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; I have always lived close & enough to the woods to have i birds as visitors in the back . yard. A pair of jays tumbling * and cursing through the dogâ€" i+ wood, or the modest towhee i scratching up grub, or the ; juncos with their black judges‘ 2 cowls, and the chickadees, who . _ move in during the winter to * inspect the boles of the trees i I‘ve sprayed and have a good %& chuckle â€" without these the i â€" garden would be as dull as any . other scene that lacks animaâ€" ' lois d c k M .cc d s d 20 T 1 20 d ced auted ffh«, could alleviate the perpetual shortâ€" â€" ‘age of money for hospitals, schools and â€"â€" other government subsidized institutions. «~ ‘There have been suggestions and a petiâ€" ) tion is being circulated in Alberta in an ‘attempt to establish sweepstakes in Canada. * Unfortunately, figures from Britain indiâ€" _ cate that the hospitals receive very little _..money from these sweepstakes. _â€"â€" _ In our opinion the establishment of ofâ€" track betting would be a more lucrative means to finance the construction and addiâ€" â€" tions of hospitals. t 4_ I .. uT ‘ To tell the truth â€" and I may as well drop the last veil â€" I have always admired birds. In my opinion the Aves class (you see, it‘s started alâ€" ready) includes not only the most gorgeous class of creaâ€" tures (the peacock and other pheasants), but also the most formal (the penguin), the most graceful (the swan), the mweetest of voice (the meadâ€" ~ It seems strange that offâ€"track betting â€"<is allowed to run rampant in this province, â€".and it would be ludicrous to suggest that , it isn‘t, when a controlled ofl-tng betting ‘ system would provide much needed cash ~_ At present bookies are reaping the beneâ€" "fits of a taxâ€"free income, when offâ€"track now wet a forefinger and turn to my bird book. How many species of birds, both flying and flightless, would you say there are â€" 3060? 60307 8650? Yes, that gentleman with the toucan nose is correct â€" there are about 8650 species of birds. All these birds have evolved owlark), the craftiest (the crow), the most affectionate (the lovebird), and pound for pound the most pugnacious (the hummingbird.) Also, the best insecticide ever made is a bird‘s stomach. Unless you are exceptionâ€" ally alert you will be reading more about birds here. My wife gave me a bird book for my birthday, and since the bird book cost a heap of guano it sounds to reason that we shall try to recoup by slipping into the column fairly freâ€" quent bits about birds. If management were allowed a block of votes in proportion to municipal taxes paid by any given industry, the apathy on the While no definite procedure was outlined by the representative, he probably felt beâ€" cause industry pays such a large proportion of New Toronto‘s tax revenue, it should have a voice in running the town. ‘This poses a number of problems: How would votes be allotted? Would such an arrangement create a "company controlled" community? Whatever the answers, it would undoubâ€" tedly create an unfavorable situation. â€" In a heavily industrialized centre like New Toronto, such an arrangement could carry a considerable amount of weight. _ _ At New Toronto‘s recent industrial banâ€" quet, one of the industry representatives posed an interesting question. Why, he asked, could not industries be granted a vote in municipal elections of the communâ€" ities in which they were located. E g Okay, so I‘m a bird buff. I . . . AND THE WORLD : Q LAUGHS % Keep Vote For The People M .cs EDITORIALS *n hefouns" 51. Acmeding «s Harness The Betting (even if they don‘t want it) en a hard time by man, who steadily encroaches on their forest and wild cover and poiâ€" sons them with new insectiâ€" cides. Yet birds are probably the best friends man has, beâ€" ing the only natural control of his worst enemy (next to himâ€" self) â€" the insects. I am therefore glad to put in a good word for birds. Shucks, I‘m short and rolypoly myself. Which is the most primitive of the species of birds that have survived to this happy period? Answer: the kiwi, (Is there no end to the man‘s knowledge?) A shy rolypoly that can‘t fly and has bad eyes, the kiwi has been saved from being sent to the showâ€" ers only because the people of New Zealand have adopted it as their national symbol. The kiwi finds its worms by smell, which also helps the kiwi tell a heâ€"wie from a sheâ€"wi. The kiwi is not alone in its diminishment of number. All species of birds are being givâ€" The elephant bird, which was nine feet high and weighâ€" ed half a ton, also died out, about 600 years ago, or not a moment too soon. It was flightless, which was a mercy, and laid 2â€"gallon eggs six times as large as an ostrich egg and unrivalled till the advent of television. from the reptile class. When you see a lizard you are lookâ€" ing at a lyreâ€"bird who spent to much time hanging around the pool hall. On most birds only the scaly legs acknowlâ€" edge the family origin. The earliest known bird, the archaeopteryx, had teeth. It became extinct anyhow, provâ€" ing that being protected by the invisible shield doesn‘t help if you‘re bucking city hall. By ERIC NICOL . 21, 1963 â€"â€" be avoided. Under the democratic system, which we possess, but don‘t seem to appreciate, all levels of government must be the choice of the people, or the choice of the people who turn out to vote in any case. Operated like the Ontario Liquor Control Board, offâ€"track botting“huublhhmcuu would be popular from the citizens‘ and provinces‘ point of view. Citizens with a yen for the fast buck could throw their money away to the province rather than a private individual or syndicate. The proâ€" vince could tax winnings. _ Candidates would then resort to wooing industry rather than the public. And what would the public do without its biâ€"yearly dose of electioneering. The public would no doubt lose what little interest it now has in municipal politics and New Toronto would be swept under the affluent wings of industry. The institution of voting powers for inâ€" dustry and commerce, such as suggested by the industry representative, would be in direct contravention to this credo and must As a benefit to the majority of nonâ€"betâ€" ters, these well controlled legal betting parâ€" lors will have a great influence in the reducâ€" tion of crime, and perhaps, taxes. rooms. In London, where these establishâ€" ments do exist, the offâ€"track bo«m‘ rooms are extremely popular and convenient for those citizens unable to watch the ponies at the track. The Londoners‘ dream now is to open a betting parlor instead of a smoke shop. part of the general public would ensure a larger industrial than public vote. This is due to the fact residential tax revenue is about 20 per cent of the total ; industry pays the other 80 per cent. In New York, recent state elections. have Whatever happened to the Metro Works departâ€" ment on the matter of use of garbage disposal units in kitchen sinks. They were supposed to report on the probâ€" lem two months ago. Many householders install them alâ€" though a number of municipalities rule them out. More civil jury trials are held in Metro than in any other community across Canada. Metro Chairman Allen mow uses a telephone answering service due to heavy volume of calls he receives. At a time when civic planners are considering orâ€" dering subdividers to provide a tree for every residential lot Metro last week gave a $4,485 contract to some tree experts to remove trees _ Metro has oipp-rt-:;e-d an Etobicoke expenditure of $3,910 for sidewalks on Martin Grove Rd. and Cloverhili Rd. Metro has been asked by Etobicoke to give its opinâ€" ion on a township plan to extend .."l Rd. across Mimâ€" ico Creek from Prince Edward Dr. to Royal York Rd. A citizen wrote Metro executive committee last week suggesting a personal income tax as one means of paying m the cost of education. Contractors have bid almost $2,000,000 less than Metro anticipated, to build the new Metro courthouse. Creation of a borough sysâ€" tem has become an overwhelming favorite among Metro civic leaders despite whatever noises may be made for amaigamation. Someone forgot to tell Magistrate Donald Graham, the new Metro licensing commission member, where the commission meets. He was late for his first meeting for this reason. He went to the wrong place. 2 _ The problem is split into three areas . . . education, welfare and public transit. There is a proposal Metro assume all outstanding local school board debt and all public transit debt and spread it over the whole area. The same would apply to public welfare costs. In effect this is amalgamation without political unification. You keep the multitude of civic representatives and agencies while at the same time you poay the cost of financial unification. The education proposal alone would increase the tax rate in the three Lakeshore suburbs by almost one mill. It would be a slight reduction in Etobicoke easily offset by the cost of absorbing rapid transit debt. The suburbs would retain the zone fare system but pay 60 percent of any additional transit debt takem over by Metro. Metro police commission has asked Metro council to pass a bylaw requiring compulsory registration of bicycles. Last year 5,269 bikes were stolen and to date this year 4,716 have been stolen with only 36 percent recovered. Lack of registration is causing police probâ€" lems in recovering bikes. More than 95 percent of all autos stolen are recovered. One of the greatest financial problems since forâ€" mation of Metro government in 1953 has finally arrived and square in the middle are the Lakeshore and Etobiâ€" coke. The extent of this problem can be best realized by the fact that in 1964 it could mean an automatic three to five mill tox rate increase for the Lakeshore exclusive of any increase in local government operating MacEachen Says Gov‘t Working On National Labor Code Report From Ottawa The man who has moved front and centre on the parâ€" liamentary stage is mild manâ€" nered and soft spoken Allan MacEachen, Minister of L aâ€" bour in the Pearson minority Government. In recent weeks he has unâ€" dergone a baptism of fire far Red Sales in the Sunset Stanley Knowles, New Deâ€" mocratic Member of Parliaâ€" ment for Winnipeg North Centre, argued in the House ‘that there should be a Nationâ€" al Labor Code set up as soon as possible. He said it should include at least five things: (1) Legislation respecting minimum wages. (2) Legisiaâ€" tion governing maximum hours of work. (3) Legisiaâ€" tion on a maximum work week. (4) Vacations with pay. (5) Statutory holidays with pay. These five points were a new Liberal Government w o uld introduce a national labor code for industries unâ€" der Federal jurisdiction and work _ done â€" under Federal Government contracts. "This would establish a minimum w a g€, maximum working week, pay for vacaâ€" tions and statutory holidays and national standards for health and safety and other working conditions," it was set out in the Liberal Party‘s literature before the last two elections. But he said the question of a National Labor Code was not being neglected. It is unâ€" der consideration not only by the Labor Department but by the Government as a whole at the present time, the Minâ€" ister declared. During the consideration of the labor estimates the Liberâ€" al minority Government was called upon to introduce a labor code and thereby carry out the promise it made to the people of Canada. The Liberal Party is on record in this respect as declaring that beyond any concentration of headline making headaches to confront his predecesors in the tough portfolio. Almost overnight he became one of the best known members of the Liberal Government, pitchforked into prominence on the front pages of the naâ€" tion‘s newspapers and on the national television screens by the recent longshoremen‘s strike and the showdown with the Seafarers‘ International Union. "We are working actively on this matter at the present time," he disclosed. "I should like to be able to assure the House, but I am not in a posiâ€" tion to do so, that this probâ€" lem would be dealt with at once." He delivered the underâ€" statement of the year in the House of Commons recently when his estimates were unâ€" der consideration in replying to questions about the introâ€" duction of new labour legisâ€" lation. . Mr. MacEachen said that he might mention that in the past several months the energies and activities of the Departâ€" ment of Labour had been alâ€" most entirely absorbed in problems of Industrial Relaâ€" tions. In fact, the Department of Labour has in recent weeks carried the heaviest burdens in this field that it has ever been. called upon to assume since the war years. The Labour Minister under questioning in the Commons promised that a National Laâ€" bor Code would be introduced by the present Liberal Govâ€" ernment, possibly at the next session of Parliament, expectâ€" ed to get underway after the New Year. However, primary responsiâ€" bility to promote long term economic growths rested with the Government as a whole. Several major Government measures to help stimulate the economic growth of the In addition he said the Minâ€" ister and his department can help contribute to this reducâ€" tion or prevention by encourâ€" aging short run measures to create employment ?portun- ities. These clearly were reâ€" sponsibilities falling on the labor department. on the level, character and source of unemployment. He also had a primary responsiâ€" bility, working with other groups, for the development, adaptation and efficient utiliâ€" zation of manpower resources and â€" effective measures . of this kind can contribute :o the promotion of employment and to the prevention or reâ€" duction of unemployment. The new Labor Minister deâ€" cided to enter politics when he was completing two years of study for a Doctorate deâ€" gree at the Massachusetts Inâ€" stitute of Technology. He reâ€" turned to his home riding of Invernessâ€"Richmond and ran as a Liberal. He won. But in 1958 in the Tory sweep he lost by 16 votes. He stayed on in Ottawa as Special Assistâ€" ant to the then Opposition Leader, Mr. Pearson. He stuâ€" died parliamentary rules and procedures and helped write some of Mr. Pearson‘s speeches. In 1962 he ran again and was reâ€"elected. He said that the Labor Minâ€" ister had the responsibility of reporting to the Commons The Labor Minister said he shared the M.P.‘s enthusiasin â€"expressed from both sides of the chamber â€" and interest in a national labor code. He agreed it should cover most of the items enumerated by Mr. Knowles. He said they were also in his mind as the principle ingredients for such a code. Mr. Pearson during the difâ€" ficult job of selecting a Caâ€" binet decided after some conâ€" sideration to put Mr. Macâ€" Eachen into the tricky labor slot, Recently in the House Mr. MacEachen spelled out what he considered to be his responsibilities. Mr. MacEachen is highly regarded both inside and outâ€" side the House. He is now generally conceded to be one of the top ranking members of the Liberal administration. the minimum elements of a national code. Only one is now on the Federal statutes, namely legislation for vacaâ€" tions with pay. It was put on the statutes while the Conâ€" servatives were in power, Mr. Knowles pointed out. He is comparatively young, at 42 years of age, but he brings to his difficult job a wealth of training. He is one of three sons of a Cape Breton coal miner. He graduated from St. Francis Xavier Uniâ€" versity, Antigonish, Nova Scoâ€" tia. There he later taught Economics and headed the Department of Social Sciences after receiving a Master‘s deâ€" gree in Political Economy from the University of Torâ€" onto, While at St. Francis Xavier he studied Industrial Relations and Economics at the University of Chicago. country have been already discussed in the Commons. This then is the man, who has taken on the powerfu) Hal Banks and his SI.U. His poliâ€" tical career could well depend FOOD FOR THOUGHT.â€" A fellow we know is headâ€" ed for a nervous breakdown. Seems he is a bachelor and has undertaken the cooking of his own meals. Everday after dinner he walks into the office with that ‘harried housewife look‘. Our culinary expert recalls the days of wearing short pants, the trademark of a wolfcub. Out in the clements, cither swatting mosquitos or huddling in snuwsturms over a blazing cedar fire with faggots continually snapping and cracking, to send a shower of blackened bits into porridge or peas, he still managed to keep his composure. He vividly remembers how chagrined he was one day, when, as a wee lad of eight he put a can of beans beside the glowing embers of a dying fire, sat watching it cook with metal piercing eves, anticipating the thousands of good things inside, when BOOOOM! they flew all over the place. And a good way to look at it is by reading a book called "The Long Way Home". which performs an auâ€" topsy on the high school football scene and come up with a diagnosis nothing short of malignant. Coaches are hired and fired by the wealthy alumni, who just can‘t stomach seeing the old alma mater drop a game, Because these nitwits supply the schools with sons and money (and sonny‘d better make the team) they are allowed to call the shots. 7 woses Pss He has never been the same since, and we suspect that even years later he still has recurring cases of shellâ€"shock. Sometimes his eves glaze over, and he babbles about beans plastered on tree branches, the sides of three tents, and 15 angry campers. Ever since then people eye him warily when he brings out even so much as a stew pot. Bodies slowly slink behind trees, and beady eyes glare out, the reflection of abandoned fires dancing on their spprehenâ€" sive owners. What appeared to be the last straw uccurred the other day. He was peacefully cooking sauerkraut and weiners and glanced at the stove. The heat was on high under the sauerkraut, and on low under the weiners, so he got up, spun the dials to reâ€" verse the process, and sat back down. He looked at the dials, stared in disbelief, and again approached the stuve, this time with caution. Received a call from an irate mother who commented on last week‘s section of column devoted to high Â¥chool football, which stated a player who injured an opponeNt in a game was entitled to wear a green cross on his helmet "You must be joking", she said, "certainly our teenâ€" agers haven‘t become that barbaric. They don‘t even do that in the professional leagues." Let‘s not ‘kid ourselves people, high school football is not a game for the delicate and witning is the object of the game. And if we think it‘s bad here, take a look at the U.S. high school game. Football coaches in these U.S._ schonls do not double as phys, ed. teachers. They are there strictly to coach football and their recruiting campaigns are modelled after the NFT, and they probably spend as much money. And the coac“;es are hired and fired on the same scale as the big leagues. So we up here in the sticks aren‘t really «o had are wa> However, there are some people who look on trustingâ€" ly when he dons cooking apron and cap. He cites isolated incidents such as being chief cook and bottle washer for i patrol of Boy Scouts at the Niagaraâ€"onâ€"theâ€"Lake World lamboree. The motto of the camp was ‘New Horizons‘, and he thought things were looking pretty good for the future, what with all the confidence displayed in his ability. Unfortunately, one of his leaders took a drink from a bucket of soapy dish water late one night, and people began to cast cautious glances his way when he headed to the couk tent. A few years later he was making a huge urn of cofiee for the Chiefâ€"Petty Officers of his ship. It was the custom to allow seamen a break from the monotony of watchâ€" keeping, and have a restful month or two keeping salty superiors happy. The Chiefs were all stricken by a strange malady. Later, after an intensive investigation, the ship‘s doctor came to the conclusion that somehow a package of epsoimm salts had managed to get into the coffee grounds. Again the suspicious rumblings. Our kitchen hero took his mind off this incident hy thinking about what a rugged constitution he had in comâ€" parison to his Chieis. He chuckled inwardly about the times he had eaten handfulls of dirt, savoring every grain, shortly after he learned how to walk and could venture outside. The dials were in their original position. Again he spun the dials, and sat down with a satisfied look in his eve. No luck. Confusion reigned, so he gave up, switched the pots around, and resigned himself to his fate. He expects to starve to death. His stomach was well braced for it though, because in his highâ€"chair days he trained it. His mother found corners disappearing off bars of suap at bath time, with tiny teethmarks revealing the mysâ€" tery. A needle and thread presented no problem either. He downed one easily, putting any sword swallower to shame. Poster paints added color to his porridge, and to his face, which turned purple. That scared even the cockâ€" roaches in the apartment. If they lost him,. who would they will be able to play tag with? He took it all in stride though. However, his wide and varied diet over the years is taking its toll. He settles for plainer victuals now. But we hear he still swipes the occasional dog biscuit from his pooch when he visits home. He complains kibbles don‘t go down so well, but confides his do# loves them. upon the outcome of that desâ€" perate â€" struggle, as indeed might the future of the preâ€" sent Liberal minority Govern ment. aren‘t really so bad, are we?