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Let‘s not play on the sympathy of an unâ€" suspecting unassuming and naive people. If you‘re gonna knock the others, tell us where the NDP gets its funds. To gather some 325 loyal, tried and true workers, he has sent out 1000 letters to potential enumerators whom, he hopes, will kick back the $60 dollars or so that they will collect for their one day and one evening‘s work enumerating. StUrely our entire election expense issue néeds* to be brought to light, but let‘s not pretend we‘re simon pure. Let‘s not pretend we‘re not doing the same thing in one way or another. Let‘s hear of what portion of union due funds are delegated toward the campaign for York Let‘s hear of some of the funds being sent your way from national headquarters. YÂ¥ We are all quite aware of the bagmen, Mr. Scott. But don‘t try to hide behind the white skirts of purity. Surely an important riding like York West must have some backing at the federal level. Surely the region must have some represenâ€" tation from organized labor. Surely some ways and means of financing an election campaign can be found other than by asking party workers to pitch in and work for free. Doesn‘t David Lewis let you get your hand in the till for your share of the take? Val Scott, the New Democratic Party standard bearer for the York West byâ€"election to take place October 16, is looking for 325 enumerators who will go from doorâ€"toâ€"door gathering names of those eligible to vote and who will donate the proceeds of their labor back into his coffers. union dues that goes into the party coffers, Mr Seott? Mr. Scott believes this will offset the "disadvantage of not having fat bagmen or slush funds‘ of other parties. Lots of luck. But what happens to the continual collection of wWeston Times ho ooat e on n on e ommc e ta S Subscription Rates $7 00 per year in advance to any agaress in Canaga Ofher countries $9.00 No funds â€" no . bagmen? hed 1890. incorporating the Weston Times and County of York the Times and Guide. and Weston Times Agvertiser. and the 2159 Weston Road, Weston, each Thursday by Principal Secand Class Ma«! Registration Number 1588 V J. MacMilian, President ang Publisner Bill Bailey. Editor Moily Fenton, General Manager stemâ€" York Times, Thursday, May 18, 1972 onâ€"York Times | _ No escaping the consequences prmnamnnokanaina ns sn nannnnnsnnsnnnoblt Telephone 241 5211 be justified in considering Legislation coming before the Ontario Legislature which would deny provincial civil servants the right to strike reflects a growing public belief that at any level a strike against the public by its employees is intolerable, Mr. Cassidy said. If such legislation is not extended to prevent those in essential local services from striking, municipal authorities would what services would : be Metropolitan _ Toronto cannot afford to have another strike of its civic outside workers, and in fact, no stoppage of essential services to the public can be tolerated said Len Cassidy, president of the 6,000â€" member _ Toronto â€" Real Estate Board, recently. Governments have come to bear an increasing volume and variety of responâ€" sibilities, and the demands on them will continue to be strong in the years ahead, says The Bank of Nova Scotia in its current Monthly Review. Not only is it as urgent as ever for governâ€" ments to execute efficiently their major economic roles, but the political and economic judgements to be made on priorities within the orbit of government are certainly not going to become any easier. Looking at the various functions carried out by governments in Canada, the bank finds that the traditional tasks have had a relatively minor part in the recet expansion of governâ€" ment activity. Defence Urban fabric fragile Look at government economy Some might conclude that the situation in relation to the common front, comâ€" prising the two union federations and the teachers organization, is the funâ€" For the moment I am not choosing sides. I simply note the indisputable fact that the situation has deteriorated to this point in Quebec; and if it continues, we in Ontario cannot escape the conâ€" sequences. When any government reaches the point where differences with as imâ€" portant a segment of society as the trade union movement can be resolved only by throwing top leaders in jail for a year, then the common ground among all groups necessary for the survival of a free democratic society is gone. In short, you have a revolutionary condition. which threaten Canada‘s existence as a nation, right here at home. I am thinking of current developments in affairs and look beyond Ontario‘s borders. I shall not dwell at any length on what is happening in Vietnam, except to emâ€" phasize the obvious: events could get out of hand to the point of having a profound impact upon our daily lives. But let‘s go no further than the fundamental problems concern above the parochial consideration of provincial made which may well have greater influence oyer our future than anything that happens at Queen‘s Park. So much so, that one is forced It‘s a hectic world. All over the globe decisions are being Can‘t afford strikes ‘‘The urban fabric can be a fragile thing. Deterioration can set in so easily when the standard of maintenance ‘‘Residents _ o f Metropolitan _ Toronto justifiably have taken great pride in the cleanliness of their city and its high standards of street and park maintenance. To see their streets littered, and their parks defaced with tons of rotting garbage, has been an insult to which they should not be subjected again. should not be deprived of essential services when there is a disagreement. added. While in no way advocating that employees be denied the right to organize, he did emphasize his belief that the public spending, for example, though the same in dollar terms as suring the Korean War, now accounts for only twoâ€"thirds of its earlier share of G.N.P., and the share of national output devoted to customary functions (such as maintaining a basic adâ€" ministrative apparatus, the construction of roads and highways, the supply of water and the removal of wastes) was but modestly higher in 1968 than in the early 1950‘s, despite the urban growth of recent years. better provided by private contractors, Mr. Cassidy By far the greatest changes, the bank suggests, are those that have occurred in areas of education, health and social welfare, where overall demands have acâ€" celerated rapidly and where to some degree there has jailed. Ironically, the other one gave the crisis arising from widespread protests because of these jailings as the reason for withdrawing his resignation! It had been submitted in the first inâ€" stance because of his ob jections to the federal budget, and the fact that, once again, Ottawa had invaded _ provincial jurisdiction _ on _ social security. In short, we‘re back to the basic difference on which the federalâ€" provincial _ agreement foundered â€" at Victoria eighteen months ago. There is a tendency on the part of many Canadians outside Quebec to view this long confrontation as proof of the unreasonable demands of French Canada. Certainly, essentially the same demands have been made over the past decade by a Liberal premier, Jean Lesage, then two Union National premiers, Daniel from within, as well as without, the government. According to reports, one cabinet minister submitted his resignation because the top union leaders had been them, it is evidence that the disintegration is taking place government went so far as to submit resignations. Even if they subsequently withdrew damental problem. But let‘s take note that two cabinet ministers in the Bourassa Donald C. MacDonald QUEEN‘S PARK REPORT MPP for York South declines. We have just been through a winter which caused serious damage to our streets. The clean up and repairing of our streets should not have been delayed. We can see many examples on this continent of drab _ decaying _ cities. Toronto and other Canadian cities have been vibrantly healthv excepntions to this trend and must continue to improve, not deteriorate. Not only can we not afford to see our streets unattended, but we cannot afford to see so many manâ€"hours of executive time consumed by senior elected and appointed officials on negotiations when there are so many urgent _ civic problems claiming their attention. Arbitration should be the course in the future." In tracing the massive expansion of educational expenditures, the review says that the prime moving force during the 1960‘s was growth of the postâ€" secondary sector, with a tripling in number of university _ students. Demographic trends were responsible only in part, since percentage in the been a shift of outlays from private to public domain. Dollar costs to governments of their activities in these areas increased by almost seven times from 1951 to 1968 and rose from less than 7 per cent of G.N.P. to 15.5 perâ€" cent. Estimates for later years indicate that by now the further development of this trend has brought such expenditures to over 17 percent of G.N.P. My point is simply that Ontario is making essenâ€" In fact, Ontario‘s constant threat over the past year has been that they are going to opt out of all of the sharedâ€" cost programs, such as health, and insist on getting a fiscal equivalent in terms of tax abatements. One could comment for hours on the pros and cons of this demand. For the moment, I am not interested in that. The point I want to make â€" in order to keep the situation in perspective â€" is that other provinces, notably Ontario, _ are _ making essentially _ the _ same demands of Ottawa. The consistent position of Ontario government spokesmen over the past year or two, and never more stridently than now by Provincial Treasurer Darcy McKeough, is that the federal government has encroached unduly on matters that‘ are conâ€" stitutionally the rights of the province, and that they should get out. Levesque, is even more intransigent, so one can assume that the overâ€" whelming majority of voters support Quebec‘s consistent Bertrand, and now again by another Liberal premier, The position taken by the Parti Quebecois, under Rene Social welfare is the third expenditure category for which there have been very large _ rates of increase. From _ 1951 _ to _ 1968, budgetary outlays in this category rose by more than four and oneâ€"half times and if anything the annual rate of increase since then has been even stronger. Here again, growth in the volume of spending reflects a broader government role in income support as well as a general upgrading of standards. The broadening of the involvement of governments in health matters has taken place principally through hospital insurance and Medicare, under which costs are shared between federal and provincial governments. In 1969 the Economic Council of Canada estimated that in the period from 1967 to 1975 overall government outlays on health care would grow, in constant dollars, at a rate of 9.3 percent a year. In fact, outlays to date have been rising well in excess of this rate. To some extent this reflects the nonâ€"recurring impact of the adoption of Medicare and there are signs that once a province has experienced the initial bulge in Medicare costs during the first years of operation, it can hold increases to more sustainable proportions. But this estimate does underline the strong pressures which will persist for some time. relevant ageâ€"group enrolled in _ postâ€"secondary _ inâ€" stitutions doubled. In view of the recent flatteningâ€"out in primary school enrolments, some moderation in the growth of education costs may show up, although it will nrobably not be until the latter part of this decade that enrolments at secondary and postâ€"secondary â€" institutions slacken off. This brings us, of course, to the great dilemma of Canadian politics: sucâ€" cessive provincial governâ€" ments of differing political complexions claim they speak for Quebec, but Prime Minister Trudeau points to his big majority from that province and claims that he does. Obviously he does, at Ottawa, but not at Quebec City. And the longer Ottawa maintains a rigid stance with regard to Quebec‘s position in Confederation, the more forces within that province will build up until they exâ€" plode â€" with consequences which no province will escape. The difference between Quebec and Ontario is mainly one of degree. Quebec feels much more strongly about the question than Ontario because, without control over these matters, they are convinced that French Canada cannot survive. In fact, they feel it so strongly that ministers have been threatening for months to resign over the on Ottawa that they cannot afford to make such vigorous governments and the central government in any federal state. French Canada‘s differences with Ottawa are no more basic than those of the _ soâ€"called _ "have" provinces are do dependent the demands &lfl“@fl: parcel of the perpetual tugâ€" The beautiful and the ugly â€" the good and the evil have always been in sharp conâ€" trast. The difference betâ€" ween God‘s hature and human nature is also in sharp contrast. God is In sharp contrast to all this beauty is the wistful remark made by a relative who had been to a movie recently. been to a movie which was so immoral she decided never to go again. A friend of hers had been in the same position and walked out in the middle of the film by Dorothy Clare Kilburn Springtime on Georgian Bay has the tendency to lure one away _ from _ the typewriter. The swallows are nesting in their new condominium at the back of the house; a fat woodcock was making a tour of the woods this morning; the sun sets in a flame of fire which makes the trees look like black lace against the sky. "I wish things were like they used to be." She had Points But this time there‘s a difference. The great fear of the year 2000 is much more well informed than that of the year 1000. The cries of the religious doom watchers are buttressed by dire warnings from men of science. The latest of these warnings comes from the pens of four Massachusetts Inâ€" stitute of Technology experts who have published a grisly report on mankind‘s future called "Limits to Growth." It‘s available in a paperback at $3.25. The world, they say, is hurtlilng towards irreversible catastrophe. The final cataclysm will come within the next 100 years, with painful symptoms appearing as early as the year 2000. "This happens," the book says, "if we assume no change in the present system or if we assume any number of technological changes ... even the most optimistic estimates of the benefits of technology do not prevent the ultimate decline of population and industry and do not postpone the collapse beyond the year 2100." The remedy, the scientists say, lies in an imâ€" mediate return to a better balanced world. To achieve this we need drastic birth control measures and the total abandonmgnf?gf the «ayth of growth. Thus speak the scientists. How about the other species of doom watâ€" chers, the religionists? All this, the writer says, leads up to the fateful Armageddon. At this point he inâ€" troduces into his caterwaul of calamity a factor which the ancient dramatists used to Well they‘ve been around for a good long time and they are vociferous today. Last week this newspaper reported one as urging us all to seek the Mark of Jehovah as an amulet against the fated doom of mankind. In a book I dipped into recently (The Late Great Planet Earth, Hal Lindsey, Zonâ€" derman Press, $2.75) the writer, travelling by the political rathr than the ecological route, arrives at precisely the same destination as the MIT scientists â€" thoug h isn‘t quite so foolish as to tie himself down to a particular date! This is what he says: "We have seen how current events are fitting together simultaneously into the precise pattern of predicted events. Israel has returned to Palestine and revived the nation. Jerusalem is under Israeli control. Russia has emerged as a great northern power and is the avowed enemy of revived Israel. The Arabs are joining in a concerted effort to liberate Palestine under Egyptian leadership. The black African nations are beginning to move from sympathy toward the Arabs to an open alliance in their liberation cause." It‘s interesting, because just now our ears are being assailed by booming tones of another kind. These are the sepulchral croakings of the prophets of doom. As the bullfrog‘s roar is geared to the approach of spring so these prophetic croakings seem to be geared to the greater circling wheel of the centuries. Their voices rose to a deafening crescendo at the end of the first millenium of the Christian Era. Only to die away as abiding stability of earth and sky gave the lie to their rabble cries of alarm. But now as the end of the Second Millenium approaches, the fateful year 2000, so their voice once more is being heard in the land. remained on the leeâ€"ward slopes of the sunâ€" starved bush. But everywhere else it was spring. Familiar coltsfoot and another, not so familiar, blueâ€"starred harbinger of spring dotted the ground. Chickadees were chirpily raiding some delicacy or other hidden within the bobbing lambtailed catkins of the witch hazels. Suddenly a raucous sound broke upon the still spring air. The bullfrogs, roused from their wintry sleep in the mud bottoms of the shallow creek, were trying out their booming tones. It‘s interesting. A week or so ago I took a ‘"Deus ex machina‘‘ â€" the miraculous Sharp contrasts ponder Last year‘s program was good, but I think this year‘s was ‘ exceptional. Libby Darvill‘s _ dancing _ put everyone in a toeâ€"tapping The editor: Here 1 am again with compliments for the music department staff and a whole lot of talented young people from York Memorial School for putting on such a wonderful night of music May 5. altruistic while human nature is self seeking, always figuring what it will receive from any given situation, always thinking in terms of how things affect itself. But God bridged the gap between God and man when He sent His Son, Jesus Christ. The word of God states, ‘"For as many as received him to them gave Letters to the Editor DON REED Rev. Reed is Minister of Westminster United Church in Weston. Bravo York Doom watchers How God will do that neither I nor any man can say. But it may be that such scientific reports as "Limits to Growth," and such religious books as "The Late Great Planet Earth," are part of the means He is using to bring it about. (3) Give credit to both stientist and religionist for showing us that there are both human and divine factors in the crisisâ€" situation confronting the world today. If we don‘t do something â€" doom will overtake us. If what we do is not in line with the divine purpose, doom will stilt result though it may take a little longer to reach us. We must act in faith according to a conscience enlightened by God‘s Word, believing that God will bring what we do in dependence upon Him into line with His loving purpose. As for the religionist (of the type I am dealing with) the fixed and deterministic source of his prediction is not a computer, but a book â€" the Bible â€" as interpreted by his rigorous fundamentalist principles. I don‘t honestly believe God intended the Bible to be used in this rigid, inflexible way. The danger here lies not, as with the comâ€" puter, in what you put into it, but in what you take out of it! (2) But take heed in a critical way! Don‘t let these predictions of incontrovertible disaster throw you. Let me give you one devastating criticism of both the scientist‘s and the religionist‘s position. They both argue from a fixed and deterministic source. In the case of the scientist it is the computer, And it is well to remember that the compuer is but a machine. "Garbage in: Garbage out" is a wise and witty saying to apply in connection with computers. They can do no more and no less than what the operator asks of them. Certainly they cannot create new possibilities out of fixed premiges.â€" That‘s the failure of logic generally. To pursue this line of discussion further may well take many of you out of your depth so I will simply say, "Do not be afraid of the computerised future: thank God that He gave man a heart as well as a head." (1) We must give heed to what both the scientists and the religionists, each in their own way, are saying about future possibilities. The important thing is _/ what they are saying is possible. When spring is here and all the allure of summer lies before us; when life is smooth and the way of it is pleasant, it is very easy for us to have a false sense of security. Easy for us to see only the flowers and forget the weeds in the springing uplands of life. Easy for us to feel with Stevenson: "The world is so full of a number of things, I think we should all be as happy as kings." But the bullfrog voices are there to remind us that there‘s another side to life. And we need those voices. Because, no matter how optimistic we are by nature, we can‘t ignore the fact that there‘s something radically wrong somewhere with this old world of ours. So take heed! What are we to make of these prognostication of gloom and doom? We must take them seriously â€" but not too seriously? Let me explain what I mean. To make my explanation clearer I will tabulate my points. This in turn leads to his preacher‘s punch line and he says: "As history races towards this moment, are you afraid or looking with hope for deliverance? The answer should reveal to you your spiritual condition. One way or another history continues in a cerâ€" tain aceeleration towards the return of Christ. Are you ready?" divine intervention â€" "As the: battle of Armageddon reaches its awful climax and it appears that all life will be destroyed on earth â€" in this very moment Jesus Christ will return and save man from selfâ€" extinction." Just as an earthly father imparts his likeness to his children so the Heavenly Father imparts His likeness to His children through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. But first we must receive Christ into our lives. Then and then only can He impart to us the power to become like Him. mood, Franca Romano‘s signing | got a â€" marvelous ovation, then Mr. B. Clarke and his junior and senior bands really finished the evening off sending everyone home with smiles of pleasure from the enjoyment of the evening. This year he hoped to make it last even longer. he power to become the of God." Bravo York, Mrs. Gooch. 0| @