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1 2 The Canadian Statesman, Bowman ville, February 2,1963 Section Two Editorial Comment Beware the Secret Ballot ) Joe Clark seems to be living proof to the old saying that "sometimes your best friends won't tell you." A quick glance at the weekend's Progressive Conservative convention will reveal that Clark was shot down by his friends as much as by his enemies. The TV screen seemed to be filled with wall-to-wall supporters of Clark. After the voting was over and the Tories danced in the aisles, both Clark supporters and opponents seemed convinced that the leader must have won a respectable vote of confidence. But such speculation failed to take into account the treacherv of the "human heart. Clark was defeated by persons who extended the hand of friendship while carefully concealing their daggers behind their backs. In this respect, his defeat on the convention floor resembles the assassination of Julius Caesar for two-faced treachery. We doubt If Clark even had a soothsayer warning him to beware of the Ides of January. The secret ballot is a mainstay of democracy, of course, but you cannot help but-wonder if Clark's opponents would have been as numerous if the issue were decided by an open show of hands. If the vote were taken openly, you can rest assured that eitner Joe Clark's demise would have been swift and sure, or else there would have been less whining and back-stabbing among the members of the party. The moral of the story is to beware of the secret ballot because it is bound to yield some surprising results. What can we say about those persons who sabotaged their leader by hiding behind a secret vote except that it would serve them right if they were to see Mr. Clark win back his leadership -- by about 66 percent. Liberals Aren't Gloating While Progressive-Conservatives were 'Clearing the Air' in Winnipeg last weekend, about 1,500 Liberals were holding an annual meeting in Toronto and, from all reports, they were 'underjoyed' and nervous over Joe Clark's apparent demise as PC leader. When one thinks about the situation, they may have had good cause to be apprehensive. Many of them were as certain as many Tories that Clark would never again be elected Prime Minister of this; country, even though the polls show his party leading the Liberals in popularity by about 15 points. They knew Clark and his weaknesses and could play on them if and when an election came. Now, it's a brand new ball game with an unknown quantity likely to be chosen to lead the PCs and that's disturbing to political insiders. Actually, many of them must realize that the Liberals are just about in the same boat as the PCs. Their leader is hçartily disliked in many parts of Canada, but is showing no sign of stepping down voluntarily. Who knows, he may even decide to run again, which could be disastrous for the party and the government, if the PCs come up with' a fresh popular leader. And Trudeau the unpredictable does decide to leave who is there ready and able to lead the Liberals back into power? John Turner is the only name being mentioned and he has opponents in the party. The next year and a half could be the most intriguing period in Canada's political history. If everything goes according to schedule, there should be two exciting leadership conventions { lacked with hoopla and drama, ollowed shortly afterwards by an all out election with a large majority of the country interested in the outcome. Don't miss it! A Messy Crisis Looming At what cost garbage? Durham's regional chairman summarized the Durham Region's waste disposal problems in these words last month during a meeting with members of Newcastle's town council. Make no mistake about it. The town and the region are facing a garbage crisis. There's a limited supply of landfill sites and their capacities are running out. Furthermore, the development of new sites is a time-consuming process. So, with fewer sites available and the cost of new sites increasing, it's safe to say that waste disposal will become more expensive. Recycling or trash incineration are two possible alternatives to landfill. But both options still remain more costly than simply taking garbage and burying it underground. So it would appear as though the short term solution to waste disposal will continue to be the unpopular but necessary landfill operations. One of the facts which peonle should accept is this: Landfill sites do not create garbage. People create trash and people will have to solve the problem of its disposal. We are all part of the problem, and we cannot arrive at solutions by demanding that garbage dumps be located everywhere but in our own back yard. Elected officials seem reluctant to grapple with the waste disposal issue because it is both literally and politically a messy issue. Moreover, it's easy for politicians to sidestep the dilemma because there's no immediate threat from garbage. For a while, at least, it will be possible to ignore the problem and squeeze existing landfill sites to their capacity. But every day that we delay our response to this issue is dangerous. Delays can only mean that there will be a sudden and half-baked Uth hour solution when this simmering crisis boils over. Whether we consider landfill, recycling, conservation, or incineration of wastes, let's work now to avoid a messy crisis in the future. 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Niagara Falls in Winter SUGAR and SPICE 'Twere the 'Flu The great oak tnrows its shadow All the way across the meadow Trees etched against the light All too soon it will be night. Sundrenched day's grand finale O'er the lake colours rally Round the sinking sun have met Brilliant Canadian sunset... -- Mary Stewart Clarke Sorry if my eight or nine faithful readers missed a column. 'Twere % the fault of the 'flu. I can usually belt out a column regardless of weather, wife, or inuclear explosions, the latter two being much alike, but this ' time I was laid lower than a grasshopper's anus, right from Before Christmas through the New Year. Must be getting old and soft. It's hard to turn out a column of deathless, sometimes desperate prose when your brain is like putty, your fingers are like dough, and your legs are like clay sticks, while your stomach is making like a cement mixer and producing something much like cement. I can usually find a topic this time of year: a savage attack on the Canadian winter. But I can't even do that. Christmas was warmer than August, warmer than England, according to a colleague who was there, and superior to Puerto Rico, where it rained and rained and blew the palm trees horizontal, according to another colleague who went off for "a week in the sun." And serves her right. Despite my decrepitude, I tried to struggle through. Have you ever E layed chess or Monopoly with a right eight-year-old who can beat you at either, even when you're in top shape? Have you ever tried to repair broken toys on Christmas morning with a sharp six-year-old when your hands are snaking with the ague and your mind is fixed on your next spurt to the bathroom? Have you ever coped with a wife who moans, "But you always make the dressing and help me with the gravy!", when all you want to do is crawl into a hole, cover yourself with something, even dressing, and quietly expire? I compromised. In the shape of an octogenarian leper who has just had a massive stroke, I stuffed the ruddy beast, trussed it, and jammed it into the oven, before collapsing. But I got my revenge on those who had frittered around making cups of tea while I labored over the creature. Told them I'd spit on my hands before I mixed the stuffing. That almost, not quite, threw them off their Christmas dinner. I nibbled a bit of 'flu-filled stuffing, proclaimed it excellent, and they ate like pigs. It was only through the greatest fortitude that I was able to get a little brandy down, now and again, to keep Death at His distance. But it wasn't all bad. It never is, if you keep your pecker up. No small chore in these days of economic and political gloom. Because of my condition, I let the old girl make all the Christmas telephone calls to old friends and relatives. That probably cost me about $200, as she has a propensity to believing that long-distance calls are made to somebody just around the corner, even when they're six hundred miles away, and can chat amiable for half an hour about sweet fanny adams. And I managed to totter to the telephone on New Year's Eve and talk to a couple of old turkeys who joined the air force the day I did. I could have saved my breath, what was left of it, on that one. They were in worse shape than I was. And they didn't have the'flu. Got some cards from old friends: Don McCuaig, asking me to come and help him dig a hole in the ice for fishing, up in the Ottawa Valley; the Cadogans of New Brunswick, telling me to get that book published.' Exactly the kinds of activities I felt like. But don't worry, chaps. We'll get some of those trout yet, McCuaig, even if we have to use dynamite. And we'll get that book written yet, Cadogans. Even if we have to use a computer, a ghost writer and a team of doctors. Missed my usual card from Major McEwen, who teaches playing the bagpipes in California, if you can imagine anything more incongruous. He was a mere 84 last Christmas, so he may be slowing down. But my old pal in Westport didn't fail me. He signs his cards only, "Your TV Repairman", but they always come through. Here's this year's: "Merry Christmas Smiley and lots more. Thank you for another year of your cheerful wit. I can't imagine anyone enjoying your column more than I do. Don't you dare to retire. The world needs you and you do a lot of good. Some day when I get over Being silly and the swelling goes down in my head, I'll let the air out of my ego and write you a bragging letter that will make B.S. smell like roses. In the meantime, stay just like you are and I'll keep buying any paper that carries your column. " Earthy but uplifting. It almost ended my 'flu. One of these days I'm going to hire a private eye and track the oulddivel down. My Christmas tree, erected in fifteen minutes by a friend who arrived suddenly and cheerfully, while celebrating an anniversary, didn't fall down. My grandchildren' still love me... I haven't been fired, despite, due cause. My wife hasn't left me, despite due cause. All in all, despite the 'flu, not too bad. I even got a refund from National Revenue. It took only from April to late December to find their error. I'm almost healthy again. The only thing I'm dreading at the moment, is the arrival of my Chargex account for December. Dear Sirs: From July 28 to August 1, 1983 the Town of Nanton, Alberta will be celebrating its 80th birthday. With great anticipation, we would like to extend a cordial invitation to all one time residents, family or friends of the Nanton-Park- land area to attend our homecoming. To pre-register, send names, address and phone number, along with type of accomodation required, estimated estimated date of arrival and the period of residency in the Nanton area. Yours truly, Myrna E. McRae Secretary-treasurer Nanton Homecoming '83 P. O. Box 711 Nanton, Alberta TOL1RO January 25,19113 Dear John: On behalf of the Telethon Committee and the Board of Directors of Participation House Project (Durham Region), we wish to express very sincere thanks and appreciation to you for the publicity given the "Weekend With the Stars" Telethon for Cerebral Palsy in your newspaper. newspaper. We would also like to mention mention our splendid volunteers who assisted so well at the headquarters in "Oshawa This Week;" the businesses supplying food for the volunteers volunteers - McDonalds, Simcoe St. N. and Ritson Road S. ; Tim Horton Donuts, Simcoe St, S.; Country Style Donuts, Simcoe Simcoe St. N.; Oshawa Kinettes, Tony's Restaurant Service, Farewell St., Oshawa. We are indeed grateful to all of the above. A very special thanks goes to the donors who pledged so generously. Yours very truly, Beatrice Campbell Dorothy Kitchen Co-Convenors January 28,1983 Dear John: It would appear that my previous letter was at least read by Mr, Tony Brand as he did reply by signing his name as Pres, of the Chamber of Commerce, So, by this I must take it that he is writing on their behalf. Mr. Tony Brand makes issue with the fact that W.A. Kerr has volunteered volunteered his services for the upcoming upcoming anniversary and I have not, This could be a true fact, but let us look at a few facts first. Do you honestly think, Mr, Brand, that you above all would appreciate a person like myself (a former Union President) working with the Pres, of the Chamber of Commerce? Let us be honest. Secondly, Mr. Brand, I don't recall either myself or Mr. Kerr even mentioning the said matter. You would make it look like I was not interested in the Town of Newcastle, but if you were to ask the proper people, you would find out that not too many years ago, 1 even stayed up all night just to help out one dept, (at no cost to the taxpayer) and there arc other instances, but there is no need to go into these, Mr. Brand makes mention about Mr. Kerr and myself being his neighbors so let me set tne matter straight on this issue. On checking the voter's list out, I see where Mr. Brand lives at 5 Ontario St,, Mr. Kerr lives at 3 Ontario St, and I live at 140 Ontario St, I must say this sure looks funny. I wonder, Mr. Brand, if I had offered my services, would another yellow sheet have been printed and distributed like the one that was distributed distributed during the recent election election to 'Know Who Your Friends Are.' You know, John, when I started checking out a few things in relation to the above matter, I did come across certain things and I think now that I will proceed at this point, then maybe we will see who the dedicated people are. Leaving the Chamber President President for a moment, I would like to draw your attention first, to the period of time prior to the election when it was reported by two members of council that they were not in this for the money, Well, I am led to believe that at an (infor mal) meeting on Monday, January 24, 1983, held in the small room across from the post office, this same council voted by a show of hands not by motion, that they should receive a raise in salary. I understand that the show of hands was 4 to 3 and also I understand that top staff will receive five per cent so this will mean that a person receiving receiving |13,000 will get an increase of $650, rounding off to probably $750, Now, the person who is receiving in excess of $40,000 will get $2,000 I am led to believe. I suppose the answer to this is that the stores that the higher ups shop in cost more (end of joke). Then we see in the budget that we want to make a provision for $1200 to buy a gown for the Mayor (estimated at $300), a closet to put it in ($800), and $100 for mise,, whatever that means. Then, as we look further, further, we see a section which as 1 read it is an amount for entertainment and as this seems to appear in the Treasury Treasury Dept,, I guess this leaves me out, You know, John, as you look over these early sheets of the budget, it makes you wonder if we heard right when we thought the Mayor said "In these economic times we must tighten up and even do without." I must close for now, John, but before I do, I must not forget that Morgan made some comments in one of his letters about the salaries and I suggest that he apply to the Treas, for a copy and he will soon find that the School Board is not alone. On a quick calculation for the hours of work at city hall and a $2000 increase works out to approx, $1.14 per hour. That's not too bad for a job that pays in excess of $40,000 per year. Yours truly, Ken Hooper P.S. I only hope that if Mr. Tony Brand is heading up our anniversary, he does a better job of it than he did with the all candidates meeting. Ken