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2 AA a Ea ee te dB E 3tied "NOTES AND COMMENTS The Individual in Parliament The rather surprising developments fol- lowing the resignation of and the farewell speech of the Hon. Rene Beaudoin indicate just how important the member of parlia- ment has become. In terms of politics this country has become a single party system and the greatest danger inherent in this system is the dwindling importance of the The party beco all powerful and its leaders begin to assumptions concerning what the me will think and do and take it for granted that the general public will fall in line. There have been two striking examples of this in the past week. Mr. St. Laurent individual member. assumed that the majority ment agreed with' him and on this assump- I'S tion restored Mr. Beaudoin to his original ) ' status; Mr. Marler, Minister of Transport, did the same thing with legislation regard- What both of them ignored is the fact that the Liberal Party is in power because individuals were elected by the ing cables. It's An Ill Wind In the Design centre last week we learn- sed that tubular furniture--folding chairs, garden lounges and others--came on the markets the result of a mistake. facturer - grossly overproduced on the aluminum tubing swhich he used making Faced with serious loss he call- ed in-a designer to figure out some way the surplus'might be made marketable, result was tubular furniture. did he sell the entire surplus, so heavy was the «demand that he went into the ' business of producing only had difficulty in supplying the need. A somewhat similar thing happened to a retailer of 'badminton rackets and birds in In the early years of the war his _ Birds were unob- tainable and 'the sport 'was declining. ski poles. Toronto. _ business faded away. Faced with bankruptcy he sport of skiing. The supply could hardly "people. safe. ers this kind of of the parlia- variably does A manu- "The Not only furniture and turned to the The Liberal Party was: elected. Herein lies the crux of the party system. As long as individual members realize that * the party is in power because of them de- mocracy and the rights of the people are But as soon as the individual mem- ber becomes a slave to the party and its rubber stamp the Prime Minister and his i cabinet will make more and more decisions * .. based upon assumptions and this is not democratic government This is govern- ment by whim and fancy. We think that the Liberal Party is dangerously close to these two significant happenings this week to lend support to such a view. keep pace with the demand and he was in a new and much more prosperous business. 'As a sideline he began to arrange budget ski excursions. dred thousand yearly. Faced with tough conditions people tend to do either one or the other of two things. First, to give up and admit defeat with the reasonable explanation that the situation was an impossible one; on the other 'hand ~ many turn disaster into success with a new idea or a new plan. The difference in at- titude seems to be summed up in the dif- | ference in conviction. that there is a way out and that he gan find it; the other that there is no way out and further attempts to find what doesn't exist is stupid. clearly show that both are right; but how different are results! government and there_are : The individual member 6f parliament re- gardless of party must insist upon 'his 'right to express his view. by voting with the party and almost in- He may end but the short-cut taken in parliament this week ig a ruinous one. Soon this grossed a hun- 2 One is convinced Of course, events quite Clipped Comments SHOULD CHILDREN BE SPANKED? Should parents go to church--even "if they don't believe in it--just for the sake of children? This was one of the searching ques- tions asked of. a. panel of childhood raising experts by writers June Call- wood and Trent Frayne (Mr. and Mrs. in private life) in Toronto recently. The panel discussion was tape re- corded and published in a national magazine. _ In answering the question on church- going, Mrs. March Dickens, a social worker, told the Fraynes, "I think it would be better if you asked your chil- dren to think and feel as you do. It's better if they think that the family is different from the community than they, individually, are different from * the family." The panel consisted of Mrs. Dick- ens, Mrs. Frances Johnson, super- visor Institute of Child Study; Dr. William Hawke, psychiatist; Dr. V. Johnston, - general practitioner; Ver- non Trott, psychologist; J. D. Ket- chum, psychologist, and Dr. Garnet Hamblin' pediatrician. The panel : was gi to vote on whether children should be spanked for misdeeds. Six voted for spank- ings, with reservations, one voted against. Mrs. Johnson, casting a negative vote, said: "Spanking is a rude method because it doesn't teach a child what to do, but only what not to do." ; "Who should tell children about sex?" the Fraynes asked. Dr. Ham- blin said the mother should, giving her children chances to discuss the matter with her. He believes the father, be- cause of shyness, is useless to-tell children about sex. 1 * --Canadian Statesman. SURE THEY READ THE ADVTS. Every town has a merchant, who thinks the sport page is the only pagé people read. Next door to him the merchant prefers the back page be- cause that is "where people look first." The retailer across the street demands society because that all women read. A druggist wants his ad across from the comics and a hardware man thinks editorial pages are read most. A study of reading habits of hun- dreds of towns made by the Bureau of Advertising found that all pages of the newspaper are read. In fact, left hand pages get one per cent more readers than right hand pages. A lot of women buy ready-to wear who read. the food pages and they purchase cosmetics from the druggist who insists on the comic page position. The fact is, and this is shown by the above study, that the page and the position on the page make not one whit of difference in eapturing readers, It is what the advertisement says, how jt says it, and how it is presented that gets readers. Many pages in the study showed that advertising got twice the number of readers received by news stories on the same page. Make advertising in- teresting and the people interested in the merchandise gdvertised, will flock to its position in the newspaper. --The Pocketbook. 4 RECEIVE PAY WITHOUT WORKING - In the early days of the industrial era, the working man was considered something expendable. His lot was one of starvation wages, too-long hours and intolerable living conditions. His place in the scheme of things was to provide cheap labor_to enable a handful of men to amass fortunes, Education, public opinion and whions clipped the wings of the predatory ex- ponents of rugged individualism and the working man of today has most of the ameriities and few of the ulcers of his boss. Most of the credit for this improved state of things must go to the unions, They have brought the one-time un- derdog to the dignity of citizenship and manhood. It may be true that most working men in Canada are not enjoying the lush living of the carpenters, brick- layers, steel workers, and auto work- ers in organized centres,. But the benefits to the few have also helped the many. Today the unions of running trades and the C.P.R. are having a row over firemen on diesel engines, a form of locomotion which does not provide any work for firemen. Their free-riding costs the railway several wilsss a year. In view of the fact that the C.P.R. has assured the union that the men who are doing nothing but drawing their pay will not lose their jobs the union threatens to strike unless the railway continues to pay several thousand men from $4,000 to $5,300 a year for doing nothing. Unions have many worthwhile ac- complishments to their credit, This will not be one to add any lustre to the record. : --Canadian Statesman District 'Doings - NEWMARKET PAPER SOLD FOR $25,000 The Newmarket- Era and Express has been reported sold to a New- market man' for $26,000, ' He was suc- cessful in his bid over two others from Toronto concerns ahd one from thé | employees of the paper who have been busily trying to raise money for its purchase during the. past few: weeks. The Era and Express building as recently destroyed by fire and the ma chinery and equipment suffered heav: ily. The paper was owned by the Mulock family and has been in their hands for 126 years. Mr. John Strutherf was the paper's editor. INTERNATIONAL PLOWING MATCH INSURED The 1966 International - Plowing Match to be held at'Brooklin this fall is really "covered". The executive committee of the local' committee in charge of arrangements for the match have taken out insurance policies that will cover just about everything ex- cept the-sun. No rain insurance has been taken out but their is insurance on every one attending the great an- nual event, Trucks, tractors, cars driven on official business, cattle, horses, pigs are. all under protective cover of insurance to protect the as- sociation and the people 'who attend or take part in the match. Even the farms on which the match will take place have been protected against mis- haps. CENTRAL POLICE RADIO SYSTEM RECOMMENDED Mr. A. H. LeMasufier, Reeve of Markham Twp. and chairman of the Police Committee for York County, will meet shortly with the Police Chiefs of seven separate municipali- ties to discGss the attributes of setting up a central despatching station. Reeve LeMasurier stated that the plan was still very much in the "dis- cussion" stage and nothing definite had been decided. He said the opinion among the Police Chiefs varied as 'to the usefulness of the scheme, Reeve LeMasurier pointéd out that each municipal police force would definitely retain its own identity. The succdss or failure of the plan depends to a great extent on the co-operation of the Bell Telephone Co. Municipalities represented at the meetings are Markham Twp., Mark- ham Village, Newmarket, Vaughan, Sutton, East and West Gwillimbury. BREWERS WILL BUILD STORE IN _BOWMANVILLE The H. C. Downham Nursery Co:, of 'Bowmanville, announced Wednesday the sale of land to the Brewers' Re- tail Association has been completed, be at the corner of King and Frank Streets, 300 feet west of Simpson Ave. The purchase of the land includes 125 foot frontage on King Street E. and is 200 'feet deep. pected to start immediately. GAS" PIPELINE ALONG BASE LINE "'Plans for the construction of a na- tural' gas pipeline through southern part of Ontario County have been changed considerably in the past few months. Originally it was announced No. 2 highway to Whitby Townline, north to the Third concession and then east to a point north of Bowmapville. The Consumers' Gas Company now plans to bring the pipeline along the base line and have a small station would be fed into the mains that will supply the Town of Whitby. Nego- tiations for services from the main line are now underway and are expected to be completed shortly. 'By 'Ambrose Hills ADVERTISING SUBSIDY When 1 first said in this column about a year ago that CBC was sub- sidized big advertisers, sometimes up to 40% of the cost of the programs they "sponsored", the CBC public re- lations department attacked me. They .Jwrote the editors of papers carrying my column tg say how mistaken | was, and they denied my assertions vigorously, They now sing a different song! Before the Fowler Commission on Broadcasting they have admitted I was right. They do subsidize large advertisers up to 40%. Why did they try to hide this scandalous business from the public? They knew very well it would arouse public opinion, and it certainly has, Mr. Joe Galonsky, fiery secretary of the Manitoba Farmers' Union, told the Royal Commission on Broadcast- ing in no uncertain terms. that the farmers of Manitoba don't want to subsidize these big companies or their produets. He asked why in the world Manitoba farmers should subsidize Canada Packers to help them sell margarine in competition with butter? No one gave him an answer, There is no answer that makes sense, Many a farmer 'will wonder how the Cana- dian Federation of Agriculture could support the CBC to the degree it did. The executive of the Canadian Fed- eration of Agriculture" might be wise to clear such' 'things pretty carefully Jwith rank-and-file farmers, 'Perhaps the officials are out of touch. Per- haps they are so delighted to-get time on CBC and co-operation from the CBC that they have become blinded to some of 'the practices which take place within the Corporation. The Manitoba Farmers' Union often does things which I am. dead against. But on thig broadeasting issue I think they took the stand that most farm- ers, as individuals, would have taken. The CBC has grown to be a clossus! It 'is costing the taxpayers fabulous amounts of money! It is subsidizing the big advertisers! - Surely, it should have its wings clipped! ANTIDOTE TO INFLATION "FROM BONN, capital of the West German Republic, comes word of an antidote to inflation, which makes more sense than Canada's 'tight money" and high taxes or than the UK! Government lottery savings bond scheme. 'Way to fight inflation, West Ger- man Government recognizes, is to create real incentive to save. Ger- man Finance Minister has accordingly proposed that individuals and corpora- tions be allowed to deduct from tax- able 'income the amount of money, within certain limits, which they save in course of fiscal year. Thus not only is real incentive to save created, but new source of domestic capital for fatare industrial expansion is provid- ed. Idea is one that: Finance Minister Harris might profitably explore. It seems to meet most serious objections to high taxation, in that it would ease pressure on Government to in- crease spending because of surpluses on hand, by leaving funds tempor- sarily frozen but in private hands. ~The Letter Review. Thd location of the Retail Store will | Erection of the new store is ex-| that the diggings would proceed along | in Part Whitby from which the gas '0f Many Things >a A THE HAMES SISTERS One of the prettiest singing acts to come along in a long while is -fand Jean, 4 Thursday, July 19th, 1956 The Hames Sisters--Marjorle, Norma The redheaded trio are seen on "Country Hoedown" every week an the CBC Television network. Report | From Parliament 'Michael Starr, M.P., Ontario Riding The last supply motion was intro- duced on Monday, July 9, by the Gov- ernment and an amendment was sub- mitted by the Official Opposition of the House of Commons to the effect that they were of the opinion that the welfare of the Canadian 'people re- quires the adoption now of a national development policy, which will develop our natural resources for the maxi- mum benefit of all parts of Canada, which would encourage more process- ing of those resources in Oanada, cor- rect the present serious unfavourable trade balances, foster wider financial participation by Canadians in the de- velopment of our resources and pro- niote greater oppartunity and employ- ment for a steadily increasing popula- tion. A two day debate ensued after the presentation of this amendment, at the end of which the Government again with its large majority defeated this amendment. In the period left for th (introduction of grievances for private Members, Stanley Knowles, C.C.F. Member presented his grievance against the Prime Minister of Canada, in that the Prime Minister did not ac- cept the resignation of the Speaker of the House of Commons but that he induced the Speaker to continue to occupy the Chair of the Speaker. Some bitter words were hurled across the floor of the House of Commons, but the Prime Minister remained firm in his decision. Challenges for the dis- solution -of the Parliament and the calling of an election have had no ef- fect on the Prime Minister and his Government. It is quite evident that they are quite unprepared to go before the people of Canada asking the man- date for another term of office with conditions as they are at the present time. Canada's foreign trade deficit had a five month record of $4 million five hundred thousand in the January to May period. This deficit, which was the difference between the Exports and the Imports, far exceeds the de- ficit of last year. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics say that the de- ficit was caused partially by the im- portation of large amounts of ma- chinery equipment and construction material for the development of new industry and the expansion of existing ohes, About nine hundred members of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women's Groups from eighteen counties, including Can- ada, met in Montreal from July 8 to July 12, of this year. On July 10 gpecial trains brought the delegates from Montreal to Ottawa to enable them to see Canada's beautiful capital. The Canadian Members of the delega- tion visited the House of Commons in the Parliament Buildings where they were addressed by the Speaker of the House of Commons. In this delegation were five representatives from the City of Oshawa, whom I had the plea- sure of meeting at that time. The Canadian Delegation were later met by the Delegation from other countries, who meanwhile had been visiting the missions of their own countries and the whole group were greeted by the Prime Minister and were conducted on a tour of the Parliament Buildings. In the figures issued by the Domin- ion Bureau of Statistics dated July 6, show that the estimated population in Canada at March 1st, of this year was 16,861,000. This. is an increase of 379,000 from a year earlier at the same period. Employment seems to be at a higher level than last year, judging by the Unemployment Insur- ance Benefit claims which were fewer by 149 in May this year than last. Industrial employment as of April 1st was at a new high for the time of year and weekly wages and salaries reached a new peak. The average now stands at $63.37, a slight increase from $63.21, which was the figure at the beginning of March. The average a year ago was $60.68. In the agricultural field it is fore- cast that the total crop of cherries and strawberries will be much less this year than last. The decreases are ex- pected to be in British Columbia and Ontario. The sales of fluid milk and cream at the end of April were 69% larger than in 1966. Blackstock There was a good 'attendance at the strawberry festival sponsored by the Farmers' Union on Monday evening, July 9th, in spite of the severe storm of late afternoon. There was .an abundance of strawberries and cream, breads, cakes and cookies of all kinds. After all were served a good program | was presented, consisting of readings by Mrs. Mackie, Sr., and Mrs.. Wm. VanCamp, two tap dancing numbers by Sylvia Lawrence, solos by Mrs. Robinson (a summer resident at the lake) accompanied at the piano by Mrs. Dave Wilson, Joan Elford and Lorraine Dayes, two songs, accom- panied By Mrs. Ray Robinson. Allan and Clifford Dayes gave vocal num- bers accompaning themselves on the piano and guitar. Miss Anna Samells gave piano accordian numbers and Leonard Sanders sang two solos and gave two vocal selections accom- panied by Mrs. Lorne Thompson. Ralph Malcolm and Ray Robinson gave two vocal selections accom- panied by Mrs. Robinson. Victor Malcolm was M. of C. Proceeds after deductions of expenses was about fifty dollars. The W.M.S. Family Day was held at the home of Mrs. Ernest Larmer on Wednesaay the 11th. President of W. M.S. Mrs. Larmer opened the meeting by asking all to repeat Psalm 23 and the hymn "I Love to Tell the Story', Mrs. Cecil Hill gave the devotional talk and offered prayer. Anne Gib- son, president of "the Mission Band presided for their program as follows: piano solo, Jim Dayes, 'The Black- smith's Song',, reading, Brian Mount- joy, "The Temperance Giant", piano trio, by Anne Gibson, Joan Bradburn and Janice Byers, "School Pictures". Recitation by Lorna Wright, "The nd", song by Patsy and Joan Wotton, "Jesus is Calling", piano solo, Nancy Dorrell, "Sunset on the St. Lawrence", song, Linda Venning and Carol Rahm, "The Bible Tells Me So", reading by Janice Byers, "Zeherdee Misses the Bus". Murs. Hill then introduced Miss Marion Bellman of Bowmanville who told a very interesting story "A little Brownie". At this point the children left the room. Owing the the rain were not able to go to the lawn but Mrs. Larmer has an empty apartment in the house this year so Mrs. Ralph Larmer and Mrs. Lloyd Wright entertained the toddlers in one room and Mrs. Ivan Mountjoy and Mrs, Hill supervised games for Mission Banders in another room, Mis. Larmer introduced Mrs. Ivason Munday, of Maple Grove, Community Friendship Secretary of Presbytery, who spoke to the ladies left in the room. Mrs. Hutton thanked the speakers. Hymn, "What A Friend" was sung and the meéting closed with Benediction after which a bountiful lunch of ice cream and cookies was served. There were 23 ladies and 57 children including 6-infants present, Donald and Brenda Murphy, Bow- manville, spent last week with the Roy McLaughlins, Donna McLaughlin spent Saturday night with her grandmother Mrs. Murphy, Tyrone. Mr. and Mrs. Roy McLaughlin, Donna and Dennis, were Sunday din- ner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Ash- ton, Haydon, "Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tripp and two --rrag evening visitors with Mr, Lewis Henry. Leamington, Mr. and Mrs. M, Wilson,' of Oshawa, were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs Lorne Thompson. Oshawa, on Tuesday evening. Prosser, ing to bring the farmers problems to ers, Mr. Jack Smith has returned home from St. Joseph Island. Cora Maltby, Toronto, and Mr. Vin- cent Archer, Bowmanville, with Mu. and Mrs. W. Archer, for the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wright, Mr. and Mrs. Dalton Dorrell, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Marlow and Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Marlow, attended the Steele-McNally wedding in Colborne. Several from here attended the Orange Walk in Port Hope, on Sat- urday. Others attended the Motors picnic in Oshawa. i Mr. and Mrs. Elgin Todd, Brampton, spent the week end with the Ed. Har- ris family. The VanCamps (36 in number) held a family picnic at Mr. Stephen Say- well's cottage, Caesarea, on Sunday. Mrs. Herman Wilson, of Port Perry, spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Mountjoy. The 4-H Club entertained their mothers to afternoon tea in the Re- creation Centre on Thursday. Mrs. Lorne Thompson and Mrs. Malcolm Emmerson, Presidents of Blackstock and Nestleton Women's Institutes were guests of honour. Mrs. Alma Fowler and Miss Dianne Blair spent a few days in Oshawa last week. : Mr. and Mrs. Merill VanCamp and family. Glad to report that Mrs. Leith Byers in progressing splendidly after her operation in Oshawa hospital last week. Also glad to say that Mrs, Earl 'Dorrell is gaining, though very slowly, after the stroke which followed her operation. ) r.. and Mrs. Norman Mountjoy, their family and grandchildren (32 in all) held a get-together at Lyn- brook Park, near Kinsale, on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Larmer visited Mr. and Mrs: Carl Dawson, Baileyboro and called on other friends at Fraser- ville, Sunday. Mrs. Robert' Bruce is visiting her daughter Mrs. Ross Curtis and family in Orillia. Mr. and Mrs. 'Wilson Ney and Ruth, of Ottawa, visited Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Fitze, on Wednesday. Then all went to the Orange Celebration in Midland on Thursday and attended the Ney re- union Saturday and visited other re- latives en-route. SCHOOL REPORT S. 8. NO. 13, REACH .. (Alphatically) Grade Y--Carol Butt, Eleanor Har- per, Neil Wanamaker. Grade 8--Bill Harper, Judy McGann, Joe Stone. Grade 6--Patric McGann. Grade b--Virginia McGann. Grade 4---Rose Ann Harper, Newlands. Grade 2--Lloyd Bruce, Jim McGann, Ada Clifford Moon, Billie Wanamaker. RUTH A. FOSTER, Teacher. Lions Elect international President John L. Stickley John L. 8tickley of Charlotte, North Carolina has been elected International President of Lions "4nternational at the ation's 39th annual convention in Miami, Florida. Lions International, with 542,828 members in 12,334 Lions Clubs in 76 countries or regions, is the world's largest service club boys boys, Oshawa, were Saturday organization. and Mrs, Mis. .W. Cobbledick, Orono, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Cobbledick and family, of r. and 'Mrs. Geo. Prosser, and Mr, and Mrs, Walter Lawrence attended a Lubpr Council meeting at U. AW. "hall, » Mrs. Women's President of Ont. J Farmers Union, spoke to the gather- the attention of the Industrial work- Mr. and Mrs. Bert Smith and Miss. and Mrs. Norman Malcolm, To- 'ronto, spent the week-end with Mr. rn . a pL - --. 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