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Section Two The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, October 16, 1974 3 EDITORIAL COMMENT In Very Poor Taste The Ontario civil servants' asso- approved by a majority of the ciatiqn is making a strong bid to gain members of the Legisiature. the right to strike in support of wage Many people in Ontario are not demands. That effort is commend- head-over-heels in love with every- able in many ways. This is a free thing the present government has country, supposedly, and that free- done, but not too many of us would dom permits every man and woman be so ignorant as to blame all our the right to open expression of discontent on the leader of that opinion. government alone, much less des- The association has been paying cend to personal name-calling. If the for a very costly advertising civil servants are so fed up with the campaign to convince the electors of conditions of their employment why Ontario that the civil servants are don't they resign and accept underpid and overworked. AI- employment with someone else. thoug it is again within their rights Heaven knows there are lots of jobs to state their case if they wish to do elsewhere that need to be filled. It so, at least one of their advertise- would seem very plain to most of us ments is in grossly bad taste and has that the civil servants have a very injured their cause in some quar- lenient employer if they can get ters. That advertisement in both the away with calling the boss a print and broadcast media starts off cheapskate. with the words "Bill Davis is a The above editorial comment cheapskate". appeared last week in the Wingham Although Premier William Davis Advance-Times, and it echoes our is a powerful individual, it is hardiy sentiments accurately. We might likely that the present law which also suggest that many people are regu ates the employment of civil getting just a bit sick of the slogan servants of this province was they are using: "Free the Ser- written by that one man or enforced vants". It is too close to "Free the by him a one. He happens to head a Slaves" and compared to jobs in party which secured the majority of many other fields of endeavor, most seats in the last election and has, civil service servants have a soft therefore, the right to pass whatever touch. Don't overdo it or Bill Davis laws it deems fit and which will be might just decide on some long overdue staff cuts. Small Business Shortage of materials and com- ponents and a relatively new cash-on-delivery payment are play- ing havoc with .smaller Canadian secondary manufacturing opera- ,tios, Roger Worth reports in The F nancial Post. "In times of shortage, the weakest economically are hardest hit." John Bulloch, president of the Canadian Federa- tion of Independent Business, ex- plains. The strongest companies are able to look after themselves. "Our orders are last on the list when we require parts of equipment," a small Western Canadian manufacturer says. "The big suppliers are serving their big customers and the smal guy is getting left out in the cold." Because smaller companies can't get materials many are operating at well below peak capacity. Not only has the smaller manufacturer become a second-class customer in the eyes of many suppliers, he is now forced to pay cash on delivery rather than the 30-60 or 90-day payment terms that were common until about two years ago when shortages "The Trouble wi by Dianne Pazaratz Teenagers in Bowmanville find the town pretty, quiet, and safe, but very boring. Most intend to leave when they are able and are uncer- tain whether they would want to return. What do our young people need to add more interest to their lives? Those interviewed unanimously stressed the need for a movie theatre, a swimming pool and better sho ping facilities. Other pos- sibi ities mentioned were a drop-in centre and additional sports facilities, especially for tennis. One person who is well aware of the problems young people have is Detective John Masiewich of the Youth Bu- reau, Durham Regional Po- lice. With regionalization, the Youth Bureau is now ayailable to youth and their parents in Bowmanville. Detective Mas- iewich is very pleased that there are enthusiastic parents who come to the Station with their children to discuss problems and work toward solutions. He added that even juveniles ho are not "in trouble" bu who have pro- blems they need help with, are most welcome to come and talk with him. Detective Masiewich agrees that, especially with the increasing number of youths moving into this area with their families, additional pro- visions for activities are essential. If this problem is not tackled, he feels, "the delinquency rate, naturally, is going to climb". He would like to see a Centre similar to Simcoe Hall in Oshawa, set up here with a gymnasium, arts and crafts instruction and games rooms - "just a place where they can come to let off some steam". The problem o not only the res facilities. Perhar nation and initia people is less dev than in the "Go because so muc for them. There are orga ties already es Bowmanville, e the sports field. agers do take a what is offered,1 not. A drop -in cen tempted but this, those who dropp "flop". None of viewed knew w come of it. Perha themselves could it into a success1 the enthusiasm. Another factor ents must enco children to have i think for themse do not, childr attempt to try nE their own. Nor wi how to go abo something to be n they want it. Certainly the important consid in addition to m use of what available, young need additionalfl ticularly the one above. If suburbs shoot up around1 at the present ra must begin to co all these people ar here! Some work, fort already been sta viate this problen A swinaming p planned for Mer and the cost bei volunteer labou clubs have beenr in pledging financ however, more In A Squeeze permitted suppliers to start to change the system. A Corner for Poets THE GAME OF LIFE We play the game of life, To win Even if we lose Amid the dim and strife It was our game. We choose To play it t e best we can - The ups - the downs - the n-betweens, And everyone is a fan of winning goals - the fats - the leans. All in all it matters not, About the final score; It's only part of Life's plot To help us learn the more. If we've played the game Fair and square - everyone Even if we've lost, its all the same - We've won the game - we've won! - Marion Taylor Ford ith Teenagers" f boredom is needed. This is to be an ult of lack of outdoor pool, hence open only ps the imagi-during the summer months. tive of young There was talk of an eloped to day apartment complex contain- od old days" ing a movie theatre. This h is provided projeet has been shelved pending the results of a study anized activi- done on the downtown area tablished in this past summer by univer- specially in sity students. It is not certain Many teen- whether Bowmanville is advantage of "neady" to take such a step. but many do Meetings are presentlybe- ing hel d ta consider the tre was at- feasibility of a youth centre according to similan to Simcoe Hall, for ed in, was a Bowmanville. those inter- No plans are afoot to expand hat had be- the downtown shopping area. îps the youth The great impeding factor 1 have turned is, of course, money. How is a had they had small town to pay for ail this construction? is that par- Help is needed from the surage their regional and federal goven- ncentive and ments. Public suppont is also Ives. If they needed. Service clubs are of en will not great assistance, but in addi- ew things on tion, the townspeopie them- ill they know selves must realîze how badly ut changing our town needs to grow and nore the way commit themselves to pitch- ing in. A great deal more above are money could be naised to build erations. But these facilities through dona- aking better tions, canvassing, lotteries, is already and other fund-raîsing pro- people stilljects. àcilities, par- Also through onganized s mentioned planning, mon could be s continue to saved by using uildings we Bowmanville alneady have for some of these te, the town activities. mnsider what Although Bowmanville has 'e going to do many positive qualities, it could be a much more tunately, has interesting place ta live in for rted to alle- aur young people. A few i. things, as described above, ool is bein have begun to happen but they morial Park need aur support in orden to ng offset by get off the ground. ir. 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They are a problem themselves. ing them, bringing them back or the public, for their owners The Ontario Humane Socie- to health and when necessary, »'WR52 21 V KIRMKRRWUIRMI RERRKE Sugar M ic By Bill Smiley At last, things Things at last seem to be looking up for Canadian writers, after generations of neglect by their own countrymen. With a few notable exceptions, it used to be that to be a writer in Canada was almost on a par with being an Untouchable in India. If you were not openly scorned, you were quietly ignored, which was worse. The big publishers, most of them British or American, with an affiliate in Canada, shied away from Canadian writers as though they had the plague, at the same time fostering insignificant American and British writers. One of the exceptions was Stephen Leacock, who made a lot of money and became a well-known character in this country, after his first book had been accepted by a British publisher. Typically Leacock was ignored, if not despisec, by the people of Orillia, Ont., when he was alive. He had a summer home there. Many Orillians detested him because he poked wicked fun at some of their leading citizens in his Mariposa tales. Not so today. Some sharp people finally realized that Leacock was commercially viable as a tourist attraction. Nowadays you'd think Leacock had walked down from a mountain with stone tablets, into Orillia. It is the in-thing to belong to the Leacock Society. There is a Leacock Mu- seum, with a full-time curator. There is a Leacock annual award for humour, a Leacock medal, a Leacock weekend culminating in a huge dinner at which the saint is paid proper homage. I'll bet the old guy is doubled up in his grave, laughing. It was all so Canadian, in its approach to writing, that it would be funny if it weren't a little sad. Canadians are builders. They'll spend billions on railroads and transcontinental highways and ca- nals and dams. But when it comes to culture, the approach is always a two-bit one. A few dedicated souls formed the Leacock Society. They had no money. But every year, they's persuade a few people to act as judges, and these idiots would pick out the funniest book published in Canada that year. I know. I was one of those idiots for about four years, which gave me some insight into Canadian humour. Most of the books submitted were about as funny as a broken leg. Lets say you are Eric Nicol of Vancouver (a very funny writer, by the way). This would be about 15 years ago. You are informed by wire that you have won the Leacock Award for Humour and are asked to attend the Leacock Dinner, receive the Leacock Medal (worth about 60 cents in a pawnshop), and make a witty speech which will take you hours to write. The dinner is absolutely free, but you pay your own way from and ack to Vancouver. are looking up Today of course, it's different. The dinner price has gone up from $2.50 to $7.50 and the drinks from 45 cents to whatever. I believe that at long last, some brewer has actually put up $1,000 to go with the Medal. Big deal. So much for that. I digress. During the Iong, painful aridity of the '20s, '30s an '40s, the names of Canadian writers were not exactly household words. A few writers toiled on in the Canadian desert. Morley Callaghan a fine writer with an international reputation, plugged away. When he produced a new novel, it would be avidly snatched up by as many as six or seven hundredof his fellow countryment. To make a living, he had to do hack work in journalism, radio and later TV. Ironically, Callaghan, at about the age of 70 was given two whopping reat cash prizes by a brewer and a ank for his contribution to Cana- dian literature. He was also award- ed a Canada Medal or something like that, which he refused, in disgust. And good for hime. Then after the war came, not a spate, hut at least a surge, of new writers, bold writers: Hugh Garner, Mordechai Richler, Pierre Berton, Farley Mowat. They knew they were good, and they demanded recogni- tion. And money. And they got it, though it was like prying diamonds out of rock. After them came another rash of writers: Alden Nowlan, AI Purdy, Rober Kroetch, Margaret Atwood. A few courageous independent pub- lishers gave them a voice. They sell. Now the younger ones are coming on, pell-mell. After years in a cultural desert, oases are springing up everywhere. This entire diatribe was triggered by an announcement sent out to English department heads from an outfit called Platform for the Arts. It will send "poets, novelists, journa- lists and playwrights" ri ht into our classrooms to read and discuss their works with the students. Good show. At only $30 each. Yet they can pay these people $75 a day and expenses, owing to government grants. One paragraph in the letter fascinates me. "Please indicate whether you would like a poet, prose writer, or playwright to visit your school. Choose one, two or all three separate tours." Okay, chaps. Send us a poet, and I don't want Ethel Kartoffeln of Hayfork Centre. Send a handsome with a smashing beard. And one londe piaywright with a large bosom. That'Il keep the students of both sexes ha ppy. As for a journalist, send aiong any old one. L'll handle him or her. In this field, you can scarcely distinguish be- tween the sexes, anyway. Say. At a second look, that whole tour tooks pretty good, at $75 per diem and expenses. I'm a journahst, of sorts, if you want to stretch a point or three. Maybe L'h quit teaching and join the tour. disposing of them in the most humane way possible. In order to support the Society's unique Mobile Clinie and Veterinary Services, the Women's Committee of the Ontario Humane Society will celebrate its tenth anniver- sary with a Penthouse Prome- nade. On Thursday, October 17, the doors of nine of Toronto's most glamourous penthouses will swing open for viewing. Sincerely, Edie Frankel Dear Sir, Anyone who purchases a fur coat or a coat with fur trim must accept some responsibi- lity for causing unnecessary suffering to the animals whose pelt he or she is wearing. In Canada millions of ani- mals die in agony because of the demand for fur. Fur bearing animals in other country such as Thailand the For example in a small country such as Tailand the otter has now almost disap- peared because of trappers' activities. It takes the skins of no less than 40 otters to make one fur coat. These superb, attractive animals have been sacrificed in the tens of thousands simply to meet the demand of people in countries such as Canada for fur coats. I hope everyone who feels the need to wear fur will, before purchasing a coat,;first demand proof that the fur of the coat is either synthetic In the Dim and -Distant Past, 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 10, 1949 Dr. and Mrs. Howard Run- dle, are the committee in charge of the card party to-night, at the Bowmanville Badminton Club. A progres- sive euchre has been arranged by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cole, who are presenting prizes for high scores. During lunch Glen Hodgson's orchestra will play and Dorothy Van Driel will sing. A New Year's Eve party is planned starting at 12:01 Monday, Jan. lst with Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ross in charge. Members of Bowmanville Lion's Club were very pleased with the success of their community auction sale Sat- urday, at which they grossed about $375. which will go to wards the construction of their wading pool. Bill Challis, contributed his services as the auctioneer. Rev.' Lieut.-Col. W.F. Ban- nister, will be the guest speaker at the annual Bow- manville Branch of the Can- adian Legion Armistice Day Dinner to be held in the Badminton Club, Friday evening, November 11th. Cheer-leaders for B.H.S. this season are Maria Clarke, Janie Bellman, Bernice Han- sen, Madge Mutton and Col- leen Clarke. Viewing the chrysanthe- mums at Col. and Mrs. R. S. McLaughlin, at Parkwood, Oshawa on Saturday, from Bowmanville were Dr. and Mrs. H. B. Rundle, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Southey, Col. and Mrs. L. T. McLaughlin, and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. James. St. Paul's Mission Circle met Nov. 7 at the home of Bessie Stephen, Church St. or, at the very worst, the fur is obtained from ranch animals. Yours sincerely, T. I. Hughes Executive Vice-President October 9, 1974 To the Editor:- A few words, not necessarily in defence of permanent residence on Bowmanville's West Beach area, but specif- ically seeking some under- standing of the people in that area and why they live there. In response to Anonymous" letter complaining of this in last week's issue of The Bowmanville Statesman, I must point out that should the West Beach ". .. revert back to a nice, summer resort", a larde number of families would then be homeless. Let them find alternative housing!Fine. Except that many of these families could not afford to do so. Plain and simple fact. If they are that poor, then it obviously follows that the West Beach is a run-down slum, or at best a squatting place for the desti- tute. Such is not so. Almost all of the homes on West Beach are obvious testament by their very condition that pride of ownership and pride in one's dwelling are both very impor- tant parts of, the permanent residents' lives. 49 YEARS AGO Thirsday, October 29, 1925 Rumors and accusations from Conservative sources have been heaped sky high against Vincent Massey, but he has answered them in a straight forward satisfactory manner.(From Campaign Comments) The Home and School Club met in Principal Johnston's Room on Wednesday, October 14th with an attendance of 60. Mrs. Aspinall, school nurse spoke briefly on what is being done regarding supplying milk to the school children. At the Sunday evening service, in Enniskillen, a trio, Mrs. Theo. Slemon, Misses Marjorie Smith and Myrtle Brunt sang, "Lord, for to- morrow and its needs I do not pray." Rev. E.A. Belknap our pastor, spoke on "Salvation by the Cross." Trinity Young People's So- ciety Meeting was in charge of Miss Aura Rundle, Social Vice-President, on Monday evening. Miss Dorothy Plum- mer read the Scripture Les- son, readings were given by Miss Lena Haddy and Miss Marion Bellman, piano duet by Miss Mildred Cole and Mrs. Albert Cole. All members of the Girls' Patriotic Club are called to meet on Tuesday in the office of Miss Nina Neads at 8 p.m. sharp. Business preparations for the Hospital Bazaar sup- per. The Daughters and Maids of England will hold a bazaar in the S.OE. Hall on Thursday, November 12. Many useful articles, home-made candy, home-made cooking, bran pie. Afternoon tea will be served. Everyone welcome. These homes have, however been built-up over the years, into their present, reasonable state. Also, the lives of these people have their roots, their past there. They would feel extremely alienated if sud-, denly up-rooted and moved to another, strange area. Re-housing and re-orienting such a large group of people would obviously be very difficult and costly. And costly,min terms of government aid means taxes. Are you in favor of this, Anonymous? And, please remember, PEO- PLE live on West Beach. Finally, Anonymous, I take exception to your logic. At the end of your letter, you said, and I quote, "What if a disaster struck now or snow b1eU iii winten? Terri- Then, you reason, could the West Beach revert to being a . nice summer resort". I thank You, Anonymous. Yours truly, Brad Savage TOURIST COUNCIL Port Hope Councillor Robert Trueman has been appointed to the board of directors of the Great Pine Ridge Tourist Council: Port Hope was invit- ed to send a representative to take. part in major decision- N