The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

The Lions Hall on Centre Street East was made possible through public subscriptions, as was the first artificial Nor has this spirit of helping the municipality to provide needed facilities been confined to the northern part of town. It was the same spirit of com- munity involvement which resulted in the gift to the town of the site for the Bond Lake Arena and Ozark Park which will become an active recreation facility as funds become available. It will replace a hall on the same site on Woodland Avenue which had been purchased and maintained for a number of years through the same spirit of community concern. Unfortunately, that building, although it was filling a great need in the area was found to be unsafe and had to be torn down. There shouldn’t be teacher strikes like the one now in Ottawa or the recent one here in York Region. But that is the only way teachers have hitherto had available to get fair pay. With the help (if the people of the area the town staff expects to be able to erect the building for the money available. Nor should there be cases such as that recently where a Southwestern Ontario garden supply firm reported losing half a million dollars due to perishable shipments being delayed by a postal service strike. The Town of Richmond Hill sought and obtained permission to issue debentures to the value of $50000 to build the hall. But in the meantime inflation had seen the estimated cost balloon to $93,000. The alternative should be a public authority to which unfairly paid essential services employees can turn to get an order for a fair working in- come. Right now such strikes are in the interest of those working in essential public services. That public authority should also have the power to punish by way of fines such workers and working organizations in essential services who strike after the authority has rendered fair judgment. We pay tribute to the public- spirited citizens of the Lake Wilcox area for their offers of assistance in providing material and labor to make the neighborhood centre to be built there this year a reality. Neither should there be cases where an exchange newspaper arrives at this office from an adjacent municipality two months after it was mailed, as occurred last week. There must be devised an alter- native which will serve the interest of the essential public services worker, without strikes. a pay level high enough to attréct enough drivers to adequately man the system’s buses. Strikes in essential public services are not in the public interest. There should not be cases like last year when Toronto Transit Com- missioniemployees had to strike to get Morgentaler was found innocent by a jury of his peers. ‘Federal Justic Minister Otto Lang made a mistake when he refused to recommend Cabinet clemency for the doctor after only a small majority of the Supreme Court upheld the con- viction. Regardless of the merits of the present law on abortion and regardless of the ‘pros and cons’ of the abortion issue, Dr. Henry Morgentaler should be freed from the Quebec prison he entered last week as a convicted abortionist. ly way teachers have hitherto had That’s why there must be an ailable to get fair pay. authority with teeth. Good citizenship The Quebec Court of Appeals Dr. Morgentaler should be freed 1010! Yonge Street. Richmond Hill. [AC 4Y6 Ontario PUBLISHER J. G.-VAN KAMPEN EDITOR HAROLD BLAINE The Liberal is published every Wednesday by Metrospan Publishing Limited â€" North Division. which also publishes The Banner in Auroraâ€"Newmarket and the Woodbridge Vaughan News. Public strike authority now (Ebe liberal Wednesday, Apr. 2, 1975 With the good of the whole of paramount importance to every citizen, and with their help the municipal coffers can be stretched to provide much-needed recreation facilities over a much-shorter period of time. What is now the Richvale Lions Hall was first built a quarter of a century ago through public donations of money, material and labor. This is the spirit exhibited by groups of individuals who use town- provided equipment each winter to flood and maintain an ice surface on outdoor rinks, so they and their neigh- bors and their families will have a place to pleasure skate and indluge in the odd game of shinny. The southern area of town can also point with pride to similar ac- complishments. More recently, in fact just last November, fathers in the neighborhood of a park area in the BAIF subdivision donated their labor to the town in erecting playground equipment so the developers' monetary contribution went twice as far. And this is the spirit which will mold into one community this rather unwieldy parcel of land, known as Richmond Hill, whose boundaires were arbitrarily set by the provincial government. ice surface in the old arena and the first lights for the ball diamond in the central Town Park. The same goes for police and firefighters in Montreal in the not far distant past. There shouldn’t have to be essential shipping strikes of the type which have become almost chronic in such cases as the West Coast grain handlers. They now have to strike against the national interest to get fair PaY- Some will be satisfied some of the time, some all of the time, but probably nobody all of the time. We would think one such glaring example would be the St. Lawrence Seaway pilots. A goodly number of people would include the medical profession in that group. But that is almost an un- touchable case, a too hot issue. There are cases on the other side of the ledger, too, where greedy groups already vastly overpaid will still strike for more. Perfect fairness will never be attained and all groups will have to realize that. That precedent must be struck down, at peril. Such an overturning of a jury decision was unprecedented in our history, unprecedented since the time when star chamber injustice was overcome. Over the years the only way railroad workers have been able to get fair pay has been to strike and hurt their fellow citizens. There is a further point to be remembered. The right of a jury to refuse to convict a citizen, regardless of the technicalities of the law, has long been a supreme bastion of our freedom. endless. Yet nurses equally essential to the care of the sick have long gone very poorly paid and are now turning to take up the strike weapon, too. Justice Minister Lang should free Morgentaler, until and unless, the doctor is convicted by a jury. overturned that decision on a point of law. list which could be made is For only God is creative. The rest of us. in varymg degrees. are only Vimigativez It‘s too bad if they are. Because they shouldn‘t feel any differently from anyone else where “creativity” is con- cemed. We draw fromrlife. from observations, from experience. from memory. from associations, from what has gone before. Nothing we really do or say is entirely original; it has its genesis from an eaijliei: timeor place. This ability to assimilate what has gone before is in all people. It‘s just more pronounced in some than in others. So the ones who have it in a larger or to a more obvious degree â€" that is, they make their living as architects, designers, writers, painters, entertainers, etc., â€" are said to be creative. By the time a kid is 12 years old, if he hasn’t picked up from the playground â€" and-or from the copies of the male and female skin magazines lying around the house â€" that he should by virtue of these same extreme years, be the world‘s greatest lover â€" when everyone knows it takes until you’re at least 15â€" he gets it from the school system that he is somewhat remiss if he isn‘t functioning in the manner of one of the so-called creative giants for this same reason. Or maybe it‘s just the parents who get worked up about that kind of talk; perhaps they’re a bit too humble about their own “creative” skills. Those whose abilities this way â€" perhaps, the yomg mother whose own “creative” juices flow to prepare her child for the challenging world beyond â€" don't always Viewpoint from the regional desk Such work, says Trustee William Laird of Georgina Township â€" a sound thinking man most of the time â€" provides only “menial labor”. . And because of that, he would vote against it. “I fail to see any learning experience in clearing rocks,” Mr. Laird said. “I don’t see kids responding”. This business of a “learning experience”vwas also up- permost in the arguments of Viceâ€"chairman Craig Cribar of Newmarket and Gary Adamson of Markham. In the same breath, I wonder if the trustees constant preoccupation with their honorariums could be considered under the heading “Earning Experience”. What a handy expression “learning experience” is. What an easy phrase to latch on to show you‘ve really pinpointed what education is all about. That and "creative". another popular word with educators. All students must be “creative " now, or the whole educational system is considered a bust. The latter is the kind of terminology the bureaucrats and other politicians love, for it gives them the feeling they're right up there with God and TV producers as moulders of our destinies. No person, apparently, should just grab his lunch bucket in the morning and go off to work wheeling bricks, or piling lumber. For that. according to the Solompns of the school board, dogsnr’t provide a “learning expenence”. Both seemed to tremble at the idea any student should take up a pick and shovel, without receiving some sort of acknowledgment of his spiritual and academic progress, well recorded on his pay cheque at the end of the week. along with those other deductions for unemployment and income tax. Things Iinight not have reflected on too much at the time, other than experiencing a momentary irritation, easily gain momentum once I sit dovqn at the typewriter. For example, I find all sorts of thoughts starting to form as I recall the earnest efforts of York County Board of Education last week to decide just what kind of jobs they should provide for students when the students are let loose this summer. Should they paint playground equipment? Build pla_yg1‘ounds, or do library work and research projects? 7 These were some of the choices open to them-unaer the Ontario government sponsored summer employment program for youth called “Experience ’75". But as E.M. Forster said: “How dBlI know what I think until I see what I say?" So you see I really don’t know I think all these bad things until I start to punch away. Now don't say you haven’t been warned. BY JIM IRVING I don’t know if it’s because I’m doing this column, or if I’m just getting older and meaner, or both. But I seem to find more and more to criticize every time I go to a meeting, where any of our elected representatives are holding forth, when I start to write about it afterwards. Last year the Toronto teachers settled for a 13.2 percent increase which compares with the increase in the cost of living of under 12 percent in the same period. I am sure a poll would indicate an overwhelming identical reaction by the public. If boards of education were experiencing 3 _Teachers have plenty of justifiable complaints persistent shortage in high turnover rates, a major Wthh need to be SOlved- increase in salaries might be justified. 11,,,,_,,__ LL_ __A_“A_A-L ___r___.L_L:.._ ‘_ LL- : _____ A 40 percent increase in salary is several times the increase in cost of living. Tom Wells’ strong reaction to the demands in- dicated by Toronto and Ottawa teachers is not unexpected. This is the situation which existed last year when hospital workers and TTC drivers demanded and were awarded unusually large increases. However, the current confrontation on the issue of a 40 percent salary increase can only do irreparable damage to their cause. But aiso on ihose days when they were sitting at home brooding because none of the jobs available to them offered a “learning experience”. Until one day these sai‘ne péople sit down to deal with a situation that by all standards should be strange to them, only to find that they’ve known it all from some place before. Or else ran ai‘ound refilling coffee bups for people who laughed too much, or drew diagramsron the table cloth. Ahd they’ll be a little surpfised they were able to cope with the situation so handily. But they shouldn't be. Because it will all stem from having kept their eyes and ears open at all times. 7 . Notâ€"justâ€" when they were reading, attending a lecture, or listening to a piece of music. And the experience they draw from will most likely come from those long ago days when they worked at some “menial” task mixing mortar alongside some strange man with a funny hat and a funnier tongue. 01‘ let her work as a waitress and worry about the kind of tips she will get, and observe how people treat her in this “menial role,” without feeling she should have spent the summer explaining “War and Peace" to some children’s class at the school library. Don Deacon says 4: But it’s bad enough to have these things happen naturally, without some youngster having additional burdens thrust upon him because some well meaning, but often misguided group, gives him the impression he is lacking somewhere along the line because he doesn't appear concerned about the “creative” end of things. In'the meantime, let the student work outdoors in the summer as a laborer, without obligations to write a sym- phony when the building is finally put up, or the ditch finally dug. Not that possessing a good chunk of this so-called creative stuff, doesn‘t sometimes help to do strange things to its owners, causing all kinds of hangups and frustrations, at times. Well, that “creative” urge will asset itself soon enough â€" often before a person is really able to handle it â€"- without pressing from all sides to seek it in everything you do. The "learning experience" they acquire will often out- strip that of the textbook ones so valued by the educators. And it will be done without pressure, or effort, or realization that it’s happening. . manifest themselves so overtly and feel that other world is completely removed from their orbit. School board’s ’rea/ gone man’ .v v It is to be hoped their elected leaders will However, at current scales there are plenty of recognize this. MLA, YORK CENTRE The leaders of the teachers federations will give Premier William Davis the issue he is looking for to save his teetering government if they persist in current impossible demands. qualified teachers applying for most openings. Surely that is an indication current salary levels are not seriously out of line. Hopefully, they will follow the path of the civil servants a few months ago who obviously realized the lack of public support for their 60 percent wage increase demands. “The amount of money spent on home ownership programs has actually dropped since the advent of the new ministry of housing â€" by 12 percent from $110 million in fiscal 1973 to less than $97 million in fiscal 1974. “For the past two fiscal years this province has un- derspent â€" underspent â€" its housing budget. In fiscal 1973, they underspent by $54 million and in fiscal 1974 by $49 million â€" a total of $103 million of hoarded housing funds in just two years. “This past fiscal year the rental housing budget alone was underspent by $20 million. Raps housing situation “We are faced with the incredible fact the province with “the highest credit rating possible”, as the Throne Speech put it, has the third worst performance record in Canada for housing starts in 1974. “Two provinces â€" Newfoundland and Saskatchewan â€" actually increased their housing starts over 1973, but not the province (Ontario) with the ‘triple A’ rating. “Here housing starts dropped’22.6 percent â€" one-third wor§e than the national average setback of 17 percent. Ontario Opposition Leader Robert Nixon was critical of the government’s housing efforts in the recent Throne Speech debate. Said Nixon: Opimon Dear Editor Bringing the people together is quite a feat, The camival’s way is really neat. Laughter and friendship is the way it’s done Providing everyone with joy and fun. During the weekend of February 8 and 9, the Richmond Hill Winter Carnival was held. ' It was the opinion of the carnival committee most people enjoyed themselves, as we have received no adverse comments or criticism. We feel the same situation won'ldfinotihave occurred had we been older. This is just one example. We wonder how many other people have been subjected to this type of treatment. e o--_ .._ .. Therefore we three youths are writing this as an appea for better supervision at what is supposed to be one of Canada’s largest midget tournaments. It is not too often people take the time to let it be known that a good time was had by all. However, at our last committee meeting. the following poem was presented to us: There once was a carnival, So jolly it was With races and rides And a touch of love. There was hockey, broom ball And curling too. But the game with McConaghy Pleasantville blew. I am sure you will agree, that a few words such as the aforementioned from a 12-year-old boy, make it all wor- thwhile. BILL RUTTLE, 47 Laverock Drive, Richmond Hill, Ont. All was in vain due to the immense proportions and lack of commuhication of the security head. It seems to us that unless someone speaks up about this injustice it will continue unchecked until someone gets hurt. Happiness is poetry for carnival committee A perfect way To end it all As the sky divers land Amidst us all. When he tried to return he was stopped by the same man (and refused admission) who claimed the stamp was on the wrong handxeven though our tickets stated the purchasing date was Tuesday. We remained at the door trying to get somebody to listen to us when the head of security arrived and proceeded to ev_i_ct u_s_from the premises. He did this without listening to our explanation and becoming rather belligerent and foul~mouthed, which caused us to retaliate in kind. Skating and sculpturing Did it all With help from Ookpik And children small. Tuesday (March 25) two of us weht to the Mifiget Hockey Tournament. purchased tickets and had our right hands stamped by an eltjehly gent at 1 pm. Then we proceeded 'pavst the ticket booth where we were checked for our stamp and ticket by Jack Craig. 3 Legion member. At three pm a friend arrived at the front door and one of us went out to talk to him. Mike Barnett We spent many hours of planning and working over the carnival weekend. This complaint should be going to the Legion but it would probably ggano fuyther than the garbage can. Dear Editor Teacher heads out of skulls Youths feel unfair/y treated at tournament 233 Norfolk Avenue. TOM MacRAE, 300 Boisdale Avenue. BILL VENNARD. 200 Hillsview Drive. Richmond Hill. Ont. BOB HILL,