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The people of English Canada believed Pierre Trudeau, in 1974, when he told them he would save them from wage and price con- trols. He didn’t. So when he tried to run in 1979 as the only candidate who could keep the country together, the people just did not believe him. He had been governing for five years on a false mandate already. Nothing could have been worse for national unity. r In order to get rid of Mr. Trudeau, the voters of York North had to sacrifice a firie member of parliament in Barney Danson. It is ironic that Mr. Danson helped save the historic riding of York North before the electoral boundaries commission and recommended its new boundaries encompassing Markham, Vaughan and Richmond Hill. It is ironic because if Mr. Danson had chosen to run in his old home turf in Willowdale he would Gamble’s new task will be tough one But turn me loose near a garden, and those nimble fingers become a mass of thumbs... and not one of them is ’green. ' I sit here at this typewriter day after day and my fingers dance merrily across the keys creating new stories. features and general knowledge like it was the easiest thing on earth to do. is I couldn‘t plant a dandelion and get it to grow. I envy my friends with their beautiful gardens ablaze with profusions of red, gold, pink and purple blossoms of every kind and description. When It comes to communing with nature and the good earth. I am probably the du1_1c_e of all times. The-beautiful shrubs and bushes can be seen at every house on the street except miine. Oh. I do try. Several years ago, I planted some little shrubs with great hopes of someday having a bit of landscaping at the front of my house. What happened to those shrubs would make any self respecting gardener rgn 2_md_ hide. v They died...that‘s it in a nut shell They simply yvitheregl u_p an5i_di_ed Now I understand that Mother Nature will take shrubs and bushes and trees...that‘s right..to a certain extent. But even Mother Nature can’t undo the damage done by a gar- dening boob. She has to have something to work with. BULBS GALORE One year, not long ago, I decided I could plant bulbs and get them to grow. l weeded that little plot where my bulbs were to go. and added some fertilizer, and then. very carefully, I planted the bulbs one at a time, a precise distance apart. Editoriai, Display Classified Circulation Toronto customers Subscription va‘es‘ By mail $10.00 per veal In Canada $20.00 per veav outside 01 Canada. By carrier. 80 cents evevy (out weeks. Single copy sales 20 cams. No mail deIiverv where cavrier service exisls. Second Class Mall Registvaxion Numbef 0190 If it didn‘t rain, I watered the little plot eveI so carefully so that my bulbs Would have enough moisture. but not too much. V With my paws full of gladiola bulbs that the man next door told me would blossom forth into a rainbow of glorious hues, I set out to create a garden. 7 r Ron Wallace » Editor Lany Johnston » News Editor Fred Simpson - Spons Editor The contents, bolh editorial and advertising of The Liberal, Richmond Hill are proxected by CODVHQ'“ and any unautho'iled use is prohibi‘ed. l guarded that little plot like a mother guards her baby: Weeks went by, and nothing happened. I started to get very concerned about the lack of tiny green shoots in my garden. Plenty of weeds poked their heads through the earth. but these I quickly eliminated...1 didn‘t want any old weeds to choke my beautiful flowers when and if they ever arrived. Two months had passed and still no sign of my glads. I decided to Life is downright unfair...it really The Liberal is published evevy Wednesday by Melvospan Community Newspapers, 3 divnsmn of Metrospan Printing 6 Publishing Ltd“ which also publishes The Bannev in Aurora-Newmaiket, The Woodbvidge Vaughan News, and The Bolton Enterprise. 10395 Yonge Street, Richmond Hill L4G 4Y6 Ontario PUBLISHER JOHN c. FERGUS Eanon Ron WALLACE PAGE A4 LIBERAL SPRINKLINGS Libéral B)’ MILLIE STEWART Liberal Reporter VOLUME 101. NUMBER 47 TELEPHONES Lib'éral 88481 77 8844 105 884-0981 881 3373 When he had examined the plot of earth and scratched his head in bewilderment. he finally sat back andLroared with laughter This was no laughing mat- ter...whal the heck had come over him? Couldn‘t he see I was very up- swallow my pride and seek some expert advbise. have stood a much better chance of winning. But the riding not only had to be lost, it had to be won by John Gamble and the personal political machine he build from the ground A He was the first to realize that if Progressive Conservatives were to win in North York they would have to cast aside their millionaire image The man next door agreed to check out the problem prj me». 7 7 After careful consideration, my neighbor began to dig in the earth. and one by one he pulled out all my bulbs. Congratulations are in order for his success in not only taking over the local party, but the riding as well. There wasn‘t one bit of growth on any of them because I had planted every one of those blessed bulbs upside down, to win York North One by one. out they came...exactly the same as when I had planted them. > r r ‘1 told you I was all thumbs. But this was a blow to my ego. If that hard work continues, and there is no reason why it should not, he will be well on the road to being a successful MP. Was I such a boob about gardening that I couldn‘t even tell the top of a bulb from the bottom? The an- swer...yes I was and still am. ' LANDSCAPING BEAUTY l have found the solution to growing flowers. I just trot off to the nearest nursery i and come home with boxes of already growing flowers...petunias and marigolds and much more. It is up to Mr. Gamble and his leader, Joe Clark, to turn the voter’s negative feelings about the last government into positive ones about the government-elect and about Canada. At least now I haie some flowers in my gardenuand if I didn‘t grow them from scratch. well that's my problem. The landscaping is another story. We have a good friend who is blessed with len green thumbs and he has agreed to help us landscape the property. First I want a tree. The easiest solution is to run to the nursery and buy one . . . right? Not so, folks. When I got to the nursery. there were trees of every description and color. ‘ How could I ever make a choice from all these. I want a Crimson Maple. and as long as I remember that I should have no problem I just won‘t lake the time to look at any other trees. But [he Birches look so regal and the blossoming trees are so pretty and...on and on. ROCKS ROCKS ROCKS My dream has always been to have a beautiful rock garden You know the kind where all those lovely flowers cascade over the rocks and blossom forth in all their glory. I could never plan such a garden in the first place. and if I ever did, every blessed plant would probably be choked by weeds. I can dream can't I? Someday, I may be rich enough to hire a gar- dener to plant my gardens, and then I can just sit back and enjoy. Until then. folks, my fingers can do some good somewhere...And in the news this week... John C. Fergus, Publisher Ray Padley J1, Advenising Director Norman Slunden ~ Production Manager Denis O'Meara ~ Circulalion Director Rose Reynolds A Accounts Menospan Community Newspapers publishes The Richmond Hill/Thomhi" Liberal, The Banner. The Oakvilie Journal Record. The Hallon Consumer, The Missussauga Times, The Emblcoke Advertiser/Guardian, The Etobxcoke Consumer, The North Yovk Mirror‘ The North York Consumer, The Scétbmo Minot, The Scarbovo Consumev. The Woodbridge 8 Vaughan News and The Bollon Entetpvise. Wednesday, May 30, 1979 He worked hard for two years METROSPAN ~ NORTH DIVISION v 1 ‘ u m: use“ :§0:NA cum SA Your editorial of the 16th taking a round out of the leader of a Boy Scout troop puzzled me. It seems that whenever the press want to symbolize some minor inadequacy. the cliche they produce for the purpose insults the Scouts through a con- fusion of contexts. We insulted Boy Scouts,he says Usually these cliches have a touch of con- descending Macho swagger: but often their users appear innocent and blissfully unaware of the built-in insult they are using. I‘m sure that in your paper the latter was the case. Letters After downing the Scout official. you went on to say I and it was election time) that you were not going to insult your readers by making up their minds for them However. only a couple of words before. you had done exactly both those things. For the next few weeks, The Liberal will present, in this space, the final classes of students to attend McConaghy Public School. For clearly‘ if an identifiable set of officials is regularly used to depict INEFFECTIVENESS. then indeed insults are being used and as a consequence some changes will, almost certainly. occur in the public mind. Nevertheless‘ a much more fundamental question still remains. Why are Scouting movements, along with the teaching profession, singled out in press headlines tThe Redneck Editorials) for ridicule, downâ€"playing. and unâ€" complimentary exagg- erations'? But both Elementary Teachers and Scouting are in double disfavor. While both must scape- goat for the general public uneasiness each must also suffer for special sets of public and media difficulties. Specifically, Elementary Teachers are in trouble because:â€" One reason may be that the public. already uneasy about the shoddy factory-minded bargains they have encouraged School Boards to foist on children. hope that the media can unearth someone to share the blame for some of the worms in the can, and who won‘t talk back, won‘t strike, and whom they the public cannot be accused of electing. McConaghy's final students In The above students make up the final Grade 3 class at McConaghy Public School in Richmond Hill. They include, front row, left to right, Annette Thornington, Susan loannidis, Martha Monkman. Michelle Pennock. Mandeep Jawanda, Barbie Kirk- Although always June. the school. which opened as somewhat blurred. the distinction between training-in-“Basics” and basic education is fast disappearing in ac- cordance with a new Greshams Law. The essence of basic education {from time to time swamped in training) is IN- DIVIDUALIZED PER- CEPTION and PER- SONALIZED ENCOU- RAGEMENT. That is why education is not amenable to the economics of scale tas is Training. or the medias mass presentation of Fact). That is also why, even with a steady price level, either the pay of those who ACTUALLY educate should rise. or those of a gradually lower level of competence will inevitably be employed and the classrooms in- creasingly given over to mass-training; this being the Greshams - Law ofâ€"the-classroom in operation. The taxcut promising factory-cumâ€" salesman mind, in its ignorance of actual economic and cultural processes, blames this development on teacherâ€" avarice. ii. The expanding post- war Federal tax role left locally funded teaching vulnerable to the factory- minded hopes tor economies ofâ€"scale; this being in line with the Redneck concept of EDUCATION-ASâ€"MASS- DRILL: Large classes in lange schools with “spécialized” ugh! teachers Not surprisingly, with the emergence of the two- working-parent family the residues of inâ€" doctrinated self~discip~ line (surviving from the traditional society), dissolved under round the clock tax-financed media pressure. and so the Elementary school teacher was â€" in addition iii. Parents are now uneasily defensive for virtually withholding the strike weapon from Elementary school teachers by playing on their compassion: these same parents already having used that same weapon for 30 years to wrack-up the price level to the ever expanding multi-cultural comple- xities they face â€" left almost alone to replace it. mass-ta Richmond Hill Public School March 5. 1915. will close its doors for good. In 1957, the name was changed to M.L. McConaghy Public School. And in 1979. the York County Board of Andthen ScouUng.The disfavor in which Scoufing finds fiseH amo cornes to it rnainly courtesy of the media, via the latters' lucrative antiâ€" establishment forsays. Well the media know that the enormous media- saturated and so resfive sections of. the public who chose not to encourage their chfldren to join secular youth movements canbeinadesuspkjousof those who do, and thus feel relieved to joinâ€"the- media in belittling what they see as an outside in- group. under which these same teachers. with their new mind-boggling load of discipline and multi- cultural complexities. must live. Naturally, the media have no great enthusiasm for a youth movement that refused to swallow the concoction ‘of pretentious nostrums peddled by broadcasters and publishers for the last 20 years. No wonder we see a phui-toâ€"Scouting tip of the muddledâ€"child iceberg: and how wonderfully ironic that the media. endlessly trumpeting the virtues of International Commonalities and the Potentials of Youth. nudge Scouting aside at pretty much the same rate as the children of the world flock toward it! The outstanding example for Canada of such a politically-free child preference was in 1972‘ In that year. YOUNGSTERS FROM 83 COUNTRIES, represe- nting most of the world‘s major racial groupings in a wide spectrum of ex- cited enthusiasms and colorful costumes, met each other in Toronto. On that occasion. the cold-shouldering of the media was apparent and extensive: one typical press effort including a large headlined photograph drawing attention to the fact that one small child in one of the parades was out of step! In a country where the top-radio and top- periodical l the studiously Canadian Newman-Frum axis) never tire of emâ€" bellishing Canada‘s Multi-Cultural orienta- tions. how can such models of nationality patrick, Angela Zeppieri. Middle row, left to right, Tara Smyth. Charles Stannard, Susanne Primok, Keith Bishop, Derek Plaxton, Stephen Wingate, Jeffery Macey, Natalie Jones. Back row, left to right, Croy Bott. Jane Balton. Michelle Jakma, Nancy decide that Canadian meetings of erd- girdling-youth would bore “their” publics. however I would like to use this space to thank Bob Rice for his super column he wrote last week regar- ding our McConaghy Year BOok. His article did our book justice and told it just as it will be. except that there will not be a colored picture of the school of 1957 â€" it will be a black and white one. The public have been reading Bob‘s column. because to date I have taken orders for 71 books. Re: Your last chance for Yearbook â€" By Bob Rice 7 May 23. Bob Rice‘s writing has put me in touch with former teachers, former students â€"â€" some from my years â€" the daughter-in law'of the man who built the school and even from Mrs. M.L. McConaghy's Rice’s column brought 71 orders for yearbook Tie your newspapers For several good reasons, it has become necessary for us to request that you tie your newspapers to be put out on your regular garbage day. String is the most common material. but it can be tied with anything. but not wire, please. Papers must be clearly visible from the roadway, on the other side of the driveway to the garbage. Once your garbage is put out. it is the property of The Town, who have given us permission to collect the newspapers. The Richmond Hill Recycling Committee would like to ask everyone to ‘String along with the newspaper recycling pick up in Rich- mond Hill'. Our crew does not follow the same time schedule as the garbage trucks, so please put your papers out about 8 am. Please no paper bags, telephone books, glossy magazines or books. Some boxes and plastic bags contain other materials. and the sorting of these is consuming too many labor hours. Paper pirates aré again taking some of the newspapers illegally and Education made its decision to close the school. Therefore. we thought we‘d like to record the names and photos of those children who were at McConaghy during its final year. Fitzgerald, Dimitra Paganos, Barbara Connolly, Sandra Dziewiacien, Scott Weir, Richard Van de Leur, Chuck Fraser, and their teacher. Myrtle Campbell. (Photo by Canadian School Studios) much it might be an in- they have for so long different source of the sly cultivated so assiduously. sips they ladle out to slake Woodburn Thomson the sour grape thirsts that Richmond Hill grandson in Toronto York-NOrth "so/d Out” I certainly have had some interesting phone calls from people in Richâ€" mond Hill, Thornhill, Gormley. Kleinburg. Keswick, Oak Ridges and Toronto. ‘ Wednesday, I am putting my order into the publisher for books for all the present students. at McConaghy and staff. my 45 sponsors. the 71 orders from the public and some extra copies in case someone missed Bob‘s column. we would ask your co- operation in taking down their license number and calling Marlene at 88+ 6671‘ I am hoping to have these books by the last week in June. Some people have been buying these as gifts, to send out of town to Ottawa. Drillia. Georgetown‘ Atlanta. Georgia. and other places. Mortgage interest deductability should have been introduced while the price of homes was reasonable; possibly in the $14,000 to $20,000 bracket and while _the average citizen could afford a house. To suggest it or in- troduce it now. when new homes are being com- monly sold in excess of $100,000 and interest ratesare in excess of 11 per. cent. is nothing short of buying votes or bribery by the Progressive Conservatives at the expense of those many. many citizens who can no longer afford a home. I have always voted N.D.P. and will continue to do so, but to the so- called Solid Liberal riding of York North “Shame on You”. You have sold out I did enjoy putting this book together and on the back cover have said thank you to the two ladies who have Worked so hard with me. namely Mrs. Pal Justice and Mrs. Avonelle 'Monkman‘ Together we would like to express our thanks to Bob Rice. for putting us in touch with the public through his columns. Joan Connolly. (nee Bettridge) I}? Elmwood Ave., Richmond Hill El). NOTE: The ‘nee Bettridge‘ is significant in the‘signature. In Bob‘s column, he called the author Joan Beveridge. “He never never could get my last name straight." Joan said. Bob and Joan were schoolmates at Mc('onaghy tossed your so-called principals out the door for what. . ‘$300Lo $350? And that. if the Tories keep that. if the '] Iheir promise And” to you, John Gamble “Shame on You", You had a car sitting outside the polling station at Crosby School with Vote for Gamble signs set up in it to further enâ€" courage people to vote for you contrary to the Elections act, as you well know, being a lawyer. And as to you. Joe Clark, and your ideas regarding Petrocan. as another right winger, John Wayne. would say. “Remeber their Arrow. . .AVROE, that Marlene Turner Secretary. Richmond Hill Recycling Committee. Allan Miloff. 126‘Talmage Ava, Richmond Hill.