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Ike Era M Wet THE ERA York Counly Sine DAVID HASKELL Time to try 12 month school year For years ministers of education and school boards our own as recently as last year have been talking of new studies on year- round use of school facilities but nothing happens School buildings full of expensive equip ment continue to be virtually closed up from the end of June until early September and most of the highly paid teachers negotia tions this year are in the a year average salary bracket go on holidays The recentlypublished financial statement of the York County Board of Education show ed that of a total expenditure during the year ending Dec of nearly twothirds or 22701852 went for teachers salaries It is high time we tried out a yearround school year at least at the secondary school The argument that students need the two- month holiday to earn money is no longer valid most cant find jobs Governments are spending millions of dollars to invent and set up programs to keep them off the streets In the 1960s we first heard a new phrase describing our times they said we are in the middle of a knowledge explosion What the phrase makers meant was that new know ledge was being added to our reservoir of learning so fast even the experts couldnt keep up Far better surely for him to spend or weeks a year learning just as he will when lies earning and oven more surely it will be easier on the taxpayers fooling the use on a economical basis what industry could survive a production schedule teachers earning top professional centre deserves support The youth centre being established at Jacksons Point sounds like the best thing that has come along in that neck of the woods for young people in a long time Presbyterian minister and it has a sensible program an evening coffee house and a daytime program which will include sports crafts and games As long as councillors have Mr Tails assurance that his interest in the pro ject wont end once it is established as hap pened last summer in Newmarket when a group of citizens won council support for a centre and then left it unsupervised they should give it wholehearted support and the grant the centre is seeking Ontario THE Readers ERA This space is reserved or the comments opinions and drawings of The Eras read ers feel free to send yours along All we ask Is that you include your name and address struck nerve Hadfield NEWSROOM NOTES Building political images in York North ii4 John The quest for political power through imagebuilding is burgeoning at an unpreced ented rate these days as was unmistakably clear at three meetings in Aurora last week well his own party faithful that yes North seat and reliable reports si indeed this is the year when the can powers such as they are turn the tables on the Tories in Queens Park enthusiastic about his candidacy Hes trying to persuade the that at long the time has come when the party must Mr the learnasyougo politi- if the voters havent caught ft dec- role of hurling futile turns up in the oddest places He tried tion fever grips politicians at the federal and at governmenti and BE- J Auroras new Gateway Heights n E Thi3 miht diffi payers Association and was rejected because cult for some politicians unaccustomed l the prescribed bound- as they are to governing instead of carping And I on Sunday night sitting near the at the governors th at the mating meeting there he was again picking up At another Aurora meeting 1 provincial level and all three parties in their particular and sometimes peculiar ways are laboring vigorously at putting on an attrac tive face for the electorate Bill Davis whom public relations are trying to George Kerr of theDavisCabinV warned fellow Tories who of course dont need to c premier orless cabinet Lewis Ontarios New Democratic Party lead- ipbed Sunday night that Bill Davis u He holds debatable how be warned that halfbaked experiments i socialism could set the province back a He called the Opposition misfits doesnt hold iable force at last So far while both the A And the Liberals U w wtlt should He stood in Victoria Hall on Sunday night hands in his pockets his considerable To have picked candidates for jaw jutting defiantly and the words rushed a fal1 Provincial election the York North forth a3 if composed by a moonlighting poet Liberals have failed to make a move Theyll About the best anyone could do in a debate have to soon once the euphoria of Pierre with Stephen Lewis would be a draw Elliott Trudeaus visit fades Only George But Lewis is working on an image too a 23yearold schoolteacher has Hes trying to convince the electorate as announced his desire to contest the York BILL SMILEYS SUGAR AND SPICE Time to call back the old junk man of middleaged people are going back to the and the recycler The perfect middle- bicycle in despair over traffic and their own man wretched physical condition although this is also happening and a good thing too towns had a junkman He usually had a big yard with a fence around is basically the smashing up of it and inside the fence was an exotic jungle such things as paper and tin and turning of junk them back into more paper and tin instead of the polluting of our countryside with such pointers in an enemy camp Pierre Elliott Trudeaus visit to Aurora last week was an indication that the Liberals as well as the believe York North rid ing can be had in the next provincial election The trip was no accident While Mr Trudeau refurbished his own tarnished image by kiss ing ladies and babies and signing autographs he was also trying to boost his own party in a riding where Tory Bill Hodgson is considered vulnerable bent was but ineffectual is his good attendance record Lewis said he didnt even know Bill was an MPP until three years after the last elec tion when the two met in a halfway Meanwhile at his nominating meeting Bill promised lowcost housing and a toBarrie rapid transit system And George Kerr preached against the evils of socialism Eager for an election Stephen Lewis sug gested to the faithful on Sunday that they begin canvassing immediately after the meeting preferably between midnight and After yon knock on the door and you hear the shuffling of feet down the hall to the door and it opens extend your hand and say Hello I represent Bill However at the risk of disappointing a blood thirsty press I do not propose to continue a verbal battle with Mayor As a taxpayer I very much appreciate the large amounts of money he has saved the Town of Newmarket in persu ading developers to pay for some of the ser vices their development requires I still have tually extend his philos ophy to include the costs of schools and school He has graciously agreed to bring this matter up before Region al Council for which I thank him For my part I was successful in hav ing the Board of Educa tion reactivate a com mittee to review the pro gress we have made on the dwelling unit levy since its first introduc tion to Municipal Coun cils over 12 months ago Regional Council and that results of their dis cussions will mean a po tential future saving ia school building costs for all the taxpayers of York County 1 welcome It towards an early meeting with a similar committee of public opinion on this matter and offer some pertinent facts for con sideration and reaction The school deben ture debt on the County is Newmar kets share of this debt is approximately In the last two years due to new development the debenture debt in creased by Developers land val ues have double- in tat last five years IB- comes on the other hand have increased only per year Should development be subsidized by the lo cal and provincial tax payer or should it pay for itself Were you under toe impression that you paid for your local school In the price of your lot JACK HADFIELD York County Board t BILL GAMBLE Gamble answers the pastor these halfbaked garbage It i When I was a kid the junkman was my chief source of income A vast genial Jew with a benign twinkle he treated us as one many of the businessman to another There was of the world which are out-strip- gling on our part because it was the only ping Canada and the US internationally It game in town but on the other hand he did also makes a great deal of common sense not try to beat us down J It boggles ones mind to think of the Prices were established Pint beer bottles of tons of paper cans bottles and were worth a cent quart two cents Hed other materials which head each double his money on them Old car Urea were week for the garbage dump a nickel apiece Paper and scrap iron There are several reasons wastage One of them is that natural resources away with a lavish hand Its like living SJST U fifty cents money industry is not geared for reclaiming j those And if wo waste In many cases its probably cheaper Open answer to Glen Pastor Free Methodist Church Dear Glen Im afraid whether we like it or not lying is very prevalent today However I would hesitate to brand all lying as dangerous or even sinful For example doctors lie to their patients all the time and there is the person nel man who will lie to you about why you didnt get the job rather than deliberately hurt your feelings Leading statesmen openly lie lo the public and the press on matters of international importance because they hon estly believe that to tell the truth at that time would not be in their best interests of their respective countries Industrialists salesmen and television advertisers all He for what they believe to be the interest of economy And when the sexual prowess of husbands has been questionable there are many wives who were able to preserve the marriages by resorting to a little gentle duplicity It isnt the lying per that calls for the sounding of alarms its the motive But then in my opinion Glen quite often the motives for telling the truth can be equally danger ous For instance in preparation for this col umn I singled out two small boys during the week and of each I requested the answer to the same question Do you tell lies Both answered No And when I asked Why for this rait weighed and after a judicious L X Pause beard cocked to one aide hed any I throw you An enterprising kid could pick himself the canal this was before people worried about sewage and such it was a bonanza worth a dime or fifteen cents But a for his family Neither of these reasons a valid one In first place those inexhaustible resour ces of raw material could be exhausted in a few decades In the second industry should must find cheap means of recycling manufactured materials into raw materials But of course its much simpler to look at the immediate buck Its much simmer g must have been used for something Pig i V farmers picked the food garbage from big everything else the recycling militarv kitchens seems implicated A local organisation Why couldnt we do the same today It would provide employment stop wasting and do a lot to clean up our prospered And many of the big for tunes in Canada today started out In the junkyard The junkman was an unrecogni zed benefactor to society During the money for a worthy I newspapers But they must be died and tied just so And they dont want other kinds of paper In the meantime wow out five hundred pounds of books Id be perfectly willing to sort my garbage have a higher rag content than the into waste food bottles and cans and news reprint which fa being picked up Seems papers How about you We could all be our own junkmen and do a lot for our country By Robert White dont you tell lies the first boy replied Because it is wrong The second youngster answered Because God would burn me to death in a big fire In my previous column I was taking semisatirical look at what I term plausible lying and I honestly dont believe that this J I kind of truthevasion warrants alarm Lets take a look at some of the moat popular types of plausible lies First there to what I call the See no evil variety of lying Im on mj way to work observing the traffic laws when without warning this car backs out of side street and shims me amidships I stop but he goes off at high speed without exchanging names or any of that palaver This driver knows trouble when he sees it I am relieved to see so many witnesses for in the confusion I failed to get his number Dozens of people on their way to work stop to watch and they are all busy telling me that he went that I was in the right So I begin asking them their names and addresses and what was the make of car that hit me By sheer bad luck it out that they had not after all seen the accident hndnt noticed the make of car and did not offhand know their own names And besides they were late for work if they did not hustle Do you recognize this form of lying Are all those myopic amnesic souls doomed form of plausible lying which Is a most subtle art essential to loyal mother- howl and only learned after years of seeing the error of telling the truth is what I call the mother lie What mother is not faced with almost daily protection of her innocent little ones Why Mr Smith I cannot Ima gine what you mean They were here with me nil last night Someone else must have blown up your silly old Now lets take a quick peek at the truth for a change and see what happens George Brown a gentle soul at heart told his wife in the kindest possible way that she would never be able to drive a car properly even if lived to be a hundred and made driving her sole occupation This was the cold truth Mrs Brown received a judicial separation iwo weeks ago Seriously Glen I dont believe there is too much cause for alarm In my experience young people today and Ive run the gamut from drug users to automobile nuts from hippies to harlots from the dumb to thai intellectual I have found in the majority of cases that allegiance to truth and promts is more prevalent than ever before in tat history of youth Most young people todajr with the exception of the very young face death or deportation rather than at deliberate or break a promise Admittedly there are still a few danger liars at large but I leave them thai clergy I am not equipped for that sort of f In my own experience I have always found it easier to tell the truth but harder to it sound convincing