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The Clevelly Lts not use a convenient whipping boy in our fight against pollution and turn a blind eye to possible controls that, although seemingly small and inconsequential, can make a big difference when practised en masse. (Listed under Calendar are public service an- nouncementa of upcoming fund-raising events for charity; also notices of meetings to be held by non- profit making organizations or those of general interest to the public. Notices, not to exceed 30 words, preferably typewritten, willbeaccepted until noon on Monday preceding day of publication.) We must not overlook, however, pollution controls that can be implemented in our everyday lives. Consider leaving the car at home in favor of public transport. Give the soap and soda a try with the family wash. Pollution is everyone's business and it is im- portant that we prod offenders into extending extra effort to control this threat to our en- vironment. There is no doubt the company can and should work towards better control of solid emissions and unpleasant odor. According to Air Management, they are doing their best. hir Management was told in November it was coddling the firm by a resident who claimed the company had been bypassing filters for some weeks. . Residents in closer proximity to the plant had shown us piles of dust that was swept daily from cars and from steps. This followed our publication of a picture of the stack in October. The caption described the 'smoke' as water vapor. sl A North York resident called us last week to complain about a 'foul odor' coming from a stack at Canadian Gypsum Co. Ltd., Oak Street, Weston. She had driven to the plant late in the evening to make sure the company was the of- fender. g4 rl"'r0-r--htrr-r,-er' Home controls “D. II ll” m lull Non-I, at" Monday by Duncan .tgitt'ttt than“. “and Clu- Man 'tewstroron Numb" ISM Settqcrotton ”In " on por your an mum. to any not“: In Canada other cow-mu " Mr. IMO.“ I“. Interact-mu the woven Yuma and County " Von ”all. on. VII“. and Gum. And Women 1mm Advomuv, m the M Vim Weston-York Times Sounds like ? +++ C 313mm. v J M‘CM‘III’L Provo-mam: Puuhwv (ji ii=iiiiijiri--2; Dona! Faun" Edna: YIIODDDHI 241 "ll fl I, even I, em'the Lord and beside me there II no Sevlom'. ll WI can do little to help himself except to reach out to the one who purposes to lave him In just-whawnywetoocln ‘ruch out' to Christ and allow Him to save us Ind bring an to safety by forgiving In and making us clan In His light. The Bible says, 'Not by works of righteousness which we inve done, but according to his mercy he saved ua.' We get to heaven simply by trusting in what Christ has done for us; by trusting His love which prompted Him to take the punishment for all that we live done wrong on the Cross of Calvary. That is why He is called our Saviour because He is the one who wants to do all the saving. A drowning man simply will Gt woh. heaven by trying to be goat. It, my mind, alright but it +++ AI'Anon Family Groups of Weston are having their 13th anniversary on March 16 at St. John's Anglican Church, Fern Ave., at 8:30 p.m. Further information may be obtained about the groups by calling 3664072. The Etobicoke public library and the Zonta Club of Etobicoke are combining to bring Miss MacGill, the first woman gruaduate engineer from University of Toronto. hath“: ll Merchants burdened by Mr. Martini bought a home on-oo foot lot. At that time the by-lor at the Town at Welton called for I lot front-3e of 36 feet and a lot am at 3000 sq. it If he bought the home with the intention of dividing the lot he could have appeared Mm the Cunmntae at Adtuatrttettt.Atthnttinte, hin MW qrittht no feet Sometimes I believe that the Weston-York Times publishes an article in order to get counter reaction. as in an; um shed fort MartiniMJohnMreet LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The small businessmen or Ontario are again feeling the squeeze being applied by the Government of the Province. This time it's added taxation for parking space in plazas. The Provincial government recently took over respon- sibility for easement. At the same time it passed a new assessment act. Part of this act stipulates that tenants in plazas can be assessed for additional taxes for the part of the parking area in the plaza which their customers actually or theoretically occupy. This land is not owned by the tenant but he is assessed as if he did and he pays taxes in exactly the same way as if he owned the land This kind of assessment of taxes is obviously unjmt since it's obviously a land tax on property which isn't owned by the taxpayer. It arises because the municipalities must have more tax revenue, and the province is being co- operative in devising a new tax to provide some of this revenue. The theory is that the merchant will pass the increase on in his prices to the consumer and everyone -- including the consumer, who doesn’t know he's being assessed in this way, will be happy. But the catch is that with present economic conditions it's difficult for the small businessman in the plazas to raise his prices to com- pemate and so he's stuck. He pays the tax - but he's growing more and more restless under his burden - and he is asking "WHY?" It is a startling fact that the Ontario Government does not collect in stumpage dues from the great timber companies as much as it actually coats to service the forest lands. And most of And well he might. The provincial government, while taxing the small man more, still refuses to levy realistic taxes on our great natural resource industries which are mainly owned by Americans. these companies are An impasse is developing. On the one hand, there's the widespread feeling that education costs have gotten out of hand; on the other hand, a fear that if there is an arbitrary cut-back, the best features of our education system may be lopped off, while the waste and “fat" in the system survives. Let’s try for a moment to put this important problem in perspective. there was unanimous con- cern over what might happea Those who are responlihle for making the cut-bucks are now saying that it simply cannbt be done without Manly wrung education. I attended a meeting at the Royal Yark Hotel a couple of weeks ago, representative (1 teachers, parents, students and various community organizations with an im terest in education, and uniusf tax assessment Minuet-oh» abomm miitismk men! bu fixed ceilings on edit-nun] can for the cxmingy-,invohingacus but. The original alum-la (1 win: that chuck would Cutbacks won't trim fat from education budgets and: Lot frontage in line with résf of borough Taikd know (i an arm on John Street where the reached. He still has that right today. Ithlahouse burns down, he can still rebuild the same size house on the same lot, and so can anyone who has a home on less than 40 feet The only vacant lot that I am aware of that In oeparately unused, LI a 24 foot lot on Jotn Street, eluted by a small time developer who tried to wane three home- on a " frontage and wan turned down He sold two 36' lot: and Ht the vacant M' in the ponies would have paid this extra $150 million, and $119 million of it would have been borne by non-residents. And while all this goes on, while our governments at both resources to their American stockholders. We're not only giving in large slices, our timber to foreign cor- porations, but we are ac- tually paying them a bonus to cart the stuff away. The result is that a company like Abitibi Paper increased its total assets from $184 million in 1956 tum million in 1966. Kimberley/Mrk jacked up its net income from $24 million to " million during the same period and Great Lakes Paper saw its total assets grow from " million to $91 million. This growth came from Canadian labour using Canadian resources for which the Ontario government charged the companies less than it cost that government to service. It is a startling principle in business that the raw material of an industry can be purchased from the public at less than nothing. In the same way mining cor- porations exploit our un- derground resources without paying anything like their share of revenue into our municipal, provincial or national coffers. The Carter Commission estimated that special tax privileges to mining and oil companies reduced federal government revenues by inure than $150 million fn 1964. If Carter's recom- mendations had been in American-owned which siphon off increasing profits and capital gain from our The reason for this phenomenal increase in education costs is readily apparent. Basically, it has been created by the veritable explosion in school population. We are told that very soon, half our population will be under 25 years chase. That half of the population has just passed through, or is still in, the school system. It emanation costs continue to escalate over the next 30 years, as they have over the put 15, statisticians warn us that by the year. 2000, education will have absorbed all at our gross national product! In the current fiscal year, the total provincial budget is 83.7 billion. of thh 81.5 billion, over 40 per cent, is being spent on education. pgr on! was spent on In wt, behevvit u not, the WWII] main (hm-to was an: million, of wttiehattmt8Nrnillion, or15 PROVINCIAL AFFAIRS Fred Young MPP for Yorkview QUEEN'S PARK REPORT Donald C. MacDonald MPP for York Scuth We have home. on 10 foot may. witldn that are. and under the provident of the new cmnprehemtve by- Thee foot frontage for the are. out d the truck: us not taken 1lght1y. The majority of home frontage, come into this awgory and the R 1 dentition In the m u that applied over gym: at the Emmy: of Committee of Adjustment permitted two houses to be Milt on so foot frontage. I know of another owner who ha I 150 foot frontage and dog not want to sell his remaining land Instead of this kind of parking lot levy the provincial government should be directing its at- tention to a complete revision of our tax structure so that we tax where the moneyisand make sure that our great natural resource industries bear their fair share of the fiscal burden of Ontario. Little wonder that the capital and operational costs of such an enlarged educational "plant" have run away with the provincial and municipal budgets. So, we have a problem. No one will deny that Tax- payers are in revolt, partly because of the size of the educational bilLund partly because an undue proportion of it is raised through the most regressive of all taxes - that on homes and farm The basic answer lies in tax reform whlgh would have added a whole new dimension to posbaeeondhry education with the creation of 20 community colleges. federal and provincial levels allow this kind of tax evasion to occur they're devising new methods of soaking the little merchant - and ultimately the consumer if the merchant is to stay in [as thin I generation we have expanded our traditional academic system to include technical and vocationaltacilitiee at a coat of hundreds of millions. Since the end at the war Ontario's five universities have multiplied to 14. And we But there number equally upomnt mama. Within law an owner can rebuild in use of fire. The suggestion that a home built on less than 40 foot frontage will deteriorate ls hardly sen. sible. Sumo Martini received the proposed comprehensive by- law In! October. Other people read it and passed comments and the try-law Totheeditor: As president of the York- minner Community Association. I hasten to - diupprovnl of the No one should minimize the difficulties involved in getting at the 'tat' in the system. It will require the kind of detailed analysis which is possible only if the Provincial Government plays an important role, beyond simply arbitrarily announcing a ceiling in expenditures. Having created this educational monster, the Minister of Education is leaving the local Boards of Education to tame it. That's not good enough. In fact, it's a negation of leadership. Worse still, little will be done to get at the 'tat' in the hudge educational jugger- mut which has been created. The same, or an even higher, proportion of our frozen budgets, will be devoted to costly bureaucratic ad- ministration whose con- tribution to the child in the class-room is being more and more questioned. There is grave danger that a mindless sort of cutback now being imposed on school boards will result in the most creative elements of our system being cut off. The special classes, the e:- perimental work being done with disadvantaged children, all those programs which offer some hope for genuine equality of educational opportunity for many of our children, will be starved or eliminated. and in some areas highly aplicative, and therefore costly, he has now come up with an arbitrary, politically-inspired solution to rising coats which is creating concern among all who have the interests of education at heart by William Davig' arbitrary directive for a cut-back. Having aroused the tax- payers by creating an educational system which is administratively ttheavy, relieve home (i at least N per cent of the cost (1 education. But the present government policy can: for a pinned take-aver, up to only 60 per cent by the year 1m 3, so that basic solution can do nothing tor this year's ditNultietr. In my view, this year's difficulties have been matey. and compounded, Committee must be elected was adjusted. Now that Bill 1000 has been passed by Council, hennd every property owner :1 the former Town of Weston will receive all 38 page: of it - and have fourteen days in which to make my com» menu before Council con- sider: sendlng it to the Ontario Municipal Board. suggestion that the new Executive Committee be "appointed by council". Any executive committee to replace the existing board Sex is God's gift to us all, and when we have learned to understand it, we know that it is one of the most precious gifts God has given us. But sex is also a symbol of Bigness, it can be used as a badge to show what tine fellows or smashing dame: we are. If as men we can get our own way with the women, or if as women we can twist the fellows round our little finger, well, we are big, that is something to Mast about. But when we use sex wrongly in this way, when we take this short cut to bigness, we are getting our bigness at the expense of someone else, and that is wrong. And we shall find out that it is wrong in the bitterness that comes to us when we discover that that sort of bigness Let's just take a moment to see how this is so with the wrong things we so often do when faced with temptation. Those three things I mentioned at the beginning, sex, stealing, and telling lies. But so often we fail to take the chance that is offered to us. We try to take a short cut to what we want to be. And the short cut never works. Think of it like this. We are all of us dissatisfied with what we are at the moment. We all want to be something bigger and better. And temptation comes to help us to be that bigger and better person which, in our heart of hearts, we want to be. Our constant failing in the test of temp- tation, the wrong things we do, are a symptom, an indication of something deeply wrong within us. That wrongness within us is simply this: we haven't yet, at, the point where we fail the test, found our rightful place in life-we haven 't found our proper destiny, if you want to put it that way. Jesus knew better than anyone else about this fault, this fatal ttaw in our human nature which makes us all kin. 'lhatiswhy he taughtustopray, “Leadus not into temptation", which the New English Bible translates as “Do not put us to the test". Does anyone ever take temptation seriously these days? We should, you know. lt'sone oftheconstantsof life. But it is a constant we're one: confused about. What picture wines into your mind at the mere mention of the word? It you're a man you think of a charming seductreas; if a woman, of a handsome seducer. Temp- tation, in other words, is associated in our minds with something that's spicy, but wrong, like sex, stealing or telling lies- usually in that order of wrongness. But this itself is a wrong idea of temptation. Temptation is not an enticement to do wrong. It's a teat to show that we can do the right. That we so often fail the test is not due to a fault in the testing process. The fault is in ourselves. For your information, Sumo Martini bought the auntleu building by-laws and amendments. This will make the job of our Building Department easier and erase the complaint of builders who have little knowledge of the many by- law in existence. of control MUST BE ELECTED by the people of North York to ensure prop" demon-dc ulecthm of the "Ettretttive Committee" or Bill 1000 will erase We'll look at these in subsequent "ar. ticles. Temptation will help us to get to our right and proper place, to become the men and women we are meant to be. But temptations will only get us there if we learn to deal with it in the same way that Jesus did. His three temptations were all of them temptations to take a short cut to where he wanted to be, and to what he wanted to do. And each time he resolutely and defiantly refused to take that way. So you see in all these ways, and in so many more too, the short cut doesn't work. We may get all these things that have the effect of making us appear big. We may act big, by dominating the opposite sex. We may look big, by flashing our money about. We may talk big, by being deceitful and telling lies. But inside us we are not big at all. We are just empty. These are all short cuts to our right and proper bigness, our right and proper place in life, but they never get us there. Telling lies, again, is a way of being big. It is a cloak of bigness. But it is just a shallow disguise. A disguise that is so very quickly seen through. And yet there are people, grown up people, who are always telling lies. They may not tell lies with their lips (that is a very crude way of telling lies) but they tell lies by their lives. They live a lie. But such people are not real people at all, you can see right through them. They aren't big, there 's just nothing to them. That is what the other wrongdoing is through and through-telling lies-it is a pretence. It is pretending we are something other and better than we are- and personally I think this is perhaps the worst wrong of the three we are speaking about-at least, that is what) understand from the harsh things Jesus said about "pretenderC-"hypocrites" as he called Then there's stealing, which of course, means money. Now money is a good thing. Itisathingwhichwealineedandwhich we all must have. But money is a symbol ot ligness. It is a badge of proficiency. It is a sign of success. And if we haven't much of it then we want more. And we are tempted again to take the short cut. And we get money the wrong way, by stealing it in some form or other, either directly or indirectly. ' But, again, this is wrong, because we are getting our bigness at the expense of someone else. And we shall discover it is wrong because again the kind of bigness we get that way isn 't real at all, it is just a pretence. (hasn't last; that it is empty and shallow; that it is a ballooning, puffed up “also: that burstsintonothingluataseaailyaaa balloon is burst. All over the world the lights of democratic freedom Continued on Page ' :‘Board of Control" mem property in 1984 and has rented it from that time. Could he be another small time developer after a fast buck? Yours sincerely. James W. Ttttttttee, Controller. on fit