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There are few gifts that one person can give to another in this world as rich as understanding. Adults need to give meaningful answers to questions asked by young people, or admit that they do not know but will try to find out. Sympathetic â€" patience _ is called for. Parents have seen all the horses and coaches on _ the _ merrygoâ€"round many times, but this is the first time round for their children. Adults should help young people to give expression to their ideas, however farâ€"fetched these may appear. By involving youth If parents abdicate their responsibility to instruct their _ children in â€" these qualities they are giving up their right to receive the affection and devotion that are the prize and crown of parenthood. Their children, disappointed in them and bewildered in a world for which they have not been prepared, will drift away in spirit if not in fact. Parents in Canada make a tremendous effort, often at great personal deprivation, to _ put _ their _ children throug h s c hool and university. The distressing feature is that they have not kept up with the education they are providing for their childrenâ€"not technical knowledge, but knowledge about the children‘s beliefs, desires and mental processes. It is harmful not to look at the needs of young people steadily, clearly, and without pink glasses. Life is not and should not be a fleecy cloud for young people to loll on. They need to develop backbone and courage if they are to handle their lives well. Give understanding Published at 2159 Weston Rd., Weston by Principal Publishing Ltd., every Thursday YUeston "/imes SUBSCRIPTION RATES $7.00 per year in advance to any address in Canada Other countries $9.00 Class Mail Registration Number 1588 Telephone 241â€"52 11 Stewart Castle, Manager Mrs. Doreen Fawcett, Editor The notion that youth wants out of the game is fallacious. Young people want most of all to be involved. They don‘t want to start their own game, but to participate in the great game of living and to bear active _ responsibility _ for whatever score is chalked up. They seek from adults the workable guidelines that will enable them to play the game well. For their part in this dialogue, young people need to remember that there is a way of presenting one‘s views consideratel)), no matter how revolutionary they are. A good advertiser does not speak his own language but the language of the prospective customer. Stamping your feet is not the best way to win agreement. It solves nothing to be regressive, to revert to the reactions of a child. If you seek sympathetic consideration of your wants you need to give evidence of your willing ness to understand when things are made clear. Play the game well Animals below the rank of man are passive in the hands of evolution, but man, with his higher power to think and assess and plan, can take hold of his own evolutionary â€" process and direct 1t t o wa r d happinessâ€"enhancing _ ends. If we look back over the past five thousand years we may realize that, from our point of view, all that has ha ppened has been provisional and preparatory. The ball has been passed to us. in the game instead of having it sit on the side â€"lines, adults can channel! criticism into constructive contributions. In reply to the letter from Mr. A. L. Agate in your May 1 edition, I wish to state that entirely too much emphasis has been placed by the press ,, on convention _ expenses _ of Council members. Why has there not been equal publicity given to the convention â€" expenses . of provincial and federal M.P.‘s, which would make municipal expenses look pygmy in comparison. As an example, recently several dozen federal M.P.‘s toured _ NATO _ bases in Europe for several weeks. I‘d like to know the total If the reasoning was that the Hydro Committee was an autonomous body, therefore as Board of Health Chairman in 1967 the two conventions | attended for t h a t b o d y (also autonomous) should have been excluded. Obviously _ there _ were politics at play with the convention _ expenses _ in 1967 to _ make certain persons look bad and others good. According to the Ontario Municipal _ Act, _ York Council could spend up to $20,000 legally on conventions. So why the big fuss about conventions? _ This was definitely not fair and the list of expenses for conventions in 1967 was an inaccurate one. Both Controller White and I tried to get the Hydro trip included with little success. Regarding the 1968 convention expenses, your story neglected to mention that Council budgeted for $11,500 for conventions in 1968 and actually spent only $5,326.83. This shows considerable saving _ by council members. But for some peculiar reason a Hydro Committee trip to Seattle was classified as an educational trip and not included with other council member‘s expenses. First of all, I was the highest spender in 1967. Actually I was the third highest if all the con ventions council members â€" attended _ were included in the list. To the Editor, Permit me to reply to your > recent article Borough‘s big spenders. This article left some erroneous impressions which should be corrected. We didn‘t spend half as much THE WESTON TIMES But. lately, there is a growing feeling that young people are ready for these responsibilities earlier than 21. My guess is the age of majority will soon be lowered to 18 or 19. Our party has been contending in the Legislature that the voting ~For generations the legal age of majority has been 21. When you reach 21 you are deemed _ to be mature, capable of handling your own affairs, and thus free to vote, drink, and inherit money! Should the voting age be lowered? Should a person have to be 21 before he can be served liquor in Ontario? These are two questions which have been asked for a long time, and we are now groping towards answers in the Ontario Legislature. The â€" government _ last week announced a number of measures to broaden the province‘s liquor laws. But there was no action on lowering the drinking age. The Provincial Secretary said this would be delayed until a report was&eceived from â€" the Ontario â€" Law Reform Commission on the matter of the legal age of majority. There are two ways this. can be done: Firstly, don‘t The Ontario Safety League asks your help to make sure this Victoria Day is not marred by needless fireworks accidents. Half the federal Cabinet recently visited _ Japan, presumably to look at the EXPO ©‘70 exhibit. Other ministers regularly tour the world _ and _ sightsee _ at random, with no great outcry from the press or cost of that trip which was a complete waste of time. The majority _ report _ of the MP.‘s was that Canada continue its commitments to NATO. Subsequently, Prime â€" Minister _ Trudeau completely _ ignored _ this report and made _ an opposite decision regarding NATO. Tips on handling fireworks I _ think it‘s a fair statement that young people today are better educated and more aware of the world around them than were the 20â€"yearâ€"olds even a generation ago. Newspapers, radio, and especially TV have given today‘s youth a Today the young man ent rs the armed services at 18. But more significant than that, 18 is the age when most young people finish secondary education and go on to the labor force, or to higher education. It . seems sensible to give those young persons full participation in the political process while the lessons of history and civics are fresh in the mind, and while the idealism the educational system tries to instil is very much to the fore. . Premier Robarts took a group of 75 persons to Los Angeles last year on a trade mission. One never did find out what trade agreements were signed . It seems _ that _ the municipal councillor is the victim _ of _ undue _ press harrassment _ for _ purely circulation _ reasons. _ The daily _ press is all for a m a Ig a m a t io n a n d constantly looks for issues to _ nitpick at â€" municipal councils. Very little favorable articles are ever written _ about _ municipal But I‘d bet that, if there had been a free vote, with every member guided only by his conscience and free from party discipline, that bill would have carried. age should come down to 18 years, and one of my colleagues, Mr. Fred Young, moved a private bill to this effect. The ancient rules of the Legislature would not permit this bill to come‘to a vote. 6. Haye a metal container handy, ; partly , filled with 5. READ THE PRINTED INSTRUCTIONS before each piece is fired. Keep all fireworks in a box and close the lid after removing each piece. 4. Use a bucket, box or wheelbarrow / filled with sand as your firing base. 3. Keep young children away from firing points, do not let them fire pieces. Older _ children may â€" be taught to participate in firing und er ad ult supervision. public Secondly, choose family fireworks for y our celebration and follow these rules: 1. Choose a location clear of overhead obstruction, be sure you‘re not an. annoyance or danger to yoneighbour. 2. Never set off fireworks on apartment balcony. Do not use any private property without permission of the owner. let your children buy and use firecrackers. These noise makers are small in size but cause approximately 90% of injuries and fires. Young people today are restless. They are a potent force in our society whether we like it or not. And because we bar them from meaningful participation in politics until they are 21, they must exercise their power outside the system until that time. THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1989 You don‘t teach a person respect for a tradition or an institution by forbidding him to take part in it. Lowering the voting age to 18 won‘t solve all the problems of youth. But it will make politics a more meaningful â€" exercise for today‘s young people who care, often passionately, about what‘s happening to their fellow men. And it will give the political process a badlyâ€"needed injection of new vigour, energy and ideas. The concert is titled ‘"Spring _ Festival" _ and appearing as a guest choir will be the Queensmen, a 26 voice male chorus. Curtain time is 8:15 p.m. and tickets will be on sale at the door at $1.50 for adults and 50 cents for children. For further information, please éall 6517990 :( .. _ :> Secular and sacred music will be included in a concert presented by the United Church Women‘s Choir of, Toronto West Presbyteriaa on Friday cand Saturday, May 9 and 10, at Parkdale United Church, King Street and Dunn Ave. Mr. Agate, I _ can truthfully say that every convention I attended was an important one and well worth the _ expense: 1t helped me gain valuable knowledge for the committees I served on and thus made me a better alderman. My record is an open book. I have constantly coâ€"operated with the ratepayers on every major issue. I have no fear of letting the voters judge my record on election day. Alderman Ben Nobleman, Ward 1, Borough of York. councils. sense of participation and involvement in world events which no other generation has so far experienced. They see significant world events happening right before their eyes. Many of them want to react in some positive way, and they are frustrated that the Canadian _ political process is closed to them. Lets make this an accident free fireworks day. Spring Concert And _ please remember that _ the ever popular sparkler while it is the only firework designed to be held in the hand when lighted, burns at a high heat and could _ cause burns _ if mishandled . water, for disposal of used fireworks.