34 NEWSROOM 7266537 CICIIMMI 7266539 ADVITBIIG 726 4537 the examiner servingborrie and simcoe county Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario ELIO AGOSTINIpublisher USIIDS mas mm 7266537 fine move for beach Maybe it was the warm weather Council changed its mind and will allow swimming beach in front of the Canadian National Railway station at Allandale We are pleased council has shown it can be flexible on matters like this The debate when council rejected its initial proposal to establish the beach did get emotional But there cannot be policeman or lifeguard on every corner And the Allandale beach is considerany safer than the one at Centennial Park with its steep drop off We hope council will continue to be flexible as pro posals for the continuing improvement of our waterfront come before it Barrie has bay of which many cities should be en vious But it has not become the focal point of the community that it should At least not yet letters to the editor Is our progressive city really regressive city Dear Sir The fireball project has created much ill feeling as well as anguish between various factions in the city of Barrie Barrie claims to be Ontarios most progressive city but tfiose in opposition to the fireball project are acting as though Barrie is Ontarios most regressive cit Let us for moment take look at Toronto in the early 1920s In those days the Art Gallery of Toronto consisted of several rooms tacked on to the rear of the ioldwyn Smith home Over the years it has periodically ex panded through private donations and civic provincial and federal support until now ll ranks among the best in North America Henry Moore the worldfamous sculptor was so impressed with the expanding facilities of Torontos art gallery that he donated major portion of his private collcc tion of drawings and sculptures to the gallery The city of Hamilton likewise started in small way and has recently opened much larger art gallery London Ontario is also expanding its art gallery facilities with new building project An art gallery is an integral part of the cultural life of any city The people who have been working on the fireball project are not doing it for themselves but for the children the youth the families in fact for anyone who does not fit into thesport picture In Barrie there are facilitics for many aspects of sporting activities as well as facilities for cltoirs concerts and plays but there really are no facilities adequate enough for the visual arts and crafts Could the people of Barrie do without library Docs the nominal ltt tor library card support the library lIditors noti utlllt residents pay no ltt tor library card although township residents do Obviously not Take away all the tll county and provincial funding for lllt library how long will it last short while So what is all the fuss about supportingI lllt fireball project The city by sanctioning thc fireball project in tangible manner opens the way for provincial and federal monetary support As practicing professional artist of half century the lirchall project will mean lllllt to me But know the advantages it can have for the young people as wcll as othcrs of the community strongly urge the citicns of Barrie actively to support this worthwhile project Sincerely ll toiiyeis ltiiikti Polanskis private life isreflected in his work Dear Sir If all that your city editor Sean Finlay has hinted at by innuendo but is unable to piovci about Shakespeare Byron Poe olclitlgc and Pepys were true and most of it is not eon basic flaw remains The private lives of Shakespeare Poe Pepys Coleridge were not reflected in their works Polanskis is This weeks Time magazine says bis life has had elements as dark and quixotic as his art and Itomans got such bad rcputay tion forbeinga pervert film maker Polanskis movies follow the same pats ternthey are in the words of the Globe and Mailviolent and macabre They foster interest in sadomasochism murder witch craft rape etc The six offences with which he was charged last week include sodomy giving drugs to minor rape of 11iycarold and various sexual pcrversions Mr Finlay says Polanski of coursc is piker compared to Byron but is unable to give much evidence He says Byron was probably draft dodger but there was no draft in the Napoleonic wars He certainly was no draft dodger in the cause of ircck Independence Polanski has absolutely no place in our schools even on voluntary field trip Mr Finlay mentions pocin now con sidered solid evidence that he and his sister were incest uous This poem is not studied in Canadian schools it was his half sister anyway whom he did not meet until adult life am not condoning his alleged relation ship but putting it in its true light Neither Byron nor Pepys are studied to any extent in Canadian schools Their alleged private lives are oot touched on Mr Finlays reference to Coleridge author of The Ancient Mariner is interesting Col leridge took perfectly legal painkiller of the time some form of opium derivative to alleviate his headaches Mr Finlay the freedom you seek in your bible thought Wherebv are given unto its evcicding great and precious promises that by these ye might be partakcrs of the div inc nature litu ing escaped the corruption that is in the world through Inst Peter The nature of Christ was one of growth grace giving atid going and oiicol urgency show and tell and say it Willi love nature If this has not rubbed off on us there is little chance that we will make mark on the pco pic wctalk to attack on inc lone parent whom you sar castically coinparc to John the laptist is essentially lllt freedom to expose our llllt Canadian youth to the worst clcincnts in Hollywood Finally lr Finlay why do you bring in Lord iyioiis father whole to lines never brought in Polanskis fatlicr Sinccrcly liilllts ll ftttttt Council must DearSirc Your editorial of March 23 regarding tilt Ing at pinball machines was well stated agree that we dont need more interference from either liig or Litt Ic brother The problcni is liowcvci that sometimes it is necessary to stick our noses into inattcrs that wouldnt normally concern us The qucstion at hand was whether there was need to regulate the cvcrpopular pin ball machines are available Some pinball places have poor reputation somewhat as the muchmaligned pool rooms have at least in Toronto and other large coin inunitics Ihcrc aicontor two spots lll lullllt that kids congregate at to play llit pinball games that ltlont think much of The idea was to consider some form of regulating the hours that these would bc available totfickids Admittedly form of lllltlltltlltt in peo plcs rights suppose If the pinballs wcrc to be closed at reasonable hours then hopefully the kids might go home at reasonable hours liut then so would the adults have to go home it follows Remember the supper closing hours oat beer parlors Ill lllt past It did work as you were cut off around and the joint didnt rt open until around tilitt used the example at committee of what if wanted to play the shufflcboard at the local hotel at midnight tinder the propsocd bylaw wouldnt he albc to play after 11 ill Im supposed to be big boy and therefore shouldnt be restricted in this regard tldont play shuffleboaid or drink at hotels at liiltl night rasicd this question and thr following discussion resulted in the proposal being sent back for further discussion But you ask should council be in the business of regulating hours so that youngsters are not tcliiptcd away from school think thcanswcr totliat question is yes Sincerely liill Knowles Wodnooday March 30 1977 Parliament hill EWSROOM Dave Henshaw managing editor ADVERTISING Sean Finiaycity editor SALESMEN Randy McDonald sports editor tan MacMurchy Bill Curran county editor George Fudgeil Bill McFarlane wire editor Dan Gaynor Roseanne McCabe lifestyle Rolf Kraiker photographer POR TE RS John Bruce Paul Deiean Richard Dunstan Pat Guergis Scott Haskins Sheila 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the only issues now and we spend all our energy ill dealing with ttiosc tic said back Ill llecciilbci Well Mr lriidcaiis faithful Liberals must have littll listcniiig bccaust they certainly didnt lcavc tlial rcccnt think session in loronto totally preoccupied itli separatism liut ll the prime minister was delighted with this it is probably easy for him to liltlt his glcc behind some of the sobering statistics that replaced this preocciipat ion In fact it could be argued that the question of separatism stacks up as whimsical light hcartcd table talk compared with the weep The world today lly ltlll Illllllttl Forcign flairs naly st llioiiison New Scii icc To lie Canadian was the title of the Liberal policy conference concluded last week after three lays of meetings in Toronto Before it began those who remembered were asking if it would be like the famous Liberal thinkcrs conference held in Kingston int iii the springof liltiti That event was landmark in the history of Canadian Liberalism held as it was when the Liberals for the first time in quarter ccn tury were out of power while loliii lielcn bakcrs Tories ruled the land From the limo conference emerged the broad policies which the Pearson and lrudeau cabinets would introduce or icfinc LES Elt ll PEARSth thiiikers conferenci warnings of economic calamity which replaced it at the Toronto meetings assume the new danger is that we will all become so premcupied with the economy we will tend to ignore all other Canadian con ccrns As one who is not wellversed in economic matters didnt think we were in par iiciilarly poor shape You know Parliament didnt seem totally preoccupied with these problems and our political leaders were im plying that Canada was performing rather well LOOKEIHHNH Why just few months ago Mr Trudeau was saying that were well on the way to be coming one of the frecst one of the most prosperous democracies in the world As the criticism that inflation was still rampant he ctortcd that Canada is ranked by liCl iOrganization for Economic Jo operation and Developmenti as the fourth best of all the 24 lori 23 DECI countries in terms of performance in that Liberals look to themselves virtually to conclude the creation of the Canadian welfare state The famous and highlycontroversial paper of Tom Kent who would become special ad viser to the future prime minister Pearson was called Toward Philosophy of Social Security It was the intellectual model for the Canada Pension Plan introduced after the Liberals ret urncd to federal power in 1963 Senator Maurice Lamontagnc prominent at last weeks 1977 Liberal meeting as he was in Ititlti set the course for some of the Pear sonian policies on bilingualism and for wider acceptance of the French fact Senator Lamontagnc not then elevated to the senior chamber was product of the famous department of social sciences at Laval University of the late 1940s directed by the distinguished priest and progressive scholar Fathericorgesllcnri Levesque Its alumni from his years there included former premier Louis Robichaud of New Brunswick also now in the Senate Jean Mar chand and Gerard Picard the former to become federal cabinet minister in many portfolios the latter to succeed him in run ning the Frenchtanadian labor syndicates This years Liberal conference was as the planners assured us different It was lwlcaguered government meeting in an air portst rip hotel near Toronto The many policies of the welfare state are in difficulty some badly managed others so riously manipulated by recipients the whole cost of the government apparatus raising the ircof more and more citizens The annual budget of the Trudeau govern ment in 1977 is more than three times what it was when it first came to power in mid1968 Added to the existing transfer payment mechanism are the costs of the extremely controversial bilingualism program in the federal government Foreign trade is off The Canadian dollar is depressed in value The famous industrial strategy for Canada has never appeared In 1960 such failures could be placed on the government then in power the opposition Diefenbaker Conservatives who had ruled for three years and had made their mistakes too Moreover this Liberal conference was not an egghead event with articulate spokesmen not all of them necessarily Liberals talking to 500 party delegates From buoyant enthusiasm to were going down drain Sure we have high Unemployment but it has been lower than in the United States since 1974 whereas historically traditionally it has always been higher than in the United States But then these 500 Liberals decided it was time to have little chat about current Cana dian problems and suddenly the roof seemed to cave in Mr Trudeau himself seemed to set the new scene by warning us that Canada will go down the drain unless there was greater economic restraint And if on cue former finance minister John Turner was out in Vancouver at the same time saying exactly the same thing only he added that we would go down the drain without whimper Canadians now are living too high off the hog said the prime minister as be pointed to the fact that our dollar has dropped by to per cent in the last year We get signal when the dollar falls and if we dont see that signal and we try to pre tend werc as rich as before or we try to in crease our whatever it isour profits and our wagesï¬as though the dollar hadnt fallen then we have another devaluation and another one after that and we go down the drain and thats why were living in very serioustimc Meanwhile back in Ottawa the Conference Board in Canada provided the Liberal think ers with some additional statistics to ponder That influential body said the seasonallyad justed unemployment rate now at 79 per cent will rise to 83 per cent by the end of this year Then at the same time we have warning from Bank of Canada Governor Gerald Bouey that Canada has long way to go yet in its battle to moderate inflation And thought that had been wrestled to the ground years ago It didnt stop there New Yorks Chase Manhattan Bank managed to give the Liberal thinkers another morscl of thought with rather dreary report on Canada which referred to persistent inflationary cx pectations and political uncertainties Atid Toronto financial lawyer warned the prime minister that unless Canada stops spending more than it earns it wont be wor th saving ffhand would say the Liberals have been successful in getting our minds off separatism There is nothing like broken arm to make you forget sprained wrist PIERRE llilllEAl changed mind The Examiner is member of The Canadian Press CP and Audit Bureau otc1rcuia lions ABC Only The Canadian Press may republish news stories in this newspaper credited to CP The Associated Press Reuters or Agence France Presse and local news stories published in The xamlner The Barrie Examiner claims copyright on all original news and advertising material created by its employees and published in this newspaper $4420 Copyright registration 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the New Democratic Party in the next election that it could be perhaps permanently displaced LOSE FACE This is one revolt which we probably can calculate wont get off the ground For the Liberals would have little if anything to gain and great deal to lose by changing leaders at this point First of all it would mean great loss of face to drop the man they elected so en thusiastically just little more than year ago It would reflect an impression of in constancy which is just the public image the party should avoid after its long years of struggleinternal as well as external Then of course to put in brand new leader with an election probably due at any moment could be the height of folly As it is any alarm that is being felt in the party caucus is probably overdone Any chance of the Liberals being wiped out is probably slight The party has hard core of members who hold their ridings personally and strongly No matter what the conditions of the election these men are almost certain to be rettirned AN IDEALIST As for Smith he is not an easy read At times he can be very impressive He has the reputation of being particularly good out on the hustings Then at other times he stumbles all over the place He is particularly bad at handling the press He seems to have no sense at all of the place the press can play in building up him and his party As consequence his relations with the media have never been good and he has con sisfently had bad press particularly here in Toronto In trying to form some assessment on him there is no doubt at all that he is an idealist But with this he doesnt have or hasnt found the practicality to put his ideals into shape Perhaps he will find it Towards the end of the last session he was beginning to shape up as not bad leader at all in the house Perhaps he is still just finding his way Canadas story Explorin tradition By BOB BOWMAN Most of the great explorers of Canada have come from other countries hie of the few ex ceptions was Pierre dc la Verendryc born at Three Rivers Que and the members of his family who accompanied him La crendrye went to France in 1707 and joined the army lie was severely wounded at the battle of Iilalplaquet but managed to get back to Canada and became fur trader His great ambition was to find route that would lead to the Pacific and be extended his furtrading activities as far west as Portage la Prairie which he founded He also es tablishcd other posts at presentday Thunder Bay Winnipeg and Selkirk Unfortunately la Verendrye was always in debt and hounded by creditors in Montreal He had to make number of trips east to try to satisfy them and this prevented him from doing as much exploring as he would have liked Fortunately he had sons who deserve recognition for outstanding service They were leairliaptistc Pierre Francois and LouisJoseph who became known as the Chevaiicr They made trips even farther west than their father and it is possible that they may have seen the Big Horn range of the Rocky Mountains in one of their trips in 1742 they were ex ploring what now is South Dakota and buried metal plate in the ground It was found in 1913 and the inscription could be clearly read Placed by the Chevalier dc la Veren drye the itith of March 1743 Appropriately the plate was found near Pierre the capital of South Dakota we want your opnion Letters submitted for publication must be signed by the writer Please include your street address and telephone number although they will not be published Letters which cannot be authenticated cannot be published For the sake of space public in terest and good taste The Examiner reserves the right to edit condense or reject letter Letters to the editor run Wednesdays and Saturdays on Page