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Dear Sir: Last Friday evening Comâ€" mencement ex=rcises for the senior grades were held at Wesâ€" ton Collegiate, although we enâ€" joyed the evening very much, we would like to draw one facet of the school‘s policy to public attention. Asâ€"we see it. encouragement of nonâ€"university careers such as nursing and tesching at the primary school level, is sadly lacking in regards to the Grade 13 graduate. We are concerned with the attitudes towards a nursing career, primarily. Last winter, as we put our final decision to paper, this fact strongly presented itself. It was suggested that, as nurses, particâ€" ularly hospital graduates, we would be lower members of socâ€" iety. Emphasis was strongly placed upon the lower financial placed upon the lower financial rewards without due: consideraâ€" tion of the humanitarian aspects of nursing. It was even suggestâ€" ed that our prospects of a lucraâ€" tive marriage were dimmed. The attitude secmed to be that hospital training was only for those who were financially or intellectually urable. to attend university. â€" Forgotten was the fact that nursing is. an honourâ€" able profession. This past Friday evening seemâ€" ed to prove this point. The proâ€" gram was geared to the univerâ€" sity student. Nursing was menâ€" tioned only once and then by the guest speaker. No scholarships were presented to graduates now attending a teachers‘ college. This we feel, is due to the fact that the vast majority of scholarâ€" ships are restricted by a clause giving eligibility to university students only. Students with lower precents but preceding to university received recognition while higher percentage students headed for other careers were everlooked. veumagrl ohdetlao Efek S?csâ€"(f It is our suggestion that this attitude on the part of those who guide our youns people be drawn to the attention of all citizens. Why must we as nursing students and others as future teachers be discriminated against because of our path to education although many of us possess university entrance requirements. Dear Sir: First â€" the dramaâ€"packed day last Tuesday when it became inâ€" ereasingly clear that a Liberal amendment, to the effect that the Government‘s austerity proâ€" gram and "tight money" should be stopped immediately and that tariff surcharges should be dropâ€" ped. had a distinct possibility of being carried by a vote in the House. I am not any more anxâ€" ious than anyone else to hit the eampaign trail again, but the austerity program is hurting the eountry (in my opinion) and I believe we should be embarking en positive long range programs to relieve chronic unemployment so we can get all our people back to work in steady jobs. This was the issue. By JAMES E. WALKER, M.P. Two major events stand out above all others in the busy week just ending The result of the vote is now eommon knowledge but, unless you were in the House or the Galleries _ and _ watched _ this drama unfold, as first the N.D.P. and then the Social Creditors saved the Government, you could mot be aware of the tension and excitement. It was the first real test of Government policy and the issue was simple â€" approval or disapproval of the Governâ€" austerity . program _ and tig oney. The gecond event of great im« Yours respectfully, Mary Ann Glebe, Madelynne McNeill. LETTERS ... portance was the visit to Ottawa of Nuclear Disarmament deleâ€" gations and their interviews with Party Leaders and Members. We Toronto District Liberal Memâ€" bers arranged a joint meeting and had an excellent discussion and exchange otf views with one of the delegations. I think the timing of the visit was opportune in the light of an apparent growâ€" ing understanding of responsibilâ€" ity between the two big nuclear powers as an aftermath of Cuba. If there has ever been any doubt about the stand of our Canadian Party Leaders regardâ€" ing Canada‘s attitude to nuclear weapons it should be perfectly clear now, as a result of stateâ€" ments issued by these leaders to the Nuclear â€" Disarmament Delegates. I was pleased to receéive a letter from a Woodbridge constitâ€" uent, drawing my attention to reâ€" ports of _ unnecessarily _ hard treatment â€" to â€" solitary . confineâ€" ment prisoners in some Federal penitentaries. This kind of letter is very helpful to a Member, and I would appreciate it if other matters of this kind are brought to my notice. It is not easy to track these things down through the redâ€"tape of officialdom, but I will do my best. Church News where they will attend an allâ€"day Elders® Conference of the Torâ€" onto area â€" Christian Reformed Churches. â€" At this session, Elder F. Masselink of the First Christâ€" ian Reformed Church of Toronto will read an essay on ‘"The Reâ€" sponsibility of the Eldership in respect to the Development of the Youth". Lunch and allâ€"day discussion will follow. On Sunday morning at the 9 o‘clock Holland and the 11 o‘clock English service â€" Rev. Venema will preach on Lord‘s Day 30 of the Heidelberg Catechâ€" ism. This Lord‘s Day deals with the difference between a Reformed Lord‘s Supper and the Popish Mass, and for whom the Lord‘s Supper was designated. Rev. Venema will entitle his sermon, "Christ, Inviting Us to Remember His Death as the Only Sacrifice", first, what that sacrifice is, second. who ought to remember it, and who are exâ€" cluded from suck remembrance. On Sunday evening. at the 5 o‘clock English service, â€" Rev. Venema will continue his series of sermons on Samson as gospel of the Christ. This time, the sermon will be based on Judges 13::23 through Judges 14:6, and entitled, *"‘The Spirit Disclosing the Christ in Samson", showing the Christ to be deliverer of Israel, Son of Man. and Son of On Monday evening, Novemâ€" ber 19, the Elders and Deacons will meet to deal with the genâ€" eral needs of the congregation. At this session, the Committee of Administration will meet with the Elders and Deacons, and make recommendations as to the Budget of Second Church for the year 1963. This approved budget will then be recommendâ€" ed to the entire congregation for discussion and finalization at a meeting on Monday night, Noâ€" vember 26. On Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, Rev. Venema will meet with the youth of Second Church aged 12 and above in five oneâ€" hour catechism classes. After recitation on questions and anâ€" swers of Lord‘s Days 7 through 9, there will be explanations of Lord‘s Day 10, dealing with the Providence of God, what it is. and what it profits us. (Continued from page 2) Suburbia VS Hogtown It‘s the age of "wonder drugs" â€" so why not amalgamation? The days of Dr. Trueheart‘s miracle Indian herb to relieve backache, boils, bad breath and athlete‘s foot are gone â€" but some of the modern pedlars look familiar. The pitch is the same â€" amalgamation will solve immediately such ills as Metro‘s tax probâ€" lems and inequality of representation. Hurry, hurry, or it‘ll be too late! PART 2 â€" POLITICIANS The chief salesmen are politicians from the city of Toronto, but they didn‘t do so well at Metâ€" ro council, which last year rejected even partial amalgamation. However, a good salesman always has a foot in the door. Last month Toronto city council deciâ€" ded to act on its own. It asked the Ontario Munâ€" icipal Board to order the suburbs to amalgamate with Toronto into one big city with one council and one school board: Everyone that‘s anyone in Toronto city poliâ€" tics is an amalgamationist. Mayor Nathan Phillips has campaigned actively for the past three years for more people to be mayor of His opponent in the mayoralty race. Controller Donald Sumâ€" merville, promised last vear to lead the fight for amalgamation. These men got their stiffest setback | last month when Toronto‘s mayor and board of conâ€" trol met with premier John Robarts at Queen‘s Park to discuss the amalgamation issue. Controller Philip Givens said the premier gave him the jimpression Toronto‘s attitude was "parochial". "He seemed to think," Givens reported, "that we were a great big leviathan wanting to swallow up smaller municipalities. I told him he was makâ€" ing a big mistake thinking that." If the premier did make a big mistake, he‘s not alone. A®ost every suburban leader has acâ€" cused the city of just that. AMALGAMATION FACTORY North York reeve Norman Goodhead has reâ€" peatedly charged that Toronto city council is runâ€" ning an "amalgamation factory." Long Branch Reeve Marie Curtis has said that many Toronto politicians come out so strongly in favor of amalgamation because they believe they will get the support of the City‘s three daily newsâ€" papers. The wonder drug amalgamation is rarely pedâ€" dled by Toronto politicians in a facts and figures way. And with good Teason. The two major reports on amalgamation reâ€" leased last year were anything but favorable to their cause. One by the Metro department heads warned that more staff micht be needed to run services in an unwieldly amalgamation area. This was just the opposite to what amalgamationists had been preaching when they warned that amalgamation would "end duplication of services." The other report, prepared for Metro under George Gathercole. former depuly minister of ecâ€" onomics for Ontario, made no recommendations but lefi no doubt that it favored merging the area into four big cities rather than one â€" if the Metro system were changed at all. These reports have been lost somehow in the political argument that is now raging over amalâ€" gamation. "One city. one council, one loyalty!" cries mayor Phillips. "Yes." echoes controller Givens "I‘ve talked to people in the suburbs and they want one flag, one city, one jurisdiction and one council." He obviously didn‘t talk to many residents of Leaside On a houseâ€"toâ€"house petition, 7.842 of 8,180 residents opposed amalgamation. Leaside council had distributed a pamphlet to its residents which charged that "powerâ€"hunâ€" gry politicians" were trying to foist amalgamaâ€" tion on the suburbs. "If we really want amalgamation," he said, "the proper way to go about it is to make an apâ€" plication to annex (the suburbs) before the Onâ€" tario Municipal Board." That is what city council did last month. (When he read the pamphlet Toronto‘s conâ€" troller Summerville demanded an apology). Controller Summerville attacked the suburbs this way: "They want all the goodies from Metro but don‘t want to pay the bills. We‘ll never get amalgamation through Metro council. Val Scott New Democrals elected to see that the old parties are forced to keep at leist some of their promises. This Wonder Drug Works On Only 1 Patient â€" Toronto (Continued from page 12) Almost alone on city council in his opposition ECHO OF LOYALTY THE TIMES ADVERTISER â€" Thurs., November 15, 1962 â€" Page 7 Val Scott wont on to demonâ€" strate that there are still enough unmet needs within Canada to provide full production, full emâ€" ployment â€" and â€" steadily â€" rising standards of living for every Canadian for as far into the futâ€" to amalgamation is Alderman David Rotenberg. He says he is opposed because amalgamation would increase costs all across Metro by 15 to 20 per cent. s 8 s s â€" â€" ___ Most suburban politicians don‘t go that ‘ar in their opposition to amalgamation _ e "The sort of shotgun marriage that would be achieved by amalgamation," says reeve True Davâ€" idson of East York, "is completely impractical and nobody knows this be‘ter than the mayor of Toronto. "If the city really wants amalgamation it should adopt an entirely different positionâ€"it should be kind to the suburbs and try to make friends." Reeve Laurie Simonsky of Forest Hill says: "I think the city council of Toronto is whistling in the dark. In view of what Toronto itself needs in the way of maintenance which has been negâ€" lected, how can it think it can manage Metro?" Mayor George Bell of Weston: "Metro should be kept in its present form. The system works for the good of all and with harm to none." Reeve Dorothy Hague doesn‘t think Swansea should be legislated out of existence even if it is "a postage stamp community" She says: "We‘ve provided economically sound government and good services and have demonstrated our right to survive." Reeve Walter Saunders of York township said it would be "difficult and perhaps impossible to give Metro citizens proper representation if amâ€" algamation comes. The population would be too great." Mayor Donald Russell of industryâ€"rich New Toronto noted that amalgamation was favored "by the ones with the high mill rates." (Toronto has the highest tax rate in the Metro area, which may go a long way toward explaining why city politicians think amalgamation is such a magic voteâ€"catching word). One startling change this election year is the emergence of a few amalgamationists among subâ€" urban politicians. In North York councillor James Servcie wants "one unified, amalgamated city of nearly two millions within four years." ACCENTUATE CONFUSION But he unâ€"unifies the unity. "Administration of local government," he says, would continue for the convenience of the people of North York at 5000 Yonge street which would become a regional municipal office." For the first time in the suburbs we see men asking to be elected so they can fight for the obliteration of the municipalities they representâ€"â€" or well, maybe not in political language. What price duplication of services? "Most imâ€" portant," adds Service who is running for reeve against Norman Goodhead this year, "the taxpayer of North York will not be faced with any increase in taxes because of amalgamation." Goodhead, who has emerged as the main opâ€" ponent of amalgamation. says it would increase North York taxes by 20 per cent. In Scarboro reeve Ab Campbell fears amalâ€" gamation will encourage party politics to the point where decisions will be made on party levâ€" els. and not for the good of the people. "If the people had been asked," he said. "they would never have voted for the Gardiner expressâ€" way or other such Metro jobs." His strongest opponent on the amalgamation issue. councillor Karl Mallette, says "Metro was good as long as Fred Gardiner was there. Metro has done absolutely nothing since." $ But he complains that Metro is not responâ€" sible to the people and because of undemocratic powers has been able to create a suburban sprawl with nonâ€"economic use of land. R Councillor Don Aldcorn. first to announce an amalgamation platform in North York. said he would look for support from the three Toronto daily newspapers. He was in the audience two vears ago when Fred Gardiner made a special trip to Don Mills to talk about Metro. Gardiner had a definite warnâ€" ing for residents of one of Canada‘s bestâ€"known suburbs "Why â€" should anyone stuff â€" amalgamation down vour throat if you don‘t want it? I can‘t see why anybody with any common sense would want to interfere with the present system. It has a proâ€" ven record of success. Nothing has been proven by amalgamation but a lot hasi)ee;lvp;t;;enru;ld}r Metro." WHISTLE WHILE YOU GRAB VOTE OF NO THANKS MERCY _ KILLING ure as we can see In one of his closing remarks, Val Scott summ=d up by asking, ‘"‘What right do the old line parties have to expect the Canâ€" adian people t> have confidence in them when‘ they failed so miserably in the past?"