Oh, Toronto, I’ve changed
my mind about you. Like a lot
of us real Westerners (as
opposed to Calgary wester-
mers) 2 ¥ swank aronmd calling
Tecronto ‘Hogtown’ and
‘T’ranna,’ and making snide
remarks about streetcars.
I’m embarassed, now.

I went to Toronto from
Washington, ‘D.C. I didn’t
like Washington. The climate

was muggy—in both senses _

of the word. ‘‘Don’t go out at
night”’ was the often-heard
refrain, “‘you’ll get mugg-
ed.”’ And ¢ this two blocks
from the White House. The

first experience that I had with

Washington was with a
cabbie who ripped me off for
$35 for a ride from the
airport, and in the week that
I was there it was so common
to have waitresses serve with
downcast eyes that I kept
looking at myself in mirrors
to make sure that it was still
me they were looking after.
It’s not fair, I know, to judge

a city by a week spent in the -

centre of town—but it sure
turned me off.

’ But Toronto, sweet Toron-
to. The last time I was there I
was much younger, and it
was like going to an entirely

new city. A nice city, too, -

with trees . and parks and
subways, | nice stores, and
nice people. Especially nice

people.
Lot the tell vor ghent reo
~~ es

cabbie. Thad a great many

business calls to make in
Toronto, and I Spent the
evening | arrived in my hotel.

room trying to make geo- —

graphical sense ‘out of the
addresses of my calls. All I
had was a crude hotel map

showing the main streets, -

and it was hopeless. So I
fretted over it and decided
that the next morning I
would see if I could find a
cabbie to help me out. And
did I ever. -

His name is Joe Kleinmitz, ©

he’s 64 years old, he has an
artificial leg, and he’s a
jewel. We spent a great deal
of the time I was in Toronto.

together. He made my trip a .

real pleasure.

The first ride we had, I ?
said to him, ‘‘Hey, I’ve got a

problem.’” When I explained
that I didn’t know my way

around, he said to give him
the cards I was working from

and while I was in my first

‘call he sorted them all out for

me. It would. have taken mea
week.

“Listen, mister,” said

cabbie Joe, ‘‘I got your calls —

organized here. Now, in the
mornings I think you should
work around your hotel. You
know, you don’t need a cab
for that. You can use the
subway. In the afternoons,
we can do the ones farther
away. How’s that?”’

It sounded a lot better than

after lunch he’d pick me up.

‘“What did you have for
lunch today?’’ was his first
question. Id tell him what I
got from the hotel cafeteria.
**How much’d it cost you?
Gscd, You should have come
with me for lunch I know a
place where you can get all
that and more for a dollar-
eighty-five. Give you a nice

~ bowl of jello after - and a
"couple. cups. coffee.”’

So we'd take .off for our .
‘first call, Joe coping with the.

traffic and our appointment
schedule ard me. riding . in.
the back calmly enjoying the

‘sights of Toronto. Ilearned a —

lot from him about Toronto,
and about Joe Kleinmitz. “‘I

been pushin ga cab here for
twenty-seven years,’” - he
said, ‘‘and I never. , beat

anybody for a quarter."

A few. miscellaneous Tor-

onto facts: _well,: ‘there are.

more cars in Toronto than
in the entire province

of Quebec. Twenty-six. hun-
dred of them are cabs.
Cabbies pay over $1600 per
year insurance. ‘It’s not

really a taxi town,”’ says. Joe,

“here's to many priyate

cars.””
So, Toronto, rm sorry I
said all those negative things

before. You are a nice place. 7

Waitresses smile.and ‘say
good. morning, people. ‘are
easy to talk to, and I wish
Vancouver: had: as-:. many
trees in betweees the build-
ings.

: “and a. wins! ‘nop. do

subways ever get you around
fast! os

The House of Commons is
wrestling once again with the
weighty question of how its
members should dress while
performing their official -
functions. Unlike many of the

deliberations in that august -

assembly it’s a debate that
opens up infinite Possibilt-
ties.

Liberal MP Frank Maine
was censured the other day
-by Conservative MPs for
wearing an ascot instead of a
necktie (encouraged, no

doubt, by the example of ©

Prime Minister Trudeau,
who was once hauled over
the coals for the same
reason).

Conservative critics went.
on to take a ‘side-swipe at
Solicitor General Warren .
Alimand’s leather jacket. ‘‘‘l
have noticed more and more
of the Neisure suit type of

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apparel, and I do not think
this is the piace for leisure,’’
snorted one business-suited,

necktied Tory.

All of which raises the
intriguing question of how
far clothes make -- or
unmake -- the man. Is a
cabinet minister in a leather

_jacket less competent than a

cabinet. minister in a pin-
Stripe? - .

Does an ascot.dull an MP’s
faculties ~ or a necktie make
them sparkle? Can a chief
executive run a large cor-

poration successfully in a

sports jacket and sneakers? °.

Would you trust-a doctor i in
faded blue denims? Or buy a
_ used car from a salesman in a’
T-shirt and jeans?

In an ideal wotid, ‘of
course, the atswers to . all

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questions ‘regarding _ the
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these. questions would

positive. What a man wears.

shouldn’t make any differ-

“In. the real world it’s a
different story -- as the

emperor who was discovered -

without his clothes could tell
you. mo,

‘ The sartorial revolution
that burst upon North Amer-

ican males eight or nine

years ago started gently.
enough, with such relatively
harmless aberrations as co-
Otdinates, colored shirts and

- .turtlenecks. After a. genera-:
.tion solidly dedicated to the -.
‘plain dark suit, the: plain .
‘white shirt: and the: sober .

one-inch necktie, it seemed
‘ quite a welcome 'e change.

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heady ‘stuff. -

ence at all to his personality :
- _ or. talents.

But the basic message of
the revolution soon became
loud and. clear: . clothes
express your personality,
with, no holds barred. For

‘men who had hitherto found

difficulty in expressing their
personalities by more con-
ventional _means, - 7 it was

You, too, can be a more

- Significant human being -- a

Hugh Hefner, a Fidel Castro,

an Evel Knievel or even:a

Pierre Elliot Trudeau, ac-
cording to your taste. All you
need is a. bank charge card

..and. half..an hour in your -
“neighborhood |
emporium.

~ menswear

“.

If it feels good, wear it -- at
‘work and at play. Anything
goes. Your clothes. are you,
man!

Today ‘the | result: .is - the

most varied and . colorful
‘male plumage ‘seen since the

dawn. of . history.
spectacle,"

As a
it delights my

eyes, even though I’m still

trailing rather noticeably.

this. -question’ in a recent

~ + telephone conversation, told

Pobdivror slammed

[Am open letter to North
. Vancouver District Municipal

ered in the decision to cut off
the south-west corner of this
intersection? The northern
most houses are now open to

the Capilano Road traffic.
and the increased’
Garden Avenue traffic due to

noise,

the new -right turn from
Capilano Romi will ruin the
comparative peace of our
Street. Your deputy, -Mr.

. Goode, in response to.

Peter Speck .

Rex Weyler |

- Noel Wright .

Ellsworth Dickson -

Gulllermo Lam |
Bob: Graham.

‘Patricia | ‘Cardle,

2B. C, mainiand’ 8 ‘largest wookly newspaper

me that “If local residents

were considered every time
we wanted to do a-job, we
“would’ ‘never . get : anything

. done.”’ Are not the residents

of North Vancouver the

“reason for the existence of
the Corporation andthe

‘Municipal Engineering Dep-
artment? Do we not pay their
wages?»

Why were * only twenty
local residents asked for the

_ agreement to waive the noise

abatement by-law. (to allow
unnecessary night work)
“when hundreds are affected

. by the noise?

The waiver of this noise

| abatement by-law was for ten

working days. ‘Why then,

. after more than a month,.is a

_Monstrous grader being all-

- owed to perform its noisy

task at 6:00 o'clock in the

; morning and 9:00 o "clock at

night?

A question almost every
North’ Vancouver driver is

- asking is ‘‘How long is this

job going to take?’’ There
seems to be very little

" Progress. Apart from last
' month's

disturbing night
‘work.and the regular poorly

- timed griding, I have yet to

‘see any work being done on
the road. Again, ,isn’t this

7

But it’s sad that the timing

has been so bad.

It would be nice to report

that the liberation movement ..

in men’s attire -- in parlia-
ment, the boardroom and the
office -- had produced the
race of creative, administra-
tive and productive giants
promised by Timothy E. and
the other menswear ads.

The emancipation of the —

male from outdated and

_ Stifling . sartorial traditions

heralded the start of a new
era, so the menswear indus-_
try assured us. An era of
free-wheeling,
Spirits and intellects, whose -
pastel . safari. suits and
pre-washed. denims would
help them make short work
of solving all the modern
world’s headaches -- public
and personal. -

Alas, the liberation move-

' ment has happened, through

sheer bad luck, to coincide
with a record recession,
record inflation, record un-
employment, record. labor

‘waste being paid out of the
‘North Vancouver tax payers’
pockets? Will the District
Corporation pay for the
‘thousands of automobile

shock absorbers and leaf-:

tase

All we North. Vancouver
residents ask is that. you
consider us when you do
work that is paid-for by us,

and is supposed to be for our
benefit. Please!

Yours sincerely,
J.H. Plunkett -
1866 Garden Ave.,
North Vancouver.

Delbrook
pointless
In respénse to Mr. Bray-

ham's suggestion, in your
June 16th. edition, that

Delbrook High School bekept.

open, I should like to point
out that were it not for the
greed of home vendors in

that area in demanding such |
outrageous ‘prices for their

houses, more families with
school-age children would be

able to move into Delbrook

and make full use of the
school.

‘unfettered —

strife, record crime: and a
widespread concensus ‘that
the entire world is purtling to
hell on 8. bobsieigh:.

It would ‘be grossly unfair,

of course, to suggest any

connection between ascots in
the Commons, sneakers in
the . ‘boardroom or - office
managers. in __: nylon-knit

_, Sports shirts ‘and. our current

‘social and political problems.
Equally unfair, no doubt, to
credit the sober-suited. males
of the fifties and sixties for
those booming and innocent-
ly happy years. .

But, as " say, the timing of

the menswear ::. revolution .

does seem to: have.’ ‘been

_Singularly unfortunate. A

Perish the thought that the
charcoal-grey two-pieces, the
white dress shirts and ‘the
natrow neckties may be
already quietly ‘preparing for
the courter-attack. °

Alexenderiana: if you're

allergic to dust, stop making

sweeping statements...

Ican nonly see this situation
worsening in the foreseeable
future and, by: forcing the
school to stay open: now we
would simply be delaying the
end and wasting taxpayers’

" money.

“Maybe Mr. Brajhara is
fortunate enough: to be able
to shrug ‘off the District's
18-20 per cent ‘increase in
house taxes this: year, the
highest : increase .. in . the
Greater Vancouver. area. We
are not. We bought our first

home last year and we cannot
even afford to havea child let
alone the two. ree that

would be needed. from each
new family. inorder to keep
the nearby schools full,

‘As : regards’ ‘ Delbrook
School’s achieve ents,, Mr..
Brayham, in comin ng out with
a sentence ‘like’ “Delbrook
has an excellent: record of
academic — excellence....’’,
does not fill me. with
confidence in, his ability, to

‘assess academic. standards

and makes me. even less
inclined fo" "Aupport his
appeal. ;

Surely, ‘éhildeon are ‘still

‘capable of walking or ‘cycling
2 few. miles to. school? It

won't kill them. *

- Rosemary Waters: gles
North Vancouver mo

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