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30le Earn men Published by 16 Canadian Newspaper Company Limited Bayflold Strut Barrio Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus SATURDAY MARCH 18 W76 Honahaw Managing Editor PAGE Form pressure group but keep your eyes Open The civic affairs committee of the Greater Barrie Chamber of Commerce is not hiding its light under bushcl Apparently taking its lead from ld Perri the committee mciferously came out with the statement this week of should be major election issue According to chairman Marshall Green the core is going nowhere and the offi cial plan is paving the route to nowhere =He said the committee thinks down town Barrie is in troubled state suffer ing from lack of variety and vtbrancy The committee will initiate sixpart questionnaire asking residents if they present downtown and what changes they would like to see that the rejuvenation are satisfied with the made Heady stuff few worthwhile suggestions will be made but the individual store owner or landlord will make his own decision on renovations In short the committee might be able It is high Lct council downtown tion with the Be vocal sight of the taxes keen on subsi tinue to be yo to reality to amass lurg whether it will be used is another matter amount of material but time some merchants of downtown banded together and formed such lobby to work for change know where downtown merchants stand whether in conjunc downtown area improve ment board or not We hope council listens to some of the committees arguments but does not lose act council should expend most of its energies over the next year or two on holding the line on municipal The residential taxpayer on Marshall Street or Kozlov Drive is not too inter ested in downtown and certainly is not dizing redeveIOpment Especially when the school boards will soon be hitting them hard where it hurts The civic affairs committeeshould con cal but keep its eyes open DOWN MEMORY LANE 55 YEARS AGO IN TOWN Barrie Examiner March 13 1941 Bar rie Armoury flooded with prospective re Cruits for Grey Simcoe Foresters 2nd Battalion as German armies took over all Western EurOpe Invasion of Britain ing believed soon as enlistments for active duty in Canadian forces speeded up and training camps went into high gear not Borden which also was itny Camp hating mittee Canadian War Servi Simpson Simcoe County area chairman to coordinate war servic es Memorial service at St Johns 5United Church Alliston for Sir Frede rick Grant Banting who had attended it killed in air crash as young man He was at Newfoundland Feb 21 Store window had attractive display of fiknitted articles by local Red Cross wom en to be sent to crew of Canadas newest RCAF pilots quickly as Russ Nettleton manager Commerce named chairman local com app COS lerk named war vessel Corvette Barrie esting church United Ccntr Needlram Bi Doug Peacock grad possible Bank of to Symphony Tom es Scott and outside Walker er of Canada 35 37 353 FROM PARLIAMENT HILL The folding of Time and Canadas Senate Bx STEWART MacLEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson NeWs Service Things are bound to be bit distorted When you he in bed with newspaper and try to view events through the heated haze of devilish tlu bug That may explain it but in any event my recorery has been slowed through all these recurring arguments with women And dont like mental arguments with women gt But it seemed that everytime turned page some wnnan was saying something to upset me or contusc me And this never happened during Inter tiational Womens Year There was little in the paper about Conservative Leader Joe Clark but his wife Maureen McTeer was speaking her rnind And she was saying that 7Iw Barrie Examiner 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7266537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return postage guaranteed Daily Sundays and Statutory Holidays excepted Subscription rates daily by carrier 85 cents weekly $4420 yearly Single copies 15 cents By Mail Barrie $44 20 yearly Simcoe County $3400 yearly 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manage After all politics is game not war NEXT PAGE Anyway turned the page and there was huge picture of Evelyn Gigantes attractive New Democratic Member of the Ontario Legislature for Carleton E19 She was rocking speech at the Ottawa Womens Centre in honor of lntcrnaional Womens Day Women are still being le gally discriminated against and it may take too long for politi cians to realize the way tlmgs should be she was quoted as saying And the next paragraph of the story went on Is Ciganlc displayed her political tact early in the evenim when male photographer arrived at the Centres door askinn to he admitted so he could take some rxhcos She explained to him that men are not allowed in the CC rc hi lrl milor Thats fine But not long ago woman was refused admit tance to an Ohawa menUniv club and she laid char lerI one of Ontarios antidis crimination laws Anyway am not convinced it reunires much political tart to inform someone that his or her entry is barred So much for that page Hcre was another story about Betty Ford and how she hmi ivilroilv become Gerald Ford TIS set as he seeks another term as US President And what has helped her most snid tho story was her oppmness and hon esty when the said lmnoq tiller thin sl vmilll ni ject to her daughter havinw an affair nmviding it was with nice boy Tim for an aspirin and in per NO LOGIC Ru even after this cant arch the 10qu lrs Fords puiwvnorfl Im rHllv flow 10 invuvlvlo daughter settling down win in which Central Inter hockey league junior final United cat Collier al had John Feltis in nets Collier had Bob Chittick Some outstand players were Jack Nixon Gordie ll Hamilton Cecil Cook Laidlaw Addison for mer director Barrie Citizens Band in pre Wcrld War One days brought his Toron Band to Camp Borden for Bros Jimmy and Yummy completed job of cutting 4000 tons pure ice from Kempenfelt Bay on contract Barrie Fuel Supply Co Experts on ice harvesting the Scotts have been doing like Mr Perri wruld soon be this ob many years on contract to local bankrupt to irms Brigadier Frank Worthington of Barrie named command First Armoured Brigade Royal Victoria Hospital added new laundry building nice guy but for purposes of an affair cant get excited about personalities And it could lead to problems for the parents of other teen agers Hey Mom Ill be seep ing out tonight but dont worry hes studying to be mis sionary put down the newspaper and picked up magazine And womens convention in Chicago was being told that throughout history great contributions from women were system atically forgotten while men were being placed on ever lasting pedestals for lesser con irihulions To check the this phoned whose mother authenticiv of Mark McClung Nollie McCiung was once Canadas most fa m0us womanthe first one elected to legislature But thats not why phoned him it so happens he has magnifi cent sense of humor Its not entirely true that men are always remembered while women are forgotten said Mr McClung himself ho arse with the flu am thinking particularly of Lord Godiva He paused briefly Then there was Whistlers Father And he thought for few mo ments longer And Joseph of Arimathea Time for another aspirin WW swam see what you mean about the intricacies of inter national diplomacy lt1 LETTERS TO EDITOR City should be run same as business Dear Sir city should be run the suite way private business run In my view Jim Fclll chair man at the city levclfnmcn mmllec laks cxptIlemc and concert in Canadian Legion Hall much bukmmd bp 3W deal reciated by soldiers airmen and nurs properly Wm rm emu do clopcrs What does school teacher know about such vital ma or as city development If pri vate businc had chairman QUEENS PARK know per anally the mayor of it small lba town of pltilalion 4000 lle also lawyer aid devote half of cqu work nv tin community for MOO month Before he became mayor in 1070 the commumy was just an uher dying prairie town He is knowledgable in all aspects cf real tale and im 0l0lll Bfuus of his pro Ere liirkinp as ray Vtrll neck the town reccxve dozens Speech from Thro ne gave little ammo By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Tbrrnc speerhes never give much com fort 0r poliiical ammunition to the oppoaition Normally they are list of promises and promises ex pressed so vaguely that they are not open to any sharp nt tack The almost automatic reac tion of oppo=ition leaders to Throne speeches is that illov are izninsriring or libat there it little that is new in them This slandzwrd roazim the resnonn of the in not tion party leaders to this years speech here But actually with this speech they were probably even more frustrated than usual For it didnt even have many of the ctistomary promises And it must have set new high in vagueness For men leading major par tic linmg minority g€llls mcnt and hamninc to got 20 lan at criticizing it the docu ment must have been terribly annoying one IOnli IFIGYSIVI More than annoying it could have been worrying our For to an unusual degree the government used it to put the lull squarely in the opposition courL Normally in throne speech there is some mention of the economic slate of the moment Bu in lhi cll tlh domi nant theme was conomic Ihr goiernmc sed he speech to restate at length its position on restraint Ihis quite properly belonged in the document But it also was highly politi cal For it has been becoming claw 1m illl di hu il tho cnr= an he opposition lies in this restraint EEWORLD Crisis in Africa has only begun By JOHN IIAPHRI Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News SiIvicc Mention the British mmwealbh of Nations many Canadians will visualize it as white mans club of na wmwdwmmevwrmwreesu Im undecided whether to give you long sentence and teach you lesson or let you loose on society and teach them lesson lions torrhnated by the likes of Canada Austmlia New Zea land and of course Britain the Mother Country The Commonwealth of Na lions is no uch thing Indeed it has not been since the early limos when host of newly crrcil African and vino miles which were former Brit ish possesions shifted the bal ance irrevocably to ilhe non whitc regions whidh dominate our world Official positions taken by the Commonwealth reflect more and more Third World issues rather than those affecting the now few but still influential while nations in the club Last week the Hon Slhridpath Ramrhol tczy sccr it the Iommonwoolh himself the former foreign minister of Gu yana and of Indian extraction announced the organization will giic ccommic suvpoit he black and Marxist republic of Mowmbique The reason for the move is bolt highly ideological and ra clul in way noycr con ie pi in tho Com mofwcfllfh as the normal white mans club Mozambique announced it worl close its rcil znd ssapoll links which Rhodesia the land of inquirie about inxestmen possibilities Investment brings work and motey to the people The towns annual individual income has jumpcd from $9000 to an impressive 315000 In very Sllfll time If Barrie were run like that little town not very many of our residen would have to comm ute to Toronto to find work AUBERT SCHAEFER RR Shany Bay program and that probably in gtOlllt mm her will bc the core of the next election It probably alsi ha been ne coming clear to the New Demo ratic Party and the Liberas particularly the former that for them it may not be the best of ISUCS For there have been some distinctsigns that the public be lieves in resraints and many not have too much patience with those who oppose them Ihn governmr rnarentl saw this at the first stages and endowed restraint boldly But the Opposition parties were caught The NDP still is through its tie wih big labor The Liberals had drawn back but still have the name of being opposed The leadership of both parties must be forced in don thought whenever sees the floyernmnnt agzzn nuhn ward restraints as it did in the speech locked racist Shale uses to ship its minerals to the Indian Ocean TO SUFFER In the growing crisis of south ern Africa in which the black states wan to bring down whierulerl Rhodcin Prrmar Ian Smiths regime is suffering already from the Mozambique announcement But so is the newlyborn and bonepoor Peoples Republic of Ilozamhiqne Its loss of reve ues trom terminating trans port of Rhodesian ores and min erals is estimated at about 55 millim Secretary General Ramphals announcement was made in the light of this crisis for Mozam biquo and because that new lmtuguesespeaking nation is literally living from daytoday on zts slim government reve nuns Now the oldimors viewing the Commonwoolih as whlo with its white British Queen will want to know what is going to Irriopcn to Rlio3sia the white run courrv ll to ally hastile black African states Among these rrc pfominent African Commoiwcallih mem bers with Tanzania and her presided Julius Nyeirene in the forefront of determined at tacks gains Rhodesia BOOK REVIEWCORNER look at life of GovGen BeadofStates story Saved By The Butler Honck Governor General 18011868 By Elisabeth Batt with for ward by Morton Mc Lelland and Stewart Ltd 189 pages 810 Reviewed by JOHN NUGGERIDGE We Canadians have never spar ed much thought for our Gover nors General They come and go in their gold braid and ostrich feathers open ing and proroguing Parliament issuing New Year messages and shaking hands with Eskimosand one seems very much like the next Most of us indeed would be hard pressed to name more than the last four We have prob ably heard of Lord Durham and in different connection Earl Grey and Lord Stanley Stanley thanks to National Hockey League expansion is even celebrated in the cradle of American Revolution on bum per sticker that strikes an un expected note in Bicentennial Year Lord Stanley Lives In Philadelphia But what of his residence in Ottawa And what of our many other heads of state who did not present sporting trophies For most Canadians they are about as unknown as the Shahs of Persia KEY ROLE This is pity The office of Governor General has played key part in Canadian deveop ment In its palmiest days it was the centre of British power in North America The governor at Quebec was also Captain Gen eral of all Imperial forces on the continent Even today with the Empire dead and buried and the few remaining symbols of our con nection with it all but painted over Her Majestys Representa tive can still under certain con ditions make himself felt Only last year the Australian fired Prime Minister Gough Whitlam even though the latters Labor Party was unde feated in the House of Repre sentatives Dont stick around but it could happen to Trudeau book that throws valuable light on the office of Governor General and in particular on the man who held It during criti cal period in our history is her great grandfather Monck governor General 18611868 Not that Mrs Batt has much new to say about her distinguish ed ancestor The family papers some of which are quoted here for the first time they were rescued by resourceful butler in the I9305 when the family es tate was being sold up confirm what Canadian historians have long claimed that Monck was leading figure in the Confed eration Movement and that in the troubled aftermath of the American Civil War he used his considerable diplomatic in fluence to prevent Canada from becoming battleground be tween Britain and the United States BRITISH VIEW What makes Mrs Batts biog raphy interesting is the point of view from which it is written We are used to having Monck presented to us by Canadian scholars whose first concern naturally enough is with his ex ploits on this side at the Atlantic The Monck we know best is the architect of the Great Coalition of June 1864 the man who help ed to persuade George Brown and John Macdonald to sink their differences and work to ward creating new North Am erican nation Indeed we think of him as an ex officio Canadian nationalist Mrs Batt sees him through British eyes Her Mock truly belongs not in Quebec City and Ottawa but in London and Dub lin He emerges from her pag es as builder of Canada yes but more important as typical member of Britains ruling class of century ago He had es tates in Ireland son at Eton seat in the Hause of Commons and an inheritance burdened with debts amounting to 90000 pounds He frankly admitted in letter to his son quoted by Mrs Batt thatho took the Canadian job it had been turned down by four of his felow British Lordsl for the money YOUR BUSINESS Danger signals in UK experience By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The sudden slump in sterling must be major dis appointment 00 the BIlikh who in necent months have finally begun to practise selfurestraint in their economy But tilts bitter medicine may in like long term lead to eco nomic recovriy In itself the pound sterlings fall below $2 ilLSJ may Iinl merit all the fuss being made about it People become excited about round figures such as t00 cn the Dow Joins industrial average but the pounds rela lionshlp to key currencies such as the Swiss from and the west German mark is of greater im portlamce Nor was this an unusual res ponse on the part of these Brit on who took up the white mans burden hundred years ago One cynic called the Empire outdoor relief for the British aristocracy But then aristo crats have to eat too It is perhaps tribute to Monck that he left Canada with his family finances in no bet ter shape than when he arrived here What Mrs Batt makes clear is that he saw himself in Canada as member of the British pub hc service Doing ones stint as generally accepted chores of that Colonial Governor was one of the profession Monck hay have sympathized with Canadian nationalism but the last thing he wanted was to break up the Empire For him Confederation was not move toward Canadian Separ atism It was part of an imper ial strategy way of getting Canadians off the back of Old Country taxpayers of giving them the wherewithal to fight their own battles in defence of Britsh values When Monck wrote gloomin to Lorri Lyons Briish ambarsador to Washington from Quebec in the summer of 1861 that although detente with the Union govern men seemed to be working we shall have to fight them sooner or later the we meant Brit ain not Canada What his correspondence with Lyons amounted to was an ex change of view3 between two British agents overseas TYPICALLY BRITISH Inevitably Moncks social life in Canada remained determined iy British He brought over at crossing was stl highly hazar dous his carriages his serv ants his children and his dogs One of the animals once knock ed Lord Lyons over on visit to Spencer Wood the viceregal residence near Quebec while the British dipomat was kneeling at family prayers In the troubled autumn of 1862 during western tour of inspec tion Moan found time to slip over into New York State to in dulge his Briitsh passion for shoting Mrs Batt shows us the Gov ernor General without his epaul ettes This is perhaps the great est merit of her well written clearly orgnized and interest ingly documented biography We mee his family Lady Monck worrying about moving into potential war zone agon izing about her children partic ularly Henry back at Eton papa and she writes to him on one occasion sid like You to have bath so you can ask for it From us Then here are the impres sions left on assorted Ilfoncks by Canadian John Macdonaid for example of wth Foo Monck visiting sisterinlaw wrote during the Quebec Con ference that he is always drunk now am sorry to say and when someone went to his room the other nigh they found him in his nighirhirt with railway rug thrown over him practising llrmlc hefw looking glass DOING HIS DUTY Mrs Batts work concentrates on loncks seven Canadian year She never lc forzo however that they were just single epi scd in tillq nearly half century He spent more time and energy in refm int the Church of Ireland than hcljnng to unify British North America Perhaps what we can learn from this inimafe picture of the man who frst occupied Rideau Hall is that one head of state really is very much like number It is hard toda to work up much patriotic fervor over alter nating French and English bur eaucrat chosen to reign over us by the government in power at Ottawa Imagine kneeling in Roland Michener To do him jus tice he would far rather one jog ged with him Monck AIMS bureaucrat chosen by the gov crnmcm in power Vestmhr ster To do him justice he would have flair rather one went shooting with him Mr linqqeriIFe lives in We land and teaches at Niagara College Thomson News Service 17 The British had gool reason to anticipate that the pound would strengthen this year Setting aside the sterile politi cal controvorsizs of the last 30 years they agreed upon some sensible new initiatives The unions would be satisfied with weekly wage increases of 312 where there was no change in the work lonl illll thi gmmtl ment would encourage rather than restrict the growth and modernization ofprivatc indus try lhese anti other such meas ures were it desperation re soonsc to Britains plunge to ward an economic alum The British inflation rate rose to 24 per cent for the full year 1075 reaching 40 per cent in the AprilJune period from 16 par cam in $34