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p4 mmmmp v- a r stux the price we paid for freedom its strange how history repeats itself while doing some research on ve day i came across a news paper from thursday may 10 1945 of course the banner headline was about the end of the second world war but just off to the side was the news that four candidates had thrown their hats into the race for the york east seat in the upcoming provincial election fifty years later were cele brating the anniversary of ve day and preparing for a provin cial election for me it was a strong reminder of the importance of democracy and the price weve paid to maintain it unfortunately its a subject far too many of us tend to ignore im hoping the ve day cele- alan shackleton brations scheduled locally for today and on monday may 8 the actual date of the end of the war in europe will make those who take our freedom for grant ed stop and reflect on its pre cious nature and the sacrifices made to achieve it with the provincial election on june 8 we once again have the right to vote for the candidate of our choice and have a say in the government we get if s a right people died for i cant stand to hear people say they dont vote in elections sure they have all kinds of excuses usually along the lines of all politicians are the same i dont know enough about the candidates one vote doesnt make a difference what do people want from democracy would they prefer a dictatorship its not as much work god forbid they might actually have to pick up a news paper go to an allcandidates meeting or brave the elements in early june to vote people get the government they deserve and guess what if you didnt vote ifs your fault the people who got out there and cast a ballot they have the right to complain the people who didnt vote they should just shut their mouths and pay their taxes ftte adam by brian basset rrcstttiwrwawfi sbtg0puuts marcfactabkoheof the prosktfmg attofemgys shes wx a bm nauttor voter turnout in municipal elections averages around 35 per cent in provincial and fed eral elections it is usually the 65- to 75percent range in the 1990 provincial election voter turnout in the durham- york riding was 618 percent i think we can do better i hope all of the eligible voters out there remember that this election takes place 51 years and two days after dday june 6 1944 we dishonor those who gave their lives on the beaches of normandy and in every aspect of both both the first and second world wars when we decide not to vote ve day meant not only the end of the war but the continua tion of our freedoms we should try harder to respect those free doms the tribune weekender edition ametrolaod conuwiat m pi- patricia pappas publisher jo ann stevenson editorincftief andrew hair general managereditor debraweller director of advertising barry goodyear director of distribution vivian qneu business manager pamela nichols operations manager rtouftvnjj uxbridge all enquiries all enquiries 6403100 8528741 fax 6405477 fax 8526741 6244malnst- 88 brock st w stouffvffle ont uxbrldge ont l4a1e2 l9p1p4 the tribune published every wednesday and saturday is one of the metroland printing pub lishing and distributing group of suburban newspapers which includes moxkhan econo mist and sun ajax pickering news advertiser auroranewmarket era banner barrie advance brampton guardian burlington post cilyparent collingwood connection etobicoke guardian georgetown independentacton free press kingston this week lindsay this week milton canadian champion misissauga news northumberland news north york mirror oakville beaver oriuia today oshawa-whithy- clarington this week peterborough this week richmond hulrhornhillvflughan liber al scarborough mirror todays seniors con tents not to be reproduced without written per mission from the publisher permit 1247 ready for the next mania back in the 17th century the dutch went nuts over tulip bulbs merchants soldiers peasants nobility virtually everyone in holland unaccountably decided that they must get in on the tulip bulb trade one burgher in amsterdam offered two wagons of wheat four wagonloads of rye four fat oxen eight pigs a dozen sheep two bar rels of wine four barrels of beer two barrels of butter 1000 pounds of cheese a bed a new suit of clothes and a silver beaker and for what for a single tulip bulb many dutch traded away their farms their houses everything they owned for the chance to pos sess some rare tulip bulb or other the madness spread like wildfire until 1637 when panic swept the bulb collectors suddenly every body wanted to sell and nobody wanted to buy the worlds one and only outbreak of tulipomania was over but you never know when a mass mania will come along and gobble us up in our grandpar ents time the arrival of 1181168 comet was enough to convince thousands that the world was coming to an end they left their homes and jobs and went up the nearest mountain to await armageddon in the 1930s orson welles con vinced tens of thousands of gullible american radio listeners that martians had landed and were taking over the us back in the 60s hundreds of thousands of teeny boppers flocked like mayflies to the rhythm of four shaggy lads from liverpool i think ive spotted the next fad on the mania turnpike i believe we are trembling on the threshold of a historical period that will become known to future anthro pologists as the age of peeceema- nia pc political correctness its a movement thats been with us for a few years a movement that should by now have perished from its own absurdity but it hasnt its getting stronger witness these tales culled from the news wires this past little while item hostess fritolay canada ltd has jettisoned a 4 million ad campaign to introduce a new potato chip bag reason the headline oh the ad read kiss the old bag goodbye some pro fessional whiner in toronto decried the ad as appalling and profoundly antiwoman hostess fritolay caved in and yanked the ad all i can say is what a crock of chips item the university of toronto has pulled an edition of the campus newspaper off the newsstands in response to com plaints from students women and the masonic lodge the student newspaper was a spoof of the toronto sun how do you spoof the toronto sun which included an article about how the masonic lodge was plot ting to take over the university by spiking cafeteria food with emet ics an official claimed the spoof had gone beyond the boundaries of normally accepted humor of the college community will the lunacy never end who knows but at least its begun to turn back on itself at the university of pennsylva nia recently a woman was kicked out of a meeting of a group called white women against racism reason well the woman was black you see and the members of the wwar committee felt her presence would make white women uncomfortable gee isnt that the same argu ment governor george wallace used