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PDowntown Perspective I have often wondered at the psychology of governâ€" ments outlawing lotteries in the private sector and operating them on a large scale themselves. But what I find absolutely incredible is the way much of the money is being spent. It is estimated there will be in excess of $80â€"million in the Loto Canada kitty by the beginning of next year. e minister of fitness and amateur sport, Iona Camâ€" gnolo â€" who controls the profits of the national lotâ€" ry â€" would like to spend about 30 per cent of those funds on ‘"recreational activities of national imporâ€" tance." * Apparently the honorable minister rates profesâ€" sional hockey rinks high on the nation‘s priority totem pole; she has indicated she would allocate grants of as much as $5â€"million for arena improvements to any city that obtained an NHL franchise. Recently the residential area around the Dominion Life building on Westmount Road has been the subject of an experiment regarding street lights. In this exâ€" periment some of the existing incandescent street lights were replaced with blueâ€"white mercury vapour lights. and some with yellowâ€"orange sodium lights. In recent years most of the Loto Canada profits have been going towards paying off Olympic debts, but starting early next year 30 per cent of the $80â€" million will be allocated to arts and culture, and the minister is inclined towards spending another $18â€" million to turn Quebec City, Edmonton, Winnipeg and Hamilton into major league, professional hockey franchises. The resident‘s attitudes toward the various kinds of lights were then surveyed. _ _ The survey showed that half of the residents felt that the existing street lights were bright enough, that the majority walk through the neighbourhood. that half feel it is somewhat difficult for a driver to see a pedestrian. that a majority feel at least somewhat safe from crime and do not feel that brighter lights would have an effect on crime. However. 70% felt that the street lights should be brighter. A majority or near majority (48% or greater found the existing lights to be attractive. friendly, comfortable, urban. safe. and warm. The vast majority felt that city resiâ€" eents should cut down on their use of energy, and that _ This is the same ministry whose agents in Nova Scoâ€" tia misplaced an estimated $250,000 last month. The same ministry that last winter flushed away an esâ€" So this is the Year of the Child. Well, you can have it. And them. Our society is breaking up fast. First, in the 60s, the teenagers took over. They got into drugs and politics and violence and dropping out and comâ€" munes and health food and free love and rippingâ€"off the government and driving their parents to drink and depression. Then we got into Women‘s Liberation Movement. Raucous and intelligent women trying to upset a perâ€" fectly good system that has been working well, on the whole, for about 20,000 years. We should never have given them the vote back in ‘21, or whenever. They have wrecked family life, population growth, and the economy by their ridiculous demands. They have psychologically castrated their husbands and turned the occasional kid they had into a whining brat who thinks that love and whatever else he wants are more important than a good whack on the bum. They have sent the unemployment rate soaring by ailing into the job market in their hundreds of thouâ€" ';nds. Just because they have high skills or a univerâ€" *ity degree. they think and say, quite openly and withâ€" out shame. that they should be considered on the same level as. or even higher than, a Grade 10 dropout male who can barely tie his shoelaces. Sheer arrogance They have wrecked the educational system by reâ€" fusing to remain baby factories. This has caused raâ€" pidly falling enrolliment in our schools and a lack of jobs for male teachers. whose wives are among the worst examples of tiny families and hitting the job market And now it‘s the year of the kids. There are series on childâ€"battering in the papers. articles about oneâ€" parent children. and even child symposiums in which the little turkeys are asked to commeéent on how their parents should behave. what‘s wrong with the world. what freedoms they should have. and any other inane Bill Smiley According to Hoile With regard to the new lights on trial, the survey was somewhat divided. The near majority (48% or greater) referred to the mercury vapour lights as atâ€" tractive,. cold, modern. urban. safe. and as giving the street a wide appearance. The sodium lights were reâ€" garded as warm. modern, safe, and urban. There was no majority opinon on either of these under the headâ€" ings of friendliness or comfort. Both the new types of lights were felt to provide good visibility, and the maâ€" jority of residents were satisfied with either of them. more efficient street lights should be used. 34% of the residents had been in a neighbourhood where the street lighting caused irritation or discomfort;: of these. 55% were refering to orange/yellow lights and 45% to white lights. In a choice among the three types of lighting. 45% chose sodium. 26% chose mercury vapour. and 21% chose the original incandescent lights. When the quesâ€" tion restricted the choice to the two new types. and pointed out that the sodium lights use about oneâ€"half timated $30â€"million in an illâ€"conceived lottery scheme that never reached its first jackpot because the feâ€" deral system architects hadn‘t noticed there was a parallel lottery at the provincial level. Everybody makes mistakes. I‘m not throwing stones on that acâ€" count. However, the whole idea of collecting pieâ€"inâ€" the sky money from the public on the pretext of spendâ€" ing the profits in areas of ‘‘national importance‘‘, and using it to promote NHL franchises, is ludicrous. _ question a smarmy, patronizing interviewer can think up. ~ We are smothered by stuff from the media about children: dayâ€"care centres, inner city schools (slums), special education, gifted chldren, obscene Tâ€" shirts for kids. We are harassed and harangued by priests who have never had a child and social workers up to their ears in stale psychiatry, and politicians who know that kids can‘t vote, but grab the coatâ€"tails of any issue that receives media attention. But the great mass of kids in this Year of the Chilâ€" dren will be much like every other generation: curious. resentful of things that they don‘t underâ€" stand. ready to fight to death for ideals, gradually conforming and compromising to the realities of life, and going on to become monstrous parents themselâ€" ves Before somebody bounces a beer can off my head, let me make it clear that I enjoy some NHL games â€" not all I‘ve watched, but some. But the NHL is a buâ€" siness. And it is inappropriate for a government to spend from the public purse to promote a professional product for the private sector. * Surely there are areas of ‘‘national importance" having greater needs and fulfilling a greater public need than hockey rinks. Sporting facilities and comâ€" munity centers have a way of getting built through coâ€" operative community effort where the demand is sufâ€" ficiently strong. And perhaps that is a good alternaâ€" tive to asking the government to grant a large chunk of the capital cost. Arenas are being built across the province with not too much worry wasted on how the communities will finance the expensive maintenance factor over the next 10 or 20 years. But that‘s another And what good is all this going to do the kids? Not much. They‘ll go right on doing what they‘ve always done: dreaming, fighting, playing; being the happy, morose, belligerent, shy, cruel, gentle, brilliant, slow, and utterly delightful little animals they‘ve always been. In Canada they‘ll be overâ€"fed, overâ€"spoiled and over here. In Africa they‘ll be overâ€"starved, overâ€"populated and over there. And in both places they‘ll be overâ€" loved with that weird, irrational love of children that prevails throughout the world, civilized or uncivilized. Oh. a few laws might be passed, and many resoluâ€" tions approved. But the drunken mother or father who beats a chld will go on doing so. The ultraâ€"permissive parents will go on turning out monstrous teenagers. The overâ€"protective parents will go on turning out still more monstrous teenagers Now 1 don‘t speak from the seat of the Old Philo sopher. or any such hypocritic elevation. I recently had a visit from my Grandboys. I speak firstâ€"hand The City of Guelph circulated a resolution last It was Easter weekend. and we‘re still scraping Submitted for the WDRA by Bob Rowell ~ _ Waterloo Chronicle, Wednesday, May Q,1979 â€" Page 7 of the energy of mercury vapour. 77% chose sodium and 23% chose mercury vapour. As a result of this survey. council has approved an engineering recommendation that high pressure soâ€" dium lights be used as replacements throughout the Dominion Life subdivision area. and as initial installaâ€" tion in all new areas of the city. We are rather disturbed by this result. for several reasons. It must be noted that the trial sodium light installation was limited to five lights on a treeâ€"lined section of Forsyth Drive. Because of the trees. the sodium lights did not domiate the neighbourhood the way that they will in a brandâ€"new area. For an idea of how sodium lights look on an unâ€"treed street. one should look at Caroline Street behind Waterloo Square. although this is not a ideal comparison beâ€" cause Caroline Street is also lit by the carryâ€"over from the extremely bright sodium lights on the Waâ€" terloo Square parking lot. It is quite possible that the {Continued on page 11} If we continue the way we‘re going, future generaâ€" tions will undoubtedly marvel at the remarkable attiâ€" tude of a nation that aggressively advertised a bingo philosophy as a solution to its stagnant economy, and ignored its needed citizens in favor of building bigger hockey rinks. March objecting strongly to the idea of the upâ€"toâ€"$5â€" million federal grants going to cities that get NHL franchisesmflngro\mgmchgrmu“arenoththe best interests of the people of Canada in these times of restraint when other worthwhile programs are being curtailed.‘‘ The Waterloo council voted to endorse that stand. Ironically, when the Region of Niagara circulated a similar resolution a month later pertaining to Winâ€" tgrio grants Waterloo council voted to ‘"note and file"‘ it. That resolution noted that recreational and cultural programs have been termed by both the Treasurer of Ontario and Ontario Municipal Board as being ‘"less essential‘‘ in capital financing priorities. The Niagara resolution called upon the Province to reconsider its lottery policy and direct revenues into ‘"programs of higher municipal and provincial priority.‘‘ â€" I‘m not sure what they had in mind, but special education programs, day care centres, prison rehabiâ€" litation and improved programs for the genuine needy are just a few that might qualify. chocolate off the woodwork and picking up squashed jellyâ€"beans and ripped rabbits‘ ears. _ c â€" But it was a great weekend. That marvellous alcheâ€" mist, Time, has wrought a great change in them. They are becoming personal friends, instead of sibling rivals. The destruction was down about 800 per cent. True, Nickov kicked a ball into a collection of Doulton fiâ€" gurines, but nothing was broken, I took the ball away and he didn‘t even have a tantrum. But the TV is still working. A few doorknobs are missing, but not all of them, as on previous visits. They can eat without bibs, though Balind did get about 80 grams of relish and ketchup down his front when mangling a hot dog. However, he‘s only two and has a grin that would disarm the devil. And he said something that so shook me that I went down in a faint, and my old lady had to pick me up. I‘d plunked a peanutâ€"butter and honey sandwich in front of him, and he said, ‘"Thank you, Grandat," as casually as though I were a waiter. I‘d never heard either of them say "Please"" or "Thank you‘‘ before. They didn‘t sprinkle even one can of powder, mixed with toothpaste. on the hardwood floors. They didn‘t break a single window. They didn‘t anoint the TV with cold cream. They took off their muddy boots when they came in. instead of marching over the Indian rug. Maybe this Year of the Children has something going for it, a whole lot more than Sixties Sulks or Women‘s Lib Nerveâ€"Wracking. And when I said. "don‘t wreck my typewriter," or something of the sort, they didn‘t blurt, ... you. ; they said. "OK. Grandat." or something of the sort. But when is the Year of the Man? I hope I‘m around long enough to enjoy it â€" By Geoff Hoile