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Tan Oliver Publisher Robert Glasbey Advertising Director Norman Alexander Editor Geoff Hill Circulation Director Teri Casas Office Manager Tim Coles Production Manager Advertising is accepted on the condition that, in the event of a | erroneous item, together with a reasonable allowance for signature, esc 4ds antamnine Advertising is accepted on the condition that, in the event of a YPOgI@PNRR ETL O Wmm ons erroneous item, together with a reasonable allowance for signature, will not be charged for, but the balance of the advertisement will be paid for at the applicable rate. The publisher reserves the right to categorize and reject advertising. in the event of typographical error, advertising goods or services at the wrong price, goods ices may not be sold. Advertising is merely an offer to sell and may be withdrawn at any time. forward to put forth their cases. Neil Reid, pres. of the Federation of Oakville Ratepayers‘ Groups, sugâ€" gested department heads teach for three periods a day instead of the preâ€" sent twoâ€"period policy and that the pupilâ€"teacher ratio be increased .1 per cent. Reid said these two moves alone could save more than $5.7â€"million. That‘s pretty impressive. 420 a en e en t i d 0 c ced e td Eo o sn o That‘s the kind of input that‘s needed if the education monster is to be brought under some kind of control. And with a $282â€"million budget, someone has to tell the board where to make cuts. Curiously, though, staffing changes rarely seem to come up from board bureaucrats as a way to save money. high cost in delivering service to patients. Physicians have, once again, launched another public relations campaign to put forth their view on cuts to the health system. Ontano s health system is under scrutiny as never before as it battles the Cc As a group, the Ontario Medical Association, which represents about 22,000 provincial doctors, has the financial clout to market themselves very well. But in other areas, when it really counts, the OMA still seems to be looking out for the interests of its physicians than the patients they treat. A little item came to light this week to drive that point home. The College of Physicians and Surgeons, the regulatory body overseeing doctors in this province, has passed new regulations that given them the power to suspend doctors for up to six months for such things as failing to tell patients of important test results, overâ€"prescribe tranquilizers or narcotics or prescribe outdated drugs. Nes Cmm onl BR c Before these new regulations the CPS had little power to deal with offendâ€" ing physicians. And according to CPS registrar Dr. Michael Dixon, "We‘re not talking minor deficiencies of recordâ€"keeping. We‘re talking about people who are grossly deficient and a potential harm to patients." se in c use Nes cce About six doctors a yea}, on average, are found to be in the "deficient" catâ€" egory described by Dr. Dixon, who notes that while seemingly small in numâ€" ber, they affect literally thousands of people. 42000050034 Ee D c h o And just howfiman'y more physici.ans‘ like this are there who aren‘t found out or reported? y en en q w . ieb 1e t Instead of welcoming the news as a way to clean up their profession, the OMA has instead decided to challenge the new regulation, saying they weren‘t consulted and that the process has an inadequate appeal process. Sharpening pencils Over the past two weeks, various tax and ratepayers‘ groups have come t‘s really interesting what happens when taxpayers and parents are given the opportunity of a public forum to suggest ways in which the Halton Board of Education can not only save money but maintain serâ€" And to whom does a keptâ€"inâ€"theâ€"dark, illâ€"served patient turn to? Exactly. The right thing n C CAcl ol ez 6 467 Speers Road, Oakville, Ont. L6K 354 845â€"3824 Fax: 845â€"3085 Classified Advertising: 845â€"2809 Circulation: 845â€"9742 or 845â€"9743 er Director or Iger in the event of a rypggra_p[ipqlL error The Oakville Beaver, published every Sunda*. Wednem and Friday, at 467 Speers Rd., Oakville, is one of the Metroland r'nling. hing Distributing Ltd. group of suburban newspapers which includes: Ajaxâ€"Pickering News Advertiser, Barrie Advance, Brampton Guardian, Burlington Post, Connection, Etobicoke Guardian, lown I n/ Acton Free . Kingston This Week, Lindsay This leek, Markham Economist and Sun, Stouffville/Uxbridge Tribune, Milton Canadian Champion, Mississauga News, Newmarketâ€"Aurora Eraâ€"Banner, North York Mirror, Oakville Beaver, Orillia Today, Oshawa/Whitby This Week, Peterborough This Week, Richmond HilV Thomhil/Vaughan Liberal, Scarborough Mirror. All material published in the Oakville Beaver is protected by copyrim!':"Any uction in whole or in part of this material is strictly forbidden without the consent of the publisher. that portion of the ddvertisi e occupied by the that portion of ne .m"fl.,{’.‘::fimn will be nt;lvd for criminologist by the name of Thomas Plate k, wrote the foregoing observatlon ‘way back in 1975. Today, nearly two decades later, one would have to conclude that Mister Plate was, unfortunately, bang on the money. Consider some statistics: On any given day, some 30,000 Canadians are behind bars somewhere in this country. Another 85,000 are on probaâ€" tion or parole. There are 2.5â€" million Canadians walking around with a criminal record. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi says he has answer to urban crime And the numbers are going up, not down. Canada sports the second highest rate of incarceration in the western world â€" only the Americans throw more citizens in the slammer than we do. So do you feel safer and more secure than you did, say 20 years ago? Of course not. Every day, the headlines scream of armed robâ€" beries, child molestings, beatâ€" ings, shootings, killings... So what should we do â€" throw more tax dollars into the black hole? Hey, we already spend nearly $2â€"billion a year just maintaining our prison and detention facxlmes across the land. So, what‘s the solution to crime? § Would you believe...good vibrations? You would if you.believed in In the war on crime the bad guys are ahead. the Maharishi. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi I‘m talking about. The giggly, jiggly guruâ€"inâ€"aâ€"bedsheet with the floorâ€"mop hair and the Spanish Moss beard. The guy who became famous back in the 1960‘s by enticing the Beatles to join his transcendental flock. Time passes and so do fads. The Beatles have split, but the Maharishi‘s still around, still preaching the gospel of Transcendental Meditation. As a matter of fact, the Maharishi thinks TM is the answer to crime in the streets of North America. The Maharishi is offering to send TM Swat Teams into the urban ghettos to wipe out the corruption. And how would these clean up crews be armed for their confrontations with pimps, junkies, crack dealers, and run of the mill thugs? Just with a fistful of good vibrations. "Our teams are to bring the light," explained the Maharishi, recently. "The darkness of crime will naturally disappear." The Maharishi is not just idly whistling Ravi Shankar solos here. He‘s serious. His organiâ€" zation has bought quarterâ€"page ads in the newspapers of several viceâ€"ridden American cities. The ads invite.those cities toâ€" pick up the phone and order a team of TM Crime Crusaders. There‘s no muss, no fuss, and no noisy press conferences either. The teams would stay in hotels, out of sight, quietly meditating like mad. The ads promise that crime in any given city can be eliminated in five years, merely by thinking good thoughts. Have you heard that old occiâ€" dental mantra, Maharishi? Physictan,; Heal Thyself?â€" â€" â€" Ah...there is a slight fee, of course. It‘s a sliding scale that the Maharishi himself has worked out. A small burg like Buffalo can be Rinso White for a mere $12â€"million U.S. Per year. Whereas a _ Sodomâ€"andâ€" Gomorrah cesspool like New York, he couldn‘t do for less than $266â€"mil. Sounds pricey, but it works out to about a dime a citizen â€" which is a better return than we‘re getting from our investâ€" ment in Mounties, and CSIS, and Provincial police, and local cops, and FBI, and Interpol, not to mention the Justice League of America. But just a second. The Maharishi is from where? India, right? Where paramilitary troopers of the Border Security Force went on a rampage last month, slaughtering 53 civilians in Kashmir? Where Hindus and Moslems have been enthusiastically murâ€" dering each other in a religious pogrom? (Last count: 47 dead).