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: Our Troubled CBC ~ No More Heroes - Member of The Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assoclation THE STAR EDITORIAL PAGE Thursday, July 9th, 1959 Notes and Comments [ ; Our national radio broadcasting com- pany is in stormy waters these days. Tt would be most unfortunate for the public to jump to the conclusion that there is anything fundamentally wrong with the CBC. The latest skirmish which saw key personnel testifying to a special govern- ment committee simply proves that chief direcctors of CBC are worried and jittery. Mr. Bushnell no doubt received consider- able advice and considerable criticism from sources outside the company. Some of it unquestionably stemmed from politi- cal figures, from cabinet ministers as well as back benchers. No doubt these outside comments stimulated Mr. Bushnell in the absence of Mr. Quimet to do some careful soul appraising. . Just about the time of this careful soul searching one or two broadcasts on preview commentary were so bad in that they highlighted unsupport- ed and unsupportable prejudiced opinion that something had to be done. Mr. Bush- nell apparently overdid it. In order to bring ~ Mass media in the form of newspapers, the radio, and television, perhaps, too, the popular magazine have destroyed our heroes and heroines. What we now have in their place is celebrities. And cele- brities lack the stuff of heroes and heroines. Our substitute for heroes is a long list of starlets, hockey players, fighters, tele- vision artists, popular politicians, and other controversial figure raised to em- minence by publicity. These pgople do not ~have the same values by which heroes govern and direct their endeavours . . . they worship at the shrine of success in the American sense and fame and money are their twin goddesses. We do not worship them; we ape them. Like them we want garish homes with swimming pools; like them we want a good time and the obvious rewards that are sup- posed to accompany success. But they make poor models for us. The artificial weight to his pronouncement that the pro- gramme must be cancelled he sought re- fuge in the statement that if the program were not withdrawn heads might roll. Then, of course, the fat was really in the fire. The CBC was being pressured by political interests, . It appears now that Mr. Bushnell will have to take full responsibility for the statement he made and admit that he shuold not have used it. Then the CBC should settle down and do the job for which it was created. If it runs foul of parliament let it stand or fall lon its re- cord. This pussyfooting through the tulips is bad for the CBC and bad for parliament and bad for the people, One good effect of the whole affair is a clear recognition by the members of parlia- ment that there must be no indirect inter- "ference with the nation's broadcasting system. And this is a very important and significant thing for the members to learn. : B life of riches and notoriety thrust suddenly upon them is usually too much for them. They make failures of their marriages; they become involved in messy affairs and assuage their hurts and frustrations with drink and drugs. And in this way they provide us with material for sententious moralizing. We like to defend these people because we consider them basically our equals or even our inferiors. They have had special advantages or special breaks--apart from these we think that, there but for these things, go us. A gossipy kind of personal journalism .gives us a chance to live out their achieve- ments and their sins vicariously. That is why we are willing to go on acccepting and supporting countless rather sordid char- acters. : Heroes make us uncomfortable because they challeenge our standards; celebrities have no standards and serve as excuses for us letting our hair down. : District Doings - Of Many Things by AMBROSE HILLS EXPERIMENT Last week I wrote about a book called Management of Time, by Jim McCay. During the week I have been experimenting with its principles, They work. + ' One principle is the practice of alertness, in order to increase your output while on the job. To practice alertnéss, it is necessary to change your routine--take a different route home from work, go to new places, try different foods. To do any of these things, you must be gles mag this practice tends to carry over into your job, and to increase your output per hour, I found this to be true, and I hope I persist in the practice for a long time to come. By increasing my out- put per hour, I increase my freedom. I am less likely to be depressed by a pile of work undone. I ought to be able to get work done ahead so that my holidays will be carefree. There is always a payoff for effi- ciency. True, increased output may not be of much use if there is no de- mand for the product; but in most cases, by increasing output per hour the price of the product can be lower- ed, the demand then increases, and the producer and his customers. both profit. The profit is Money yes. make more money if I increased my efficiency. But there are far more important gains; I feel better when 1 work better. 1 have a sense of ac- complishment. By giving more for less, I gain new customers and friends and greater security. This, of vourse, is a paradox many men never understand. They po through life trying to get more for less work. Their character, efficiency, and self-respect diminish daily. I feel sorry for them. They are -nis- led. Would you like to increase your out- put per hour? Then get out of every rut for just one or two weeks and note the difference. Rise fifteen minutes of different kinds, VILLAGE CONGREGATION SADLY TROUBLED The congregation of the Janetville United Church is sadly troubled. The fact is that they are now without either the regular minister or the re- cently Gidained student minister. Last Sunday marked the farewell sermons for the Rev. R. R. Bonsteel who has served five years on the Yel- verton, Mount Horeb, Janetville and Bethany charge and Rev. William Fritz, who has served two years. ' Rev. William Fritz who was recent- ly ordained and resident of Janetville had already acceptped a call before he was aware of Mr. Bonsteel's' accept- ance of another charge. Ordinarily Mr. Kritz would have succeeded Mr. Bonsteel as Minister in charge of the circuit. It is understood that Mr. Bonstecl goes to the Bronte district and Mr. Fritz near Sudbury. , COUNTY FOREST VALUE TO- CLIMB TO MILLION BY 1969 The value of the York County For- est, much of which is located just y north of Stouffville, is expected to O reach a million dollars by the year : 1969, county council members were told last week. Mr. Brodie, acting chief of the for- est crew, said that the first land for re-foresting was purchased at $4 an acre, while the present acreage price is $40, In all, some 3,000,000 trees have been set out and the present value is estimated at $450,000. This spring 16,000 new trees were BANK FREEDOM ... ... Freedom of the central bank from political pressures is implicit both in the autonomy enjoyed by the Bank of Canada in this country and by the Federal Reserve System in the United States. To function efficiently at all central banking authorities must enjoy a degree of autonomy and independ- ence comparable to the independence of the judiciary. Nevertheless there are always those who would like to make the central bank subject to their influence and willing to serve their special interests. A case in point is the move cooked up by the AFL-CIO in the U.S. to give the Federal Reserve Board and Re- serve banks an "easy money" bias by "packing" the system with influential advisers who could be relied upon to do Big Labor's bidding. If the AFL- CIO had its way, the US Federal Re- serve System would be called pon to appoint labor representatives to each of the Board's twelve regional Reserve banks' hoards of directors. It would also press for regular meetings be- tween Board officials and a represent- ative group of union officials. Dangers inherent in Big Labour's long range political goal of controll- ing US Federal Reserve System should not go unnoticed in Canada. >) - MANY PLACES TO BE TAKEN INTO METRO AREA : Although the provincial govern- set out and during the winter a thin-|yent has given no consideration to ning program yielded 8,000 lineal feet [aytend over outlying -municipalitios, of barn poles, 21,500 lineal feet of | Metro council will this week consider guard rails and 800 -cords of pulp|, proposal to add, the municipalities wood. The trees set out this year of Stouffville, and Markham Village, were mainly red and white pine. i Markham Township, Vaughan Town- The resident superintendent of the hip, Richmond Hill. Woodbridge, county forest, Mr. John Caston, has Ajax, Pickering Township, Toronto been transferred by the Department Township, Port Credit, Streetsville of Lands and Forests to Simcoe Coun-'gand Toronto Gore Township. © The ty and the new superintendent is Mr. added territory includes 700 square Geoffrey Humberstone, a graduate of miles and a population of 158,000 Ontario Ranger School. { people. ' Members of county council visited | In York County Council last week the forest last week and for some it Reeve Gar Lehman and Deputy-reeve was an education to see the extent of Ken Wagg, both favoured a resolution the area and the care given the trees. which condemned any further exten- | sion of Metra into York County. Under US-based international union- [ism, socialist-minded officials of the Canadian Labor Congress may be ex- preted to set similar objectives in re- spect of the Bank of Canada. Canadians should be alert to this danger and insist that the integrity of the Bank of Canada he maintained no less rigidly than that of the courts of law. The central bank, like the courts, exists to serve all Cana- dians, not to do the bidding of pres- sure groups. ' --The Letter Review JUDGES ON CONCILIATION BOARDS Labour Union Officials from time to time have voiced objections to judges serving on conciliation hoards and ar- bitral tribulals in labor disputes. Can- adians generally, however, have never taken such criticism seriously, recog- nizing that judges, by the nature of their normal duties, ave signularly well equipped to determine the facts in labour cases and to recommend so- lutions on the merits, rather than on fancy and emotion. It is, therefore, heartening to learn from Justice Minister Fulton that the discussions now taking place between Federal and Provincial Governments to congider what responsibilitics out- side their regular judicial functions judges may assume, that "we might reach an agreement that quasi-judicial roles such as service on arbitration boards are acceptable," - Disquieting, however, is MN Ful- ton's assertion that it is "#XTremely undesirable and. a contradition in principle" for judges to serve on con- ciliation boards. The Justice Minister, it seems, feels that judges who serve on conciliation boards. automatically become involved in political contro- versy. If this is so, then the fault lies not with the judges, but with the government-appointed ~~ ¢ on ciliation boards themselves. Judges who have served on such boards have done much to make the conciliation board more objective and impartial than would otherwise have been possible. It is to be hoped that Mr. Fulton earlier; read a new book; take a new route to work; visit a new restaurant; "make a "much more alert you are, and how it "reflects on your production. new friend. Just sce how I guar- antee you'll want to continue the ex- periment for a long time to come. ~ Clipped Comments will not allow his thinking to be swayed by the objection of union of- ficials to an impartial judicial ap- proach to the settlement of labour disputes. The Letter Review CLIPPED COMMENTS -- THE WORLD AROUND US "To analyze national needs today we must first take into account the conditions in our neighbourhood. By conditions in our neighbourhood 1 re- fer, of course, to the happenings in the world around us. Of these there are at least five that no business man can afford to ignore. They are: I. The compounding growth of world population---now increasing at | the rate of 5,400 per hour or 47,000,000 people per year. 1980, if this growth continues unchecked, world population will have increased to 4,000 million. Twenty years more and it will have passed the 6,000 mark. 2. More than half the people now on earth are starving, or on the verge of starvation. More than half of the 90,000,000 babies born this vear will be undernourished. 3. Millions of these impoverished 'marks which they suggested were just I am virtually certain to. ably they feel antagonistic , , . . " A. C. MacDonald, Executive Vice- President, Industrial, A. V. Roe Can- ada Limited, Montreal. SHOULD GIVE HER A MEDAL We do enjoy the gyrations, mani- pulations and sensationalism of the Toronto dailies who take the smallest bit of news and blow it up with scare headlines into a national or interna- tional incident. Last week, it was a quiet little lady named Joyce Davidson, who is known to most of us as an interviewer on CBC's Tabloid. She happened to ex- press some "indifferent" sentiments concerning the Royal Tour, but made the dreadful mistake of doing it on an American program--outside the family cirelee, as it were. Three inch banner headline blared from the Toronto evening papers. Even the staid Globe and Mail could not remain aloof, "Who is Joyce Davidson"? they asked in the most scornful of tomes, taking at least 3 editorials to castigate her for her re- another publicity stunt. Frankly, we feel that Joyce David- son should have a medal, Her remarks (have done more to stimulate interest "in the Royal Tour than anything that has happened. The flag-waving loyal- "ists have leaped into the breach, rak- ing her with the vilest of epithets and incidentally, arounsing their own in- tests. Even those who previously were luke-warm -- and there were many in this category -- have shown greater interest than the pre-tour sur- veys indieated. Due to Joyce's foot-in-the-mouth statement, plus the charming personal- ity of Her Majesty the Queen and the Prince Philip, the Royal Tour will probably be a great success. The man we feel sorry for is E. L. Bushnell, an ex-Durhamite and now acting head of the CBC who must deal with this voung lady whose remarks made us That cardinal sin cannot be forgiven easily. Mr. Bushnell will be criticized if he allows Joyce to again appear on Tabloid or if he decides that her tele- (vision carcer is at an end with the CBC. At a time when the broadeasting corporation seems to be the butt of 'considerable criticism -- even from Premier [Frost -- this added burden of responsibility on Mr. Bushnell may be enough to persuade him to return to his native Durham and set up a ser- vice station where he can relax and vy patrick and George on Saturday. Mrs. Kilpatrick was taken to Port Perry Community Hospital by ambulance Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs, Al. Bazowski and chil- dren of Oshawa, visited with the Ernie Willerton and Eugene Dearborn fam- ilies Sunday evening, Mr. Chas. Parm and his brother Jim have returned to Toronto after a few weeks visiting with Sam Pram. Manchester Mr. and Mrs. Frank Johnston spent a recent week-end in Kingston with their daughter and family. Mr. and Mrs. Pierson and Myr. Phil- lip Parrott, of Oshawa, called on Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Crosier, on the holi- day. Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Perkins and Miss Joan Perkins, of Toronto, visited Mrs. Hannah Johnston, Wednesday of last week. Miss Hazel Gregg, of Port Colborne, spent a few days with Mr, and Mrs. W. W. Holtby, en route to British Col- umbia. Miss Von Ritchle, Toronto, was the guest of Miss Catharine Christie over the week-end. Mrs. Viola Schnappe, of Buffalo, was with her brother and sister here over the week-end and July 4th. The Women's Association sponsored a bake sale at Croxall's corner last Friday. Over $40.00 was realized. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Moon, Raglan, Miss Charlene Moon, Campbellford, and Mr. Jack Green, Nestleton, were guests of Mr. and Mrs, W. F. Crosier, on Sunday. ' A bus load of Cubs and Scouts un- der the guartinuship of Mr. and Murs, Allan Martyn and Mr. AL Craig, journeyed to Orillia to sce Her Ma- jesty the Queen, on Saturday. 'Winners at lose face on the United States scene. Cartwright Field Day Midgets-- Girls -- 1 Virginia Colby, 19; 2, Karen Campbell 11; 3 Carol Wotten 9. Boys--1 Teddy McKay 21; 2 Paul Mappin 15; Mark Malcolm 9. Juniors-- Girls --Helen Swain 26; Judy Cach- rane 15; Cheryl Forest 8. BILLY RICHARDS The first time Ottawa-born Billy Richards appeared on a stage he broke down and ran crying into his hiother's arms. But that was when he was only 21% years old. In the years that have followed he has more than made up for this early setback, and has built a reputation as a suc- cessful entertainer on both radio and television. Ie is seen each Saturday leading a 14-piece orchestra in Swing Easy, a CBC-TVY summer show. Donnie Brown; Joey Prosser. Senior Boys Bruce Gibson, Wu¥ne Malcolm, Hans Egli. Champion Girl points. Champion points. Scott Beef Club Meet The members of Scott 1-H Beef and Beef Calf Clubs met at San- [Farm, Uxbridge, RI 1 on Thursday, July 2nd, 1954. Mr. Ken Wyatt, Herdsman. Lad twa Helen Swain 26 Boy -- Bruce Gibson 27 Junior doon Boys --Ronnie Martin 14; Wayne 'tend with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harris enjoy a more peaceful existence. (Oliver 12; Ivan Bradburn and Roy In the meantime, let us not forget | Bradburn, 8 (equal) the medal for Joyce. She made quite | Intermediate-- a contribution at great personal sacri-| Girls -- Donna Downey fice,--The Canadian Statesman. [Blyth 13; Mavis Shemilt 11. 16; Cath Boys -- Bruce Beacock 27; Joey ee ------ i I rosser 11; Ronnie Minshall 13. Senior-- Girls--Sylvia Lawrence 25: Isobel Cedar Creek Mr, and Mrs. Hiram Briggs and daughter of Peterboro spent last week Pedder 15; Bonnie Mountjoy 11. Boys--David Kyte 18; Colin Haines 13; Wayne Malcolmn 11. Relays, Intermediate Girls-- Larry Larocque visited relatives at Hamilton on Sunday. Mrs. Victor Laroecque and Ronnie and other members of the family jvisited relatives at Magnetawan on 'the 1st of July. Mr. Sid Willerton and Bob, boro, visited the Ernie Willerton fam- ily on Saturday. The Missses Clara, Edith and Laura Brown and Mr. and Mrs. Sam Long. moor, all of Toronto, visited Mrs. Kil- | | Mayis Shemilt, Brenda Malcolm. Jimmy Goodson, Brian Clements, Den- nis McLaughlin, Senior Girls -- Sylvia Lawrence, Sear- lin, Anne Gibson. Senior Boys -- David Kyte, Hans Egli; Billy Hutchinson:Bruce Gibson. Pole Vault-- Donna Downey, Marion Bradburn, Baird. Scott Intermediate Boys- Donnie Brown; ! Audrey Carnoghan, Donna MeLaugh- | [Beef Calf Club and the excellent elasses of <horthorns for the club members to jude. Club leader P'uncan McTavish and Allan Ball of ficiited as judges of the two classes Aivin Blades, Assistant Agricultinal Representative, took the group on a tour of the farm cussed the various safety features oh- buildings and dis- served. A wroup of shdes on safety in farm machinery operition were Shown, My Blades also gave sufety and gave -everal farm <afety bulletins to the Hug Junicr Calf Club Lead assisted with the meeting. a talk on highway member - Ross Bailey extended thank< on he half of the group to Me. Whyte for the jaccommodation and fine laos of shorthorns. The next meeting of the Seott 4-11 Scott Junior Calf Club will be held at the farm of Malcolm Bailey, Uxbridge, No. 1, on 'Monday, July 20th, at 8-00 jm intermediate Boys Bruce Beacock; | Last Saturday was the time of a At Prospect, Sunday, July 5th, we District Churches Scugog, Manchester and Prospect These me dovely summer days. people are aware of our high living lovely wedding in Scugog "Grace" had David Mosienko play for the ser- There is a lovely breeze blowing and standards and are aggressively seek- ing ways to equal if not surpass ue. 4. The growth of Communism. In 1937, 8 percent of mankind was under communist control. By 1957 this had increased to 37 percent. By 1977, only 18 years from now, the the uncommnyit- ted peoples of over-populated areas may have elected to go communist and swell the percentage' to 66 percent. ! So long ag two-thirds of them go to sleep hungry every night the odds favour Communism. E---- 6. 'How our world neighbours see us. Most of them gee us and our fellow North Americans, some 7 percent of the total world population, using just about half of the overall production of irreplaceable natural resources of the world, They observe our almost obsessive preoccupation with ways to get even more. They see our greed, our staggering waste, our apparent Tack of sympathy towards their own cultural values. Naturally and inevit- , Church, when Alice Marie Read was vice. Many promotion certificates ' , . "given in marriage by her uncle George were given out to the boys and girls. at the home of the groom. It was alin God's Rain", and Dr. Kenneth Bia- | lovely afternoon, and a very fine set- ham sang "The Stranger of Galilee." A number of our summer guests were to Gary Edgar. The reception was held At Scugog the choir sang "Sunshine ! ting. We wish Alice and Gary every | i . Joy and happiness, and look forward to the time when they will be building 'their own home on the Island, The jminister took the opportunity to in- tvite our Indian Male Quartette to sing for ug at Church in the near future, and also to have an all Indian choir to lead us in song at another service. [very race has some contribution to, make, and some worthwhile talent to jshare. So, sometime soon a practice | will be arranged. In view of the, wedding, the Church was heautifully decorated today at service, as this is being written immediately after the service, as the minister will be at his cottage until Wednesday. at service and friends of the Brahams from Camilla--Mrs. Leva Curtis and her two daughters Joyce and Florence and their two aunts Miss Olive Gal- agher from Camilla. The minister is! continuing his series on the life of Jesus. Please remember our evening Vesper service at Epsom United this coming Sunday evening at 7.30 p.m. Many of our girls and boys will take part, and Rev, Paul Newman will give the message. The service wil be out- side. We invite all our young people in the area to come and worship with us. Next week Wednesday, Scugogr "Grace" W.A. will hold their Bazaar, commencing at 3.00 p.m. their There will be joy, and laughter, and happy thousands have already found way to cottages far and new times; but there will be tragedy, and tears, and death; hecause some will not be careful, will take <uch chances on the highways. Let us all learn to be eareful, as we do not only endanger our own lices but also the lives of our dear ones. and We hope our cight Guides are having a lovely time at Camp, and that Joan, Florence and Myrtle will have a lovely trip to visit them. Happy birthdays to Billy Prentice and Betty Ann Heayn of the Teland: Danny and Billy McCartney of Man- chester; and Margaret Craighead and Margaret Vernon of Prospect. Do hope that Leon Warren is feel- ing much better, Remember to come and with us on Sunday. worship Y J Wk i; i (REIN Wi itt) LH §p 4 i 1 ' » i NO Bh GX PX ir" { t oF pr § LE nN ha 1) ' PEA Ly