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Cro wn ----_ . 'height théy are in Canada today had | occurs, for. they. shall} have a better + yin 4 Hanh THE STAR EDITORIAL P2 PAGE 'NOTES AND COMMENTS Education Week March 6th to March 12th, this vear marks Education Week. . Canadian Education Week was first started in 1936 for stimulating public interest Until 1950 the sponsorship of Education Week was largely the responsibility of the Canadian Teachers' Federation. that time it has been jointly spdnsored by many organizations. Education 'Week has proved to be a very acquainting the general public with the state and the needs of public good medium for education. Radio stations, newspapers, service clubs have all done their share to make the tveek And this year television firms operated to sponsor spot items dealing with a successful one. stations and commercial education. Gradually the public is becoming aware of the fact-that we spend far too little on education and far too much on other things Improving Jobs Mur, business could well afford to He maintained that when a man cracks up on 'the job, or makes a failure of it, or ex- plodes and quits, that instead of trying to find out what is wrong with the man . . should try to find out what was wrong with the job. - He argues that many jobs in business and industry are impossible jobs and that no matter how much ability or intelligence or energy you put into the job you still couldn't And for these reasons: He claimed that some jobs have no speci- fied limits; that there were no clear duties; no set responsibilities; and no accountabili- make a success of it. Sorenson, Chief of the personnel. de- partment of the Canadian General Electric . Company in a speech concerning "Making ° the Most of Our Human Resources" intro- or duced an interesting idea that industry and either the purpese of nation. in education. As a people, But since pairs that we determine they have ' co- defense . . . that in the long run do not contribute to the wealth or the welfare of the we spend more than twice as much on liquor and tobagco as we do on the total expenditure for education. more money per year on gasoline and car re- We spend spend yearly on education. ~ What matters to a nation is how it spends its money. Both China and Russia are em- phasizing education. . As nearly as we can are graduating students from university at the ratio of seven to one in "comparison to ours. might be looked at as a form of national our yearly reserve for that is almost two billion dollars. The total estimate Perhaps, education for education in Canada for 1955 inlcuding ties. things he was study. and there was one. either through very poor job. Mr. Sornson we responsible for new construction, maintenance and materials and teachers' salaries and administration is only $630,000,000 . . . about a third! In other words he claimed that the worker didn't know what his work really en- tailed; he didn't know what authority he had didn't have; he didn't know for avhat going to be held responsible no effective way for telling whether he had done a good job or a poor These things all contribute to failure a crack-up or the doing of a stated that most men can deliver the goods in a job when he knows what the: job entails; when they are made certain definite things; when their authority is clearly stated; and when a check-up system provides a scale whereby a | man's particular job can be indged.. as good, fair, poor, unsatisfactory. : The idea sounds sensible. é ~ PASSING By M.A.C. The problem that is really keeping parliament employed these days is the one on unemployment. ---- Montreal's underground seems to be of a very different kind from that of Toronto. In Toronto it's run by the T.T.C. . . in Montreal even the police. don't seem to.be.able to 'look after theirs SHOW 'The lesson the Russians gave us last year in hockey we promptly re- turned this year with added thanks! -- It seems a pity that Spring should be accompanied by the Income Tax . . And Now that: April's here . . there' s a form to fill I fear! Clipped Comments CANADIANS ARE DUPES OF HIDDEN TAXATION Taxes could never have reached the it not been for the system of 'indirect taxation which enables.the government | to tax everything .yve buy or sell, con- cealing the taxes in the prices of the goods so that the people don't know they are being taxed. If every tax were payable directly to the government that levies it, there would be far more resistance to the continuous increases, and the politi |: they could run. the ipaper better than cians would find it politically less pio- fitable to urge the spending of the public's money.' Only the Dominion Government has power to levy indirect taxes in: Cin- ada; but the provinces would like to have it also and some of them are making desperate efforts to get it. Under no circumstances should any province be allowed to have this pow- er. The British North America Act wisely witheld it from them. The tax agreements between the Dominion and the provinces are mere devices to de- feat the purposes of the Aet; for they contemplate letting the provinces share in these easily collected taxes. Our governments are now spending' more than nine-fourths of the nation's earnings, and there is no indication that the politicians are satisfied 'with that percentage. Cerain of them will never cease to urge the spending of more and more of the people's money by the governments as long as the people have any money and. are fool- {sh enough to listen to their blandish- ments, The most effective way of checking this trend is to insist that every gov- ernment cdlleet all the taxes it spends and collect it in such a way that the people will know they are being taxed, and for what purpose. ~Canadian 'Statesman, Bowmanville 1 3 -- SAW ry AN EDITORS BEAUTITUDE Blessed ard the merchants who ad- vertise, for they have faith in their business and Tompetity shall in- : Blessed is the woman who sends 'in same view of life or develop the same .|'or not, the less fit amang the students 5 crease many oldid £1 a written account of a party or wed- ding, for she shall see details and the names of her guests correctly re- ported; ; Blessed are those,who do not expect the editor to know everything, but who tell him whenever anjinteresting event newspaper in their community. Blessed are they who get their copy in early, for they shall occupy a warm space in the editor's heart; Blessed 'are they that co-operate with the editor in his efforts of the community, for their community shall be known to all men as a:good place to live and do business; Blessed 'are they who don't "think the editor. does--yea, thrice blessed are they because there are so few.of| & them, . [TTT = 2Thé Bangroft Times. | e-- NATURE'S LAWS MIGHT STILL BE OPERATING According to Time Magazine a poll of high school teachers in New York reports: 1. That most of their students have poor reading. ability; 2. That they have little realization that rewards and advancements must be earned; 3. That students have little feelings of responsibility; and / 4. That standards have had to be lowered! to the pupils' levels. : This is not surprising. The people of New York, or the people of Ontario either, for that matter, could hardly expect the pupils trained in the pre: sent day luxury schools to take the sense of responsibility for their own future as did their pioneer grand. fathers who had built their schools with their own hands. But a closer check might reveal that 'the process of selecting the fittest to 'survive is still going on in the schools of 'today; and, whether we realize it are eliminating themselves by failing to measure upto their opportunities and their responsibilities: These have been in the majority iniall ages: THE SCHOOL TAX BURDEN The Newmarket Era and Express has some interesting editorial obser- vations to make on the school burden carried by municipalities in the Pro- vince of Ontario. It says-in part:-- "The 'tax burden on the municipal level. has been: raised to what would seem to be the limit or beyond it. Un- less there are higher grants by the provinge, "the burden will become un- bearablg | inn many municipalities. All Ontario sptnt over $60,000,000 on n schools int 1954 compared with $1, ny - | 624 in T040 and only $3,324,625 in 1945. We are told that either the-stagger-- ing. costs of the present and future must be met more generously by the provincial government, or classrooms are going to become even more crowd- ed. Teachers will be reduced to little more than educational policemen and education standards will:be lowered. "According to figures provided: us the provincial gover 'nment is meeting a smaller and smaller proportion of mounting education costs. In 1945, the province met about 43 percent. of the overall costs but the proportion has dropped to about 33 percent. In some isolated rural areas the govern- ment is paying.as much as 90 percent bécause of the limited local tax base. Balancing these higher percentages are -others with an all-time low". ' --Stouffville Tribune. District Doings APPLE BLOSSOM IS FIRST SIGN OF COMING SPRING . Newcastle, -- The first sign of Spring brought to the attention of this paper so far in 1966 was a branch of apple blossoms in full bloom whieh Irwin Colwill, Newcastle apple grow- er, showed us on Tuesday, the first day of March. * Mr. Colwill reported that this branch was from a tree which was girdled last fall. Girdling, which con- sists of cutting a ring of bark about a quarter-inch wide around the base of a tree, is a method used by some orch- ardists to force a tree to bear a better erop of fruit, The girdling has the effect of convincing the tree that it is about to die, Mr, Colwill says. The reproductive instinct of the tree are thus aroused, and the following sea- son it devotes its energy to produc: ing. fruit. to reproduce itself before it dies, ' *« * CANNERY OFFICIAL SAYS LITTLE BRITAIN TOP PEA PRODUCER The President of one of the coun- try's largest canning companies and the Premier of the Province congratu- lated Victoria County farmers, espee- lally those of the Little Britain area, for their work in vegetable production at 'the first annual banquet of the ~Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville County Vegetable Growers' Associa > tion at the Little Britain Community Hall recently. : C. P. Maxwell; direetor of the Stokely-Van Camp Company, of Es- _|sex, Ontario, said' the Little Britain area was now the largest producer of canning peas in Canada, and would probably double its production' this year. Premicr Frost ratated the County farmers in their work in veges table production," and commended their work through their Association. * Other speakers were Mayor A, E. Hick, of Lindsay, and C. W. Hodgson, M.P. A large gathering enjoyed the dinner and programme, " KINSMAYN 10 SPONSOR LINDSAY BOYS BAND The executive of the Lindsay Boys' Band Association announced that henceforth the band will be known as the Lindsay Kinsmen Boys' Band. This decision was made following a meeting on Monday of the parents of the band members with the executive, where the resolutions submitted by the Kinsmen Club were reviewed. The club had offered financial sup- port to the Band, with their request being that a member of the Kinsmen be on the executive, and that the name of the Kinsmen be associated with the band. Following a lengthy discussion, it was reported that -the parents and executive unanimously agreed to ac- cept the $2,600 offered by the Kins- men, as the parents felt that this move would cut thé present tuition costs in half, They have announced that the As- sociation has agreed to refer to the band as the Lindsay Kinsmen Boys' Band. * * * UXBRIDGE BOYS' CHOIR SINGS IN TORONTO The Colby Boys' Choir under the direction of Mrs. Clarence Colby, and accompanied by Miss Jeanne Pearson, received a royal welcome on Sunday evening at Westmorland United Church on the occasion of their 64th Anniversary. The choir was somewhat depleted of its members owing to the current epidemic of measles and mumps but the popular Junior Farmers Quartette came to' the rescue and sang along with the boys to present a fine appre- ciative audience. Needless to say this assistance was greatly appreciated by the choir members and leader alike. * * * - LINDSAY BOOST MILL RATE JUST 1.6 MILLS : - Lindsay's tax rate for 1966 has been set at 58.6026, compared with 67 mills in 1954, 4 Members of the town council battled with the budget Monday night and by paring down many items held the in- crease to less than a mill and a half, despite heavy demands by the Public and High School Boards The Council also disclosed a 1964 surplus of over $9300 made available because the Board of Works did not spend all its budget; because every Department in 1954 kept within esti- mates; and because of extra revenue from the meters. } « 5 PICKERING COUNCIL _ADJOURNS, MEMBERS AID FLOOD VICTIMS Pickering Twp. Council came to an abrupt adjournment on Tuesday after- noon when the members'went to the aid of residents threatened by the ris- ing waters of , the Duffin Creek. Those in the greater danger were re- sidents on Riverside Drive, west of Pickering Village. The swollen waters poured over its banks and flooded the highway. A number of persons were evaculited: Deputy Reeve Bill Newman after consultation. with police returned home and brought his motor boat to the threatenéd areca. Tons of ice and melting snow plus a heavy rain on Monday night were responsible for the overflow. The waters receded in the evening and the Council returned to its regular session. BL BE Ea LICENSE OBTAINED Bobcaygeon.--There is cdhsiderable anxiety among Abe temperance advo- cates in the Viflagé of Bobcaygeon be- cause of the report that Mr. J. Lam- bert has purchaped a tract of land adjacent to the Nillage in the Town- ship of Harvey7and will erect a hotel providing the people of Harvey vote in favour of beverage rooms. Several plebiscites have taken place in the dry village of Bobcaygeon, as well as in the Township of Verulam, ithe opponents of beverage rooms hav- ing won by very narrow margins-- just one vote in the last effort. The Township of Harvey is in Peterboro County and extends eastely towards Buckhorn and northely - to- wards the village of Kinmount in Vie- torta County. It is adjacent to Bob- caygeon, séparated only by the boun- dary line. / 0f Many By yi Hills _ BOY GETS GIRL but 1 couldn't help overhear strange conversation going on between the two men in the train seat ahead of me. saying, "is the old one--boy-loves- girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-gets-girl, Readers lap it up every time -- even though it's old as the hills." ter stick with it," Well, naturally, kept listening. Turned out these two fellows were! fiction writers. Not very successful ones, I gathered. And I don't wonder. You sec, they don't know their history. Otherwise they'd have a fresher slant on that Boy-Gets-Girl story. Any historian could tell them that the plot isn't nearly as old as they think, The whole concept of boy-loves- girl, boy-fights-for-girl is relatively new. It is a product of our free so- ciety -- something very few people realize. I. was minding my own business, | the "The most popular plot," one was!' ah," the other fellow said, with' a sigh, "it's old and corny--but if, you want to make a living, you'd bet-! | i i EAE A More than 200 service clubs, asso- ciated with the Ontario Society for Romantic love and marriage as we understand them in our free society are challenging things, new and won- derful things. Only a century ago,! marringe was a matter of arrange- Crippled Children, conduct the annual Easter Seal Campaign to raise the money needed to provide lengthy hos- pital stays for crippled children; to send them to camp; to provide trans- Thursday, Mareh 10th, 1955 portation and many more things that hese children require, Annual Cam- paign runs until April 10th and has an objective of $550,000, Donations for fund may be sent to Ontario' Society for Crippled Children, 92 College Street, Toronto. night. All welcome. A goodly number attended and en- ment. Parents got together and de- cided. Love could blossom later--or never, Individual freedom in the choice of | a marriage partner is new. It is part, of the modern idea of free choice, It presents problems, leaves room for errors, punishes poor choice. But it also rewards right choice with the ¢randest Kind of relationship in all the world. I felt veryemuch like interrupting those hack writers to tell them this.! They'd write with more colour and; vigor if they knew. i But [ didn't bother. It would have been too much like trying to tell young fellows about free enterprise. Because youngsters don't know free enterprise. is a new and challenging thing, they take it for granted. Some of them are so dumb they think free enterprise is old-fashioned. You'll find these dumb ones lining up with the "isms"--old out-moded centrally- planned schemes such as Communism --because some crackpot has whisper- ed into their wet little ears that this is "new". Well, as near as I can figure out, the newest political idea in this world is freedom! Certainly it's the most challenging, adventurous and reward- ing idea. But it takes courage and intelligence. I doubt that those hack writers had very much of either. Blackstock There were ten tables of euchre at the L.0.B.A. party Monday night-- winners were Mrs. Percy VanCamp, Mr. Stanford VanCamp-and door prize Mrs. Glenn Tennant W. I. met at the home of Mrs. C. W. Hutton Wednesday p.m. with 38 ladies and 9 children present. The President Mrs. Lorne Thompson pre- siding, opened by singing the Institute Ode and repeating the Mary. Stewart Collect. Mrs. W. Archer read the Scripture passage. After consider- able business Mrs. McArthur took the chair and a very. interesting debate, "Resolved that Progressive Education fs more Beneficial to the Pupils than that of 25 years ago", was presented by Mrs. Ivan Thompson and Mrs. B. low and Mrs. Richard 'Bowles, nega- tive. While judges were comparing notes, Mrs. McArthur read ,'All The Old Ask". Mrs. Nicholson, on behalf of the judges (Mrs. Geo Wolfe and Mra. Ivan Mountjoy and herself) re- ported the debate a tie. Benediction was pronounced and a bountiful lunch served and social half hour enjoyed. Wo-Hi-Lo Mission Band met in 8. S. room on Thursday p.m, Lorraine Dayes presided, Meeting opened by a hymn and the Mission Band pur- pose. Mra, Hill conducted the wor- ship with Sylvia, Nancy and Doris reading Bible passages and Donna, Janice, Joan and Lynda reading short prayers, then all repeated the. Lord's prayer, Dennis took up the offering and all sang the dedicatory prayer. Minutes were read by Sec'y and roll call answered by "something I like about our church", Jim Dayes gave a recitation "Table Manners", Carol Rahm sang "Chick-a-dee". Mrs. W. Pearce told the story 'The Tiger Hunt' afid then another hymn was sung and Lorraine pronounced the Beendiction, A game was played before the meet: ing and another after. Thirteen child- | ren and two leaders present. Lenton services are being. held in . the Anglican church every Wednesday -- Gunter, affirmative and'Mrs. Gib Mar- | joyed the minstrel show and one act play presented by the Y.P.U. in the recreation centre Friday night. The Young People proved themselves real artists, both in their play and as ne- gros. A terrible gloom was cast over our community Sunday to hear the pas- sing of little. Debra, 5 months old daughter of Mr, and Murs, Frank Stani- land. And in the early evening we heard of the drowning of Messrs. I. Frayer and Earl Burr, Caesarea, The sincere sympathy of the community is extended to all the relatives. Récent visitors--Mr. .and Mrs. Jno. Martin, Louisa and Marlene, Brentha Ont. with My. and Mrs. Hector Short- ridge and Billy; Mr. and Mrs. John Argue, Bowmanville with Mrs, John McKee; Mr. and Mrs. Lee Butcher, Tillsonburg, with Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kyte; Mr. and Mrs. Harold Martyn, Ronald and Blair with Mr. and Mus. Mollon, Sunderland; Mr. and Mrs, A. Rahm and Mr, and Mrs. Stan Hall and family, Tyrone with Mr. and Mrs. Stan Rahm and family; Miss Alberta Freelin at her home in Kirkfield; Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Graham, Port Perry with Mr. and Mrs. Mervyn Graham; Miss Gertie Henry, Toronto at her mother's; Mr, and Mrs. Willard Spence Lifford, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wright and Mr. and Mrs. Fred, Trewin and boys were supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wright, Friday; Mr, J. J. Flett and Mrs. J. E. Flett, Bowman- ville, Mrs. Ed. Harris and Mrs. Mer- vyn Graham, attended the fiheral of their aunt Mrs. Geo. Flett in Oak- wood, Thursday, Miss Jean Taylor, Supervisor of [.LO.D.E. preventorium, Toronto, with Rev. and Mrs. Geo. Nicholson; Miss Mary Wilson, Oshawa, at hor home; Mr, and Mrs. Austin Beacock with Mr. and Mrs. John Mew, Toronto; Mrs. Geo. Wolfe with Miss Florence Me- Laughlin and Jane and Mary Ellen Downey, Toronto; Mr. Bob Smith of Bowmanville at home; Mr. and Mrs. Perey Van Camp and Aileen with the Francis. 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