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Guests using the pool are remind 2 ed tc bring ther FS own water A TT bx %" Jr wy & a SANT et N Ets a SAG ER A N Rak. Sy a LL } ai tif TE vo Tv ' . Te -- "| KEEP TELLING YOU - .. YOU'LL NEVER GET AMERICAN Dean J. Kelly 0 JOHN FISHER - Canada's Great Story Teller It is great to hear that distinctive voice of 'Mr. Canada' - John Fisher back on radio. Canada's Centennial Commissioner in 1967, John Fisher is likely unknown to to-days teenagers, yet is one of Canada's great historical figures. A Maritimer who started out to be a lawyer turned to the CBC asa writer and producer in the 40's. He is much more than a writer. His grandfather was one of the originaf Fathers of Confederation. I got to know John Fisher well at the old National Program Office of the CBC next to the Royal York in Downtown Toronto in the hungry forties when I was being paid $15. a week (less deductions) to print the scripts and handle all the mail going to all the CBC offices and private radio stations from coast-to-coast. When I left the CBC for a better paying job as Police Reporter for CKEY, John Fisher gave me a treasure I still have and cherish. A simple piece of paper but with such a heart-warming recommendation from such a great person made me feel a mile high. I was only in my early teens and the only way I could repay my superiors was with good job on their scripts and prompt handling of their mail. I recall that Jack Benny gave me a $2.00 tip for: printing his scripts for a rush job when he was here at Maple Leaf Gardens on a War Bond drive. Master Story Teller, John Fisher, can be heard on CKEY at 10:05 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. following the news in the Pierre Berton-Charles Templeton slot who are on vacation. The musty paper by the way reads "In recommending Dean Kelly I can best refer to Albert Hubbard's message to Garcia in which he praised loyalty. Dean has also a ready smile and goes about his work willingly and sticks to it until it is done. While with the CBC he was a most loyal and diligent worker. Furthermore, he is a bright young lad. What more is there to commend a man that this." The paper was dated May 31, 1944 and signed John W. Fisher, Producer. , FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT BARRED FROM U.S. One of John Fisher's recent stories was the Canada- U.S. fight to have FDR admitted to the U.S. (later its \ Q WD SAAN SAS i RN NR NEY SCY SRN! 0 S ! TL OC AS \ AAI vee RE 3) x WAY 5 vb oY \ Nene -- 32nd President) from his Maritime home on Campo- bello Island where he spent his summers with his family. After a swim one day, young Franklin felt very tired and went to bed." When he woké he was paralized with polio. Stranded with his wife Eleanor on the island off the coast of Maine, but part of Canada, his two doctors fought to have him rushed by train to a New York hospital, but U.S. Immigration refused his entry to the U.S. even though he was from a prominent family and held a U.S. passport. Polio was then considered a contagious disease and anyone must be held in quarantine. : Back home, the powerful Roosevelt clan put all their influence to work in Washington to get clearance for FDR. Had the U.S. immigration department held fast, young Franklin weuld have had to remain in Canada and may never have become Governor of New York state and later the 32 President of the United States, one of the nation's greatest and the only one to hold four terms in office. These and many more are the topics of John Fisher's fascinating true stories from the past, celebrating Canada's close relationship with our U.S. cousins and their 200 hundredth birthday. When we think of the cost of roads we seldon really get upset about the high costs involved until they start cutting down beautiful shade trees and tearing up lawns. Durham Region Works Dept. is famous for its waste. Lets take the sidewalks of Oshawa as an example, as we don't have exact costs for the ones in Port on Lilla Street. The average cost of sidewalks is about $65,000 a mile but in some areas, a 50 ft. strip on Brock St. by Kiaser Cresc. cost $46.80 a foot (about $250,000. a mile). The Public Works dept. does not survey the residents for their reaction before going to Council for the money. Petitions and claims that cheaper ashpalt sidewalks would suffice are ignored. Because of the policy to debenture the debt over 10 years by borrowing at the current 121, percent interest rate costs are often DOUBLED. No doubt sidewalks » are needed in some areas -- but do we need them made of gold? The revelation by Dr. Stewart Page speaking at Durham Mental Health conference that "Fifty to sixty-five percent of the people in public mental institutions are forced there against their wishes. He warned that most people do not realize the relative ease with which one can lose one's personal freedom. It would be a grave error to assume it is only "wildgeyed lunatics" and senile senior citizens who end up in'mental institutions", Dr. Page said. I recall reading articles stating that senile elderly people are often only confused and because of failing memory are "put away"..Science now has found that B complex vitamins and a good diet can restore recall to the aged, and rehabilitate schizophrenics. Canadian bigot As a country that fortunately has been blessed with a scarcity of many of the problems that face the rest of the countries of the world such as poverty, racism, despotism "and political and economic instability, Canada and Canadians have been able to display an international profile of tolerance, understanding, humanitarianism, peacekeeping and generosity. We point with open horror at the racism in the United States and South Africa, the injustices of Uganda, and regimentation of Communist China. Yet as Canadians, we speak with hollow convictions of a country that has never suffered the abject poverty of China, the political problem of "solving" racism of South Africa, the political instability and many of the other problems that threaten to tear other countries' apart. "While few Canadians fail to condemn the racism of lan Smith, few also will admit the signs of intolerance, indifference, lack of understanding and even open hatred htat has become visible in our own society with the emotional bilingual issue. We as Canadians proudly boast of our tolerance of all peoples regardless of colour, but it might to wise to point out that we have never demonstrated our colourblindness. There are not cities in Canada that have anything like the heavy racial mixtures of the southern states. We can, however, get an idea about how we'd do as . ji an enlightened people by talking to some of our fellow Canadians from Toronto who spout off about "whaps, Pakis" and other ethnic groups in the style'of some of the most accomplished bigots you'll find anywhere--- Georgia or Johannesburg. Like bigots all over the world, strength comes through unity, and recent responsible concern by some over the air control issue has pulled Canada's English-speaking bigots together like a magnet, stretching, simplifying, misrepresenting and twisting the issue to reflect their own bigotry. If anything, our intolerance and bigotry is far worse from the racism of South Africa, Uganda, and most other countries. We enjoy one of the highest standards of living and literacy in the world, and cannot claim poverty and ignorance as the reason for our bigotry as _it is_in many other countries. In other words, we make a nation of impressive talkers. 3 it sin't enough to simply sit by. You cannot. withdraw from discrimination. We are just as guilty of bigotry when we sit by and say nothing when our neighbour raves on about the Frenchman who's trying to 'ram French down our throats," or the "Paki who shouldn't have been allowed in the country.' People with views like these spring from the same garbage pile as the Amins of the world. The perils of applause In the entertainment industry - and in politics, too - careers are made and broken by applause and by lack of applause. We are often manipulated into offering applause, and sometimes our applause is measured by machines. Persons in groups can be led to applaud things.at which very few of them as individuals would even clap one hand. We readily applaud things which do not deserve our applause - probably because we feel that willingness to applaud indiscriminately is a sign of tolerance and broad- mindedness. Canned applause, along with canned laughter, is often dubbed onto the sound-tracks of filmed tele- vision programs and used as background support on radio shows. We sit in our easy chairs and let ourselves be beguiled by artificial applause into accepting what we really know to be utter tripe as the fine flower of human creativity. How else can you account for the phenomenal success of some televis- ion shows? We often show amusement and offer applause because we do not wish to be judged odd and puritanical and narrowminded. But broadminded- ness can have its own subversively built-in narrow- mindedness. Artistic integrity is not necessarily authenticated by four-letter words, bared female bosoms and explicit sex. Today we are being subtly forced into conformities of response and attitude without our being fully aware of the extent to which we are being manipul- ated. Applause can be contagious - and therein is its peril. Human nature, fortunately, has in it a strain of sheer cussedness, and this keeps society from becoming thoroughly homogenized in taste and judgement. But how many of us, really, bring individual judgment to bear on entertainments on politics - on anything which a group, for its own selfish purposes, tries to manipulate us into applauding?