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112 Eadie Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapels Company Limited l6 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Henshaw Managing Editor 4The Barrie Examiner Saturday April 171976 Easter story basis for greatest hope Easter is upon us again and once ain it 18 time for the an nual elu of statements by editors roadcasters and litical figures that this Chris an holiday brings with it message of hop for all men whether or not ey believe that Jesus of Nazareth literal rose from the dead on that first aster This view the comfortable in offensive orthodoxy of our agnostic age has at irst glance much to recommend it Hope at this time of year has never been the exclusive property of Christians The very name Easter comes from pagan ring festival the Teutonic ostur which predates Christ and numerous Easter traditions eggs rabbits candles have their origin in preChristian hope giving new life which surrounds us all in the springtime For the Jewish people especial ly spring has been time of hope as families eating the Passover meal together remember that they are still the children of the God who saved them from the hand of the mighty Pharoah There is no denying that the resurrection of Christ 18 the sym bolnpar excellence of hope for ma ind However if that resurrection remains mbol only it is worth less than no hing Today is Holy Saturday the an niversary of the day when Jesus lay dead in borrowed tomb hav ing been crucified as common criminal It might do us good to try to ut ourselves in the shoes of is disciples on that first Hol Satur day The man they had elieved was the Messiah had come to an ignominous end dyin amid the taunts of soldiers an criminals PARLIAMENT HILL Clark put to the test at organizing Tories By STEWART MacLEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service established new economic team of MPs and set up special group to coordinate having roved so it seemed that he ad power neither over the c1v11 authorities nor over the mob nor over the horrible reality of nails and wood The disciples themselves the Bible suggests were in state of despair and fear so great that Peter the most prominent and outspoken among them was afraid to admit he had ever nown the Man who few days earlier he had loved more than anyone on earth Not much hope there And still less ifas many believe they eas ed their disappointment by mak ing 11 story about how Jesus came ack to life But if it really happened well it was the resurrection which transformed the disciples lives fipve them back their ho ousandfold and sent them the far corners of the known world to suffer and die gladly for the priVile of proclaiming the story of the ne whom death could not hold What fools they were if it was all hoax of their own inven tion No there is no ground for ho in the Easter story for those do not believe it really hap ened only sorrow for what mus have been the biggest failure in history and wonder at the wholly inex plicable behavior of the disci les If Christ is not risen St aul reminds his fellow Christians we are of all men the most miserable But for those who believe in the reality of the resurrection the Easter story is the basis for the eatest hope of all the one ho horrors the sorrows and tlie frustrations of life cannot destroy that we too will by the grace of God overcome every obstacle even death itself and triumph everlastingly in the risen Lord comes from the partys left side MP5 of this persuasion probably felt they would grew up as an uganizer said Joe Clark as he stumped the country in his successful search for the Conservative party leader ship Now he is being put to thetest After nearly two months of leadershi experience under his belt 36yearold party leader now is in the process of massive caucus reorganiza tion Its purpose he an nounces is to demonstrate both in Parliament and in the country at large the fact that our party has team ready an able to provide competent positive alter native to the present ad ministration He started with restruc turing of the socalled shadow cabinetcaucus committee chaurmen who ialize in criticizing par ticular government depart ments and agencies He has formed new committees Elie Barrie Examiner 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7266537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return tage guaranteed Dai Sundays and Statutory Ho idays excepted Subscription rates daily by carrier 85 cents weekly $4420 yearly Single copies 15 cents By Mail Barrie $4420 yearly Simcoe County $3400 yearly lBalance of Canada $3600 year National Advertising Offices 65 Queen St West Toronto 8641710 640 Cathcart St Mon treal Member of the Canadian Press and Audit Bureau of Cir culations The Canadian Press is ex clusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches in this paper credited to it or The Associated Press or Reuter and also the local news published therein The Barrie Examiner claims Copyright in all original adver tising and editorial material created by its employees and reproduced in this newspaper Co yright Registration Num 203815 registerei criticism of the operation of government Next he will reshuffle the Commons seating arrange ment so his front bench will reflect the new fresh young team And then he plans to dish out special assignments to those MPs now without particular mucus responsibilities Its all designed to portray new picture of political ef fectiveness energy and en thusiasm EXTRA DUTIES In addition to the added responsibilities in Ottawa the Conservative MPs will be landed extra duties outside the capital There now are 168 federal constituencies not represented by Tories and Mr Clark wants these ridings visited at least once month by an MP Special attention will be paid to Quebec where the party holds only four of the 74 seats Although the new party leader has always been regarded as Red Torythat is well to the left of traditional Conservatismthis was not reflected in his reformed shadow cabinet Many of the same faces remain and the additions dont indicate any basic shift in party policy But this could be expended With so many divergent view points in the party Mr Clark would be foolish to risk new rift by favoring any particular ideology with these appointments And its ironic at the only criticism of the new shadow cabinet receive greater rewards from one of their own However selecting shadow cabinet is almost as difficult as building govern ment cabinet Quite apart from the rightleft aspect there are eographic profes sional re igious and ethnic considerations not to men tion leadership com titors and the problem of umping some popular veteran MPs Among those now without special responsibilities are George Hees and Alvin Hamilton both veterans of the Diefenbaker cabinet and Allan Lawrence former Ontario attorneygeneral These along with others may be moved back from the front bench so Mr Clark can surround himself with his refurbished team SEEM STRANGE It will take while to get us ed to it Many of the Conser vative front benchers have been in that first row since the Diefenbaker days and its difficult to imagine the ebullient Mr Hees being sent to quieter pastures But then he is pushing 67 Many thought that Robert Stanfield should have been more dictatorial in moving his members around to dif ferent Commons seats in stead of appearing to be sur rounded many former Diefenbaker cabinet members But he inherited an angrilydivided party and had he begun wholesale demotions there would cer tainly have been defections An Easter Lily An Easter Lily tall straight and white Filled with perfume thats sheer delight So full of oil it overflows tricklin down from its hea to its toes Stately and graceful vegy lush and pure an through much handling will endure Connected with death yet so much its living beauteous flower for Easter giving Oh such description can you not see so gracious flower so pure and free For Jesus our Lily whose death was the cross was for our personal gain or for our personal loss Consider the lillies The Lily how they grow they toil not they spin not and yet say unto you that Solomon in ALL his lory was not AR RAYEDli eoneof these StLuke12v27 OH Nor MCHJOES JUST romun suN ACING AROUND READING THE NEW POPULARITY POLLS NOTES AND COMMENT Readers letter gets answer By SEAN FINLAY City Editor The Examiner Writers of editorials labor mostly in anonymity tap ing out thoughts and ideas ut current issues and rising above the clamor of dayto daylife have written several editorials for The Examiner Three wrote have caused most unusual reaction The three were about Ald Jim Perri The first was about Ald Perris suggestions on eliminating Barries in famous massage parlor the second about his decision to run for mayor and third about being both teacher and mayor So far two letters have been received about the editorials The first came from Ber tram Kelso was published last Friday and was answered in an editors note The second came this week from Jonathan Mills and is published today on this page Mr Mills gets off to ine start ina letter that to be kind rambles He asks why has The Ex aminer onl slung mud and not given Perri chance to res nd to your snipes ont know where Mr Mills gets his information but know it isnt from Ald Perri NOTAPPROACIIEI Jim Perri has not ap proached The Examiner at any time to respond to this newspapers snipes The fact he has not chosen to respond does not mean he has asked to reply and not been allowed to This news aper has lettertothee itor column It is open to anyone Ald Perri knows it now Mr Mills lmowsit Now to my almostworst sm That dreadful phrase feeding at the public trough The editorial about Ald Perri bein both mayor and teacher di not say feeding at the public trough is wrong Nor did the editorial say there is good feedin at the public trough and ba feeding at the public trough as Mr Mills puts it What the editorial did ques tion was feeding at the public trough twice at the same time once as teacher and once as mayor Is that wrong dont think it is wrong but dont like the idea of blic servant at whatever evel in elected office NOT ANSWERED Also raised in the editorial was question neither Mr Kelso nor Mr Mills answered That was the issue of teacher militancy The editorial noted teachers have been saying they are going to be more militant and here we now have four teachers on city council and one seeking the mayors job The editorial suggested voters might want to ask why this is so In sample of debating technique which is at best dubious Messrs Kelso and Mills see that editorial as antiteacher But you can bet that if 12 downtown businessmen ran for council seats in the next election there would be geat deal of comment+ most of it anti+about that Mr Mills then indulges himself in jump in logic in which he manages to paint The Examiner as being anti teacher and pro body rub parlor Let us try and get this body rub parlor situation in pers ctiveonceandforall ocal businessman decid ed there should be massage parlor in Barrie He opened one PEOPLE UPSET People were and are upset that the body rub parlor has opened It does not do whole lot of good for downtown area to have that kind of business Just look at the sin strip on Yonge St in Toronto But the massage parlor is legal City council sensin hot litical issue jumpe on the andwagon had the city solicitor search the statute books and the best council could come up with is possi ble infraction of the zoning bylaw But to this day no charges criminal or otherwise have been laid against the parlor Ald Perri suggested at meeting of council that those against the body rub parlor picket the place And he suggested the patrons be photographed by the pickets object to that Any person who believes the law is im portant must object to that And Mr Perris suggestions make me for one wonder if he is ready to be mayor People using the body rub parlor are using it legally there is no law saying you cannot into body rub grlor ere is no law saying dy rub parlors are illegal But Ald Perri suggested that if you are against the body rub parlor then get out there and harrass the customers wonder what Mr Mills and Mr Kelsos reaction would be if they went to supermarket to do their shop ping and were photographed stranger for unknown purposes for doing so Harrassment is vigilante action and laws in this coun try are not made or enforced by vigilantes Saying all this one thing must be perfectly clear am not in favor of the body rub parlo This newspaper is not in favor of the body rub parlor BUT both this newspaper and myself are for obeying the laws of this country And if laws should be changed then there is machinery to change them And mobs and mob action are no way of obeying laws or changing them have yet to hear of mob which protected anyones rights Mr Mills getting back to his letter sees The Ex aminers refusal to promote vigilante action and insisting LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Reader asks some questions Dear Sir Regarding Mr Perris run ning for mayor you say you will ask many more ques tions May ask you few Mr Bertram Kelso wrote letter which appeared Friday April in the Ex aminer It attacked your editorial policy of attacking Mr Perri You claim to have no per sonal vendetta against Mr Perri why then have you only slung mud and not given Mr Perri chance to respond to your snipes Considering the general reaction against feeding at the ublic trough dont you thin youre being trifle un fair in harping about Mr Perris job as teacher Quite correctly however you say that feeding at the public trough refers to those who derive their income from taxes You seem to think youve won point by show ing Mr Kelso wrong in say ing that everyone feeds at the public trough what is your point If you think feeding at the public trough is inherently wrong why didnt you say so If you do feel this way why Dont you feel its bit too reactionary Is it ssible that there is good ceding at the public trough eg teachers and bad feeding at the public on the protection of individual rights as evidence The Ex aminer wants to turn downtown Barrie into pornofreaks paradise SILLINESS That is silliness Mr Mills In his last paragraph Mr Mills gets down to his main point has the campaign against Ald Perri and the campaign against teachers helped us sell lot of newspapers There is no campaign against Mr Perri There is no campaign against teachers except in the minds of those teachers who are so insecure any com ment not wholly Iaudatory is criticism And the editorials about Ald Perri havent sold us lot of newspapers But they have got us number of letters to the editor and that means people are reading them and commen ting on them which is the whole idea of having an editorial page trough eg Ottawas cor pulent bureaucracy If so dont you feel you ought to dif ferentiate between the two Just as youd expect people to differentiate between yellow journalism and the other kind What is in it for Mr Jack Ramsay to let Mr Perri run for mayor if Mr Ramsay thinks it is possible that Mr Perri may not be able to manage both jobs Is it possible that teachers perform vital service which benefits the entire community despite the fact that taxes say for it Is it possible that education is more important than body rub parlor despite the fact that people support the parlor voluntarily Would you agree that state education is more important than booze smut cigarettes and other creatures of free enterprise Are you hoping people will assume their taxes will be that much more if Mr Perri becomes mayor If Mr Perri were to dilute his teaching energies by opening freeenter rise body rub parlor woul you object If you would does the matter of feeding at the public trough have anything to do with Mr Perris cam paign Is your idea of healthy downtown one of private enterprise porno shops body rub parlors and erotic movies which enrich Toron tonian entrepreneurs If not why arent you using jour Its elementary my dear Watson By LEONARD NOBLE burnt brightly in the fire ace having just recent ly attended to the renowned Dr Watsonw osat in comfortable chair near fire reading chapter of rays Anatomy Suddenly there came knock at the door Oh pshwa uttered Dr Watson almost involuntarily in response to the soun Who could that be at this hour of the night he ex claimed more to himself rather than to his good friend of so many years standing Watson dear fellow Holmes sai without in anyway altering his supine position in his favorite easy chair the best way to find out who is at the door is to answer it Most elementary my dear Holmes said Watson in grumbling sarcastic irrita tion at being so rudely jarred from his pleasant euphoric state However my dear Wat son before ou open the door you mig like to know that you will find that the per son at the door is gentleman engaged in politics who has travelled here from Canada to beg me to investigate what possibly could be the greatest challenge of my life Now Holmes eyes were opened wide his nostrils flared in keen excitement in anticipating the thrill of the hunt as he smiled that thin fipped inscrutable smile of Good heavens Holmes How do you know from knock at the door all of these things incredulously in quiredWatson City rivalry began in 1754 By BOB BOWMAN Montreal and Pittsburgh are rivals today in baseball and hockey They share the honors because Pittsburgh usually wins at baseball and Montreal is superior at hockey The rivalry began in 1754 when more serious competi tion was waged Who would control the Ohio Valley Fren ch Canada or British col onies in what is now the United States In fact it was this rivalry that led to volley fired by gung Virginian in the ckwoods of America that set the world on fire The young Virginian was George Washington France planned to control North America by building chain of forts and trading posts from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers This would have cut off British ex pansion westward from the Atlantic coast The plan was discovered by George Washington who was then British officer serving the colony of Virginia He warned the French traders that they would have to evacuate the territory In stead they rushed the news of the British investigation to Quebec and it was decided to build strong fort on the site nalistic influence to shut the first establishment of this sort Has your campaign against Mr Perri and teachers in general sold you lot of newspapers Yours truly JONATHANMILLS EDITORS NOTE Please see notes and comment on this page What does he want Alderman Perri is re rted to have stated that arrie would be city of 200000 within five years fif the coun cil had only developers and people with vested interests that means peo le with money who are wil ing to in vest it in Canada anything wrong with that in develop ment Multiply Mr Perris eminently valid prophesy by all the other towns and cities in Canada in similar situa tion and we begin to see what vibrant growing nation we could have It would seem to be crime from Mr Perris im plication for country to thus grow What does he want dismal stagnant vert stricken society agri den by antigrowth socialist bureaucracy So it would seem And if Mr Perri protests he As you said moment ago Watson its elemen tary replied Holmes his smile broadening as he teas ed his old friend Not only is this man politician continued Holmes but youwill find that the mystery that he will invite me to investigate will be Ontarios mystery of its disappearing farm land The harsh knocking sound at the door repeated itself though demanding im mediate response Let the man in without further delay my good Wat son and then get your suit case together because no doubt we will be leaving for Canada within the hour True to Holmes ro gnostications the knoc at the door belonged to On tarios Agriculture Minister William Newman who beseeched Holmes to come to Canada to investigate who or what was causing Ontarios farm land to disappear Later Watson asked Holmes how did you know who our caller would be to night Holmes with that in scrutable smile betraying an otherwise solemn ap pearance replied matteroffactly You recall Watson that on had gone out to the woods ed to get some wood for the fire Yes replied Watson Well it was at that time that the Honourable Minister oned me told me his pro lem and asked me if he could come over and see me within the hour You see my dear Watson like the case of the disappearing farm land in Ontario its elementary my dear Watson of presentday Pittsburgh It was called Fort Duquesne On April 17 1754 flotilla of canoes carrying 500 men from Montreal arrived there and work began immediate 1y It was just in time because the commanding officer Claude Contrecoeur learned that Washington was on his way from Virginia with 300 soldiers Contrecoeur sent force to intercept the British and Washington was defeated War was not declared until two ears later but this was the irst round of the Seven Years War that led to France evacuating North America OTHER APR 17 EVENTS ismHenry Hudson sailed from England to search for Northwest Passage 1645Charnisay captured Fort LaTour at Saint John NB ismSale of liquor to In dians was probibited 1790Export of wheat oats and flour was probibited owing to high prices ismBenjamin Lett blew up Brock Monument at Niagara massCharlottetown was incorporated 1866N0va Scotia legislature voted to join Canada doesnt mean that at all then he would be revealed as one who is utterly and dangerous ly ignorant of what brou ht the Western nations to suc high peak of development Of course these days he would not br alone in his lack of understanding of what democratic egalitarianism means He would not be alone in his support even if unwit tingly of socialist despotism He would not be without vast irrational company in his thinking as opposed to Machiavellian and blind march into new dark age off modern serfdom In short he would be aparer in the ranks of those fail to realise that thew human spirit walks on on broadhighwaybound byas few politicoeconomic restric tions as are necessary to pro tect life and property in itiative and creativity or it advances not at all And ps dont take false refuge from philosophical truth in debate about the ecological dangers of growth the oversimplification of that agrument takes us all back to the oxcart and fighting infection Yours truly DOUG GREENWOOD 1n IV SETS INCREASED SOFIA Bulgaria AP The number of television sets regis tered in Bulgaria increased to 55 million from 40000 in the decade from 1961 to 1971 the news agency BTA reported It