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a / "Expires. Wa'en your Label; it tells when your subscription THE PO Author Post Office Department, Ottawa. Arey Published by RT PERRY STAR CO. LTD. ized as Second Class Mail, NOTES AND COMMENTS ~ ORGANIZED TO DEATH 7 Albert Schweitzer of claims that one great hindrance to the de- velopment of civilization to-day is our over- organization, g Plumbers Guild which membership: in. the C.I.O. here in Canada is linked up John also belongs to the Lions Club, to the Kiwanis, to the [.O.0.F\, to Masonic Order; however, 'he doesn't belong to the Rotary, to the Elks, or the Kinsmen--they haven't He is a member of the Legion, of the Presbyterian Church, of the come to town yet. Now this is rather strange for many le think that civilization and or- ganization 'are one and the same thing. Let's look at life-in a small town. is John Smith ; he belongs to local 56 of the holds associate world renown many factors Here cere in our in We live in which In turn, with the C.C.L. Couples' Club, of the Parent Teachers' As- sociation. .of- the local hockey club meetings once or twice a year. . Practically, everywhere he turns John In each of these or- ganizations he tends to hold the same views as others and he can manage this as long as these views keep pretty much to surface Smith is organized. Iv] things. : The real-John Smith hasn't had much - time or opportunity to find self . . how he really thinks . what HIS OWN feelings --. really knows . . really are. John Smith is organized sort of way. Organizations can be very good things or very bad things for the real John Smith «+ .. if he recognizes the dangers in organized movements. . if he carries with him a sense of values, a sense of human dignity and worth, respect ity . . both John Smith and the organiza- - "tion will be helping the development of civilization. Fo CHANGES IN GOVERNMENT We are all interested these days in the outcome of the British elections. ever it may be it will affect many parts of the 'world, .- We no- longer live in grand isolation as we once did. No doubt other governments will decide on elections soon Ideas of this sort are like the as well, measles--catching. We ought all to take an intelligent inter- est in the way a party carries out its pledges when we place power in their There is no better place to do this than right at home in Canada. - Now be- tween 'elections we ought to ask ourselves hands. how well our government promises it made to us when it asked for our vote, ~ What about that low cost housing? What about the racing spiral of the cost of How far can a government keep its promises ? Would any other party have living ? He is also associated. with the Community Centre, a supporting member L "There are and attending built. out about him- . . What he will soon be civilized in an - troubled state But what a for individual- . perience and morale. NSEals Private industry cannot give us the housing we need. Perhaps, there is enough - talent in our. What- see vast ~.as8 we build u . nation , , an tical incentive . Canada this year. necks and other problems connected with the building industry and because of the Government's restrictions on cheap money for housing only 675,000 new homes were For the year alone there is a short- age of some 325,000 units. . In the meantime we are spending hund- -, reds of millions on defense. A good part of this is for munitions, for equipment which looked after our welfare better ? These are all questions we must ask our- selves with real honesty. questions that are hard to answer with real 'honesty, partly because we are ignorant of These are all that go to make up our gov- ernment's decision in all these things and partly because too many of us are pre- Judiced and. more party conscious than sin- vestigation, a tide of 'conflictng opinions. 'The best we can do is to try to discern some current of truth running through it all and cling to the principle that makes for the working out of the problems of the day in the best interests of the community not ~Torgetting the respect due to the individual man on the way. IT MIGHT BE a million more families in Because of the bottle- out-of-date, and for man- oeuvers designed to build Up army morale and experience, ' No one will argue that this is unneces- "sary -spending. While the world is in the it is, then defense must loom large in the plans of any nation. , wonderful thing it: would be if 'we were able to escape hide-bound tradi- tion long enough to make use of our army and its resource to do something construc- tive for the country while it built up ex- army personnel to plan, or- ganize and carry out a scheme of national' housing We see immense difficulties; we ossibilites. --~At-the same -time an army; we build up the incidently give some prac- to our men and our people . : then truly, we would have much more to defend, much ~~ the present. might protest has kept the more to fight for than at Industry might protest; labour unions ; but there is little question that the people as a whole would support such a scheme. capable leadership and an inspired determ- inaton to solve our problems, ~The soldiers would firid life much more interesting and much more worthwhile , , the kind of life they lead in preparation for - destructon is something that does not ap- = peal to heart and mind and spirit. It could be done with Favor Abolishment of Homework A plea for the total abolishment of homework is made by social worker and magazine writer Sidney Katz in the current issue of Maclean's Maga- zine, Katz, an assistant editor on the "magazine, says, "there is strong evi- dence that homework sours pupils on learning the rest of their lives, creates unnecessary work and worry for par- ents and robs pupils of wholesome "recreational and social life during their most formative years." Katz personally surveyed 50 school teachers, principals and inspectors from all over Canada. Hé reports that none favored homework in the first six grades of school. Only a few were in favour of it from grades 7 to 10, All said that homework assignments in kt senior high "school grades were ex- cessive. = Said Clarence Vickery, a Toronto principal: "Homework doesn't help the slow child. The fast child doesn't need it. So why give it?" ¢ Said Lorne F. Titus, chief school superintefidant for Saskatchewan: "Children need their out of school time for other experiences." : Said a New Brunswick School board member: "How. would Dad like to be faced with two or three hours of more office work just as he gets ready to relax after supper?" A recent Alberta study by Raymond Shaul, says Katz, studied 2000 teach- ers, parents and pupils and found most teachers opposed to homework, - . Katz points out that a Nova Scotia 'ruling prohibits grade 1 pupils from taking thelr readers' home and doing homework because the young- sters were "learning to read" by mem orizing the books, 2, Kanz blames parents for continued heavy homework assignments, Teach- ers and principals, he 'claims, are op- posed to it and he quotes one teacher as saying "We plead with the parents to stop interfering." x Community Hospital The Hospital Board met on Tuesday October 2nd with their Consulting En- gineer and three of the members of the firms who tendered for the Heat- ing and Plumbing and Electrical Con- tracts for the hospital. The tenders were discussed and care- fully considered and it was decided to meet again on October 6th with the the Board's solicitor to award the con- tracts and consider other matters, At the meeting on October 6th the tender of W. H, Peel Hardware was accepted for the Heating and Plumb- ing; also the tender of Joice-Sweanor was accepted for the Electrical ma- terial and work. ; Both of these being subject to the completion of construction contracts in a form satisfactory to the Board's Consulting Engineer and. Solicitor. Mr. John L. Sweetman was appoint- ed foreman for the work of erecting the- Boiler Room and completing the building of the Hospital. tlds A number of men are now at work putting shingles on' the roof of the Hospital and will proceed with the other work at once." ide The contracts for heating and plumb. ing and the Electrical work should be signed in a few days so that the work on these contracts can start without delay, ot A letter has been received from the Povincial Government advising us that a grant of $23,000 has been approved and as the Dominion Government will give a grant of an equal amount, we are now assured with our debentures of $34,000, a total of 80,000, over and above what has already been spent to Ontario County Garden Club ACHIEVEMENT DAY This year 23 girls in Ontario County have successfully completed the Gar- den Club project. The work was sponsored by the Women's Institute Branch, Department@of Agriculture, under the leadership of Home Econ- omist, Miss Ruth Shaver, and the Agricultural Representative, Mr. H. L. Fair, =r In the spring, each girl received a number of vegetable and flower seeds which she planted and carefully tend- ed. During the summer months, she served vegetables from her garden at family meals, kept garden records and attended club meetings. "At Achievement. Day held at Beav- erton Fair and Scott Fair, each gar- dener judged two classes of vegetables garden quiz. 1 vegetables and flowers from their club garden were displayed along with their completed record books. Three club members 'received their County Honour Certificate for having success- fully completed 6 club units. = These girls were: , Eunice Brown of Beaver- ton, Mrs, Alan Martyn, and Sandra James, of the Scugog.Club." @ Girls who have finished two Club 'projects were presented with a Cer- tificate of Achievement. ' Recipients of these awards were: Dorothy Fran: cis and Mary Little, of Beaverton, Geraldine Barry, Yvonne Milner, and Betty Powell of the Scugog Club. Thiese garden clubs, throughout the County, have been under the direction of Local Leaders, Mich of the suc- cess of.the clubs is due to their efforts. ~The clubs with their local leaders 'were as follows: Atherley--Mrs, Jos. Johnson; Beaverton -- Mrs, Russell Morrison; Scugog--Mrs. R. Boundey and Mrs, 8. Rodman. finance this project, |Makes South Ont. -| with secretary-treasurer 0. H. Dow- gave oral reasons: and answered al' Attractive exhibits of |Good Weather Plowing Match Splendid Success The' golden haze of Indian Summer covered the plowed acrés of the Na- tional Stud Farm, Wednesday, October 3rd, when thirty sons of the soil com- peted in that age-old pastime of farm- ers, a plowing match - It was ideal weather for the 18 two-horse teams and 17 tractors taking part in the an- nual South Ontario Plowing Match. Visitors and entrants came from sych points as Brampton, Stouffville, Mark- ham, Scarborough, Claremont and Victoria County, The shades_of night were falling fast as the sweating teams plowed their last furrows, and the hard work- ing and hungry plowmen retired to banquet tables spread in one of the farm buildings, where the ladies of Kedron W. A. served,a delicious and bountiful meal to all comers, After this came a program in Col- umbus Community Hall, chaired by W. R. Bishop, president of the South On- tario Plowmen's Association. Reeve Powell of East Whitby, congratulated the plowmen on the hard day's work they had put in, and on the awards awaiting them. Lynn Fair, county re- presentative, described - briefly the Chicago trip he made in company with the two boys who had plowed. "best land" in the International match last year. Highlights of the tour, he said, were visits to the Chicago grain ex- change and the crowning of the inter- national livestock champions at the Colisoum. A pleasant-interlude in the program was provided by Mrs. E, J. Evans and Miss Joan Evans who introduced a sextet of young dancers from Colum- bus. Mrs, Evans provided piano nc- sters. ' . The appreciation of the association was expressed 'by Mr. Bishop to the personne] of the National Stud Farm for their splendid co-operation in run- ning the match, and Howard Farndale from the farm was on hand to assist in the presentation of the prizes; along ney of Myrtle, and assistant secretary Norman Down of Oshawa. LIST OF WINNERS. " "Judges were George Little of Agin- court and Gardham Tran of Markham. Following is the list of prizes awarded. Class 3, Stubble--1 B. Wylie; 2, G. Bell; 3 Billie Hill; 4 Anthony Feather stone, 6 Henry Bewell, - Class 4, Stubble--1 Mark Timbers, 2 Ivan Bell; 3 Ralph Holder. Class 6, Tractor in Stubble--1 Hugh Baird, 2, Don Dunkild, Class T;"Tractor in Stubble--1 Wm. McMillan, 2 Harvey Chambers, 3 Bev- erley Bryan, 4 Ronald Werry, 6 Don Smith, Class 8, Tractor in Stubble-- 1 L. C. Kennedy, 2 Allan Myers. Class 1, Sod---1 James Lee, 2 Herb. Jarvis, 3 Harvey Timbers, 4 Ralph Smith, 2 'Class 2, Sod-Jointer -- 1 Leslie Fielding. i - ...Class 4,. Tractor in .sod--1 Joe-Tran, 2 Robt. Timbers, 8 W.J. Cooperthwate, 4 Ronald Marquis; 6 McLaughlin. Best Team Equipment--1 Geo. Scott donated by George Little; for best land plowed in stubble, Hugh Baird. | See Girl Guides On Wednesday the 3rd the Girl Guides held their first official meet- ing on the last year's meeting place, the local armouries. The proceedings began at 7 p.m. with a patrol drill which was very efficient. Among the arrangements which followed, Captain Godley mentioned that it might be possible for us to move into our new meeting place, the Scout Building which is still. under construction, by November. . The meeting was continued with a review of Tender Foot work which was especially helpful to three new girls-- Katherine Sweet. Diane Tease, and 'Pat Haddon, After the review a game of "Grab the Glove" was participated in, - This was followed by a contest on the Tender Foot work. Later Camp Fire was held around which many of the old familiar songs which had not béen sang for sometime were enjoyed, cbmpiment for these talented young- | The evening was closed in the usual| wishes were much appreciated by 'Scott Fair SCOTT FAIR JUNIOR SECTION OUTSTANDING SUCCESS The Junior section at the Scott Fair was an outstanding event this.year. Ninety-eight (U8) boys and girls from the immediate dis- trict of Uxbridge and Port Perry took part in this Junior Section. In the Girls' Garden Club dis- play, the judging resulted as fol- lows: Lirst Prize Group--Jean Sam- ells, Port Perry; Bonnie Gerrow, Port Perry. ) Stcuid rZe uroup-- Sandra James, ore verry, KK S$; Latlian Lothius, Pore Perry, K.K. 3; uer- aluine. Barry, ore terry, KK 3; Ivonne diner, Port verry, RiR.4; Lewy Powell, Port Perry, KK. 1. hard rrize troup -- Catharine mariyn, Pore Perry, RR. 3; Shir- ley lsden, rort Perry, R.R. 8. lus year the Uxbridge Junior stitute had an Azaleamum Pro- Jeet. 'The Riverdale Kiwams Club provided each of the girls in the Project with 10 small Azalea- mums. 'These were set out in the garden and each girl in the pro- ject potted one of her plants and put it un display at Scott Fair. ithe Judging in the Azaleamum Display is as follows: . First Prize Group--M%xine Par- ish, Uxbridge; Geraldine Gregg, Uxbridge, R.R. 8. Second Prize Group -- Isabelle Annand, Uxbridge, R.R. 2; Corin- ne-Croxall, Uxbridge, RR. 3; Dor- is Risebrough, Uxbridge, R.R. 1. Teachers' Annual Convention Lue annual couvenuon ol the LEACIers Ol UNLUIo Nort inspect- urate was neld on rriday, uclober oul dl tne town hall in geaverwon. mr KL BL Goard, principal of Lea- verwon Pubnie School presided. alwer the singing of "UO Canada", played by Mass myrna Beare, Key, alr. Johnson, Church ot kkngland, conducted the devotional period ul scripture and prayers. A sincere welcome wo the visit- tng teachers was voiced by Mrs. imuckenzie, reeve ol Beaverton. I'he secretary, Mr. W. IY. Ham- mell of Uxbridge read the minutes Lb "the 1900 Convention held at Bowmanville Training School. Re- porters were appointed for the various papers. After very brief spector, Mr. H. W. Knight intro- duced the new teachers' present and welcomed them to our group. Mr. Knight urged the teachers to plan a special Remembrance Day program before Nov. 11, appro- priate to our classes, te Also special thought is to be given to October 24th which is United Nations' Day. Teachers' Interim Certificates, also T.B. certificates are to be ex- amined. The necessity of regular attend- ance was stressed. All the schools in Ontario should. belong to the Third Prize Group -- Jeanne Pearson, Uxbridge, RR. 2; Dar- een Brethour, Uxbridge, R.R. 3; Betty Armstrong, Uxbridge. Mr. George Frost and Dr. Rey- . nolds from the Riverdale Kiwanis Club, Toronto, were the judges of the Azaleamum and Garden Dis- plays. : Co -The Uxbridge Junior Farmers sponsored a Grain Club with their members this year. Some of the! boys purchased registered "Ajax ' oats and others purchased a new-, er variety called Larain. Twelve of the members brought out one bushel of their grain 'for display in this Uxbridge Junior Farmer Grain Club Class. The field score and also the scoring of the grain at Scott Fair will be taken into consideration in declaring win- ners in this project. " Achievement Days this year were held with the Scott Calf Club the Scott Potato Club, the Scott Corn Club, and the Uxbridge High School Forestry Club. The final scores for the above four clubs will be announced at a later date. All these clubs were organized several months ago and the members have been carrying on their club program through- out the year. i Some outstanding beef calves vere shown in the Scott Calf Club and the. members showing these calves will now have the oppor- tunity of entering them in the King's Guineas at the Royal Win- ter Fair. 25th Anniversary | -Mr. and Mrs. Altona Mark cele- brated their 26th wedding anni- versary on Sunday, Oct. 7. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Art Steph- enson and son Danny; Mr. And Mrs. Vie Stephenson, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Balfour all of Toron- to; Miss Hazel Balfour, Mr. Frank Aldred, Mr. and Mrs. Don Mark, daughter Gale and Sandra of Port Perry. .! Mr. and Mrs. Mark were pre- sented with silver Tri-light Lamp | along with-a beautifully decorat- Junior Red<Cross Society. Iixperienced critic teachers are to receive $4 per day of student teaching. i . A reminder that « teacher's re- sponsibility- over children going and coming to school begins and ends at the school gate, was given. No Book Salesmen are to be in- terviewed during school hours. Special attention is to be given to the development of better pen- manship by general supervision as well as the use of suitable Jr. writing notebooks. | . A new Social Studies Text book for Grade VIII, "Story of England and the Empire" was advised. Two fine baritone solos by Mt. McCormick of Beaverton High S. staff were sung, "Ole Man River" and "Ragged Vagabond", Mrs. Brock was his accompanist. After the morning session an excellent dinner was served by the ladies of Beaverton United Church. The speaker was Dr. R. 0. Staples, a former inspector, who had just returned from the Educational Convention in Saska- toon. : In his talk on "Signs of the Times in Education", Dr. Staples spoke of the many modern trends, especially the advancement of the Supervision policy instead of for- mer formal teaching methods. At the afternoon session the fol- lowing slate of officers was brought in by the Nominating Committee: Pres.--Miss Anna Egan. 1st Vice-Pres.--Mr. R. Wilson. ~-2nd--Vice-Pres--Mrs.-E. -M.--- Hunter. Sec'y-Treas.--Mr. W. F. © Hammell. Mr. S. J. Rickard, B.A., princi- pal of Beaverton H. S. led his school orchestra of 24 instruments including 13 violins, in two selec- be "Bunday Afternoon" and "Silken Fans". The superb ef- remarks by the president, our in- | Inducted | On Thirsday Evening, October 4th the members of the Church of the Ascension, Port Perry and 'St. Thomas' Church, Brooklin had the pleasure of attending the beautiful and impressive Induc- tion Service which was held in the Church of the Ascension here and performed by the Right Rev- crend Bishop A. R. Beverly assist- ed by the Rural Dean of East York the Rev. A. G. Channen, clergy of the Diocese und the Rev. Jack Clough a former rector of the . Parish, when the Rev. H, S. Swa- bey, who has just wrrived from England, was inducted as Rector of the combined parishes to fill the vacancy left by the removal of Rev. Coneybeuare to Niagara Falls. . The combined chpir took up its pusition in the gallery and the congregation filled the Church, a number bejng-present from Brook- hn, some from Uxbridge, Black- stock and Whitby and they follow- ed the Ceremony of Induction with interest, including the presenta- tion of the Keys of the Church by ~ the Wardens of the two Parishes to Rev. Swabey after which the sermon - was delivered by Rural Dean Channen of Whitby. When the service was concluded the members of the church re- tired to the Parish -Hall where refreshments were -served by the ladies, a few words of encourage- .ment were given by the Bishop, the Rev. Swabey expressed his ap- preciation and Church - warden Clough to greet his old parish. ioners who welcomed him. ! ~ This church has -witnessed a number of inductions during the last half century but all agreed this was the most impressive and they hoped it would be the last for a number of years, meaning, of course, that they hoped Mr. Swabey would be their rector for a number of years. ' ized and appreciated by the teach- ers. This fine work offered an - incentive to- other schools to try a similar experiment. Following this music. Mr. Rick- High School". He urged us to teach children to live, to be good citizens and to guard their social behaviour, rather than perfect marks. : : He stressed the need of a ter- minal course for students in Grade X. He deplored the inaccuracy in spelling and mathematics: The need of an overhaul in Re- port Cards was stressed, with more and fuller remarks than marks. i The singing of the National Anthem terminated this most en- -}Joyable convention of the teachers of Ontario North. It was an added pleasure to have also as honoured guests at the banquet many visiting inspec-, tors. and fine old friends in the person of: CTR i Mr. R. A. Hutchison, Mr. T. R. Ferguson. Mr. A. Archibald. "1 forts of these musicians of only oné year's experience were real- = Tn Mr. McEwen and Mr. Webster of Durham €Gounty. by "M. ed wedding cake. An Apology From Mrs. Harold Marshall Due to a regrettable error on the part of Mrs. Harold Marshall, the namés of Mrs. Howard Bart- ley and Mrs. Tom Bartley were omitted from the list of those pre- sént at the McConnell Re-Union on August 26th. Nevertheless their presence and their good Mr. and Mrs. Norman McConnell. manner with the singing of taps, . everything except the weather. . . 'Century and according ta some ex- The British will now probably refer to that place in Iran as Abandon not Abadan. ' 3 * * Ll Thanksgiving found us thankful for] LI Tr We are in the last half of the 20th perts time' is running out. : LIE A : Do you remember the good old days when an atomizer was nothing more harmful than a perfuma sprayer? * LJ » 14 The cost of living index went up an- other point to a place where it is pointless to even discuss it. [1] THE PASSING SHOW A.C." : The Americans are mighty smart people . . they buy our paper process it into all sorts of things and sell it at about half of what it costs us to buy the same thing in Canada made out of our own paper by Canadians who get less wages than they do in the States . . they do the same with" our meat, : un 5. . ) Which ever way goes the World ==: -- Series, New York can't lose. 4 LIRR In spite of the fact that we are assured that Wetcan't take money with us people make a terrific effort to acquire it . . just as much as if they could take it with'them, Glass called on the Rev. Jack and inefficiency of pupils' work -_ Rev. H. S. Swabey ta ard spoke onthe subject, "On td ° ET » i os Lf