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THE ERA WED OCTOBER 1968 VOL 117 NO Editorials School vs traffic Modern transportation problems become more involved and com plicated every year and remarks by County Engineer A J throw a new light on the clash of urban development and smooth traffic flow operation Mr Rettie told members of York County Council the widening and modernization of county roads and the planning and construction of schools and industries adjacent to these roads must some day meet in a headon clash He cited instances where traffic in the central and northern portions of York County demanded almost continuous changes in road construc tion to assure a smooth flow of traffic to and from the populated Metro area Speed limits are assessed and usually raised slightly to accelerate this process But what happens School boards searching for new sites for expan sion away from the more builtup areas find the ideal places are adjacent to these modern blacktopped arterial roads School buses can find ample parking room the school structure itself can be spread out without constructing a high rise building and the stu dents are concentrated outside the downtown core Mr is justified in his concern Obviously the present trend will get out of hand unless some solution is found Mr and his engineers should take the first opportunity they get to provide the new county trustees with a copy of their 10year highway plan and to emphasize the dangers of building big school next to big highways Industry is a different problem Big industry feels it must locate on big highways the bigger the better Most city planners today agree the solution to this problem is an industrial park adjacent to a highway Traffic from the park can then feed onto the main artery through a controlled intersection He didnt say No Good news came out of Queens Park this week that a decision will be made early in whether or not northern York County will get a rail commuter system Highways Minister didnt say YES and he didnt say NO But he did say a decision would he made early in the new year Previous statements from Mr Gomme said that it would he two to three years before any decisions would be made Mr latest word indicates that the residents of northern York County are earnest in their desire for a GO service And most of the congratulations for getting this message across must go to GO North Committee chairman Bob and York Norths MPP Bill Hodgson SUGAR SPICE By Bill Smiley Ian is quite a lad Young people however fine their ethical standards have a knack of getting themselves and innocent bystanders into some unholy mess es Herewith a couple of examples Our neighbors boy Ian is a good lad Hes clean honest polite and lawabiding Hes about as normal a young fellow as youd meet Likes girls plays and works hard at everything except school He and his gang are mad about motors Motorbikes and cars oc cupy much of their waking time Ian had a Honda then a VoIkH and his summer bought a conver tible for runs Last week his group was out cruising around looking at used cars They had no money to buy one Just looking And they came across a deal no reblooded car- lover could resist It was a hearse A huge black 1 Cadillac hearse It hadnt stripped down into a vegetable truck or something of the sort It was a genuine readyforwork hearse complete with purple up holstery and every detail right down to a crucifix Think of the history in that black behemoths years of service Think of all the good souls who had their first and last rule in a Cadillac in that long sombre Imdy 1 dont think the hoys pondered much on these things But they were hooked Theyd have the coolest transportation in town And a But what did it was the price One hundred dollars Ian the only one with any money in the hank wrote a cheque on the spot The others were to come In on shares when they raised the money I dont blame them If Id seen it first Id have bought it as a second car for my wife It would certainly be a conservation piece And thats exactly what it turn ed out to be When Inn drove up and parked it in the driveway and his parents found out what hed done there wns some conversation nil right He was told in no uncertain terms that he had made a grave error that hed taken on a stiff proposi tion and that this was not a motor- hike but a hearse of a different But the damage was done The menacing black hearse had been seen in the driveway The phone began to ring The start ed taking up a collection for flow ers The Potato Man who calls re gularly with produce tapped timid ly at the back door hat on his breast tears in the eyes and said brokenly I didnt know whether I should call today when youve had a sadness in the family Ian was told to get that hearse nut of sight He let one of the other lads take it home The mother told him not to park it within a block of their house People chased him away when he tried to park in front of their homes And so It went the rounds of the boys and their parents it is now hidden behind the cot tage of one of the families involved deep in the woods But the hoys undaunted by ghostly or gruesome associations arc planning some fine parlies and fishing trips in it next summer when the heat is off The second incident occurred at school this week These days bad carefully planned a mock and try to drive it out of there at noon which Is verlmlen he apprehended In detective the questioned then timed over to her for rial All went well She got the car started The teacher bad it mint ed In the right direction Then all hell broke loose She hat trouble or something look leap forward with the or the clutch and staved in the side of the teachers car on the bumper of an other one narked there Net rcsiills history teacher has Dear EditoL Sam Jacobs in his letter to the Era Sept 11 mentions a com mon sense policy toward liquor Apparently Mr Jacobs would pre fer to have more of the stuff manu factured and more outlets available Everyone who has read the pub lished statistics in the press knows some every startling facts in cluding the increase of addicts and yes even reports of shooting and stabbing while under the influence of booze About half of all our auto crashes are said to be caus ed by it The television commercials show healthy active young people ad vertising liquor How well the spon sors know what section of the popu lation produces the most recruits The love of money is the root of all evil Timothy 610 Does liquor help the economy It has been proved true that more money is spent to repair the wreck age of strong drink than is gained Mr Jacobs is right when he uses the word demon in connection with booze Another author calls it the liquid devil Because of the decision by North people to veto liquor Mr Jacobs says he cant give them much credit for maturity They will no doubt manage OK with out that credit I give them all the credit due common sense Many insist that alcoholism is a disease But where is the germ The bible says no drunkard shall ever enter heaven Cor 610 Now no one will be condemned for catch ing a disease I am sure Not all grow on apple trees The Bible says that righte ousness exalteth a nation but sin reproach to any people ing Churches Your continued interest and help supporting the more worthwhile issues of life and Christian concern also supporting other charitable ventures are a true expression of your love and concern for people The recent articles on the min isterial effort Town Councils inter est and Inter School Christian Fel lowship enterprise The Spot are also worthy of praise Thanking you again in the Allan Cooper Dear Editor I was astounded when I read in your paper a letter by Mrs Ernest C Forbes Ive resided in Sharon for 20 years and in that time Ive spent plenty of good money in the place known as Newmarket Ive pur chased beer and liquor dry goods and groceries During all of that period I never knew I was trespassing on hallow ed territory or the Garden of Eden Strange to me that in all that time I have never run up against the serpent And no does he hide or is there verbs A Knight Dear Editor I would be most remiss if I did not express to you our personal commendation for your editorial in last week edition referring to the community Invitation to Live Cru sade with the Patterson team This is not the first of sev eral very fine editorials I have read presumably nil written by your self I would commend you further for your able assistance and publi city help during the crusade and prior preparation It has been was not born yesterday Im on the sunny side of 80 but I never thought I would live to read a letter like I saw in your paper on Sept 25 Remember this is the year 1968 not Mrs Rose C Power Sharon Dear Editor Regarding the letter written by a Mrs E Forbes The Era Sept 25 To me it was mostly comprised of hypocrisy and bigotry Since when was Newmarket con sidered a Garden of Eden The only apples ever seen in Newmarket were in stores by the basket or by the gallon other wise known as cider Myself am an abstainer I do not touch taste or handle liquor but thank God I am not so narrow minded as to reject others who might like to imbibe Wellington A Power Sharon a THIS WEEK By Ray Dieu mes amis The Frenchspeaking nationalists who have gained power in Que bec face a very difficult problem in attempting to protect and pro- mole their language and culture Their almostfeverish attempts to make Quebec a state are of course aimed at build ing dykes to protect their French- speaking island from the tides of assimilation in the sea of 200-mil- lion Englishspeaking North Amcri- To do this Quebec must cast off any kind of bilingual cover Hut in ho doing it isolates lis fivemil lion French Canadians driven off economic investment from outside and ensures continued isolation The result is to restrict the abili ties of its people to compote in the English dominated world of mod em commerce and science Quebecs rejection of the kind of bilingual policy which had been held out nit a goal for all of Can ada means also that the English majority in the rest of the nation do Just as the settlement of the West was loft to migrants from Ontario and across the twa so also will the frontiers of the future ho manned by other than French Cana dians There are already till In Montreal where to the horror of the Quebec establishment at tempts to make French the domi nant language have ho far met with failure The fact is Montrenl is still its great an English hone in the throat of Quebec it ever This partly for tho emo tion of Cultural Affair immigrants should have to work and do business In French Ian This position in the main sup ported by Quebec premier Daniel contracts sharply with The Prime Minister genuinely committed to a One Canada policy which respects the rights of citi zens to the language- of their choice be it French or English views Quebecs drive toward a onelan guage state both deplorable and misguided He has said Our position Is that we hoped that rather than withdraw privileges from the Eng lish minority in Quebec tho Into the Act Theso are limited to the protection of English in the legislature the courts and tho statutes of tho prov- Tho language bill which the Que bec Government will ami unco shortly Is to contain cer tain protections for English rights The most important protection however Is in the field of educa tion not in laws respecting lan guage And Quebec is committed tut tonally only to providing schooling for Protestant and Catho lic faiths Thorn is no law that edu cation baa to be in English as as French Thin is why the Montrenl suburb of Ml Leonard has become a battle ground between the languages The Roman Catholic school hoard there decided to phase out an ii language of Instruction year by year darting this year with allFrench Grade One parents including many Italian who realize their future In the New World de pends on their mastery of English have pulled their children out of school and are refusing to pay Homo kind of a reason able can bo worked out there in no doubt that Quebec will indeed become a Frenchspeaking only But the results will he the rest of Canada Crier By BILL GAMBLE No sooner had the news of New markets liquor plebiscite leaked out than the socalled moralists were at it warning us about all the evil that will erupt if the town gets a tavern or cocktail lounge We are going to be run down by drunken drivers mugged by alco holics and above all molested by tipsy youths Note the the drivers will be drunk the youths tipsy And the under- lying implication is that because of the younger generation our town should remain dry This business of burdening the teenager with the responsibility of future adultbehavior is becoming something of a bore Already they are carrying the scars of censorship in literature TV and movies They are our excuse our tacit admis sion of failure to condemn impro priety for itself They have not fail ed to realize this and consequently have come to regard all adults sacrificial goats who were it not for them would be free to enjoy the spicy things of life Apart from an overpowered sense of individuality there isnt too much wrong with the majority of todays youngsters It is exceed ingly imprudent therefore to suggest as one female has done in a letter to the press that a yes vote for Newmarket will re sult in increased molesting by youths This is pure hypothesis Dogooders who persist in analy zing teenage behavior are per haps unwittingly contributing im mensely to the bad name of young sters today They are putting the spotlight on them thus leaving them no alternative but to reply This is how we are supposed to act now lets go How can anyone have the tem erity to lump all youngsters into one bunch Generations as a group do not exist They are a myth per petrated by know it alls who be lieve they have the magic key to our mysterious youths minds The criminally and in clined teenager today is In a small minority The majority are good and come from respectable homes am not waving the banner of the juvenile cause I am merely saying that to accuse them of turn ing to evil just because the town may acquire a tavern may be a mistake To deprive them of their right to resist temptation by re moving it altogether may also be Wer of a cocktail bar but this would he as efficacious as removing all the females or mules as the case may be to ensure their chastity or burning all the hooks In the province to protect their purity of mind The kids have minds of their own they are musters of their own creation They recognize the value of morality their inevitable role future adults They know what is expected of them and are for the most part like Barkis Our goal should be positive one of a healthful public morality not a defeatist goal of a morality up by the questionable panacea of a taverntess THE ERA Serving York County Sine Incorporating THE POST THE HERALD DAVID II Publisher CARTER Maturing Editor News Editor DOUGLAS I REGAN Advertising nd Business 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