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ee - The Canadian [---- _. Association Weekly Newspapers: THE STAR EDITORIAL PAGE ' . + Aoat -- F 3 { - ro; | : 'The Common Man i One of the good. things about' living in a small town is that you' are a person in your own right. Everybody 'knows your name and - calls you by it or an equally familiar nick- name. As citizen of a large city you may be known to a few friends or enemies for what you are but by and large youl are:just a figure walking down the street; a man on a job; a woman in an office--No Marg. Cowan or Edd - Jones. What difference does that make? We are beginning to see that it makes a great deal of difference. We are living: in an age 'of great mergers. All our business must be: come bigger and bigger in order to.carry the tremendous costs of labour, equipment, ind overhead with a fair margin of profit for the share-holder. The small merchant, the small 'opinions are becoming more and niore rare as people share more and more of a common 'denominator of so-called living. It is simpler "that way. . : 1.240) x Great companies in the field of music re- duce. their prices on records and force the little man out of competition. He made his way by giving us the unusual record which the big. company finds too great a risk to take a chance on because his turn-over must be large at all:cdsts. The epic spectacle on the movie field has become the box-office drawing card,. Where does it all end? 4 Apparently it ends in everybody becoming so much like, everybody else that the forest of T.V. antennae over Ajax is only one sym- bol of our headlong rush into the arms of printer, the -small_yholesaler even, must be = @ anonymity. , sucked into the net of huge corporations if at all possfble. Great chain stores make it difficult: for the little merchant to compete in the price field--so we find a bad orange or two in our cellophane bags from the big chain store and take the loss ourselves rather than get out the car again and go back to make a 'fuss with a manager. who is a complete stranger to us. We accept rubbery white bread and luscious looking carrots with no flavour. et Great newspapers draw: their news froma syndicate; a few top correspondents have their views watered down for the whole world through: a big agency. Individual What Lies Ahead Chou En-Lai, premier of Red China has "precipitated 'us into what may well be the greatest delemma that we have yet faced. 'In his bomb-shell announcement. that Red China sought peace. with. the United States and that she does not wish war with the American people he has probably spoken quite sincerely, but it does. not make the future easier for us to:gauge. As long as hé maintained a belligerent tone and as long as war with the Communists seemed imminent we felt. it. necessary to.be on our guard. And being on our guard meant spending billions of dollars on preparedness for war. In the United States the govern- ment allotted some: 88 billions for defense spending; in Canada we set aside some two billions, about half our gross federal income. © This defense spending: has: contributed wide- ly to both the .expansion:and the sustenance of our economy, As the need for such huge defense spending becomes less apparent and it will become less apparent if the Commun- "ist leaders continue to:talk and: act in 'the manner' that has characterized their be- haviour for the past month, there will be pressure to reduce our defense spending. This is already anticipated by these who speculate in the market: A falling: market will reflect a feeling that industry will feel the pinch when governments. begin to stop the flow of governmentbillions. Eventuflly we are faced with the problem of whethgl our economy can stand these overtures of peace "without developing great dislocations. Per- haps, the Communists are-counting on'this. It may well be:that they have stumbled' upon the fact that our, record with regard to a peace-time economy is a.particular: bad one. If we do reduce our spending how. can. we kéep the wheels of industry turning at a high rate of efficiency? There's the question. Our government, the American government : We can patronize our small merchant at 'home and know that he will take back our bad orange because he knows we are telling the truth. He has known us for years. -We can read our own choice books and think . our own thoughts and express them. We can buy records from smaller houses at a bigger price--but we dont. We can choose the better movies--if 'we still 'know how, We can go on living in the little towns (for a- while anyway) or the country. We can en- courage better: men to go into polities (if they dare). We can try to-lift this outrage of wrought iron in every home, supersoaps, and bargains by the carload. We can try. seem strangely relunctant to come to grips with it. . On-theother:hand if we stubbornly refuse to reduce our huge defense outlays we will have to justify them in terms of proving that we cannot trust the overtures of the Com- munists. The government will have to sell the idea that war is just around the corner unless our build-up is sufficiently great to discourage even the thought of war. This sort. of thing would have us playing right in- to the hands of the Communists who would then be able to shout from the house-tops- that we didn't want peace . . that we were. really war mongers'. . and they would point * to. our military preparedness to prove the truth of their words. Most of the Asian and African peoples would certainly have to agree. that this appeared to be the truth of the matter. { Chou En-Lai may have relieved our minds of the immediate threat of war but at the game-time he: has most certainly put us ina' difficult spot. Can we meet the Communists halfway in this latest move to peace and still save our economy, or; are we to stick to - policy of military readiness and leave our- selves: open to the criticism of the other peo- ples of the world? = The dilemma is a very real one and: we are in the middle of it now. Our government could do one of three things, or, for that matter, all three. First, it might contribute large sums to the pro- vinces for education; secondly, it might con- tribute large sums to the provinces for. public works --, especially highways; thirdly, the government could spend huge sums on the development and conservation of our natural resources with particular attention to our - "Northland. These moves would benefit the entire country; only selfish political inter- ests stand in the way. It seems a much saner 'way to dispose of our taxed wealth. fe / - -» = District Doings: h € RAINS DOWN SHREDS TINFOIL 'What? Why? Wherefrom?--The ople in paxts of Haliburton County ave a first: class mystery on their to shed 'any light on it. - . Woodsmen and farmers are puzzled concerning the presence in the bush and on the land of quantities of tin- foil, the origin of which is shrouded in mystery: Fig i According"to residents in the area, shreds of tinfoil-like material are be- ing found in quantity on the land and scattered through the woods: One resident says the material is of vari- ous colours and is found in short strips of varying widths. a 25-YEAR-OLD PONY FOALS COLT .Absolutely unique, an event. occur- red at Brooklin last week which drew -exclamations of unbelief from horse- men. A. 26-year-old hackney show pony, Victoria Darling, owned by Do- reen and Margaret Burton, gave birth to a colt. The pony is believed to be Canada's oldest. Not only is thé mother beyond the average life span but it is her second colt, the first being born when' she was 23 years old. The little colt is bay with a white star on the forehead. Standing 10 hands, 8 inches high (47 inches) the pony is on the farm of Robert; Burton, Highway No. 7, two and one-alf miles west of Brooklin. She has won many-awards and has frequently been seen at Oshawa Fair. R--.. VILLAGE BUILT ON VAST ARTESIAN WATER TABLE enjoy such a remarkable supply. of spring water as this village in Cavan Township. The source of this con- stant supply is an artesian water table on which the village stands and it is | described as "one of the most unusual water supply reservoirs on the. con- tinent" . . . It has never failed since the days when primeval forests cov- ered the land and shows no signs of diminishing strength now that much of the forest is stripped. i -------- | OSHAWA TO REMOVE LARGE NEON SIGNS "In another six weeks many of the most prominent neon signs. in Oshawa will be on their way to the graveyard. For on June 1 the city will begin en- | forcing a bylaw which says that no | sign shall extend over the sidewalk 'for more than two feet. Some of the signs affected have been up in the city { for as long as 20 years. . Notices-have just been sent out by the city hall reminding all those pay- ing licence fees. for the signs of the | deadline which was set nearly five years ago when the relevant. by-law was amended. : Although the bylaw applies to signs, most of those affected are the signs which light and cheer Oshawa's other- wise drab main streets at night. Down: town will become darktown.: TO START WORK ON NEW | BROUGHAM BALL PARK 'Work is expected to start this week on Brougham's new floodlit ball park. The committee in charge has pur- chased another half acre of land. The objective of their current drive for hands and so far.no one has been able. Millbrook--Few places in the world |. BLACKWATER BOY SONG WINNER Larry Jolmson; five year old son of Blackwater has won first prize in the East End Toronto Music Festival held last * Tuesday in Glenmount United Church. He was singing in a class up tg.8 years. ' ; hy £5 STR. Although this is. the first tim Larry has emerged on the very top, petitions held in Peterboro and another Toron o district, . Congratulations are extefided to this little fellow with the melodious voice. ' Lg Larry takes his singing lessons in Lindsay. MARKHAM GRANTED 1,350 ACRES OF TOWNSHIP LAND Markham Village has been permit- ted to extend its bounddries to take in 1,350 acres of 'Markham Township property. The Municipal Board's de- cision was handed down on Saturday by Messrs, R. GC. Rowland and W. J. 'Moore. It will become effective June 30th. The Village had requésted 2,600 acres of farm land extending from the ninth concesgion on the east to the seventh concession on the west and from lot 8 on the south to the Mount Joy sideroad on the north: The Muni- cipal Board permitted: the annexed area to 'extend, however, only from one-half of lot 9 to lot 14, taking in all the school section 15. The Village council has: set aside a portion of land west of the town for industrial pur- poses. The remainder will accommo- date more than 10,000 residents. The present population of the village is approximately 2,200. > ---- ein i Of Many Things . By Ambrose Hills WINSTON CHURCHILL A ncighbor of mine served on the staff of a railroad train which carried Sir 'Winston Churchill in Canada. This railroader still proudly displays the big cigar that Churchill gave him. With even more pride, he displays the book, personally autographed, which the great man was thoughtful enough to send to him on his return te Eng- land. When the news came that Churchill had retirgd, my neighbor had genuine tears of sadness in his eyes. "That is the kind of loyalty and ad- miration Churchill earned from other is the sceret of his strength? nich I think it was his common sense. €hurchill said what he thought---and said it bluntly and straightforwardly. Such straightforward prose always anghe the word. Cqnsider his state- nfént, made on May 13th, three days in England's darkest hour. «I would say to the- House, as I have said to thofe who have joined this government; I have nothing to offer but bload, toil, tears and sweat. will say it is to wage war--by. sea, land, and air, with all our might and he has marked up two seconds in com= men throughout his life, Why ?-What | after he was appointed prime minister, | "You ask what is our policy? [I wrong positions for each letter, mak- for the increase: that would come if | funds has been raised to $7,200. At with all the strength that" God can Clipped Comments THE EDITOR MADE A MISTAKE We can sympathize: with the editor . a small town weekly newspaper in $80 esiern Canada who was severely. : T iticized by one of his subscribers be- cause of an error appearing; if his paper. ged up and called allisorts of names when an error, . ispefled" word. or other mistake has appeared imhisipa- per? We have takenisuch complaints as a compliment, as it indicates how thoroughly they read the 'local sheet! |' Then too it's a weakness of human nature to complain or find_fault, but geldom compliment or praise: a news "item in a paper. But here s-how:our western editor answered the coms plaint about the error in his next is- aue, to which we add, amen, but don't let that deter you from writing your views to the editor: - "Yes we know there were some er fors in last week's paper. We will further agree 'that there were some érrors in the issue of the week: before, but before bawling us out too unmer- _cifully about it we want to. call. your. attention to these facts: In an ordi- nary newspaper column here are 10,- 000 letters and there are seven possible What editor hasn't been: jug=| ing 70,000 chances to make errors and several million chances for transpo- sitions; There are 96 columns |in this paper, so you can readily sex"the chances for mistakes. Did you know that in the sentence, "To be or not ito be," by transposition alone 2,749; 1022 errors can be made? Now aren't {you sorry you blew up aboutthat little mistake last week?" =, Fie --Canadian Statesman. . -- 1 STATE MEDICINE NOT AN BUECTION ISSUE } Tin the final day of the session of the Ontario Legislature, Opposition Lead. er Farquhar Oliver apparently felt it necessary to do a little politieal fence- repairing on the subject of' govern: 'ment. health insurance for the- pro-| vince, 7 : a A few days earlier the Premier had |isaid that his govermment had'looked: into state medicine and had found that the $190,000,000 annual cost was far beyond tho: méans of taxpayers at] the present time, He had-also point ed. out: that: twosthirds of the people of Ontario.are now privately insured 'against medical or hospital' charges, that indigent persons: receive free hospital service, and that in any event everyone felt that hospital care was available without direct charges. In the last few hours of the ses gion Liberal Leader "Oliver referred back to Premier Frost's earlier state- ments and said thatiin his opinion the province is wealthy enough to start gome sort of health insurance scheme without any increase. in taxes, and that there are enough hospital beds in the province to handle the increase that government health insurance (would bring. , This, of course, is election talk in .an election year. It's an attempt to buy votes with promises of more wel- fare spending, What both the Pre- 'mier and the Opposition Leader have- not an; eleetion issue in this province. The only group of 'voters who would 'support state medicine aré the social- ists; and that is a very smhll minority that-wants state medicine simply bes roause of socialist dactrine and not: be- 'cause there is any need for it. --Canadian Statesman. rs BE New Store Hours PORT PERRY STORES OPEN TILL 9.00 BM FRIDAY & SATUR- there ia not enough accommodation 0 DAY COMMENCING JUNE 3RD. n't realized is that: state medicine fs |' the present time $4,200 has been col- lected. Much of the materials for the the poles will be voluntary. Althqugh more than half the necessary funds have been raised the committee is counting on future donations to put the drive over the top. Brougham is the only ball club in the Whitby Soft- ball League without the use of a flood- Jit park. -- EEARS FOR INDUSTRY 1 RAIL SERVICE CURTAILED. The citizens of Cannington are be- 'ing aroused by the press following the 'recent announcement by the CNR of the curtailment of regular rail gervices through the village and district. A recent editorial in the "Canning- ton. Gleaner", states that with the new regulation, coming into effect April 24th, (a) the local property will be devaluated, (b) present industry will consider relocating, (c) potentinl:new industry and new residents will: econ- gider the situation' with regard. to the reduced railway services. The editorial also states that 90 per cent of the resources of Cannington and district comes from outlying dis- trict: and are forwarded on branch 'lines for processing, and. are then moved over the main lines, which 'gathers a consid rable freight rate as a finished n duet. . 3 new park has been donated and:a large portion of the work in erecting give us; to wage war against a mon- strous tyranny never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crimes. ' "That is our policy." Well, that was it. That's just how the war was won. The way to win a war is to wage war in every possible way, with all the strength God can give you. But had another leader been asked that same question of policy, the chances are he would hdve answered with hundreds of high- flown phrases with little bearing on the subject. Many people have wondered how Winston Churchill, reelected to high boffice after those grey years of aus- terity, was able to bring good tines back again ¢to England so quickly. Well, the answer, in his own words, was again plain and straightforward. He said, "We must beware of trying to bujld a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politi- cian, a society where enterprise gains no reward and: thrift no privileges." No doubt we all admire Sir Winston Churchill, Perhaps the begt way for us to show our admiration would be to learn, from day to day, to speak plain- ly, and to think clearly. Let us try to make this our personal tribute to one of the greatest men in the world. Greenbank The. monthly meeting of the Wo- men's Association was held in the basement of the Church: on Tuésday afternoon. The Stinday School Anniversary "is coming up soon and Yor'special speak, ers they will have in the orniiig Dr. Crossley Hunter of Toronto with spe- cial music by our own Sunday School. Inthe evening [Rev. -Mr, Prophet, of Beaverton will speak and the music will be by the Uxbridge Junior Farm- er's Quartette. Don't forget the date May 16th, oY We welcome Mr. and Mrs, B. Thom. son and family of Agincourt into our io Yo I They have recently moved onto the farm formerly belonging. to Earl Anderson, The Athletic Banquet was held on Wednesday evening in the Church basement. with Rev. Mr. Madden as speaker, Mrs. D. lanson has been spending a few days visiting her son in Toronto. Did you hear-about the Flay the Pilot Class are having sometime m May. It's coming from Woodville and is entitled "Come out of Your Coma". Watch for more particulars later. Several families from our commun- ity attended the "Spring Festival" put on by the Ontario County Junior Farmers Saturday night in Uxbridge. I hear it was a great success. On Sunday last, the Y. P. Union had charge of the morning services with the special speaker talking on the "Young Peoples 'Camp at Five Oaks which is a Church Camp. The special music was by the Y. P. Choir. We were sorry to hear about the accident Mr. Chapin had one day last week. We hope his. hand heals quickly. : A ------e Scugog News Congratulations to two of our young '| people on their recent marriages. Miss Lillan Collins and Mr. Walter Smith on April 16th and Mr. Edgar Brown and Miss Sylvian Hancock on April 23rd. We wish these young couples every happiness. ; Mr. and Mrs. Donald Ashbridge visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Dowson in Peterboro last Sunday. Sunday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Collins were Mr. and Mrs. Harold Collins of Blackstock, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Smith of Osha- wa, Mr. Ivan Collins, and Mr. Don Collins of . Toronto. Mis. S. May-and son Bill of Toronto were guests of Mr. and Mrs. S: Rod- man last Saturday. i The April meeting of Grace United Church W. A. was postponed due to tlie road conditions. Our May meet- ing will be held on Wednesday, May 11th at the church, 3 .Scugog Home and School Associa- tion met at the Head School last Wed. Our guest speaker was Mr. Crane, of Port Perry. My.--Crane showed us some pictures he took of a trip to the Calgary stampede and the beautiful country out in the west. We also saw pictures of our local students with their. first year projects. i Family Film night is on Thursday, "April 28 -ab the Community Hall at 8.30 sharp. Everyone welcome. One of the films to he shown is the "Royal Tom" in South Africa 4 : Mrs, Art Newman led in a contest and Mrs. Hunter was the winner. The attendance award was given to the Head School with eleven points. Misses Gloria Fralick and Gayle Hodgins sang u- lovely duet entitled "Gisters". Mrs. Alan Martyn read a poem entitled "The Maw who. Lives next door." After singing "The Queen", was served. May meeting is at the Centre School on May 18. Election of officers. The Committee in charge of program and lunch is Mrs, Ivah Fralick, Mrs. Doro- thy Hood and Mrs. Funice Hunter-- All adults welcome. : lunch Pine Grove W.A. will meet at the home of Mrs, Ed. Johnson on Wednesday, May 4th. Mr, and Mrs. Charlie Geer visited Wedneiday evening with Mr. and Mrs, Jack Hill . } Mr. and Mrs. Jack Simpson, Donna and Paul spent a day recently in Tor- onto.' : ; Mr. Kenny McKnight visited Sun- day with Mr. and Mrs. Jack Albright. My. and Mrs. Jack Simpson and family visited Friday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wilson of Epsom. My. and Mrs. A. Handel visited: Wed- nesday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. E, Ballard. Mr, and Mrs, Hillard Armstrong and Mr. and Mrs. Short Long visited Mrs. Armstrong's sister Mr. and Mra, Mar- tin of Toronto Sunday. Mr. Martin is very ill. %. C.N.LB. Service From lonely solitude and dependence on others to happy friendship, a job, and an apartment of her own--that is the. result-of CN.LB, service "fot! Christine, an attractive and intelligent young lady whose life until two years, ago wag gimple-and secure; Ohne day an auto accident crashed away her » vision, her: job and her future in ope. swift smash. When doctors completed their healing practices, Christine was well and healthy in all her faculties but one--she was totally blind. The aunt and uncle with whom she lived, felt sorry for their niece, and shocked at what appeared to them an insur- mountable handicap. They allowed Christine to sitin an easy chair by the window. Her aunt brought her her meals, but did not encourage her to walk around the house to take the fresh «air, and was reluctant to have her invite her friends in. When the C.N.LB, field secretary, a blind person himself, called, Chris- tine's "aunt interviewed him. After five additional visits, the aunt per- mitted him to see Christine privately. The girl had almost given up. It was "| not easy to convince Christine: that she could be happy and useful without sight; "Finally she agreed to go to the ' C.N.L.B. residence and training centre to find out what C.N.I.B, was accom- plishing for others in similar circum- stances. There she shared a double room with a former school teacher who had also lost her sight, and was making a rapid re-adjustment. Within_ an hour Christine decided to stay a few days, and today, a year later, she has fot returned home. She does not live in the centre now, but ' shares an .apartment with her new friend, the teacher. Later, confidence restored, she took canteen management training, and now operates her own canteen. Instead :-of- remaining a helpless armchair sitter, this girl is a self- supporting vivacious young lady who i. dances, bowls, and has an all- round good time in her leisure hours. _ It all happened heeause of C.N.LB. service, service you and I make pos- sible by our generosity during the annual financial appeal of The Can- adian National Institute for the Blind | being conducted from April 18 to May 7. If the canvasser misses you, be sure to send your gift to: Canadian National .Institute for the Blind, 186 Beverley Street, Toronto ZB. Prince Albert Hoy (Too late for last week) We are sorry to hear Mrs. B. Keizi- Jl brink has been confined to the hospi- tal a weck. Hope for speedy recovery eo BT LIE | Mrs. E. Martyn and daughter Mari- on spent a day in Toronto recently. Grant and Bryan Beacock are home again after holidaying with théir gramma Mrs. W. E. Beacock and other relatives, Nestleton. : 'Mr. and Mrs. Walter Webb, Hali- burton, spent week-end with her par-. ents Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Hunter, and brother Mr. and Mrs. L. Hunter, Ja- mie and Nola of Port Perry. 'It looked rather unnatural not to see a car at the Church on Sunday, owing to the roagls. However there was a very good atténdance. Some walked quite a distance and all, were repaid by an inspiring sermon by Rev.- R. H. Wylie, Myr. Snelgrove sang a lovely solo "The Holy City", accom- panied at the organ by Mrs. Snel-' po grove. Mrs. Edith McMillan, Peterboro, visited her sisters in the village re- cently. oe , Our new neighbours have moved into the former Roger's place. -- Manchester | "i Service will be at the usual hour, 10.00 a.m; Daylight Saving Time next | Sunday morning. ht _ Mr. Robert Leslie, New Kendal, ", Keithhall, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, has been the guest of Bill and Ted Lamb during the past week. Bert is one of the Scottish Young _Fa¥mers now visiting Ontario. ~~ Sincere sympathy is extended to Mrs. Murray Wilson in the death of her mother Mrs, Jones, formerly of Brooklin. Mrs. Jones died suddenly while visiting in Hawkestone. Mrs, Gladys Archer with Mrs. Hol- pon mes, Port Perry, visited with the for- wo me's daughter, Mrs, Brydon and fa- mily, Brampton, last Friday. NL Mrs. A. Anderson, Port Perry was i 3 the guest of Mrs, A. Roach last Fri- NF day. ' Fri A Mr, and Mrs. EB. W. Crosier, Gerald E 2, and Bryan, Toronto visited Mr. and . Mrs. W. F. Crosier on Sunday. Mrs. Robertson and Miss Davis of Port Perry were guests of Mrs, Ar- cher on Sunday afternoon.