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4 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, January 21, 1976 Section Two EDITORIAL COMMENT Two. Different Approaches It's very early Tuesday morning country trying to make headlines to and we've been reading the com- bolster their own hopes. ments about Prime Minister Tru- Trudeau laid it right on the line deau's clarification speech in the when he toldi big business and big dailies while alongside were reports unions that if they don't play their on President Ford's State of the part in curing the country's econo- Union address in the United States. mic ills, the government is quite Quite a difference in tone and theme, prepared to step in and take on the but President Ford is facing an job. President Ford's approach was election this year. Trudeau still has softer. He called for a nation where some time to go. It makes a big the government serves and the difference! people rule. Our Prime Minister didn't back So what happens now. Nothing down one iota from his stance in the much except strong winds from pre-New Year musings. He berated many quarters that' will produce those who have been critical of his great heat but little light. The Prime remarks that the free market Minister certainly achieved one of system isn't working well and said his objectives in stirring up consi- what has been called the free derable dialogue from coast to enterprise system in Canada has coast. Once the panic has died down long gone except in the small it should now be easier to assemble business sector and been replaced influential groups from varying by a mixed economie system. And sections of the nation to discuss with he's right. Mr. Trudeau and his cabinet just There will be varying reactions to how they can help in the current his speech, depending on political crisis. If that comes about in the affiliations, personal prejudices and months ahead, the entire exercise beliefs, the most violent opposition will have been worthwhile. Most coming, no doubt, from those who people would agree that the eco- are currently campaigning for Bob nomy is not operating as effectively Stanfield's job as leader of the as it might, so let's find out what we Progressive-Conservative party; can do to contribute our share in they will be roaring around the improving it. Sti Time to Save Canada from the Free-Loaders (From the Cobourg Star) With just a little bit of luck, the energetic people of this country may be able to keep Canada from being given away to free loaders - and perhaps - just perhaps, a piece of the free enterprise system may be kept operating. But the time is short Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau has come out of hiding, and made it clear where his extreme socialistic and authoritarian stands put him. But surprise, surprise - there is still some spirit in the old horse. There has been a loud snort of disapproval from indignant Cana- dians coast-to-coast who don't share Trudeau's views. We are all in favor of government help for those in need. But we are all against government help for those who don't need. The role of the government should be to encourage people to do things for themselves. Take these examples of complete and utter nonsense - ail products of stupid governments, and all costing money. . The unemployment insurance pro- gram which pays off after eight weeks of work. We have seen young people make the deliberate calcula- tion in favor of sitting three months of the year on their fannies and working for high pay and a seasonal layoff - rather than steady, year- round employment. The people who work all the time are paying the shot. The incessant increase in govern- ment programs whether anybody wants them or not. We had an Ottawa government agency tele- phone the other day offering to "hel " us. We told them we didn't nee "help". The biggest help they could give would be to stop wasting our taxes. Just yesterday - despite ,the present "restraint" - a friend of ours had a call from another government agency in Toronto, saying it is thinking of starting a program and opening a local office but it is not sure whether it will or not. Nor is it sure whether there is any need for it - that's how wisely your money is being spent! The nonsense of Ontario's health Thanks For Dear Mr. James: I would like to thank the people of Bowmanville and surrounding area for over 100 pairs of used eye glasses donated for underpriviledged coun- tries. These will be used in places such as East and West Africa, Honduras, Dominican Republic and the Far East. The present glasses collected will be in time for our January 17th Eye Project in the Dominican Republic. Many children_ plan with no deterrent fee. Doctors we have talked with, estimate that about one in four of their patients are unnecessary calls and would not be made if there were a $2 deterrent fee charged to those who can afford to pay. The government knows this, but is afraid to act. The nonsense of universal welfare plans that pay baby bonuses to everyone, old age pensions to everyone, and reduced charges based on age - whether or not there is need. While at the same time, the real poverty cases - old and young - are left in misery. The continued federal government deficit. The government cannot discipline itself to spend within its budget. It continues to print money and expand credit so that inflation will let it pay back in real terms less than it has spent or borrowed from the people. The nonsense of the Toronto high school teachers calling themselves "professionals", and going on strike, threatening to wreck a year in the lives of the students, and demanding huge income jumps in a job that gives lifetime security, a fat 70 per cent-of-earnings pension, with two months off in summer, guess- how-long at Christmas, and a whee-it's-here-again midterm break. We are glad the province is putting them back to work. They think they are entitled to the grab-grab-grab of the welfare state. Well, it's all over, we hope. There are a few good uses for governments. They sh9uld handle the army, build roads, assist the sick and disabled and elderly - and we can think of a few other things. But as overburdened citizens we should stop every demand for new govern- ment ventures at whatever level until we know their purposes- and uses. Tory leadership candidate Jim Gillies put it well on Monday night over in Woodstock. Said Gillies, "I have admiration for those who work, compassion for those who cannot work, and disdain for those who will not work. And I believe the Canadian people want a party and a government which will follow such principles." The Glasses will be helped in their school work, men at their crafts, and others at sewing and Bible Reading.- May I express my appreciation for your kindness in placing the contents of this letter in your paper on behalf of the Evangelical Medical Missionary Aid Society. Sincerely Yours, Clarence W. Decaire, Optician, Medical Group Missions. 4 Durham County's Great Family Journal Established 122 years ago in 1854 Also Incorporating The Bowmanville News The Newcastle Independent The Orono News Second class mail1registrat ion number 1561 Produced every Wednesday by THE JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED 6266 King St. W., Bowmanville, Ontario LiC 3K9 JOHN M. JAME Editor-Publisher S GEO. P. MORRIS Business Mgr. BRIAN PURDY Advertising Mgr. 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Espec- you're wondering what you ialy 'Sugar an< pice", Bill would print on a Women's Smiley's column, which is Page or whether it would be alwa s good for a cheery worth printing one at all. Why chuc e or two. not ask your readers? I'm I only have one complaint, sure they would come up with Where, oh where, is your some useful and amusing Women's Page or at the very suggestions. least Women's Column? I So thank you for reading my realize that youshave items of letter and I hope it will provide interest to us peppered some food for thought. throughout your paper, but it woui be nice to know we can Yours very truly, find them ail in one place. By Women's Page, I don't Felicity Langstaff. mean "A Hundred Hints on How to Marinate Musk- Editor's Note: melon." or "Protect your Good idea. Lets hear from Apisdistra from Dust -- Cover you readers. it in Saran Wrap.". Also, I don't need instructions from Dear Editor: Germaine Greer etc., on the Anyone presently coaching pros and cons of getting or interested in coaching married, being a working amateur sport is invited to mother and who does the register for the Ontaro Coach- dishes. And please don't do ing Development Program - like some local newspapers, evel, 1 Theory Course to be introduce a syndicated mish- held at Durham Coliege start- mash of advise to the love- in January 19, 1976. lorn and dreary dress pat- The pur pose of the Course is terns. to provide amateur coaches of I. Probably the most important item now being discussed at Queen's Park, other than the Toronto teacher's strike, is the proposal by the provincial government to reduce its funding of all local municipal activities by a significant amount from last year. Now everybody applauds any move to have govern- ments spend money with great care and caution and wherever spending can be legitimately cut back, we all agree that those cutbacks should be made. But what's happening in Ontario is that the provincial government, headed by Mr. Davis, is, in the words of Darcy McKeough, "attempting to save all kinds of money provincially by forcing local taxpayers through their property tax to pay for services and needs which have been created by provin- cial governments previously." And I don't think that it's fair to transfer the cost of local community services, which have traditionally been paid for by the province, to the local municipalities, and say, "well, if you want to continue these services,nyou'Il just have to pay for them, and if you don't want to continue them then you make the choice as to which ones get cut out." I think that that kind of political maneouvering is beneath the people who are supposed to be our provincial government. We intend as a party, and I intend personally, to argue against this kind of maneouvering by the provincial government. I don't want to see tax noney squandered any more than anyone else, but I certainly don't want the people of the riding of Durham East placed in the unfor- tunate position where they will have to raise more money to pay for education or roads or garbage collection or municipal works or any of the social services which we have had over the past few years. It seems to me that for the most part, the services we now enjoy and have been receiving from our local government are services which we applaud, and to some extent, all use, from time to time. To immediately cut away provincial funding and Editor all sports with the opportunity to receive instruction in the art and science of coaching. This nine-week course intro- duces the role of the coach, leadership and communica- tion, sports psychology, moti- vation, motor learning, growth and development, sports medicine and the prin- ei l ofathleti econditioning. Yhe Pogramis offered in co-operation with the Ministry of Culture and Recreation - Sport and Fitness Division. Films and notes wili be provided each evening. The first course offered from October thru December 1975 attracted 27 participants and was a very well received programn. For further information, contact the writer at 576-0210, extension 262. Yours truly, Gerry Pettît, Admission Officer. Dear Sir: In the headlines of your paper dated Wednesday January 7, 1976, you statec that some Northu and Newcastle B Education administi ficials would earn W than the area's topp I felt that the ai somewnat misleacin it appeared to ri superîntendents th oats of the anti oard, and more implied that they loo ing for work e where they could better wage for their In the article you r. that the area superir will be receiving a salary of $32,400 wh than the seniordprin the board would r addition to statin salaries, you inform the senior principals paid $34,025 per ani place the burden back on the local taxpayer, is unfair to say the least. Provincial tax money, which we have used to pay some local bills comes from the general fund, which all levels of society pay into, including corporations and resource industries across the province. We might all argue about the amounts contributed by corporations and resource people, however, if we don't use those provincial funds, and place the burden of taxation largely upon the property owner, then we are going to have a very regressive form of taxation. I don't know which programs to cut. Who decides whether we are going to hire fewer teachers, stop grading the roads, close down the one and only day-care centre in the area or stop ploughing roads after a snow fall? Or if it would be better to save some of the money which has been spent locally on municipal welfare or cultural activities? I wouldn't want to have to make that choice and yet that's the choice which local councils are going to have to face. I would like to remind people this kind of tax change need not happen and I certainly think that we must make the point very strongly to the present government that the type of savings program ;they have em- barked on makes no sense at all and imposes hardships on local people that they do not need. One of the things that I am really concerned about is the fact that we have, over the past 20 years, and certainly over the past 10, managed to spend a lot of money and we have built a society which constantIy. needs to borrow money at the provincial level in order to sustain itself. Now that we have a debt which is estimated at $1.7 billion it is obvious that the government wants to cut back on its end of things. But you can't cut back on one end by transferring all of the debt to somebody else. And that, I'm afraid is what is going to happen. In the next couple of reports from Queen's Park I intend to deal with this aspect of the Legislative Assembly in a little more detail. 25 Years Ago Thursday, Jan. 11th, 1951 St. Paul's W.A. met on January 9th and the following executive were elected. Pres. Miss Gardiner, lst Vice - Mrs. Hull, 2nd Vice - Mrs. Papin- eau, 3rd Vice - Mrs. Cunning- ham, Sec'ty - Mrs. L. Pingle. Tres - Mrs. A. McGregor, Pianist - Mrs. Whitmee, Ass't - Pianist, Mrs. O. Bragg. Two of Roy Nichols em- poyeeseGordon Chartran and Clarence Hockin weme pre- sented with Bulova wrist watches on completing 20 years service with the firm. Memibers of New Durham District Hîgh School Board are Port Hope H.R.S. Ryan, K.C., J. T. McCreery, Norman Strong, Hope Twsp., J. Weston Banister, Clarke Twsp - R. R. Waddell, Newcastle, C.R. Carveth, Darlington Twsp. W. E. Tundle, M. Chant, Bowmanville, D. Alex McGre- gor, E.L.-Oliver, Cavan Twsp, Dîckson Hutchison, Millbrook, Dr. Maurice Hobbs, Counties Council, L. H. Winslow, Publie School, Read Budge. Mr. Fred Tuerk Jr. has returned to R. M. C. Kingston to resume studies after bol- idaing with his parents Mr. an Mrs. F. W. Tuerk. Rev. T. M. Dustan, Punjah, India, son of Mrs. T. A. Dustan, Concession St. who is in Canada on furlough, wiln be guest speaker at the Rotary Friday, In the Dim 1andI )istant Past 49 Years Ago Thursday, Jan. 20,1927 The Christmas Report of students obtaining 60 percent or more in the examinations at B.H.S. in Form 1B includes nine ýapers, John Jury, Ken- netb )sorne, Harold SIemon, Morley Vanstone, Kenneth Morris, Irvin Yeo, Robert Corbett, Harvey Joint, Eight p ers, Oscar Jamieson, Ai Ian Ciemence, Seven papers, Raymond Burns, John Brough A wamning bas been îssued by the local Board of Health of Darlington that smallpox has appeared in neighboring munici alities and' action sbould b e taken îmmediately ho forestall an outbreak of the disease inDarlington. Trinity United Church will hold its annual congregational meeting on January 27th. The musical part ofthe evenîng will be under the direction of Mr. Francis Sutton. An aftemnoon tea and Musi- cale will be held on Tuesday at the home of Mrs. (Rev.) R. McDerment, Queen Street, Town. We like the comment writ- ten on the back of the renewal blank sent in by M. C. Rose, 153 Simcoe St. N. Oshawa. "We like the Statesman." Bowmanville Junior Hockey team were defeated in Whitby by Whitby 3-2 in a 10 minute overtime ame. Goal - J. JamesDefence ,- Freeman, Osborne, Centre - Candier, Wings - Rundle, McMullen, Subs, McPhee, Roach. basic computation we would salary, out of a total of over 60 arrive at a difference of $1,625 principals and admini- amberland between the salaries of senior strators. Board of principals and area superin- Yours respectfully rative of- tendents. G. Gleibs, ess money Obviously, the principals Principal. principles. are receiving more money for Dear Mr. James: rticle was their services. However, what a omen's Insti- ng in tat you fail to point out is that tute wish to exoress our ,nake the these toprincipals in ques- ttanksh and appreato fr ie scape- tion numer no more than 3 or thanks and appreciation for -inflation 4 of a group of 8 high school t Te splendid coverage your or less rincipals within the whole paper "The Canadian States- or lespicipaswti h hl man" has given us in the past would be urisdiction of Northumber- man" hage u e ps lsewhere, iand and Newcastle. There are year. It is a great source of obtain a also 55 elementary school înterest and benefit to all our r services. rincipals of which no more omuniy as we as areas nntinedn than 5 are presently at their As well as our Branch ntedetsmaximum salary of $27,000 Reporting, we are grateful n annual much less than the salary of tor.the West Durham istrict ich is less any of the three area superin- Reports which you published cipals of tendents t for us. ceive. In Looking at the whole pic- Snee ng their ture, therefore, I myself don't Mrs WesleY lowlees n us that believe it to be at all bad to be y na B nh are being a su erintendent and be in the Also P.R.O. West nracha toy p afdozen, with regard to I By Bil Smiley About Curmudgeons Recently, I listed some of the things I dislike about our society, When I'd finished, I thought to myself: "Boy, you are a nasty old' piece of work. Do you realize you've barely scratched the surface?" For a week or two, I went around thinking, in 10 or 20 seconds spurts, every three or four days, that I was a Curmudgeon. Some of my younger readers will now know what a curmudgeon is. Well, it comes from the root word 'mud". We all know what mud is. It is dirty. It is cool under the toes, unless it is in the form of a mud pack, which is good for the wripkles. If your name is Mudd, you are either in the doghouse, or you are a loser. I hope that is clear. To the root word "mud" (unless we want to root around a bit longer), we attached the prefix "cur". A cur, as everyone knows, is a cad with teeth, and sometimes a moustache, who plays the villain in old-fashioned melodramas. In new-fashioned melodrania, he also has teeýh and a big belly or a bald head, and he has become the hero. Still with me? We now have "curmud", signifying a mean guy who is cool under. the toes, has wrinkles, or is loser. Sometimes all three. Now we come to the suffix, "geon" which is of more obscure vintage. It is of Hungarian antecedent, and it seems to have meant, originally, something we might call colloquially "a dummy who makes a lot of silly and unnecessary noise without getting anywhere," which is rather a contradiction in terms, come to think of it. There are many perversions of the original, of course. We find the suffix in such words as "Injun", "engine", and "john". But the original meaning is in there somewhere. An Injun, for example, is one of the original "In" people, who rides around in ever- diminishing circles, emitting war- whoops, until he is shot off his horse. Think of your car. The engine makes a lot of silly and unnecessary noise - at least mine does - and gets nowhere. Occasionally, the car gets somewhere, but the engine remains exactly where it started. in the car. And, of course, there is the colloquial word "john", meaning a toilet. Or water closet or backhouse, if toilet offends you. This item of hardware indulges in a great deal of unnecessary noise, whether recei- ving or transmitting and is usually going nowhere, except on trains, buses or airplanes, when it is so active it has to put up a "busy" sign most of the time. On ships, of course, with their innate sense of superiority, the "john" is called a "head". This came about when one of the head men in the British Navy, Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, affec- tionately known to his jolly tars as "dud", once went looking for the "john" and discovered a lot of Common Seamen (and a very common lot they were) lined up with one of the symptoms of scurvy known as "dire rear". In the interests of clarity, this has nothing to do with the term "rear admiral". Understandably, Sir Dud flew into a high rage, the only type allowed to senior officers, and uttered a good deal of silly and unnecessary noise, or "geon", when he had to wait his turn for the "john". As naval tradition has it, this led to the wedding of "dud" and "geon", meaning a john that isn't working, or a senior officer with a red face, or a /towering rage, whichever you choose. That's one of the beauties of the English language. You can take your pick. And you know what you can do with it. If you have followed me carefully through this brief but enlightening exploration into semantics, I am sure you have come to the conclusion, as I have, that I am not a Curmudgeon at aill. I am not a mean guy. I haven't hit a little kid since mine grew up. I am not cool under the toes. My feet heat something terrible in this weather. I am not a loser. How can you know you're a loser when you don't know what it is to be a winner? I do not go around making silly and unnecessary noises, except when it is absolutely necessary. And finally, I fee that I an definitely getting somewhere. Report FromQueens Park by Doug Moffatt,M.P.P. 1