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a a dst ' STAR EDITORIAL PA i ~-- GE Thursday, February 14th, 1956 "NOTES AND COMMENTS ag The Middle East Puzzle 1t is very difficult to understand the * Middle East puzzle because there are three -great contlicting struggles all contributing to the one main problem ot how to secure some stabilized way of life in this troubled zone, The first has to do with the bitter, un- relenting. hatred which nationalism has engendered in the hearts and minds of both the Israelis and the Moslems of the Arab stataes and of Egypt. 'Chis hatred has been intensified by political extremists on both. sides. Before the rise. of Nasser, who, of course, has become the leading pro- tagonist of the Arab world, the great incitors were numbered in the ranks of the Israel politicians. More and more it be- gins to appear that nationalism is one of the great evils of humanity in spite of the many benefits that have arisen out of the great evils of humanity in.spite of the many benefits that have arisen out of na- tionalist movements. Until we can har- ness our human endeavour to a higher concept of nationalism than that which has characterized the twentieth century the world will wallow in its woes. The second great struggle has to do with oil." This great resource of the globe we inhabit is of such strategic importance and wealth that certain men and certain na- tions seem prepared to jeopardize the human race in order to control it, The present situation with regard to the oil mess-in the United States is a clear indica- The, Reading Public It is an interesting experience to go to a library, not to get a book or browse. through the shelves, but rather to take up some vantage point and from there, with book in hand -- sheer disguise -- observe those who come to the library for food for the mind or for some less pretentious rea- .-8en. : ; Once inside the portals the library-goer enters his own private world. There is . something of the sleep-walker about them; as though they weren't quite human. They remind me of a line from Gray, "Each in his narrow cell" so cut-off from the world they seem. Another thing that strikes me forcibly is the aimless pointedness of their search. They always look as though they are just about to find what they want and never do. There is never to be seen the happy, satisfied look that says to all the world, "I've found just what I've been looking for." Now, I suspect that library- goers often do find exactly what they are looking for, but apparently they take great pains not to let the secret out. I don' ~ know why they act this way. As far as I know there is no law against looking tion of the lengths to which private com- panies will go to gain special benefits for themselves. The independents are now wagering a private war with the Big Fifteen and involving the American Con- gress and the State of Texas in the melee. Nasser and Ibn Saud are using oil to black- mail the United States in the Washington alleyway that lies outside the United Nations. Historians might well view the years of 1956 and 57 as the years of oil banditry, years which have gone far to wreck the high principles which should govern "the deliberations of the United Nations assemblies. oo : The third struggle has to do with the United Nations itself. Here in the United Nations a real battle is being waged to bring about some kind of a compromise of East and West, of Communism with non- communism. But the mith of the national sovereignity has so poisoned the air and so beclouded the issues that nothing emerges save desperate measures which follow events. . } Certain stark question come to mind 3 Why shouldn't the United Nations insist on guarantees of peace from Egpyt and the Arab world? } Why. shouldn't the oil companies of America be made to meet their agreed commitments to Europe? . Why shouldn't we make an all out effort to_ expose the hidious evils of the myth of national sovereignty ? danger that somebody is going to suddenly snatch the new-found treasure from them . . . but there it is, that sad, resigned look and an armfuyl of books full of just what was wanted, But funny things do happen in the lib- rary even if they don't get much publicity. There is that story about the well-dressed middle-aged woman who approached the librarian with a brand new copy of John Buchan's Thirty-nine Steps and asks if it was all about ball room dancing, Then, of course there is the story of another woman, a woman of very ample size who asked the librarian for a good book of fiction, The librarian obligingly brought her Anthony Adverse and she hefted it in her hand and said, "This is just what I've been looking for, it'll do." The librarian politely asked her why she was so anxious to have a heavy book. "Well, she said, "I read in bed and my husband snores so I like to have a heavy book to bop him on the head when his snor- ing gets too loud. He stops proper quick then," El pleased in a library; there is little or no District Doings NEW ELECTRIC TIMER FOR STOUFFVILLE ARENA The new $1,100 electric sportstimer was installed in the Stouffville Arena on Saturday morning. The timepiece purchased from an Oshawa manufact- urer, was erected at the east end of the rink, and may be seen from almost any angle in the arena. It measures 8 ft, in height and 6 ft. in width. The 24-wire control panel is located in the press box above the Stouffville play- ers' bench. The time, the period and the score are recorded and the clock ig completely foolproof since the hands cannot be moved in a reverge_direc- tion. A horn marks the completion of each period. The timepiece was given its first offical workout at the Stouff- ville-Aurora Midget game. TRY FOR AMERICAN FUNDS TO FINANCE MARKHAM TWP. WATER Members of Markham Twp. Fin- @®... Comittee accompanied by the Township 'Engineer-will be in Toronto this week holding talks with city bond- ing firms with a view to raising a half millon dollars in the United States with which to finance a local water stem in the front of the Township, this venture for foreign currency fails, council will make application to the Municipal Improvement Corpora- tion, a provincial goverment finane- ing agency which will provide funds at slightly over 6%, Ottawa's tight money policy is hrowing, municpalities into fipancial A a barmssment all aver the country as din they strive to meet the demands of ratepayers for more and greater im- provements. Like practically all the municipalities in- this area Markham. has been' caught with unsald- school debentures and the demand from a growing population for a municipal water system. Thus they are making SELL BEAVERTON WEEKLY The Express, Beaverton's weekly! paper, owned and operated for the past 5 years by members of the Cave fam- ily, was last week sold to Gordon-E. Smith, of Orillials CFOR. Mr. Smith took over ownership the first of Feb- ruary. NEW HOME DEVELOPMENT ion. The paper, founded by the late J. McEwen Construction Co. J. Cave, father of Harold Cave, form- erly of Uxbridge, has served the people of Beaverton gince 1882. When: Mr. Cave died in 1932, the business was taken over by his son Gordon V. Cave Rv. ree LISTEN TO MICHAEL STARR, M.P,, (PC) who carried on until his sudden death | in Dec. of last year. Since that time his widow, assigted by H. J. Cave, pub- lished the paper. LINDSAY BUS LINE SEEKS * TOWN GRANT Mr. H. V. Johnson, Manager of the | Lindsay Bus Lines, appeared before the Town Council and requested that' a committee of Councillors be formed | to .give consideration to the subsid- | izing the bussess in 1057, = In this connection it ig interesting ta note that according to information received buses seldom pay their way in any town or city, but at the same time they render a service to com- an attempt outside of Canada to get financial backing for these muniecip- al projects, munities which is invaluable, i REPORT FROM A Warder informant stated: "The PARLIAMENT buses are in the red by thousands of at 1,15 p.m, dollars in Toronto. At Barrie the SUNDAY buses are subsidzed generously, In k Orillia ratepayers voted last Decem- over Radio Station ber last to give the bus company a CKLB grant of $6,000 in 1057, At Oshawa OSHAWA the buses are in the red by some $15, 000 and they are quitting opperation in PROGRESSIVE 1957. Buses are giyen grants in King- CONSERVATIVE ston, There is only one hus In oper- ASSOCIATION ation at Brampton." ONTARIO RIDING It may be possible to put the ques- h ' 1 tion of bus subsidy in Lindsay to a a vote of the property owners, STOUFFVILLE APPROVES OF A new residential development in Stouffyille's west end, and comprising 58 new houses, was approved by the council on Tuesday at a special sess- The new sub-division is to be opened up by Cedar Pines Develop- (ment Co. Ltd. and is immediately north "of the new homes built last year by A resolu- tion was read to council from the local Planning Board giving that body's approval to the plan and setting the lots to be retained for park purposes. 1956 Annual Report of Scugog Chapter. Scugog Chapter has had a most suc- cessful year, both financially and so- cially. We have had nine regular and three executive meebings, with the Regent, Mrs. W. T. Harris, presiding at all. ) Money Raising Projects: 2 Mara- thon Bridge Parties; 1 Progressive Bridge Party; Baking Sale; Canada Packers Cooking School; The Annual Christmas Draw, Education Work--Conveners: Woods and Miss E. Harris Murs. 1. This year we increased the value of our Scholarship to $60. It was won by Miss Barbara Heyes for the high- est standing on the completion of two years' work, High School, Grades 0 and 10, : 2, The English prize to a Grade 12 student was won by Miss Ellen War- wick. Each grade in our Public School wis provided with a prize book for the student making the most progress dur- ing the year, 3. LO.D.E. Calendars are provided for the Port Perry Schools and also the rural schools in this district. 4. Five cartons of books and maga- zines were sent to Frontier College. 5. Assistance for our adopted north- ern school---books to the value of $20. ' 6. A donation of $25.00 to the Lucey Morrison Memorial Fund. This pro- vides a scholarship at Provincial level. 7. The Girl Guides, who assist the [.LO.D.E. members with the Tag Day for thie blind, were taken to see the new home of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. There the girls were taken on a conducted tour of this institution. Empire Study--convener, Miss L. M. Harris. All members have thoroughy enjoy- ed and benefitted by the topics Miss Harris has provided for study. Subjects: 1, The New C.N.L.B. build- ing; 2. Maundy money--Queen's birth- day, Herald's College, Canadian Coat- of Arms; 3. Travelogue England & the Continent; 4. Canada's Memorials; & Origin of Christmas customs; 6. Nigeria; 7. Quizz on current events -- using pictures of people concerned; 8. Coloured slides-- Britain and the Con- tinent, . Services at Home and Abroad--con- vener, Mrs. I. R. Bentley, gi 1, A remembrance service at Pine Grove Cemetery in June honouring our servicemen; 2, a wreath was placed at the Memorial Library on Nov, 11; 8. Memorial Bookshelf at the library--a book was presented in memory of Mrs, F. W. Brock; four Chrimstas hampers sent to needy families; -5. Special Ghristmas gifts to an underprivileged girl; 6. clothing and bedding, value $40 Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire sent to LODE. headguarters for em- ergeney or relief work; 7. British and European Relief work, $25; 8. Tag Day for the blind, $220.27; 9. Tag Day for the Port Perry Community Hospital $125.11; 10. new drapes for community room at the library, Miscellaneous: 1. Delegates attended 2 conventions and brought back good reports; 2. In co-operation with the Chamber of Commerce who sponsored the Christ. mas parade, the LO.D.E. entered a float. It was suitably decorated in a red, white and blue motif and carried picture of the Queen and 1.O.D.E. Crest and Standard. From the gen- cral comment this effort was most uccesstul and a great deal of eredit due to Mrs, Haugen who convened he projeet, 3. During: 1956 Scugog Chapter en- tertained and were entertained by the! Viscount Greenwood Chapter, Whitby, and the Susie Sorabje Chapter, of Ux- bridge; 4. Four new members joined the Chapter Mesdames M. 7. Beare, MeNabh, Loweock, Honey. 5. Donations were made to the Girl Guides, Boy Scouts, Women's Auxi- liary of the Iospital, and the Peace Garden Fund. Mis. W. TL Harris, as Regent of Seugog Chapter, has given able and active leadership to our organization, and all members are happy that she will continue during 1957. The LODE. stands for voluntary, patriotic, non-sectarian, non-political, and philanthropic service across Can- ada and in our own community, Seugog Chapter extends thanks to all who have participated in our ef- forts and looks forward to another ac- tive and profitable year. ' Motto "It matters not how long we live, hut how." ry "4 - Fs DANA = 5 or (SCIENCE HAS FOUND THE SHORTEST MEASUREABLE STATE OF T)ME IS, WHEN THE SIGNAL TURNS GR AND THE CAR BEHIND YOU BLOWS ITS HORN. JOHN BALLARD Lumber PORT PERRY Phone 280 Ay Stations tainers, world leaders, "#l CANADA'S SOU From around the world and right around home With contributions from 38 Dominion Network The life stories of industrialists, politicians, enter- EVERY MIGHT NEXT WEEK: ARTHUR GODFREY TELLS HIS STORY 'lof the premium year. By Dr. M. B. Almost every country in the world has found it necessary to introduce Health Insurance in some form. This becomes increasingly more common in today's economy. It has been spoken of in Canada frequently over the past thirty-eight years, having first been mooted by the Late Mr. W. L. Mac- kenzie King in 1919. 'ach Federal Election has seen the matter brought out of storage but little else was done about it. Here in Ontario, before the election of 1955, the Progressive Con- servative Party, and the other two parties promised to introduce Health insurance in some form. A commit- tee of experts was set up by Premier l.. M. Frost, immediately after the election charged with the responsibil- ity of drafting, after much study, plans for a Hospital Insurance scheme for Ontario, This was in itself a formidable task, and after much con- sultation with the Department of Health, at Ottawa, certain definite proposals were presented to the Fed- eral Government and later to the standing Committee of the Ontario Legislature at the session of 1066. At that time these proposals were wide- ly considered and discussed and then publicised in the Ontario press, but several points of difference remained between the proposals of Ottawa and Toronto. Many still questioned the need for such a plan. This question scarcely needs an answer; it is very obvious. The rapid and great advance in Medicine have made hospital ser- vices mare necessary and more ex- pensive, and no one can predict when and to what extent hospital service will be required. If the need of hos. among the population, then "hospital care costs could be hudgeted like food costs. This is quite impossible when We realize that each year about 15% of the population incurs about 90 of the costs. The only feasible way that the great costs of hospital care can be spread over the entire population is by the insurance method. Thus people are able to meet the frequently large and always unpredictable hos- pital care bills that come along. This is a recent development in Can- ada, but that jt is a successful and most acceptable method is evidenced by the rapid growth of the Associa- tions and insurance companies in the field. This voluntary insurance against bills which are often catastro- phic has indeed served a very useful purpose, and many have asked, on these grounds alone, why the govern- ment should get into this business. They cite many undeniable facts which give great weight to their argument, Chief among these, perhaps is the fact that about 69¢; of the population of Ontario, or over 3% million have some degree of protection against the cost of hospital care. This is true and a sound argument, but it must be noted, and emphasized that voluntary plans, good though they may be always and all leave some saps in the coverage that people re- quire. The best among the voluntary schemes are to a very large degree restricted to employee groups during the time of their continuous employ- ment, and even in these the benefits They cover a more or less preferred group. Individual contracts may be secured, but these are carefully screen- ed in the main, and are also subject to tain features. If, for instance an ap- plicant has had some chionic or re- current illnesss prior to buying the 'coverage, the company may refuse to insure against this or any related con- dition. "Then, all of these contracts are subject to termination at the end Furthermore, the effectiveness of the contract js often reduced because of Waiting periods. Such contracts, by their very important, they are not available to a substantial section of our people, who by the status of their health are t "uninsurable group". This has been much in evidence in Ridings such as this; the rural population had been practically overlooked by prepaid schemes till the various Medical Co- Operatives came into the field and be- gan what has grown to be a tremend- ous joh, That it has been well done needs no advertising on my part. Now, as announced in the Speech from the Throne, the government of Ontario has submitted a definite pro- posed plan of hospital care insurance for the people of this Province, It's care, available to every resident of Ontario, including all "In-Patient" dingnostic services, special services, such as Operating room, drugs, dress- ings, anaesthetic materials, delivery room, ete. And it should be noted, all pital sérvices were equally distributed | This Week in the Legislature Dymond, M.I.A, LONG AS THE RECIPIENT IS MEDICALLY IN NEED OF IN HOS. PITAL CARE. Here is the most im- portant point of difference between the voluntary plans and the govern- ment plan; the latter is Universally Available, and is available for as long as the patient needs it, It can never be cancelled by the "Com- pany" as it were, Now it has been readily admitted by insurance com- panies that they could not possibly af- ford to provide such coverage at a price within the reach of the popula- tion. The plan is to be compulsory at the outset for all employee and payroll de- duction groups, and as the administra- tive machinery is set up it will be compulsory for all the people of the Province, low quickly groups such as the Co-Operatives can be integrated will depend. again on administration, but it is hoped that this will move along smoothly as soon as the scheme comes into being. Some points of dif- ference between the two governments still remain to be worked out, but jt is expected these will be cleared up and and that the plan will be brought into operation soon. It has been suggested that January 1959 is the likely date for beginning operation but this date may possibly be advance and the plan begin before then, It has been called, inadequate, only half a loaf, ete., but it is a beginning and if placed on a sound foundation it can he expanded as time and experience indicates, Of Many Things By Ambrose Hills sponsored LOVE, LAW AND ADVERTISING A Vancouver lawyer is quoted as attacking advertising with this argu- - ment: "The object of advertising," he said, "is not to operate in the public interest. It is to sell the goods of the manufacturer who pays the bills. The advertising salesman preys upon whatever frailtics of human nature are most likely to induce sules--pride, vanity, fear of personal shortcomings and sexual curiosity." Well, now, that is a good example of one of the most subtle arts of ar- gument ---. the piling of truth upon truth to get an answer that is alto- gether false! True, there's probably net an advertising man alive whose sole purpose from 9 a.m. to § p.m, is the good of his fellow men. His ob- ject is to benefit himself. Same with the manufacturer, In fact, you could search the country for a long time be- fore you-found a man or woman--and this includes lawyers--whose motives ave always free of self-interest. What the lawyer overlooked was that all these self-seeking people -- even lawyers--really do operate in the public interest. However self-soek- ing a manufacturer might be, however strong his dislike for his fellow-creat- ures, he must still face the fact that if he's to prosper he must give people something they want, thereby making them happier. This _is one of the crosses that misanthropic manufact- | have a definite time limit on them, nature, expensive, but what is more | urers and advertising people must bear. As for pride and vanity, there are different ways .of looking at these. : I'll bet that the same Vancouver law- ver keeps a reasonably sharp crease 1. . in his pants, because they look better time limits as well as waivers of cer- | on him that way. Vanity? Or per- haps it is because pressed trousers are essential to success in law--as they usually are, ' Even the Vancouver lawyer who argues so persuasively against adver- tising can hardly expect us to believe that he keeps his trousers pressed in the public interest! As for fear of personal shortecom- ings and sexual curiosity, I think that in spite of the Vancouver lawyer and in spite of advertising, most indivi- duals hit their own stride in this field and IT won't enter that argument, The fact is that advertising is all provisions are wide; Standard Ward! these services are provided FOR AS| iciple of producing and e goods and services want. Advertising helps create "Tull employment, profits, a higher standard of living, a lot of general prosperity, and leaves a high degree of personal freedom. It is persuasive rather than compulsory. Socialists don't believe in it, and law- vers seldom use it. Socialists count- istributin vers' fees are not considered to be bargains, Show mé a town where the trades- men don't advertise and I'll show you a backward, run-down town that'll get smaller and less attractive as the years. go by, Show me a town where | the tradesmen do advertise and 111 1 wager fts streets are neat and busy land prosperous, "Which town best serves the public interest? BEN Re : AACR AE : ad . pty = ries are seldom prosperous and law-