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7 John who was fired director of ft home for emotionally disturbed chilldren has been quietly buying homes in East Gwillimbury Township Newmarket and Aurora Hes using these homes to house children left in his care He receives per child per day to feed them house them and treat them from the Provincial Government His theory is that an emotionally disturbed child is better able to become a useful member of society by associating with society than it is by being fed housed and treated in an institution Mr Brown is putting his theory into practice then by buying these houses in established parts of communities placing these children in the homes and letting them under the supervision of his appointed counsellors become part of these communities He is breaking no laws he is conforming to provincial regulations and ultimately his efforts will be rewarded in seeing some of the child ren under his care become useful members of society But what of the homeowners of these three municipalities The added burden of these Brown children on the educational facili ties of the municipalities concerned is an unfair burden on the taxpayers who were there before he instituted his program Mr Brown pays his taxes just the same as every other home owner and is therefore entitled to have the children in his care educated at the facilities available But what if the children of longtime homeowners have their educa tion disrupted by having to be transported by bus to a school six miles distant from their homes because the increased number of Brown child ren makes the school they would normally attend too crowded This is unfair to both the children and to the longsuffering tax- payer The situation is particularly acute in East Gwillimbury Heights where two classes from Maple Public Schools Grade will have to attend a school near Park next year East Township cannot do anything about this situa tion because Mr Brown is conforming to zoning bylaws paying his taxes and obviously performing his work with the blessing of the Provincial Government It is therefore the responsibility of the Provincial Government to make certain that the education of the children of longtime residents of East Gwillimbury Heights and the children of residents of other affected communities is not disrupted For if the Provincial Government can afford to pay Mr Brown 2630 per child per day then it can afford to pay for the education of the Brown children without having a disruption in the education of the children of the taxpayer who receives no 2630 per child per day provin cial handout The en of when attitude of the New Democratic party finally Jrfom it into one of Canadas emerged from ita aocialiat cocoon two major parties garbed in a political costume only a little more pink than the Liber- vi aut Up But Down 7 An interesting experiment in the has shown that increased speed limits have decreased the death toll The Ontario Safety League reports that the speed limit on UK freeways was increased to miles an hour and that there are per cent fewer accidents resulting in death or injury than when the speed was 60 miles an hour Ontario highway officials would be wise to study this experiment determine if higher speed limits are applicable to this provinces roads Only last week for no apparent reason Don Mills Road was the scene of another multiple fatality The road was clear dry straight and the visibility good This same road was also the scene last summer of another inexplicable multiple fatality Could it be that these accidents were caused by cars driving too slow Could it be that one of the death drivers pulled out to pass a slowmoving car and met his death Motorists on the Don Valley Expressway and the Freeway rarely keep to the posted and mile an hour speed limit Why not raise the speed limit to a sensible level This requires serious study but if the study reveals that an increase in the speed limit will decrease the accident toll then the legal limit should be raised Readers The Readers Era The Era and Post Newmarket Dear Sir It to me that before your anonymous correspondent Back to the Land whose letter was published in last weeks Era re turns to farming there are a few facts of which he should be made aware First of he know bet ter than to believe all he reads in the press Secondly he should rea lize that in the last two decades while your correspondent has been in Urbanfa that the agricultur al proportion of the total Cana dian work force has decreased from 26 per cent to per cent This means of course that the remain farmers have had to find con siderably more working capital thus greatly Increasing their risk During this same period most farm operating costs have risen by an average of without any ap preciable increase In the farmers return In all other Industries If pro duction rise then up goes the cost of the finished product This doesnt happen to agricultural commodities certainly food costs fluctuate greatly mostly up wards but this in seldom because of any Increase to the primary has to take what he can there are market- some specific pro- benefit the con- I as the producer the orderly regu lat itat supply These tally are financed mainly by the producers who also pay their full share of taxes The federal government is com mitted to a cheap food policy and all Canadians pay less in propor tion for food than any other coun try The average family here spends of its income on food this compares with in West ern Europe and over in Asia and Africa Its true of course that farmers are grumblers Hither the weather is too wet or its too dry never Just right They are told to increase production by greater efficiency they do and end up with surpluses and lower prices I Hut surely after the recent disas trous weather farmers are entitled to a few grumbles Yea and even ask for aid toot Its very doubtful if aid will he forthcoming unless such assistance would be politically expedient anyway What farmers do need especial ly the fruit and vegetable grower is a realistic comprehensive crop insurance program available to them at downtoearth premium rates They could then at last recoup thejr losses on seed ferti lizer labor etc and wouldnt have to ask anyone for aid Finally next time your anony mous urban is driving north after his forty hour week for a weekend at the lake let him de tour through the Holland Marsh or any dairy farming area Strange those farmers are still working a hour day even at week ends 1 1 Cyril A Newmarket Fanner als or Conservatives The partys fourth convention staged in Toronto saw the list pretense of old socialism dropped With opinion polls show ing the with a chance of nudging aside the tives as the countrys Second party New Democrats turned their at- lV i By of ISM in citizens oi thro villas a The tell that in the year of the citizens of Newmarket NOW FOR A QUIET NAP Our roving photographer happened to spot a weary lady ready to catch winks after she had transported her crew for almost up rivers and across lakes to their destination The little gal was just tuckered out after such tedious journey in Canadas land of lakes and forests Nestling in the shade of a few bushes at the rivers edge she curled up in the soft shoreline to await her crews return TNS Photo Wither socialists nor grist Mil trade unionists r SPICE Loyal New Democrats are deny ing the party has to the right Federal leader Tommy Douglas and deputy leader David Lewis both of whom were reel ected would have none this- But at least in emphasis the party cast aside socialist dogma convention opened with a i By Bill Smiley Great Just Great i r I think probably the most diffi- dont trust me I And theyre right cult relationship to maintain at dont trust me Thats whats any reasonable level is that be tween teenage children and their parents Marriage is tough enough as you all know But at least the part ners in most cases are prepared to bend a little to given an inch of even two if necessary to compro mise when theres no other way out Married people do communicate even though the form ranges from grunts and to language that sear the earlobes of a saint Theyre usually from the same generation and at worst can spend hours running down the government the boas the neigh bors or each others families know couples including us who have been amicably bickering for anything from two to six decades It becomes almost a game in which you know every ploy or gambit of the opponent A ploy Is when she has you dead to rights A gambit is when you just might get away with the story But with teenagers youre fighting a losing battle First of all there is the language harrier Theoretically youre both speak ing the same tongue hut when it comes to interpretation theres no relation whatever V You say Now I want you home at midnight right on the dot This to the teen gyrating in that weird trancelike slate they call dancing means Well dont have to leave until midnight A scene ensues And at seines you havent a lookin Youre all set to raise hell Hackles are properly erect And five minutes after the kid gels in youre on the defensive trying In prove that youre not an old grump or completely irrational or the strictest person in town or an outandout liar who said twelve oclock was the deadline for the dance not for being home Teenagers like women You cant anything with them in a logical way You are complete ly baffled by a scries of irrelev ances and such tilings as You trust me Thats whats wrong with you You s wrong you You dont trust me And theyre right Its sad to see a family break ing up I suppose its inevitable and right But its sad Ours is We had a swim the other day the four of us As we were leaving the beach I said to the old girl Do you realize thats probably the last time well all have a swim together She agreed Kids dont want to go swim ming with their parents They want to lurch around with their own age group They used to prac tically destroy me when they were little making me play with them when we went swimming Duck dives underwater endurance tests races And now its transistor ra dios squabbling and cheeky re marks for which there is no real answer except a swat on the ear And you cant do that or theyll run off and start smoking pot Enjoy them when theyre little You can blow on their bellies kiss their little soft bums rock them when theyre sick and tell them stories till youre blue in the face Theres communication then But dont expect too much when they get past IB For the next six years it will be sun and showers cold fronts moving in a lot of low pressure areas with the occasion al high and such suggestions us Ive heard recently Dads just not with it Hes out to lunch Its nothing new of course When I recall how utterly selfish I whs as a youth how little I car ed about my parents hopes and fears I understand Its been going on since Cain Abel and broke up that nice little family group Its time of life when the whole earth rovolvca around and parents merely another awk ward obnoxious cir cumstance thai Is preventing MK from being what I want to ho and becoming whatever will be Oh woll excellent in vention called grandchildren I can hardly wall to got at spoiling mine rotten so that their parents will be totally unable to cope with NH Winner of guest column announced next week for sure Isnt it exciting youthful new life group captor the New Democratic Youth group bat that was the last that was heard from the far left wing Delegates rejected outright all demands for full scale nationalisa tion of key industry Winnipeg North MP David repre senting a riding that has been a traditional hotbed of socialism es timated per cent of the dele gates were opposed to nationaliza tion In the program that was finally adopted and on which the will campaign in the ex pected federal election the emphasis is on economic and poli tical independence By swinging to the defense of the buy back Canada group which has of late been fighting a losing battle within the Liberal parky the hopes to appeal to Canadians of all economic strata And there were some impressive signs the NDP was beginning to do just that First delegates ignored the old guard to elect a fleshy year old corporation lawyer James as national presi dent an member of the Ontario legislature defeated the handpicked choice of the NDP establishment 70-year- old John one time deputy premier of Saskatchewan But the real coup of the conven tion was pulled by Ontario leader Donald who in troduced to delirious delegates the partys biggest catch of many years Dr Morton of Tor onto Opponents of the have seized on this apparent abandon ment of principle for a new attack on the party It is not entirely valid however By facing up to the fact that Canadians in the 1960s are more concerned about good government than about socialism the re mains In a position to make a very positive contribution toward Can adas political welfare- Anyway socialism is no longer an issue be cause the welfare stale aims of the have been put Into effect by other parties Canadians now will have to de cide whether to continue the drift towards which means high living standards And continued domination or whether to sacrifice some of this affluence to create a more Canadian society In taking its malt km on the aide of Canadian nationalism he at It is facing to ha issues of today and is no longer living in tho of a povertystricken era which vanished ttfi years ago And right or wrong wow r i 1 I I partly insured At the meet the people subscribed to a sum of money and formed a com to collect throughout the county the funds to rebuild These people very clever- that the disaster was not per- to Dr Ford but a calami to the whole district Those who had worked there needed jobs and daily bread all others needed either the service of the milt or income from the buying dollar of its work ers According to the records the whole action was taken swiftly by group of men from the pressures of politics if and departments fret Croat the harassment of public opinion and short of all peti tions and reports on who be responsible and competent for such In the old days perhaps the people had neither the time nor attitude to wait and see what gov ernments would do with not so many committees warming benches and taxes and the fart not even yet established Therefore it hi the Ford Mill was rebuilt with public funds initiative and conscience and probably before too many had suffered from greed and envy or from undue hardship and The times have changed how- and unfortunately today- a different spirit i apparent when one segment of our nation Is with a This to our neighbors in the Marsh and farmers throughout country whose fields art damaged by the weather as in no time before have lost their Investment in and soil their crops their earnings for weeks and months of It natural that they will need assistance unless they take up counterfeiting overnight to pay their obligations to live through this time and start again their ventures It Is obvious also that the public the government must help- An embarrassing proportion of opinions voiced on this fact are quite unfriendly to say It mildly Not assuming that they advocate to see the farmer ruined the con elusion must be drawn that they would find it more acceptable to have the needed funds disbursed through welfare payrolls rather than through public farm assist even if this were more ex pensive In he end Such opinion from a society that boasts achieve ment of the highest raises for road labor which the public pays and that dispenses benefits to anyone who will not work Is absurd and cruel ti I THE ERA Si Serving York County Since Incorporating THE POST THE HERALD mi DAVID HASKELL Editor and PubUther- J Advertising and BuHnea Mana GIL SHEPHERD New Editor A A every at SO Charles St Ontario by the Company Limited for two forgone year Single copies Canadian and the Audit Authorised CUM Man by Ottawa for the j J ft- E 1