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' WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1976, PAGE 5 From time to time I take a quick trip to the United States - to Buffalo, New York or Chicago - just to see how our big neighbor south of the border is coping with some of the nation's toughest problems, like the inflation, growing unemployment, racial problems, sex scandals and the usual social injustices. Suprisingly enough, the United States are in a better shape than us, particularly in fighting off the inflation and keeping the unemployrnent rate down by almost two per cent. The economic prosperity can be seen on the east coast - in cities like New York, Philadephia and Boston. If you read the New York Times, you'll find job opportunities galore. Some of the best jobs go unclaimed because employers cannot find suitable applicants. It's the old' problem of finding qualified and experienced workers, one employer told ·me recently. He also said he would like to hire some Canadians for his mushrooming business, but the U.S. government is against such practices. "People in Washington", he said "are a bunch of dumb- dumbs. They force me to hire people who are not qualified or, simply, are not interested in work". A friend of. mine who lives in Long Island agrees that many jobs will never be filled due to lack of skills. It all points to the same prôblem we are facing here in Canada: aany people out of work, but newspapers are fristling with joboffers. The only reasonable solution to this problem is to create more job training centres and provide financial assistance to those who are willing to sign up for job training courses. In Chicago, the economic picture is slightly brighter than ours, but less attractive to the Americans who reside in New York or Philadelphia. Also a lower payfor the same type of work is a contributing factor. However, Chicago is less crowded and rents are cheaper. The "Windy City", despite its domestic problems (crime, welfare, skid-rows, etc.), is still a very fascinating place to visit. To an outsider like me, Chicago is a relatively "clean" city as compared to the slums of New York, Detroit and Philadelphia. Life in Chicago is fast, but no one seems to notice it. This, perhaps, could be said even about Toronto - though still a virgin in comparison with a riff-raff life style that is so unique and prevalent in the larger American cities. And finally, I come to Buffalo a city of filth and crime. It is amazing how this city has deteriorated in the last decade. Once it was a Canadian tourist mecca (can you believe that?) now a sham-hardly a place to go out in the evening for a leisurely stroll. Downtown at night is practically deserted and left to human elements bent on crime and mischief. Youth roam the streets freely, as if itching for trouble. Buffalo, you might be interested to know, is also a highly depressed city economically as the once powerful steel industry is under financial strains. All in all, it's a place you wouldn't like to visit too often in fear of being robbed or mugged, almost at any time of the day. Don't you just hate sunny days?? Think about it for·a minute. You get up early al week and when Saturday finally arrives you promise yourself you will sleep in and enjoy the luxury of ignoring the alarm clock. Saturday arrives right on schedule and early Saturday morning you roll over to find a new nattress lump to work on and while doing so one eye slips open. You peek out the window and notice it's a narvellous sunny day. Don't you then lie there for a while saying to yourself, "I really should get up and get out in the garden - it would be terrible to waste such a great sunny day by sleeping in!" I can remember times when the sanie thing lias happened to me and, as a compromise, I have pronised myself I would get up and go out on the patio and finish sleeping in on the chaise lounge, that way getting some fun and still enjoying the luxury of sleeping in. Of course, it never happens. If you wake up early Saturday norning and it's pouring rain, you don't feel the least bit guilty about rolling over and ignoring the world for another few hours, right? And how many times have you said, "Gee, it's such a nice day I, think. l'il wash and wax the car!" Chalk up another one for sunny days. Cars today with their new paints and undercoating don't really need a great amount of washing and waxing but we're geared to wash and wax on sunny days and that's it. I've often falled into the same trap and begun to think that, if I ever moved down south, I would probably wear the paint right off the car within the first year. Many of you will have heard the expression, "Into each life a little rain must fall". I've never really been convinced of that and I suspect it was originally thought up by a banker whose establishment was losing trade. I'ni sure he then followed it up with some sage advice about "saving it for a rainy day". Parents love to say that to kids who have money burning holes in their pockets. Obviously, if there were no rainy days none of us would put away a cent and the finance companies would be booming, having to make many more loans when snall emergencies struck. Just like love, the moon, the sea and a host of other objects, the sun or sunny days have been the objects of nany songs such as "You are the sunshine oif my life". After all you could hardly inspire romance by singing "You are the storm clouds in my horizon". 'i just a little prejudiced in favour of sunny days rnyself because sunny days brig out the mini-skirts, short shorts and those teeny little tennis outfits, not to mention bathing suits-brief enough to Pacemaker. Of course, rainy girl watching and the firs short circuit the wires on ùmy days aren't too conducive to t sunny spring day always encourages participants from both sexes. If we had no sunny days the guys who make the picnic baskets would go broke along with the air conditioner people. Lawn furniture sales wouldn't be exactly booming either because not many people really get off on sitting outside in bad weather long enough to get a rain tan. But then, if we had all sunny days the eavestrough guys would be out of business and the cab drivers would have to start laying off men. The libraries probably wouldn't fare out too well either because who wants to bury his nose in a book when there's bright sunshine outside to enjoy? I guess the sane would hold true for the theatres and movie houses as well. The swiniming pool people would probably like more sun but the Parker Brothers and many more innovators of indoor games would fold up or else be forced to think of gaines that could be played outdoors. Then again, maybe General Motors would start making Cadillac convertibles again if we had more sunny days and consequently more of the-affluent would be out flaunting it with the tops down. And who ever heard of a parade or fair in the rain? Somehow it just isn't the same riding the roller coaster in a downpour. Still, l'il bet the museums and art galleries could use a few more cloudly days to lure in more visitors and customers. They would probably not be too popular with the ice cream stands though and the boat people I'm sure would want as many sunny days as they could get. Now that I think of it I'm darned glad I'm not a weatherman. However, if one of you weathermen is reading this - it just so happehs I'm planning a campout next weekend so I wonder if you could....... Whitby revue performers to be stars on Hamilton TV A number of the acts from the Whitby. Theatre Com- pany's Spring Musical Revue will appear on C.H.C.H. Hamilton T.V. in laie September. Bert Hea,,er, director of the revue was approached by 'Vic' Vickers of Megarnedia Corporation during the run of the show. Mr. Vickers said he was impressed with Kinsmen, Kinettes donate $2,200 The Whitby Kinsmen Club and the Kinette Club of Whitby recently contributed a total of $2,200 for Cystic Fibrosis research, following a number of fund-raising projects, including this year's sports celebrity dinner. The Kinsmen donated S2,000 and the Kinettes $200, which contributed' to a total of $98,483.25 presented by the 72 District Eight Kinsmen Clubs at a recent Cystic Fibrosis luncheon in Sault Ste. Marie. Approximately one in every 1,800 children born in Canada has cystic fibrosis, which is a genetic disorder affecting the lungs, the digestive system, the sweat gland and other fluid producing glands in the body. the overall quality of the show and would like to make arrangements to videotape a part of it to be included in a series of half-hour shows his company is niaking for C.H.C.I. T.V. The series is entitled, New Faces. The format is designed to give exposure to Canadian talent in the musical sphere. Mr. Vicker's company plans to visit a nuinber of municipal ities in Ontario with the object of sclecting good entertainient for inclusion in the series. This is not to be intcrpreted as a talent search, but rathier as a visit to a inunicipality with the object of highlighting its feutires and the people and their talents. Mr. Vickers recently concluded a tour of' the Ottawa area, putting together videotapes for the series to be showni on T.V. in that area. Those chosen by 'Mr. Vickers for the T.V. show include, George MacKenzie and Evelyn Meso in a duet, singing, "One Alone"; Lynne Liddell, singing "Thoroughly Modern Millie", with the Marg Connelly Dancers, Phillip Kerr, singing "Delilah"; Phil Trudelle and Jenny Moyle, in duetsinging,"Sunrise, Sunset"; Bob MitclIl, playing "Swing- ing Shepherd Blues on, flute. The County Town Singers APPEARING ONTARIO HYDRO Topic: Generation Planning Processes PLACE City Council Chambers City Hall Oshawa have also been asked to take part in this show. Ail participants will be transport- ed to and from the Hamilton studio, and lunch .will be provided. The show will be taped Sunday, September 12, and will be aired two weeks later. 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