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f 2 the tribune thursday sept 19 1968 vulnerable to attack it is becoming increasingly appar ent that real estate and municipal politics do not mix well together such was the case here in stouffville several years ago such is the case now in whitchurch deputyreeve lawrence hennessey an admitted representative of a well known and highly reputable real es tate firm is impairing the future of his position by continuing his connec tion with this company we are not suggesting that mr hennessey is using his council office to further his own private interests to the best ofour knowledge he is not but on too many occasions he has found it necessary to withdraw from discussions on pertinent subjects thus causing ratepayers to question his integrity on other matters mr hennessey is aware of the vul nerable situation in which he now finds himseif he surely must have been aware of it when he let his name stand for nomination in 1967 he has declined however to forfeit one po sition in favor of another he thus leaves himself wide open to criticism by a crosssection of the electorate under the most congenial of cir cumstances a councillors lot is not always a happy one when a member takes a definite stand hes sure to step on someones toes to retaliate is human and the injured will seek any opening in which to thrust the knife thus mr hennessey finds himself continuously on the defen sive its a tough struggle in many ways deputyreeve hen nessey has proved himself a benefit to council particularly in his persist ent desire to acquire additional in dustrial assessment for whitchurch but he cannot go on fighting a rear guard action forever for right or wrong people will believe what they want to believe and its the opinion of the public that real estate and poli tics just dont mix its been proven at the polls it could happen here by tom mcfadden grade 13b school has begun for another year across canada and the united states since september third it has been possible to pick up the paper on any night and read of student protests against what they believe is the un equal balance of power in the school between administration and students so far protests of the students have been conducted in an orderly and peaceful manner unlike those in the united states how long will the restless striving spirit of the young people be con tained not only the young people but also the suppressed minorities how long will the canadian indian be content with poor living condi tions inadequate education and the prejudice of an ignorant people how soon will the indians begin organized peaceful protests if no action is taken how long after that will it take for violence to become the only means left for years canadians have been able to sit back and say smugly that racism is a problem only in the united states these are the views of an ig norant and unseeing people is this not one of the roots of student pro test do they not wish merely to change the policies of a world that will be their problem in the future can they be blamed because some of them are greatly concerned not only with the present but also with the future can the older generation take a lesson from this and try to change now rather than wait for vi olence to come to canada are the canadians the progressive and open- minded people they claim to be if so why can we not take a lesson from our neighbors in the south and avoid violence who can be prime minister since we have just elected a new prime minister and the americans are about to elect a new president it is interesting to note the differences in the two countries in just who can achieve such offices it appears that there is no docu ment spelling out the duties and powers of our prime minister they simply arise out of custom and ex perience and without written rules as to who can be elected to office there are no restrictions if a man can get the votes he can be prime minister and we dont care where he was born or how long ago in the united states there are re strictions the field is not wide open naturalized immigrants are barred the president must be a naturalized citizenthe young are barred the president must be at least 35 years of age people who have travelled abroad too much are barred the pres ident must have resided in the states for at least 14 years the net results are that millions of people living in the united states are barred from being candidates the canadian attitude seems much more democratic we judge a man for what he is not for where his mother happened to be the day he was born sugar and spice a great summer by bill smiley a shady trail through vivian forest this road is not maintained by the township of whitchurch its one of many shady trails through vivian forest west of concession 7 staff photo today the painters came that sounds like the refrain or the last line of a modern poem it isnt today the painters came and tomorrow the relatives come with their dog and children there doesnt sem to be much connection but there is the painters took all the furniture out of one bedroom and put it in an other so thats two bedrooms un serviceable that leaves one for four adults two children and a poodle its going to be cozy and last night ilay in the sand by a fire and looked at a starflung farflung sky and kept brushing aside beautiful women who offered me drinks and food mostly sandy hamburgers and today i have a head full of sand literally and fig uratively and the other night i sat by a roaring cottage fireplace on a cool night and hotly debated with old friends such world issues as rotten kids and dutch elm disease un til 430 am nothing was settled except the state of my health the next day and the night before that a lady phoned and told us kim had been in an accident and was in the emer gency ward of the hospital all rec ords were shattered getting there a bang on the forehead two swollen knees 84 bruises and a threestitch cut is pretty lucky after a headon collision and yesterday the same kim took off hitchhiking with a friend for montreal her aunt was horrified that we let her go until my wife re minded her aunt that she had been married at that age and today thank the powers kim phoned and said she was safe if not sound she was carsick all the way and has a sty on her eye but shes having an exciting interesting time while her parents slowly but inexor ably turn gray and the weeds in my flowerbed sland tall and reach for the sun while the flowers peep between their knees like frightened children and i havent been fishing once this summer and ive played very little golf all of it rotten and i puff like a grampus when i swim and my piles are acting up and summer is on the wane however all is not lost the hedge is clipped and the lawn mowed the sky is bue and the sun beats down on my beady forehead as i sit at the picnic table writing my column my elms are still sound my wash ing is on the line whiter than white my daughter wasnt killed in that crash my wife is charging around like a gazelle after an operation which everyone told her would take from six months to a year to get over my banker hasnt got around to calling and my bursitis is tem porarily quiescent so what if summer is on the wane summer is for babies and bumbly- bees and baseball players and birds its merely demoralizing for us lov ers of the spartan life the hard wcrk the regular hours tomorrow im going to beat my brotherinlaw at golf for the first time in twenty years and the day jfter were going sailing with a chap who tips over every time hes out this time he wont tip and tonight well have a barbecue l and the kids and the dogs will romp and get in and out of trouble and well all bed down on the living room floor to avoid discrimination its either that or i sleep with the dog come to think of it im one of the lucky ones think of the farmers slogging it out in the sun eighteen hours a day and worrying worrying about the lack of rain or the excess of it think of the factory workers dripping with sweat in one of those medieval plants think of the resort owner with a big mortgage who has jusi been through two weeks of cold wet weather i take it all back im having a great summer just great this week next canada must hurry by ray argyle whsn the economic council of canada told the nation that four million canadians live at the poverty line all political parties were quick to declare their support for a new war on poverty but the question remains what is really going to be done the council in its fifth annual review zeroed in on living condi tions among the nations more than four million poor declaring them to be a national disgrace but despite the failure of past at tempts to alleviate poverty in can ada council chairman arthur j r smith says it can be done in a decade or so the council an unofficial body which can do no more than advise the government put the stamp of poor on any person or family who must spend more than 70 percent of their income on food clothing and shelter by this reckoning the poverty group includes single persons with incomes less than 1500 families of two with less than 2500 and fam ilies with three four or five or more with less than 3000 3500 and 4000 respectively this totals ac cording to council figures to 27 per cent of the entire nonfarm popula tion ot canada the council has widely reminded canadians that in an era of affluence for the majority poverty can pass hidden and unnoticed it is not close ly identified with race as is the case in the united states and thus clear ly visible to all nor is it confined to the socalled economically depressed areas of canada or the maritimes if one is to assume that the elimin ation of poverty is to become a na tional goal for canada and the council says no society can be a just society unless it does eliminate pov- erty one must look for the causes of poverty the two major reasons have to be a hck of job opportunity and a lack of job skills the threadbare and timeworn argument that people are poor be cause they are lazy has been disprov- en so many times that it should be no lonyer necessary to knock it down the council says the average income of the one out of five poor families of canada was 2263 in 1965 most provinces offer more than that in welfare 2400 in ontario yet the vast majority of poor continue to struggle for selfsupport rather than go on welfare job opportunities remain at a pre mium to many canadians because too many industries are geared to low productivity and hence low pay tnese include many employers in the clothing industry woollen mills and tanneries wood industries such as box factories and mills and the service industry such as hotels laun dries and temporary employment agencies it is in these industries that a start an be made by drastically re vising the minimum wage laws which now do not exceed 125 but should be higher canadas education standards are shockingly low the average for the nation is c 8 higher education enhances a workers ability to ab sorb job skills and to increase his productivity an american university study showed that in 19g6 only 22 and one- half percent of our population aged 20 to 24 was in school or university for the united states the figure was 43 percent for britain it was seven percent which explains why ifcings are so bad in that country another us study this one from he hudson institute picks canada as one of four countries along with the us sweden and japan which by 2000 will reach the stage of the uostindustrial society a society with average annual income of 31000 per person canada obviously has a lot of catching up to do it is going to cost money to do so and unless the afflu ent help the poor to a better tomor row the social explosion which is now rocking the united states will hit canada with results just as violent wht wribuw established 1888 c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel edey advertising published every thursday by the slouffville tribune limited at 51 main st stouftville ont tel 6102101 single copies 10c subscriptions s400 per year in canada s600 elsewhere member at audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association authorized as second class mall post onlce dcpt ottawa boy oh boy by jim thomas what a week on sept 12 at ex actly 4 38 pm i became a father for the fifth time a 7 pound 2 ounce boy while justifiably proud i am also unmistakably pooped the per iod from thursday to sunday has been like no other in my entire life while mature veterans of pophood may take such postmarital occur rences in stride i feel it only fair that all june grooms now contem plating the arrival of the winged platypus be made fully aware of the facts of life first of all dont let anyone ever tell you that familiarity breeds con tempt it matters not whether its your first your fifth or your fifteenth the degree of excitement is just the same take it from one who knows for me the hurry home call came at 335 i dropped everything and ran under such stress and strain many thoughts cross an expectant fathers mind such as what would happen if i had a flat is there ir in the spare suppose it was born at ballantrae would i know what to do the anxiety within begins to show without the forehead is wet and the hands are all clammy we covered the 17 mile distance to new market in 15 minutes arriving at the hospital entrance at 353 my wife was immediately whisked away and i was left to fill out one of those in quisitive forms to add to the frustra tions of the moment when the nurse requested my insurance certificate i handed her an esso credit card an hour later i ventured outside for a breath of fresh air and discovered i had received a parking tag i proceeded to explain that the trip was an emergency and he relented with a dont let it happen again kind of warning with the news that our family of four was now five i headed for home it was then that the fun really began since the new arrival was five days premature our hired babysitting service was not available i sent out an immediate sos and the neighbors responded in a most generous man ner in between shifts i tried my hand at completing the most common of household chores like making beds washing dishes and preparing meals the general menu breakfast din ner and supper was soup and cereal the kids consumed so much camp bells they had tomatoes coming out their ears it was shreddies wheat- ies and corn flakes three times daily with an occasional side order of toast and jam in spite of the monotony of it all no one complained not even when the water boiled dry on the weiners or when i upset a pot of peas on the kitchen floor it was all for one and one for all you know perhaps its a good thing when a father is left on his own with the family for a few days he finds out first hand just what a mothers duties really are he learns that there is more to it than drinking coffee watching soap operas and talking on the telephone much more in addition to the work involved the prime requirement is patience of which i have far too little it takes patience to get up at 4 am to get a boy a drink of water only to change the bed at 405 it takes patience to tidy up the living room only to have it littered later with everything under the sun it takes patience to take out the mid week garbage only to find that some ones dog has beat you to it yes a modernday mother must surely be a modernday job at the hospital far removed from the trials and tribulations of home my wife still has her worries her number one concern was for our fam ily size would it mean an addition to the house would the children dis turb the neighbors would folks be lieve that he wa3 dearly wanted and planned for her number two question concern ed a name she had considered several but none seemed quite suitable it was then that i put her mind at rest with a twoinone solution to the problem lets call him patrick michael i said and credit it to the pope