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amount paid tor such advertisement Still stalling on Simcoe Day The provincial govcrnmcnts rcfusal oncc again not to renamc thc August civic holiday to Simcoc Day strikcs us as somewhat pcculiar The name would rccognizc historical importance The cxrsting namc 1v1c onc of Ontarios pionccrs thc first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada and figure of holiday dcnotcs nothing lt seems to us that the province is giving short shrift to thc promotion of history in the province Educators constantly talk about the appalling ignorance of our history ntario residents beginning with our students often know more about American history than our own ls Simcoe Day not way to begin bridging this gap Goodness knows the province is rich in history The pro vince recognizes that fact by annually spending millions in promotion of historical sights Why then we ask is it reluctant to give our history place on the calendar Its not that there isnt support for Simcoc Day Some 66 Ontario municipalities including Simcoc County have endorsed the name change Whats more individual municipalities have bccn given the right to call the holiday Simcoe Day if they choose That means Simcoe Day will be celebrated here and in other municipalities But not across the province Mll Gordon Smith had good idea when he introduced his private members bill for the name change five years ago The wonder is that the province still cannot sec that The fabufous Woodlands estate overlooking Kempenfelt Bay as it appeared simcoe yesteryear about l895 Then it was the summer home of Mr Crawford wealthy merchant from St Louis Mo Originally built for Mr Power the home is still standing and is privately owned By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The forces of inflation are clearly growing stronger far stronger than whatever feeble efforts are being made to contain them The 98 per cent rise in consumer prices during the latest 12 months is being accepted fatalistically by most Canadians and almost eagerly by those specialinterest groups who can use it as lever to increase their incomes Much of the current surge in inflation is the direct result of price gouging on the intema tional market The cartel is pushing the price of oil Skyward out of all proportion to the cost of producing it and those who control other commodities arent far behind Yet no group in Canadian society is willing to accept its share of the net increase in our cost of living that is obviously taking place MULTIPLIERS Governments are seizing the opportunity to multiply the inflationary effect by sacking consumers with markup of their own every time they pass along an increase in costs When the administered price of Canadian crude oil is increased by $1 barrel for ex ample the federal and provincial govern mentlsograb 79 cents and leave 21 cents for the ucer And when distiller in Scotland or vintner in France imposes an increase on we want your opinion Something on your mind Send Lotth to the Editor Please make it an original copy and sign it The Exomlnor doomt publish unsigned Iot tors but if you with pan name will be used lncludo your tolophono number and address awe have to vorlly letters Because of space limits public interest and good taste The Examiner sometimes has to edit condom or roioct letters Lottors to the Editor or run every day on the editorial page Sand yours to term to the Editor Ibo Ilaher Office In 310 III Out Inflation outlook remains grim export prices the liquor monopoly in Ontario as is typical of other provincial govern ments doubles the increase adds 10 per cent sales tax and rounds the resulting total to higher figure all to be borne by the con sumer Private business all too often takes ad vantage of price increases on imported manufactures arising say from the weakening in our dollar to raise its own selling prices proportionately rather than to let consumers enjoy what should be wider price differential in favor of the Canadian made products Labor unions steadfastly demand that wage boosts keep ahead of the inflation rate regardless of the source of the cost pressures that are to blame for consumerprice in creases or of the fact that labor productivity actually declined in the latest year BALANCING ACT In more innocent time perhaps quarter century ago the conventional wisdom was that little more inflation was an acceptable price to pay in order to stimulate the economy andcreatc employment But it has never worked out that way As in flation has risen so has unemployment and the economists cherished theory of trade offs has been discredited Commenting on the evidence of just the past two years Nathan Laurie of the Con ference Board in Canada said recently that in an otherwise recovering economy it was primarily the acceleration in consumer prices that tended to dampen economic gowth WORST PROBLEM Laurie who is director of economic forecasting for the CBIC considers inflation to bc Canadas most serious economic pror blem personally doubt very much whethcr our overall prospects will improve until inflation is wrenched from the system Laurie says But will inflation bc wrenched from the system when it is of no concern to hun dreds of thousands of pcoplc in the public scc tor plus substantial number of workers in strong unionst who have automatic protccr tion against it through indexing thn the govcrnmcnts modest 1973 limits on wagc inr crcascs are still causing outragc Wth monetary restraint is politically impossiblc becausc it might hurt in the short tcrm Or will inflation continuc to worscn and to erode our economic system and eventually our political system as well Parliament Hill By STEWART MacLEOI Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service No doubt everyone would feel more com fortable if voters in Quebec and the rest of Canada particularly those in the West had followed similar voting patterns in the general election With separatist govern ment in Quebec and its referendum just around the corner we would probably feel lot better if the election had indicated more national unified approach to the problem Instead Quebec voters gave overwhelming support to the Liberals of Pierre Trudeau while most other provinces decided it was time to throw them out of office Sinccthc Liberals had campaigned largely on thc na tional unity issue suggesting that only Trudeau could halt the separatists it is understandable that the partys unceremonial rejection by western voters would raise some worries about our uture And these concerns go beyond our own borders Look at what the Detroit News had to say Wherc the spacious land to the north is going is anybodys guess but there seems little doubt that it has begaun to wheel on the outer edges of potentially ruinous political maelstrom The Milwaukee Jourr nal said Trudeau went down to defeat and perhaps so did Canadas best hope for unity in the critical months ahead RUSSIANS T00 Even Pravda the Russian Communist newspaper got into the act suggesting that the coming days will represent grave trial for Canada The Guardian of Man chester said Canada could become sort of Northern Ireland with 10 disparate regions going their own way There is probably an immediate panic reaction after any changc in govcrnmcnt but our foreign fricnds not to mention some of our own domestic assessors seem to be going bit far this time Sure its unfortunate that voting patterns appear to have been influcnc ed along linguistic lines but its ludicrous to SCOOPS SURE OUR PRIME MINISTER AND NONARCH ARE WOMEN liDlllllllCithIilDlllllllLllllLiV ME SiRWEttSii2 HOLD AVERY iMPORTANT roar SlRlNDl8PENSABLE OOME TOWINKOFH BEEN HERE ii YEARS SiteRATiiEieAmMpucmED JOBSiiPHARDTODEgtCRlBE Clark election no setback for future of federalism hfiu JOE CLARK looks to Qucbcc suggest the country will fall apart because of this In fact it could grow stronger because of thcelection Qucbcccrs may appear out of step with their fellow Canadians in other provinces this time but the fact is they gave an un precedented endorsation to party that cam paigncd foursquare for Canadian federalism and strong central government In doing so they clearly turned their backs on the separatists who were running under the Creditiste banner with the support of the Pan ti Qucbccois And while votch in other provinces were giving Trudeau thc heaveho not even the most partisan observer would suggest this represented any rejection of federalism The BUT WHEN WILl WE GET P05iTlON OF REAL POWER Tories and New Democrats are as firmly committed to the integrity of Canada as Trudeaus Liberals And the fact that Clark has different approach to our constitutional difficulties might not be bad thing Even the fact that he has been given em barrassingly little cabinet material by Quebec voters may not be detriment Since he is being forced to pluck ministers from outside perhaps he will fulfill hib determiner tion to recruit people who can reflect con temporary Quebec DIFFICULT TARC ET There are many who feel that the Liberal Party despite its awesome strength in that province may still reflect the Quebec of the 19605 And its interesting that in recent weeks there have been scattered suggestions in the province that even Premier Levesque may be losing touch with temporary Quebec At the moment there is every indication that provincial Liberal Leader Claude Ryan is outpacing Levesque with his plan for renewed federalism And Levesque has recently acknowledged that he would lose any immediate referendum in sovereignty association conciliatory Joe Clark may prove to be more difficult federalist target for Rene Levesque than an inflexible Pierre Trudeau If Clark carries through with his commitment to meet the premier in spirit of co operation not confrontation it might not be easy for Levesque to convince his followers that federalism wont work Claude Ryan will be there to help the federalist cause And we shouldnt overlook Trudeau As leader of the opposition whose party got more votes than any other last Tuesday he can have an enormous influence on the cause for unity Without the partisan pressures of the prime ministership but with an immense personal following he now can rise above all political considerations in his campaign for Canada All things being considered dont see much cause for gloom West Germany 30 years later By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The economic and political miracle called the Federal Republic oanest Germany is thirty years old this week In economic terms West Germany is the backbone of the European Economic Com munity And in political terms where there might have been greater miracle than in the betterpublicized economic sense Ger man democracy is vibrant and workable For older Germans who remember the ceaseless propaganda of the Nazi era that democracy for Germany meant loss of iden tity and surrender to weak states like France and Britain the last three decades must still seem like dream Germanys previous experience with democracy in this century was the Weimar Republic of the 19205 which all reactionary forces the army rightwing nationalist par ties and the Nazis did so much to datroy vibrant and admittedly dangerous neo Nazi element persists in German democracy made up of aging Germans who belonged to the real Nazi party and fanatical youngsters fascinated with Hitler but unborn in his era The country is currently shocked to find the new president of their country has admitted freely to long if inactivv Nazi Party membership But at 64 he is saying what so many other Germans said he was forced as young man to join Nazi party organization NAZIS NOT PRIORITY But Germans most of whom were born after 1945 or were in infancy as World War Two ended are less concerned about this revelation than maintaining the same high level of economic performance which has marked West Germanys national success Indeed the concern of West Germanys competitive and very rich bankers and businessmen that inflation unemployment and consumer buying are showing danger signs reminds Germanys neighbors of the countrys very high performance to date Where the British and French have unemployment rate in excess of 10 per cent Germanys economists are worrying about their rate slipping above 45 per cent German exports have literally taken off since 1969 growing from about $5 billion that year to $125 billion in 1978 Consumer prices are down instead of up even though the nations gross national prolt duct has slumped to an annual rate of about four per cent compared to almost nine per cent in 1975 West Germans too are always concerned about the Russian threat which lingers generation after generation as the major challenge to German achievement in Europe The Bundeswehr West Germanys army is the largest in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO and Germany industry the largest weapons producer in Europe The studies of military tactics in the Ger man armed forces analyze the way tr which the Soviet military during World War 11 learned all the German techniques of ar mored warfare to defeat the Germans in Russia REMEMBERING RLSSIANS That led to the massive Soviet military in vasion of Eastern Europe in the last months of the war and to the permanent split of the prewar German nation Usually buoyant and selfconfident Ger mans young and old worry more than they used to do about the slump be it ever so slight But most of their European neighbors still see the federal republic as the European Economic Communitys pacesetter Backgrounder Chicago crash eighth disaster CHICAGO AP The crash of an American Airlines jetliner at OHare Interna tional Airport was Chicagos eighth fatal commercial aviation disaster The crash Friday which took 270 lives was the first commercial airline accident in seven years On Dec 20 1972 nine persons died in the collision of two jets on fogcovered runway at OHare the worlds busiest airport The collision occurred when North Cen tral Airlines jetlincr that was taking off clip ped the tail wing of Delta Airlines Convair 880 that was taxiing to holding arca on lan ding en route from Florida Only two weeks earlier on Dec Unitcd Airlines Boeing 737 crashed as it approached Midway Airport on Chicagos Southwest Side killing 45 persons 27 KILLED On Dec 27 1968 27 persons dicd when North Central planc vccrcd off runway after landing at llarc plowing into hangar On Aug 16 1965 all 30 passtngcrs aboard United Boeing 727 died whcn it crashed into Lake Michigan about five minutcs below scheduled landing at llarc Northwestcrn Airlincs turboprop Electra crashed on takcoff from lllnrc Scpt 17 1961 and all 37 persons aboard litd chcnty cight persons wcrt killcd Scpt 1961 whcn Trans World Airlines planc crashed in ii ficld shortly after takcoff in Nov 24 1959 TWA cargo planc up proaching Midway crashcd into row of hicago homes and 12 persons died lliirc rcplaccd Midway as thc worlds busicst airport with tho advcnt of jct travcl The runways at Midway surrounded by heavily populated residential area were deemed too short for big jcts