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fse 2 the tribune thursday sept 2s 1368 editorials ilhlmne the secret storm a shakeup in the whitchurch in dustrial committee has resulted in the surprise expulsion of the town ships deputyreeve lawrence hen nessey the decision to exclude mr hen nessey from this recentlyestablished organization came to light at a coun cil meeting last week and followed a closeddoor secret session with some members present while those directly involved are no doubt aware of the reason for such drastic action the press nd public have been kept totally in the dark this is wrong mr hennessey obviously disturb ed was not permitted to reintroduce the subject at a meeting sept 17 each time he tried he was ruled out of order by the reeve now rumors are rampant as the public engages in a kind of guessinggame this is un fortunate we feel that a statement from someone preferably the reeve is required immediately to set the record straight the truth may indeed impair the political future of the deputyreeve we dont know we do know that his reputation will be hurt no more by the facts than by idle halftruths that are making the rounds at present stirring the pot it is regrettable that in the town ship of pickering the division of thinking between urban and rural residents cannot be mended on occasions the two sides do share a common interest only to break apart again on issues of major importance membership on the new county board of education is such an issue we feel that the arrange ment whereby one trustee will be elected from area 1 and two from area 2 is wrong the three repre sentatives in our opinion should come from the municipality at large the north and south as pickering has so long been designated cannot continue to remain separate regions unto themselves government today is abandoning the oncepracticed pol icy of isolationism and broadening its scope beyond sectional and municipal boundaries the county education board is a prime example of this trend while pickering is displaying con cern over equitable urbanrural repre sentation the village of stouffviue could find itself with no representa- ative at all linked with whitchurch the trustee could well come from our neighboring township but is the stouffviue council or school board wringing its hands in despair over such a thought certainly not it is the desire in both whitchurch and stouffviue to obtain the best member possible whether he be a resident of bethesda bloomington or main street this should also be the atti tude in pickering its time to raise the white flag and declare the civil war as over a solution in sight while the ugly appearance of spent gravel pits has been the subject of discussion among councillors in both uxbridge and whitchurch townships it is gratifying to know that there is a solution to this problem consoli dated sani and gravel company have reclaimed several acres of pit lands near county road 1a west of the brock road the fillin work is so complete that only seeing is be lieving this levellingoff process is noth ing new for csg the firm has prac ticed similar programs elsewhere with comparable- success now that this company has taken the lead it is our hope that others will follow if good public relations means anything remaining pit oper ators will want to cooperate here are the facts a liquor plebiscite is being held in markham township on saturday the vote has created a hohum kind of interest in that municipality the outcome cannot be predicted we have long been an advocate of temperance but not prohibition in stouffviue the facts speak for themselves since the liquor and beer outlets were established here police records show a marked decrease in both charges and convictions under the act those figures should tell us something sugar and spice they eat anything by bill smiley autumn beauty at musselmans lake the beauty of nature is everywhere during the fall season of the year especially so at musselmans lake whitchurch township ive never raised pigs but there cant be too much to it according to what ive seen in the past week you merely give them all they can eat and clean up after them and theres no trouble at allin preparing their food one of the great advantages is that theres no garbage apparently the only thing pigs wont eat is return able bottles this is a fine way to talk about my son hugh and his friend alex but its the solemn truth its not meant in a disparaging way im not full of disparagement but of despair when i was their age i was a pretty fair trencherman on one oc casion as i recall i set a new family record for corn on the cob i ate 13 cobs on another i ate 12 baked ap- ples but these were individual feats they pale alongside the stuff hugh and his mate put away they start off slowly just a cup of tea mrs smiley if you like oh well maybe ill have a fresh peach if theyre turning bad and you want to get rid of them half a basket of peaches later they might succumb to a few cobs of corn its noon by now because they never get up until it before the corn they have had a can or two of cold beans and a halfloaf of toast just to be sociable when the corn is gone they look up with their little beady eyes glit tering and absolutely refuse dessert unless you have some old cake and ice cream thats maybe going bad there always seems to be some old cake or pie thats on its last legs and some ice cream thats going bad un less you eat it the day its bought they manage to get through the afternoon with the odd hamburger and a few bags of chips and a couple of beers but by dinner time their snouts are prying the lids off pots and their little feverish paws are stirring the gravy and the saliva is running so fast you have to wear rub ber boots in the dining room its not the food i mind ive bought moose pastures in northern ontario that were guaranteed gold mines ive dropped 5000 bombs in fields in hol land a slaughtering of 10000 turnips ive tried for twenty years to make my wife base her arguments on rea son not emotion i know what it is to lose no i dont expect any return its just pure fascination where in the name of the holy old jumpin jehoso- phat do they put it theyre not big fat fellas theyre young and slim i give them a plate of steak or turkey and spuds and veg etables and salad that would make a lumberjack ill and i start to eat my own and i look up and there they are twiddling their hoofs plates licked clean eyes fixed on the main plattei thats not the worst thing if i eat too much maybe at christmas or new year i have enough sense to subside into a corner and belch ami ably as i watch television not these piggies one hour after a meal that would put the fat lady in the circus on her back for a week they can be seen peering into the re frigerator they eat from 6 to 8 and when they get in at 3 am they have to have a little night cap half a pound of cheese and a pound of bacon and a halfloaf of bread and two cans of soup to wash it down perhaps its explainable when they tell you they often go for days weeks living on bologna sandwiches and coffee chips and milk hot dogs and pop sometimes nothing ever try that nothing i have ive gone for three days with nothing and then eaten so much cabbage soup it was coming out my ears and my belly was touching my chin its not that i dont like to see young people eat heartily its just that if i want to raise pigs td like to have some pork this week next our affluent society by ray argyle most canadians despite inflation and taxes are becoming more afflu ent as a result poverty in canada is becoming relatively worse not worse in fact of course but worse in relationship to the rest of society than ever before the question now is what propor tion of the nation is our society go ing to allow to live under economic conditions which are drastically poor er than the majority the economic council says that up to 27 percent of canadas nonfarm population must spend 70 percent of its income on the basics of food clothing and shelter as a result says the council onefifth of the nation lives in poverty in montreal a city which has earned such a glowing rep utation in recent years nearly one- half the population is said to be liv ing at or below the poverty line poverty in canada today also dif fers from anything ever known in history in that the reasons for it are different at the time of confederation prob ably just about everyone was eligible for classification as poor the society of that era was not sufficiently pro ductive to do more than provide bare sustenance for the great majority the advent of science technology and now automation has solved the problems of production and it is now old hat to say that the problem is one of distribution nevertheless this is the case but as society has become more productive it also has become more complex the result is that large numbers of people are not adequately equipped to compete for jobs and thereby earn their slice of the pie of affluence they either lack the education the cultural knowhow or simply do not have the intelligence needed in todays society the loss to society is tremendous this is going to become more crit ical the gulf between the productive citizen who can cope with the world of the 21st century and the citizen who cannot will more likely widen than get closer so we scientists say already that all intelligent persons are going to need two to three years of mathe matical training at the college level dr lawrence stark of the uni versity of california said in toronto that society will become so compli cated that everybody will need an iq of over 120 the others can be put in institutions to watch television and baseball the aim of any antipoverty pro gram should therefore be to raise in dividual levels of competence the welfare state has been a failure be cause it has used palliatives instead of cures it has treated the patient but not the disease prime minister trudeau aware of the conservative streak in the cana dian electorate earned public approv al by stressing his opposition to give away programs yet he has also said that the goal of a just society is an adequate distribution of the nations wealth the plan to offer a guaranteed an nua income advanced so gingerly by mr stanfield during the election would simply do this on a more or ganized basis than present welfare measures the mechanics need not be complicated one method would be to institute a negative income tax pro gram just as low income persons do not now pay income tax the govern ment would simply give enough money to everyone who reported an income lower than a certain level to bring their income up to a certain guaranteed level for the year bui this would still be welfare still not a satisfactory solution to the problem of what to do about the in ability of some citizens to support themselves education is a starting base the school leaving age could be increased and youth allowances could be greatly expanded to help families meet the cost of keeping their older children in achool university or training schools could be regarded as a citi zens first installment on his working life and students could be paid while attending ilte ijhbune established 1888 c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel edey advertising published every thursday by the stouffviue tribune limited at 54 main st stouffviue ont tel 6402101 single copies 10c subscriptions 400 per year fii canada 600 elsewhere member df audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association authorized as second class mail post office dept citawa nature unspoiled by jim thomas we have entered that glorious sea son called autumn that magnificent time of year when nature exchanges her mantle of green for a coat of many colors while tourist attrac tions of the far north tempt motorists to travel long distances such trips are really not necessary one can see as much and perhaps more during a sunday afternoon drive into the township of uxbridge for there is an area that to date has escaped the terrible spread of urban sprawl but unfortunately those days are num bered for like markham and pick ering and even whitchurch the rush is on and municipal boundaries like the maginot line cannot restrain it while the countryside itself is nat ure unspoiled so too are the native residents who live there for two hours saturday i enjoyed their company i attended the auction sale on the farm of turner and charlie forsyth county road 8 west of uxbridge town it was there that i met warren beach he was gulping down a fresh draft of water from an old rusty pump near the house between swallows he talked over the old times with a for mer leaskdale farmer friend percy jones now of markham village i waited my chance then interrupted with say havent i seen you around before i dont know son he re plied most folks around here have i come from siloam where do you live im from the tribune you know the newspaper in stouffviue i answered i hear you used to run a threshing machine in these parts you bet i did son 44 falls of it in cluding 12 with steam by jingers those were the days we usually ran about 85 days but once we started on the 10th of august and went right through to the 5th of february that was the year of the sweet clover yep by jingers we cov ered a lot of country even into scott and a little bit of whitchurclujbut you dont need to put that in the paper do i remember the steam you ask well i should say i do if weran out of wood wed just grab a few cedar rails from a fence when the farmer wasnt looking and cold i can recall some days threshing jih- side when it was near onto zero everybody either smoked or chewed they used to keep their hands warm on their pipes and chewin helped keep down the dust and snow why one day we was comin down the centre road through drifts clean up to the flywheel we got stuck tight er than a gopher down a rabbit hole we hitched two teams onto the engine and they hauled er through without any steam but you dont need to put that in the paper did anyone ever put a fork through you ask we put just about everything through by jin gers ill never forget the day a whole roll of chicken wire hangin above the feeder fell down and went clean through the cylinder an the day a young fella i had hired came walkin out to say that he had just let his fork go through before i could get the engine stopped she had sheared fourteen teeth off if he had been older i would have fired him on the spot but he was only a lad and jobs were kinda tough to get in those days but you dont need to put that in the paper which was best the steam or the gas you ask no comparison by jingers with the gas you were ready to go as soon as you put the belt on it was a lot less bother how much did i charge it was 185 an hour at the start but around 325 or 350 at the end but you dont need to put that in the paper did i thresh for any farmers still living around here now lets see just where the hoot are we he began surveying the horizon point ing out one farm property after an other and calling each owner by name i had the same customers year after year i mean mostly the same excepting when a few got tired of waiting yes sir by jingers i did but when the combines came thing3 changed i quit ten years ago now all i can do is dream about it but you dont need to put that in the paper i looked up from the scribbled con versation in my little brown book and he was gone gone too was a little bit of yesterday for men like warren beach are a chapter out of uxbridge townships past