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2 The Canadian Statesman, Iowmanville, October 11, 1978 Section Two «Edit oriaunCo mm ent, The Worst is Over For the past few weeks, King St. has reminded us of the Humpty Dumpty story. It seemed as though all the king's horses and all the king's men wouldn't be able to put it back together again. But, if you look at the main street this week you will notice that the major surgery involving tractors, power shovels, pip es and dirt is progressing quite well. A brand new street is taking shape and for the first time in three weeks, the downtown west end doesn't look quite as much like a no-man's land in world war one. When construction crews first started working in September it seemed as though the downtown looked more torn-apart every day. But now the town looks more like it is returning to normal each day. This seems to suggest that we are past the turning point in the re-construction project. With any sort of luck we will be driving and parking on the street before too long. And when that day arrives, motorists, merchants and shoppers will heave a huge sigh of relief. Of course we should remember that if the worst is over, it is only over for those of us in the western end of the town. Everybody on Kin St. east of Temperance St. can loo forward to their share of inconveniences, noise and dust when the second half of project resumes in the spring. One in Five "Only one in five is mentally well. A study reveals that in a city district eighty percent of the residents show some mental disturbance," so runs comment from a metropolitan daily. New Canadians look askance at the North American way of life. The wish is expressed by many of these new citizens that if it were possible they would like to return to their native lands, to regain some equilibrium in living. It has been said repeatedly by well-known historians that democracy, as a form of govern- ment, has never succeeded for more than a comparatively short period of time. They contend that government by the people and for the people is always foredoomed to failure. That, indeed, is a gloomy predic- tion for the way of life we hold dear, but there is ample evidence to sup- port the theory. In Sweden, for example, a socialist government held sway for no less than 44 years. Conceieved as the ideal system to provide security and happiness for the common man and woman, the state eventually stepped in to take care of every personal problem from the cradle to the grave. Naturally the cost of such all-embracing social services required that Swedes turn over most of their incomes to the state. As time went on the Swedish people began to tire of a life which left no room for personal ambition or achievement and three years ago they opted at election time for an end to socialism, choosing in its place a coalition of non-socialist parties which promised to return in- dustry to private ownership and to drastically reduce the army of government employees. Result? After three years of trying scarcely one industry has been freed from government control and the horde of bureaucrats and their staffs has increased. Today, out of a total population of 3.8 million people 1.4 million work for the government ... almost one publicly-paid employee for every two in the private sector. Canada is presently involved in a struggle for freedom which all too few Canadians really understand; the right of the average taxpaying and voting citizen to the fullest possible information about the elec- ted government's expenditures and activities. A right which has been smothered by burgeoning and bureaucracy. MP Jed Baldwin has led a crusade for freedom of infor- mation, but secrecy about everything and everything done or condoned by higher level officials We are too much in a hurry and the quiet moment, promoted so assiduously by the late Dr. Frank Buchman in the thirties, is a casualty in the seventies. Turn off the television, the stereo, or the radio. Practice one quiet hour at home every evening. True poverty in living is found in the possession of restless hands, jit- tery limbs, and a twitching face. The elements of poise and serenity are distinct marks of mental wealth. No Traffic Problems on King Street West Sugar and Spice Canada's Sights 22/S While we were travelling this past summer, my wife remarked something to the effect that it's too bad Canada doesn't have the attractions to Iure hundreds of thousands of tourists that Europe has. I assured her tartly that she was all wet. This country has everything to make it a tourist's paradise: mountains aplenty, great plains, deep forests, thousands of miles of coast line, a million or so lakes, good hotels, interesting cities in French and English, and good highways. It's not that we don't have enough for the tourist. We have too much and we take it for granted. Tiny Switzerland doesn't, and it makes use of every inch, milking the tourist as carefully as it milks its cows, those brown ones that graze up the mountains in summer and give chocolate milk. We have tremendous sports facilities: skiing, sailing, fishing, hunting, hiking, alot of it free or very cheap. Try going skiinq or fishing or huntng in Europe. It will cost you an arm and a leg, and in many countries is impossible for foreigners. We don't have any ruined abbeys or falling-down castles, but have plenty of abandoned log houses, which, in terms of humanity, are just as touching, if not as impressive. We're a little short on cathedrals, but not on churches. Some of our towns of two or three thousand have as many as ten different churches. You can pray standing up, sitting .down, on your knees or flat on your back. You can't do this in Europe. - We are nationalistic, - but in a lackadaisical way, with nothing of the prickly, pride of the French, the deja vu pride of the Italians or the smug complacency of the Swiss or Germans. We have a certain blandness, a lack of local color perhaps, to the unobservant eye. But local color often consists of nothing more than roils so hard you can't eat them, dirty toilets, and execrable wine, in Europe. And we certainly have all those. As local color, try a house party in Newfie, Saturday night in Sudbury, a stroll down Yonge St.'s Strip in Toronto, or amble through downtown Montreal or Vancouver. Or try Friday night in a beer parlor, anywhere in the country. We don't have many ancient ruins. We put them away in nursing homes. But a visit to these could probably be arranged for the tourist. People think we don't have much history. We do. We have ail kinds of it. It's just younger than that of European countries. But the Battle of Duck Lake, Saskatchewan, is just as important to this country as the Battle of Waterloo was to Europe in its time. The restoration of Ste Marie Among the Hurons at Midland, Ontario, the 17th century inary designs was September 29, 1978. Because of the uncertainties of mail deliveries, the Ministry wishes to advise that submissions received by the Ontario Energy Corporation, 4th Floor, 56 Wellesley Street West, Toronto, Ont. M7A 2B7, by noon on October 20, 1978, will be considered as having met the deadline. We would be most grateful if you would advise your readers of this revised date. A brief News Release is attached for your convemence. Yours sincerely, Malcolm Rowan Deputy Minister Dear Editor, The Royal Commission on Power Planning says Ontario could save $34 BILLION and scrap at least two planned giant nuclear plants by cutting the growth of demand to 4 per cent per year. The Commissions report to the Ontario cabinet says that nuclear construction after 1985 should depend on the availability of radioactive waste disposal sites. On October 16th, 1977 the Toronto Star reported in a front-page story that "Pile-up of Nuclear Waste could close Pickering." A major problem if Hydro goes ahead with their plans for more plants -- Ontario will run out of uranium by 1995. Hydro has spent millions upon millions for heavy water plant that is not needed now, nor in the future. The real problem for people living in Oshawa and Southern Ontario is the frightening link between Cancer and Atomic plants. In a 5 year study by Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass, University of Pittsburgh professor of radiological physics found a direct link between cancer rates and how far people live from nuclear reactors. Between 1970 and 1975 the detailed study shows that cancer deaths in New England and Connecticut increased sharply around two nuclear reactors. The cancer nortality rate rose 58 per cent in the town 6f Waterford where the Millstone plant is located. Five miles away the rate was 44 per cent in New Jesuit mission is just as valid as the restoration of the Roman Colosseum, ignored by the Romans for centuries. Furthermore, for the delectation of the tourists, we have a dollar that is worth 85 cents. That means their yen and marks and francs will stretch like elastic bands. And finally, we have something no other nation in the world can touch, Thanksgiving weekend, and everything that goes with it. The great sad, final flaming of our foliage before we close down for six months. If our tourist industry wasn't such a weak sister, Canada would be crawling with millions of Japanese and Arabs and Germans and Italians from about September first to the middle of October, to the point where we wouldn't have room to rake our leaves and burn them. Speaking of Thanksgiving, I hope' you have a lot to be thankful for. I think we do, as a nation. We have the most bracing, delightful, exasperat- ing climate in the world. We still have vast, comparatively unspoiled wilderness. (Witness the scramble for recent Europeans, now Canadians, to buy a chunk of it). We have a very high standard of living, despite unemployment, strikes, high taxes, fumbling politicians. We have a country in which Jack is as good as his master and servility is scorned. Don't believe me? Try London. Forfy miles away in New Haven the mortality rate was 27 per cent and the rate for the state of Connecticut as a whole was only 12 per cent. Cancer deaths actually declined in four states without nuclear power. Dr. Rosalie Bertell, a former senior cancer research scientist at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo N.Y. declared "Of course there is a link between nuclear plants and cancer." Dr. Sternglass warned that "each year we close our eyes tò the data...we increase the risk of cancer." The nuclear waste disposal is an added risk for we who live in Southern Ontario. It cost millions of dollars to clean up Port Hope and Blind River. Oshawa is sitting in the middle, between Pickering plant -- the largest in the world and the huge Darlington plant under construction, compounding the cancer risk problem. Greenpeace and Energy Probe environmentalists charge that additional nuclear plants are not needed and pose hiring a cleaning lady or bawling out, your plumber. Ask among the first-generation Canadians from Europe how many of them would go back. Nary a .pne. Aside from thinking this is a pretty good place to live, I have lots of personal reasons for thanksgiving. A good wife who can cook like a chef, sew like a couturier. (We almost remembered our anniversary this year. We'rejust a day late). My daughter, with two children and three degrees, finally got a job., As a file clerk. My son is alive and' well in a South American country,ý which is sometimes a difficult thing to be. I have a great lad next door who, cuts my lawn and shovels my snoW; faithfully. I have a job I like with peuple I enjoy working with. I have: good neighbours. But I must admit I'm looking over, my shoulder quite often these days.,: I'm thankful that my health is goodr but I think the Lord is trying to tell2 me something about my Engish' department. Two of them hav faulty tickers. A third sprang hiW back and was flat on it all summer: Another, a recent addition, had his g all bladder removed recently. And inally, Roger Bell, whose contribu- tions you may have read in thie space, fell off his motor-bike and dislocated his shoulder. It's a good thing they have a strong, virile Chief. Be thankful for what you have. has reached the point where even Parliament is kept in ignorance of the activities of many branches of its own operations. The repeated investigations into RCMP activities are typical. Some of the upper echelon officers of that force have virtually defied the parlimentary committees assigned to investigate acts which are clearly illegal. An instance is the questioning in connection with a barn fire, admittedly set by the Mounties. Testifying before the commission one officer says they used motor oil, another says stove oil. One officer, an inspector no less, stated he was "in a stupor" when he was placed as a watchman over the vehicle used to reach the site of the barn. Such vagueness in any other wit- ness would probably be cited as con- tempt of court. The RCMP maintains that all of its illegal acts were justified by the threat of terrorism or insurrection. Police acts which go beyond the limits of ordinary law may indeed be required in certain extreme cases, but without the safeguard of proper authorization by persons beyond the police force they are blatant in- fringement on the democratic process which we seek to per- petuate. The Mounties have a great deal of public support, chiefly from hero- worshipping Canadians who know nothing more about RCMP than the admitted fact that they look very romantic in their red coats and poin- ty hats. Certainly terrorists, revolu- tionaries and drug peddlars pose a dangerous threat to any modern nation, but no nation on earth ever faces a more deadly peril than the emergence of a secret security force within its civilian police bodies. Therein lies the germ and ultimately the weapon of dic- tatorship. Those who doubt it have learned little from the lessons of Nazi Germany or modern Chile, both of which have used the excuse of "national security". Wingham Advance-Times Walter Beath announced Wednesday he will seek re-election as regional chairman for the 1979-80 term of council. In declaring his candidacy, the former warden of Ontario County is asking the 30 members of regional council, who will be elected November 13, to elect him as their chairman for a two-year term. The election will take place at the inaugural meeting of regional council expected to be held December 6. Mr. Beath, a resident of former East Whitby Township, said he will attempi to attend at least one candidates meeting in eaci area municipality to hear thq views of the local residents. If re-elected, it will be his third term as regional chairman. He was appointed to his first term and elected t a second term by members of regional council. He mentioned one of his priorities will be review "in its very broadest sense. Some of the issues I feel strongly about are included in this," he said. a threat to our health and even been a successful event. The our lives. Will it take a major Gommittee which planned the accident and death to halt the day and His Excellency, Most proliferation? Let Hydro know Rev. James L. Doyle would how you feel, also your express their sincere provincial M.P. appreciation to you for your Sincerely, part in the day. Thank you Dean J. Kelly very much. Sir-Madame: Yours truly, The HolyHourheld at the Fraser H. Hogle Memorial Centre has again Committee Chairman Regional Ch.amL. SeppsreElectiou rou Dear Editor and Statesman, It was-stated in this paper the last week in September that Apathy was the reason people were not flocking to The Darlington Information Centre. Could it be noted that those who were NOT APATHETIC have made their pilgrimage to The Centre. Their opinions were voiced loud and clear. Perhaps apathy is a factor now, when so much negative publicity has been voiced by those who care about LIFE and environment and people are now tired of the subject and of having the Centre pushed into public view. Marie Henry Dear Sir; In August, the Ontario Ministry of Energy placed an advertisement in your newspaper inviting private investors to submit proposals on the business opportunities which can be realized through the utilization of warm water available at Ontario Hydro's nuclear power stations. The ieadline for these outline proposals and prelim- Government Run Wild