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the examiner Monday Oct 22 1979 Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited serving barrio and sirncoe county 16 Baytield Street Barrie Ontario LAM 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher CIRCULATION 7266539 NEWSROOM 7266537 ADVERTISING 7266537 CLASSIFIEDS 72824 Get involved in education This is the time of year for school commencements Beginning with Central Collegiate Institutes com mencement Friday night schools in Barrie and across the land will be holding graduation exercises in the next few weeks Its natural time for pride in our graduating students and their ac complishments Its also time for questions about education and par ticularly about the quality of educa tion and how it might be improved The question arises what makes for the ideal school and thus the better graduate One answer is public participation in education So often we hear how education is failing our children and how students are illprepared and un disciplined to demands of the adult world To some extent that may be true and no one would deny that there are serious challenges facing educa tion today But its also true that our schools are doing many things right and that the opportunities for creative meet the real working learning have never been greater Theres no doubt that what the pubiic thinks about schools and education will vary from individual to individual The real question is what the public is prepared to do to make the system better The better the communication between parents and schools the more possible it becomes to con struct the ideal school For parents that means visiting the school your child attends and getting to know the teachers and their problems It means taking ac tive part in home and school associations or attending lecture meeting or social occasions held in the school building Schools and the system is not unresponsive to the needs of your child But the system must have parent input to best reflect those needs Lets face it the more attention you pay to your childs education the better the result will be We might all be surprised how at tainable the ideal school could be if we all made education our personal concern With 10 per cent inflation only talk is cheap today By VINCENT EGAN Business and onsuiner Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The cliche that inflation is our No problem has become as familiar today as the economy is fundamentally sound was 50 years ago at the time of the Great Crash and the start of the Great Depression In each case the sources of the cliches couldnt be more eminent In recent days US President Jimmy Carter has said that the No threat to our national economy is inflation and Prime Minister Joe Clark with his gift for phrase making has called inflation Public Enemy No Consumer prices nevertheless go on rising at constantly faster rates 96 per cent during the latest 12 months in Canada about 13 per cent in the United States and 165 per cent in Britain The political leaders may well be sincere in their belief that inflation is the primary prob lem The trouble is that they are equally sincere in their defence of contradictory positions The Carter Administration for example wont curb wasteful government spending be cause that might eliminate some jobs and the government mustnt be antilabor And the Clark governments concern about inflation isnt great enough to deter it from its inflationary plan for tax concessions to mortgage holders and property owners nor from its international policies that are depressing our exports and weakening our dollar WHY WORRY instead the policymakers are clinging to the old formula of muddling through and hoping for better news change of heart among the members of the oil cartel perhaps or bumper farm crops Any realistic assessment of the inflation outlook wouldnt encourage any such hopes however The more militant members of OPEC are already pushing their prices up again as they will continue to do until they encounter backgrounder YOUR BUSINESS resistance from consumers One senior economist predicts that Canadian consumers will be paying 16 per cent more for their energy needs in 1980 than in 1979 Food prices in Canada by the end of this year will probably be at least 135 per cent higher than at the beginning of the year and the prospect for 1980 is for still further in creases of nine pet cent or so Big labor group that includes teachers now will of course be expecting wage in creases large enough to more than offset any foreseeable increases in the cost of living NEW APPROACH Inflation of this magnitude is clearly going to force many small and medium sized busi nes ses to the wall and add mightily to the unemployment totals Sooner or later government leaders will have to abandon empty talk and start acting upon their own warnings about inflation as the No problem Here are specific steps that were proposed recently by Arthur Burns former head of the US Federal Reserve Board which represent new apppoach one that could well be adopted in other countries as well as his own Legislation to make it more difficult for federal government to incur deficit in its budget Dismantling of regulations that impede competition and changes to other policies that unnecessarily increase costs and prices binding commitment to tight money policies until the rate of inflation has been substantially reduced Reductions in business taxes in each of the next five years American small cars prove safer than imported models iASHINGTON AP Crash tests of 20 car models indicate that occupants of 13 of them would die if the iil hit wall at 56 kilometres an hour the US transportation department reports The tests also showed that US auto makers are building new small cars that are safer than many now on the highway and that North American cars are generally safer than itnported models studied US Transportation Secretary Neil Goldschmidl says he is particularly en couraged by the showing of such small cars as the Chevrolet Citation and Chevette the Plymouth Horizon and the Ford Mustang Both the structures and safetybelt restraint systems in these cars performed very well under test giving clear indication that it is possible to build safer small cars hesays In number of tests where the vehicle performed well the vehicle failed the test because the seatbelt system was insufficient to prevent the occupants from striking the dash or steering wheel and fatally injuring them in the tests cars carrying dummy oc cupants wearing seat belts were subjected to frontal crash into wall and rearend collision the latter to check for fuel tank rupture Goldschmidt says the frontal tests are equivalent to two vehicles hitting headon at combined closing speed of 112 kilometres an hour MOST WERE 1979 All of the cars were 1979 models except for the Citation and an AMC Concord both 1980 in addition to the four models cited by Goldschmidt these cars passed the occupant protection tests in the frontal crashes Oldsmobile CutlessPontiac Grand Prix Buick Riviera and Dodge MagnumChrysler Cordoba Models in which the occupants were per ceived as fatally injured were Datsun 210 Volkswagen Rabbit Plymouth ChampDodge Colt Mercury BobcatFord Pinto Toyota Ce lica Pontiac FirebirdChevrolet Camaro Plymouth VolareDodge Aspen Ford Fair montMercury Zephyr Chevrolet Impala Pontiac Catalina Oldsmobile Olds 98Buick Electra Mercury MarquisFord LTD Lan dau Chrysler LeBaronDodge Diplomat and Dodge St RegisChrysler Newport The cars listed with hyphen are basically the same model and in some cases only one was tested Joan Claybrook administrator of the US National Highway Traffic Safety Admin istration says the tests were experimental and should not be viewed as complete In order to establish more com prehensive and statistically reliable measure of new car crashworthiness it Will be nec essary to crashtest more models and more samples of each model and perhaps to test them in other crash modes she says IIISIIIESS 7266537 EDITORS Craig Elson managing editor Stan Didxbalis city editor Bill McFarlane wire editor REPORTERS Stephen Nicholls Dennis Lanthier Nancy Figueroa Lori Cohen Tony Panacci Richard Thomas Stephen Gauer Sue Bowen camera operator Terry Field Cathy Heather Mary Delaney SALES Wayne HOV Aden Smith Steve stunner Barb Boullon Peter Clark CLASSIFIED Freda Shinner Janice Morton We Home WM ADVERTISING Len Sevick manager Calvm Felepcnuk Peggy Cnapell supervisor Doug Boni BUSINESS Marian Gouoh accountant Delva Mills Vikki Grant Connie Hort Jean Bass Don Saunders Lorne Wass Will Codooan Stan wray Bill Raynor Ron Gilder Ed Allenby Janie Hamel Susan Kitchen Yvonne Sierps PRESSROOM Cl RCU LATION Bill Halkes manager Andy Haughlon assistant manager Alva LaPlante Lisa Warry Elaine Burton Cheryl Aiken Fred Prince rKim Pattenden Liberals change their tune over written questions By STEWART MacLEOI OttawaBureau Thomson News Service When the Liberals were in power nothing seemed to annoy them more than those written questions the Tories would place on the Commons order paper inncopious quantities every day waste of time and money the govern ment would complain Most of the inquiries were unnecessary anyway they would argue and just for the sake of impressing voters back home the opposition MP5 kept hundreds of researchers at work spewing out answers that served no useful purpose For their part the inquiring Tories used to complain about government tardiness in replying to the questions Almost daily opposition MP5 would complain that their parliamentary rights were being violated by an arrogant govern ment They would usually argue that the replies were essential for their research and the governments failure to provide im mediate answers indicated coverup John Reid the Liberal MP from Kenora Rainy River who served briefly as minister responsible for federalprovincial relations once calculated that each written question cost the concerned department about $80 And if two departments were involved in providing an answer the cost would double Since several thousand questions can be asked in normal session and since most questions involve multiple departments the costs are obviously high The shoe may be on the other foot now but you would never know it by reading the order paper The Liberals it seems have the same basic curiosities as the Tories used to have COMPLAINTS SOON And its only question of time before the governing Tories begin complaining about these irresponsible informationseekers because some of the questions already on the order paper are going to be there for good long time while researchers burn the mid lnterpreting the news night oil You might wonder for instance why Hal Herbert the Liberal MP for Vaudreuil has suddenly developed an interest in the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation and why he needs to know the corporations net earnings for 1977 and 1978 along with all direct or indirect subsidies or other benefits conferred by the government of loans advances or guarantees extended by the government to the corporation both before and after any write off And thats only the beginning Mr Herbert has asked for the same information on 24 other Crowncontrolled agencies His thirst for knowledge has obviously taken on new dimension since the Tories as sumed office Among other things he wants to know the total number of Canadian railway cars the comparative volumes of bushels for each of the feed grains handled by the Canadian Wheat Board and breakdown of all the transfer and equalization payments made to the provinces in the last 10 years By the time the government gets through researching Mr Herberts 101 questions already on the order paper it will be time for another election And there are hundreds of others Its interesting that the Liberals who seemed to be so resentful about questions relating to the prime ministers office have now developed curious interest in that subject Mr Reid has asked for the names salaries and functions of all employees in the office ofJoeClark Railwaymen walkout in UK could bring London to halt LONDON CP In move which may presage return of last winters labor unrest British railwaymen have called walkout which could paralyse this city of seven million for two days Barring lastminute reprieve all stations and rail routes serving the capital city face shutdown today It is generally regarded as an unpopular strike and one The Evening Newscalls irresponsible unnecessary and wth the public the helpless victims The strike was announced just as Len Murray top official of the Trade Unions Congress was making an appeal for Winter of restraint in labor relations Unions management and government must cooperate if British industry and the economy are to be salvaged he said Pay is not the central issue in the strike called by the National Union of Railwaymen The union executive called the walkout over proposals by stateowned British Rail to reduce the number of men in the parcel department of Paddington Station to 120 from 176 transferring the remaining 56 to other duties ACCUSE EACH OTHER The railway and the union are accusing each other of bypassing traditional bargaining procedures British Rail wants the dispute to go to arbitration but the union insists that the parcel clerks go back in their original jobs and shifts before arbitration begins When deadlock became apparent the union called 24hour strike affecting 15000 rail waymen and tying up all train services to London However the walkout is expected to affect the city for two days because running from pm to pm it hits homebound traffic today and leaves workbound traffic stranded Thursday An estimated 450000 commuters are ex pected to be affected intercity services will be unable to enter or leave Travellers at sea ports and Londons remote airports will also bestuck The situation is considered grim portent for the new Conservative government which campaigned last spring on platform of working with the unions to curb disruptive union practices To the public it is reminder of how things were last winter when several 24hour rail strikes and other labor unrest disrupted every aspect of life in Britain COMPOSING BOOM Jack Kerney torcman Glenn len asst Ioremon Al Hanson toremon Don Near asslloreman Published daily except Sunday and statutory holidays WEEKLY bY carrier 95 cents YEARLY by carrier 49 BY MAIL Barrie Tho Barrie Examiner dolin TholmioiWhomonMoIIhoCmodInlmotc ondAudtlunouot OrouiovioutAlC0nIythomhoImmwu chdhodtoC WAuoclatodmo loutonorAgonco FromPm mdlocolnmourioophliohodhfholomohm motorinhthh Wtonoflorlginolnmmdmungmid Whinompbymondpobhhodhlhbw Wight ropiotrotion numbor mli racism $4940 Thoadvortiw ogrmlhmmopoblishor Minolbollobloiovdomogosorilhgovl SIMCOE COUNTY oi anon in advertisements beyond tho omount paid to tho upocoodvotty occupiod $3900 by that portion of the advertisement In which tho error occurred such or MOTOR THROWOFF 1508 YBBI ELSEWHERE IN CANADA Loonyeor advertisement By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Canada in the 19605 and 19705 was mer cifully ared the task of integrating the distur Vietnam veterans into society because we did not take part in that mindless war But in the United States with all the continuing social upheavals which that war created the return of thousands of Vietnam veterans to orderly lives still has not taken place In Canada we shared in the backlash from that catastrophic event with the arrival of thousands of young Americans who fled here to avoid the draft or who had deserted from the military Toronto in the early 19705 was the centre of their activities and for the largest number of those young Americans who fled all over the world We were alerted here to their problems of isolation and the existing persecution against them at home But they have either returned to their American homes or have remained here to become Canadian citizens and have merged into our society The young Amerieans tens of thousands of them who fought in Vietnam in those years stayed in the forces and have not been able to rejoin the civilian world in the US remain very large social problem in American life Between 1964 when the American military buildup began in South East Asia and the final Communist victory in March 1975 28 million Americans served in the war In all six million Americans served in the armed forces during that long period VETERANS ANALYSIS Now an important study from the Center for Policy Research in New York City based on 12 million grant to study the Vietnam veterans dilemmas reveals their many unsolved personal problems and serious disorientations The study basically says that the veteran who fought in Vietnam compared to the men and women who served in the US armed forces elsewhere have had much more oI its monk or otherwise and than ho no Iifiility Ior non insertion oI any odvortimonl boyond tho ml paid Ior ouch lt Publisher ram the right to edit ruin cloudy or rotcl on Who Vietnam vets study shows many with serious problems serious marital job and settlingin problems Emotional difficulties such as sense of personal guilt about the war and the failure of society now interested in other issues to still share this with them have resulted in major drug and alcohol abuse among the Vietnam war survivors larger percentage than is proportionately found among veterans of World War Two and the Korean War of the 19405 and 19505 have been in jail for crimes of robbery assaults muggings and attempted murders The New York study found that about 60 per cent of the Vietnam veterans they inter viewed came back from that war with deep emotional wounds which have not been eradicated introduction to drug use nightmares all kinds of nervous conditions Many could not resume schooling or take up higher education which would give them better jobs at time of very high unem ployment in the United States Complaints by Vietnam vets that most of the $25 billions in the GI Bill of Rights to finance training and education went to non Vietnam veterans is challenged by Congressional veterans committee It has said as much as $45 billions has been spent on the survivors of that war to meet the very wide range of deep emotional needs chronic physical disabilities which they ex perienced NATIONAL PATTERN The veterans interviewed in the study so far live mainly in the New York city urban area But given the same nationwide pattern of difficulties facing this group the Center for Policy Research expects identical results in proposed expanded study Time and money wasted over Pickering Airport By DEREK NELSON Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO good example of how government wastes time and money exists in the Pickering Airport controversy That airfield which would have been built east of Metro Toronto was born in 1972 shelved in 1975 and made part of Toronto area transportation study from 1976 to 1979 Now the report is out with the bureaucratic title of Southern Ontario Multimodal Passen ger Studies and never were three years more obviously wasted Heavy on jargon and light on facts the report stresses the obvious and buries the hard questions in pile of words good illustration of the kind of thinking that went into the report is the twopage doublespaced press release issued at the same time It alone took four months to prepare MUCH JARGON The quality of the report itself can be illustrated by one paragraph that is repeated in several variations throughout the study The future uncertainties indicate that there are significant limitations implicit in longrange forecasts of travel demand as well asin the assessment of the capabilities of the eXisting transportation system and future modifications to this system Stripped of the unnecessary big words that comes down to two basic points First we dont know how many people will want to travel to and from the Toronto area Secondly we dont know how well we can handle the load Great Arent those the very two questions the study was set up to answer The whole argument about Pickering Airport has centred around them since the 1972 goahead DEEP THINKING Now thanks to Transport Canada and the BY SEAN FINLAY Of The Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service Perrin Beatty 29 may be the youngest federal cabinet minister in the history of Canada Thats what Im told he says havent sat up nights checking that out dont think its terribly important would rather be known as the best cabinet minister in the history of Canada than the youngest Despite his age Beatty has 17 years of political experiencebehind him from his first involvement in an election campaign when he was 12 to working for Robert Stanfield in the 1967 PC leadership cam paign to being secretarytreasurer of the Ontario PC Students Association to first being elected to the House of Commons Oct 30 1972 Politics has always fascinated him says Beatty but his involvement in politics goes deeper than fascination remember my grandfather talking about the obligation that we have as family and as individuals to put something backintolife Life in politics struck me as pretty direct way of putting something back in Beatty recognizes there is widespread cynicism about politicians Its an in ternational phenomenon he says one poli ticians have themselves to blame for fiseecr EARNED We dont deserve respect or special consideration or anything else because of Youngest cabininister also wants to be the best the mere fact were elected We have to earn and prove that were worthy of peoples confidence that anyone can have than the honor of figblic service Its trust you hold on cost for the minister of state for treasury board and the member from Wellington DufferinSimcoe on weekends shes in her last semester for an honors degree in English and Political Science at the University of Guelph and weekends at home in Fergus about 20 mites north of Guelph are busy for Beatty Wellington Countrys 125th anniversary reception ned the Shelburne Fall Fair and attend 50th wedding anniversary and dinner numbered and the hours in the day are num bered says Beatty FROM THE LEGISLATURE and Commu provincial Transportation nications ministry we get statements of the blindingly obvious Common sense alone would tell someone that the rules of the travel game have changed since the postOPEC economic slowdown of 1974 It seems unlikely well ever recapture the soaring growth rates of the past and that didnt require threeyear study costing packet of money how much noone is quite sure involving two governments to deter mine This is especially true when the only firm recommendations in the report are to further delay decisions about expanding the present Toronto International Airport or going ahead with Pickering What we needed was document giving clear analyses of the variables that influence travel demand how they affect growth rates and what basic alternative choices exist ahead in time We didnt get it from this bureaucratic porridge bible thought Bless the Lord my soul and all that is within me bless his holy name Bless the Lord my soul and forget not all his benefits Psalms 10312 Looking for benefits Try counting the ones youlalready have We thank you Father forgive us for forgetting In Jesus name Amen weighty think theres probably no greater honor half of the people of the country The honor of public service does have Beatty and wife Julie see each other only But weekends are for constituency work In one weekend he and his wife attended the Fergus Fall Fair attended Im finding the days of the week are