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3 -- -- Ee RE ome ER Re ee ------ A ------- { } A * - * THE STAR EDITORIAL PAGE ~~ re swosusn bi EOC SSA ARINAS LEAS Sete The Joy of Spring Joseph Wood Krutch in Great Chain of Life, maintains 'that the greatest thing that man can world of nature is the lesson of gladness. One would conclude 'that a made such a sweeping, obv tific statement must represent a highly romantic, poetical approach to reality. But In point of fact the book comes to grips with some of the most fun- damental concepts: of science . . . . leaves us with many unanswered questions this is not true. --important questions, too. In the epilogue which is ming up, Mr. Krutch say spring outside a million win birds have sung as morning the globe. must have their problems better able than we to take them in their stride. Is any characterist striking than the joy in life itself he asks . . and expects no contrary answers. The author hasn't much learned ornithologists who Few men and women seem to be so glad that a new day has dawned . . a new spring day. He points out that birds NOTES AND COMMENTS .his book, The learn from the « ny book which ously unscien- universe with . and There are many reasons, he concludes, for studying nature's ways . . but none of them seems so important as the simple fact the lives of creatures other than man re- mind us compellingly of the fact that joy is real and instinctive . . joy seems to be more important and more accessible than it is to us. we seek as a compensation for the joy we seldom feel, is both worthless and harder to come by. - it feeds on, joy comes easier the more often one is joyous . . a sort of sum- s that in the dows, a million swings around but they seem ic of life more patience with claim that the What ! No Parliament Since Friday, Canada has without a parliament. government. A general ele called for June 10.." The campaign -of the various parties will probably be very vigorous and for the first time most of us will have a chance to see what kind of television stars will make. op] there is not much doubt abo sult of voting. It is widely With the end of this session came dissolution of the present Most people seem to think that been a country th sist that the ction has been our politicians ut the final re- predicted that robin and the cardinal who burst in song are simply voicing their assertions to local real estate and warning off trespassers. Such scholars are only partly right . . . there is, however, no denying the joyful exuberance of their song. bird is saying, he is nonetheless filling the Then he goes on to. assert that those creatures who have no song express joy nevertheless in their play. choly, or discontent or boredom, but nature relapsgs in joy. learning ? ther chance and are going to give a good ac- count of themselves. Whatever the result, it would be well if the new parliament to come out of the clection should devote itself to trying to restore some of the rights of parliament which in the past two sessions have often taken quite a beating. \ Whatever the joy. - . and to them Pleasure, which Pleasure sickens from what we relapse into melan- Is any art more worth é . e are others who stoutly in- Conservatives have a real Clipped Comments LIFE IN A SMALL TOWN So many city people ignorantly ask the small town people: What do you find to do in this place? . To our way of thinking, the question should be re-phrased and there are a great many men in town who will de- finitely agree. The question should ~ read: When do you get any spare time in this town? There is so much going on in Elmira today no one person can possibly keep up with it. Just to mention a f'r in- stance: last week, Monday night, the High School board held a meeting; Tuesday night, there was a service -club meeting; Wednesday night, there was a Cub meeting; Thursday night there was a civil defence meeting; Friday night there was a hockey ~ game. ™ w As a reporter, we attempt to attend as many meetings as humanly possible in order to report from on the spot the proceedings in the paper. That was last week. This week will be just as busy. Matter of fact, every week is absut the same and the same faces are present at a lot of the meet- ings indicating civie-minded men are taking interest in many things simply because there are not enough peaple to go around. ) We wonder if there ever was a time in the history of man whén peo- ple were as busy as they are today. People are so busy that it is a common topic of conversation, 'Séveral men talking together will tell each other how busy they are, how many activi- ties they are involved in and how sure, are entitled to some reward for the risk they have taken in making their money available for expansion and improvement. Business and in- dustrial leaders know that productiv- ity gains must be shared with the public in terms of lower prices. Com- petition in the free market is the best assurance that this sharing will take place. - Labor leaders, however, take a dif- ferent view of things. Productivity gains, they say, belong to the workers. Only with reluctance will they admit that the investors who put up the cap- ital are also entitled to some reward. Unlike business and industrial leaders, however, labor leaders are silent on the point of sharing productivity gains with the public. It is because of this "public be damned" attitude of labor when it comes to productivity gains that more people look askance at union wage de- mands than was the case a few years ago. . The publie, labor leaders should re- member, have a stake too in productiv- ity gains. Consumers are interested in more efficient production being re- flected in lower prices. --Canadian Statesman WARNING TO FARMERS STERN WARNING against costly consequences of coddling agriculture and thus halting necessary and desir- able changes that will make for great- er efficiency and economy of produc- tion on the farm comes from Univer- sity of Alberta's Dean of Agriculture, A. G. McCulla, Farmers, says Dean ,McCulla, have no right to expect the general public to support them. In- J many meetings they attend in a week. A J * F) Wives, too, tell each other how they "never see their husbands, because they are out every night attending meetings." What are we endeavouring to ex- plain to the harassed housewife, when hubbie says he has to go to a meet- ing, it's true. That's were he is! --Stouffville Tribune WHO IS GETTING THE MOST OUT OF "MORE"? Labor leadérs have a lot to say nowadays about the wage boosts be- ing justified by "productivity gains." This is just fancy economic jargon for technological advances which make it possible for industry to turn out more goods and services at less cost. What needs' to be temembered' ia that when there is an increase in pro- ductivity, or output per man hour, any of the thrée things may happen: wages may be increased, profits may be larger, or prices may be lower. +. Investors whose savings provide the capital needed for new and more pro- ductive machines and factories, to be stéad, public has right#to expect that agriculture will be operated as an efficient, economical industry. "Dean McCulla's views should be noted by Senate committee appointed to investigate agricultural operations. f --The Printed Word. ROYAL COMMISSION MORE IMPARTIALITY THAN PRESS 'INDICATES . Members of Royal Commission on Broadcasting, as careful perusal of their report reveals, appear to have observed more impartiality in their distribution of brickbats and bouquets as hetween private broadcasters-and CBC than press reports indicate. Number of passages will merit care- ful pondering by CBC officials, among them passages which reads, "a broad- caster who provides hig audience with nothing but XVIth century music and Ibsenish drama is no better than the broadcaster who never moves out of the tin-pan alley and the cops-and- robbers theatre." } CBC Management, too, will find food for thought in report's comments on publicly-owned broadcasting sys- | College Royal at the Ontario Agricul-' tem's physical plant and equipment, which seems a patchwork acquired "without much forward planning on a piccemeal basis," Comments in re- port in administrative set-up of CBC also contains more than a hint that overhaul of managerial structure would be beneficial. } --The Printed Word. TRADE DEFICIT STILL MOUNTING Canada's Trade Deficit for the first two months of 1057, according to Dominion Bureau of Statistics, was 142.5 million, well above $90.3 million deficit in corresponding period of 1956. Fact that trade deficit for first two months of this year js so much larger than for same period of 1956 calls to mind Bank of Canada Governor J. E. Coyne's observation in his annu port to Parliament that "it would disturbing to think of an import sur- plus of such a magniture continuin for an indefinite period." Mr. Coyne was referring to last year's record trade deficit. It looks as if, in the light of the latest DBS trade figures, the time were at hand for Mr. Coyne or someone else at Ottawa to define! "Indefinite", - For the government to ignore so forthright a warning about the perils of Canada's still mounting trade de- ficit, which economists like to call an "important surplus", would be fool- hardy.. --The Printed Word District Doinas NEW ASSISTANT AGRICULTURAL REPRESENTATIVE TN PRETTY EASTER BUNNY Getting yeady for Easter and look- ing chic in her Easter bunny suit is pretty Sally Dorie. Sally is a dancer TV network. Champion. Over 400 ponies were offered for auction from Canada and the United States, and Mr. Hayes is pleased to report that their pony received the third top price at the sale. Mr, Hayes, who was acgompanied by Mr. Carl Frise of Linday, stated that the people in the United States are very "pony minded", and the bidding was brisk. : CLAIMS CHURCH GROUP AFFECTS HOTEL SALES Bowmanville (WNS) Balmoral Hotel's request that a by-law be pass- ed to forbid all groups or organiza- tions to cater without a license has been deferred by Bowmanville Town Council. On consultation with the town soli- citors, Strike and Strike, the council- lors learned that they are not obliged to pass a catering by-law, Thus with no definite course of ac- tion to follow Council decided to table the' matter until future consideration is given to the question. Management of the hotel had ap- peared before council asking that since he was restricted from selling beer and liquor, that the churches should be controlled .in_ their sale of food. He felt that 'the use of free labor, free dining room accommoda- tion and often free food was unfair to his business, ' AU RORA BANNER ERITOR COLLAPSES In an unexpected move this week, the Aurora Banner announced the re- tirement of its editor, Colonel F. J. Picking. Although not in the best of health, Colonel Picking had been car- rying on his editorial duties until a sudden collapse last Thuryday night. It is understood that a heart\condition, along with other complications, have prompted his doctors td order im- i BE n of newspaper work, Colonel Picking, a fghiliar figure along the South Shore of Lake Simcoe was editor of the Richmond Hill Lib- i eral 'before assuming a similar posi- tion on the Banner six years ago. DR. CLAUDE VIPON Bowmanville.--J, Earle Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Brown, of Newcastle, has been appointed as as-' sistant agricultural representative for Durham County. Mr. Bfownwho was champion livestock showman" at the tural College last month, is an under- graduate of that college, and will be émployed as assistant to E. A, Sum- mers in his office in Bowmanville for the summer months, DISTRICT DOINGS CAMBRAY PONY BRINGS $2500 AT AUCTION "COOKIE CURL", a registered pony mare, owned by Hayes Bros. of Cam- bray, was sold for $2600 by Mr. Ray Hayes at the Annual Pony Auction held last Friday and Saturdey at Can- field, Ohio. { This pony has drawn vefy favorable comment when shown at! Local Fairs and last year at the Canadian National "Exhibition was judged. 'Junior Grand Speaks over CKLB (Oshawa) MONDAY, APRIL. 22nd 7.60 p.m. "CANADA'S PLACE IN THE WORLD" Ontario Riding Liberal Association PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GRANTS TO PICKERING--A47.6-mills The Provincial Govérnment grants totaling $590,418,00 or 47.6 mills will reduc the 19567 levy against the rate- payers of the Township of Pickering by contributing toward the following: education, highways and welfare. Un- conditional grants will assist in the cost of administration of justice, wel- fare and social services, indigent and unemployment relief, hospitalization and institutional care and. other ser- vices. The largest amount is for education, totalling $362,466.00 or 28.4 mills. A 13.7 mill highway grant will contribute $169,813.00. A total of $46,112.00 will be granted for the administration of justice or 3.7 mills. Welfare, unom- ployment, hospitalization, ote, will amount to $14,931.00 or 1.2 mills. In addition the education levy will be 83.3 BEAVERTON GOES WET IN WEDNESDAY VOTE Beaverton voters" went to the polls last Wednesday and voted in favour of Brewer's Retail and LCBO stores for that community, 65% of a possible 736 voters cast their ballots giving the "wets" a 62.8 per cent majority. Last vote on the issue was in 1949 when it was defeated. It will be several months before a store will open but it is expected one will be ready for the summer tourist trade, EXTENSIVE WORK ON HIGHWAY 12 TO ELIMINATE DANGEROUS CURVES Called one of the worst section of highway in the southern part of the province, No. 12 Highway between Whitby and Brooklin: will have its face lifted this year, anda number of dan- gerous curves straightened out. The work officially announced by Highway Minister James N. Allan is a continuation of the extensive work done of No. 12 highway north of Brooklin last summer, Grading, re- building culverts, applying gravular base and hot mix paving will be part of the work to be done this year. As reported in the 'weekly News at the first part of the year surveying crews have laid out a roadbed that eliminates some of the bad curves and will be work done in changing the con- tour of the hill coming out of Whitby. Manchester Mr. and Mrs. Severs and children of Ajax were guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. Johnson on Sunday. Mrs. Severs was the guest soloist at Church on Sunday morning. Last week an item read that the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Lyle was ill. This should have been Mr. and Mrs. Keith Dyke. Little Eric is home from sick childrens hospital now and improving. Mrs. Gladys Archer and Mrs. Jos- ephine Bain spent a few days in Buff. alo last week with the latters sister Mrs. Viola Schnapp. Guests on the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. W. F .Crosier were Mr. and Mre, E. W. Crosier and Brian and Miss Hilda Munn of Toronto and Mr. and Mrs. Allan Crosier of Blackwater. Measles and Chicken pox are quite prevelent in the community. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Colbear'and boys are moving to Blackstock. Best wish- es go with them to their new home. >». >» The management and staff of this valued paper have been most co- operative and I wish to express my thanks to them for that co-operation, We are now launching into an election campaign and 1 hope that 1 will have an opportunity of meeting as many as possible in Ontario Riding during the next six or seven weeks, mills and the municipal levy 29.6 mills. . Report From Parliament By Michael Starr, M.P., Ontario Riding One of the things I find important to remember as a Member of Parlia- ment is that all the thinking about the Nation's business is not in Parliament. It is amazing to discover that many interesting groups there are in this | country who are doing excellent work in digging up facts, presenting view- points, and making a real contribu- tion to the work of Parliament, To mention only a few, I think im- mediately the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, which under takes its own research into farm problems and makes certain that the viewpoint and interest of farmers are never lost sight of on Parliament Hill, on the popular "Barris Beat", seen on alternate Saturday nights on the CBM. T here are also the representatives of "organized labour, who have very compitent research staffs, and whose voice is always heard whenever labour or social welfare legislation is in the offering. The most important of these is. the Canadian Labour Congress. Supplementing this large and impor- tant organization are other: labour groups, such as the very strong Cath- oli¢ labour group in Quebec. Another very active organization is the Canadian Association of Mayors and Municipalities, who represent over four thousand municipalities through- out Canada. At one time their con- cern was mainly with our pravineial governments but the growing com- plexity of relations between our three levels of government, under our Can- adian federal system, brings them more and more into the federal field with thelr problems, These are but a few of the many from whom we hear fuom time to time in Ottawa. think they are all doing very real ice. T do not believe, that they shpdld be cilled, as they afte by: people, "Pressure Groups". It by most that it is a good thing thatfall sections of our national com- munity should be well organized to speak up for their rights and present facts which might otherwise be over- looked. In my estimation all of these specialist organizations are a very real part of our democratic process. We all believe today in the right of every group to collective action in its own interests. We believe also in free speech. 'The work that is being done by these organizations is, after all, a combination of those two great demo- cratic rights, the right to collective action and the right to free speech. On Tuesday, April 9th, the last Motion to go into Supply, during this Session, was introduced by the Gov- ernment. The Progressive-Conserva- time Leader, John Diefenbaker, in- troduced an amendment of -non-con- fidence in the Government in which he demanded legislation during this sea- sion to assure a flexible system of price supports for agriculture. He demanded price supports to give farmers a reasonable share of national income and stated that farmers are handicapped by the failure of the government to act effectively - Part of the blame for the depressed conditions in agriculture was placed on the United States, which is dump- ing farm products into Canada, grab- bing Canadian wheat markets by un- fair and unlawful give-away pro- grams, and by violations of the Gen- eral Agreements on Tariffs and Trade. Mr. Diefenbaker urged that the Government do something to recover the British market for Canadian farm products, especially wheat, and to in- vestigate the spread between farm re- turns and the price the consumer pays '0 retailers and processors, It was charged that the Government has allowed agriculture to fall into economic inferiority and social in- equity. Mr. Diefenbaker urged con- trols on agricultural imports from the United States, a country which he claims quickly imposes on Canadian exports when they had a detrimental effect on the United States farm "économy. When the vote was taken on this amendment it had the suppart of the C.C,F. and Social Credit Members of the House of Conimons but was voted down by everyone on the Liberal side of the House. Next Sunday is Easter Sunday and I wish to take this opportunity of wishing for the people of Ontario Rid- ing a very Happy and Joyous Easter: Since is is my last, report from Parliament to the people of Ontario Riding during this Session of Parlia- ment, T would like to take this op- portunity to thank you for reading this column. T hope that I have been able to make it interesting and inform- ative, ) Blackstock Some fifty or sixty persons were present at the special meeting of the W.M.S. in the Sunday School room on" Wednesday afternoon. . Guests were present from Caesarea, . Nestleton, Cadmus. The Anglican Church and Blackstock W.A. The president, Mrs. Ernest Larmer, opened the meeting with a poem on Prayer. After the singing of a hymn Mrs, Ralph Larmer read the Scripture and gave a fine Easter devotional paper. Mrs, Harold Kyte rendered a solo "All That Thrills My Soul". Mrs. Cecil Hill introduced the guest speaker, Dr. Elizabeth Bridgman, on furlough from Angora, who gave a very interesting talk and showed slides of the work, mostly along medical lines in Chissanba, An- gola. - Mrs. Gordon Strong, leader of the group in charge for the day, expressed the thanks of the gathering to Dr. Bridgman, and presented her with a bouquet or roses. After singing an- other hymn, Rev. P. Romeril closed the meeting with prayer.. The ladies of the W.M.S. served a delicious lunch while the other ladies had a pleasant visit, A good many from here went to Orono on Wednesday night to hear Hon, Leslie B. Pearson. Prize winners at the L.0.B.A. euchre Tuesday night were--high lady, Mrs. Blackburn, Toronto; high gent, Don Prout. Door prize, Mr. Demara of Scugog. Dr. E. Bridgman, of Angola, was entertained at the homes of Mrs. Cecil Hill and Mrs. W.' W. VanCamp, Wed- nesday and Thursday. - Mrs. John Hamilton left Thursday to spend the Easter holidays with her daughter Shirley and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Warne, of Winnipeg. Mrs. Velva Bailey spent Thursday in Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher and family moved to Scarboro on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest King and fam- ily moved to Hamilton, on Saturday, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Colbear and family of Manchester moved into the house they vacated. Services will be held in the United Church Good Friday at 7.30 p.m. and in the Anglican church at 8 p.m.; and of course there will be special Easter services in the United at 11 a.m., Sun- day School at 11.16; Anglican at 11 a.m. Mrs. Oakley Carley, Whitby, is spending this week, the College holi- days, with her sister Mrs. Clarence Marlow; and Anne Carley is with the Herb. Swains, : : Mr. and Mrs. Earl Bradburn spent last Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Mel- ville Lathangue, Omemee. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wren, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Cleveland and boys, all of Oshawa, were Sunday supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dayes and family. Blaine Adams, of Bow- manville, spent the week-énd with Jim Dayes. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Martyn and boys visited her grandmother, Mrs. J. R. Ruddell and Mr. Wm. Ruddell, of Bowmanville,, Sunday. Mr. Glenn Larmer attended the wed- ding of a Kemptville College friend at Frankford, Saturday. Other college friends, Mr. Graham Hudson, Kinburn, and Miss Smedden, Arnprior, returned home with him for the week-end, On Sunday Miss Marion McDougald, of Oshawa, Mr. Richard VanCamp and Miss Ruby Morrow of Bowmanville, joined them at Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Larmer's and had a pleasant get-to- gether renewing the acquaintances of Kemptville College. Mr. Charles Venning, Mr. and Mrs. Stan Rahm, Misses Joyce Venning, Irene Emmerson and Bernice Tripp, of Oshawa, spent the week-end in North Bay and attended the two games of hockey, Whitby va. North. Bay. The former were guests of the Gerald Hills. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. King, of Oshawa, Mr. and Mrs. Alan Rahm and Cheryl of Port Perry, were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Rahm.. Mr. and Mrs. Mervyn Graham and Roy, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Graham; Mr. and Mrs. Ross Duff were guests at the Eyers-Graham wedding in Port Perry Saturday. : Mrs. Harold Beacock of Port Perry, spent .the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Austin Beacock., Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Anderson of Whitby, were guests of Mrs. James Henry. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert Toms enter- tained Mr. and Mrs. Harold McLaugh- lin, Bobby and Linda, Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Dorrell, and Mr. and Mrs. K. VanCamp, on Sunday, in honour of Mr, Tom's birthday. Mr. and Mrs, Percy VanCamp were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs, Rupert Werry and Roy, 14 1