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(% Is Our Religion at Stomach Level? * 4 Sy ES FPF 5 1 RT id Ti te Jue SEARS SIE ~ THE STAR EDITORIAL PAGE LS ASTER FR FG BA TLE | Je RITES EN, 7 ji Tn Gas lets iil : a i ES pls RL rs a FELT MEE BY : A} Fit tT 7, A ET TEA TG 9 A ET pes ¥ fat 17 cag dok habit Thursday, April 12th, 1956 leave a few citizens holding the bag, offer them Sunday Schools with volunteer NOTES AND COMMENTS The challenge of to-day to the churches of Canada is meeting poor response be- cause conditions are changing so fast that we do not understand our basic problem. During the last ten years forty different - nationalities have sent us one million, two hundred and fifty thousand people. We have located uranium, - oil and natural power at strategic points and are develop- ing them due to increased efficiency in communication facilities. We are mush- rooming communities about these develop- - ments and abandoning others. The church tries to serve all thse centres and does so ineffectively. One of the reasons the service is poor is because we are using methods that were very useful in" pioneer days but not now. We encourage "a little group of publicly- minded citizens to form a church; to under- take the debt; to pour in their time and en- thusiasm and then what do we offer them inreturn? 'We offer them buildings at exorbitant cost that may or may not stand up twenty-five years. We are not even sure that some of these communities will last twenty-five years. Their people may moye on id e teachers. whose training may or may not be of the best. We offer them lots of church dinners and teas and bazaars--pro- moted by a few, the same few, people each time. We offer them worship which may or may not be in an atmosphere where they are able to benefit by it. Much of this rests with the worshipper, of course. We offer them sermons by overworked mini- sters who may or may not have had time to prepare them properly ; who may or may not be qualified to give them in the first place. The protestant church, at least, has to work hard to find enough men to man their stations at all, ds We offer them mid-week activities of games and worship with more food as an attraction.We offer them hikes, picnics and conventions. We offer them these advantages? when .they are already in a community which may have good schools; service clubs and bowl- o Lack of Leadership a Clipped Comments - FOR FARM LJ Many good ideas die for lack of leader- - ship. We have lots of people who are will- ing to follow but few are willing to give sustained leadership. Clubs, churches, in- dustry, politics, all suffer from lack of really worthwhile leaders. The day of the great statesman seems to be over. Yet our need for these men is not less but greater. Where are the Lin- colns, the Churchills, the Gladstones and Disrealis? They do nibt seem to be coming forward to take over the complicated pro- blems of the day. The service clubs are pretty thorough-go- ing concerns but even they find it difficult to get men who will give leadership. Indus- i try finds that everybody wants the kind of job where they quit at 5 o'clock and like it a good deal better if it is four.They would rather have a salary and let somebody else take the headaches of administration. Leadership is not an easy responsibility and never. has been. But today it is par- ing alleys. What is the result? - We have a satisfied group of people who are all trying to do too much. Who are rushing around sampling desserts until they are sick of them; who are vainly trying to support three or four organjza- tions; who are too tired to be able ar- take of spiritual food in the first.pla nd too satisfied with physical satisfaction anyway to know that they ought to wan it. Let's face the fact that we have left a lot of our church life at stomach level. In pioneer days the church was the only meeting place for 'social life 'as well as spiritual life, It was the hub of the com- munity. To-day we have half-a-dozen hubs all nudging one another--all perfectly good in their own way--but broken in ef- fectiveness by very even competition. How can the church stand out against these organizations again as the supreme 'good; the representative of the best life has to offer? It is our long considered opinion that she can do it by dropping the stomach attractions to a large degree and advertising herself frankly as a place set apart for real worship and keen, vital study. £ i Christ went through the temple over- turning the tables of the money-changers. What would He do to us to-day ? Each one of us who support the church, if .approached in a dignified way would gladly give of our earnings to forward its work if we were convinced that real work of great value were being dohe. We want to feed the hungry--not the fat and well- "fed. We want to educate our people spirit- ually but who is trained to give us this help? We do not need to be lured together by ham and ice cream to work for Christ. Perhaps at one time it was a valid symbol of oneness, to-day the only valid symbol is Christ and what He really stood for. - It is not necessary to cast all social life aside and dress in sackcloth. We can be happy and communicative at any time. There will be many times when it is right and natural to partake of food together but we might do well to remember it has a place and that place is secondary in the Church. ticularly arduous. People belong to so many organizations, people have so many ready-to-hand outlets- for entertainment and amusement -- so many ways too in which to satisfy appetites for excitement and physical well-being that it is hard to get them enthused in trying to solve real problems and build creative as well as sat- - _isfactory lives. They are satisfied even though they are ready to admit that they are on a childish level. A-leader needs courage and faith that sometimes passes understanding. On top of that he's got to 'be able to pass on his enthusiasm and ingpiration. = No wonder leaders are few and leadership a rare thing in our society. More and more mediocrity only serves to" make leadership harder to find. Perhaps too many people in our push-button society are satisfied to become push-buttoned mentally and spiritually.All they need, is the Big Brother out of the pages of George Orwell's 1984, NY "| they are in operation, 'ways, power lines, pipelines, airports, long-range planning to conserve On- MUCH GOOD LAND LOST \ Southern Ontario has long been re- garded as "the garden of Canada" be- cause of its large expanse of fertile, cultivatable acreage, However, as this choice part of the country is becoming more populous and our cities keep growing, more and more land is lost for the growing of fruit, vegetables and farm crops gen- erally. h Much farm land is used up in the natural development of larger cities, and all services they demand, High- industrial sites and residential areas all encroach on some of our best farm- ing areas, Lands Minister Mapledoram is a- larmed by this trend as we should be. He says the spread of industry to valu- able farm land may have serious per- cussions on future generations. Since fertile land is a limited resource he thinks steps should be taken to divert industry to leas productive land.. It is good to note, as he points out, that tario's forests and land resources is progressing rapidly, The need for this is becoming more obvious from 'year to year, Another thing that should be looked into, and has been in some localities, is the use of farm land to provide top | supply 100 people for generations to dens in the cities. If proper care were always taken in removing.the top soil of the lots on which buildings are erected, it would often suffice to pro- vide sufficient top dressing. Some time ago the Township of | Markham complained that some get- rich-quick artists bought 600 acres of its best farm land, and sold all the top soil off it for making lawns and gar- dens in Toronto, thus turning to desert some of Ontario's best land, Such practice might well be described as vandalism, It amounts to destroying man's heritage on the darth, It was reckoned that those 600 acres could have produced enough food to come, With the top soil removed it produces nothing. It has been truly said that the right to own land should not include the right to destroy it. : ~--Stouffville Tribune, FEWER FARMS; MORE PRODUCTION H. Lynn Fair, agricultural represen- tative for Ontario Cqunty, has given' out some interesting figures concern- ing farm population and farm pro~ duction in the county, His figures show that between the 1041 census and that taken in 1961 there was a drop of 12,000 in the num- ber of people in the county following agriculture as a vocation, In the same time, the number of farms in the coun- ty dropped from 8900 to 8300, There were two reasons for the de- cline in the number of farms. One was the absorption of 'farm lands by other established farmers wishing to soll for the making of lawns and gar- |] are of much larger average size, farming. The other was the loss of farm land by extengion of the sub- urban residential and industrial areas of towns and.cities, and by annexa- tion of farming areas to Oshawa. But most of the land, Mr, Fair observes, was in the first category, which meant that while there are fewer individual farms in the county to-day, the farms This "is a normal development in these days of increased farm mechani- zation. The degree of mechanization on the farms today has made it possi- ble to operate larger farms with less help than was formerly necessary, It also made the operation of small acre, ages uneconomic, because they could not support the costs of the new mach- ines now being used, } The most striking fact, however, is that although the farming population and the number of farms have both declined substantially, there has been a steady increase in the farm produc- tion of the county, Sales for all types of farm products have increased. The number of cattle on farms in the coun- ty increased by 26 per cent. Here again, the increased mechanization of agriculture is responsible, making pos- sible improved methods of farming. It looks as if more food can be produced by the labor of much fewer people than used to be required. ~--Qshawa Times.Gazette. CANADA'S DROWSY POLITICS One often reads in the press, as well as hears it discussed that Canadians they should in politics. Nobody seems to come up with the answer to this problem to stir up the necessary inter- and action. " However, the Ottawa Journal gives its views on this subject in the following editorial; which we pass on to our readers to consider: © One resolution Canadians might take and keep gainfully for 1956, is that they should make Canada's politics less drowsy, more alert, at least rouse it from deep sleep. @® British and Ameri¢an newspapers on our desk are lively with political dis- cussion, criticism, speculations, signs of democracy vibrantly alive, Here in Canada we seem to have lost the func- tion of politican discussion, are seem- isfied to take without question the official line. The truth is that our boasted free- dom to criticize, to damn the govern- ment publicity or privately, is all theory, in "practice ; amounting to "| nothing. We have a right to vote, and each succeeding election fewer of us vote. We have a two-party system which we extol, but for nearly a quarter of a century, mainly because of lethargy and difference, we have it into as much a one-party system as they have in Russia. We have a parliament, but year after year it becomes increasingly dull, more and more a recording machine for the will of the cabinet shorn of ad- venturous or independent spirits to give it appeal. What parliament reflects, of course, is the drowsiness, the sleep of the democracy is about, craving only ease and tranquility in their respective vocations. This in truth is democratic sickiiess, a malaise at the source of our boasted "way of life." . --Canadian Statesman. District Doings FIRMS SETS SAFETY MARK OSHAWA.--W. B. Bennett Paving Ltd., of Oshawa, has received the On- tario Road Builders Association trophy emblematic of having the least num- ber of industrial accidents during the year in the ORBA., Co The trophy, awarded in memory of JL. T. Routly, one of the founders of the" ORBA, wap won by the Oshawa firm when they reported less than $100 was paid out by the Workmen's Com- 'pensation Board. Two groups make up the ORBA. Those companies with pay rolls 'ex-| ceeding $200,000, and those with less. With a payroll of over $200,000, W. B. Bennett Ltd. entered the association in 19556 and won, The firm did a million dollars. of business during the eight months that Mr. Bennett said, "the small amount of accidents is entirely due to the efficiency of the workmen. GEORGENIA TOWNSHIP RESTRICTS DOGS FROM RUNNING UNCONTROLLED Sutton.--Municipal Council at the regular April meeting on Monday 'evening, passed a by-law restricting dogs from running at large. Another by-law appointed Victor Harvey of Pefferlaw as poundkeeper. This by-law has teeth. Any dog, wandering at large in the township may be picked up and impounded. The dogs will be kept for a period up to five days and a fee of up to $6.00 charged the owner when he claims the animal, If the animal is not claimed within five days it may be sold to cover the cost of impounding or may be destroyed. If the dog is not claimed or sold the poundkeeped will receive a fee of $2.00 from the township for keeping and destroying the dog. These fees are to go to the poundkeeper in lieu of a salary. COBOURG,--With a $64,000 deficit hanging over them from the 1966 bud- get, Northumberland and Durham Counties Council is proceeding with caution to the proposed erection of a counties home. The fact that three municipalities are angling for the loca- tion of the new counties home is giving council a breather between rounds. At present, the counties home-is lo- cated just north of the town of Co- bourg. To retain this site, the town extend services out to the building, in line twithe fire pressure requirements outlined by the Fire Marshall's depart- ment, Port Hope wnd Campbellford have been trying to secure location of the new institution in their respective municipalities, ' increase the amount of land they were ~ as a whole do not take the interest ingly bereft of political curiosity, sat- |! of those in danger of forgetting what |- would have to spend around $30,000 to] by yoUF H In a previous article, we considered the hospital as a community industry and found that hospitals are not a liability--rather they make jobs for thousands of people, use millions of dollors of products of other industries, and thus contribute substantially to thd nation's economy, This time, I would like to deal with yet another aspect of hospitals and that is their role in education, | The prime purpose of the hospital, of course, is to provide the best pos- sible: patient care. To do this, requires an adequate staff of special- ly tfwined professional -and lay per- sonnel. It is possible to educate most of these personnel, to a point, outside the hospital, put practical experience in many of the professions can only be obtained in the hogpital where patients and facilities are available. Hospitals are aware of their responsibilities in this regard and have made education an important part of their program down through the years. The extent of - their activities in education, of course, is dictated by the resources available. The role of the hospital in the edu- cation of doctors is of utmost import- ance, During the latter years of his 'medical course, the student spends con- siderable time in the hospital affiliated with his university. Actual clinical experience is obtained and the student has an opportunity to examine for diagnoses and observe the treatment of patients. . But it is after graduation that the -} hospital becomes of utmost importance to the medical student. Through spec- ial arrangements between universities and hospitals with adequate facilities and efficiently organized medical staffs, medical graduates are taken in by the hospital for a period of intern- ship which is, in reality, a continuation of medical school course. As an in- tern for a period of at least one year, the intern gains practical exeprience in the actual treatment of patients under the supervision of staff doctors. This experience helps to equip the young doctor for general practice. If his intent is to specialize, then added years of residency supplement his in- itial hospital experience. The medical intern has available not 'only patients with a large variety of illnesses, but all the expensive, up-to- date equipment necessary for the prac- tice of modern medicine and, in addi- tibn, he hears lectures from widely- experienced physicians and surgeons and has the privilege of attending meetings of the medical staff. In re- turn for the supervised service he pro- vides, he usually receives room and board and a small remuneration from the hospital. The education of nurses is, of course, the most usual type of education pro- vided by hospitals. There was a day when we spoke of a nurse being "in training" which meant that she re- ceived a great deal of practical exper- ience on the hospital wards plus a cer- tain amount of academic instruction in classes. But the picture has changed considerably with the advancement in medical treatment. Now the student nurse devotes much more of her time to classroom study of the various branches of medical science. One hospital authority put this very aptly when he wrote "During the years the student nurse has worked and learned. Today, she is learning and working". Practical experience, of course, still plays an important part in her educa- tion, but the pattern of this experience has changed considerably inasmuch as because of -the increased demand for skilled service, are rapidly becaming the sole occupation of the Registered Nurse. On the surface it might look as if hospitals_are serving only their own ends by educating nurses, but this idea is .quickly exploded when we realize that only one in four hospital-educated nurses remain in the hospital field, The balance find their way into doctors' offices, industry, governmental health offices, schools, matrimony, and I might say, "above all" in commercial airliners as stewardesses, ; As is the case with doctors, there is no place other than hospitals where the student nurse can obtain clinical training, and even though the student may be connected with one of our fine university schools of nursing, she must still receive her actual experience in the hospital. Currently, about 96% nurses educated in Ontario attend MRS, CHARLES McLEAN PRESIDENT, . ONTARIO HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION this time is now spent in the develop- Pe ment of professional techniques, which, the province's: 53 hospital schools of nursing. The cost of education is borne by the hospitals themselves, or perhaps 1 should say mostly by the patients through payment for care, for, in arriving at the cost of provid- ing patient care, hospitals must in- clude the cost of maintaining nursing schools and other educational facili- ties. In Ontario, hospitals do not yet receive any financial assistance speci- fically for the education of nurses. It is true that a certain percentage of the students' activities on the wards constitutes a service which has some intrinsic value. However, balanced against the cost of providing and main- taining educational facilities, instruct- ors, room-and board, and other ex- penses related to nurse education, the over-all cost of educating a student nurse, on the average, exceeds value received for services on the ward by something like three hundred dollars per student year. This means that a hospital with fifty student nurses may have an annual deficit in this depart- ment of about $16,000.00. However, as the demand for nurses increases, hospitals must accelerate their nurse education programmes. There are a number of other fields of professional education in which hos- pitals take part. For example, the hospital administrator, today, is a specialist in his field, and many of these men and women, after a post- graduate course at university, spend a year of supervised hospital residency in~a-selected hospital before entering the field as a qualified hospital ad- ministrator. Upon fulfilling this re- quirement and writing an acceptable thesis on a selected subject, the ad- ministrator may be awarded a Diploma in Hospital Administration (Toronto), which is equivalent to the Master's degree. There are other hospital per- sonnel who receive at least part of their education within the hospital. Medical record librarians are complete- ly trained in one of Ontario's two medical records schools, in Hotel Dieu Hospital, Kingston, and St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto; Laboratory tech- nologists and x-ray technicians are completely trained in hospital schools. Dietitians, occupational and physical therapists, hospital pharmacists, and social workers, are university educated but complete the training as interns in hospitals, One important course of training provided by a few hospitals, which should not be overlooked, is the train- ing of nursing assistants whose ability to perform many nursing functions is freeing the professional nurse for more important duties. Yes, your hospital is a busy insti- tution in many ways and education is one of the most important parts of its of Many Things By Ambrose Hills VOLUNTARY WORKERS Not long ago | wrote a column com- plaining about the fuct that govern- ments pay high fees to sexy Toronto night-club singers in the name of Can- adian culture, while really fine novel- ists get no help and instead pay a duce a best seller. I said the whole thing seemed cock-eyed to me, and that I think it is a poor way to pro- mote Canadian talent, Well, apparently many weekly news- paper readers agree with me. One man wrote from Winnipeg to say he was fully in accord with me, His let- ter was interesting, and I'd: like to quote part of it. "More good work along cultural lines is done in one week by various volunt- ary groups of business and profes- sional people than is done in a month by government TV. Right here in Winnipeg, for instance, the Men's Musical Club does a marvelous job. On March 26th, in the City Auditorium, they sponsored Mendelssohn's Elijah presented by the Philharmonic Choir and full orchestra, featuring Sir Ern- est MacMillan. People come in from small towns all over Manitoba to sce and hear such performances. It rather burns folk up that though this pro- vince has paid in TV taxes something close to three million dollars, a large portion of it is used for the presenta- tion of suggestive dances, sexy, night- club songs and neurotic dramas, which, well be done by private interests at no cost to the taxpayer." He went on at considerable length to point out that in many small towns of Canada, voluntary groups work ard all year to raise money for cultural | projects, and they also resent being taxed to provide a TV screen for poy singers, The market for popular songs is great enough, without government money being spent on it. [ agree completely. I think the vast majority of Canadians agree. | hope that many of them will write to the Secretary, Royal Commission on Broadcasting, Ottawa, Ontario, and tell the commission the same story. We want genuine culture encouraged, of course; but we don't want to pay taxes to hear some night club tfpe sing SINTEEN TONS. We should get PREDICT 5,000 NEW COMPANIES TORONTO -- Provincial Secretary Dunbar of Ontario predicted Monday a record number of companies will be incorporated in the province this year. He told the legislature he anticipa- tes more :than $,000 companies will apply for a charter, 1,400 more than the previous record set in 1955, Five years ago, only 1,600 com- panies were being incorporated. The increase indicated Ontario. was enjoying a period of prosperity never programme. before Known, RYERSON PRACTICAL JOURNALISM STUDENT Marta Kure, 21, Toronto, Werden Leavens, presents gecretary-manager of the Ontario Weekly Newspapers Asociation, with the results of a door- to -door poll of 400 Bowmanville "3 r homes. Having studied Gallup Poll methods, students applied their know- ledge in a practical way by asking readers detailed questions: on what they read in a weekly newspaper. Most popular feature, they discovered was the classified advertising, terrific sum in income tax if they pro-- if they must be presented; might as . that kind of entertainment for freg!' Ne A eh I a pa a Fl i 4 As i%. X ¥ ] Ch, ¥ or o UL Eo s ¥ ie X vv J J a LWW br, / > a" En La i pat] - " YY YY Rao BW si, oe ae a Fe ia " 's 2d ew i he BOS ra Ped = 2 Weld a