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The North York Committee, like many committees and individual researchers before them, found that it is extremeljv difficult to trace the history of the battered child, that doctors and hospitals may have suspicions, but because they lack positive evidence they are afraid to get involved in what may become a case for the courts. The committee came up with some excellent recommendations, but without legislation from higher levels of government, these would be extremely difficult to imple- ment. They recommended that a central registry could be helpful. documenting the history of child- ren taken to hospitals with suspic- pious or unexplained injuries, that public health nurses, physicians, or social service and mental health staff be trained to recognize the problems and pass on their sus- picions to proper authorities. They recommended an education program for the public so that members of the community would know how to recognize the prob- lem and pass on their suSpicions to proper authorities. To become a school teacher, a nurse, a doctor, dentist, bricklayer or plumber one must have specific educational preparation and meet standards laid down by law, but to become a parent no certificate or license is required. One may become a parent by intent or by accident, and the child is the help- less and vulnerable victim or bene- factor, depending upon the degree of maturity and concern of the parents. Recently in Thornhill a teenage baby sitter was taken into court, charged with heating an 11 monthâ€" old youngster left in her care. Parents Anonymous are admitted child heaters who, like members of Alcoholics Anonymous, want to overcome their sickness, to learn how to cope with the responsibil- ities of parenthood without re- sorting to violence. In North York, Mayor Mel Last- man showed his concern by ap- pointing a special committee with representatives of a hospital, On- tario Housing Corporation, the borough health department, child- ren’s aid societies, police, mental health council, a community day care centre and Parents Anony- mous. This was an unusual occurence. The people most often charged wit h mistreating infants and young children are the parents of the children. In recent years, the “battered baby syndrome” has be- come a matter of increasing pub- lic concern. Children have died and parents jailed, but many cases never come to the attention of the public or the authorities. But do they give thanks â€"- well, maybe on Thanksgiving Sunday they will go to church and go through the motions. But actually they take all the credit themselves. They have worked hard at their jobs and deserve the promotion and the increase. They were wise and bought their homes at the right time â€" remember when mortgage interest money could be obtained at 51/2‘7o. They have taken care of their car and so can expect another couple of years of service from it. They have brought their children up right and the produce of the garden has been the result of many hours of back- breaking and knee-aching efforts on their part. They did it all and There are those who find no. cause for thanksgiving at this time of the year or at any other time. Their new shoes have rubbed a blister on the heel, they have a backache and a headache, their hay fever is rampant, the cost of food is constantly rising, taxes are going up, the payment on the car is overdue and the quarterly mortgage payment has drained the bank account. Be- sides this, their teenagers are a constant problem, they are rebell- ing against parental authority, against going to school and all communication has been lost. Why give thanks? Then there are those who have made the final payment on their homes and their carshwho have just received a big increase in salary, who find the added cost of food and increase in taxes easy to handle, whose children give them no problems, and whohave, indeed, “got it made”. At Thanksgiving there are at least three kinds of peppleu Fewer Buffered Children EM 0131): liberal THE LIBERAL, Richmond Hi1; Ontagjg, Thursday, Oct. 4, 1973 An Independent Weekly: Established 1878 Pcm Subscription Rate $6.00 per year; to United States $7.00; 15¢ Single Copy Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Published by Richmond Hill Liberal Publishing Co. W. S. COOK, Publisher “Second class mail, registration number 0190” It is a very large problem, and for too long it has been swept under the rug. The machinery should be set in motion immed- iately at federal and provincial levels to prepare legislation that will protect the child, that will give physical and moral support to the parent, that will encourage the community at large to become in- volved, that will eradicate this blight, this plague that hangs over the heads of unknown numbers of innocent children in this so-called civilized society. Such programs may relieve the tensions for a few, but there are still thousands of parents in this country who have nowhere to turn. Some may be sadists and in need of psychiatric treatment, but the majority of child beaters are very unhappy, trapped, frustrated, human beings who deeply regret their inability to cope with life, who love their children and want desperately to change their ways. If they did not 10ve the child, why would they take him from hospital to hospital, from doctor to doctor, attempting to deceive the profes- sionals, yet not wanting to destroy their offspring? The YWCA in Richmond Hill and various local churches have tried to help in this direction, planning daytime programs for mothers of pre-schoolers and pro- viding nursery school or day-care facilities for the children, giving the mothers a few hours each week in which they can be among others like themselves; that they can ignore the howls from the room next door, confident Athat their child is in good and capable hands. One positive recommendation made _by the committee, and one that should rate top priority in any action taken by governments at any level, was that day-care and evening-care facilities should be made available to parents who would not otherwise be able to get away from their children for even an hour. This is a recogni- tion of the need of every individ- ual for a break from an extremely demanding and enervating respon- sibility. The committee, all experts in their own field, admitted that not all members knew what legal channels are available for protec- tion of abused children. Earlier studies have shown that in the majority of cases of “batâ€" tered babies”, the parent responsi- ble was himself (or herself) a battered baby. But who are proper authorities? How could a registry be estab- lished that would protect the child, yet not be used for the wrong pur- poses? In fact their philosophy of life is expressed in the old hymn which says: We plough the fields, and scatter The good seed on the land, But it is fed and watered By God’s almighty hand. They give credit where credit is due and are thankful as His child- ren that He gives our daily bread. Mortgage payments may be bur- densome, but they give thanks that they are able to meet them. The old car may not be all that they could want but it is still pro- viding reliable transportation, so they give thanks. Their family causes them little trouble, and they give thanks that this is so. And then there are those who give thanks every day of their lives â€" for life itself if there is nothing else for which to be thank- ful. Thanksgiving Day is just an- other opportunity for them to express their thanks to the Heav- enly Father. Prices may be high in Canada, but they are higher in other countries, so they give thanks, They know that much of the world’s population goes to bed hungry every night, that every day throughout the world people die from lack of food, so they give thanks that this is not their lot. take 311 the credit. Which kind of person a’re you? “so Exactly equal rights, though, they are never likely to get. The law now provides some rights to ma- ternity leaves to female em- ployees. We cannot envision the day when male teachers will have a guaranteed right to time off while they pace hospital corridors. The women teachers can argue, with justification, that they have lagged behind males in salaries and in pro- motions. They have, and therefore may have some cause to seek special assur- ances. A special bill of rights for women teachers. excluding males from its purview. sounds like a most unequal arrangement. for women teachers. If boards of education are gm ing to promote themselves to be little Parliaments, pro- mulgating bills of rights, should they not be rights for all teachers without discrim- inating between the rights of males and the rights of fe- males? to give equal treatment to men and women on teaching staffs. They wanted promo- tions to be strictly on merit so that more women could rise to senior positions. They wanted to have pension and insurance benefits exactly to those available to male teachers. - No one is likely to quarrel with those objectives. The form of the request, how- ever, was that the board should adopt a bill of rights The Federation of Women Teachers Associations of On- tario was asking the board lll\llll\lll“ll\\ll“llllllllllllllllllll“ll“ll\l|lll“llHlllllllNIlHllll Equality May Never Come Women teachers had a good case to argue in their request to the Waterloo County Board of Education, but the request itself was paradoxical. TANK COMMANDER by Ronald Welshâ€"~In the sum- mer of 1914, the Germans enter Belgium. This is the signal for mobilization in Britain and John Carey, with his regiment the West Glam- organs, leaves the comfortâ€" able barracks at Tidworth for the danger and hardship of life in the trenches. A further story about the Car- ey Family. (Kitchener-Waterloo Record) Now thank we all our God With hearts and hands and voices. This is the theme of the coming Thanksgiving Week- end exemplified in the above picture of the fruits of field and garden symbolizing an abundant harvest. And Canadians,“ especially in this part of Ontario, have much for which to offer thanks at Thanksgiving 1973. RICHMOND HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY New Fiction For Fall Reading UNDER THE HAYSTACK by P. A. Engebrechtâ€"When her mother and her stepfa- ther did not come home for dinner, Sandy had a sense of MURDER IN WAITING by Mignon Eberhart â€" The pretty young ward of a judge and his wife is left rocking on deep and uncer- tain waters when the former is assassinated. THE DEVIL WE KNOW by May Dikeman â€"- Saga of Father Michael who labors in the Anglican Parish of the Holy Family in strife ridden North Bronx to pro- tect his acolytes from drug pushers and the FBI and his church from thieves. BE HOME BY ELEVEN by Amber Dean â€" Mary Crane got home by eleven â€" even though it was her first date with Conrad Gould, and was quick to accept when he in- vited her out again the next night. But unlike Mary, Conrad Gould did not get home by eleven â€" nor by eight the next morning when his frantic parents alerted the state police. Peter DeVries â€" Detailed comic exposition of honor under pressure, with the third side of a triangle 3 mother-in-law. SAHARA SURVIVAL by Burt Cole â€" Suspense and adventure in the Sahara dur- ing the days of the Algerian terror. WORLD WITHOUT END, AMEN by ‘Jimmy Breslin â€" This second novel by the author of The Gang Who Couldn’t S h o o t Straight, deals with a New York City cop who returns to Ireland as an out from his life as lousy husband, lousy father and lousy cop. HONEY FOR THE BEARS by Anthony Burgess â€" The reprint of a comedy which takes the reader, via comedy, into the heart of the cold war world of mutual love- hate and incomprehension. AFTER by Robert Anderâ€" son â€" How a man copes with the death of his young wife, an event which opens the floodgate on remote and subterranean emotions and apprehensions. THE SUMMER BEFORE by Paticia Windsorâ€"Bradley is dead. He was Alexandra's best friend. The Summer Before is the story of how she comes to accept his death and slowly, painfully emerges from her isolation. FOREVER PAINTING by Thanksgiving I973 THE RINGER by Edgar Wallace -â€" Alan Wembury’s promotion to divisional in- spector of Deptford coin- cides with the return of the dreaded Ringer. Wembury finds himself divided bev tween his loyalties to his childhood sweetheart and her crooked brother; between his personal interest in pro- tecting Mary from danger and his professional instinct to track down the elusive killer. THE RACE by Eunice Walkup â€" As the day of the 100th running of the Ken- tucky Derby approaches, the hopes of a host of characters begin to accelerate wildly. â€" As a self-tribute on his fiftieth birthday, Vonnegut releases one of his charac- ters, Kilgore Trout, a science fiction writer, from the trav- els of his creator. LAW AND ORDER by DorothSI Uhnak â€"â€" Novel abâ€" out three generations of the O’Malley’s, a New York City police family that‘s known violence, corruption and honor. ‘ crooked brother; between Budgetary and credit counsefiing is provided establisha pilot project“tota1 his personal interest in pro- by a group of five volunteer businessmen from health care centre" in Geor- tecting Mary from danger - - - gina. This would differ from and his professional instinct thls area" Who adwse people m debt how to a hospital inv'that emphasis to track down the elusive handle their money wisely. " lwould be placed on prevent- killer. (Contlnued on Page 23) ive medicine, 8'lmllllllllllllllllllllllllll1llll“llllllllllm“\lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll\llmlll“ll“Illllllllllllll\lll“lll1ll“Il\l“llllllllllllllllllllllll“mullllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllmlm numunumuu1mum1mlimmulmi1111mmmuummmumum4' LAST NIGHT AT THE RITZ by Elizabeth Savage â€" Two middle-aged couples joined for lunch at the Ritz, agree to make a day of it and what a day, what a shatâ€" tering day it turns out to be. BREAKFAST OF CHAMP- IONS OR GOODBYE, BLUE MONDAY by Kurt Vonnegut MINDFOGGER by Mich- ael Rogers â€"â€" A 22 year-old genius on the verge of ‘perâ€" fecting a device able to con- trol the brain, is pursued by several parties, each with an illegitimate interest in his invention. Ban Non-Returnable Bottles And Cans foreboding. But her mother had been late before, so San- dy hid her fears from her two younger sisters. Kess Cannon. director of the state’s Defartment of Natural Resources, says the new law hasn't resulted in any change in Vermont’s law doesn’t ban flip-top cans outright, as does Oregon's, but Since September 1, Vermont storekeepers have been required to pay five cents on each empty bottle and can re- turned to them. This fall, hearings will be held on Oregon Senator Hatfield‘s bill to make the non-returnable law universal. Vermont’s new law covers beer. malt beverages. mineral water, soda water and other soft drinks, Oregon, the first state to ban the non - retumables only outlaws soft drink and beer con- tainers. The State of Vermont in the United States has now become the second state to ban non- retumable bottles and cans in an effort to cut down litter throughout the area. Besides being-productive the countryside is beautiful and as the frost touches the leaves and paints the landscape in yivid‘colors this beauty is enhanced. Another reason for There is plenty of food available, although prices are high and there is work available for all who are willing to work and mgst of ou_r people a_re willing. giving thanks. [111119 Sp oflighl: Needless to say, family living has its prob- lems, and it was to assist in the understanding and eventual solving of these problems that the Richmond Hill Family Services Centre was cre- ated. The majority of cases dealt with are marital problems, the rest either family, perâ€" sonal or financial. Remedial, or personality problems are the charge of five counsellors, each of whom has taken certified courses in human relations, psychology, adult education, etc. Their business does not involve instructing clients what to do or not to do, as that is something they must decide for themselves. A counsellor’s main duty is in helping the person become aware of the problem, to understand why it exists and the best means of going about solving it. While there is some truth in the saying, “Everything that man esteems endures a moment or a day” it is by no means all inclusive. There are some things that do continue to exist un- harmed and unchanged. For example it would be hard to imagine life today without the concept of the family. Its effects on each of us as indi- viduals is virtually limitless. By DIANA COOK Family Services Centre In Oregou, a preliminary En- vironmental Protection Agency study noted a significant de- “The burden of the law is on the store owners," says Oregon’s Cannon. Extra help is necessary to‘ receive, sort and store the re- turnables, the cost of which is usually passed on to the con- sumers. Can companies are also hit hard as their products can't be refused, making it more ex- pensive for soft drink compan- ies to put their products in cans. In Vermont, Dan Webster, director of the Environmental Conservation Department’s Pro- tection Division says soft drink prices rose in anticipation of final implementation of the state’s beverage packaging law. soft drink prices in Oregon, while just the opposite is voiced by Kent Wood, of the Glass Container Manufacturer’s Insti- tute. (Photos by Stuart’s Studio) crease in roadside litter three months after the law went into effect October 1, 1972. However, spokesmen for tile beverage industry say that the data was preliminary in nature and any reduction in litter was the result of a publicity cam- paign carried on against it by the Oregon state govemmert. A year long EPA study oflthe effect of the Oregon law on local litter is expected to be completed in October. Also, both the Vermont/ and Oregon laws are being chal- lenged in the courts in suits by numerous beverage packagers. So far as the deposits go, the Oregon law and Hatfield bill require a two cent deposit on standardized bottles that can be used by more than one manufac- turer, and a five cent deposit on non-standardized containers. In Vermont, a deposit of at least five cents is required on all containers. standardiied or not. PEFFERLAW: A committee headed by Regional Council- lor Bob Pollock is making a bid to have the province establish a pilot project “total health care centre" in Geor- gina. This would differ from a hospital in 'that emphasis would be placed on prevent- ive medicine. There are also buildings of local or regional value, and it is necessary that communities such as Richmond Hill make its own inventory of build- ings which are of interest on the local level. Such a proce- dure has been carried out in Toronto, Hamilton and King- ston, and as a protection, these cities are also endeav- oring to have a sixty-day delay power in the issuing of demolition or alteration per- mits for the buildings on the inventory. Such a procedure could be quite well applic- able to surviving buildings of Richmond Hill, Vaughan and Markham, and as a result, it would avoid the confusion and anguish which has re- cently taken place in Thom- hill over one house. NAPIER SIMPSON, JR., Architect, Willowdale. In view of the great inter- est concerning Annswell in Thornhill during the past few weeks, I am forwarding to you the provincial gov'ern- ment’s historical background report on this building. as I think many of your readers would enjoy its content. The provincial government‘s posi- tion with respect to the house was based on this report, and two architectural opinions given by Professor Douglas Richardson of the University of Toronto and myself. I should like to comment on your editorial in your Sep- tember 20 issue concerning historic buildings, More and more the public are becom- ing aware of our vanishing heritage in buildings. At the present time national and provincial inventories of buildings are being made, and as a result it is to be hoped that in the future there will be no confusion as to whether or not a building is to be spared. ' Well. it depends on whom you talk to, as everyone has a different story. So far the school trustees, school super- intendent and the Markham parks and recreation director all have different answers. It does seem to boil down to the fact that Thomlea School has exclusive use of the pool on school days ex- cept on Mondays and Fridays when the York County Board of Education has it from 2:30 to 4:45 pm. I thought we would enjoy these privileges throughout the year but much to my amazement I discovered the land on which the pool stands was sold to the Town of Markham for $1 with the legal agreement that the York County Board of Educa- tion have full use of the pool from 9 am to 5:30 pm every school day. The last I heard the board is allowing the Town of Mark- ham the use of the pool on weekends and daily from 6 pm to 10:30 pm. In closing I feel someone received a good deal but not us the Markham taxpayers. MRS, JAMES SHIRLEY, 25 Apple Orchard Path, Thornhill. Now, where does that leave us? Last spring a “mom and tots" and an "adult improve your strokes" programs were successfully carried out, We, as adults. expected to enjoy the pool at certain times dur- ing the week days. Our chil- dren were enrolled for les- sons all summer and very capably taught. PRESERVE OUR PAST Dear Mr. Editorâ€"â€" During the last election campaign, here in Thornhill, we were told what a marvel- lous pool we had at Thornlea Secondary School paid for by the taxes of the citizens of Markham. The price seemed a little steep. but considering it had a carpeted ceiling (which is great for acoustics). roomy change rooms. a large lounge, etc.. and a much needed opportunity for our children to become skilled in swimming, we accepted our councillors’ word that it was a reasonable price. THORNLEA SWIMMING POOL Dear Mr. Editorâ€" Letters 1'0 The Editor