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T0estou The deputation from the Buttonwood area brought to the attention of the Planning. Board that the apartment ‘developer had built a swimming pool without a building permit. The builder was requgsting. a zoning <change to allow stores and a pool to be built. It was when Mr. Stollard rose on a point of order to ask "was the mover of a _ motion (Mr. Boddington) not interested in the fact that the Building Inspector did not report that the developer was adding .. a pool" that Mr. Stollard. was. ‘told 10 sit down.: Also, your reference Your reporter failed to state â€" how â€" undemocratic Planning Board Chairman Lambert was. His attitude was outright insuiting, not only to Mr. Stollard, but to almost every speaker. Your statement that Mr: Stollard was told to sit down because he was not able "to indicate his position with the Federation", was untrue. Mr. Denis Shute, Secretary of the Ratepayer‘s Federation, was present to confirm this. Mr. Stollard sat down only after it was quite obvious that Mr. Lambert did not intend to give him a proper opportunity to present his report on behalf of the Federation. P Pm PSPRDNIUSCE uvvvlv}\«u. The increased smoking of cigarettes by juveniles is so marked that it has become a national tragedy â€" and a disgrace. We have read your Thursday, Feb. 20th issue, and wish to comment on the "Planners, ratepayers clash" column. Take such a simple problem as the already dreadful toll of cancer caused by cigarette smoking. For the individual to solve this problem is to stop smoking, that is all. Yet we, and that means you and I, tolerate the silly and extravagant lies of the manufacturers of cigarettes. The result is that cigarette manufacturers become rich by encouraging the daily use of poison. He advertises the virtues of a better and longer cigarette not for the benefit of the smoker, but to the end that he be destroyed. Dear Sir: Cne is continually astonished by evidences of man‘s inhumanity to man which permits war, but its evidence may be seen every day in the evidence of man‘s failure to fight against the evils of disease producing. misery, inefficiency, unhappiness and death, when these tragedies could be so easily prevented. Yes, sweet are the uses of adversity â€"â€" but not too much adversity and when one considers the short and miserable lives of too many of us and the fact that humanity is still tormented by war, famine and disease, surely we should endeavour to each of us do our part to try one by one to attack and destroy the enemies still in our path. Only a fool can ignore the evils of war of which the present war in Vietnam is only one example. Sweet are the uses of adversity, said the melancholy Jacques in "As You Like It", and perhaps the worst of all adversities is sickness with all the miseries which follow in its wake. Sickness is one adversity we could well do without. Perhaps instead of extolling the sweet uses of adversity we should dream of longer years of health and happiness for ourselves and our children and our children‘s children, This is not only possible but likely if we could decide to fight to abolish disease, famine and . â€" Published at 2159 Weston Rd., Weston by Principal Publishing Ltd., every Thursday Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Dept. Ottawa, Ont., and for payment of postage in cash. SUBSCRIPTION RATES $7.00 per year in advance to any address in Canada Other countries $9.00 ”za ONLY ONE SOLUTION W. K. Wilson, General Manager A national disgrace Telephone 241â€"52 11 Stewart Castle, mc o E.M. Shorey, Weston Taxpayer. ; Why can‘t combine the two and mail for a 6 cent postal charge? Why . not combine the two and mail for a 6 cent postal charge? As the answers to the above questions are of interest to many people in Weston, 1 would appreciate a reply. Why can‘t ONE employee read Hydro & Water metres? Why another employee delivering water bills to the same houses? Why does a Hydro employee on an hourly rate go from house to house delivering bills? © In reference to this I would be interested in answers | to the following questions; * The letter in a recent issue (Jan. 23rd) in the Weston Times by Alderman Trimbee was very much appreciated. In these days of everâ€"rising costs, it is reassuring to the taypayer to know that there is someone on Council trying to cut down costs and overhead. to the Planning Board being ‘"Weston â€" dominated" _ is quite true. The Clerk, Borough of York, 2700 Eglinton Ave. W Toronto, Ont. Dear Sir, Y ours truly , Mr. & Mrs. H.F. Clinton Is there to be no consideration to what is happening to people, the taxpayers, for today from the government, at the top, down to the lowly "labourer, seems to have the idea, that at the slightest opportunity, they must soak their fellow man, for all they can get out of them, regardless of how little effort they give, but as it takes so much to live, everyone has to be on the make. But where is it leading us? Consider the taxes that the Federal government collect. And how and what they have been used‘ for, to a great ‘extent over the last ten years. How much has been wasted on commissions and omissions, was it and is it necessary to weste the millions on this bicultural and bilingual muddle, what right have a few disgruntled people in the Pruvince of Quebec with the backing of As in this day and age, it seems there is either a new tax added or an old one increased, never a sign of one decreased, to allow the taxpayer to get his second wind, and find a little relief, in life. Income tax was a word unknown, to the majority of the people. In those days folks would go out of their way ‘to help each other, in different ways. But very few of the lower class, were able, to even think of owning their own homes, but what little they had they owned, ard I believe there was > more entertainment, those days, amongst the folk, than there is today. At that period, there was time to listen to advice from your elders, as there was no electricity, no radio, no television, no airplane, no cars, no electric power, no electric street cars, and very little money around, but in most cases folks learned to live within their means, credit as it is today was unknown. At home our parents would instruct us that, intelligence, and common sense were needed in collecting the honey from the bees, for if you got careless, there. would be no bees left, to collect the honey from. But on the other hand if we saved 50 cents per week, by the end of the year, we would be 26 dollars ahead and on the rise. remember our instructor, went to great lengths, to instill into his class, that if we should spend one dollar more per week, than we earned, by the end of the year, we would find that we were 52 dollars in debt, and that our years work, had been a failure. In this day of ever increasing taxes, across the land, 1 have â€"often wondered, to what sort of school, . or place of educational instruction, our Prime Minister, or Ontario premier, and their advisors, attended in ‘ their youth, when you read of how the taxes, are handeled. Once they got them, cand. the different methods used to collect them, from the People, when 1 attended school 70 odd years ago, 1 remember our instructor, went to great lengths, to instill into his class, that if we should spend one dollar Taxes, Taxes Minister, or Ont r, and their advi d in . their yo rou read of how u read of h e handeled t them, ar methods u them, fror when 1 at THE WESTON TIMES v the Once . the d to the Take our provincial tax , as long as they handie matters as they do, how can we expect conditions to be otherwise. After working for 20 to 30 years, and saving to procure a home for your old age, you realise that your municipal taxes, are as high as the Why should we be throwing money and talent into the late French possesions in Africa. Charity begins at home. Dominion and Provincial conferences, year after year, committees galore appointed to work on the different â€" issues, but nothing is settled, but the big expense rolls on. And now I see the Federal boys are considering another raise; 1 am very .much afraid that their instructors in their youth, never told them the story of Keeping Bees. Housing. Why was it necessary to spend so much money on the so called task force on housing, when it could have been done,â€" with paper and pencil in a few minutes, we all know the situation, what we are waiting for is the answer, of how the authorities intend to straighten out the matter. Again the annexed unification â€" Bill passed recently against the wishes of the many, with the promise that it would save the country money if so why is the requisition this year higher than ever before. . the Federal government to try and ram down the throats of the balance of the land, something they do not want, and 90 percent will never use, if made to swallow it. 4b "£ t“( sall t f O \\‘i / (‘%" ‘q?\ +o s# f V‘,’Yé»_fi e \\:1/ Y‘D{fi “ a fâ€" \ Lt >1 <Br n / o :.) 1 & T. 9 \J§ \ ie ) &?/ o ;'."t F::?’ * ~»BR is es ». ifi t 4n t +* THE GENERATION GaSP Was the idea of the authorities of this movement, to turn the country into a nation of bosses, managers, overseers and chairmen, or are we to pay for the education of thousands for the benefit of other parts of the world. As they already see that there will not be adequate o penings, in their homeland, when they care through with their education here, and are filled with fear for the future, its just about as sensible as a manufacturer putting himself in bankruptcy, producing 100,000 wheelbarrows when all the market was able to consume was 25,000. On: the day of reckoning would his creditors grant him more credit, for his lack of forethought, or would he get a dressing down, and would they, themselves be able to dispose of the balance to the benefit of all concerned. t As one big blunder A few years ago we conceived the brilliant idea, of ~greatly advanced education, everybody was entitled to a university education, and without proper forethought of where it may lead to and without further adieu, we jumped in with both feet, and built colleges, and universities, all across the land, with little thought of where they would be able to dispose of the produce from those institutions. rent of the: home should be. The money that you have to find to pay the above taxes is then taxed as income, what income have you derived from the above money? Y O H\%/A big blunder THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27 French language to be taught in conjunction with our own practically doubling the education expenses of the ‘Province. This move will not bind the country but will be the first wedge to start splitting it in two. Our taxes will be raised to pay the cost, whether paid by the Federal or the Provincial it has to come out of the tax payers pocket. And is it not just possible that it could be. an idiotic concept, after all, as it usually it. When the family decided to give the children music lessons, you buy them a piano and other musical â€" instruments, pay for instruction for several years, when they get old enough to carry on alone, 90 out of 100 drop it entirely, and probably never touch it again. That is exactly what will happen in the case of the enforced second language let those that want the second langauage apply for it, then perhaps they will value it when acquired. And now again away we go on this language question, through the country, Ontario, as usual has jumped in with both feet. While still saddled with the millions we have invested in the higher education, with no forthought of where the cost is coming from, has committed us to a double expense by adopting the seems to spill over into so many other channels before it can be arrested and corrected and in this case, to many are going to get hurt. a 4& J.W. Trimbee, Sr. 231 Church St. _ S i K.D y 4 C3 (* '“»'