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"more today to have as much purch- { THE STAR EDITORIAL PAGE ¥ Thursday, March 6th, 1958 oe Notes and Comments ot ~~ The Home Town Paper Ta | An article in 'the Christian Science Monitor entitled; 75,000,000 Readers. is thought-provoking and worthy of -some . consideration. It makes that nowhere else in the world are there so ; many home town papers as in America. These small-town and suburban papers-- weekly and bi-weekly--serve a public esti- |. mated at 64 per cent of the total population of the country. - ; = i These papers according First, they serve as watch-d ing what is best in community life. = Row- land Kenneth Towery, editor of.the tiny Texas Record, won the Pulitzer Prize for 1955 for his series of articles and editorials ~ which blew the lid off a scandal in the Veterans Land Program which had reach- ed down into the community. it was the small-town paper that put a stop to the. rising power of the Ku Klux Klan; in Southern California they forced real estate agents to draw agreement protecting buyers from graft' In main a local week- ly saved the industry of the entire com- and 'discrimination. munity with a dogged camp. - the textile mill. The Political Brew Nothing _very startling. yet in the present campaign. -are apparently' concentrating on the fact that unemployment under tives has been much worse have been had they remained 'in office; they are asserting too that tives represent a one-man contention is based on their conclusion that the real driving force in the Conservative Party is John Diefenbaker. The Conservatives are asking the people toivote for them so that the ang really do the kind of j tordo. serve the community in two main ways. There are countless cases where the home town paper has shaped The real difference between the two parties has to do with their different approaches to the unemployment problem. The Liberals want to decrease taxes and put more spending money directly in the the statement Last year the to the article ogs in protect- In Florida up a fair deal aign to rescue printing. has happened hands of the The Liberals the Conserva- than it would the Conserva- party. . This War . y can go back 0 ives. ob they want public opinion terment of community. And this in spite of the most bitter opposition from groups and interests who had an axe to grind. The second way that such a paper serves the community -is through advertising. est advertising agency said that the small town editor. through his friendship with local merchants could do for the national - advertiser what no other medium could do: promote tie-in ads between the national company and the thousands of small stores that sell the product, Most small papers have higher ad rates than their big city brethren but there is plenty of evidence to indicate that the space is worth the price. The article closes upon a very significant note indeed : the home-town editor general- ly leans over backward to let both sides be heard outside of his editorial columns which, of course, remain his own. Those things which the readers of local papers want more than anything else is - well-written news about roads, schools, - taxes and planning, zoning, churches and recreation. In most weeklies, about forty per cent of the business is devoted to job want to inaugurate a vast public program and put money into the hands of the people who are unemployed. Which is the better program no one really knows. It is quite obvious that the recession we . are going through is not confined to Can- ada. Can-either party take really effective measures to cope with a business condition that spreads out beyond the nation? Roose- velt did it with the New Deal and a World . both of these were pretty drastic Perhaps, the Conservatives or the Liber- als can bring us out of the present slump, but it is more likely that we will come out of.it when the United States starts to stage a comeback and probably not before, 7, <4 and public action to the bet- director of the worlds larg- voters; the Conservatives Between 1949 and 1958, workers in Canadian manufacturing industry shared in no small way in Canada's growing prosperity. In fact, in this short space of time their living stan- dards underwent an improvement so remarkable as to evoke wonderment. Anyone inclined to doubt it (and our memories are notoriously fickle in such matters) should consider the following facts, based on récently- issued reports of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. In 1949, the average hourly-rated employee worked 42 hours a week for a wage of just over $41.00. By the end of 1957 the work week was down to 40 hours. And the average weekly wage? It was better than $65.00, having shot -up more than 60 percent! ' Of course, it will immediately be objected that living costs, too, have. risen, as we know only too well. (This is the stock alibi of all of us for our higher earnings: we vaguely assume that the one cancels out the other.) But note this: the Consumer Price Index over this same period has in- creased by something less than 25 percent. : In other words, the worker who earned $41.00 or so a week 'nine yrs, ago would need to be making $10.00 asing power as he had then. He fis in fact making not $10.00, but an ad- ditional '$24.00 a. week. Not $520.00 a year but $1,280.00, a net 'gain in annual income, of more than $700.00. And this takes no account of the significant increase in both size and variety of fringe benefits. ~ Three things have made possible this. magnificent wage hike. Firstly, improved productivity (meaning more efficient. production, achieved very largely by the installation of costly new machinery, paid for, of course; out of company earnings). Secondly, the growth of the Canadian market, making for higher sales. Thirdly, higher prices. This last factor re- presents the extent to which rising labour costs have not been absorbed by the first two. ie Whatever else emerges from a study of these figures, one conclusion fs inescapable: the worker in manu- facturing industry has done a whole Clipped Comments se PROSPERITY SHARED - last nine years. Which suggests that, so far as the immediate future is concerned at any rate, greater wis- dom may lie in not reaching out for still more. . --Industry. WHO CAN DETERMINE FARM PRICES? You can't satisfy people by giving them everything they. ask for, The more you give them, the more they want; and they soon reach the point at which they believe it is somebody's duty to provide them with everything they need. The Government is learning this from its experience with its Agricul- tural Stabilization Bill now approved by Parliament. The bill is an attempt to implement some of the Govern- ment's pre-election promises to the farmers, But on every hand it has been greeted with cries of "Not enough," and demands for more con- cessions. The present demand is for what the farmers are pleased to call "par- ity prices," guaranteed by the Gov- ernment and never to fall below the farmers' costs of production. The justification for this demand is that high production costs make such pri- ces necessary if the farmers are to stay in business. For ten years during and after the war, Canadian farmers enjoyed a sel- lers' market, in which prices were [high enough to give them satisfact- ory returns in spite of steadily ris- ing costs. That period has passed. The short- ages of farm products 'which forced, the high prices, no longer exist, and prices are returning to normal. But the farmers' costs of production aré not coming down. In fact they are still rising, and the farmers are being squeezed between falling prices and 'rising costs, The farmer is entitled to whatever prices his products are worth to the consumers who buy them and have to pay for them. : The way to determine such prices is fo open the markets to both the producers and the consumers, and al- low them to bargain with each other and buy or sell as suits their own in- terests. If prices so arrived at are not suf- --. In this they are making a grave n't necessarily follow that the prices are at fault. It might well be that that the real trouble is to be found in such costs. The farm organizations have .been paying little attention to this matter of costs; and have been centering all their efforts on attempts to control the markets and raise prices. mistake, for an agriculture based on arbitrary and artificially supported prices is resting on a very shaky foundation. If the farmers are getting less out of the national economy than they are contributing to it, some other peo- "| exercise will power. the farmers' costs are too high; andfother group. Of Many Things ' by Ambrose Hills / 'WILL POWER" I have a secret that will put you one up on rivals, Some years ago a smart psycholo- gist pointed out that whenever will power and imagination come in con- flict, imagination wins, Almost im- mediately, 98% of people tossed will power out the window and put thelr chips on imagination. It became old fashioned to speak of will power. Nevertheless, the secret I disclose to you now is this: Will power is a billion times more important to you than imagination -- and the two need not come into conflict. With most of the people looking down their nose at will power, you can soon excell hy giving yours the respect it deserves. And it deserves a great deal of respect. I agree with Dr. Russell Conway, who says: "There has been altogether too much talk about the secret of success. Success has no secret. Her voice is forever ringing through the marketplace and crying in the wilderness, and the burden of her cry is one word -- will. Any man who hears and heeds that cry is equipped fully to climb to the very heights of life." Every day brings opportunities to Grasp those opportunities to exercise will power. Grasp those opportunities, even in small matters, and the power of your will increase in all directions. An experiment proved that to be true. A group of college boys ex- ercised the grip of their left hands. In each case, it was discovered that Qur- preparations are progressing very well for April and May, and it might be one of the best things for a 'Pastoral Charge to give more lea- dership to our lay people. The Tea- chers and Officers of Scugog "Grace" Sunday School met last Friday. The Session has-asked the Sunday Schools to take charge of the Services on Supday, May 11, which day will *be what we used to call "Mother's Day." Our Superintendent Cecil Fralick Is meeting with the Superintendents of the three other Sunday Schools, to see the possibility of holding a Joint Sunday School Anniversary for that day. Then on Monday evening the Coun- sellors and Executive of our P.M.S. HiC Group met at the home of Nettie Aldred, and made plans for a Young Peoples Rally in Scugog 'Grace" Church on Sunday evening, March 30 bat 8.00 pm. We are sending invita- tions to the Young People of our adjoining United Churches, and ask- ing their Leaders to take part with us in the Service. We hope to have one of our Leaders in Young Peoples work from Toronto to be the Guest Speaker. We will give full partlcu- lars later; but would like all young people to mark this date on their cal- endars, and plan to be with us. The Session has also asked our Young People to be responsible for the Ser- vices on Sunday May 256. Nettie Al- dred will be in charge of the Service on the Island, assisted by Betty Rea- der, Catherine Martyn, Bonnie Jef- frey, with the Junior Choir leading when a boy had increased the stren- gth of his left hand, there was also a remarkable increase in the strength of his right--even though it had not been exercised. The conclusion was simple: The will, as well ag the muscle, had been strengthened by de- termination to improve. Personal improvement is not a po- pular gospel these days, perhaps, but it is a valid one. Somgbody must do the extra working, thinking, plan- ning and producing if Yvette to have the good things everybodwcis deman. ding. Governments produce 'nothing, and if they are to ¢onfnue giving to one group or another "they must ex- tract the wherewithal from some Demands on govern. ment have grown so large lately that governments have been extracting funds from us all, rich and poor, co it has reached a point where we'll either have to stop demanding or dtart" producing a great deal more efficiently than we are today. Such productivity can be expected only from men and women with the will to improve. Those who lack it will be left at the post. awarded the contract for the job. The in song. At Manchester Ruby Roach will be in charge, with Linda Fralick taking care of the music. Others being asked to help will be Bill Me- Cartney and Wesley Johnson. And at Prospect, Gerald Emm will be In charge, with Bonnie Jeffrey and Lin- da Fralick taking care of the muste, together with Margaret Dearborn, Ericka Benschop and Olive Painter assisting. We are endeavouring to have a Special Speaker for the day. All our Young People are invited to Prince Albert United this Wednesday evening, and" we hope that there will District WILL REBUILD HIGHWAY AREA The five miles of Highway 12 con- necting Whitby and Brooklin will be completely rebuilt this summer. Sur- vey work and tree-cutting for the project are well under way at present. Miller Paving Company has been original section of highway was built 31 years ago, with a concrete top. A few years ago, the comncrete was co- vered with asphalt paving and two years ago, considerable patching was done. Otherwise, no major work has Cedar Creek ple must be contributing less to it than they are taking out. And there is considerable evidence that such fis the case. steadily and relentlessly rising; and while the prices of the urban products that farmers buy continue to rise urban workers buy continue to fall. Thus the urban worker gets more for less while the farmer gets less for. more. « If one large group in the commun- 'ity succeeds in getting more out of the economy than it is putting in, we can't remedy that situation by assist- ing another group to do the same. The, 'remedy must go deeper than that. It must deal with the underlying causes that enable the first group to become go powerful. We are opposed to the Agricultural Stabilization Bill because it is wrong in principle. It assigns to a more or less competent Board powers and du- ties that no Board is competent to handle. It appoints a committee of inter-' ested parties to advise the Board and also to advise the Minister, And fit places the Governor-in-Council In authority over all. This is the structure of the organ- ization that the Bill would establish to replace the open market and set the prices of farm products without allowing the consuming public; who have to pay the prices, any voice in making them. ig The Government should have with- drawn this bill and taken no further lot more than hold his own in the wT fiolent for the farmers' needs, it does. my L311 Motard bimini de toh ah sind tate ahd» Bite nie 2H SETAE SE I igh ¥ . ak SRS £ Mrs. Wm. Steele was: able to re- | turn home from the Port Perry Com- munity Hospital last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Blain and Doug While farm incomes are declining, of Raglan were last Sunday evening midway between Brooklin and Whit- the incomes of urban workers are yisitors of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Cum- by will be widened and dozens of mings and family. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Manns and! Mr. and Mrs. Norman Birkett all or! the prices of the farm products that Raglan were last Sunday . evening ing near Brooklin while tree-cutters visitors at the Spencer home. Howard Martyn is a patient in Port Perry Community Hospital. Master Glen McCoy had his third birthday on February 28th. Miss Flossie Spencer attended the Raglan W.A. last Wednesday even- ing at the home of Mrs. Norman Birkett. Ronnie Larocque and the Melburn Mills of Mancheter spent the week- end at Magnetawan in Northern Ont. Mrs. Harris, Mrs. Kilpatrick and Mrs. Willerton all visited Mrs. Steele in. Raglan on Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Trepanier and family of Toronto were Sunday visit- ors at the Larocque home." Mr. and Mrs. Harris were Sunday supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. At- wood MacRae and family at Oshawa. a YS oen to make a thorough study of the whole matter of marketing and price control. XX X Canadian agriculture -took the wrong turn when the farmers Were led to-believe that, if they could get control of the market for their pro- be solved. " potion in the matter till it had time PE RS A By TYE EA Fy hay ns Png SEA on | for the paving of the Baseline, much ducts, their economic problem would of music, London University, Mastor ~~Rural Scone. |and conductor of the Peterborough been done on this heavily travelled road in three decades. Spokesmen for Miller Paving re- port that nearly every curve in the stretch, there are three, will be stal- ghtened to some degree. A bridge, trees on both sides of the road will be cut down. At present, survey crews are work- are working just north of Whitby. Before their axes and saws, dozens of trees which have bordered the road for many years will come down. District" residents who uge wood in stoves or furnaces, have found a veritable bonanza. All the wood, and there will be hundreds. of cords, will be given away. ' Company spokesman stated that although the wood is free, it is not altvays easy to give away. He re- ported that when his firm completed tree-cutting operations in preparation of the wood was hauled to the dump and burned, 4s no one seemed to want it. ~~ . The road is expected to be com- pleted by late summer, DULCIE COLBY'S BOYS CHOIR WIN KIWANIS SHIELD Duleie Colby's Boys Choir for the third consecutive year has won the Kiwanis Shield at the Kiwanis Music Festival in Toronto.. The shield now becomes the permanent property of the choir. R The adjudicator was. W. Stanley Vann, of England. He ig a bachelor of Music, - Peterborough Cathedral, DISTRICT CHURCHES og, Manchester and Prospect United Churches be a good representation. We had a large number at our Bowling Party last week, Tuesday, We were sorry Gerry, that we were bowled out by the time you arrived! ) We have some material on hand for Daily Vacation Bible School' = The Minister would like to meet with seme of the Leaders as soon as pos- sible, so that preparations may go forward for our School in July. We would like to reach the 200 mark in registration this year, It was quite ap experience for our Scugog Choir to sing over the Air on Sunday evening, at the Service held in Albert St. United, Oshawa. They sang "At Sunset" and "What a friend we have." Much money and thought have been expended on the Church since we sang there last year; .and Rev. Atkinson and the Congregation are to be congratulated. The whole Auditorium has been. renovated, and looks very beautiful. _ We were so glad to have the Hatfields, who sum- mer on the Island, speak to us after the Service. . The Board of Stewards for the Pas- toral Charge, under the Chairman- ship of Lloyd Smith, met on Monday evening in the Prospect Church, The Cubs will meet this evening (Tuesday) at Manchester, and Scugog "Head" W.A. will meet on Wednesday after- noon at Joyce Heayn. Manchester W.A. will meet at the home of Mrs. Will Holtby on Thursday afternoon. And let us support the Junior Farm- ers musical variety Show "Musicana" on Friday at Brooklin, and Saturday at Uxbridge. The Show is directed by Mrs, Elsic Dobson, and offers good entertainment for all ages. This Choral Group has been presenting musical shows annually for the past five years, and are enjoying greatly increased popularity. Next week Tuesday, Manchester will go Bowling. Scugog "Grace" W.A. will meet at the Church on Wed, and Prospect W.A. on Thurs. at the home of Mrs, Frank Vernon. Con- gratulations to the Donald Ashbrid- ges on the birth of a little boy. Hap- py birthday to Mrs. Ives of Manches- Doings Philharmonic Choir and orchestra. The choir sang two numbers. LINDSAY BUSINESSMAN SAYS BOYS AND GIRLS THE MOST IMPORTANT INDUSTRY A Lindsay business man called a Lindsay paper last week and had this to say regarding the situation at the Kiwanis Arena, which has been tem- porarily closed by the Town Council owing to a freeze up and break in the ice ice making plant: "I was annoyed at the editorinl which appeared in the local daily paper, which commended the Council for deciding to put the padlock on the Arena as far as artificial ice is con- cerned and also at the manner in which the paper referred to a pres- sure group. "The Council may be commended by some but undoubtedly may be eri- ticized by many more ratepayers. Many people, including the daily pa- per, fail to realize that the Arena has been accomodating one of the biggest and perhaps the most im- portant industry we have in the Town of Tindsay, namely, the welfare of the youth of the town. The Council did not hesitate very long when it came to finalizing a by-law to issu= debentures for $100,000 for the Hos- pital expansion, which we approve of. The Council did not hestitate to issue a by-law for the expenditure of some $60,000 for an industrial site. The Council does not pause to give the Park's Board a mill, or $13,000 for maintenance and expanding of parks. The Council did not. ponder very long when it installed a new parking lot and issued debentures for $30,000. Many more 'similar moves could be related. However, when it comes to spend- ing an extra $2500 for the welfare of boys and girls in Lindsay, then some of these same Councillors quib- ble. "I think the Council should not only repajr that ice plant immediately, hut should consider very seriously scrap- rink, which is now obsoléte and in state of disrepair, and then efect a modern concrete block structure, in- Prince Albert At 8S. 8. the theme story was read by Mrs. Thompson. Mrs. C. Love being the missionary convenor show- ed a variety of slides consisting of nearly sixteen conferences through- out Canadian provinces, describing each along those lines, Those who attended church on Sun- s : day were the richer by an inspiring sermon from Mr. Linstead. The members of G.N, S. Club will meet at the héme of Ilene Pugh next Monday night. Visitors welcome. Hostesses Pat Love, Myrtle Snel- grove, and Olive Brown, Miss Mildred Martyn, Scugog Is. spent the week-end with her grand- parents Mr. and Mrs. Wm, Martyn. Mr. and Mrs. M. Pugh attended the Sunoco banquet and dance in Tor- onto. : Mr. and Mrs, L. Devitt and child- ren, Oshawa spent Sunday with her father Mr. F. Vickery and the Les. Beacock's. Mrs, Doyle was in Bobcaygeon last Tuesday visiting her mother who un- fortunately is suffering a broken hip. The Woman's Association met in the afternoon of February 26th, ia the Sunday School room. With - Mrs. McKerihen presiding, meeting was called to order with a Hymn. Scripture was taken by Mrs. Love, and Topic 'The Owner's Stamp' by Mrs, Vance. During business period, kitchen committee reported new water. pail, new trays, etc. were also on hand. Mrs. Wm. Brown offered her home for a quilting. Motion we pay our membership fee. A motion was made that we send flowers at time of pas- sing of group members. A traveling apron is to be passed around and each person insert a mo- ney donation under a patch. Mrs, W. Heayn offered apron material, A Hymn and prayer led by Mrs. Bea- cock closed the meeting. Three visitors reported. A hot beef supper was served by groups 38 and 4. : . [3 «< ter, who celebrates her 80th birthday on Sunday. It is good to grow old, and yet keep fresh and active. Our love and prayers for all who are shut in. 'We look forward to seeing you ping the arena part of the present | all again at Church. use the same ice plant. What do you think, Mr. Ratepayer? Don't you think our boys and girls, the future men and women of our community deserve this consideration? Can we estimate their value in dollars and cents? Can we afford to be penny wise and pound foolish?" WATCH DUFFIN"S CREEK FOR FLOOD PICKERING -- Mild weather and spme rain has increased the flow of water in Duffin's Creek. Residents of Riverside Drive have been keep- ing a watchful eye on the creek bear- ing in mind the flood experiences of former years. : About 20 families are in the floo! area at Riverside Drive. Sudden break up of the creek has meant some of the people have had to be rescued by firemen and police using boats. This year at the first sign of dan- ger, plans have been laid to remove these families and take them to the Pickering Community Hall. Thr local storekeepers have agreed to open up at any hour to provide food. Last Friday, the water had risen to the level of No. 2 highway, but the ice had not broken up. Old tir: ers say there is no danger until th ice gives way, then floating ice cakes can block the creek and cause seriou flood from water backing up. EXPLOSIONS SHOOK TOWN . Lindsay---Many residents were a- larmed at 3.30 a.m. last Wed., when they were nwakened by a tremendous explosion, which shook the dust o"" chandeliers and in some Instances rocked beds. A second explosion took place o- round 7 am. It was learned that the explosions were caused by the com pany building the new bridge of the trans-Canada highway across the Scu- gog river, south of Riverside cem- etery. BOBCAYGEON RINK BOOKED SOLID, LINDSAY ARENA PADLOCKED It ia understood that the Bobcay- geon hockey ice palace is booked fo - weeks to come, while the Lindsay arena hag been pad-locked. Cruel, stall proper seating acdomodation and cruel fate. 10 bn ps oo Aigo More I og 3 oo - kr ot hy, \ 4 i an ):