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Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), February 24, 1966, p. 4

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x t georgetown herald pnblmmd by hon nowsfupers umkwol 2mllnstrmt georgetown ontario w c 1khn mmvr page 4 thursday february 24th 1966 editorial comment one government that cares georgetowns holdtheiina tax rate ind tight budget will not meet general ap proval among ratepayers we have been brainwashed for so long by senior governments who promise the sky ther pay for it out of our pockets after the election that we have almost lost the idea of paying for what wft can afford end waiting for some things until we have a dollar or two ahead credit buying a very good thing when icept in perspective has been distorted to the point where even companies operated by the crown advertise go now pay later and encourage us to take that trip while were young and spend the years af ter paying for it we expect higher old age pensions bigger baby bonuses super highways free radio and television entertainment subsid ies for this that and the other and when someone pulls the curtain it is only human nature to protest we have reached the stage whefef n ante ministers publicly proclaim how good they are because they only have so many i mans eternal dream that brotherhood week feb 20 to 27 i should need to be held at all is a sad re flection on the basic prejudices of human beings most people talk a lot about the broth ierhood of man and one of the world s ma jor religions is founded on this utopia but how few use it as a guide to daily living animosities and preudices continue to drive wedges between people barriers of race religion and nationality are everpres ent and more dangerous than the out spoken b gots are those who subtly slander iheir fellowman scouts on parade georgetown residents have an oppor tunity this saturday to see the many as pacts of scouting on display in the town park the boy scout movement has been of enormous benefit to georgetown dormant for some years it wavrev v fifteen years ago by a group of an3 women with rev john smith i then minister of st john s united spear heading the rebirth it has been nothing but successful since and hundreds of young people have billion dollars of a deficit where a prime minister can promise a city several million dollars for an ice arena where we pour money into an expo show in montreal as if it poured out of our water tap so it s refreshing to find one govern ment at the grass roots which believes peo ple should be saved from their own folly we arent any happier with some of its features than the next person but if we have to do without some extra policemen stall improvements in bridge took a little harder for a cheaper solution to a crowded municipal building do without a lighted ball park for another year or two in the interests of smooth sa i ing we re for it a municipality like a person has to cut its cloth to fit if it doesnt those who remember the hungry th rttes know well that it s possible for a town to bankrupt tt self too maybe queen s park and ottawa could use some of our local politicians to do some unpopular but necessary things like not spending money which people cant afford to give how often have we heard a man say about another he s a nice guy even if he is a fill in applicable word we like to think georgetown is a town where prejudice is nonexistent it isnt true we have probably less open pre judice than the majority of communit es but scratch the surface and it s there we can use brotherhood week too tc remind us that we as humans are imper feet and tike a new year s resolution we can reaffirm our desire to aspire to the utopia we may never qu te reach but always on the horizon benefitted in mind and body through mem bership in one of the local troops adults too have become better people by devoting their efforts to the rewarding job of d rect ing youngsters along this bright path no parent whose boy is has been or w i be a scout should miss visiting the park on saturday you will be amply warded in seeing just how extensive the movement has become and at the same time you will be showing men and women who devote a good share of their le sure as leaders that you appreciate this harley to halton weekly observations by dr harry harley mp for halton since my last column the house of commons has spent all its time discussing the estimates r the dept of transport the general debate on these esttaa ates has finally passed and we are moving to an itemtoitem study of these estimates at this rate the 19651966 estimates will continue to be debated for some weeks to conle the debates have again discussed the possible moving of channel 3 from bame to tor onto fio new factors have been thought out and we still swaitl a report from the dept of j transport concerning possible interference with channels 2 and 4 from the us which are widely followed in the toronto area including halton one of aba other factors brought out in tbe debate is the control of the various news media newspap- era radio and tv passing anore and morainlo the control of fewer and fewer people it certainly can be undesirable to have our news media con trolled by a few people who could conceivably use such me dia to their own great advan cage this is a factor whjoh will nave to be discussed and con trolled in some manner n addition the debate baen very critical of the i in particular we have 1 a great deal of the prob- of grain handling and i shipping canada has of sold a great deal outside of canada andj ac of the problems is tbe mo ving of this wheat to the ship ping ports the western mem i bers of parliament have been very critical of the handling of wheat and the discontinuing of the transcanada dominion train by the cpr the question was raised in the house of cotnnnns the other day concerning who has the right to comment after the government makes a statement when motions are called at the opening of parliament each day the custom in the past has been to have one state ment from a spokesman from each of the recognized parties in the house of commons in 1963 this was no particular pro blem as there were three recog mzed parties in opposition in the house of commons conservatives the social cre dit and the ndp all of these had more than 12 members which gives their respective par ty an extra 4000 per year in salary after this election how ever the credittstes were redu ced to 8 in number the social credit to 5 and we now have 2 independent members of paflla ment therefore they do not qualify for the extra allowance but do they have the right to comment on motions the spea ker has taken this under con sideration and will render decision later on this matter the mail bag thoughts on georgetowns 1966 holdthelme budget 97 sargent road dear mr editor with the umost and deepest regret i must agree with coun dlloe- smith that georgetown wilt be standing still with the 68 1 council budget we have been- given the op portunity of criticizing other governments of canada witm the increase m sales gasoline and tobacco tax also a rumoured increase in income tax by the federal government other op- jportumties are tbeincrcase in bread and the coming increase in the cost of milk i where does the georgetown council as a government have the audacity to shirk their dul ies of adding to the pleasure of our citizens a big boo to mr hyde and his budget he sbould know that progress backwards or other wise conies before the wishes of the people also he must realize that our employers will only be too glad to give us a salary increase any time that we feel the financial burden is getting too heavy seed catalogue time sugar and spice by bill smiley it brings out the best there s nothing like an old fashioned blizzard to put that cocky creature man in his place were right in the mid die of a four star dandy at the moment it s been snowing and blowing for 48 hours with sal- utory results the world hasl become a wild white wildernss and the people in it have be come human beings the creature man in his v is dom believes he has tamed na ture he will admit under qu zzing that he still doesn t know much about himself but he is confident that he has brought the natural world to heel normally he thinks of nature as something subdued some thing to be used for recreation or looking at and saying nice am t if naraexounty deputy reeves to present plunkett briefs all the deputy reeves in thel county headed by milton s charles menefy will comprise the committee to handle pres entation of county briefs to the plunkett local goverment re- view both the county itself and individual committees of coun ty council will present bnefs with this committee of deputy reeves organizing the present ation the hearings are scheduled for march 21st to 26th in the county administration build ing young is member of regional jail group the regional detention ccn ire committee to work with peel county toward a joint peel halton jail was named at hal ton county council last week named to the committee were reeve h merry oakville warden h hinton acton and deputy reeve j young of geo rgetown reeve g leslie of esquesing suggested the substitution of georgetown s reeve for the de puty who he stated had only one month s experience on cou nty council 1 might be a new man re- torted deputy reeve young but i feel a regional jail lal a straight business deal and i have been in business a long time it doesn t demand a man sitting on council ten years tol know how to acquire a site at a reasonable price he conclud ed reeve leslie withdrew his objection explaining he just suggested it for mr young t sake a bible thought for the week he repaired the altar the lord that was broken down i kings 18 30 more tune around the altar mikes for better times around albert porter the house take time to pray newsechoes from am haralds of 10 20 and 30 yean aaak 10 yiars ago monday evening february 27th was an important ona for the georgetown butlnett and professional womens club it was their charter night mrs moreno otinn brampton national membership chairman presented the charter to marlon robinson 1st vice preswerrtrwh was in the chair due to the illness of me president joyce nevitt r l gregory owner of the roxy theatre building ad vised council monday that he would sell a strip of land behind the building to the town for 200 which could- provide parking space for fifty cars 20 years ago this week georgetown and district welcomed hpmft from overseas cpl wtiliam braisby csm jim dobbie lac james graham cpl walter nornngton pte -don- aid jourdaln pte david bryden cpl t s brown pte herb brown l cpl frarik lorusso the banquet room irr the oddfellows nail was nicely decorated w th a big welcome home flag and red wnite arid blue streamers on saturday night as the pro vincial coat ng m ii banqueted employees recently nv turned from the armed services arid their wives and sweethearts over 200 sat down to the chicken dinner catered by the ladies of the lome scots auxiliary mr r b foulis mill superintendent acted as chairman 30 years ago hope was expressed by the georgetown high school board that it would be able to finance n such a way that the money requisitioned from the town would not exceed that of last year 3 500 0 mr james mckmney has rented his blacksmith and wood work ng shop in norval to mr harry watt who will cont nue the business it takes a rousing belch from that old trollop mother nature whethar it bo in th form of a blixzard a hurricane an earth quake or a fire to mt him right back on hia primitive heelt and strangely enough it is only when nature comes up with some kind of a spectacular that man seems to shed his scale of materialism get down to his basic virtues and find out once again what makes the hu man race go around in ever diminishing circles ordinarily the christian vir tues are easily spotted as the teeth in a hen who is drawing the old age pension but when nature g ves a fast rumble of laughter at the little fellows and cohapsestae facade of ere ature comforts which are the modemday fetishes the old virtues brighten the darkest corner generosity unselfishness de cency dountoothers all the things to which we pay lip ser vice suddenly flower when people are getting a good kick in the teeth from old mother when a billiard is raging or dinary miserable grouchy peo- pie regain some of those quail ties the pioneers are supposed i to have had people who wouldnt pick up the queen of england even if she displayed a sign reading buckingham palace or bust suddenly start picking up hitch hikers people who ordinarily wouldn t giva you hi tim o f day will stop and shova you out of a snowbank people who wouldn t buy an appla from a boy scout will ahovcl out ladies driveways and strangest of all they smile and grin and chortle while they re doing it not only do they revert u h manity they return to a ce tain primitive pndcjji doing battle with the elements people who will grumble for hours about a sprinkle of ram that spoils a picnic turn into giants when the big snow i comes they hump through the drifts they snort and stamp into work half an hour late as proud as though they had just crossed the sahara single handed without water they die in their hundreds fro zen grins on their faces clutch ing their snow shovels i speak from experience this mornirg my neighbour with whom j exchange a careiu y amiable greeting about ev six months had managed to smash his truck through the three foot drift in his drive and there he was when he mu shed out grinning lik a g goyle motor running to give ua a drive to work and he wasnt practising one upmanshjp he was being a good neighbour got to work and round that on chap had drrvan fouranda half hours to mako it en 1jtml ha was ttioyad unshaveti art somathlng of a hero for por haps the first tinw in his life i hate to suggest it in erse old mother n is listening but perhaps we need a few mora blizzards earthquakes hcto causts and hurricanes they work a lot better than nationally advertised brotherhood weeks business directory chiropractor donald a gay dc 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