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2 The Canadian Statesman Bowmanville. October 8 1975 Section Two EDITORIAL COMMENT Alphabet Soup in Veins Instead of Blood (from the Cobourg Star) and are making it productive. "Government regulations and the Timothy Eaton started with one paperwork burden" is the single idea. m'ost important problem facing When a business reaches a certain businessmen today, the Canadian size, matters become easier - - it can Federation of Independent Business afford full-time bookkeeping and found out in a national survey form-keeping - - it can raise credit - - conducted for the first two quarters it can pay for accountants and ofa1975., bolawyers to look after the forms. But "Gas,,beef, eggs - - once Ottawa in the initial stages, the nonsense gets into the pricing business it that comes out of the lazy bureau- distorts the market system. As if crats' labyrinth is enough to drive new battalions of civil servants can enterprise under. regulate demand and supply as We agree completely with the effectively as millions of Canadians Independent Business Federation -do every day by their individual when it says, "The effect of all the choices", says the federation, point- interference from Ottawa is to ing out that each Ottawa ruling discourage businesses from expand- means another bundle of paperwork. ing. Who wants to grow bigger when The federation is right. There is so growth merely aggravates the much garbage to be completed now problems? More business means by the small businessmen that there more taxes, more paperwork, more are not enough hours in the day to personal worry in a 70-hour week to do it. There are all the complications satisfy the 9 to 4 experts in Ottawa." .'of payroll, with the deductions that We have now had so much must go in making it a complicated bureaucratic growth in Canada that job for the non-computerised. Then, we are getting into second and third there are all the taxes, the small generation bureaucrats. Originally, businessman must collect for go- as civil services expanded they 'vernments, and rules and regulat- hired bright young people from the ions of business that must be farms and factories and out of :followed. And it all gets more and schools, but people who had their :more involved every year. firm roots in the real world - - the Most new businesses start with a kind of people who today still man single idea - - one man with a dream% most of our municipal offices across One of the biggest expansions that rural and small town Ontario. With any business has to take is when it is the great expansions that came after necessary to hire a second man - - a World War II, many veterans moved 100 per cent jump in payroll. Yet the into government service and they individual entrepreneur is ham- had their feet firmly on the ground strung from the beginning with and were devoted to the service ofI government paperwork, and ac- ,the people. Now, however, the f counting made necessary by govern- generation is retiring or approach- l ment forms. You should see the ing retirement age. These people are M nonsense that Statistics Canada being replaced by a new breed o sends out asking the smali business- second and third generation with r man to complete. There must be fathers and grandfathers who have a people up there who do nothing but been in government service. try to think up forms to irritate the These people usually know ail small búsinessman. Then comes about accumulated sick leave, ' Ontario. Then comes the local as- accumulated coffee breaks, the t sessment offices. About the only exact number of inches the desk top level of government that has any should overhang as the rank T sympathy at all is the local increases, how to write a memo full s municipal government - - at least it of "directives," "viable alterna- f( is still in the hands of human beings tives," "resource persons", andt not computers. other gobbledygook. d The corner variety stores, grocery Few of them, we suspect, knowP stores, service stations, plumbers, anything at all about the great and house-builders, electricians, truck- exciting, but hard and cruel world ofc ers, realtors, tailors, retailers, reality. It is not blood which flows in0 farmers - - these are the people who the veins, but alphabet soup which9 are fed up to the eyeballs with the helps them to compose more insane paper-work jungle. forms for the harrassed small0 Yet these are the people who are businessman and farmer to com- making the Canadian economy work plete.M Five Gra For most Canadians Thanksgiving Day is a time for putting on storm windows and snugging up the house, tidying up the yard; a time for big eating and for football games. Few of us remember that in its beginning it was a day of gratitude for the rhythm of the seasons, set after the bounty of summer had been safely garnered and stored against the starker days ahead. Through the long centuries, in almost every culture, such a day or series of days has been celebrated. The origin of our North American Thanksgiving is a little different, the gift of a stalwart company known as the Pilgrim Fathers, who came to New England in order that they might worship and live as their consciences dictated. Governor Bradford, 354 years ago, proclaimed in Plymouth, a "day of thanks to God", who had sustained them in the midst of hardship, peril and meagre resources. Their gratitude was for life itself, for religious freedom and escape from tyranny and persecu- tion, not for material assets, which they conspicuously lacked. It is said that as the years passed, and prosperity came, those who followed them began their Thanks- giving dinner by looking down at five grains of corn set on otherwise :empty plates, a reminder that this had once been the daily allowance of the colony. Such an exercise might be good for us. Across the world today, millions face just such limited rations, if they have any rations at all. We often get ,s of Corn tîred of hearing about the earth's hungry - - out of sight is often out of sympathy - - but it's a cry we must both hear and heed. The resources of earth are not our particular preserve; we just happen to live in one of the favored parts of the world. The verse from Luke 12:48 is pertinent here: "Where a man has been given much, much will be expected of him . . . " Instead of griping when governments make gifts from our taxes to the third world, and more particularly grip- ing when we're personally asked to share in the redistribution process, we'd do well to remember those five grains of corn. A Corner for Poets AUTUMNS HERE! It's wet. It's drizzly But the sun will shine, Today is shivery. Grapes fal from the vine. The sun is warm, And the wind is cold. In Autumn. No harm, Will come. Hold! There are beautiful days ahead, For happiness is near, One can feel from toes to head, That again Autumn's Here. - Marion Ford Durham County's Great FamiIy Journal Esablished 121 years ags n 1854 Also Incorporating The Bowmanville News The Newcastle Independent The Orono News Second class mail registration number 1561 Produced every Wednesday by THE JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED 6266 King St. W., Bowmanville, Ontario LiC 3K9 JOHN M. JAMES GEO. P. MORRIS Editor-Publisher Business Mgr. BRIAN PURDY Advertising Mgr. DONALD BISHOP Plant Mgr. "Copyright and-or property rights >ubslst in the Image appearlng on this proof. Permission ta reproduce in whole orn part and In ariy form whatsoever, part cularly by photographlc or offset process In a publication, must be obtained from the publisher and the printer. Any unauthorlzed reproduction will be subject to recourse in law." $8.00 a year - 6 months $4.50 Foreign - $10.00 a year strictly in advance Although every precaution wIll be taken to avoid error, The Canadian Statesman accepts advertlslng in Its columns on the understandlng that it willlfot be jable for any error in the advertlsement publlshed hereunder unless a proof of such ad'ertlsement 15 requested in wrlting by the advertiser and returned to The Canadian Statesman business office duly signed by the advertlser and wth such error or corrections plainly noted In wrltlng thereon, and In that case If any error s0 noted Is not corrected by The Canadien Statesman its llabllity shah not exceed suda portion of the entire cost of such advertisement as the space occupied by the noted error bears to the whole space occupied by such advertisement. Iý w M to r cc - -WITi-4 A /")CO lV)QO HERE - - - A fý0Voo 0OO WERE~ - - Letter To The Editor ter - - as it was a very grave affair. He refused to take my suggested action so, as a member of the Town Council I ordered him to stop work. The background of this very unpleasant and unwise epi- so e was an exchange of letters between the'Newcastle Community Hall Board and the Newcastle Town Council this past summer over the question "who is responsible for the Newcastle Community Hall grounds9" This uestion was raised by the Hall Board. It was answered by the Newcastle Town Council uii- der resolution CS 224-75 which stated "That the Newcastle Community Hall Board be advised that they will be responsible for the care of the grounds of the Newcastle Community Hall." "Responsible for the care of the grounds" is the key phrase and under this very tenuous terminology the Newcastle Comnmunity Hall Board took it upon themselves to rip up the east lawn to convert the lawn into a parking lot at a cost to the public purse of over $5,000. Following my order to Brenton Rckard to hat the project, I contacted Mayor Garnet Rickard and requested a special meeting to discuss the problem and the meeting Dear Editor: The community of the ormer Village of Newcastle ost a valuable asset last week when the lawn on the east side f the Newcastle Community Hall at the Four Corners was ipped up to be converted into a parking lot. The blame for the loss lies in he hands of the Newcastle Town Council and members of he Newcastle Community sall Board. The conversion vas actually, allowed when Town Council took action that saw Mayor Garnet Rickard ormulate amotion that Coun- cil passed, with my objection, o allow the green to be destroyed in favour of the parking lot. This action was taken at a special meeting called when I, Councillor Kenneth E. Lyall, objected to the ruination of the green space. First notice that I or any other member of the Town. Council had of the construct- ion of the parking lot was when I saw the construction gang and paving equipment at work on the lawn Tuesday morning. Brenton Rickard, a menber of the Community Hall Board, vas at the site and I asked hlm o halt work 'til a special meeting of Council could be onvened to discuss the mat- Second- Decode Fund Launched by Trent U Hcs $3,500,OOOTarget Trent University has an- campaign in Peterborough. nounced its Second Decade and he general Trent Valley Fund, which has as its target region is well-advanced and the raising of $3,500,000. canvassing will begin in Tom Nind, president of January. V.E. Henderson is Trent, said in announçing the chairman of the committee for fund raising campaigil that the city and area. Other "private support is vital to a members of the committee University. Government sup- are Frank Petrie, John Arn- port, while generous, does not hier,, Jon Grant, Bruce Mar- providehscope for innovation, tin, Wendy Robson and Helen nor does it completely cover Whiteside. capital costs." Major item among the Of the total, $1,880,000 is capital projects is Trent's earmarked for capital pro- recreation facility for which jects, $220,000 for library working drawings are now acquisitions, $225,000 for being prepared. student awards and scholar- The provincial minîstry of ships, $450,000 for academic colleges and universities has opportunities, $180,000 for re- already committed $830,000 search, and $545,000 for toward this building, whose special academic programs. total cost is estimated at Active fund-raising has be- $3,500,000. The minister, gun among national corpora- James Auld, has encouraged tions, Professor Nind said, Trent "to solicit maximum and many have already res- support from the local com- pònded "in a most encourag- munity, alumni and public at ing way." large" for both capital and Organizational work for a operating expenses. Solar Ener Man on the Scientists are predicting that by the end of this century as much as 20 per cent of Canada's power needs will be produced by solar energy from the vast sources available from the sun. At first glance this sounds like the best news we've had in our energy- depleted planet since the Arab countries started asking a fair price for their oi. Only recently Cana- dians were told that declining natural gas and oil reserves in Canada, combined with the burgeon- ing demands of our technoiogical society would face us with serious shortages by 1980 if alternate supplies were not found. Conservat- ion of energy is more than just good stewardship of resources, it is now a serious practical necessity. Solar energy, then, would be of enormous value if the world is to find viable alternatives to ou1, natural gas, hydro and coal. At the moment, however, its costs are unbelievable. Energy from this source today costs was iield later that day. The meeting was held and despite my appeal to save the lawn as there would be parking space across the street when the Town fire hall was moved to its new location, a motion by Mayor Rickard to allow the parking lot on the east lawn passed. Work on the parking lot recommenced at the conclusion of the special meeting and the parking lot was completed in the next couple if days. Such a waste of tax dollars - such shortsightedness on the part of Town administra- tors. On one hand we have the Town of Newcastle spending thousands of tax dollars to plan the future life style for our community and on the other hand we have Town administrators frittering away a very valuable piece of green space in the centre of the communitv in favour of a few parking spaces. Shame. At the next or a forthcoming meeting of the Newcastle Town Council I am going to recommend that the new parking lot located on the former east lawn of the Newcastle Community Hall be named the Garnet B. Rickard parking lot. Kenneth E. Lyall Councillor Newcastle, Orono and Clarke Other items in the capital list cover further development of the Wenjack theatre, the university's wildlife sanctu- ary, and its Mackenzie Art Gallery, together with the retirement of Trent's only capital, liability, a part of the cost of Otonabee College. Other funds sought will per- mit the university to: increase substantially both its endow- ment for scholarships and tile unrestricted funds availabre for other forms of student aid; build and strengthen the academic opportunities en- dowmentethrough whichTrent responds to specific academic projects as they develop within the university, such as providing subsidies for artists and scholars-in-residence, student exchanges, cultural and academic conferences, special no-credit lecture series, etc.; develop Trent's research program, a program that benefits not only faculty and students, but is also of im ortance to Peterborough and the Trent Valley in many ractical ways; continue uilding special programs pioneered by Trent, such as Native Studies, Canadian studies, and Environmental and Resource Studies, and developing special library holdings rgy and The Moon in excess of $20.00 a watt and scientists predict that it will be nearly the year 2,000 before it can be produced at the economically feas- ible rate of 25 cents a watt. Government agencies, private industry and univergity laboratories are now engaged in a major push to exploit solar power cheaply within a decade for possible major produc- tion by the year 2,000. It is like the major-push back in the early 1960's to put a man on the moon. The analo1y is apt, because while man had the ability to reach the moon years before 1961 it required vast expenditures of go- vernment money - - billions of dollars - - to come up with a feasible scheme. The same dedication and expendi- tures must be forthcoming if solar energy is to be viable. Governments must be urged to spend this money so that pressure on our frontiers for petroleum' can be eased, pollution lessened and stewardship of resour- ces practised for the right reasons. In the Dim and Distant Past 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 28, 1975 At the B.H.S. track and field meet the Jr. Boy champion was Lyle Hooper, Paige Ly- cett, runner-up. Intermediate - B. Caverly, runner-up G. Herron. Senior - T. Dadson, runner-up J. De Geer. Girls' Jr. - Marilyn Leask, runner-up Lorna Fletcher,.Intermediate - Dorothy Kilpatrick, runner- up Dorothy Hockin, Senior - Joan Craig, runner-up Marion Dippell. The quick' action of Ross McKnight and Sam Adams averted what.might have been a serious fire on Tuesday in the garage of Fred Smith, Elgin Street, by their quick actions in using a garden hose to put out the fire believed to have been started by spontan- eous combustion. Club 15 elected Mrs. Bill Tait, pres. Mrs. Jack Gibb, Sec'y., Mrs. Jim Crombie, Treas. and Mrs. Bud Oake, social convenor at their Sept- ember meeting. Allan Hardy, a new const- able on the local police force, is a native of Lindsay. Mrs. Audrey Smith and her W.A. Group of Trinity United church met at the ome of Mrs. L. Dewell's home, on Tuesday. During the summer the group had collected 1940 coppers and were amazed to find they had the grand sum of $55.80. The Bowmanville Scouts realized the sum of $92 from their paper drive. Smith Ferguson, Oshawa, four sisters and three grand- children. Funeral services were held Saturday, at the Hodges Funeral hapel, Naples, with interment in Naples Memorial Gardens. OBITUARY JOHN WILSON DYCHES On Thursday, October 9th, 1975 in Naples, Florida, the death occurred of John Wilson Dyches, aged 69. He is survived by his wife the former Collette Ferguson, two sons Commander James Wil- son Dyches, Panama Canal, and John Richard Dyches, Naples, mother-in-law Mrs. E. : M a M Perhaps, with Thanksgiving in the air, it's as good a time as any to make a personal inventory of what we have to be thankful for, if anything. Maybe you'd like to join me, substituting your minuses for mine, your pluses for mine. On second thought, I haven't really a single minus. Oh, there are a lot of little nuisances: arthritis in my foot; rambling bursitis in shoulders, knees and neck; dew- laps; a few less teeth than I'd like. But everybody has these things. If we didn't, we wouldn't appreciate how great it is when the pains clean up for a few days, or the fact that there's always plenty of good grub to mumble with those ancient molars. I do have some negative thankfuls. I'm glad I am, by choice, not living in a citv. with everything that entails in the line of human arassment: dirt, traffic, crowds, coldness. Especially when I can, as right now, look out my window and see the yellow October sun blazing into the gaudy flamboyance of the maples, and a little further off, the blue of elean, unpolluted water, and know that if I stepped outside, the air would be champagne, not cheap, scented wine. I'm glad I don't have six children. Two of them almost brought the Old Lady and me to our knees, economically and emotionally. I'm grateful that I haven't got stuck into some job that I loathe, as so many men have. What could be more soul-destroying than hating to go to work every morning? I'm glad I'm not sick, or feeble, or pot-bellied, or ham-handed, or tight-fisted, even though I am bowlegged, forgetful and sometimes after a sharp exchange with my wife, have a ringing in my ears. Those are just a few of the negative thankfuls. They are vastly outweighed, to the point where it is no contest, by the positive thankfuls. I couldn't begin tolist them in this space, but will touch on a few of the highlights. I'm extremely grateful, even though it should last only a few more years, that, despite the machinat- ions of the oil companies and the stupidity and shortsightedness of our "leaders," I can still turn up the thermostat on a cold morning and know that I and mine will not shiver through the day. I am extremely thankful that I am not a young man, recently married, mortgaged to the ears for life, in an effort to provide a roof and food for a family. It's taken 30 years of slaving on the old plantation, toting many a barge and lifting many a bale, but I own my own house -and don't owe anybody a nickel, and I'm grateful. Another thing to be thankful for is the fatherly benevolence of Pierre Trudeau and his gang (I use the 49 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 14, 1926 Dominion Stores moved to its new location in the Cowan Block (now Jury & Lovell's) opposite the Post Office (noz- Bank of Montreal) on Monday. Another good dinner is offered this Sunday at the Balmoral Hotel. Soup, cream of corn or tomato barley. Entree pineapple jelly. Roast stuffed duck an a ppesauce, sirloin beef, lamb, with brown gravy or mint sauce, vege- tables boiled and mashed potatoes. Desserts deep apple pie with whipped cream, pumpkin pie, plum tart, steamed fruit pudding, cara- mel sauce. The price ? .75 cents a plate. Mr. Thornton Mustard con- ducting the question period of the Teacher s Convention at which J. H. Johnston was elected president of Durham Teachers' Convention gave the following definition of the Ideal Teacher. As wise as Solomon, as impartial as the phone book, as untiring as a steam engine, as tender as a sore throat, as patient as a glacier, as immovable as Gibraltar. as inevitable as the equinox, as alert as a Jack Rabbit, as punctual as the sun rise, as regular as the tax bill, and as rare as a hen's tooth. Report of S.S. No. 8, Darlington, for September Sr. IV - Gladys Bickle, Annie Wilkins, Douglas Courtice Archie Muir, Clare Courtice, Norman Walter. Jr. IV - Hazel Walter, Jack Gay, Robert Courtice, Eva Courtice, Helen Wilkins, Nora Adams, Ken Essery, Walter Shortt, Teach- er C.E. Williamson. word gang advisedly). They and their provincial and municipal henchmen are content with separat-' ing me from only about half of every dollar I make, and there is no indication yet that they will shortly want an arm and a leg each year as additional tribute. Only a few toes and fingers. I'm very thankful that I live in Canada. It's a magnificent country; a people who could be magnificent, but refuse; and they don't throw yoTr in jail for speaking disparagingly of the gang in power. (They haven't got enough jails, and who would pay the rent?) I'm happy with my immediate family, though thousands wouldn't be. My son is a failure, in the ordinary middle-class sense. He has never made more than $2,000 a year, has no home, except ours, and couldn't produce the proverbial pot. But he is working with ultra-poor peasants in a South American country, trying to make a better life for them, eating their food, catching their diseases, andI'm proud of him. My daughter, after adventures in the sub-culture that make me shudder still, knocked them dead with her writing in a universit course, got her degree, is in fourt year of a second degree in music, has had a baby and is about to produce a sister for Pokey, my grandbaby, who is a whipper-dipper, like all grandbabies. Not bad for a rotten kid. My wife (careful now, Buster, watch it) is still a smashing looking woman, though a granny, an excellent cook, great company, and is becoming virtually serene. She hasn't thrown anything at me for nearly two years, except a wet dish- cloth or something like that. It used to be plates of food, telephones, Eaton's catalogue, you name it. She did, actually, throw my typewriter downstairs last year, when I made some mild remàrk about the bad temper she used to have, but she didn't throw it at me. That's progress. I like my job, working with kids, who are at least alive, not just going through the motions, like so many of their elders. I have a few friends, whom I cherish, a few enemies, chiefly the town engineer, who does not cherish me, and a host of likeable cont poraries and acquaintances. My blood pressure is great, I don't wear glasses, my heart hasn't given me a bad knock, I'm chipper as the average eighty-year-old woman and I'm already at work on the book I didn't get around to writing last summer, or the one before, or . . It's just great to be alive, ahd I offer my sincere thanks to God or Whoever is responsible for it. How about you? ugunr Sugarand Spicg By Bill Smiley Thanks and No Thanks C+CNA