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.4-The Canadian tatennan, Dowmanvmle, mu. e, Ion $A Campaign of Vital Importance f No one knocks at your door to seli including summer vacation for hand ýA1rSeaus! The entire campaign - the capped kiddiel ait Merrywood-Carnp-oi feflae of hope and opportunity forthRdeu cripud hilren- l pu beore~ a Each year Easter Seals have helpe 'a 10W. You are asked to read It and if eaiiaintem aeU fm f y. tk.k he aus wothyenogh, cal specialits, therapists, nurses, brac ym tMk he aus wothyenoghre-makers, teachers and volunteerst 'tur your contribution in the pink en- Z vlop tht hs ben uppied Reidetsstudy, analyze and diagnose hundred ophee tandt hroughonu theadjacsent di of crippling conditions. Each casei hemricanhave r e c e ivedjat deas considered and followed through indi Arics hve eceved astr Salsvidually so that each child Nill even ethrough the mail during the past week tually participate to the best of hi Sor two. The Bowmanvilîe campaign is or her ability in a fruitful life with a * spnsred by the local Rotary Club. much independence as possible. Z. Sending the Seals through the mail For the crippled child such a se' I as been the procedure of the Ontario vice means a personal, friendly rela Society for Crippled Children and its tionship with a respected member ci more than 230 service clubs since the the comrnunity. To the communitv i Svery first campaign and the people of means an economy of cost by having SOntario have responded in a kind and so many experîenced volunteers aval. Sgenerous mariner. This one annual cam-1 able throughout the whole year. This *paign is of vital importance to more system and this team of professionalà than 16,000 crippled children in Ontario, and volunteers must be preserved, for for every service and activity of the combined there can only be one resuli, ,Society - such as its nursing program- better thingi for crippled children. me throughout the province, treatment The support that each person gives centres, camps, clinics, provision of to the Easter Seal campaign means that wheel chairs, crutches, braces, transpor- they are helping the most advanced pro- Statien and so on, is dependent on the gramme of rehabilitation for child rer wsucceàs of the Easter Seal campaign. No that is available anywhere. It is gooc Slesu than $1,400,000 will do the job for business - and good common sense - Ontarîo's crippled chi]dren in 1967 - to support the Easter Seal campaign. Ths er arsA National Service Thi yarmaksthe twentîeth an- Through the Red Cross Blood Sniversary of the Canadian Red Cross Transfusion Service and the many Blood Transfusion Service. It started thousands of volunteer blood donors, *back in 1945 when a cross-Canada sur- any person in a Canadian hospital who Svey revealed that many large areas of needs blood receives it f ree of charge. the country were completely void of The service is truly national in scope ,blood transfusion facilities. There were and every hospital is assured of ade- Svery few haemnatologists or technicians quate supplies of blood for its trans- . with an up-to-date knowledge of trans- fuision therapy needs. The technical and 'fusion therapy and laboratory tech- laboratory standards of the Red Cross w. niques. In addition, the cost of blood are amongst the highest in the world, Stransfusions was often beyond the fi- and efforts are continually made to n rancial means of the average hospital improve them. Canadians can be juistly i4 patient. proud of this service because it is found- As a resuit of this survey, the Can- ed upon the firm humanitarian convic- ýp apian Red Cross inaugurated its blood tion that life and good health are the transfusion service in February, 1947, in inalienable rights of every person. Vancouver, B.C. By the end of the year, March is Red Cross Month in Can- Sthe service was operatîng in Northern ada and we pay tribute to the founders and Southern Alberta. The total number of the Red Cross Blood Transfusion i f blood donations for 1947 was 32,072. Service, who created this unique com- SIn order to meet the needs of hospitals bination of a communitv health service acrosas Canada, the Red Cross must col- and a humnanitarian ideal. Give your îî ect nearly one million blood donations financial support to your Canadian Red e- this year. Cross. Mr Il Report from O)ttawa By. Russell C. Honey, M.P. One of the features of the Pearson Committee pondering the future of Mr. ,~government hhs iieen the greater auth- Justice Leo Landreville are good exam- Sorîty given to Committees of the House pies of Committees undertaking a spe- Com~o,pç-»~,jpint .Committees of cfcpoet the Housé' and, Senate. - This is a jgood An'important side effect of the new > development and has enabled the priv- Committee set up is the opportunity ate Mernbers of the House of Commons given to back benchers to make a naine ito assume*a much greater responsibility for themselves. With 265 Members in Sand to play a more effective role in the House of Commons and because of 1Government. time limitations, it is often difficult for- The present session of Parliament, a hew Member to be heard. This is not Snow drawing to a close after 14 months, the case now, and by a diligent applic- é.là the first session in whcih the esti- tion, the junior Member now has every .4mates of' various - departments have opportunity to establish a reputation. been referred to Committees for study. Like any other job, there must be JPreviously estimates were considered somne midnight oul burned if a Member in ;the House of Commons. This new is to appear knowledgeable and decisive procedure has permitted a much more in the questioning of witnesses and the cletàiled 'examination. Under the olId submnission of his arguments to the 2 syten th. sendng rogamsof achCommittee. Under our present Commit- *department could, at best, be given te semheopruiysavibl *only a cursory examination.toinifhwse ogrp Under the new system, the Depuity RBT TOGV NRGE RA Ministers and other senior civil serv- TIUET OENR.EEA ants in each department are called RT. HON. GEORGES P. VANTER, be.fore tlhereleaiynt Sadn omt- wode udyMrh5 97 ced di- Ice to edu is [i- lis as W- À- of it g il- is It n d Mn Durham COuntY'a Greoatcmily Journal Hai Established 113 yearsa ge ln 1854 VL 3Alzo Incorporating r The Bowmanville News e Th ew a tl Nd . n ea m n osa e t a M bzt. Se5cond Clema MojiytePont Officep. taa n e amntwpacei oâ tn I A4U J4'roduVA d evS r U~LfWJ 'A.JMaNy L1M1Tr P.O. Box 190 82-66 KinqSt. W., Bowniofeiv. ontarlo lim M. JAMES GEO. W. GJRANAM14O. P. MORIRIS bs.poesmm ADVa M,,Ahsa Iuuiwusm b oCepyt4wt a4/oe iOy la*0lha e. Sua1 l.u~.a *s uonà m wlI"t * I@T5 UIi r e eusaos te *1% £ T.dr, * E P m a ntdio This young boy has just been fitted with a new pair of braces for legs which are stili weak but through special care and treatment, are strengthening each day. They are his fourth set of braces, each pair having cost about $300.00. So you can see it's expensive to he]p a crippled child along the road to recovery and only with Easter Seal donations, the Ontario Society for Crippled Children and the 230 Easter Seal service clubs, can these girls and boys hope for a brighter tomorrow. Do your part today by sending a generous Easter Seal gift to your local Easter Seal Campaign. in total, the province is hopeful of raising $1,400,000. this year to provide even greater rehabilitation programs for a greater number of children. ,A 7MaccDuff Ottawa ReportJ The Package Deal OTTAWA---The most that can be sald with certainty about the Carter report on taxation for many weeks to corne is that it is a very long-term proposition. Don't let those initial beat- ings the stock markets took bother you too much. And don't try to read significance into the first reactions of politicians. In the long- term, they'li probably prove nleaningless. No one xil be surprised that New Democratic Lead- er T. C. Douglas declared himself in favour of the recommendation ta levy a capital gains tax. -, No more surpris1ng is the n4gatite ne- action of Tory leadership candidate George Hees, *who was until recently the presi- dent of the Montreai and In the Dim and Distant Past Froîn the Statesman Files The best advîce is that handed out by Finance Min- ister Mitchell Sharp; read the six volumes fîrst and talk much later. That is what most intelli- gent MP's are now doing. Long before they make up their minds, the scores of pressure groups affected by the Report will descend an them. The Governrnent itseif xil wait until at least the end of this year before indi- cating its general intentions. The Bill - if and when it cornes - xiii go ta a parlia- mnentary committee for pub- lic hiearin gs Meforeý being de- bated In Ihç House. Fin~al legislation, et decided upan, is probablyi two years and an election away. 25 YEARS AGO (March 12, 1942) Miss Elizabeth Barton ani Mvrs. Oliver Barton, Si Joseph's Island, visited Mrç L. .1. Barton. A new, large, illuminate( sign erected just at the ap proach ta tbe overbeac bridge west of town warns 'Picking Up Pedestrians Pro. hibited". In other words hitch-hikers are subject t( arrest if they "thumb" an, nitarist inside the limits oJ the signs, another o! whici least of the town. Chiel renton states tbat it is be- ýause of the Prison Camp recautions. Laggard boy iends going ta Oshawa lw will have ta waik for ime distance if they wish a de, otherwise it might bE icell. Pts. Wm. Tait, Bandsman dthe Ist Midlapds. Niagara, pent the weekend with bis irents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. lat. First Ciass Petty Officer lrt Hunt, Halifax, N.S., bas turned ta duty after visit- ig bis family here. Miss Eileen Balson, Solina, Sr reos p on d ent for The atesman, bas joined tbe fice staff and assumed her w duties Monday Mrs. Johnnie Humphrios, "rs. S. Wright and Mrs. arry Morden were Toronta sitors, Saturday. LAC Gardon Camipbell and "s. Cam pbell, Toronto, ere Sunday guosts of ber irents. Mr. and Mra. M. Tamblyn. Mrns. Howand W. Jeffrey is returned from an ex- ided visit with ber broth- Mr. Harold Wagar in New )rk City. Mir. H. L. Rutherford and ughter Audry, Toronto; s. A. Wanamaker, Well- gton, spent Sunday with %and Mrs. A. E. Maffatt, irch Street. aongratulatlons ta Misa 'aen Piekell, Ebenezer, on ssing Grade 5 Caunter- it and on obtainîng han- in Grade 10 Piana; also Miss Joan Stephens, hawa, on passing Grade 4 mo with honors at the ,nt exaininations cf the rotto Conueratory of tc. Eoth are pupils of m Ada Annis, A.T.C.M. dtrs. Douglas Carter la W»J km, -*Md la Osawa. I UJ daut Mn: lngt Mr. Chu c Elle pass ors remu Toro Xui 49 YEARS AGO (March 14, 1918) id Prof. C. C. Laugher, the t. Publie Sebool teachers and S. scholars are being showered witb praise on the magnifi- ýd cent success of the three )_concerts given in the Opera [d House on Tuesday, Wednes- S» day and Friday even- l_ ngs. General regret was Sexpressed that Gwendolyn 10 Williams was too iii with v mumps ta take part in the ýf duet with Yvonne Hazel- h wood. f Misses Rita M. Caldwel and Reta R. Cale sang in p Part Perry Metbodist Church Tand Prof. Laugber piayed tthe organ. The two latter r and Messrs. Poliard and itTapson and Miss McLean got e ta Mr. Luther Mountjoy's near Biackstock Saturdav 1night and were storm staid, returning borne Sunday, Prof. Laugher and Miss Cale gaing tlbrougbi in a single cutter'. Miss Caldwell went by G.T.R., leaving bere at 2 p.m., Saturday, and spent ail night on the train stuck in a eut near Myrtle. It was some stan aill rigbt. Mn. 'George A. Stephens was maronod during a ne- cent fload out in the wind and ramn, standing on gates of bis miii dam, clothing frozen about hlm, in bis efforts ta keep above the rush a! water that naared beneath bum. He bad gane out ta raise the gates, and the water rase sa rapidly he was unable ta make a re- treat. It was 8 o'clock next morning before he cauld be i rescued. It was a bleak g autiook for Dariington's o popular Reeve.-Orano News.i Misa Mabel Cox o! this tawn who teaches near Oids, Alta., held a box social in 1 ber sebool for the Red Cross Fund, realiing $10.r Mns. S. W. Sissan, Beth-c any, recentiy visited her 1 brother, Dr. J. C. Devitt. l Miss Ethelle MeQueen and Miss Mary Wilson, Oshawa,Y !pen Suday with Miss i Mr. J. H. Moyse, New tg York City, N.Y, bss been i 'visitirg bis uncle, M. Rich- r ard Moyae.M Mr. Garnet Richards. o! ci Toronto, spent theweekend p at home, ti Mn. Howard Allan, Toronto, p speat tbe wekad in £owis. pi implementation is desira' or flot. The question ri exercising the Governrin and civil service is, "bs practical ?" The Carter Commissi don't forget, was camypas af accountants, economi and other technical expert flot politicians, legisiatc and administrators. T commissioners camne up xv the challenging, progressi philosophy of treating o dollar as just as taxable any other dollar. That's a good theory whi probably justifies the su port Of Most Canadians. B the Commission worked ec ti;ely oMtside the politie context. And it's only pc1o ticians and civil servan who can implement ta theory. I suspect the Ynost in, miediate obstacle ta impi mentation is going ta provincial anger. The R( port fails to deal with whE bas hitherta been consid ered the country's mco, pressing fiscal problem - th allocation of tax resaurce ta match the respective re sponsibilities of Federai ari Provincial Gavernments. It has been argued tha because the Comnmissioa was appointed salely b3 Ottawa, it had no businesý getting involved with pro. vincial needs. Yet the Con« mission itself chose ta pasi a judgment which simply ig. nored the provinces' con. tention - backed up by the Economnic Council of Canada .that their constitutional spending needs are increas. ing at a far greater rate than those of the Federal Gov. ern ment. In the narne of the central authority, the Commission declares that the provinces shall have fia additianal personal incarne tax points, and shall hand over contra: Of corporation taxes ta Otta- va. If the Federal Goverji. nent thinks the provinces naybe need more money then it might consider giv. ing them a slightly larger share of the sales tax. The Commission ac- nawledges that the impie- îentation of many of its )roposals would require Dttawa ta win the ca-opera- on of the urovinces. Yet he COMmnission's camments hemselves are likelv ta nake this laudable airn that uch more difficuit ta :hieve., For the l'est, initial reac- ins to the Report seem tn t millions of lower and iiddle i n c o m e famnilies gainst virtually every pres- re group in the cauntry'. in One side. it would appear, re ail those Peaple earning ss than $10.000 a year. On ie other side are the ealthy, the investors and Ig business - esPecially the surance, mining and ail )mpanies. They and many her groups would be forc- ta make up the Gavern- ent's revenue. 3ut that is a grossly aver- îplified picture. A care- study of the Repart - en completed - would obably show that what ýman loses with ane hand, will practicaily recoup h the ather. The prableni is that the !ort 18 as its authors 'nded- a package deal. the Gavernment decides accept its laudabie aimas, will have ta sel] most if L81 o! the package. That I require the sort of irage that is seldom. ex- ted tram pahitical par- s.That is why a long îed a! digesting thé t1ticajities jiabead able ent s it ;ion, )sed lists 'ts - tors 'he ith ;ive one as ýich jp- But tax To have a cammunity people nit M.work together. To have a better con le unity they must have common prit be ciples. Their individual purposes nee e- flot aIl be the same but the basic thing iat in wbich they believe must be iden'ý Id- cal. st he The truth of this statement wa ýe3 made very apparent to me during th e- past twa days by the chain of commun tdity events in which I was privileged i at participate. These includedpthe openirl M of the new I.O.O.F. Nightingale Odd y feliows Temple in Bowmanviiîe on Sat lU 0- uîday the l8th; the impressive Guidet ri- and Scouts Ceremony at the Port Hop( 9s High Scbool on the following Sundaý ~'afternoon with a similar service in St 1eThomas' Anglican Churcb, Milîbrook. a the same evening. The annual dinners al and meetings of "Skeena" and the Part q_ Hope Board of Trade on Wednesda: -evening; a Community Euchre party in Canton Hall an Friday evening and, iconcluding the week, the officiai open- n ing of the artificial ice plant in New- castle an Saturday. These events bad different purpos- es but each played an important role in the development of a better commun. ity. ye The past week in the Ontario Leg- Sisiature saw the introduction and coni- pletion of the estimates of the Depart- ment of Agriculture. The debate on the estimates was very informative and the critic for the officiai Opposition Mr. Murray Gaunt, Liberal Huron contributed a' number of valuable suggestions which proved that he bad done his homework. I would be pleased to provide cop- ies of this debate to interested farmers or others if tbey would. care to contact me at Queen's Park. As Chairman of the Select Commit- tee on Aging I had the honor on Thurs- day ta table the final recommendations cf that body. The 44 recommendations in addi- tion to those outlined in the two previ- eus interim reports are the culmination of tbree years work by the Three-Party Committee. The key to the Committee's find- ings is co-ordination. Ce-ordination of health, welfare and housing programs withîn Government for example co-ord- ination of public and private voluntary agency pregrams, and ca-ordination of research by bialogists, social workers, medical practitioners, econamnists and others. The Committee's recommendations are enabling and practical. Each item tying In with established services of the Ontario Public Administration or pri- vate agencies and most of themn are therefore ready for early implemnenta- tion. The recommendations caver every aspect of the aging problemn including neaarch, specialized education, econo- Sugar Spice I REST CONTENT Just the other night we had a talk at our Honor Banquet which left me rather perplexed. It was an interesting, at times ex-. citing, address by one of our Captains of Industry. No less than the President of one of our biggest producers of pro- cessed foods. A big cheese, one might aay, in the vernacular. American owned, needless to say. Perhaps I should explain what the Honor Banquet is. It's an occasion when the students who have obtained 75 per cent or more the previous year are hon- ored, along with their parents. Again, needless to say, it is dulI. There's nothing much to say except that these kids are ini the top 25 per cent, whcih even they can figure out. And the "banquet" runs more to patato salad, a bottie of milk at each place, and cold cuts, than it does to Faler- nian wine, Lobster Thermidor and Baked Alaska. But it's a gesture, anyway. The athletes get a banquet, with cups, tro- phies, letters and heartiness. The kids in drama and music get applause when they perform. Least we can do is honor the bright and industrîous. Trouble is, they don't get a chance to show, at the banqiuet, how bri ght and industrious they are. Instead, they get a Guest Speaker. This would be enough to keep me from making the Honor Roll. And apparently my daugh- ter feels the samne, as she didn't make it this year. Second problem is, the Guest Speak- er feels he must inspire the kids. It's a tough audience. A hundred-odd kids, tlîeir proud parents, and about 1001 teachers and spouses. 1 know wbereof 1 speak. I was Guest Speaker a couple of years ago. What kind of a talk do you1 give? Well, this chap, with the best in- E tentions in the world, scared the wits 1 out of the kids. If I'd been on the Honorr Roll, 17, in Grade 12, I'd have walked right out of there and started swilling 1 booze or gobbling sugar cubes loadeda witb LSD.r This fellow was an honest, hard-a hitting, 105 per cent, capitalist, and I I footers. But his talk was obviously aimed at a sales convention, with lrne concessions to the kids. First, he painted a horror picture of the world they would take over: population explosion; starvation; it'u aIl yours kids. A few commercials here, about the food company. Then he outlined a frightening pair of alternatives: produce or you're eut. And he explained with a certain amount of pride, how ruthless an executive like himself has to be, when someone is not up to scratch. (I'm probab]y being un- fair. He is noted as a tough, but fair man). Hie talked about hitting witb a sledgehanuner, rather than a feather. He talked about choosing goals and pure suing them fiercely. Hie said that If yeti got up Monday morning, and hated the thought of going to work, you should switch into something else. He talked about money: giving sta- tistics for annual earnings depending on education, from elementary to college degree. Teachers perked up a bit her e, when he said $11,000 'for a university degree, and they average about $7,000. The point is that everytbing he said was emninently sensible. If you bappen- ed to be a salesman bucking for sales manager or vice-president. But his talk troubled me. Change the terms slightly, and what do you have? It was against everything 1 be- lieve, and try to teach. (And don't ho surprised if you bear I've been fired!) I don't believe, for example, in ef- ficiency, and having a dlean desk, ex- ccpt in a general way. That is, doiîig your job. I would find it extremely difficult to say: "Baxter, your sales are slipping. You're fired." There's nothing in this world that [ hate.daing more than going te work A/onday marning. The only goal I have ever pursued fierceiy is my wife, when 1fell for ber. And she's been pursuing mie fiercely ever since. Tbere's room for people like us, 'riend. Today I received the supreme accolade. Another teacher who uses My room told me the girls of 10L (and they are no Einsteins) said: "Mr. Smiley Report from Queen'1s Park! 'I îst mie needs, housing, care facilities, corn- n- munity services, clinics, multiple health n- screening and other health care matter. ?ed Two bighiights of the recommenda. 13tions are: 1. An inimediate crash program an housing for senior citizens and, 'a 2.the provision that sifce teFeer in- plement to the aid age security pension to applies at present ta persans 68 and ng oertheProvince undertake to pro- ,-vide payment, which will ensure, that i no persan 65 and over receives less than es$105.00per rnonth, and ta provide sup- 'y65 whose needs, determined by a Wel- t.fare Officer exceed $105.00 a month. k, During the course of its delibera- rstions the Committee made some 180) rtmajor visits extending through five ,yProvinces and a number of jurisdictions in the United States. 0f the 180 visits 140 were ta Clubs, housing projects and homes and hospitals for the aged, two- 7tirds of them in the Province of Ontario. Ta ensure that the report does not nlie forgotten on some dusty shelf a number of steps bave been takew 1. The Conimittee recommended in its first interim report that an office on *aging be set up within the Department *of Publie Welfare. This bas been done and the Consultant ta the Committee, Mr. Lawrence Crawford bas been made Director of that office. 2. An independent review of achieve- ment in the fulfiliment of the recom- mendations is asked for by 1969. The recommendations which will be încluded in the Commjttee's full re- port ta be tabled later in the Session will we trust forni a charter for senior citizens, establisbing and recognizing the rights of those who over the yearg bave laid the foundations for aur pres- ent and future prosperity. ILLNESS Why do we bave ta be sick? Wby is there such suffering? Wby is the mist sa tbick? Wby is there some stumbling? Let's take a look If there were no nigbt Could we find the day? If there were no right Would tbe wrong dismay?4 If there were no winter Could spring ever corne? If there were no illness Would Health be fun? If there were no clouds Could we stand ail the sun, If there were no deathly shrouds Would LIFE have e'er begun? and