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Ea SS LN a country club perched atop, in the - | a Ly { * PEN 73 | T+ E STAR EDITORIAL PAGE Thursday, November 28th, 1957 COMMENTS = i 'On "Making Ends Meet ~The Royal Bank letter for this month is devoted 'to the very important topic of Making Ends Meet. - Anda very sensible and timely sort of letter it is, although "there are many who will disagree quite "sharply with some of the frank assertions "it makes, : "For instance, there is the statement that it takes as much ingenuity to spend money well as to make it and budget it. Now while this nay be quite true, it doesn't follow from .simple logic that it is true 'and few there are who 'believe that .it's difficult to spend money, even to spend it Wisely: while, on the other hand, most will "maintain "that money 4s rather hard to ~make. The crux of the matter lies in the "meaning and importance one attaches to * the word well. : : ' How does one spend money well? The letter suggests that it isn't possible to be- _ gin to spend money well until one begins to budget, The letter suggests or rather states that the local bank will help you to do this by supplying. you with a book for budgetting and sample items on how to use a budget. Furtheraids to wise spend- ing are stressed in paying close Ags the following principles: "What Do Sports Breed? i ~~ A short time ago, Professor John Farina of the University of Toronto School of Social Work said that, "sports breed cheat- ing, larceny, fighting and downright sad- ism." And the forthright Professor went .on-to explain and amplify his statements. No sooner did the papers get hold 'of * these statements when a loud howl of - protest went up from the moguls and de- fenders of sports. Their attempts at re- buttal were filled with sound and fury signifying nothing. : === Tthas now been demonstrated that sport in this country has fallen largely into.the hands of professional promoters who ex- ploit it for the profit arising out of popular appeal and advertising potentials. The essence of the game no matter if it be hockey, football, baseball or lacrosse, is to win. The competitive and not the cul- tural nor character building aspects are ~ emphasized. The results have been only * too apparent in the debacles that mar the refereeing in all our major sports. The re- pay for it, Here it is that. we are re- quired touse some healthy skepticism with regard to modern advertising propaganda. The advertiser is very anxious to tell you what his product will do for you; he tells you loudly and insistently in the unex- pressed hope that you won't put the ques- tion to yourself. RE *. The second ciple has to do with the concept that pr¥Ce does not always mean value, This is one of the greatest fallacies in modern consumptive thinking that price always means value or quality. And even if it did mean highest quality)\jt is absurb to think that we must always buy. the best quality. d It has been estimated that wise and _intelligent-buying would increase the pur- chasing power of the family some thirty per cent. The letter cautions against over-buying. 7 i; ~In.summing up the article asserts that for all practical purposes the family stan- dard of living will-be determined by three. things, the amount of money available, what kind of living the money will buy and above all the good or bad judgment usrd in spending it. .- Boys following sport don't talk about sportsmanship, they talk about the fights that feature the games. * The worst of all is, of course, hockey. Newspapers make use of 'the sport formula for promoting the sale of news-- * papers much as Hdllywood makes use of the formula of the western to sell movies, and as television makes use of the variety. all-star program. These sport formulas are developed or grow up until they-become ° a kind of escape machanism for untold thousands who exchange ennui and bore- dom for an ersatz interest in Hal Patter- - - son's knee or George Parker's arm. Sports, entertainment, and other foims of in- dulgence become the be-all and the end-all. That life can have richness of meaning, significance of purpose, and joy of creation and -achievement finds short shift in the crowded. vacuum of popular sport; popular entertainment, and popular indulgences. , First, & thing is worth precisely what it /) "can do for you, not what you choose to | you." isa family affair. Husbands need the "| help and understanding of their wives mitments that consume time that prior sults are apparent in unbridled hooligan- ism of the spectators.' What is life if so full of trivial fare? a Well, that's a question. District Doings - building business. - green light on Wednesday. last on a o ' "4 the attendance is estimated to reach B77 which, the Inspector said would DREAM HOMES IN MARKHAM TWP. THIS SPRING "The first of 85 lavish residences planned for a 800-acre subdivision southeast of Victoria Square in Mark- ham Township is scheduled for next spring: The dream plan; announced some months ago in The Tribune, is to build these luxury dwellings on two- acre lots. : : 4 The homes will be informally 'sited on and around a prominent hill, with permanent green belt zone of Mark- ham Township. I ; The dreamer and developer is Rich- ard Karl Person, 69-year old pioneer developét of Toronto's exclusive Bay- view area, He arrived in Canada from Sweden in 1928 and entered the = $400,000 DEVELOPMENT FO MARKHAM TWP. ; Markham Township -was given the $400,000 domestic water development projector the west side of the muni- cipality. Approval was received from the Ontario Municipal Board on the large expenditure and the funds will be provided by the Water Resources 'Commission. Alf, TeMasurier, member of the Metro Planning Board appeared be- fore Markham Twp. council oh Mon- day night and 'stated that he found his position very difficult since he re- " presents both Markham and Richmond Hill and these municipalities are op- posing 'each other on the question of a large shopping centre south of Ri- chmond Hill on Yonge St. ; NEEDS HIGH SCHOOL ADDITION BY 1959 3 Stouffville District High School Board 'should make plang for an ad- ditional four rooms to be added to the . local hightschool by 1959, according to Inspector Johnson who appeared at the regullr Board meeting. Wednes- "day night. The present school popu- lation numbers 243 and in five years is expected to advance to 440. In 1058 be peak capacity for the présent fa- cilitfes. The school was erected. to Chairman A. G. Thompson asked Inspector Johnson if he thought that next year's classes could be accommo- dated and he replied that he believed have been.reached. In answer to a question by Mrs. Button, the Inspec- the next five .years---and that this of each class room. LARGEST SHIP EVER TO ENTER WHITBY HARBOUR | 'The port of Whitby handled more tonnage during the passed ten days than during any other similar period in-modern history, local officials state. The high tonnage has been a result of rock shipments for use in remodel- ling the breakwater. = i The "Collier of Montreal", owned by the Canada Steamship Lines and un- der the command of Captain James Smiley entered Whitby harbor last Thursday with the first of a number of loads of stone from Picton, Ontario. The 260-foot long boat is 44% feet wide and drew 14% feet Wf water as she entered the harbour. | With the aid of a McNamara Construction Co. tug, the Collier scraped bottom slight- ly but managed to tie up alongside oil tanks, M.P. AWARDED.DAMAGES IN | ACCIDENT CASES 'Mr. C. W. Hodgson, M.P, for Vic- an accident which took place one year, ago, when 'Mr, Hodgson was driving his. car to Toronto, $2,000 of the a-; mount is earmarked for the damaged car. SCHOOL FOR RETARDED MAY GET WHITBY GRANT Terence M, Moore, Town solicitor has advised the Town Council that it may grant money to the Whitby, Ajax 'Pickering: Association for retarded children providing some of the child- ren assisted by the organization are residents of Whitby. handle 250 students. NEWCASTLE RATEPAYERS SEEK NEW HIGH SCHOOL so, but that the saturation point would' area .in Clarke Township and the ci- tizens committee appointed should do! everything possible to show the Dur- tor said that the Board should plan an ham High School Area Board that addition to handle the school needs for | Newcastle is the logical place to build the proposed new High School", This would mean a minimum of four class-' was the gist of a resolution passed by rooms. The Dept. of Education esti- some 120 citizens gathered in the mates that $20,00 would be the cost Lions Room of the Newcastle Com- : munity Hall on Tuesday evening to hear the report of the committee which is making a survey of the High School population in this area. "Newcastle is the hub of the school Clipped Comments OBSTACLES OF A FOUR-DAY WEEK ' No advantage in a four-day week-- This is the considered opinion of the Montreal-Matin, in editorial comment on a suggestion by President Walter Reuther of the United Automobile] Workers that he plans to ask for a four-day working week: HOW TO HELP YOUR HUSBAND RETIRE for the day when he will styfh work altogether': that's the advicd Dr. Re- va Gerstein gives in a recent woman's magazine. Preparation for retife- ment is like getting ready for old age, according to Dr. Gerstein. "You need a bank balance of the right attitudes and a pension plan of interests to help In her experience, "retirement for a man is accompanied by much the same emotional disturbance as menopause for a woman." She.described it as "a definite physical punctuation point, marking the end of one phase of life." A wife's impdrtant role at that time she defined as being "Mer husband's staunchest friend and most understan- 'ding adviser." There were three basic ingredients for a happy retirement, Dr. Gerstein said. The first was the good.health of both partners. The next require- ment was "an adequate income." Fin- ally, there were the "plans, hobbies and interests" that a couple had built' up together throughout their marriage. Dr. Gerstein concluded: "Retirement particularly at this time." --Canadian Statesman. ; of AN OVERWORKED WORD . There is an overworked word in our vocabulary but perhaps it is because there are. also a lot of over-worked individuals. We are thinking of the word "busy" and the increasing com- to the shorter work weeks was con- fined to business and the social com- ments exchanged when everyone was not quite 80 busye~ NS . Today's dozens of activities that co- ver service clubs, civic groups and church organizations as well as a-mul- titude of sports and social groups claim ever-increasing hours. All of which results in the phrase so often repeated, "I'm too busy". Perhaps it is a sign of our times or a feeling that to be generally accepted everyone has to be busy. But there are certainly a growing number. of social. agencies who are continually impressing the importance of their work with the only listeners being those who are already committed to the support of several other services. In our mind there seems to be a sense of urgency in introducing many new citizens to: many new activities, rather than running through the list of faithful workers and depending on them to lend more unlimited support to another job they have not time to do. . One of the problems of any town of this size is in finding willing workers for the dozens of "good things for the town" that can be undertaken. The population is large enough but the pecentage of citizens" interested be: yond their own home and centres of interest is limited. " This overworked word "busy" with all its varying degrees (some 'people are busy doing nothing while others are busy in dozens of obligations) is something a town could do without if the obligations of the town's activities were spread more thinly over a greater percentage of the population. - --Canadian Statesman. - , LJ] 0f Many Things By Ambrose Hills EGGS AGAIN When this column criticized the pro- "Will such a step be in the interest of the workers? We may doubt it .. "What will' trade unionism have gained 'for itself the day when it de- the government dock just opposite the 0 40 three days of rest to allow the workers to relax while a good number 'of them --and we are not blaring them--will make use of this free time not to take it easy but to work? "Demands in favor of a shorter week toria Haliburton and North Ontario. , jer to allow the father to take an 'the arguments of these people must wag awarded the sum of $5,000 dam-" (0 00s in his family, to see his child- be. If their scheme has real merit, ages at the sittings.of Supreme Court." ..;, "1; enjoy relaxation which is im- why don't they: argue jts merits in | The award was made against the Un- posed upon him will not stand'up any stead of making personal attacks on | satisfied Judgement 'Fund following ono0r if a good part of the workers those who disagree? LS, are toiling twice as hard and twice as long as they were before, "But the fate of those who trans- form their léisure time into money is not so upsetting. What is especially something of a worry is to wonder how these people who work no more than four days a week will spend theis leisure time, Is there any idea what these leisure days of such individuals are going to cost? Is there any idea concerning . the laziness which this step would greatly cause?" ~Canadian 8 pagan, oo | aaa aad | recently, Alberta weekly newspaper teditors began to receive letters from posed compulsory egg marketing bd. , champions of the scheme, hinting that 'I am either one"of Mr. Manning's mi- nions, or that I am hand-in-glove with the packers in wanting fo skim profits from the labor of producers. I cannot say how editors will res- pond to such letters, but for my part I feel that it.serves to show how weak The Alberta Egg Plebiscite is news. It is legitimate material for any col: lumnist, particularly at a time when i in Ontario the farmers are putting up a vigorous 'fight to get rid of a com- "pulsory hog marketing board which ! was foisted on them three or four yrs. lage with just such flimsy. arguments | as certain farm organizers are using (to support compulsion in marketing | eggs. | 1 read that Mr, Harper, secretary jof the Co-operative Union of Alberta, 'has (according to press reports) stated "that the Egg Marketing Board would "The first day your husband goes]. . off 'to work is not too early to plan| Di - - Ch rie | he Sores 4 10.45 am. Mr. W. J. arpur the Commissioner for our area istrict urches | il be on hand, and will initiate our .. Leaders, and give the address to the The Joint Meeting last week of our ping success, wk \ " : PROGRESSIVE NIMMONS If the world of modern jazz consid. ers coolness to be a good thing then indeed Phil Nimmons, as the leader of Canada's top progressive jazz group, could be termed 'frigid'. Phil and. his group "Nimmons 'n' Nine" may be heard regularly on CBC: radio. Ge have no power to limit or control the production limit of eggs. All surplus profits would be used to the benefi. of the producers and all surplus ey used to create a new outlet on the world market." Does Mr. Harper honestly believe this? When have surpluses ever helped to do anything else but depress prices? And when have such com- pulsory Boards ever used 'surplus profits" for any other purpose than to issue propaganda taking credit for price increases or dodging responsi- bility for price drops? If compulsory marketing boards are such' a whop- t give a realistic picture of their suci@ses? Theodore Parker,-of Stratford, Ont. wrote to the editor of the Edmonton Journal to say, "I with thousands of farmers in the province of Ontario have been fighting to do away with a compulsory hog marketing scheme that was imposed on the producers more than four years ago. At the 'present time we are getting petitions signed to do away with this vile legis- lation. Our minister of agriculture released a statement to the press last week which says that 'a constant stream of critical correspondence is being received by this department." I would like to warn the egg producers of the province of Alberta to think" very seriously before voting such le- gislation into effect. Compulsory le- gislation is restraint of trade and is cold-blooded state control; you have ONE market, and only one." Some farm leaders who take the at- titude that fellow-farmers can only he led into the light by compulsion arg due for a lesson one of these days. Not from packers or government--hut from the rank and file farmers who are fed up with heaging them rant about monopolies, cartels, and combines on the one Imad while trying to create those very things to he operated by themselves. 0 Four Woman's Associations was n success from 'every angle except one; namely, attendance. We really did expect about" one hundred; but had less than fifty. It looks as though the Afternoon is the better hour fox the majority of our~Ladies, and-we shall endeavour to make better arran- gements next time. Had we had time we would have postponed the meet- ing, as one of our most faithful mem- bers, Mrs. Miller, was laid to rest that very afternoon. We were all de- lighted with the Speaker Miss Beat- rice Wilson, B.A., Secretarygof thé Dominion Council of the Woman's As- sociation of our Church. Miss Wilson gave us a history of the W.A. and also the W.M.S, and in a very clear way gave us a picture of what the Church has in mind for our Women. Sometime in the near future, we shall have the pleasure of hearing Miss Wil. son again. A full report of the Meet- 'ing will be given by the local corres- pondent. "We are glad to report that our expectations regarding the offer- ing for The Missionary and Mainten- ance Fund were realized, and we re- ceived the' sum of $259.00. Now our goal is clearly within sight, and we will reach it. There is still time for those who have not yet sent in their envelopes, and we still have a month to. go. Many thanks to the genero- sity of our W.A.'s and Sunday Schools, and to all who have contributed all through the year, through the Duplex Envelopes; and to those who gave a Special Offering. Tt gives.one a sense of achievement to have taken part in the work of the Kingdom. Our congregations at the Island and at Manchester were good on Sun- day. Prospect is always good, though thei were some faces missing on Sun- day?! The Minister has started two series for the Winter--For the Child- ren's Story "The Monastry by the River" by Dr. Stanley Russell; and for the Adults, a study. of The Life and Ministry of Jesus of Nazareth as given by St. Mark. It is because so many really do not know Jesus, why they are so apathetic and indifferent to His Church. The Scugog Choir sang "He'll make it plain to me" with the solos taken by Florence Fralick, Joan Aldred, and Gladys Braham. At Manchester Mr. Mitchell Glecoff gave us a violin selection and also a vocal solo "How Great Thou Art". We are having Mr. Glecoff with us on Sunday Evening at Scugog "Head Memorial" and he will sing "The Lord's Prayer" [and play a violin duet with the Min- ister. The Service will he at 8.00 p.m. ' so that all may come. We were glad to have Rev. Girard Graham, B.A. of Port Perry and his sister with us. Rev. Graham pronounced the Benediction. At Prospect we were glad to hear Ma- rion Webster, who sang "Take up thy Cross". "On Sunday at Manchester we are having a very special Service. There will be a Wolf Cub Parade. The Cubs, and Leaders, and members of The , Group Committee, are asked to be at -, Cubs. The Cub flag and totem pole | {will be dedicated. We invite all the parents of our Cubs to be with us at the Service at 11.15 a.m. We also in- vite the Prospect congregation, as it was decided to withdraw the 1.156 p.m. Service there. We also 'invite the Cubs in our area who started "Cub- bing" in Town; and all who are in- terested in the work being done. Our Leaders are--Allen Martyn (Akela), Jack Witherspoon (Baloo), and John Braham (Bagheera). We have invit. ed the Mothers to meet with ug this Tuesday, to acquaint them with ways and means: whereby they nray help us, and as soon as possible to become or- ganized. . Our P.M.S.HiC CI are meeting this Wednesday a\ THe Hall on the Island. We plan to have the Social activities on, the Island, and the regu- lar meetings at Manchester. Our next cember 11th at Manchester. At a lovely Service last week Wed- nesday at the Parlors we paid tribute to the passing of Mrs. Joel Miller, and then laid the "house of clay" to rest in Pine Grove Cemetery. The trans- formation has taken place, and God' has given a spititual body. The sym- pathy and love of the whole Church goes out to the family. "Happy are the dead who die in the Lord." Our love also goes out to Mrs. Flewell who is in Port Perry Hospital, and to Ilene Hodgins of the Island who is ill at home; and to all who are indisposed, and worried and perplexed. Our Fa- ther cares, and is now working on your behalf. Only believe and trust, and all things will work out well. Remember the Sabbath day. Give 8.00 p.m. on Sunday. Manchester Those who visited Prospect W. A. last Wednesday evening thoroughly enjoyed the talk by Miss Wilson of the Dominion Board, also the lunch and social hour in the basement of the Church. There was a good attendance at church on Sunday morning to hear Rev. Mr. Braham's message. Mr. Gleecoff of Oshawa sang very beauti- fully as well as giving violin numbers. Mr. Gleecoff is always welcome at Manchester: Mr. and Mrs. Joel Aldred of Tor- onto were dinner guests of Mrs. Gladys Archer on Friday evening. Several of the ladies from this lo- cality attended the Anglican Bazaar on Saturday afternoon. Miss Doreen Black, Toronto was with her parents here for the week- end. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Robertson, of Omemee are visiting Mr. A. Johns and sisters. . ~ Mrs. Jean Severs, Ajax will be 7 413 soloist at Church next Sunday morning. vide for us ' Your you, _. As a people, should we not delay for a while some of the things governments are providing, or planning to pro- Reducing government spend- ing to a genuine minimus absofdtely necessary if in- , flation is to be haltfed. out of our taxes? aldermen, four member of the your member of parfiament are always glad to hear from &) THE LIMITED MONTREAL GANANOQUE HAMILTON BRANTFORD TORONTO PANY OF CANADA (~~ Collective pendthrifts that Canadians as a whole are spending too much and too fast. legislature and EE TE regular meeting then will be on De- God even an hour, and come and 've- * 'fresh your soul in worship. oy vices are at 10.156 a.m.--11.16 a.m, and"