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Outin right, field with bruce arnold Apparently convinced that Sanpavers in Scugog and the rest of the region are either too stingy to help their neighbour or too stupid to ._ decide which charities we should help councils of 'Scugog and Durham will soon be deciding a policy regarding compulsory donations. In the jargon of municipal politicians compulsory donations are called, 'grants.' . Through this system of, ""grants,"" Roman Catholics may be forced to donate to the protestant church or the Salvation Army etc. The compulsory donations is handed out by council then charged to you at tax time. : Perhaps | should make it clear that | am a protestant and donate voluntarily to the Salva- tion Army, among other organizations. | have no complaint about the army getting its money from donations. Itis just that | think if a person would prefer -to donate to some other organization he should be free to make that choice himself. Politicians have no moral right to abuse their almost unlim- ited taxing powers to force people to donate against their will. If council really wants to be fair about setting a policy regarding who gets grants it can do so in one word. Nobody. + + + History, | am told, has a habit of repeating itself. In case that is true it might be interesting to take a look at some recent history regarding teacher-government disputes in Canada. About three years ago teachers were riled up about some policy of the British Columbia Ministry of Education. | forget what the original issue was, but the teachers decided to settle it by Sriking through, "mass resignations.' Predictably, the government took steps to prevent the strike. In no time at-all everyone, including some teachers, forgot the original problem and allowed themselves to get stirred up about the anti strike attempts of their provincial government. They organized, marched on the Legisla- ture, etc. Since marches and riots are always doomed to failure they accomplished nothing. Their organization asked each member to sign a note for about $600. to fight the anti strike bill. When that settled down it was announced that the money would be used to help the candi- date who had, 'the best chance of beating the Social Crediter." And when the teachers had digested that the true purpose of the whole thing was finally made known. The money was spent to, finance the N.D.P. With the help of an additional three million dollars out of the teacher's pockets the government was replaced by Dave Barrett's socialists. KID AROUND ON YOUR H & R BLOCK. GUARANTEE If we make any error «in the preparation of your tax return tHat costs you any interest or penaity on 3dditional taxes dud, while we do not assume the lability Tor the additiong! taxes, we will Pay thatanterest and penalty E TAX Preparing your income tax re- turn is far from child's play. You need to receive every legitimate deduction. H & R COMPLETE BLOCK will prepare and dou- RETURNS ble check your return for ac- curacy. So stop kidding your- self, Bring your return to uP [HSRIBLOCK wm. | Canada's Largest Tax Service With Over 6000 Offices in North America NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY GREENBANK 985-2416 PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, Feb. 13th, 1974 -- 21 Joel Aldred addresses U.S. Chamber Joel Aldred of Scugog was the guest speaker at the annual meeting of the Chamber, of Commerce in McMinnville, Oregon, January 1. More than 400 hundred people turned out to hear the noted broadcaster and Scugog Island farmer praise our U.S. neighbours, defined the free enterprise system and suggest" alternatives to the welfare state which exists in Canada and the U.S. 'Are we mothering the masses so much collectively, that we're smothering them individually?", he asked. "And by smothering them are we not setting the stage for growing violent reac- tion?" He criticized the common tools of economic analysis stating, "As we define our , critical values and our criti- cal requirements all of our priorities are going to fall into place. For starters lets consider tossing out the cur- rent and almost ridiculous cost of living index. Let's restructure it so it means what it says, and toss out all GREENBANK Women's Inst. The regular meeting was held on January 23rd at the home of Mrs. Archie Em- pringham at 2 p.m. The roll call was answered by 16 members and 5 visitors. We are invited to join with Quaker Hill Institute on Feb- ruary 21st at 8 p.m. in the Dept. of Agriculture rooms in Uxbridge. They are having a speaker on the metric system and ve hope to have a number attend. After the necessary business Mrs. Wm. Graham gave us an account of her visits with Women's Insti- tutes in England. We all enjoyed a report of her visit with Lady Tweedsmuir. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Shier of Sunderland showed us the pictures they took when they visited the Island of Domin- ica in the West Indies last spring. They had many in- teresting things to tell us about the natives, their cus- toms and the island. The group in charge served a delicious lunch. - INVEST NOW! Victoria & Grey Trust Guaranteed Investments 3 % d Years INTEREST is payable half yearly or may be left to compound EMMERSON INSURANCE AGENCY LIMITED 191 Queen St. Port Perry "Telephone 985-7306 i M.S.R. $1.65 those other elements which are not really a part of the so-called cost of living. Another benchmark which is, in my view, misleading, is the unemployment index. What 1 feel we need is not that one target figure, but a number of target figures concerning our labor force. . female, male, age bracket, skilled or unskilled, mean- ingful income levels, and the relationship of the partly employed." He then took note of what he called '"'the urban - rural confrontation," pointing out that big government, big industry and big labor, may be failing to take note of a fourth force. . .big agricul- ture. "As the economists, and the bureaucrats, the techno- crats pressure more and more government inter- vention into our lives," he said, "as they push for the guaranteed annual income or negative income tax (pressures are the same in both countries) they just may supply the tool which will allow the farmer to lay down his tools, and like the kine ruminate a while, shine his glassed leave the flurry JOEL ALDRED to the masses." Aldred said, 'Both of our countries have gone a long way in the past couple of hundred years, and when you really sit back and kind, of ruminate a bit, it boggles your mind when you consi- der all that's happened to our civilization. Let's all listen at least a little to history and practice somewhat more that funny thing we call common sense." 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