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j Time To Recognize Can‘t Catch P.M. Off Base Now As Press Sessions Ironed Out Report From Ottawa Complaints regarding the lack of signs amd other safety measures on the creek brought a smug comment from Metro Parks Commissioner Thomas Thompson. With 30 miles of Parks along Lake Ontario fencing would be impractical, he declared. Where the creek empties into Lake Onâ€" tario the ice didn‘t form as solidly as it did further from the mouth, which is natural since the lake is big and rough. Two little girls met death Saturday at the mouth of Etobicoke Creek when the ice on which they were playing gave way.. Individuals such as skating star Petra Burka may be on Canada‘s national team, but her of residence is still Etobicoke. Â¥et while these youngsters compete and read‘ the mame of Etobicoke, the townâ€" zip on am official basis, ignores the acâ€" eomplishments of its athletic residents. Some recognition is shown to the athleâ€" tes of Etobicoke living south of Bloor Street during the Faustina Annual Athlete of the Year Banquet. However it happens to be a Lakeshore affair held at the Lakeâ€" flicted broken arms "fifiuuw‘- on the back for local acco ts in the fields of bllubbulull. permits and wrapâ€" vping garbage, but they should have their ping m")ut they should have their wrists slapped for ignoring the township‘s athletes who spread the fair name M throughout Canada, the United States and the world. _ For years members of the Etobicoke Meâ€" morial Aquatic Club have been capturing international and national swimming titles in the name of the township. The Humber Valley Pee Wees recently returned from a most successful exhibition series with Southern California hockey teams, Publicâ€" ity and coverage of the team‘s victories inâ€" cluded the names of the lads‘ home townâ€" Etobicoke. A length of snow fence stretched across the creek may have prevented this tragedy, but as in the past, the Metro Parks Comâ€" mission has ignored Marie Curtis Park. And why were there no signs? Throughout the hectic and colorful caréer of Rt. Hon. John Diefenbaker as Prime Minister, he engaged in sponâ€" taneous question ‘and answer @euts in the corridor of the East Block, with newspaperâ€" men. They waited for him on his way to a cabinet meeting and asked questions. He tossâ€" ed off answers, sometimes angry retorts, often friendly jibes. But this hit and miss arâ€" rangement for informal press conferences did not meet with Rt. Hon. L. B. Pesarson‘s apâ€" proval when he became Prime Minister. As the old year endâ€" ed and the New Year began, he established a system of saying little in the corridor. But he promised newsmen that he would meet them after the Cabinet, in the office of his special assistant, to answer their questions. It has worked out well. The reporters are happy and apparently the Prime Minister is pleased. Something new has been added to the relationship beâ€" tween the Prime Minister and the press corps in Ottawa. The short postâ€"cabinet press conferences are a big improveâ€" ment over the hit and run style of question and answer that took place in the corridor leading to the Privy Council chamber. Now there is some order out of what was rapidâ€" ly becoming chaos. Just when the corridor conâ€" ferences first began is now lost in history. Those who were around the Parliamentary gesa gallery in the days of ackenzie King and R. B. Bernett, recall that those two leaders met the press in the @orridor. Louis St. Laurent gave the impression that he was putting up with the corridor meetings with the press as something he did not like but had to acâ€" cept as part of the penalty of :gdoffla. He occasionally with â€" newsmen, | but more often he was annoyed at :ir persistence and said so. frequently pointed out that he had taken an oath of secreâ€" éy and had no intention of breaking it to meet the conâ€" wenience of a group of newsâ€" Of course in those days there Were not so many néwsmen. ‘Then too, radio and television had not invaded the news field as they have today. There were no TV cameras, tape reâ€" eorders and electric cable comâ€" plicating the situation. But in ml. days Mr. King was not happy when he enâ€" countered the eager newsmen anxious to obtain his views on some development. He made carefully guarded replies, unâ€" less he was ready with a forâ€" mal statement. This new»rpaper received complaints this to explain what he had in he EDITORIALS Needless Tragedy Mr. Diefenbaker on the other hand, at first appeared to enjoy the corridor exâ€" changes. He had learned how to handle himself in the hard school of the court room. He would turn aside a tough quesâ€" tion with a quip. He would prod a newsman who had written â€" something critical, with a barbed comment. He would breeze through the corâ€" ridor in high good humour, usually entering the cabinet room laughing as he got the better of a reporter who was left without an answer to his carefully phrased question. mind about a certain problem. Then with a waspish retort, Mr. St. Laurent would suggest that what he had in mind was his own business. But as the years passed and problem piled on problem, deâ€" manding decision after deciâ€" sion Mr. Diefenbaker ceased to get as much enjoyment out of the exchanges. The barbs and verbal punches became more frequent. He said less and less and the questions became more and more pointed. His relations with the press were less friendly and on many days he did not enter the Cabâ€" inet chamber laughing. Freâ€" quently the frown and scowl replaced the smile. Mr. Pearson inherited the corridor conferences. He found them unwieldly and even downright difficult. His voice did not carry well and only newsmen at the front crowdâ€" ihg around him could hear his comments as he spoke into microphones pressed close to his face. Others at the back pressed forward. He is of medium height and was often lost in the crowd of newsmen with, the TV cameramen deâ€" sperately trying to find him. It was a shambles. Something had to be done Now the informal press conâ€" ference in an East Block office appears to be the answer. After he leaves the Cabinet meeting he retires to his office where he is briefed ‘by his staff on questions likely to be asked. He crosses the hall to the office of his speci@l assistant where the nevfinzn are gathâ€" ered. The microphones are in place. The cameras have been set up. (They have a tendency to blow fuses, but that carf be remedied.) He makes a short statement then throws himself open to questions. He handles them ably_ and easily. A recent conference was typical. As it neared a close he grinned at the assembled reporters as he picked up a memorandum off the desk in front of him. Gently chiding the newsmen he said: ‘"You haven‘t touched on ane of the things he thought 1 would be atked about." he said nodding in the direction of his special 16, shore Arena and it seems ironic the citizens o i i eR Es of giant Etobicoke are honered at a banquet sponsored by a club of the smaller comâ€" munities of Mimico, New Toronto and Long Branch, B 0 _ At functions honoring the Metro champs, Etobicoke‘s athletes are seattered about in small isolated gtou{o because they cannot recognize another Etobicoke team or know what sport they represent. . L Perhaps a banquet to honor local athletes would be too expensive at this time considâ€" ering the size of the township, but Etobiâ€" coke must find a way to encourage its youth to have pride in their munhy.u _ ‘When financial support is requested by an Etobicoke group the -u-k?nflty turns them down because of lack of funds in the township‘s coffers. W O&W. 0 0 We suggest the township design an offiâ€" cial crest to be worn lpurfiully by those who excel or represent the township in a sporting, recreational or cultural activity, The crest could be made available for local community groups to purchase with letterâ€" ed bars identifying the activity. Two years ago this newspaper asked for railings along the lake side of these piers, which in summer are exceedingly dangerâ€" ous. Last summer lifeâ€"preservers were not put in service at the park until a month after swimming started. The beach reâ€" mained filthy until well after it was warm enough to stroll. week regarding the icy condition of the piers which stretch out into the lake. It may be convenient for Mr. Thompson to say "keep off", but Marie Curtis Park is the main access to the lake for many Lakeâ€" shore and Etobicoke people. If Mr. Thompâ€" son lacks the men and equipment to carry out his duties properly, let him say so, rather than attempt to cover up with inane statements. With the 1964 budget under consideraâ€" tion Etobicoke Council should look at this inexpensive method of recognizing the youngsters boosting the community of Etobicoke. assistant. The assistant looked uncomfortable, began to blush. Mr. Pearson chuckled at his discomfiture and the forty newsmen laughed. This is the way of the Prime Minister with the press. He has a free and easy manner when meetâ€" ing the newsmen. He is frank, sometimes too frank. Not only do the reporters have their notebooks and penâ€" cils at the ready to record his remarks, but there are tape reâ€" corders there to carry his exâ€" act words to the radio and television networks. In addiâ€" tion cameras focus on his face. He easily handles questions on a wide range of subjects. He is relaxed and confident. As the questions end, he smiles and suggests the conâ€" ference close. The reporters scramble for telephones or race back to their typewriters. One or two with later deadâ€" lines stop to chat briefly with the Prime Minister as he moves across to his own office. ‘The conference is over. The three suburbs combined, Etobicoke, North York and Scarboro acquired $144,000,000 in new assessment in 1963 with Etobicoke alone gaining almost twice as much in development as the City J.To'omo. Expansion of the big three Metro suburbs seems to go on at a never ending pace with the population and asâ€" sessment increase gqing hand in hand. Etobicoke‘s new assessment in 1963 amounted to $40,940,000 for a total township assessment estimated by Metro officials at $539,000,000. Etobicoke stands as the second largest suburban financial contributor to the operaâ€" tion of Metro government. An interesting element in the suburban gain in new assessment is the amount of industrial expansion. The Metro Industrial Commission states that in the need for expansion some city industries cannot find sutficient space and are forced to open up operations in the suburbs. One of the advantages to suburban industrial expansion is the activity of speculators in building modern factory buildâ€" ings for rental purposes. Since the total gain in mew assessment in 1963 was $178,185,000 it can be seen how much in new developâ€" ment is going to the big three suburbs and how much is going to the city and nine other suburbs. _ _ _ â€" ____ _ New industry moving to the Metro region from other parts of the province pn?ov to locate in the suburbs rather than in the city where high land costs and taxation create beill dabsdrnciinaid However, there is one recent shift away from the subâ€" urbs and towards the city which may just be beginning. It is apartment development. This results from the city relaxâ€" "Education is one field of human endeavour where the amateur layman may talk back to the expert and, if necesâ€" sary, tell the expert to go to blazes". So says J. B. McGeachy,, an important figure in the Canaâ€" dian world of letters. Writing in the current issue of "QUESTâ€"Spotlight on Educaâ€" tion" he speaks irreverently and trenchantly, but never mockingly, : a bo ut current trends in Canadian education. QUEST is the new "popular journal on education", official publication of The Canadian Home and School and Parentâ€" Teacher Federation. "My first complaint is about the seeming lack of variety in Canadian schooling. Conformâ€" ism is a besetting sin in North America. A common ambition among the young is to be ‘m the groove‘. I doubt if boys and girls were ever so conâ€" ventional (that is, slavishly obedient to their own childish codes) as they are today. I put this down to the enâ€" rolment of nearly all of them in publicly supported schools where they are exposed to the same or roughly the same curâ€" ricula, curricula dictated by bureaucrats and taught by teachers moulded and disciâ€" plined in monotonously simâ€" ilar Colleges of Education. Of course, I have no exâ€" pectation that, in these days of exorbitant taxes, the proâ€" portion of children at stateâ€" financed schools will diminish. What I would like to see is greater diversity in | these schools and, in particular, more attention to the gifted and exceptional child. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Launching Pad Talking Back To The Experts In the Soviet Union, so far "Nisastrous Theories" in Canadian Education. as I can learn, a pupil showâ€" ing unusual talent, for anyâ€" thing from mathematics to ballet, is quickly given special instruction and a chance to shine. It would be paradox indeed if the Marxists should emerge as guardians of the rational, aristocratic tradition in education while the rugsed individualists of the west were left stuck with their dreary dogma that all men, and all children, are equal, My iecon d complaint is about the influence of ‘proâ€" gressivism‘. This is the theory that children go to school not to learn discipline and acquire knowledge but to relax, exâ€" press themselves, ‘adjust‘ to life, do as they please and be happy. I think that the school is only a subordinate auxiliary to the family, circle in teaching the young about the conduct of life and bringing them to full bloom as personalities. The influence of John Deâ€" wey‘s disastrous theories is obâ€" vious. It appears in the curâ€" rent unpopularity of difficult studies; in the avoidance of written exams; in advice against cramming, a valuable mental exercise; and above all, I think, in the emphasis on such vague flubdub as ‘soâ€" cial studies‘. Children in school would be far better employed learning how to spell, multiply, conâ€" struct an English sentence, read a foreign language and name Canada‘s Prime Minisâ€" I was amazed to learn reâ€" cently from Toronto newspaâ€" pers that mothers in the city are just discovering that quite young ‘children can be taught ters since 1867 â€" by rote if necessary. .. . AND READING? to ing its zoning regulations to compete with the suburbs for multiple occupancy dwellings. The city is starting to pick up a sizeable amount of apartment development. Among the smaller western Metro suburbs Long Braonch made the greatest new assessment gain with $918,â€" 461 which was more than double the combined amount reâ€" corded by New Toronto and Mimico. Mimico listed an estimated $537,000 in new assessment for 1963 and New Toronto a mere $180,000. In some respects New Toronto is in need of a redevelopment program for certain areas which no doubt could be arranged through assistance proâ€" vided by Metro government. An anti â€" fluoridation group has decided to pressure Metro government into calling for a second vote this Deâ€" cember on the fluoridation question. In the first Metroâ€" wide plebiscite in history in December, 1962, fluoridation carried by the slim margin of 5,000 votes. If the borough system is adopted in the Metro area the official Metro chain of office worn by the Metro chairâ€" man will have to be changed. It has 13 round engraved medallions representing the 13 municipalities. They would be reduced to five. f The new Metro police district looks suspiciously like the Metro borough system when you examine the borough boundaries #* Toronto refuse to sdy they will give Metro a copy of their submission. Weston and Long Branch may provide a copy of their brief after it goes to the commission. This is the year that suburban representatives in Metro council better find a solid :‘pokcsmoh to give their side of key civic issues instead of floundering along in six differâ€" ent directions with mo apparent policy at the Metro level. The Metro suburbs are not going to let out any trade decrets about their briefs and reports to the Royal Comâ€" mission on Metro Toronto. Etobicoke has told Metro it will submit the brief to the commission first. Mimico and New This is the year Metro will distribute nearly 70 billion gallons of water to the area municipalities and go into full construction on the new New Toronto water purification plant. This is the year Metro has a chance to appoint two new transit commissioners and a new council licison repâ€" resentative to TTC meetings, beth closed and public sessions. read phonetically. â€" What other system would an intelâ€" ligent woman adopt? The ‘lookâ€"say‘ method, inâ€" viting the child to recognize and utter each word as a unit without bothering about its component letters, is a monsâ€" trous absurdity invented by the pedagogues to give their trade an aura of mystery, not penetrable by the common herd. In serious studies, there is a trend towards the allâ€"incluâ€" sive, the global, the onceâ€"andâ€" forâ€"all. Boys and girls, if studying _ European â€" history might be asked to take it at a gallop from the caveman to President de Gaulle; or, Engâ€" lish literature is on the proâ€" gram, to take a quick look at everybody from Chaucer to T. S. Eliot." "In . the â€" onceâ€"overâ€"lightly system of taking all knowlâ€" edge at a gulp, may one perâ€" haps see a symptom of demoâ€" cracy at its worst? The theory appears to be that school is the very last chance to pump knowledge into the children‘s heads, that they will say goodâ€" bye for ever to culture when they leave, that after gradâ€" uating they will neversopen a book again (except maybe a Mickey Spillane) as long as they live. On this assumption,. since nobody in a democracy must be allowed to feel either inâ€" ferior or superior to anyone else, all must become cultured by forcedâ€"feeding of an indiâ€" gestible summary of all know!lâ€" edge, even if (as one politician said of another‘s mental grasp) it goes in one head and out the other." « Concluding his provocative atticle in the magazine "QUEST", J. B. McGeachy says SOMEBODYԤ$ BIRTHDAY. Saturday was the 149th anniversary of the birth of Canada‘s first minister, John A, M:cdoulJ: but for all the attention it got, it might as w ell have been‘the annual picnic of the Alghanistamian Curry Pickers Marching and Chowder Society. . Come Canadians know about Sir John‘s penchant for the bubbly, but few recognize his achievement or appreciate themâ€" Canadians know all about Davey Crockett and his bareâ€" handed battle with the b‘ar and about Payl Revere‘s ride over hill and dale alerting the citizenry that the British were coming. They also are aware that George Washing» ton chopped down his daddy‘s cherry tree ind wasn‘t afraid to admit it saying "I cannot tell a lic". \Whether or not his daddy gave him a sound thrashing with the tree trunk depends on who one talks to. Monday, Telegram Sports Editor Hal Walker, whose boss is John Bassett (see above), practically pinned a medal on Imlach and Monday night Annis Stukus, of the ~Tetegram, told his CFTO (owned by the Tely) audience that Imlach was trying to take the pressure of trade talks when he barred the door, and commended him for this strategy. * _ â€" e Canadians also know about Wild RBill Hickock, Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and Doc Halliday. 1 should not have said "know" in this case, for the stories that reach the public about these chaps are about as near to the truth as Communism is to Barry Goldwaterâ€",American). Contrary to popular opinion, Hickock was an effeminate fop, who eouldn‘t hit the ~ide of a barn with a handful of buckshot. He killed his first man after spreading five shots around the room and hit his target (who was drunk as a hoot owl) only by sheer luck. He drank and gambled to excess and drew only when his opponent was asleep or wasn‘t wearing a gun. e 2o Wryatt F;rp was nart owner of a house of illâ€"repute and as sherrif demanded and got protection money from other bistro owners in the town. \\l') att however, had a few intestines and wasn‘t afraid to indulge in the odd gun battle. as long as the odds were favorable. As for Davy Crockett, reports are that he was more accustomed to sfiooting bull than wrestling bear and if he lived today he could be compared to .Cassius Clay, the boastful poet laureate of the squared circle. Washington was a dedicated man, but he had a mean eve for the lassies and liked to live it up as well. .Howâ€" ever he was a great leader and molded his country into an efficient nation just as Sir John did. ° So here we are steeped in legend about Amer heroes, while we know not a whit about the fa Canada. Because some TV producer doesn‘t pull a Walt Disâ€" ney and build our Canadian heroes into a squad of Davey Crocketts, we are content to sit around on our ignorance. It‘s a tossup whether it‘s hetter to know nothing about the history of one‘s country, like we do, or to be smotherâ€" ed in a smog of legend like the Americans. But in any case/Saturday was the 149th anniversary of the birth of Sir John A. Macdonald. A VICIQUS CIRCLE. It has firally been confirmâ€" ed. Punch Imlach, kindly coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs, should have hbeen an author of books for children. Mr. Imlach reached this heady plateau as a result of his upbraiding John Bower, goalie, who was indiscreet enough to be concerned about the state of health of an enemy. Joln Ferguson, of Montreal. who had just tried to part the boards with his cranium. In Imlach‘s view Bower was on the ice for only one purpuse: to stop the shots aimed at his cage, and certainly not to be sportsmanlike.© "We were out there for only one réason: to WIN", the genteel coach is reported to have said. If this kind of nonsense, such as displayed by B in a moment of sobbing sentimentality were to be common practice, where, oh where, would our young learn how to play hockey properly. When an opponent is down, one just doesn‘t helj out. one carves valentines out of his enemy‘s large tine with one‘s skate. Will these kids never learn‘ Bower was subsequently put on the injured li<t a heated debate with chief Punch and the press had a day. ‘His Leafian blood aboil Imlach harred the do the press and was deeply raked by Dick Beddoes it Globe. Note what follows: ; It is certainly refreshing to hear that sportsmanlike conduct is not a requisite to man a stick on the Toronto Maple Leaf hockey team . . . although somehow., we knew this all along * If this kind of nonsense. such as displaved by Bower Ed‘ Fitkin, sportscaster for CJBC accused the and Telegram of being miffed about a scoop by Star Editor Milt Dunnell concerning a Leaiâ€"Ranger trade described the Tmlachâ€"Bower tiif as a "family quarre glossed over the unsportsmanlike corduct of the coach. Fitkin is also publicity chief for Maple Lea dens. Leaf owners. Since John Bassett Telegram Editor i the Leafs, it is rather ludicrous to suggest scoop the Tely. See kiddies! If you have fingers in enough pies, you‘ll always come up with the plums instead of going it alone like Beddoes. And that‘s the moral of this story. However, 1 object when a CBC sportscaster. who is paid by the public, uses his position to pay lip service to a commercial organization for which he also works. 10. Re smend 11. Geate 15. Mandle Crossword CJBL accused the vout a scoop by Starc a Leaiâ€"Ranger trade as a "family quarrel CIBC a Sotuton 1gâ€"Â¥ +8 the S cas tin hers of wner k f} ter ts He ild Id