The Acton Free Press Wednesday June Time some work was done Bass section of Fairy Lake choir Photo by Bill Sugar and Spice by bill smiley There a lot of talk about recycling these days That does not mean that great numbers of middleaged people arc bock to the bicycle in despair over traffic and their own wretched physical condition although this is also happening and a good thing too Recycling is basically the smashing up of such things as paper and tin and turning them back into more paper and tin instead of the polluting of our countryside with such garbage it is common practice in many of the countries of the world which are out stripping Canada and the U S inter nationally It also makes a great deal of common sense It boggles one mind to think of the millions of tons of paper cans bottles and other materials which head each week for the garbage dump There arc several reasons for this vast wastage One of them is that we have tremendous natural resources and we throw them away with a lavish hand It s like living on ones capital A second reason obviously is that industry is not geared for reclaiming waste In many cases it s probably cheaper to produce new tins than to recycle tin Neither of these reasons In the first plate those inexhaustible rcsounes of miteriil could be exhausted in a few decades In the second industry should must find cheap of recycling manufactured materials into raw materials But of course it much simpler to look at the immediate buck It s much simpler Just to raise the price of the product than to find methods of disposable items over and over again Ijke everything else the recycling business seems compile A local organ is raisinj money for a worthy cause It is collecting newspapers But they must be bundled and tied just so And they don t want any other kinds of paper In the meantime I throw out five hundred pounds of books which have a higher nig content than the newsprint which is being picked up Stems silly What ever of the old junk man There wis the ideal catalyst between the consumer the recycler The perfect in Most small towns had junk man He usually hid a bit yard with a fence around it and inside the tenet was an exotic jungle of junk When I was i kid the junk man is my chief source of income A vast genial Jew with benign twinkle he trcited us as one to another There was little on our part because It is the only in town but on the other hind t try to beat us down Prices were established Pint beer bottles were worth a cent quarts two cents Ht double his money on them Old car tires were i nickel apiece Paper and scrap iron were carefully weighed and after a judicious pmse beard cocked to one side lie say I you twclf cents An enterprising kid could pick himself up forty or fifty cents a week bit money in those diys And if we caught i nice pike in the this was before people worried about sewage and such it was a bon worth a dime or fifteen cents But a meal for his family He prospered And many of the big fortunes in Canada today started out in the junk yard The junk man was an unrecognized benefactor to society During the war there were tremendous drives for scrap metal and newsprint It must have been used for something Pig farmers picked up the food from bij military kitchens Why couldn we do the same It would provide employment stop wasting resources and do a lot to clem up our environment Id be perfectly willing to sort my garbage into waste food bottles and cans and newspapers How about We could all be our own junk men and do a lot for our country Perhaps we are being too inquisitive of the town administration plans but like other ratepayers we are beginning doubt that many of the local improvements planned for Acton this year will ever get done It is almost July and still there has been Utile activity to get much needed improvements to town streets and side walks with resurfacing Churchill Rd In his inaugural to council in Mayor urged immediate arrangements be made for early work on a Mill St and Park Ave corner and culvert paving and sidewalks on Mill W from Park to Victoria Avenues Underground hydro from Alice St to Willow St on Bower Avenue Bower Ave to Mill St on John St River SL to Church on Willow Resurfacing and storm sewers on Bower Ave Resurfacing of Churchill Rd These preliminary works should keep us busy until the early part of May when we can move into newly budgeted programs the mayor told council He saw cooperation as the key to a progressive two year program for council and the means of achieving the completion of priority projects He urged councillors to deliberate quickly and efficiently in all matters so that at the local level at least they would not be accused of dragging their feet Several ratepayers have asked us when these works would be done and we ve had to admit they knew as much as we did about the matter Council has conducted much of its business In committee this year and only the infor mation they see fit to release has been what is in the committee minutes and what is released at regular meetings We certainly subscribe to the line of thought expressed by the mayor in his inaugural address but like many others we are beginning to wonder when the program of public works is going to come to fruition We arc aware of the endless approvals which must go through Queens Park to get work of any magnitude done but agree with Reeve Frank who at the same inaugural meeting suggested a speed up of public works He said everything has been done that could have been done in the past but maybe we can prod stronger We believe they can We are also aware of the difficulty in getting reliable contractors to do these jobs when approvals do go through Again we see little action until fall with summer already on us and the reduced pace on all activities that go hand in hand with it If building activity strengthens as all the indications suggest then it will be that much more difficult to hire contractors as the economy picks up New old look profitable fad One of the paradoxes of the age we live in is that while people over 30 spend time to look younger youth fads are encouraging the unkempt patched up old look Youth anxious to break away from the conformity of the establishment has a conformity all its own of course and it didn t take long for hirers to recognize this and profit from it The Wall Street Journal has just taken a long look at the fads moving mmy young people Take the long haired shaggy young fellow walking down the street chances are the study shows that he is one of thousands who spend 5 to get their hair cut to look just the unkempt way they want it Take the fellow with the faded tattered blue jeans They may be brand new products of companies like Blue Bell Inc whose engineers developed a machine that makes jeans that way for more than a new looking pair costs Companies are selling denim clothing with patches put on at the factory Heavy work shoes and run down sandals arc being sold brand new to look as though they had been worn for months Air Force jackets from Army surplus stores at each with floppy hoods wen the in thing last year Now they are being manufactured and sold at 40 each new but looking old and of much poorer quality than the originals Manufacturers have turned what seems like youthful materialism into a major component of what they call the youth market The hippie you see may be ersatz Grants for the asking Those who could find nothing nice about the way the Hon Gerard Secretary of State has been providing funds for various youth programs throughout the country undoubtedly have some legitimate complaints The Dominion finds it particularly shocking to find out that some of the money has gone to set up a drug centre Others find for instance that more funds have gone to set up a study concerning a Toronto Mall after the St mall had already been a success We don t like nit picking but to give an idea of some of the projects grants have been awarded to which seem rather extraordinary here s a few culled from lists which were furnished for the use of the press Anthropology workshop 20 to a student project which will teach anthropology and archaeology to children using recreation techniques Operation sludgeworm 9 to University of Toronto biology students who will study the invertebrate life existing in the water and mud of the Toronto harbour Paper boy 1 to assist in the production of a film about a Cab- bagetown paper boy Sex and education to help finance and expand an information centre for people with sex problems Peel youth weekly 575 to assist in the publication of free weekly paper for young people in the Peel County area history to research and and publish a history of the town based on records stored in the town Hall Flight of a bird 251 to assist in the production of an animated film on the dynamics of motion to an Oakvtlle group Film projects 3 for three students who will produce three a dramatic short based on futurist theme a second movement of a violin sonata and a short one Dominion What wrong with passing out a few bucks to the deserving Nothing of course but we sure wish we had applied for a grant for our research on the sex habits of Acton ants Salt and Pepper by hartley coles This is the season when freshfaced graduates emerge from hbjh schools and universities to face the rigors of the working world Some are brimful of confidence others radiate prosperity but there are others yet who have a jaundiced view of the outside world and the generations who went before It is these disconsolate youths who argue there is a generation wide empty and full of empty dreams broken promises and pin the blame directly on the generation before them Few of the older generation bothered to defend themselves because youth has always been critical of the generations that went before Some always rebelled against the values of their parents But today disillusionment seems to go even deeper But a few of the more articulate members of the older generation arc starting to speak out about the positive things the older generation has during its time on the globe Dr Eric Walker president of Pennsylvania State University delivered an address to a graduating class at the university recently aimed directly at dissenters which has been widely printed I think it deserves printing again That because 1 m over 30 Here it is in part is ceremony mirks the completion of an important phase of your life But no one has more pride in accomplishment than the next group d like to introduce to you If you of the traduatuu class will look over into the bleachers to vour right or left I would like introduce to representnUv of some of the most remarkable people ever to wilk the earth These are people alrea know your parents and grandparents remirkible they are indeed Not long ago an educator from North western University by the nime of got together some facts iboul these two generations These are the people who within just five decades have increased life expectancy by ipproximate ly 50 per cent who while cutting the working day by a third doubled capita output ihcse are the people who have given a healthier world than found And because of this you no longer to fear epidemics of flu typhus diphtheria smallpox scarlet fever me isles or mumps And the dreadful polio is no longer a medical factor while is almost unheard of me remind you that these remarkable people lived through history greatest depression Many of these people know what it is to be poor what it is to be hungry and cold because of this they determined that it would not to you that you would have a better life you would have food to eat milk to drink vitamins to nourish vou i warm home better schools and greater opportunities to succeed Because they gave you the best you are the tallest healthiest brightest probably the best looking generation to inhabit the land Because they were materialistic vou will work fewer hours kirn more hive more leisure tune travel to more distant places and have more of a chance to follow vour life ambition are also the people who fought nun grisliest war They are the people ho cited the tvruiny of Hitler and who had the compassion to spend billions of dollars to help their former enemies rebuild their homelands And these ire the people who had the sense to begin the United Nations It was representatives of these two mineral ion who through the highest court in the lind fought racial discrimination to be a new en of civ il rights While thev have done all these things they have had some failures yet found an alternative for war nor for racial hatred They have made more progress by the sweat of their brows than in any previous era and don you forget it And if your generation can make as much progress in as many areas as these two generations have you should be able to solve a good many of the earth remaining It is my hope and I know the hope of these two generations that you find the answers to many of these problems that plague mankind But it won be easy And you won do it by negative thoughts nor by tearing down or belittling You can do it by hard work humility and faith in mankind 20 years ago Taken from the issue of the Free Press Thursday June Don Ross gnduated in the Faculty of Medicine from the University of Toronto He will go to to intern Preceding the laying of the cornerstone of the new St s parish hall a short rvicc was held conducted by the Rev J Hamilton Chairs were to accommodate the large congregation Rev l lAixton menUoned that 36 men of the congregation had a part in the erection of the hall thus far Thanks were expressed to Mr T Cooke for the gift of the corner stone ind to Mr Nieol for his services in inyiving it Officials taking part in the were Rev I uxton Rev warden H Jolloy H Oakley who laid the blocks Nicol warden T Jones Very Rev Jackson who dedicated the stone Rev Craven of Hamilton Beach and Rev Armstrong of Knox r leanor Elizabeth Ross became the it of Thomas Corner in Knox church June J The reception was in the garden at bride home Ernest West has successfully completed his course at Hall and has taken a position with a law firm in Kitchener Mildred Armstrong Eleada Bntton and will all receive first class teachers certificates from Hamilton Normal School 50 years ago Token from the issue of the Free Press Thursday July When the public schools of Ontario re opal in September three new textbooks the geography history of Canada and history of England will be introduced The prices will be the same as for the old textbooks The finest of garden party weather greeted this annual function of the Ladies Aid of Knox church From the editorials The Irish people north and south desire peace whether those who presume to be leaders wish It or not It does seem a strong reflection on the Christian nations that It Is left to China to inaugurate a campaign against gambling If Canada could be persuaded to unite in a campaign against race track gambling much could be accomplished The important proposal for disarmament by the nations of the world is manifestly growing In favor THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE 853 Business and Editorial Office Adoption of the strike method for securing concessions can be pern clous and unreasonable American tourists no longer must have passports to enter Canada This is a friendly gesture years ago Taken from the Issue of the Free Press Thursday July The anniversary of the Free Press and Confederation are concurrent The first number was presented to the people of Acton and vicinity on Thursday July I Our Journal has consequently attained Its majority and today enters upon the year of Its history The paper was established by the late J Hocking then of the Guelph Daily Advertiser but after two and a half years he found he would have to give his full attention to that department Consequently the Free Press was sold to Rev Albert Moore and the late Galbraith Then P Moore entered into partnership with his brother who sub sequently left to answer the call to the ChrisUan ministry For 7 years there has management We give all the local news in a terse and readable manner a synopsis of the doings of the country at large a choice selection of pure and interesting reading matter and every number is wellknown to be thoroughly clean in both tone and typography Tuesday afternoon an accident occurred in the gravel pit on Cobble HUT which caused the death of Charlie Cameron In company with a number of farmers he was engaged In statute labor loading gravel A large quantity of earth became loose and fell upon him crushing him against the wagon- Of the three sons in the family of Mr and Mrs Thomas Cameron Charlie was the only one remaining His sudden call hence has caused the family heartrending sorrow Principal Moore will send a class of 10 to the Entrance examinations at Georgetown