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English youth convicted of indecent assault receives his 10 lashes in the jail yard Ti7me Capsules 'are gems of information extractedfrom past issues of The Canadian Champion and other publications to pro- vide a window on Milton's past. Explanatory comment is sometimes pro- vided to place the situation in context. April 4, 1889 Walter ------, the English youth who was convicted at the last assizes of an indecent assault on E.M., of Oakville, a child seven years of age, received his ten lashes on Monday in the jail yard. They were administered by one of the guards of the Central Prison (Kingston), who did not strike quite as hard as he might have done, but hard enough to make the convict squirm and howl for mercy. When strapped to the triangle he was anything but nervous and had a silk hand- kerchief in his mouth, on which he, no doubt, intended to clench his teeth. May 30, 1889 The pressed brick used in the erection of the Brampton post office comes from the new brick works at Milton and is a very satisfactory article. Formerly pressed brick could be obtained only in the States, the imported article costing $55 per thousand delivered in Toronto. The Milton brick is sold.for $20 per thousand. August 22, 1889 Two fakirs visited Milton last Thursday evening and stationed themselves in a buggy on Main Street, opposite the Thompson House, with several flaring lamps rigged on a pole above them. One of them was dressed a la cowboy and the other had his face blackened and did the darkey act. By blowing a bugle, howling and mak- ing as much noise as possible they gath- ered a large crowd on whom they worked the old game of selling quack medicine and brass watches, returning at first to each The Canadian Champion, Frday, July 6, 2001-7 OUR READERS WRITE THE CANADIAN CHAMPION Reader now offers some solutions to what Milton he sees as myriad of problems in Canada '1'~~ - ime Capsules buyer the money paid. After working up a brisk trade that way, they raised their prices and when a lot of too confiding individuals had invested they cleared out with the money. They cleared about $75 out of the crowd and left town with their plunder next mom- ing. The medicine they sold was water col- ored with soap. September 5, 1889 The starting of the electric motor plant at the paper mills in Georgetown is the sensa- tion of the hour. For over a year past Mr. Barber has been engaged in erecting a large dam across the Credit River, below the paper mills. Nobody could understand how the power was to be sent from the dam back to the mill, but it is now an accomplished fact. Travelers by the Grand Trunk on crossing the high bridge east of Georgetown may notice a pair of quarter-inch copper wires passing under the bridge. Over these the whole power of the Credit River is being conveyed by electric cur- rent. The motor now running is of sixty horse power and the largest ever started. Others are to be added to make use of all the power made at the dam. The saving effected by the sixty horse power motor is about three tons of coal per day of 24 hours. This material is assembled on behalf of the Milton Historical Society by founder and longtime member Jim Dills, chair of research, who can be reached by e-mail at jdills@idirect.com. (The following letter was addressed to Halton MPP Ted Chudleigh and a copy was filed with The Champion.) Dear Editor: This is the second, in perhaps what you might hope is not, a series of letters. My first letter of recent date to you may have sounded a little too much like a tirade with no sugges- tion for solution or hope. Let me correct that now if you will. Inasmuch as 'The Evil Empire' died as the result of mass commu- nication (how are ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen Paris?), it's this very thing: television, McLuhan's message, which has bred the seeds of our destruction as well. In pursuit of the ever-elusive, post-war dream, bigger is better, we, all of us, joined the work force. For 'tis off to work we go, a time to reap and a time to sow; but who, oh who, will tend the ever growing nest? The nest. Have we no painters, no decorators, no one to mow the lawn, tend the bushes and gardens? Ah... Je me souviens... you mean the children... Off to work we go... for there's always television. Television, with its tastefully designed programs illustrative of ethic and moral, with its warmth and nurturing tentacles encircling our tots and enrapturing them with visions... Sugar plums you say? ...1 think not. Mr. Chudleigh, how are we going to bring up the parents of the next generation? Thanks for help with Big Dig event Dear Editor: We, as student representatives of the St. Peter's School Earth SAV.E.R. Club, would like to thank all of our proud supporters of this year's Big Dig gardening project. Donations of trees, bushes, plants, seeds and soil were very much appreciated Our gardens are growing and looking better every year with the generous support and help of the comunity. Jodie Mandarino St. Peter's Schoolastudent Letters welcome The Canadian Champion welcomes letters to the editor. We reserve the right to edit, revise, and reject letters. Letters must be signed and the address and the telephone number of the writer included. Mail letters to: The Canadian Champion, Box 248, Milton, Ont. L9T 4N9, or leave them at our office, 191 Main St., fax them to 878- 4943 or e-mail them at miltoned@haltonsearch.com How are we going to convince them that the most precious com- modity in the universe is their child, that their child's most previ- ous possession is the love that's engendered in that family? A recent double blind study called the Minneapolis - St. Paul Experiment saw children taken from single parent families part- nered with volunteers who provid- ed love, physical re-enforcement and a positive leaming environ- ment. At the end of a few years the children all scored in excess of 140 on intelligent quotient tests! Not only were these kids bright but they were also well balanced. Mr. Chudleigh, we live in a democracy in which the home is guaranteed to be inviolate ("a per- son's home is his castle"). Govemment exists, in our society, in that which the home discems it (the govemment) should oversee. We have abdicated our responsibil- ities. We are messing our own nest. Only a species that's about to become extinct manifests such symptoms. It seems to me that we have lost our souls. Oh Canada the truc north strong and free! Oh Canada, we stand on guard for thee! Strong? Free? On guard protecting what? What is it that we Canadians hold truc? What do we Canadians believe or believe in? Who or what is it that we fear? Have we become so self centered and introspective that we are now blind to our own dilemma? It has occurred to me that the macro/microcosm is self-reflect- ing. If we take our challenges and transport them to a smaller com- munity we are most times able to see more clearly. If we ail lived in a community of several thousand people instead of several million would any one of us have passed the partially clad and injured woman, not even tak- ing the time to cal 911, as this moming's news reported? Would a retired judge and MPP be frustrated enough to threaten standing in Parliament to condemn untried, alleged criminals? If our govemment is too unwieldy, too cumbersome to administrate, then let's make some meaningful changes. Perhaps we should look at or study another system. Perhaps we should do away with this multi-tiered, multi-taxing, pre- cariously stacked system. Maybe we should look at small cells, say 50,000 people administered by a mayor and a volunteer council reporting to one federal govern- ment? In the long run it is education that holds the key. No person can hope to gain by the misfortune or by putting down another. Al human life is linked. We are truly a Brotherhood of Man. When one of us takes a leap for- ward we are all uplifted; when one of us is in sorrow we are all hurt. Anything I do to another, I do to myself. Let's begin by teaching today's child about morals and ethics. Let's start this process now at the kindergarten level and con- tinue it throughout ail the years in our system. Let's teach them to love each other, to be members of the family of mankind, to respect and to appreciate others, to become better humans and to help others to do the same. Let's teach our children how to live virtuously. Mr. Chudleigh, let's make Canada truly great! Let's pick up the torch! Let's be a shining light. Peter D. Haight Main Street