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---- The Canadien Weekly Newspapers Association Fon i Ze Sg Tm TE THE STAR EDITORIAL PAGE PARANA SBCA EI rb Port Perry, Ontario, : THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1954 ---- In Bad Taste * We live in a land of freedom, or, perhaps, we should say of comparative freedom. And, "this freedom makes it possible for us to do a : . number of things that we wouldn't be able to do in many other countries. - For instance, if we are in the business of making and selling soap there is nothing to prevent us from using Christmas Carols and Christmas music to help us sell our pro- duct... We have freedom to do this. As a matter of fact you can use anything you dike to sell anything you have to sell. In order to make sure that you get your pro- ducts sold there are companies who do noth- ing but specialize in novel ideas for making use of novel things to sell other things that ~ really have nothing to do with what you want to sell. 3 Yau sell gasoline with nursery rhymes adaptations of Snow White; you sell canned beer with a swing version of "Come All Ye Faithful"; you sell cigarettes with the en- chanting antics of scantily aproned drum majorities: you sell electrical products with idealized versions of family life and marital love A whole new.army of recruits to television is busily engaged in talking down to you on a The New Session Most Canadians know perfectly well what the new session of parliament should deal with as pressing husiness. First, there is unemployment, which in spite of the dis- agreement concerning the precise figures of the current unemployed, it is a: very import- ant problem. Secondly, there is the problem of low-cost housing about which the muni- cipalities, the provinces and the federal gov- ernment should get together. Then, of course, there is the matter of defense spending 'and our standing or sitting army and navy. Finally, we come up with the problems of our subsidized foodstuffs and our surplus grain. These ave pressing problems: and no doubt they will come in for some discussion. How- ever there is no indicaton that the new ses- son will do. anything more positive than the last one with regard to: pressing problems. Therefore, these 'people who are hopefully looking for some action with regard to these three-year old level about the virtues of something or other that you simply must try, They talk seriously such nonsense; they overact a Dale Carnegie approach; they in- sult you so officously that it's a wonder the society for prevention of cruelty to human animals doesn't declare an open season on these television maniacs who are so ready to do anything to sell something. It's a free country and that's why we are protesting this awful grivel that we call modern advertising on television. If this is the price that we have to pay for having televison it begins to look as though we would be a lot better off without it. You can't go on confusing so much with so little for purely commercial reasons without paying more of a price than you bargained for. It isn't bad taste to make use of Christian- ity in order to sell your goods; it's sacrilege of a selfish kind. It's a free country . . . ~ and we do well to remember that we can use our freedom or we can abuse it In our opinion much of what we see and hear in the guise of modern sales promotion represents the abuse of freedom . . . it goes beyond the question of. good or bad taste, 5 things will probably be disappointed. The government will, however, come to some arrangement with Quebec regarding taxation; will support its own present policy of immigration; will probably slightly reduce taxes both income and corporation and will make provision for borrowing to cover up the resulting deficit. Television, the CBC, The Canadian' National Railways, all three will get special attention and Donald Gordon will probably make sure that his company will get some necessary concessions regarding financing. It is equally certain that the opposition will be no more or no less effective than in the former sittings . . . which is about as innocuous away. of explaining the opposition as one could find. Actually if it did a mite less one could hardly grace it with the title of opposition. But then again what is there to oppose. | the election earlier this month, it was '| and present besides His Honour and PASSING' SHOW By M.A. C. South Africa isin the bad books of the United Nations once 'again as Jo- hannes Strijdom, the new prime min- ister, strives to make the union wsate for whites. er If you don't smoke, you eat too much, If you eat too much you have other things Beside lung: cancer, To finish you off. If you see both sides of the dilemma You don't know what to do. You become confused, and You end upswith a psychiatrist . . . Which is just as bad as ending up with Lung Cancer Which is"just as bad as heart trouble from overeating. ~ And some people have only the atom : bomb to worry:about! -- The Roman Catholic Church is hav- ing trouble with one of its most im- portant children . . . Child President Juan Peron of Argentine ...aud they _daren't excommunicate: him . . .:not yet . . . not while he is still president of Argentine. 'you don't like. 'clalism ever turned into communism; 'but contrariwise, the only nations-ever those .in which: the progressive wel- The editorial on corruption in the big: cities which appeared in the Port Perry 'Star was not a -result of inside information about room 1736 . . we've never even seen room 1786 from the outside. ---- The appeal of wrestling on television has-been explained not in terms' of appreciation for skill but rather in identification with one of the wrest- lers and imagining that the pain in- flicted is beem meted out to someone . must 'be lots of unliked people in Canada! This ex- planation could be as phony as the sport abeut which it ia made. ---- Those people: who make fun of so- cialism would do well to ponder this statement by a world correspondent: In no country in the world has so- to have' adopted communism were fare: of the people had been thwarted and held back by a small and a greedy minority. fe Clipped Comments HE ------------------ WONDER WHY OTTAWA ALLOWS THIS? : Josev Valék, commercial attache for communist Czechoslovakia, is hap- py because of Ottawa's decision ta re- seind dumping restrictions on Czecho- slovak imports. Czechoslovakia, he says, hopes to export: several million more dollars® worth of goods to Can- ada than she imports from this country. Canadian workers have reason to be somewhat lessienthusiastic about trade prospects between this country and Czechoslovakia, Chances are that Czech imports, produced by forced 1a- bor under tha communists, will under sell Canadiaremade products by a sub- stantial m The fact that ©zechoslovakia was recently expélled from the Interna- tional Monetary Fund on the ground that she would not give other mem- ber countries sufficient information about her ecanomy suggests that such 'Scholarship Rand, sponsored by the fears are only too well-founded. In a police state it is easy to conceal un- fair trade practices aimed at creating further unemployment in non-commu- nist countries such as Canada. --Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville A MACPHAIL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP Agnes Macphail, the Sountey school teacher who fought her. way .up Par- liament Hill, left a shining saga 'hm the annals of Canadian History. - The: Elizabeth: Fry Society Toronté Branch is seeking to honor the mem- ory of its founder with a lasting trib- ute. The Agnes Macphail Memorial Society, will be used to establish scholarships at Canadian Schools of Social Work for students who wish to work in the field of probation and rehabilitation of prisoners, or when a 'Chair of Penology is set up for atu- dents who wish to study in that de. partment. The goal of the Elizabeth Fry So- ciety has been well chosen. - It will carry on Agnes Macphail's inspired crusade for prison reform. The country girl from Grey County was the first woman to be elected to the from 1921 to 1940. During that tinfe and until her death, 'Agnes Macphail never flagged in.her valiant struggle for more humane eonditions in Cana. dian prisons. Nor did she ever lose sight of the personal - responsibility she felt for the welfare of these for- gotten people. ItMs significant that after her pass- ing, inmates of 'Kingston Penitentiary honored 'Agnes Macphail as the first person to bring about changes within those walls, .and. that..the inmates of Oakalla Prison Farm, in British Co- lumbia, mourned the death of a be- loved and; great Canadian lady. Admirers of 'Miss Macphail will be pleased:to'know that a bronze bust of her will be unveiled in the Parliament Buildings at Ottawa next March. The unveiling will take place on the an- niversary of the opening-.of the Four- teenth Parliament in 1921 when Miss Macphail became the first woman member of the Commons. : The bust will: be ynveiled by Mrs. Hugh Bailey, Toronto, and Mrs, Mere- dith Reany, Palmerston, sisters of |' Miss Macphail, who presented the bust, * While you're in the: Christmas spirit send a contribution to the Agnes Mac- phail Memorial Scholarship Fund,.844 Jarvis Steet, Toronto. --Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville District Doings STORES WILL CLOSE ON MON., PEC. 27 IN. BOWMANVILLE Monday, December 27, will be ob- served in Bowmanville as Boxing Day and will be a civic holiday, Town Council decided at the December meet- ing held on Monday night. A request that the day be declared a civic holdiay was:received from the 'Retail Merchants Committee of the Bowmanville Chamber of Commerce. The letter pointed out that all mer~ chants belonging to the Chamber would be closing their stores on De- cember 27. ORONO.PROTESTS UPHELD BY OHA The Ontario Hockey Association has upheld.a protest by Orono Orphans of the Lakeshore Intermediate A hockey League that Port Hope Redmen were 'using two ineligible players when Red- men defeated them 6-5 Dec. 8. The OHA's sub-committee decided Monday night that Bill Peters and "Bob Holden. members of the now-de- House of Commons and held that seat / . funct Senior B Oshawa Truckmen last dition to the Uxbridge High School dition and alterations. season, violated the residence rule. Their playing certificates were re voked. 'Further action was reserved until the association's full executive meets Friday. Orphans were awarded the game. 4 4 SCHOOL BOARDS TO ORGANIZE More than 40 ratepayers attended a special meeting called by Uxbridge township council to discuss the setting up of separate school section boards within the municipality. They will re- place the present Public School Area Board system which is now being used. One man was appointed to repre- sent each of the 12 proposed Boards in the Township. Each section will hold an organization meeting on Wed, nesday, Dec. 20th, at 10 am. The Boards will each elect three trustees. If in any section a separate Board cannot be formed, the present Area Board will carry on until the necessary members are elected. | -- SET DATE FOR TWP. RECOUNT Thursday, December 23rd has heen set by His Honour Judge J. E. Prit- chard for the recount of ballots in Whitby Township. On that day, a tie between Councillors Sidney Lock- yer and Mrs. Myrtle Lovelock will be broken. When ballots were tallied following found that Mrs. Lovelock and Mr. Lockyer were tied for third position on the three-man council with 869 votes each. Township clerk Murray Robinson informed Judge Pritchard, county judge, of the situation, and a date has now been set for a recount. It will be held on December 23rd in: the Whitby Township Hall, 'Brooklin, Township Clerk Robinson will be both candidates and possibly agents for each. If it is found that both are still tied after a recount, Clerk Robinson will have the arduous task of easting the deciding ballot, 5 ROOM ADDITION PLANNED NEXT YEAR FOR UXBRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL A letter to Georgina Council, from the Central Ontario County 'District High School Board, requesting their approval to build a new five room ad- was received prior to December's Council meeting. The letter went on to say "The need for the new addition is clearly shown by the increase of over 100 pupils in the span of four years", This increase has temporari- ly erowded the present school. In ad- dition the public school enrolment in the schools serving Uxbridge High indicates there will he 166 entering in September 1956 compared with 88 this fall. : Present difficulties: 1. The present shop was installed in a basement room, which would other- wise have been used for lunch or dres- sing room, 2. When the Agriculture and Home Economics rooms were installed, hall space was taken over to provide stor- age cupboards for these rooms, and now, with the increased enrolment, there is a severe shortage of cloak- room space. 8. There are, at present, only five standard classrooms, and the lab. is smaller than standard size. With the Blackstock Street Council gave the by-law the first and second readings and now await approval or disapproval from the Ontario Municipal "Board. 4 BUTTER MAKE IS INCREASED, The make of creamery. butter, in October of this year, in both Ontario and Durham counties were up con- siderably on that in the same month of last year. A total of 62,744 pounds were made in Durham county as compared with 68,679 pounds in October a year ago. A total of 740,882 pounds have been made in Durham this year as against 762,854 pounds in the 10 months of 19568. In Ontario county a total of 65,316 pounds were made in October as a- gainst 61,326 pounds in the same month of last year. The total make during the 10 months of this year was 766,107 pounds as compared with 740,- 171 pounds for the same period of 19563. ---- MONEY BY-LAWS TURNED DOWN Record Decisive Majorities Against Proposed Expenditures LINDSAY--The proposed Hospital Expansion Plan and the Band Tax By- Law were bd¥h defeated by a substan- tial margin in Monday's municipal elections in Lindsay. The hospital plan lost by a 211-vote margin, and Boy's Band was defeated by 502 votes. No Report on Lighting The Dec. meeting of Council was held on Priday, Dec. 8rd. Members all present. Reeve in chair, Minutes of Nov. meeting read and adopted. The Committee on Street Lighting reported that Mr. Lawson of the Hyd- ro Electric Power Commiss. had been down and went over the streets with the committee one night and certain additions and changes had been agreed upon, but the map that was received from Hydro afterwards was not the same as had been agreed upon and no esimate of cost had been received and no final report to Council will be made until Hydro gives an estimate of Cost. Committee from Fred Harran re- questing pay for Toilet Accomodation at Caesarea for 1953-64. As the Health department did not pass the accomodation provided & notified Mr. HiFran to that effect in the middle of summer and no improvements were made, Council decided to pay $10.00 for last year and $6.00 for this year, that is up to the time of inspection. Clerk was instructed to write Man- vers Council about their share of Boundary Account. Owen Stacey, F. Tréwin, A. Leighton were present re sheep killed by dogs. Clerk instructed to: call Tenders for a caretaker for rink for winter. Care- taker to put in the ice for Curling on Mon., Tues. and Thurs. nights and skating or hockey on Wed., Friday and Saturday nights with Free skating for Public School children on Saturday afternoon, Accounts paid as follows: Hydro Electric, Com: Hall, 6.07 commercial class using a room we are one short for our present enrolment | and use the very small library for the grade thirteen class, \ By September, 1856, our need will he aa follows: 1. additional classroom needed to clear present shortages. 2. additional classrooms needed for the four grade nines we will have. 1 additional classroom needed for the three grade tens we will have. \1 ad- ditional classroom for the two grade elevens we will have. In all, five will be needed. Estimate--$100,000.00 to build ad- Under the current grant regulations, the Dept. of Education will pay. a grant of 75 percent of the approved cost. The last equalized assessment of our area is $10,892,624.00. The share of the cost, when spread over the entire area, would increase the mill rate by approximately one third of a mill Moreover, the last payment on the current debenture against Uxbridge High School will be made in 1956. The Board requests your council's approval for the new addition by the passing of the by-law giving us per- mission to raise the necessary money. A copy of the suggested by-law is at- tached. It is urgent that the Board he empowered to proceed as rapidly as possible with the drawlog up of plans and the obtaining of final ap- proval, Rink 6.07, Garage 0.07 Rec. Hall 20,10 ...........ccocunen $ 38.31 WHAT'S 80 FUNNY Wayne and Shuster find humor a serious business. And seriously, what's funny about 1856? There's a gag here somewhere and in the din of New Year's Evo celebrations, Can- ada's top comedy team are trying = hard to find it. But any minute thelr pose of profundity is going to disinte- grate into an old-fashioned whoopee as the clock strikes twelve, Wayne and Shuster star in their own show on the CBC Trans-Canada network every Thuraday night, and on television every fourth week. OFICRr oorvririririieniniimirsirioin Port Perry Fire Agreement .... 0. Weatherilt, Storage for Pump and Hose ...cocoveerunenene. John Archer, Brucllossis Inspector, 60x20 ...........cevsnrene. 12.60 Bill Ferguson, Br. Insp. 43x20 8.60 '| Earl Dorrell, B. Insp., 65x20 .... 18.00 Fed Hall Toilet Accomodation ene at CAEBATER .........ccvrereerirenee 156.00 Arth. Bailey, storage for Tractor & Sprayer 1854 ........ 24.00 Voucher No. 11 ..virevinreernneenanne 966.99 TobR] Loviriioriuriosocion $16,389.96 Council adjourned to Dec. 16th at 2 pm. b Henry Thompson, Clerk. Ontario Dept. of Health The people of Ontario County will have the opportunity of a free chest x-ray during 1955. The Ontario De- partment of Health is to provide the special x-ray equipment used in Mass Chest X.ray Surveys. The Ontario County Tuberculosis Association will be sponsoring the organizing work from the proceeds of the current Christmas Seal Sale. Over three million free chest x-rays have been taken of the people of Ont- ario under this cooperative arrange- ment since mass surveys began. From 1946 on, 300,000 x-rays have been taken annually in this case finding program, A great number of chest abnorm- alities have been discovered. Of the cases of active Tuberculosis, the ma- Jority are found in the early stages of disease. This has contributed to the rapidly declining death rate from TB in the province. The Reference Clinies, held regu- larly at Port Perry Hospital are under the supervision of the Medical Officer of Health, Dr. G. M. Rennie and fi- nanced by the Ontario County Tuber- culosis Association. A. Leighton, 2 sheep killed .... F. Trewin, 1 reg. lamb killed .. Geo. Saunders, 1 lamb killed .... 19.00 Owen Stacey 1'sheep killed .... 30.00 R.. Wall, sheep valuator .......... 10.00 Wallace Marlow Co., 27 bags Lime for spraying ......... Saywell's, spray material ....... 8.42 Reg. Nesbitt, spraying stables 18.00 Reesor's, 2180 of .Coal for Recreational Centre .............. County Treas., Hospitalization H. & D. Health Unit, Plumbing Fermits ......c.ccen. Ont. Dept. of Health, Insulin .. 4.78 Reg. Office, xegistering deed 5.25, Documents 20.61 ......... Harry Deyman, Clerk of the Peace, cert. 10 voters' lists .. High School Deb. No. 17 and Interest Coupons ............ 671.84 Public School Deb. No. 1 and Interest Coupons ........cuvivui 3616.00 Cartwright Public School Area Bal. Trustee sale ......... 8261.20 Devitt's 8. 8. No. 8, Trustee RBUB auc vivir rivivivinsnipmsrisissions . 402.83 High School Bd. Bal, Trustee Rate ovine, 649.80 B. of Commerce, Com. on High 8chool Deb. oven. we 80 H. Thompson, Clerk-Treas. ...... 125.00 H.-Thompson, postage .......... 60.00 Hector Shortridge, Janitor Community Hall .............. R. Wall, School attendance 76.00 ».45| Film Council News This Association has worked to- ' gether with the leaders of industry 'to make a chest x-ray available to every new employee. The Christmas Seal Sale is the only source of revenue by which the diver- 22.05 | sified programs of the Ontario County Tuberculosis Association are financed. Ontario and York Counties' Film Council held a special meeting at the home of 'Mr. and Mrs. John C. W. Idwin, Whitevale. | - Mr. Ron Ward of the Peterboro of- fice, who is our new representative from the National Film Board, was present. He spoke briefly, explain- ing the function and relationship of local Film Councils to the regional and national offices, and stressed the importance of filling in the report cards supplied with all film programs. A newly produced film, ONE LIT- TLE INDIAN, wag previewed by the Council, It is a safety film for children, After an animated discus- sion, it was voted "good", and suit- able to be purchased for the local Film Pool. The next gathering will be the An- nual Meeting on January 10th. More detailed announcement will be made later. Of Many Things By Ambrose Hills IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE Myron Kuzych, the Vancouver wel- der engaged in an heroic court atrug- gle against expulsion from his union, writes me to take issue with a column I wrote some time ago. I had written that I"thought he was on the wrong track in denouncing prosperous union leaders for driving cadillacs and smoking fat cigars. I stated that in my opinion, a good union leader should got good pay; and that if the work- ing man became a cheapskate about paying for good leadership, he would be foolish. Mr. Kuzych was particularly annoy- ed at my statement, "Only a hypoerite would claim that he does not want to drive a cadillac." I think the trouble arose because he felt that I was calling him a hypocrite. I do not for one moment believe that he is. He writes: "Cigars and cadillacs denote merit (of a kind) only in the entrepreneur, they are useless ostentatious encum- brances denoting nothing but medioc- rity in a union leader. "For this reason while cigars and cadillaes may ordinarily: have little or nothing to do with Unionisn, union cigars and union cadillacs--that is cl- gars and cadillacs bought and paid for with the money exacted and ex- torted by means of compulsion and coercion implicit in Union Security-- have everything to do with Unionism. They are but two of the many shibo- leths by which all intelligent union members can detect a so-called 'union leader' turned Iabor-merchandizing- entrepreneur, "That is: a hypocrite!" Not heing a union member this sub- Ject-is somewhat beyond me, Naturally I agree with Mr. Kuzych that cadil. Ines and cigars bought with somebody else's hard-earned money, and not carned by sénie service of one's own, but with the money wrung from the long-suffering and practically defen- celess dues-payers, could well be marks of the hypocrite. Certainly union members should be free to cri- _| ticize, and to put careful checks upon their leaders so that misuse of funds can be punished. But to my mind, that is not the real issue. The real issue is the right of every worker to Join or not to join a union of his own choice. Getting cigars and cadillacs mixed Into the argument doesn't seem to do anything but confuse the {ssue. Certainly I did not deliberately set out to ascribe to Mr, Kuzych a view which he neither expressed nor fm. plied. While he and I are certainly not in total agreement, I sympathize with his fight to regain his member- ship in the Boiler Maker's Industrial Union and his right to work as a free man. I should imagine that many a rank-and-filé union members hopes that he will win a resounding victory. « My only complaint against 'hia Js this. He has discovered 'that union leaders are far from being saints; but he still séems to harbor the notion that success in business, and the aequiring of wealth, requires imposing social misery on 'others, :