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How could the union oppose? They were running scared and had to accept a cut-back policy. For some years they have been hood- winking the borough and all of a sudden their little bubble started to show signs of breaking up. He also states that "without objection from the union, two man, rather than three man packer crews have been introduced since the tenders were received . . . " And while management are the ones to hire labor, the work force is constantly being pushed up by unions through demands for shorter hours; v' more holiday periods, the lessening of the work load per man (three man crews as opposed to two man crews, the picking up of garbage from one side of the street only) and other similar ploys that give management no choice but to hire - more men to do the same job. As to whose act has to be cleaned up, Mr Saunders? Well, it's evident, isn't it? First of all, yours and board of eontrol's and couneil's so that this sort of situation cannot happen {again __ _ A _ _ _ _ _ There are quite a ted" acts that could stand cleaning up, but let's not hear any more garbage. Controller Douglas Saunders takes some credit in a letter to the editor in this week's edition of the Weston-York Times - but we can't see where any credit is due him, to members of the board of control or to council. He takes a bow for giving support to the calling of tenders for the contracting out of garbage as he felt "for some years" that this section of the works department was not operating at peak efficiency. "It was an opportunity to expose a system that I felt was not giving our citizens vaiuedor their tax dollars." Se-cond; and it has already taken place __ is the union's. CUPE can be more efficient and it will be with the)hreat of contracting out oyer their: _heads._ Now Mr. Saunders has been a member of council since 1964 and a member of board of control since 1969. How come it took until the latter part of 1972 before Mr. Saunders felt it was the opportune time to expose a waste of tax- payer's funds in the borough? Has Mr. Saunders let his voters down in the intervening years to the tune of 16 unneeded parttime jobs and the sum of $120,000 per year since elected to office? Mr. Saunders also accuses the Weston York Times in failing to point out that the com- missioner of works reported "that if we awarded a contract, there would be no reduction in the 1973 budget." We ean't point out what didn't exist. Nowhere in the records can we find any statement of this nature made by Mr. Macdonald, nor anyone else, for that matter. '-"r-"'m-sr"""'l""' V‘,1~r---,- r, -- ,,,,,_, w. ms Icon; and. Wooten. LGd,,L, by T 'tABrAan. Amdlwlhghn arming Co. w. W I”. WHO». the Woven Times and C-tFor-dr/ur-omit-aide ondWouon thou-Monsoon ad tho Woven Timos. YU. with. Punishment! Publisher M. Foam.Gonoul MW Bill an" Editor 7* ant" ' m 14.7.“ _ kwcluspan Iceman!» Numou ISO! WWI... “Dom." “MN You Mod-d My: Vacuum-It“ “Communal.“ Enough garbage $9515.} 1Rtt W Mum " 00 p.. The purpose ot the gathering was to than Albert" recent In- in industrial and manufacturing costs. It was interesting that Mr. McKeough should have rejoined the government on this issue, for in one sense, this is where he went out. Because of his abrupt departure last fall from the ministerial responsibilities for Inter-governmental Affairs, the Ontario government never got around to sitting down with Alberta before Premier bougheed announced the gas price increase. Under normal circumstances, that would have happened -rv- particularly since both provinces have Progressive Conservative governments. With the hiatus in the department following Mr. Mekeough's resignation, the negotiations were lost in the shuttle, and Ontario found itself faced with the Alberta increase as a felt accompli and had to deal with it publicly. Thus the mini- summit meeting in Edmonton. The background to this event is" of greater creaststorttaturalgaarehieh will, so it has been eatimaud,rettultin$Mmore per year for the avenge homemmer'sfelttili,toaay notttingMthehigNeprieets hemnyhnvetopayacruas- momma“: -- t, V v travelvtrmmtttrtora mirHumrrtit_metirRneittt, You will have Ballad in! Premier William Davis. - uir “had W19}!!! 'tre _ -- Premier Your paper failed to point out, however, that the commtuioner of works reported that it we awarded I contract. there would be no reducttm in the ma budget. Letters to the editor It LI now a fact that our citizens are paying too Championing the cause. . . The editor: Having read your recent articles and editorials regarding contracting out and the reaction by Mr. C.F. Dean of Weston, I feel it is necessary to inform you and your readers of many of the facts that your paper has neglected to report. _ Your paper reports that I "was in full favor of con- tracting out a few weeks ago." a I did support the calling of tenders, however, that is a far cry from awarding tenders. I have felt for some years that this section of the works department has not operated at peak efficiency. It was an opportunity to expose a system that I felt was not giving our citizens value for their tax dollars (previous issues of your paper and the dailies will bear this out). Opportunity to expose a system Our contract with he Iptvr #4 MGM/6 AROUND / M/et/ CALL you /F Tr4EREt, AA/ OPEN/N6] " distance, the puzzling/him The mystery as to why the Alberta government's in- tervention was accepted with such equnnimimity was soon resolved. Premier Lougheed followed with a price increase to all out-of- province consumers. Obviously, the gas in- terests had been assured in advance that the price in- crease was going to be made and therefore they knew that the high royalties would not have to come o t of their pockets. They ould im- mediately be ssed onto the consumer. In this in- aig'tiBearteetttnrturtift be tttougtttatttrattrttmtr. During Mt, Premier uuqttoodmathtottarrhwot important moves; in the -gytuitt.Tttottrstrmattt hauls the mraltie paid brtttoeeprxtducirtgtttegaa, sotttattttepuNietr-, onbehaltottheptoo1eottlte province, woild - benefit about this move was that it provoked none of the normal storm of protest from the corporate interests involved. Usually there are dire warnings ot how the economy is going to be wrecked by such unbearable costs, imposed by govern- ments. inore from the exploitation commendable objective! Normally. resources have gone for a song. Viewed from this . the actual incident com Bute" of [In boys sneaking beer Into the center and m The editor: This letter is in regard to the article, No control at drown, published January 11, 1973. We feel that the formation printed totally blown out Without objection from the union, two man, rather than three man packer crews have been introduced since the tenders were received which resulted in a layoff of sixteen temporary em- ployees in this department. This will effect a saving of approximately $120,000 in 1973 which, unfortunately, was not reported. permanent employees when a contract is awarded. Now, can anyone tell me what will be gained by the taxpayer by adding an ad- ditional $117,000 (the con- tract price) to the 1973 estimaies? Donald C. MacDonald QUEEN'S PARK REPORT MPP for York South the in- ed was out of Don't close the centre Ptmtuetioeta-arsusatry Montcalm. Butwhattttepuhliettitot In the 25 year period (1947- 52), the expenditures of the oil industry were $18.7 billion. Their production revenues for the same period were $18.2 billion for a deficit of just under one half-billion. However, quite rightly, the industry doesn't consider it a deficit, but rather a half billion dollar surplus still lying underground. In short, proven reserves. But the proven reserves are not just The reason? Well, the official reason is that the companies must have more capital for exploration purposes, in view of the growing energy crisis. It sounds plausible . But a few of the basic statistics of the energy industry are illuminating. 8200,000,000ayear.0eboost in royalties is less than $40,000,000 a year. So the consumer price increase is going to put four dollars into the coffers of the gas producers for every one dollar going into the public wholly wakened up to is that, when Premier Loughegd {Mal hik'e -reitreisents _ I also recently discovered that York has more than twice the number of sanitation laborers as East York who have only a third less population. I sincerely believe that the commissioner of works is competent, and above all, honest and sincere. However, he is but a part of the works department management team depem dent on reports and recommendations from his You stated these are not isolated event; This Is untrue, such an event hu not occured In the Int year. Inctdently, the mayorlty of bottles were found outside the school - not within the limits of the center. Therefore, whose "act" has to be "cleaned up" - the union, who did not hire these men; or, management who did? immediately thrown out of the school shortly met their arrival. Rockclme prop-4n centu- many section heads. Perhaps he has been let down. Labor-management meetings can help find the answer without affecting the borough budget. We, as taxpayers, can only gain from this type of com- munication. May I give my assurance to the citizens I serve that I will continue to pursue this problem until our costs and staffing of this and other departments compare favorably with other Metropolitan municipalities. Yours sincerely, Douglas F. Saunders, Controller. has an average of fifty regular members who need the center's facilities. Remember this after the éenter ls closed down and there are fifty more young adults running around the “new. thm't clone the center. Janie Snuer and sign-tutu of 49 other young 'ii...,'. Tht btrtstr Points to gander Hoping that the teachers at a day care center which was held in a church might be able to help her son. the mother enrolled him. By Dorothy Clare Kilburn He was just a little boy hut his problems were large. Mark's parent's were in- volved in a government scheme to rehabilitate mentally ill persons by placing them in a home environment. There were several such men in their home. As time went on Mark developed alarming symp- T Aatime wentonit seemed that Mark would never overcome screaming 9nd clawing himself whcniaaked to participate in hand cram. Bu the teachers kept praying Who makes the statement What Kingsley saw was an open sewer, just like an ordinary ditch running along the side of the houses -- no wonder people who had to live in such terrible filth and poverty died off like flies when the plague came. Because of this the churches were crowded with people praying to God to stop the plague and spare their lives. And Charles Kingsley, as he watched people on their knees praying about the cholera, made a very scathing remark. He said that those people were "in the right position, but doing the wrong thing." They ought to be down on their knees, not beating their breasts and bewailing the manifold sins that they from time to time had most grievously committed against God's Divine Majesty, but rather they should be busily mending the drains. This principlé of true repentance applies just as much to the problem of pollution in 'xoeoxoxoe..r:o.uxor.e4ox49otr-xerx-"e"""0""'e".""'H",.f. ABOUT FACE for him. One of them often took Mark aside, put her arms around him and said, "Jesus loves you, Mark." After some time Mark improved so much that his mother phoned one of the teachers to tell her with a tear choked voice that the change in her son was remarkable. After listening to the teacher talk about the power of faith in the name of Jesus the mother said wist- fully, "I wish that I had faith." Now if the town gossip made a statement, we would doubtlts truthftslttess.orita person who had served How many of us haee wished the same thing? But what in faith? Faith is simply believing what God says. In that perfect story Jesus told of the Prodigal Son you will notice that Jesus carefully puts repentance on the part of the prodigal before his reception by the forgiving father. The words: I will arise and go to my father and will say unto him: Father I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and the action suited to those words, had to come first before the son could be welcomed back home. Shakespeare illustrated this principle in his play Hamlet. In this play the king, who had murdered his brother {Hamlet's father) to possess his brother's wife and his kingdom, was moved to prayer by reason of Hamlet's strange behavior. But because he remained impenitent for the foul murder he had committed, his prayer didn't get through. In despair he rose from his knees with the words: "My words go up, my thoughts remain below; words without thoughts never to heaven go." Tenderhearted, forgiving one another As God in Christ has forgiven you. That last line is regulative. We are to forgive one another __ as God has forgiven us. And God forgives us only when we are truly repentant. This is what Jesus said when he first began preaching. His message wasn't: Have fun, God forgives you. It was: Repent. There's no way in which God's forgiveness can reach us except through the channel of our own repentance. No repenfance; no forgiveness-s; no forgiveness; no peace of mind and heart. That's the way it is. Forgiveness is one of the greatest gifts God offers to us. But, like all his gifts, it waits upon our willingness. We show our willingness by a sincere repentance. And that means, as the prophet rightly says: Rend your hearts and not your garments, several sentences for various crimes made a statement, we would also doubt its veracity. But when God, who is holy and just and full of tender com- passion makes a statement, would we not, confident of the character of the One who had made the statement, believe it? Therefore if we read the word of God and find out what God is really like _ the greater angiver who made laws, then took the punish- ment Hims'eTi' so that they who had broken those laws might go free -- we will find inspiration to believe. [it us read the word of God and we will discover the One who” character is such that it Insure: mm and trust and Confidence.