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4 the tribune thursday apr 3 u7s 4 i established 1888 charles h nolan v puvoshtr published wiry thursday t 54 mala 51 sioohvul oaf til m42i0i nav rprvarn rbuibnrvvririiiimyci4imm4iiwiwvbi i1mhu barre beacock t poi lmit sin copus jc iltrlpttai sue per yiir la ad majajer editor cimdisitmilswairimcaibirefautfitbvrmvetcirailatiaacaiudtoa k- b ceammity ntwssibcrt association and ontario weekly newspapers assedatiea secead class mail registration number ofm t ii the tribune is one o the island pubushina co limited group of 2 suburban aewspapen which iaclodtsln alaxwblttfyptckhljig news advertiser brampton guardian- burungton post etoblcoke caiette markham economist and sun newmarketaurora era oakville beaver oshawa this week and mississauga news i ji a a i i complex not needed now r v w tv virw s vj s a r a x- b s york regional council deferred action last week on a planning report concerning the location of an administrative complex for the region the deferral was made without comment mostly because the matter is highly controversial at this time chairman garfield wright made it clear that a new regional complex was a toppriority in his inaugural address earlier this week the elected members of regional council however are a little skittish about the whole idea depot success brings problems t stoiiff villes recycling depot appears to be a victim of its own success the depot is so busy that more volunteers are needed am a- larger buildiiigwill have tojbe found oyer 280 families have contributed to it in its short history and that is phenomenal in itself the expectation was that the depot would develop a few dedicated followers those who had some concern for recycling and the en vironment instead thedepot is attractingmore anpv more new people each week it seems that more people are willing to do something to reduce garbage output thahanyone would have predicted s the site now is temporary but we hope that a permanent location with proper building will be found soon the depot has certainly outgrown its present location something must be done soon to encourage more people to use the depot by finding a the fact is the time is definitely not ripe for such a scheme when the region faces large increases much of which will have to be paid from local assessment in fact for the foreseeable future the region cannot afford a new administrative centre therefore the location two sites were proposed in richmond hill and a third in newmarket- is irrelevant at this time whitchurchstouffville mayor gordon ratclif f hit the nail on the head when he said that the facility is unnecessary at this time the fact is that regional staff is working under very difficult conditions in the present newmarket offices the overcrowding is a serious problem there under the present setup the region has not the- resources to go into the contraction of a new adminstrative building and still maintain other services without a large increase in the regional levy the only answer may be something that chairman wright suggested at the last meeting thai iheregion be allowed a share of r the sales tax7that would at least provide some relief to the hardpressed homeowner who may see his taxes jump dramatically this y v so far regional government has been tied to the provincial apron strings dependent on v transitional grants to lesson the impact on the home owner those grants will gradually peter out and the cost of regional government will continue to climb the only answer is to provide some form of income such as the sales tax to make york regions administration economically viable until such a change is made in how the region is financed the already hardpressed taxpayers cannot afford a regional ad- ministrative centre we hope members of the thirty i y a this week from the april 5 exerpts tribune from 1m5 c t humble thanks certain savage tribes had a practice of drinking the blood of their enemies s in the belief that they would thereby increase their prowess in battle and we would be virtually doing the same thing if we gloated over the defeat of the germans and celebrated the victory in a drunken orgy of rejoicing rather we should be humbly thank ful n dogs chained dogs are forbidden to run at large and it is a good thing to see that so many dog owners arc obeying the bylaw quiet good friday good friday was a quiet holiday in stouff- ville as usual yet there was plenty of travel on v the main highways and a great number of city people came out to enjoy a quiet day in the country sugar and spice cxl i m no j i ouiuie luuvunuuiunuuinur by bill smiley permanent site v approximately 35000will likely be madei available to the people of -whiychurch- stouffville ovethe next three years under a provincial scheme called theontario home- renewal program s it would provide money at low interest rates to some and as outright grants to others to complete major renovations on homes that are below acceptable standards i was designed to stop houses from being abandoned and the money will have to be used for major renovations that truly upgrade the- house l regional councilalso get that message rogfcabipronusing s a good oneif than he that while the latter may beon the fd teaincaitivewayjtobmihga canadian literary giant thescheme looks like a jcarefutly monitbrecitcoufd i juopepole tofixup their homes while few people on council would say soothe 1 musselmanslakearea would be a natural j- for- this kind of program we hope that the program will be initiated 1 as soon as possible new housing seems to be increasingly hard t9 come by at prices people rather belatedly im reading hugh garners autohigraphical one damn thing after another thoroughly enjoying it there are two types s people to whom this book would appeal those who are in- terested in the rather mysterious worlds of the professional writer and the publisher and those who are interestedin the reminiscences of a robust and pricklypersonality who has doner a lotof living in sixtyodd years itis far from garners best book itjs repetitious and padded inexcusably with articles he has written and a speech he has madethereisnothing of the grace and strength of his magnificent short stories or the solid skill of his good novels but thats as it should be he is writing about hugh garner the man as well as hugh garner the writer and nobodyknows better can afford and this kind of incentive is surely needed j york regional police have madesome mistakes recently in charging youngsters riding vehicles that are likely to become the rage this summer they are called mofpeds they have been around for a number of years they are especially popular ineurope recent changes in provincial regulations make it legal for persons 14 of age and over to ride the mopeds without licensejn- surance helmet or drivers license unfortunately the police were not made aware of the new regulations one young stouffville youth was charged on all five parts withdrawn of the regulations that were recently changed l charges were hasulywipidrawn t when the police were informed of the changes at any rate no harm was done but ohemoped dealer washoppirigmad over themisun- jderstanding t he felt- betrayed after telling his customer r that fhelmets licenses and in- surance are not needed we hope the police veceive theircopyof the recent amendments because the machines are likely tobevery- common this summer after the recent rule changes i theformer has feet of clayif not putty v garner makes it quite clear that he is far from being an admirable person in the usual sense he getsdrunk at or arrives drunk at formidably serous events he tells people to do impossible biological things to themselves ashe tells it he is the sort ofvguy you would never invite jo a second party at your place because he would likely have insulted someone at the the first party or if you in- vitedhim to a party asthe guest of honor hed probably get intoabeer parlor and forget all about it leaving you his host with egg on your face when the distinguished author failed to show v- j despite somewhat dim light in which garner lof ten shows himself he makes it perfectly clear that he admires himself- very much out of the book conies a good strong healthy egoj which is fine every rearwriterl must have this belief in himself or he turns into a doormat for editors and publishers and somewhere along the line as you read this book you begin to share garners opinion of himself in most of us however sedate our lives there lurks a hidden rebel a wild non conformist a telleroff of the boss a fighter for hopeless causes garner has been and is all of these things- and we can enjoy ourselves vicariously by identifying with his colorful battleful life hugh garner has been fighting battles all his life and a lessdoughty fighter would long since have been buried physically socially and perhaps spiritually as a kid he fought the obloquy and oc casional humiliation of the very poor in a toronto slum and emerged from it tough and chiponshoulder as a youth he dropped out of school and i ran headon into the depression he bummed all over north america ridings freights seeing country working at many tilings and storing a great fund of experience for his future fiction he learned earlier the frustration of a proletariat facing the establishment and this led to a suspicion of and disillusionment with authority which he has retained all his life he fought as a volunteer in the ih- ternational brigade in the spanish civil war declared war ongermany garner joined up in the army right away his- red background was against hirh so he switched to the navy and spent a number of dangerous tumultuous and hilarious years before his discharge as a chief petty officer he certainly wasnt officer material then came the biggest battle of all trying to become aprofessional writer in canadaat the time he had about as much chance as he would have had if hed chosen to run forking of england t r doggedly he fought stupid editorstimid publishers- and the great apathy of the canadian reader sustained only by his own sublime and certain conviction that his stuff was good j i jy kwasalohgpitchedbattlewithmany a skirmish the occasional routandthe just-as- occasional victory ibut he won y at his besthugh garner is oneof the best h short story- writers infhe english language j with agrasp of the feelings andniotivesjpf j thatis wholly credible his novels are above average a couple of them excellentnotably cabbagetpwn- v where most of us can identify with garner is in his scorn forthe petty the bureaucratic the timid the phoney v- he is somewhat like a naughty baby who pulls that cats jail knocks over the this is probably the 1st gallanf crusade in delicate table with the spode figurineon the history of war when thousands of young and sitsup lookingaround to make sure idealists from many nations left home to c jeverybpdyis taking notice- battle fascism most of them were scbrped and derided as reds intheir own cpuntries- yet garner was clearheaded enough to realizethat the communists were using thv volunteers as dupes and he was never sucked if canadawere the sort of country which h erects statues of jtswritersheaven fprbidv garnerwouldibescuplted insolid stone fa fiendish grirnjri his facea chip on each shoulder and hisrightiarmi outfluhgthe again a fight loomed- when canada i v finger of that hand raised erectly in j n canada the universal gesture v s the universal gesture s 4 j s6bopl system reflects society y r v-y- by don bernard what is really the matter with bur number of competing value systems the education system absolutes were gradually being lost wjth all thetalk of teacher discontent and other subjects onceconsidered superfluous students that x are only onestep above illiteracy what is the real difficulty facing our school system i i the answers tothese questions are not simple however it is possible toidentify certain areas where the school system is falling down part of the answer appears to be in the whole purpose and function of a school system there was time when education was viewed primarily in autilitarian way with no pretensions of trying to scale the heights of creativity and innovation children learned- the so called 3rs and other odds and ends that weretacked on for good measure english language study mathematics and science were seen as relatively important with studies in the social sciences seem to be secondary readin ritin and rithmatic those were allaman and woman needed- and to some extent that was true education was seen as vocational training lnculate certain skills in the students and they would be able lodo all right tha was the old concept iy i asthe progressed with 1 quantum increases in the complexities of life the old concept seemed to be swept away as well- yes ttwould take new approaches to deal with the issuesthat face modern man became as important in the curriculum as the standard 3rs n even the methods of teaching the stan- dard subjects changed dramatically so called new math replaced rote learning characteristic of aihearlier era in language studiesstudents were encouraged to express themselves without strict adherence to grammatical limitations inother words even the 3rs were transformed according to the supposed needs of our society and the development tif the individual the theory- was that students allowed certain freedom of expression and presented with methods to work out problems will be better off in a changing society this theory however- has never adequately been put into practice and that is where the rubcomes the school system is caughti believein the same bind it must cater to the individual as much as to the skill this is further reinforced byanewin dependence on the part of young people that was unheard of in past generations this emphasis oh the individual has created a generation of superegos which are semi- illiterate and dont know it that fact has been wellpublicized because of comments by university teachers tothe effect that their students cant write in other words the founders of our system realized that teaching methods and skills could not be done inv moral or spiritual vacuum values are an integral part of life a school system without coherent sense of values has no direction and cannot possibly prove fruitful in the long run j if- people are searching for the problems in our school system it may be constructive to look at what the schools are trying to do if t schools are to create strong individualists then our society is doomed but if it applies standards of conduct based onthe biblical concept of christian commitment and service then our society will bestrohgvand flourish 1 it is this lack of commitment in the system that has prompted certaingroups to i starttheir own schoolsit may be the only alternative to christians who see only chaos in the public schools the separate school system was created becauseroman catholics r realized that education and ethical training are intertwined and cannot be separated as secular society would have us to believe from this perspective things cahohly get worse but it is this lack of direction based on k equality of ideas which hasdoomed our school i system what- is right what should bel3f taught- r these questions are less easy toanswer than they have ever been it is ironic that ina world where the need for a simple message is greatest in our dayl that the school system is -rinsteadofteawngskillstheschoolhada- sentences propenyioraotformultiply simple moving closer and closer toward chaos respoasibility tojap students become well- numbers the crisis also reflects the general itmay be christian people wili f lonelyjiirid naked thetree appears iatewtatermnotiadoraedirithsnow emptywaiung forthe warmer general in the school system in ontario hve been and maintained- education act still may be that christian people will have- to demand their own school system so that the principals of- love peace chastity and self- sacrifice basic fplfowchrist are integrated withthesrsitmay the