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* Moabar of: 'The Canadien Weekly Newspaper Asseclaticn - THE STAR EDITORIAL PAGE Thursday, June#th, 1958 A Positive Approach di ~_.they to make their predictions.. School principals; teachers, parents and pupils, tee, are all comeerned about edu- cation and what goes on in the school. However aot AWE foes it happen that sconcerned in rif Ye the same way. appraisal of ucation in general and schools in particular, There is a growing feeling among the adults who are vitally interested in education that it is failing to do aigoad job with our young people. And there is a growing movement towards a tougher policy with respect to pupils in our schools, That is one of the reasons why the experiment in Saltfleet has attracted 80 much attention. There pupils are given a special card and one hundred merit marks. There is a schedule of demerit marks for such things as--misbehabiour, ng tq the school, behaviour hinder- ing classroom procedure, truancy; disobe- dience, etc. When a pupil's record hits the seventy-five mark, the parents are noti- - fied; at mark sixty-five, the parents are "brought in for a talk; at fifty, the pupil is suspended. (Of course, while the application in this particular experiment is new, there is really nothing novel in the idea of demerit marks, vgre teachers who have used them throughout their teaching career and most principals and vice-prin- cipals keep a file index of pupils--not all of. Canadian Weather While we who live in Canada might not have such a vested right in the weather as those who live in"California or Florida, we still. take quite a healthy interest in it. Hardly a season:passes us by without us coming 'smack up against 'three kinds of weather men. First'there are the weather prophets 'who ean-hardly wait for the ap- proach of seasonal change so het up are th Then, 'there are the ubiquitous weather conver- sationalists; They invariably startoff with some suitable but trite observation about the prevailing weather just.as though you didn't have eyes to see what nobody could. miss, or feelings to feel what everybody has to feel." The third of the trio is the newspaperman who turns to the 'weather - when all other inspiration has failed. He invariably justifies his hollow effort with the consoling thought that even if every one is not interested in the weather at least they are exposed to it--in a manner -of speaking, that is. {And now we have just learned:from:a 'fourth kind:of weatherman that over the past forty years the average temperature .in.Canada has risen slightly more than two .degrees. Professor Robert W. Parker, who specializes in weather, suggests that "increased cloudiness could account for the change. Where does the increased cloudi- mess come from? Well, the Professor has Notes and Comments - against school regulations, has been considerably ré- Lo them -- but those who commit offences at is 'new is the concerted effort of the whole staff to make use of this kind of bookkeeping in order to raise the standards in the schools and improve conduct generally. wt The efforts so far, if the publicity is to be credited, indicate 'that the system is working. How much this is inherently due to the system is quite impossible to calculate. Certainly where there is a definite positive programme, teachers con- duct themselves with more assurance and self-confidence--both of "which are quite essential to.good work in the school. Much that 'was wrong in our schools over -the past ten years stemmed from the fact that teachers just didn't know where they stood with regard to discipline or some of the 'newer experiments in education, This lack of assurance was quickly sensed by the students and there-is no question that in many instances standards and conduct suffered. However, systems come and .go and it is wise to remember that any system, no matter how good, may be abused. 'Basical- ly what happens will depend on the ma- turity and the: good judgment of the class- room teacher-and where:these are apparent almost any system will produce good results. . gone on record as saying that the present tendency--to milder weather--is due to alterations inthe general circulation of the position of the jet streams. This is, of course, not very helpful to us whose speak- .ing acquaintance with jet streams is, quite frankly, of a most limited nature. An- other explanation appeals to us much more. He stated that the increasing amount of carbon-dioxide could be responsible. And why the increased carbon-dioxide? Ap- parently this results from over-inflation of the industrialized areas of the country and other countries, too, we:assume.. The Professor doesn't suggest that the clouds and fogs might rise from the way we look at things these days. and we are too inexperienced at this sort of weather analysis to seriously propose such an idea. -However, when one thinks of the cloudy situation 'hovering: over France, Lebanon, the Near East, the Far East and the Mid- dle East, one begins to.appreciate the fact that it is possible for:other places to:cloud over too. But back to hard facts, quite 'apart from theory, it is interesting to know that things are warming up in Can- ada-and obviously before the Conservatives get through with their investigations of the twenty million dollar printing project 'and a few other unexplained expenditures of the former Liberal government, things will get hotter still. | DISTRICT CHURCHES The three services last Sunday were Very well attended, and we welcome home from their well earned vacation, Rev. and Mrs. Braham, It gives every- one a feeling of security to have their minister close at hand. We do thank all the visiting preachers, and mem- 'bers bf all the organizations for so capably taking charge of thé services while Rev. Braham was away, but it is s0 good to have him back with us. For his theme, Rev. Braham choose the well known hymn, "O love that will not let me go'. The story of the author George Mateson, is very close to all our hearts. The choir at Scugog, sang "Beside Blue Galilee". At Man- chester, the junior choir under. direc- tion of Mrs, George Samells, sang two numbers, "Steal Away" and "Lead Kindly Light", Last week was a very busy one. TUESDAY NIGHT, Mrs. Francis Sandison and the three Island teach- ers 'presented the annual Music Fes- tival at Scugog Church. TUESDAY also is Cub night, and the following boys earned some new badges: Toy- makers. J. D. Witherspoon, Richard Frank, Billy Diamond, David Saund- ers. Guide badges--J. D. Wither. spoon, House orderly--J, D. Wither- spoon. "Wednesday afternoon Prospect held their annual bazaar. What a won- derful afternoon the ladies had to- 'gether, and the attendance was-over- flowing, Mrs. Myrtle Rennick had the pleasure of opening the bazaar. Wednesday evening, several of the local 'W.A. had'a very enjoyable get- 'together at Greenbank. There was a short worship period, 'and the guest 'speaker for the everiing was a nurse; Miss Catherine Ennis, who has spent considerable time iin the refugee camp overseas. Along with her most in- teresting 'talk, she showed us pictures brought many chuckles, and a. very | delicious lunch was served. Thursday evening, seven school in this district took .part in a Religious Festival held at the"Port Perry 'High . School. Rev. Cecil Nelson was in charge, and Mr, Mel Smith, director of Sunday School vf the Air, assisted the Rev. Nelson, and made a tape record- ing for CKLB, and the recording was heard on Sunday morning at 10 a.m. We are very proud of all our children who took part and did so well in the quiz work, Saturday morning, the PMS Hi-C Club were invited to Greenbank for an evenings entertainment. Approximate- ly 60 young folk were there, and we certainly emjoyed the good program, -and games that were arranged for us. Three of the Greenbank boys sang several numbers in harmony and we appreciated it. Folk dancing was lots of fun, and thanks to the musicians that helped us, and to Maurice Fralick for calling. 'A most delicious lunch was served to bring this enjoyable evening to a close. This coming Thursday, June bth, is the joint W.A. meeting to be held at Manchester. All the ladies are in- vited ,s0 fill up your cars and come and join us. Your Minister would like to meet with the Stewards and Elders on Sun- day evening at 8 p.m. at Manchester church to lay plans for a Sunday School convention in the near future. Next "Wednesday evening there is to be a meeting at Scugog Church for the Stewards.of the Island and the executive of the Head and Grace Churches to talk of plans for a supper. Birthday wishes this week go to Bruce Heayn, Robin. Brayley, Leonard Greenwood and Marie Aldred. Our prayers are with all those who of her work, A 'hat fashion parade are sick, and in need of help. 'We Miss the City (AN UNBIASED COMPARISON OF CITY AND COUNTRY LIVING.) By Percival 'Fhistlewort We miss the shriek of brakes and wail of sirens from the city police cruisers. Now we live in the country, '{we do not hear these sounds and so In the last installment, the joy of [do not have to wonder and worry if city living was explained to some |it is.one of our family who has met degree. The various aspects and cir- [With an accident. Or any member cumstances related, only partly con-|of any other family, for that matter. tribute to the perfection of city life.| We miss the hoot of engine whist- Children in our neighbourhgod were | 165: We miss the many door to door well trained. Parents went to some salesmen, whose one ambition in life considerable trouble to train their |Was to sell us something we could children to keep off their own pro- | not afford and certainly did not want. perties. We 'worked hard on our|We remember the time when we al- little lot and as a result our patch [MOSt got 'peeved with the salesman of garden 'was reasonably neat and |Who tried hard to sell us a load of well kept. Parents around us In. |the finest peat loam. We dropped a structed (we think) their children to [lighted cigarette end into the sample use our lot as a play centre. They basket of loam and the loam caught were warned not to do any damage alight. This confirmed our thoughts and as a result, after we had spent that the loam was oiled sawdust. We hours digging up a flower bed and [Miss having our house cleaned by carefully planting the various annu-|58lesmen demonstrating the latest als, all the children would respect. | suction cleaning equipment. In fact, fully and carefully tread on all the |We miss so many things. new and tender plants so as not to| We miss having to gift wrap our disturb the newly dug earth around |garbage. We used roll after roll of the plants. pink and blue silk ribbon on the pack- One summer we purchased a small [ages of garbage that we could not plastic swimming pool for the use|get into our battered garbage con- of our youngest child. This wé placed [tainers. The ribbon was used in an in the centre of our small patch of [attempt to bring a little brightness grass at the rear of our abode. How, |into the otherwise dull and unevent- we do not know, but the news spread [ful lives of the employees of the city quickly. Within forty minutes of |sanitation department. ' filling the pool with water, thera] We miss the postman, baker and were, as near as we could accurately | milkman taking a short cut across count, ninety seven children of vari- (the front of our property. We stop- ous ages in our back yard. Within |ped the baker from crossing the front two hours, -our-grass for -a radius of | grass by telling him not to call. We seven feet from the pool, was non [subsequently purchased our bread and existant. We checked later and the [cakes direct from the local stores. We mud, where the grass had been a|fixed the milkman by finally finding short time previously, was nine in-|& milkman whose only other customer ches deep. Strangely enough, we [in our section was the family who were not too unhappy that the work [lived directly across the street from of three years had been destroyed, |us. It was, therefore, no advantage as we considered the great amount of | for the milkman to cross our front. joy and happiness that we had|In the case of the mailman, it was District ONE TRAIN A WEEK TO MILLBROOK VILLAGE MAY BE ABANDONED Prospects for continuation of the Millbrook - Peterborough CNR line are not campletely . dead -- although hopes to prevent its abandonment are slim. Following talks between the CNR and Millbrook Council and. Chamber of Commerce representatives last week, the company agreed to send a spokesman for its industrial depart- ment to the village for further dis- cussion. ~ At the same time, the CNR pointed to declining revenue on this stretch of line--down from $29,000 worth of business in 1947 to $16,000 in 1957. | It is understood that if the village can convince the industrial depart- ment representative that 'this busi- ness will 'increase, then there is a chance the company will reconsider the decision it mailea to 'Millbrook Council 'earlier 'this year to close the line down. " Meanwhile, the track is used usually ~tsiren appeal. Clipped Comments nble ito grow and expand and provide more jobs and more real purchasing power, With _respect to wage cuts we have only this to say. Until there is a greater recognitipn 'of ' the fact that increased purchasing power can come only from increased productivity then the merry tune will only lead us farther and: farther away from a resumption of our climb' to further prosperity. ---Chamber of Commerce News Letter. {FACTS OF 'PURCHASING POWER] The:old tune. that more dollars in ithe "hands of the consumers means move . ipurchasing power is being i playedito death. 'Jt isiastune which thas been played at so many different {times in the history of the world and 'in so many different countries with : such' idisastrous ' results that it fis i somewhat surprising that there re- : main those who still respond to its $241 : ~<Canadian Statesman. Last week was a busy one for our Inflation of the mark didn't give 'the .Germans additional purchasing | powerieven though they carried about millions of marks in' their pockets. If the tune was sound, then doubling W.A. members. :On-Wednesday after. i everyone's wages would double the, Foon they attended the bazaar at : purchasing power. and. make everyone Prospect; and in the-ovening the' Joirit ! twice a Bk, ab sated 'meeting at Greenbaank. Both these amr he op fo Gk an yt i ie : those who were able to go. { diculous. Increasing Pe wumly 2 Many of the Island people were seen i money® is not the same thing as in- |. 4p" soning of thesnew: Purina mill ' creasing the purahasing Foyer. blene | 2 Whitby last Saturday. Tt was a + Inhis opening address to the blen- co. ow io day, with thousands i nidl convention of tie Canadian La- | bor Congress, President Claude Jo-] i doin. called .on the. Federal Govern-. I'ment to, yrediice . taxes; promptly, . : pledged Congress suppant to' Union, i moves for higher pay. "Tax cuts", - he sald, "will put money in consum- | . ers's pogkets: and so help to redude . unemployment". All the tax' cute suggested, of' course, were in the field «of individual tax onts. : The Canadian Chamber of Com- merce is in favor of tax cuts also but feels that business too should be re- iattendance, - - : And [omily nd Mr..and Mes; Chas. Read- at 10 am: sharp, beginning mext Sun- "hegin-at 11,16 am. We are glad to from. all 'the surrounding, districts in Mr. and Mrs, Don Ashbridge and er spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. R. Dowson in Peterboro. The Head Sunday School will.begin day morning, This will enable mem- bers to atterfd Church service which have Rev. and Mrs. Braham with us again after their holiday. Tuesday evening was the annual Heved to the extent that they will be Music Festival for the Island Schools, by one train a week, for freight only. Under the direction of Mrs. Francis Sandison, assisted by the three teach- ers, the children put on a most enjoy- able program. Mr. Joe Dowson was' in Bowmanville, one - dealer showed master of ceremonies, and. the pro-| quite a sense of humour. Over the gram consisted of selections by Senior , week-end, when prices were hopping Choir; Junior Choir; Centre Trio; up and down like crazy, one of the Head Junior;Centre Junior; solo Miss , motorists doing the rounds reported Linda Heayn, 2nd place winner in the | to an opposition station that so-and- the joint festival last year. Foot Sel so downstreet was selling gas far be- iors; Centre Rhythm Band; duet Mari- low him. He was advertising it at lyn Manns, Carol Wilson, from Head '28¢." while this chap was selling his! School; duet, Diane and Sandra Fra-|at 34 9/10c. Immediately this dealer lick, from Foot School; Head Rhythm | 9aw red and phoned the price-cutting Band; Centre Senior Chorus; Foot! son-of-a-gun. "Nothing to it," said Seniors, four part harmony; Centre, the chappie, "I'm out of gas, so Seniors, 3 part harmony; Head Seniors | thought I would have some fun with in 2 part harmony.' | the 20c. rate". Another dealer kept We do thank all the teachers for putting lower price signs out when this wonderful training our children'business was slack. When things are getting in music. picked up, he pulled the low sign in ) d put out the higher priced one. Thursday evening, there was an ex-|*" © =" gher p: ceptionally good atténdance at the P. | COW SELLS FOR $525 Perry High School for the rally held, A registered Ayrshire cow, owned under the direction of Rev. ' Nelson. |, Mr. W. P. Neale and Son, east of Those who were not present, could Pickering Village, in Pickering Town- hear the program over CKLB Sunday 1; ought the top price at the 13th morning at 10 am. Recordings are. ,....| Toronto and District Ayrshire going to be made and oan be obtained Auction Sale held in the Markham from Rev. Nelson. We are very proud po. co a0 on Saturday afternoon. of the Island children who did so well Bondale Lady Ann was purchased by on the quiz and also the sword drill. |p, * poy Wallace of Smith's Falls Miss Carol Wilson and Miss Marilyn for $625.00. A number of cattle from Fralick/are winners for these schools, Nooo herd brought close to $400 and will 'be competing against more ack, a children this week. Good luck girls. | The total figure of the 64 head of Pamplets regarding summer Bible' 110 wag $11,110. The average price camp, were given out at the door, and _. '¢o0574. Mr, Sandy Shantz of St. anyone interested can get in touch George, Ont. was the auctioneer. with Rev. Nelson. Aside from the cows purchased Grace choir will meet this week at from the Neale herd, a Myrtle farmer, GAS WAR SIDELIGHT During the gas war now in progress Doings for two head. Allan Crosier, Black- water, and Eric Cradock of Aurora each received $260. Marley Cook of Armitage sold one of his productive Ayrshires for $2656. F. L. Barker of Gormley received $2456 for an entry. A good crowd was in attendance. The sale had formerly been held at Rich- mond Hill. FORMER NESTLETON GIRL WITH NATIONAL BALLET Nora [.. Woods, Accountant of The National Ballet Guild of Canada, will travel with and have charge of the Business Administration during the Company's month-long engagement in Moxico City. The National Ballet Co.,: which has just completed a coast-to- coast tour of the United States and performed a series of engagements in 13 cities in Western Canada left for Mexica City on May 24th. Nora Woods was born at Nestleton, Ontario, and is the daugher of Mr. and 'Mrs. C. H. Porteous, Concession St., in Bowmanville, and is herself a former 'Bowmanville resident and Goodyear employee. Now in its seventh season, the Na- tional Ballet on its Mexican Series, will complete the largest and most ambitious tour ever undertaken by a Canadian theatrical organization of any kind. The 1967-58 tour opened last Nov- ember 4th in Hamilton, Ontario, and before it finishes, June 21st in the 18,000-seat National Auditorium in Mexico city, it will have travelled close to 20,000 miles, visited 75 cities and had been seen by more than 200,000 paid patrons. "In her capacity as Accountant at the Head Office in Toronto, Nora Woods has had the multiple details of this most extensive tour pass across her desk. Every detail of travel, finance, customs and immigration ne- gotiations for its various border cross- ings has been handled by her. PUBLISHER, HAROLD CAVE, PASSED AWAY AT BEAVERTON The sudden death of Mr. Harold J. Cave in Beaverton, came as a shock to a host of friends and erstwhile busi. ness associates around the town and district. Mr. Cave, who had been en- joying good health, succumbed to a fatal seizure in the doctor's office just to a trip he had planned to make to Uxbridge. With his passing also ends a long and distinguished history of the Cave family in the weekly newspaper field. . Mr. Cave was born newspaper man and although his name may not go great, it will be etched into the hearts brought to all the local children. a different matter. We had to admit defeat. It would appear that our mailmen were all toughened veterans who served in the more severe areas f war. Therefore, it did not matter that we grew the most prickly hedge cere and his ability unquestioned. He [We could find. It did not matter that will be sadly missed by his most inti-| We put barbed wire hidden in flowers. mate friends, those with whom he|It did not matter that we built booby spent many happy hours, hunting the [traps, and put notices refering to red deer or angling for fish along|land mines in the front--the mail- little known streams. But he will also{ men were undaunted, They still be missed by hundreds of others in|crossed our front. all walks of life. Enough of what we miss. next installment we will reader about country living. In the tell the UXBRIDGE TO BUILD 4-ROOM ADDITION TO SCHOOL At a special meeting of the Uxbridge [] Public Schood Board on Tuesday night, Mica tenders for constructing the new four- room addition were opened and read. Mr. and Mrs. G. Harper and family Success tender was Ruliff-Grass the | visited Mr. and Mrs. Gibson of Taun- same firm that built the present new | ton. school. Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Till and Don Chairman of the School Board, Alex. |of Greenbank visited his aunt Mrs. Williamson, said that the price was |W. Philp, Saturday. competitive and the contractor had Mrs, Earl Bryant of Greenbank was stated that he wold ise two local {a guest of Mrs. J. Mitchell one day sub-contractors, for plumbing and]Inst week. electrical work. The same architect Mr. and Mrs. Chet Geer were at is also being used. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Geer's Friday cele- Tender price was $63,065, Added to |brating the 35th wedding anniversary this will be the architect's fee and|of Mri'and Mrs. Charlie Geer. furnishings for the three rooms which Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Smith of Ux- will be utilized as soon as completed. |bridge visited Mr. and Mrs. Chet down on the rolls of the illustrious of a couple of generations who found This latter will amount to an addition- al $8,000. MUST HAVE LIQUOR STORES BY JULY 1st AT HALIBURTON The Wilson Construction Company of Cannington, has signed an tousual) and unique contract in connection with the erection of a new Liquor Store at Haliburton and the new store at Bob- caygeon. A demand from the public that the stores be up and ready of business has caused the insertion of a contract clause that there will be a penalty of $200 a day for. every day after July 1 until the two stores are opened for business. The Wilson Construction Co., receiv- ed the contracts in a tender competi- tion with nine firms. It is estimated that the stores will cost in the neigh- bourhood of $60,000 or $65,000 each' and work on both prospects has al- ready started. The bulldozer at Bob- caygeon started work but an inter- ruption has taken place because of lack of complete confirmation re the survey of :the property. the home of Mrs, Cam Aldred at 8.30 L. M. MeOuat, received $305 and $260 p.m. sharp, weed his thinking fair, his comradeship sin- Geer Sunday evening. Recent guests of Mrs. Ackney were Mr. and Mrs. Stan Prizeman of Tor- onto. Mr. and Mrs. M. Storie and family visited Mr. and Mrs. J. Toogood of Toronto Sunday. Pine Grove Mr. Malcolm Bothwell was a par- ticipator in the Ontario Track and Field finals in Orillia on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. A. Rothwell and Peter spent the week-end in Trenton, Mr. Arnold of Toronto visited Sat- urday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Rothwell. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Simpson aud family of Uxbridge and Mrs. Simp- son's father of England visited Sun- day at the Rothwell home. Anniversary services on Sunday, June 8th at 2.30 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. Rev. A. F. Binnington, a former Udora Boy will speak at both ser- vices. Special music by Mrs. Colby's Boys Choir and the Junior Choir from Claremont. The: ladies have been busy clean- ing and laying Carpet in the Church this week. Miss 'Brenda Locke spent the week- end at E. Ballards. Monday visitors at E. Ballard's were Mr. Harold Ballard of Toronto, Mr. and Mra, A. Cleland of Zephyr, Mr, Henderson of Epsom and Mr, and Mrs. John Frances and Allin of Co lumbus, } } : Mr, and Mrs. A. Handel were In Toronto one day last week.