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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1982-08-04, Page 7ettltoria! LUCKPi �,': SENTINEL• "The Sepoy Tows" Established 1873. Increase the deficit Canadians are still reeling- over the federalgovern- ment's announcement in. the, June budget speech that the federal deficit will be an alarming 819 billion this year.. But it's time "'the government increased that deficit! The deficit has not risen to such' incredible heights because the government is taking the leadership necessary to get the economy working again. Rather the deficit has accumulated because employment has risen so dramatically because ' of the government's high. interest rate policies 'which have crippled economic growth. Instead of taking decisive action to stimulate the economy, the government has stood by and watched unemployment and bankruptcies increase whilepleading they cant't do anything until interest rates fall in '. the United States. Surely it would be better to increase the deficit over the short term to create growth in the economy and put people back to work. This would create industrial profits and - employment generating new taxation revenues, which are lost to : the government now through unemployment and .industrial stagnation. But a shot in the arm for the economy is not the only action the Liberals should take. They should instruct the. Bank of Canada to lower interest rates to one or two. points above the rate of inflation.. Traditionally this is where our interest rates have been set. To prevent the exodus of investment money across the border where investors could earn higher' ; -interest rates, foreign exchange controls should be implemented. As Ontario treasurer. Frank Miller has learned since his provincialbudget was handed down in May, you can't collect revenues by taxing people who are not spending their money . or, worse, have little money to spend. Miller relied on a number of tax increases - sales taxes on goods and services previously exempt, higher health insurance premiums, license fees and taxes on alcohol and tobacco • as a way of keeping his deficit to 522 it billion :for this fiscal year. His plan isn't working. Ontario residents facing - high unemployment, high mortgage rates costs and inflation that drives, up the price of life's necessities, have little extra money to spend. The extra revenue Miller expected to .get from his tax increases aren't materializing and the deficit is 8400 million higher than anticipated., Instead Miller could have planned a larger deficit and pumped an extra 81 billion into the economy by offering tax incentives to business to expand . production and create jobs, by boosting the construction industry, by building public housing and by stimulating high technology industries, research .and development, reforestation, agriculture and transportation. In his turn federal finance minister Allan MacEachen should have launched a broad program of economy recovery by lowering interest rates, implementing foreign exchange controls and offering tax incentives to boost expansion which would create new : jobs. But more important if MicEachen had taken some leadership role in the economic •crisis we face, perhap's Canadians would begin to work together to defeat this monster called inflation which threatens to bring our . country to its knees. It's ridiculous to ask someone who is already out of work and can't find the money to feed his family, to tighten his belt yet another notch, If the federal government showed it was in command of ,the situation by taking steps to deal with the crisis instead of standing by and watching a non-productive deficit grow, many Canadians would find the will to participate in the six per cent solution, The absence of goodwill, the bitter insults, the combative and competitive "nature is as ominous as the better known troubles we face. Canadians -need to start working together again. We have lost our generosity of spirit. The point is will we find ourselves before the battle if lost? State "10 ur opinion ,Write a letter to the editor THOMAS A. THOMPSON . • Advertising: Manager SHARON. J. DIETZ • Editor PAT' LiVINGSTON • Office Manager JOAN. HELM • Compositor MERLE ELLIQfl Typesetter Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, August 4,' 1962—Prig Business and Editorial Office Telephone 5211.2822 Mailing Address P.O. Box 400, Luckttow, NOO 2H0 Second Class Mail' Registration Number 0847 Subscription rata, 814.50 per year in advance Senior Citizen -rate, $12.00 per year Iii advance U.S.A. and Foreign, 538.00 per year in advance Sr. Ch. U.S.A. and• Foreign, $36.00 per year hi advance 6' La Sagouine/Tiie Sc redtr-e►es woman. by don campbell In the nineteenth century, the British Empire was at the zenith of its power, a position obtained by con- quest, colonization and the industrial revolution. Historians tend to dwell. upon the exploits of the leaders of those times, and depict the . era as a glorious period in history. In reality, the successes on both war and com- merCe were achieved 'by the blood and suffering of common people. Some of the miserable wretches escaped from the filth and poverty but never entirely lost the scars of their earlier degrada- tion, Kathleen Kelly was one of such people. The woman who managed Kelly's Emporium with such dedicated ef•. ficiency was a stranger even to her best customers. She was courteous but aloof, evasive of social intercourse, and completely oblivious to the admit'. ing glancesof men. Having reached a prosperous status in • spite of, . her humble beginnings, she seemed to reflect a superior pride and appeared . as 'a woman who stood confident and, alone amongst her contemporaries, Born Kathleen Brady, daughter of a seaman and a mother she had never known, she was a child of the Belfast streets.' During the extensive voyages . of herfather, she was lodged in one dirty hovel after another, and at sixteen, was left completely to the mercy- of the world. Her father bequethed her nothing but a few words of advices "Get book learning lass; if you hope one day to be a► lady!" Between the long work shifts at linen faetory, Kathleen heeded her father's words. Dy skimping on the bare necessities of life, and gleaning precious pennies from her meager wages, she bought the books to study by candle light, yet Kathleen learned a lesson which she did notread in print; -- to climb the ladder of society she would need more than just the rudiments of a primary education. She might have quite easily slipped into the company of the "ladies of the night", but Kathleen was far too wise to follow the path to permanent ruin. If her charms were to be traded, it would be a transaction of -substance, By crafty and devious means, she brought herself to the attention of a rich merchant called Sean Kelly. He .was fat, homely and some twenty years her • senior. Marriage, then, was the price II