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Page 2 â€" THE WESTON TIMES â€" Thursday, June 1, 1967 Telegram Hill and to obtain Inflation, consumer price increases and rising taxes. eat into evervone‘s waze dollar. and are 1 am certain. at least pesponsible in part for al! the lahpr strife, and strikes which have been especially prevalent during the past two years The Giobe and Mail‘s lead story last Wednesday reported. OTTAWA â€"â€" The doors of Parliament were damaged yesterday as hundreds of farmers tried to get inside to make their case for higher milk prices. It was followed hours later by a similar story in the 1 think therefore, we should call a spade a spade, and stop blaming a decresse in the money supply for the recessâ€" sions and the upswing in unemployment we experience every five vears or so Inflation. combined with consumer price increases, beâ€" haves much like a bull in a china shop Rising price increases and inflationary living costs spell dâ€"â€"eaâ€"seter for more than just the million old aged, disâ€" abled, widows. and the blind that somehow manage _ on measer pensions flation" and "a certain degree of dollar devaluation" is desirable, if not essential to maintain an expanding This theory, no matter how repugnant it is to one‘s common sense, has been derived from certain observations made of the Canadian economy During recessions and depressions. the Great Depression being the prime example. credit tightens, the money supply decreases, layoffs occur, industries shut down or go bankâ€" rupt and people suffer The pitfall here that must be avoided is that it is not the retraction of the money supply or deflation that causes the economic skids. Deflation is one of the consequences of a prolonged period of industria!, commercial and real estate speculation. It perhaps can be compared with the man earnâ€" ing $100 a week signing a contract to purchase a $50,000 house and then having the mortzage foreclosed because he can‘t meet his principal payments By, FRAZER CACHE Inflation is the greatest Robber Baron of them all. And yet, if you listen to government economists, the chairman of the Canada Economic Council, and university professors wrapped up in monetary theory, "controlled inâ€" Inflation: Greatest Robber Baron of All OTTAWA â€" (Staff) â€" Furious farmers, who kicked open a door to Parliament‘s main entrance yesterday at the height of a mass demonstration over milk prices, are now threatening to dump milk in their fields. Why would farmers, 15,000 of them, storm Parliament and threaten to dump their milk in fields in order btain higher milk prices, when they were satisfied with (Continued on 3) Birth. 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Movwing‘s a busy time, but please ‘oke a minute to drop us a line. Tax the Speculators Lawyer Urges lLletter OF LOTS BUT NO HOUSES" of Thursday, May 11, was very interâ€" esting and right to the Your editorial "LOTS point. You stated that high taxes on idle land would make it uneconoâ€" mical to hold valuable property. I would sugâ€" The 51 smallest. members of the United Nations pay only two per cent of its total costs. | OPEN 24 ‘HOURS | SPUR service Port Credit _ Tel. 278â€"7208 Life Insuranceâ€"coverageâ€"forâ€" Family Income, Mortgage, Education, Annuities and Retirement Income Business Life Insurance Estate Planning â€" Taxation For a review, without obâ€" ligation, of your present life. insurance, and an explanaâ€" tion of how the Canada Penâ€" sion Plan will affect your insurance program, please telephone or write BRYAN W. DAWSON However, to get at the speculator, that is the man who is holding serâ€" viced lots, or land which can be serviced, a doubâ€" le system would be needâ€" ed and the increased taxes would be imposed at the time that the land is declared serviceable by the municipality. This way if any delay is cauâ€" sed by the municipality then the nonâ€"speculant land developer and subâ€" sequent purchasing pubâ€" lic would not be penalizâ€" ed by high taxes on land which had been delayed by municipal red tape. Yours very truly, Elvio Del Zotto, Liberal candidate for Yorkview. gest that there is a danâ€" ger in the full impleâ€" mentation of this prinâ€" ciple in the case where land is idle and the ownâ€" er of the property has been trying to obtain a registered plan of subâ€" division and has been delayed by government red tape. The increased tax has only increased the price of the lots. NEWCOMERS PAY LITTLE With 7 Gallon Purchase LIFE INSURANCE CO. 100 Dixie Rd. Plaza METROPOLITAN BUILD YOUR Avocado Crystal 885 WESTON RD. MT. DENNIS 7 pc. Salad Set Starting May 11th FREE STATION Tenders will be received by the undersigned on or before TENDERS are invited for the purchase from the Borâ€" ough of York of a parcel of land on the north side of Aileen Avenue approximateâ€" g 100 feet west of Blackâ€" orn Avenue, being comâ€" go.ed of all of lots 313, 314, 15 and r?nrt. of lot 254, Regâ€" istered Plan 1813. This proâ€" perty has a frontage on Aileen Avenue of 105 feet widening to 147 feet 6%4 inâ€" ches at the rear. The depth is 125 feet and the total area of the site is 15,374 square feet or 0.343 acres. OFFERS must be consistent with the permitted R3 zonâ€" ing and be unconditional. A twenty per cent deposit will be required with N;dx offer, and the tenderer mus specify in the offer the date of closintg, which must be not sooner than one month and not later than three months from the date indicated MEDICAL BUILDING 2160 Weston Rd. (at Church St. Traffic Light) DISPENSING OPTICIAN Borough of York LANDS FOR SALE NEIL J. MOREAU Oculist . Prescriptions Completed â€" Repairs â€" Duplications & Fittings Shutâ€"In Service Jorough of, York 700 Eglinton Avenue West ‘oronto 15, Ontario A 140â€"page civic centre study prepared by Murray Jones Associatâ€" es and John Parkin Associates is chockâ€"full of verbiage that would tax the mind of a great thinker let alone Enlightened educators and writâ€" ers everywhere have been lobbying for reform and improvement of a system that swallows up more munâ€" icipal and provincial tax dollars than any other public service. We are afraid however, that the reformers are fighting one of the most potent forces in the worht â€" conservatism If you suggest to a trustee, an administrator, a principal, that he should break through the jungle of red tape and set up a system conduâ€" cive to student learning, rather than to convention and administrative conâ€" venience, you may receive a sympathâ€" etic nod or even agreement. Both chances are much greater that you will find yourself facing a pedant who supports the status quo. This is the system he graduated from and the only one he knows. But now, we think they will have to take a back seat to the planners, who surely rank only behind Marâ€" shall McLuhan in double talk. With teachers clamoring for more and more pay, public attention is increasingly being focused on the nature and quality of education in seâ€" condary schools, and. the more they see of it the less they like. The public has recently been exâ€" posed to a number of startling thesis on contemporary education. One was about a Campbell River, BC., high school where the progressive princiâ€" ly been regarded as the masters of the trade. When it comes to double talk and coining a meaningless phrase, _politicians and lawyers have generalâ€" High school education practises in Metropolitan Toronto have reâ€" ceived a good deal of criticism lately and most of it has been well earned. Conservatism Is Education‘s Enemy 248â€"1821 Published at 2159 Weston Rd., Weston by Principal Publishing Ltd., every Thursday V. J. McMillan, President and Publisher J. M. Jordan, General Manager B. M. Holmes, Editor Telephone CH 1â€"5211 + Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Dept. Ottawa, Ont., and for payment cf postage in cash SUBSCRIPTION RATES $5.00 per year in advance to any address in Canads Other countries $6.00 ‘ , June Editorial Page Double Talk WESTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Sunday, June 4th, 1967 11:00 a.m. â€" Morning Worship (Sacrament of the Lord‘s Supper) 9:45 a.m. â€" Junior & Intermediate School 11:00 a.m. â€" Nursery, Kindergarten, *:90 lE"rimuy, Cr::h Corner :00 p.m. â€" Evening Worship . (Sacrament of the Lord‘s Supper) _ Be/ sure io get vour FREE copy of our rnfi)urful Centennial garden catalogue. Visit one of our Sales Stations and make your selection from Canada‘s finest nursery stock. High quality shrubs, roses, vines and garden supplies also available. STILL TIME TO CROSS STREET AT CHURCH STREET Minister â€" Rev. R. J. Boggs, B.A. Study: 2{1-1571 Manse: 241â€"9533 Plant Evergreens that of a simple alderman. Here‘s a sample from the North York civic centre study: ‘"‘This generalized map indicates the component development of existâ€" ing and emerging centres and subâ€" centres in an appropriate metropoliâ€" tan context and within the Borough of North York." Would the sentence not be a little easier to comprehend if it simâ€" ply read : "The map indicates existing and proposed land uses in North York?" Since the Weston Times serves in the Boroughs of York and North York, we urge trustees and principals to cast out the Victorian rules which still prevail in our high schools here and adopt modern and enlightened techniques that have worked elseâ€" where. Canada." For the sake of our present and future high schoolers, we hope that some of his spirit rubs off on others charged with a monumental responsibility. Peter Tacon, retiring chairman of the North York school board, will soon be the headmaster of a school in British Columbia which he aims to ‘"‘make the best private school in Another scathing attack, by writ« er June Callwood, appears in the June 1967 issue of MacLean‘s. Miss Callwood describes several Florida schools where students are treated as mature adults. They may skip claseâ€" es, progress at their own speed, and, choose whatever courses they like instead of those chosen and jammed down their throats by their elders. pal believes in academic freedom and allows his students to skip and attend whatever classes they wish provided they maintain high standings, . â€" Another viewpoint on I:jhat the students think of their high/schools, was aired on CBC television Sunday night. What the students had to say about "the system" was not flatterâ€" ing. 2827 Yonge Street, Toronto 12, Ontarie 100 Sherway Drive, Etobicoke, Ontario 606 Southdown Road, Clarkson, Ontario Longacres, Hwy. 7, Unionville, Ontario