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aqwrfl 11nnday0ct11 1979 CIRCULATION 7266539 NEWSROOM 7266537 the eXaminer Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario LAM 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher ROOM Iarrio Euarninor MW at The Canadian Frau CF and Audit luroau at sorrows ADVER YISING uusmsss farzgfry°onmn Publlshed dallyexceot erlatiom inc on the concept Pro may was now or in in man in editor Len SEVick manager Marian cough accovnla 3mm xwgn assi 40mm SUHUOY OM WW cndnod to Chiba Assocom Pro louan or Am Franco Prom siri°oiaziis citvoedgitor Delva Mills Don Sauna statutory hoildaYS local now Itoriu publilhod an Tho lama Examiner tt nt McFarane WI Edna sH clgvnieGHaart L9 we WE Exgzégrniune Tho lama laminar claims copyright on alt original nowi and odvortiuing motorial Lizas Aggrgmia Jean Bass ggvardgun YEAR LY by carrier crmd by in employ and published in ml nowlpopgr unt servng borne and £09 335é27123 32852333 Copyright rngmration number 200815 rognturel BY MAIL arrie Lon cone gavm Talipcnm CIRCULATION Ed Allen $4940 The advartinr agrou that the publisher shall not be liable Ior damage arising out Ligafzflragrlnas eter of Bi Halkes manager $323232 SIMCOE COUNTy at on in OdvfllWILomoIdflvh bayond tho aruguhntpaid for tho we ozgunrily 2rd by that portion artuomont in ac orror occult in at or ar SennenGauer SLASSICZIEDH Visor 35 aSSsan manager vvonne Serps swooow OFF rat is duo to tho nogligonu oI VII SINUHI or otharwi and that shall 50 no sue Bowen camera Opera eggy ape De PRESSRCOM MOTOR THR liability for non inurtion at any advarlixomant bode tho amount paid Io such TerijliL Fm 12ng flvavLVaPame AI Hanson toreman $41503 vear communism 3JSSZTET Jam Eisaameaarsrwn Eonaa snowman ELSEWIifi 05 IN CANADA Ihn PUbIIh rosary the right to In ravru clausin or roioct an odvortin re year 7266537 72824 7266537 Cheri AM Well worth extra price The suggestion that Barrie police try out smaller engine lVb squad car is an interesting one The smaller engine offers the advantage of fuel economy as well as slightly lchr purchase price When youre operating fleet of cars the savings could add up for the force and the taxpayer Taking the idea step further you might ask why the iariie force wouldnt follow the example of some municipalities and use Compact cars at least for some ofits work The reasoning is simple The smaller cars are much more ecimomical And police especailly city police rarely indulge in high speed chases that require powerful cars We doubt however that fullsize police cars will give way to smaller models And theres good reason for it In the first place the police car is by definition an emergency vehicle If an officer is required to step on it the advantage of the larger car is obvious lolicc safety is another factor Fullsize police cars enable pisoners to be put into the car quickly and with relative safety Even dollarwise the apparent savings on smaller police cars may be false economy The police car is Workhorse Smaller cars simply wouldnt hold up as well and everyone knows the costs of car repairs today So while at first glance any move towards smaller or compact police cars might seem inviting thejoli ofefficient and safe police comes first We think the advantages are well worth any extra cost Sir am writing to you with reference to your Editorial Welfare comment ill advised Examiner Oct Whenever have spoken on any subject have always said what believe to be the truth and reflection of the views of those ratepayers represent am unlike the ma jority of elected officials in all the various forms of government who refrain from this approach due suspect to possible back lash to their own political image business in terests club memberships and so on My at titude of course has severe drawbacks the main one being constant ready made target for articles such as the one you have written Please do not misunderstand me fair accurate comment welcome however your Editorial of the 3rd was straight Bush League When the Tosorontio Township Resolution was presented to General Government Com mittee it brought with it an administration recommendation that it should not be sup ported One of the reasons put forward was that person required to work on clean up would then have less chance of finding job and leaving the welfare rolls At this point suggested that the resolution was really seek ing support in an effort to make those people who deliberately dodged work to do something for the support they receive also said that felt the resolution was not taking aim at those unable to find work nor at those physically unable to work On the basis of those stated views supported the resolution as did the majority of committee members In speaking to the motion on the floor said that my support was not bigotted personal opinion but rather reflected the views of some ratepayers that represented at council who were in general fed up with continuing support of welfare bums hastened to add that this description was not my own personal expression but was coined by disgruntled public over the present svstem in DEREK NELSON Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO questionable assumption underlies much of the debate about whether unilingual Frenchlanguage high school should be built in Penetanguishcne It is that singlelanguage school system for an isolated minority will prevent assimilation by the surrounding majority Regardless of which side of the political struggle people are on they seem to accept that claim as an undeniable promise The province for exampch rejected building new Frenchlanguage high school on the grounds the number of students who would be using it would never justify the $4 million cost But Education Minister Bette Stephenson accepts that without such building the risk of Francophone assimilation is enhanced She accepts it partly because she savs shc we want your Opinion Something on your mind Send Letter to the Editor Please make it an original copy and sign it The Examiner doesnt publish unsigned let ters but if you wish pen name will be used Include y0ur telephone number and address as we have to verify letters Because of space limits public interest and good taste The Examiner sometimes has to edit condense or reject letters Letters to the Editor are run every day on the oditoriql page Send yours to Lotton to the Editor The Ericher Post Office Box 370 Milli Out MM letters to the editor In view of the above stated facts as they oc curred at the committee meeting find your comments that insulted those on welfare and had in fact demeaned the responsible of fice to which was elected not only incorrect but quite melodramatic Eighty per cent of Welfare Funds in On tario are contributed by the Provincial Government and the other twenty per cent by the municipalities This boils down to the fact that the working people pay the total cost in one form of taxation or another The costs in Barrie for each month are staggering and these costs are repeated in every town city and village in Ontario all paid for by every worker That Mr Editor was what the Tosorontio Resolution was all about not about how much the taxpayer can bear for make work programs or how many or how few welfare cases are available to work in Barrie There are of course number of serious questions to be addressed in regard to the welfare system in Ontario and they should be studied as soon as possible by the applicable government However do feel that have the right to express View in general com mittee as it reflects some views of the people represent without being told by you that what said was ill advised generalities The local newspaper has an important function in every community along with radio and television Perhaps the most powerful tool available to newspaper is the Editorial Might suggest that if this is to be used to castigate any person elected or otherwise that there is moral obligation on the part of the author to research the material commented upon to insure all perti nent facts are placed before the reader without any bias Gordon Mills Alderman Ward City of Barrie Language premise questionable one has seen no evidence to the contrary The current academic orthodoxy is that bilingual high schools inevitably lead to assimilation ENTITY SCHOOLS The existing Pcnctanguishcnc Secondary School is bilingual in the sense some subjects are taught in French but everything else in the school functions in English thn Stephenson vctocd distinct building for Francophoncs she tried to sweeten the sour taste it would leave in some mouths Accepting the assimilation argument slic proposed establishment of Frenchlanguage entity within the walls of the current building school is not necessarily building It is program she told press conference here So the province will finance en cntircly Francophone school parallel to the English language school which means two credit programs two earlier faculties two ad ministrations but all within the same bricks and mortar NOT IOI There is still the risk of assniiilation shc concedes biil tlic aim of the entity kind of bilingual school is to make it more resistant than the current kind of mixed bilingual schools Hcr Liberal NDI and Irancophonc critics are convinced the idcawont work at all What happcns is that in the corridors on the football field riding the school buses and dealing with the cafeteria staff the language is still English Yet one has to wonder about culture so fragile that it collapses before the impact of ordering chips and gravy iii English In fact it is very much an unproven assumption that purely Francophone school environment impedes assimilation any better than bilingualism when the surrounding community is overwhelmingly of another language That would make sense only if Pcnctanguishcne were unilingual French ghetto that works and plays in French rather than English And it isnt Pcnetanguishenc is not Hearst or Sturgeon Falls wlierc English is almost unknown and where unilingual school system makes sense momssmc Kim Pattenden MY KiD CANT 9qu JOB lNFLATIONa KlLLlNG ME CANT AFFORD To BUY 6A5 BARTENDER is In hnuuu1 fiMflWfl QIzltlzllillnilIll WWWA By JOHN HARBRON Forcigii Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The announced and abouttobeannounced candidates for president of the United States in 1980 are depressing lot given the im mense amount of managerial talent present in the USA On the Republican Party side small clatch of candidates some of them so right wing one must wonder if they are for real include Ronald Reagan and John onnally 0n the Democratic side there will be Jimmy Carter running fora second time and who will announce his candidacy next December 4th and Senator Ted Kennedy perhaps the most cynically political presidential candidate of them all Kennedy still has not declared his crin didacy But he fences around that reality in so many ways with so many people one wonders too what his presidency would be like in terms of making hard decisions If you are an American you were told few weeks ago that Mrs Rose Kennedy gave her OK for her son to run for the presidency and presumably we can soon expect the selfsame son to throw his hat on the ring What kind of politics isthis In each case including several Republican candidates in addition to Reagan and Con nally who are largely unknown outside the world of politics one wonders what are their credentials Parliament Hill STEWART lacllittl Ottawa liiiicau Thomson News Service Heward lrafftcy just made it under the wire but he did make it and lie was able to enter the new Parliament clutching real live portfolio There would be no more jokes about him being the minister for meals on wheels What is surprising is that Prime Minister loc lark waited so long to provide his little clt with meaningful role in government ip until lhaiiksgiviiig Monday even lr tirafltcy didnt really know what his responsibilities were Now he docs By appointing the Bltlll9llSSlSqllOl ll as his minister of state for science and tech nologv the prime minister has promnttd the minister to an established portfolio where he can rule over the government scientific and technological programs Its not exactly like being minister of external affairs or minister of justice but its certainly bettcr than being minister of state for social programs That was the job that the prime minister invented for Mr Gratltcy when he initially formed his cabinet following the May 22 general election job that no one as able to define with any clarity not even the minister responsible Why Mr lark felt obliged to create new niche for the 51year old parliamentary veteran will remain mystery SHORTAGE Its not as though there were too many ministers to fill existing portfolios 1n fact Mr Clark asked certain ministers to accept two unrelated portfolios while he created this vague lowlevel job for Mr Grafftey And it seemed particularly odd because this little minister was one of only two MPs elected in Quebec In the circumstances both could be minister WWWWWWWWWMW 61 774 JOHN ONNALIA toughminded Tcxan ONNALLY AHEAI In terms of knowing how government and Washington works Connally is clearly the best Since he has served in the cabinets of HE XRI ilMFITEY new portfolio expected to be vaulted close to the top But no Roch LaSalle was tucked away in the department of supply and services and Mr irafltcy was put in charge of social programs under Health Minister David trombie The prime minister reached into the Senate for more senior ministers from Quebec Mr Grafftey always the upbeat en thusiast tackled his illusive responsibilities with typical emotional flair Its just per fect he declared shortly after his ap pointment iust love it As he saw it he 42 III7 IIIn IIIMllllllI reg41 émVflUI INl mflm IIl II WIWWMXIWWM zy goF ROCKY MTN N€N 79 NEA both Democratic and Republican presidents Connally is toughminded former governor of Texas but with few personal events which cloud his political past He was indicted but later acquitted of charges of accepting $10000 bribe from milk producers for urging Nixon to increase their price supports In September Connally denied as vicious smear the report of irregularities in granting bank charters to eight Texans one of them his son while he was Secretary of the Treasury Ronald Reagan is the inveterate rightwing campaigner but this time thinking in terms of middleoftheroad Republicans who could be swayed by the fasttalking Connally At least Kennedy offers clear ideological alternative to the Republican pack with his heavy programs of increased state care for the sick and indigent his lessthanlthawkish views on the perennial international problem of dealing with the USSR But maybe in the US its too late for the kind of state medicine which we enjoy in Canada and Britain given the incredible costs of hospital administration and doctors services in the United States By comparison the muchmaligned Jimmy Carter whose polls on personal popularity are apparently lower than the lowest for Harry Trueman in the late 19405 doesnt look that bad Heward Grafftey elevated from for meals on wheels would be in charge of all social programs including famply allowances the Canada Assistance Plan disabled allowances vocational guidance and all of those countless programs under joint financing arrangement with the provinces be working with folks real folks he said in an interview Just think about all there is to do in this area and think about all the things we can do to help real people The way Mr iralftcy llllllétll viewed this new responsibility he would become one of the most influential ministers in Ottawa IOltE IIXIIII Hill And you could scarcely blame him for lhmkmgthis way isankllsinceltifut with one interruption li iratftey earned his way to position of influence He had fought like tiger running the emotional gauntlet from temper to tears on behalf of the little people of Canada Peering through those thick glasses the gnome from lirome Switched comfortably from English to French appealing for greater under standing between the founding races For time he was regarded as serious contender for his partys leadership although he eventually finished well down the line behind Mr Clark In short Mr Grafftey had earned more than hastilyconceived portfolio that would be under the ultimate responsibility of rookie 1th from Toronto And as the months went by it became increasingly clear that this rockie MP Mr Crombie would keep tight list on his departmental purse strings At time when the prime minister was trying to convince Quebecers that their voices would be heard loud and clear in cabinet Mr Grafftey was wandering aimlessly through the corridors of power looking for listeners Your business Action needed on inflation By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Remember Thanksgiving 1975 when the Trudeau government announced an im pressive array of socalled controls to check the record inflation of that period Well Thanksgiving 1979 had brought an Ottawa announcement of the only anti inflation restraint thats left an increase in the administered level of interest rates to record high Canadas bank rate has been increased to 13 per cent from 1275 per cent Canadian chartered banks new prime lending rate is 1375 per cent up from 13 per cent set just four weeks carlieri but still below the coni parable US rate of 145 per cent The 1975 wagc and price controls which werent that but ceilings 0n wage increases and an enforced rollback of corporate profit margins helped to cut the inflation rate in half by the end of the following year In 1979 however consumer prices are rising almost as fast as they were four years ago and much faster than last year The annual rate of inflation in the first half of this year was 122 per ccnt in Canada and 14 per cent in the US In the second half of last year consumer prices rose at an annual rate of 72 per cent here and 79 per cent in the US SOLE WEAPON But the new Conservative government in Ottawa holds to the political position that antiinflation restraints were bad thing presumably because they were adopted by Liberal government That leaves it up to the Bank of Canada the sole official body thats trying to do any thing to check inflation And theres even question as to whether the central bank is resisting the trend toward higher inflation or simply making an inevitable reaction to inflationary pressures In theory if not always in practice is an increase in the cost of borrowing ought to dis courage people from borrowing money and spending it just as an increase in the price of anything else should discourage its use Bank of Canada statement said that its governor Gerald Bouey is well aware of the problems that current interest rates are causing to individuals and to business The underlying cause of these problems is the high present rate of inflation of which the current level of interest rates is symptom The only effective way to bring interest rates down on lasting basis is by achieving success in lowering the rate of inflation HOLLOW RING There have been 10 consecutive increases in Canadas bank rate since the beginning of last year without any noticeable success in lowering the rate of inflation Strong groups in the economy public officeholders and strongly unionized workers such as teachers auto workers and telephone installers are either automatically protected against inflation through salary indexing or have only to demand pay increases well in excess of the inflation rate There is therefore hollow ring to the criticisms of those who contend that interest rate increases are some kind of conspiracy against labor designed to increase uncm ployment The September jobless rate actually dipped to 71 per cent of the labor force the lowest in three years The growth of inflation is clearly the most urgent economic problem Fighting inflation is the only sensible way of fighting unem ployment and other economic ills That could mean still 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