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The Hasty Planning 18t1ramermsert--oturuw,Aubat22, 1963--NO Everybody knows, and has known since Strangler Lewis was a pup, that pro wrestling is as carefully choreographed us anything produced by the Ballet Rune de Monte Carlo, Yet the crowds get bigger rather than smaller, prawn; that in this age of confused and slippery values people are hungry to see Good and Evil incarnate to rage at the pure, unadulterated devil and cheer virtue bleeding but unbowed, (In pro wrestling the villains are much better paid than the heroes, so that every ambiti- ous young wrestler aspires to that proficiency in the dem- oniae that will earn him both bellowing obloquy and a villa on the Riviera.) Similarly, everybody under- stands that trading stamps are a merchandising gimmick, tnat nobody gets something for no- thing, yet wherever stamps Ire issued, the women shop- pers throng the note. Ivan- ciously 'tufhig stamp. into the same purse that clout: Mr, Mata over the boko when he is heaved oat of the ring. of the paper that reported both the upsurge m tradmg lumps and a record crowd for professional wrestling My ig_oltePu-trtgBmrd yew a tYl,'1lt'll"dA'tl' ierettrstts Collector: of lowest common denominators in the news had choice pickings in that edition The l.c.d. being of course people love to be tooled. - ittt.tord shopping , ttltd; Um '"etr ul 'hq.krtg asiimueift "in " "I a. ill My will have 00,000 a... la: cl an: we. m. -rdt.nt. .sh.d for a Wan-ac Ind! Number to give them time to pre- Rom Joho luldh aid the chopping coat" mice! had been rumored for a long time and thou opposed to it have had time to pupa" their can. It may Into boon rumoeod that the plan was proposed, but why should the tttarming board expect the township merchants. or It seems odd that Reeve MacBeth, who must dad in tangible: both a I lawyer Ind new of Etobicoke should make such I statement. . . . AND THE WORLD . tt)l LAUGHS E ttiCitutlt EXOORSION AIR FARES FROM TORONTO " All. EUROPEAN OITIE8! People In not grateful -tor Here's Good News . . . ‘h‘ Q” a.'-" 9-2". -iirha K“.- SEN-r-" I!“ g?!“ Effective on. lat to March 31st) exposure of the fraud they en- Joy, No scientist, for Instance, has won less approval from the general public than the author of Ongm of the Speci- Ers, because too many people chensh the notion that man is umque and miraculously conceived. Only I few months ago a school board barely voted down a bid to have re- mowd a school text descnb- 1n: the theory of evolution, Thus even those clergyman who privateiy accept evohr tion must continue to prate of Adam and Eve as reIL hlston- cal persons. because the Crt- tenon of "give 'em what they want" " as operatrve In the pulpit as n IS in the wrestling People to whom other peo- ple's iliuswe pleasures are m- furiating often storm to have those responsible for the hoax placed outside the law, or at least clearly labeled as takers. This indignation is natural but possibly misdirected. For one thing, it mny be that the largest of our congen- ial :llusions " that it is pos- snble for us to live without them. Samuel Hoflenstein put the paradox into a poetic nut- shell: Little by little we subtract Faith and Fallacy from Fact, The Illusory from the True, And starve upon the residue. Las Vegas. ieems with starv- ed realms busy ignoring the Met that they have no chance By ERIC NiCOL 315w Seaman 241-1 Per Peyton “you do. for that matter to jump at - bait? Tho Planning Board duo refund an merchants access to information C . the plan. filed with the Board by tho dow- open, Community Recount and Dunlap- Incnt Incorporated od “than. It is apparent the Pinning Board wum as little opposition n possible to the a" project and intends to get the attack rotting before the enemy ha: time to muster forces. It in to he hoped the Planning Board doom't make a decision on this matter strictly on a tax revenue basis. for a glut of shopping plazas in the tawnship could cause financial hardship to many Etobicoke marchants. The Planning Board a well as council owes a moral obii alien to the merchants in the community. in us hope these bodies do a thorough sifting of has before decid- ing on this matter. Possibly the safest way to puncture IHUSLOD IS by poking fun at it. Thus a professor at the university has told his class that he wilt give blue stamps to those attending lec- lures regularly. The students may exchange the stamps. at term end, for three yards of simulated college ivy. A happy thought. But if you cut off a person's mdu'.genee in one gratdying self-deception he will find an- other. possibly more permu- ous. The Germany of post World War I was a nation whose illusion: were shatter- ed, a people whose nose had byen rubbed 1n the political and economm tacts of life, and that entire nation turned to the massive and heady self, deception of Hitler's super- whatever of beating the gum bung odds ngaimt thorn, The TTC tecently agreed to spend Sl,050 to pur- chase 100,000 plastic throwaway cups A sizeoble amount of new assessment has been add- ed to the assessment roll: for municipal taxatnon pur- poses in the Lakeshore and Etobicoke Etobicoke has added $20,? 10,000 in new assessment from constructor m the township Watch how Sclfboro no" Albert Campbell does as a candidate in the “Manning provincial election. If In win it mean! tbet 'tobieoU Reeve Mach". will cent." a no. on Metro uccuflvo contain“ nun" hymen. If Etobicoke Council is worried about the efficiency of Its garbage collection servnce It should also be con- cerned with its own efficjency in hqndling cuvnc matters. A township council meeting last week began 20 minutes late and didn't finish business until near mid- night, a more than eight hour session. The issues before ‘council did not warrant such long deliberation. Etobicoke Reeve John MacBeth had some good advice for commercial and industrial enterprises who claimed that they had no knowledge of a street closing proposal until two weeks ago although the matter had been under consideration for more than, a year. He advised that commercial and industrial companies take a greater in- terest in local area newspapers if they want to keep in- formed of civic affairs in their township. 'Metro Chairman Allen is being very. cautious about Metro government helping out the TTC to ovod or post- pone another transit fore increase He has In mind that the suburbs in I964 WI" have a big burden m the re- distribution of welfare costs and hospital grants made through Metro gqvemment In the Lakeshore area an estrmated $620,000 m new assessmom with the molar shore. $384,744 qo-ng to Mimico New Toronto hos added “73,874 and Long Branch 0 more $6l,820. The largest expansion of suburban transit service in the history of the TTC since it became a metropolitan service begin! on Sept. 3 in three townships, Etobicoke, North York and Searboro. The extension of service even ennui” the acquisiion of four independent bus line op- ereriops by on. TTC in July I954. Metro qovemmcnt': ml gran debt now stom" at $.37,205,325. This include: the debt of Metro, in mem- ber mt"tielpatities, the from“ commission, wolervorh and ,tttrtre_yorus agencies. Etobicoke has had a $91,152 public relief b." for the first six months of 1963, up $15,000 over last year for the some period of time. A _ _ . The towrtship's department of canine control has also been busy over the lost six months, picking up 964 dogs and 519 cats as well as 26 raccoons, 12 muskrats, five foxes, 44 rabbits, one sheep and six skynks We Weston trolley coach route in July suffered 30 delays in service with 90 per cent pf the delay due to traffic congestion Delays on the Long Branch street car lme were moinlv due to collisions on Lake Shore Blvd The Federal government has contnbuted S90,000 towards a Metro Toronto urban renewal-study that will take in every Metro municipality and 13 muhicpalities on its border including Toronto Township, It's a two year study, posting a total of, $120.,000. _ _ Etobicoke [can Macleth in the only suburban rceva who - his chain of office of council mutiny. Mr. Maclclh is spending his summer weekends at the cot- faga while during the week handling civic affairs, his law office, Kiwanis Club activlfin and playing a leading role in the cantor society program. "This is my busy yeah: he shaved. The Fate Of Wheat Floor hie Hangs th Surplus Factor Report From Ottawa An eiecuon prom.se the Lib- eral Government would like to forget IS the $2. floor price for wheat. A special commu- tee of the Cabinet has been taking a long hard look at that promise along with other agri- "Did a know Nun's a ban on '0"an the "Whore?" MFanhm. the Prairie le- orais want u decision out of the Government " soon " possible They don't like the nonlinual deferment. The Gov. ernment should either drop the plan altogether or proceed mm IL but not leave it Mm.- mg. they say. They may won Thr uncertainty of the wheat picture arising out of developments m the United rim“ and the proupecu of n masslve Western Clnldlan wheat r'rnp this Pall, all com- ohm!» the Munich Fired mun these communion the Government In inclined to ahandnn the floor price pro- gram These are questions under consideration by the special committee. It is headed by Prime Minister Pearson. Other members include Trade and Commerce Minister Mitchell Sharp; Agriculture Minister Harry Hays and Hon. Rene Tremblay, who will be named Eastern Agriculture Minister shortly after the next session starts. The Government Ilsa saw tts agriculture program emp1- ncally rejected by the Wer- tern farmers in the 1963 gen- eral election. The only Liberal elected from the Prairies who was eligible for the agricul- tural portfolio in the Cabinet was Mr. Hart The Park": nth-r agricultural 'randidatel wenl down to resounding de. feat including linen Argue. Mrmssr Prairie spokesman in We last Parliament on the Inhtral side This may be linked to a statement that the Govern- ment is considering legislation to provide tor a two-price sys- tem for wheat. on the basis of the unit quota. Under such a system farmers would be paid a price for wheat used in do- mestic human consumption which reflects the fact that they buy their production re- quirements in a tariff protect- ed market and sell in world markets., Such a policy would be effected by a consumer sub. sidy and consequently would cause no rise in the price of bread. There have been rumours In the gram trade for some time that a decline was coming in export prices of wheat. This month shortly after the an- nouncement of the second long-term wheat deal with China, the Canadian Wheat Board disclosed that there had been a decline. The price for No. 1 for example slipped from 195% down to 192%. whrle No, 4 grade went from 183% down to IT9N. Faced with forecast: that the export prices of wheat would drop the Government was even more reluctant to embark on any floor price pro- gram fixing the floor at " As the export price went down the drain on the Federal treas- urv would increase. It could cost millions. This is a strong argument ail-inst instituting anv such policy. Early in the session of Par- liament that will resume after September 30. it is understood, the Administration will have a positive statement on agri- culture poiicy to make which it is hoped will take the pres- sure off the Cabinet for the $2 floor price. It wilt probably announce at the same time that the $2 floor price has been dropped. culture pohmes with a new to making some revisions. The new deal differs from the old one in two respects. There is no barley to be sold to the Chinese. They don't want barley this time. In the last agreement they took 28,- 000,000 bushels of barley. And also this time the Chinese proved to be very hard bar- gainers. They bluntly told the Wheat Board that they were aware Canada had a new Gov- ernment that was anxious to make wheat sale: and that thin country was facing a bumper wheat crop in the Fall that would add greatly to its sur- plus wheat stocks Under those circumstances. they said, Can- ada should be ready and wil- ling to make certain conces- sions to sell wheat Trade and Commerce Min- iner Sharp has made it plain to the members of Parliament that it is the tamners' Wheat Board that does the negotiat- ing for these deals. It was the Wheat Board that to tho diekering and final nat- ing in Mr. Hamilton', day and It " still the Wheat Board that does the hard work of hammering out terms of an agreement. One of the concessions was an extension of the repayment period from 12 months to 18 months, In addition there is an implied acceptance hy the Federal Government of greater Red Chinese exports to Canada including textiles. This is quite a concession he- cnuse it involves the super sensitive field of trade where my increase in imports brings loud protests from the Can. adian textile maouUcturers, However the Chinese state trading corner-turns have an- reed to limit their exports of sensitive items. The new deal with Chma 13 almost a duplicate of the first signed when the Con- nwative Government W in office. It too was negotiated by the Wheat Board although Agriculture Minister Hamil. ton left the impression that he had much to do with the ne- satiation; and signing of the agreement. However, it has now been disclosed that he left far Hong Kong, ostensibly to complete the deal, four days after it had been signed in Peking by the Wheat Board officials. The Government was reliev- ed when the Canadian Wheat Board negotiators came up with a second long-term agree- ment with the Communist China. It is valued at 3300,- 000.000 or more for the Wes.. tern farmer. Under the deal China will take a minimum of 112,000,000 bushels over the next thrpe years and up to I maximum of 186,700,000 hush.. els. get their wish, The when] Cabinet Com The committee has no thought of Imposing any " rect Government control over needing. But it hope: by mum of long-range formula and through the nduro of experh. to persuade farmers to move mince looking into the agricul- tural policies is particularly concerned about the tenderwy among Western Farmer: to keep planting wheat in m- musing amount; The Prairie wheat growers were encour- aged last year hy the former Agricultural Minister. Hamil- ton, to grow greater amounts of the ("In This added to Canada's already largo lur- plum. "l can't stand that horrilrle repetition, let's get out of here". And off they went “ithnut a parcel between them. I'll bet the Mall management han yet to hear murmur rmnpliment them um the good music that's played ”HM of the time. '/rrri' fllllWv/"i"""c/:li' Tir,lsl h../._4’.«.A.W.m-.swgébflflé MOWER ABOUT GRASS. Dear Cliff: Last week you had an item from a woman complaining about her hus- band getting up and mowing the lawn at 8 a.m. I'd like to know her ticcret. My hubby won't come within l0 feet of our mowr-r. let alone guide it across the grass. I bought it for him for his birthday and I might as well have got him a fur lined money belt for all the use he makes of it. I should have caught the hint “hen he choked on his birthday rake upon seeing the mechanical monster Jying there in the garage. decorated nith a big blue rilon. His birthday was July llth and the grass IS getting mighty long. I WHH.F. SHOPPING Cloverdale Mall should get a new disc jockey or tell the one on duty that it's rather hard on the nerves to hear a stuck rmord for over 40 min- Utes. lust when I was about to chuck a cantaloupe at one of the lowkpraken. I heard a woman say to anolher the r'nt,'aW'ment vrvu almost did“ it turns out Mark was a bit of a loafer and sat around on his toga all day sipping exotic Egyptian drink. while Cleo tended to the work, like figuring out " ho was to be poisoned that day. Anyhow Mark developed a hit of I bay “Indow and probably had to get his armor let out. The more pedantic historians claim he insisted Cleo press his armor. which is iruuic since she was supposed to be wearing the mp5 in her jeans around that house. a And Big julie looked about as much like Rex llarrt» mu as a “mullat looks like a grizzly bear. lie “as ~kinny aud bald as well as being a bit on the huwlegged side. In li. day there was no one around to tell him the baldness pattern and not the baldness “as hereditary (or is it vice- tersa). So julie covered his shame with a laurel wreath and nobody found out he had a bare pate until his friends threw a going away party for him on the steps of the senate chambers. This was rather a surprise to Julie who didn't know he was going away. He didn't come hick either. I hope all you nice people who have seen "Cleopatra", don't demand your money back after reading this, because. let's face it, not many of you would want to see Peter L's- tinov as Mark, Leon Errol as Julius and Imogene Coca as the sex goddess of Egypt. “13"‘i“-‘:" _ "I ', /:-"crii, an“ hesnpr srrj't':ji,'ac','/'r' ”L _ Of course Julius and Marl. weren't exactly the Rock Hudson type, so they were probably grateful for "hat they could get in the nay of dates. Many people are under the impression that Mark Mas a handsome strapping type, along the lines at Richard Burton. NN ell, he “am t. He has short, fat and not exactly brilliant, even ii he was a general in the Roman Legions. Howes er rumor has It that he had curly hair. That always helps. I suppose it is easier on the e) e: oi moGegoers when the principals in historical movies are an unlike the on;- inals as possible. "Cleopatra", now making the rounds oi the more push cinemas is n prime example, History tells us that Cleo, while as charming as t make charmer can get, didn't look tel, much like Li. luylor. It has been hinted by ancient historians, wht wrote after Cleo “as dead in order to preserve their health, that the Queen of the Nile had a rather prominent pro- boscis. One historian really stuck his neck out be claim- ing that Cleo had a very slight harelip. One described her figure as "boyish", hardly an accurate assessment of Miss l'aylor's measurements. Cleo, apparently would never hase made the fold-out in Playboy, yet she sipped the tin- est oi potables with those pillars of Roman society, Julius Caesar and Mark Anton). lulius and Mark, it seems, it ere mine“ hat taken in by Cleo's charms, despite the fact she didn't look much like Liz. Ed. note: Clilford Foster is on holidays this week, but baton he downed for porn unknown happened to be passing a that“ where "Cleopatra" is playing. Thin lun- od the wheel. turning in hi: cronium and aha a trip in the Foster time machine he came up with the following lulu. motion about tttree of industry's most 1;olorful characters. We hope the" facts don't disillusion too many hintory bum. IT A CAR STOP. "I told' I/G, when he showed me ring, "Oh, Carl, lol? shouldn't have _ and There is alto an nwrrenen wnhin the Government that the Eastern farmer hit a legi- timate mmplunt that his "I- teruu have been guhordinat. ed over the year: to the inter- as“ of the Western farmer. The Government h o put I through the appointment of I sqrstrottd Minister of Aerieulture to mod those complaints and to take ttrtion to meet mm. of the long dandin| com- plaint: ot the East, mm other crops This might be done at the annual Federal. Provincial agricultural con- ference usually held early in the year when the experts sub- mit their market formula. wk /rN l U " H