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Aire i LAI RE0) ARNE AT LTE Fad IE Ei hen EEK oh SL RE ea is iat THE STAR EDITORIAL PAGE Thursday, March 29, 1956 ~ ® Miracles Do Happen " Easter is here once moré with its sun. shine and rain; its late snowstorms and' ~ its"rare wonderful days. The depth of Good Fiday's sorrow is blotted out in the Happy families Almost everybody *- glory of the Easter morn, x' pass the bunny eggs. wears something new to ch is'so easy for us after all. ferent. loveliness abroad between Soviet Russia and turbs her not at all but men know a miracle must happen if we are to armageddon. Miracles do happen. They happened. in this very part of the world years ago when Christ laid for these people. In the Middle East the story is very dif- There Easter is not so easy. The world it is true, puts on its raiment of Spring flowers and all about the troubled heart of life Nature goes on flinging her The terrible struggle A miracle must happen vortex that is forces against urch. Easter dignity. the West dis- he saved--an Only sions, and incu two thousand aside his life humanity ? Training For Dictatorship When it was possible to about the late Adolph Hitler it was dis- covered he was a very poor parently he lacked whatever along at school; now, some learn that Joseph Stalin was student. © --,0f elementary education, school and was considered pretty much of . a blockhead. : Apparently he spent 6 years try- ing unsuccessfully to complete four grades Although, it is almost sacrilege to mention Winston Chur- chill in the same breath as the others, some get the facts student. Ap- it takes to get years later we an even worse for a moment Willie and the can take. =. will recall that he, too, had difficulty at again if we are not to be drawn into the Russia is quite content to play various in this part of the world apparently to her great advantage. : Material prosperity is the key; to have and to hang on; to press for advantage; to disregard the Spirit and the right to human If oil were not involved would these folks be let alone? Sixty per cent of the world's supply comes from here. ferences of race, religion and education add to the confusion, acle will end the strife. ing through man produce such a miracle? if the administrators Christian principles to make their deci- ity among those who must carry them out. What price materialism? -- the end of Can it be that the frustration engendered by institutional education may be a con-' tributing factor either for dictatorship or unusual leader The next time teacher starts to bawl out poor Willie for his wretched efforts in arithmetic would she be wise to consider of just how many Hitlers and Stalins we t Of course, if she can be reason- ably certain that she is getting a Churchill started on his way; then more power to her strong right arm, matter for caution. : NOTES AND COMMENTS v swiftly shaping up here. one another as she has done Dif- Nothing short of a mir- Can God work- can use leate the spirit of Christian- ship ? what this is likely to do for world. There is the problem But it does seem a Report from Parliament By Michael Starr,, M.P., Ont. Riding Finance Minister Harris made his entry into the House of Commons to present his Budget. It was probably the emptiest Budget in Canada's his- tory, The few minor changes which were introduced do not in any way help the average citizen or the aver- age business. It was altogether a very bitter disappointment to the peo- ple of Canada. The automobile indus- try needed another shot in the arm but this did not come about. Last year five percent off the Excise Tax he predioted that this would cost the iovernment $26 million. He was proven to be wrong, however in this respect, because with the five percent reduction the automobile industry was stimulated in sales and as a result the Government had an increased tax mobiles in the amount of $8 million. It is too bad that because there will be no election until 19567, there are no tax cuts this year. It is too bad that a General Election year should be the reason why the tax- payers are relieved of their tax bur- dens. But that seems to be the case and we can expect substantial cuts in our taxation in the Budget which will be brought down in 1957, just prior to a General Election in Canada, There is no other comment 1 can make on the Budget. The - Trans-Canada Pipeline debate has now been-officially launched in the House of Commons. Every indication is that this will be a very bitter and long-drawn out discussion. This sub- ject is beginning to create national "| interest because of the many articles i Clipped Comments VISITORS FIND NO HYDE PARK _ IN MOSCOW ' Some people who visited Moscow during the period of the "phony peace" of last summer still talk and write in glowing terms of what they saw. Some were impressed- by the famous Moscow subway, but failed to note that. the reason for its existence is that Societ workers, unlike workers in Canada, are unable to-afford auto- moblies, Others were impressed by the agri- Of Many Things COMPETITION I've tried once in a while to give my ideas about the merits of compe- titions; but now I've found some words that seem to me to get the idea across far better than I've been able to do. They were spoken the other day by 'Hart Buck, a statistician. Here's how he put it: } "People sometimes talk as though the purpose of competition is that we may try to do one another down, as cultural "and trade exhibitions, but, were no less remiss in failing to note "that the communist world, ideally sit- uated from the standpoint of climate | and geography to grow wheat, has "been forced to import wheat and but- ter from Canada and other parts of the free world, : Still others were impressed by the grandiose plans described to them by 'officials of the world's biggest bureau- cracy, hut failed to note that seldom if ever were foreigners invited to visit Moscow factories or Soviet homes, Perhaps the most significant omis sion in all the news stories and article which have heen written about Mog- cow in recent months is the absenfe 'of any reference to freedom of speedh, Nobody has written from Moscaw, they do from Londan, to tel] of = box orators depounping the govern- ment and indplging ip eriticism of in- dustry, the army or the educational system, : 'Fantasy, after all, requires more literary talent than when it comes to writing, The idea of a soaphox orator in Moscow, however, is too staggering a a bit of fantasy for even the most ex- perienced writer of fiction, --- DEPENDS ON THE AD uaguvery town. has a merchant who ks the sport page is the only page &: read. ~ Next door to him the merchant prefers the back page be- cause it is "where people look first." The retailer across the street demands Qa page because that's all women read, } | And so it goes, Everyone has his 'own idea of where people read most and first. The fact is they are all wrong, and they are all right. B A study of reading habits of hun- ! ® dreds of towns made by the Bureap of Advertising found that all the pages of the newspapers are read. In fact, left-hand pages get one per cept more 1 readers than right-hand pages. The fact is, and this is shown by the above study, that the page and hes 5ie position op that page makes not pone + whit of difference in capturing read- ers, It is what the advertisement says, how it says it, and how it is preesnted that geta readers.--The Pocketbook, though we were all in Kindergarten playing musical chairs. On the con- | trary, the effect of competition is to bring about extra chairs, by bring- ing extra resources into use in con- Junction with our knowledge and time. In a properly run economy impelled by. competition, nobody will he left standing around, nothing will he made that isn't wanted, and no resource will be left unused if anybody finds it sufficiently worth using. This and nothing else is what a properly-run economy means. Anything else is a waste of resources and time and know- ledge. Any attempt to limit campeti- tion is a scheme to keep resources out of uge. It is, in fact, a scheme ta engourage waste," Now Mr. Buck wasn't talking ahout few sentences apply. By limiting competition in TV we are keeping many physical and human resources out of use, Hundreds of men and women who want to engage in TV work are left idle; millions of dollars ready for investment are kept idle, I hope that Mr, Buck (no relation to Tim) will be one of thise citizens who appear before the Fowler Com- mission on Broadcasting. Mich of what he said above would apply there, District Doings COUNCIL NOW WELL PADDED AFTER GIFT Bowmanviille's Town Council are now cushioned against considerable shock by a deep layer of foam rubber, Not-with-standing the 'bounce' pro- vided, council members agree that seating, in general, had been greatly improved, To the delight of his associates, Reeve Sidney Little unpacked the large box announcing the gift by the Goodyear Plant to which Mayor Nel son KE, Osborne heartily endorsed a vote of thanks. : Strangely enough, the anly dissent. ing voice heard was than of his War- ship who still had tp content himself with his leather-padded chair of office. As a voice in the back was heard to say, 'sure takes the squirm -out of TV or radio, but I think those last} LINDSAY STUDENTS TO COMPETE AT BISLEY RIFLE MATCHES A trip to England and the Continent has been won by '12 of the keenest riflemen in Canada's army cadet corps, one of them being a Lindsay Coller siate student. Ron Thibadean, son of Mr. and Mrs. Grattan Thibadeau. A Canadian Army despatch states that the dozen cadets will leave Mon- 'vcal aboard the "Empress of Scot- land", on June 26, and arrive in Liver- pool on July 3rd. During their stay in England, the cadets will tour many 'points of Inter- est, and arrangements are being made for them to visit the 2nd Canadian In- fantry Brigade Group in Germany. PICKERING TOWNSHIP'S TONSOLIDATED TAX, RATE UP 2.4 MILLS Tho consolidated tax rate for Pick- ering Township is set at 23.6 mills this year as compared to 21,2 of last year, Phis represents an increase of 2.4 mila, School rates throughout the town- ship all vary of course. ~ In the north end a few are up about 2 mills, while many are about the same as last year. In the south end some are high such as Pickering Heach with a school rate of 20.4 mills. Dunharton is high while some are the same as last year, COUNCIL PASSED SUB-DIVISION CONTROL BY-LAW BOWMANVILLE.-- The new Sub- Division Control By-Law, passed by council at its meeting Monday evening, will blanket all areas surrounding the central portion of town and prevent the selling of lots in parcels of land over one acre and under ten acres with- and editorials that have been written by newspapers throughout the coun- try. The Canadian taxpayer himself has not shown too great an interest up to the moment' but this will be stimulated as time. passes, . : The Resolution to launch this de- bate was introduced by Mr. Howe and he made a statement outlining the events that have transpired in connee- tion' with-the Trans-Canada Pipelines to the present day. } He was followed by the Honourable George Drew, the Leader of the Of- ficigl Opposition, who at the outset stated that all Canadians want this pipeline built, There was no doubt about that in his mind, Alberta has natural gas to sell and has vast quan- tities of it.. Ontario and Quebec, as industrial provinces, requize that gas. This line, Mr. Drew stated, should have been built long ago and would have been built if it had not been for the fumbling and confusion of the Government in respect to this project. The Trans-Canada Pipelines Com- pany was incorporated by a Eill in the House of Commons in 1961, five years ago, The point at issue is the Government proposal to finance this Company with Canadian taxpayers' money, This Company is composed 'of American interests in the main, Mr. Drew maintained that the opportunity to finance this project should haye been offered to Canadian interests, who would then have been in control. If Canadian interests were not inclined to undertake the financing and con- struction of this project then, he maintained, the Government should step in and build this line, This was borne out by a statement made by Mr. Coldwell, Leader of the C.C.F.; who immedately followed Mr. Drew. Many more aspects of this project will be brought forth by those who will be participating in this debate. There is every 'indication that a good out a sub-divider first having an .ap- proved plan registered with the Plan- ning Board. This will also affect the holders of | land of one acre or less, particularly |that land that is within the central portion of town. In this case a person wishing to sell a lot or a portion of his land and retaining a small holding for himself, it will be necessary for him to obtain the approval of the Planning Board submitting at the same time, a plan to which the consent to the deed must also be obtained from the Play- ning Board. : MILL RATE UP TO 61 AT OSHAWA Oshawa.--The mill rate for Oshawa for 1956 was set at 61, an increase of 4.6 mills' over last year. Coungil blamed higher school casts for thé increase, although $30,000 was chopped from the original budget suh- mitted by the school hoard, The city's extensive public works projects now under way, would not permit a cut in the city's budget, Gor- don Attersley, chairman of the finance committee said. ~ftouffville Tribune settin', . many Liberal backbenchers will also be taking part to defend the Govern- ment action in this matter. This is the time of the year when we, in our busy lives, should pause to reflect upon the meaning of Easter. This is the time of the year when we should appraise our responsibilitigs in the creation of a better world. In many ways we have failed in 'that un- dertaking. We find the world at the moment in a state of unreat. 8uapi- cion and distrust are prevalent among individuals and nations. Tolerance apd 'understanding is not the practice of individuals and nations, These vir- tues are veyy necessary in order ta create peace and goodwill and under- standing amongst the peoples of the world, They are necessary In order to fulfill the true meaning of Easter. It is my earnest desire that the peo. ple of Ontario Riding should practice tolerance and understanding amongst themselves, thereby creating unity in a common cause, I wish to extend to everyone in Ontario Riding my sin- cere wishes for a very Happy and | Joyous Easter. LN On Tuesday, March 20th, at 8 pm. when Finance Minister Harris lopped | yield through the Sales Tax on auto-| | Blackstock Sympathy is extended to Mrs. Jas. Larmer and family in the passing of Mr, Larmer on Wednesday. . Mr. Rudy Uswick, Ereckson, Man, 'spent a few days recently with the Geo. Prossers, | Ret, 'and Mrs, C. W. Hutton enter- tained the choir at their home Thurs- day night, Wi: Mrs, Earl Dorrell spent a couple of days last week and Mr. and Mrs, J. A. Johnston spent Friday with Mrs. Foster Ferguson, Orono. Mrs, Ernest McLean and Children are spending a couple of weeks with the David McLeans, Merlin Suggett, Bruce Heaslip, Neil Bailey and Roy Werry were among the winners at the Bonspiel in Sun- derland Saturday. Fach received a bag of groceries, . Mr. and Mrs. Orval Green and children, Oshawa and Mr, and Murs, A. Rahm, Tyrone, with the Stan Ra- hm's Saturday. : Mrs, Phana Mountjoy, 'Oshawa: vis- ited the Harold Swains last week, Mrs. Edna 'Gibson, Nestleton, spent the week-end with Mr, and Mrs, Mor- vyn Graham and Roy. Misses Gertrude Henry, Doreen VanCamp, Helen VanCamp and Heber McLean at their respective homes for the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Russel Spinks, Oshawa and Mrs. Ira Argue, with Mrs, Ed. Darcy Sunday. Mus, Argue remained for a longer visit. . The Donlands Dairy milk shippers of this district held a meeting in the community hall Tuesday evening. Mr. Ford, manager of dairy; Mr. Bee, che- mist; and Mr. Causburn, accountant, led in a discussion on the changing over to "bulk haul". It was decided to change over by Oct, 1st. The O. N.O, served a fine lunch at close of the meeting. Messrs Harold and Jack Swain com- | peted in the Central Ontario Seed Show in Peterboro Wednesday. Har- old came home with thetitle of grand champion on all grains and champion on oats and Jack won Ist in the 4-H. club. Congratulations. A very fine re-dedication and Com- munion service was held in the United Church Sunday evening. The follow- ing young people >joined the Church: Dianne Blair, Patsy Hoskin, Aileen VanCamp, Sandra Ferguson and Bill Hutton, The beautiful flowers were placed by the Jas. Larmer family in both the United & Anglican Churches. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Taylor entertain- ed the following Friday night in hon- our of her mother's birthday--Mrs, Jos. Forder; Mr. and Mrs, Harry Me- Laughlin and Lawrence; Mrs. John Watson and Darrell;-and on Sunday, Mrs. Herb, Taylor, Mrs. Velva Bailey and Catherine were dinner guests of the Roy Taylor's. Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Blake Gunter on "the arrival of a daughter Monday morning. Mr. and Mrs, Bill Taylor and Mr. and Murs, Jno, Ballingal spent the week end in Toronto, A small 25th wedding party was' held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. David Harris for Mr, and Mrs. Taylor. They were present- ed with a cabinet of silver (a setting for eight) Daffodil pattern in 1847 Rogers. Contributors to thls were Mrs. Norman Taylor, Mr. and Mrs David Harris, Miss Pauline Jamieson, Mr. Ross Jamieson, Miss Marilyn Broddy, Mr. and Mrs. Jno, Ballingal and Bill gave Anne 25 beautiful red roses. Mrs. Fowler spent the week- end at the Ballingal home with David and Joanne. Mr. and Mrs, Austin Beacock spent the week-end with the John Mew's in Toronto, Mrs. Allan Moore, Shirley, spent a day last week with Mrs. Ed, Darcy. Durham County's regular Shorthorn Club banquet was held in Blackstock recreation centre Wed,, March 21, with an attendance of 83, Fred Trewin, President of the Club was M.C. Guest speaker was Mr. Gordon Bennett, di- rector of extension, Dept. of Agricul- ture. He also showed a film of his trip to Europe. Rev. Fred Jackson, APRIL FOOL! "Even though it's Easter, we've got work to do!" says Faster-Bunny June Sampson, 'and Connie Deverell knows she's not fooling. work every Sunday on CBC Televis- ion's weekly variety "Showtime", feat- uring Shirley Harmer and Don Gar- rard. These two dancers quet; for which the club extended sin- cere thanks. Cartwright Farmers Union Social Evening There were about 150 men, women and children present at the F, U. So- cial evening Friday, March 23rd, in the community hall, Blackstock, Doug. Mackie, President, was chairman and after singing the Queen, Victor Mal- colm led in community singing. Pro- gramme consisted of two exhibitions of tap dancing by Sylvian Lawrence, humorous readings by Mrs, Adelbert Beacock and Mrs, Victor Malcolm, music by Don Prosser and Mr, Percy Rowe of View Lake entertained with humorous stories, and poems of his own composition, also some of his poems of more gerious nature, all of which will be published in book form later. His interesting and informa- tive talk was well received. Games for young and old followed with each child receiving a prize and each adult enjoying a hearty laugh. Mrs, A. Beacock was the winner in the spel)- ing contest. Mrs. Henry Wotten and Bert Gibson won the lucky prizes. Lunch was served which brought a goed evening to a close, The Blackstock Farm Forum met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. EF, M. Larmer on 'March 19th for a social evening to finish out the programme of the season. The Broadcast was listened to and comments made. All travelling Lih- rary books out to be left in with Mus. N. Mountjoy. In spite of other meet- ings, sufficient wel present to enjoy five tables of eucl for an hour, Lunch was s@rved and all departed, hoping to meet again in October, A program planning committee of the Blackstock Farm Forum, consist- ing of Mr. and Mrs. Merrill VanCamp, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bowles, Glen Larmer 'and Richard VanCamp, met at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Stuart Dorrell on Friday night to discuss and help in planning the programme for the coming year, ; Epsom Mr. and Mrs. Hoskin and Darlene of Oshawa visited with Mr. and Mrs. W, J. Beacock on Sunday. ~~ ik Mr, and Mrs. John Redford of Cloy- ne visiting recently with his aunt Mrs, Ackney at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Medd. Pleased to hear that Mrs, Ackney is improving in health, Sunday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rogers were Mr, and Mrs. Mel, Lakey and family of Brooklin and Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Rogers and | family of Bowmanville, | Mr. and Mrs. Henry Thomas of Greenbank were visiting recently with Mr, and Mrs, Ray Medd and family. Mr. and Mrs, Mel, Hodgson of Osh- awa visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs, Bruce Bailey and Allan, "The W. A, will be.héld at the church this Thursday, March 29th, Mr, and Mrs, Ray Medd, Elaine and Tyrone, gave an exhibition of slight of hand magic. The "Country -Four" Quartette of Newcastle rendered sev- eral splendid numbers. Mr, Harry Snider, Pres. of the Ontario Shorthorn associhtion spoke on Shorthorn busi- ness. Ye lucky prizes were won, wall bracket by Mr. David Beath, Osh. awa. Ricky Rickard, Newcastle and Ken Decon, Unionville won ball point pens; Mr. Harry Howdon, Brooklin, won veterinary equipment, A mem- ber of the quartette also won & prize. Mr. Russel Osborne donated a bus, of apples for the tables. The Woman's Institute served a very satisfyng ban- 2 Sarr A ho LTR sat £0 AI RN pt I. rrp V4 ES JIA RIFT BC 2% EY ATRIA LA RR NA TORT A Lee { , x Betty were in Whitby on Sunday visit- ing with Mr, and Mrs. Delbert Cather- wood. . Sorry to report that Mrs. Harry Archer is on the sick list, Fourteen tables of euchre were played at the school on Friday even- includng a set of dishes by Mrs, Alex ing. Winners were Ladies Ist--DMis, McMaster of Zion; a casserole by Mrs. [| W, J. Roy McGill, Enniskillen; a decorative Con.--Mrs. H. Hockley; Gent's 1st Beacock, 2nd----Mrs, H. Kerry, Mr, Gordon Taylor, 2nd---Mr, Chas. Geer, Con--~H, Percy. Lucky draws ~~Mrs, Chet Geer and Mr. George Harper, : Music was supplied for dancing by Mr, and Mrs. Rogers with calls hy Mr. David Prentice, Next party will be held Fri; April 6th, Come and bring your friends. at 2 AR AY HEN is - fica Church is at 2 o'clock on Easter Sunday as usual followed by Com- munion service and then Sunday 8. The attendance Inst Sunday was quite rood. The members of the. Wilfrid W. A. are bringing their play to the Utica Unitéd Churéh on April 14, The Utica W.A. will be serving a hot supper in the basement to be followed by the play "Mr. Beane from Lima", upstairs. Visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Jim Mt- chell "were Mrs, Florence Keenan and Mr. and Mis. Harry Healey of Tor- onto and Mr, and, Mrs. Walter Mit- chell and family of Kinsale. Mr. and Mrs, Hugh Rogers and fa- mily of Bowmanville and Mr. and Mrs, Emmerson Harper and family of Tor- onto visited Mr, Russell Harper this week-end. LN Bert Mitchell is still in Port Perry Hospital and is slowly improving. H&iry Barnes has had one opera- tion but must remain in hospital for a second-operation later on, probably next week. Mrs, R. Wilbur is again teaching at Epsom after a two-month absence due to illness. B Mr. and Mrs, Toogood have pur- chased a house in Toronto. Mrs, Gerald Nelson attended the York County Holstein banquet which was held in Markham last Thursday evening. She was lucky enough to win one of the door prizes. Don't forget the Fuchre and dance to be held in the Manchester Hall this Thursday evening under the auspices of the Utica Hall board. Paul_Weldon and Larry Kendall of Toronto were at Frank Kendall's for the week-end. < Pine Grove Mr. and Mrs. Earl Ramer and fa- mily and Miss Lois Graves of Mark- ham visited Mrs. H. Graves Wednes- Jay afternoon. Mur. cand Mrs. Lloyd Archibald and Sons of Toronto spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs, A. Handel. Mrs. Toogood was in Toronto with her husband Mr, J. Toogood who was sick last week. Mr, and Mrs, Farl Ballard visited with their daughters Mr, and Mrs. Lloyd Clark and Mr. and Mrs, John Locke of Port Perry, Sunday. Mr. Robt, Nesbitt visited Mr, and Mrs. Jack Hill Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Geer spent Monday evening with Mr. and Mrs. T. Kvans, Rev, Halbert will take the Easter service; there will also be special music. My, and Mrs. RéBtRedshaw, Clare- mont visited Monday with Mr. and Mis. Talbert Evans, © W.A. was well attended at the home of Mrs, Graves Wednesday last. PURE-BRED COWS ARE ELBCTROCUTED Sunderland, -~ Fourteen pure-bred cows were electrocuted early Friday at the farm of Deap Graham near this town 16 miles north of Port Perry. An inspector of the Ontario Hydro- Electric Commission was investigating the source of the electricity. Mr. Gra- ham had a herd of 80 cattle, ao Ad i 3 £3 § Ed ¥ hE he | 2 5 AS a ol be 2 RUE A, » 5 HC 454 i ¥. "5 bi = -¥ . =) « Xe i ay; Lh oh ei we eh LC