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Ton itp county's populition. The only problem was 1“:th to . mm the £00 to a better site without a - great uproar that residents of nnnhslgia Rochester were 'being robbed ofa heritage. . By refusing tadccdthehndtmhgmmm ~ the 'City of Rochester made possible the scopening of the site question. Thecounty's Amaginative proposal to create a recreation conter at the old zoo site now makes easier the move to a new location. And move the zoo must! . The newly-proposed Chili site offers the potential for a first class zoo-something that mmflsadlyhckingindfisam The large amount of land available, plus its interesting and varied topography, will give our children an opportunity for a zoo that - is a zo0. Visits to a real zoo should be part of every child's heritage. » Too long have our youngsters been forced to pwt up with the smelly, rusty rclic in Seneca Park. The devoted zoo em- ployees who have made the best of that sitnation deserve something better. So do the kids. Warning Home owners, pay attention! Know that nice linle woods behind your house which you thought might be \forever wild?* Or the steep litle ravine with a creck running Waugh w that\ 0:1de may f had queuing bulldozers-wand before yam know It, your sural scres may be occupied by jermy-buil apartments, or a gas station, or a drive-in food business. How come? It is simply this: With land becoming scarce in many towns and villages, promoters . are searching out so-called real \cripples\ -odd pieces of land that n M81 knows what to do with. \ These are bought up cheaply, and the promoter then goes to work to get the zoning changed. And what is virtually worth- less when zomed for single fimily homes becomes very valuable once the zoning is changed. Then up goes the junk, and the promoter skips out with a windfill profi. What sbout the long-range effect an the community? Who cares? The promoter pockets his cash and prepares to spend his old age in Florida. And if his handiwork contributes to the eventual ruinmtion of an sttractive residential ares, he couldn't care less. This kind of activity is increasing sharply throughout Monroe County. We urge you to be on your guard. Caution! It is getting dark early these nights on the streets and ccoads. And the danger, particularly to young people and to senior citizens, grows very grou. Bicyclists, in perticular, are difficult to spot st the sides of roads, perticularly if snow and sait mike i: hard to see through windshields. Lights of oncomingeaustos make it ewen harder to pick om forms at the roadside. Persocs in dark-colored clothes, stepping into the roadwry at unexpected plac, on ocession arm almost impossible to «spot. This adds up toavery great responsibility foe morcaints, Aston that chilisen will show poor Wigwam Mwfl'mmgpmm gmuwfllbefiffiomxhcmr I estate 1/ .4-q.-..n-CQ-CnnC-n--Q-nun-Q--OQ-I-O-UtifififibOQOCIQn-G-cnonht-nlntu-nun-..-ppQ-UQIOOn‘-.fl.-.fi.fl.i.fiflfl'hvtfifififlfiéfiflfififlflfi; m prawn a time on our dally Hves Isolates us, frames us and makes us grasp for ready plausibHHity rather than substance. The news modis, s1so under the same pressure of time, skim: the surface of eventsiand ac- cept the quick answer which is just as Hkely to be the handilest image as the solidest reality. 'There is not time or space to go into it here (there I go again), but what a skirting of Issues - how unreal - has been the last two weeks' de- bate on. the Office of Economic Opportunity. If that were all it was called, nobody would be excited amt it. but the OBO = \ is the bureaucratic base ofthe WAR CON POVERTY, Now, there's an image with emo- tional impact. sk 0 X0 K Local, state and national governments have been con- cerned over the root causes of poverty since this country was founded, and large parts of budgets of our governments go for the protection of the wesk from the strong, from the vicissitudes of a free econ- omie system, from their own folly and from those whomight ”it? Tard Top their\ cum awry ' But 11mm yeirs go flie- government started @WARON POVERTY, and apparently thereafter one's attitude toward the poor has to be judged entirely by his response to the OEO. Question its ad- ministration, question its ef- fectiveness, try to amend its basic law or redirect Its thrust in any way, and in the quick judgment of Its proponents and their admirers you are auto- matically against the poor. Yote to hold the money au» thorization to last year's level (when we were not faced with a $309 BiBHilon deficit] and you are putting a dollar sign on the dignity of the individual. ver, when the authorization goes through at that level, it's bhafled as a great victory for the Administration. The poor have a right to be confused, andsodotheAmeri- can people. What ever hap- persed to the good cld days when a spaxie was a spade, ard yoo used i to shovel. America is God's crucible, the great MelZting-PQ whore all the races of Europe are melking and reformil@g!. .. The real Armmerican has not yet arrived, He is only in the crucible, 1 tell you-he will be the fusion of all races, the cormmIon superman. -~Izranl YFangewill Rt VOTER POWER 4 ®. L. 22 h, .v \4 ~., wc gx #p nr & , ‘w‘firti $\ s, * hs 0.1L *% + The Countryman: Bn itor Chisato Buw -T tmms Dusk on the Mountains Since ancient days man has lifted his eyes to the brooding heights. Mountains and high hills stand Hike sentinels guard- ing the valleys and fields. In a seething, tense world they stand steadfast, an anchor for man's faith. When the patience of the eleventh month lies on thelnd ~ and, dine can feel the gears of WW flit-W“ \tines. [ithéead MWM slowing of a. bluesky, peaceful day offers . a poignant period of beauty. The sun sets hir to the south. - The light on the hills paints a picture as Night prepares Py AB to drop its curtain. Bluegray shadows creep down wooded hillsides. The mixture of evergreens makes a blended canvas of dark, rich hues. There are places where scrub oaks hold leathery, faded leaves, and the blend of soft maroons, reds, purples and brown adds xichncss to the picture. PCE e vert w “* “* Hiram by minute the sun drops toward the horizon. On westward facing slopes where the slim lines of gray birches show among mixed stands of evergreens and deciduous trees, the [Mammalian remind one of on a quilt. At day's end of apesce- ful November day, while dusk deepens and coloss darken in- to night, one can feel thedepth of time. Thus # has been for thousands of years; thus i will be in the future. Dusk.comes and lightsshine from kiachen. windows» The . -mmnuinsmtbem,mme and ¢ and dusk time in November is affirmation ofthe peace man can find if he. will lift his eyes. cmutammscuumstha ween perlod.BX (before Kerox). : Ebenezer, Allen,. the first: ammawiawmwufitm grist mill on the Gengsee to \ufflite the free water power, . mm millers and manufac» tirers were attracted by the falling raters Of the river. In tha period between 1890 and 1900 there were at least 18 tour mills scattered on the river banks. Rochester pros- pered, and became known as the Flour City. A big name in flour in the Isler 1800's was Mosley £& Motley, which company pro- duced 1,000 barrels of Big \B\ flour a day. Macauley, Fien®& Co. and Gerling Bros. Milling Co. were well known. The name Gerling, bowever meant more than flour, It connoted Denmiceratice politics and early motion pictures. 'k $% *% . Here is the Gerling story. Miller Jacob Gerling, of Dutchtown's Twentieth Ward, was fighting | Republican George Aldridge for a posi~ tlon on the City's Exgoutive Board before this century wmwmnmmn river on North Water Street: / near Main, Jake was called | \Umbrella Jake,\ as be car» ried an umbrella, rain or shine, in his strolls about Is Campus Activisim \Ignorance and Arrogance? To be a bona fide college student these days, does one have to hit the picket Hnes -- or stage sit-ins -- or travel about the country taking part In art-administration demon- strations? Presidert W. Allen Wallis of the University ofRochester doesn't thick so. %o % k In a series of trescbantly- worded addresses recerifly, ho tas tried to point out the BHmitastiocs of the campos activist\ approach. Oce of the mest important of these speeches was given re- cently before a meeting o the Natioral Conference of Christians amd Jews in New York City, In this talk, Wallis deciared: Campus activists ape \the students - who are truly apathetic.\ Presidert Wallis sotd that H is the stoderts so often called epathetic tit we find those who are trdly ecocrerred ard truly com- milled. It is to thts great majority of truly concerned and truly committed students, of whom the public rarely bears during their college years -- unqiestionably the finest paople (as well as the brainiest) that we bave ever had In our colleges -- that we may confldently look fot Tutiite leaders.\ Wallis noted that many speakers have *madethapaint that the students who have disrupted or attempted todis- rupt universities or have focussed attention on them- selves off-campus are caly « tiny fraction--under five per cent ~- of al) students,\ How- ever, he expressed disagr®e- ment with the freqently ex- pressed view thrtzuchkastudents sro \corserned\ ard \com- mitted.\ * # # \A person truly concerned about social protiems wnd committed to improving society would, if he were #6 Torturate as to attend collex«, derote all kis times all *s #rergy during those years to ulllizing the college's ac- ademic resources -- prepar- ipg to make his mast effective contribution,\ * % * Wallis sald that \what passes for commitment and concern too often 'is simply ignorance and arrogance, ag- gravated by apathy, Student activists have opportunities to study andto lsara, yet they are too spathetle toward their re- sponsibilitles to humanity to make the personal effort and sacrifice pecegskary to taka full advantage of their oppor- tunities, Their contribations to socfal problems too often will be 'like the contribution ot those who cared for George washington in his final flinkas ahd are said to have biad hin to death with leaches. wastington's attendants, in fact, deserve more credit, for cot only were they concerned and committed to his welfare, tut they may be presumed to have informed thenmselres to the greatest extmm then poskitle,\\ Wallis noted that \an erronsous diagnosis, in social as in medical matters, can lead to treatment that is worse ~* than useless.\ 'FTerming the nation's uni- versitlies \our greatest re- sources in the agelong struggle for peace, prosperity, justice, and freedom,\ be said their \proper and eHectiva usets in accumulating knowledge and wisdom and passing it cn. Those whoare truly concerned about their fellow man, and truly cotnmilted to reforming society, will devotetheir years in colleges to study and re- flection, just as the madical student devotes his time to stuly Instead of to answering ambulance calls.\ * _ # - * The University of Rochester president pointed out that \a busizness erecutive cannot cope Baldwins, R.G. & ms: alle # Log *The New 174mm“ foe August 4, 1835. B lists Erie Canal freight on which Baffalo col- tected tolls the wosk of July 15. It Included 9,156 pounds of flour, 27,144 bushels ofwhezt, 3487 pumas of buiter and lard, 21,006 pounds of ftobac- cf. etc. Yes, the Canal was in business and had a montpoly for sbout twenly«five years before the rallroads came. *- * x Rochester's industries profited from this S50»rmille water strip across the state. The River furnished hydro power for manufacturing, and the canal the means of selling the © manufactured product. Aside from Ro- chester's industries, the canal was credited with helping to make New York City a major port by establishing transpor- tation with interior U.S.A. Rochester fortunately was on the route. I was surprised to learo, however, mumwithwg- s fimmgumm mil , that station for producing efectisity - as far 'back as 1380, sad that river water power, madam- inating, had now drums to 10 per cent of the total out- put. And next comes the ou- clear station to aupplement water and steam. % # # Regardless of any opinion, political or otherwise, about curtailed passenger service on trie New York Central, any ressarcher would have torate highly the past contribution of that great four-track bed to Rochester's commercial dev- elopment, 1 am not defending the financial juggling of the Central which once owned both the street railway and the gas & electric companies here. But Rochester was again for- tmate to be located on the main line of the Central and share its fine pesseoger, freight, express and mail ser- vice at its zenith, The Central and its branches brought hordes of suburban “m s to RWO m3 manipulation o f Arndraw J. Toanson, of Sibley, Lindezsy & Curr Co., to the new Now York Central station {opened 1914) on adirecttroit= ley ard street Hne to the big department store was erl- deece of Slbley's evaluation of the Railroad. * #k * Since early caolury, East- man Kodak has been Mum- clipe! surigsiner of the area's I has besatho larg» est tratpeyer with the argent amber of simptcyses and the WM m WW
