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E1 Yi T : 1» howls of the Teronto :li J‘fi over the fact that some â€" Etobicoke high school teachers are better The bungalow was compleâ€" ted and occupied in September and yet nothing has been done about the frame dwelling, ded and at that time it was determined by the Committee of Adjustment in 1961 that upon construction of a bungaâ€" low on the remaining half, the "just a scrap of paper"! An indication of this indifâ€" ference concerns a frame building abutting my property, which shares a lot with a single family dwelling. The laws are granted subject to eonditions agreed upon by all parties concerned, when these agreements are drawn up and signed by responsible men ‘vit.h full knowledge of all the facts, then we expect the signatures of these men to be honoured. We do not expect Integrity! Simple honesty! I would say certainly we have that right. When agreements are made in good faith, when 'vu‘ilnees of the building byâ€" What do the people of Etoâ€" bicoke want from their muniâ€" they the right to expect? Inâ€" eompetence? In d ifference? Evasion? Surely not. We can find these things anywhere. To do ‘this, the township school hoard has spent approximately 60 per cent of its annual budget ($9.480,376 in 1931 on teachers‘ salaries, and economized in other Ever since the Etobicoke Board of Eduâ€" ‘fih was formed in 1949, it has placed emphasis om a quest for excellence in education. Trustees have equated excellence with betterâ€"thanâ€"competent instruction, or. to put it simply, hired the best brains availâ€" able to build a school system that has grown from 15 to 69 schools, ang has acquired a nationwide reputation for its work in field of special education for gifted. slowâ€"learning and emotionally disturbed children. cate that Toronto spent $463 that year on eagh puthlic school child it educated, comâ€" pared ‘ifltw's cost of $341; Torâ€" onto spent $693 on each high school student in an academic course, compared with Etoâ€" biedke‘s $564; Toronto spent $692 on each commercial student, compared with $664 spent by Etobicoke. These figures are reached by amm the costs â€" teachâ€" ers‘ salames, maintenance, adminâ€" 3 n" heart thleed â€" but mot very hard. A ffact that nome of the Toronto trustees hflhé:g“ we know, is that i ing its students for conâ€" siteralily less money per pupil than is Torâ€" into. This could lead to the conclusion that its mat thow how much you spend, but how you spend it, that counts. The most recent (1961) figures available on per gyfl costs come from the Metroâ€" pdolitan Teronto School Bdard. They indiâ€" number of pupils. . than fl;q-ienced t ‘eronto board, E& â€" but mot very har $ Fits im :_ in K inagie® is= Es iBR CX Onmmeey i L* t‘h iE> +# â€"p~â€"4 14. Gull gme is Nofer 28. Germ free Marked widh omipee Nothin%But The Facts would ‘be deâ€" lot was diviâ€" EDITORIAL to become â€"experienced teachers emâ€" »» CAREFULLY It seems rather odd to me that the Committee of Adjustâ€" ment, which includes a lawâ€" yer (a QC.), would come to Tuesday morning when I inâ€" quired of the same building inspector what action was beâ€" ing taken. he told me nothing could be done and that such a building was protected by law. In one of three conversations with the area building inspecâ€" tor I was told the inspector knew nothing of the Commitâ€" tee of adjustment decision. Upon viewing my photostat copy of the decision he said he remembered. Upon leaving my home he said "I will reâ€" turn to the office and start the wheels turning right away". That was in the latter part of Navember. To quote from the Commitâ€" tee of Adjustment decision of November 30, 1961. "That the existing frame garage at the westerly extremity of the property fronting on Woodâ€" bury Avenue must be eliminâ€" ated". which constitutes a fire hazard to_by property. Further to this, I receiyed a letter dated Septem 26, from the Committee of Adjustâ€" ment assuring me that a buildâ€" ing permit for â€" bungalow would not be ted until conditions, the afohementioned included had been met. makes our VUNGENT " POST In a brief to the Goldenberg commisâ€" sion, Etobicoks school trustee John D. Parker discussing this point, wrote: "Is it asking too much that the suburbs receive a percentage, say 10 per cent, of the assessâ€" ment for a Metropplitanâ€"wide levy ?" Is it indeed? * It might also be noted that, besides proâ€" viding a significant portion of the city‘s work force. Etobicoke and the other suburbs also provide a market of sufficient proporâ€" tions that the question might be asked: Is Toronto proper entitled to 100 per cent of its assessment? There has been no suggestion on the Toronto trustees‘ part, that, perhaps, the suburbs are morally entitled to some of this Toronto money. A glance at Highway 401, the Gardiner Expressway or the Lakeâ€" shore during any rush hour provides ample evidence that many Etobians are working in Toronto and, presumably, making a contriâ€" bution to the city‘s assessment. As the Toronto trustees see it, the extra money comes primarily from city taxation and is being used by Etobicoke to lure exâ€" perienced Toronto teachers out of the city. The Toronto school board, working for total amalgamation, has pointed out that Etobicoke is one of the suburban boards reâ€" ceiving more money from the Metropolitan Toronto School Board than it pays into it. This is correct â€" $2,000,000 more in 1963 when Etobi¢oke residents paid a Metro levy of 27.69 mills or $6,455,746 for education, and the township schools drew back from Metro $8,520,806. Etobicoke schools are far from the fanâ€" ciest in Metro, swimming pools in them are nil, bleachers are scarce, under?'ound park» ing space is nonâ€"existent, and it‘s practicalâ€" ly impqssible for a group of parents to perâ€" suade the board to supply bus transportaâ€" tion to students. * signal lights _ Onlv five of the 10 Matro councillors who voted against the appointwent of Williom Allen as chairman It is expec'Ad that suburban intersections will not be connected to Metro‘s new traffic computer brain until 1965. The computer controls operation of the traffic signal lights. | fee increases Metro Licensing Commission this year will be reluctant to oufho;lfo\any increase in taxicab fores Metro is not a taxi mirided town. In view of the civic problems coming up this year Etobicoke should be given a seat on the tramsportation committee but Reeve MacBeth finds this conflicts with other civic duties. New Toronto Mayor Don Russell and Mimico Mayor Griggs have served on the works and Metro Chairman Allen who moves into his third year in office appears to be set for at least another two years without any strong opposition on the horizon. â€" The annual scromble for committee seats at the Metro level has been undertoken with council members indicating which committee they would like to sit on in 1964. t 4 With the new transit fare increase the TTC expects to lose 4,00,000 riders in 1964 but gain increased revâ€" Local councils have their deputy reeves or senior controllers or presidents of council but Metro has no perâ€" son who could quickly take up the heilm in time of need. There: is no line of succession in Metro Council when it comes to the job of Metro chairman. The idea of a deputy chairman was considered some‘ years ago but discarded. Metro chairman Allen now on a Florida vacation is contemplating a prepared inaugural address to counâ€" cil. Metro council members in 1963 spent $3,213 on traâ€" vel expenses to comventions. Mimico Mayor Griggs watched a hovercraft demonstration in Quebec and subâ€" mitted a $114 expense account. New Toronto‘s Mayor Russell spent $272 on a trip to Kansas City to attend a waterworks conference. As of now the three Etobicoke police stations will have new members as will the police station in New Torâ€" onto. Some time during the warm autumn days last year a Metro municipality bought a snow making machine to provide the public with toboggan and ski facilities. There has been so much natural snow that the snow making machine hasn‘t been used. As we turn towards the inaugural meeting of Metro Council the strength of New Toronto Mayor Don Rusâ€" sell for a seat on Metro executive committee grows while the views of council members towards Etobicoke Reeve John MacBeth appear to be slightly more favorable than a month ago. such a decision if it were not legal. . Etobicoke demands high standards in many fields. The conduct of municipal should demand the highest. Anything less is not good enough. Gerald E. Leigh, enue. With the help of Metro the TTC this year will conâ€" tinue with plans to extend suburban service. Still, the zome fare remains. Estimated cost of eliminating the zone fare system has been placed at $3,000,000 a year by TTC officials. _ B# â€" Despite qr‘\gnbli_ry from taxi owners about license 49 Woodbury Road. > Report From Ottawa His June budget last year was the most disastrous ever delivered by a Finance Minisâ€" ter. Even its conception came under fire after the Bay Street imports were disclosed. Having survived an early barrage of the slings and arâ€" rows of political fortune Finâ€" ance Minister Walter Gordon may be in for much happier days in 1964. â€" It had two objectives, to enâ€" courage Canadian investment in Canadian industry and to work towards a balanced budâ€" get. Of the first there is nothâ€" ing more than a skeleton left. The second vanished into thin "H you think that‘s: Fresh Policy Could Clear Up Muddled Waters Of Economy In admitting mistakes to the House of Commons Mr. Gorâ€" don himself indicated the unâ€" certainty of his tenure. These are the prospects toâ€" wards which Mr. Gordon can look as he sits down with his budget makers towards the end of this month to prepare his financial statement for the Spring. And there is no longer much doubt but that Mr. Gorâ€" don will prepare and deliver it. It was only the loyalty of a close friend, the Prime Minâ€" ister, that prevented the June effort being his first and last budget. Indeed, for the next two years at least the ,Canadian economy can feed on wheat. After looking after domestic needs and export sales now estimated at 575 million bushâ€" els Canada will end this crop year with enly 486 million bushelsâ€"in the bin, the lowest carryover in 10 years. Beâ€" tween commitments to‘ Iron Curtain Countries and normal requirements of Canada‘s regâ€" wlar customers she is assured of wheat sales of 345 million bushels in the crop year 1964â€" 65. But European needs will not be normal by the next crop year. Even with agreeâ€" ment among Common Market countries on grain production which is doubtful, Western Europe will need large quanâ€" tities of Canadian wheat. An export of more than 400 milâ€" lion bushels is a reasonable forecast which means that, even a second record crop will not clog the pipeline. ' The Metro suburbs in 1964 will contain more than 65 percent of the Metro population and pay about 52 percent of the cost of operating Metro government. in Untario, providing badly tacilities for the I.:lem in 1962 are now members of Metro Council and two of these have said if there was another vote tomorrow with the same two contestants they would support the Metro chairman. But more important than the impact of wheat sales on 1963â€" 64 revenues will be the effect in 1964â€"65. By far the largest part of the 229 million bushels will be delivered into Russian hands between the opening of navigation in April and the end of the crop year in July or in the next fiscal year. With the record shattering exports of wheat resulting from the sale to Russia, Canâ€" ada is assured f a gross naâ€" tional product in the neighâ€" borhood of $43 billion or about 6 per cent above 1962 This means a very sizeable increase in Mr. Gordon‘s revenues, alâ€" ready beginining to be reflectâ€" ed in income tax collections. With a resulting ]oarof $115 million in revenue . Gorâ€" don‘s plan to undercut his preâ€" decessor‘s $709 million defiâ€" cit went out the window. The current \deficit will be under $800 million only by virtue of Mr. Khrushchev. air when Mr. Gordon‘s Cabâ€" inet Colleagues refused to swallow an 11 per cent sales tax on building materials and machinery used in manufacâ€" turing. . "I have made mistakes and I Jou s, here‘s one 150 per cent off!" ‘The French Embassy is in bad odor these days with the Government. For months it had been organizing a camâ€" paign designed to force T.C.A. to buy Sud Aviation‘s Super Caravelle to replace Viscounts and Vanguards. Lobbying is scarcely considered to be the proper function of a diplomaâ€" tic mission at any time but the French have done even more than this. They have used the sensitive area of French and English speaking relations in Canada to further their own ends. It would not be surprisâ€" ing if the present Ambassador, M. Raymond Bousquet, did not have too long a sojourn in Canada. The great battle between city and country will be stagâ€" ed soon after Parliament reâ€" assemples in February, The electoral boundaries bill setâ€" ting up 10 provincial commisâ€" sions to redraft Canada‘s conâ€" stituencies on a "rep by pop‘ basis has been introduced. It will be a long time yet before it becomes law if, indeed, it ever does in its present form. Rural areas have been organâ€" ized to resist this move to rob them of their dominant and decisive voice in Parliament. Of the 265 members of the House of Commons 125 repreâ€" sent rural constituencies with population of less than oneâ€" third of the Canadian total. For the first time in nearly two years the Government will be able to run its affairs for three months without coming back to Parliament for money every few weeks. Mr. Pearâ€" son‘s Government has restored to the House of Commons its important function of examinâ€" ing the Government‘s spendâ€" ing program and passing an appropriation bill to cover the fiscal year. All of which merely proves that one budget does not make (or break) a Finance Minister. But the next will be an imâ€" portant one for both Mr. Gorâ€" don and the Government â€" for it will be the first indicaâ€" tion of the Government‘s secâ€" ond thoughts on economic polâ€" icy â€" something which is still rather muddy to date. On the basis of another cerâ€" tain increase in the gross naâ€" tional product for 1964 he can probably forecast revenues at least $300 million higher than the current year. He might even feel that some modest downward adjustments in taxâ€" es were in order. â€" CAPITAL HILL CAPSULES may make more mistakes if I sl:’:ly", he said and he has stayâ€" I wonder why she groaned and dr ped the feceiver. ON THE ESCALATOR. "I dnn'lm;(now \:hv rR“I‘I;';I still gives me size 14 clothes, he knows I have to change them. Maybe he‘s just hoping", 1 ESuE! Sm AnCmameVy call from a lady who‘d had Santa drop an electric shaver in her hubby‘s sock. It seems however, that hubby‘s using it to shave the family poodle. "Don‘t be silly", I snapped, "you can‘t shave a poodle with an electric razor". She explained that their pooch had just reached the age where he could be trimmed and hubby was making sure he staved trimmed. "None of these expensive trims once or twice a year for us, my dear", he is reported to have said, "I‘ll just keep nipping the fuzz off every day or so". And according to his beloved, that‘s exactly what he‘s doing. I told her to sell the idea to an electric razor manuâ€" facturer for a TV commercial. "Would you say", I asked, "that razors are going to the dogs". > * , se en e eneanttn® Those wondering what to do with that table, buffet, dressâ€" er, chest of drawers, end table, china cabinet, need only dial 362â€"4711 and a truck will be around. Recent reports intimate that Sweden had passed u standard of living. This disputes the a tion, since, s the OML, car ownership is a fair barmer of a nati living standard.â€" However, the League points out, a ownetship is not a reliable index of a nation‘s standarc civilization. With this last statement I heartily agree, tion of the National Safety Council in South Australia: definition pf a motor show "preview of a used car lot". And another : window label "see you later overtaker (in a casket)." This came from the Ontario Safety League. The OSL also provided us with a car ow nership table (per 1,000 population) which shows us a couple of jumps ahead of Sweden in auto ownership. Canada is second with 242.8 cars per 1,000, behind the Uâ€"S. with 339. Sweden is fourth with 174.4, Australia is third boasting 199.6. The lowest? Russia with a mere 27 cars per 1,000 comrades. So you say Santa‘s not a prisoner. How would like to get out only once a year? "THE MAN im "THE \Ron MASK led Civilians are acutely short of hose wondering what to da with + __YOVU CAN‘T WIN ‘EM ALL. Had a French navy. A hull of a position to be in, one might say. Had the chaps who hold the keys to the Don given as a reason for the shearing, the fact that the prisoner was being punished and so must forfeit certain rights. this may have been acceptable. But the inference that all bearded gentlemen are potential verimin carrirs is certainly not. Most of dirt in that institution seems to come from the minds and mouths of its administrators. . Blackbeard the pirate was a most dastardly criminal. He was given full license by England to plunder certain ships, but he made the mistake of raiding the odd English ship and was subsequently taken into custody and hanged. But monstrous as his crome was, he was not made to part with his beard, which reserabled the Black Forest. Jean Valjean, the infamous bread thief of Hugo‘s "Les Miserables" was also allowed to take his growth to the galleys, where he rowed and rowed but never shaved. No one can recall the galley ship whipmaster saying "Nous ne voulons pas des poux". x But Jean escaped, beard and all, and became a pillar of the community until some stool pigeon fingered him and he was once more anchored aback the oars in boats of the French navyâ€" A hull of a position to be in, one might sav. It is only fitting to point out that some of the most celebrated prisoners of all time were not forced to shave, In fact they were not @llowed to wet near a razor. it HAPPENS ) The American Fathers of Confederation werevall clean shaven, probably because they refused to risk beiné\called lousy administrators. George Washington was even ‘clean shaven when he chopped down the cherry tree. Of co\\tt< he was only 12. King Charles | wote a neatly trimmed beard, while OQliver Cromwell, who defeated him and saw to it that Charles lost his héad, was as clean as the "aiter" of a razor blade commercial. But is there a moral here? / "We didn‘t want any lice", was the lofty statement from the jail‘s ivory tower of command. 1i beards mean lice, history is fraught with lousy heroves. Christopher:Columbus, Henry the Navigator, Jacâ€" ques Cartier, Abe Lincoln, Alexander / Graham Bell, Wilâ€" liam Shakespeare, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx (how did he get in here) all sported facial adornâ€" ment In 1962, a guard was fired for changing the color of his locks, and recently a prisoner was urdered to shave off his beard ... or else. IN PURSUIT OF THE HIRSUTE. It had to come sooner or later. Now we know that at Tor,!o's most ex» clusive dungeon, the Don, the prisoners are being treated almost as badly as the guards. ANY OLD FURNITURE? The Societvy THE AUSSIES HAVE A WORD EVERY VAY The following prisoners did not have to. shave. BLACK BCARD ~weden had passed us in he a tion, since, says - barmer of a nations eague points out, auto f a nation‘s standard of Jlean NalJean turniture of all kinds D. From a publicaâ€" in South Australia: of a used car lot". later overtaker (in a 4.4 43 rather anxious for Cripâ€"