PAGE 4, WEDNESDAY, APRIL -19, 1978, WHITBY FREE PRES whitby s îERING OVER 28,000 READERS Voice of. the Cou nty Town Michaeil an Burgess, P ublisher-Managing Editor The only Whitby newspaper independently owned and operated by Whitby residents for Whitby residents., %6. -i Community Editor -Brion Winter Published every Wednesday Contrilnating Editor -Jim Quail Production Manager -Marie BuFgeSS Print,& Promnotionl by M.B.M. PubIishîngi Manager -Robin L'ion and Photography Ine.iCiassified AdManager'-S. van Dceloo' Phone 668-6111 'Circulation Manager Sharon Lyion Mailing Permit No. 460 The Free Press Building, Member of the:. 121 Brock Street North, Better Business Bureau of Toronto P.O. Box 206. Whitby, Ont. WhtbyýChamber of Commer" ew The Paper Age Societies in eons gone by have been-known for the ba- sic building blocks of their industries. There has been a stone age, a bronze age, a copper age and an iron age. This turns out to be the pa- pe r age. ltper is the machinery of the bureaucrats, the tool that makes the civil service go 'round. The bureaucrats use paper for collecting statistics. They use paper for regulating business under the countless hundreds of thousands of ob- scure, petty statutes carried on the books'at ail levels of gomemaent. Take away a bureaucrat's paper and you take away bis life. The real problem with pa- per is that, while it makes the civil service happy, it places an enormous strain on -the business community. A re- cent study by the federal Ministry of State fof Small Business concluded that the costs of processing paper- work for the tbree levels of government (but mostly for the feds) worked out ,eo about S5,000 a year for a typical smallfirm! For the =&Bler farai this pa pe rb urd en eau be disas- trouas. Most uait tiras do mit have employeesawbo ire sufficiently skilled at paper processig to handie this chore. So the owner-manager end's up processing the goy- ernmnent's formis - and that la time he can't spend earn- ing a profit for the company. the Ministry of Small Bu- siness has recently released a "discussionpaper" titled Puperburden pointing out that government must.dis-- pense with the needless form filling ("paperburden" in the Ministry's jargon) and con- centrate on what is v ital - importaht paperwork. It won 't be easy to accomplish the elimination of needless paper -shuffling but the Min- istry has proposed either an individual"or a de pa rtnmie nt which would have responsi- bility for controling the gov- ernment's paper flow. .TheCanadian Federation - of Independent Business bas been figbting the paperbur- den for some time now. ""The average small businessman in this country is up to his eye- bails ini government papers," John Bulloch, CFIB Presi- dent, points out. "4Bureau- cratic papervmrk is becoming the most important problemn facing this country's busines- ses." In large part because of the CFIB's struggle, roughly 40% of Canada's amail corp- orations will no longer be re- quired to completethe fornis of'the Cor porations and Labour Unions Return Act (CALURA); CALURA was originally intended to collect statistics on unions and big business but was perverted by oveizealous bureaucratic paper-pusheirs who swept siail it tras up luthe forai- fillig. Nonetheless, good inten- tions alone wilI flot haIt the paperburden. OnIy witb Sun- j The ideais good, but site i rn One deveiopiment which seems toa be causing some controversy ln town is a 24-unit townhouse project for senior citizens,ý proposed by Westminster United Church. The church wants to sponsor and build the develop- ment called "Manning Mews" on vacant land owned by the church at Scott Street and Manning Road. The town planning department is very much ln favor of such a development, but about a dozen neighbouring residents have f iled objections wlththe town council. The neighbours say the project will devalue their property, and there are not enough services and transportation facilities for seniors ln that part ôf town. The first objection, ln our minds is frivolous and decidedly selfish. Town houses are not perhaps thek most admired type of development, but It would be far better for the neighbours to have them occupied by quiet senior citizens than families with smali noisy children. It was not so many years ago that a number of citizens banded together and tried to stop the Green Street senior citizens' apartments from being built, and they did not look very good in the eyes of the rest of the town, for they seemed to be against senior citizens.- To say that senior citizens' housing will devalue your property, when seniors' housing Is so badly needed in this town, is a very poor attitude to say the least. It smacks of outright selfishness. .Itmay not be generally known that the 103-unit senior citizensý'apartment at Col borne and Centre Streets, due to open in May, is already overbooked and a waiting li»st for seniors accommodation stili exists in Whitby. We commend Westminster United Church for taking the initiative to provide accommodations for seniors, ln a time when they make up a large percentage 0f« our town's population, and many cannot keep up large homes any more. The other objection of the neighbours--that there are not enough services and transportation facilities for seniors near Westminster Church, however, has considerable menit. Look at the area, and you will see that It is not close to any shopping districts (It is a l.ong walk to Dundas Street and a dangerous crossing of a four-lane hi' ghway to get to K Mart Plaza). Also there are no other facilities for recreation or other actîvities in the area, and It would cost the seniors a considerable amount of money in taxi fares to get to the parts of town where these services are. There is no bus service, except on Dundas Street to and fromn Oshawa, once every hour. ln contrast, the seniors' apartmnents at Coiborne and Centre Streets, in downtown Whltby are within a five-minute walk of two major shopping centres, al downtown stores and the library. It is even a reasonable walking distance to the seniors' activity centre on Brock Street S., and the senior citizens' clubs at the Centennial Building and Fairview Lodge. We suggest that Westminster Churçh- ýturn its energies toward finding a more suitable site in theý downtown area for seniors' housing, rather than placing such accommodation in a relatively isolated part of the Corridor, far away f romn the transportation and services the seniors need. The idea is good but the site is bad. Ail parties should take another look at It. set Laws - requirements that ail statutes and laws be re- viewed at regular intervals, erasing the redundant regula- fions - is the re any assurance that outdated statutes wilI be deleted. The fight against paper- burden ~e on. Even as you read thaï, an army of bureau- crta as fiMllin nthe necemsry foras ta Set the campig un-w. j *Thnk smaill isma editoriai message ff mmth Cndiw [Frtono ndpnet I DenEmployer: needs. Over 2,000 students As summer approaches wiI11 be avalable through our you may be foreseeing the offices this summer to work loss 0f time, production and for a few months, a week, or money brought on by vaca- even be the hour. tloning staff, or possibly We, at Canada manpower' Iooking ahead to a busy for Students have as an. season or special projects objective to give you person- suck as general dlean-up, alized service promptly, et- maintenance, inventory, and fectively and with quality survey work which you have workers. We wilI also do aur been delaying. best to advise you on varlous1 Canada Manpower programs and services1 Centres for Students are which might assist you In1 specially organized to meet hiring student workers and1 your short-terra manpowefr paying their wages. Our ottices wIll be fully staffed by May t irst and located at 132 Dundas Street West, Whitby, and 174,Har- wood Avenue South, Ajax. The phone numbers are 668- 5233 and 683-7691. Sincerely, Francine MacNeaît, Co-ordinator, Canadla MaN»wrCete for Students, WhItby and Ajax. Il M pf 4PEiVO -E.i 4- f Hire a student this summer lý -