Whitby ;Fiee Pros, Wednesday, November 11, 1992, Page 7 PAGE SEVENý Pole: rotection and professionalism, One yaag i this space, I wrote in support of police.Smen thought enough of the article to forward it to a Police Association magazine ini Toronto. That magazine asked for'-- and received -- permission to reprint the article., Although, I nieyer did see the promised complimentary copy, I might assume that the piece was published. The article concluded: .we are izwolued in a war on crime. If we don't win it - and we have no reason to believe that we will j --oui society will break.clown into lawless anarchy jwithin anot/zer two generations. That's your _______________________________ grandchll&ren, ____people,_______________________ Soif ît's war, we need military ridles.__________ _________________ Tis isnololnger -- ifit ever was -- aboy-will-be boys'garne. Mulie one: w/zen a cop says stop, t/zen stop. I reproduce this rather strident, right-wingy reaction simply to polish my credentials. (And I stiil believe m1wat I said then: cops need respect.) That established, 4 Foc uitrsbcrbrpoiei Otrohave been drawng bed ontheNDPgoverimntfor imposing strct uls o plic: o wtif n ffierdraws a gun, So of cae th hat inprotest. Adotcm h supporters: our cops are tops. First of ail, I might say, they better be. ltes a tough jorequires unique. people. And, yes, they stili need support. And it looks as though they have it: about two-thirds ofý Ontario residents say they support the police protest in this inatter. Frightening. D o people really forget so qnickly -- this being Remembrance Day -- that democracy flourishes only as a device'te proteet unpopular minorities frein the. IHGH SOHOOL STUDENTS MARCEIIG ON REMEMBRANCE MAY, NOV. 11, 1942 tyranny of the majority? Fifty years ago, these students, who were too young te go to war, marched along Dundas A year ago, I aise said: Street te the Cenotaph to pay tribute te those who died in the Flrat and Second World Wars. "Given t/z violenceof our soiety, ~ aThe heavy casualties at Dieppe were particularly remembered in 1942. WtyAclo hL 'VifromtthevWolnnceaof Novemberi10, 1982reditiotoo6ehe And dees the reaction against the new rules really e 'T.ecaxnpaign for $80,000 te, build a new Roman Ctoi hrl illkl ups t mean what I think it means? That senior police officers goal. Whitby Chamber of Commerce wiil sponsor a Santa Claus Parade on December 7. at present are net aware whenever a. police officer* Dominion Store is advertising boneless pot roast at 32, cents a pound. draws a gun? That it would be possile for, an officer te * Sid Smith and Jack McKenzie have been signed for the 1957-58 season by the Whitbyý plây Wyatt Earp without knowledge of the force (at Dunlops Hockey Club.* least until reported by some frightened civilian)? Let us get out there now and support our cops. They are the best, we need thein, we need te help them do a difficult job. 110 YEARS AGO We can support them best if we know that they are from the Thutsday, November 9, 1882 edition of the thoroughiy professionalinh every way -- particuiarly i WITY CHRONICLE use of firearms. A professional would view the drawing e The Chronicle is critical of people who tear out boards from the Town'a plank sidewalks. of a firearin as an ultimate threat -- and continue te *e Samn McCaw, conduc.tor on the Whitby an d Port Perry Railway for 10Oyears, has'moved te draw as necessary. A professionai wouid aIse sue the Chicago. protection -- te police and civilians alike --in the need ITe Town coundil bas purchased a piano for the Town hall from, local manufacturer Carl torporsuhinidnts~~,...............-, -' lTomas DoÈIa openeda brEâ~'-ýfthb Western Bank of CaadâtWliW.'-'-