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published in this nowpapal Friday Jun 1079 Copyright registration number mots rogth 6i Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited l6 Baytield Street Barrie Ontario LAM 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher NEWSROOM 720 653 CIRCULATION 726 6539 ADVIITISING 7266537 CLASSIFIEDS 7782414 Illiteracy still problem in I979 In this day and age its difficult to believe there are adults who neither read nor write Astounding too is the fact that many such people are residing right here in Simcoe County Figures from the fledgling Literary Council of Barrie suggest the problem of illiteracy is more widespread than vv many could believe possible For example an estimated 2000 adults in Barrie alone are functionally illiterate meaning they cannot read or write to meet everyday needs The council provides other statistics equally disturbing It estimates that some 30 per cent of county adults have less than grade nine education Ten per cent of the population over 15 but no longer in school have less than grade five education The problem of illiteracy is by no means unique to Simcoe ivo County Similar figures could be applied to the entire coun try One must take into account of course the lack of educa tional opportunities for an older generation of Canadians But illiterate adults in their 20s and 30s suggest the pro blem continues to be real one for at least some younger peo ple Canadians who enjoy one of the highest standards of education in the world should remember those who were not so fortunate in their educational opportunities They should remember too that illiterate people do not lack the ability to learn but only the chance to have done so Teaching programs like the one being organized through the Literary Council of Barrie will continue to be needed un til all Canadians have acquired the basic communication skills needed for everyday life xvn 88 Sophia St This house is closely related to its neighbour at l7 Peel St and was built by the architect Eustace Bird for his widowed mother This small house is only one room deep and has large sitting room in the middle on the second floor so that Mrs Bird could watch the street traffic in her later years Drawing courtesy LACAC Committee Your business By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service In few months magazines and newspapers will be brimming over with reminiscences of the great stock market crash of October 1929 and the Great Depression that followed it Although nearly 50 years have gone by since its start the Great Depression has remained as probably the major underlying influence on the economic policies of governments throughout the nonC0mmunist world think the Great Depression which shook the foundation of capitalism to its core was the worst trauma faced in the 200 years of capitalism Donald Hoppc US econo mist told recent conference sponsored by the Canadian Committee for Economic Awareness in Toronto Because of the bitter experience suffered by millions of people in the years following 1929 politicians everywhere have continued to regard uncmploymcnt as the worst thing that can happen HALF TIN20R To reduce unemployment 77 which is always present to degree politicians generally have seized upon onehalf of the celebrated economic thcory of John Maynard Keynes 18831946 Lord Keynes who is widely regarded as the we want your opinion Something on your mind Sand Letter to the Editor Please make it on original copy and sign it The Examiner doesnt publish unsigned lot tors but if you wish pen name will be used Include your telephone number and address as we have to verify letters Bocousoot 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 editorial pogo Sand yours to letters to tin liter The XIher Post Office In 370 IRIS Olt MM 476 Great Depression still factor greatest economist of this century preached in 1936 that capitalism could be saved only if governments were to interfere in the economic system in limited way They should he proposed get rid of unemployment by increasing the monetary demand for goods and services that is by spending more money than they the governments were taking in and by using the strength of the central banks to push interest rates down so that businesses could borrow more and spend more Politicians have however usually ignored the other half of the Keynesian counter cyclical theory In prosperous times governments should put lid on the economy by spending less increasing taxes and pushing interest rates up VICIOlS CIRCLE Politicians are too timid to reduce the money supply and raise interest rates Hoppe contends Nevertheless monetary policy does swing back and forth between two positions the familiar normal antirecession policy that necessarily fosters inflation and oc casionally an antidnflatlonary policy that is abandoned as soon as it appears to be con tributing to unemployment With each changc of policy the previous dosage has to be increased little Far from stabilizing the economy Hoppc says central banks countercyclical pol icies have tended to make them worse that is to make each swing more extreme Overstimulation of the economy leads neither to greater output nor greater productivity but only to more inflation North American industry is operating at close to its practical maximum capacity which Hoppc puts at about 90 per cent of its theoretical capacity As an analyst Hoppc thinks that investors ought to be guided by this policy pattern in setting broad trading objectives When central banks are in stimulatch phase and arc pushing interest rates down bonds risc in value and should therefore be bought and held by investors In the recovery stage which lasts about two years in the usual cyclc investors should sell bonds and buy stocks In the third and final stage of the cycle inflation becomes worse and that halts the rise in stock prices Investors should switch to gold or other real assets Hoppc advises At what point does the cycle stand now Hoppe thinks that it is nearing the end of the third stage that gold bullion in recent weeks hovering around $280 its an ounce BUSINESS 7266537 Nancy Figueroa Lon Cohen Richard Thomas Stephen Gauer cntcrtmnmnnt Gary Forocs Betty Armor camera operator terry Field Peter Hsu CLASSIFIED Freda Stunner Janice Morton Parliament Hill By STEWART MacLEDI Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service Thank goodness the New Democrats have decided to let barrage of constructive criticism fly in the general direction of the new Tory government Until NDP Leader Ed Broadbent assured us of this strategic stance there were sinister signs that we were headed into summerlong political lovein can scarcely wait for Broadbent to fire his first volley across the bow of Joe Clark Its going to take great deal of pressure off the pundits You see ever since Clark got himself into the prime ministers office following the May 22 general election the combined forces of the opposition and this applies particularly to the Liberals seem to have laid down their arms As the young and inexperienced prime minister built his cabinet and occa sionally doubledup from initial growing pains opposition MPs stood by silently not firing shot in anger It was left to the journalists and we can be pretty tiring bunch to criticize or compliment Tory pol icics The opposition thinking seemed to be that the new government some hell or high water deserved chance to govern That might be all for the good of the country but it certainly doesnt make life easier for those of us who more or less depend on political warfare You cant spend an entire summer writing that new govern mcnt deserves chance even if its true What we need are few cxploslvcs N0 ATTACK Considering all the early gaffes by the incoming Tories that Israeli embassy SCOOPS Peggy Cnapcll supervisor Bran Howcrolt Dana Homewood Ed Allenby Jane Hamel Susan Kitchen Barbara Sinai PRESSROOM CIRCULATION Bill Halkcs manaacr Steve While assistant nianaQir Alva Laplantc Lisa Warrv Elaine Porter CherytAikrn Fr Pmu Kim Paltcndon El BROADHENT strategic stance movc is classic example we all expected massive counter offensive to be mounted by the Liberals when they held their first post election caucus here After all Party Leader Pierre Trudeau had generously denounced the proposed move during the election campaign and now he could at least offer us gloating told you so But he didnt No sir He said the new government deserved chance to set up shop rm GLAD YOU LIKE lHE FEMALE BODYGUARDS rvr SUPPLIED FOR YOUR PROTECTION MRS THATCHER If SHOW YOU SUPPORT JAPANESE WOMENS IAl Hanson foreman Don Near asst torcman BY MAIL Barric 549 40 The advertiser our that the publisher shall not be liable for dono9 arising out SIMCOE COUNTY at error in adventmanta boyond the amount paid for the spot octuolty occupied 539 On by that portion ol the advertisement in which the error occurred whether such or MOYOR THROW OFF Sdl 50a vcnr ELSEWHERE lN CANADA 511008 year advertisement mam NDP barrage welcome relief to summer political lovein Anyway he was busy moving into new house and new office The former prime minister perhaps was preoccupied with the rousing vote of con fidence he had just received from his 113 fellow MP5 After getting standing ovation it would spoil the mood to come out carping at Clark But one would have thought that Liberal House Leader Allan MacEachen would have at least fired waming shot But no he said We intend to give the new government fair and reasonable chance to govern the coun try Thats no fun When Prime Minister Clark asked Trudeau to sit down and chat with him about the forth coming Tokyo economlc summit we thought for sure that this would ignite some spark in the former prime minister He had referred to that summit during the election campaign and said in no uncertain terms it was no place for an amateur like Clark PHONE FLN So the twh men discussed the meeting and according to Clark it was warm friendly helpful exchange of views Among other things discussed he said was the danger of Clarks little daughter using one of the hot line telephones at 24 Sussex Drive It seems that the Trudeau children used to get their little hands on the phone and chat with all sorts of important people Trudeau suggested the receiver be taped Now if thats the best political warfare we can expect during the summer from our two chief political leaders its time we looked elsewhere for our kicks You can get better bouts than that at your average coroners convention tl£0 YES AND BESIPES THEY WORK FOR MUCH LESS THAN MEN rot is duo to tho negligence oI It servants or otherwise and there shall be no liability for non insertion of any advertisement beyond the amount paid tor such Tho Publisher reserve the right to edit revise classify or ruled on advertise Boat peopl epic tragedy By JOHN IIARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service human tragedy already being compared to the Holocaust of the Jewish people in World War Two may be emerging with the growing number of the socalled boat people Malaysia has announced it will eject summarin about 70000 of the ethnic Chinese refugees from the Communist state of Vietnam who had been given refuge in that South East Asian country At the present time there may be that large number of ethnic Chinese already afloat on the South China Sea The total estimated number of these un fortunate victlms of Asian racial prejudice who have fled Vietnam since the Communists took over in April 1975 is about 200000 The reasons for the ejection is historic emnity between Vietnamese and Chinese in the IndoChina peninsula their racial hatred being aroused primarily by the commercial role of the Chinese in Vietnam In the old South Vietnam absorbed by the Communists the ethnic Chinese dominated much of the small industry and retail trades of the country and were prominent in that former countrys government and profes sional services Indeed it is now clear that many of these are allowed to leave only after they reveal to Communist Vietnamese officials where they have hidden personal caches of hard currency Asian and Western In effect the Hanoi government is ordering their Chinese fellow citizens to buy their way on to the overcrowded boats PLANNED EXTINCTION It is cynical and murderous campaign of human expulsion typical of this Communist regime and others in the recent past The onus is now on the countries of the West including Canada to move quickly on behalf of this latest tragedy in human terms The new and compassionate Ron Atkey Canadian Immigration and Employment Minister has already announced Canada will increase by 2000 to total of 7000 the number of Vietnamese refugees Canada will take in But already that figure has become too small The new quotas set by Britain Australia France West Germany are all too small as well given the enlarged crisis caused by Malaysias announced action The United States which has taken in about 75000 Vietnamese has been the most generous and may be required to increase such generosity Unlike other crises of this kind the Viet namese one literally cannot wait to be solved The people at stake are not safely on shore in detention camps but drifting hungry and dying at sea The United Nations showing its now heavy bureaucratic hand on these matters is call ing conference on the crisis next month This is monstrous The old and the sick on these crude boats bobbing off Asian coasts will be dead long before the UN has any answers For those who remain reticient about yet another batch 0f refugees who might have trouble fitting in to our wayofllfe the Vietnamese as mainly welleducated and pro fessional people have clearly added to the communities and commercial worlds they have entered in this country and in the United States But this is not the point In this case genocide by modern state against some of its people is clearly intended WE MUST COOPERATE We have vast and empty land propensity to tell ourselves and the world we have peaceable and pleasant national community We are now required to share it with on dangered strangers Interpreting the neWs SALT doesnt solve arms race UNITED NATIONS CP It has been year since world leaders gathered for the UNs special session on disarmament but that longsought goal is as elusive as ever While US President Carter and Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev signed strategic arms limitation treaty in Vienna this week it is far cry from being even first step on the road to disarmament The agreement the second such pact between the superpowers allows the US to increase its weapons stockpile between now and the end of 1981 if it so chooses In its final stages the treaty will allow each side 2250 nuclear delivery systems mis siles and various ty of aircraft The two sides will have to estroy tiny fractions of their vast arsenals but the Russians will likely eliminate some of their obsolescent missiles while the American reductions will come from their mothballcd and aging 852 bomber fleet Both sides will retain the strategic capability to destroy each other and probably the rest of the world several times over The treaty also allows the construction of new weapons such as the airlaunched US Cruise missile and improvements in sub marinelaunched missiles The US is already starting on new generation of weapons the MX system for the 19805 and beyond That system which will involve mobile launchers will complicate fu ture arms agreements because of the dif ficulty in verifying the numbers of mobile rockets There are other even more exotic weapons in the works on both sides that are not even covered in the agreement They include lasers and what are called particle beam weapons And the US and the Soviet Union are also studying the use of radiological weapons which kill by spreading lethal radiation over wide area