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All this falls strangely on the ear of those of us males whose high schooling coincided with the Dirty Thirties In the Depression days there was no conformism whatever in foctâ€" wear, most of us turning up for school in smeakers. Our elasses reeked, but not with shoe polish. The YM and YWCA does not try to push a certain religion down the throats of members, it appeals instead to the athletic and the constructive interests of all youths of the Christian faith, or heritage. Another branch serves the Hebrew youngsters, but both are open to any people any age or creed. Last week, Etobicoke Council revealâ€" ed Islington Ave. was paved at Metro cost, expressly for the use of buses, badâ€" ly needed in the northern sections of the Township. Now we find the TTC either does not kmow & route is needed to Thistletown, or has forgotten the intentions of the Township in having the main avenue north paved. It is a wonderful thing to find the Metro administration. which in the final result, rules the TTC and our roads, is not aware of the needs of ene of the largest suburbs in Metro. The YM is admired, not as a religious organization or a gathering place for the "good" youngsters of today, but as a meeting place of youth, of the good and the not so good, of the active,. the fnactive, the intelligent and the backâ€" ward. Only in the Y can so many Vpenple of all walks of life rub shoulders with one For years the YMCA and YWCA have existed as symbols to the youth of eommunities in which the Y has branchâ€" We are tired of being ignored by Metâ€" ropolitan Toronto‘s administration. In Weston too, the plight of a businâ€" esman who has had his business threatâ€" ened by arbitrary closing of the street 4n front of his store to parking, by Metâ€" Â¥o, stirs us to believe Metro doesn‘t give & hoot in blazes about us. More than this, high schon! boys‘ black shoes must be of specific style called "bankers" There appears in be a mass identification with Henry Morâ€" genthau Jr., at least from the ankles down The pendulum has swung, with almost frigh ening force, the full 180 deâ€" grees from beat to neat Among some high school principals there is alarm that the spring dance will bring together such an intensity of highlyâ€"polished leather that someâ€"of the girls will be hypnotized, with conâ€" sequences not listed on the official program. The stories which have come out of Etobicoke and Weston in the past few months lead us to think Metro is foundâ€" ed on the principle of what is good for the City of Toronto is good for the subâ€" urbs. Brown shoes are out. Black shoes whose preternatural lusâ€" tre is impaired will not do. For the first time within the memory of living man a hoy is ostracized by his schonlmates because he has a smudze on his shoe. Parents are wander ing in a daze through houses that reek continually of shoe polish., are starting as many as a dozen times a day to the erisp crack of the buffing cioth Mothers don‘t know whether to Jaugh or ery. Shoe palish manâ€" ufacturers are in seventh heavâ€" en. From a usually reliable source I have learned that at this moment the stern dictates of fashion require every highâ€" sehool boy th wear black shoes buffed to a brilliance of polish that would shame the Houseâ€" hold Cavairy. Nor did we need to change i â€"â€" THE TIMES ADVERTISER â€" Thursday, Sept. 13, 1962 ©UBSCRIPTION RATES 3550 EDITORIALS THE TIMES ADVERTISER MY TWO CENTS WORTH TRED OF BEING IGNORED ? Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office OUR YMCA NEEDS HELP Ottawa Ont. and for payment of postage im Published at 236 Dixon Road, Westom, by Principal Publishing Ltd, every Thurséay V. J. MeMILLAN, President and Publisher for gym. The same nutfit serâ€" ved for all occasions. and by three a‘clock the more delicate of the women teachers were clutching their desks with one hand as they pressed a colngned hanky to their noses with the other. Wearing shoes bestowed status on a high school boy those days. One of the m respected kids in my gr wore running shoes so far g TL 00 CC PCTOE PifTO ihan spals. He had highly polished black feet and was particularly adâ€" mired because he could pass notes. in class, under the seat Other countrieg $3.50 By Erie Nicol per year in advance to any addreas in Canads. GARY RALPH, Editor Think (M REACHING For a éun OH, DEAR, 1 HoPE ThaT BANK GUARD DoESW T Getting back to the Rexdale area wae find the TTC has no plans to extend bus service to Thistletown until a surâ€" vey is made. Such surveys take about six months. We know the need for busâ€" es here now. We know it, you know it, your council knows it. In fact, the TTC knows it, but still we must have the mevitable survey to find how many dollars the TTC can make. Surely there are enough children in the northern areas of Etobicoke, and enough parental interest to make the YMCA a necessary part of the communâ€" ity. The fact that only money stands in the way of a new thriving Y is a testiâ€" mony that the way to a better recreaâ€" tion program for our kids is a relatively simple thing. We cannot let the lack of dollars deâ€" prive our children from health and a good social life, sending them onto the streets like tenement dwellers. Metro surveys are becoming infamâ€" ous for the length of time they take, and for the fact that the results always seem to show the City of Toronto needs services more than we and takes priorâ€" ity in getting them. another in a common bond. The death of the Y or of any branches of its the death of an essential part of our society. To hear of the deterioration of the local Thistletown branch of the YMCA is sad. The branch has been operating on a deficit throughout the summer and money is needed to keep the branch going. Weston is unique in Metro, in that the town is surviving as one of the smallâ€" est units in the city and is more likely to be swallowed up by amalgamation than most suburbs. What would be the use of amalgamaâ€" tion if Metro ref uses to acknowledge the needs and particular desires of the people of the area? de cock of the walk. There was more respect for being poor than there is today for being underprivileged. I don‘t remember any social pressure to conform in our manner of dress. The giris mostly wore saddle shoes and ankle socks, but what boys wore was a matter about which there was a virtually inexhausâ€" tible amount of indifference. Just don‘t, you young polishâ€" ers. graduate from shoe to apple. As to which state of mind is preferable, among high schnolâ€" ers, I won‘t pontificate. Anyâ€" thing that promotes in a boy of thirteen sharp concern aâ€" bout his personal appearance is a milestone in the march of civilization. As long as the bankerâ€"complex is confined to the area of the metatarsals we may withhold repeating Torchy Anderson‘s comment: "No shirt ton voung to stuff." Ordinarity _ a report like this might shake the very foundations of a government. But against the background nf the austerity program. the minority government,. and the _ general _ canfusion ({nolitical. not administraâ€" tive) in Oftawa, the gonâ€" eral _ response is â€" "So And in the past â€" on the Avro Arrow intercepâ€" tor; relations with the Bank of Canada; on the Bomares _ and _ nuclear weapons; on _ foreign magazine competition _ â€" who has knowp what to expect from this Governâ€" ment. It finds the government productive a to the tune a lions of dol In this re mission | + general m: the Feder: tion and fin Would it if the (G only a fe it surpris lasted a : can happen in this politâ€" ical climate, and the votâ€" ers have come to expect the unexpected. In â€" another sitnuation for instance. thepublic might have received ; jolt from the first renor Commission ment organi Then a week after the electio® the â€" campaign tune of high prosperity was abruptly changed to an austerity dirge. Buffeted by this kind of unpredictable â€" wind, who can blame people for greeting political actâ€" ion now, not with surâ€" prise, but with a sort of head â€" shaking â€" bewilderâ€" ment. After all, the Diefenâ€" baker Government had more than 200 members beforé the June 18 elecâ€" tion, and somehow manaâ€" ged to lose almost half of them. VilAWA â€"â€" ihe minorâ€" ity Government‘s intenâ€" tions, as revealed in the Speech from the Throne at the opening of the new Parliament on September Not that those intenâ€" tions are generally kown in advance. Preparations of the Throne S peech and the Government‘s inâ€" tended legislation have been as carefully guardâ€" ed this time as ever. It‘s just that the Canaâ€" dian people seem to have lost their capacity to be surprised. And who can blame them? In this new Mr. Diefenbake 115 followers 149 npposition 27, will not likely surâ€" prise anyone. OTTAWA â€" > The OTTAWA REPORT t like appen n drtions _ of â€" a . Rut against round nf the program. . the vernment. and ral _ ennfusion ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN IN CANADA HUNTING THIS FALL? LEARN ABOUT GUN v. Anything in this politâ€" and the votâ€" gement o f administraâ€" it wanting. achinery of arliament, r and his will â€" face members n. the Comâ€" Â¥. unâ€" teficient. t ni miiâ€" wastage nvernâ€" inyone lasted Would if it enort nval But there are two matâ€" ters at least which will demand early attention from this new Parliaâ€" ment, and both are exâ€" plosively controversial. Redistribution for exâ€" ample could result in loss of seats by Saskatcheâ€" wan. and in the general evening â€" up constituenâ€" cies, the farm vote would have _ considerably less weicht than it has now. Pirst is a revised budâ€" get, trimmed to fit the austerity program. Secâ€" ond is redistribution of seats in parliament which must by law follow comâ€" pletion of the decennial census. We can even leave aâ€" side for the moment the economic measures which are necessary, and have been promised, to put the Canadian finances into a sound position on a permâ€" anent basis. The other two matters contain quite enough conâ€" troversy by themselves. Mr. Diefenbaker in â€" tends to set up an indeâ€" How controversy can be avoided in the present political situation is an inâ€" teresting question, but quite beside the point. A government admittâ€" edly has considerable leeâ€" way in setting the businâ€" ess of the house and in proceeding with legislaâ€" tion in its own way. The real test of this coming session will not be how long Diefenbaker can walk the tightrope of power, but how soon he, or someone else, can demâ€" onstrate purposeful and cohesive leadership. Some people have sugâ€" gested that the Prime Minister might hang on to office for an {ndefinite period if he contrives to avoid controversial matâ€" ters. Five years of governâ€" ment by impulse has had a deadening and dangerâ€" ous effect on the public. what?" or "We might have known." Life‘s Bolstered by such a reâ€" prieve, however tempor â€" ary, _ Mr. Diefenbaker could then present a legâ€" islative program and reâ€" tain at least the appearâ€" ance of ecommand. And at any moment . of course he could display great inâ€" itiative, call for dissoluâ€" tion, and get a new elecâ€" tion on his own terms. Certainly _ the _ New Democratic Party has inâ€" dicated it would be able to support the Governâ€" ment on a temporary waitâ€"and â€" see basis. And it is a fact the social creâ€" diters appear to ignore that the Government can not be defeated as long as it is supported by any one of the opposition parâ€" ties. Even _ that. _ though, would not surprise too many people. These will be difficult matters. They would be difficult even if the Govâ€" ernment had a clear majâ€" ority. Yet they also proâ€" vide the means by which the government can stay in power long enough, say early next year, to take the required econâ€" omic measures, and to alâ€" low all parties time to prepare for another elecâ€" tion If the Throne Speech calls for a baby budget to be presented in Novemâ€" ber, for example, there is a good case to be made for keeping â€" parliament in session until the budâ€" get is brought down. The main budget preâ€" sented in April, calling for a $745,000,000 defiâ€" cit, was never passed. It will have to be reâ€"introâ€" duced, this time taking into account the austerity program pledge to cut this deficit by $450,000,â€" 000 in a full yvear. pendent commission to redistribute seats, a comâ€" mendable intention b ut the opposition parties will surely want a say in what men will be appointed to the commission. SAFETY A WERSTIR classic uh. mt , Waleus C\ shock. Job status depends more on "what you make" than "what you do." This moneyâ€"mad attitude starts at the top with the government that says railway crossing gates are too expensive to install, while lives are lost every. day through the inadequacies of the signs or roads. Thalidomide producers pressed their drug on the market for profit and reaped a harvest af nain and With Jane Street being widened and repaved, cars now barrel up and down the street at, at least, the speed limit, that is until they reach the one lane bridge. The autos then screech to a halt to wait for the oncoming lane of traffic to cross the bridge. It is ridicâ€" ulous situation and will probably cause a serious acciâ€" dent when the roads are icy this winter. CHASING THE BUCK. . .There are far too many organizations, here and everywhere else, whose leaders are busy chasing the proverbial buck. These businessmen are far more interested in "How much will I make," than in the cost in abstracts â€" human pain, suffering, toil and grief. We will now find out what roads will be paved, what new services we can expect, the number of building permits issued, and what councillor is angry with which town situation. * THE NARROW BRIDGE on Jane Street north of Weston Road should be replaced in the next months before the snow falls. This bridge creates a horrible traffic jam each night at rush hour, and is one of the most dangerous of bridges in the winter. THIS IS THE SEASON when the new staff of your local paper is happiest. Coming out of the sumâ€" mer doldrums we find stories at each turn. The activity of a town seems to come alive when council begins holding regular meetings again as they did three weeks ago. While the news in the summer months has repâ€" resented the total coverage of Weston, northern Etoâ€" bicoke and the district in which our readers live, the vein of news will now change, mainly on the municiâ€" pal scene. at which the light was red, was waving madly for the stream of traffic to hurry. He wasn‘t happy until we accelerated to pass him at about 50 miles per hour leading the traffic like a hound after a rabbit. At one corner they nab you for speeding, while two blocks away they yell at you as if you were taking the straitaway at Mosport. You figure it out. Last week while driving down Avenue Road, we were nearly caught in a radar trap doing about 35 miles per hour. The small English car which zipped by us was tagged by the trap. Slowing to 30 we watched the traffic pile up beâ€" hind us until we came to a set of lights farther down. There a cop, standing in the middle of the intersection Hurry up and wait seems to be the motto of the Metro Police Department‘s traffic squad during rush hours. SAID Everyone is requested to read special articles in the Torâ€" aonto Daily Newspapers of the above dates re the Second round of Sabin vaccinations to be given in Metropolitan Toronto and York County commencing during the week of October 7. New cars DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TOWNSHIP OF NORTH YORK Sabin Oral Polio Vaccination News SEPT. 12 â€" SEPT. 26 â€" OCT. 3 Crossword ACROSS mide producers pressed their drug on the profit and reaped a harvest of pain and â€" (PG y Carl E. Hill, M.D. M.O.H. Slumber ?\“‘ s hrow again Silly Stalke Military vessel (abbr) Finish Carn s « happy Feathered scarf Type aire Amimal hunted Part of to be Turn right Deface _ Rlackbird by R. G. DANJELS (Fr.) yÂ¥