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Page 4 â€"â€" THE TIMES ADVERTISER â€"â€" Thursday, July 26, 1962 The Etobicoke Planning Board says the population of the Rexdaleâ€"Thistleâ€" town area will rise six times in the next two years. This is the strongest of several reasâ€" ons why the area must have an inâ€" fluential Resident‘s Association to conâ€" trol the growth of the district and to make certain Council, in its drive to form a city within a city, does not neglect the needs of the present resiâ€" dents. There is no body in the area now which can command an authoritative voice in the Council Chambers. The residents of Rexdale and Thistletown must rely on the conscience of councilâ€" lors and the newspaper to guard their rights. _ This is not enough. The people must stick up for themselves. The North York Council, in not adopting the Board of Control system, is taking the most logical course of acâ€" tion. It has long been a bone of contention in municipal government as to just how large a community should be before it adopts a cityâ€"like outlook and adminiâ€" stration. Etobicoke has just inaugurated the Board of Control system and if the sysâ€" tem is seen to work in Etobicoke, North York has justification to bring in a like body, but the time does not seem ripe at the present, nor the need too pressâ€" ing for North York to have the Board now. The Board of Control of a community is a triumvirate or larger body, made up of elected representatives as a body to coâ€"ordinate the activities of council. It is a recommending body and cannot take action without council‘s approval. The setting up of such a board, in a way, puts the power for many things into the hands of a few persons, who would have more opposition to their ideas, and therefore less power, if they were merely members of council. We believe the less power that lies in the hands of the individual councillors, the better. s ‘The agony column had a letter the other day from someone grieving over the fact that his not smoking or drinking made him a pariah at parties. The host and other guests pressed him to grog and gaspers, and when he declined these they drifted away and he ended up in a corner talking to a whatnot. My own solution to this problem has been to give up parties. (Actually _ parties gave me up, but why quib ble?) This is harder for more gregarious types, nonâ€"smokâ€" ers and teetotalers who are nevertheless anxious to meet people socially. Desire to be accepted by the group has probably _ been _ responsible for more ravaged lungs and pickled livers than any other initial cause. Better a fag than to be a drag, a highball than an oddball. The smoking and drinking are necessary to the group in order to "break the ice" In North America, thanks to a long tradition of Puritan inâ€" hibitions, the ice is thicker than anyplace else in the world, to be melted only by a heavy concentration of CO2 in the immediate atmosphere and broken up by a merciless onslaught of swizzle sticks In places where laughter and loving are not kept in a deep freeze these defrosters are less essential. But in our social group the female quest does the hula with a cigaret in one hand and a glass in Residents Must Guard Their Rights BUBSCRIPTION RATES $150 per year in advance to any address in Canada. EDITOBRIALS THE TIMES ADVERTISER North York Board Of Control MY TWO CENTS WORTH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Dept, Ottawa Ont. and for payment of postage in cash by Principal Publishing Ltd, every Thursday V. J. McMILLAN, President and Publisher Published at 236 Dixon Road, Weston, the other unless she wants to be considered a wanton. For the abstemious party lover the problem therefore boils down to this: how to help with the iceâ€"breaking without indulging in tobacco or toping. This brings me to my â€" Neverâ€"Aâ€"Wallflower Kit, soon to appear on the market at a price every partyâ€"pooper will be pleased to pay. The kit includes: 1. Handiâ€"pak | plastic urn filled with ash. Ample supply to fill two ashtrays, with reâ€" serves for dropping on the rug, blue serge suits, etc 2. Simulated dogâ€"end. Cork tip of peppermint chocolate replaceable. ‘Inch of fright eningly realistic ember droâ€" oping from the end. Guaranâ€" teed to win attention of hostâ€" ess and impress other guests with nerveless poise. 3. Smudge pot. May be lit beside kchair, creating great clouds of blue smoke and exâ€" clouds of citing . C about . w billowing harmiess 4. "Just fine, thanks" glass. Amber lower haif of glass appears to contain rye whisky at all timés (Also available: tilt model which can be held at rakish angle to create efâ€" fect of irresponsible drunk ) 5. Tin of "snoose." For the male nonâ€"smoker who really wants to intimidate nther guests who offer him cigarets es and Other countries $3.50 GARY RALPH, Editor cumosity _ of _ guests what lies behind the ng fumes. S moke ss, nonâ€"irritating t o id throat ‘ By Erie ~Nicol Chewing . tobacco Reeve Waffle and the Etobicoke Council are determined to build, build, build, until the area is saturated with apartments, houses, parks, and superâ€" markets. This is fine, but must we rely on council to do things right? Are we to sit back and give up our right to speak on the development of our own backâ€" vard? The community leaders and there are always a few in each area, must band together into an association, without prejudice or jealousy against each other, and keep a constant check on the ambitious plans of the Etobicoke Counâ€" cil which can turn Rexdale and Thistleâ€" town into a community of wellâ€"planned suburbia, or into a jungle of growth without comfort. But we also believe it is better to have the great majority of power in the hands of a competent council. _ Too many recommending bodies dilute the council‘s power, making it ineffective. A Board of Control is just another body, at the present time, to take power out of the hands of council and put this power in the hands of fewer people. The councillors who voted against the Board of Control in North York, were taken to task in frontâ€"page, outâ€" landish, editorialized articles in other semiâ€"news media. While we believe in quick action, where feasible, on the part of councillors, we also see value in the waitâ€"andâ€"see attitudes of councilâ€" lors on various matters. The Board of Control question is one of these takeâ€" yourâ€"time solutions. North York is a big, growing area, but we cannot see where the addition of a Board of Control now can be much of an aid to residents of the community. We are also sure the councillors who voted against the ideas of the Reeve and several other councillors know North York is the size of a small city. And we are certain they cannot be pressured into quick, and perhaps too hastyv. implementation of the Board of Control by haranguing partisans. (best dark chocolate) can be inserted under lip, offered to others with some remark about saving their lungs. Susâ€" pended spit a sure attentionâ€" getter in â€" any â€" gathering, other than loggers‘ convenâ€" tions. The Never â€" A â€" Wallflower Kit also includes cigaroots for ladies, bottles labeled ABâ€" SINTHE, PRODUCT Or PARIS, FRANCE, filled with lime juice. and many other aids to party popularity. "You must be the new student I‘ve been hearing FULL TIME PROFESSIONALS OR PART TIME VOLUNTEERS FOR WESTON? OTTAWA REPORT Twentyâ€"five thousand voters in the eastern Onâ€" tario _ constituency _ of Stormont had a unique opportunity on July 16. Depositing their ballots four weeks to the day after their fellow Canaâ€" dians had left the Counâ€" try with a mishmash Parâ€" liament of Tories, Grits, Socreds and Socialists, the people of Stormont possessed the power to give important direction to national affairs at a critical juncture. By reâ€"electing the sitâ€" ting Conservative MP., they would have demonâ€" strated that Prime Miniâ€" ster Diefenbaker‘s ausâ€" terity program had been accepted as a necessary, if â€" unpleasant bit of statesmanship _ designed to pull the Country out of its economic slump. By rejecting him deâ€" cisively in favor of the Liberal, they would have encouraged the major opposition party to seek the Government‘s defeat in the Commons, to bring on another election and finish the job begun on June 18. They had the opporâ€" tunity to elect a Social Creditor, _ which would have reinforced the fond belief of that Party that it is, at long last, on the road to national power. Or they could have picked the most photoâ€" genic of the four candiâ€" dates. a minister‘s wife running on the New Demâ€" neratic ticket. to emphaâ€" size their distaste both for the two old narties and the Socred radicals of the right. They chose to do none of these things. The most decisive thing they did was to emphaâ€" size that in the view of Eastern Ontario at least, the â€" Conservatives _ and Liberals â€" are still the people‘s choice to run this Country. But â€" if the parties _ felt there was little rejoicing in the Grit camps. The _ Libera look back on a ory of success riding, broken 1925, 1 enbaker wins ning . str 1958.. Wit they easily Many closely riding‘s ing t c in the upse 1930 and Confusion Compounded In Stormont in rejected, cause for Torvy and servative c years of the Diefâ€" _ eould ong histâ€" s in the only â€" by £} nter were living in a kind of a dream world, halfâ€"believâ€" ing that a sprinkling of Real Caouette‘s magic in the constituency â€" could turn a record of utter reâ€" jection into one of victâ€" orv. Perhaps the most realâ€" istic of the four parties was the NDP, which knew it couldn‘t win but figured it was worth the try to put the Party on the map. Came election â€" night, and the NDP‘s own foreâ€" knowledge was borne out conclusively. _ Candidate Mrs. Marjorie Ball polled fewer than 1,000 votes. The Socreds masked their disappointment by pointing out that their vote of just under 1.300 represented a 400 perâ€" cent improvement on the 1958 results. But the Conservatives and the Liberals, both to their surprise, turned it into a cliffâ€"hanger that wasn‘t decided until the last poll reported. And then the result was so close that the Tories deâ€" cided _ immediately _ to seek a recount. The lessons to be learnâ€" ed from Stormont are legion. But perhaps the most important is that the voters of this one deâ€" pressed riverâ€"front riding are as confused about the direction _ of â€" Canadian political affairs as their neighbors in 262 other constituencies. If anything, the Storâ€" mont results should cool the ardor of any politiâ€" cians who favor an early return to the electorate on a national scale The Conservative canâ€" didate put up a surprisâ€" ingly strong showing conâ€" sidering the recent imâ€" position of Mr. Diefenâ€" baker‘s austerity measâ€" ures and the massive atâ€" tack he faced from Liberâ€" al. Socred and NDP bigâ€" wigs. But the bard fact is that they don‘t hand out vnrizes for coming second in this kind of race. And in inis kind ol race. AMQ the Diefenbaker Governâ€" The Liberals may be cheered by rounding, out their House of Commons contingent to an even 100. Buttheir inability to do better in a tradiâ€" ment s margin, precarious. â€" is still as a result tit ch all pI nart ma i1 goto ail 1v de ure in nine of Canada‘s 10 provinces is probably in the long run than its sharp gains in one part of â€" Quebec. And the NDP didn‘t need remindâ€" ing, really, that it had failed to attract broad support in its initial ventâ€" ure as a national party. For Canada as & whole, Stormont emphaâ€" sized a basic indecision which might be summarâ€" ized this way: The Conâ€" servatives are in deep trouble, but the voters are not yet ready to place their faith in the Liberals to succeed them. The confusion that elecâ€" tion results brought on June 18 promises to reâ€" main until one party is able to make a substantâ€" lal breakthrough. Perhaps the best thing for the nation, until we can sort out our prejudâ€" ices and think _ more clearly, would be for our politicians to settle down to work and put away their thoughts of an early return match. There is too much to be done to waste time on further indecision on the hustings. CAPITAL HILL CAPSULES Strategists _ of _ other parties consider it posâ€" sible that Social Credit will save Prime Minister Diefenbaker‘s bacon in a close House of Commons vote by staying away from the chamber. _ It‘s an _ old parliamentary technique last emploved by the Liberals in 1957 and early 1958 â€" to conâ€" demn the Government in words rather than votes,. at a time when an upset enuld be embarrassing to the Socreds themselves as much as it would be to the Government they opâ€" pose. _ And they have said they don‘t want an said they dor early election significant factor, THE WALRUS f SAp... fi\ The Americans must be happy at the devaluation of our dollar. They can now buy our beef:to replace the stringy Texas longhorn meat they prized for many years. Canadian beef is just about the best in the world. That is, Canadian beef for export. Since the Americans can now buy more beef from us, Canadians are ending up with the dregs of our supplies. Can you remember the $1.50 roast which would cut like butter and melt in your mouth? A cut, the same size, now costs $3.50 and can be used to resole your running shoes. The best cuts naturally have to go to the stomachs of our Yankee cousins. The English are now getting good Canadian cheese, cheaper than ever before. We have to send our good cheese to England and the Commonwealth countries because Denmark makes good cheese too and we must compete, mustn‘t we? Consequently the cheese left for Canadians to conâ€" sume is akin to candle wax, unless we pay top prices for it. _ These prices are more than the money the Englishman pays for his good old Canadian cheese. The Yanks can come over the border and get eight cents more for his dollar in this country. The government has gone out of its way to appeal to every businessman to cough up with the exchange on American bills, like nice guys. Did you ever try to get the three or five cents on Canadian money when you went farther south than Buffalo in the States, when our money was worth more? O.K. so we need American tourists to help our economy and we should be friendly and helpful to those we meet. But we don‘t have to fawn over them like a bunch of nincompoops after a buck. In my book Canadians come first, and when we start being friendly and helpful to one another, that‘s when I‘ll say Bully For Us. Speaking of tourists, the Shriners came into town with a reported $15,000,000 in their pockets. Do you know where that money went? The small businessman, you and I, never will see a penny of it. It‘s gone into the fantastic treasuries of the luxury hotels, the posh restaurants and the stores which sell top, luxury goods. The guys who needed the money actually lost it, because Shriners parades outdrew the interesting spots, the theatres, the outâ€"ofâ€" the way restaurants and the nightclubs. Who helped advertise the governmentâ€"owned, and the wealthy spots in which Shriners spent money? â€" The illustrious City of Toronto, at the expense of the small businessmen. FREELOADERS . . . I‘ll never give money to a begâ€" gar. I‘m not a hard, cruel person, but 1 will never hand a cent to the fellow on the street who says he‘s broke and needs a cup of coffee. Several things have put me against beggars. When I stepped out of the subway in New York, bag in hand, I was almost bowled over in the rush of beggars who pounce on the outâ€"ofâ€"towner in that degrading city. They didn‘t know it, but I was close to being broke too. When I refused I was treated like a warmonger and screamed at in Times Square. Lovely people. I was approached in New Toronto recently by two cleanâ€"cut men who said they were just in from Montâ€" real and needed money for a loaf of bread. All I could think of was "Tough luck, buddy." There are plenty of organizations, supported by my tax money and by yours, to look after these people. There is welfare, charity, soup kitchens and the local jail to provide food and shelter. They operate on my money, so why should I give more out of my pocket to a guy I know nothing about. It‘s true that some of ers you see begging on than $25 on an average on a good day. I couldn‘t possibly support him at that rate if I wanted to. Crossword ACROS rank by R. G. DANIELS Greatest. um Exclamation Fashion Reel Otherwise Dampent Approaches Likeness The (Sp ) Cords Ar. Neat Accept Raised mark Cotton machine Chest bone Wogh card Alkaline solution Parent these down and out charactâ€" the corners pull down more day and can make up to $50