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Editorial Long Overdue Magistrate 0 is to be commended on a recent decision handed down in Richmond Hill Police Court following an assault charge against two York County youths One was given six months in jail anil the other two months and fine for an unprovoked attack upon another teenager In his summing up the Magistrate slated tint he was tired of pussy footing with this type ami it was tunc the offending section of the young people were made to realize they could not flaunt their imagined supe riority over other members of the public This is a start and we trust in spile of any criticism Hie magistrate will continue his offensive Too many offenders of this age and type have been fined nominal which a loving parent has paid and they have gone on their merry way of destruction and disregard once again We cant stop progress and dont want lo but the offenders in these cases usually have too much too soon ami far too often The sooner the parents realize that their little darlings from the stage to the leather jacket and itchblade the It is regrettable thai magistrates have not the power channel some of these hoodlums into a two year stretch in some branch of the armed forces We can think of many firebrands who found the discipline they needed after a on the square doubt these two young storm troopers received a shock at their sentences Their compatriots can take heed thai Magistrate has dispensed with the velvet glove and substituted a mailed fist Fun Or Fatality Red Cross Safety Week is observed across Canada this week and the Red Cross has issued statistics to emphasize that there are about drownings each year It is a tragedy that so mam Canadians should die white in pursuit of summertime pleasure The majority of these casualties resulted from boating activities High on the list of mishaps was the category of falling into water has been said that about per tent of the drownings occurred because the individuals their balance while standing sitting or playing near The fatality this weekend is a case in point where a young boy apparently fell from a raft into deep water Water has always had a fascination for young boys and loo much stress cannot be placed on the importance of learning lo swim at an early age also that adult supervision should be a must when children enter the water Never go into water to swim alone always wear a life jacket when citing would seem to be cardinal rules to prevent fatalities Of utmost importance however is thai even one should always keep in mind that while water provides the opportunity for fun can also be a killer Lets Begin Here Many communities have been short either the mayor or some coun cillors or both during the past week when they have been attending the Mayors and Municipalities in Vancouver and the question has been often asked is their journey really necessary Without full knowledge and experience of municipal affairs it would he difficult to define the benefits a small community might receive from these rather tophoavv com cut urns which have In consider their program on a national scale without concern for the problems of the small town We are a convention minded nation and sonic new association or appears lite voir in- iil- i mid hi support but we seem to be getting overloaded with these with little economic benefit to councils deliberations Newmarket should study Us next years budget and trim these con vention jaunts to a minimum Our immediately worrir should be directed towards making a good town even better Tribute To Lex lias the distinction of Inning tl rouneial for the past ridge ft people Lev Mackenzie and t up for a second year history student at York In flic carl bonis of morning farmyard sits still and silent on he of slope- for the fat from his house nested by a pond a lhil will So what would So I can probably think of thing Mi Guv AND SPICE by Bill Smiley One Week Of Sacrifice We were silling around bicker- help feed the hungry My after church the other day My reminded tne thai give a daughter had a bad cold and was missions Yes generally owly She didnt think much of God How can God let so many people in the world be starving she wanted to know Well its a fair Her mother and 1 tried to ex plain that it was not God doing but mans We said it was mans greed in canity and fear thai made live like kings far better than medieval king fact while bundled- of million of people in the world our brothers starved and died of illness She wasnt buying any It all sounds pretty to me she grumped dont think much of God if thats the way He runs asked shed do about the situation Like all kids she didnt know except to repeal that it was all wrong And did The result is TightenYourBell Week Its very simple For one to help will live on a bar in fa between that and the normal of living goes into the pot Ever cent of this pot goes to buy foed tithing pill- oilier necessities for the vast poor downtrodden masses of the world Its hard In believe that Mil urn Id Inking concept took see and right there in Well old silting around riinn God so like all fathers cavedays I tried to com family It could be done you know Lots of rite pomdge homemade oup Water in- of cot fee lea null beer The a Ik when- Wc First I explained that the gov ernment did a great deal to help less fortunate countries with our taxes When she cornered me on a drop in the bucket with a lot of strings attached try that met aphor on for size further admit ted thai government could do and cry among the taxpayers In desperation I looked around for someone else to blame The should lake the load and and lib i We clean our teeth void shaving and deodorants and Is Wc wear nylons off the hydro IXiept iikitig and The average family kick about into Hie kilty Take a town population Lets say a minimum of families Thats That will pay for a lot of wheat penicillin and pill- Multiply this modest token by the families in Can ada and you could jack up India in about two years THIS WEEK AND NEXT By Ray Canadas Changing Status All this has changed The out of the Cold War between II West and Soviet Russia has r- half a billion a power base for hostility US pi rible burden on Washington The US could win military victory there but only at the price of finding itself embroil ed in a generation of bloodletting on the Chinese mainland The US must eventually seek withdrawal with the Cong re- regime which as was i tan he a strong- pi the t Peking variety than the feudal serfdoms which the US has The other significant develop ment of the has been Ihe and Achieve lent has split black an om segments and as he fiasco of has proven rendered it inoperable as a cohesive body of likethinking nations The demise of the Common wealth now rapidly approaching its crucial days has not been lost mi London The British govern ment can no longer afford the bil lion dollarplus annual bill of Com monwealth economic and military partial as countries are switching their trade away from Britain to the US The will be finally re moved when Britain makes its next and probably successful bid to enter the European Common Market The question of protect ing the Commonwealths trade rights with United Kingdom will no longer be a vital factor in negotiations with he Common Market All these events have had a devastating affect on a a d a foreign Despite a respec table record in peacekeeping efforts Can oh in while troops were allowed in the Congo o 1 were acceptable during Sue the Queen of NATO Canada s membership on the International Control Commis sion in Vietnam has done nothing has not joined the Organization of American States because Ottawa does not wish to risk offending Washington in interAmerican rcflcclion its la policy especially with the US and the sacrificing the last vestiges of in dependence ihe chief of which must he the right to an indepen dent foreign policy could be an open torn of mail i the of foreign relations of trade ami Italic flow decisions based in logic a I i Nn of these can be more important than diplomatic recognition of Com- bin country sealing al the United Nations These moves will not of them- curb global tranquility but they are es sential stops on Ihe long journey lo that goal Canadas position in the world will be enhanced if it able to devise a foreign policy that is not just an echo of other view- Readers Dear Editor If I may I would like to use Ill Illllilj of grade school children to think about the potential for good and for harm of an item that is taken veiy much for grant ed the bicycle I- On the idr de required by law- tights reflective tape And more import tilth docs he know and obey all the traffic and safety rtito that apply to him A bicycle can be a wonderful possession for a youngster But he should be taught thai he must