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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
A Heavy Increase!
For many months there has been a growing convic-
tion among the citizenry of this part of Ontario that
our elected provincial representatives are either out of
touch with, or completely contemptuous of public
opinion. That conviction was firmly cemented by word
last week that legislation will be presented shortly to
raise the salaries and expense allowances of provincial
members and cabinet ministers by something more than
50010.
Few people with whom we have talked deny the
fact that our elected representatives, like all the rest
of us, should expect a logical increase in remuneration
to meet the rising cost of living. It is the percentage
which staggers the average voter. Long and costly
strikes have been endured because demands for 25%
increase over a three-year period seemed excessive.
The employer is this case is the taxpayer and there
won't even be an opportunity for the employer to pro-
test. Since all party representatives will benefit from
the increase, we can expect this bill to pass in the Leg-
islature with the least possible opposition.
With cabinet ministers and prime ministers asking
for restraint in price and wage demands --and open
threats from the federal government about the force
which might be applied, the fluent phrases take on a
hollow ring. It might be noted that, as one instance,
the increase in salaries of hospital employees is limited
by a rigid foimula from OHSC with 81% as the outside
limit. Reason --the Ontario Department of Health says
that's all their budget will permit.
If our elected representatives set a precedent for 50010
increases we can expect no less from labor and the
business world. (Wingham Advance Times)
Cheaper Accomodation Needed!
High costs of housing, and of developed land on
which to build, are having some peculiar results. In
new subdivisions there frequently are no alleys. And to
keep costs down, garages are not built.
Consequently cars are left in the open, winter and
summer, day and night, or in the semi -protection of
carports. This expedites the deterioration of the bodies
of the vehicles, but has other consequences. One is
the lack of storage space for lawn mowers and other
equipment normally housed in the garage.
There are now available neat little tool sheds which
can be erected in the backyard. These are adequate to
their purpose and are not unsightly. But to the oldtimer
they create a curious illusion.
Time was, before the era of indoor plumbing, when
every home, rural or urban, of necessity had an outdoor
accommodation. These little edifices were referred to
in various terms, vulgar or euphemistic. The vulgar
terms, strangely, have survived, while the eumphem-
isms are forgotten.
These were similar in size and in outer structure
to the new little tool houses. It is passing strange, if,
due to the high costs of housing, many modern back-
yards take on something of the appearance of those of
a century ago.
It is commentary on current conditions that many
who can afford cars (or think they can) cannot afford
housing for them. Even in the horse -and -buggy days
people provided proper shelter for their vehicles. Less
costly garages, as well as less costly homes, are a
modern need and builders should have a mind to it.
(Kincardine News)
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Spring needs so
Haven't tried a bit of dogger-
el for quite a while, so I hope
you'll forgive me if I succumb
to that rare and insane urge to
write non -poetry.
Ode to Spring
Spring!
You are simply not doing
your thing.
Most seasons enter with a
certain
Equanimity.
You have been coming in
with utter
Asininity.
You're behavior's absurd
And only a bird
Would be dumb enough to
take wing
This spring,
Let's see a little zing,
Spring!
X don't mind the slush
And the snow and below
But it's not exactly the thing.
Spring.
And I don't know about you,
but that's all I can stomach of
that particular poem.
It promises to be an interest-
ing spring. In Ontario, the
teachers in Metro Toronto
asked for a sturdy increase.
The Board refused. The teach-
ers' federation "pink -listed"
the Board. This means that any
member of the federation will
be frowned on from a great
height if he or she takes a job
with that Board.
The Trustees' Council of the
province has retaliated by bar-
ing its claws and exposing its
yellow fangs. It has pink -listed
all the school boards in the
province. The result should be
a barrack -room lawyer's de-
light, and an educational
schmozzle.
At least (though I doubt it)
this might put an end to the
annual cattle sale, a demeaning
aspect of a fairly fine profes-
sion where teachers are lured
with booze, bigger salaries and
other benefits, into teaching at
Great Slave Lake secondary
school. And at which school
boards become panders.
Along this line, don't get too
excited by the government's
expressed determination to
"hold the line" and "take a
firm stand" against inflation.
The government is merely
trying to trim a little fat off
the cat, trying to conceal the
fact that she is pregnant and
nobody wants the kittens.
The rich will continue to he
rich, and the poor will contin-
ue to be poor. And the middle-
class will howl bloody murder,
as they always have.
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I couldn't care less. I'll pay
my income tax, and support an
entire family on welfare.
Maybe they need it. I've lived
on bread and water for three
weeks, and I know what it's
like.
But there are two things I
object to in the White Paper
on tax reform. I . don't like to
he taxed on taxes, That is, if
I'm paying $500 in real estate
tax, and I have to pay income
tax on that $500, I object.
Strenuously. And I object just
as violently to the fantastic
capital gains of land specula-
tors. This field is full of down-
THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1970
right crooks working with oth-
er people's money and produc-
ing nothing except fat profits
for themselves. Sock it to
them, Mr. Benson.
This has nothing to do with
tax reform, but Kim Smiley is
alive and well and living in
Limbo. That's the favorite resi-
dence of a lot of young people
these days. It's a sort of cross-
roads between Utopia and the
salt mines.
Limbo is not a bad place to
live, actually. No taxes, no de-
manding job. I wouldn't mind
the odd holiday there. But I
wouldn't like it as a permanent
residence. I'd miss the old toil
and struggle and sweat of real
life. It's cool in Limbo, bnt
who wants to be cool all the
time?
I'll take the arena of life,
where you have to face the
bull (and you can take that
any way you wish) and either
not flinch from the horns, or
run like hell for the barri-
cadoes. At least there's a
choice.
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