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My NovJ 1m atcvunou 7266539 7266537 Craig Bison managing edtor Stan DidzbaIs Itv calla Bill McFarlane wire editor REPORTERS Publisnod by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited to Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario LAM 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher COMPOSING ROOM Published daily except Epiroas novsarismo ausmess melmmmn Sum we Len Sevick mortal MOW G009 WWW Glenn Kwan asst foreman statutory holidays SALES Ws DonSaunders WEEKLY um Aden Smith Lorne Wass Ms Wayne Hay Connc Hart Wt Cadoaan Stephen Nic halts Steve Skinner Stan way YEAR LY by carrier sorvmg borne on simcoe county Dem Lanm Manon Hardy Raynor 90 Catvm Feleochuk RonGilder av MAIL Barrie LON Cohen peyef mark Ed Auenbv Montreal Tony Panacc CIRCULATION JameHam SIMCOECOUNTY Richard Thomas CLASSFED Bill Nantes manager SuwnKlknm mm Stephen Gaoer Andy Haughton assistant manager yvmn 51995 sue Bowen camera opeao eggv sown50 Doug 30 PRESSROOM MOTOR who OFF Terry Field Alva LaPIanIe Hanson Mama at year mm mm mm cw °° MacMurchv Don Near asst tarcman Marv Delaney Elaine Burton fired Prime 00 7266537 7282I4 Cheryl Aiken Kim Pattenoen Changed council could end up same motion to reduce the size of County Council has reached the On tario Legislature and slimmed down version seems all but assured for the future The amended council would com prise 39 members 15 fewer than now by reducing membership from two to one for smaller munici palities The proposed change would seem to answer the need for streamlin fd approach to governing the coun The new council offers realistic approach of putting more votes into the hands of the larger munici palities while retaining representa tion for the smaller ones With fewer members theres some saving to taxpayers as well All seems well then with the pro posed setup which by almost everyones admission is step in the right direction Theres some question however about how long the compact council would remain that way Under the proposed amendment smaller municipalities would regain their lost council member as soon as their voting population reaches 7500 Oro Township for example with 6800 voters stands to lose its deputy reeve from County Council under the proposed setup The municipality however would regain its lost member and lost vote as well as soon as it has 700 ad ditional voters in the township The situation applies across the board Thus if every municipality reached the magic 7500 voter figure the result would be return to exactly the same council setup hdat we thought was being abandon Almost certainly the day will come when that will happen But for many of the small rural townships that kind of growth is years away Its problem any new County Council would have to deal with one day But its longrange problem to be sure Long overduelegislation protects young offenders By LEONARD NOBLE Last week report was tabled in the federal House of Commons stating amongst other thin that children should not be dealt with hars ly as adult criminals but young people who commit offences must take responsibility for their acts It further went on to state paradoxically that it is time for the Courts to stop treating juvenile deliquents as misguided children and start treating them as criminals According to the report the law now says that Courts should give juvenile delinquents parentalstyle care and discipline juvenile delinquent should be treated not as criminal but as misdirected and mis guided child needing encouragement help and assistance In the main most Family Court Judges recognize the special problems that children represent in their Court and do treat children with far more tolerance and understanding than they would an adult person OUTDATED The report calls this philosophy outdated apparenty since the Juvenile Delinquents Act came into being in 1908 In actuality the Juvenile Delinquents Act attempted to right great deal of wrong that affected the treat ment of children before the Court prior to that time The idea behind that Act was for the protec tion of children from the full consequences of their crimes The Act recognized that problem children were in many instances the victims of broken homes and thereby suffering emotionally or given poor rental guidance by illequipped and unintel igent parents as well as possibly low intelligence quotient of the child Conse quently there were other factors involved rather than their intent in deliberately break ing the law In 1928 the Juvenile Delinquents Act was redrafted and the philosophy of rehabilitation of the child rather than punishment was the prime aim behind the Act The words Juvenile Delinquent are misnomer in any event The Federal legisla tion to assist children invaded the jurisdiction of the provinces under the British North America Act and the problem was resolved by the invention of new classification of of fender known as the Juvenile Delinquent and by defining Juvenile Delinquent as any child who violates any provisions of the Criminal Code or of any Federal or Provin cial Statute or any bylaw or ordinance of any municipality In this way the Juvnile Delinquents Act allowed for not only federal scope but provin cial as well as municipal It is true that the Juvenile Delinquents Act needs overhauling for further protection of the child but in my humble opinion the philosophy of the Act should remain thesame whether it is re designated by proposed new name known as the Young Offenders Act or retains the old name COSTS MONEY What is important for the legislators of the count to realize is that the young offender is not on not criminal in that sense of the word but is in the main an emotionally disturbed child who needs love understan ding and possibly psychiatric treatment Un fortunate that type of treatment costs money and it won seem to me that the government is not prepared to provide it That being the case we may find the pro new philosophy of the report entrench itself in legislation so that when the Court is called upon to consider the young offender with compassion the Judge may echo the sentiments contained in the said report un wittingly repeating the Words of Scrooge in Christmas Carol when asked to contribute financially to the welfare of poor children Are there no prisons Excess oil profits make for oil company bashing iiy DEREK NELSON Queens Park Bureau Thomson New Service TORONTO Defending oil companies nowadays is little like saying nice things about the Black Plague But lets try anyway Treasurer Frank Miller was asked in the legislature by NDP leader Michael Casidy to put special tax on what he called oil company excess profits Heres Millers answer in full guess have never philosophically had the hangup about profits that the Leaderof the NDP has Profits are absolutely essential to guarantee the supply of oil and our major concerns are two things Are they being reinvested The in formation have says 85 per cent of the cash flow is going back into investment in this country right now The second thing is whether the profits are escapingCanada 0000 OR BAD What Miller is sayin about oil company profits and it is vali for any profits is not how high they are but what is done with them To repeat truism profit is the fuel that makes an economy go whether it is earned by private firms here or is called surplus eaniinfi as it is in Russia Millers only worry is that the profits be used here not drained off by the foreign par ent multinational Cassidy objects to lmpenal Oil for atample hauling in 38 per cent more profit during the first nine montln of this year than last But that kind of sneak accounting means tle Percentage increases can be made to look tmeanin low in modern ter minologyi or thigh simply by changing the date one uses as base and by FROM THE LEGISLATURE either ignoring or taking inflation into ac count There are other approaches to prom une could talk about again using Imperial return on investment is per cent in 1978 or ear nings on capital employed 11 per cent in l978i Compare that for exam le to is per cent return on capital by printing and publishing business Another method is to look at revenue versus expenditures Imperial for example made $57 billion and spent $54 billion with profit of $314 mil lion of which $124 million was id out in dividends The rest was reinvest Oil company profits have risen because they get 45 per cent of each $1 increase in barrel of oil with government taking the rest Millers position on what they do with the money is quite plain am sure Ontarios major interest is to see that sufficient money flows into rein vestment to guarantee Canada has secure oil su in the futu as well as rewarding share lders reasonab for their investment he told the legislature As long as the companies are doing that and not draining off capital for elsewhere he ap pears to feel no great concern Nordoesitappearheshould Using profit figura out of context makes for easy oil company bashing but more im portant figure is how much the firms are spendinghere to find the new oil we need 7266537 Sir am 56 years old trying to live on $270 per month As look back guess should say that had wonderful life in my younger days from 1936 to 1957 After that Im sorry to say that my life changed quite bit After was hit by car in 1957 and had kidney removed in 1960 and dislocated disc everything started to go down hill cant go byck in the gold mines up north or do any hard work like working in the foundry in the city had to go on welfare for little over year It took close to two years to get my Ontario Government Pension The first pension cheque arrived on May lst 1968 It was $105 per month had hard time living on it butI managed somehow till the Govern ment gave me more now get $270 to live on but with the cost of living going up all the time am just getting by day to day Looking back to those years when was liv ing up north and when the war started in 1939 did not realize that the day would come when finally had to quit work and just try to keep alive should say keep the wolf from the door As walk along the railroad tracks along Kempenfelt Bay see all the people driving to work making good money but cant join them Back six years ago used to smoke three packs of cigarettes and today cant Great Crash of I929 it wasonly the beginning By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service So much media attention has been given in recent weeks to the minutiae of the 1929 market crash that its consequences have tended to be obscured What happened after that Black Tuesday Oct 29 of 50 years ago and beyond Wall St and Bay St One of the most ironic developments was that so many unscarred investors and speculators were drawn back into the market much as lifeboat full of survivors might be drawn into the suction created as ship sinks On Oct 30 and 31 stock prices actually began to recover The New York Stock Ex change shut down for Friday and Saturday then trading day Nov land The fatuous Irving Fisher economics professor who September and October had been proclaiming that the market couldnt possibly crash now was declaring that stock prices were absurdly low People like John Rockefeller were ostentatiously buying stocks at the market the head of General Motors was solemnly stating that business is sound and Henry Ford was cutting the prices of his cars The popular Leo Reisman or chestra assembled in New York studio on Friday Nov to record Happy Days Are Here Again In this climate thousands of people who had escaped the October crisis decided to venture into stocks They were rewarded by being wiped out gradually over the next few years rather than abruptly as their friends had been in October 1929 THE EMPIRE Around the world economies rever berated to the Great Crash according to Gordon Thomas and Max MorganWitts co authors of The Day The Bubble Burst Thomas Nelson and Sons 453 pages 995 Canada Even economically sophisticated Canadians failed fully to realize how precarious their countrys situation was The Crash meant that the lucrative market on Canadas doorstep was being swiftly closed off Britain Inevitany there was switt sag in values an increase in lending money rates and clampdown on credit Bv the Yale throughout BESIDES BEING DISAPPOINIED wml lilE PAIZT rM PLAYING llllNK tilt SCRIPT letters to the editor even stand the smoke from cigarettes do so much walking every day that have to find park bench to sit on before go back to my hotel room like to set and just look out onto Kempenfelt Bay The water is so blue and the sun is just coming up Its wonderful that nature made things for us to engoy while we are young and when we grow ol The time goes slow when you only have to walk and walk all day and no where to go am lost in world of happiness and then comes the long dark night My hotel fills up with teenagers drinking playing pin ball or watching TV Some nights go into the hotel for beer What have got to lose the odd time try to go bowling Yes it is alost life on pension miss the wide open spaces of the north keep thinking of the past and how lucky was then but when you are young you do not think that someday you will come to an end of the good life It comes faster than you think Some people told me that they cant wait to get the Old Age Pension and be lucky like me pensioner has lonely life when you are all alone walking the streets and sitting in the parks Where should walk next Ron McKenna Barrie Ont YOUR BUSINESS end of the year business activity had begun its decline toward the Slump South Africa The mood was predominantly that the overexuberant Yankees had received their come uppance But when Britain and other countries went off the gold standard in 1931 it had shattering and lasting impact on South Africa Australia The economy and especially exports declined drastically in late 1929 The country proceeded to plunge towards its own peculiarly savage Depression New Zealand Almost no immediate impact India The wealthy salvaged what they could and switched to the Shanghai market There the Chinese connection continued to flourish THE CONTINENT Germany The crash caused Ger manys growing economic crisis which had begun about year before to quicken its pace Banks began to fail In this economic doldrum Hitler prospered France The Bourse lstock exchangei had been shaken week before the Wall Street crash by the fall of the govemment over minor matter of foreign policy After the Crash France actually benefited as the Bourse attracted floating capital that would otherwise have gone to Wall Street Italy The rocksolid financial for tress ol Switzerland was hardly shaken The Netherlands Markets were quickly affected as brokerages went bankrupt Belgium Leading stocks slumped dramatically between Oct 29 and the year end And back in the United States forecasts were bright still The CS Labor Depart ment predicted splendid employment year in 1930 The party was over but the age of illusion was not quite dead write Thomas and MorganWins tisement mi is member at 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Levesque under seige as opponents gang up By STEWART MACLEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service If Quebec Premier Rene Levesque feels he is under seige these days you can scarcely blame him He seems to be getting it from all sides Just month or two ago it was going along so smoothly His Parti Quebecois seemed unusually unified his opposition was all dp under the shadow of Liberal Leader Claude Ryan Prime Minister Joe Claricwasstaying away from the referendum issue and former prime minister Pierre Trudeau was off in Tibet saying nothing about Quebec Furthermore highly sophisticated public opinion survey indicated that if the issue were handled gingerly the Parti Quebecois might just win the coming referendum on sovereigntyassociation This could be achieved suggested the survey if the govern ment merely sought mandate for talks with Ottawa and stayed away from any threats of break with Canada While an overwhelming majority of Quebcers wanted no part of political independence about half of those surveyed wouldnt object to new status within Confederation The poll told Levesque exactly how he should approach the campaign and he quick ly picked up the cue He began making speeches in which there was no mention of in dependence and only vague references to sovereignty He talked about new relationship with Canada with special em phasis on cooperation He was making it sound very positive and certainly not threatening It would obviously be difficult campaign to counter BAD TURN It may still be that But in the last few weeks things have taken turn for the worse so far as Levesque is concerned The carefullyorchestrated campaign toward the referendum may be becoming slightly unstuck even before it is officially launched PARLIAMENT HILL Pierre Trudeau has renewed his deteimina tion to throw his considerable weight into the fray or the fact that Prime Minister Clark is urging all his Quebec followers to get under Claude Ryans umbrella and fight for federalism Nor am talking about the fact tha the television cameras went on the fritz just when Levesque was about to open the James Bay hydro project But what must be hurting him more than anything else is the rearguard offensive being launched by two of his former colleagues men who used to follow in his footsteps but who now have taken up sniper positions behind the premiers dont know for sure whether they are seriously damaging Levesques referendum campaign but they certainly cant help it Louis ONeill was the communications minister until he was sacked by Levesque in September He now is Parti Quebecois backbencher and he is telling his con stituents that the PO is using lies economic blackmail and verbal terrorism in the unofficial referendum campaign While Leve ue is carefully downplaying the in depen ence aspect of his sovereignty association ONeill tells the people that sovereigntyassociation is concrete for mula of independence and not consolation prize for an indepence that some believe impossible The campaign he says flatly is for the independence of Quebec and it is better to have piety and an hottest victory than to dwell on fear lies economic blackmail in tellectual and verbal terrorism 77 briefly all of these things that annoyingly recall the spectre of Facism Tories wise to withdraw embassy move to Jerusalem By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Prime Minister Joe Clark has wisely removed selfimposed irritant in his new government his election promise to shift Canadas embassy in Israel from Tel Avw to Jerusalem That promise reflected if anything the woeful failure of the Tories in opposition to place major foreign policy planks in their election platform Indeed the decision to move our Israeli embassy had probably been made prior to the first major foreign policy conference ever held by the Canadian Conservative party in Toronto in late January Nor is there any proof that the announced move won the big Jewish vote in Toronto the main reason for introducing the illtimed promise in the first place Certainly Jewish Liberals in that city saw it as very cynical move and said so openly during the election And in Eglinton riding in North Toronto where large Jewish population was courted with the embassy promise by Tory candidate Rod Parker who had won the seat in byelection last year the Liberal candidate an Anglican priest won the seat and not Mr Parker NO BUSINESS REFERENCE The Clark announcement to leave the embassy where it is did not include any reference to the major Arab pressure against the promised move This has been the growing boycott against Canadian goods and services being offered in the tens of millions of dollars to various Arab world nations In Saudi Arabia Iraq Kuwait Bahrein and Syria Canadian businessmen on tour and ready to sign contracts suddenly found doors closed and communications terminated in the quiet but effective way of the Islamic world Interpreting the news major steel fabricating firm in Rich mond BC indicates through its president that no less than $40 million in Iraqi and Saudi business contracts are in severe jeopardy because of the Clark government an nouncement about moving our embassy The Middle Eastern nations as unit represent Canadas third largest market after the United States and Japan and in one instance the largest where our technologysharing services are concerned Some of the contracts in operation such as the Canadian Bechtel assignment to modern ize the petrochemical activities of Algerias state oil and gas corporation or Bells con tract to build telephone system in Saudi Arabia are truly large These two together come to about $2 billion Nor are many businessmen entirely satisfied with the Clark decision feeling that the damage has already been done and that antib0 cott legislation waiting in the wings could be just as bad for future business development with Islamic states This is legislation which would prevent Canadian companies by law from signing contracts with countries insisting on clauses forbidding them from doing business with the state of Israel For our industrial community seeking the large contracts especially in engineering and construction of the kind which are drying up in Canada the business is in the Arab world and not in Israel Perilous balance of power By JOHN WARD NEW YORK CP Western European leaders are toying with the balance of power on their continent as they decide whether to permit us nuclear missiles to be installed on their soil The question will be settled when NATO holds its next ministerial meeting in Brussels in December but the repercussions of the deCISion will be felt for the next decade The issue involves more than 500 Pershing II and Cruise missiles that would be aimed at the Soviet Union The weapons would be intermediaterange and nuclear tipped Once in place they would presumably offset the threat of the Soviet Unions own SS20 missiles in Eastern Europe The Soviet weapons are multiwarhead intermediaterange missiles But the proposal to aim US missiles at the Soviet Union from Europe has drawn criti cism from Moscow One diatribe came from Dmitri Usitinov the Soviet defence minister who accused the US last week of preparing for war against the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies OFFERED ONCESSION Leonid Breshnev offered concession reduction in Soviet troops and tanks in Eastern Europe in rv urn for pledge not to deploy the new missiles Placing the missiles in Europe would force the Warsaw Pact to take ecessary steps he warned indicating further escalation of the arms race in Europe NATO countries particularly West Ger many Belgium and the Netherlands are in quandary LEONII HRESHNICV offered concession Western military leaders see the arsenal of the Warsaw Pact and the Soth Union as threat that will loom even larger in the 19805 The generals want the missdes as counter saying the military balance will tilt dangerously without them In West Germany the wamings from Moscow seem to put Bonns relations with the Soviet Union in jeopardy if the missiles are installed