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-TM CANA="AN SATUXAM, DOWMANVMLU. WPAMDI EDITORJALS OTTAWA OIe8it "( Pity the City Dwellers CL \llEd YoungmansClm Always et t"s lme of year we féee .spectally iorry for thorne uni ortunate ioula who due t0 their occupations must live ln cilles such ms Toronto. Whil. we enjoy thie cool breezes and lake our car to go the block or two to thie office, thie city dwellers are sweltering ail day long and drlving for hours, or rlding street cars and buses to gelta and fromn their fields of endeavour. Many of themn wouldn't change it for thie world. They juil don't know any beller, apparently, and would be like f ish out of water in a quiet, unhurrled plac like Bowmanville. TRer. must be some klnd of mental block or defense mechanism whlch makes peo ple love life in the city, when they coula be living in a comparable summer paradise such as we have here. You just can't help feeling sorry for theni as they plod along the scorching streets. We wouldn't change places with theni for almost any klnd of money, but suppose somebody has 10 live there. It really is too bad. They'II Believe Anything Trust Bill Smiley, editor of Thie Wiar- ton Echo and author of Sugar & Spice which appears in The Statesman each week, to corne through with something rnost unusual. Thie following article ap- peared in The Echo last week: "We've had a lot of fun in the past week with the 'Flying FlîRi' on display in the Zcho office window. "Messaee on the label describing the fish says: 'New hybrid cross between duck and pike, bred in Berford Lake and only to be found on the Bruce Peninsula. May be taken with casting rod or sholgun. Name of species is either puck' or 'dike' - take your pick." "The flying fish is a large pike, mount- ed, but covered with feathers instead of scales by ils owner. About 75 per cent of the tourisîs who have viewed il have believed every word, and gone away awe- stricken." ADependent People Industry looks to tariffs or to amal- gamations to lesuen competition. Farmers demand subsidies or deficiency payments or chRer governmenl aid bo protect therri against market slumps. Workers demand ever lncreasing wages, holidays with pav, unemployment insurance,. workmen's comi- pensalion, and other fringe benefits. The baby bonus aida in starting the new gen- eration an its road. In thé autunin of life thie old-age pension is quite acceptable. Ail this is happening in a country rich in natural resources, a heritage waiting ta be developed and processed. Il seems that we ail waiil the best of everything for as litIle effort as possible. We even leave thie planning and thinking ta someone else, states an article in the Farmers' Ad.- vocale. Whlle we are ail dependent on Divine guidance for our very being we are not meant 10 be 80 dépendent on any human agency for our temporal welf are. Why do we look so slavishly ta gavernments for aid, rather than depending on our own Initiative and induslry as did our fore- bearers ini Canada one hundred or more lemrs mg? Thie ploneers of this country sought freedom frSn irogimentalion. They were willing ta undergo great hardshlps to pre.- serve tRis freedoni. They secured their deeds ta land covered with forests. They eut trees ta build Iheir log homes and more Irees ta clear land on which ta grow grain and vegetables to add ta, their diet of fish and game. They suffered loneli- ness and privation. Neighbours were few and far between. There were no bai- pitls for the sick or rest homes for the old. There was no year round supply of fresh fruits anid vegetables. There was na beneficent gavernment ready and will- ing ta aid with support prices or deficiency payments. Yet those first Canadians built with their bands and minds a land which later proved to be rich in natural re- sources, forests. mineraIs, fisheries, and productive soil beyond Iheir highest hopes. Those days have passed. 7%ie initia- tive, the creative thinking and the wil la plan and work of the pioneers have given us aur present high standard of liv- ing. As we near thie end of Canada's first century we wonder whether our generation will make equal progress if tca large a section of aur population be- cornes over accustomned ta hand-outs ini one fanm or another. A MacDuff Ottawa Report The Session Closes Wearyr M.P.'t put on a spurt last week to puuh their way through millions of dollars in federal estimates and tag ends of legilation, in order to bring the six- month-long second session of the 24th Parliament to a close. It was a session that was long on tajk,ý but short on concrete resuits. Il was *asily the stormiest faced by the Conser- vative Government si.nce it came to office lwo years ago and clearly marked an end to the post-election honeymoon of the new ministry. The unseemnly rush by meni- bers to rubberastamp tena of millions of dollars of governznent expenditures and jam through bits and pieces of legisiation mter months of dawdling ainilessly de- mnonstraled once a g in the urgent need for the Canadian Parlianient to take a leaf froni the United Kingdom House In thie proper organization of its business. The blarne for thie failure to do 80 inust lest largely upon the Opposition parties, Probably one of 'the most notable aspects about the session just past was the prt played by committees. Under the Liberal regime, they had become perfun- tory affairs aiter 2 years, with the Op- position banging its head to no avail against thie massive wall erected by the Government majority to resist any attempt to carry out a proper investigation of the business of government. Thie committees this session - and there were more of them sitting than at any time in recent memory - tackled their jobs with an unaccustomed vigor. Aithough the Conservatives dominated al com.mittees, a number of then- brought in reports highly critical of various phases of government activities. This is not to say they all did a good job. Sanie of them, like the Commons Wit2i wwh§lt wo m1t. me Sowumyljle Nowa. The Newtlo 1elnd.p.ude «" The Orano News IOth Year of Continuous Service to the rowa of Bowmanville and Dxuhcm Couniy qu SUESRMPTON RATES 8400 a omc. atzlctly in advac. S5.00 a Y@=x inthe United Stateo Autboi.d am Ssood Gags Mail oomSO .Deffltment. Oftawa f.blhb.d b7 TIJIMM PUELLSMNG OMPANT LIMITE Sowmcmvin. Outario Y1011Pd I AMES. frrnT Broadcastirig Committee seemed ta b. in. lent on destraying, or at least seriously crippling an institution tRial Ra& made a major contribution ta the development of a sense of nalionhood fromn shore 'ta shore - tRe CBC. But over-ridlng tRiat con- sideration was tRie new vitaliîy which seemed ta transform Parliament intomare than a rubber stamp. For al the long months tRial It sat, Parliament actually passed few pieces of major legislation. A bill ta establish a National Enery Board was probably one of tRie mast important. There Were ather bills te help curb obscene literatune; extend farm credit; provide for the hurnane slaughter o! &ni- mals; estab]ish long-term expert credit; and, nelieve te a limnited extent tRie impact of tRie l7 per cent incr-ease in freight rates, on thieMaritimes and thie West. Apart frorni hat, most of the legisiative changes were insignificant. Throughout thie session thie gavern- ment stumbled froni one storin centre te anather. The flrst came aven its refusai ta send RCMP reinforcements la New- foundland during tRe loggens' stnike, which led te the resignation of Comniissioner L, H. Nicholson. Soon after that Ottawa was i. hot water again witR ils blunt tneatmnent of tRe Island Province in the provision of special aid under the ternir of union. A judgment handed down by Mr. Justice Thorson of tRie Exchequer Court disclosing tRial John Pallett, Government whip and Conservative MemJer for Peel, had instructed a real estate agent, which Rie persuaded thie government te appoint as an appraiser, ta put as high a valuation as possible on land expropriated Malton Airpont touched off anothen uproar. TRie Govern.ment found itself In another crisis when il peremtorily scrapped tRie super- sonic Anrow, throwing over 10,000 Avro employees out of wonk while il still pro- crastinated on ils decision about re-equip- ping the Canadian squadrons in Europe. Sharpest cantroversy o! all develaped aI tRie tail-end of the session when acting CBC President, Ernest Bushnell, ordered cancellation of a niarning radia commen- tary program on Parliament, touching off charges of "clandestine political influence" from three senior officials and mass re- signation of employees in tRie taîks and public affairs department. With Ihe end af the session, one of tRie urgent jobs facing Prime Minister Diefenbaker was a re-shuffle in Ris cab- inet. Most pressing was tRie appointnient of a new Mirister of Public Works te take over froni the Hon. Howard Green, who was transferred ta tRie External Affairs Portfoalia. TRie Prime Minster Ras indi- cated tRis will be done very shortly, but when il cames ta making appoinîment Mn. Diefenbaker at limes can put te shame "Old Tomnorrow," as Sir John A. Mac- donald - the f irst Conservaîlve Prime Ibnit -wua iicknamed. 'viN KEEPIMG WIT14 OLUR ECONOMY PROGR.AM, DOBBINS- iNs-rEAD OP~ A VACATrION YOU GETr TrWO WEEKS 1 N THE LALIGI-1ING GAS DE PT . -- 25 YEARS AGO AUGUST 2, 1934 A very pleasant event took place on July 20th when the choir of St. Paul% Church pre- aented Mr. Willrld Carruthers, who Is soon. to be marrieti, with a beautiful electric percolator anti a lamp. The atidress was read by Mr. George Hall and the gifts weme presenteti by Mrs. Chas. F. Rice. Announcement is matie in this issue of the amalgamation o! the Booktiaie anti Kings- way Nurseries of Bowmanville under the naine Bnookdale- Kingsway Limiteti. The general management o!thie new com- pany will be under the direc- tion of Mr. E. J. W'oodi. Wedding-A quiet weddin.g took place on Wednesday, July 25th, ini Western Unitedi Church, Ottawa, when Margaret Alice, younger daughtem o! Rev. J. I. Hughes o! Russell, and the late Mrs. Hughes, and Wilfrid Daw- son Carrut.hers, son a! Mr. anti Mrs. W. H. Carruthers, Bow- manville. weme unitet in umar- riaýe.mner yParty COMPOseti o! MIisses Jean anti Eileen Wight, Annie Allun, Mary Jeweil, He- len Smale, Beryl 'anti Helen Tîffin, Margaret Wightinan anti Méiss Vera Power are enjoying a week at Caesarea. Meuars. Jas. William.,s, GeD. Tordiff, Geo. Veale, Newton Hackney anti James Jennings cornposeti a party that recently visiteti the World's Faim at Chi. -cago and hati a joily trip. Bowmanvilie High School swimming teamn was composeti o! Coach Mn. Devitt, B. Slemon, C. Cawkem, M. Butler, G. Spen- cer, W. Bagneli, D. Williams anti B. Vanstone. Congratulations 10 Miss Flor- ence Bennett upon obtaining ber first cliass certificate at Peterbarough Normal. Courlice: Miss Margaret Pol- lock left on July 28th for Ire- landi, wheme she wiil visit hiem sister. Hampton: Miss Ruby Clat- wothy, R.N., is acting night supervisor at Bowmanviile hos- pital for a tip-ie. Miss Gwen Caverly who has been visiting hem grantipaments, Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Caverly, To- ronto, bas retumneti home. Sauina: Misses Ada -andi Irene Pascoe in company with Misses Marjory anti Etith Pascoe, Hamnpton, lefI Monday on a znotor trip through Eastern On- tario anti Quebec. Tyrone: Miss Marlon Jones caught hem finger i. the puiley on the hay tork, crusbing A se batily it was necessary to bave the fi.nger removeti. Marion is in Bowmanville Hospital. Salem: Mr. R. H. Collacott heu sold his farm te Mr. Bart- lett who with his family bas taken possession. Orono: Messrs. Chariey Cow- an, Jack Noden andi Harry Morris took their speedy hanses te Thorncllffe racelmack, Toron- to, where they are enteret inl the events o! the Grand Cir- cuit trotting races. 49 YEARS AGO AUGUST 4, 1910 Resuiba o! exarninatians for Entrance ta Normal Sehools are opecially gratifying to Bow- manvilie High Scbool. Twtn..v ln ail wrote witb 16 successful. These are, Elsie M. Bragg, Liz- zie Connors, Ethel V. Gilbert, Cinu~t Lnton,é Dora ProuteGi,- ta Scott, J. Haroldi Sharpe, Eva A. Sheppard, M. Ruth Squair. Etina E. StapIès, Nettie M. Sta- pies. Olga M. Toti, Kathleen Trewln, Greta M. VanNest, Greta Wickett, Vida A. Wor- den. Miss Dorothyý Edsall, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, la holidaying at home. Mrs. H. W. Burk was hostess of a small picnic party at Bow- manville- on- the - Lake Thurxs- d-av, the conipany going anti returning in the tally-ho. Mr. and Mms. Alfred Darch, Misses Alberta anti Edith, To- ronto, are visiting Mm. and. Mr&. John Darch, "Empinghaîn". Mrs. John Ellioti anti son Wilton, are holidaying in. Bruce County. They xviii attenti the olti home ce lebration at Luck- now. Mrs. J. N. Kent, Campbell- ford, and Mrs. Lanxon, Chica- go, were recent guests of Dr. anti Mrs. G. C. Bonnycasile. Mrs. A. Sharp and daughter Madeline are visiting ber par. ents, Dr. and Mrs L. Patter. Mr. Harvey Mingeauti bas accepteti a position in the Royal Bank. Mr. E. Y. Jones, Winnipeg, Man., is holidaying al, home. Miss Fielding, Toronto, is visiting her cousin, Misa Edna Fieldiing. Master Roy Warnica won the scholarship for highest stand- ing ln the Entrance examina- tions-a year's free tultion. in the High School. Newcastle: Lightning struck the Gibson bouse, town line, demnollsbing the chimney down which, it ran, anti Mr. A. Man- ning and inmates were prostra- ted fromn the shock. Orono: Mr. G. H. Uion, a former resident o! thl.s village, bas bought the Daly House, To- ronto, for $50,000. Enfielti: Miss Id-a MkcCulloch is enjoying a trip to Atlantic City, N.J. Sauina: Mr. Frank Short- ridge, Nanaimo, B.C., was a reccnt visitor with his parents. Enniskillen: A number o! Miss Pearl Ranton's friends spent an enjoyabie evening at a lawn party at hem home. Hampton: Mr. Wesley Red- man has accepteti a position J. F. R. Kersiake's drug store, Bowmanville. In Ihe Ediior's Mail Editon, Canadia-n Statesman, 'Bowmanville, Ontario. Dear Sir: on behaif o! the White Pine Hiotorical Committet anti of the entine White Pine Bureau, 1 wish to thank you most sin- cenely for publishing tht atory o! aur search for Planter homes, churches anti other buildings. You may be inter- estedti t know that we have received letters !mom sevenal o! your readers. In tact, we have beard front people in many parts of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia anti Prince Etiward Is- land.. h is reassuring ta know that s0 many Canadians are in- benesteti in helping ta preserve aur many fine IoLti homes anti other buildings. Your assistance ln Ibis Pro- ject is sincemely appreciated. Yours very tru]y, Jas. W. Slack, for D. A. Gillies, Chairman, White Pine Historical Committe. Woods FarniIy Picnic HeId At Hampton Park The Woods family picnic was held ai Hampton Park on July 2, 1959, with over 90 attending. The day was ideal and everyone enjoyeti visiting dur- ing the afternoon, Alter ail had partaken of a lovely picnic lunch, President Fred Woods calleti the people ta order andi the following slate of' officers was nominated for 1960: President Mr. Fred Woods, Secretary John anti Dorothy Rundie, Treasurer Charles Woods. Sports Commnittee-Jima andi Dorothy Woods, Allan anti Lois Wilbutr. It was decidedti t holti the nexi picnic the 2nd Wednesday in July nJl 6, 1960, at Hlampton Park. Coming the fathest was Fred Wittaker and family trom To- ronto. The oldest person attend- ing was Mr. George Armour. The yaungest person, Glen Wood. Largest family, Elmer Bell o! Claremont. Memorial Hospital Weekly Report For the week o!fJuiy 20-26 inclusive: Admissions . ~~ 48 Birtbs-10 maie, 4 female - 14 Discearges ~55 Major operations 10 Mînor aperations ____5 Emergency treatments 28 VLting boums 2:30 ta 4:30 anti 7:00 ta 8:30 p.m. During the recent tour of the Ganaraska watershed, by the Ganaraska Authority, mention was matie of the structure which gave Tower Hill its naine, andi to everyone's surprise, Hart- well Lowery statedti tat, he hati a photograph of the olti tower: possibly the only such He du gAi up, tnd loaneti lb to the Edi.tor of this paper for reproduction, herewith. Accordlng to Mr. Lowery, the tower was constructeti of wood, elghty-flve feet high, anti was useti by surveyors as a triangu- lation tower. Although It was razed in 1918, the marks of the four legs are stili evident, anti in the centre of the area is a "bench mark", of the Geodetic S'ociety of Canada - bronze plaque In cernent. The photo of the aid tower was produceti bv a young school teacher named Milton Plunkeit, who, at the time, was teaching at McLean's Sehoal, north east of Kendal, andi boarding with the John Lowery family. The reverse side of the photo la a post card. l-artwell Lowery thinks young Plunkett develop- ed" his own pictures. At any rate the school teacher was working on a farmn near Au- burn, Ontario, during the sum- mer holidays o! the year 1913, andi sent the tower picture post card tb bis former bout, Mr. John Lowery, on or about July 3lst, 1.913. Here's what he wrote: "Just a line to let you know 1 haven't forgotten you, 1 have been. busy, farming again. Say! "'Abolish the bar" is a lîve xvire here, yet, and I'm with a mighty Grit. I guess he's a bitter b - - - -- They had about twelve thous- ,and ln Goderich, ,on the "tTwelfth-i. Auburn banti andi also uts besi fifer, andi drummer, ail took first prize. Three cheers for Auburn! Miltoin Plunkett.'l Mr. Lowery remembers thât the teacher marrieti Pearl Quantrili, andi thinks he quit teaching ta engage in sorne phase of garage business. If Mr. Plunkett happens to read this, be is welcome to make any cor- rections, and we will appre- ciate any atiditional informa- tion about the olti tower. Your scribe ls no photo con- noiseur, but he thinks Mr. Plunkett dld a swell job of pic- ture taking of something that is now of great romantic, his- torie interest to the people o! I -:SUGAR and SPICE:- Due to Mr. Lower-y keeplng the post card as a souvenir, andi our Editor's generosity ini re- prodiicing il, imany rentiers wîll be able to keep, as 'a souvenir. one of the alinost forgotten, Iandmiarks of our county, and will be able to compare it with the eighty-foot, steel, lire watching tower wliich, we hope, xvili be erecteti on Peeker Hill, about a mile east of Tower Hill, because it is twenty-five feet higher than Tower Hill, and comnmands a better view of more of the Durhanm and Gan- araska forests. Apropos the subjeet of fire towers: Only last week, Mrs. Wlnn phoneti Mr. Quantrili that she thought, there was a lire in the torest. Mr. Quantrili drove ta our heatiquarters, and reportec i to rny wife, wha phoned MLIiss Helen Boyd. who, in turn climibed ta the top of a hill, camne back to lier hause, anti phoneti my wife that she couldn't see any fire, but that Fred Wilson was driving to where we were pruning trg es, to notify us. At the time, M r. Wilson was unable to work be. cause of Illnesa, yet in spite of physical distress, he brought us the message. We quit pruning. jumpeti in the truck and bigh- taileti it for the heatiquarters and were very thankful to finilthat Mr. Quantrili had iiphon-ed L to say that, the lire was not in r the forest but in an old saw miii site, near Pontypool andi was under control. My personal, thanks to ail those thoughtful people who neglected their own affairs to help keep our foresti green. TYRONE Mrs. A. Gaskih of Monctor, retumneti home with hiem daugh. ter, Mms. W. Stewart anti son, o! St. Lambert, Quebeç, aftef spentiing six weeks with ber daughter, Mr. ai Mrs. G. Ail. dread. Mr. anti Màs. Alex Pergef anti chiltimen, Hamilton, -i spendlng a few days with Mr. anti Mrs. W. Rahin. Wednesday guests weme Mrs. MVelba Long, andi Miss Maryv Smiley, AIder- shot, anti 'Fmidav callers were Mms. L. Wilson anti Anie, Lake- fieldi, Mrs. M. Jones, Omemee, Mrs. C. Rahim and Allison. Congratulations to Mm. and Mms. Gardon Milison, who were mamnieti Saturdav at the mansa Sitting on the front atepu on a sununer night, listenlng ho the robins thrashing anount Inlumy cedan-cum- maple hetige, I got to won- dening why in the worid they don't make summers the way they usedti t. The summers these days are flot as long, they're mot as hot, they don't saseli as good, and perhaps worst et ail. they don't sound the sanie And that's not nnstalgla for somethlng that's gone. lt's true. Why thirty years aga, I dld mare ln one day in the sum- mer than I do in a week now. The days were twice as. ion g. There were interminable games o! basebali ta be play- eti. There was The Santipit ta visit. There were suckers ta be caught anti sold for two cents a paund ta the anclent anti bonoumabie Jew who bought aillaur M~emchandise. * o*0 There was gardening and other work bo be avolded, whlch teok a lot of time and ingenuity. There wau swini- lning for hours, until your lips turncd blue, thc sign It was time to quit. There was smoking to, be donc at The Cave, with swlped tobacco wrapped lin toilet paper. There were kîda te tight. Don't tell me kitis are the same hoday. I know better. Oh, they're fine, if they're playing some bail that some service club has organized for hhem. Ther"re happy enough if they'ne baving their siaperviud awimalm& Dispensed by Bill Smiley But tht meut of the day, they Just 1011 anaunti, wbining that there's nothing to do anti waiting for their pon, be- draggled tather to come home fram wonk, so be can take them swimming, or ta the Drive-In, or anywhere, as long as they're being enter- taineti. And take summer evenings, They uaed to be long and warm and lelsurely, full of a deep> peaee and contentment. They were quiet. They smeli- ed good. In the evenings, tht men wouiti amoke their pipes on the verandab; they wouid water their lawns with re- laxeti concentration:- they woulti go bo the ball game with their sons anti waik home through the dusk, be- neath the iush maples, con- tent. ]In the evenings the wom- en would petter in their gar- deus, they would uit and rock their hables on the vemandah; they would make vast pitch- ers of lced lemonade; they would sit and talk the end- less, simple, complex talk of women, content. In thte eveniirgs, the chilti- ren would pursue their eter- nai gaxnes of Hitie and Seek, Reti Light, anti Run Sheep Run; tbey wouid responti ne- iuctantly to their mothers' hooting on the third cali; thev wouid stagger uputairs, sud- denlv exhausteti, anti limp as wet towels, fall into beti, con- tent. Nowadays, summer even- Ingo, lîke evcrythlng tise, are short, snappy and cool. Fa- 111cr wants te go golfing. Tht kids are determnined un a swlm. Mother lu bound sheq, wants the rar te go visitlng. By the timc the tlght ln over. se ls the cvenlng, and they disgruntledly do nothlng, ex- cept ail utay up too late. Rernember the sounds of aa summer evening, each witn its speciai meaning--com fort- ing, exciting or nomantie-in the warm, stiil air? The lazv chatter of a man-pusheti iawnmowem; the rythmie smack o! bail on glove as two kitis playeti catch; the cries from the bowling green, mul- lied in the velvet nighh. And when the darknest came, andi the nlght grcw quitter: the murmur of voi- ces frorn the verandahs; the uheven click of heels on side- walk au loyers ambleti home front the movies; the uqueak of a hammock, swinglng on tht next porch; the lonely tO whlstling of a Ionely youth; the thin strains of a gramo- phone. Theise sauntis, each with an Intimat meaning, have been replaceti by the snari o! the power rmower, the roan o! car-A rush ing nowhere in' parbleu- M01 lar;- the scneam of tires anti shriek o! brakes,, the blatting o! jukebox or television. Tbey are not sountis, but noises. On seconld thougiht, maybe it'q not snummer that ha, be- corne less pleasant Maybe ts socltt. IPAM ro and Distant Past From The Statesman File* n