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2 The Canadian Statesman. Bowmanville, November 3,1962 Section Two Editorial Comment Politics Is Like the Weather Politics are something like the weather. A lot of people complain about them but few really do anything about them. Well, on Monday, November 8, we, the taxpaying public, get a chance to do something about our local government. The persons you elect next Monday will work for you during the next three years on town council, boards of education, or the hydro electric commission. It is important, first and foremost, to get out and vote. In addition, it is important to choose wisely from x among the close to 50 contenders for various positions. It is perfectly obvious that voting is both a privilege and a responsibility. Anyone who lacks the ambition to take a half an hour out of his life and mark his ballots should not be taken very seriously if he complains about local government. Frankly, we cannot understand why some local municipalities experience apathy among voters and even acclamations for important seats. It is easier to understand apathy over politics in far-off Ottawa or in Queen's Park than at the local level. After all, the people we elect on Monday will be those who fill the potholes, run the arenas, teach the kids, collect garbage, and generally provide us with the public services we use everyday. One thing that can be said for most of the branches of local government within the Town of Newcastle is that there's interest in the actions of elected officials. Why else would there be so many candidates running for every position and such a heavy turn-out at advance polls? At the municipal level, some politicians from neighboring municipalities have poked fun at the foibles of Newcastle's town council. But the lively squabbles sparked by concerned citizens and elected officials alike is preferable to any amount of well-administered apathy. That's part of the secret to what democracy is all about. And this process is most important at election time. 'Die voter has seen a variety of opinions, ideas, issues, and personalities during the past few weeks. By means of lawn signs, advertisements, meetings, speeches, and door-to-door canvassing, the candidates have been going out of their way to tell their story. On Monday, their fate as representatives of this community lies with each voter. We would not be so presumptuous as to suggest which candidates ought to receive support. However, we do believe it is important that our local government leaders be chosen wisely. Perhaps, in the past, almost any band of well-meaning citizens could have filled elected positions; in a booming economy they could do very little damage. Things are different today.. We need only the best to serve the public. On November 8, cast your ballot for the best. No Fiscal Rabbits in Hat Two cheers for Marc Lalonde's latest economic statement on the Canadian economy. This seems to be the general view of those who have studied the new finance minister's $1.1 billion plan to perk up the economy. The consensus seems to be that the finance minister did the best that he could do under difficult circumstances. But there's bound to be disappointment over the fact that Mr. Lalonde failed to pull any fiscal rabbits out of the economic hat. It's doubtful that the economic ackage announced last week will indie much optimism among Canadians. The economic measures are not cause for raging optimism. There's nothing in the document that would make you run out and start a new business, for example, or purchase a new car. However, the moves taken last week indicate that the government is attempting to meet the demands of business and workers. For example, there's the $500 million job creation proposal which will be reserved for the nation's most needy unemployed. This program is designed to create about 60,000 new jobs. Also, there are proposals to spend $400 million on upgrading western railways while also nroviding grants for first-time buyers of new homes and for renovations to older dwellings. The Lalonde proposals also allow many of the unpopular suggestions of the MacEachen budget to die without being implemented. That's a move which should be popular with the business community which generally rejected the proposals of last May. The new minister's assessment of the nation's financial health also sounds an optimistic note when he speaks of a small decline in inflation for 1983 and economic growth/' of three per cent. But Canadians are, no doubt, becoming sceptical about economic forecasts as the light at the end of the tunnel becomes more and more difficult to see. Probably the one Lalonde statement which seemed the most accurate was the suggestion that unemployment is the biggest problem in the Canadian economy. It's 12.2 per cent now and even predictions for next year do not show a vast improvement. In the financial program outlined last week, the government has indicated that it recognizes this major problem and will try to remedy it. Letter to Editor Dear Mr. James: On my way home from Church on Sunday morning, I was disturbed at the sight of painters, painting one of our public buildings, (namely our (own hall) on the Sabbath Day. Very plainly in God's word Exodus 2: 9 and 10, God says,"Six days shall thou labour and do all thy work, but the seventh is the sabbath of the Lord thy God". What is wrong with our Mayor and town council, that they would allow a thing like this to take place? Can our town not afford people who work from Mon. - Sat., or does it not matter to the people in public office? If not I think it's about time we really took a look at the people we put into these positions. I am not judging our people in public office, only God has the right to do that, and I know their jobs are not easy ones, but I pray God will guide them to make the right decisions and give them the courage to carry them out. All over our world there are disasters happening, because people have turned away from God's principles laid out so clearly in the Bible. God has blessed us so much in this country. Do we really expect His blessings to continue, and for Him to turn a blind eye to the things that are wrong in this country? He is not going to forever. Then when a disaster strikes, we will say, "Whv Us"? Christians let us stand up for what is right and be counted! If we don't now, it may be too late very soon. I pray there will be many Christians who will take a stand on this issue, and others like it, so that people in public offices, will not think that Christians are something almost extinct, but we are alive and well and looking after God's business. Our public servants need our prayers and may God speak to them in such a way, that they will be saying theirs as well, before making decisions, that involve all of us. Muriel Albin, Christian. <ZH|C Canadian Statesman 623-3303 Durham County's Graai hamily Journal Established 128 years ago In 1854 Also Incorporating The Bowmanville News The Newcastle Independent The Orono News Second class mall registration number 1561 Produced every Wednesday by THE JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED 62-66 King St. W., Bowmanville, Ontario L1C 3K9 JOHN M. JAMES RICHARD A. JAMES Editor -- Publisher Assistant Publisher GEO. P. MORRIS Business Mgr. BRIAN PURDY Advertising Mgr. DONALD BISHOP Plant Mgr. 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POPPIES STILL GROW... *y° Reraernbe uemembeï* fbe soldiers, Thexj fought for xis, and aluiaxp TernermW 1 ttrij died for us. Missy Hornigold, Hampton Remembrance Day Poster Winners SUGAR and SPICE Lest We Forget I feel quite hurt this year. Nobody has asked me to speak at their Remembrance Day dinner. I would have turned it down, of course, because I think, you can flog the old poppy and talk about throwing the torch from our failing hands only so long, before it becomes irrelevant. However, I've not been ignored entirely. A teacher asked me to send a copy of a" Remembrance Day column I wrote either last year, or the year before, to be read by a Grade 8 student, to the whole school, I presume. Some order. If I kept a decent file of columns, I could put my finger on it, run off a copy and shoot it to him. But my files.are something like my mind: scattered all over the place, confused, mixed up. My wife, in a fit of pique over some little thing, once stuffed about 200 of my columns into a large plastic bag. It's a little difficult to reach into that bag (it's really a garbage bag, as she implied when she did it) and pull out the right column. And of course, I haven't been forgotten by the good old administration of our school, which has requested that I write a two- minute thing about Remembrance Day. My, how that day has shrunk. When I was a kid, the whole school marched to the arena, bedecked with flags, heard speeches about our "fallen" and "our glorious dead." I think we got the afternoon off, to enjoy more immediate pleasures. But before we were dismissed, we heard some haunting hymns, such as "Abide with me," and, Lord help us, "Onward, Christian Soldiers," and saw some real tears fall from the eyes of people who had lost a husband or father. After World War II, but not for several years, I joined the Canadian Legion. Not because I wanted to, particularly, but because I was a weekly editor, and you had to join everything to get the news. Each year we swaggered, with a certain amount of the old flair, down the main street to the cenotaph, followed by a rag-tag of Scouts and Guides and Brownies, to make up a parade, and led by the town band. The names of the local boys were read, a prayer, a hymn, the Last Post, some sniffles in the meagre audience, and some wet eyes and lumps in throats among the Legionnaires, who really did remember. Then back at the Legion Hall for , beer and b.s. There was a good feeling between the old-timers of W.W.I, and us young veterans who had never gone over the . top, deloused ourselves, coped with a gas attack, or been under heavy bombardment of artillery as the old vets frequently reminded us. The native Indian veterans turned out in force. This was before they were allowed to buy any kind of spirits, and they made a day of it. Now, the tiny remnant of old vets still remember, but they are very old men. And the young vets of that time are rapidly becoming old men. Then I started teaching school. Remembrance Day was still observed, with the whole school being called for a special assembly, and the old platitudes recalled and regurgitated. I was asked to speak at one of thèm. The head of the students' council preceded me, and pulled out all the cliches and hackneyed references. "Sacrifice," "the fallen," and carrying "the torch" were among them. I didn't mean to, but pulled the rug right out from under him. I pointed out that the dead didn't fall; they were killed; that the sacrifice -- made by millions of young men, from many nations, all of them fighting for "the right" -- achieved absolutely nothing; that if someone, threw them a torch to carry, they should throw it right back, and so on. The kids loved it, but the administration thought it was iconoclastic. These assemblies went on for a few more years, steadily disintegrating as the remembrance ceremony was turned over more and more to the students, to whom both wars were ancient history. They degenerated into folk songs like "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," juvenile diatribes against war, and maudlin sentiments about peace, far worse than the Legion, which always had a certain dignity, could perpetrate. Eventually, the assemblies were cut entirely, and yours truly became the goat. His task: to write a two- minute commercial reminding the students that Remembrance Day is not just a school holiday. Try doing that in 200 words that will stir the students' emotions, uplift their souls, and make them want to rush out and defend their country against something or other. The wars mean almost nothing to them, and the only things they'd fight to the death for are their transistors, motorcycles, hi-fi's and high allowances. Most of them have only the vaguest idea of the tensions in the world, and small reason. They're stick to death of politicians and are inured to violence by seeing it daily on TV. They don't really care much about abstracts like patriotism, loyalty, sacrifice. But I get my quiet revenge. There's no teaching, in the usual sense, in my classes on the day before the "holiday." I show them souvenirs, pictures of "your hero" standing beside his Typhoon, and tell them funny stories about stupid senior officers, and make them realize that if it were 40 years ago, most of them would be in the process of being shot at, or losing a sweetheart. It works. 106 Wellington St., Bowmanville, Ont., Nov. 2,1982. Dear Mr. James, I want to thank you for this opportunity to say a few words to the people of the Town of Newcastle, Ward II, Bowmanville regarding my concerns and objectives re: the upcoming election on Monday, Nov, 8, 1982. I was very pleased that on Oct. 6, 1982 that your editorial regarding "No Room for Working People" appeared as we had discussed this the previous Monday, Oct. 4,1982, I have always believed that any governing body of people should be made up a good cross representation of all the people (e.g. the present School Board, doctor, lawyer, business people, teacher and lay people like myself). Our present and previous Councils have had these people absent because of the friction and negative feelings that have gone on at meet ings, I strongly believe that there are people of the cross representation in our community that would stand for Council if the Council would he run in a business-like manner. I propose a return to night meetings (average two per week) so administration staff can perform their jobs during Hie day. By having night meetings, more tax payers have the opportunity to attend Council meetings, and you are not penalizing people for running for election if their daytime is not always free to attend meetings. Regarding Regional Council, we are still duplicating duplicating services such as Council, planners, extra staff and consultants. We only need Regional Council as most items go there for final approval from our present Council. The Town of Newcastle Council is another form of government we do nol need as we have Regional Council with representation from population. We arc over governed in this country now and I would like lo sue some of this done away with. We have Regional Government not necessarily by choice. The New Council has lo stop all extra (unneeded) expenditures expenditures by red circling (freeze) administration salaries and eliminate percentage percentage salary increases, Percentage Percentage increases only widen I he gap of salaries between high and low salary ranges. These two proposals are just a start in the right direction. I have stated my position on some of my main issues so please get in touch with the other candidates and elect the people of your choice, as I know most of them' share these same concerns, and I am quite sure your New Council for the, Town of Newcastle in the next term of office can save you the taxpayers tax dollars on these issues. For information on Transportation please call 623-3517. Yours truly Keith Shackelton, Candidate for Ixical Council, Ward II - Bowmanville. P.S. One person cannot do all this, it takes the co-operation of the majority of Council. Dear Mr. James: As Postmaster, I get many enquiries about mail delivery especially during the Christmas season, I'd like to offer your readers a few suggestions on what they can do to make mailings this Christmas better for all. Remember to mail early. Canada Post sets deadlines to ensure your mail reaches its destination for the holiday season. Christmas cards and parcels for local delivery must be mailed no later than December 17. Christmas cards and First Class parcels for out-of-town delivery must be mailed no later than December 13th. Properly addressed mail will reach its destination much quicker than mail with an incomplete or wrong address, and the address should be legibly written, include the correct postal code and your return address. Parcels must be wrapped carefully to protect the contents. Send parcels in strong cardboard boxes wrapped in brown paper and tied with string. An interesting wrinkle to protect your gifts is puffed popcorn, it makes an excellent packing. The Post Office can supply you with correct postal codes and also has labels to identify your mail as "First Class' , "Fragile" or "Airmail". Correct postage will also speed delivery. Christmas cards for delivery in Canada and the United States must be sealed and require 30 cents postage for Canada and 35 cents for the United States, All greeting cards to destinations other than the United States or Canada must be left unsealed and marked "Printed Papers", to meet international requirements. To these destinations, Christmas cards require 45 cents postage for airmail and 30 cents for surface mail. Full details on all deadlines, rates and other mailing requirements are available at the Post Office. We now have stocks of the attractive Christmas stamps depicting various Nativity scenes in 30-cent, 35-cent, and 60-cent denominations. Remember, by mailing early, by wrapping parcels carefully and by addressing all mail properly, you can help us get your Christmas greetings and gifts delivered on time. Yours sincerely, L. L. Skuratow, Postmaster October 28,1982. Canadian Statesman, Att: Mr. J. James, Editor, 66 King St. W., Box 190, Bowmanville, Ontario. LIC 3K9 Dear Mr, James: The 1982 Christmas Seal Campaign in Canada opens officially on November 1st and will continue throughout the Holiday Season. Our target in Durham Region is $100,000. This through-the-mail Campaign is the only source of funding for our many community community services in Durham Region. We are not part of the United Way, and as always, our success will be determined to a large degree by the support of the local press. As it is vital to keep our Campaign message before the public, a series of press releases will be sent at regular intervals, the first of which is enclosed, We hope you will find these suitable for publication. Our Association is very grateful for the support we have received from your newspaper during 1982. Please help us reach our Campaign objective by continuing that support during November and December. Yours sincerely, Mrs. A. M, Tibbies (Executive Director) i 1