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= ~ 10 Years Ago #. Weston council appointed Hamar G. x Wilson as director of parks and recreation z to replace Val Hill. Mr. Wilson presently :;f holds that position with the town of Pemâ€" # broke, to which he was appointed some five é years ago. Prior to this appointment he # taught physical education at Pembroke > Collegiate. Mr. Wilson advised that poor : health by one of his family made it>adâ€" ; visable to reside in Metro. He comes at a : time when some members of council are wondering whether or not Weston is Eoviding recreation facilities which are ing used by neighboring communities too We need to employ every person possible and should not be looking to immediate solutions that may take away jobs at this time. Although we do not condone polluters, we would not want the loss of 85 jobs on our conscience. While some action is due .â€" in fact, long overdue â€" we must be careful what action is taken. Perhaps some long range term where costs can be spread over the period. Perhaps some government assistance in a forgivable loan. Jobs are not easy to find these days. Someone will have to look after these people. Unemâ€" ployment insurance can be expected to look after them for a while â€" but what then? If the cost of installing and maintaining this equipment pushes costs of manufacturing mineral wool beyond a normal profit level then the plant must close and with it will go the present 85 or so employees. Forcing Canadian Gypsum to install evene more control over their emissions might be the straw to break the camel‘s back. Nobody can be expected to stay in business at a loss. It matters not to a manufacturer that some divisions of his entire operations make huge profits. He does not have any that won‘t carry their own weight. . When a product costs more to manufacture than what it can be sold for, then the manufacâ€" turer closes down that part of his operations to concentrate entirely on his profit lines. Nor do we want to see the job loss that might result from forcing the plant to close, which the Upper Humber Clean Air Committee says they don‘t want to occur. There happens to be a matter of economics involved. p j We do not want to see Canadian Gypsum foul up beautiful downtown Weston nor do we want to see them get away with what everyone terms "a license to pollute" with token fines from timeâ€"toâ€" time. We do not condone polluters. We do not want to see our lakes and rivers contaminated. We do not want to see the atmosphere degenerate to the point where man will have to utilize portable life support systems just to breathe. Page 4â€"The WestonYork Times, Thursday, March 23, 1972 Let‘s make something perfectly clear. We would like our air, water â€" indeed, our entire environment â€" perfectly clear. wE s Other countries $9 00 Estabiished 1890, incorporating the Weston Times and County of York Merald, the Times and Guâ€"de. and Weston Times Advertiser and the Weston Times Second Ciass Ma 1 Reqistrat Subscription Rates $7 00 per year .n agva Perfectly clear orrerrrare e oo PP Lh ed af 2159 Weston Road, Weston. each Thursgay by Princ ing Limited V J MacMilian. Presigent ang Pubiisher B:li Ba ley Eaitor Molly Fenton, General Manager â€"York Times Telepnone 241 $2 ver 1388 The Commercial Letter describes one instance where a Vancouver The Trade Commissioner Service also responds to initiatives by Canadian companies, many of whom have never exported before. In these instances the trade commissioner in the country concerned investigates the market potential and reports his findings directly to the company. ‘"Much of a Trade Comâ€" missioner‘s time is devoted to assessing the marketing opportunities in his territory and the competition that Canadian producers will have to meet," the Comâ€" mercial Letter explains. ‘"‘Then, with the aid of the department in Ottawa, he endeavors _ to _ interest Canadian producers in capitalizing on these opâ€" portunities and plays a part in a sales effort that may have several phases." The service began in 1895 when a businessman and former journalist was apâ€" pointed Canada‘s comâ€" mercial agent in Australia. Today, whether their product is as simple as maple syrup, or as complex as a complete pulp mill, Canadian businessmen can obtain valuable information and advice, at no charge, from 246 trade experts based in 57 countries. This service is one of the major functions of the federal Department of Industry, Trade and Comâ€" merce. How Canada‘s Trade Commissioner Service has developed into a world wide organization which helps to sell Canadian products and services abroad is described in the current Commercial Letter of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. It seems preposterous that after 30 years of complaints, including periodic comâ€" munications . from _ the medical officer of health about the threat to the health and welfare of the citizenry, the government should have to confess that it is not legally in a position to move. In view of the record, some people are persuaded that Last week the new Minister of the Environâ€" ment, Hon. James Auld, indicated that a new series of charges against Canadian Gypsum will be taken to court shortly. He indicated that his department was pursuing this approach, admittedly not very effective in the past, because they had not been able to accumulate enough evidence which would stand up in court to issue a ‘stop order‘â€" that is, to order the plant closed down until it could clean up. Action promised after 30 years I have no doubt that the main reason for renewed hope is the systematic work which Pollution Probe is doing in the community. But there are a number of developments at the provincial level which are worth noting. of it. After more than 30 years, surely that‘s not too much to hope for. Gypsum‘s _ continued pollution in the Weston area has come to a boil again. Let‘s hope that this time, there will be some resolution "HEY! Rememser the oup apaoe agout av4zez24 ooy...? Selling around the world At the Ottawa headquarters, the Departâ€" ment of Industry, Trade and Commerce has _ industry sector branches which cover all areas of Canadian production. "Their mandate is to get to know the firms in their field and to advise on both production and selling problems," the Commercial Letter _ states. _ ‘"These branches also help to adâ€" minister incentive programs under which firtms may be assisted financially to imâ€" Before the advent of inâ€" stant communication across the world, a trade comâ€" missioner generally had to work on his own. Now he is a member of a team, using telex and telephone facilities that link him with Ottawa and Canadian businessmen, which obtains and transmits vital information on trade. Although _ Canadian companies can write directly to a trade commissioner in the country where he is posted to seek export adâ€" vice, it is often faster and easier for a firm to contact the Department of Industry, Trade and Commerce in Ottawa or one of the regional offices, which are located in most major centres in Canada. manufacturer of chain saw parts began an export campaign by writing to every Canadian Trade Commissioner. From the answers he selected the markets that seemed to have the greatest potential and, again with the help of the commissioners, visited these interviewed possible agents or distributors, and called on prospective customers. The result of all this activity, and of his continued attention to individual markets, was a flourishing export business. If you find this leniency beyond _ belief, it is noteworthy that the courts have taken the same attitude It is well to recall that Canadian Gypsum was first convicted of pollution last Juneâ€"after all those 30 long years! The maximum fine could have been $5,000, ut the court saw fit to levy only $1,000. Even worse, when a second conviction was registered a few weeks later, and the maximum fine could have been $10,000, the court levied only $200. obligated to impose fines which would be something more than a license to continue _ pollution. Interestingly enough, the minister replied that the government is considering this. But how long that will take legitimately leads to the conclusion that such a posture, albeit tougher, adds up to further procrastination. But since the department has opted for the prosecution route, I asked the minister whether the government has considered amending the act so that the courts would be this is just an excuse for Donald C. MacDonald QUEEN‘S PARK REPORT MPP for York . South The editor: I am very interested in the tremendous opposition to the proposed airport planned and to be built in the near future in Pickering Townâ€" ship, yet recollect that complaints were made by the various persons using the present international airport at Malton. Other branches of the department specialize in trade policies of other countries, market development, trafficEser- vices, export permits, frade publicity overseas and the organization of trade fairs. Because of rapid inâ€" dustrial change and the increasingly complex ways in which business operates, Letters to the editor prove their production, take advantage of technological advances, employ professional industrial designers, or adjust to the demands _ of â€" changing markets." Here is where the government is hooked on another of the inadequacies of its own legislation. The minister confesses to their inability to get evidence which will stand up in court. Twice, on earlier occasions down through the years, the However, while fines could be made punitive, and thereby persuade industrial polluters to do something effective, there is a point beyond _ which _ public patience should not have to be strained. Which brings us back to the alternative opâ€" tion open to the governmentâ€" a stop order which would force the company to cease operations until they have given ironâ€"clad assurance that their pollution will end. charges laid by the Air Management Branch, and the average fine levied has been a mere $365. This adds up to little more than a licence to continue pollution. So it is not surprising that the government second look fectiveness legislation. elsewhere. In the past year some 25 convictions have been attained through I We need the airport great but its dangerous to arriving ‘and Malton and, ar flights f;! y3 1s at of ddÂ¥S e taking a us ad ho han rat i nc o ape its own Therefore the airport in Pickering has become a necessity if we are to meet present day demands of travel and safety. We are looking forward to a very generous imâ€" migration program which will help to expand our present population as well as the great busihess of world tourism which airways promote. I cannot understand the opposition to progress when the powers that be should be given credit for future exâ€" pansion of an already progressive mode of tranâ€" sportation. Croydon was then the British International Airport. Now, on arrival at Gatwick, Surrey, England, I find London has two international airports Gatwick, used by British European Airways and charter carriers and Heathrow, London‘s main airport. The bank publication points out that the use of longâ€"term _ financing â€" of capital goods and equipment in making sales is one example of a relatively new development. It stresses that such financing "is often the major factor in the export of such items as electrical generating equipment, complete plants (such as a pulp and paper mill), communications equipment, or diesel locomotives." trade commissioners must adapt quickly to new situations and _ responâ€" sibilities. And if the government, and the local council, and many others are now, happily, all getting exercised at the same time, let‘s give credit where credit is due. The young people active in Pollution Probe are doing andother of their solid documentation to a point where _ the _ continued pollution cannot be ignored for much longer. tough. Certainly, on ocâ€" casion, Mr. Kerr talked very tough; but departmental action didn‘t match his words. For some reason or other, nobody on the government side, including Mr. Kerr, has seen fit to challenge this assertion that he was moved out because he was being too hard on inâ€" dustry. Whatever be the truth of the accusation, his sucâ€" cessor, James Auld, will be forced to be tough in action as well as words; otherwise the government‘s credibility will be seriously undermined in this field. council of the old Town of Weston called for such drastic action. The Borough of York council came close to the same position last week. There is one very ironical touch to this latest turn of events. Around Queen‘s Park the repeated assertion is that Hon. George Kerr was moved out of the enâ€" vironmental _ portfolio Last Wednesday, evening was quite a night. I guess we all forgot these fellows were tired but then who thinks about being tired when you see all those nice people waiting to shake your hand and give you a kiss or two. There were smiles and tears and hugs and you name it. It was hot and crowded but somehow you didn‘t care. It‘s when you had to line up to get on the elevator to get your car that‘s parked on the 7th floor, that your nerves hit home. You know, it‘s pretty Don‘t know about the rest of you people, but it sure makes me feel proud to have these fellows win the Third World Men‘s Softball Chamâ€" pionship. It could be that I know one of the players personally, John McDonald who comes from our own dear Borough of York. I also understand Adrian Smith is from York and George Chapman works for Parks & Recreation in York. Robert Shelston is also mentioned as being a York boy but he couldn‘t go with the tedm to the Philippines. Dynesâ€"We‘re proud of you In this contrast, incidentally, you see the difference between the orator and the deamgogue. Two stories will help to emâ€" phasise that difference. Charles Haddon Spurgeon was a famous London préacher in the reign of Queen Victoria. He preached regularly to congregations of 2,000 and more. Of him it was said: "When he preached every member of the congregation felt he was being addressed personally." That‘s the skill of the orator. The other story concerns Queen Victoria herself. She is reputed to have said on one occasion conâ€" cerning her eminent prime minister, William Ewart Gladstone, that "she didn‘t mind Mr. Gladstone‘s preâ€"eminence in politics but she did take objection to being addressed by him in private as though she were a public meeting!" That‘s the heavyâ€" handed style of the demagogue. The orator helps the people to make their own decision by showing them what they should do. The demagogue takes away people‘s power to decide by telling them what to do. Shakespeare plays skillfully upon this contrast in Julfus Caesar. The scene is Caesar‘s funeral. Brutus speaks first. In the When the high priest addressed the people at the trial of Jesus it was in a very different manner and with a totally different motive. He addressed the crowd as a crowd with the sole object of moulding them into a mindless mob. So they become plastic in his hands and he was able to sharge their decision to achieve his own fanatic purpose. The Gospel of Mark is our source for this contrast. In Chapter 15 we read "They: cried out more vehemently: Crucify Him." Only three chapters earlier Chapter 12 verse 37 we read: "And the Common people heard him gladly." Almost, you wonder, if they could be the same people. But they were. The difference lies in the way they were worked on by those who addressed them. When Jesus spoke to people â€" even when they were a crowd â€" he spoke to each one of them as an individual. His appeal was to this particular person or to that particular person in all his or her particular inâ€" dividuality. He called each person out of the amorphous mass of humanity into responsible and purposeful individuality. The Passion of Jesus is a point in history where the unblinking searchlight of truth is turned on man and his motives. Under that relentless scrutiny the ordinary people present a bedraggled spectacle. They are shown to be mere pawns in a game played for high stakes by the priests and scribes. The extent to which they were manipulated becomes plain when you contrast their attitude to Jesus at his trial with the attitude they took earlier. But aren‘t we being fooled by such pretentious claims? Can people â€" ordinary Joes I mean â€" seize and exercise real power? Or do they only have a pretence of power when they lend their acclaim to the powerâ€"drive of this or that agitator or fanatic? Are people themselves the active participants in any graver and complex issue or are they merely the passive pawns of the person who can shout the loudest? We hear much in praise of people power these days. People power is the modern medium for getting things done. It breaches the formidable walls of bureaucracy and breaks men free from the remorseles cogâ€" wheels of the system. By mass demonâ€" strations, by action groups, by strikes and sitâ€"ins, by mob violence even, it is believed that the will of the people can be imposed on authorities and governments. These dubious means _ to illâ€"defined _ ends _ are euphemistically grouped together as parâ€" ticipatory democracy. They are the ways whereby the little man (Charlie Chaplin of the 70‘s) asserts himself and wins due recognition of Ris rights. Before we could travel to Richmond Hill where a big reception was being held for these World Champions, we had to drive back down to Islington and pick up five of John‘s teenâ€"age cousins. Shouldn‘t say it, but that made eight people in the car. They were supposed to meet us at the airport but they had car trouble. When we finally arrived in Richmond Hill all you could see were people and cars. Yep, we were late getting there too. There were speeches and telegrams read and of course it was nice to see the players on stage with their wives. Apparently some of the wives went with their husbands and some stayed home.John‘s wife Rosemary was one of the gals who didn‘t go. I think she must have been the first person at the airport to meet the Dynes because she was way up front, whereas her mother Bernadette, Uncle Bill and I rough when you have to wander around looking for a car. No, I ddin‘t park it, one of John‘s uncles did. People power DON REED Rev. Reed is Minister of Westminster United Church in Weston. That‘s what church is all about. It exists to point people to Jesus Christ, who is not simply the Victim of people power but the Victor over people power. The world would be a much better place, and people power much more effective within it, if all of us found our way back to that old truth this Easterâ€"time. F I saw the problem more comically illustrated in a cartoon recently. There was a picture of a typical hippie taking part in a flower people‘s demonstration, complete with lank hair, droopy beard, dark glasses, the peace sign and a placard reading Make love not war. Below was a picture of the same hippie seated opposite his wife, each of them raging at the other in a typical domestic fracas. The caption read: We all know what‘s best in theory. Trouble is we can‘t work it out in practice. Right. People power is good in theory: it just doesn‘t work out in practice. Why? Because people are people and â€" you can‘t escape the old language â€" need to be save from sin. The problem was stated very pointedly by an ancient classical writer many years ago: "I see what is good and I approve of it. But I go for what is bad." It is the perennial problem of sin which you will find discussed at length and in great depth in St. Paul‘s Letter to the Romans. It is the problem that all our grandiose schemes for social betâ€" terment and educational improvement chose to ignore. But it cannot and will not be ignored. Our present personal perplexity and the current turmoil in our society are sufficient proof of this fact. As Stanley Kubrick, director of the film A Clockwork Orange, has said: "One of the most dangerous fallacies which has influenced a great deal of political and philosophical thinking is that man is essentially good, and that it is society that makes him bad. Rousseau transferred original sin from man to society and this view is the false base on which our moral and political philosophy has been built." There we see people power at its naked worst. And people these days are not any different. We all have a streak of envy and greea and violence within us. This proneness to evil is mightily compounded in a crowd whose mass emotion can be easily worked into fanaticism by a skillful agitator. In this speech, so astute in its clever, contrived innocence, Anthony heaps honor upon Brutus. But all the time he is implicity downgrading Brutus and upgrading himself. So successfully does he achieve his subtle purpose that by the time he has done speaking he has the people aflame with revolutionary fervour and hotâ€"foot for revenge on Brutus and the conspirators. So the people at the trial of Jesus were similarly incited by the high priest to raucously root for the release of Barabbas and to callously cry for the crucifixion of Jesus. Anthony addressed the crowd in an enâ€" tirely different manner. With the quiet inâ€" nuendo and the sly insinuation of the demagogue he woos the crowds affection from Brutus and excites their pity for the slain Caesar. You remember the lines: ‘Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. . . ." measured tones of the orator he tells the people plainly and forthrightly the reasons for Caesar‘s assassination. He pledges to the people his devotion and he affirms his loyalty to the state â€" even unto death.‘ He wins the people‘s acclaim. Then he quits the scene, leaving the podium to Mark Anthony. were way at the back. The same thing happened in Richmond Hill. You just couldn‘t move for people or cold feet. When all the speeches, etc. were over, the team were escorted to two buses and ferried up Yonge Street to the Legion Hall with a Scottish Pipe Band leading the way. We didn‘t stay long at the Legion for there were people waiting in Toronto for John‘s return, especially. his ‘two youngsters. When we got back to the house it was bedlam â€" questions and answers and‘ gifts being opened; you know how it goes. We watched T.V. showing the return of the Dynes at Malton and the short glimpse of their winâ€" ning game. As John said, it‘s good to be home and it sure is a nice feeling to be a Canadian. I‘m with him all the way. You never appreciate your own country till you travel. We Canadians should feel very, very proud of these fellows. All I can say is thank you Dynes for all your hard work and effort. Margaret Goheen