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ee SANE RIRRRRI Tho BS NER Watch your label; it tolls when your § 9:8 $1.50 per year in advance © b cents a single cupy Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. (EDITORIAL Ee SESE PORT PERRY, Buch is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, his first, best country ever, is at home.--Goldsmith. « TEACHING RELIGION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS That there is urgent need of the teach- ing of life principles of of conduct is freely admitted by all who have considered the matter of the moral outlook of the children of Ontario. That such teaching should be in any sense denominational is open to rea- sonable criticism, That the teaching should emphasize the lessons by comparing group conduct of certain religious bodies with that of other religious bodies, is also open to reasonable criticism. Such distinctions should not be made. : In fact, any religious teaching that stirs up denominational prejudice, can of itself do more harm than good. The purpose of religious teaching in the schools of Ontario should not be to make good Roman Cath- olics or good Protestants of the children; "but to train them in honorable, kindly, and progressive habits of living, By progres- sive habits we do not mean habits of money making; but ability to think of humanity as having the same possibility of decent be- haviour as we have ourselves. It is true that there are 2,619,572 nominal Christians in Ontario, and only 69,217 Jews. With such a majority the Christians can afford to be fair and even generous to the Jews. There is no need to make extreme compari- sons of Christians and Jewish teaching-- to the detriment of the Jews. Life pginciples that are truly Christian do not rest on such foundations. The Ser- mon on the Mount teachings are founded on the basic laws that govern all our lives .~=Jew or Gentile. ; : . With these ideas in mind, there would appear to be need of revision of the Guides to religious teaching in the Public Schools. In this case it is true that comparions aréd odious. Fortunately some of our best teachers avoid these odious comparisons, : It is.time to leave the Jews alone, and teach Christians truth on its own merit. * % .® = SOCIALISM IN SASKATCHEWAN "Any enterprise which is so big that it. controls the life of the community ought to be owned by the community." This in brief isthe announced policy of the CCF Govern- ment, in Saskatchewan. And to give point to that belief the Saskatchewan Govern- ment seized the Mitchell = Box Factory in Prince Albert, because the management was unwilling to abide by the laws of the Province, : It is becoming increasingly evident that - great industries have definite obligations to their workers; and to the communities in which they operate. The fact that shareholders demand their dividends is no lonoger sufficient excuse for unfair deal- ings with workers. . On the other hand petty grievances are not sufficient reason for tying up essential industries, Both capital and labor need to show a little more common sense and consideration for the welfare of the cosnumers, who real- ly keep the industry going by their pur- chases. This is the time to build the found- ations of a great export and domestic trade. Instead there is being staged an all out struggle for supremacy between cap- ital and labor. ; When capital and labor forget their ob- ligations to each other and to humanity there are arbitrary ways in which Govern- ments can control situations. One thing should not be overlooked--arbitrary con- trol can be used for other purposes than seizing plants from owners who refuse to play ball. What may seem a victory for labor at the time, can easily become an ex- . are likely making a whip for the backs of the workers. J : A bit of common sense, and a real effort to see the other side of the picture could save a lot of trouble for both capital and labor, To take as a slogan--'All the traf- fic will bear" is to court disaster. If we wish to retain the blessings that most of us take for granted we shall have to think of the other fellow, and do our best at some sacrifice to ourselves to see that he gets a fair show in life. This ap- plies to both capital and labor. It applies to all of us. Greed breeds untold misery. * * LJ READ "TELL THEM THE TRUTH" IN MACLEAN'S, JANUARY 16 It does one good sometimes to read some- thing with which we do not agree. In Maclean's Magazine of January 16th there is an article by Blair Frazer, setting out in . popular language the gist of the noted ad- dress by Dr. Brock Chisholm, ; Briefly, the article declares that we all live in-little groups and from our ideas of right, and wrong according to the teaching of the leaders of that group to which we belong. Other groups who do not agree with our beliefs, are, of course, wrong in their beliefs. Under such conditions the = Brotherhood of Man, about which we talk go glibly, has a difficult time. Peace can only be maintained and war averted a more tolerant and understanding atti- tude toward those whose ideas are dif- ferent from our own, Consider this analysis of the causes of war, and you will see how close we are to world disaster unless we change our basis of thinking. 8 - "Prejudice . . . the ability to believe 'unreasonable things; excessive desire for materials and power; excessive fear of others; belief in our destiny to control others; vengeance; ability to avoid seeing and facing unpleasant facts; and taking appropriate action." } Read the article in Maclean's Magazine, January 15, and you will see what Dr. Chis- * holm meant when he asked that we tell the truth, especially to small children, . SRL Bt flair sn REGISTRATION "There is a growing demand that "Regis- tration Certificates" be discontinued. The general tone of the protest is that the cer- ~ tificates give the Government too great a hold on the freedom of the individual citi- zen, There is probably some truth in this phase of agitation. But underlying the protest there ig a hint of uwnillingness to . assume our responsibilities as citizens, For those of us who are in settled occu- pation and residence, there js nothing to prevent the Government from keeping tab on us for such requirements as may be deemed necessary for the orderly running of the country, This is notably true in the matter of income tax. °° What is really the matter at issue is the idea of compulsory military training. But there is anothre phase of the registration idea that should be dof importance in these ~days of easy travel, and increasing crime. That-idea is to have some control of the footloose transient. . The removal of the registration certifi- .cates will have no bearing on Government control of our lives in many particulars, So long as we live in communities we shall be required to give some account of ourselves, and if we cannot so do we shall lay our- selves open fo suspicion, So long as we live in communities we shall be expectéd to bear our share of the duties of citizenship. If acting taskmaster to labor when the social- istic government sits firm in the saddle, It is an easy road from socialism to the kind of all out control which is now going "It's a poor rule that don't Extreme labor leaders are not 'really the friends of labor. They on in Russia. work both ways". TK we do not bear that share, some other per- son must bear it for us, and we become part of the public burden, - Ti slogan -- "Be Prepared" -- is essential to freedom for wholesome defelopment--and "it"may-require some sort of compulsory _ training for our young people, The Boy Scout CANNON NAMED ELEMEN- TARY EDUCATION HEAD Former Inspector at Oshawa Succeeds Late Dr. Greer 'The appointment of Cecil F. ampon B.A, former Public School Inspector in Oshawa, to the post of superintendent of elementary education for the province, has been announced by Premier George Drew, Minister of Education; Mr. Cannon who has been assistant superinten- dent, will fill he vacancy caused by the death \ : Dr. V. K. Greer. A native a LaRly County, 1 Mr. Cannon graduated from wa Normal School and Queen's Uni- versity and received his degree Univeristy of Toronto. After serving as principal of New- castle and Picton public schools, he was appointed supervising principal of public schools in Oshawa and in 1929 became in- spector of Oshawa Public Schools. 'In 1933 he was transferred to the staff of Jublic school ing tars of the Department of Edu- cation serving as inspector in Hastings, Durham, Ontario and York Counties. He was 8 master of the Toronto Normal School in 1940-41 and in 1942,was appoint- ed assistant chief inspector for public and separate schools for Ontario. The following years he was made assistant superinten- dent of elementary education and has heen acting superinten- dant since the death of Dr. Greer. At present Mr. Cannon is chairman of the Civil Service Department Council of the edu- cation department and a member of the Ontario Universities Adult Education. COMING HOME | ~ Word has been received that the following personel were on the Queen Elizabeth, which dock- ed at New York, and are expect- home this week: Gdm. 8. R. Kendall, R.R, Port Perry; Cpl. R. D. Burley, Port Perry; Pte, L. A. Rogers, R.R:1, Port Perry; We join with their friends in extending a hearty welcome, 'chairs. THURSDAY, ONT, Interesting Letter from the West This interesting letter is from Miss Bryce, former Home Eco- nomics teacher in Port Perry High School, Miss Bryce is now instructing in vocational work for the Department of Education in Saskatchewan.: Her duties take her far afield in that great Province. So, DEPARTMENT OF WOMEN'S WORK, UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN The following letter is written by Miss Bryce, a former. teacher at Potr Perry High School, and was received by Mrs. A. P. In- gram, Port Perry. Dear Port Perry Folks; "My plan to write a news let- ter each month was abolished in October because I felt at that time that I hadn't enough news to make a letter worthwhile. By this time, however, I am afraid I shall have difficulty in limiting a letter to a readable length! Although I had made two short. trips in October, my tra- vels really began on October 31st when I set off on a trip of 314 weeks' duration. 1 left Saska- toon that night, still wearing fall clothes and almost forgetting to take rubbers because the wea- ther had been so pleasant. But before I reached Regina the next morning, winter had come in earnest and within the next two weeks I found myself trying desperately to find .a pair of overshoes, for-it was twenty to [twenty-five below zero in various places I visited. And all this in the south-east corner of the pro- vince in the first half of Novem- ber! It was unusual, of course, but nevertheless quite possible in this most unpredictable of climates," Since that first cold spell the weather has moderated considerably and ranged from abotit thirty above to ten below zero most of the time. ~ And the abundant sunshine we have here is almost as acceptable as the high temperatures that have been mentioned in several of my letters from Ithacal I enjoyed my trip (the long one) very much, and by the time I got home I was quite used to sleeping in all kinds of beds, berths and train seats; eating in every type of restaurant and home-cooked meal, and at every conceivable hour; learning ten or twenty new names every day; and waiting for trains and buses, Twice within a week I had to wait 414 hours for a train, and almost every other train was at least a few minutes late. Last week, of course, I beat .that re- cord by a good many hours--but I'll tell you about that later! Everywhere I found people ex- tremely interesting, and inter- ested, and for the most part de- lightful to work with. They are all different, but all human and worth knowing. I enjoyed most places where 1 stayed two or three days, because there I had enough time to really begin to]. know the people, and we could get some work done besides. I am not sure of the exact number, but I know we operated on at least twenty chairs, re-juvenated geveral sofa cushions, and made glip covers for a number of I hope many more have bee tackled since I left, and I was gratified to find, when Passing through Carlyle about a wee after I had been there, that a woman who had done one of her gofa cushions while I was with her had done the other two in the interim, So at least one .of my pupils has taken her: lessons to heart and really applied them! Most of the groups I visited were Homemakers' Clubs, the askatchewan edition of the Women's Institutes, Home Bureaus, ete., but at nearly all the meetings all the women in the community had been invited and sometimes the club members were in the minority. I have also vigited three of the Youth Training Schools, a joint project of the provincial: and federal governments that is being re- PORT PERRY STAR JANUARY 17th, 1946 opened after being suspended for five years or so, It is admini- stered by our department, and most of us have visited most of the schools, but the resident in- structors are not in our depart- ment. The schools are open to young women between the ages of sixteen -and thirty-five, but most of the students enrolled at present are between eighteen and twenty-five. They live to- gether for from four to eight weeks, depending on the com- munity, and receiving instruc- tion and practice in foods and nutrition, clothing, handicraft, 'hygiene and home nursing, and some physical education. In the evenings they have various forms of recreation: dramatics, group singing, dancing, discus- sions, listening groups (e.g Farm Forum), and so on. Everything must be somewhat condensed, of course, and the theoretical as- pects of the training are at a minimum, but I feel the project is most worthwhile because of the practice these girls get in liv- ing and working together--and of course they learn a great deal about homemaking as well, Kenosee Lake Youth Training School was co-educational. The boys studied agricultural topics while the girls had their home- making lessons. They were housed in a government-owned summer hotel, and were pretty comfortable in spite of the fact that it is not butlt for winter use. Some of the programs were for the group as a whole, e.g. the demonstration on meat cutting given by a local butcher and all the evening programs. This was the only co-educational school 1 visited, and because the group is so-large the girls do not do all the cooking and laundry there as they do in the other schools. So there are both ad- vantages and disadvantages to having a mixed group. At Watson the School is housed in the Town Hall. They 'have double decker bunks at one end of the auditorium, and dress- ing quarters behind screens. The kitchen is a separate room at- tached to the main part of the building. The main part of the auditorium is used for meals, classes and recreation. Classes for the women of the community are held two nights a week and have proved very popular. The schoool at Hafford is in a Ukrainian community and is housed in the nurses' residence of a hospital that has been closed for three years but is go- ing to be bought and opened again soon by the municipality of Hafford. I saw one or two rooms of the hospital itself. Everything is in place, just as thought it had been closed for only a day and were waiting for the staff and patients to come back again. It looks like a well- built and well equipped hospital and I am glad that is to he re- opened. While I was at these schools I worked mostly with the girls taking the course, but at Watson and Hafford I talked to the women of the community as well. Kenosee Lake was too far from civilization to permit meet- ings apart from the school pro- gram, but I was asked to take part in the evening program-- community singing, ete. Youth Training Schools are a twenty- four-hour-a-day job, but I enjoy- ed visiting them, and the in- structors are most enthusiastic, tool I said I would tell. you about last week's trip to Hafford.. Ac- tually, the trip to Hafford was uneventful, but the return trip on Friday was more interesting! Emmie Ducie's visit to the Y.T. S. overlapped the end of mine, and we decided to return to- gether taking the afternoon train from Hafford to Denholm and catching the bus there at sevent o'clock, So far so good. The train was not more than about an hour late, and after a hasty meal in the hotel we rush- (Continue® on Back Page) Fas 2 SAMUEL FARMER Editor and Publisher Three Port Perry at Stouffville Last Friday night, Jan. 11th, Stouffville downed Port Perry 5-2 in a very hard fought game at Stouffville. The ice was a little soft due to the weather which made the going tough for hoth teams. Port Perry didn't really hit their stride until the last period in which they scored both of their counters. There were some differences of opinion about the referee who allowed two of the goals for Stouffville which shouldn't have been counted at all; but those are just the breaks of a game and there isn't much you can do about it, I might add that young Gordie Goode played another outstand- ing game in the nets for Port Perry. He had far more work to do than the Stouffville net minder and if it wasn't for Gordie's excellent foot work and keen eye the score would have been a whole lot different. Here's hoping the defense will give him a little more support in front for the next game. Don Pargeter is our alternate net minder and as yet he hasn't had an opportunity to show his ability, but from all reports he's no slouch either, and should be proving his worth in the near future. Following is a brief sum- mary of the game: 1st Period "Stouffville pressed hard right from the start peppering Goode with shot after shot. At 4.54 Marks of Port Perry received the first penalty for an accidental trip. At 8.21 Stouffville scored their first goal. Petche getting the counter on a pass from Jew- ett. At about the halfway mark Williams received a nasty bang on the left ear but showed that fighting spirit and eontinued for the remainder-of the game. The second penalty of the game was handed out to Camp- bell at 17.44 for tripping. The period ended 1-0 for Stouffville. 2nd Period At 5.52 George Nott for Port Perry took a rest on the penalty bench for roughing. Hillier missed a beautiful change to score being right in on goal but before he could get his shot away he tripped. = Goode made two wonderful close-in shots right in succession. Then at 6.43 Paisley scored for Stouffville on a cloge-. HOCKEY Games JUNIOR "C"--O0. H. A. in shot, unassisted. The pen- alties came thick and fast follow- ing this goal. Colburn getting one at 9.35, G. Rumney at 10.17, Hillier at 11.66 and Layman at 14.14. Nearing the end of the second peirod Stouffville scored again. This time by Jewett at 17.69. On this counter the puck went right through the net but there was no hole in it (figure that one ont?) The period ended 3-0 for Stouffville, 3rd Period Port opened up fast in this period, Hillier stick-handled out of the corner and scored the first goal for Port, after .45 of play making score 8-1. At 1.35 Lewis was put off for tripping. Then - at 5.26 Stouffville broke loose, G. Rumney scoring then, and again at 5.45 right from the face-off, making score 6-1. Lewis was slightly hurt from a high stick shortly after this and at 9.01 G. Rumney received a penalty for boarding and while Stoffville were short handed Williams scored the 2nd counter for Port - at 10.36. Then Goode some more sensational saves, while Hillier was serving a penalty at 15.22. finish but just couldn't overcome the Stouffville lead. The game ended 5-2 for Stouffville, Stouffville--goal, Rows; def. Paisley and Campbell; centre, G. Rumney; L. wing. J. Rumney; R. wing, Sellers ; alternates--Lewis, Birkholder, Laymen, Petche, Col- burn, Jewett. Port Perry--goal, Goode; def. Williams and Christie; centre, Marks; L. wing, Hillier; R. wing, Taylor; alternates -- Leader, Sheridan, Marray, Nott, Sweet- man. sub-goalie--Pargeter. (It is regretted that Nott was missed from the line-up last week.) . . ol WHITBY AT PORT PERRY On Monday nght, Jan. 14th, the league leaders, Whitby team, trounced our local boys 6-0 on our home ice. It wasn't a very good showing for our first home game. Our boys played much better hockey in our previous two out of town games, but we hope Port will soon hit their stride, and tally up a win to their credit. Lack of ice, due to mild weather, has prevented Port from having a good practice, but (Continued on Back Page) Col. W. A. H. MacBrien Entertains | Juvenile Hockey Team We all remember the banquet tendered the Juvenile Hockey Boys last spring by the Port Perry Lions Club. That was a wonderful night for all especial- ly the boys, Col. Bill MacBrien, a former Port Perry Boy, and now Vice-President of the Maple Leaf Gardens and Hockey Club, supplied the entertainment by bringing along with him such well known persons as Morris, Kennedy, Coach Happy Day and radio announcer Foster Hewitt. At that time Col MacBrien ex- tended an invitation to our Coach, Roy Cornish and his twenty-five hockey stars to be his guest at a game in the Gar- dens during the coming season. That dream has already come true as the boys attended the New York Ranger and Maple Leaf game on Young Canada Night. They saw a good game which ended in a tie, and Bill also arranged a good fight for the boys between Goldham of the Leafs and Patrick of the Ran- gers which also ended in a draw, Bill being an old hockey play- would like, Ja Before the game he took the boys around the rink and showed them the mammoth ice freezing plant and after the game, Coach Cornish took the two Captains, Art Sheridan and Keith Mark down to the players' dressing room where Bill presented each with a hockey stick already auto- graphed by each Maple Leaf player. He then had the boys line up between Nick Metz, Syl. Apps and Babe Pratt and had a photographer take a few shots. He has already sent along three of these pictures, one for each captain "and one for the Lions Club. Be sure and see them as they are really good. After lunch the boys were ready for home. They were a little tired but they will always remember Col. Bill MacBrien, and the wonderful evening he arranged for them. 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