Page 2, Thursday, May 4, 1972, WHITBY FREE PRESS Edito riali What does a wel l-seasoned poti ti- c i a n say when t h e c a refully aimed words of an adversary have him backed up against the proverbial wall ? "It's ten p a s t ten Mr. Stratford, please get on to your next point. " M r . S t r atford had to be stopped of course. He had just pointed out that council was in gross contraven- t i on of its own bylaws in its debate of the Rossland Road municipal and police buildings issue, by reconsid- er ing an issue which it had already formally closed. Besides th at , Mr. Stratford was quot i ng to the council from its own bylaws - and heaven forbid - in front of an audience! Yes. Mr. Stratfordhad to be stop- ped. So when the corner got too tight f or his worship, the gracious mayor 1 o o ked at the clock, vi sibly agi tated and said, "It's ten past ten Mr. Strat- ford. " L i ttle wonder the mayor wanted a I'~Oa1 Dear Sir, We get your pap- er quite regularly now and have real11y enjoyed watching it grow. it s nice to have a real paper for Whitby. Keep up The fine work. Another thing we enjoy seeing again is articles by Kim Arrmitage. He (or she)always seems t o f ind a I ittie different way of 1 o o k ing at things and though we don'talways agree w i t h the point of view aswith the Mayor Newman one, thisperson nearly always starts you thinking a 1 i t t le more. We hope there'111 be more articles by this m e m b e r of your staff. W e hope you're with us for a long time. Sincerely Mr. & Mrs. T. A. Hendricks, Whitby. ._ _IITS 10 PAST 10" s t op watch put on the debate. Hadn't h e a t r eady been pinned down by the questions, "Whose idea was the muni- c ipal complex? Is it to be the Whitby White House or a white elephant?" Even the encouragement coming in the f o r m of h a n d clapping fromthe stacked audience of scapegoat library board member s and contractor's wives w a s n o t enough salve for the young máyor's wounded ego. Indeed. There was no other alter- native for his worship but to draw the I 1 n e on a hurried end to the debate before somebody else drew attention to the $2, 500 spent on the public rec- eptionkickingoff the never-material- i zed I r oquois Park scheme, or some other distasteful thorn. Nothat just wouldn't do because it wasten past ten, May lst, 1972 in Town of Whitby council chambers and WhitbyMayor Desmond Newman had a monument to build to himself - no one could get in his way. Vo ur Impression of the municipal complex Is needed. see page 16 (Volce of the County Tbwn) Hometown paper of Whitby, Brooklîn, Myrtle and Ashburn. Published every Thursday in and for the people of Whitby. Offices - 301Byron St. S. Whitt Mail Phone Publisher Editor Editorial Staff Display Advertising Circulation - Box 206. Whitby - 668-6111 - W. Bill"Durkee - Judy Durkee - J. Quail - Ron Winstanley - Barry Schroeder * ý e.aÂde,,,w i e Sir, I am a Canadian about to bring in- tothis world, an- o t h e r Canadi an. Big deal you say. I don't expect any rounds of app- lause, nordol1 appreci ate any smart remarks f r o m those fool s who are 'hung up' (upsidedown) on overpopul ation. Canada has vast land available for people to live on. Sodo the United S t a tes and other countries. W e al know In- di a and China have too many peopte. China, I1under- stand is doing s o mething posi- tive about the sit- u a tion encourag- ing later marriag- es and family planning etc. O ur country for one , contributes t o the starving of I ndia, and this is commendable, al- thoughl1can't help but feet that their m o t i ves for such high population w as certainly for manpower. My concern is thi s: If there is another major war, no damn fool country is going to des troy and ruin the valuable land of another to ov- ertake it. They need the earth. Terra firma, therefore man- power is the chief m eans they wout d use against the enemy. If a country rich in natural resour- c e s, b ut n otin population, is in- vaded by one not so for tunate in the a f or emnentioned, w here will be the p eople we shoultd h ave p rotecting our shores, or front lines or .w h at ever it may be ? Unborn? I think young C an a dians today are being over- whelmedwi th sta- tistics on over pop ilation to the p o i nt where they think "no child- ren" is the best way t o help their country and there- fore the word. These young peop- le will not be ail- owing themselves their human right to replace them- selves-if they so wish. If enough Canad- i ans don't live on. Canadian soil in years to come, you can be d am n sure someone el se w i tl ive on it not onlywith you, but eventually in such numbers, theywill 1 i v e it f or you, and probably in I ater years, they witl t1ive i t against y ou, because you will not be strong enough in number to do anything about it. The Canadian could become extinct. Yes, Canada could control her birth rate, aid pollution, advise other countries (the major offen- der s) to do like- w ise, but don't d emand i t. Hence whileothersgo on breeding and be- comingmore pow- erful, we'll help them ationg with Care parcels (as any decent coun- t r y w ould do for another) while we controlournatur- al right to create human life. In comparison to some countries in this vein, we are at r eady running s omewhere in the middle. Sowe end up 'l ike pushed out of sight. N ow , t arn not against family planning, where a f amily decides to limit their number of children accor- ding to income and common sense etc. bu t, t arn against this "People Cre- ate Poll1ution"f nonsense whereby we (Cana- da ) shoul d take a b a ck seat for the ignorance of other offending coun- tries. continued on page 9 by