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THE ERA WED APRIL 16 1969 VOL 118 NO Editorials School costs Inflation the growth of our community a steadily increasing demand by our young people for a better education and a provincial government that doesnt seem to let its left hand know what its right is doing are more to blame for the increasing school costs thnn is the new school administration system The new York County School Boards first budget showed increases will hit the mill rates of all county municipalities but it also showed the county trustees have done best under the system imposed upon them to cut out Nearly half the growth in the cost of running our schools was caused by increased teachers salaries In public schools enrolment went up per cent the number of teachers went up 394 per cent the total salary bill jumped 152 per cent for a 108 per cent raise for the average teacher Similar high statistics show a 61 per cent average raise for teachers Across the province the number of students starting grade and staying to grade 13 climbed from 24 per cent in 1955 to 32 per cent in 1963 the last figures available a steadily increasing number are staying in school and demanding better educations The regional school board was devised to provide these by spreading costs over a broad base and thus offering equal education opportunities in cities and rural areas It was obvious from the beginning that the first year or two would not be easy that there would bo many onetime costs that adjust ments would be needed in grants structures yet this very year when these new boards needed all the help they could get both financial and moral support the Ontario government went on an economy drive to achieve a balanced budget Not only was no money left to smooth out the rough spots of transition the boards existing budget had to be pared to the bone The result substantial lax increases The people hardest hit will be those on fixed incomes who have been provident enough to have retained their own homos These arc the citizens who should least have to pay for school Surely Mr Davis something can be done to help them and us too SUGAR SPICE By Bill Smiley Meet my motherinlaw For years the mother- inlaw has been the butt of jokes with a touch of bitterness in them They have been pictured domine ering interfering women ruining the grandchildren breaking up marriages They have been cari catured as unwelcome visitors who criticized made trouble and gen erally were a great big pain in tho arm And often with good reason Ive never been able to write sarcastically about my motherinlaw In first place shed have had my hide for a door mat In the second she was one of the sweetest and most gentle She was no little old white- haired lady handing out cookies and all over the place Far from it She and raised in County Antrim Ir land and she had most of the traits of that peculiar nice quick to tears and laughter Witty and Quick tongue and temper Warm and fiercely loyal to her own and with a wonderful capacity for giving love Her loved her and her grandchildren adored her and her husband worshipped her She came out to Canada as a young woman beautiful of face and figure with long black curly hair a haughty fineboned Irish look and a warm and lively spirit She sung like an angel She was thrown into a sober puritan community and mar ried a shy young farmer who loved her deeply for years and still Perhaps she was not cut out to be a farm wife Rut pulled her weight She worked and how she worked Milking gar- be It was never a house but home filled with the warmth and love and life that only an unusual person can provide There It wasnt roses all the way She went through depres sion and the mortgages and those rending decisions about whether And she didnt go through it patiently mid submissively She was too Irish She complained like hell nut she didnt whine Her complaints and common sense this is one thing that is seldom attri buted to the Irish and should be produced results Despite her fire she had a wonderful way of coming to terms with the situation whether it was emotional or material or spiritual She bore three handsome children She was pregnant and terribly sick with one of them when she got word that her young husband had lost an arm in a threshing machine She learned that one of was going to marry a brokendown fighter pilot with a total income of a month and no prospects Most mothers would have fought like a tigress to avert or at least postpone the marriage She gave encouragement though her heart must have been sore and it was then that I fell in love with her My instinct was right When my wife attacked me she attacked my wife When I wrote a bum column she told me When there was sickness or trouble she was right there with ancient charms and cures that worked She was not a pious wo man thank God She was virtuous woman and a real Christian She fed tramps gave strength when it was needed ami love without stint Dying she didnt whim per to God Most of her thoughts and words were about those loved She didnt want to leave and fought to the last breath is going to be dif ferent without Granny but I have a feeling she wont be far away Readers era The following Is a copy of a letter sent to Miss Marion of Keswick from the Foster Plan of Can ada Miss lias adopt ed a child under the plan Dear Miss I was very pleased to read the wonderful story about you and your foster child in the March issue of tho Newmarket- Aurora Km We are deeply grateful to you for your kindness to Santos and to tho Bra editor for producing such an interesting article There is no doubt that many readers who perhaps had never before heard of the work of Foster Parents Plan will want to share in helping some of the worlds unhappy children In addition to your child you can take satisfaction from the fact that other desperate and Cordially yours Jack Mitchell Information Director Dear Editor On behalf of the Milton hockey teams that participated in the 1063 Centennial tournament I would like to thank Branch of the Itoynl Canadian Legion the arena staff and the tournament committee for their hospitality and sportsmanship in the March 1922 A Milton fan Newmarket Out Dear Editor The theory excellent when Newmarket Town Council agreed to purchase a street sweep er but in practice it seems to have backfired a little I happened to be driving from the arena parking lot recently cross over to Water St when I was enveloped by a cloud of dust reminiscent of North Africa Our street sweeper was having try I would suggest il either needs more water when the brush es operate or let nature take its course as in other years 1 can see plenty of complaints from irate housewives if this duster passes house at springcleaning time Browsing through the pages of The Marquette Mirror a weekly tabloid published in Mar quette Michigan I came upon an editorial titled It read in part Business men have no guarantee of return ing to their places of business no one presently operating in he downtown area will he- able to afford he rent the total cost will go for tearing down and land by what has been described Concerned Marquette Merchants and listing among its many facts the following The small busi nessman will virtually he out of business no one knows the actual cost taxes will shoot up etc The rumor reached my ears last week that the town engi neer hud decided to grant Mr Alltel mi permit pending a meet ing with the mayor When I check ed with Major he denied any knowledge of it Then on Tues day he phoned me from the lien office and demanded know nine of my informant he wanted to ever that meant i the before There is however one significant difference The Mirror editorial urges in conclusion that readers vote No At least the citi zens of Marquette were given the opportunity to vole on the issue Mayor Tom mentioned to me last week that is before he decided to ostracize me which isnt nearly as drastic as it sounds madam that he felt thai persons running for council should first undergo lie routine of written examinations Members are elected to council the mayor explained without having had any previous experience in running the affairs of a own He went on to point out that people applying for drivers licences hunting licences li to written tests so Why who has been trying to build a house on his lot on Muriel Street ti miI a Anxious to preserve the ethics of journalism and since here was no story anyway I refused to reveal he source of my informa tion Obviously infuriated by tilts he mayor hen said the through P With York Comity Board of Education dropping the bomb about the increase in education axes week it seemed only natural thai this topic should monopolize he conversation at a social gathering I attended hint weekend But if some of the re in i in- in education that theorized the gathering ever take place shudder to think of what the taxes will he hen One socalled educations went so fur as to suggest that he covers of the classics lie made brighter with scenes depicted lit modern work Come to think of it it might work The student who feels down in the dumps at the mere sight of a Virgil with its dull for bidding cover might brighten up considerably as lie looks at a vivid picture of Aeneas pushing his sword through Turnus He might even lie moved to open he volume to find out what the argument was about Hunt The squabbles with Canadians has resulted In a reexamination of the political power of Prime Minister Pierre I her and his inslslancc that polls Some pundits have gone so far as to question his political sense hinting that the magnetism that got him elected last year was quickly losing its power ami the Trudeau that lay exposed was not a politician at all Wasnt it the intellectual thai toured Bed China lectured at University of Montreal and wrote articles on the French Canadians search for nti identity Why then they argue should Canadians expect the Prime Ministers job to change the man overnight to politician Minister showed another fine touch with his recent on Canadas stand on Whether it was from the pressure tivtn tin man Cabinet or the designed everyone The liui been led to lew mouths drop out The drawn hint a si ignored the with- that Can will continue to i member the North Atlantic Treaty ind 10 the Unite States with he going on bis pledge of a year ago to make a completely new and fresh approach the ins policy After all hadnt he just announced a reduction in forces Thats a change Of course he couldnt at his lime say when he reductions would take place or just how big THE ERA Serving County Since Incorporating THE POST CDC THE HERALD DAVID It HASKELL Publisher WILLIAM J Associate Publisher CARTER Editor GEORGE WALDEN News Editor Publisher every Wednesday at Charles St Newmarket Ontario by the Newmarket Era Express Company Limited Subscriptic per month Mem ber Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation Second Class Mail number Phone Newmarket 8952331 10 Charles St Phono 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