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PAGE 4, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1984, WHITBY FREE PRESS w hitby Published every Wednesday MICHAEL KNELL by M.B.M. Publishing Community Editor and Photography Inc. Phone 668-6111 VALERIE COWEN Advertising Manager The Free Press Building, SeodCasMi Voic oftheCouny Twri131 Brock Street North, - second Glass Mail VOc fteCut onMichael Ian Burgess, Pubilsher.- Managing Editor13 rcStetNth Registration No. 5351 P.O. Box 206, Whitby, Ont. Rgsrto o55 The only Whitby newspaper independently owned and operated by Whitby residents for Whitby residents. Take time out to remember on Sunda At 11 a.m. next Sunday, the world will fail silent for just one minute. In the background, one lone musiclan will play Taps. Despite the ravages -of time, a dwindling number of elderly men and women will stand rigidly at attention and pay homage to their fallen comrades while praying that the world will never again go to war. it will be no different here in Whitby. Members of Branches 112 and 152 (Brooklin) of the Royal Canadian Legion will march to the Cenotaph on Dundas St. E. in what is fast becoming a dying ritual. Marching in support will be other organizations, most notably the fire department and the Whitby branch of the Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps. £ok W*y wOfWo*yra 'P~YP~1W4Uj There has been a lot of moaning lately about the Impact of the computer age on our overloaded senses. I heard a man on the radio recently suggesting that there was even some stress associated with moving from the typewriter to the word processor. Stress, hell. It's absolute bliss. I have always thought of myself as something of a Luddite, aithough i don't go about smashing rmachinery, usually. My children still go into mirth- fui paroxyms when they recail the argument i once had with a reluctant bicycle pump. I jumped on it until l'd killed it. I must admit that much of the new equipment of daily living defeats me. I have been too mentally lazy, for example, to figure out how to set the timer on our video cassette recorder so that it will tape programs I can't be there for. So it was with fear and trembling that i moved to Ottawa and confronted my first word processor. I couldn't help remembering that even an electric typewriter was beyond me. i had been wedded to an upright Underwood and a brutal two-fingered typing style since I wrote my first obituary 30 years ago. If I'd heard the guy on the radio before I'd been introduced to the word processor, I wouldn't even have played with the keyboard. As it is, I've divor- ced the Underwood and have. been going steady with a thing called a Unitron 2200 into which i feed an Applewriter Two program disk at the beginning of each date. It's wonderful. Even my producers think it's wonderful. In the good old days of the typewriter, they needed extra-sensory perception to get through one of my scripts. Stuff X'ed out., Changes scrawled in ballpoint pen. Changes to the changes made the same way. Now I sit In front of my GM-1211 screen and fid- die wlth the script electronically until it is the way I want it. Then I hit the Control P on the keyboard, followed by NP and Return and it comes burbling out of the printer...sweet and clean. Stress, my foot. Stress is something associated with bicycle pumps that don't work. Some 30 years have past since-Canadians went many Canadians had to die. to war. Many of our neighbours, fathers and gran- Whille we do not often agree with the board, we dfathers heard the call of duty. Of these, many did support this decision because we belleve that not return. Those that did, witnessed the supreme despite our economic woes and regional differen- sacrif ice of those that didn't. ces, our children should be made aware of how It Is important to remember that sacrifice. While they came to have the freedom, they currently war should not be glorified, this community has enjoy. an obligation to remember that sacrifice and to This year, November 11 falls on a Sunday. How respect those who did come home. - appropriate it would be if every resident of Whitby It has been said many times by many people took an hour of his or her preclous time and came and many newspapers it is because of them that to the Cenotaph in support of this community's we enjoy the free, democratic society we have surviving veterans. today.•Most of Whitby's veterans are, to the best of our Because of these men and women, this country knowiedge, members of Branch 112. They still and this community is free to worry about in- continue to serve this community. The branch flation, unemployment, high interest rates, abor- supports many minor sports organizations, tion, capital punishment, French and English provides services to senior citizens and the han- language rights and ail the other issues that dicapped, gives bursaries and scholarships to plague our society. high school students with promise. They served Compared to what these men and women did in their country in time of war and they serve their two global wars and during the Korean conflict, community in time of peace. these issues are pale and probably even in- Their most important function is an educationai significant. A free society has been built with the one. Legion members spend many hours teaching blood of the over 61,000 Canadians who died in our children about the sacrifices made by their the First World War; the over 42,000 who died in comrades so many years ago and s0 many miles the Second World War and the 312 who died in away. Korea. Perhaps It's time that we who did not have to A couple of years ago, the Durham Board of serve gave them a little support. Buy a poppie, pay Education held a lengthy debate on whether or not a dollar for it if you can.But this Sunday, take your Remember Day should be a school holiday. The children and go to the Cenotaph and showthese trustees, if we recall correctly, decided that it men and women the respect they deserve, for we should not be a holiday because they felt that can never repay them or their comrades for the November 11 would present a diamond oppor- sacrifices they made or for the service to the tunity to educate our young people as to why so community that they continue to give. //ly 9 COL.30444 ICRAt (1872 -1910) * I