than Iho person with the handicap They are the ones who can best judge how to overcome a barrier Teachers must permit students to even if It means failure Fear may be a reason why teachers may oppose integration Mr recommends self education routing about disabilities and communication It Is essentially the responsibility of the disabled student to integrate himself By accepting himself his limitations and knowing that it OK to be handicapped puts others at ease Teachers can however an example for students If one has a speech Impairment never pretend to understand and never feci guilty about not understanding Repetition helps improve speech and helps in the integration process Mr sums up by emphatic ally stating It is no exaggeration that any school which refuses to at least try to integrate a disabled student is signing a certificate of personal and social death Ready Willing and Disabled is available at the library While he does put his point across he still finds space to point out his own mistakes and writes a book that Is easy reading and Informative At a conference held in Toronto this summer by People United For Self Help It was felt that the disabled must educate the educators Several panel lata indicated the Issue was not segregation versus integration but finding ihe right educational program for the individual child Jne speaker particularly critical of present educational and social services suggested that the conveyor belt mentality should be replaced THE BUCK STARTS HERE Early settlers Old fashioned elections didnt prohibit liquor Herald Special The law which keeps our bars dry on election day until the polls have closed would have been unfamiliar to the early settlers of though they would probably have understood the reason behind It For in their day mans vote and t was only men who had the right to vote could be bought with a generous helping of rum or whiskey That was just one or the of demon rum and as reached the half way point much of the populace was willing to get rid of alcohol altogether The Scott Act allowed for a sort of local option on the question of lion and Hilton became the banner county to adopt Us provisions was one election that was not won by the purchase of support from thirsty voters The party agent could assure I hat his money was well spent because there was no secret It look a brave man to vote in an unpopular way When bribery Tailed muscular persuasion might become alternat ive either to keep someone away from the polls or to take vengeance on a person who had voted the wrong way A man ethnic background did not determine the way he voted but racial could be used as political weapons At times the heated debates of the simply provided a platform for ethnic tensions In the year of confederation Colonel K made a speech in Georgetown in which an intended compliment backfired when he said was a loyal allhough lie was an Irishman when allowance is made for the context for confederation was in part a response lo the threat posed by Fenian soldiers who had been disband at the end of the American Civil War and thought they should liberate Canadians from the British crown remark shows the susplci that rested on those whose roots were drawn from the old sod of the Emerald isle Chisholm lost the election Religion was mother factor There was a Ink between Secessionist Presbyterians of the Scotch Block and Mackenzie patriots at the time of the 1BJ7 rebellion Methodists were also pushed Into the ranks of the Reformers by the of Tory Anglican establishment an Anglican was constantly getting into hot water with his disparaging remarks about the Method Methodists tended to advocate temperance and Anglicans tended to oppose them When the rector of Grace Anglican Church in Milton spoke against temperance the local paper accused him of practising what he preached Religion could be a decisive factor In Upper Canada there were two Houses an appointed legislative council and an elected House of Assembly clergy had enjoyed an almost exclusive right to preside at marriages and when the Assembly in passed a bill that would have extended the privilege to ministers other denominations the Council refused its assent Their action so offended Methodists and others that when an election was held the following year the first Reform majority was elected K Chisholm s father William 178818421 had been the member Tor the East Riding of Halton in he 1B20 Assembly at that time the number of representatives had Just risen to Though a Tory William had reforming sympathies and had taken part In a meeting in Nelson township which had provided Information for Robert s famous Statistical Report The meeting had attracted the government anger by criticizing the many clergy which hindered the development of the township and those who took part in it were marked men in the government But though William Chisholm views won him they did not go far enough to keep it after 1824 He lost to Caleb Hopkins 1880 whohad been dubbed by the Tory press as the saddlebags candidate because of his Methodist support The Tories had not been able to realize their battlfecry Forever Hopkins Never Then as now people had the sublime confidence that the election of their party whatever It happened to be would cure all the country ills But James Bradley must have had his tongue in his cheek when he described Ihe plight of Ihe grain farmers around Glen Williams in 1878 in a letter to the Milton News and continued we think however do soon as John A is In power again both midge and rust will disappear The promises sound nice WILSON Herald Special OTTAWA The Conservative campaign in this election Is beginning to bear some striking resemblances to that of former prime minister and the Liberals in 1980 The guiding principle in both these campaigns Is Ihe same AVOID much discussion of the great Issues of the day in cose your solutions prove to be controversial Don invite the voters to think lull them Don t lake factual accuracy seriously exaggeration hyperbole and hair truths are old political staples Brian Mulroney has probably strewn more promises about the political landscape this time than did In 1SB0 most of which he will be unable lo keep unless he Is prepared to Ignore the terrible state of the nation finances It seems likely that he is extremely reluctant to talk about the financial mess which will be so crippling for whoever forms the next government precisely because to do so would inhibit his promise- monger In a way It is hard to blame either Trudeau or Mulroney for this type of campaign Awful as it is the public swallows this political pap hook line and sinker Anyone who doubts that has only to look at the Trudeau promise of 1080 of cheap oil In 1980 probably no one re illy believed Trudeau line that if Liberals were reelected the country could go on living in a dream world ituulatedfrom reality promise sounded nice and it was easier to pretend belief to face the harsh reality that no one could deliver cheap oil In Ihe event the price of oil soared during the following Trudeau regime and it would still be soaring except for the semi col lapse of the international market contrary toall the expectations of Probably no one really believes Mulroney promises this time cither but It is nicer to accept them than face the prospect of very rigorous days ahead The trouble with this sort of campaign is that people get the sort of government afterwards lhat they deserve one bears no relationship to the campaign dreams No one listening to Trudeau In 1980 would ever hove dreamed within months there would be such a concentration of all Important federal power in a tiny number of hands the cabinet system of government was effectively suspended for two years It was only restored through a succession of accidents The prime ministers principle adviser Jim left to a Toronto byelection and fell on his The finance department Saddled Allan with a disastrously bad budget which worsen the deepening recession bitterly angered hundreds or thousands of CinndinnS and politically destroyed the minister and his once great authority No one listening to in 1980 would have had any reason dream that the country would quickly be plunged Into not one but two great fundamental cent rove isies one over the constitution the other over a favored youth scheme to restructure the entire Canadian petroleum industry to the great detriment of the producing provinces the industry and the nations reputation abroad Today no one listening to Brian can have any real idea of the sort of government he will provide if as iho polls suggest so strongly he wins the election The party has produced a position paper on Ihe oil but then Its energy critic reveals enters into a pact not to discuss vital topic of energy during the campaign Thanks for coverage Dear Sir I would like to take this to thank you and your paper for all your help throughout he summer Your extensive coverage of our programs has been an essential part of publicity campaign Thanks to your help our registration has Improv cd II is through ly support sueh that makes It possible for us to offer programs for children in the community Yours truly Summer Activities Recreation find Parks Department TRAVEL A Jet lakes off through the air We craft to get as there It I take much for It to crack It has no leg and It has no rack along In a forceful play No back up and It go one way The it climbs to a vrry great height Nothing much to lee but mltty white BROOKS Everyone who watches govern ment knows what the first task of new administration must be but Mulroney has kept us in the dark about the ways in which he will deal with it So much government revenue is now sequestered just to keep the interest paid on accumulated debt that something must be done about It and quickly We should know by now how Mulroney and the Tories view this problem and in general terms how Ihcy propose to deal with It We know nothing of the sort and Judging by the way in which the polls favor the Tories the public could not care less This Is a very bad way to elect a government The fault Is shared by the public the media and politicians THIRTY YEARS AGO Lawson a Smith and Stone employee won a bridal gown wedding ring bouquet cake and an album of photo graphs in a lucky draw sponsored by the Optimists Club in Keswick Cpl Albert Carter who visited Ireland during a leave from army camp In Belgium has sent a book Not an Inch by Hugh Shearman for the library in Orange Kali New residents of Balllnafad are Mr and Mrs Ernie Barnes who moved recently into the Matthews farm on the edge or the village George BrandfordJr is richer through possessing one of the lucky in a contest being conducted by the Toronto Telegram With Mrs Ken Nash and Mrs Ted Fleming in charge lady members of the golf club had another afternoon game yesterday Hidden hole prizes were won by Shirley and Mrs Walter Mayor Jack Armstrong may be a competitor in the Mayor Class at the International Plowing Match in Water loo County FIFTEEN YEARS AGO A wild orange Cougar driven by Walt Dixon of North Halton Motor Sales and owned by Frank Volkalsoof town established a new record at Canadian Ameri can National meet In Winnipeg August A large empty barn on the former Harry farm on the Line of Esquesing just south of Stewart town became number seven In the steadily growing list barn ratings when it burnt to the ground late Tuesday night A 17 year old high school student Peter has just returned from a nine and a half week European trip where he visited with friends and relatives in Holland and Sweden The Georgetown Little Theatre has decided to cut its productions from four a season three president Ron Hill revealed recently airport just west of Georgetown came under attack again last Tuesday night at council Land owner Joe Ross was on the receiving end Warden George welcomed Gordon the newlyappointed deputy reeve of to Halton County Council Tuesday after noon Brian Beaumont selected a seven Iron and belted his tee shot 165 yards to ace the par three 13th hole at North Golf Club Wednesday Aug TEN YEARS AGO Regional Carl claims that the Ontario government cannot run assessment offices for the whole province and the regional administration and finance committee agrees with him Minister of Transportation and Communications Rhodes announced details of Ihe motor vehicle inspection program coming Into effect the first of September More than Norval residents streamed out of a Board of Education meeting Thursday angry and dejected some of them shouting Communism after the board voted against a motion to have the village school reopened Rev Andre of Sacred Heart parish will be leaving this charge for studies fie is entering Laval University in Montreal where he will work towards his masters degree in theology FIVE YEARS AGO When the Dominion Hotel in Acton burned down a week and a half ago a number of people who were permanent residents in the hotel suddenly found themselves looking for a new place to live The board of education paid tribute Thursday evening to Gary Dawk th Middle School who died suddenly A Welsh pony Mellsande belonging to Mary Cork of Terra Colt was chosen the junior champion filly in the Breeding Horse section of the horse show Two players who were on roster of the Georgetown Raiders last year will be vying for spots in the NHL Peter Sturgeon will be attending the training camp of the Colorado Rockies and Ron Twlss has been invited to try out for the New York Rangers TORONTO Regardless who wins the federal election expect a further assault on an individual or organization right to advertise its views during an election campaign If one thing was made clear by the recent controversy over the Election Expenses Act 1983 It Is that there is a substantial body of opinion lhat favors suppressing as much freedom of speech as it can get away with during on election campaign The Election Expenses Act 1983 put a muzzle on anyone who attempted lo argue for the defeat or the election of a particular political candidate without the approval of a registered political party In practice It means special interest groups cant zero In on consider enemies of their views Thanks lo the National Citizens Coalition the relevant section of the act was appealed to the courts which throw It out as a curb on freedom express lot ALL AGAINST Somewhat grudgingly the Liberal government acquiesced to Alberta trial court decision and appeal Bui he blame for the Election Expenses Act can t be bid solely on the liberals doorstep After all the Conservatives and New Democrats also supported it unanimously and were well aware it infringed freedom of speech when they did so The avowed aim of the act was to restrict spending so that every party has about Ihe same chance to buy the electorate with television ads pamphlets and so on This all horses out of the gate at the same time theory of course actually only applies to the three old line parties Conservatives Liberals and New Democrats who have Ihe funds to do this kind of buying an election And much of those funds come out of tax dollars REAL GOAL But beyond this proclaimed aim there Is what I suspect was the real I goal the politicians Toronto lawyer Aubrey Golden summed it up nicely In a newspaper article when he said the political parties viewed with alarm the spectre of their political agendas being altered by outsiders There were and are issues none of the politicians want to talk about or more Important want to be identified with Golden recounted the cose Canadian Union or Public Employees official Don Roach who hired a banner lo tow an aircraft during wage and price controls that urged people to vote anything but Liberal Under the Election Expenses Act of that day his action was legal It would not have been under the new act and that Is exactly what the politicians wonted to accomplish But what they don advocate spending limits and disclosure rules forlnesegroupsllkeCUPEortbaNCC Such limits and rules would nut them under the same kind of wjes as political parlies I