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The Newmarket Era and Express yen HERE IS HEALING Editors Note This biweekly article series will contain interesting facts about hospitals and is published as a public service by this newspaper in cooperation with the Ontario Hospital Asso ciation The bed comprehends our whole life for we were born in it we live in it and we shall die in it So wrote Maupassant in his work The Bed And what about beds hospital beds in par ticular In Ontario there are over active treatment beds in our public and general hospit als But perhaps as equally as their number is their wide variety with each specifi cally designed to meet a real pa tient need Some of our modernday hos pital beds have various attach ments such as pulleys hoists weights and stretchers for certain broken bone cases Then there are special electrical beds that are used for shock treatments in some types of mental illnesses Partition beds that break at dif ferent levels so that best support can be gained for an afflicted arm or leg is still another type A recent innovation which adds still another type of bed to the hospitals variety is a newtype maternity bed which can be used in the labor room as a delivery table One of the important fea- 20 PERCENT OFF All MERCHANDISE IN STOCK turos of the bed is that it can be tilted at an angle to prevent post- anaesthetic aspiration in eases of nausea Another type of hospital bed is made in such a way that the pa tient can be packed in ice or im mersed in cold running water These are usually used to reduce the body temperature of patients being readied for an operation The elevator bed contains a motor to elevate and lower spring and mattress making it easier for a nurse to bathe turn or attend the patient in any other way It has been estimated that in the course of a lifetime the aver age person spends about onethird of the time or about years in bed Since hospital patients spend an even greater portion of the time in bed our hospitals have made a real study of this very important piece of hospital fur niture with good results in speed ing patient recovery BACKACHE it off by action When out of order mum acids remain in the Then Out feeling mi won follow Thais the lime o like Kidney Fills the fo normal action Then you feel better sleep better Get Kidney no CHILDRENS AID WILL COST YORK COUNTY TAXPAYERS The York County Childrens Aid society will cost the rate payers of the county in the first year that the re organized society has jurisdiction only within the boundaries of the present county Prior to January the society was responsible for the Toronto municipalities as well They have joined with the To ronto Childrens Aid Society for a Metropolitan service When York County council ap proved the 1957 budget last week it allowed 90000 for the Childrens Aid society an in crease of over last year Approximately of this is recoverable from the province Chairman Marshall McMurchy had requested lie pre sented the budget to county council on Feb The Common Isabel Inglis Colville THE COMMONWEALTH I think that the United Nations which by the way do not at present seem very united has given us a better idea of our commonwealth than many of us have had before I suppose in a way you could call Canada a commonwealth of provinces or the USA a com monwealth of states but they in no way gave us a picture of the grandeur of the British Com monwealth of Nations Canada and the United States have in themselves so much in common in law in religion in their way of life that these smaller com monwealths find it easy to ad just differences and can in times of stress reach understanding I know that Canada and the United States are melting pots for many nationalities but as a rule the people become citizens and acknowledge one code of be haviour But not so our Commonwealth of Nations True they all call themselves democracies but there are many interpretations of that term Of course we have a wonderful symbol the Crown And yet we have republics as well as lands like ours where above all remote from party politics sets the Queen a symbol which draws nations whatever their race creed or color may be The Queen is a magnet We have the British Isles Can ada Australia and New Zea land with their similarity of outlook regarding government way of life and Christianity They may not always agree on world issues look at Suez And yet it was a member of the com monwealth a Canadian who solved the problem for the with drawal of Britain and France and in so doing united the knot of Commonwealth reactions And all through this continuing strain when Israel Egypt and the world are at each others throats Can ada has offered constructive ad vice Canada a young country has stolen the laurels from many much more steeped in the art of diplomacy But to come back to what con stitutes the Commonwealth we have only to look at India and Pakistan For years India strug gled to free herself from British domination Her leaders went to prison giving up wealth and comfort for an ideal Then they got their freedom and what hap pens They remained in the Commonwealth They are and Moslem so we have no Round ties in religion but they must find something to which they are akin in the commonwealth I think it must be the urge to go forward in the march of civi lizations Nehru wants for his people literacy and a higher standard of living this he sees in the western democracies and so desires ties with those who have these desirable assets He doesnt always see eye to eye with the policies of the nations who make up the commonwealth but he sticks to it Then there is South Africa of which one does not know how to speak Here is another nation that was Britains by conquest A na tion which fought long and hard but here too is the strange case ion In A Changing World By A Jackson PART TWO The following is a talk given by A Jackson supervising principal of the Newmarket public schools given at a recent meeting of the Rotary Club of Newmarket The concluding part of Mr Jacksons talk is published here With the decline of an aristocrat- is class there has been a decline in the humanities The reasons for this are complex but it is partly due to the teaching of the hum anities as though they were only useful to the idle rich This has reacted strongly on our whole educational system We have a- bandoned thinking for doing but unless acts follow from thought they are not only useless they are pernicious And yet the need for quiet thought was never stron- of a leader who fought us Gen- hie T Smutts who brought his people into the commonwealth and while he lived distinguished himself as a wonderful upholder of it Then alas he is dead and a man reigns in his stead who cannot see beyond the boundaries of the white race To me segregation is an un godly and a horrible thing whe ther it be in the vaunted free dom of the United States or the Union of South Africa The Boers were supposed to be very religious and the USA is sup posed to be a Christian country How do they recognize the gospel of Jesus Christ and their way of life Those blacks who remain Christian in spite of the indignity of segregation are wonderful people But as one looks at the com monwealth with all its prickly points of divergence it seems more wonderful than ever that it can and does exist Of course there are benefits that accrue from anything that is common to many its inevitable But what makes me glow with pride is that I belong to a member of a great band of nations who each in its own way but united in many ways is trying to further the advance of civilization here can only conclude with Long live the Commonwealth JR LADIES All The Junior Ladies aid of the Christian Baptist church will meet the church hall on Tues day Ma at pm Finished aprons anu fancy work for the an nual Blossom tea and bazaar may be brought to this meeting The Canadian lied Cross main tains eight Lodges for hospitaliz ed veterans at hospitals in all sections of the nation In our own country in the mid dle of unprecedented expansion do we know why or if we need industry in every town Do we want our resources to be exploit ed in the tremendous way in which they are being exploited Is it in our interests for Canada to become a great power of or 50 million people in the next years We are apt to multiply details and minimize essentials In his tory our teaching may be too much concerned with fact and too little with interpretation In jerature we may stress interpret ation rather than the greater facts of life which are contained there in facts recorded by men who knew them and saw them better than most The teaching of history and lit erature is essential for the future of democracy It is always the first step of a dictator to rewrite history in his own image and to regiment or imprison writers painters and musicians By moving away from the rar ities of the humanities we have become unstable in our own opin ion We are apt to go too easily to the other extreme by accepting everything new with far less than that with which we reject the old This has led to unchecked experimentation in method as a substitute for serious concern with the subject We have rejected the tradition al ways of teaching children how to read and still the controversy as to whether the new method is better is by no means over It be gins to look as though the new method was accepted because it was new rather than because it was better I think the same is true for the psychological testing which is substituted for but has not by any means replaced the old methods of examination Where the democratic revolut ion and the educational revolut ion coincide very closely is in the ascendancy of group discussion for though group discussion may Plants From Countryside Make Low Costing Gardens have its advantages at university is wishful thinking for us to assume that anything can be- so achieved in schools Such a discussion in school becomes mer ely a time for the less inhibited students to display their ego rath er than for the thoughtful stud ents to exhibit their knowledge In any case what can children learn from their friends in school any more than they can learn from them outside And here the wheel has come ironically full circle By leaning over backwards to allow children self- ex press ion we have in fact conducted the establishment of a straightjacketed conformity im posed by themselves Again let me quote Stephen He says Our studies have drifted away from the singleminded absorpt ion of learning Our students of today live in a whirl and clutter of student activities They have in any large college a hundred organizations and societies They are all up for this today and all out for that tomorrow Life is a continuous valley a rah rah a parade They play no games they use teams for that But exercise and air is their life They root in an organized hysteria a code of signals telling them what to feel by going back than we are by leaning forward to completely unproved ground What we must do is to find a new method of ed ucation which will supply a truly vocational education for our chil dren in our changed world We should cut away excess ed ucation to begin with We should put out to apprenticeship those people who now often waste their time and our money in vocational schools We should enforce rigor ous entrance standards in univer sities lest we weaken those insti tutions by overcrowding And we should rigorously exclude from our school curriculums all those subjects which do not require mental as well as physical exert ion Finally we must cope with democratic concepts realistically and we must see to it that wc do not by making everyone equal deny the right of equality of opp ortunity which is more import ant All this will mean that who are interested in education will have to give more time and thou ght to it It will also mean that our children will have to work harder and thus last may be the most difficult objective to obtain The system of decreased effort on They root they rush they organ- the childrens part and increased effort on the teachers and par ents part has made them per haps for the first time in history happy to go to school do not scorn that But do say that the time has come when we must denied the satisfaction of seeing them flock to school in the morn ing like flies round a jam pot We A lack of concern with the basic principles of education and the enthusiastic acceptance of new methods is also responsible for the crushing weight of American influence What then must do We cannot put the clock back and much of the argument between To a new gardener with every thing to buy and plant at once the cost can be very high But there are many ways and means to an attractive garden that are absolutely free as well as others cost only pennies For instance did you know you can get plants and free in the countryside near you A big source of free plant mater ial is found in the native shrubs ferns flowers and seedling trees that grow wild In most parts of Canada its possible to plan a whole garden with native plants says Thelma Boucher a Kingston garden expert writing in Canadian Hom es and Gardens Elm birch oak and beech are fine trees found in every good woodlot as well as the native evergreens pine spruce balsam and hemlock The secret of success with these coniferous trees is to move them when they are small Among the native shrubs are one of the prettiest redbarked elderberry and the to must be prepared to direct them progressivists and traditionalists to school like bees to the hive is silly We are no more likely to and the sooner we get things solve our new and continuing pro- 1 humming the better orful purpleflowering raspberry A number of perennial plants J among our native flora are also suitable for garden planting in cluding varieties of violets Consider how at tractive a small rock garden can be with columbine harebell and golden moss all from a rocky cleft along the roadside And dont forget the many bea utiful 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