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THTIRDAY, MARCH 2Mt, 1051 Work of Children's Aid Society Little Known hy People of Counties ,Oullined hy Superintendent of Society In this district, the number of anxious marnied couples desiring to adopt children is far greater than the number of youngsters available, according to Arthur Finnie, superintendent of the Children's Aid Society of the Un- ited Caunties. Speaking at the Kinsmen Club din er meeting in the Balmoral 1*cr4 Tuesday evening, March 20, r.' Finnie endeavoured ta ac- int club members with the humanitarian work done by the Society which is "the least publi- cized in Canada." He said child- ren wcre cared far, adaptions an- ranged, and in some cases, fam- ily allowance cheques admirister- ed through the offices of the Sa- ciety. T he speaker was introduced by Kmn Albert Kitching who refcrred ta the University of Toronto grad- uate's wonk as "a great boon" ta Northumberland a nd Durham Counties. A very small percentage of thec population are awane of the Chil- the' spaker Soieyxpredipîcas thenseaidr Soicty, accoding toj une in having the opportunity to acquaint Kînsmen with the arg- 1anization and work of the agency in the United Counties. Lang Aid Record Legislation for the Childnen's Aid Society was passed in 1893, and in Northumberland and Dur- ham, the record reaches back ta 1894 when a committee was farm- ed in Cobourg ta "cane for ne- glected and dependent children." There is no record of a similar graup apenating in Bowmanvillle at that time. The present society maintains an office and shelter in Part Hope which is intended ta serve the United Counties from Countice on the west ta Trenton on the cast, and narth af Lake Ontario from 10 ta 30 miles. The superintend- ent and three field men caver the extensive tcrritory. Mn. Finnie said the-main part of the society's work is protection and investigation. On requests for advice and on complaints, "We try ta find out ahl the de- tails relative ta the situation and then attempt ta detcnmine its cause," the speaker said. If pas- sible, the cause is remedied while the children remain with their parents. #"PERSONAL PLANNING" OPENS WAY TO HAPPIER LIFE WITHIN INCOME Most of us have ta live within our income or start eating bis for breakfast. Sa some of us make casual and frequent attempts at budgeting. Others give budgeting a real college try, then step aver ta the red side of the ledger around vacation time. Some even stick ta their budgets, corne windfalls or f ire sales. But most of us share one sad experience, that budgets crimp one's enjoyment of life more effectively than ramn on a picnic. That's because we 're guilty of a very important o mission, which is pointed up in a cheery littie book issued ~'by the Bank of Montreal called Personal Planning. We 'orget ta provide for ourselves. We make entries for every- thing and everybody, and leave ourselves in the cold. This is ail part of Personal Planning or "How to live within your incarne and enjay it." Geo. Moody, the manager of the B of M branch at Bowmanville, invites-you ta pi*ck up a copy of the B of M's booklet about Personal Planning next time yau happen ta be in tbe vicinity. It's yours for the asking. .- ---.< FbZ . N, BOJWMAVV VIIV1LiLE, ONT±ARIOUPAGE ELEVEN About 230 chiidren are presen ]Y in the care of the local C.A. Six are in the Port Hope shelt, and the rcst, with the exception, several unusual cases, are in fo ter homes throughout the Unit( Counties. Chlldren Get Homes When a child is taken by t1 saciety, the guardianship is tran ferred from the parents to ti children's agency through cou action. "If a Judge is SatisfiE they shauld corne out of the home," Mr Finnie tald Kinsmeî "he orders the municipality 1 care for the yaungsters." It cos $1.02 per day to care for a chul placed in a foster home. Children are placed in man different types of homes an wards range from. babies of iF days-old, up. The society pay ail the expenses while the chul is in a foster home, offering every thing a parent wauld. MS~ youngsters are returned ta thci own home when th esociety ibe lieves it a fit place for them t live. That's really where the: belong, the speaker said. Mr. Finnie said most of the chul dren placed for adoption are bon out of wedlock. Family Allowance Cheques Another matter with which th, Children's Aid Society is con cerned is the family allowanci cheque. Since the inceptian a family allowances the local so ciety has had requests to investi gate irregularities in the home. to which they are sent. As an ex ample, he mentioned the case o a child living mn a foster homý who had no birth certificate. Tht foster parents did flot know hei proper name and therefore couic flot qualify for the family allow* ance. As the story goes: A womar answered an advertisement in i newspaper which intimated 2 couple would like to 'board thei., child out. In reply, she received a telephane eall and later, a babc in arms was brought to the housE by an elderly woman. Thir strange woman stayed five min- utes, then, after assuring board money would be sent manthly, left the house. True to, her word, board money was forwarded cach manth for four ycars, and then it stopped. Nothing has been heard of the waman since. As a resuit, the child left in the foster home has no birth certificate and no proper niame. The socicty investigated the case, and through their efforts. the foster mother was able to se- cure the family allowance. "Very few people misuse the family allowance," Mr. Finrne said. There are only two families, one in Durham and one in North- umberland, who are considered unqualified to handle the money intended for their children. Both Lre in the "back country." In hese cases, the society assists the mothers.in using the money. Divorce Case Work Because children are the pers- ns who suffer from divorce ac- ion, the Government introduced legislation relative to their pro- tection about a year ago. Prior to tis, youngsters were "kicked round between parents, fought ver, and in some cases, wîth par- ants cither wanting or flot want- ýg them." Mr. Finnie said it was te children who suffercd ýas a resuit of divorce action. According to the speaker, the .A.S. now conducts an investiga- on into the ability of each per- ;n in the divorce case to care for fie children. This information is iven ta the Court Justice and àssists him in determining which arcnts will have custody of the ,hildren. Organized Like Company The organization of the local 7A.S. is similar to any public op- ýated company. A board of di- ectors, men and women of the nitcd Counties, controls the iency and announces the policy. s supenintendent, Mr. Finnie is esponsible to this body. The overaîl organization is su- îrvised by the Ontario Depart- cnt of Health and Wclfare of ýhich Hon. W. A. Goodfcllo\w, ember f o r Northumberland ounty, is Minister. Short Honeymoon in Korea Pte. Raymond Lapointe of Ottawa, a member of the Special Force advance party in Korea, had ta leave bis bride of a f ew days recently when he returned ta Fort Lewis, Wash., an campletian of bis duties in the Far East. In an international wedding Christmas Eve, Raymond xvas married ta a Swedish nurse, Lt. Gulli Gunnarson, of Gothenburg, Sweden. I-is bride will remain with ber unit until 4th February at wbich time she will return ta Sweden until arrangements for ber journey ta Canada are campleted. In the above National Defence pboto the bappy couple are seen befare Lapointe's departure. ally. The balance cornes fnom for they were stili queueîng and donations throughout the Coun- the rations were getting smaller; tics and last ycar amounted to but they said: "Give the Govern- $5600. ment time ta complete its ecan- Extra Grant Given omic planning. in another ,year With regard ta private dona- stions, the Provincial Govennment rgrant the society an extra 25 cents on cveny dollar they raise through campaigns. With this under- standing, if the saciety raises $4000 in a campaign, the Provin- cial Govennment adds $1000 ta it. Strong Famlly Tie Aftcr years of expenience, Mn. Finney bold Kinsmen that no matter haw unsuitable a home might be, thene is a stnong fam- ily tie that halds chiltinen and parents together. In anc case he mentioned wherc the saciety had taken the children mbt their cane, he said the family tic was es strong as ever after seven years of separation. The society feels it is better ta adjust youngsters in thein own home nather than take thern away fnomn thein parents. But if the latter course is necessary, thcy help the parents improve thetr home and one by one aliow them ta get their childrcn back. "It is better la see childncn get proper cane fnorn thein own par- ents regandicss how good they anc." Mn. Finnie said in ciosing. Speaker Ils Thanked The speaker was thanked by Kin Ray Kowal who mentioned that the saciety also handlcd iii- veniles who appcaned in court. He voiccd the Club's appreciation of the talk "an the least publi- cized association in Canada." FaIsehood of Controls 13y Lewis Milligan In this article I arn gaing to prove that govennment canomic planning and contrais inevitably nesult in a lowcr standard of lv ing. 0f ail the highiy industnial- ized countnies in the world today, Russia is the most ecanamically planned and controlleti, and it has the lawest standard of living. Bni- tain is not s0 cornpletcly planned and controlled by govcrnment, but the living standard in that country bas dcclined unden econ- omic planning and contrais. The planners put the biarne for this condition on the wan, but in ]et- ters I neceive from fnientis aver there I arn ld that they arc gen- erallv warsc off than thcy wene during the w'an. In wartime certain contraIs are necessary in onden ta conserve andi concentrate allnesounces on de- fence, and when the wan is aven the contt'ols cannot be droppeti rnmedialely. They must be gnaduallv reduced in the trans- tion period bctween wan and peace. That is what we did in Canada, and it warked very well. n Bnîtain, hawever, ail controi.t %ere continueti andi in some in- tances extended afler the war b'v the Labor Government. The rgument was that as govcrnment planning and contrais hati work- Id so weil in wartime, thev shouiti .'ork even better in ltime of peace. ManY people who wene nomerly Lib eral and Conserva- Jve in poiitics were solti on a measure of Sociaiism and voted ,or the Labon Partv. They were >ld that Britain was ta become a andi of pientv." The rich werc obe leveiied-down and the po evelled-u p. In September, 1945, Herbent dornisan. no- deputy leader of he Labon Government, canfi- lntly declaned: " We have left rhind foneven the aid scancitv conomics of the capitalist worid.' liave no doubt whatever that Mn. annrison honestly believed what ýsaid. and I know far a fact that e people who took him et his «ord full 'v expecteti that wvithin ycar on twa at the most thene .ould be fia more shorlages, anti eat rationjng and queues wauld ethings of the past. That is bat rny Socialist friends tld me hen I v'isited Engiand in 1946, ,vear afler the Labor Govenn- lent came la power. Thex' wce ot enti.rely aatisfied at that lime- st b' ar Pl ed f tcý ld 1.1' ti- dei M( thi I h wc wo a ni 110 - lt lil b audii11rut Ony.; t At the end of the following syean I received a letter fnorn a iSocialist friend éamplaining that -"things wene not getting any bet- 3 er" and hinting that another pan- ccl would be welcomed. He said he had heard with amazement andi disgust that the Govcnnment had "ondered the printing of ration books for 1948!" I me,rely cite this as an exemple of the disap- pointment prevalent at that time. According ta the latest Gallup Polis it seems ta have developed into pnetty general disillusion- ment. With evcny ncw control and socialization the necessities of life have become scarcen and the cost of living highen. The present shortage of meat in Britain is due dinectly ta gov- enfiment cjontrol and manopoly iii the wholesale meat market. And for the first time in Bnitish his- tory thene is a shortage of coal, an essential cornmoditvy of which the country has great unmincd ne- sources. Since the mines have came under socialized contrai it has been necessany ta import coal from the United States, a coun- try that is the greatest example of \vhat Mn. Mornison called "the aid scarcity economics of the cap- italist world," which he declareti Socialist Bnitain had "lcft behinti forever." I arn not upholding capitalism as an ideal economie system, but it i.%ccrtainly not a systemn of scar- ci.Indeed, the tendenicy is to- ward overproduction, as \vas seen in the last depression when tons of food wenc destroyeti because of the stoppage of wonld tnade by the isolation policies of National Sociaiist Genmany and Commun- ist Russia. Conuauity Coucil Executive Neet dut! me Funchions 0"f Recrealion Bd.. Bowmanville Community Coun- cil Executive met March 20 at the Lions Cammunity Centre, with the following members present: Fred Cale, Andrew Thompsan. Jack Eastaugh, chairman; Jirn Nokes, Dan Shay, Recreation Di- rector; Miss Dora Purdon, Miss Jennie Tabacki, Rev. S. R. Hen- derson, Charles Hoag. and Harvey Dilling, on behaîf of 'the Junior basketball team. The treasurer's report showed a balance.af $5.64 in the red. It was moved that ail puppetry bills be paid. A bill was ordened for $84.20 fram Mr. Endersby, janiton at the High School, for work done lest summer in keeping Up th.'ý High School grounds for j union and intermediate basebaîl teams. A committee of Messrs. Thomp- son, Henderson and Nokes was appointed by the chairman ta meet with the junior bail club for discussion. Don Shay is ta be in on the committee. A letter was sent ta Sheppard & Gill Ca., thanking thcm for lumnber uscd in making the bulle- tin board for Community Council. A letter is ta be sent ta the Puh- ]ic School Board, thanking them for the use of the Craft Roorn at Central Schoal for the puppetny course. Mr. Shay, Mr. Eastaugh and Miss Purdon met March lst and decided nathing could be donc as regards sctting up cammittees un- til the policy of the Council is made dlear. It was also decided that if the constitution of the Ex- ecutive is ta be revised it must be done immediatcly. Under new business m'as brougbt up an Item concerning the junior baskctball team, with Harvey Dilling. manager, present ta air the problcm. It was decid- cd ta arrange a meeting with tne team with Mr. Hoag attending as board arbitrator. The functions of the Recreation Baard were outlincd. as well as thase of the recreation dinector, his administrative duties, and his re]atianship with the board. It was dccidcd that the counicil should assu me the responsibilitv Fiery,Itching Skin Gets Quick Relief H ere la a r1pan staloless penetrating antiseptic ail that wiii bring you speedy ECzema. ItcigToaad et. he and skln troubles. Notoonly does this healing antiseptie il1 promote rapid and healtiiy healing ln open Bores and wounds. but boiliq and Srnple u1cers are also quikly reIipv.od. S TO R L In skîn afetion-the ltchlog of Eczemna i.. q u kly stoped; the oruption m dry up ad sca e off ln a very few day,. The C8m Is r1,elof B3a rer, tch, Sait Rheum D L G T U ,T M K And othber akln erupIIonn. ,ou. ran 0btain Moones Emera1d 011 where er drugs are sold. for mistakes af the Director and criticism of the towvn should be accepted b *v the Council rather than the Directar. Suggestion wvas made that Mr. Shay get a part time secretary if he needed one, and that he shiould look aftcr car- respondence of the executive. It was suggcsted that a plan be drawn up for the yean, with a provisional. flexible budget. Don Shay. Fred Cale, Miss Purdon. Jim Nokes ai-d Jack Eastaugh are ta be a planning ammittee for this Childnen. purpose with Don Shay chairig » . He is to have a budget drawn up fa thed eth r.lackmeetg It asdmoaed th r. ckT ett e asked amedte nexl 0,t e ecutive 'nmeretril 10t, t aniseA n rl mestat may held on April 17. The federal Forestry Brandi maintains five Forest Experiment Stations. These are in New Brunswick. Ontario, Saskatche. wan, Alberta. British Columbia. Only ane appeal is made each year by the Ontario Society for Crippled Childnen. Buy and use Easter Seals and help Crippled Af ternoon Teas make' friendly entertainment TUA for VALU E Ad # HIFp - 21 . 3 cols x 4~2 unes 1951 I NFORMATI O On How To Prepare YOUR 1950 INCOME TAX1 - -- -m w - - - Officiai representatives of the Taxation Division, Department of National Revenue, will visit PORT HOPE on APRIL 161h . o 21sf i.' for the purpose of assisting taxpayers in this area in preparing their 1950 Incarne Tax returns and answening inquiries on ather Incarne Tax mnatters. Tbese representativ'es will be available for consultation at the POST OFFICE Taxpayers in this area are invited te take advantage of this free service to the public. LET YOUR INCOME TAX OFFICE HELP YOU 'l CAMAnTAX ltrÀIM.QlffAV UMW'UAmr"vw mmw -