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raSZMrZM Home of Halfcon Hills WEDNESDAY OCTOBER ltTT A Division of Canadian Company Limited Main SI South Georgetown Ontario WILLIAM Publisher DOB BUTTER Editor PHONE Clan Mi Number mi 0MB hearing critical for towns future November lfl77 might prove to be the most significant moment In history for Halton Hills It will be during this month that the Ontario Municipal Board will hear evidence on a proposal which might become the final stage of develop ment and growth for the Georgetown urban community It will be a time for those with a concern about the quality of life here Its values its characters and its level of services to speak out and air their thoughts BLOCK PARENTS It will be a time for involvement For without that involvement by the Individual or the community organization the outcome of the hearings may not be to the satisfaction or benefit of all The proposal by Focal Properties for development of l residential units south of Silver Creek will force us to take an introspective look at ourselves The community must be prepared to speak objectively or the opportunity might pass as a fleeting moment in history Children will suffer The block parent program in Georgetown Is in trouble Those words from the start of a report on page one which has an ominous We hope the concerns raised by Bob and Linda Anderson will never reach fruition The block parent program Is a worthwhile exercise in providing a sense of security not only for children but for aft persons who live in the community The program should continue We do not know why the en thusiasm or invovlvement has dwindled but we hope it is not as the chairman notes based on a false sense of security by the community at large Georgetown has been a com where social conscience has proved in part to be capable of con Trolling those elements in which may commit a crime But times are changing social order Is under an extreme test and the community must redirect its con cems and seek ways to improve its lifestyle This includes ensuring that programs such as block parents continue to flourish Maybe what s needed Is a more vocal more active program of par ticipation where tangible results become evident But that should not be the answer to the problem It should possibly form the basis for finding a solution What welfare Canada used to be a welfare state It anymore That may surprise those who think that today s poor have a pipeline to society wealth a pipeline that gushes with welfare cheques food vouchers rent supplements unemployment insurance and family allowances If that s welfare then certainly this is the first welfare state Only in this century since the arrival of in come taxes have governments gathered money from the community to redistribute to the poor But is that really welfare Prior to the industrial age before the tune when people flocked to the cities governments didn have to hand out money Even without handouts no one had to starve or freeze if they were ablebodied The land and its resources was available to a greater or lesser extent to anyone In its forests the community had a surplus of firewood In its streams water on its grasslands grazing and enough space that everyone could have some kind of a home and garden Barring laziness or physical most people could survive without dependence on charity Governments t have to tax a community collective wealth because people could help them selves That world of the past could legitimately be called a welfare state a state of communal wellbeing But that s no longer true in Canada The wealth of our total com munity still depends on the land Its forests streams minerals and fields provide food for its people raw materials for industries and energy But the urban poor have been cut off from that communal wealth They get filed vertically in high- rise low income housing or cramped into rented rooms in old houses They can live on the crumbs from the tables of the rich even our throwaways are now sanitarily crushed compressed packaged shredded or mined They own no land and have no free access to the of the land If there is open near them it is zealously protected by local governments for recreation of the total populace and possible for future development the poor may gather neither food nor fuel from it Similarly the wider natural resources of the country are no longer there for the taking The riches of Crown or communally owned land are available only by negotiated agreement with the government on behalf of the citizens This is not a plea to roll back the clock nor is it advocating unrestricted plunder of our natural wealth by opportunists be they poor or rich individuals or corporations It merely points a state of affairs in which the urban poor have only two alternatives open to them They can steal a method of helping themselves that society considers criminal and punishes Or they can beg asking governments the custodians of our communal wealth for handouts It s difficult to describe that sort of state as welfare But there Is another option if we have the will to impliment if they can be genuinely aided by creative Involvement in the and economic processes of nation and the fruit that would accrue in a just society United Church of Canada Were fat lazy and overpaid By GERRY ROUGH Disaster catastrophe where do you stand when a national emergency natural or man ade befalls us If a national emergency struck In the dead of winter bow many of us would survive How independent of hydro and water and the local market are Question How many of us are so totally dependent on so many different services that in the face of a national emergency we would quickly face starvation exposure or emergency medical crisis a spokesman for the Japanese business association Kcidranen called Canadian workers fat indolent and overpaid Not only Is the above statement fairly accurate but we have also become a nation of totally dependent whiner We are dependent on almost everything we tend to live solely for today tomorrow is something we seldom consider The sad plight of our is a poignant example Many unemployed ac cording to a recent story In the Sunday Sun have committed suicide as a result of being Jobless Statistics such as people in Metro took their own lives In August and In September as compared with In September 1976 The art Implies the plight of Jobless Individuals toss of self respect financial worries the inability to cope resulted in an Increasing rise In the number of suicides Well if the above holds true what has become of our own Individual Independence How many erf our people are unemployed solely because there Is do work Personally we are familiar with the local dairy Industry and we know from past experience that many local farmers have to Import help from Britain or Australia or elsewhere because Canadians do not only not want to dirty their hands but they also want to be payed wages beyond their worth A local nursery imports help from the Caribbean islands again because the work Is hard and the wages comparably low but the question here Is comparable to what Our young people leave school are not only without an education but are also without sufficient backbone and ambition to work WORK work They demand high paying Jobs with a minimum labour How many young Canad an boys do you know that would stand and wash dishes for or 10 hours a day for The Japanese see us as over paid I agree fully The wage scale in Canada is etc I cut of One nun can work at a trade for years and make or dollars an hour while a young lad fresh out of school can start at a steel mill begin at the same rate it took another years to make Fa rplay The Japanese found us fat You heard it that remarkably ugly work that applies to so many of us your humble writer included Itappearslobea true moral crime that while twothirds of the world goes to bed hungry we here In North America are completely hung up on diets One reason is the abundance of food that Is at our fingertips How many of us eat to live as opposed to live to eat The Japanese found us lazy by what standards Well don t we all want a hour work week or and who really wants to put In over time unless we get time and a naif for OUR trouble How many Canadians work with the good of the com munity province or nation as a true factor in their dally lives Our own Prime Minister tells us we re soft Of course the knockers will but the recently pointed out year it because the world Is telling us we re be von our means Prosperity becomes something we Canadians believe we are entitled to Not something everyone tightens their belt buckles and works towards Buy now pay later But unfortunately in a country whose people seldom think seriously of tomorrow later always comes unexpected and much sooner than Imagined 11 a disaster were to befall us we are totally and completely unprepared Even those with full freezers are helpless against a blackout We all need to be dependent on something and some ways on our fellow countrymen but totally dependent is wrong for all of us It goes beyond being soft If we are to bold our place In the world as a nation have to start thinking and acting like one We have to consider what the Japanese think of us and what the rest of he nations of the world think of us cannot behave as a spoilt child and demand respect at the time So come on Canada let get together Let work it first on a personal level remember fat lazy and overpaid and second on a national level to think In terms of unity To think in terms or what tomorrow Queens Park information empire unlikely to change And now its personal Unemployment the issue we have always associated with the Prairies or the Maritime is becoming a reality in affluent southern Ontario The prediction is that Peels rata of unemployment will hit 11 per cent In February well Into the doubledigit bracket we once reserved in the back of our minds for socalled underdeveloped areas Oh we ve talked about unemployment and we ve listened to union leaders and political people mouth the usual stuff on the subject But until now noone really taken it seriously Even a little while back when an unemployment demonstration took place here there were probably people saying to themselves Why here Why Canada most intensive concentration of Industry manufacturing plants transports lion facilities space and head offices is centred In the Toronto area spilling over abundantly into Peel People are attracted to this area from across the country because of employment potential Most people who want to work have been able to find work Now we are that simply won I be the case The implications of such a turn of events are probably as political as they are anything else i dynamite Until now feel has traditionally taken the smallConservative path politically and socially Labororiented thinking has never made the foot hold here as It hoa in other areas At this point we labororiented politics will find a more sympathetic ear Political movements have been built on less than an 11 per cent population base The kind of protest rally we saw recently won be an isolated incident because In February it may become a very personal issue With more than one out of 10 people out of work most of us will know someone unemployed or find ourselves In the same boat Socially Its bound to be issue And prosperity line of thinking we re accustomed to we would do well to look at how It affects other areas The truth of the matter is that unemploy ment has a profound effect on a city town or region lis effects are felt far beyond the It per cent involved Long after the change of seasons In which unemployment drops back to normal the effects are being felt forward to its Just as well to be realistic about the matter now The tough part of the problem la that its like the weather You can talk about it but the average person can do a great deal about It Brampton Times Queen Park Bureau Of The Herald The government has had a study done on its communications and particularly Its Information apparatus a community college public relations course was hired to look at all the Information branches In the various ministries and the information generally and to recommend how It could be improved His main recommendation was that there should be much more centralization In this he should have lots of agreement For it Is plainly obvious that with it there could be both a better quality of work and a lot of money saved Other people have pointed this out over the years But won t sec It There is some nary duplication In the government information service now Some ministries even have their own television studios despite the fact there Is a good studio In the main parliament build tags Many ministries have specialists such as artists and photographers on staff Peplewlo are much under used If these specialist services were ted combined Into the one general unit for which all ministries would draw obviously so many bodies be needed and prob ably higher calibre of person could be hired And he same principle follows through most of the Information structure ALL EMPIRES But won see a change Blocking it will probably be the biggest obstacle to the efficient government This is that unlike the private sector in government its components which are he ministries are all empires unto their own Each even though It draws Its funds from a central pot la very much akin to a private corporation acting on its own When one ministry has something all the others must have it And his a rock bound pic bureaucracy is dug In and It Is almost immoveable As Just one example of the growth and waste this can mean we have the Ministry of A few years ago it had an Information branchwlthafewpeoplclnlt Today 16 names of personnel I In the government phone book and this would be exclusive of secretaries and other support people II Is an empire within an empire And all the reports In the world won disturb it Anything can happen at PC policy convention By STEWART MacLEOD Ottawa Bureau Of The Herald The liming was funny There we were in a Parliament Hill cafeteria talking about the Conservatives national policy convention in Quebec City next month and we were trying to get this Tory MP to tell us why we should bother attending Come on said a colleague Just give us one good reason why we should be there It would be suicidal for you people to fight over he party leadership and the policy papers certainly don offer much in the way of controversy wish to find an equitable means of ensuring the continued existence of a united country in which persons who speak either official language can live full and satisfying lives Hie answer to that I suggest is predictable Anyway this MP thought for a few moments before suggesting there was every reason in the world for the press to be In attendance Wilh Tories he said you just never know what going to happen Well find something and you can t take a chance on not being there But at the moment he agreed things looked rather And here is where the timing took that funny turn An hour after that coffee the loudspeakers in the press gallery announced that a statement bad been received from Gordon Churchill the 78yearold former Conservative cabinet minister who had been And just one month before the Tory convention was due to begin here was Churchill a politician to the end sprinkling a little sand In the convention grease He issuing a veiled warning that attempts may be made at the convention if not hi the Tory out of the party What set him off was that earlier statement by former leader Robert Stanfleld criticizing for what he consider ed to be indirect criticism of party leader Joe Clark said his predecessor should slop sticking the knife into his leader After thinking about this for a couple of weeks when everyone else in the party seemed to have forgotten about it Churchill let fly with this statement in which be said the feud between the two former leaders could lead to the formation of a new party And be accessed Stanfleld of trying to muzzle fenbaker No one knows better than Churchill just bow absurb such an objective would be I suspect Churchill who held three cabinets posts during bis years in the Diefenbaker government was chortling to himself just a bit as be came up with an equally absurb suggestion that Stanfleld might try to drum the Prince Albert MP but of the party Talk about si missions But Churchill went on to talk about the consequences if that happened the way would be open for the formation of a new party competent to deal the present crisis of Confederation under the able and experienced sponsorship of John and John Turner former Liberal Finance Minister Jim Richardson former Libera Defence Minister will be watching and thousands of people would be attracted to the prospect The Inference here of course is that the present party Is not competent to deal with the present crisis of Confederation And Just by coincidence a prime objective of the forthcoming convention Is to come up with policies that will Canadians the Tories are indeed competent to save be nation Churchill seems a bit intrt gued by the idea of a brand new political party an idea he might like to toss around In the backrooms of the conventions Just what the party needs as it sets out to display a new enthusiastic unity And that MP at the coffee table was absolutely right When a Conservative con vention looms on the horizon you Just never know what will happen Looking through our files THIRTY Improvements are underway on the road near Balllnofad where the road is being straightened and the hill cut down to facill tate traffic on this important artery which connects wilh Highway 7 and Georgetown Mrs Harry Watklns received word this morning from House a Philadelphia publishing firm that her novel These Links Don I Break had been published and an Initial copies sold The letter enclosed a royalty cheque and the publishers said they would be interested in any further novels which Mrs might submit to TWFNTY YEARS AGO George I owns population has increased from to a record figure of in the past year Assessment has also reached an all time high of 158 which represents an increase of B per cent in a year A shopping mart which would be one or the largest In Canada is being promoted for a Georgetown location by the TorontorealtyfirmofAE Newt of the acre project which would locate in the section of town fronting on Highway was released this week by J While of the firm Georgetown firefighters joined others from Erin Guelpb and early Friday evening In battling a blaze which threatened to engulf many buildings on the main street of TEN YEARS AGO East one of the ridings Monday evening As election returns came In a seesaw contest was Indicated And the evening ended with the Progressive Conservatives retaining their seat at Queen Park by a scant 102 votes Downtown Georgetown a for 13 hours Friday as the Canadian Broad casting Corporation borrowed our small town flavour for their successful drama aeries MP We expect the new bri dge to be taking traffic by and possibly earlier road chairman Win Smith told council Monday Mr Smith said the project had been three weak behind schedule but the contractor Is catching on and barring holdups in delivery of will have the bridge open before