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page 2 the tribune thursday october 23 5st1 mi established 1ss8 chables h nolan publisher james thomas ajjmdtr publisher robert mccas j am fcditor advertwne manager published every thursday by inland publishing co limited at 51 main st stouffville ont tel 6s02101 single copies 15c subscriptions s500 per year in canada s90o elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association second class mail registration number 0896 editorial let saner heads prevail if problems experienced in stouffville on occasions this fall serve as an in dicator then this town could be in for one of its worst halloweens in years facts pointing to this are the removal of the police office from main street gives vandals a psychological freedom that didnt exist before a small element of young persons appear bent on destruction here particularly in the local park and halloween coming as it does on a weekend all add up to trouble sensing this there is the suggestion that private vigilantetype groups should be organized here in an effort to stop trouble before it starts as wellmeaning as such recom mendations may be it could only worsen rather than lessen the tension that is bound to prevail while police personnel will un doubtedly be out in force we should suggest the vandorf division go one step further than that of officer surveillance and cruiser patrol we would recommend that the sergeant working in co operation with the high school principal and the mayor commandeer the assistance of a halfdozen responsible students and or citizens for about four hours saturday night while their legal jurisdiction would be limited their very presence here would serve as a deterrent to vandalism and at the same time allow uniformed officers to be stationed elsewhere should the need arise such a system has been tried in other communities on occasions and with considerable success no autumn in the air stouffville residents living in such areas as obrien avenue church street and main west are faced with a per plexing problem this fall what to do with the leaves some are bagging them up as garbage others are burning them while others are content to let them stay where they lay the confusion relates to a fear of pollution air pollution and the law that prohibits such burning is enforced under ontarios environmental protection act the province has one inspector in the region of york whose job it is to check on every complaint what a joke while most people are pollution con scious where the problem poses any permanent impairment to water air and soil a rule such as this is ridiculous burning be it leaves or anything else should be regulated but not prohibited and it should be regulated through municipal laws not provincial it should be enforced in the same way but setting all laws aside what is really so bad about the smell of burning leaves in autumn anyway personally we miss it for it tends to overcome some of the more depressing odors that waft across this fair town from time to time odors that government provincial or otherwise seem powerless to do anything about these are conservative times the comment of one tv commentator rang true in the provincial election he suggested that when times are troubled people tend to be more conservative this point was never more exemplified than in premier davis sweep of the province on thursday with all the problems that exist today people were just not prepared to launch out with untried administrators shades of leslie frost and john robarts still hold sway over the province and the image of premier bill davis as a sound successor rang true the fact that not one cabinet minister lost his seat in the campaign is remarkable locally the conservative candidate william hodgson was well- known experienced and voters were reluctant to try anything new at this point in time to the south liberal member don deacon was strongly opposed by conservative tony roman but his reputation as an excellent administrator his fairness and fulltime interest carried him through it was obvious that the unions did not support the ndp as the party seemed to believe they would many were ob viously fearful of their jobs should an ndp government implement the stringent controls over business which they proposed locally in york north the liberal standard bearer was scarcely known and the nice guy image portrayed by the leader robert nixon made little dent on that of stability as portrayed by premier davis the reluctance of voters to risk a change and the strong image portrayed by premier davis were undoubtedly the main reasons for the big conservative win editors mail dear sir i thank goodness for margaret coburn school board trustee for king who has always taken an interest in the problems of the rural schools and the tribunes editorial last week was right to the point the problem at ballantrae is indeed serious last year with attendance of about 270 80 more than recommended the school had two portables two basement classes no gym and no auditorium parents petitioned the board for a building extension which was tentatively approved but plans did not progress when the board decided to close the small rural schools last may they had planned to send the children from vivian and shrubmount to rogers school in newmarket parents petitioned the board to have the children sent to ballantrae instead and asked that ballantrae be made a central school with facilities comparable to rogers the board did agree to send the students to ballantrae but parents did not receive any assurances as to what facilities would be provided or when construction of the building addition would commence i there are presently four portables at ballantrae two basement classes in cluding kindergarten the library is in the teachers lounge also basement and there is still no gym also the narrow corridors are considered a fire hazard the enrollment has climbed to 390- surely this must be the only public school of this size in the region with such poor conditions parents had considered petitioning the board to have the children remain at vivian and shrubmount until im provements at ballantrae were com pleted however we were fed up with having to petition the board with every problem surely it is up to our local trustee to bring our problems to the attention of the board and the provincial department of education if this is where the delay originates lets have some action mr starr i would like to comment that mr hunt and the staff at ballantrae are doing an excellent job despite the awkward conditions mrs lee wong r r 3 stouffville mjm oae returnable sugar and spice smileys formula to save canada by bill smiley it seems if we are to believe the financial experts that canada is in for a tough time economically them damyankees are at it again they are paying as much attention to our various trade missions and professional whiners as would a buffalo charging toward a cliff with a flea on his back screaming that he too would be killed if the buffalo went over the edge well as the fleas we cant blame it on anybody but ourselves its been too comfortable riding around on the back of that big fat juicy buffalo better we should have been wasps stinging instead of sucking now we know how the esquimaux and the indians feel about the rest of us newspaper editorials are crying the blues telling the government to do something about it or trying to assure their readers that the us is not out to get us they might as well save their type its too late for crying theres no use telling the present government to do anything about anything and the us is not in terested in getting us it is interested in getting itself out of the worst economic mess it has been in since the thirties writers of letterstotheeditors are offering some emotional but largely irrational advice to anyone who will listen some would cut the yanks off from all our resources that would be like cutting off your nose to improve your appearance others would seize or seriously police all american subsidiary companies in canada that would result in further unemployment as the yanks started closing plants many of them heavily subsidized by our own government and started pulling in their horns maybe a mouse can frighten an elephant according to legend but a rat cant stop a ship from sinking by threatening to jump overboard and theres a lovely mixed analogy for you to ponder over to carry on with the cliches canadians are reaping what they have sown for several generations they have invited nay begged foreign capital to invest in this country they have refused to invest in their own country preferring something safer like brazilian traction or at and t result the country is crawling with british swedish german and american plants directed from abroad i wonder how many canadian companies you would find operating successfully in any of those countries another cliche you cant have your cake and eat it we have all the ingredients for the cake but rather than bake it ourselves we send them to foreign bakers buy it back from them and find that its mostly crumbs one more you cant have it both ways you cant be half capitalist half socialist and if you want to play around with a giant among capitalists like the us you need more protection than an alcan jockstrap you dont send in your high school secondstring juniors to play against the pros have i a solution of course i have this economic lecture wasnt prepared without deep thought and deeper research first lets stop running around in ever- decreasing circles like that bird of legend you know its fate second lets not bite the hand that feeds us unless that hand tries to give us a cuff on the ear then bite to hurt third lets pull in our belts get off our tails and start competing with in dustrialists in other countries in short stop producing shoddy merchandise at inflated prices ill take a wage freeze will you thus endeth the lesson dear sir readers of the tribune were provided with a good example of the importance of a free and vital local press last week its contribution to effective democracy was demonstrated in your coverage of the current election scene conservative mla bill hodgson after having been seriously beaten at the allcandidates meeting at the aurora high school became unavailable for proposed debates at the remaining four secondary schools as well as two public meetings the tribune gave prominent news coverage to this fact and also suggested editorially that these meetings were of the highest importance before the day was finished mr hodgson had found that his busy schedule wasnt quite so busy after all and he was able to attend both stouffville meetings i think the tribune deserves much of the credit for the fact that these op portunities for the public to see and compare the three political candidates were offered it is an excellent example both of the power of the press and the good use that can be made of that power david robinson 33 aurora heights drive aurora dear sir stephen lewis said last night that its a very long process to establish the roots of a social democratic society it would certainly seem to be true in ontario as one who has been working as a canvasser for the ndp there is one thing that disturbs me at the moment in our despair at our great failure to mobilize the voter to our way of thinking we might conclude that shallow ad vertising with great repetition and non- issue campaigns are what the voter wants we might conclude that voters find the made up mannequinlike figure on the tube is more believable more trustworthy than the man who comes to the door hence we might be tempted to emulate the tories in this respect i think this would be a tragic mistake i raise this point because of the newspaper comments by defeated candidates admiring the slick tory methods which were so successful not only would we find it financially difficult to manage such a campaign i think it would be philosophically repugnant to most of us to wage a campaign on such a transparent madison avenue approach surely pragmatism should not take us down this road besides i contend that four years from now the voter will not be fooled into believing the nonsense he believed this time davis will no longer be the new man of the time who deserves a chance to prove his leadership his record of four years of inactivity and compromise will be there for all to see almost certainly the quality of life will have deteriorated still further the keep on going ads will seem trite to be sure dont count the ndp out yet bryan kettlewell rr3 stouffville the sabbath a day of recreation by jim thomas on sunday afternoon 297 persons at tended the first sunday public skating t event in the arenas history or in the history of stouffville all ages were represented although the range from say 6 to 12 years appeared most prominent this undoubtedly was due partly to the fact that many parents were present moms and dads whose enthusiasm for this kind of sport would seem more pronounced on a sabbath afternoon than a saturday night in effect it was a family day with mothers and fathers sons and daughters i taking the time to do something together i think its great but what if the same idea had been conceived say thirty years ago what the reaction then i cant truthfully say for i wasnt a resident here but i can well imagine the mutterings it might have stirred up and down main street or perhaps even within the hallowed walls of the old council chambers and yet the acceptance of fifty cent admissions at the rink on a sunday in 1971 is no more legal than it would have been in 1941 its just that customs tend to change while laws often stand still the sabbath a day of rest or recreation in many instances the two are one but parents think back how strict were the rules and regulations in your home on sundays when you were a kid for me there were well defined dos and donts first on the list came sunday school i seldom missed a class later it was church and my attendance record was pretty good there too cards any kind of cards were out so was hockey 1 mean anything organized oh sure a little shinny was okay as long as it was confined to the nearby creek the old gravel pit or a backfield pond it was the same for swimming the old hole in the rouge river had to suffice even if it meant the baring of ones bottom to the inquisitive stares of a herd of holsteins that shared the same bathing spot fortunately there was no sunday ban on girlwatching but unfortunately on the ninth line there were too few girls to watch the ones that did live close showed no desire for a date with a guy whose only transportation was the crossbar of a handmedown bike how times have changed l but still how difficult to change like many of the nearly 300 that whirled and zigged and zagged around the rink sunday they still favored saturday not so many people said 11 year old terry kelly maystone court stouffville saturday was best agreed mary smith 14 of rr3 claremont i liked staying up late saturday echoed sheila and susan both 14 easier to get out of the house more fun on saturday said sharon morrison also 14 of south street fourteen year old brenda morden tenth line south had a different opinion sunday skating is great she said i now i wont get into trouble for arriving home late saturday night sundays best agreed debbie mather 14 a visitor from ajax there are lots of other things to do on a saturday ten year old cheryl bond ninth line north also favored the change what else is there better to do asked mrs vera sigismondi visiting in town from toronto as for 14 year old jeff roy stouffville rr3 one is as good as the other saturday or sunday it doesnt matter he said i get enough skating playing hockey but his 7 year old sister michele was more partial i like sunday she said saturday night is too late and im too little with regard to the legality of the event one parent asked what if the rink was raided would we all be charged as found- ins funny how that oh calcutta thing keeps cropping up again