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2 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, April 12, 1978 Section Two Zbe Canabl'an *tattginan Durham County's Great Family Journal Established 124 years ago in 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 62-66 King St. W., Bowmanville, Ontario LiC 3K9 GEO. P. MORRIS Business Mgr. JOHN M. JAMES Editor- Publisher BRIAN PURDY Advertising Mgr. s1 E c~ I * o i. DONALD BISHOP Plant Mgr. "Copyright and-or property righis subsist in the !mage appearinq on this proQf._FPermission to reproduce in whole or in part and in any form whatsoever, particularly by photographic or offset process in a publication, must be obtaned from the publisher and the printer. 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A Surprising Budget Well, Finance Minister Chretien Some of the measures were certainly fooled most of the people in designed to strengthen the economy Canada with his Monday night and~ result in expanded research budget. The experts were somewhat facilities. But they were long term cynical about it, previously feeling and there will be no major effect that it was going to be a last minute until long after the election has effort to lure more voters into the passed. Liberal camp. They were predicting The budget will give opposition cuts in income taxes and other parties plenty of room for criticism goodies that didn't show up in the because it failed to provide suf- final presentation. ficient work-producing programs About the only benefit the average and stimulus to the economy. They taxpayer will feel directly in his or must 'have been delighted that no her pocketbook will be the three per real vote catching items of any size cent reduction in sales taxes for six were.announced that would make months, a move apparently design- their job tougher. ed to boost consumer spending. Now that the suspense is over, it There were also some adjustments will probably be followed within a in retirement plans that may have few days by a visit to the Governor been long overdue but certainly will General and.federal election will be not have the elderly jumping for joy. underway with voting day n June. Recent Gallup polls indicate that in In fact, if that is a pre-election, spite of this country 's problems budget it certainly differs fro the Prime Minister T neau and the popular conception of what was Liberals haven't lost any ground expected and one wonders why Mr. with the public, in fact, gaining a few Chretien bothered to bring it in at points. We would suggest their ail, probably on the eve of an current standing is not so much election caill Maybe hie and the support for the Liberals as i government were doing their utmost isdisenchantment with the opposi- to convince the Canadian electors tion parties as a potential alterna- that they are a government that tive. We shall see within a few would not use unwarranted handouts weeks, unless the Prime Minister just to buy votes at a time when the has decided to call the whole thing country was having financial and off and wait for the Fall or next employment problems. Spring, which is most doubtful. Caught inTheir OwnTrap A Pontypool Landmark bugarranoon dS ie Born Too Soon? 't / It's always interesting and a bit amusing when members of a fairly militant union find themselves caught in a predicament that puts them in the seat of management rather than the 'exploited, under- paid, overworked' working class. Aparently it happened recently at the annual meeting of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federa- tion in Toronto and revealed just how much power the greedy executive of that organization has over its members. The details foilow: Hi gh school teacher John Calver lost his bid Sunday to provide six executives of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OSSTF) with leased, air- conditioned luxury cars and had to settle for mid-range models. "But his committee managed to convince delegates at the annual OSSTF meeting that their leaders deserve $800 and a week's 'rest and recuperation' leave to spend it. The leave is in addition to a basic one-month vacation period and the same number of holidays as teachers get during the Christmas and March breaks. THE VOLUNTEERS In all kinds of weather, They try to fore gather, To organize andplan, And help their fellow man. The lady in the mall, Hands out pamplets for all, To show how to manage, Some help for the aged. The ambulance brigade, Stands by to give first-aid, Tireless in their vigil, Bestow care and goodwill. The ones who teach the young, Their praises go unsung, To Brownie, Scout and Guide, They give their time with pride. The redoubtable Legion, Takes care of their region, Looks after the needy, Sells poppies for'Re-Day'. The Salvation Army, Thathard working Army, of dedicated souls, With their accomplished goals. "The teachers set the salaries and benefits for their executive Sunday, including a $38,220 salary for president Margaret Wilson and $33,810 for the lowest-paid executive members. "Besides the usual expense ac- counts, the six top OSSTF brass will get an extra $1,050 to $1,800 in 'non-accountable allowances' an- nually to spend as they please without expense vouchers". The sane story listed other tid-bits available to executive per- sonnel, such as $550 a month for extra housing costs if a move to Toronto is necessary; or $350 a month if the executive chooses to live away from his own home; a maximum $2,000 allowance for moving; $1,000 for settling into a new home; $2,500 to buy new furniture. Against such a background the reputation of the well-meaning and dedicated school teacher is bound to be questioned by the tax-paying public..If a diamond-studded leader- ship is making decisions for teachers one cannot expect the public to be overly sympathetic. The auxiliaries strong, Don't find anything wrong, With working hard for hours, After doing home chores. The people who help build, The arenas, to be filled, With our young sports-minded, Deserve to be appaluded. The workers for the church, Who carry the bright torch, And by example show, The way for all to go. There are countless others, Who for the good cause gathers, A dollar there, or dime, Give free their precious time. Just pause a moment now, And start to think just how, The community would survive, Without the ones who strive. They serve a hundred ways, Don't stop to count the days, The comfort, help and cheer, They are the volunteers. - Mary Stewart Clarke There are times when I am convinced that I was born 30 years too soon. One of them occurs when I see the wonderful opportunities for travel that young people have today. They make me peagreen with envy. When you and I were young, Maggie, most of us didn't get much farther than the next town. A minority visited the city occasional- ly, and it was considered a big deal. And a whale of a lot of people never did get to see a big city in their entire lives. And were no worse off for it, of course. Man how that has changed. Nowadays, young people go gallop- ing off to the four corners of the earth with no more thought about it than we'd have given to a weekend in the city. They're so blase about it that it's sickening to an old guy like me, who has always yearned to travel, and never had the time or money or freedom to do it. In my day, during the Depression, the only people who could afford to travel were the hoboes. They could afford it because they didn't have any money. They rode free on the tops and inside the box-cars of freight trains. And they didn't have any responsibilities except the next meal and a place to sleep. Looking back, I was one of the lucky ones. Most of my generation of youth was forced by circumstances to stay home, get any job available, and hang on to it like grim death, never venturing forth on the highroads of life. I was the envy of my class-mates, when, at seventeen, I nabbed a job on the upper lake boats, and could come home bragging of having been to such bizarre, exotic places as Duluth, Sault Ste. Marie, Detroit, the Lakehead. Today's youngsters would sneer at such bourgeois travels. They ex- change anecdotes about Morocco and Moscow, Athens.and Australia, Paris and Port-au-Prince, Delhi and Dubrovnik. Fair nauseates me, it does. By the time he was 22, my own son had lived on both coasts of Canada, been to Mexico, New Orleans, Texas, Israel, Ireland, and a hundred other places that are just names in an atlas to me. -Right now he's in Paraquay, South America, and has visited Argentina and Bolivia. He speaks four languages, I speak one, not too well. My nephews have seen more countries than Chris Columbus or Sir Francis Drake. One's an airline pilot, and knows Europe, North America and the West Indies the way I know my way to school. Another has worked in the Canadian north, Quebec, the Congo, Jamaica, and is now living in Costa Rica. My nieces are just as peripatetic. They've been, among them, to the West Coast, France, England, Russia. A four-day trip to New York, for them, is scarcely worth mention- ing. Migawd, I'd have given my left eyeball to see New York when I was their age! I thought it was pretty earth-shaking -the frist time I saw Toronto. Toronto, ye-e-c-ch! Thousands of university students annually take a year off, borrow some money, stuff a packsack and head out for a1 year of bumming around Europe, the Mediterranean, North Africa, India. Rotten kids! In the last decade, the travel bug has spilled over into the high schools. Some of them are beginning to sound like agencies, with frequent announcements over the P.A. system: "Will the group going to Rome in the winter break please assemble in Room 202 at 3:30 for a lesson on tying your toga." "Ail those taking the Venezuela trip are requested to see Mr. Vagabond in Room 727 at 3:15 today." "Those who are involved in the spring break trip to the Canary Islands should have their passports by March1lst." "There will be a meeting today in Room Quatorze for all students going to the Quebec Winter Carni- val. No separatists, please." "An urgent meeting will be held toda for those who plan to take the London-Paris trip during spring break. All seats are now filled. If enough are interested, we'll hire another plane." It fairly makes your head swim, especially when your own idea of a trip south is 100 miles to the city for a weekend, a trip west means a visit to great-grandad, and a trip east means you're going to a funeral or a wedding among the relatives. Next thing you know, this travel bmge will bulge over into the elementary schools, and great etters to ,the0Edit May 8, 1978 To the Editor: I am writing out of concern for the rights of pedestrians in our town. Within the past six weeks I have almost been run down five times by careless and inconsiderate motor- ists. Twice I was with my daughter. In all five instances I was crossing on a green light and the motorists were making turns into the intersec- tion I was on. In one case I stepped off the curb when the light turned green and a car came up quickly, did not stop and made a right hand turn. My arms and top of my body were on top of his car. Luckily I did not have time to panic and moved my body with his car, sliding toward the door of his car. I could have fallen and would have ended up under his- wheels. What if it had been a child or an elderly person? Call it providence that my daughter and myself are alive or not seriously injured today. In all incidents the vehicles were quickly out of sight before I could get their licence numbers. What is wrong with some of the motorists in this town? Do they not think of the devastating conse- quences which could result from negligent and inconsiderate driving. If those drivers who are in a hurry or who cannot be bothered to be more aware of pedestrians do no smarten up innocent people and their families could be hurt. In Oshawa there are policemen who are positioned on all four corners of heavily congested traffic areas to watch and to take action when they are needed in instances, concerning the public. The streets in our town are becoming more and more insane. Can something not be done? Note: I am a parent of an active four-year-old. This summer I cannot keep a constant eagle eye out for my little girl. There is no parent who can. It is suppressive for the child 747-loads of little shavers frorn Grade Eight will be descending on the unsuspecting residents of Hong Kong and Rio de Janeiro. Lord help them. The residents, not the kids. Perhaps this sounds like sour grapes. Well, it is. As Shaw said: 'The trouble with youth is that it is wasted on the young." And as Smiley says: "The trouble with travel is that it is wasted on kids who don't know a Grecian urn from an Italian pizza." Oh, it's not that I haven't travelled. I've been to Great Britain. And spent two years staggering around in the blackout or wading through the torrential rains of bonnie Scotland. I've been to France. Slept five weeks in a tent in an orchard in Normandy. Been to Belgium. Antwerp; buzzbombs. Know Holland well. Spent two weeks located in a box-car in a railway siding at Utrecht. Am intimately acquainted with Germany. Was bombed in Braunsweig and Leipzig, and spent a delightful six months in salubrious Pomerania, as a guest of the Third Reich. Oh, I've been around all right. But somehow it wasn't quite the same. Rattling through Deutschland on a train with a 10-day stubble of beard on your chin and a tag-end of sour black bread stuffed into your battledress blouse is not quite similar to climbing aboard a 747 with your tote-bag and waiting for the stewardess to bring your first meal. Would I trade? Not on your life. or and a contriual anxiety for the parent., I have taught my child to watch for cars but she does not always think in her play and I cannot watch over her this summer every five minutes of the day. So PLEASE MOTORISTS, WATCH FOR CHILDREN WHEN BACKING OUT OF DRIVEWAYS AND CHILDREN PLAYING ON THE STREETS. Parents and motorists should work together to ensure the safety of their children. Thank you. Pat Bothwell, 95 Ontario St. Bowmanville, Ontario. SCorner for Poets ý A9mmmmmhý QC> A