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Before all this agitation began ‘here existed a happy state of coâ€" aperation among all parents and veachers throughout the province, are exempted from Bible classes can use the time to advantage by also using it for review as Shristian children have to do. fi&m comes to a standâ€" Still ° Jewish bholidays. Only review of Stidies can be taken. Christian parents do not lodge complaints about valuable time fii‘ng Yost. This balances up, lairly well, time given to religiâ€" ous instruction. Children who _ We may as well extend this _ ergument to include taxpayers who ‘have no need whatsoever _{for welfare services, certain pubâ€" . lie health services, public liâ€" braries, school dentists, art suâ€" pervisors and materials, sports _equipment, school buses, etc., ‘Ctc., as well as religious instrugâ€" h'nn."n_nn is no reason why any . te in a recent television proâ€" ? grain, ‘Irustee Mrs. Isobel Walâ€" ker of the North York Board of E‘» Education raised a pertinent _ ,quéstion. "If some people : are _ going to object to religious inâ€" . struction _ because schools arc / taxâ€"supported might they not _ next object to recreation centres â€" for children which dre also taxâ€" _ supported?" â€" Mrs, Walker aiso _ drew attention to the fact that _ a tremendous number of persons _ paid school taxes who have no It is very gratifying to most laxpadyers to feel that their money is being spent for what is beneficial to. the community in gemeral and that education is everâ€"widening. its scope and viâ€" sion. If a, sufficient number in the community want any specific service, their representatives in local governments, feel it is their ‘& to supply it. f particular ‘ service should come under fire because it does not dh;tctly bgnqfit every single inâ€" i t#. 2 i8 children or.whose children have outgrown public schools, as well as those who exempt their chilâ€" dren from religious classes. _ »It should therefore be timely if E'ldhiu else to draw your attenâ€" Manyof you readers who reâ€"ition to the psychologist. whoâ€" reâ€" solved to give up smoking in the cenily recommended that male mew year will by now have deâ€" smokers over 40 replace the toâ€" veloped. tight little lines around bacco habit with flirting. That is the mouth, may even be respondâ€" | what the man said. Accordi; to ing to TV cigaret commercials him â€" you‘ll notice how caNfu) with a: gurgling deep in the I am to keep my own skirts cl throat that frightens the cat. lof this mess â€" the need to die> _whilllg ‘he xflnpt" deliv of Christmas w be that the :2:."«1 mailing and. instructions were fabricated to ease the strain on Postal employees inâ€" stead of insuring efficient delivery? One West Metro gentleman ’c.omplied to Post Office instructions to the "ninth degree". He even mailed his cards on Deâ€" cember 16th, one day before the deadline. Ten days later his cards, addressed to a It took exactly 10 days for these Christâ€" early, received a rude reward when cards â€"were delivered after Christmas. & 3O Yhte _EDITORIALS â€" Christmas Bottleneck community, reached <their desâ€" . Religion In Education . .. AND THE WORLD LAUGHS _ By Dorothy McGuire â€"SUPPORTED SCHOOLS . a * Christmas without fail, we are bombâ€" explicit instructions asâ€" pt" delivery of Christmas So, for those c@ncerned over their tax dollacs, it is to their advantage that in 1944 regulaâ€" tions were passed. that systemâ€" atized the teaching of the Holy Seriptures. S 0s Obviously, it was not satisfacâ€"! tory to have such irregularity with no control over the maurlnl[ taught by the teachers. although ‘ we did have‘a course in religiâ€" ous instruction in the Normal | schools. We received special diâ€"! plomas for examinations passed.! This course was introduced into. the Normal schools in 1850, On the other hand, indifferent, teachers neglected it just as they | have done ever since 1944. Howâ€" ever, in‘those days the average teacher was indeed a dedicated! one. for teaching was a vocation. rather than a position to those‘ of us who served the commun:; ity for sevenâ€"hundred dollars a year minimum salary. ... | ‘All dedicated teachers with whom we have discussed this! matter or with whom we were formerly associated, taught the, Bible every day (I did so myâ€" self). From nine to nineâ€"thirty every morning we combined‘ opening exercises with a discusâ€"! sion of the Bible story. We had[ no exemptions or complaints, but we did receive much appreciation from parents for the good influâ€". ence upon their children. . which should be restored. Most | people realize that Canada is different in some ways to other ; countries. It is not illogical for} |Canadian education to include its| |own traditions, its own culture and the erigin of that culture which happeos to have developâ€" . It is interesting to recall that before the Regulations of 1944 |mvided teachers: with&:elp to teach "the Bible in the Yorm of Guide Books and restricted its teaching to two half hour periods a week, in general much more time was spent on the subject. ed from Judaeo â€" Christian sources â€" in other words, the Holy Bible. {I am to keep my own skirts cl§.( jof this mess â€" the need to disâ€" charge â€"nervous energy can be ibetter filled by larking with the Â¥et cards mailed by this same ‘gdo‘nflo- \\man‘s gon, on December 19th, were deliverâ€" ed December 23rd to the same addresses. It is up to the Postal Department to solve the problem. If people coâ€"operate by mailing before the deadline they should get the service promised. mail into a large bin, then diumped later mail on top. Naturally the mail on top of the bin was delivered first. mas cards to travel three miles. ‘_ Obviously Postal employees went about their i:npwhlt roles in a most inefficient manner. ‘They apparently duinped early One doesn‘t need 3 garage for those tittle foreign cars â€" just the box they came in. , | _ ‘"Ten years ago daling was conâ€" sidered an adventurous and uRuâ€" sual activity for a 12â€"yearâ€"old." Dr. Broderick explained. ‘Today teachers in many communities across the pation report that some Oâ€"yearâ€"olds are beginning ig date and 12â€"yearâ€"olds are goâ€" ‘;n: steady. In one middleâ€"ciass school distriet that we studied, per cent of the fitth graders nostly 10â€" and 11â€"ygarâ€"old chilâ€" n} hed started to date." Just what can the individua! parent do? Not much. "My 8â€" yearâ€"oid girl came home crying the other day because the boy . with whom she is ‘madly in love‘ told‘ her he likes some other: gÂ¥l," Professor Broderick said. "To tell the truth J didn‘t know' how to handle the situation." _ | _ A lot earher than most parenl‘s‘ think, a Pennsyivania sociologist! who has been studying preâ€"teen| dating habitssreports in the curâ€" | rent edition, of PTA Magazine "We even fdund fourth. graders who dated," said Carifred B. Broderick, professor of family relationships at Penn State Uniâ€" versity. "We may have to go down to the second grade to find ! a ‘dateless‘ class. &Al€| This substitution of the wink toâ€" |for the weed is gu@ranteed to reâ€" t is duce the chances of damage to $ “‘the lungs, unless they happen to ) ‘be in the line of fire when your PR wife discharges the pistol. How early do American young sters begin dating? "Going Steady"‘ At Twelve Years Old! _ _One thirlg is sure: flirting inâ€" ed gcont stead of smoking can result in Unem; "your putting on weigntfi?&per cent slugs in the bellykins, for inâ€"jin part | stance. I therefore strongly adâ€" in busin wise that you adopt this. antiâ€" because smoking method omly with the femporai approval of your doctor. Or, betâ€" growth ter still, his nurse. * Fanncs |\ _ Men with â€" unusually bushy eyebrows may be able to substiâ€" tute a wigâ€"wag system of piaying ‘up to women. Myself, I have never had much success raising ‘an eyebrow. Sweet peas, poker ‘bets and eyebrows â€" I‘ve had no luck raising any of them. â€" On the other hand, if you show any flair at all for handâ€"kisging, there is an undeniable advan?nge to having no cigaret in your mouth at the moment of contact. The trick is to segue smoothly from "How d‘you do?" to. nibblâ€" ing her elbow. It‘s a pity this psychologist died without clarifyâ€" ing his procedure a little. | [' Some of the rascals let the smoke trickle slowly out of their nostrils as if demonstrating the controlled heat of passion‘s own presto logs burning within them. The first difficulty in replacing fags with flirtation, therefore, is what to do . with the hands. (Stand up, the boy who honked.) cough that kept bringing down| After lagging badly in the first the pictures in the livingâ€"room. |six months of 1961, CShaca‘s After all, though flirting is a 2conomic mnt_chine begon turnâ€" Continental custom, we are all|ing at a rapid tempo botween working towards One World. Ju‘y and September. _ at What would help our theory is a| _ I0 this thirdâ€"quarter berind little less smoking among Conâ€" the nation‘s total production tinental flirts. â€" Unfortunateiy Jump:d by 27 per centâ€"ine most of them use the cigaret as greatest increase in any (Precâ€" one of the.props of dalliance, month period since early in 1956. having discovered that ogling and it would have been larger through a cloud of smoke is more still if it had not been for the effective than an honest, cleanâ€"| sharp drop in the value of the lunged leer. |Prairie wheas crop as a resua of Some of the rascals let the continuing drought. The psychologist â€" I should ramappeue * memtenee o have made a note of his name,|# in case of legal action â€" admits | that flirting involves a certain| Loo S risk. The slogan "Don‘t reach for a smoke, reach for a sweetie".is| offered with the cautioning note| that so far science has not deâ€"| u a ' vised a winking man‘s filter. It is practically impossible to trap the harmful.agents of a kick in‘ Canada moves into 1962 with the teeth, a . bright outipok for renewed Yet flirtation may be worth|economic progress, but there are giving a whirl. Especially if you Clouds gn the horizon that could are really determined not to go|begin to spell trouble late in back to birdâ€"cage mouth and the Jhe year. cough that kept bringing down| After lagging badly in the first the pictures in the livingâ€"room. .;six months of 1961, CShaca‘s | ladies â€"From NEWSW EEK C CC Bat now[ ‘Early last year a number of infl':x-ence "___ |authorities in the United States, Christian EEK |beliwether of. Canad@‘s own Bibufla re economy, were wildly aptimisâ€"\fered and _foritic about the future of theiin family Just | American economy. Since then‘then chil« Juny have lowered theit sights| awareness Despite the healthy <gecovery from recession in the third quarâ€" ter of, 1961, however, Federal authoritles are obviously dubiâ€" ous about how long the upswing will last and how high it will Canada‘s chronically heavy deâ€" {ficit. balance of payments would |fall below $1 billion for the first "lime since 1955, C |__The pace of industry, particu. The discount in the value of the Canadian dollar â€" if it can be sustained â€" should continue to serve the purpose outlinea by Finance Minister Donald Fiemâ€" ing in his budget last June To encourage exports of Canadian goods and discourage imports of foreign goods. ‘ awBy‘ in t spending it more jobs. larly of the lagging manufartur< ing field. has. also picked up sharply in‘ 1961 and promises to continue on the upewing again this vear. Canadjans as a w hole are earning more money than ever before in their lives, but they are also puiting ‘more of ‘ it awiy‘ in to savings instead of spending it on goods that mean Exports have been running at a beavy rate for most of the year, while imports remained alâ€" most stationary until July, with the resuit that it seemed likely per cent less than a year ago. in part because of an expansion in business activity and in part because of an unexpected end temporary _ slowdown in â€" the growth of the labor force. | _ But the experts are only +oo well aware how quickly the ecoâ€" nomic outlook can change. As recently as 1960. for example, they forecast a six per cent,inâ€" _crease in the output of the economy. In the end the reai rise was only three per cent and unâ€" empioyment rose to a postwar peak, P With Canada apparently erterâ€" ing 1962 on the upswing of the business eycle, there were ‘ots of encouraging signs of contipuâ€" ed econbmic progress. Unemployment was runnins 18 _ Just the force of this momenâ€" tfum alone encourases Feceal authorities to believe that 2 will be a banner year. Given reasonably gocd crop. they <ec a possibility of the economy outâ€" stripping the six .per‘ cent zain that was. scored in 1959. Tois woulg ‘mean an increase in the ;rols:fl national â€" production â€" of #2 billlon to a new record oi $39 ‘yillion. J "62 Looks Good At First Glance But May Be Clouds On Horizon Report From Ottawa Canada moves into 1962 with!substantially. More and fmore bright outipok for renewed|authorities on both sides of the â€"~â€"How conmmeE your /;:;/D FORGETs ? the right of nonâ€"Christians and L’non-hr'lif-\c-rs who do not wish '.}their children to be taugot ou: _faith. Secondly, Christian educaâ€" tion is best taught in an atmosâ€" pheie of loye where people meet \to teach and be taught voluntarâ€" [ily. Thirdly, Christian education ]be:omes alive and meaningtul only when it is communicated to people in the context of worship iwmch involves praise, thanksâ€" ing, prayer, repentance ndJ forgiveness. So we look to the Home. For it is the attitudes: and practices of parents that will be the chief influence â€" on Idren in their Christian up?rin When the Bibnz is ro" and prayers are ofâ€" fered and the Faith is discussed lh family worship in the )mmc,i then children realize that the Niagara Falls, Ont. We who are Christians need not Wworry too much over the growing démand to remove Christian Education from the public sehool system. For if is in the home and the church that the Christian Faith must be, and is most effectively imparted . to boys and girls Why not the chool* cFirsiv we ‘More thap one economist has already â€" predicted â€" this factor could bring on one of the iongâ€" est and most severe recessions since the war, with the upiurn being sparked by the rush of postwar babies to the altar. ._ Together they mean a sharp drop in the growth demard for theâ€" whole wide range of conâ€" sumer goods that have heipe" to build & substantial secondary manufacturing industry in Caâ€" nada. cor.mani. in 19§1 running besow the level of 1960. which in furn was sbarply balow the posk hit in 1957. ° While exports continue to be a strong factor in, nushing the economy unwards. they are in danger of being trailed by inâ€" norts, which begen to shoot up n the second half of last yrer. A furthor depressi~g factor in both countrics is the decltine in the number of new families heâ€" ing formed today as a resu: of the dron in the birth rate during the depression vears. In Canada this is compcunded by the seâ€" vere drop in immigration. "SCHOOL TO CHURCH" Fourth in a Series By REV. R. J. BLACKWELL St. John‘s Anglican Church, of live uve in a free country. and who are" Christiaris respect of God is an integraj By JOHN A. BYLES Assistant Professor, School of Social Work *A University of Toronto ty There isan old saying that the "Christian Faith is not taught; it is caught". We are gratefu} for the opportunity of '-If.!m hn} to speak out for God and Chri in our public «hools. But in a free land all we can honestly deâ€" mand is the right to impart our Paith in home and church. Shouldn‘t we who are Christians concentrate on this? > | And we depend upon the Churah. Often ourâ€".churches‘ proâ€" gram of Christian Education is| wortully weak. But it need not | be so» The church â€"can provide f iraining in the deaching skills| \for the goodâ€"hearted people who | volunteer to teach. The church can equip its staff with the very best in materials and facilities.| The church can encourage parâ€" ents to take part in adult classes | that are related to the instruction being given their children. The church, with its atmosphere of love, its freely attended services and classes, can improve and strengthen its own specific fob of teaching the Chwistian Faith. part of living together. When, families worship togetber in | church every Lord‘s_Day chilâ€" dren soon realize the pl"lurlt)'!\ that God and His Christ Jesus| deserve because they see their| parewts placing God first in their | lives. So the home is the basc settie@" in which love for God} and knowledge:of the Christian | Faith is implanted in the hearts | f children But with unemployment of manpower a1d equipment deâ€" clining‘ and the prospect of furâ€" ther major expansions in tite money supply to finance a conâ€" tinuing réavy Goverment budget deficit next < year, inflationary fears could begin raising their ugly head in the course of 1962. The immediate outiook, then. is bright, but the longâ€"term outâ€" iook in the months ahead is far ‘ess rosv. . With a heavy proportior. of [actories and labor unempluyed, there has beem little worry so ‘ar about this tremendous expanâ€" sioh in the money supply causâ€" ing an inflationary rise in brices the Government @flGat. in other words to enable g to finance its huge cash deficit of $1 billion or more. As 1961 came to an end. inâ€" terest rates were heginning to edge upwards despite the Govâ€" ernment‘s proclaimed . palicy‘ of pushing them down. 22 No doubt there‘ll be a lot of raised eyebrows over raised coffee cups tomorrow morning. BUS BUZZ â€" "I told her pay for a girdle â€" there‘s no s Am now wondering how many local mothers will stan this item and wonder if it was THEIR neighbor who called These diseases are spread by children who have caught the virus but haven‘t yet become sick. At that time the disâ€" ease is in its incubation period. It is while Children are still active â€" yet acting as virus incubators â€" they are highly contagious, as far as their playmates are concerned. it â€"Aoam B td i a d CMCY MOER 10B ANBIVEL ‘"Whooping cough, chicken pox, and mumps are all virus diseases communicable only through direct contact," he said. "That‘s why we‘re satisfied they‘re not communicated by paâ€" rents of children who have them." y mas nave had chicken pox, measles, and mumps â€" and got them all from the same neighbor who has dropped in for visits while her kids have had those diseases. So put something in the column telling mothers to stay home when their kids are sick." ‘ Was such a suggestion justified? That‘s what I asked Dr. R. G., city medical officer, after telling him about the foregoing conversation. No, was his answer. _ TWO MEN TALKING â€" "Of course we insist on acâ€" curacy as well as imagination in our advertising â€" about ten per cent accuracy !" P ; . p 22CS! T7 2NC Uime, whether we realize it or not. â€" H.G. OUR COUNTRY â€" The Alaska Highway is 1,500 tmhiles in length with all but about 300 miles of it running through Canadian territory. 1306 Lakeshore Rd. CL. whose moodsâ€"never vary who is abnormal. AMany people blame themselves for being gloomy, and make efforts to snap out of it, while subconsciously they are revelling in their gloom. In our routine of daily existence it is so easy to become bored and gloomy, while it takes real effort to be gay. There is also something more dramatically satisfying about the dark mantle of gloom, than the bright trappings of the clown. And most of us are acting a part most of the time, whether we realize it or not â€" H.G. MORE ABOUT MOODS â€" Dear Cliff.: Re the letter from the woman with gloomy moods. We all have our peâ€" riods of ups and downs, men as well as women. However, it would seem this woman has more of a problem than just gloomy moods. When she sometimes feels so hateful and antagonistic towards her husband she should look for other causes for her attitude.. On the surface it would seem she has much resentment and little love forâ€"her husband.â€"Sympatico. 4 Dear Mr. Foster: Although it is never safe to generalize, I would like to make a,general observation to the effect that brooding about one‘s moods sexges no purpose except to make the brooder more moody. ‘What people fail to realize is that alternations of good and bad moods are part of our organism and are a sign of normal mental health. . It is the person whose moodsâ€"never vary who is abnormal. For the above i the Capitol Theatre Brand new, some with qutomatic, radio, power steering, power brakes, bockâ€"up lights, deluxe interior, k whitewalls. | IN CASE YOU‘RE ASKED â€" Written Chinese has about 40,000 word symbols, some requiring more than 20 separate brukh strokes. > x ~ | ON THE ESCALATOR â€" "But, when I do that, it punishes me just as much as it does my_ husband." © thre I" met MID ap in Cl + PP us .29 ic0de Wl am fond of mechanics) in some small place beside a lake, Then I could get in a lot of fishing and hunting. But dad says those village service station operators have to keep open all hours and on holidays to stay in business. Will some such opérator tellâ€"me if it is a fairly good living with easy bours or not. â€" Student. * . I am fond of sports and am an outdoorsman. My idea of real livjng â€"would be to run a cervics_ su_tion and garage (I AT THE SODA FOUNTAIN â€" "It burns me up to think she‘s in charge of pension records and knows my exact age â€" but I can‘t find outâ€"her‘s!" * ,d CAREER CHOICE â€" Mmlrhm tllu:- a hllow“ !7whowmhgudutingfpm ig year. My parents want me to go to university and they will have the money from an insurance policy which my dad took out when I was born, just so I would be able to go to university, They don‘t care what I go in for at university.. Law, medicine, accountag@y, architecture, engineering, they don‘t care which, as long as I go into one of the professions where ‘you can become somebody. But I don‘t want to to university and become a profesâ€" sional man. I hate the idea of climbing any social ladder and I am not crazy about making a lot of money. What‘s the use of money, or being on top of the ladder, if you are not happy? That‘s what I keep asking. Ma says you‘re bound to be happier when you‘re wealthy and successful than when you‘re a nobody and never have an extra dollar. HALNAN DODGES FINAL CLEARANCE! SEDANSâ€"HARDTOPSâ€"stATION wasons HALNAN MOTORS TD. £VERY VDAY DELIVERS A 1961 DODGE SEDAN 8 CYLINDER HIAPPENS â€" CHRYSLERS â€" VaALJIANTS item Miss Letourneau receives by Chrysler‘â€" Valiant Dealers 1 SAW her â€" no matter how much you no substitute for willâ€"power." 40 hi ratice Â¥. Le{oumnu\ mail two tickets to 1|\