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er i A a = "9 HP Clipped Comments Thursday, February 9th, 1956 \ a 2 wi =n Soi of Proportion "A rember of _partiament pointed out this week that it was Costing the people of Canada $66,000 to train one figliter pilot. That is we 'take a high school graduate whose average educational training costs the tax-payer about $1200, or approximate- ly $300 a year and suddenly begin to edu- cate him into a short-lived vocation (about__ 6-8 years) at an average yearly cost of about $30,000. As a fighter pilot he has an active career hurtling through thin up- per space in a jet-propelled single-seater worth a quarter of a million dollars for a few years." When he reaches a certain age, he is then considered too old for this sort of thing and ig retired or promoted to some other occupation in the R.C.A.F, He is the most expensive sentry in the histor y of - the world. It would be' interesting to know how many of these highly trained guards we have, There are many reasons why we Tm have an air-force, but if we can afford this kind of education for one group of Cana- dians perhaps we can afford it for others. It is a matter for thought. Are these gi A Trends in Education boty In the next ten years the school popula- tion in this country will double. Just im- agine the, problems that entails! Twice the number of classroonis; twice the num- ber of teachers; twice the amount of money we now pay in support of schools! Some areas will, of course, have more serious over-crowding to deal with than others, 'but none will escape the tremendous influx of children into the schools. It has already started. be a changed attitude on our part towards the school. It has begun to change already! There.was a time from 1890 to 1920 when Principals and school "teachers, knowing themselves to be specialists in their own field, made it quite plain that the general public should keep its hands'off the school. It was alright for the school hoard to deal ~~ with certain matters of finance and policy, but when it came to the educational pro- cess that was the business of the profes- sionals. As the taxpayer is required to pay out more for schooling he has become. concerned about what goes on in the school. That is why we have had so much criticism of education lately. It reflects a new and developing interest in schools. There will he a:lot more of it in the future. _It will be necessary for the principal and the teachers to sell their pprsonality and 'their programmnre to the community, be- 'éause the community is going to have peculiar ideas about the kind of education it wants Johnny to have. Education in the schools will then be a real concern to the And with this influx there will" NOTES AND COMMENTS tighter pilots ¢ as essential as top ranking scientists?" Are they as 'essential as top- ranking engineers? Are they as essential as top-ranking technicians? - How much does;the government spend to provide édu: cation in these fields? Apart from grants to universities and the" provision of sum- mer employment, nothing. ~ Where is our sense of proportion? We can find millions of dollars yeurly to train and equip highly efficient young men to.patrol the empty air and we haven't even begun to think of providing thousands to help the brilliant minds of young men' and young women acquire the education and training that would enrich and strengthen our whole social fabric. The government thinking in this field of na- tional defense is rudimentary and stereo- typed. Our political thinking continues to run in the tired old lines of the past. Al- ways behind.our problems--never abreast of them--and heaven forbid that we should anticipate them. We lack a sense of pro- ~ portion with regard to even the most important things. I community. What teacher says and does in the class will reflect on the school well or ill. The lines of communication that the principal sets up will largely determine #the quality of the education. in the school. for without community co-operation and community interest and support the prin- cipal and his staff will be powerless to pro- vide satisfactory schooling or maintain satisfactory discipline. - The schools to-day are undertaking to "educate all children, practically without ex- ception, from the primary through secon- dary scheol. Into the school to-day come children of very modest ability and the formal kind of schooling that characterized the academic, authoritarian high school of the era 1890-1920 is gone and so are many of its methods and standards. © We are dealing with a different class of pupil and a different kind of parent to-day. Rygged : discipline Tit the home and in the school is a thing of the past. In our schools to- day music, and art, and games and the hand- crafts may be just as important or even more important than what was formerly regarded as basic subjects. The big pro- blem facing people to-day is not how to Jor ansedueation that will fit you for a job but rather how to use the leisure time that jobs now permit us to have. And our working hours "will get shorter in the future and our leisure time increase. Is it the job of the school to prepare us for avise use of leisure time? Those who seem most keen- ly aware of current problems in education unhesitatingly answer yes! change, t law hasn't yet caught up with that --Canadian Statesman, ging federal authorities to take over a shave of the costs for welfare, ed- ucation and roads. They are looking to the higher level of government to provide higher subsidies to finance LIVING HABITS HAVE CHANGED A minor revolution in retailing seems underway in some towns and cities in Ontario. The revolt is against laws which prohibit stores remaining open on week-day evenings, and the spark' behind it seems to be public "demand for the convenience of cven- ing shopping. Although there was the usual objection to Bowmanville merchants shifting the old establish- ed custom from Saturday evening to Frid ning shopping it is now ac- cepted as a welcome habit. In St. Catharines about 30 stoves are reported open on Friday evenings, among them 15 women's and children's wear shops. Special by-laws were ne- . cessary to allow the clothing stores to stay open for business and it is reported that men's wear stores arc now petitioning for the same permis- jon. In Windsor three supermarkets, | i Il independents, defied the local © pam. closing on a. recent Friday and the owners say they will appeal their case right to the Supreme Court if necessary. In Kitchener a survey of publie opinion turned up the fact that .. more than 76 per cent of persons in- terviewed favored evening shopping. Ontario's early closing law dates back to the last century. It is'a pro- vinclal statute that requires any mu- nicipality to enforce a 6 o'clock clos- ing on all stores in any field if three. quarters of the merchants in that field * petition for an early closing by-law. Living conditions have vastly alter- ed since the law was originally pass. ed. Many wives like to shop in the évenings because then they can get their husbands to go with them on a once-a-week shopping expedition. Also so many husbands and wives both work, particularly when first married and saving to establish a home, and for them Friday night is a most con. venient shopping time. | . Living habits have changed, but the SHOULD REMEMBER THAT ALL stalling sewer and 'dion, the services are essential and TAXES COME OUT OF THE SAME POCKETS In the course of the next week or two various civic bodies. will have pre- pared budgets for the current year. The- most difficult task in respect to budgeting has to do with the Town Council. Demands on the Council are too numerous to mention and .the Council has the handling and apend- | ! ing of only a limited amount. In recent weeks much has been; heard about industrial expansion and | business and professional men who| have been debating the problem are agreed that the time has arrived when the Town "Council, Chamber of Com- | merce and like bodies must tackle the matter in a serious manner, . In fact, everybody seems to be agreed on one A wg--L indsay needs more industr jeg |. rder to absorb a greater share of * ih "It has beén pointed out that expansion of various types of community services such as purchase of land, improving street lighting, in- water services, building new walks, adding to schools and. enlarging hospitals all mean a costly initial outlay on the part of the town and consequently an increase of taxes, The town needs this expan- taxpayers must be prepared to pay more taxes. Thé returns and lower- ing of taxes will come when industry locates here and has time to pay its share of taxes. It may be that municipal govern- 'ments across Canada will demand that, federal and provincial governments should make larger payments to mu- nicipalities, especially for education and towards hospital expansion. Even if thig plea on the part of clvie gov- 'ernments, the fact stil remains that the money all comes out of the same pockéy, The people must pay. Lately |, municipal governments have been ur- | want to support the idea, dustries as time goes on will mean | y more jobs, better wages, more money municipal operations, In the long run the people pay and it is a matter of robbing Peter to pay Paul. However, if the increase in i taxation is but temporary and more industriés actually mean a reduction of taxes, the citizens as a whole will "More in- j to spend and a higher standard of living for many. If building of addi- tonal municipal services will eventu- ally mean a bigger and better type of living and security for the citizens of tomorrow, then the town might be jus- tified in paying for the same by issu. ing debentures, thus providing a sys. tem of payments where by the bur- | den of taxation will not be totally cast on to the taxpayers of today, In the overall pleture it is fair to assume that a real reduction An the matter of taxation on the part of all governments, municipal, provincial and federal, might bie attained by a: stricter sense of economy. Realistic hope for reduction of taxes at all le! -vels of government probably lies in a policy of less spending. In the mean- y time practically every town and city in Canada is climbing on the band wagon and vieing with each other in an effort to land an Industrial plum, Lindsay included, _ --Watechman-Warder. MARKHAM H & 8 ASKS - FLUORIDATION MARKHAM---Clerk A, P. Graham read a letter to Council from Mark- ham Village Home and School Asso- ciation, endorsing consideration of fluoridation of water. There was some discussion, during which [Reeve Fry pointed out that large munmicipalities were still debating. the matter, Coun- cillor: Eldon Comfort prepared a- re. olution that Council get information. on the coat for this viltags, dnd this was passed, District Doings ood NEWSPAPERS RAISE SUBSCRIPTION RATES Last week the Stouffville Tribuné; Aurora Banner, Newmarket Era and mond Hill weekly papers all announ: The raise is to take effect immedi- ately.. The new price will be $3.50 per year,' an increase of $1.00. At the same time single copies will be raised to ten cents per copy. Reason given for the necessity of raising' subscriptions is the ever ris- ing costs of materials and labor in the '| printing fleld. i. UXBRIDGE TOWN AND TWP. DISCUSS ANNEX. QUESTION The town and Township, councils and planning boards held a joint meet- ing in the Uxbridge council chambers on Monday night to discuss the possi- bility of annexing Township property to the Town. Present from the town at this initial meeting were Mayor Pu- terbough, Reeve Ferguson, councillors Davis, Lennox, Smith and Planning Board. members C. Johnson, R. Las- wick and G. Prentice. From the Twp, were 'Reeve 8. Ball, Deputy-reeve J. Ball, councillors R. Nesbitt and E. Dowswell. Planning Board members D. St. John and T. Forsyth. Uxbridge members explained the necessity for annexation in order that a more cven balance between residen- tial and industrial assessment could be possible. The Municipal Board feels that an ideal situation is for a 50-60 assessment whereas in Uxbridge now it stands at 72 per cent residen- tial as against 28 industrial. There 'is a vital need for larger acreage to accomodate industry, a few of which have already shown interest by locat- ing here, LINDSAY HOSPITAL START EXPANSION CAMPAIGN The Board of Governors of the Ross Memorial Hospital have decided to start intensive work in organizing a financial campaign to build a new East Wing to the present Hospital building, as the start of a program Hospital on .the pPesent site. This is made known in a letter sent this week to members of the Hospital | Association by Arthur Carew, Presi- dent of the Association and Chairman of the Board of Governors. The letter reviews the past year of work by the Board, and outlines some of the plans which will be pre- sented to thé forthcoming annual meeting of the Association. "With 'much reference to the ex- pansion program," the letter states, "much study has been given to its problems-and your Board has conclu- ded that a complete, new hospital on the present site should be planned, und crected when conditions permit. The initial step in this program will be the construction of the casterly wing, and continued use of the pre- cent buildings to best advantage. It is expected that a final plan will be available to submit at the annual nieeting- of the Association so that-a financial campaign can be organized carly in the New Year. This should enable the first sod of construction to be turned before the snow flies in the Fall". The letter then calls on all mem- bers to renew their memberships be- fore the Annual meeting, and to re- cruit new members to make the finan- cinl campaign for the proposed wing as strong as possible. BOWMAENVILLE PLAN BIG CENTRAL PARKING LOT Chairman A. H, Sturrock of the Parking and Transportation Commit- tee of the Bowmanville Chamber of Commerce unfolded plans for a pro- , Youed civie parking lot to. accommo- date between 76 and 160 cars before a group of the?businessmen concerned at a meeting held in the Chamber of fices Tuesday night. ° The proposed lot runs along the centre of the main business block bounded by King, Temperance Church and Division Streets and only a few obstacles stand in the way of estab- lishing this large lot which would be go convenient for shoppers. Mr, Stur- rock said. Most merchants concerned have already agreed to co-operate with the scheme, At the rear of the business premi- ges occupied by E. V. "Mike" Osborne and Stuart James a 20-foot right-of- way is needed on thelr lots and both have agreed to allowing their land to he used in connection with the pro- posed. parking facilities. Palmer Mo. 'tor Sales have also agreed to allow a portion of the north end of thelr | 10t to be used. Express, Sutton Report-and the Rich- |- ced a vaise in their subscription prices.. fed. 4 i = Sometiiies 1 dir if "it wouldn't increase the community understand- ing of hospitals if a hospital, in its activities, made a noise like a boiler factory, or had huge stocks of ma- terial piled around its grounds like a lumber yeav--or if its chimney bel- ched flames like a foundry, | Of course, we all know that quiet is w prime requisite in the cave of the sick; and that the hospital's supplies must be stored in clean, often sterile, storerooms. But the point that is usually muted by the quiet of the hos- pital's work, is the fact that the hos- pital is just as much a thriving indus- try in the community as most of the factories whose presence is much more obvious. It is right that the hospital's most important role is that of a house of mercy where what hospital people call TLC (tender, loving care) is purveyed every day--all day. The fact remains, however, that hospitals can withstand the most rigid examination by busi- nessmen who would judge them only on the basis of their contribution to the economy of the community and the country as a whale: Take, for instance, the matter of employment. A fifty-béd hospital will employ be- tween seventy-five and ninety people ~--n 100-bed hospital will give work to approximately 176--a 200-bed hospi- tal to about 876, and a 600-bed hospl- tal to almost a thousand. All this, 6f course, means income to the com- munity and resultant business for lo- cal merchants. : There ig hardly a month goes by these days but what we hear of the opening of a new hospital or hospital addition. The cost of these new build- ings frequently runs into hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars, as a modern hospital must be soundly to eventually erect a completely nev constructed of the best available ma- terials. [It is a well-known fact that most of the cost of a new building Is in labouy, largely local labour, which menns thit during, the months of con- struction there has been additional work provided iy the community. = Of- ten, too, n great deal of the material in the building is obtained locally. It is general practice for a hospital to endeavour to purchase -as much mi- terial as possible from local compan- ics, not only to keep business at home, but also to avoid unnecessary trans- portation charges. So we see that even before the hospital is opened, a great deal of money has been passed into the hands of community citizens and thus into other business in gen- eral, - Now we come into the over-all pic- ture of hospital supplies. It is only fair to sny that, except in very large centres, a hospital could not obgain nll its supplies locally, but the huge | variety of items required by hospitals across the province come from many different localities. For instance, li- terally thousands of tons of food- stuffs of all kinds are supplied from our farms and processing plants, for hogpital patients and staff must be In 1954, the total cost of food supplied for the public hospitals of Ontario was almost ten million dol- lars, and this expenditure in 19656 was probably half a million dollars more. The many other types of supplies and equipment come from firms all aver the province which make every- thing from band-aids to x-ray ma- chines. Only the best supplies are good enough when human lives are at stake--a fact which adds to the dol- lar value of these purchases. Too, | the hospital may buy an x.ray ma- chine today which, a few years hence, will be made obsolete by a new de- velopment, While thie "old" machine would be capable of giving many vears of service, it must be replaced or augmented so that the very latest equipment will be available to mget the requirements of mode™ medicine. So we see that needs of the hospital never become static -- they are con- stantly changing and creating new business for manufacturers, Hospitals are said to bé about the fifth largest industry on the North American continent, and it is one in- dustry that is affected very much by what happens in most, if not all, of the basic industries. For example, if something happens in the steel indus- try, such as a rige in prices, it ig felt by hospitals, for when you are a pa- tient do you not sleep in a steel bed on a steel spring mattress? Is there MRS, CHARLES McLEAN PRE SIDE NT, ONTARIO HOSP preci I not 'steel all around you in furniture, light fixtures, window frames? if you have an operation, the surgeon employs only the best steel instru- ments as you line on a steel table under a powerful light which is basic. ally steel! Well, much the same can be said for other industries, such as textiles, food, and chemicals. The hospital just cannot escape being af- fected by them. A good hospital will attract doctors, dietitians, nurses, et cetera -- people who are capable of making an out- standing contribution to the commu- nity not only in their chosen profes. sion, but as citizens. Primarily, of course, their presence means that. the sick and: injured will have available all the special skills necessary to re- store their health when the best of care is demanded. As a side light, it would be inter- esting to know how much extra busi- ness {3 created by the kindness of vi- sitors who. seldom arrive at thelr friends' bedsides empty-handed. Books magazines, fruit, flowers and some- times candy, among other things, are regular gifts to hospital patients. Even though there are times when some of these good things would be better omitted, they still are brough:, and they represent business for the community. So the next time you visit your hospital or hear its appeal for agsist- ance, think of it not only as a haven for the sick, but as a sound invest- ment your community has made for the economic as well as physical and mental welfare of the people. Remember --- you don't just "give away" money when you donate it to your hospital---you invest it in an en- terprise that creates employment for you and your neighbours, 0f Many Things By Ambrose Hills DAILY EDITORIALS The other day I showed a politician an editorial that roasted him proper- ly. He glanced at the masthead, then grinned. It. didn't seem to bother him. "It would have," he said, "if d- appeared in my hometown That get read, by everybody family. But they don't bother ch with the daily---few read the AMitorials." I think the reason is that dailies write too many editorials, and write them too fast. As a vesult, they sometimes seem a bit superficial. For example, thie Globe & Mail, a top-flight daily, ran an editorial on December 31 called "Years of Bounty." It started well; but the writer warmed up (or speeded up), he seem- ed to me to get zanier and zanier. as He wrote: "The arts--music, drama, ballet and fhe rest--arve perpetually poverty-stricken in this rich country. Should we not allocate them a gengr- ous fraction of next year's $24 billen ? One-hundredth part of that would seem to them princely." It should! It comes to something like $280 millions! That's more than the total budget of the City of Win- nipeg. When a newspaperman makes a suggestion as wild as that one, what could we expect of a long-haired Can- , ada Council such ag the Massey Com- mission reccommended ? I can't imagine a weekly editor pulling a boner like that. To begin with, a weekly editor is not so Ii- pressed with the richness of this country, hecause he knows many of his readers don't have indoor plumb- ing or many other facilities. And he is not sure we would _get very much true culture by big subsidies. Many editors are inclined to distrust forced- feeding of culture, whether it comes from the CBC, the!NFB, or a Canada Council, . But to suggest a subsidy anywhere close to $280 millions is absolutely silly. That writer needs to visit his country cousins once in a while! Store Closing Hour Saturdays 9 p.m. And, 'Commonwealth, Y House and an outline of the legisla- d VALENTINE GIRL. February 14 is the time for lots of pretty girls and Valentine hearts, Here is one of CBC Television' s cutest dancers, Joan Roberts, tombining the two. MLA. Reports From Toronto By Dr. M. B. Dymond The second session of the Twenty- . Fifth Legislature opened off" Tuesday, January 81st, at 8 o'clock with the reading of the Speech from the Throne by the Hon. Louis O. Breithaupt, Licutenant.Governor of Ontario. The colorful ceremony had all the attend- ant pomp and glitter traditional of the opening of all Parliaments 'within the Attended by a larger than usual number of Aides--repre- sentative of the Navy, Army and Air Force, His Honour inspected a Guard of Honour prior to entering the Par- linment Buildings. A On this occasion an old custom which had fallen into disuse was re- vived--this was the presence on the floor of the House during the reading of the Speech from the Throne, of the Judes of the Supreme Court of One tario and the' Judges of the High Court. "This was commented upon by Ey the Prime Minister in his remarks fol- , --- VaR lowing the Thrane Speech. : ' 4 The Speech itself was a resumé of the important cvents which have transpired since the last sessiot of the . come before this " An account of Dominion- Provincial Conference was read in moderate detail. This pointed out the important part Ontario played in those Conferences. The four principal mat- _ ters affecting Ontario were: (1) Fed- ¥ cral-Provincinl fiscal arrangements to supercede those expiring March 31, 1957. (2) Unemployment assistance to supplement Unemployment Insurance. (3) The problem of farm market- ing. (4) A national plan of Hospital In- surance. Most of the foregoing matters will come under more extensive and detail- 2095 ed consideration as the Session pro- oe ceeds. One matter, that of Farm 2 Marketing is however, of much inter- est to a large part of this Riding of Ontario and [wish to deal briefly with it here. ) At Ontario's suggestion, Farm Marketing was placed upon the Fed- eral-Provincial Conference Agenda. [For many years, all of the Provinces have been assailed with uncertainties as to their constitutional jurisdiction over this matter and "in an effort to have these doubts resolved, the Pro- vince of Ontario, in a wide reference is submitting these questions to the Fe tion which is to Session, "r IRN a a ed Ea Fe A SI ee ag NW » '| Supreme Court of Canada." The hear- ing has been fixed for next April and in the meantime much intensive study is going on, searching for various al- ternatives. pending the Supreme Court's decision, To deal with these . % matters it is expected a special Ses ion will be called later this year. made by the lon Dr. Dunlop, Miri ter of Education will be welcomed, 1 am sure, by all School Boards within the Riding. The special supplementary grant of last vear, viz. $1.00 per pupil, will this vear he increased to $6.00 per pupil and bomds are assured of receiving thiz. This will be useful information % to all Boards who at this time are at- ji tempting to prepare their Budget for : the ensuing year, So far, apart from the Speech from in annonneemen the Throne, and the motion and se. conding of the motion for adoption of 3 a the Speech, the House has not settled \# @. \ down to the real business of the ses. 1-8 This will begin on Monday and i Bn Tuesday, February 6th and Tth, when the De bate on the Speech 'will begin. Through the very kind co-operation : of your Editor," T hope to be able to - : 4 prepare a brief resume of the week's activities in the House-~in order that z you may be informed of those matters sion, of most interest to our Riding. 5 ; # : \ " £ AF VB maak