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Section Two The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, September 4, 1974 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT Bleak Opening for the Fall Well, let's get moving! Here it is there would be a rash of suicides and Tuesday morning, the day after new candidates for mental hospitals. Labor Day and it is cold, wet and Now, most of us take such crises in generally dismal outside. A depres- our stride, giving them only a sing introduction to September the passing thought, as we proceed with fal season, the opening of school, our plans and our aspirations. Let the possible end of the transit strike somebocty else worry about the in Toronto and the beginning of Lord world and its problems, we're still knows how many others. healthy and well fed even if our pay Already this morning we've heard cheque seems to disappear more that accidental deaths over the quickly every week asinflation holiday weekend were higher than erodes our earning power. predicted with the Province of So, let's quit worrying about the Ontario leading the pack. Cheerful weather, the strikes, the rapes, the thought. highway deaths, the possibility of a To make things even brighter, depression, etc. and get on with they've found a mass grave on whatever we have in mind. There is Cyprus filled with bodies of murder much to be done in our own ed victims, the British Isles are in communities, our homes and our desperate financial condition again work. The politicians we have and economists are extremely elected and the civil servants who ,worried about the possiblity of a full are demanding ever higherpay are blown depression of the magnitude the ones to give us the lead in solving of the one in the 30's. Franly, we the nation's problems. If they can't can only come to the conclusion that do it, let's boot them out and replace the world is in a mess with good them with somebody who can. Few prospects of it getting worse. of us have the capabilities or the In spite of it all, we hardy souls knowledge to take any part in will go to work or school with a solving those complex probles that cheerful outlook. Frankly, most confront Canada and the rest of the folks have almost become immune world. We all have our own jobs to to these crises that have beset us take care of, our own children to look since the beginning of time. If we after and that's about ail most of us allowed ourselves to panic over can handle. Let's get on with it! every new one that has faced us, Town of Newcastle 2024, (As adapted from the Cobourg Star) "Newcastle 2024". Sounds like a long time away - a lot longer than it was back to 1924. But it's coming just the same. And it's only 50 years away. Today's teenagers will be grand-parents, and most of the rest of us will be - as they say - pushing daisies. In the current Saturday Review, Moshe Safdie, the Canadian archi- tect who designed Habitat at Montreal's 1967 Expo gives his view of city and country living 50 ears from now. None of it is outlandish. Safdie says the industrialized nations are going to have to accept a lower standard of living temporarily as other countries insist on receiving their share of world resources, "The welfare state will become the welfare world", he says. This decline for some of the rest of us will be temporary, but it will provide the shock freatment necessary to bring about a restructuring to eliminate many of today's wasteful city patterns' Pollution will be gone in 50 ycars, he say s, and wastes wi l be iecircu ated Peogle will live in much more open omes, with telescoping walls depending on the seasons. They will move to shopping and to work in little vehicles hooked together on belts travelling slowly for short trips or up to 100 m. p.h. for long tri s. People will live in high-rise neighborhoods, with cultivated farmland coming right up to the residential areas. The farms will be worked by unmanned automatic machinery. Older citr cores have been reconstructed, but with the growth of trunk lines for transportation, the large regional cities will have not one centre, but several along the Unes. There will still be some private vehicles but most will be owned by a public facility. A lot of people will not require private cars, ut they will have access to them when needed- like the present car rental systems. Brick and wood will be gone as building materials - most buildings will be of a smooth, molded synthetic material. Suburban sprawl will have long since been gven up to regional cities. Business will move out into the regional cities. Oh yes, there is also a new concept of a "guaranteed minimum shelter" and this will mean whole new communities put together by region- al monopolies. They will be along the trunk-line. Two-level regional go- vernment will be in vogue through- out. There will be public ownership of all land space and air rights. And what will have happened to all that has already happened? Well,'says Safdie, a bout 2000A.D., Tens and hundreds of thousands of little suburban houses will be demolished and the land returned to agricultural use or left as open public space." How possible is it? the architect points out that hewill be 86 years old at the time. His daughter, who is now 13, willbe 63. Not so far away. Probably we are further along this way than we think. If we look at the town of Newcastle, the GO-line type of train and other transporta ion certainy will be extended long before then. As for public ownership of land, we are very close to that now. Zoning bylaws give the public control. Public participation in mortgages and development give still more control, and the recent Ontario land speculation tax adds another layer. Safdie's design of Habitat in 1967 looked strange and avant-garde, when he built it just seven years ago. Today, there is nothing unusual about it. Fif ty years is not a ver long time. And Safdie is a very intelligent man. Alcohol and Youth Canada's youth is drowning in a flood of booze. Warns the Addiction Research Foundation - "the endless regurgi- tation of beer commercials featur- ing modish kids in forests boat and ba loon indicates how vital a market the young have become". Warns Gerald Le Dain, head of, the commission on non-medical use of drugs - "alcohol is the worst curse affecting society today". A nation-wide survey shows dramatie escalation in alcohol problems among youth - since the legal drinking age was dropped from 21 to 18 - in April 1971. Manitoba teenagers have moved from hard and soft drugs to alcohol, and Nova Scotia reported only two persons under 20 treated for alcohol problems in provincial hospitals during 1970, while 20 patients were admitted in 1971. In Quebec 14-year-olds sneak into pubs and taverns and in Toronto drinking among high school students doubled since 1970 - while mari- juana and hashish usage climbed 10, per cent and LSD dropped. The public must find out the inter-relationships between drug usage and alcohol. A royal commis- sion should be set up to determine if raising the drinking age back to 21, will cause kids to just sink deeper into drugs. Meanwhile, those seduc- tive, youth-oriented beer and liquor ads should be banned from the media. , L U uuram CLounty's Great Family Journal Established 120 years ago in 1854 Also Incorporat;ng The Bowmanville News The Newcastle Independent The Orono News Second class mail registration number 1561 N1 Q j. .9 I * #oo I ~ N L Phone Produced every Wednesday by Phone 623-3303 THE JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED 623.3303 62-66 King St. W., Bowmanville, Ontario LlC 3K9 JOHN M. JAMES GEO. P. MORRIS PATRICK'GOULD DONALD BISHOP Editor- Publisher Business Mgr. Sales Manager Plant Mgr. 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August 26,1974 on page four, corner, Bowr Dear Sir, Limited stat It is unfortunate that the Regardless first letter I write to you after we should al so many years of enjoying arithmetic p "The Statesman" is one of WE i criticism, but I strongly feel What kind that it is essential. "FIGGER"? I do not wish to criticize In advert your wonderful paper, but to children and point out to you and your well as pari advertisers an important fact. have an ol As teachers, we constantl correct? beat our beads against a brick wall to instil in the children we If somethin meet the importance of being you in such a correct. We are bombarded please havey with such spellings as "to-nite, the error or X-mas, rite, shoppe" and advertisemer many, many more. It's very Sin difficult to explain to a child (Mrs.) C that this is done for effect or out of laziness by some adults. Ed's note: S The example I wish to bring Guess we1 to your attention appeared in advertisier the "Back to School and On To colloquial, h College" advertising supple- it. We'll watec ment to the Wednesday Aug- in future. T ust twentv first edition where letter. R-RRR w mzM 3E Riel N U ByBilli OUR SOCIAL LIFE GETS WARMED UP Perhaps I sounded a bit grumpy last week because this has been one of those summers when a chap feels that he hasn't done anything, seen anything, or been anywhere. And it has. But that is not to say that it has been without interest and incident. Last week, I whined about our scanty social life: one funeral, one weddng. However, we've had some very interesting visitors. Almost every day. Roofers, painters, a columnist, a student, a syndicate man, a physiotherapist, and - the most mnteresting of all - my grandbabby. And I reckon I've learned a wee bit about human nature in the process. Perhaps that's What it's all about. I like physical nature as well as the next man, but I am fascinated by human nature. Physical nature is interesting and fairly predictable. You plant a seed properly, nurture it, give it plenty of fertilizer, the right amount of sun and water, pluck out the weeds around it, and you wind up with a dandy cucumber or turnip, or whatever you planted. But you can't do that with humans, though you try. Maybe we give them too much fertilizer, or don't pluck the weeds. We plant what we think is going to be a rose, and it turns out to be a cabbage. Or vice versa. Any parent knows this. By the way, don't get excited, or nervous. This is not a tract on Freudian sexual symbolism. It is merely a middle-aged man trying to express his astonishment at the variegation of the human species. Once again, I drift into one of those remote channels that end up in a swamp. Why not stock to the main stream? Back to our summer visitors. There are two categories: those who caught us at home, and those who did not. Those in the latter category came around when we were out doing something exotic, like shopping. Or at night, when we were cringing in the TV room, lights out, doors locked, phone off the hook, arguing about whether we'd watch the John Wayne 1940 western or the Audrey Hepburn 1953 dazzler. Among these were two people who left notes. One was Doris Humph- ries, a lively columnist in the Renfrew Mercury. "Darn you, Bill Smily. I came al the way from Renfrew. ..". Sorry, Doris. I'll buy you a dinner next tîme. I read your in the bottom left manville Cleaners ed: s of age, perhaps Il renew a simple roblem. FIGGER: d of a word is ising aimed at young adults as ents, do we not bligation to be ng is submitted to n incorrect form, your staff correct not accept the ift. cerely, arol L. White orry about that. figured if the wanted ft be e was paying for h it more closely hanks for your R.R. 2, Port Hope, Ontario. August 30th, 1974. Dear Sir: Prime Minister Trudeau is not likely to pay much attention to the recent gratui- tous advice of backbench Conservative Allan Lawrence, who suggested that Mr. Tru- deau is unlikely to finish out his term of office. The Prime Minister is quite capable of making his own decisions, an attribute that bas helped him to win the last three federal elections. Mr. Lawrence's pre- diction that Mr. Trudeau will turn out to be Canada's worst Prime Minister is consistent with most of Mr. Lawrence's assertions, trivial when they are not absolutely wrong. The record for the worst Prime Minister will long be held by Tory R. B. Bennett. Old timers will never forget the record of the Tory years -,a stagnant economy, foreclo- 3 r column every week in one of Canada's best weeklies. And remind your boss that he still owes me a dinner. (He was a terrified infantry- man when I was a terrified Typhoon pilot.) Another note, was from a student. Sharp mind, headed for university and law. Beware, you lawyers of five years from now. Don't fool with this young lady?, Punk?, woman?, person?. She'Îl'murder you. Typical' ly with the deep res ect my students have for mie, er note be an, "Hi, Smiley, I came around ana you didn't even have the decency to be at home . . ." A few of the visitors caught us at home. One was Bill Craig, of Argyle Syndicate, who has more to do with getting out this column than anyone except me. Our previous acquain- tance had been on the phone. I expected a smart-alec young _punk of about twenty-six with the big sideburns, the big pants, and the hearty'manner. I was shattered. He and his wife Betty arrived for that notorious pre-dinner appetizer. They have an eighteen-year-old daughter and a sweet, shy little son, James, who is five. Bill is a Korean war veteran. He demolished me at two games of chess, and played a fair piano. So much for preconceptions. Some of the others who caught us in were the painters and the roofers. When we we re up at the crack of dawn, ready for any questions, they didn't show up. When we were up at the' crack of noon, Inot expecting them, they were buzzing the doorbell at 8:30, like hornets, I report, not happily, but just as an observer, that they were all stung severely by a number of hornets in our roof and environs. Then there was the Scotsman. He is physiotherapist. Boy, ' that's a hard word to spell. He wanted work, af ter hours, so hie could buy'a house. I was rather intrigued by the idea that a young man actually wanted to work. And then there was my bad back, which, comes in handy very often. He's an excellent gardener, and our place looks better than it has in a decade. But there, I've run out of space, and I haven't even told you of the Party in our backyard for retarded, adults, or the hellery of my grandb'abby. He has just arrived again, and I can hear him shouting downstairs for Bill or -somebody who understands that when he's asleep, hie is pure angel, and when he's, awake, he's pure devil. sures of farm mortgages, bread lines and soup kitchens, one-third of the labour force without jobs (or unemploy- ment insurance), bankrupt municipalities and our abject international performance in failing to protest Hitler's reoccupation of the Rhine and Mussolini's rape of Ethiopia. Mr. Diefenbaker, a coura- geous opposition leader, was well on his was to duplicating the Bennett feat, when the people of Canada voted him out in 1963. What a contrast between the Tory hard times of the early 1930's and the accomplish- ments of the past 10 years. Liberalism under Pearson and Trudeau has given Canadians unity, prosperity and dignity at home and respect around the world for our contribution to truce teams and peacekeep- ing. Mr. Trudeau is certainly our most outstanding Prime Minister since Laurier, and with many years to go, may well be the greatest of the twentieth century. Far from being rejected by the Canadian people, Mr. Trudeau has won three conse- cutive federal elections. Mr. Stanfield has lost three. That is arithmetic that even Mr. Lawrence cannot refute. Yours faithfully, Allan Beckett, Liberal Candidate, Northumberland-Durham, 1974 Election. Hold Carnival A muscular dystrophy carn- ival was held at the home of Elizabeth Hurst in Hampton. There were refreshments, toys on sale, games, a white elephant table, a fish pond and a mini-bike ride. There was a door prize won by Sherri Morris of Scarbor- ough. There was a profit of $40.18. The organizers of the carni- val were Elizabeth Hurst and Beverly Gibbs. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 22, 1949 Mr. and Mrs. Percy Martin, Leaside, Mrs. Martin's sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Lawrence, Oshawa, were killed when their car was crushed near Maple Grove by a loaded transport weighing 17 tons. Four year old Donna Martin, riding in the car had a miraculous escape. John W. Gooch, Pres. and General Manager of Canadian Metal Window and Steel Products, Toronto, and Gover- nor of 247 District of Rotary International will speak at the local Rotary Club on Friday. Before the luncheon he will confer with Pres. Walt De Geer, Secretary Bill Rudell, and other Rotary officers on club administration and acti- vities. Bowmanville's only black- smith, Frank M. Cryderman, celebrated his 76th birthday, on Sept. 19 by shoeing another horse. Those big, thorogbly denn- ed show-windows in Roy Nichols garage, corner Silver and Church St., proved to be too clean last Saturday, when they lured an unsuspecting pheasant to an untimely end. Mgr. Dean Hodgson, was chatting with a deputy game- warden, when he heard some- thing smash into the west end of the show window. A new name bas been chosen for the Bush League Bowlers. It will now be known as the Durham Bowling Lea- gue because of the inclusion in the league of a number of teams from the surrounding district. In the Dim and Distant Past 49 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 17, 1925 Frank Converse Smith, tea- cher of Violin and Viola, and a member of the Toronto Sym- phony will be in town on Mondays. Anyone interested in lessons should contact Dr. Reaman, phone 293. Also teaching in town, in piano, organ, vocal and theory, will be T. W. Stanley, while Miss Lepha Doncaster will teach piano, theory and Hawaiian Guitar. Mr. Vincent Massey of Toronto and President of the Massey-Harris Co., Ltd., bas been made a minister without portfolio in the Mackenzie King Cabinet, and Fred W. Bowen was unanimously cho- sen Conservative Candidate in the coming Federal election. Mr. George W. McLaughlin, Oshawa, has presented a parsonage for the Enniskillen United Church. The work has been completed and Sunday and Monday, Sept. 13, 14 set aside for special services in connection therewith Everybody should come to Blackstock Fair, being its 60th anniversary and promising to be the best yet. Mr. and Mrs. H. Olver, Tyrone, have returned from the West. Mr. Olver being a delegate to the S.O.E. Conven- tion. They also visited their son Harry, manager of a Branch of the Standard Bank in the West. His many friends will be interested to learn Mr. Ewart A. Everson bas been made Asst. Sales Mgr. of the Chevrolet Motor Company of Canada, Ltd., and will be in charge of Sales promotion Letters to the Editor ,A MI