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The Board of Education for the Borough of York is fooling around with the idea that they may not repair damage caused maliciously to school properties. If they don‘t, who will? Damage caused to school premises is Board of Education responsibility â€" and they have to fix it. If they can determine who caused the damage, then they charge it back using the courts for recourse, if necessary. But they must fix it. It‘s unfortunate, but some youngsters will damage property about them. They‘ll tear up park benches, smash windows, cause untold destruction in the name of having fun or doing their own thing. To deny the non malicious, the non damagers the replacement and repair of damage to schools is to lose their respect as well â€" and soon there would be no school at all. And after schools, what next? The Teacherâ€"Board Liaison Committee is opposed to the motion before the board and feel that increased vigilance by school staff and cooperation with student school councils would prove more effective in reducing malicious damage and loss of school property. They rightly suggest that unless damage, both malicious and unintentional, is made good at once, that there is a marked increase in damage to school property. The committee also points out that failure to replace broken doors and windows present both health and security hazards. The Board of Education must not shirk their duties. They‘re suggesting the; policy of not repairing damage for one~Tregsonm â€"only â€" to penalize the entire school for the sake of a malicious few. But because they do â€" and have done since time immemorial â€" is no reason to penalize the majority who are respectful and law abiding and want to see their schools and other surroundings neat and tidy and in good state of repair. ‘It surely can‘t be in an effort to save money. It‘s a bold resolution, but the York Board of Edllé?éflnâ€"l? used to making bold resolutions as evidénced by yet another item on their books â€" that of a motion that would set limits to the terms of principals, vice principals and other positions of responsibility. Damage must â€" be fixed "m".u‘m Weston ©0ad, Weston. each Thursday by Principal Limited. L That one may have some merit. i e weston Times Second Class Mai! Registration Number 1588 Subscription Rates $7 00 per year in advance to any address in Canada Other countries $9.00 1990, incorporating the Weston Times ang County of York Times and Guide. and Weston Times Advertiser. and the V.). MacMillan, Presigent ang Publisher â€"____ Bill Badey, Editor _ Moily Fenton, General Manager Telephone 241â€"5211 eS given to the Legislature by the Minister, Hon. Syl Apps. In addition to the regular summer â€" employment program of his department for 300 young people with postâ€"secondary _ education qualifications, this year there is a special program for a further 300 â€" making 600 jobs in all. So far they have received 7,000 apâ€" plications! the estimates of the Department of Corrections (the new name for Reform Institutions) last week, a very significant figure was All of which merely underâ€" lines _ the _ staggering proportions of the problem we face in achieving soâ€" called . full. employment. 1 promised last week to return to this theme sometime, and perhaps there is no better time than now â€" for the problem heads the list of concerns of both governâ€" ments and the general public. Government spokesmen in some jurisdictions tend to argue that we shall just have to learn to live with high levels of unemployment, Prime Minister Trudeau among them. The provincial government does not accept this proposition: Provincial Treasurer McKeough reâ€" affirmed in his budget that any unemployment figure in excess of 3 percent is not acceptable, arguing that from experience we know that the Ontario economy can operate successfully at that level. I would certainly agree. After all, unemployment levels in the range of 0.5 percent have been achieved in West Germany; 1.4 perâ€" 22% of GNP from government Although the recently published "Survey of Capital Spending Intentions‘‘ inâ€" dicated a disappointingly small increase in capital investment in Canada for 1972, the Bank of Montreal, in its justâ€"issued Business Review for April, suggests that by yearâ€"end capital spending will have exceeded intentions by a fairly wide margin. The ack of optimism in estimates for capital growth reflected large additions to plant capacity made by industry over the past two or three years, coupled with business pessimism which followed the poor perâ€" formance of the Canadian economy in 1971. However, rapid expansion of corporate profits in 1971 and the strong pace of consumer spending have provided new grounds for optimism, and judging by The editor, Canadian Gypsum is fast, but not fast enough to get things done retroactively. In last week‘s Westonâ€" York Times, a special supplement listed the details of Gypsum‘s expanded environmental â€" control In the main story on page New grounds Not that fast ”Z//S Lifrle PiGoGy Wenry SNID QN,P.’ _ . _ TH1§ LIT TLE PIGGy, SKI DOO / ___ Ts UiffLe Pigey sory wett clioeep __â€" OIIP zim j;oo0 J cent in Norway; and 2.7 1 would agree that percent in Sweden. governments today must do However, while Mr. everything possible to en McKeough leaves the imâ€" courage private business to pression that Ontario is do _ more. . My _ only ‘driving toward this obâ€" qualification would be that jective‘, Budget Paper A such incentives should not reveals that he feels that it involve massive subsidies It was my contention in the budget debate that full employment can be achieved only if everything possible is done to maximize economic activity in both the private and â€" public sector. 1 presented this argument because the persistent argument of Mr. McKeough is that governments are doing too many things that should be left to private business; and therefore, the answer to our unemâ€" ployment problem â€" lies chiefly in providing inâ€" centives for the private sector to do the job. However, â€" while Mr. McKeough leaves the imâ€" pression that Ontario is ‘driving toward this obâ€" jective‘, Budget Paper A reveals that he feels that it could be achieved by the end of 1975 if the real (volume) growth rate of the economy exceeds 7 percent. But that has happened in only four of the last 17 years: Even in his own terms, full eqiploymment; is likely to be achieved only in the late 1970‘s. Most people â€" and parâ€" ticularly the unemployed! â€" would agree that this will not be good enough. Therefore, the key question is: how can we assure that a 7 percent real growth rate of our economy can be achieved sooner, rather than later, than 19757 The pulp and paper inâ€" dustry is scheduling a decline in _ investment reflecting a reduction in profit margins by twoâ€"thirds recent indicators some upward revisions of inâ€" vestment plans may have already occurred. The bank notes that imâ€" ports of machinery and equipment since October last year have increased at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 40 per cent compared with 15 per cent from January to October, and new orders of investment goods on the books of Canadian manufacturers have also continued to move up rapidly. Overall investment outlays by business on plant and machinery are scheduled to increase by 3.7 per cent, but individual industries face vastly difâ€" fering circumstances. one and in the check list on page four the completion date for the installation of the $300,000 bed wet scrubber was incorrectly listed as March 1, 1972. The correct date is, of course, March 1, Fred Schooley Project Engineer, Canadian Gypsum Limited Donald C. MacDonald QUuEEN‘S PARK REPORT MPP for York South from the public treasury â€" whether it be outright grants, forgivable loans or excessively favorable taxes which simply mean that others in society have to pick up.the tab on behalf of the corporate sector. But having said that, let us not for a fleeting second kid ourselves that this will solve our problem. Experience has proven conclusively that the efforts of the private sector alone cannot, and will not, do the job. Therefore, it was my argument that the Provinâ€" cial Treasurer should cease to denigrate the role of the government; that in fact, this role must be expanded â€" otherwise, full emâ€" ployment is a: pipe~dream. For example, consider these basic figures. The Canadian Tax Foundations has revealed in‘ a recent study that 22 percent of our gross national product â€" the sum total of goods and services produced â€" stem from government activities. (Interestingly enough, 16 percent of that is at the provincial and municipal levels, and only 6 percent at the federal level.) With exception of iron ore and petroleum, the mining ‘industry, has also exâ€" perienced a softening of market demand and after a heavy investment program in 1971, producers have in dicated a cutback of 17.5 per cent in capital spending. due to sluggish demand, intense competition, and appreciation of the Canadian dollar. In its sister industry â€" forestry â€" investment outlays are expected to inâ€" crease at the rapid rate of 12.4 per cent due to buoyant démand for lumber to meet the North American housing boom. for optimism The heavy intensity of these resourceâ€"based inâ€" dustries, and the large weight of their investment expenditures within the business sector of the economy (pulp and paper and mining account for roughly 15 per cent of total business _ investment outlays), promise to act as a significant drag on the overall expansion of spenâ€" ding. However, the remaining goodsâ€"producing _ inâ€" dustries are expected to increase capital exâ€" penditures by some 5 per cent and the service in dustries, led by retailing facilities and hotels, by 14 per cent. _ On a regional basis inâ€" vestment growth will likely be the most rapid in Quebec government activities should jobs for all would be even bigger â€"â€" and it is already too Therefore, any that the task of providing big for private business to meet alone. s Government | activities have expanded greatly in recent years because they had no alternative but to move in and do the job where private business could not, or would not, do it at a price which was deemed acâ€" ceptable. It is particularly noteworthy that this exâ€" pansion of government activity, in Ontario at least, has taken place under Conservative Governments which professed to be opâ€" posed to it, but presumably had no alternative. When the first of the current lengthy list of Conservative Governments was elected in 1943, the provincial budget was a mere $123 millions. It took 20 years to pass the billion mark in 1961. Since then budgets have grown at an accelerating pace, passing the two billion mark in 1967; the three billion mark in 1969; the four billion mark in 1970; and this year, topping five billion for the first‘time. To talk about cutting back on the government‘s role may be a good propaganda ploy; but in face of that record, obviously actions speak louder than words. More important, to suggest that the government should cut back, leaving even more slack for the private sector to pick up, is to concede that full employment will not be achieved in this decade. where continued growth in investment outlays within the service sector, is e®â€" pected to provide the major impetus to the predicted 12.2 per cent increase. In â€"British Columbia capital expenditures during 1972 are expected to decline by some 2 per cent reflecting the general cutback of inâ€" vestment in resourceâ€"based industries which make up the largest proportion of the province‘s industrial structure. For the remaining three regions â€" the Atlantic Provinces, Ontario and the Prairies â€" _ investment outlays are scheduled to increase by 2.1 per cent, 4.4 per cent and 5.3 per cent respectively. Hurfiber College‘s centre for continuing studies in graphic â€"communications will host printers from all across Canada June 21â€"24 as the site of this year‘s Printing _ Management Seminar. The annual seminar has previously been held at Trent University, Peterâ€" borough, _ but _ seminar organizers decided to shift the locale to take advantage of Humber‘s central location and the resources of the college‘s graphic comâ€" munications centre. Canadian seminar That‘s evangelism. As someone has said: "It is one poor beggar telling another poor beggar where to find food." In the changing situation that confronts the Church today this is likely to be the Church‘s upâ€"coming method of communication. * Of course it isn‘t new. In fact it was the church‘s primary means of communication. One,Christian scholar tells how it was in this way : At the intersection of Pine and John the other day, my path was crossed by two smart looking young men carrying identical brief cases. ‘"There go the Jehovah‘s Witâ€" nesses,‘" said my companion. Jehovah‘s Witnesses are a cranky pseudoâ€" Christian sect that are "showing a phenomenal growth pattern. The secret of their success lies in their literal unâ€" derstanding of the word "witness." Every member is a witness, one who testifies to his belief. They go out in pairs with the firm conviction that they are salesmen for Jehovah: not retailing His goods, but retelling His Goodness. And this goodness of Jehovah resides in His purpose to rescue men from destruction. On this purpose the Witnesses have the inside story. It is a cockâ€"andâ€"bull story. But the reason why so many people fall for it is because of the dedicated zeal of those who tell them about it. It is the testimony of the Witnesses that does the trick. "The twelve disciples learned what they learned by being with Jesus, by seeing him at work day by day. They passed on what they had learned when he sent them out to proclaim the Rule of God and to have the power to expel demons. That is a brief and compendious way of saying that they were sent to do the same things that their Master was already doing, to be the focal points at which the love and power of God could meet the needs of men. "That is true, I think, of the Early Church as a whole. The Christianity that conquered the Roman Empire was not an affair of brilliant preachers addressing packed congregations. We have, so far as I know, nothing much in the way of brilliant preachers in the first three hundred years of the Church‘s life. There were one or two brilliant controversialists, but I suspect that they made more enemies than friends; and the greatest of them all, Origen, was probably over the heads of most people most of the time. The great preachers came after Constantine the Greai; and before that Christianity had already done its work and made its way right through the Empire from end to end. When we‘try to picture how it was done we seem to see domestic servants teaching Christ in and through their domestic service, workers doing it through their work, small shopkeepers through their trade, and so on, rather than eloquent The problem of distributing the housing of the future could be more vital than producing it, Joseph Abela, pastâ€"president of the Toronto Real Estate Board, told the Brampton Real Estate Board recently. In his speech he urged his fellow realtors to give close scrutiny to proposals for change in their communities and at the same time to guard these features that give any community its individuality. "It would be a mistake for any realtor to think so exâ€" clusively about the inâ€" dividual properties he might list, sell, lease, manage or appraise that he forgets the community setting. For it is the state of the community that determines value and particularly future value to a great extent. It seems to me that the best realtor is the one who has the most conâ€" cern for the health of his community â€" from every aspect. He will want to see it retain whatever ‘distinctive character it possesses, not trying to be like every other place. He will advocate conserving what is good, rather than urging that everyting old be swept away." We need a variety and a broad range of choices in living accommodation in a big city. But in some areas there has been too complete and too hasty a swing to highâ€"rise, Mr. Abela said. ‘"‘Neither the megalopolis nor the small city nor the town nor the village is Utopia. But we must be able to offer the Canadian of the future a choice. If life in Canada is to have any real quality about it, that quality must come from a richness of diversity. ‘‘The question isn‘t how many housing units we produce. It is a matter of getting the right ones in the right places. ‘‘There is no single answer to housing and urban problems â€" unless we consider that a real deterâ€" mination to do something about them is an answer. Improvement in the situation must come from hundreds of decisions on small points and large. Thdustrialized production of housing is not the answer alone, although it could be part of the answer. A subâ€" sidized interest rate could be part of the answer and so could rent subsidies. Government assista. e in the way of favorable interest rates and even incentive grants could give another generation of usefulness to blighted housing. Conâ€" dominium is â€"part of the answer, enabling purchasers to acquire equity in areas where detached and semiâ€" detached housing is too expensive. But when tou much emphasis is put on one part of the formula the desired effect is not attained. "Before we can do much about providing diversity in housing, or for good distribution, certain political decisions have to be made. The municipalities must be encouraged to allow more innovative uses of land and materials. In the shortâ€"term, provinces must pay for extension of trunk services and in the longâ€"term they must provide municipalities with new revenue sources so they do not fear healthy development, "It â€" seems _ to _ me sometimes that the best contribution the thinking man can make to the course of events around him is to advance a healthyskepticism about what even the majority of people might assume to be the truth. He may be able to show good reasons for saying that what most people seem to believe to be inevitable is not inevitable at all. As I have suggested, there are times to question seriously the theory that everything in our largest cities has to go highâ€" rise. Mr. Abela was skeptical about the likelihood that p;xtting all land under puBiic DON REED Rev. Reed is Minister of Westminster United Church in Weston. Evangelism propagmfists gwaying mass meetings of interested inquirers." That‘s how it has to be today. In a society that has suddenly burst at the seams and become open and loosely structured, the Church, too, must burst outâ€"of its buildings. It must break out of its formalism; become more open to the needs of people and much more flexible to meet those needs. are saved." It does mean that Christians must be much more open to nonâ€"Christian, much more ready ‘to receive them, to rap with them, to explore with them such things as the meaning and purpose of life, the importance of social mores, the rights and wrongs of living. This doesn‘t mean that Christian people will stand on street corners retailing literature, or knock on doors, buttonâ€"holing people and asking them pointâ€"blank if they No man, so far as he is a man and not a monkey, is ever totally indifferent to such questions as these. They are the very stuff of life. It is because the Bible, the Christian faith, the Church are engrossed with these fundamental question arising out of the human condition that they will never be outâ€" ofâ€"date, dead and done for. You cannot turn the pages of the Bible and read its stories without being gripped by the fact that the faith of which it speaks springs directly out of wrestling with the realities of life. Likewise the Christian faith does not begin with some idealised picture of life which it then tries to impose upon the real world of the everyday. It begins there. Its authenticity lies in the fact that it has brought men, where they are and as they are, into the secret of life itself. So it has to be with the Church. The Church becomes authentic, becomes a place of real meeting, a point of real discovery, when it lays aside its accumulated creeds and doctrines and learns to speak with people in contemporary language about life, as it is and where it is. When I use the word Church I don‘t mean priests or preachers. I mean people. People who are prepared to explore with other people the strange mysteries of life and death and everything that lies between. It is out of such exploration that faith is born. Not a faith that has all the answers. Not a faith that offers immunity from all life‘s adâ€" versity and frustration. But a faith that, in spite of everything, will enable a man to stand on his feet and stay on his feet. I don‘t, personally, know how a mancan stand without such faith. I don‘t honestly know how a man can find such faith except some other man help him to see life in the light of it ownership, as some people have suggested, would enâ€" sure better planning and development. "Do we really think that the oncoming generation is going to accept more and more dictation by bureaucrats? While it may seem at the moment that a: few young people really love bureaucrats who approve lovely grants for them to participate in some rather strange enterprises, by and large the generation now reaching the age where they are in the market for shelter are too accustomed to doing their own thing to take kindly to bureaucratic control. Their stubborness could reverse the trend to government interference that has been plaguing the country in recent years. "I‘m afraid I would not be comfortable with all land in public ownership and under administration of governâ€" ment appointees or a crown corporation or something like that. "The young _ affluent consumer of the middle seventies and on will be better educated than many of his predecessors and not as likely to be taken in by glib advertising and promotion. He may well be rather toughâ€"minded, having entered the job market at the beginning of the decade during the recession when jobs market at the beginning of the decade during the recession when jobs were hard to find. ‘"Having grown up without being deprived of anything, they will not be impressed by glitter alone. And, as other authorities have also pointed out, personal development, recreation and travel are likely to mean more than the old game of keeping up with the Joneses in terms of flashy possessions. After years _ of _ challenging majority or established opinion on many things, these young people can be expected to resist mass advertising as well.