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aA sh ES » eb A = 1 ER a ae at eS 3 = shetty i rsh odd dea ds sods deed NOTES AND COMMENTS 5 "The World a Large: There. are. two very- significant results of the Russign visit about w is being saic ~The first 'is* a 'statem © Khrushchev just before h Bulganin left. Britain to return to their In a simple' fashion he told the reporters that he and ii companion were now convinced that neither the British: pe¢ple nor the British In view of the fact that much of the propaganda directed at the Russian people by its leaders had as its real core the contention that the West wanted war and were preparing for war that farewell statement by one of the own Country. government" wanted war, two most powerful men in most important, " ferent turn. The second significant thing is the re- Out of Tune This week an eminent Canadian musician directed a blast at would-be pianists. Piano playing in this country would be in a much higher level if fewer children were encour- aged to attempt to become musicians he contended. It seems like a ridiculo What he must have mean would be better for the art of piano playing if fewer children were encouraged by the parents to think of themselves as prodigies But it isn't the fault of parents though many of them are prone to-claim much for their children on on the road to greatness. - the most trivial bits and pie ment. Day after day, in season and out, our in our daily press. It means that propa- ganda within Russia must take a very dif- No, the real culprit is television. hich very little ent made by - e and Nikolai unpretentious the rational. the Soviet is / us statement! t was, that it ces of achieve- away. markable: difference in the way that the visit is being reported in Russia and the way that it is being reported in the West. To read Western papers one would get the idea that the visit was pretty much of a failure as diplomatic visits go; but in Rus-. sia the "visit 1s being hailed as a great step towards world Is this because we expect that visit to accomplish far more than it was practic- able to hope for? one-the-spot news reporting is geared to a demand for the sensational rather than The answers to these ques- tions may be forthcoming -when respons- ible commentators and journalists take over and begin to sum up for us the real values of the visit. They always run a few days or weeks behind their more highly strung brothers. kids watch television stars of mediocre ability and questionable talent perform on all" sorts of instruments'; they listen to singers sing in all sorts of ways, most of 'em bad, .and it is little wonder that they too begin to thing that perhaps anything goes. Certainly Liberace, Presley and most of the local-talent lends 'support and justi- fication to such thinking. It is straight logis to reason that if the rudiments of skill pay off it is wiser not to cultivate an art. the basic ways in which children learn and if Liberace can earn using a piano as a plaything all over the neighbourhood his imitators will thump Who knows? may pay off {oo? <4 ace. 'Or, is it because much Example is still one of a fortune weekly by Their daydreams District Doings MINIMUM FLOOR AREA RAISED FROM 600 TO 720 IN SUTTON SUTTON -- At a special meeting last Monday evening the members of Sutton Village Council decided that some changes were necessary to the building code. The items that coun- cil felt should be changed were loop- holes in the code that allowed build- ers to flaunt the by-law. hk The major change made was to strike out the paragraph which allow- ed summer cottages to be construct- ed on piles or. concrete pads. change was made as many persons said they were building summer homes, then used them all year. Now all homes constructed in the village' of Sutton must have either a four foot cement foundation or a 8x18 in. concrete slab for the foundation. "Other changes.made in the by-law were to_change the minimum: floor area from 600. to 720 square feet and to strike out paragraph two of by-law 6500, 1946. This paragraph dealt with the floor area. and value fors summer homes. ; Both these changes were recommen- ded by building inspector Harry Tor- rens. Both received council sanction, Deputy Reeve William Sellers was "the only one dissenting when he felt that summer cottages should still be allowed the cement pad foundation construction. 'The by-law changes will have to re- ceive the approval of the Ontario Mu- nicipal Board, but since the other mu- nicipalities in the area have already made the changes the approval will probably be given, - Mr. Torrens said the difference be- tween a minimum of 600 and 720 feet would mean the difference between ~ shacks and nice homes, ASUBDIVIDER WANTS OK CONTINUE WHITBY -- A recommendation for the approval of the entire McCullough subdivision has been sent to Town Council by the Planning Board. The area will be developed over a period of three years and includes a total of 201 lots. . Approval of twenty-two lots, part of .. this subdivision, was given last year and the work here is now well under- way. This subdivision is located in the south-west section of town. Plans for homes show the deluxe class of homes will be featured, -- VARY SUBDIVISION MINIMUM SPACE IN WHITBY The Walton Subdivision, north - of the CPR tracks in Whitby, was once .again before the Planning Board last Tuesday, subdividers showed a minimum lot area of 4,000 feet. At the request of the board this was changed to 5,000 feet per lot. Recently it was recom- This i In their original plans the | 7 mended by the board that the desired area be 6,000 feet, in order to give larger back- yards. If this was done the developers would lose 22 lots on 'the subdivision. A committee consisting of the chair- man, Mr, A. Langford; and Mr. Chas, Stafford has been delegated. to view a completed subdivision which this company has completed near Toronto. Here the 5,000-foot area has been ad- hered to. A report will be made to the board by this committee at the next meeting, LINDSAY BOOST TEACHERS SALARIES: $200. The Victoria County High School Area Board has taken the same action as the public school board in Lindsay was previously forced to do; a month ago, in raising the minimum salaries, and thus granting increases to all teachers on the staff by $200, effec. tive next September. { A motion was passed at the last regular meeting of the Board, appro- ving the recommendation of the Tea- chers' Advisory Committee, who had met with representatives. of the tea- ching staff. Lowest Scale It was found that the scale of pay 2 in effect under the local Board offer- ed. minimums-at least $200 per year below any other comparative school board listed by the Teachers' Federa- tion. APPROVE PLAN FOR WHITBY HIGH SCHOOL Floor plans for the new addition to the Whitby and District High School have been received from the architect, S. B. Coon & Son, Toronto, and hhve been approved by the Board, states Mr. H, Elms, chairman. The plan now goes to the Ontario Department of Education for provincial approval. When the floor plan has been ac- cepted about two months will elapse before the architect's plans will he completed, Tenders will be called for at that time and it is the hope of the Board that the building can proceed with sufficient speed to have the roof on by late fall. This would permit the "roughing in" of the in. terior of the building during the win. ter weather. The addition is planned for use in September, 1957, to alleviate the crowded condition of the school. No accurate final estimate of the cost is yet available, : i "AJAX FIRM WANTS WHITBY LOCATION building was totally destroyed im"a spectacular fire a few weeks ago. At the time of going to press, two build- ings were under con§ideration, A news announcement that the firm has a building 'in Whitby ready to move into, is without foundation, according to official sources, The firm is however reported to have an - the final plan would save $7,600 of , 1 {po first place, though the gov- option on property in the Whitby area, but it would be sometime before any construction could be started. In the meantime real estate men are en- deavouring to find a suitable build- ing that could be leased. LINDSAY TO BUILD 12 ROOM ADDITION TO HIGH SCHOOL The High School Area Board has approved the plans to extend the pre- sent new wing due North for 105 ft., in building a 12 room addition at a cost of some $225,000. Tne archi- tects are Craig and Madill, of Tor- onto. : The final approval for the plan to build straight north was made at last week's meeting. Chairman Cliff Ben- son first outlined. the history of- the recent negotiations with the town. The Board had decided at its last meeting, he said, to look into an alternate plan presented by G. D. Connolly, of Lind- say, to build the addition completely on school property. It was later found, however, that this plan, known as plan 3, would run the newest ring past -the east end of the old building on Kent Street, and would necessitate j removal of some of the trees on the property, This plan iwas discarded | when the architect further pointed | out that the plan to build straight | to the north would be considerably' cheaper.. - The figures quoted by- Jasper For- man, of Lindsay, in outlining the plan which was accepted, showed that the cost of building entirely on school property, and $12,000 over the plan calling for the wing to be run east from the north end of the present school, The new plan, to extend the wirg by simply building on the end of the ' 'present addition, was the most prac- tical, involving only the change of the heating pipes in the wing to lar- ger capacity, he said. TABBY TURNS ON TELEVISION SET UXBRIDGE -- We have heard of jive cats and hep cats but until this week we had never heard of a TV tabby. However, Mrs, Hal Clark, our correspondent from Marsh Hill, re- ports that her nine month old kitten not only enjoys watghing television programs but gets annoyed if it isn't on, Last Friday after the television had . been turned off and Mrs. Clark had { busied herself in the kitchen for some time, she was suddenly amazed to hear music from the living room. to turn' on. STOUFFVILLE BOARD } PREPARING TO BUY SITE FOR i SECOND PUBLIC SCHOOL The Stouffville Public School Board is preparing to purchase a site for a second public school in Stouffville, Sky-rocketing real estate prices and , ple will actually be gas users. Vif the project, have led the Board to the decision that they must act now in order to prepare for a second school to be erected in the near future. Members of "the Board waited on the municipal colneil on Thursday evening to discuss the advisability of certain sites. The new school," when built, will be in the westend of town in order to serve the most rapidly expanding area of il PLAN TO BUILD 2,000 HOMES AT BOND LAKE A 2,000 home subdivision is being planned for the area surrounding Bond Lake, in Whitchurch Township. The Economy Construction Company has taken an option on 600 acres of land owned by Mr, R. C. Gamble, Dr. E. G, Faluli of Town Planning: Con- sultants Ltd., will dray up the plans. The spring-fed lake is expected to provide water for the development and a self-contained water system will be installed to service the homes. The Company will meet with the Township Planning Board very soon to discuss their plans, For many years, Bond Lake Yas been a favorite picnic spot for both Toronto and' district residents. The Lake takes in some 50 acres of area on the east side of Yonge Street, south of Oak Ridges. - The develop- ment includes lots 62, 63 and 64. At the present time, children in the dis- trict attend both Oak Ridges and S. S. No, 13 Publie Schools. Clipped Comments HOW NERVY CAN YOU GET? The Dominon government is being asked to contribute unemployment In- surance funds to strikers who lay down their tools of their own free will. The move is being pressed by the Cal- gary Trade and Labor Council. Why, in the name of common sense, the government should feel in any way obliged to pay unemployment insur- ance to those who do not desire to work if.not on their own terms, we wouldn't know. Such "brass" 'is be- yond comprehension in a rural com- munity such as ours. . } In case of a strike, the government would be clearly loading the dice against one of the parties in the dis- pute, since the vast sums taken from the strikers in "peace" time, would not have' to be paid out during the "shutdown. | Some merit 'can be seen in paying unemployment insurance to persons laid off through no fault of their , own, by a strike somewhere else, but to provide. government aid to those . who decide it is in their best interests to throw a monkey wrench into the works by striking, is carrying union powers. far beyond any fair and just limits. --Stouffville Tribune. LET PRIVATE INTERESTS BUILD THE PIPELINE Whether the all-Canada natural gas! pipeline is a success ov failure finan- cially, under the proposed public fi- nancing of the 700-mile Northern On- |. tario section, the general public can hardly reap the major benefit, ernments of Ontario and Canada will i provide the money on. behalf of the whole public, comparatively few peo- Then with government aid, is a financial success, the American interests who own majority control will reap the greatest benefit, If it is not .a financial success, the sit- uation will probably be not unlike pat experience of government financing of railway companies--government will , be forced into the gas pipeline busi- "ness and the: public. will pay any los- ses. bY The only way the Canadian public can really benefit is for government to stay out of the pipeline deal en- tirely. Let the private interests huild the line on their own. Let gas users pay for it in their gas bills, --Canadian Statesman. THIS IS NOT A FREE COUNTRY "No! it is not," is the answer to the glib query, "This is a free country, isn't it?" In the early part of this century, Real estate men are scrambling to Looking in she saw her TV-watching | up until the first World War, Canada find suitable quarters ini Town for FE kitten sitting contentedly in front of was as democratic and individual ci- F. Drew and Co., Ltd., of Ajax, whose the set that it had somehow managed tizens were as free as they could he within the laws necessary to sustain the nation, War compelled the pool- ing of individual freedoms to save Canada for the restoration of indivi- dual rights and democracy', But wars have a way of working 'wrongs that harm individuals long after peace has heen formally declar- ed but little realized. The rights and biol Member of iy New THE STAR EDITORIAL PAGE a Weekly Newspapefs Association ; the recommendation of the Inspector | freedom of individuals are seldom recovered from the common pool call- ed government, which comes to regard itself as the power that people need to. make right choice for individuals vegarding their "means of growth. LE Governments that necessarily took control of production and marketing, now, empower bureaus and boards, federations and unions and other vote- | potent groups, to grant or withhold meting of livelihood and to make eap- tive citizens on whose freedom to de the right, as they are given to see the right, the well-being of Canada de- pends. --The Rural Scene. Clipped from Sports Column in Stouffville Tribune, POOR POLICY Did you read the sport pages of the daily papers on Tuesday night, April 24th, If you did, you probably noticed the strategy that Coach 'Turk' Broda has mapped out for his Marl- boros for the seventh and final game with thegdlontreal Jr, Canadians. "To win, we must hit every man", says the Turk. This motto will never be framed and-hung in hockey's hall of fame. By the time this paper ap- pears, the game will be history, but it's no wonder that so many: local fans are hoping the Flying French- men will upset the once-favoured Toronto crew. This type of hockey that the former Maple Leaf netminder is apparently teaching his players is exactly the kind of rowdyism that OMHA officials are trying to stop. This rough play which is practiced too often in Jr. "A" ranks should be ri- diculed instead of stressed. The players themselves seem only too an- xious to engage in a "knock 'em down, drag 'em -out" type of hockey and their over-anxious ambitions should be restrained. What are you going to do, when the coach orders his team to play in this manner? EDITOR'S NOTE -- We commend this Sport's Editor for being so out- spoken on the question of rough play. This type bf hockey and money are ruining our amateur sports to-day. of Many Things Ambrose Hills KINDNESS I have been reading about the lives of the saints, and notice one quality common to them all, and source of their greatest happiness. Without ex- ception, they were kindly. An infinite tenderness seemed to have opened their hearts to all --even seemed to have en- emics. In the midst of personal dif- ficulties, they were still <filled with love for others. Reading these things, 1 began to realize that [know a few saintly peo- ple after all. - At least they have this quality of kindneds in abundance, and that is a sure sign of saintliness. This has come as a great surprise to me, because the men and women I refer to have a trace of what is often re- ferred to as "diviltry" in them; but they were kindly folk, often over- generous, the kind that would give you their shirt, if you were in real need. I wonder if the saints would have gotten such inner peace from their kindliness, if it had been forced on them as a civie duty. I doubt it. 1 think they'd have felt the way the Don Herold felt when he "I'd like to have (nough money to give some of it away to the right people and causes----of my own choosing, I'm tired of having politicians thoughtful and with my dough." Kindliness is a human passion of great worth, according to William James, the dean of psychology. Ie says: "Give a certain amount of love, generosity, magnanimity, the result is always the same. Cowardly obstrue- tions, which in tame persons and dull moods are sovereign impediments to action, sink Our .con- ventionadity, our = stingniness, our démands for precedent and © permission, for guarantee and surety, our small suspicions, timidities, despairs, where are they now? Sev- oral like cobwebs, broken like bubbles in the sun! The flood we are borne rolls them so lightly under that their very contact is unfelt, Set free of them, we float and soar and sing. This auroral openness and uplift gives to all creative ideal levels a bright and caroling quality, which is nowhere more marked than where the control- ling emotion is religious." Yes, kindliness is aipassion with de- free-lance writer, wrote: being so FONerons at once. hyness, laziness and away lightful fruits, particularly when it has \ a religious connotation, Surely, it i® too precious a.passion to be relinquish-! ed to politicians, Churchmen, I think, make a mistake- -a grave mistake, in- deed--when they ask governments to administer kindliness, UT BLAIS ATR td J person : 4 a J oh vo Fit Hoi ER RESET HUBS RR ARB RT i £3 wade Thursday, May 3rd, 1956 - NEW SINGER Monique Cadieux, the pert 16-year- old Montreal vocalist, is now a re- gular fixture on CBC "Television's weekly variety "Holiday Ranch". Her rapid rise to the top bracket of popu- larity has been unprecedented in Canadian entertainment circles, Report From Parliament Michael Starr, M.P., Ontario Riding The Commons Committee on Esti- mates, which was set up for the first time last year, has the responsibility of examining the estimates of the De- partments of IHealth and Welfare, La- hour, National Revenue, and the Post Office, for this session of Parlinment. We have disposed of the estimates of the Department of Health and Wel- "fare, and dare presently discussing the estimates of the Labour Department. Under this Department we will have the oportunity of reviewing the new- ly-amended Unemployment Insurance Act, which comes under the divection of this Department, headed by the Honourable Milton IF, Gregg. We are still in the carly stages of this esti- mate, and are at present discussing the policy of this Department in res- pect to labour that directly under the jurisdiction of the Federal Government. The performance of this Committee on Estimates has not been as success- ful as was expected when it was first set up. The reason for this has been mainly that the government has the comes it desires for scrutiny, by this Com- mittee, and the Important thing is that it refuses to give the power to the Committee to call for certain wit- nesses that may be necessary in order to obtain certgin pertinent informa- tion, Consequently, it is only able to question the 'Minister and the heads of the ticular department. We ly meeting as many as two and three times a day inorder to dispose of this business as rapidly as possible. various branches of that par- are presents number of years, 1 member of "the of the House of Affairs. This been one of the past been a For have Standing Committee Commons on lxternal has always me sinee it also Committee great interest to deals with the many aspects of world poii- The Honourable. Lester B. Pearson, the Sceretary of State for External Affairs, has been sitting with us and answering questions on Canadian po- licy, as well as reviewing the present situations in the Middle East and In- do-China. He has also stated his views 'on the present Russian ap- proach to the western world, and the extreme change of tactics employed by Russia in its-endeavour to domin- ate the western powers, His views are most interesting on this, since he admits that the motive of the present regime in Russia has not deviated from that employed by others who were heads of that gov- ernment. World domination is still the keyword, even though a new me- thod has heen employed. There is an effort being made by the government to have this present gossion end at the end of the month of June. There are a number of government resolutions and bills still to be considered by the House of 'Commons, but' the important thing is that the estimates of the departments are still to be considered, Very few of these have been disposed of, and some have not even been submitted for consideration, There is also the possibility of a major. debate on the fisheries or right to submit whatever departments. ties and conditions as they now exist. may not materialize before the end of June. A great deal 'depends upon what arrangements will be niade be- tween [the interested parties repre- "senting the Trans-Canada Pipelines and the government. If this does not -materialize before that time, there is every likelihood that this session will recess at thé~end of June and re-as- pose of this very important matter, The National (uinquennial Census of 1956 Canada will take its first national quinquennial census of population and agriculture in 1956. This marks an important departure from the previ- ous practice of confining the quin- quennial census to the Prairie Provin- ces, where they have been taken in Manitoba since 1886 and in Saskat- chewan and Alberta since 1900. In recent decades there have been numerous requests to extend this five The rapidity with which changes have been taking place in Canada in the post- war period and, indeed, the 1951 Census, have resulted in more - numerous and urgent requests, year census to other provinces. since It was not practicable to take a 5- year census on a national scale in the. past because of at least two formid- able obstacles, These were the length of time required to take a census and the cost. If it took from three to five years to compile the results of a census of all Canada, then the com- piling of one would overlap the pre- paration for the next and create seri- ous organizational difficulties. The 1951 Census, which introduced in Canada radical new procedures in cen- sus taking, reduced the time for com- pleting a census to one-half, thus re- moving the difficulty of timing. This of course, also made possible consid- erable reductions in cost, The 1951 Census cost approximately $8,000,000. If it had been taken by the former methods, it would have cost approxi- mately $2,000,000 more. Further reductions in the cost of a national quinquennial census could be made by reducing the number of ques- tions and by confining it to popula- tion and agriculture; that is, there would be no schedules for distribution, This plan has been adopted for the 1956 Census, Ir spite of higher price and wage, an. salary: levels since 1951, the 1956 na- tional quinquennial census has been designed to cost not more than $5,000 000. as compared with $8,000,000 1951." Besides the singplification duv to fewer schedules the time-saving the 1951 Census will be wider application. For sense questionnaire agriculture for the was for 19561, > housing. and questions, used in given a example, a mark- will be used in first time, as' it and housing in procedures population Reduction in Questions There will be five questions in the 1956 Census of Population instead of the twenty-nine asked in 1051. are age, sex, marital status, ship to head of household and whether Living on a farm. These relation- Information on the other questions asked in 1951 has not the some of the population education, and citizenship change only slowly once in ten years is The agriculture questionnaire will have seventy-six questions as against approximately two hundred in 1951, After with federal and provincial agriculturalists and inter- ested roganizations, it decided that answers to these c=eventy-six questions: would furnish essential bench-marks and other basic mater- quinquennial census of agriculture. It is intended to supplement this gestionnaire some- what later by a sample survey con- ducted by specially trained enumera- tors to information on such items aa farm expenses and income from non-farm operations. degree of urgency; in fact, characteristics of the such as | sane religion, origin, and an cnumeration of them adequate, consultation was ils appropriate for a secure ' Pine Grove Rev, Halbert will take the. service next Sunday. ' Mr. "and Mrs. Handel returned home Tuesday from their trip to N. B. Mr. and Mrs, Storie have moved to Utica, Mra, Toogood spent a few days in Toronto last week. Mr. and Mrs, Lloyd Clark and fa- mily of Port Perry visited Sunday Trans-Canada pipeline which may or | with Mr. and Mrs, E. Ballard. J adit "4 semble in the fall of this year t& dis- £287 # DIINR $ i h A ' 1 i ' . \ ' ', i ' ! 7 « { & EY 14 % | Fa 5 Ped 3 LANE FER » Nek Spe a i . gh fg ER AE A ANC SR. pe