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4# vague iC ates Member many re: timers, c the town pvvsnsssanasssoospeiiieibigicics Any veteran who has served overseas in either of the two World Wars or Korea has nothing but praise for their aid and assistance in making them ‘comfortable as possible while fighting for king and country. The Salvation Army has helped countless families with problems ranging from those stemming from alcoholism, desertion, rehabilitation from jail and prison, unwed mothers, derelict men» . _ The list is endless. Monday evening will see campaigners out in forceâ€" on every street, in every doorway. These workers are giving their time towards the cause. They‘re asking you to contribute the necessary funds so that others less fortunte than ourselves can be helped toward living in better conditions, can be helped to rejoin society, can be helped toward a decent existence. Give generously when the canvasser calls. 10 years ago A survey taken in the town has shown 3 most Westonites are not very interested in 3 the way their community is being run. The & average man in the street doesn‘t even & know the town‘s history. He has only a i# vague idea of how his local government % m and he couldn‘t name every %: 1 of the Weston council. In fact, % many residents, including some of the oldâ€" # rr, couldn‘t even give the boundaries of % town. None of these points seem imâ€" Their help is endless. Their refusals none. We don‘t want to appear to be knocking other campaigns and other organizations who go to the public at large to fund their pet projects, but the Sally Ann is near and dear to hundreds of thousands acrossâ€"Canada, North America and around the world. But few causes are as worthwhile as those of the Salvation Army. Here you can see your money at work. Here you can take pride in the contribution you have made because you don‘t have to search to find out where your dollars are being used nor who they are helping. Yet another campaign is upon us. Next Monday night you‘ll be called upon and asked to make a contribution towards helping humanity. Monday is the Salvation Army‘s one night blitz that sees community workers calling door to door for donations to assist the Army in their many worthwhile projects. It seems that there is a never ending stream of fund raising drives, walkathons, raffles, sweepstakes and whatâ€"haveâ€"you all seeking funds for various charities, heart and cancer research â€" and a myriad of similar physical and mental health schemes â€" it seems everyone needs money for something. Then there are the tag days and apple days and daffodil days and cookie days, again all soliciting needy funds for again, worthwhile causes. \[ _ Other countries s# 00 Esfablisned 190. incorparating the Weston Times ang County of York Meraid. the Times ond Guige. and Weston Times Advertiser. and tne Weston Times Second Ciass Masi Registration Number 1988 Subscripton Rates $7 00 per year in advance to any acgress in Canaga Other countrine «o an M pak is e o O EOy NEEIM HH* w but they point to a lack of civic pride % Give generously ?””u.mwvmn.««‘.. V J MacMilian. Presigent and Pubiisner Bill Basley . Editor Moily Fenton, General Manager Telephone 24) 5211 14000000000 0000000000000 May 11, 1972 parade, officers would run up and down the ranks to keep soldiers in step â€" and to ward off ruffians who tried to interrupt them. It was in the early days that The Salvation Army really lived up to its ringing name. It literally had to fight to stay intact. In Toronto, rioting became so common that Salvation Army soldiers were given an hour‘s drill each week to help withstand attacks. During a uin @0 Ts Nee m n ce MAmina s In the firs’ five years in Canada the soldiers of the Army were considered. odd and Salvationists were often abused and even bodily attacked. That‘s just a little story from the lighter side of the Army‘s work. But for ninety years in Canada The Salvation Army has been solving people‘s problems with the understanding heart and human touch that have become a byword. ' Right now in Toronto it has fiftyâ€"five centres of service, helping men, women and children in every imaginable plight, and there are probably few people who don‘t know the practical approach and cheerful help of these dedicated people. Yet The Salvation Army didn‘t always bask in the respect it receives today. Somewhere in Toronto there‘s a very puzzled plumber. He‘s the man who filled an order for five oldâ€"fashioned bath tubs â€" the curvey kind with bandy legs and a nice rim to hold onto â€" along with five sleek modern units. The baths were installed in The Salvation Army Arthur Meighen Lodge for elderly people. Several guests asked especially for the oldâ€"style tubs because they were more used to them. And although The Salvation Army is up-t:); date, it‘s down to earth too, and very human. The Army in Canada personally involved last year, I have been attending the committee meetings this year, with voice but no vote. The storm was provoked by the testimony of Tom Smith, an audit clerk, who voluntarily came before the committee to say, in effect, that the full story had not been given to us last year; that, in fact, there are irregularities with regard to invoicing procedures. These irregularities centre chiefly in the practive of submitting invoice for payment of goods and services before they have been delivered, or of backâ€"dating inyoices from April to March in order to get them paid out of last year‘s appropriation. committee last year. It reviews the expenditures of the provincial government, and therefore, inevitably involves the provincial auditor. Quite a storm has office of the provincial auditor, now being reviewed the hearings are over, but 1 would like to make an imâ€" vestigation into _ the operations of the Workmen‘s committees. I shall w newsworthy, and important, work of the Ontarie Legislature is taking place the Public Accounts Some glorious victories A practice of irregularities the unmarried mothers‘ home of today. A talented and cultured woman, Staff Captain Jones, took a house in the roughest district and then went out to comb the brothels and police courts in her search for the women she wanted to help. Her first charge was a prostitude As early as 1886, there was a home for fallen women in Toronto â€"forerunner of the hostels, receiving homes and Right from the earliest days of The Salvation Army in Canada, its soldiers were as much concerned with helping people as they were with their own Christian beliefs. Soup, soap and Salvation was the war cry, and across the country Salvationists, often working under difficult conditions, did all they could to alleviate suffering and to show a new kind of life to people less fortunate than themselves. became a oneâ€"man band on his own and marched up and down clanging and banging and blowing a whistle, between prayers. And there was the English officer who stopped briefly in Halifax on his way home from New York. He began to preach by the dockside and preached so fervently he forgot the time and his boat sailed off without him. However, his tenâ€"day wait for the next boat wasn‘t wasted â€" he simply conâ€" tinued to hold meetings ‘til sailing day. There‘s a delightful tale of one Salvation Army officer, the only officer in his town. He didn‘t have a band to support his meetings, so he But The Salvation Army had some glorious, victories too, and they are quaintly recorded in letters of the period. For instance, one reads: "two officer lassies, with just one timbrel betâ€" ween them, put the devil to flight." Unfortunately, when the chief accountant of the Department of Education was before the committee last year he did not choose ot inform _ us _ of _ these irregularities, furthermore, even though the Provincial Auditor‘s office was aware of the irregularities, none of his staff informed the comâ€" mittee. Thus, we were kept in the dark by the people who been delivered, and to our amazement, the branch head acknowledged that this had gone on because he felt that it was common practice â€" under certain conditions. chief accountant pointed out to the head of the branch that the office of the provincial auditor had complained about backâ€"dating of inâ€" voices and payment before and one of its branches. The committee copies of an exchange in memos between the chief accountant in the In the course of his testimony he gave the The basic point which Mr. Smith made has now been confirmed, in part at least, by none other than George Donald C. MacDonald QUEEN‘S PARK R520R1’ MPP for York South In 1890 this home was unique. As well as food and shelter, it provided the men with work while they became accustomed to life outside. They could learn a trade in the Army woodyard, the boot and shoe repair shop, or the bakery. Soon, people in the neighborhood caught on to the idea and order books were always full. With the In the eighteenâ€"hundreds, a man who‘d been to prison had a really rough time when he came out again. It was practically impossible to find work and often men became hardened criminals simply to get the means to live. It was well before the era of psychological apâ€" proaches to penology â€" but The _ Salvation Army recognized the exâ€"prisoner‘s problem and decided to tackle it in its own way. Toronto provided a Black Maria to take men to prison. So, the Army reasoned The Salvation Army would send a Red Maria to meet him at the gate. In a few months dozens of men had travelled in the horseâ€"drawn buggy to the new Prison Gate Home on Eglinton Avenue. called Mary. Sick with a pulmonary disease, Mary was only at the home for a few months before she died. But she had become a changed person and her example was to help the officers in their work with similar women. How widespread is the practice of backâ€"dating invoices and payment for goods and services before they are delivered? Comâ€" mittee members don‘t know for certain; more important, neither does the Provincial Auditor. When his office discovers an irregularity, it is dealt with in a quiet, in ternal way, so that the Provincial Auditor denies himself the most effective weapon for eliminating irregularities â€" the fear of embarrassing public exâ€" ids mtc tanaIMIRII s 00000ic ht $ cA didn‘t bother to tell us! The proposition that he had found irregularities, and had chosen not to tell us about them, destroys the myth that the Provincial Auditor is a servant of the legislature. He is, in fact, a servant of the government, despite what the statute may claim, and he had tended to act in that role. internal, and of small conâ€" 1-:53! the legislature. the most amazing aspect of the whole episode is that Mr. Spence, the Provincial Auditor, still insists that the matter was to an officer recently: ‘"I don‘t know what you can do to help me. All I know is you‘ll do something." Today, the Army goes about its work so quietly that many are unaware of the amount it is doing. Yet, right here in prosperous Toronto, every day the Army is helping literally dozens and dozens of people desperately in need of help. It‘s hard to believe that a man could be completely destitute today; but the Army knows he can, and knows ways and means to help him, too. We tend to take social welfare for granted â€" yet there are many people who don‘t qualify for help through official channels, and who come to The Salvation Army on a last hope. One man said in London, England, was rammed by a collier and sank in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, bearing to their deaths 150 Salvationists. In our Mount Pleasant Cemetery there is a simple, chiselled shaft of grey stone â€" a reminder of one of the darkest days in the history of The Salvation Army in Canada. May 29, 1914, the day on which the Empress of Ireland, carrying Among its passengers 167 Salvationists to the International Congress Around the same period the League of Mercy started up. This began as an in formal group of women who took it upon themselves to visit lonely people in the hospitals, prisons and inâ€" stitutions. assisted on their journey, then helped to find work by Salvationists in their new home. help of Army officers, men found work again â€" often a Salvationist would go first to an old employer to plead for the exâ€"prisoner. Some men preferred to make a new life in a new city; they were There‘s an old adage which experience at Queen‘s Park has developed over the years: if you‘ve nothing to hide, don‘t try to hide it. Far better to make a clean breast of things and lay to rest the suspicions which have arisen in the public mind. I don‘t want to go any further into a hundredâ€"andâ€" one technical and adâ€" ministrative details which can become rather tedious. But enough has been revealed to suggest strongly that the operations of the office of the Provincial Auditor are a worthy area for one of the government‘s many _ taskâ€"forces â€" now reviewing procedures to see how they can be made more efficient. But this is precisely what the governâ€" ment is not likely to do. In fact, as noted above, they are not willing to permit an independent review even when we have had some evidence, and the Provincial Auditor has himself at least partially confirmed it, that irregular practises have the fact that the Provincial Auditor‘s procedures are restricted to periodic spotâ€" checks to discover whether, in fact, goods and services are delivered. Therefore, if g: e lonpho:: livery, there is a which opens the possibility tl_mtdellver_ymay never take gure if the revenue these businesses have given to the borough, in the form of taxes, were returned (the amount _ for _ garbage removal) they may feel obliged to remove their garbage. As I understand it, our garbagemen have been put out of work because of the city strike not because they themselves are on strike. If this is true put them back to work keeping the streets clear. This is what we in the area. Does your reporter realize that there are apartments above these stores? Could he or she explain to me where they are putting their garbage? I am In your May 4 edition it was stated that the Eglinton Avenue businesses are not helping the garbage problem It is most unfortunate that your reporter is so misinâ€" formed. In your May 4 edition, on the front page, are two photos showing the condition of Eglinton Avenue since the city garbage strike. I am not one to stick up for the store owners in this area, ever since that unknown or mysterious explosion blew apart the F & M Stella supermarket across the street. The inconvenience and expense from this exâ€" plosion is still quite a sore point in my memory. The editor Letters to the Editor He‘d be wrong, though. Quite honestly,, religion has a lot to do with garbage one way and another. Remember the old adage, Cleanliness is next to Godliness? Well, that But enough of this verbal lambasting. It won‘t do any god anyway; except to relieve the writer‘s pentâ€"up feelings and save him from apoplexy. Some may ask why should a religious writer be all hepped up about garbage anyway? "Because all he writes about is garbage, some snappy sceptic might speedily reply. tenderly. "It‘s all on account of the way their mothers held them when they were kids." Pshaw!! If these 3,750 striking garbage men were to go around defecating on people‘s doorâ€" steps they‘d be horseâ€"whipped out of town. Or would they? Maybe, as things are today, they‘d just be taken gently by the hand and led to the psychiatrist‘s consulting room; who would be asked to deal with them There was a time when a man who betrayed his country knew he‘d be for the firing squad if he was found out. Today, with bareâ€"faced brazenâ€"ness, men can blatantly betray their fellowâ€"citizens and be met only with conciliatory talk! How much longer must we meekly submit to the Marxist myth that the worker is always right? Why do we allow society to be held to ransom by a bunch of bigâ€"mouthed, bellyâ€"achers? Of what use is the kidâ€"glove method against rascals who would bleed the taxpayer white to secure their pound of flesh? Where is the community we have destroyed in our Communism? Where is the service we have squandered in our selfishness? Where is the strength we have hidden in our softness? Where is the will we have lost in our waiting? The garbage striked entered its fifth week Monday last. In 31 days 125,000 tons of decomposing, diseaseâ€"laden refuse has accumulated in city parks, in public thoroughfares and in private garages. The rats have moved in. The flies are sure to follow. The filth proliferates. The gasses accumulate. The stench intensifies. The health hazards mount. Yet government, at the time of writing, does absolutely nothing. But "Hamelin Town in Brunswick, by the great Hanover city" was lucky. It could call in the Pied Piper to lure its plague of rats away. Toronto is not so fortunate. It has its addleâ€"pated councillors, just as Hamelin had. But it has no Pied Piper: only civic workers who are contemptuous of the common good. ‘‘Rats! They fought the dogs, and killed _ idea came straight out of the Bible. And it the cats; has a lot of sense in it. Police strike? His _ Honour _ Lieut.â€" Governor _ Stephen â€" M. Worobetz officially opens the 308,000â€"member exâ€"services‘ organization can gear up for change. Although there are over 500 resolutions, dealing with a variety of subjects, the essence of the convention is These are questions which will face some 2,000 delegates to the Royal Canadian Legion‘s 24th national convention in Ottawa, starting May 21. Can an organization born in the flapper era continue to prosper in the space age? What changes are needed? What objectives should be set? Again I come back to your reporter. In the photo on the right side of the page there is a car. This car is parked in an area which states: (by way of signs on the lamp posts) no parking anytime!! Would this by any chance be the reporter‘s car? It really makes little difference as to whmowns it, the point is it is parked in the above menâ€" tioned area. are paying for so why not let us have it. The future of the Legion DON REED Rev. Reed is Minister of Westminster United Church in Weston. If this present garbage strike makes a few of us see the sense in that suggestion then it will not have been in vain. You could say: ""It‘s an ill smell that doesn‘t blow sense into somebody‘‘. The first step could be a moratorium on garbage mail. Then should follow a cut in garbage TV. From these two cuts would flow cuts in household gimmickâ€"garbage, in garbage toys and in garbage packaging. And if we were all a little less fastidious we could make a considerable reduction in the amount of good food we daily toss into the garbage directly from our dining tables. As for genuine kitchen waste the Etobicoke garbage engineer had the right idea when he said: 95 per cent of it could be converted by each individual householder into valuable garden compost." Garbage! Perhaps one of the benefits that may come to us as a result of this garbage pushâ€"around is a fuller perspective on our general garâ€" bage problem. It is a very real problem: a problem of colossal proportions. Our garâ€" bage gives our civic authorities a oneâ€"andâ€"aâ€" halfâ€"millionâ€"ton headache every year! The point is that we all of make too much garâ€" bage â€" about four pounds every day per man, woman and child. We should all work on cutting it down. As I say, there was a time when we, too, followed these hygenic principles. But that time seems to be passing. At least we seem to have entered a period, when, no matter how strongly the majority may hold to hygenic principles, they can be prevented from applying them by a small minority. Though I can‘t for the life of me see that, if these 3,750 workers persistently refuse to remove the refuse for which they were hired, why Metro officials can‘t fire them, and take on 3,750 other men who will do the job!! This liberal use of water among a people who were originally desert nomads is quite remarkable. Isaiah 55:1 shows that water was sometimes so scarce that it was bought and sold as a market commodity. These people of the Old Testament used both soap and water. The soap they made from nitre or lye. This they heated withe oil of olives to form a primitive cleansing agent. Not only were the Hebrews scrupulous about cleanliness of body, clothing and utensils, they also had some strict regulations about meatâ€"eating (a prolific source of disease in a hot country). And, more particularly in the light of our current crisis, they always burned their garbage outside the camp. orthodox. event at the Wascana Centre of the Arts. Veterans Affairs Minister Arthur Lang makes his first appearance before a Legion convention. Founded in 1925 as a veterans‘ organization, the Legion‘s membership is now at its highest point ever. In the last two decades, it has become extremely comâ€" munityâ€"minded. About $1% million goes into community projects each year; $250,000 goes toward bursaries and scholarships, and lowâ€"rental housing for the elderly is valued at over $10 million. It is from this position of strength, and acâ€" complishments, that the delegates will plot the Legion‘s future. Your reporter has really missed a scoop. In his zeal to investigate the problems we are having with the garbage strike, he or she has missed the Police Department‘s strike. It is no wonder to me that if they cannot find a car parked on Efilinton Avenue (within four blocks of their own station) they will never find the cause of that so called unknown explosion which ripped apart an Eglinton Avenue business. Ray Gauer