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5 B Set © er a LER, Say Lk TT A Se I) Member of The Canadian Weekly Newspape Association THE STAR EDITORIAL PAGE Thursday, May 14th, 1959 Notes and Comments Facing Reality From time to time rather sensational accounts appear in the news papers con- cerning teen-age drinking. Some people seize on these as proof that youth has gone completely to pieces; others, somewhat shocked by such stories, nevertheless, maintain that such incidents of drinking bouts are rare and that taken by and large our teen-agers compare very favourably with those of a former generation. others were in doubt as to whether the * teen-ager should, be praised or blamed for what he thinks about and what he does with alcohol. But now, social science is making it less necessary for us to guess about this matter, especially as it applies to the high school Systematic research has been carried on for the past eighteen years and the findings seem to be of singular import- student. ance, ' ; Here. are some of 'the about drinking in high school which are more substantial than highly coloured im- pressionistic guesses, The pattern and social context of drink- ing by high school students reflects to a very marked degree the exposure of these adolescents to the pattern and social con- "text of drinking among adults. have rather consistently shown that about High school stu- dents, both users and non-users of alcohol, imagined the typical adult to be a user of alcohol. A very high proportion reported that one or both parents were users and that alcohol was available to them in the In other words, in the minds of six in ten adults drink. 'home, words 'most students, drinking is- a part of adult behaviour. The most likely situation for the student's first exposure to alcohol was found to be The usual age for this ex- in the home. posure is in the thirteenth year. This finding is at variance with the frequently made assumption of parental Ottawa Leads the Spring doesn't just come literally blooms itself in. there are some quarter of fodils which begin to appear shortly after the crocuses begin to wilt. For nine years this Canadian Tulip Festi- It all started with yal has heen growing. In this season alone more than 2,500,000 flowers delight the eye of anyone who happens to be in the Capital City. The tulips themselves pro- - vide the largest public display of flowers to be found in America, about 1,000,000. There are more than 200 varieties display- ed on the driveways and parks of the Na- tional Capital c6mmission colourfully set out in blocks of 50,000 to a bed. In addition children. Still breakers. opposition to drinking by their adolescent It is also at variance with the assumption that there should be laws that limit alcohol to adults. doj high school students report that their first exposure to alcohol is the home but they also report parental approval of ex- : perimentation with alcohol. There is no indication that laws designed to preclude the use of alcohol by minors - are effective. drink, inclined to see themselves as law- On the contrary they seemed For not only Nor were students who to experience a special pleasure in securing: alcohol in violation of the law. Investigation has shown that students who drink and whose parents are aware that they drink often drink far more than their parents ever imagine. ially so when they are in situations un- This is espec- supervised by adults. generalizations Surveys expected to be The most serious tragedies associated with alcohol drinking by teen-agers result from gang sprees. - It has been discovered that among high school .students the chances that one will be a user increase with age and are higher for male than for female. users among urban high school students than rural and a higher proportion of - Catholics and Jews than Protestants, Two extreme groups tend to become users. The very wealthy and the very poor. It has also been discovered that so-called alcohol education seems to have little ef- .fect on whether or not one becomes a user, Students report that the most important information about alcohol comes from par- - ents; the next most important source was _ There are more the peer group. or fourteenth 'Way in Ottawa; it: a million daf- - It is clear that attitudes toward and use of beverage alcohol are clearly the products of group experience;it is also clear that the family is the paramount group in the lives of most of the teen-agers. ful citizens of Holland added another one hundred thousand and the Festival was on its way. Each of 1956 when the weather stunted growth, the Festival has increased tremendously. year, with the exception Not only has it transformed Ottawa's springtime season it has sorts of projects. there are 5,000 private displays of flowers throughout the city. newspaper sponsored a home garden con- test. There is also an important amateur stimulated all It is estimated that spring One local photographic contest and most of the en- a gift of some twenty-thousand bulbs from Queen Juliana of the Netherlands who has been a war-time exile in Ottawa. The grate- ence. terprising merchants throughout the city plan interesting and beautiful displays 'featuring the event. Truly Ottawa is flowering into promin- District UXBRIDGE HOSPITAL GETS $8,000. GRANT FROM COUNTY Reeve Rae Ferguson has presented a cheque for $8,000. to the Cottage Hospital representing a grant from the County of Ontario passed last week. This amount will be applied to the capital cost of equipment and substantially helps to bring the cam- paign's objective closer. A cheque for $5,000.has been re- ceived from the J. A. McKitrick es- tate on account of the residue from that estate bequeathed by Mrs. Me- Kitrick to the hospital. MILLION DOLLAR FIRE AT LINDSAY LINDSAY--A $1,000,000 fire des- troyed a three-storey business block and apartment in downtown 'Lindsay erly Monday, flaming out of control for six hours before it was extingui- shed, Twenty-six persons were left homeless, : Among the businesses wiped out in the Blackwell Building--at Cambridge and Kent Streets--was the law office of Frost, Richardson and McQuarrie. Premier Frost of Ontario is a part- ner in the law firm. No one was injured. About 75 firemen from five centres battled the outhreak and prevented the flames from spreading to adja- cent buildings. oy A mother and her infant were car- ried down an serial ladder at the height of the fire after firemen made four attempts to rescue them. For a time it was feared they might have to jump. The occupants were roused by the building's janitor, George McComb, when he discoyazed the blaze in the Doings basement shortly after midnight. It|has r was believed the fire started in a boil- er room. STOP LOGS MOVED FROM LINDSAY LOCKS Two Lindsay and two Toronto youths, aged from 16 to 21 years, ap- peared in Magistrate R. I. Moore's Court charged with being a "Public Mischief." : It is stated that the charge might have and may yet be changed to the unusual one of "Tampering with pro- perty belonging to Her Majesty the Queen", Following - a complaint Constable Henley made a quick trip to the gov- ernment locks on Lindsay street where he picked up the four youths who were engaged in rolling three big stop logs out of the reservoir, immediately ad- jacent to the dam and sluiceway. One log had already been piloted over the sluiceway and was on its course down the Scugog River. One of the government men was compelled to secure a boat and go after the floating piece of timber, For a few days past workmen from the Department have been repairing the top of the dam and three of the stop logs had been removed to lower the water. SUGGESTIONS FROM LINDSAY AMONG TOP HUNDRED TO MAKE QUEEN'S TOUR FUN A Lindsay woman has'made one of a hundred prize-winning suggestions on: "How: To Make The Queen's Tour Fun", As a token of appreciation, Mrs. L, Burke, 246 Kent St. West, proprietor of the Spruce Lawn Private Hospital eceived a handsome Wedgewood dinner place, especially commissioned to commemorate the Queen's visit to open the St. Lawrence Seaway, The contest in which. Mrs. Burke took part and sponsored by a Toronto newspaper was entered by readers from ages seven to 79 in all parts of Ontario. : The 100 prize-winning letters have been forwarded to tour authorities, Although Mrs, Burke did not care to disclose the suggestion which her let- ter contained, it was learned that most suggestions were to have the tour in- formal and informative for the gake of tHe Royal couple. The: reverse of each Wedgewood plate bears this inscription: An appre- ciation for a Royal visit suggestion by a reader. To Commemorate the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway by H. M. Queen Elizabeth II and H. R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh on board the Royal Yacht Britannia, June 1959. This 'historic portrait panel is from Grey's aquatints circa 1827 Courtesy John Ross Robertson Collection--Tor- onto. WANT RAIL BRIDGE FOR COURTICE HAMPTON -- Darlington township council voted Thursday to make appli- cation to the Department of Trans- port to replace the level crossing on Courtice road south with an overhead abutment, The "decision came as a result' of the proposéd ecloverleat on Highway, 401: at the Courtice interchange. The CPR crossing is at the foot of a knoll on Courtice road south, and with the construction of the cloverleaf By-Gone Days In Port Perry (Taken from an afticle in the Whitby Chronicle dated April 23, 1857, as submitted by Miss B. Méeker.) (continued from last week) A contrast, the present Port Perry, to the wild appearance of the place b years ago, when oné log cabin on the margin of the lake, constituted the en- tire town, when travellers from the northern part of the country came up in canoes and skiffs and were obliged to camp in the woods, and travel up and down through them as best they might, to find their way to Whitby and Oshawa. Nor was the scow of a subsequent period, which took.a week or ten days to make a voyage with freight and passengers to Lindsay, any great im provement on the primitive mode of communication by 'canoe and skiff, The present Port Perry with its thick- ly settled population, handsome dwell- ings, churches, schools, mills factories, foundries, steamers, and the thousand and one adjuncts of civilization and progress, is indeed a contrast to the Port Perry of former days. The settlers are principally Irish, English and Scotch. On Scugog Is- land there is an Indian settlement. It numbers about 100 of the aboriginal race. Most of these have snug farms on the island and live comfortably, They are very hospitable and in no case 18 a white man allowed to pass by the settlemeent without partaking of their hospitality. Various trinkets are made by them which the squaws fetch in canoes across the lake and expose for sale at Port Perry. In the summer season a visit to Port Ferry must be very agreeable. The scenery all around is delightful--the air pure and healthful. The tourist will find many scenes and objects in the vicinity to interest him. The lake abounds in fish--muskalonge and bass are taken in great numbers. There is plenty of game along the shore. The sportsman that would not bag a dozen bruce of wild ducks in a couple of $10,000 a year some. of the. members were suffering "hardships." brother, can you spare a grand? Or stake me to a suite at Chateau for a fortnight ? While this spectacle of politicians <| boosting their own salaries may ap- pear amusing at first glance, it is a serious matter when you realize that they intend to go on doing just that. In Australia, the parliamentarians have been raising their own pay so The CCF member suggested that at Ob, quickly it makes your head swim. But what are the voters to do about it? My suggestion is that we should elect more women to parliament. They have more practical approach to mon- ey. They would! cut spending, I am sure, because they know that every dollar spent has to be raised from somewhere. Men, when handling their own money, can be prudent; but it seems that when they get a chance to handle somebody else's money, they go berserk. Only a public outery will slow them down. : by the wage earner. ~~ 'They handle other people's money with the same good sense that they use their own. We need that kind of responsibility in Ottawa. So let us start nominating, supporting, and electing the girls to parliament. In a few years we would be paying lower taxes and getting more service for our dollar. Why not try it? SCUGOG, MANCHESTER, .... ... ... PROSPECT UNITED CHURCHES... Our three Junior Choirs sang excep- tionally well on Sunday. We would love to have them more often. Now that summer is here, the children could lead us in song once a month. We are happy to have some of the bigger girls with us on the Island, and were very pleased with the large number that took part at Prospect. We hope that with the help of our ladies, that we might have adequate gowns for both Manchester and Prospect choirs. At Scugog Church our S.S. Supt. Cecil Fralick assisted the Minister and led in the responsive Psalm--Joan Aldred told the story, and Linda Fralick play- ed for us, At Manchester Ruby Roach led in the Psalm, and Aleitha Holtby read the lesson, and Murray Croxall and Billy Aird took up the offering. At Prospect Eugene Dearborn our S.8, Supt. assisted the Minister and led in the Psalm, and George Smith told the story. Our churches at Scugog and Prospect were filled. We were happy to have the Morrises of Oshawa with us. The Sacrament of Infant Baptism was celebrated, and David Clifford, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Redman; Terry Donald, son of Mr. and Mrs, Donald Pearce received Christian Bap- tism. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Clarke of hours would consider himself unsue- cessful," ot Many Things by Ambrose Hills HOLD THAT LINE This morning my paper says that a CCF member of parliament made a The other political parties supported him, and there was general applause in parliament. There would be! The Prime Minister, my paper says, listened thoughtfully but made no comment. We who pay the bills can hope. We can hope that the PM was thinking of that "hold the line" speech he made in Winnipeg some while back. He has been talking tough to business and to labour about holding the line. And rightfully so. Perhaps he will also talk tough to members of parliament, Members of parliament do pretty well. The pay seems high enough, at least, to encourage a good many can- didates for the task of spending our money. Aside from a mighty good salary and some attractive relief from the taxes they so ardently impose on the rest of us, they have other advantages, in transportaion, meals, hair cuts, and Lord knows what clse. <i < "will serve as a death trap, with an increasing amount of traffic." The cloverleaf will be the only one between Oshawa and Bowmanville. The proposed overhead bridge will cost the twp, approximately $5000. Remainder of the cost will be shared by the department of transport and the CPR. . Reeve Roy W. Nichols said the overhead railway pass will be "man- datory" when the cloverleaf is com- pleted. "It is dangerous enough now, without the added traffic," he said. k MOCK FUNERAL PICKERING -- Angry residents of Pickering and Dunbarton staged a mock funeral service with two effi- gies at noon Saturday at the CNR offices in Toronto. The effigies rep- resented two areas which the residents say will be damaged by construction of a mammoth CNR marshaling yard in Vaughan Township, A b50-car motor cavalcade stopped in front of the main CNR Toronto office, while the residents hauled out two caskets, dramatizing the action of 'the CNR in routing lines through Pickering township, Most of the deputatién represented Dunbarton residents, , ™ >- speech yesterday, in Ottawa, asking [at Scugog "Head" that his salary and that of other gram, members be raised "at least 50¢." [ing part. Montreal were God-parents for David Clifford. We were glad to have the Lorne Ostrams with us. Lorne suf- fered a heart attack during the winter, and has been recuperating at his home at Lakeside Beach The one and only way to enjoy Sunday and derive the most from the day, is to attend a Ser- vice of Worship.. Our Sunday School had a Special pro- with many of the children tak- We are very sorry to announce that our President of the W.A. at Man- chester has resigned. We are very grateful to you Dorathy Aird that you did take over for us. There are cir- cumstances which prevent us doing many things at times. Sometimes the spirit is willing; but we have to reckon with our bodies too. We are therefore asking that all the members of our W.A. be with us on Sunday, and decide what to do, and possibly elect a new leader. At the next monthly meeting we are invited to the home of Mrs. Max Heidt, in Oshawa. All the seventeen Guides were on hand last Monday evening, and the following girls were duly initiated: Carol Crozier, Sharron Crozier, Mari- lyn Fralick, Dianne Fralick, Patricia Loates, Darlene Michie, Janet Cannon, Leona Goose, Marilyn Manns, Darlene Warren, and Kay Jackson. The moth- ers of the girls were on hand to wit- ness the: ceremony, and a very pleas- ant evening was spent. Many pictures were taken as the girls made their promises. Many thanks Leaders for the excellent work you are doing. Your Minister has been invited to preach Anniversary Services at High- land Creek -on Sunday, May 24th, Just imagine! that it was three years ago when a delegation from Seugog came to hear him at Highland Creek, and finally invited him to be your Minister. Rev. T. H. Bagnall, B.A, of Highland Creek, will take the services on our Pastoral Charge. And then on the following Sunday evening of May 31st we shall have the final Young Peoples Service for the season. These services have served at very good purpose, and everyone has been well attended. Let us fill the Utica Church to overflowing boys and girls. A lovely service is planned, and we District Churches | Scugog, Manchester and Prospect will give you full particulars later. A number of the Young People are being asked to take part; we are asking all our Ministers in the area to cooperate, and urge your young people to attend, and come yourselves. couraging feature of these teen-age services has been the hearty response of our Ministers. : Please keep in mind Sunday, June 14 which will be Missionary Sunday. We would like every family on our Charge to give a special donation for Missions on that Sunday. The United Church has set as her goal this year the sum, of ten million dollars, and Scugog's share is one thousand dollars, We are endeavouring to have a Missionary for' that Sunday. Next week Wednesday, Scugog "Grace" W.A. will hold their Birthday Party in the Church at 2.30 p-m. All who have ever been associat- invited to attend. There will be a very speial programme, and a social time after. This will be a wonderful op- portunity for you to meet friends of long ago. On the the following Wed- nesday afternoon, May 27th, Prospect W.A will hold their Bazaar at the Church. You will be most welcome. And then on the following Wednesday Pastoral Charge ave invited to a-Joint - Meeting of the W.A's in Scugog Head Church. The ladies are preparing a very fine programme. Come and fill the church. Happy birthdays to Billy Reader, Brenda Goose, Janice Carter, and Bob Prentice of the Island; to Billy Aird on Manchester; and to Roberta Dia- mond, Wilkie Webster, and Harvey Dearborn of Prospect. : Remember the Sabbath, and if you are well, come and join with us in -- | | ] CANADA'S manufacturing industry began to ment in th if the peopl MONTREAL Manufacturing will continue to prov GANANOQUE HOW TO LIVE |i WELL significantly about 80 years ago when the decided that more of their from Canadian factories. Today manufacturing is the most important ele- e Canadian economy. It provic half of all employment ; it pays high taxes; and it is the greatest contributor to our e of Canada will Buy Canadian. - THE STEEL COMPANY OF CANADA LIMITED HAMILTON BRANTFORD needs should be provided ¢' national production, ide Canadians with the world's second highest standard of liv worship and praise. \ row people les nearly SN ing TORONTO Women, on the other hand, have learned to handle money brought home One very en-: ¥ i An with the organization, are cordially - evening, June 3rd. all the ladies of the - . .= °