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Markham Town Council in planning committee seems bent upon ramming a townhouse proiect at Leslie and John Streets in Thornhili down the throats of the town’s protesting technical planners. This looks like a politically popular decision now, because it is one solution which will satisfy the wishes of the home owner association in the adiacent German Mills area. However, we agree with Markham Mayor Anthony Roman that some better solution should be found for use of the land. It is significant to note the townhouse plan is opposed vigorously by veteran Markham Regional Councillor Robert Adams. The opinions of the town’s two senior council members sh0u|dn’t be ignored lightly. From the evidence now in, it appears the townhouse project would be a serious mistake on the long term. The home owners oppose fown planning staff’s proposal for There is a move afoot at York Region to increase the number of regional council seats beyond the present 16. ' A group of regional councillors and mayors is studying the idea. Any' ihcrease in the size of the council should be most s1renuously Opposed. we feel. Markham Town should have a larger proportion of the council seals because of its recent maior growlh in population. But this shouId be accomplished 1hrough a redistribufion and reduction of the number of sea’rs 10 a toiaI closer to 10. If the council were any larger, it would in large measure cease to be directly accountable to the people. Its decisions would become riddled with petty polllicking, formation of groups and an increase in secret block agreements. The regional council is now at lhe maximum desirable size. Councillors could pass fhe blame around, ’rhus shielding Ihemselves from public opinion. They would lend lo spend more lime playing political games than on real public business. We know of at least one public inquiry where a provincial coninfissioner found a local govenvnenibodyshoukinoihave any nnore 1han 15 seats nor less than five. man five‘ The successful department There mus” be aUthorilafiYe head works to strengthen and and ewe"t F’rece‘jenf 0" “"5 support the administrator, not to question. It should be sought out. circumvent that management Until such authority can be position. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllll||IlIllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIlllllllIIllllll|Ill||lllllll|I|ll|ll|l|||lllllllllllllllll|lllllllllll||l|lIlll|l|l||Illll|l|l|llll|lllllllllllllllllllllllllll Inflation or depression By John P. Lounsbury John Lounsbury. who is a resident of St. Anthony’s Court. Richmond Hill. is a senior economist with the economic research department of the Toronto Dominion Bank. Everybody talks about inflation, but as Will Rogers said about the weather “nobody does anything about it!“ 7 Wellfthere is sémething that can be done about inflation. but the cure may be worse than the disease. All governments around the world possess the knowledge and the tools to cure inflation in a relatively short period of time. If the Government of Canada cuts taxes or increases its spending (or does both), so that it incurs a deficit. the result will be consumers and corporations have more money to spend and the economy is thereby stimulated. These tools are commonly referred to as fiscal policy and monetary policy. Fiscal policy refers to the actions which govern- ments take in their taxing and spending programs. Conversely. if the government raises taxes, cuts its spending or does both‘ it will have a surplus. This will depress spending power throughout the economy and thereby restrain growth and inflation. Similarly, the governmment can. through the Bank of Canada, ease monetary policy so more funds at lower interest rates can be borrowed from the chartered banks and other financial institutions. This can induce, an expansion in house building. factory building or consumer spending â€" all of which are expansionary for the economy and will, therefore, create THE LIBERAL. Wednesday, Feb. 26, 1975 l0|0| Yonge Street. Richmond Hill. [AC 4Y6 (J PUBLISHER J. G. VAN KAMPEN EDITOR The Liberal is published every Wednesday by Metrospan P North Division. which also publishes The Banner in Aurora- Woodbridge Vaughan News. Thornhill plan serious mistake Should reduce size of regional council KJ. LARONE PRESIDENT, Metrosoan Publnshnnq Limited controlled industrial use of the land. The home owners could be the key to solving the problem if they could study the matter further and come up with a good positive recommendation. The long and narrow i9-acre site is bounded by a future ex- pressway, a rail line and two maior local roads which will soon be much more heavily travelled. It will be in the shadow of a John Street overpass of the ex- pressway. The staff report pointed out there were a great many things wrong with the townhouse plan and that the town would be putting 283 ' families in an unhealthy. deteriorating noise hole. Planning Director William Power was leaving for a new iob when he handed in the staff report on the townhouse proposal. No doubt he was in a position to be plain and candid. Planner Power said it would be a disaster to put people on fhaf 19 acres and it's extremely hard to brush those words aside. demonstrated, we think the region council should probably be reduced in size. But it certainly shouldn’t have any more seats added. Unfortunate resignation new jobs Conversely. the Bank of Canada can raise interest rates and make credit difficult to obtain â€" thereby restraining expansion of all kinds, increasing unemployment and restraining inflation. Vaughan Town Recreafion Co- ordinator Barry-Young resigned last week in an unfortunately spectacular style. Why then. if the federal government can restrain inflation by raising taxes or by creating tight money, has it chosen to cut taxes. let ‘nterest rates fall and let credit become easier to obtain. when inflation is running at about 12 percent a year â€" the highest in over a generation? u, , 24 _A Regardless of the undoubted accomplishments of his 31/2 years in Vaughan, what he advocated would have been a step back- wards for the town. Had he been made reSponsible directly to council, he would have found himself worse off with a handful of bosses all having their fingers in his department, not iust those of the municipality's ad- ministrator. ".0"-.. . ___ In my view. the answer lies in the fact Ottawa became alarmed over the down- turns which were taking place amongst most of the major industrial nations of the world. Japan, through the United States and throughout Europe. governments have been fighting inflation with austerity Young should have realized that in a modern, well run municipal corporation the administrator is the general manager and the strong mayor-strong council is freed to more effectively con~ centrate on policy and politics. [AC 4Y6 Ontario EDITOR HAROLD BLAINE Ietrospan Publishing Limited â€"â€" »r in Aurora-Newmarket and the inV_au9hf-;"1 W and dogs (Photo by Wynne) A topical column 0! opinion by our readers‘ Suhmissions should be no more than 800 words. typed pre'erably. Then this area, perhaps, would be on the way toward doing its part to make Canada one of those most Special nations where more than enough blood is freely given for all medical purposes by its people. mWMWwmWWMWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWMWMWWWWWWWWWWWWWWMWWWWWWWWWMMMWMWMMMWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWMWWWWWMWMMWWWWWM Viewpoint from the regional desk Do you remember the old Jimmy Hatlo cartoon‘ ‘They’ll Do It Every Time”? It offered a light, but usually accurate comment on life through the foibles that made us. at various times‘ both the victims and the subjects of the punch line â€" ‘They‘ll Do It Every Time.‘ BY JIM IRVING Occasionally. too. it featured a side offering called “There Oughtta Be A Law." It, also. was the tag line for some of the daily (YESTER DAYS - i Last year there was a very vocal camâ€"- paign being waged in the City of Toronto against the hordes of unwanted dogs and cats at large in the CITY. rSomethian new, you say, after all dogs have always been man‘s best friends and companions and have beenvalued gs such. Not so, say I, after reading the January 25, 1884 (the oldest we possess) issue of The Liberal. That issue said: “An Iowa man has figured up the cost of keeping dogs in his state, and finds they eat enough annuaily to feed 100,000 workmen. “Counting in the damage they do to the sheep farmers, the dogs cost the state $9 million. while the education of all the children in Iowa is provided at less than half that figure. “A Tennessee man reports a similar conditi‘on in his state. He finds there are 200.000 worthless dogs there, which con- sume enough food. if fed to hogs, to make 30,000,000 pounds of bacon, which would be equal to feeding meat to 100,000 able-bodied men a whole year. “At 10 centé per pound the bacon would be worth $3 million and if that sum were provided in silver it would load 94 two-horse wagons, and make a wagon train more than, budgets and by making credit very difficult and expensive to obtain. As a result, throughout late 1973 and all of 1974, recessions were taking place in most of the nations with which Canada trades. The United States has been particularly hard hit because the authorities in Washington clung to a very tight money policy in their anti-inflationary fight. some thing new you say! - They were apparently not’ove’rly con- cerned about the other side of the coin â€" unemployment. Canada depends more than almost any other nation upon trade. It rightfully became alarmed when world recession appeared last year, for it would be im- possible for Canada to avoid being hurt if its world markets kept on declining‘ The only defensive mechanism Canada could employ was to try to stimulate the purchase of goods made at home to offset the loss of jobs in industries affected by declining exports. Thus the government. knowingly running the risk of failing to curb inflation,began last fall to stimulate economic activity in Canada by cutting taxes and by lowering interest rates. The objective was to stimulate consumer spending in Canada and to revive house building â€" both of which will create jobs. The United States. our largest export market (it buys about 70 per cent of our exports) has only recently acknowledged the seriousness of failing to deal with its rising unemployment but Congress and the president have yet to succeed in effecting a tax cut. . . We can see that. in attempting to cure But there Will he no a growing number of c: beginning to follow Canada set last fall by their own economies easier credit policies. Let‘s hope the U11 Canada’s lead quickly name your poison transgressions we fall prey to. but for which there are no legal restricggons. But there really"oughtta‘ be. Just as there should be for some of the tran- sgressions perpetrated by various businesses in the region. For example. there ‘oughtta’ be a law against piped-in music in shopping malls and other public places. ' It's getting so you can‘t even go to the washroom There bug/lite ’ be a law There wouldn‘t be this anymore without a musical naturalism about life. bit of reparteel _ _ accdmpaniment â€" usually‘ violent death and raindrops Allyou'dlike to do is wrap “Sid adhél‘ence t0 the r A . . . (“Illa' M w, 1mm: v- .m we “mean. mind en current dictum that all half a mile long W‘r‘iAgain the worthless whelps prevent farmers from keeping two million‘sheep; the mutton and wool from which would be worth $5 million. Including the sheep now killed annually. the whole expense for keeping the dogs of the state amounts to the pretty sum of $9 million. Tennessee expends $3 million in educating her children. Three dollars for dogs â€" one dollar for children! , Alan-“I «VDV V “Another writer after making a careful survey of the damage done by dogs in the northern states alone, finds it costs not less than $33 million annually to support dogs. a sum that would buy 165,000 farms at government prices for land, or it would purchase 132,000 neighborhood libraries of 200 volumes each. years, yoq believe Jyulu‘ JV.- ~-_., But on January 8 this year The Liberal carried a story stating packs of dogs slaughtering livestock in York had cost the ratepayers of the region $11,000 in 1974. One farmer lost sheep valued at $3,755. Although sheep were the favorite target, goats. ducks. chickens, rabbits and calves were included. We can see that. in attemption to cure inflation overnight, the United States has dug itself into a sei‘ious recession which will turn out to be the longest experienced since the 1930‘s. Other countries are having the same experience. - e . r_h:_ LLAI§5 can“, ware. ,__,V , Canada has been fortunate so far in that it has not suffered the degree of recession experienced by other countries. That is because we have tried to walk the fine line between spiralling inflation and unbearable levels of unemployment. However. we can licx Inuauon. Any nation can. All we have to do is to pull so hard on the fiscal and monetary reins economic activity is sharply restrained. With less and less income. there is little doubt prices will stop rising. AL sA- 1.. IMHA With less and less income. there is little doubt our unemployment rate would shoot sky high. Surely. we do not want to repeat the mistakes our trading partners have committed. ,4; :_ \.v rate is amongst the lowest in the world. It is still too high and we must protect those who are hurt by it. ‘r,rI_L:-_ There will be a great deal more inflation, because it will require at least two or three more years to unwind the inflationary pressures that have been building up over the past two or three years. But there will be no depression. because a growing number of countries are already beginning to follow the example which Canada set last fall by striving to stimulate their own economies with tax cuts and easier credit policies. Let‘s hope the ignited States follows Times have changed in the last 90 anymore without a musical accémpaniment â€" usually. “Raindrops fallin’ on my head." That number is especially popular in local bookstores, it seems. One I was in last week. played it five times within 10 minutes. It got so I'was starting to check the ceiling for leaks. I also kept reading the same line over and over again in the book I was glancing at. so it kept coming out something like this: “ . . . his first novel was a brutal slab of éan lick inflation. Any naturalism about life. violent death and raindrops fallin‘ on my head." The clerk didn’t seem to mind. “It’s our best tape," she said when asked if it wasn’t starting to get to her just a bit. library There ‘oughtta' be a law, too, against finance com- panies trying to barter for your soul all over again, just as you stagger in with the last few payments on that loan you took out back when you were about four years old. it feels now. “Ooh.” the cashier ex- claims. reaching for her rate book at almost the same instant. “Ooh, almost caught up, eh?“ You start to unfold the $20 in your hand. take a deep breath and hope inwardly you‘re going to get out of there with your $1 change, anyway. “I bet you‘d like $500 or so"‘ the cashier continues, reaching for her slide rule and compass. Seeing gmups separater Wit/(able Dear Mr. Editor Your editorial of last week suggested “a large scale public meeting, which pitted one group against another with tempers rising and comments made” should never have occurred and should “not be repeated in the future”. What you really suggest is that deeply rooted con- flicting opinions should not be aired face to face. Ask any psychologist or human relations expert what he thinks of your View. Certainly each of us should keep comments from becoming scurrilous and bitter. But the Ward 6 meeting held February 10 to which you obviously refer. never approached that danger point. n It was heated to be sure. but for once it was frank and Next time, I‘ll go to a open _r, It was uncomfortable for many. including some of our local council. Letters “gut the benefits of that encounter I am certain will show in the future. Those deeply rooted conflicting opinions were becoming evident to me a couple of years ago. Tiriey were confirmed by readings I obtained 'while door knocking in the recent election. "To attempt to hide them Would be foolish‘ naive and to the long term detriment of the community. No. yod rgpLy. in a snappy Your editorial went on to say “the result was a deterioration of community spirit for which many people had been working hard for years”. J 71 grant you there has been much work in that direction. The BAIF Task Force (now the South Richmond Hill Task Force). as well as ratepayer groups in Ward 6, have played a great public role. But the evidence is plain â€"â€" we haven‘t done enough! Your solution is “to meet with opposing groups bit of repartee. All you'd like to do is wrap up this present thing, so you’ll be able to do something Saturday nights now other than baby sit your neighbor‘s canary or dust off your old pictures of Apps. Davidson and Drillon and reflect on the way it all was. They wouldn’t have dared in those days to pipe music into washrooms. restaurants. elevators, broom closets. banks. shopping malls and all those other places the captive public must frequent at some time or another as part of their penance for straying onto this planet in the first place. Or if they had decided we needed some music to enrich our drab lives. it would have been on a livelier plane. not the bland bit of pap designed to appeal to the limpest emotion. favored by the business establishment. There’d have been a little Mozart now and then. or even a rousing march from old John Philip Wotsizname. separately That type of solution may apply to labor management negotiations when the co- operative spirit has ebbed and one is faced with bringing to a successful conclusion divergent vested interests. But it is not a workable or viable technique in com- School Board mittee Aurora Dates to remember month of Mare/I 7:30 pm Vaughan Committee 24â€"30 â€" inclusive - Richmond Hill Legion International Midget Hockey Tournament 25 â€" 7:30 pm Markham Council whole Aurora 27 â€" 2 pm Region of York Council Meeting in Newmarket 31 â€"â€" 8 pm â€"- Richmond Hill Helpmate Annual Meeting in Blue Flame Room, Consumers Gas Buildin'g, Elgin Mills East 1 pm ~ King Township Council 2 pm â€" Vaughan Town Council 7215 pm â€" Richmond Hill Town Council 8:30 pm York Region Roman Catholic fiPublic Hearing on height restriction bylaw Richmond Hill High School auditorium 8 pm York County Board of Education in Probably all that is keeping thousands of southern York Region good citizens away from the Red Cross blood donor clinic at Centre Street and Pugsley Avenue Lions Hall in Richmond Hiil tomorrow (Thursday) at- ternoon and evening is ignorance and fear of the unknown. Ignorance, fear blood clinic wall Most people have heard of the blood carried diseases risked in communities where hospitals have to rely on blood purchased from such people as skid row derelicts. Just about everybody knows it’s the only way for the community to provide an adequate and safe supply of blood to its hospitals. Also by now most people know this Richmond Hill clinic supplies only a relatively small fraction of the blood required by the town‘s York Central Hospital. But if everyone knew iust how easy it is to donate, and how little pain there is, that clinic would be swamped with donors. counéil if required 8 pm York County Board of Education in 30 pm Richmond Hill Planning Com- pm Markham Flaming Committee Vaughan Flaming Committee â€"â€" Markham Standing Committee Richmond Hill committee of There wouldn't be this rigid adherence to the current dictum that all people sprang from the same hatchery; that we must all be fed the same sort of non-committal junk or we‘ll go around the bend. That we‘re all so emotionally bereft. the only way we can get through the day is to have someone following us around with a violin playing the theme from “Love Story" in our ears. That they feel we even need piped-in music at all, or that it contributes anything to our own well being, is symptomatic of the kind of thinking going into just about everything nowadays. And that everyone be the same. act the same. think the same and be exposed to the same thing. Any exposure to outside blandishments geared beyond the emotional age of five. is obviously going to bedevil us. Such protection. such solicitude. such nonsense. There ‘oughtta’ be a law. promising different com- munity goals. Playin'g one side against the other in such situations is a ‘con‘ job to both side; That is the role of old style political action in which I want no part. H. DAVID SCHILLER, Mayor. Richmond Hill. Ont.