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?~ CNAnAW Mr-API!fUAwUt, A*TLMU Current and r Con fidentiail By Elie Carruther Lunney YOUNG MAN FROM QUEBEC Simth'a Luncheon last week 'vas a good ane. The two ubeakers, Roger Lemelin o! Quebec and Lionel Shapiro o! Montreal wene in definite con-1 tÎnat. )&. 'Lemelin whosd- Plouffe Famlly by way of TV has beeome veny popular andi well known, seemed ta wishi »~ treat the wbole affair, the * luncheon, bis speecji, bis writ- ing cancer and thc feelings o! ltsaudience, as a jake. This is not perhaps anc o! the * mast flattenlng attitudes to as- aune, or revéal, ta several hu4ndred people who bave came because tbey have a i-cal inter- eSt In a wnlten and bis work. Also if Mr. Lenein set out Io shack his audience with bis choiee'ai expressions, wc think hé succeeded in fairly good rneasure. Posibly Mi-. Lemelin ia stll young enough ta get a real bang out o! this, but the wisdom aof it is rather dloubtful: Bis television reputation wil probably nat suffer in Ontario, uùt as he was a representative writer o! French Canada at the luncheon, the e!fect which he chose ta create was unfortun- ate, we fclt. Leaving that aspect, Mr. Iemlin has been very success- fui In bis own province and ;n ?rance, bis first novel "The Town Belaw", winning Que- lbec's Prix David, and a French Acactemy award. Unlike most writei-s, bc went from novel writlng ta neporting, and losing his job as a reporter, he dlaims lie was farced inta TV writing. This was with "The Plouffe FPamlly" wbich was on Quebec radio and TV for some tme ýei are it bad an English ver- lion- That it is popular bei-c was attested ta by chairman o! the meeting, Mr-. Ira Dilworth, di- recton $or- Ontariao!fthe CBC. Wben It bad ta be cancclled ane .vening, the station rcceivéd 108 calls. Mr. Lcmlin said that the pragramn was so popular in Quebec whjere it appeaus on Wednesday night. that no anc gaes ta church that night. This was one of Mr. Lemclin's sup- ipasedly tongue-in-cheek state- ments. Seriously, he said ta rconclude, he deplored that Il Quebcc did flot get English shows, ta interpret the English (meaning English - speaking Canada) ta, Quebec. MR. SHAPIRO AND~ THE WIDE VIEIV Mi-. Lionel Shapiro, whosc lafcst novel, "The Sixth o! June", is a Book-of-the-Month choice, seemed very much the type o! persan we expccted fi-rmrcading this book and also an carlier novel, "The Sealed Verdict". "The Sixth oif June" particuiarly' contains sanie very fine, sensitive and vivid writing. It reveals that the author is a keen observer, and also that he has sympathy and understanding. Mi-. Shapiro's speech cari-o- borated these impressions and showed beside that he has a very sensible and matter-o[- fact view o! his own succcss. He neither discounts it, fiai is lie carried away by it. Reviews of his book, he said, a!fected hlm like a ride on a i-ll2r coaster at fi-st. The highiy fa- vorable ones like the Baitimore Sun which compared hlm with Hemingway, caused bu ta ride high for a day or two. Then he wouid be dashed by anc like the New York Post which said it was a stock plot and banal. Hc lcarned ta take them al with a grain o! salt. Beat Compliment The reaction however, which dclighted him most, was that "The Sixtb o! June" must be autobiographical. This is anc o! the bcst compliments an au- thor can receive, he said. "The VIGOR ~6 VIGOU STANDARD GASOLINE VIGOR H IGH TEST GASOLINE 3 ~9ç 3810 11 56 PO lsA - - lmomJi 011. Gal. Tax Ine. Gal. l'ai Ine. Sixth of June" is flotý autobia- graphical, he stated, exeti the sense that in 1952 heben ta feel a nostalgia for events of the war, to feel an ernotion for it which he did flot feel at the time. He knew that the only way to capture and keep this emotion was -ta write it and live it again. In this ane re.1- pect the book is autobiographi- cal. One realizes, nevertheless, ip reading this book, that it îs written by a man wha was very close ta the war and the men who were in it, bath on the staff side and the fighting units. Mr. Shapiro was a war correspondelit, and the book is ao vividly written, the charac- ters so real, that he must have absorbed a gaod deal in his ex- periences in this capacity. Mr-. Shapiro did flot say sa, but wc read in a letter ta the editor in Maclean's magazine that he wangled a place an anc of the~ invasion craft landing on French beaches an D-Day. H s' realistic description of the as- sault made by anc small unit which brings the book toa smashing climax, would cer- tainly seem ta bear this out. Mr. Shapiro did flot kecp a diary while he was in Englandi. he said, nor did he have a gaad memary. But when he began ta write the book, a flood of memories came back that he hardly realized he had. We understand the book bas been bought by Hollywood - it should make a fine mnovie. 50-Yard Line Mr-. Slîapiro repeated his belie!, stated in thi- Maclcan's article, that a Canadian book is one written' by a person o! Canadian education and up- bringing, rather than anc ne- cessarihy written about Can- ada. But he conceided that there wvas much ta be said on bath sides. He feels that Can- ada is in an ideal position-he describcd it as being on thc 50 yard liue between United States and England. Canada can observe bath, and she un- derstands bath, ýat least in greater measure than they un- derstand each other. A Cana- dian writer can write realistic- ally about bath. One feels that Mi-. Shapiro has donc thîs ad- mirably in his own book. His Americans andi Englishmen talk and act naturaily. They are not stock figures, they live. I conclusion, Mr. Slîapiro said, "Wiitiflg is, 'ai- should be, the highest foi-m a! undcrstand- ing. A novel is as wide or as narrow as those who write it." We had a very intcresting- talk with Miss Blodwen Davies. author o! "Gaspe" and qther books on Quebec. at the i-e- ception priai- ta the luncheon. We'lh tell you about it next week. The whole affair was a most enjoyable anc foi- the cdi- tor's wife, Ni-s. Gea. W. James, and mysel!. C.G.I.T. k, HoId Vesper Service Ai Trinity The annual Christmas can- dlc-lighting and vesper serviçe of the C.G.I.T. for Oshawa Presbytery will be held in Trinity United Church an thc evening of Dec. il. This isj part o!. a nation-wide rededica- tion ceremony for the C.G.I.T. movement across Canada. The service will be canduct- cd by the girls, dressed in their C.G.I.T. unifornis. Familiar Christmas carols will be sung and special mueic will be pro-* vided by the choir. This love- ]y Christmas service is always a highlight o! thc ycar. Every- one is cordially invited ta at- tend. Representative Required PART OR FULL TIME Cailing on Industrial and LCommercial accounts, to pre- sent ncvolutionary line of Safety Apparel, etc. Prefer personnel wlth connections. Interview Arranged Teritory Open Boi 57e r e e ldOtrioe Boxe 57, eiel- WOnta Co. Dr-. A. 1. IWilson) Christmas shopping bas not rcally got inta bîgh gear yet. One o! these days it will really, bappen. Men ail o! a sudden will rcn>cmber that they bave donc nothing towards Christ- mas. The women folk wbo have been planning a long time ahead, and ai-e metbodically drawing up thei- list will i-al- ly go ta town. Then the pio-h lem will arise, what ta do with1 the things that have been bought until the great day dawns. In- any home there, o.f course, ai-c littie nooks and cor- ners which can be pressed inl service. If these prove 'too9 snîall the-e are always the1 neighbours. The Scrooges among us wvil not be too happy about ahl this. They laoon 1 it as anothc-r method o! prying money out Ot their. pocket books. It is all toa commercialized they will saY; there is too much high pressure advertlsing and anyway peaple only give because others, are glving. Now, there may be some truth in this, but what would a mere man do about getting, ready for Christmas were it not for the advertisements. A popular pastinie these days is watch the mere man scanning the newspapers, and nat always the funnies and the sporting page but the ladies' wcar and tollet advertisements as well. It is alright. How is a man ta know otherwise. When the Scrooges in oui- midst tell us that the whola celebration o! Christmas is an unhealthy custom, cach perso!ai giving pr7esents because others arc doing it, thcy may hava somnething. There is no doubt wc are ail movcd ta action by convention and custorn. We have ta keep in the swim or drown. We have a sneaking suspicion though, that many of Rotar y WiI Entertain Foreign U.of T. Students Durîng Weekend Here t Arra ngements for entertain- iing some 15 students from, for- ceign countries attending tha University of Toronto during the weekend of December 9-11 were announced ta the Bow- manville Rotary Club at the regular meeting Friday by Ro- tai-ian Keith Siemon, Chair- mian of the International Ser- vice Cominittee. He reported that six *o! the students would be able ta at- tend a banquet in their honor held by the club- at the Lions LCommunity Centre an Friday evening, December 9. The re- mainder will be coming ta tawn on Saturday, and ail w ill be guests at the homes of va- ious Rotary members for the weckend. He asked the mem- bers acting as hasts ta write personal invitations ta the-stu- dents who would be theïr guests. The Rotary wives are arrang- ing .a tea for the students on Sunýday afternoon at the Trin- ity Unitcd Church S1unday Schaol Rooni, Dr. Slemon said, and the Rotarians, their wives and aider childi-en are invite-I ta attend this event and meet them. The Rotary Anns are alsa invited taO the banquet on Fri- day night. Local Club Sets Precedent Rotai-ian T. Arthur Morgan, who is assisting in making ar- rangements for the visit, point- ed out that the Bowmanvillc. Rotary Club is the first club outside Toronto ta arrange for the visit by foreign students on a large scale. He outlineà some of the difficulties involv- cd due ta confliets with class- es and other events at the Un- iversity, and urged members ta a-void giving the students any impression of being "on dis- play". He pointed out that the event is designed ta improve international fricndships and understanding and asked the Rotarians ta continue anv fricndships that may be form- cd with the students during the wcekcnd. Thrce guests; Rotarians e Markle, Ted Shreve and Mer- vin Cryderman of the Oshawa Club, were welcomed ta the meeting by President Keith Jackson. He also made a birth- day presentatian ta Rotai-ian Mel Staples. Attendance Chairman Bruno Miller prescnted a nine-year perfect attendance pin ta Ro- tarian Bill Rudeil and a fiv,- year pin tu Rotai-ian Bob Stev'- ens. T. F. B. Walker, an invest- ment counselor with the To- ronto firm of R. H. Daly & Company, gave an informative address on "Investmcnts and Savings". He pointed out that wîoe investmnent of a portion A! çsavings is anc way in which the individual may share in the growth and develapment o! Canada. Mr-. WalJ<er outiined the var- jous types of bonds and stocks which may be purchased -by the general public, ranging tram Government of Canadq .Bonds and Canada Savings Bonds down ta common stock o! variaus industrial and min- ing firms. He pointed out thal as a gencral rule, the sounder the bond or stock is. the low- er the rate o! return. Thus gov- ernmnent bonds pay the lowest interest as a rule while prefer- reçi shares of saine private companies bring the highest di- vidcnds. Common shares o! some newly-formed campanies aften pay high returns but are somewhat- speculative in i.- ture, 'and may rcsult in lasses as well. Take Long-Range View T'hcspeakcr statcd that long.j -range appreciation and sEcu( ity tshould be the primai-y Cn cern ipurchasing bondE, anl stacks and for this reasan the boîd-holde'. should nat be un- duly concerned aver short- range fluctuations providing he firm is sound. He was introduced by Rotai- ia George Hacking. and *thank- ed for his addrcss by Rotarian George MoodNy. The winning tickets in the Rotai-y hockey draw for De- cember 3 werc won by Tom Rehder, and for Decembei- 7 by George Vice. The I'thought for the week" left witlî the Rotarians by Pi-e- sident Jackson wvas: "The man who is wai-thy of being a lead- er wilh neyer complain o! the stupidity o! his helpei-É, o! the ingratitude o! mankind, fiai-oo the inappreciation o! the pub- lic. Tliese thîngs are ail a part of the game o! life and ta mect theni and flot go cjown in dis- couragement or defeat is the final proaf o! power". it f i,ýJ tilet loi. -~ NEW Thunderbîrd styling ~ NEW Thunderbird Y-8 power NEW Lifeguard design (Cerain fee#oM fti,.jfro!ed.or mumddauéI s .msd< wd, enug i~4c CAR VETH- Showrc Mr. and Mns. Ansan Taylor and training at Oshawa Hospit3I; Mrs. J. Farder, with Mr-. and and Mr. and Mrs. Orvas Jleml- Mrs GanetMurayandgirsson, Brooklin, with Mr. and Mrs.Gainet urry an gilZirs. Neil Malcalm and Gordie. Part Credît. Mr. and Mrs. Austin Beacock Miss Lais Harris, Miss Anne wcre in Toronto, with the Johi Goodwin, Braoklin, nurse-in-I News faniily for the weekend. thase wbo camplain about bav- ing to baw te- convention just want ta get out fi-rn under the responslbllity of daing the genenaus thing. Sa even if so- cial Pressures make them loas- en up a bit it is goad fan tbeir sauls. After &Il there are thosp who would rarely spend a nickle on a goad cause if cus- tom or convention did flot com- pel them ta do so. If so-callcd caminercializatian belps 'ta farce a man ta become unsel- fish, we arc for it even though an genenal principles we are opposed ta compulsion. But we like ta tbink that this giving and rcceiving of gifts, whlch may be overdone a bit, in certain quarters, bas a much deeper purpose and anigin than appeans an the surface. It is bascd an the first Christmas when the greatcst glft that man ever received was pi-es- ented ta bum. In these days of wprs, hat, cold or warm, days a! tension, national and per- i-anal greed, it is gaod ta know that durlng ane season af the ycar at lcast, we dan concen- trate on the wclfare, of others ta the exclusion o! aur own sel- fish interests. Aftcr ail that hs one af the deep mcanings of Christmas. BLACKSTOCK Congratulations ta Mrs. Jame Lai-mer wha clebrated her 86th birthday hast week. Mr. and Mrs. Rois Ashton and family, Haydon, with Mr'. and Mn., Harold McLaughiin on Sunday. Congratulations ta Mr. and Mrs. Don Pargeter (Grace Gra- ham) on thc birth of their daughter an Friday at Con- munity Hospital, Part Perry. Mr-. and Mrs. Bud Thanipsan and Russell, moved ta Whitby last Wednesday. Mi-. Thompsa:î is Manager of the new Dom- inion Store there and wanted ta be dloser ta bis work. We are very sari-y ta have thetn lcave us and wish them cvery success. The High School Trio, Doug Davidson, Clifford Jackson and Jim Grieve, with Mrs. Lai-ne Thompsan and Mr-. Gardon Paisley, wcre guests at the last Durham County Club in To- ronto. Dr. Frank Drew, Mi-. Charles Drew, North Dakata; Mi-. AI- bei-t Drcw, Dcarborn, Mich., and Mr-. and Mrs. Mai-vin Nes- bitt, Nestieton, were guests of Mr-. and Mrs. Roy Taylor last Thursday. Miss Doris Hutton, R. N., Pe- terborough, was a weekcnd guest -at the parsonagre. Mi-. and Ni-s. Roy Taylor, PHONE MA 3.5778 BOWMANVILLE Le A. PARKER & SONS, PLUMBING *HEATING -- OIL BURNERS 47 KING ST. E.. BOWMANVILLE. MA 3-5651 Only in Ford cati you get the utterly dlTrerent, completely distinctive styling that was inspired hy the famous Thunderbird-the most talked-about, most adn'aoet persanal car in Canada! Ford's longlwe, its slim silhouette, its glamorous interirs-are among the many reasons why Ford is worth more whcn you buy it, worth mare when you selliti In power and performance. as in style, th e '56 Ford takes its tue l'rom the Thunderbird! 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