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Ike Era Wed May 1 I THE ERA Serving York County Since on DAVID HASKELL Our weird and wonderful health regulations It is a weird and wonderful world when who has toilet facilities in his home that they function properly while a man who doesnt have these facilities dispose of his waste in the same man this countrys early settlers This appears to be the case in New market where one man must spend about hook onto the towns sewer lines another man living right beside him i bury his waste in his backyard The situation came to light when the authorities discovered that a man living on St North had a septic tank which did t function properly The authorities ordered him to repair his septic tank to stop partially diluted waste from flowing into a creek which runs behind his property He was given the al ternative hooking into the towns sewer lines which run directly in front of his home He has decided on the latter course because the cost is about the same and the result in more longlasting His neighbor whose property abuts his does not have running water or a flush toilet This neighbor has been warned to stop dumping his waste in the creek by the authorities It may be that in this case financial hardship does not permit the man without modern toilet facilities to have them It may also be that the man with modern toi let facilities may also face financial hard ship to have them repaired or hooked onto But according to the law as it now stands one man must have his facilities functioning properly and the man without the facilities can live the way our fore fathers lived And all this is taking place today in a modern thriving community of 20000 people I John Lark a retired bus now living In River spent much of his spare time during the four year sine sketching Ontarios fast disappearing old buildings OntariO Baldwin Mill near Sutton which began life in on We must ban DDT everywhere We learned last week as a result of a tter to the Editor that Holland Marsh again plan to use DDT five tons it to fight a cutworm attack on their an and carrot crop A Provincial Government official wledged that the use of DDT on the irsh is being considered and that a study underway as to whether or not it will tually be used The use of DDT was banned two years except on an emergency basis and then only under supervision and by permit The reasons for its ban are welt known DDT does not break down traces of it are found in every corner of the globe and many species of wildlife are extinct or Rear ing extinction because of its use by man The Holland Marsh is a particularly dangerous place to use this deadly chemical because of its proximity to many species of It is also dangerous to marine life because of the nature of its soil and its proximity to the Holland River Water seepage containing DDT flows into the river eventually into Lake and ultimately into all of our Great Lakes It is unfortunate that Holland Marsh farmers already suffering from a poor crop year last year should face more hardship this year But the overall good of the country must be considered first And it is for this reason the use of DDT must be banned on the Holland Marsh and throughout the rest of the country for any reason whatsoever THE Readers ERA This space is reserved for the comments opinions and drawings of The Eras read ers Please feel free to send yours along All we ask Is that you Include your name and address Unfortunate decision Dear Editor I am sure that the NEWSROOM NOTES Yorks Carryingplace bygone highway Midland which for turbulent straddled the northern end of the link in one of North Americas great ghways the trail from Georgian Bay the Holland River to the Humber occupied last weekend by the for the first time in over years Now known among the the reconstructed Jesuit post and accompanying museum were the scene twoday festival last Saturday and nday to mark completion of the final Dave Haskell and I and about 800 oth- including some descendents of the original builders were invited along watch Premier William Davis open the museum The program included a taped message from Pope Paul and a telephone address by the Superior General of the Jes uits from Lima Peru During the cerem onies the century French flag was raised over the first time it has flown there since the destruction of the community in 1649 The French marines a group similar to Ontarios Fort Henry guard were dress ed as members of la marine the first regular army unit sta tioned in Canada SainteMarie was built in 1639 by Jes uit missionaries and their lay French help ers the first community in the interior of Canada and the northern part of this con- It flourished for years at its peak second only to Quebec housing onefifth of BILL SUGAR AND SPICE An idle summer for snarly students This is going to be a long tough sum- r for parents of young people in the sen- high school and university brackets going to be stuck with bored rest- bored restless child on your hands case of the with complications he reason its going to be a bad s that there are no jobs for the major- of young people who would normally be rking The other day I carried out a brief I of one of my senior grades Most of i are bound for university or nursing or such I asked how many had a job Out of thirty up for the pie two will work for on a dairy farm The other a girl will nch a cash register and only got the job shed worked at it last year So there we have twentyeight people I have the greatest house all They eat as though every meal were last one They get lazier and lazier up late and sleeping in late They no money for recreation and get and surlier They develop a feeling being useless and unwanted and resent Too darn bad about the spoiled brats say and I agree But that doesnt alter situation Id rather live for the summer a porcupine that had an ulcer than a ent without a job Thousands of them will hit the road the hoboes of the Great Depression ting about the country bumming meals lace to sleep and losing their selfrespect the process And just as the hoboes used to raise for the gallon of wine of these kids will panhandle or steal get money in order to get high on drugs the answer Dont ask me Im man not an answer man Then some questions it partly the kids fault Yes Some up to the minimum rather bum all summer than dards of a pretty free society Others have never done a dirty days work in their lives and would not stoop to menia chores My first job was cleaning out lavatories And a great many of them simply sneer at the whole protestant work ethic Its all right for the old man but Im going to do my own thing not work But I think the majority of these kids would welcome a job of any kind Tough toenails for them There arent the jobs Industry doesnt want them for prac tical reasons They have to be trained for even the simplest factory work and by the time theyre producing theyre off to school again Industry prefers to hire people who arc going to be content to put round pegs in round holes for years at minimum wages And speaking of wages the tourist in dustry which used to absorb so much stu dent labour cant afford it any more Mini mum wage laws in jobs that used to be supplemented by tips have made many re sort operators turn their backs on students Why hire an awkward girl waitress with no experience at a buck fifty an hour or whatever when you can hire experienced waitresses from the vast pool of unemploy ed for the same figure Is it the governments fault Partly The million the federal government put up to alleviate the students situation was too little ami too late and had so many strings attached to it that Mr might just as well have thrown it into the Ottawa River All it has done is create another branch on the vast oak of bureaucracy the wheat or whatever it is trickles down through the bureaucrats to the natives students theres only a mouthful left Any reader with a modicum of com prehension will have realized by this time that my daughter Is home from university without a job Anyone have a job for a twenty-year- old with big brown eyes a charming grin and auburn hair Qualifications plays a mean piano and guitar and sings types as quickly and accurately as her father has a sunny disposition except when shes loaf ing around home without a job fair cook washes dishes faster than an automatic Oh yes has a terrific figure all the Europeans living in what is today Canada It was destroyed by its builders to escape desecration by invading Iroquois who destroyed much of the Huron nation The painstaking rebuilding of was completed in 1967 and the sec ond phase of the complex theatres ar chives and other facilities two years ago The museum was finished in time for Sat urdays opening The story of the Carryingplace the key link in the trail which SainteMarie straddles and one of York Regions most important yet least known and virtually unmarked historical sites in its ways over shadows that of the SainteMarie complex Long before the white man arrived in this part of the world in fact back to the very dawn of mans wanderings on this con tinent historians say the Carryingplace was one of the continents vital highways In historical times such men as La Salle Denonville Brule St Jean de beuf and Simcoe travelled it Iroquois war parties stormed northward on it and Hur- ons and others southward Much of that early portage through what is now Metro Toronto Vaughan and King Townships has disappeared except in the old maps but during the centuries when all travel was by canoe and trail the Carryingplace was the link between water ways leading from Lake Ontario to the up per lakes Running from the mouth of the to the west branch of the Holland it was always traversed on foot This was no ordinary trail it was a main thoroughfare a trunk line of com munication with distant regions says his torian Percy Robinson The Carrying- place possessed a permanence very differ ent from casual paths through the forest It was as old as human life in America It saved the traveller a detour of hun dreds of miles over the exposed waters of Their valuable posses sions tike toe Utile school at Haggerman Comer and all the dus ty odds and ends in it are well protected Even the septic tank unused for many years and the mud in the bottom of the well will stay undisturbed Nor will it be necessary to reach for an extra Our trustees good and true including the two very well ones whose picture gra ced your report do not hold with outlandish things like wandering youngsters After all why do they not earn their own money some misguided politi cians like Marty OCon and Don Deacon who occasionally make disturbing speeches a bout our Great Country from Coast to Coast and the new Frontier It appalling that the trustees who were to set policy to belter the educational system would become a of property It is even more appalling that at every turn they manage to equate the handling of funds with educational efforts The improvement of a septic tank and the funds necessary for it thus becomes the focus but what about the the job of all children with those ideas would just get lost They could all go Home and Red sails in the Sunset and live out the nostalgia of the open country and adventure of pion eering without having to bother with kids who take their parents ide as seriously Finally Mr Edit or if the Board of Ed ucation would allow a well supervised effort this to be tried out they might just might save some mon ey on some of the ef forts like the series of lectures held last win ter under the pretent ious title of Social Pressures and Escapist Behaviour Mr Editor this Board of Education has done very valuable things they could just get out of the hab it of trying to save this community from the children they are char ged to look after we could have a better world to live in JOHN Glenville ACRE sites The prop erty in question is only AN ACRE At this point sever al of the councillors commented well just too small for that size building On hear ing this the developer- stated that he would Plea for planning then four stores on the property with apart- Dear Editor I read with Interest the letter of one of our neighbours printed last weeks Era On Tuesday night a delegation of residents most affected by the pro posed new Apartment building met with Mayor Forhan and members of the Planning Committee to try and straighten out the questions that we wanted answers for Although have been residing in our present home for the past 12 that the piece of prop erty in question had been rezoned several The developer who purchased the land sta tes that he plans to bu ild a 23suite apartment three storeys high But pointed out by Avenue residents the East Gwillimbury bylaw under which the developer proposes build has a density ra tio of suites per ONE above someone asked if he wo uld put only one storey of apartments be stat ed well I just might put in apartments and go three storeys At this point we got the de finite Idea that be had no intentions of building stores that this was a type of lever be hop ed would sway the borne owners to a preference for apartments vs only hope that the planning committee will see fit to look into the future and try to picture and not allow belter skelter buildings to be erected before the Regional Planning Board has a As taxpaying law- abiding citizens and vot ers in this community we have placed our trust in our elected represent- stives as Mr so aptly pointed out lets hope that we arent giv en a snow job also BILL GAMBLE A peek under money lenders halo Seems like years since I reported in this and there are those I have to drop a gentle reminder to like waiting outside where they work on payday and taking the money from them Do they ever regret having to pay you back that I would have about the Newmarket Credit Bureau Well a fight with the flu bug among other things sort of got in my way And besides I am still in the process of verifying a few facts Ave west of Jane St generally followed to the east without eventually crossed the east branch of the Humber close to King Creek The trail crossed the height of land which LaSalle dignified with the name mountain and then follows a line slightly east of the 6th Con- The end of the Carryingplace is to be road Mr Robinson wrote in That would be close to where the meets Highway 9 today Robinson in describing the Carrying- place sees it in constant use by hunters traders and war parties from virutally ev ery tribe inhabiting eastern North America and he tells of the dramatic events which the coming of the white man brought to the trail war parties with loot and pris oners heading north after raids on the New York frontiers after defeat after the fall of Fort William Henry Que bec Citadel and Wyoming after the mas- He tells of Dutchmen from the Hud son using the trial even before the French came of English freebooters from Albany of and priests and such fam ous explorers as and Pere Tonti and Henry and Frobisher Today at the trails southern end a great city has grown and now us of the northern end but In be tween In York Region not even a plaque before I continue with my opinion In Ihe meantime however Ive been looking at the other of the coin Going back to that amateur thing that Cable TV put nut In which a Credit Bureau manager a collection agent and a money-lender-cum- rapped about the virtues of credit I decided to lift the of this fraternity and find out what real human Mr Jones I always wanted to help people it was my hobby even as boy and that was why I began lending money to other lads who So you now have many years indeed I can spot a touch when I see it a mile off Chaps come up to me at the office or in a restaurant or even in the street and start to talk about the weath er Say no more I tell them you want to borrow a few dollars till payday right And do they Im never wrong Often they insist they never meant to borrow anything but I know they are only shy I have had to chase some of the more backward ones down the street and struggle on the pave ment with them before I get the money into their wallets Why is it the interest you charge Is so low Because it Is against my principles to Always Mind you people are forget- Yes but I point out that they will feel better if they square up their debts and I also give them a shaking even knocking their blocks off if need be as a sort of object lesson But suppose you cannot find one of these slow payers I always do No wait I had one failure he joined the Foreign Legion though he will be timeexpired in two years and three months when he will doubtless pay back the hundred bucks he borrowed But most of my clients do not go all that far away and I track them down easily It has given me some delightful holidays what with one chap gone to Northern Alberta and some one else working in Quebec City I spent a week on the Great Lakes looking for a man who was supposed to have signed on as a- deckhand but it was a bum steer and when at last I found him he was working as a part- time preacher in Salt Lake City He gave me my monye back without much argument after Id knocked him down a couple of What is your opinion of the honesty of the average man Very good I would say You can al ways make the average man see reason and pay his debts if you treat him right Being a black belt and an exprize fighter also helps I find Do you foresee yourself owning ft chain of finance offices in the future Of course I do and why not After all they all started like me now didnt they Thank you Mr Jones Ill remember your advice the next time I lend money