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Opportunities for youih
Recent new stories about fuel
shortages in New York city and
a. number of north-eastern
states must have been a real
shock, not o.p,ly to many
Americans, but fd every
thinking Canadian. I know it
shook me, when I considered
the implications.
It was the .first strong war-
ning of what's to come — a
worldwide shortage of fuel and
energy. And that's a frightening
prospect.
Experts have been issuing
warnings for years, but these
usually consist of an article in
the Saturday supplement,
easily forgotten . or ignored:
#####1.#01:#01 nrtexpert,- but- ai chool
child knows that there is
only so much oil and gas in the
earth, -that there is only so
much water -power to be har-
nessed, and when that's gone,
it's gone. For good.
Already parts of the U.S.,
especially the heavily in-
dustrialized and populated
east,`are on the verge of a crisis
in the fields of energy ..and
water.
What happens in ,the States
will inevitably happen in
Canada,,, though it may take a
little longer, because of our
much smaller population and
much greater reserves. •
But unless science can come
up with some new, cheap
means of producing energy and
fresh water, things are going to
be pretty shaky by the turn of
the century.
•
Perhaps, as always, it's the
anly way man can learn
anything •— by having it shoved
Town his throat.
Perhaps we won't stop.
wasting energy resources until
we're reduced to the point
where we're cooking` dinner
oven„ „p..:fire of buffalo chips, as
the pioneers did. Except that
there won't be any buffalo to
provide the chips.
Wouldn'f you think that
Canada, having witnessed at
first hand .the ravages the
Americans have made on their
own resources, would have
learned a lesson?
Wouldn't you think.. that
we'd be hoarding-,aearefully,
with an eye to five hundred
years from now, our dwindling
resources? Wouldn't you think
that our so-called leaders could
see more than twenty-five years
ahead? Many of them seem to
be thinking no farther ahead
than the next election. .
One of these fine years;
unless we begin to conserve and
preserve there'll be an Old,
Mother Hubbard story that will'
wreak untold misery on
jnillions of humans.
But -that's-an old tale,: of
course," in this country.
Through a combination of
human greed, short-sighted
leadership and plain stupidity,
Canadians have been content
to 'continue their century -old
role as hewers of wood and
drawers of water, and to sell
anything they could to foreign
investors: British, American
and European.
There's a great lot of red-hot
nationalism in our country
these days. But ninety-five per
cent of it is words, words,
words. -....
'The people who make the,._„
real decisions are not the
writers, painters, students, but
the coldeyed, grey-haired men
who sit in the board -rooms,
and would sell their grand-
mothers into slavery if the in-
terest rates were right.
They're the babies who have
,footed our forests and mines
and are currently pawning our
energy resources. And they're
the •birds, with some notable
exceptions, who take off for the
Bahamas'or Switzerland when
the taxes get rough and they've
'.,made their pile.
To most of them, the unem-
ployed.are an 'unfortunate sta-
statistic, the poor a ,necessary
nuisance. They know where
every nickel .of government pace slows, and the joints begin
handouts is. 'They know every to ache. The energy has been
tax dodge. They are the real • burned up, much of it uselessly .
and only second-class citizens and the cupboard grows
of this .country. progressively bare.
Holy smokes! I'm beginning Is that what we're doing
to sound like a communist today in our comparatively
agitator. I'm not. 1 just get sick youthful country? Are we going
at heart when I see what's hap- to wake up with no hair, ar-
pening to the country I love. thritis, and a pot belly with
Talk about` being so14i down nothing to put in it?
the river! We're being si3d And while this is -taking place
down all our rivers and all our before our eyes, the po(itTcians
pipelines as well. chatter like parrots, jockeying
Canada might be compared for position, their eyes fixed.
to youth. Youth can, and does, irremovably on the past. opportunities for 33,834 young
burn up energy without a , I've no solution. The only people. Maximum earnings will
thought for the morrow. He can thing I might suggest, in view be about $90 a week for post -
dance and - drink- all night, of the energy crisis, is -that aitI" secondary students and about
stand all day .inthe. rain, hitela-.- --: .gibe pUl,i ician •=in Nar*h-- for. secondary:�students: As
biking, sleepon. the floor, ski America be laid end to end.
They'd make an admirable
pipe -line, of just the right girth.
And _they'd produce enough
natural gas in .one session to
stave .off the crisis for years.
The Argyle Syndicate
Emphasis on projects for community and social services
The.. fe,cNral government's
Opportunities for Youth
program will have a budget of
$39,970,000 in 1973, Secretary
of State -Hugh Faulkner said
today.
This year particular em-
phasis will be placed on
projects that provide com-
munity service and social
benefits. Young people and
others who have professional
expertise and interests wili.be
invited to sit on local commit-
tees which will serve as one
more source of , advice in the
review and enventual selection
of projects.
will provide job
all day on weekends and sleep
all day in school.
But imperceptibly, and then
suddenly, the youth is mid-
dleaged. The luxuriant hair
falls out, the belly thickens, the
By Wilma Oke
• Kenneth W. Stewart, 49, of
R.R. 5 Seaforth, who was
Huron County Warden in 1966,
died of a heart attack Sunday
afternoon while out for a walk
on his farm with his dog.
When he did not return at
suppertime his family notified
the Ontario Provincial Police
at Goderich. 'The Provincial
Police at Mount Forest ,with
their tracking dog Kanaka II,
assisted the Goderich OPP and
the family. His body was foutiti
at 4:25 a.m. beside a creek
about a half mile from his farm
residence, lot 18, concession 4
of McKillop Township., "the
family dog was standing guard.
It is believed the dog slipped
into the creek and Mr. Stewart
pulled it from the water after it
was unable to climb the ice -
encrusted bank, and he suffered
a heart attack.
Mr. Stewart, a native of
Hullett Township, was a son of
the late Mr. and 1rs. Charles
,Stewart.
He married the former
Clarissa Dale in the Lon-
desboro Manse in June, 1942,
The couple farmed in McKillop
Township at their. present.
location °since then.
Mr: Stewart was a com-
munity _mindedperson._ HeZwas
a councillor on the McKillop
Council from 1960 to 1964
when he became Reeve. In 1966
"he was elected warden of
Huron County.
In 1968 he resigned as Reeve
to become the township road
superintendent in December of
that year. He is a past
president of the Huron County
road association.
At the time of his death he
was president of the Huron
Plowman's Association and a
director of the Seaforth
Agricultural Society.
He was a member..,of Nor-
thside United Church, Seaforth
and was also vice grand of
IOOF. "
He is survived by his wife,,„a
son, Malcolm of R.R. 1 Dublin;"
three daughters, • Amy of
Welland, Mrs. Rick (Bonnie)
Fortune of Seaforth and Anne
at home.
He tis also survived by a
brother, Lloyd, of ' Hullett
Township, a sister, Mrs. John
(Marion) Heaman of London
and four grandchildren,... '
The body rested at the G.A.
Whitney Funeral Home,
Seaforrth, where funeral ser-
vices were conducted Wed-
nesday at 2 p.m. by Rev. M.E.
Reuber. Temporary 'entomb-
ment in Pioneer Memorial
Mausoleum with burial later in
Maitland" Bank Cetrientery. "'
Honorary pallbearers were
'the ex -wardens of Huron
County.
in previous years, participants
will be considered self-
employed; hence, they will 'not
be eligible for unemployment
insurance benefits.
Last summer; the program
created activities for 29,954
students at a cost of
$3:1,978,000. The students
themselves planned and carried
out 3,200 projects that covered
environmental, •• cultural,
recreational, social service, in-
formation and - research ac
tivities.
Similar kinds of projects will
be considered for funding ''in
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1973 with the emphasis being
on benefit to the community
and practical experience for the
young participants.
It is expected that the Oppor-
tunities for Youth projects will
give participants a direct ex-
perience in working with com-
munity groups and government
organizations.
One aim of the program is to
help students support them-
selves and finance their
education-. Special efforts will
be made to involve young
people who are from low-
income
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groups.
Program activity is being in-
creased throughout northern
Canada in order to continue to
involve native youth who
return home each summer to
small settlements that offer few
employment -opportunities,
,- ...,..gpcentralization _ of the Qp-
portunities for Youth staff,
begun in 1972, will be' con-
tinued so that more staff will
be located in various regions of
the country, rather than at Ot-
tawa headquarters.
Increased liaison and
cooperation with provincial
authorities and federal mem-
bers of Parliament is being
developed. During the past
year, provincial departments
have participated in program
planning and development.
When proposing a project,
young people are asked to sub-
mit a detailed plan,. indicating
they have community support
and interest, and outlining
what they hope to aachieve, how
they expect to reach their objec-
tive, and the amount of money
needed to cover salariea and
administrative expenses.
Application tforms and in-
struction sheets for applying for
grants will be available from
Opportunities for Youth offices
located in various parts of the
country, Canada Manpower
Cent, Information Canada
and regional offices of the
Department of the Secretary of
State about January 15. All ap
P-lications_rn..ust be submitted by
March .1st.
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