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.. Members of the Etobicoke, Board of Eduâ€" cation Management Committee behaved like a bunch of Ostriches last week during a propesed discussion of a citizens‘ brief on a reading instruction in the schools. . The brief, submitted by Etobicoke resiâ€" dent Pat Britnell last June, is reviewed in detail this week by our education columnist Joy McAlister. It is therefore not our intention to disâ€" cuss its contents here. It is our intention, however, to diseuss the bad manners disâ€" played by our elected representatives and their illâ€"conceived notion that nobody‘s opinion on educational matters other than those of their officials is worthy of disâ€" cussion. ..Keeping the fires stoked, the chimneys cleaned and the walls painted is not the sole duty of school trustees. Their concern is with all aspects of education. The gist of all these articles is that it is still possible to become a millionaire despite graduated income tax and the fact that if you invent a betâ€" ter mousetrap the world will beéat a path to the door of the SP.C.A. to demand your arâ€" rest as a sadist. This attitude is born from official propaâ€" ganda and board apathy. It is not expected that they should take on the task of teaching the children themâ€" selves. But it is their task to obtain the best possible teachers, administrators, and educational programs. "How I Made My First Bilâ€" lion" by J. Paul Getty, richâ€" est man in the world, appearâ€" ed in a past issue of Playboy Maclean‘s followed up with a suitably more modest artiâ€" cle titled "Four Ways to Make a Million Doilars." Life, Look, Leak and all the other bigâ€" cifc. mags have run similar inspirational articles calculatâ€" ed to mulch the dream of avarice budding in every man‘s heart and strike shame into the souls of those of us who, in our fortiés, the day before payday still finds stealthily trying to induce an abortion in the baby‘s piggy bank. If township residents consider these to be less than adequate and take the trouble, as Mr. Britnell, did, to study the area in question and submit a brief and petition signed by other residents, then it‘s their duty to investigate the area of complaint. The easiest way to become a millionaire is to have an elderly father who is a multiâ€" millionaire and encourage him to take part in active sports such as polo, skyâ€"divâ€" ing and stockâ€"car racing. When your rich father reaches retirement age it is important that he be kept from ju#t sitting around thinking, éspecially thinking about wornen. The devil finds work for idle hands, you know. Try to get the old gentleman interested in a creative hobby such as exâ€" ploring abandoned mine shafts. (Give him one for Christmas, if necessary.) For «most of us, however, this avenue to millionaireâ€" hood is closed owing to cirâ€" cumstances beyond our conâ€" trol. If the old man squanâ€" dered his years on the project of dessicating the town‘s taâ€" Déear Sir I attended a general election meeting at Christ The King ‘The Etobicoke Board received such a s 9c AND THE WORLD % g LAUGHS Ostriches In Education EDITORIAL 9+ VUNGENT POST verns. instead of getting out and swindling the governâ€" ment out of a couple of transâ€" continental railroads, there is nothing that even the most enterprising heir can do to make probate of the will a fiscal spectacular. Next to inheriting a bundle the next best way to become a millionaire â€"â€" and here we have the exemplar of Mr. Getty â€" is to strike oil someâ€" place. For the purpose of getâ€" ting rich quick, oil, like wine. should be struck in certain years. For instance 1916 was a good year for Getty. He struck oil in Oklahoma in that year and has never reâ€" gretted it. Striking oil in other years. such as thid year, or 1963, or the year after that, lacks the same bouquet because whereâ€" as Mr. Getty needed only one pumping rig in a quite handy location, in these later years you have to strike oil in Teary Channel after borrowâ€" ing $300 million from the bank to cover draining the Arctic Ocean, For those unwilling to meet this challenge other means of getting selfâ€"serve privileges at the national mint are to become a housing contractor a bond dealer or a caitie baron. In all of these busiâ€" nesses the Horatio Alger rouâ€" tine, starting at the bottom and working hard to reach the top, will put you in the millionaires‘ club only as senior bus boy. No, what you do is check the A.A. and hospital records to find an owner too indisâ€" posed to prevent his business from going on the reef. borâ€" row enough money from the bank to buy the outfit, fire all. the incompetents (anyâ€" body aver 55), put in a couâ€" Church in the Lakeshore ridâ€" ing recently. It was well atâ€" tended and people were genâ€" eraily wgn-hehaved, but 1 was disappointed to learn that the candidate for the Comâ€" munist Party was not invited The disappointment was.not so much in that the candidate could not be heard or availâ€" able for questions. as in the fact that an invitation was withheld from a candidate of a legal party of Canada and Ontario I think a person should be prepared to meet with any proponent of any different ideology than one‘s own; thereby #iving us a better unâ€" derstanding of it, and at the same time testing arnd improvâ€" ing our owh. If we wish to lessen distrust and hate we will have to learn 16 uinderstand the other perâ€" son‘s viewpoint and not bury our heads in the sand. By ERIC NICOL 19, It was ignored, just as rudely as Mrs. Britnell and her petitioners were ignored. No discussion, no greeting, no word of *ecognition. complaint last June and referred it to its management committee. ‘The management comtnittee apparently referred it to the administragive staff and the officials preparâ€" ed a npor; on it for discussion last Discussion on the brief which took six months of study to prepare closed in someâ€" thing less tharn five minutes with Only one member indicating any interest in it. That it was no mere whim on the part of these petitioners was conâ€" firmed by the superintendent of public schools who admitted in his report that préâ€" sentation of this type (Mrs. Britnell‘s brief on reading instruction) had been submitted to each board in the metropolitan area and directly to the Minister of Education. Mrs. Britnell had asked in her brief for an experimental class to be set up using one of the commercially published alphabeâ€" tic methods. But not one member cared to comment on this request. l Since the superintendent stated in his report that he did not acknowledge that the schools had been deficient or that the teachâ€" ing of reading in the schools had been inâ€" adequate, members of the school board could not muster sufficient courage to ask him "Why, then, are so many parents conâ€" cerned about reading instruction?" They may bury their heads in the sand but their bad manners will not disappear. Jack Bowen, ple of doâ€"itâ€"alls and. vazcom! you‘re on your way to walâ€" lowing in the old filthy. It is expected that New Toronto will receive a ploque from Metro Council to mark the town‘s 50th anniversary. Metro Chairman Allen indicated this last week in a conversation with Mayor Donaldâ€"Russell. The Metro chairman has also been invited to judge a beauty contest in connection with the town‘s anniverâ€" sary. He was told it would take four days to judge the contest. Etobicoke Reeve John MacBeth considers any decision reached by Metro on the question of amalgamâ€" ation will not in any way influence the decision of a royal commission now studying the Metro organization. More than 265 business items, almost a record, was dealt with by Metro Council last week in its first fall session. Metro Traffic Commissioner Cass has now proâ€" hibited the operation of heavy trucks on Sunday on Royal York Rd. between Ashley Rd. and the Queensway in Etobicoke. =__ United Appeal campaign signs will be installed on Lake Shore Blvd. opposite the Long Branch municipal office and on Lake Shore Blyd. opposite the Goodyear plant. In a big experiment Metro has agreed to allow velâ€" low colored pavement to be placed on the left turning lanes ot the intersection of Dundas St. W. and Islington Ave. in Etobicoke. It is felt that colored pavement could improve traffic control methods. If this test is successtul wider use of colored road pavement can be expected A suburban works commissioner took down a set of traffic lights belonging to Metro government. Metro has notified the suburban council to remind its officials that Metro took over all traffic lights in July 1962 The Lakeshore representatives in Metro and Etobiâ€" coke Reeve MacBeth are just as stounchly against amâ€" algamation as they ever were. Weston Mayor George Bull considers any examination of amalqamation by Metro at this time would only produce confused thinking. Metro Transportation Committee has agreed to hire consultants to studv a one year advance in plcns to exâ€" tend Eglinton Ave W. across the Humber River into Etoâ€" bicoke. Its a $4.900,000 project that would take three vears to complete. Mr. Bull agrees that it is urgently reâ€" quired in view of increased traffic volumes in the northâ€" west Metro area Metro Traffic Commissioner Cass wants to install traffic control lights on Richview Rd. at Royal York Rd. and at Kipling Ave. and Rithview Rd. in Etobicoke. Metro will give a polite no to Etobicoke on the chances of adâ€" vancing the vriority for a grade separation on Kinling Ave. at the CNR railway tracks south of Rexdale Bivd. A proposal that evervy suburban subâ€"divider be re quired to provide on# tree for every residential lot will be considered by Meétro Council later this month Mimico Mayor Griag‘s propesal that Metro form a special Centennial Celebrations Committee to coâ€"ordinâ€" dte civic Centennial projects will also be considered by Metro later in the month. Since the formation of Metro government in 1953 a total of 1,277 subsidized public housing units for famâ€" ilies have been built in the Metro areo ;his accomplishâ€" ment should be measured by the target for 1980 of 30,000 such units. Public housing is not one of Metro‘s better accomplishments. _ â€" { Bev. Lewis, former Etobicake reeve and a candidate in the provincial eléction for Humber riding is advocatâ€" ing construction of a $2,500,000 low rental housing proâ€" ject for elderly nersons to be located in Mimico. He says he will consult Metro Chairman William Allen and Metro Housing #hd Weltsre Committee on the proposal. He claims Lakeshore elderly residents have been neglected hy Maetrs in that they myst travel 10 miles to reach a Metro housing project tor the elderiy. nepuUll PTUIN ULLIWda ‘J”,f',‘lg{“_[‘,,[ Old Age & Federal Pension Plans > May Cost Taxpayer 24 Of Salary "" / Report From Ottawa The Liberal Government has bowed to political presâ€" sures and announced it will ask Parliament to approve payment of a $10 increase in the old age pension in Octoâ€" ber, to be financed through a boost in taxes. The taxpayer will be forced to dig deeper into his pockets to fork over the $116,000,000 to meet the costs of raising the universal old age pension from its present level of $65 a month up to $75 a month. This is a backdown by the Liberal minority government from its previous position that it would not raise the pension to $75 without linking it to the Federal contributory Caâ€" nada Pension plan and proâ€" viding the increased amount out of contributions paid into the plan by all Canadians. Meantime a Federal â€" Proâ€" vincial conference on the proâ€" posed Canada Pension Plan concluded after two days of technical discussions. A comâ€" munique issued at the close said there was general agreeâ€" ment among the participants that a national contributory pension plan is desirable. Feâ€" deral and Quebec representaâ€" tives will now work out the inter â€" relationship of Federal and Quebec plans and Federal and â€" Ontario | representatives will _ meet â€" and â€" recommend how the Ontario legislation on pensions and the Canada Pension Plan can be coâ€"ordinâ€" ated. Prime Minister Pearson anâ€" nounced the decision to change the Government‘s polâ€" icy and pay the pension inâ€" crease out of the treasury, when the conférence opened. He attributed the policy change to the fact that Queâ€" bec had made it clear it was not going to participate in the Federal plan. Without _ contributions _ to the Federal plan from the people of Quebec itrw o u l d have meant that the $10 inâ€" people of Quebec itrw o u l d have meant that the $10 inâ€" crease .n the basic pension was being pald out of contriâ€" butions from all the other people in Canada outside of Quebec. In fairness the $10 increase in the universal penâ€" sion could not be paid to Queâ€" bec pensioners out of contriâ€" butions made by nonâ€"Quebec residents and accordingly the the additional $10 also be paid out of the present old age seâ€" curity fund. 1The fund is built up through contributions â€" made on â€" the basis of three per cent of tax» able personal income: three per cent of corporation taxes and three per cent of the sales tax. The Government made it clear that it was premature to forecast â€" firmly â€" what â€" taxes would be raised. However. it + understood that the saies tax would not be changed as the Government feels im is high enough now. and Finâ€" ance Minister Walter Gordon is also on record that the Corâ€" poration income tax was at its peak and should not be raised Thus . the Government may decide to go for a one per cent personal income tax inâ€" crease Government authorities, inâ€" cluding: the Prime Minister, etiphasized that apart from the increase of $10 in the basic pension the Canada Pension Plan relates benefits 6 contributions The other fiâ€" nancial features of the plaa fFall Tuneâ€"Up will therefore not be appreciâ€" ably affected by the absence of both contributions . and benefits from Quebec which has said it will operate its own plan. Meantime the representsâ€" tives of the provinces attendâ€" ing the conference â€" British Columbia and Manitoba were the only two without minisâ€" terial delegates â€" were given detailed information on the operation of the proposed Feâ€" deral scheme. It was clear that the pension plan will be a particular boon to those men past middleâ€"age who are not too far away from retirement. However young en who will be making contributions for 40 or more years â€" at rising rates of contribution â€" will carry a heavy load. Under the Federal scheme virtually all workers, aged 18 or over, with "employee" staâ€" tus, will be required to partiâ€" cipate. For administrative reaâ€" sons certain "employee" groups such as {agricultural laborers, individual domestic servants and some classes +4 casual workers will not be reâ€" quired to participate. For constitutional reason emplovees of Prllj\.'umal Gu+ ernments will not be required to participate unless it is agreed by the provinces. W.th the main exception of memâ€" bers of the armed forces and persons under 18 years of age, almost all workers in gaintu) employment who are not reâ€" quired to participate under the plan may participate on a voluntary basis. Early in the Federal â€" Provâ€" incial conference Premier John Robarts of Ontario gave assurances that his province would coâ€"operate to the Aul}â€" est extent to make the Onâ€" tario pension program conâ€" form to ie Federal plan. It form to the Federal plan. It is â€" expected â€" therefore . that within a few years the penâ€" sion picture in Canada will be appreciably altered. In Quebec a public and uniâ€" versal plan will be in operaâ€" tion accompanied by arrangeâ€" ments to make the Quebec plan and the Federalâ€"scheme mutually transferable. In the rest of Canada a uniâ€" versal contributory plan wil} be in effect, Practically all employers and all empleyees will be contributing one per cent of each employee‘s earnâ€" ings to the Federal plan. Priâ€" vate plans now in existence will be coâ€"ordinated with the Federal scheme or absorbed Bv 1974, after a contributor has been paving into the Fedâ€" eral plan for 10 years, he may retire with a maximum penâ€" sion of $100 a month, if he has reached the age of *n This would be augmented by the flat rate pension of $75 per month That is the picture that will develop in Canada providing Ontario coâ€"operates with Otâ€" tawa in putting into operation the Federal pension plan. The Fedéral Government thought at the outset of the conference that it had assurances from Premiér Robarts that his Govâ€" ernment would coâ€"operate But as the conference proâ€" gressed â€"â€" Premiér Robarts léft it early to resume his proâ€" vincial electioneering â€"â€" it beâ€" came less clear as to what rate pensinn of $75 no\ be required unless it is provinces. With Her voice had the high pitch that comes with advanc» ingy years, but it wasn‘t shrill or raspy. "She and my son always read you. But, if you put it in and she asksfif 1 was the one who complained, N tell a white lie and say no â€" to avoid hburting het feelings, and my son‘s." What was it she wanted put in the column? "It‘s about the attitude of young people towards the old. m not talking about children â€" they seem to underâ€" stand and like old people â€" IT‘m talking about young adults, in their early thirties, like iny daughterâ€"inâ€"law. _ Mt that age they think anyhbody who is getting cluse to seventy is in their second childhood." Her daughterâ€"inâ€"law notsonly decided what she should eat, but also what she should wear, continued my caller. "She even tells me what sort of underwear to put ou, just like one of the children." Haven‘t space to mention the rest of my caller‘s comâ€" plaints. Chief point she wanted to get across is Elderly people strongly object to being treated like children. They like to make their own decisions, and form their own opin« ions. and have them treated with respect instead of being brushed aside. relative term â€" but surely it s to the truth." THE RCYLINDER GOD ambling toward scho« ~ituation in which I would say decades}. there are some who 1 In mm lay (as w “L‘hlll '] sically mile. I. myself. walked nearly a mile to school and went home for Iunch at nooun. And this was in 25 and 30 below w eather during winter. which lasted for five or six months. In them days, half the teachers had no cars, and as I recall. only one student in a secondary school of 1.000 drove an auto. Quite different from the situation today when vou can‘t tell which cars are the teachers‘ and which are the students"! There is far too much emphasis on owning a car today. "Alan. vou can‘t make out with the chicks if you ain‘t got So what happens? f Boys chomp at the bit until they reach their l6th birthday so they can quit school, get a job, and buy a heap. Parents it seems, do very little to discounrage this, else the big dream of "tooling around in a bucket" would be harâ€" bored hy {ewer teenagers. * w heeis The automobile has been responsible for more heartâ€" break, flattening of the wallet, and frustration than posâ€" sibly any other single factor, yet it is worshipped by vounaster and adult alike. ar to drive the kiddies four blocks to school. There was one boy in iny class in Public School whe rudged six miles to school every day rain, shine or earthâ€" juake. â€"Me trudged home every night too. By the time he reached high school, his father, a dairy urmer. had purchased a truck to bring the milk to town ind he got a Hit as far as the dairv a haliâ€"mile away from And it all starts with childhood, when kiddies see paâ€" rents treat the car as one of the family. \When are we going to grow up and look upon the auto as what it really is: simply a means of transportation, and this doesn‘t mean four blocks to school Â¥ither. The design of new houses is a good indication of the lofts place the car holds in this material societvy of ours. Vhe garage has hbeen moved from the extreme side of the lhome to a choice spot in between the living room and bedâ€" tooms. ) remember when a gatage was built at the back of the lot. The nesxt move is right into the house. I imagime a psychiatrist would say moving the garage to the centre of the house is a result of modern man‘s bedroom, when vou get than feeling of insecurity. you can always jump out the door and into the car in a couple of bounds. ° | tmagine a PS cluairist woitln : to the centre of the house is a res obsession for security. Tust think, whether vou‘re in th bedroom, when vou get than feeling ber UXDED THE ‘B‘ â€" BALMY. "Boy have 1 got a problem". he said as I picked up the receiver. "That wife of mine just gotta play Bingo three, four times a week, and it‘s drivin‘ me nuts". "She travels 15 tniles twice a week just to play this ~tupid game and she never wins nothin‘"‘, he added. The other times she plays a bit closer to home. 1t turned out this caller wanted me to tell him how ie could get actruss to his bingo happy spouse that plaving extent Ontario would coâ€"operâ€" ate. Health Minister LaMarsh told a press conference at the close of the meetings that she wasn‘t quite sure where Onâ€" tario stood on the Federal scheme. She explained that she placed one meaning to words but had learned during the conference that others place "different â€" meanings." She added somewhat acidly, "Right now I don‘t khow why, exâ€" actly, Premier Robarts came to this conference â€" although 1 do perhaps have a pretty good idea." A "Charity begins at home", he answered, "an‘ we got five kids that can use it." I told the gent I don‘t like to get involved in family problems as the rewards are rather litmpy. "The dame‘s bommy". he said, "I‘m gonna send her to a sickâ€"olochist â€"â€" it‘ll cose less". ® lonbt] It appeared that the Onâ€" tario election campaign was in full swing and that the pension plan was an imporâ€" tant issye. This had had conâ€" siderable impact on the disâ€" cussions that tooke place beâ€" ibling toward school last week, 1 remembered a similar vation in which 1 was involved some years ago (some wuld say decades). Yes, 1 did go to schoul, although cre are some who would question. In my «day (as we over 30 say), things were decidedly ferent. When I say I saw students ambling to school mean, of course, from the car to the school building. . 1t scems parents this day and age are afraid to let their ispring walk. Poor old Dad. he takes the commuter un or bus to the office or shop, while Mom keeps the OLD PEOPLE â€" "I‘m a grandmother, living with AT A CAK STOP Tust shut the c while you‘re 1 than hy disea CXDED THI ANnFO the time he reached high school, his father, a dairy had purchased a truck to bring the milk to town got a Hit as far as the dairy a haliâ€"mile away from Needless to say he got soft and deteriorated phyâ€" to a point where it took him six minutes to trot the H1 zo games are run Ir that his wife wasn vas a kiddies" pastime. _ kid_can play this, game". h she‘s just big kid. but it in a buck‘s back the meant car doors, start the motor â€"â€" but rememâ€" feeling secure, more pepole are killed by r charity in most places, 1 told t really throwing her money in the living room or in the tween the Federal and Provâ€" incial Government represenâ€" tatives behind closed doors It was obvious at the close of the twoâ€"day conference that the future of the Federal Govâ€" ernment‘s proposed contribuâ€" tory portable pension plan rests in the hands of one man, Ontario‘s Premier Robarts and the electors of Ontario, who could elect his opponent John Wintermeyer. Wintermeyér is pledged to the Canada penâ€" sion plan without the "ifs, and buts" of John Robarts. So far, it doesn‘t look as if Winterâ€" meyer is going to win â€" but if he and his fellow Liberals cah turn it into a hot istue which means something to the ordifni@ry voter â€" they could have a winner in what has been a sleepy election to date. he went on. "I keep ust runs off her like t "duck‘s hback" no watche« 1 students ) a similar igo (some , although