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Ellie ifiarrir Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Baytield Street Barrie 0ntario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Wilson Advertising Manager Henshaw Managing Editor The Barrie Examiner Thursday January 13 1977 Economic challenges need prime attention Challenges which must be faced to help the national economy and prevent adding more to the present recordhigh taxation while coping With increasing unemployment are emphasized by recent economic reViews The Economic Council of Canada in predicting that there will be real economic growth averaging 57 per cent over the next fiveyear period With inflation dwindling and unem ployment declining takes more optimisticiview than some others which hopefully may materialize But the Ontario Chamber of Com merce survey of the economic climate was perhaps more realistic It said the outlook was only fair and saw little hope the economic situation will improve in 1977 Leaders of 293 Ontario companies interviewed blamed the government for much of the problem While others dealt with the heavy deficit budgeting of the federal govern ment and sharp increases in public debt at todays high carrying charges the survey touched upon another aspect which may well be related Canada seems to be going so far to the left that the government has encouraged the public to think that enterprise and profit are antisocial rather than necessity to preserve our way of life as we have known it over the past half century the sur vey report said The political people seem to unduly discount the need for and functions of profit in sustaining capital investment job creation and tax revenues Ontario people might be happy to learn that they felt business con ditions in this province rated better than for the rest of Canada But before any rejoicing the added war ning from 40 per cent of the respon dents should be considered they said this condition was likely to deteriorate during 1977 Not only business and industry taxpayers generally can hardly be balmed for increasmg concern over accelerating government spending trends which have been steadily ad ding to their burdens in recent years The federal governments spen ding for the current fiscal year which ends on March 31 has been estimated at whopping $422 billion and it is said it could involve budget deficit of $5 billion At the provincial level the government also hasnt been paying its way despite record heavy taxation The Chamber of Commerce seems to believe that change in economic trends to reduce taxes and growing bureaucracy would en courage business and industry and thus give private enterprise better chance to cope with conditions Reduction in unemployment and greater productivity which should result after all are key goals which everyone desires DOWN MEMORY LANE 25 YEARS AGO IN TOWN Barrie Examiner Jan 14 1952 Barrie Boy Scouts collected more than 20 tons in the annual salvage drive for funds Al Byers and Jack Richardson of CUE were in charge Barrie blyers defeated Windsor Spitfires in Junior hockey action 43 Don McKenney scored twice for the locals James Hart Reeve of Barrie elected warden of Simcoe County Lloyd Partridge town assessor announced Barries population was 13318 while William Salter manager of Barries new Hydro substation on St Vincent Street announced it was in operation Lions Club pledged $5200 to fur nish new nurseries at Royal Vic toria Hospitals new memorial wing Rev James Ferguson ac cepted the pledge from Lion presi dent Noel Stephenson James Hancock associate agricultural representative for North Simcoe under Stewart Page introduced firstyear sods prOJect Winners Ralph Hayes Shanty Bay Bonnie Bannan Vasey Wallace Key Shan ty Bay William Courtenay elected chief ranger Barrie Court Canadian Order of Foresters flflERPRETING THE NEWS Canada Signs currency deal and helps with the pound ByJOHN HAY ROLE MAY END national money market LONDON CPr lhe cur rency deal Signed by Canada and seven other industrial countries this week closes gaping breach in Britains bulwark against future assaults onthe pound The agreement protudes Brit ain With S3lllllOll fund to be used to protect the pound again st the kind of selling binge that drove the currency to an all time low last October As part of the finanCial de fence strategy Britain Will in vite other governments holding sterling to exchange their poun ds for longterm bonds valued in foreign CUFFCHCICS The goal is to convmce in vestors in sterling that the Brit ish treasury has the funds to support its value in case of an other selling rush thereby pre ventingJu Elie Earrir Examiner 16 Bayfietd 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 early Single copies 15 cents Ey Mail Barrie $4420 yearly Simcoe County $3400 yearly Motor Throw Off $3900 yearly Balance of Canada $3600 year yNational Advertising Offices £5 Queen St West Toronto 8641710 640 Iathcart St Montreal Member of the Canadian Press and Audit Bureau of Cir culations The Canadian Press is ex clusivoty entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches in this paper credited to it or The Associated Press or Router and also the local news published therein The Barrie Examiner claims Co yright in all original advcr tismg and editorial material created by its employees and reproduced in this newspaper Copyright Registration Num But the policy also has longerterm and perhaps more important aimto reduce the sterling balances and end once and for all Britains unWilling role as the finanCier of major international reserve currency That is the purpose ot the of fer of the currency bonds in ex change for pounds As Denis Healey chancellor of the exchequer told the Com mons this scheme would re place volatile shortterm bor rowmgssterhngriWith long term government debts in the form of bonds Combined With the recently Signed $39billion loan from the International Monetary Fund the program is meant to shield the shaky British economy from the explosions of the inter Foreign government holdings of sterlingsocalled otfictal reservestotalled $38 billion at the end of September SALES HIT POLND Sales of these reserves espe Cialty by rich Oilexporting gov ernments were largely blamed for the drastic decline of the pound last year Private reserves of sterling held mostly by big companies have actually increased despite the decline of the pound as an investment The aim of Britain and her trading partners therefore was to rebuild confidence in sterling to forestall future selling While at the same time prov1ding for an orderly reduc tion in the sterling balances to make sure the problem does not arise again CAVEAT EM PTOR Lets ask politicians for comment NOEVERYTHIN6S FINE MUM ALTHOUGH AM FINDlNG ii LURE DIFFICULT WHEN GO TO THE BANROOM on outrageous cost of coffee By LEONARD NORMI The Canadian people have Withstood inflation economic drought rationing ot energy and increases in thc price of Virtually every staplc com modltv that we know But now catastrophc ot gargantuan proportions is about to overtake us The price of coffee which has been spiralling upward over the years seems about ready to take off into outcr space If the politicians wcrc asked tocommcnt can iniiiginc tlicm sounding somcthing Iikc this llllltttII lltlllill ltic govcrnmcnl ot antidu has today takcn it bold stcp iii ordci to prcvctit ttic pricc of cottcc from cscziloting any highcr In order to cttcctivcly stop ttic price increase it has placed surtiix of $2 on on cvciy poiitid ol cotfcc impoitcd intotinidii By doing lhlS ttic amount of cot tcc importcd into tanado should dcchtic Thus by thi laws of supply and dcmuud ttic pricc ot cottcc should fall to ANADAS ST lY Real estate deals were impressive By ROI BOWMAN There have been sonic lellill ing real estate deals in ana dian history In 1621 King James gave his poctry tutor William Alcxandcr territory now known as Ncwtoundtond Nova Scotia New Brunswuk Maine and part of Qucbcc Al exander was supposed to crch Cities appoint fairs hold cour ts grant lands and issuc coiii money In 181 Lord Selkirk acquircd 116000 square miles ol tcrritory from the Hudsons Bay oiii pany for rental of lo shillings year It includcd part of tilt area of Minnesota North Ila kota and Manitoba It should bc added thiit Sclkirk spcnt for tone acquiring ttic controlling iiitcrcst iii ttic company bclorc lhcdiul wcnl through lhc Hudsons tiny olllptlll mudc it big dctil itscll ltIII Ill 1849 whcn it tciiscd uncouvci Island from ttic ttritish govcrn mcnt tor scvcn shillingsu yciir lhc rcuson ttic company ob laincd such it lltltlltl was that Iirittiui was Ill ttic ttirocs of dcprcssion including liIIIIIIlC III lrclond At ttic StIIIlt timc tlic llnitcd Stiitcs Iltltl bought tuli foriilti from Mcxico and now cotitiottcd ttic lucitic coast to tticttlttipuiutlcl llrittiin nccdcd nuvul busi and Vziiicoiivcr Island was thc tar morc cquuublc lcvcl of cost to ttic constiiiicr In two or ltircc yctirs thi iitltidiun govern nicut may find IlStll in ttic lavoruhlc pOSIlIOIl of with drawingthcatorcsziid siiitux Jtlti lltK llic llimc Ministcrs attcnipt to stop thc horrcndous iiicrcusc III ttic pricc of cottcc by tcvying Slll churgc of $2 3o pcr pound is nothing morc than opcn mouthid naivctc on ttic port of tho tovcrnmciit In addition to it bcmg highway robbciy of thi logical pltl for it So ttic Ifud sons Hay toiiipiiiiy igiccd to build ttic titlSt pity ttic cost of dclciicc and bring III SttlltlS lu rcliirii it was givcn exclusivi trading rights throughout ttic island Ihc zigrmiiiciit was supposed to last until Him but sltiycd in cllcct iiiilil ltttiti whcn iiii couvcr Island and ttic mainland wcrc unitcd as ttic suiglc Hrit isti colouon Britisholumbiir OlllllR JAN lit EVENIS lxzft Uppcr aniidu lcgislti turc ixcd price of brciid um lIIt dcstroycd ti ltirgc part of Siiint John WC lfflfill QJN first dcgrcc ttic surtzix Wlll ac complish nothing and even it the pricc of coffee should either bc stubitmd or icduccd it Wlll bc 2i llltilSlllt that has bccn too lilttcandtoolzilc El BRODRIINI For many ycurs ttic has urged ttic IlilthtIlllIlllttll ot ttic coftcc industry III tzinada Albeit antidii has no cotlcc industry that is bcsidc ttic point but ttic anaditin govcrnmcnt should do and in fact what the Ntlt would do it it were in powcr would bc to ciicouragc ttic growth of cottcc iii oncs living room In that way we would no longcr bc slaves to the WllllllS unit cuprlccs of South Anicrictin corporalc bums At this timc would suggcst that Canadians be encouraged to dcmoiistrzitc their in dcixndcncc ol ttic cottcc habit byswitchingtotostuni WILL IIS lhc tovcrniiicnl of Ontario iczilizcs ttic catastrophic rcsults that will ensue in the event that the price of coffee continues to in crcosc at ttic prcscnt acr cclcrotcd rutc With this III Illltlti your iovcilimcnt will stand tociotoc and shoutdcrr to shouldcr to fight tilts incniicing scourgc of inflation and you can rcsl assured that wc vitt ltith no stonc unturncd ycs not cvcn onc coltcc bczin tlnltitlSltd unlit lllIS cVit mon stcr has bccii bciitcu Unfortunately bolti Slcphcn Lcwis and Stuart Snuth wcrc llIIthtllltlhlt for commcnt us tticy lltltl botli lclt for cottcc biciik READER FOR UJII Writes to Evans about Hydro hike Dear Sir This is letter have sent to my MP Art Evans would appreciate it if you would place same in your column to urge your readers to send along letter to their own MP advising of their feelings in this matter Mr Art Evans co queens Park University Avenue Toronto Ontario Dear Sir As resident of your riding wish to express to you my deep concern regarding the intention of Hydro to increase their rates by 2530 per cent effective this month As Barrie resident my hydro bill at the present time is in excess ot $700 per year and per cent increase on that is considerable amount wish to point out to you since moving to Barrie in 1974 my hydro rates have gone from an average of $48 per month to $65 per month with no explanation or to my knowledge increase in usage Your party which has been in control lor considerable num ber of years has had control over Hydro during these years of increased rates You will well remember several years ago the ad vertising campaign of Hydro that it was in fact the cheapest and most efficient way tor heating They ran an extensive campaign at our expense to prompt people to use hydro Those of us who had faith in the credibility of government statements purchased or built allelectric homes The writer as well as all other members of the public in On tario are subject to the price and age controls of maximum and wage controls of max imum of 10 per cent increase per year lf these guidelines are in fact working throughout the provin ce the writer fails to un derstand how 25 per cent in crease is required would advise you if this is an indication of the attitude of in difference your party has towards the general public it is my intention not to support your party in the next election As well it will be my intention to express my concern and opinion to others of my acquaintance and encourage them to do the same Thankyou SMcLean Barrie skating strip around the bay DearSir Barrie has long enjoyed reputation as an allseason recreationarea PartiCipation by residents both young and old in sports and recreation actiVities is very high as eVidenced by the YM YWCA expanswn and the numerous sports leagues During the summer months Barries waterfront is centre for boating SWimming and Thank you from CAS Dear Sir We would like to express our Sincere appreCiation to all those companies organizations church groups and indiViduals who gave Christmas gifts and money to our soc1ety this past Christmas Thanks to them many of the needy families whith whom our seeiely is involved were able to have happier festive season Yours Sincerely Mrs Joan Parker and Mrs Julie Cunningham Simcoe County Childrens Aid SOCiety water skiing etc however during the wmter there is little or no use made of this natural ice surface With the lake usually frozen for two to three months of the Winter why couldnt strip of ice along the takeshore be cleared for public skating This strip could extend around the bay from Mulcaster Street to the railway station Cityowned snowplows could easuy clear fifty foot Wide strip in matter of hours There would be little or no maintenance as is required With other natural ice rinks Ottawa has Similar skating surface on the Rideau Canal which has proved to be very popular with both reSidents and tourist Since public skating in Barrie is limited to few hours per week on overcrowded in door rinks there is definite need for such facility in Barrie PosSibly this prOJect has been suggested before and has been proved to be impractical If this isnt the case however perhaps the recreation department could investigate the chances of providing such faCility Yours truly Dave Sands Blake Street CARTERS PROMISE Mexico gains attention in policy redirection Ry GARRY FAIR BAIRN WASHINGTON CPI In keeping With Jimmy Carters promised redirection of foreign policy US offiCials are looking With renewed interest at the political and economic problems of neighbor With whom they share 2000mile border and an extenstve trade relationship The rectpicnt of this attention is not Canada but McXIco While even the November election of separatist govern ment in Quebec produced only brief flurry of stories Mcmcan developments have been con tinumg theme in the US news media US leaders are hoping for major improvements in trou bled MexicanUS relations un der Jose Lopez Portillo who was sworn in Dec as MeXicos 60th preSident While preSidenLelect Carter has promised to pay more at tention to such traditional friends as Canada that does not mean an end to the United States southward orientation in hemispheric affairs congressmnal subcom mittee for example begins hearings next week on recent developments in Mex1co and their economic implications tor the United States The official said none of the senators or representatives on the subcommittee seem inter ested in study of Canadian al fairs CARTER NOT BRIEFED The chairman Represen tative Gillis Long Dem La said in statement that US concern over Mexico includes that countrys sharp currency devaluations the flight of capital rural unrest over land redistribution and the current austerity program in MeXico ili Mystery man of Canadian letters probed in two excellent works TIIE EUROPEAN YEARS by DOUGLAS SIEITIOLE It is not to be wondered at that from time to time the question of Frederick Philip rove crops up in Canadian literary Circles Ever Since Croves death at Simcoe Ontario in 1948 he has been regarded as the mystery man of Canadian letters mystery of his own making Thus when in 1967 Douglas Spettigue of Queens University was inVited to par tiCipate in the Canadian Literature Series the author he chose as most in need of reexamination was rove Readers should be glad that he did so The book was SIX years aborning and was published in I973 It will likely be of more interest to more readers than Uroves own books have been to date It may well encourage many people to re examine Groves work or to read it for the first time out ot sheer curiosity to team more about remarkable man Grove lived in Europe till he was and his history of those years was such tangled web one wonders that Prof Spettigue was able to unravel so much of it Investigative tenaCity was necessary simply to discover where Grove was born and who he really was in Europe We now know his origins that he was born on the PrussmnPolish border and that both parents were German irove later in life must have had an ironic smile whenever he thought of that birth on border He was forever on some kind of border Also revealed in Dr Spettigues book is the record of troves formal education his published writings mostly translations something of his life perhaps his marriage With Elsa an architects wife and his year in prison The pages dealing With his arrest on charge of cheating friend out of large sum of money reads like superior tlrtcctivcstorv To say that irch was dual pcrsonulity is to un derstate the casc lnllucnccd by ttic writings of HOIISSltlIl lhorcau and Iatcr of Hurrougtics hc had lrcoms of Winning recognition Willi his own brand of naturalistic philosophy He was influenced by Andrc iidc and cnchoiitcd by lllt lllt style of Oscar Wildc It was lrovcs determination to cmuliitc wildc which led him into thccxtravaganl spending that bclicd his own III telligence and capabilities An cxcctlcnt linguist he was for ced to Stave at translating at llic cost of IS own lttlltVt potential Even attoWing for tiis ccccntricilics onc woiidcrs how he failed to realize that fits borrimiiigs would bring him to disaster In Canada he wrote about the man Within ttic mad am not His fictional character Sam lark Ill ttic Mastcr of the Mill asks himself it his own moral uitcgrity iiiiiltcrs then muses Let catastrophe come it it must That the European years remained mystery until Prof Spettigue dug into them would not be surprising if Grove had lived qmet life in Canada But he did iiol Ilc wanted recognition here and went about trying to gcl it III no uncertain way even to the point of quarrclting harshly Wllll anyone he thought was denying him his righll lll ptzicc Ilc was of course too accomplished to ItIIItIlII obsculc for very long but was ingenious at playing Iiidc and scck with his past Professor Spettiguc writes am iiichncd to put more faith in the earlier autobiography trovcst and some of the fictional statements than in the later autobtography Add to this the statement in one of ttic autobiographies belicvc have covcrcd mysclf fairly welt and we have some idea of the task lrot Spcltiguc un dertook liREDEthK PHILIP GROVE by MARGAREI SIORIE Margaret Stobies Frederick Philip lrovc is one of ttic World Authors Scrics piibtishcd by lwnync of New York the publisher states The intent of each volume in these scrics is to prcscnt IIlltillrtlllfllytlctll study of ttic writer to inctudc cssciitint biographical nizitcrizit III lttll Oll cisc English but not to Vitiatc ttic scholarly content of ttic work by doing so tlr Stobic iiiorc ttiiiii mccts this cxncting critcriti Ill this book of 195 pagcs which was publisticd in 1973 Ich task in any casc could not have bccn easy for trovc IS not cosy to IllltltISltItltl cithci as ii pcrson or ii writcr irovc was In cxccptiontilly latcntcd mun lie was also liiritig lIlS IIlllOptilIl ycars ii contcsscd congenital liar and soiiictliiiig of ii cticat Wlicii vc know this together With ttic fact that irovc ttic anndiiin was an austcrc IIIiIII of probity and good tcuchcr and that hc tiiixcd his history With MS tic tion we tizivcun astonishing iiicltingc Most of ttic 29 ycurs tic spent in Europc Wcrc far from happy ones for tiiiil and hc did whatever his crcalivc mind coiitd chisc to llltlkt tticm IlltIM for ttic inquisitive Dr Stobic ackiiowtcdgcs hci ludcblcdncss to Douglas Spot tigucs IIic tjuropcan Yciiis tor ttic dctuits of irovcs curly ytillS Spcttigucs book should bc rcud togcthct w1th Stobicst irovc was born iii itlllltllly of woikliigrclass iciuiiiii purcnts iii ttfltt lhc grcaitcr port of Dr Stobics book gcts into ttic IlltlltOl troveswiiting Ilis iiiosl successful book Search for America was ttic first onc hc wrotc III tllliltlti It is Ilr Stobics opinion that it is free from lIIS munncrisms and incoiiSistcnccs Perhaps this is bccausc it was written in ttictirst flush of his sense of freedom in ttic iicw world and from ttic turmoil of his years in Europe Iliit tic scims to two bccn givcn to ob sessions one of which was w1th ttic past and tic was soon carrying it about in tiuiadii Oiic of IS latest and iiiipoilaiil fictional characters iiiuscs about havuig lcd ll lurtivc sort of life Ilc had had sccrcls from cvciybody Ncccssitics had held him in their grasp This was surcty Irovc in Europe In his critical formative years he became obsessed With the writings of the naturalists Rousseau and Ihoreau and had dreams of making himself peer among them As con sequence he was takcn up With philosophies which as writer he could not put into his own form and had to admit that his thoughts did not come out on his pages as he in tended And he was obsessed With detail One wonders how so many details that do not forward the story could get into the writing of man who could at times write Willi economy and power But all things were possmtc With Grove lle yearned for outstanding success as writer in Canada and he could not have worked harder in his effort to achieve it In the late 1920s he had his moments of glory and it looked as if he had really arrived There was surge of in terest in him by the Canadian literati and among the many honors accorded him was election to the Royal Society The fame was brief and ttic Wide and lasting recognition he wan ted never came lr Stobic quotcs him Onc Will strive and struggle and yet by some freak of heredity fall short of his highest achiiwciiicnt doII He managed With difficulty to get twelve books published in his Iitctimc It is llr Stohics opinion that he deserves at tention for two of those books in Search of America and Ovcr triiiiic Iriiilsi and for some lSOltlttd passages It seems ironic that there are more than two books about him iilicady getting attention Margaret Stobic writes With style and is perceptive critic She looks at trove With sharp realism and yet With syiiipiittictic understanding We are iiidcblcd to her for this contribution to what yct iiiiiy bc culled iltwmlltl Reviews by Ilionias Smith for ttic Harrie Public Library