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tg"gt,,'t' knew they would always have an out w they called on him. We regret his un- timjly passing and extend our sympathy to his wif and family. We would like to add our respects to those of everyone to the late Robert Hewitt. As an alderman for the borough of York he fought hard for his beliefs and was conscientious enough to attend not only his own committee meetings but also those other meetings that concerned the borough. He worked her for the ratepayers he reprelented and for all other. ratepayers in the Volunteers and service We commend council for not delaying its choice to fill the vacancy. We have already seen from York's neighbor to the north what problems can accrue from dragging out the situation. However, the immediacy of the choice involves a lot of fast work for some councillors who may not be too familiar with the ward, its particular problems and its willing candidates. . We hope the decision Will be a thoughtful and an honest one. . Our regrets . . . Cross Month We hope that political debts or personal animositiee don't overshadow the importance of making the right decision for the ward 8 residents. Council owes it to the people of that ward in its loss to pick the best and most qualified candidate to do the job. . It is through the financial support of the Canadian public that the articles used for operating these services are purchased and maintained - the sewing machines, the wheelchairs, the instructional aids for the teaching of care in the home andNater safety, the items loaned to the public from the Red Cross sickroom equipment loan cupboards and the special apparatus necessary for the teaching of the handicapped. You support the work the Red Cross Society is doing in your community when you donate to the Red Cross. Therefore be generous to your local Red Cross branch during March which is Red But as always when political plums come up for grabs there is a great danger of motive by those who make the choice. Council is being asked to be the conscience of Ward 8. The people of that ward are not allowed by law, to mate then-own decision. - Specially trained Red Cross volunteers teach children and adults water safety practices so that they may enjoy water activities in safety. They also operate many special safety programmes for the physically handicapped, the mentally retarded, the deaf, and the blind. Many volunteer hours are dedicated to helping the sick, the lonely and the elderly - visiting veterans in hospitals, caring for families when the mother is ill, offering friendship and help to shut-ins, and meeting the needs of senior citizens by providing 'meals on wheels', organizing fitness and recreation programmes and making them feel part of the community. For many elderly people who could not otherwise venture outdoors, the Red Cross has supplied wheelchair service and transportation to hospital clinics for treatment, or to public gardens, art showings, theatres or zoos for recreation. Many women volunteers use their talents to make layettes, bedding and articles of clothing for the victims of disasters at home and abroad. They also prepare millions of cotton swabs for use at blood donor clinics. There are plenty of people around who can do the job and probably even more who are willing to do it. York council has an important decision' to make next week in choosing an alderman to fill the vacant seat in Ward 8. Over 90 per cent of Red Cross work is done by these volunteers who come from all walks of life, and are of all ages, races and creeds. Volunteers help with the recruiting of volunteer blood donors and the organization and operation of Red Cross blood donor clinics. March is Red Cross Month and time to pay tribute to the Red Cross Society's services and its thousands of volunteer workers. And then there is the Cariadian Red Cross Society, a volunteer agency with its own symbol arld, many special services. _ There are many charitable organizations these days, with their own symbol and their own special fields. We have health agencies con- cerned with helping those with particular disabilities or diseases and there are welfare agencies which see to it that the material necessities are available for persons in need. PF-Tu-Y-s-Tue-rein may.“ ll use It”. to“. Woman. my: YMMV by "Inna“ with». Liam-4 hum-mu mo. Incwwnlno my - 7mm and County 0! You ”and, M. - and Gum. Ind Wuhan 1mm; At"qrttsqr. and in Nation HM Omor aur,trres " N Sound Class Man Regulation Numb-v In. autumn" Ram u no no! your m ”an“ to my new”: 1n (and. resp'onsibilify Weston-York Times "ikpJrty1t, Spadina fight goes on v J MuM-Ilnn, Pros-donut“: Poul-uni Mart Smlutll. Ettmtr Why Fauna, My." MOM" "th In nu And yet Toronto residents Mee shown that they don't want the uncanny, and even the Metro planners admit that building the Spam Mill won't stop the truncation crisis antici- plied bdore 1996 if the automobile I: allowed to go on dominating Wideqmnd LETTERS TO THE EDITOR in Ontario because the provincial government pays lull the cost of expressways and approximately mskth of the coat of subways. The price to complete all the planned expressways by the year 2009. at 1909 estimates, will be a staggering $1,247 BILLION ._ an enormous tn burden for every present and [unite resident of the My conclusion was that, since William Davis had presided over the menomenal development of this education empire, the government which he now heads cannot shirk the responsiblity for the financial burden which it imposes. Rather, there is need for real leadership from the provincial government, working closely with local boards, to examine closely the system which has grown up, and decide where there are unnecessary expenditures which-can, and should, be eliminated. For example, to come to grips with the in- creasingly widespread belief First, no one can dispute the need for devising means to arrest the rapid acceleration in education costs. Theo, to simply impose ceilings on expenditure, without any other guidelines, raises the unhappy prospect that the moat creative and imaginative developments in our education system will be lapped off instead of getting at the tttt and waste in the education juggernaut which has gown up over the past generation. Dear Editor: For eighteen months a battle has been raging in Toronto over a Big Road -- the Spadina Expressway. It is the first link in a proposed inner-city road plan that all]: for at least six more inner-city expressways. If the plan is ever completed, it will turn still-llveable Toronto into another Los Angeles. final Mee has doubled but less than half of the Spadina has been built, at a cost of ALL of the $75 million dollars it was supposed to cost in 1983. A badly located subway line was added to the original exp-ems)! and now Metro official estimates stand at least $236 million without any estimate of spiralling inflationary coats. This represents an average of at least $30 for every taxpayer Costs have soared; in seven years the estimated which the government is "uingtoachlevethisby an arbitrary imposition. of ceilings on educational expenditures at the local vim thi curmt cut-back in education costs and the J made two basic points. he god-lag my "port Cost cufs ineidiiquate an: yhlph m arising I., (MEAN FOR My NEXtuynpasmatc, " opposition from an unusually strong and still growing alliance of citizen groups has been ignored by most Metro politicians. Over 80 ratepayer groups, churches, home and school asso- ciations, activists, conser- vationists, have allied with artists, businessmen‘s groups and the two universities to protest the expressway. Famous actors from Stratford and a large number of Canadian cele- brities living in the city have publically voiced their om position (Author Pierre Berton, President Claude Bissell of U of T, pianist Anton Kuerti, artist Harold $le millions. Last year, government allotments' tor this purpose were $6 million. This year they are $5 millions. Next year they are to be reduced to $3h millions. It is argued that we now have a surplus of graduate students - all those PhD's who are looking for a job. The Minister asserts that the government program in recent years was really a crash program which has achieved its purpose, and now we can phase out such expenditures for graduate studies. But is that a valid argument? With this so.cailed crash program. Ontario has for the first time started to produce post-gruaduates in something like the same proportion that the United Dear Editor: I attended a meeting set up by the York Board of Education last March 4th at Weston Collegiate. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss - "How can the nehool be more effective." We separated into groups to facilitate discussion. Trustee Harvey Wengle was our chairman. A parent started the ball rolling, claiming there were some incompetent teachers in the Weston school system. No senior higtrschool students along with parents present backed this claim and enlarged on the situation. A Weston Collegiate teacher surprised the group by in- forming us that after the teachers‘ first year, they are no longer supervised " to competence; this is the respmsibility of the prin- that our educational system has become adminis- tratively top-heavy, no that too much of the money is crease the quality of education in the classroom. During the past week, this whole issue has taken on a new dimension. The new Minister of University At- fairs, Hon. John White, has captured headlines with the announcement of a decision actually made at the beginning of the year -- that monies for graduate studies will be cut back another Productive board QUEEN'S PARK REPORT Donald C, MacDonald MPP for York South cipal. Mr. Richards, representing the York Board of Education, told us there was nothing we could do about incompetent teachers because of the teachers' union, the Federation, and added - what would you have us do, we can't put them out to pasture. The same high-school teacher felt classes of thirty students too many for good teaching results. However Mr. Hudson, Principal of Memorial elementary school, claimed certain teachers on his staff could quite easily accommodate many more than thirty students with equally good results. The citize d t ed criminal law er J. . Robinette to carry eir case to the Ontario Municipal Board, and Chairman J.A. Kennedy, Q.C., completely supported their arguments, and called for "an agonising re-appraisal" of Metro's Transportation plans. However, the other two members of the board refused to dispute the 1963 decision to go ahead with Spadina. The citizens are now appealing to Premier Davis and his new Cabinet. The discussion of one hour passed too quickly to really' get down to the NEW-gritty. We would liked to have Town, communications expert Marshall McLuhan, have all joined the protesting citizens). discussed discipline, let’s face it: the greatest single liability faced by the Davis Government as it contemplates a provincial election is the public protest at education costs which have gotten out of hand. Having created a monster which threatens to devour us. the Government is ten- ding to walk away from the problem by simply placing ceilings on expenditures, and from that point forward again, into the position where we are not producing enough skilled personnel for our academic and industrial needs? If we do, how do we ever expect to meet the ptoblem of such a high proportion of our university and community college staffs being imported from the United States instead of being home grown? Fdrthermére. is the current surplus of post-gra- state- has done tor years. Having achieved that woportion of post-graduates for the first time, do we cut duates not, as much as anything, the -product of misconceived economic policies which ave delibe- rately slowed down our economy in order to cope with the problem of in- tlation? The result is that we have a surplus of both workers and post-graduates walking the unemployed Whether any of the night's findings will be implemented remains to be Been. Perhaps they will wind up like Royal Commission: -- tabled - hoping the tax-payers will forget. supervision and too much administration. leaving the problem to be wind by the local school boards and the univeeaitieg. feast, mi: the rise in education costs. Instead of doing that by arbitrarily imposing ceilings in education costs, surely there is a crying need to protect the best in our education system, and devote our strongest efforts to squeezing out the tat which will provide the necessary mania tor inevitable ex- pansion through increased pupil population and further new developments. Instead, at the local level we are in danger of ignoring the fat, and leaving it there, while cutting out other worthy aspects ot the system; and at the university level, of cutting back on postgraduate studies so that we will deny this province, and nation, the necessary skills for its future development. Or alters natively, reverting to the position where post-graduate studies are open only to those who happen to. have the money, and denied to those who do not. I'd be the last person to say that this is an easy problem. It is very complex. But I share the growing sense of protest that we are tackling it in such a mindless, sim- plistic fashion which meets the political needs of the government on the eve of an election, but which threatens a denial, rather than a fulfilment, of such long-stan- ding objectives as equality of educational opportunity. meeting The outcome of that Cabinet appeal is confidently awaited; most Metro citizens think that this crucial Cabinet decision will be an important indicator of the style of the present Conservative government; will it opt for heartless cities of concrete and steel or will it opt for quality in urban life? The conservative government's fortunes in the imminent provincial elec- tion, it is felt, will be closely tied to the Cabinet's decision. City Co-ordina ting Committee.. Stop Spadina - Save Our Thelma Devries l. We " How do we overcome the fears which cause us to worry? The word of God says that 'perfect love casts out tear'. Perfect love of what? It is perfect love of a Person, Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God. He is the only One who is able to cast out our fear for He IS love. Before we can have that love and trust in God which dispels fear we need to realize how much He loves us as individuals. He is in- terested in us right in the situation in which we find There is a joy killer at large; he greets us in the morning with a long, mounful face reminding us of all the problems of the day; he joins us as we go about our daily tasks robbing us of clear, efficient thought and sapping out energy; he beds down with us at night and snatches precious sleep. Who is the culprit? His name is worry. Someone said, "Worry is a cycle of inefficient thought whirling about a center of fear." How true that is! At the center of everything we worry about is a core of fear. POINTS TO PONDER Not all cookie profits go to the camp fund Each pack and company keeps a portion to cover equipment and activities within the group. Little girls in brown and bigger girls in blue will be knocking on your door Saturday, March 20. Girl Guide cookie time is here and your generous sup port is asked for mem- bers of this world-wide organization. ' Since 1929 when the first cookie day was held to raise money for a new born root at the Toronto Girl Guide camp, the project has been the main source of funds for the Girl Guide Cookie Day The first temptation was a ground test -- in the wilderness. This second temptation is an aerial test. It takes place on the top of the Temple. Remember, height induces dizziness. In this perilous position the Devil tempts Jesus out of his mind altogether. (To give place to the Devil always results in an malicious form of madness). "Throw yourself down", he says, "God has promised to protect you. Prove to yourself and to all the people that God keeps his promises. Go on. Do it. There's no danger. There's nothing to lose and everything to gain. When the people thronging the Temple precincts see you float gently down to the ground, as though borne on Angel's wings, they will say with awestruck wonder: Gee, this man must be the Greatest!" But Jesus said "NO". Because with his penetrating understanding he clearly saw the Devil's prompting was premised on a mistaken idea of God, and would therefore result in a false concept of Man. As ex- plained above, Man and God cannot be disjoined. You can't have wrong ideas about God without falling into error about Man. There's more to this temptation than meets the eye! First it meant putting God to the test. You ean't do that, said Jesus. It is wrong to test God. It is impudent arrogance to think you can provoke God to prove himself. Because Jesus saw this so clearly he didn't fall for the temptation. We do fall for it, because we find it so difficult to think with the same straight clarity as Jesus. The Devil knows all this. His grasp of theology is better than most. He knows Man and God belong together. His only hope rests in successfully driving a wedge between them. This is what he's trying to do in the Second Temptation. Let’s take a look. "A little thought inclines a man to atheism: a little more thought makes him a Christian" Who said that? Francis Bacon? (Perhaps some reader could in- form my faulty memory!) But whoever said it, it is true. The more you think about the Christian faith the more convinced do you become of its essential truth. It is self- authenticating. Like a perfectly cast bell, when struck by life-experience, the Take that saying of Jesus: Love God and love your neighbour. Jesus lays this down as the law of life, because it Is the law of life. He put God and Man together, because they do belong together. You can't love God without loving Man. And you can't despise God without despising Man. If you mock God you make a mockery of Man. If you make a mockery (or a monkey!) of Man you mock God. Christian Faith rings true.' Fear centre of worry ourselves - right in the midst of those difficult and perplexing circumstances. The proof of His love for us is the Cross and if we can fully apprehend the fact that He loved us enough to die in our place we can cultivate the faith that He is also deeply concerned about our A four letter word tt Years Ago Rodney Adamson won back into the fold the West York seat which was held by the Uberal party in the last house. In a hard three corner fight Kidney led the way and was pressed by Chris J. Bennett who made a great fight to retain the seat held by Col. Streight. Col. Wm. Mulock was returned by a much smaller majority in North York but retains his seat. 11 Years Ago Pondering Weston’a present complicated parking problem - and with a more than casual guess that it may get worse before it gets better -- J .H. Albarda, local architect and designer of Weston‘s town hall, has proposed a radical solution: a open-cut down the middle of Main Street to accommodate through traffic. The open-cut would begin with a gradual downgrade slope to the south of Bellvue Crescent. pass beneath the Lawrence Avenue intersection and come back to the surface on an upgrade in the vicinity of Weston‘s firehall. SYears Ago Air contamination by an aluminum smelter on Sleppard Avenue, a few blocks east of Weston Road, has led to North York council asking planning board if smelter type operations should not be banned in the township. The Humbermede and Weston Hetghts Ratepayers' Associations have voiced strong objections to emissions of meulic dust, fumes, Gliiiil'0GiiiTi Looking back Dear Editor: V Love is a word so much abused You and I are not amused Love is used for this and that. A pickle, a pizza, or TYudeau's hat. Love thy neighbour. please don't do it. If he's a man they'll call you fru it. The movie's love makes your temperature rise But 'tis only sex in thin disguise Love your detergent and cold cream soap How can we be such a dope? Love your Aunt and Uncle Herb love you know is a four letter verb. DON REED Row. ft-tt It Mums")! of Minimum“: Ummd Church In mom Aerial Combat The measure between Him and us is the measure of the difference between trusting God and testing God. There’s a world of difference between these two things. We so often confuse them. Take our prayers for instance; panic prayers, particularly. Instead of an utterance of trust in God, which is the spirit of all true prayer (“Thy will not mine be done"), our prayers put God to the test. We try to put God on the spot. We present him with an ultimatum. What we are saying, with our hearts if not with our words, is "Give me this, hard; or do this for me Lord; and then I'll believe in you. If you don't give me what I want, why should I believe in you?" That isn't prayer. It's plain, downright presumption. Jesus saw this temptation to presumption for what it was. He refused to be taken in by it. He said "No". God is not an object to be used or a servant to be commanded. He is sovereign Lord. The right order of things is not that He serves us but that we serve Him". Did you ever hear the story of the high diver? He dived 30 feet into a tank of water six feet deep. The people roared "Do it again; into three feet." He did it. "Do it again," they said, "into six inches." He .did. "Do it again", they cried, "this time into a damp sponge". He did. And he cracked his skull. Why? Because some nasty person had wrung the sponge dry! Wrong ideas about God result in wrong ideas about Man. That's the tragic trend of temptation. It's like rolling a boulder along the top of a hill. Keep it going straight, you’re O.K. bet it dip ever so slightly over one edge or the other and you’ve lost out. You try to stop it and you are crushed in the process. "If you can make God into a magician, then you‘ll win men over simply by a display of magic". The Devil didn't say that to Jesus. He wouldn't be so naive. He appreciates the value of dressing things up. Like the con-man. of our time he, too, knows where the gears mesh. He knows men crave excitement and the thrill of the spectacular. He tried to persuade Jesus to trade on this. Jesus refused. Jesus knew that nothing wears out more quickly than sensation, that there's nothing so stale as yesterday's gimmicks. That's the tragedy of Muhammad Ali. The big-mouthed, big-time boxer. He called himself a prophet. How many people do you think will listen to him after his battering by Joe Frazier? Jesus waim't a prophet of that low calibre. That's why He stood firm in this second temptation! . But that’s what people are like. Thrill them once: they are hungry for more. You fail to satisfy them once, they turn to the next up-and-coming sensation-maker. tiniest fear. Truly we can safely trust the Man who loved us enough to die for us. Commit your way to the Lord, roll and repose each care of the road on Him; trust, lean on, rely on and be confident also in Him, and He will bring it to pass. Psalm 37:5. Amplified.