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a ee Te Ly SHARES pt y SET bs tbr $i RAE Woe AGN IAA 8 Po oF td RAEN EL Bh FSR Be ETE CRN ts FAS FV Sar ASAIN ER a PRET AC HI HTL AL * Ra SO A ATE THE STAR EDITORIAL PAGE Thursday, December 31st, 1959 Notes and Comments The New Year | "Hope springs eternal" ; : Pope's line never seems more true than at that moment when we are waiting the coming of the New Year. No matter how bad the past year has been, or how much we have suffered, there is something in all of us that responds to the excitement which gathers force as the old year draws to a close. And in the feverish exchange of New Year good wishes and greetings following the pattern for which America has become notorious there is an under- lying sincerity and there is hope spring-~. ing eternal. © We all want to believe in better things--Dbetter pay, better jobs, a better home, a better car, better goals, bet- ter achievements, in short a better life. And this we want not only for ourselves but for others, too. There is a feeling, too, that now the time * has come to let the disappointments, the _ mistakes and the failures of the past year drop away from us, We look back not with pain and regret, not with nostalgia for what might have been but rather with a feeling of finality, a feeling that these Fear of Being Human G. K. Chesterton once said that. our meanest fear is that which keeps us from showing our warm human feelings towards one another. It is a lot easier for us to be cool'and formal and distant in our re- lations with acquaintances; it is a lot easi- er for us to be sharp and exacting with our business associates; it is a lot easier for us to be off-hand and sharp-tongued with those who are near and dear to us. It is a lot easier becausé we are afraid to show our good-will, our affection and our love. It takes courage to give expression to these things; too many of us lack that kind of courage. And, yet human life seems to demand that we give expression to such feelings if we are to have a happy and healthy life. Essentially all human beings are lonely creatures under the stars, short-lived so- journers on a tiny speck in a gigantic, ex- things are now done and we have finished with them. In a very true sense we feel like the Chinese that the New Year really marks a new birth date, Is it really so foolish to think of New Year's Day as a ~ day when we all get a new and a fresh start, We are too sophisticated, too realistic to think of New Years as a day for making resolutions. We have outgrown that kind of sentimental moralizing which was the fashion of a bygone day. And yet what's wrong with resolutions? What's wrong with the kind of determination and think- ing which gives rise to them? As a mat- ter of fact all through the year we are facing problems and seeking solutions to them in terms of our perseverance and de- termination which, if not expressed openly in the form of a resolution, are neverthe- less, quite innate. Perhaps, the best way to approach the New Year is with a good stiff backbone. Too often our hopes and our dreams are hooked to nothing more substantial than a wishbone, a dessicated one at that! this brief period a place of warmth and comfort? Against the great perspective of time and space what matters so many of the baubles for which we strive? What is the point of our envy and our hate? Psychologists tell us that back of every really worthwhile endeavour and every hu- - manitarian advance is to be found in the simple emotion of human affection and human love. Once Bernard Baruch told a great poli- tical figure, "when in doubt follow your heart and not your mind." And surely history proves that this is sound advice. There are those who say that sentiment does not belong in business, does not be- long in science nor even in our thinking about ourselves. What a sorry comment on our wisdom that we should deliberately shut out what is warmest and best in hu- manity. The more we succeed in doing this the more impersonal and the more panding universe. Is it too much that we ghould seek to make for each other for terrifying our world becomes. ~ District Doings \ CITY REWARDS SKINDIVER Skin-diver [Raymond McKay will get $25 and the thanks of Oshawa city council for his "yeoman work" in Jocating nnd raising a car which plunged into Oshawa harbor last week, carrying three persons to their deaths. i Mayor Lyman A. Gifford said Mr. McKay, who lives in East Whitby, "deserves the highest praise for his work that night". em ---- PLAN SET UP COUNTY BOARD FOR FAIRVIEW WHITBY -- A by-law to allow for the appointment of four members of Ontario County council as a Board of Management for Fairview Lodge at the inaugural meeting of the 1960 council was approved Monday. The term of office will be for four years, with one member of the board retiring annually. The board mem- bers will retire automatically if he is no longer a member of county council, or can be replaced by a motion sup- ported by two thirds of county coun- ¢il. The board will become a stand- ing committee of council. The new by-law became necessary in view of the fact that Oshawa city council will retire from the board of management effective Dec, 81, 1959. The appointments will be determin- ed under the same rule applying to the election of the new warden. I HOCKEY PLAYED ON SUNDAY 'A hockey fan has submitted the information that hockey is played on Sunday in the following places: Peter- ro, Port Perry, Oshawa, Orillia, nnington, Bobcaygeon, Kingston, Trenton ant Belleville. The same fan adds: "If people play golf, baseball, tennis on Sunday and if they go fishing, hunting and ple- nicing on Sunday, what in the world is wrong with playing hockey. Why discriminate? It is also interesting to know that curling on Sunday is a weekly event in Peterboro, Brace- bridge, Gravenhurst, Huntsville and FIRE RAZES 2 BUILDINGS AT LINDSAY LINDSAY -- Fire destroyed two buildings in the main business section of this town 20 miles west of Peter- borough Friday night after threaten- ing several other business establish- ments. ' ~N The blaze broke out about 11.30 p.m. in the three-story Jackson department store and spread to the adjacent Tor- onto-Dominion Bank Building. A furniture store on the other side was slightly damaged. Firemen from Lindsay and neigh- boring communities brought the blaze under control at about 2.30 am. No one was hurt but apartments in the blocks were evacuated, About 76 firemen--from Peterbor- ough, Omemee, .Fenelon Falls and Bobcaygeon -- fought the blaze. The fire was one block from the site of a blaze last spring that destroyed the Blackwell Building and caused $100,000 damage. Another big fire occurred earlier this year at the Lind. say Antenna Company. COUNTY WITHDRAW FROM CIVIL DEFENCE--TO0O COSTLY Ontario County Council will notify the City of Oshawa that the county intends to withdraw from the joint civil defence organization by March 81,1960. For the past two years, the county and the city have joined for- ces in a civil defense program. The motion by county council wae sparked on Tuesday by a report by Deputy{Reeve Mrs, Mary Reid, of Ajax, chairman of the county's assess- ment and civil defence committee. In her report, as chairman, not a com- mittee report, she stated that she failed to see that the county is bene. fitting from the civil defence program. AGAINST AGE DISCRIMINATION Lindsay Town Council concurred in a resolution passed by the Council of Acton which calls for. non discrimina- tion regarding ages of people in all ranks of life and that workers should be allowed to carry on as long as they are capable and efficient regard- ASSESSMENT INCREASES BY $4 MILLION IN COUNTY At the last Ontario County Council meeting which was held in the county building, the County Assessor sub- mitted his fifth report to the Warden and members of the Council, The report said that all rolls had been returned and every municipality had held their Court of Revision ex- cepting the Township of Thorah. Subject to the revision of the courts, the report. stated that the grand total of all assessments in the County of Ontario as returned by the clerks showed an increase over the last year by some $4,642,276.31, The following is a tabulation of the municipalities of the County for 1968 and 1969. NEW FACE IN OLD ROLE CBC-TV has a new Maggie Mug- gins, She ig eight-year-old Mary Long of Toronto, a little: bundle of natural charm who is making her first public appearance in this role. Mary plays the little girl whose ad- ventures with Fitzgerald Fieldmouse and her other puppet friends keep young viewers entertained each Tues- day afternoon on the CBC-TV net- work. Mary replaces Deanne Taylor who has outgrown the role, * * tor League's own teletype circuits to its clubs and branch offices in Hamil- ton, Windsor, Kitchener, Ottawa and Sudbury. The Ontario Motor League and its affiliated clubs also receive and disseminate road reports from all over the northeastern United Sta- tes through-American Automobile As- sociation affiliated clubs. Highways officials noted that the Department of Highways has been offering this service to the public for 16 years at its offices in Toronto and throughout the province. In Toronto, winter road informa- tion is available from the Department of Highways at Em. 8-1211 Local 22122; and the Ontario Motor League at Em. 4-4171. Clipped Comments Transport Minister Hees, addressing the Toronto Railway Club, is reported to have said that "if the railroads are to carry on as businesses under mod- ern conditions, they will have to be permitted to improvise and experi- ment." Mr. Hees is right. But as The Ottawa Journal rightly observes, "Under what modern conditions are the railroads carrying on when they are compelled to accept rates--the so- called Crowsnest Pass rates--fixed for then more than a half century ago? Rates fixed around the turn of the century and then actually reduced by parliament in 19256? "These rates," The Ottawa Journal points out, "are to subsidize Western agriculture. Is it the business of the railroads to do this? Surely a sub- sidy to agriculturee, or to any other branch of the economy, is something to be paid for by the nation as a whole, not something to be charged to a par- ticular business." Soundness of such views cannot be questioned. To jeopardise essential rail transport by making of it an in- strument of subsidy, which properly should be borne by the national trea- sury, is utter folly. Utter folly, too, is the strategy of counsel for the Western provinces be- fore the Royal Commission on Trans- portation, Delay, delay and more de- lay seems to be their attitude in the Towns 1958 1959 Munie. Assess. Assess. Ajax $ 8,638,773. $ 9,782,826. . Uxbridge 2,125,096. 2,208,280. Whitby 16,696,285. 16,418,695. Villages: Beaverton 1,166,215, 1,201,793. Cannington 819,203. 839,706. Pickering 1,625,183. 2,003,926. Port Perry 1,828,666. 1,871,080. Townships: Brock 3,901,816. 3,921,716. E. Whitby 8,027,200. 8,202,890. Mara 8,808,825. 38,808,838. Pickering 16,637,668. 16,354,803. Rama 1,364,342, 1,390,616. Reach 8,156,614, 8,239,787. Scott 2,116,847, 2,140,675. Scugog 787,210. 866,604. Thorah 2,168,200. 2,258,877. Uxbridge 2,284,226. 2,382,426. Whitby 5,668,108. 6,078,110, TOTAL $76,348,770. $70,091,046. R ROAD INFORMATION More comprehensive road informa- tion is now available from the Ont. Motor League, it was announced re- cently. In addition to providing de- tailed round-the-clock winter road in- formation to the public, the Depart- ment of Highways of Ontario has given the Ontario Motor League per- mission to install its teletype equip- ment in the Department's communi- cations room, Road reports will be fed 'to the Ontario Motor League in Toronto immediately upon receipt and in many other towns and cities, Pa less of age. dre ne sans. ribder NREL, mr ra then forwarded over the Ontario Mo- face of earnest efforts on the part of the Commission and of the railways to get to the root of the statutory grain rates problem. --The Letter Review BIGGER GOVERNMENT SPENDING MBANS MORE TAXES In US, as in Canada, sensible people are now convinced that big government spending with the promise of no in- crease in taxes is a meaningless sort of political promise. Most people know, too, that big spending by gov- ernment spells more inflation, Notwithstanding this, advisory com- mittee of Democratic party in the US TREE has come up with this same discredited and shopworn scheme as the basis for its political strategy in the up-com- ing 1960 presidential election cam- paign. Whether big spending and easy money will win votes for the "something for everybody" strategy political parties is pretty synonymous in many people's minds with a '"boom- and-bust" business cycle, with steadily rising prices, and with ordinary folk ending up worse off than before. Certainly in a time of prosperity the Democrats will have a hard time to convince the US public that anyone but the tax collector will benefit from bigger governmeentt spending, --The Letter Review Ont. County Fed. Of Agriculture About two. hundred agricultural minded citizens enjoyed a turkey din- ner, which was held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Ont. County Federation of Agriculture at Sunderland United Church on Decem- ber 2nd. Mr. Gordon Rynard of Zephyr, intro- duced the guest speaker who was Mr. James Simpson, manager of Copaco, Barrie. Mr. Simpson spoke to the group on Co-Operatives and the part they play in marketing. He said at Co-Ops have provided a stabalizing factor in mark- eting, and urged that they unite under sound leadership. He felt that it is necessary to improve' management, strengthen membership, and select a competent board of directors, who are community minded citizens, and who will work to improve public relations. Mr. Duncon Wallace, of Beaverton, thanked Mr. Simpson for his fine ad- dress and urged the farmers to sup- port their Co-operatives. Mr. Wallace McLean, of Udney, gave a brief outline of the Co-Op Medical Service and some of the changes made since government hospitalization was introduced. He also mentioned the new life insurance poliy available to member groups. Mr. Bradshaw of Oshawa, repre- senting Co-operators Insurance Asso- ciation, outlined it's new decentraliza- tion program. Ontario County will be under the Peterboro division. The president, Mr. Larry Doble, of Uxbridge, gave a report of the year's activities, mentioning that Ontario County has 142 reporters for the farm Accident Survey which was organized Democrats, however, is doubtful. The | Of Many Things by Ambrose Hills WELCOME TO 1960 In spite of all the gloomy forecasts, Canada goes into the year 1960 in pretty fine shape. Inflation has been held in check in recent months, due in large measure to the courage of the government (maybe it is the Christ- mas spirit that makes me finally say a good word for the politicians!), and the good sense of Canadians generally in accepting unpopular decisions with out too much fuss. Labour, too, has shown somewhat more restraint and good sense over the past four or five months. Most workers are of the opinion that it is better to hold the line and consolidate Canadian gains now than to go romp- ing off on a fake boom that could price us right out of the competitive over- seas markets, and thus create unem- ployment. This sensible sentiment in Canada gets something of a set-back, however, when American-owned concerns apply their native wage rates to the Cana- dian scene. An example is the Inter- national Paper Company, which ap- plied wage-rate increases in their home plants to their big operations here. Wonderful for their Canadian employ- ees, perhaps, but sure to cause discon- tent and new wage demands through- out the Canadian paper industry-- where prices are already high enough. Acts of this nature, by American-own- ed companies operating in Canada, can have serious results for Canadian con- sumers, especially when pace-setting industries are involved, In spite of these complications, Can- adians have ridden through a very dangerous period in this nation's eco- nomic life. Labor and management both deserve credit, and some must For RUBBER STAMPS See THE PORT PERRY STAR USE A TYPEWRITER? See THE PORT PERRY STAR early this year. \ A 3 --= THEY FELL BY THE ROADSIDE ESSEX, JORDAN, DURANT . .. more than 2,400 different cars have been made in North America. and grow. also go to various governments. By next autumn, if all hands remain steady on the oars, it is altogether likely that international trade will find this country a strong competitor, If increased productivity can be achieved, there could then be a series of in- creased wages without a corresponding increase in the cost-of-living index and after all, that is the only kind of wage increase that does any good. In other words, things look reason- ably good for 1960 and we can mean it sincerely when we say, "Happy New Year to All!" Lire (BI THE NERY ho 8 1 DAYGID MONITOR AN INTERNATIONAL DAILY NEWSPAPIR Good Reading for the Whole Family - News « Facts The Christion Science Monitor One Norvay St, Botton 15, Mass, Send your newspoper for the time checked. Enclosed find my check of money order. 1 year $18 [J] 6 months $9 [J 3 months $4.50 [J Nome Address Thy Toe Stale . . 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