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THE COLBORNE CHRONICLE, Thursday, June 15th, 1961 Page Eleven BY DOROTHY BARKER Plans for Centennial A body of Canadian citizens set up as the Canadian Centenary Council is asking fellow Canadians for suggestions as to how our country's 100th birthday in 1967 should be celebrated. One suggestion, which would be spectacular and undoubtedly make a lasting impression on the people of this nation is a "Freedom Train". The plan, in formative stage, is to have this train travel from coast to coast carrying Canada's charters of freedom. Prime Minister Dief-enbaker endorsed the idea when he recently addressed the I ly formed Council at its first session. He also said it could carry such documents as British North America Act the Bill of Rights. It wasn't mentioned, but Canada's publicly owned railroad has a Museum Train which would make an ideal vehicle for a venture of this nature, journey into yesterday" could be taken by thousands right across Canada if this monument to those pioneers who planted the seeds of nationhood was sidetracked at various stations. It would probably take the entire centennial year to remind citizens that the Canadian National system, with its* 33,000 miles of track in Canada, is helping to keep alive the tradition of the country's railway heritage. The Museum Train is more than mere proof of the railroad's pioneer role in the making of Canada. It is also a reminder of a duty to hold what our forefathers gained for us. For along the Canadian National's vast system, the largest in North America, move many of the goods and services which supply Canadians with one of the highest standards of living In the world. 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Colborne Phone 333 Watch the Chevy/Show, Tuesday nights over CBC TV. Check your local paper for time and channel. ployment, steps were taken to train the illiterate and the unskilled, but only under temporary conditions. The idea I should like to promote is that this college be established, preferably in Ottawa, the nation's capital, where young people from all parts of Canada could be trained FREE. Campus dormitories would be a must, railway transportation provided for those who could not d to take advantage of the ing, if they lived in remote "ealize this would cost the taxpayers millions, but relief figures are mounting astronomically, the unemployment insurance fund is dwindling alarin-igly, juvenile delinquency is increasing and who is paying the bill? The taxpayer. Why not invest in some type of security for untrained youth rather than keep them in reform schools and on relief for most of their lives. Perhaps an experience in reclaiming youth, which was a very personal one, would prove my point. When I was editing a weekly newspaper we' had a constant flow of office boys and 'printer's devils" journeying through our payroll. I conceived the idea of hiring only lads who were willing to learn how to operate a linotype. The paper paid their'tuition for elementary training at the Ryerson Institute in Toronto. From there on they had to be interested enough to practice on their own time. In two years we had developed two excellent operators, one a youth who left high school in his second year and the other the best make-up man the shop ever boasted. He too, was in his teens when he grabbed at the chance to be trained. Both boys spent hours of the time they might have spent on the street, learning a trade. Why They Are "Beat" You can claim they were exceptions. Not at all. I will always believe youth can be encouraged to be ambitious. It is our educational system that beats them and discourages any hope of a trained skill. There are those who will find "book learning" a hurdle they cannot take. Someone is going to say "Why not scholarships. Wouldn't they accomplish the same end?" If we are going to mark our centennial, let it be visual as well as constructive. Scholarships are hidden assets. A Centennial College would be evidence for all the world to see of Canada's pride in its youth and consideration for those not as blessed as some in the ability to absorb textbook knowledge. They do have latent skills that only need developing. This country needs | every one of them. If millions can be raised for universities, why not for a college for the less intellectually inclined. Graduation from "Centennial College" would give them a status a scholarship might never establish. I have only one hope. That is, that monuments are not set up across this land to mark the country's century as a nation. 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