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4 EL) THE STAR EDITORIAL PAGE Faas FORAY YRS RT Sp HE ah SRY A ig t AAT £3 "a vy LAT, ty Hk SD Se td, Fh NN a EE TE Sa Sa FAA EC AGAR UY HSE SH EM BS Ar A a he NE CRRA Thursday, May 12th, 1960 Notes and Comments Men at Work The Federal parliament has done so little and so-mueh-remains to be done that it now looks as though the members will have to sit through the sweltering days of July and perhaps, some time in August. It isn't that there really was so much work to do but rather parliament wastes 80 much time and is so inefficient in handling business that very little of what must be done gets done. That is why at the beginning of the session the Prime Minister asked that a committee be set up to stream-line par: liament procedure. But the committee hasn't met yet--hasn't even been chosen. How does parliament. manage' to waste 80 much time? Well, the rules of procedure were de- signed in. the days when government did a 'lot less governing than it does now. The . rules haven't been changed and so far no working agreements have been made be- tween the government and its opposition to limit debate as has been done in the British House of Commons. Therefore much time is wasted on the debate on the Throne Speech -- much if not most of it repetitious; much: time is wasted too on the Budget Speech -- most of it repetitious, too. And the motion to 'No Peace Policy - On the eve of the Summit Conference. between the leaders: of the East and West * an American reconnaisance plane was shot down by the Soviets. Premier Khrushchev quickly reacted with a fiery speech to his people lashing out at the Americans as war bandits. The explanations made by the American State Department are weak and unacceptable. There is no excuse for this kind of blundering when the stakes are so high. We have been led to believe that the Americans want peace and that they are prepared to give leadership to the world in:this endeavour. Then, just as the climate for a rappoachment with the East appears favourable there are two in- Siaonts of border violation by American planes. : As far as the facts can at this moment be determined the plane was definitely on a spying mission. Apparently there is as Khrushchev-maintains, a band of generals in Washington who are determined to sabotage peace trends. ; American allies and the members of NATO have expressed this latest blunder iy go into supply provides six other occasions in one term for the House to rehash the rehashed. The waste and inefficiency doesn't stop with the actual procedures of the members in the house either. The frustration and the feeling of the lack of direction suffered by many of the members is carrying over into committee work also. The committee investigating the toll charges on the Jacques Cartier bridge is a good example of how bad the work of a committee can be. Composed of 60 mem- bers, the work has been held up because on two occasions they couldn't even resur- rect a quorum of fifteen. When the de- linquent members do put in an appearance they ask irrelevant question or questions which have already been dealt with in their absence and the whole thing is bogged down in a fine state of muddled confusion. - Democracy doesn't have to be inefficient. Inefficiency stems from a failure to apply intelligence to the problems that cry out for solution. As long as parliament re- fuses to face these problems one can hard- ly expect anything to be done about them. Parliament will go on wasting time and committees will go on losing their : direction. by the American army as inexcusable. And certainly its seems to be just that. The truth of the matter is that the U.S. has no creative policy for peace. It may be that she does not fundamentally believe that peace is possible with the Soviets. If so, then she has no right to so mislead the peoples of the world with her peace propaganda. . The one man in America who can ap- parently straighten out the present mess is President Eisenhower. So far he has not been implicated in the latest blunder of the military. Perhaps their action may prove to be the very spur he needs to break with those who tend to look upon war with the Soviet as inevitable. To us who must go along with the United States the whole affair leaves us with a kind of bitter rage that such stupid things should happen. We are upset that the fate of mankind may rest with some irresponsible and high placed army officers who are not above gambling with such crazy odds in such a hopeless game. TO EXPAND GREENWOOD District Doings "CISCO KID" TO HEADLINE LINDSAY FAIR Directors of the Lindsay Central Exhibition have closed a contract with the famous Cisco Kid Company for a big three day show at the: Lindsay Fair next September. Performances in front of the grandstand: will take place on Thursday, Friday and Satur- day, two performances daily. Manager N. G. Wilson states that the venture is one of the biggest un- dertakings of the Fair Board ever con- tracted for. "We had consideraable trouble arranging dates and other matters in connection with this attrac- tion, but matters have finally been completed. This should prove to be an exceptionally strong.attraction--a real headline." THIEVES FAIL TO CRACK VAULT AT ORONO CO-OP During last Sunday night, or in the early hour of Monday morning, there was a break-in. andi attempted safe robbery at the Durham Farmers County Co-Op, near Orono. Although a quantity of electrical appliances and some tools were stolen the thieves were unsuccessful in their attempt to open the vault. The assistant manager of the Co- op, found that there had been a break- in when he arrived at the building at 8.10 a.m. on Monday,' He immediately phoned to the Bowmanville 'Detach: ment of the Ontario Provincial Police. Constable Francis Dryden, OPP; is making the investigation. . CONSERVATION® AREA Plans to enlarge three of the Con< servation areas: administered by Metropolitan Toronto and. Region Conservation Authority were approv. ed revently by the 63-members Auth- ority., The projects would comprise an ad- .Ontario government would be asked to contribute financially to the union. area north of Bolton; 150 acres for the Boyd area near Woodbridge, and 30 acres near the Greenwood area near Pickering. The Ontario Government will be asked to contribute 60% of the cost of acquiring the lands. The Authority at its meeting in Leaside Municipal chambers also ap- proved a plan for the acquisition and development of some 40 acres of flood plain land in the valley at Rouge River at Finch Avenue in Scarborough. The pay half the cost of the scheme. STRIKE AT DOWTY IN AJAX FIRST IN COMMUNITY Employees of Dowty Equipment of Canada Ltd. in Ajax went on strike at 7.00 a.m. May 9. Pickets armed with "On Strike" placards walked quietly back and forth in -the rain at plant entrances. No one was being stopped. As one picket put it: "We just asked the boys to honour our picket line. It will be peaceful and most of them are doing what we asw". > Two police constables sat nearby in their cruisers in case they were need- A0'MEN: REPORT At 9 a.m, company officials report ed that 40 out of 60 men in the In' the machine shops 10 men out of 80 were at 'work. : ~ The union, the International Asso- ciation of Machinists, opened negotia- tions eight months ago for an increase in wages and compulsory check-off. In all the talks the company was dead against the check-off. It main. tained that each employee had the right to decide if he wanted to join or As time wore on the wage issue faded in significance in' the minds of union mémbers and their efforts were concentrated on the check-off issue. That is the issue today. The company has offered a five~cent increase but no check-off. The men want the check-off and the wage issue ditional five acres for the Albion Hills marine division had reported for work. | The question is how long the strike will last. One picket said: "God alone knows but we will stick it out. This is the first strike in the history of this new industrial town. It is the first strike in the history of the Dowty group of companies. The par- ent company is at Cheltenham, Eng- land, and there are more than 30 companies in the group scattered through the Commonwealth, W. J. LAWSON PRESIDENT OF LIBERAL ASSOCIATION - William Lawson, of Pickering, Twp., a former reeve and a former Liberal candidate, was elected president of the Ontario Liberal Association. He and other members of the executive were elected at the association's. annual meeting in the Whitby Arena audi- torium. Two honour vice-presidents were were elected. They are John Lay, of Pickering and George Drynan, of Osh- awa, both former Liberal candidates. Four vice-presidents were elected. They were Mrs. Everett. Warne, of Oshawa; John Raniel-Jenkins, Rouge Hill, Roger Conant of Ajax; and Earl Downswell, reeve of Uxbridge Town- ship. John Cameron, of Oshawa, were re- elected secretary-treasurer, In his first speech to the association following "his election to the presid- ency, Williaam Lawson saiid that fell short of Mr. Dyer's requisites, "I have only one, the interest of the liberal party at heart. I am not the person described by Mr, Dyer and I hope that such a person will come along, Until he does, I will be pleased to serve." INFRACTION OF DOG BY.LAW COSTLY BUSINESS IN LINDSAY Ths, Madill, Margaret avenue was guilty to a charge of allowing his dog 'to run at large, He was found guilty and besides paying a fine of $10.00 he also had to pay costs of $19.00. is secondary. hailed into court when he pleaded not 0fMany Things IS COMMUNISM A DEAD ISSUE? On a trip through the USA my wife and I tried to get Americans talking politics with us so we could find out what the average man down there is thinking. 'What startled us was this: virtually every American we talked with f{s worried about the inroads the com- munists have made during the past five or six years. They seem to have wormed their way into positions of importance in scores of organizations. Wherever there is a trouble spot, they are there to aggravate it and to frustrate a solution. "They are smart", one old fellow told us. "You see, when MoCarthy- ism became sort of bad medicine, the people got the idea that anybody who pointed out communist influence was being a witch hunter, or something. So they started to keep mum. That's given the commies a real chance to burrow right in, But they've over- played their hands a bit and now people are catching on. I'd say that most Americans right now have a sharp eye for spotting the old com- munist line that tries to belittle all the things that have built up the States." : Americans are growing more and more sensitive about criticism. When a restaurant owner asked me how 1 liked the States, I told him I was fond of it but disappointed that so few people knew where Winnipeg is, or anything much about Canada. Ho jumped right back at me. "If we know too much about a country, peo- ple think we've got designs on it; if we don't know about it, they say we're ignorant. We've given away great fortunes every year to other count- ries to try to help them. Lord, we don't want to do anything but build up our own country. We've accepted people in here from all over the world, made it easy for them to come here, and made them welcome. We have no desings on other countries. But the Russians have said openly they have designs on us . . .they don't make any bones about it. We've made something out of this country and we want to keep it that way--if the rest of the world would just leave us alone. It seems to be a world-wide pastime --yakking at us!" Back home, I've been thinking over these and other comments from Americans, and wondering, too, why This has been a very wet week-end; but in spite of the weather and the flooded causeway, many families found their way to their Island Sum- mer Home. The Scugog Church was filled on Sunday. The Sacrament of Infant Baptism was celebrated, and the following were presented for bap- tism:-- Rhonda Yvonne daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Ronald Edgar; Ian Cam- eron, son of Mr, and Mrs, Donald Ash- bridge; Kathryn Allene, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Kane; Elizabeth Catherine, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. James Wilson; Valarie Gayle, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. James McQuinn; and Sharon Marlene daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Robert Bruce. The Theme for the day was "The Family as a Christian Community". The Junior Choir sang "Good-Morrow" under the leadership of Florence Fralick. Joan Aldred gave the Addres "God setteth the solitary in families". The whole Service was prepared by the Ontario Council of Christian 'Education. Our congregation at Manchester was not very large. The families west of the Highway were not able to attend, because the roads are in a bad way owing to the rain. The roads in the Manchester - Prospect area have been very bad this year. The following children were presented for baptism:-- Frank Allan, son of Mr, and Mrs. Franklin Leach; Donna Louise, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Keith Dyke, and Janice Yvonne, dau. ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gibson. Wesley Johnston gave the Message, "God setteth the solitary in families." We missed so many of the children who were not able to attend. The Allan Craig family was selected to represent a Church family--Mr. Craig gave the prayer, Mrs. Craig read the Scripture, Wayne and John took up the Offering. Many thanks to you one and all. The Church at Prospect was filled. There was a very fine Junior Choir under the leadership of Mrs. Ross mony, "The Lord is my shepherd". Thanks Mrs, Sandison for being our organist for the day. We did miss you Roxy Webster, and do hope that you are feeling better. The follow- ing children gave the Message "God setteth the solitary in families". Bar- bara and Billy Holtby, Margaret Ver- non, Linda and Sharon Painter, Ken. neth and David Webster and Billy Diamond. Thanks boys and girls for a very fine message. The following children were presented for baptism: Gloria Dianne, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Melville Lambe; David Wade, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fernand Filion; and James Martin, son of Mr, & Mrs. John Phillips. George Smith and Gordon Vernon took up the Offering. The Brownies are arriving for their meeting (Monday). There is a regu- lar lake across the road from the Church, and it might be that some of our side roads will be very soft. The waters on the Causeway are rising again; but up to noon today there wasn't any danger. We had to can- cel "Guides" as the water in the Church basement made it impossible. The Scouts were not able to meet but will do 80 on Thursday evening in the Manchester Church. On Thursday evening Mr. G. Brady of St. John's Brigade, Oshawa, will teach the boys Artificial Respiration. On the week- end of May 21, 22, 23 the Scouts will have their first Camp. We are wait- ing for the weather to settle, and then we will plan for a joint meeting of all the Cubs. On Wednesday evening of this week there will be a meeting of Scugog Con- gregation. The Sector Plan will be presented for their endorsement, so that the Stewards may go ahead with their arrangements. Scugog "Grace" W.A. will meet in the Church on Thursday afternoon, when Catherine Martyn will be the Guest Speaker; and Edna Beckett will give selections on the piano. All the Ladies are in- vited to attend. And then on Thurs- day evening the Choir will meet at Sandison. The children sang in har-|the Church for practise. It won't be District Churches Scugog, Manchester and Prospect very long before the Centennary An- niversary. We would like very much to have a number from the "Head" come and help with the music. The pieces have been selected, and we have yet time to practice. All the Young People in the Port Perry Area are invited to go Bowling this Friday at 7.00 p.m. sharp at the Oshawa Bowling Alleys near to the Shopping Centre. This will be an evening of fun, and we hope that there will be a goodly number pre- sent. This is under the auspices of the District Youth Council. Please keep in mind Prospect Bazaar which will be held in the Church Basement next week Wednesday in the after- noon. The many friends of Carol Fralick will be glad to hear that Carol took her first lesson in walking today (Monday). There is a long, hard road ahead yet, but all things are possible to those who believe in Christ. We do hope Marion Web- ster, that your operation was success. ful, and that you will now have better health. Happy birthdays to Darlene Warren, Billy Reader, Brenda Goose of the Island; to Patricia Woodcock and Billy Aird of Manchester; and to Roberta Diamond, Wilkie Webster and Harvey Dearborn of Prospect. Our prayers go out on behalf of all who are shut in, and to all who are burdened with care and anxiety. Come and worship with us on Sunday. The Minister will continue the Series on The Book of Acts. (Tuesday Noon) We have about 2 inches of water in the Basement of the Church, and Clarence Carter has brought his tractor and pump and is busy pumping out the water. The same is true of the Basement of the Parsonage. The water on the Cause- way are as high as they ever were. This is all the more reason why we should have a new highway this year, as this is our only means of trans- portation on and off the Island. Hun- dreds of dollars have been spent on car repairs. cation Building was held at 8 p.m. Sunday. Rev. J. E. Griffith, B.A, of Dunsford, who was pastor in Black- stock at the time of Union, 1925, con- ducted the first part of the service. we hear so little about communism | in Canada these days. Is it really such a dead issue? Or are.we, too,! afraid of being called witch hunters? Rlackstock | There were thirty-four women at' the Women's Institute Meeting held at the home of Mrs. Neil Malcolm on Wednesday evening. After the open- ing exercises, sec'y read minutes of last meeting and also of the Execu- tive meeting held at the home of the President, Mrs. E. Larmer. Business discussed was the bus trip for July and care of park. A letter was read from a resident of Golden Plough Lodge thanking the Institute for re- membering him on his 87th birthday. Treasurer reported proceeds of ba- zaar. Roll call "Cure for the Blues" was well answered, many recommend- fing work. The Motto, "God gives to each of us the ingredients for happi- ness, we must do the blending" was replied to by Mrs, I. Thompson. No past event can upset our future un- less we let it. Mrs. Jean Cook, Oshawa, delighted all with two lovely solos, 'Little Irish Girl' and "You'll Never Walk Alone". Mrs, Waddington of the Children's Aid Society gave a splendid talk on their work and told the story of one family which was typical of their work. Mrs. Ralph Larmer conducted two good contests, Mrs. Stanford Van Camp gave current-events, Mrs. McArthur, group leader, thank- ed all who _had helped with the pro- gram and also the hostess, . After "The Queen" a buffet luncheon was enjoyed. Even though it teemed rain all day Sunday there were very good atten- dances at all services in the United Church. . -At the 10 a.m. service the sacra- ment of Baptism was administered to Beverley Ann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Don Sinclair and (Roy Frederick, gon of Mr. and Mrs; Fred Cowling. The special Family Week program was observed in Sunday School at 11 a.m. Miss Helen VanCamp, Osh- awa told the story, "Phyllis and the Baby Monarch." : The Official opening and Dedica- tion service of the new Christian Edu- The ladies choir sang the Anthem "I will Extol Thee". Rev. P. Rom- eril gave the Welcome and Thanks. Mr. John Carnoghan, Treasurer of Building Committee presented the Fi- nancial statement. The Junior Choir sang "Children of Jerusalem". Rev. M. C. Fisher, B.A., Newcastle, Presi- dent of Bay of Quinte Conference de- livered a fine Mothers and. Family Day sermon, taking as his subject, Jesus the Good Shepherd and stress- ing the need of parents, teachers and church leaders as Shepherds. Mr. Wallace Marlow, chairman of the Building committee presented the keys of new building to Rev. Fisher who accepted them on behalf of the United Church of Canada and deliver- ed them to Mr. Earl Dorrell, Clerk of the Session. At this point the Clerk and Sun- day School Superintendant Mr. Ralph Larmer, led the Junior and Senior choirs, followed by the President and ministers, then the congregation in orderly procession down through the old Sunday School room into the new room where the Dedication service "was led by Rev. Fisher, After the closing, light refresh- ments were served by the ladies of W.A.,, and friends had the opportun- ity of a little visit with those who had come some distance. Among the visitors at the dedica- tion service were:--Mr, and Mrs. Ed- gar Emmerson, Peterboro; Miss Gwenith Griffith, Hamilton; Mrs. Eva Herron, Willowdale; Mrs. H. Hawkin, Port Perry; Mr. and Mrs. Ewart Leask and family and Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Yellowlees and family, Solina; Mr. and Mrs, Mervin Mount- joy, Hampton; Mr. and Mrs, Warner Brown and Larry, Oshawa; Mrs. Nor- man Malcolm; Mrs. Bert Smith; Dr. D. Bilbey; Miss Pearl Wright; Miss Mable VanCamp; Miss Gertrude Hen- ry, all of Toronto; Mrs. Elmer Ar- cher and Miss Marilyn, Whitby; Miss Doreen VanCamp, Cobden; Miss Hel- en VanCamp, Oshawa; Mr, and Mrs. Milton Fisher, Caesarea; Messrs, Os- car McQuade and Edgar Gibson, Cad- mus. We are looking forward to hearing Miss Mable VanCamp speak and see- ing pictures which Miss Doris Mar- low and Mrs. John Carnaghan took on their trip to Bermuda, in the Com- munity Hall Sat. evening, May 14th. Mrs. Robt. Ford has returned to her home in the village after spend- ing the winter in Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. Norman McNally, Col- borne spent a couple of days with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wright and other friends. Mrs. Cecil Hill attended the Ont- ario Women's Institute Officers Con- ference in Guelph Wednesday - Fri- day and spent Friday night with Mr. and Mrs. Grant Ferguson and fa- mily, Toronto. (Continued on Page 8) a __ Anglican Notes by MARY BECKER A spring rummage sale and tea will be held this Saturday, May 14, by the Evening Guild. This event, to take place in the Church Hall at 2.30, will algo include a table of home baking. Mrs. Morrow opened her home to the members of the Evening Guild on Monday last for their regular meeting. After the opening prayer, the minutes of the last meeting were read, and the treasurer gave her report. Plans were made for the coming rummage sale and also preliminary plans for the re- ception to follow the Confirmation on May 22nd. Members were remind- ed to bring their rummage to the Parish Hall on Friday night of this week, when the tables will be set up for the sale. The date for the closing party was get as June 1st, (Wednesday). , It was decided to hold the next meeting Wednesday, May 18th at the home of Mrs. Boothman. Refresh- ments were served by Mrs. Morrow and Mrs. Rennie, : There will be a meeting of the Sun- day School Teachers' group tonight at 8 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Sonley. Plans for next year's staff and classes will be an important item of discus- sion. Several new teachers will be needed for the fall and anyone inter- ested in this important work is urged to contact the Rector or any of the teachers, as soon as possible. A few opportunities for observing a class in action might then be arranged before the end of the present session, Our young people will be busy this week-end. On Monday, May 16th, at 17.30, our new Anglican Young Peoples group (high school and older) will meet in the church hall to hold election for an executive. It is hoped that all our teens will make a real effort to attend. Tomorrow night (Friday, May 13th), the District Youth Council is holding a Bowling Party at the bowl- ing alley in the new shopping centre in Oshawa at 7 p.m. An evening of fun for all area young people is planned. The members of our Girls' Auxiliary will be attending a Diocesan festical in Toronto on Saturday, May 14th at the Anglican Diocesan Centre. Three of the girls have entered dresses they made themselves for the fashion con- test. All the girls will be sporting their newly won badges, and some their newly-won nursing badges, and -}.some their cooking badges, on their uniforms. G. A. girls are reminded that there will be a meeting this Fri- day after school for their last miuute instructions. A closing meeting for the term will be planned in a week or two. The ladies' club recently held a sue- cessful euchre, and they are planning another evening of that popular game on Thursday, May 19th at the church hall. The Bishop asks for our prayers for the 25 young men to be ordained as Deacons and Priests in our Anglican Communion this Sunday at St. James' Cathedral. Also Tecently graduated in Toronto were 21 girls who com- pleted the course at the Anglican Women's Training College. Of these, two will serve overseas and the others in many aspects of church work in Canada, including work in the Arctic and among the Indians. Mrs. G. H. Watts of Toronto was elected president of the Toronto Dio- cesan Board of the W.A. at the closing session of the recent W.A. annual meetings. Earlier, a cheque had been presented as a gift to Mrs. Schuyler Snively, retiring president, Bishop H. R. Hunt addressed the closing ses- sion. The Church of the Ascension W.A. met on Tuesday afternoon at the hon. of Mrs. Clarke. cluded next week. On Tuesday even ing, the Board of Management met to decide the future of our nev church building. We hope to have a detailed report on this for next week also. Our thoughts and prayers are with those who are sick, especially Mrs. Dagenais and Mr, Wilkinson. RENEW YOUR MAGAZINES through The Port Perry Star. " A report will be in-