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Tuesday Aprll 977 7266537 the examiner serving barrle and slmcoe county Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Baylield Street Barrie Ontario ELIO AGOSTINIpublisher NEWSROOM CIRCULATION ADVERTISING ClASSIFIEDS BUSINESS 7266537 7266539 7282414 7266537 Earlier voting change debated Announcement of change in the Ontario Municipal Elections Act to allow earlier voting dates than the first Monday in December is likely to be received with mixed feelings Those who support the change feel that municipal vote on the third Monday in November will encourage greater turnout to the polls than the first Monday of December but this remains to be seen It is out course far from new idea and has been ex perimented with before In fact there was time when municipal elections were held the first Monday in January Subsequently it was changed to the first Mon day in December with the hope it would help bring out more voters The current move would provide for the municipal elections to be held two weeks earlier still with the hope that there will be better weather then But those really concerned about good democratic ad ministration will endeavor to get to the polls regardless There are sound arguments in favor of having elec tions dates coincide with terms of office Councils made up of members defeated at the polls have been known in the past to have have stirred voters by dealing with key tax spending issues after their defeat instead of leaving such decisions to newlyelected councils There are such cases on record in Simcoe County back years ago and those who remembered may be skeptical about seeing this possibility happening again Simcoe yesteryear Do you rccognic this softball tcam Ihc photograph went to thc raig fanlily of Iflf liar rie ia of Edgar ll appcars to time bccn takcn in Barrie hilt uhat cam is it And Iliil as it takcn Your business By IIIll1 Business and onsitincr Affairs nal st Thomson News Service For every problem the lalc Men cken once said thcrc is solution that is short simplc logical and wrong Take the problem of inflattoiis erosion of pension bentfits lhc short simplc logical solution adopted by the tcdcral and sonic provincial govcriiincnts is to incrcascpciision bcnclits automatically with each tncrcasc iii thconsumcr lricc lndcx itll thn actuarics point out the simple fact that lull indcxing of ofliccholdcrs salaries and pensions is putting an iiitolcrablc strain on taxpaycrs prcscnt and futurc thc bcnclictarics ol iiidirgwl pcnsions simply rc spond that thc Silill priyiligi should bi cs tciidcd to everybody inc problem is that there is hardly enough money in anada to pay tor universal pcnsioii indcxing Anothcr is that indexing Itstloys any in centch that pcoplc may havi to resist iii flation ihcrc is no hope of getting pcopli to conscrvc energy if they aic iiidcxcd to ollsct all cncrgyipricc incrcasis points out Donald oxc incinbci of the faiiada Pension Plan Advisory Toiiiiiiittci And still another factor is that pciisioncrs dont require full indexing in ordcr to dcfcnil ihcir rcal economic posit ioit against inllat ion rise in thc priccot diapcrs will boost thi fli but not pose financial hardship lor llit rctircd Toxc noted at rcccnt scminar sponsorcd by the onfcrcncc Board in Canada IN IIIZIIREMIINI Even Marc Lalondc senior mcmbcr of the federal govcinmcnt that gave itscll lull indexing has poinch out that middli income Ontario resident rcliring with no private pension and no sayings would havi aftcrtax takchoinc pay of tilt pcr iill of pro retirement income thanks to Old Age Sicur ity iuarantcul Income Supplement and Canada Pension Plan all iiidcxcd and that living costs would be significantly rcducwl through tax CXctiiptions trec drugs lowcr prices for many sciVIcis and so on Pension benefits aimed too high The mania lor indexation could turn out to be dangerous distasi if as in Britain thc mechanism ends up protecting oiin the rctircd and uncmploycd against noir inflatioirlinkcd price increases thcrcby discriminating against thc Workforcc says oxtn scnior viceprcsidciit of Mnianada iii vcstmcnt ounsclling Ltd subsidiary of Mutual Lifc Assurance To of Canada Sonic of anadas lcading litc iiisurcrs cx pcricncul uncxpcclcd dccrcascs in mortality ratcslasl ycar It still is too early to tell if this is the beginning of trend but it may be that lchr speed limits scatbelt legislation reduced smoking ralcs among males and generally incrcascd emphasis on physical litncss arc combiningtoimprovcmortality lhats good ncws lor cvcryonc cxccpt thoscuhopaythibillsforpciisionplans IIIIAII illt KIII Iciision bcnctits iiidcxcd or not must somchow bc paid tor lhc traditional tcchniquc has bccn through contrilmtions by employer and cmployoc which wcrc thcti iii vcstcd and cxpcctcd to grow liut thc poor pcrforinancc of the stock market in rcccnt years has spoilcd that pic lurc lhc convciit ioital wisdom of thc postwar cra was that cqnitics were lingcagainsl tit flation says oxc we want 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back in the 1960s it was comfortin to hear prime minister Lester Pearson say at no one could ever place price tag on con fcdcratioii At least we knew that if separatism cvcr became real issue in anada we wouldnt be bored to death with conflicting financial statements it was even more comforting to hear Mr Icarsons successor give us the same assurancc Prime Minister Trudeau seemed Vll more forceful in declaring that Tanadian citizenship could never be measured in termsof dollars And when Rene Levesque who would later Interpreting the news CLASSIFIED Ruth Blots supervisor Joan Shenstono Freda Shinner Jon Butler manager David Jenkins out mnogcr Andy Houghton Judy Hickey Alvo LaPlonte Elaine Porter Moro Scar Published dailyoxcept statutory holidays WEEKLY by carrier YEARLY by carrier BY MAIL Barrio SIMCOE COUNTY MOTOR THROWOFF ELSEWHERE IN CANADA Sunday and Subscriptions as com 4420 ear Montreal 534 your $39 year suoyoar WOULD YOU MIND IF GAVE YOU CHEQUE 11 oner OlawW head separatist government in Quebec said the same thing we all relaxed in the knowledge there was unanimous agreement on this touchy topic Why as recently as 10 days ago Trade Minister Jean Chretien was proclaiming again that Confederation isnt only matter of dollars and cents Considering the war that now is raging over the financial status of confederation the mind boggles at what might have happened if all these political leaders thought that dollars and cents were important As it is have nightmares about being buried alive in balan ce sheets And so far havent been able to un derstand any of them WHATS 843 BILLION It is interesting to note that Mr Chretien US ambassador to the UN stirs storm by frankness Iiy GEORGE KITCHEN UNITED NATIONS CP One of the problems of Andrew Young the new and freeL speaking US ambassador to the UN is that he hasnt yet learned how to be boring In other Words he hasnt yet learned how to use the diplomatic nuances how to beoblique and say one thing when he really means another He is too honest and sometimes when he opens his mouth he winds up with his foot iii it Thats what happened Thursday when he replied with simple Yeah to notso siinplc question from re rter asking if he thought the government South Africa was illegitimate Hence Fridays diplomatic storm in which the South African foreign minister officially asked the government for confirmation of the comment and the state department in Washington had to say in effect that its own almbassador didnt know what he was talking mm The result is that Youn though his verbal antics delight other UN iplomats who cant afford to be as freewheeling is running the risk of squandcrin some of the vast reservoir of goodwill that greeted his appointment three months ago ONE IN SERIES The South African episode was just another of series of recent diplomatic flaps set off by Young who is becoming known to some US columnists as the wavemaker week ago he jolted Britons with the im politic charge in of all thin BBC in terview that they were tilt chicken on the question of race and had in fact in vented racism Britains UN ambassador Ivor Richard took umbrage and called Young at 11 oclock at tight to express dis leasure Young apologiz it Young black former civil rights leader regarded as friend by most African UN delegates offended Libya by equating at least onethird of the African population with theKu Klux Klan He shook many Americans with casual suggestion that they shouldnt get paranoid about few Communists or even few thousand communists in Africa Earlier he raised an outcry when he said he believed Cuban troo in Angola were bringing stability to at African state At the time the US government was criticizing the Guban presence Young who describes himself as President Carters point man is the highestrankin and most popular black in the Carter ministration He has direct access to the president privilege not accorded st UN ambassadors and his own fi in Washington His immunity miffs old hands in the state department but he has great influence with the president who depended heavily on Youn to draw the black vote in last years preai ential election Young represented Georgia Carters home state in Congress before joining the adminjstration KiR THAT iN AMERICAN Dollars and cents price tag no way to rate confederation discounted the financial aspects of con federation on the same day that he produced federal study to show that Quebec actually gains financially from its Canadian mem bership This had followed Quebec govern ment study which said Ottawa had taken $43 billion from Quebec during lsyear period This Quebec study had been presented by Industry Minister Rodrigue Tremblay to show that the province gives more to Ottawa than it gets in return assume Mr Tremblay like most other politicians doesnt look at confederation in terms of dollars and cents Otherwise he would probably want to comment on the con flicting statement produced by Mr Chretien After all the federal minister accused the Quebec government of making $43 billion error in just part of its calculations And that in any langua is fair chunk of change But this do lars and cents nonsense didnt excite Mr Iremblay who it seems started the whole shooting match So far as the federal study is concerned he said only this This propaganda committee with mission which is entirel political has no competence and no responsi ility in the matter of national accounting And of course Mr Trudeau was not com menting on the Quebec figures He said they were doing an adequate job of discrediting themselves Earlier Mr Levesque robably forgetting he was not interested in dollars and cents aspects of confederation had said his govern ment would produce additional figures Mer cifully he seems to have changed his mind STUDIES CONTINUE But federal studies are continuing just in case the subject keeps resurfacing And it might ijust do that because Mr Tremblay has recent mentioned that Quebec got shafted with the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway Fortunately for us none of our politicians are interested in dollars and cents Other wise we would have the auditorgeneral checking the 1867 books of the CPR Instead our governments will be just keeping cursory eye on general financial transactions You know little things like how much Quebec contributes to defence how much soldiers spend back in the province on rents tobacco and clothing how many federal public servants eat lunch in Hull and how the tax on golf in fees in Chicoutimi con tribute to the nation debt Even if our politicians have no interest in mono its handy to have this information at your ingertlps Who knows there might be change in government and suddenly someone will become concerned with the costs of con federation Meanwhile its good to know dollars and cents dont matter The Examiner is member of The Canadian Press CPI and Audit Bureau of circula tlons ABC Only The Canodlln Press may republish news stories In this newspaper credited to CF The Associated Press Routers or Agence France Presse and local news stories published in The Examiner The Barrie Examiner claims copyright on all original news and advertising material created by its employees and published in this newspaper 84420 Copyright registration number 20315 reglltor at National advertising offices 65 Queen St Toronto 8641710 640 Cathcart St The advertiser agrees that the publisher Ill not be liable tor damages arising out of errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid for the space actually occupied by that portion of the advertisement in which thcI error occurred whether such error is due to the negligence of It servants or otherwise and there shall be no liability for noninsertion of any advertisement beyond the amount paid tor such advertisement Queens park Farm view approach By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO The public probably will be forming new image of agriculture in On tario in the future Last fall Gordon Hill who had been president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture OFA for seven years gave up office and was replaced by Peter Hannam The contrast in the two men is striking And this in turn should result in strikin change in the public face of the OFA whic speaks for 90 oer cent of the farmers in On tario Hill looked every inch tamer And he was the epitome of the rebellious raucous and belligerent approach which has been the hallmark of farm politics in recent years Hannam who is only 36 is an active far mer but if you judiid him on his appearance he could very well partner in law firm or stockbroker graduate of Ontario iculture College in Guelph 0nt has alrea has shown that he has fine intelligence and that his ap pmaches are going to be quite different than those of Hill Where the federation in the Hill regime relied largely on bluster and condemnation it already is evident that under Hannam its main tools will be fact and research SOUND ARGUMENTS It has shown that it wont be tilting at every windmill in sight as in the past Hannam admits quite frankly that he regards it as lobby organization But its lob bying will be confined to relatively few fields which are in the overall interest of the agriculture industry and of farmer generally One of the first points it is stressing is the importance of agriculture in the economy and employment One of the impressive arguments it brin out is that of the work force in production in Ontario as contrasted to service industries One in every four is employed in food pro duction or food processing From this it is logical step ot on the pressure for an equal break in tart so that our native food industry can be as busy as possible One exam le of the present disparity is that the United gtates tariff on vegetables is 175 per cent of value While the Canadian tariff on foreign vegetablesis 10 per centorless US corn on the cob coming into Canada is admitted at 15 cents pound or free While Canadian corn on the cob going south is taxed at 25 per cent of value These are just typical of the sound or ments that the OFA is concentratin on and which should off in pu willandho fully res ts As for Peter annam himself he is one of the most attractive young men to enter On tario public life in recent times Canada story What if Wolfe lost By BOB BOWMAN No good questions for discussions debates on Canadian history are What would Canada be like today if Wolfe had beat defeated at Quebec in 1759 What would the world be like today if the colonies that now are the United States had not rebelled on this day in 1775 This is the anniversary of the skirmish at Lexington Mass that began the fighting in the American Revolutionary War or the War of Indepatdence as the Americans prefer to call it Britain lost the colonies that were to become the richest materially and most powerful nationin theworld Yet Britains loss was Canada gain because 50000 excellent citizens left the US for Canada and Nova Scotia They changed the complexion of what was to become another rich and powerful nation It can be argued that it was not inevitable that the American colonies should have be come independent from Britain If King Geor III and his ministers had made more intelli ent efforts to allay the rievances of the co onies the rebellion co have been avoided In those days war between Britain and the US was war between brothersalmost like the American Civil War nearly 100 years later George Washington was British army officer and had helped Britain Capture Canada mm France And for nearly year after the revolution an American army officers drank tout to ekingeveryn ht InBritain it was ifficult to etmentofight the Americans It was in far necessary to hire mercenaries from Germany and elsewhere bible thought And If go and prepare place you will come again and receive you unto myself that where am there ye may be also John 14 Those who have some fancy arguments in denial of His coming again had better have some definite answers when He does for He will surely be back Behold He cometh