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Elli Earth Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayflald Strut Barrio Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Honhaw Managing Editor 4Tbo Barrio Examiner Friday August 20 1976 Delay in acting bit of shame The late scramble by Simeoc County council to pre re case for Barries annexation tearing should not surprise anyone Such iiiovejust two months before the Ontario Municipal Board makes ruling is typical of the sleepy government that claims to re resent 33 municipalities usual county council is miles behind the ambitious rciresen tatives in urban commuuit es like Barrie And its all bit of shame real Because although county coun cillors tend to be slow on some things they hold certain values that we city clickers might do well to consider Fiscal responsibility duty to the tax yer preservation of farmland an traditional ways of life recrea tion and sound planning are all somewhat cliched goals of county councillors The trouble is that the councillors havent had the skill or drive in the past to achieve those goals Their ear of changes has resulted in nearstagnation Now Barrie wants to annex 20000 acres threatening the tax base of three townships and using up good farmland in two of them Authorizing planning study this week county council hopes to prepare case at the Oct hear ing to show why ltarrie is greedy in wantin to quadruple its size with one swi move The funny thing is that council could have had its study coiiipleled earlier this year llow liy working liaiidiuglove with the Simeoc Georgian Area Task Force That body appointed by the pro vlncial overnmeut could have become to voice of county council on the subject of immense planning instead council had little to do with the task force as individual councillors merely took pot shots as they felt their own communities were sllglited Its hard to believe but Simeoc ounty council has yet to offer critique of the task force report since its publication Whatever happens at the annexa tion hearing one thing seems clear Simeoc County and the cities of Bar rie and Orillia should get together either on one council or on one plan ning board Otherwise residents of Simcoe County will become more and more the poor cousins of the Simeoc Georgian Area And advocates of limited growth will be on their way to losing other battles against those who want development no matter what the cost The government should do something about it is the common response to just about anything we see going wrong in our society We have said it for so long and so often that today the government is doing something about just about everything and about all that is left for us is to com lain about the government and at it is costing us The only thing that has increased at greater rate than taxes in Canada is our demand upon govern ment And were finding gradually that it costs us lot more for the government to do things for us than it does to do them for ourselves We expect the government at every level to do everything from forcing us to wear seat belts in our cars to paying for the local charity We take what is practical and helpful means of supportin people in need through taxes an expect government to make it into something that is supposed to substitute for our own productivity as if we can all forget work and live off money that government ma gically produces We take healthy job roducing free enterprise system an clutter it up with government regulation so that it too becomes dependant and the jobs must be produced instead by government We sense that Canadians are star ting to realize that we have ex pected too much of government and that we have no one to blame but ourselves for the phenomenal escalation in the public bur eaucracy which is this nations eatest burden We feel that Cana ians are beginning to understand finally that we can do things more is Ehr Burro Examiarr 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario efficiently ourselves than govern ments can We can have more fun and satisfaction doing them and we can keep more of our personal freedom into the bargain There are signs too that our leaders are beginning to realize that they have gone too far In this time of spending cuts many are not afraid to tell people that govern ment cannot afford to do certain things that the people will have to do them for themselves It begins with charities Com munity and Social Services Minister James Taylor said recently The more government gets involved the more the private sector moves out Were making charity Crown corporation and making the Good Samaritan public employee And along the same ines Liberal leader Stuart Smith says Its in credible that this province whose people have long tradition of help ing one another particularly in rural areas should now have become so dependent upon govern ment initiative to get things done If the Government grant is not for thcoming so many groups seem to feel that there is no way they can proceed Thats in case of charity and local improvements It applies as well to regulations At the first sign that we as people cannot regulate ourselves properly we demand that government regulate us There are certain things that only government can do But we have gone far beyond those things We should demand government action only as last resort when all else fails Orillia Packet and Times Law offers protection for BC homebuyers Telephone7x6537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return tage guaranteed Dai Sunda and StatutoryH idays excepted Subscription rates daily by carrier 85 cents weekly $4420 yearly Single copies 15 cents By Mail Barrie $441 yearly Simcoe County $3400 yearly Balance of Canada $3500 year iy National Advertising Offices if Queen St West Toronto $44710 640 Catbcart St Mon treal Member of the Canadian Press and Audit Bureau of Cir culatiom The Canadian Press is ex clusively entitled to the the for republication of all new dis atchos in this paper ited to it or The Associated Pres or ther and also the locnlncws published therein TintBarrie Examiner claims Copyright in all original adver tising and editorial material coated by its employees and uccdin this newspapa ogeyrright Registratio Num 203315 registersl VANCOUVER CP Home buyers in British Columbia now are offered protection against major structural defects on new homes The New Home Warranty Program of BC recentl in itiated by the Housing Ur ban Development Association of Canada HUDAC protects buyers for fiveyear paiod up to maximum coverage of sll New single and semi detached homes row housin and condominium units of frame construction and buildings up to four storeys are included in the plan Not in cluded are rehabilitated recreational or mobile homes orrental units In case builder bonkrupt cy purchasers are covered against loss of deposit and mpayments made to the deru comma Cost the is car ried by the registered builder and an outside insurance agent covers the program as whole Builders pay 3350 registration fee an annual renewal fee and $350 for each unit covered The registered builder is re sponsible for repairing any de fects in materials or work manship while major struc tural defects are covered by the am itself The warranty is ansferrable to new occupant during the iveyear period if builder takes no action on complaint by homeowner the owner can submit written complaint to the program along with $50 deptsit re funded if the complaint is valid Decisions on complaints are promised within 14 days The program has been over three years in the making be ginning at HUDAC con vention in 1972 when the association decided to study warranty program and joined committee with Central Mor ggle and Burning Corp and ederal department of con sumerand toaffain Alberta was the first to in troduce main which has insured over 80 cent of the provinces buil ers and pro vided warranties for about 14 wOnew homes Manitoba introduced pro grm May while Quebec and tario are expected follow soon The four maritime prov inca will introduce joint pro izram Look at ff this way youd new get Vlllltltll oi Ill but FROM PARLIAMENT HILL one has yet explained Why BiBi assessment needed By STEWART MachEOl Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service There must be some reason why the government decided to spend more than half million dollars for an assessment of its bilingualism pro ram but so far no one has exp ained it We alread have an Official Languages ommissioner who issues an annual re rtits really an evaluation the bili ngualism programand the is sue is reiiucnlly debated by our elected representatives and constantly studied by various government departments No issue is subjected to greater public scrutiny And the government acting with the approval of Iarlia ment has never wavered in its determination to establish an cfectively bilingual public sorvlt ice So it isnt clear why it was necessary to commission an YOUR BUSINESS Unit labor costs hurt Canadian trade By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service In the competition for worid trade Canadas performance is about on par with our athletic performance at the Recent Olympic Gamesgreat on pa per but no gold medals Anyone searching for rea son for our evergrowing trade deficit will soon note the steady increase that has been taking place in our unit labor costs the costs of labor per unit of manufacturingoutput In the 197075 period accord ing to an international com parison by economists at Citi ank NA of New York Can adas output per manhour in creased 16 per cent hourly compensation advxnced by 60 per cent and unit labor costs therefore rose 38 per cent Those figures confirm sub stantial increase in labor costs which are the major element in production and key determi nant of selling prices which in turn are vital in determining international competitiveness COST COMPARISONS But theres just one problem with the unitlaborcost cx lanation Those costs have en rising even faster in most overseas countries In prosperous West Germany and Switzerland for example unit labor costs in the 197075 period rose 44 and 49 cent respectively express in local currency The increases were 114 and 149 per cent respectively when stated in terms of the United States dollar which declined sharply against the mark and franc during the period Its more realistic however to compare Canadas economic performance with that of the US which is by far the biggest market for Canadian exports and the biggest supplier of our imports That comparison brings the picture into sharper focus Sadto watch Gandhi preen about regime By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service It still is sad to watch Indias Prime Minister Indira Gandhi democrat turned tyrant pres ening in public about her ac complishment of turning her vast country into die tatorship Mrs Gandhi is doing it again this week on the first anni versary of her total control over Indian civil liberties Parlia ment and the press which she imposed last summer Along with her selfadulation about ending democracy in In dia are the other familiar sta tistics of authoritarian leaders selfsufficiency in food supplies stability in ternally and promise that such measures will beonly tern porary How tiresome these have be come in our times as one leader after another in the world strips away whatever human rights their population had accumu lated in the name of larger cause If her claims of selfsuffi ciency in food production are true it is major performance for India About five years ago however the indians were tell ing us the same thing with the local high commissioner from India berating the press for beingske tic This co umnist remains skep tic about the chaotic and often corrupt Indian food distribution system that has been turned in stde out in less than 12 months and that old patterns of food production have changed CHINA DID IT It took Communist China the best part of 20year phase of complete revolution to bring selfsufficiency in food so that every living Chinese of that countrys estimated 800 million will have food in his mouth This is long way indeed from whatever it is Mrs Gan dhi has accomplished since In dia has not entered Chinese revolutionary phase nor has the strictly imposed selfdis cipline methods of China been copiedinlndia Prime Minister Gandhi has said much about an end to cor ruption and nepotism in the In dian political system and within her own ailing Congress party And yet her son is elevated to rominence and alleged avored positions in Indian in dustry in way which could only be done with any legitimacy if Mrs Gandhi were monarch and her son the heir This is exactly what Indians in the ition abroad are saying her now much hated offspring And of course the press in India cannot com ment because of her cen sorship This week Prime Minister Gandhi is star rformer at the conference nonaligned nations in nei hboring Sri Lanka along wi such lovely leaders as Libyas Col Quad dafi and the black tyrants who rule in most of Africas new but nevertheless vociferous nations Ollltl outside study when iiicic ncvcr hch iiiiii any plain to make llllitlitllltltllll charity in the current llllliiiltliilihrii pro gram lllthVll lbi itpull prepared by Monticnl linguist Gillis liihcnu and weighing more than Iiz pounds did provide licnsuiy lionrd lrcsidtiii lcnn hitticn Willi another opimrtunily to any the government will fOIlllIillt with its current program The study found all sorts of While hourly compensation in Canada was rising 00 per cent it increased 10 per cent in thc Output per American man hour improved by only 10 per cent vs 16 per cent but the key figure the rise 111 unit labor costs was 1M pci ccnt lllfft against flit per cent litIt EUROPEAN MAIIKIII It may not he as important to know why our labor costs are Worsc than in lllt and lfl lcr than in Olsfi countries as to know how to profit from thesituation One obvious messagi is that our exporters ought to he look ing beyond the big easily reached market in lllt illl which we are at lnbortost disadvnntngci and looking in stead for markets overseas where lillOfCtSt increases have been outstripping ours Mrs Gandhis dictatorship continues to appal us in West ern democracies and in places where lndia was once admired flaws in the program which costs lllitfly $400 million year and Professor llibcnu described it generally as an imposing machini which has numerous deficiencies and whose overall jxiccptiblc yield is not very grcat MANY ItIIJIZfTlONS There were 23 recommenda tions for making the program more effective but Mr Thre ticn made it clear that most Would be rejected He said they came from wellintentioned thcorcticians who can think in terms of perfection while the gowrnmcnt must think in ter msof reality Since this could have been predicted from the beginning its still questionable why the government wanted to spend $550000 on the appraisal And Mr hrcticns explanations dont help all that much Talking about the proposals in the study he said they aim to make the pedagogical situation more responsive to the particular needs of the student population namely public servants and also more Sensitive to the concerns within the public service about the total system He offered some other complicated praises as well And the study produced some nice new phrases such as thre shold of bilingualism and the minister responded with receptive proficiency but none of these expressions are going to bring about basic changes in the current program In fact when Mr fhrctien held press con ference following publication of the report he devoted most of his time to defending what the government is doing And 18 months after he com missioned this expensive study he was criticizing it for un sufficicnt analysis of un dcrlyingfacts We are not trying in estab lish new policy he declared Were trying to put into place the policy accepted by Parliar ment After reading all 12 vol umes of the study he said that the government will stick With the general direction of its lanr guage policy And perhaps this is just as well because the Bibeau com missmn had recommended that Canadian Language Author ity be created to monitor lan guage pllCVS1ifjCl€$ and conduct research into the teaching and learning of languages IN TERPRETING THE NEWS Law of Sea conference adrift and anchorless By GEORGE Kl It HEN UNITED NATIONS The Law of the Sea confcrcnt is adrift and ancliorlexs in sea of uncertainty about how best to govern the use of the resoui ces of the worlds oceans Delegates so the cuff fcrence now in its third week is not hopelessly deadlocked but it is caught in series of crosscurrents generated by proposals and counter proposals by rival blocs More than 2000 delegates from 157 countries are making their fifth attempt to reach agreement on an international treaty to govern such things as fishing and shipping rights control of offshore resources marine research and the mining of valuable minerals which lie on the deep seabed Fourfifths of the treaty arti cles already have been ac cepted generally However conference sources said there has been little or no progress for more than week as delegates wrestled with such problems as methods of mining the seabed resources and estab lishmeiit of offshore economic zones for coastal states The proposal tor economic nines would git coastal states such as Canada exclusive fish ing and mineral rights up to 200 miles off their shores with 12 mile territorial limit Landlocked states with little or no shoreline object to the ex elusive nature of that proposal and want to limit the rights of the coastal states They are de manding access to the sea through the territory of their neighbors and the right to fish and mine in the zoomile zones The seabedmining proposal involves plans to set up an in ternational authority to recoyer millions of potatosized nodules rich in nickel copper manganese and other minerals which cover the ocean floor and are estimated to be worth $3 trillion Canada Peru Chile and other minerafproducing coun tries have exprssed fear the mining of deepsea nickel will WHO the government rotrninlng cantor flood international markets CANADA STORY First trip took 52 days ff mm BOWMAN ltrivtng across Canada can beadetigtitfuleii icnceeii aiaiiy betwetai ii and end of claim he journey tioni met to nest lakes show nine days on the basic of 500 railroads Stranyly some autoiiuibile our infirm ottiwe and oil umi pony tiavct Mucous iumn mend using United biota trawl imam pint of the way have diiycn urine Canada many time also vii the mute and prefer the fiuns lmmda Highway oil the way inning in the has pm hope one advantage Motels are gentHilly firthi heinou they give flllrll value for ttw money fhc highway mines lhl linnics is dull at llffttb but wry tutorial in the summer munth when wheat and othei grains are giowmg and Hi riiilly in fair Au tfbl during file limvmst it wmilt lIPffftftlllBtl ion if Ileftllhl tourist himnus woulv put signs on the fences omnsionnlly identifying the types of crops giowmg in the fields The flfhl count toward trii across Canada was real ml Vfflllffl It was undertaken by llioniiis Willcy of Iiriiuin who left Ilnlifax on Aug 20 1912 and arrived at Victoria 52 days later The most difficult part of his trip was between Toronto and Sault Ste Marie where hr had Movement of giant plate causes quakes volcanoes By ALAN IIARMAN The ariadlan Press The big eartbr uakes in South east Asia and ina are caused by the same geological activity that has reactivated volcanoes in the Caribbean and South America The demon power causing hu man havoc lies in the move ment of giant plates deep be neath the earths surface Goetz Buchbinder govern ment seismologist in Ottawa says the eruption of La Souf riere on the Caribean island of Guadelou results from the shifting the Atlantic plate un der the Caribbean plate As for the Sangay volcano in Ecuador the basic cause is the slipping of the Pacific plate be neath the South American con tinent Dr Bob Baragar vol canologist with the federal energy department at Ottawa explains that when one plate moves under the other the lower plate rcmelts as it is pushed further below the sur face The lava comes up through afacturc zone WILL BE VIOLENT These fracture zones usually ille at the site of existing vo canoes alive or inactive Bara gar says for this reason the eruption at La Soufriere in Guadeloupe will be violent and dangerous Other volcanoes in the area could also come to life This happened in Martinique in 1902 he says when Mount Pelee exploded and killed more than 30000 people Pompeii which still attracts scientists as well as tourists was destroyed first by an earth quake and then by an eruption in Al 63 an earthquake hit Pompeiis inhabitants were still cleaning up six years later when Mount Vesuvius exploded intolifeand destroyed the city In 1815 Tambora volcano in Sumbawa in the Dutch East Indies began an eruption which lasted seven years Seientists believe this eruption caused worldwide drop in temperature of three degrees Celsius They WE WANT Yf Wit OPINION Letters submitted for publication must be original copies signed by the writer Please include your street ad dress and phone number although they will not be published Letters which can not be authenticated by phone cannot be published For the sake of space public interest and good taste The Examiner reserves the riyit to edit con dense or reject letter THE PICK OF PUNCH of rumbling the volcano in the to haul his car through swam often using block and toe tied to trees He had to taket train from North Bay to bury and put his car on board ship from Sault Ste Marie Thunder Bay lie drove in reverse feat getting through the Roe tee and sometimes along railwayline in 1020 Percy Come Vancouver and his wife ro from Montreal to Vancouver 32 days They used US rout from Matt Ste Marie to Em son Man and the State Vfflsfllllflfllfl to British Colu If Oflflfilt AUG 20 EVENTS um Muisonncuve arriv at Qiuvtm on his way to foun Montreal tutti llenry Kelsey is lievcd to have been the fi white man to enter Saskatch WM 1720 More than 300 Bettie arrived at lie SaintJea new Saskatoon was found by John Lake temperanc group itittli Northwest Territori Jouncd held first session at It gina mitt University of Saskat chewan was founded Saskatoon 11155 Gov Gen Vincen Massey opened World Scou Jamboree at Niagarainthe luikc say the ash throwa into the at inosphere by the ex lesions re fircted sunlight ant solor radi zition back into space resulting in the temperature drop 32 MILLION DAMAGE Last year Hawaiian voican caused 32 million damage homes and businesses Kilauea rising to 14000 feet is the larg est volcano in the world am ted for 23 days sending mil ion cubic yards of lav down its side Perhaps the most massive volcanic eruption in modcrr times occurred 93 years agr this month On Aug 26 1883 after months island of Krakatoa near Java began exploding The activity was to last for three days and the name Krakatoa was to re verberate around the world On Aug 27 four huge ex plosions shook and blew away the whole of the northern and lower portion of the island lyv ing within an original crater of prehistoric times The northern part of one volcanic cone al most disa ared leaving vertical clif which bared the inner structure Apart from Mount Edziza in northern British Columbia there are no volcanic craters to remind Canadians of the coun trys volcanic past In the Cana dian Shield region there were once great volcanoes but crov sion has removed all traces them BIBLE lilOliGP Because thine heart was tender and thou didst humble thyself before God when thou heardest his words againitt this place and against the inhab itants thereof and humbledst thyself before me and jdidst rend thy clothes and weep before me have even heard thee also saith the Lord hronicles 34 27 Sometimes it is not until we come down from our lofty religious tower to an altar of true repentance that we can really get through to God and HE can get through to is Blessed be the Lord that hath given rest unto his people Israel according to all that he promised there hath not failed one word of all his good pro mise which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant Kingstizsti Gods word is great deal more than cold print it is charged with the power the the Holy Ghost to bring into our lives might and miracles such as we have never known cometile