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_â€"_ It is indeed necessary to have engineers, biologists, and experts on While for some it will mean scholarships and a nest behind the sheltered walls of university, for others it will mean repeating the year or scanning the classified pages of newspapers. The results of Ontario‘s grade 13 examinations written in June are expected to reach the schools on Monday. The thought of repeating the most fruitless year that was ever dreamed of by educators is depress â€" ing, but alas, some will choose this course. To them we wish patience, good luck and the hope that they will gain a truer understanding of what it means to be a victim of socâ€" iety. To those who score marks which put them in the university bracket we implore you to think twice beâ€" fore entering the lecture room. Ask yourself why you are going to go to university? What does it offer you? Does it offer more than pursuing a different course? Do you have any idea what you are going to do with the magic piece of paper you reâ€" ceive upon graduation? Even more important, do you know what you are going to do with the soâ€"called knowledge you will attain? The trouble lies in the fact that politicians have become so used to saying that two or three mills : will have to be added to the taxes they may not be able to break the habit. The result â€" before an increase of one mill on the $4,000 assessment meant an extra four dollars on the tax bill. Under the new aystem it #would mean a $12 increase. But most important, do you really want to go to university? Like the dollar, university and the degree that is associated with it, have become inflated. With less brain power, but more work than Grade 13 it is possible for many peoâ€" ple to att{i:gthe initials BA or BSc after their‘mfme. They are meaningâ€" less symbols unless they are properly The reeve has asked for an exâ€" ecutive assistant to perform certain tasks of an undefined nature. Why does he want a civil servant to perâ€" form duties that members of the Board of Control could do? Does the Reeve fear that if the Controllers suddenly had something to do they might become useful? The petty rivalry taking place on the top floor of the North York municipal building is getting to the stage where it is no longer funny. Imagine a teacher at Weston Collegiate asking a student if he had his essay finished which was handed out two months ago. â€"__ Reeve James Service has chargâ€" ed that although Controller Irving "Well, teach, as a matter of fact 1 haven‘t got it done yet. But it‘s getâ€" ting there. And don‘t forget I told you a month ago I meant to get it in sometime." The net result is that while the assessment on property is tripled, the mill rate is only oneâ€"third. The net result is that property now assessed at $4,000 at 60 mills will be reassessed at $12,000 at 20 mills. In either case the taxes would be $240. "That‘s not much of an excuse,‘ the teacher would reply. "Ah c‘mon," the student might plead. "The Town of Weston was given an assignment two years ago to bring forth a Centennial project The Province announced last week that the method of determinâ€" ing assessment worked out by Metro Assessment Commissioner A. J. RB. Gray was to be scrapped in favor of a method evolved in the United Published at 2159 Weston Rd., Weston by Principal Publishing Ltd., every Thursday V. J. McMillan, President and Publisher J. M. Jordan, General Manager John Macdonald, Editor Telephone CH 1 â€" 5211 Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Dept. Ottawa, Ont., and for payment of postage in cash SUBSCRIPTION umuoocpcyu in advance to any address in Canada What An Example! Gray Looked Black Other countries $6.00 Editorials The Results Spelling Lesson Chinese studies, but these people will be only half as good to themselves and the rest of society if they are not happy and contended engineers, bioâ€" logists, and Chinese experts. Before you crawl behind the ivy walls convince yourself you are not just seeking an escape from the world of reality. If you can truly say to yourself that university is not only where you want to be but where you should be, we wish you good luck and hope you have made a wise deâ€" cision. And to those who as a result to Grade 13 results will be looking for a place in the world outside the forâ€" mal academic surroundings you have become so accustomed to, we say welcome to a new school â€" the school of hard knocks. You may have earnestly hoped to continue your education but the IBM machine says no. Do not lament. Most universities reserve places for "mature students‘". At the age of anywhere from 22 to 25 you can apply as one of these students and be the richer for it. Unlike the stuâ€" dent whose fingers are still cramped from June examinations, you can atâ€" tend university with a good idea of the world outside the lecture room. You will also be able to equate the world of theory to the world of reality. And above all you will know why you are at university. It will not be necessary for you to grow a beard and tell your parents you are discovering yourself. In the meantime take heart. If you missed any or even all. of your Grade 13 papers you have nothing to be ashamed of. And if you feel depressed. reach for that old grade 10 poetry book and try rereading Kipling‘s "If". For the benefit of Mr. Paisley the word is spelled câ€"o hyphen oâ€"pâ€"eâ€"râ€" Paisley speaks of "coâ€"operation‘" he does not even know how to spell the word. you c you d stand. For the benefit of Mr. Service. coâ€"operation is defined in the dictâ€" ionary as: ‘"The act of working jointly ; helpfuiness". and they didn‘t get it in on time." "What do you think I am? the teacher might rightly ask. ‘"The Province of Ontario?" Like the Goldenbérg electoral boundaries the result of the change could lead to mass confusion, until of course the homeowner saw his tax bill. Imagine the rate being set the first year and the politicians being able to say that the rate had dropâ€" ped 35 mills. A nice phrase until the taxpayer found out it meant a $60 increase in taxes on his old $4,000 assessment. "But there was a mail strike and the Province made allowance for that. Iâ€"mean like most people it doesn‘t have much bearing on the thing but you‘ve got to admit it is a handy excuse." They will probably have to throw another mill on the new tax rate to bring out a new asse«sment roll. The ridiculous thing is that it is exactly the same as saying. ‘Well we‘re‘tired of hearing the cost of livâ€" ing index up in the 130‘s. Let‘s start over again at 100, the way we had it in ‘49.‘ â€" It could remain the same as it is now except the backâ€"roomâ€"bodkins at Queen‘s Park say they have difâ€" ficulty in figuring out the Gray method. As the teacher begins to t« his hdir out the student shouts, "I only following the example of « leaders." ' But it is far better to use words cannot spell than to use words do not (or refuse to?) underâ€" o tear s "I‘m of our «AUGUST 13, 1915 Mr. Frank Cook and his son Edward have enlisted with the overseas contingent. The remains of the flag now hanging on the Town Hall should be kept in memâ€" ory of the first year of the Great War. Mr. James R. Strickland, Chief Electrical Inspector for the Hydro Electric Power Commission | is _ recovering from the affects of his re cent operation for appendicâ€" itis. . On Saturday night some persons destroyed a number of ornamental cedar trees on the property of Miss Miller on _ the â€" Fifth _ Concession. County _ Constable _ Williain Campbell was notified and investigated the case. As a result four persons were summoned to appear before Magistrate Taylor. Speeding is to be stopped in Weston. County Constable Chas. Wacey has been busy these last few days and a number of auto drivers will appear before the local magâ€" istrate. During Tuesday‘s rain storm the garage of Mr. Jos eph Southorn. corner of Wesâ€" ton Road and Lambton Aveâ€" nue was demolished. A large tree at the rear of the buil ding was washed from its loâ€" cation on the hillside and it fell on the building. The roof and one of the walls fell on the building. The roof and one of the walls foll in. At the time of the accident the building . was empty. The following excerpt is taken from an article appearâ€" ing in ‘Ontario Housing‘ by Frank L. Ventura, Director of Planning and Urban Reâ€" newal for Alexandria, Virgâ€" out encountering some referâ€" ence _ to _ computers.. Once computers were used largely by bhysicists enzineers and mathematicians. _ Today _ we find that experts in a grow ing number of fields are fin ding â€" that â€" computers could aid~ them â€" immeasurably in solving _ difficult _ problents speedily and accurately. The electronic _ computer, . which has _ revolutionized | busin}ss. scientific. industrial and milâ€" itary operations over the last ten vears. is now beginning to have significant uses in urban â€"planning and . govern ment in general. Exactly _ what _ does . this Exactly â€" what â€" does | this mean" Will the computer re place : the planner? No mat ter how remarkable the elecâ€" tronic computer may be, it is merely a machine .#hat perâ€" forms â€" intricate . calculations at fantastically high speeds. It is another tool to help the nrbhan planner do a better job. In record keeping and printing, as well as in reâ€" search, the computer can do the job faster and more acâ€" urately In a maiter of minutes or several hours, the computer could _ solve problems â€" that Hardly a day goes by with 50 Years Ago Computer Aids In Planning "They Call That, ‘Hearsepower‘, Son " From Our Files It has been reported by Mr. F. W. Rowntree. Chairâ€" man of the Weston Board of Education that the Weston Voeational School which is under the direction of Mr. E. H. G. Worden, Principal and Mr. J. G. McLean, Shop Dirâ€" ector has placed to date this summer over 100 students in the Aircraft and other War industries in â€" this . district. The school has been operatâ€" ing on a 44â€"hour week under actual working conditions of local industry with the stuâ€" dents punching a time clgek on entering and leaving, and the instructors availing themâ€" selves of the splendid cooperâ€" ation given by the local inâ€" dustrial â€" cancerns. | Industrial officials inspecting the work and activities at the school have _ expressed _ themselves as highly satisfied with the instruction | given,. the work covered. and the type of stuâ€" dent _ they are â€" absorbing from the school The Local Council of Wom en have been pleased and gratified with the splendid eooperation of all the women in the community. The windâ€" falls of apples still remain in greal quantities. Anyone would gladly grant permiss ion to pick the fallen apples which have plenty of pectin for jelly. Fruit juice will col or and flavor the jelly in many different ways. would take years to solve with pencil and paper. This impressive performance has often caused people to beâ€" lieve that the computer could actually "think". In spite of all its complexities, the elecâ€" tronic compuler can perform only a few basic operations: add. . subtract, multiply, divâ€" ide, compare nirmbers, copy information. rearrange it in new patterns. and cause the results to be printed. Alexandria, â€" Virginia, has had experience recently with the application of mmc puter technology to data proâ€" cessing. & increase the usefulness 0 across City | files of the To the urban planner, long interested in a variet} of basâ€" ic data essential to a sound long range plan, it is sheer delight. One has only to atâ€" tempt to collect and organize AUGUST 15, 1940 25 Years Ago AUGUST 13, 1964 Weston Area Members of Parliament, according to reâ€" liable sources may back J. J. Greene MP for Renfrew South and a recently announâ€" ced candidate for leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party. Speaking â€" "off the record" several | influential members of the Ontario Grits machâ€" ine said Ralph Cowan, MP for _ York â€" Humber: â€" James Walker MP for Yorkâ€"Centre: and â€" Leonard â€" "Red" Kelly MP for Yorkâ€" West; have agâ€" reed to throw their weight behind 44 year old Green‘s efforts to wrest the party nomination â€" from â€" frontâ€"runâ€" ning candidate Charles Temâ€" pleton. A near disaster was narâ€" rowly averted recently when a large tractor trailer collidâ€" ed with trolleyâ€"bus lines on Weston Road, causing grave danger to the driver, auto mobile traffic and pedestmiâ€" ans. The truck, operated by Ross White. 31. of Brussels, Ontario. near Listowel colliâ€" ded with the lines when he attempted to. pull a 17â€"foot gravel â€" crusher under the low _ elearance. _ The _ lines carry about 500 volts which were grounded to the truck after the accident. A 25 year old Weston mother of two was killed inâ€" stantly when struck by a CNR freight train about 100 yards south of the Dennison street crossing. Adriana Salâ€" vador was killed before the horrified eves of her childâ€" rea and several onlookers. data from the files of other departments to begin to apâ€" preciate readily available upâ€" toâ€"date data from a central file â€" â€" a computerized inforâ€" mation _ system. Then â€" the data can be printed out in some desired form, including all computations. in a matter of minutes. For a mimber of years Alâ€" exandria, like many cities, has been using data processâ€" ing equipment to perform such â€" administralive | provessâ€" es as accounting. tax billing and making up payrolls in speedy fashion. In recent yeas, however, the city began to experience some phenomenal growth. In a short threeâ€"year period the community‘s _ population _ inâ€" creased â€" from â€" approximately 91.000 to an estimated 120. 000 persons. Population pro jections indicate that Alex: andria, a city of some 152 square miles, could have a population of over 170,000 by 1970. ‘This growth is typical of many urban areas across the nation. Typical, also, is the growing complexity of muniâ€" cipal problems and the inâ€" creasingly â€" difficult | task â€" of decision making experienced by municipal executives, councils, _ and _ commission« who require more and more information and time cons@ ming studies. This is the arâ€" ea in which the computer can be invaluable to municâ€" ipal government. * 1 Year Ago That‘s The Way .. Frightful as it first seemed to have my wife away for two weeks, it has not really been too bad. two weeks, it has not really been too bad. During the first week of her absence for instance I I am sure my wife would wildly disapprove of the way I am living. It‘s not that I have been running around havâ€" ing a marvellous time. It‘s just that I‘ve been lazing arouad having a marvellous time. The fact that not a dish has been washed bothers no one as I am the only person around to be bothered. ‘The situation, I grant you is almost out of control but I am seriously considéring, this weekend, building another counter in the kitchen for the sole purpose of stacking dirty dishes. The biggest problem is that I have run out of floor space and if there is one thing I cannot stand it is dirty dishes piled around the dining room. I am also being forced into the position of either buyâ€" ing more dishes or eating off dirty ones. I could see the problem looming from the beginning so I was very careful. I used every dish twice before discarding it on the heap. The glasses get used three or four times and I have found I can get extra mileage from them if 1 categorize them. For instance I put the orange juice glass beside the empty egg shells and therefore associate it with breakfast or whatâ€" ever meal it is that I eat when I am halfâ€"asieep. The problem of five day old egg will be a bit more difficult I think but probably a little gasoline will go a long way. What‘s more. I don‘t really need to face the problem for another six days. I am hoping for an inspiraâ€" tion before then. . I also discovered afier a few days when the residue was getting thick that it would be lifted by dropping a bit of Vodka in the bottom of the glass and swishing it around. This inspiration will no doubt take the form of fifteen dollars and a godd cleaning ladyv. But apart from dirtv dishes and the general kitchen condition there are other compensating aspects, For exâ€" ample it is not necessary to go through that rigor mortis period each night when climbing into bed. The bed, needâ€" less to say has not been made since my wife left. Instead of getting into bed as though you were toothpaste trving to get back into the tube, I simply collect from the floor the sheets and blankets 1 think will be necessary to keep me warm depending upon the temperature of the night. Instead of sweating in a straightâ€"jacket the covers are loose and the cireulation of the body is freed. ,_,/{mu; admit however. that it would be nice if my wife returned Ror half a day to do a bit of laundering. People are beginnf¥¢ to shun me at the coffee hour. "If onlv 1 was allowed to live like this," he said the other night. and ali at once I saw why Lola probably was not too fond of him. He told me he was contemplating divorce because of the hospital ward atmosphere that pervaded his home. His wife outâ€"does mine a thousand times when it comes io cleanliness. If he drops an ash on the floor his wife gives him the onceâ€"over twice while she cleans it up. It provides a wonderful opportunity to invite over all your friends whom vour wife can‘t stand. One chap I went to school with has come over regularly and he keeps marvelling at the state of chaos. e He marveilled at the glass rings on the table and the spilt coffee on the rug. The dust, inches thick in the cornâ€" ers. nearly sent him into ecstacies. 1 informed him that he was not really too badiy off as there would come a day when this haven from the world of cleanliness would have to be obliterated. "Don‘t vou have a motherâ€"inâ€"law you can ship the clan off to?" 1 asked. "I have a motherâ€"inâ€"law," he said glumly, "but she alâ€" "I have a motherâ€"inâ€"law," he said glumly, "but she alâ€" ways comes to visit us and spends her whole day cleaning up after my wife if you can imagine it." Not only does this period of freedom give me a chance to see my friends but it also discourages some of ourâ€" more stuffy acavaintances from hanging around too long. Une such couple dropped by unannounced the other evening while I was having a drink in the bath. Hearing the knock on the door I stuck my head out the window and there were the Crawls, large as life. 1 screamed to them that the door was open and to go in and make themselves a drink. I would be down in a minute, I told them. Twentv minutes later when my drink ran out I went downstairs but alas there was no one there. A pity I thought, I could have been rude to them without Lola getâ€" ting upset. Just after setung myself into a doze on the couch the phone rang. And who should it be but the delightful people that had left but an hour before. They told me they had been tempted to send a health inspector to the house and that 1 should be ashamed of myself. 1 calmly told th+m that Aun Landers said people should not drop in uninvited. They hung up. t Momenis later when 1 was beginning to regain my equilibreum the phone rang again and there upon the other end was a melodious voice asking if I would accept a collect call from \Vi-nmup‘&i\gamsl my better judgement 1 said 1 would. "I forzot to tell you dear, before 1 left that I asked the trawis to drop over one evening to keep you company," That‘s what you called to tell me." 1 asked. "Yes dear. Something the maiter?" "Oh, no, but they came went quite quickly. They really weren‘l [nuch company." * "Oh Frazer. you didn‘t insult them I hope?" "I certainly did not. I offered them a drink and never saw them again." "That‘s impossible. You make it sound as though they just disappeared while vou fixed them a drink.‘ "Thevy fixed their own drinks. or at least they were supposed to. Checking on the level of the bottles I‘d may they went very lightly." "What happed Frazer? T‘ll bet you were rude." "Well, as a matter of fact it was the Crawls that were rather rude." "Oh, what happened?" "I‘ll tell vou when the price is tight. How are the To the deafening background of my dear sweet motherâ€" inâ€"law‘s deafening shouts at her loving grandchildren, Lola asked, "Is that you, Frazer?" My earthâ€"shattering reply was, ‘"Yes". Silence reigned for a moment or two at the cost of sixty cents a minuie while my wife told Jennifer not io kick her brother. "I forzot to tell you dear, before 1 left that I asked "Oh, what happened?" "I‘ll tell vou when the price is rtight. How are the children and your lovely mother?" 1 added the last portion knowing that my dear sweet motherâ€"inâ€"law would be listening on the extension to her goodâ€"forâ€"nothing sonâ€" inâ€"law. "I‘m just fine," the angel‘s voice boomed through the receiver. "Now why don‘t you answer my | daughter‘s question?" _ â€". â€" â€" â€" mother There was a resounding click as the phone slammed down in a rotten little Mat in Winnipeg So for two dollars and forty cents 1 found that the Crawls were coming over, a fact which 1 already knew. Oh well. six more days of filth and solemanity. _ "Darling, we won‘t be able to buy groceries for a month if we don‘t hang up." "Don‘t ‘darling‘ me you old skinflint"‘ bellowed Lola‘s by Frazer Cache A BIT OF LAUNDRY THE CRAWLS COME You make it sound as though they you fixed them a drink.‘ own drinks, or at least they were on the level of the bottles I‘d may