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Aad eel Te Fy § 5 ; . SIR | YER ---------- a _ . . | THE STAR EDITORIAL PAGE ---- Thursday, February 27th, 1958 Notes and Comments Education Week : PR us DISTRICT CHURCHES 'Scugog, Manchester and ~ Prospect United Churches The good old days of snow drifts you God's blessing and peace. Happy were upon us again last week; and we birthdays to the fo)lowing members are. reminded thatthe ago of snow and of our Birthday Club: To Cathy John- Next week, March 2 fo March 8, is 'Education Week which will be observed throughout. the country, exists in this country a woeful lack of un- . - uerstanding with regard to the problems Most The recent con- Terence on kducation held in Ottawa cleax- \Y indicated. that the biggest need in Cana- QAIAD; &( 'Was more tinancial support. Such support. is needed to bring teachers' salaries up to a point where the teaching protession will attract the best of our young. university talent; is needed too to : Bo ide accommodation and équipment for 'the unprecedented increase in the number "oF our children to be educated. - However, the great weakness in the Contapence: was ita failure to set up any kind of machinery to put pressure on the different levels, of government to insure the necessary money. Business men, fanmers, : labour organizations take it for granted that they must have their pres- sure groups:and they make no bones about placing their demands before the govern- i Furthermore; they are listened to, even when their demands seem to be un- reasonable as in the case of the railways "brotherhood: who' have refused to 'accept "the findings of the Royal Commission. But those who represent education fight shy of forming any pressure group. There ~ - Good: habits are one of the essentials of good driving; the others are good Atti- Habits can protect - or imperil . that must be faced in education. taxpayers think tor instance that educa: tion costs are high, , How many of them realize that less than 2 per cent of our na- uonal income is devoted to education?' How many of them realize that schools are inadequately statted with under<trained'or untrained teachers? How many of them realize that in spite of inadequate support and 1nadequate stafi our schools have made remarkable progress in the- past generation? There is plenty of real evi- dence to show that the three R's are being better taught than ever before , ., but 'we've got to do more than teach the three. R's.if we want our children to go out into the world adequately equipped to deal with the probléms and the complexities of the - atomic era. Educators must look to parents and tax- 'payers to form the pressure.group for -educational progress. Education Week is designed to create annd: develop public un- derstanding and public support without which no worthwhile public enterprise can flourish. ; car. He signals his intention to: change lanes, or turn, or pull out from the curb blocked: roads are not-all over. At the Head the plow had to go through fifteen feet of snow. This might be nature's: way of reminding us how fortunate we have been for the past ten years, and in case we get too soft she sends us a snow storm once in awhile. Last Sunday was the first that we cancelled a service namely at Prospect. The lanes were all filled; but now that milder weather has come, we 'look forward to open roads and lanes this week. La The Session met last Friday" and laid. plans. for Paster and the follow- ing two 'months, "when our Minister and his wife will be on holidays. The Official Board granted Rev. Braham two months holidays, to take effect immediately after Easter. Our Minister plans to spend two or three weeks in Florida, and then fly to Ja- maica for three weeks. The work will be carried on by our organizations assuming responsibility for some of the Sunday services. The ladies of our W.A.'s are asked to be in charge of the Services on Sunday, April 18. Then on the following Sunday, April 20 the Associate Secretary of Home Missions, Rev. Elgie Joblin, M.A,, B.D. will be the Guest Preacher. On Sun- day April 27, our Elders and Stewards will carry on. Then on May. 4th, Dr. ston, Virginia Eden, Ruth Wilson and | Beverley Aldred o fthe Island. To "Gordon - Robert Holtby, Carol Craig- head, and Beverley Vernon of Pros- peety and to Elsie Hofstee of Man- chester. Our love and sympathy to uli who have Leen ill, and espectially to Margaret Holtby who at present is in Oshawa Holpital. Many of the children in Prospect have had the 'flu' again. We all look forward to Spring and sunny weather. We give you one and all a very cordial invitation to come and wor- ship with us on Sunday. District TO SPEND $726,330 ON COUNTY ROADS AND BRIDGES The total expenditures for Ontario County roads and bridges, including the requirements of the Oshawa Sub- urban Road Commission is $726,380,as mittee for the Ontario County Council held in Whitby this week. f the total amount, $712,320 would be ¢ligible for subsidy, assuming that normal and supplementary construe- tion by-laws are approved by the De- partment of Highways. The total ex- penditures exceeds the amount ap- EIGHTH BIRTHDAY "The "CBC Stamp Club" years old in February. At a ceremony to mark the occasion, club-president Doug Patrick presents the 37,000th membership to Marie Lecourt of Tor- onto, while Doug's son Robert, who reported by the Road and Bridge com- was the first member, looks on. The Doings over a mattress and to her astonish- ment came across a stack of bills of various denominations, all of which totalled to the sum of $850, The hotel management stated that the roll must have beén left quite re- cently as the maids are instructed to turn the mattresses over once a week. Sergt. G. Eberts Is investigating in an effort to find the owner. TWO STUDENTS INJURED IN | WHITBY H. S. EXPLOSION A minor explosion in which two | stamp club radio broadedsters are was eight. heard Saturdays on the Trans-Cafada network of the CBC. = A 10-cent mem- bership fee brings a "CBC Stamp Club" button, a surprise packet of 50 stamps and a book, "How to Start a Stamp Collection" by the club's pre- sident. 2 Whitby police and school authori- ties are investigating the accident. ONTARIO COUNTY RATE SET AT 10.5 MILLS ~~ The tax rate of the County of Ont, poses, Fairview Lodge, county and suburban roads and bridges. This tax rate was set at Ontario County Coun- cib on Thursday. The tax' raté for general funds was set at 4i1: mills; Fairview Lodge, 1.6 mills; county and suburban roads at 4.9 mills; making udes, good Knowledge, good Skills .:. . even if he believes there is no other traffic Kenneth Braham will be our speaker proved for 1957 by $79,935 Whitby students were injured, occur. | the total 10.6 mills. the, Ontario. Safety' League reminds all "within a mile. . : : for the morning Sp wig in fe a 3 Fore. red last week at Whitby District High : vers: - : : . ; evening. at Scugog "Head Memorial' CC School. MOTHER FINDS p dtivers He. stops completely at a Stop sign--on 8 LIBERAL DELEGATE FIND sso | ~0'% S PIN IN Habita) are: semi-automatic. reactions, formed: by. the binding tbgether of nerves and: muscles, An action repeated. often enough in. similar ciircumstances forms a habit. Every: time. the action is repeat- ed the bond between nerves and. muscles is,strengthened; every time an exception is mde the bond, and the habit, are weak- ened. : A: good driver-maintains the protection of correct habits by never "making an ex- ception" to proper procedures. He checks his mirror adjustment before starting the a deserted road 'at dead of night. He knows that one day the correct habit may protect him.in an emergency from an unsuspected danger--even if'it is nothing worse than an unseen police officer writing out' $20.00 tickets for "sliding stops" at a through highway. Correct. habits, firmly established and - never weakened by. "making an exception ~ because I know its safe', surround a driver with an additional layer of protection from danger--and the expense of summonses and collision repairs. B | stead of Port Perry. Our Minister will Clippe SHOULDN'T NEGLECT - PHYSICAL FITNESS d Comments and young adulthood to develop top quality in the bone, joint:and muscle SERA. J * Rev. Eustace McNeil of Seagrave will preach. On Sunday, May 11, the Leader of our Sunday Schools will take over, and on May 26th our Young People will be in charge. Arrange- ments are being made for the morning services on Sunday, May 18th, and in the evening Scugog "Head Memorial" the Preacher will be Rev. E. S. Lin- be on hand again on Sunday, June 1, when our new Summer schedule will go into effect. There will be no changing of hours during the month of May, except that instead of Stand- ard time we will revert to Day Light Saving Time when that comes into effect the last Sunday of April. Plans were formulated to hold ser- vice at Manchester on GOOD FRI- DAY evening, and to procure a suit- able Moving Picture Film, i.e. "King UNDER MATTRESS Chief of Police John Hunter, Lind- say, reported Monday morning, last week, a story which is the aftermath of the Liberal-Progressive convention which was 'held here Saturday after- noon, A group of delegates, including women, from the district rented a room in the Hotel Benson. When they returned' to the room in the evening a small parcel of liquor was found to be missing. A search was made of the room and-one of the party turned of Many Things by Ambrose Hills A bottle, reportedly in the posses- sion of Garry Harding, a pupil, is sta- ted to have exploded as he and a num- ber of other Grade 10 students were about to enter one of the science rooms. Garry was cut on the hands and face. Lorna Turnbull, who was standing near Garry, was also injured. Mr. Kain, one of the teachers was called to give first aid and a doctor was summoned. Both students were taken by ambulance to Oshawa Gen. eral Hospital, but were released after treatment, Neither was hurt > seriously BABY FOOD A Lindsay mother was greatly per- turbed when she saw a pin slipping into the mouth of her eight month's old daughter. The pin was picked out of the baby food the infant whs en- joying. The alarmed mother sum- moned the family doctor regarding the advisability of using the balance of food. , the firm supplying the food offéred a carton of the-article to the perturbed mother and she decided not to accept the same. Farm Union Leader Addresses Union Meeting "We have our back to the wall and to provide farm price supports was : » ATE Y SELF * are fighting for our very existence" [introduced to the H r We are living at a time of tension | Structure of the body will be a service 'Hilltop Herald of Kings". Also to have our Young ¥DUCATE YOURSELF said Gordon Hill, President of the many i MP plows ey and when many of us are under almost of gread value in middle and later| = *= People take Chasgs of the. service on When I was very young I taught Ontario Farmers' Union when addres- | agreed that in order to be effectivo 1 . constant pressure. But what are we | 28% : Hi Folks -- Einster Sunday Evening. Further par spool, all the grades from one to|sing a meeting in Manchester Twp. { price supports must be based on pro- . Yo 2 | yy WA ) ka Ben#éhop and Harry Kelzebrink. | , . Bureau of Statistics showed children i aoa fan's wo Aude of We are iy ol have 3 bas- | us. Also those of the Head who have | I'll tell you, and from his own oh. of my wife) are being undertaken at so Bad inky fore that now sping A ) under 16 years had a high incidence of | |i." Health Service, fino difference in |etball teams who are district Cham. been so faithful. The moving picture | servation, many; a jome | ought-1 our kitchen sink. Questions are fly-| wil bo on the way. disease of "the respirotory system. | oftisiancy in the petformance of mod.| Pion. On Friday, Feb, 14, our girls Firm "Forward with Christ" was very | ful comparison, he om oe ing, and at the dinner table the old| Congratulations to Mr. and' Mrs, SUS ; Disease of the respiratory system erate work are observed between the|Went to Uxbridge, the Juniors lost 22- ' good, and brought a wonderful 'mes- science from the pump than ad man has been stumped -a few times,| Don Athbridge on the birth of a baby AND i : ® dominated in all age groups. |. 00 of 17 and 71" "7 [10 and the Seniors won 20-19. - The sage to us. Also the film on the Figi|time to teach him. At night, after|pyt it has perked us all up--and 1|boy on Feb. 24th. : . fox ; 3 ' Diseases of the bones and organs of : 5 i boys played here, the Seniors won 65- | Islands. We were not able to have our | school, I spent a great deal of time] feel my children are now getting a| The Head W.A. will meet at 'the §) : The fact. is that-technologiealsad- Junior Choir owing to bad colds; but | thinking up questions: for I discovered | yon) education, home of Joyce Heayn on Mareh 6th, «a doing effectively to use our advantage of knowledge to stay: well in these days of pressure? How is the young generation being prepared for the sit- uation that points to the need for be-|: ing physically fit?' The current Monthly Letter of the Royal Bank of Canada cites studies made in recent years which show that North American children fail to mea- sure up to the physical health of children in Europe. In this connection the letter says: ) "General opinion leans: to the" belief that the typical way-of life on this continent is to be blamed. Our chil- dren are driven everywhere: to school, to play, and to the shops. "Even on weekends and vacations, says Dr, Mary O'Neil Hawkins in Child Study, $ : ; ill to take these steps--observe, remem- , man. - they often sit for hours cooped up in Thurs., Feb. 20 was postponed because Sunday evening Scugog Choir will, A " 1. Farmer representation to the |paeo a the trip t h ve Their recreation hes become | In comparison: with: their juniors,|of the weather. It will be held in fhe sing over the air from Albert Street ber and compare!' Prices Support Board. oof ore : wil 3 on to sing over increasingly passive and visual. Moy- these older workers show up favour-| Auditorium on Thurs., Mar. 6th. The ' United, Oshawa. There will therefore | That was back in 102% and vas 2. Producer controlled - marketing Scugon Home and 8ehocl Asatola 8 8 ' ably indeed in terms .of ' i ing, | something that stuck with me when wo co . i fes and television: take tip much of y 1 8 performance | programme will consist of the play, be a practice on Thursday evening etn Corsaro op aan ted Sires Tn boards. tion will meet next Wednesday, Mar. X "their time." For one thing, physical training in our schools needs an overhauling, ac- cording to those experienced in phy- sical fitness. . We have spectator sports in plenty, but only a few chil- dren are on the teams. Only the members of the teams and their re« 'placements and the sheer leaders get any muscular exercise; the rest are admirers, exercising nothing but their lungs. 3 z A 'report published recently by the movement, which had a rather. low low rate for persons under 26 years of age, began to show prominence; in- creasing from 9 to 22 illnesses per 1000 population. Middle-aged person, 45 to 64, show- ed the. increasing prominence of the diseases of the bones and organs of movement, about 42-per 1000. It is evident that anything that can Physical fitness in childhood should be sought not only because it will be beneficial in later life. It is of value here and now. : Stouffville Tribune. OLDER WORKERS HOLD THEIR OWN - The notion that the older workers are less productive than more youth- ful members of the labor force is effectively debunked in recent surveys made by the National Association of Manufacturers in the U.S. Until a few years ago it was fash ionable to class everyone of more than 40 years of age as an *'older worker." Today, as NAM survey: shows, only workers in the "46 years or older" group are classed as "older workers". on the job. 92.7'per cent of employ- ers rate them as good as or better, in terms of productivity, than younger workers. On. attendance, too, they get better marks by far than their juniors, ~ Older workers are rated better than those under 46 in terms of job safety and in their attitude to- wards their work, 3 : Most serious handicap trom which older workers suffer is their belief that their. abilities are deteriorating vance, which hag done much:to lessen the physical stress of 'workin indus- try, has placed a premium 'on:such qualitijes as skill and judgmént-- qualities that are unquestionably more fully developed in older and more ex. perienced jworkers than in their jun. fora; That's what the survey says, anyway, * any school either. Because of the snow storm last week there: wasn't any news, and hardly Most of the town students and a few stout hearted .coun- try students managed to struggle to school through the blizzard, though. On Friday there-was no school, the teachers were at Toronto, attending the anniial Teachers Convention. On Friday night, Feb. 28, P.P.H.S. ticulars will be given later. We would like this evening service by our Young eleven, in a country classroom. Too many youngsters, too many grades-- People in the area and the Junior Farmers Choir is being approached to' see if they would come and lead us in| song. This could be a wonderful op-! portunity for all Young People to join with us on the Island in a service of inspiration and dedication. | . will be sending a drama production. to Sutton to complete in an Inter- school Drama Festival. Miss McCully | directs the play 'Nellie McNab" Mem- bers of the cast are: Frances Jannack, garet Pastill, Ralph Honey, Murray Ross. We wish the group the best of luck in the competition. "Nellie McNab", and several musical numbers by choirs and an instrumen-! tal group. | The Valentine Dance on Feb. 14 was sponsored by the Literary Society and was very well attended. The Audi-' torilum was decorated in the custom-' ary manner with hearts, and at inter-' mission cake and milk were sold at the cafeteria. Dance winners were Marilyn Reesor and Martyn Rennick,' Erika Bénschop and Jerry Emm, Eti- 60; the Juniors won 55-51, the Ban- tams'lost by a small margin ~ The Senior boys had to play two 'games twith Uxbridge last*week to break a tie. Our boys came out on! top, Congratulations! Good luck to the Senior girls and Junior and Sentor boys when they play. against Mark- ham this week for Georgian Bay se- mi-final play-off position. See you «Canadian Statesman be done in childhood and adolescence all next week, "Bye now, Segre Bh 4 ose ET. Ee ES NTU IE ST Ti Re Bo ads Da li} The members of the Parsonage; Board are meeting this evening (Mon- day) to lay plans for this year. Our policy still holds good; namely, to make some improvements each year until the work is completed. Our row evening (Tuesday) and aon Friday | evening we invite all Teachers and Of- and we hope that all will attend. Our congregations are keeping up pretty wéll. We were very glad to] have 'Mr. and Mrs. Bradley, who have just recently taken up residence on the Island. We have just completed our study of the first chapter of St. Mark's Gospel. Please read the 2nd chapter, and be with us on Sunday. Our evening congregation was not so good. We did miss those of the Centre and_Foot' who -have "been supporting sometime goon we will. Many thanks to Catharine and Allen Martyn for looking 'after the films and projector. Our very best wishes to two of our pioneers on the Island. Last week,' Wednesday, Mr.-John Pearce cele- it might have been a frustrating ex- perience had I not made a discovery that has served me well ever since. Most children, and many adults, are capable of educating themselves if they know how. Fortunately, a nor- mal school teacher, Mr. J. W. Gordon (I'll thank him to the end of my days) had told me the secret of self- education. "You should know," he told our class one day, "that education is an inner process, a personal process. It Erika Benschop, Patsy Midgley, Mar- Young People will go bowling tomor-' is not a matter of merely cramming | heads with facts. It's a three-step process, always used by men like "Vficers of Scugog "Grace" Sunday | Alexander Bell, Edison, and other The Variety night scheduled for School to meet at the Parsonage. Next ' thought leaders. Teach your pupils which some of the smaller ones could nol even speak English. I.soon had l'to devise ways to keep them all busy and learning on their own, for I could not split myself up into enough parts to be teaching them individually. I remember sending a lad from Grade 9 out for a pail of water, so that he could then come in and write out in detail how he thought the water was brought to the surface. That lad did quite a bit of thinking that day, that if I asked the right question, the students built answers they remem- bered and understood. 1 am afraid too many teachers content themselves with giving students a lot of answers, ihstead of directing them to think through to the answers on their own. brated his 93rd birthday, and on Sun- This year, I am glad to say, my day Mr. Thomas Redman his 82nd. own youngsters have excellent teach- Both are in good health, and we wish ors. { Our encyclopedia is getting a Hall on Feb. 14, 1958. "D,B.S. records show net farm in- come dropped by 48.229 between 1951 & 1954. There was no improve- ment in 1956. In 1956 an increase of less than 1%. Figures available point to a further drop of 1% for 1957", said Mr. Hill. "Mounting unemployment figures bear out Farm Union prediction that we cannot maintain a booming econ- omy unless agriculture is allowed to participate and if our present system of encouraging factory type farms and vertical integration is continued, then our country towns will become ghost towns," continued Mr. Hill. The O.F.U. President went on to say that the Farmers' Union has con- tinued to press for-- 3. A Two Price System. 4. Price supports at parity level paid. direct to the producer by defi- ciency payments, . "Through our Inter-provincial Farm Union Council we have maintained a lobby in Ottawa on behalf of farmers since last October," said Pres. Hill, "with the result that when legislation << < real going over. Some scientific ex- periments (sometimes to the chagrin They'll need it in this modern world. A man who cannot observe, remember and compare is putty in the hands of politicians' or salesmen, He will fall for the sheerest nonsense handed out as pure logic. But a self-educated man is no blotter for every new kind of political tomfoolery urged upon him; he observes, remembers and com- pares, duction-costs, rather than a previou- average selling price." After meetings with the Minister of Agriculture, each of the four politfen! parties and the Prime Minister, the speaker predicted the new Price Sup- port Legislation would be more accen- table to farmers. An enthusiastic discussion perfod was held." .Sengog We are getting back to normal af' ter our session of being snowed: in. "Weather" we liked it or not, we got it. Grace Church choir will meet at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Sweet- This will be the final practice fth at the foot school. will be our guest speaker. The roads are mostly open now, af- ter the week of terrible wind and snow, at least for the present. We feel that we owe a great deal to those who worked so hard to see that the roads were opened, and also the local telephone operators who must certain. ly have worked overtime to see that Mr, Nelson no call went unanswered. With tele. phone and hydro nothing seems ait: weather and roads permitting. It has been decided to postpone our pletures on Bermuda for perhdps ' another month when we hope road conditions will be better. * The films shown by Catherine Mar- tyn at our evening service at the Head Church last Sunday were much ap- preciated, The congregation waa smaller than usual unfortunately, tabi PE My RT rr ps was set at 10.6 mills for general pur- A representative of the store and -