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a J) THE STAR EDITORIAL PAGE ALY hs Thursday, March 31st, 1960 'Notes and Comments The late Albert Guerard, distinguished historian and teacher, just before his death last November in a letter addressed to his African friends drew attention to four human heresies which bedeviled- mankind to-day. The first of these he called the continen- tal fallacy. By this he simply meant the kind of madness that inspires men to cry, Asia for the Asians; Africa of the Afri- cans; and America for the Americans. It is responsible for the statements like; Europeans go home or Americans go home. It is a slogan that exerts a baleful power" over even primitive minds. As he points out, continents are mere words. It is an attempt to make geographical terms serve as natural or God-given compartments to keep: the peoples of the world separated and hostile. The second heresy is nationalism. As he explains nationalism was simply the pro- longed shadow of monarchy. When kings failed to provide enlightened leadership they were cast aside and the people took hold. But even in democratic countries we preserved the colourings, the trappings and the maxims of the old monarchic state. Nations are still bedeviled with the ideal of unity that was natural when one man alone dominates and rules the land, but which is absolutely stupid and absurd when millions have won the right to ex- press their own thoughts and defend their own interests. Democracy should be plur- alistic, not totalitarian. The national state, like the old monarchic state, has a land which it wants to in- crease, a great' seal, a coat of arms, a standard, a sword which must be drawn in defense of a punctilious honour. These symbols and metaphors of yesterday do not correspond with either the-eternal verities or the actual conditions of our age. But the empty words and the empty symbols are still potent agents of evil . . . . per- haps the chief agents. Men have killed for religious sublteties which they did not un- derstand at all. Woodrow Wilson sought to lay the foun- dations of world law. His work was largely destroyed by proponents of a nationalism which led to the rise of a Hitler. Franklin Roosevelt, when presenting his famous four freedoms, chanted, Everywhere in the World. The United Nations he created is either the germ of a world state or the whole thing is a lie. The People's Republic of China calls itself multinational which means non-national. The Soviet Union is The Canadian Scene The Conservatives are going to be great- ly embarrassed by the action of the Amer- ican Congress in scrapping the Bomarc missile and the Sage ground control. For some time now critics of the government have been maintaining that the present defense policy is useless and costly. Per- haps, Mr. Pearkes will give the opposition a chance to have their say now that the Americans have scuttled his latest bet. The interest rate on short term govern- ment notes has dropped to a little over 3 per cent and this move seems to be a wise one. As far as we can make out there was no justification for a rate soaring above 6 as it did a short time ago. The statement of the Prime Minister about a protest to South Africa in which he claims that there would be no good pur- pose served is quite in keeping with his timid approach to present problems. Asa matter of fact Canada's refusal to condemn ~~ TheFour Heresies of Humanity not a nation but a cluster of component parts. The nation in its rigid sense -- a tight territory with inpregnable frontiers; with one government, one faith, one language, one culture, is fast losing significance. Na- tionalism is an out-moded straight-jacket which we must shed if humanity is to live sanely in a world at peace. The third heresy is that of the distinct culture. The history of man's attempt to establish a pure culture is a tragic, mis- begotten series of fiascos. But even to- day from time to time we hear people pro- fessing this heresy. There are those who talk and prate about 100 per cent Ameri- canism; there are those who would defend French Canadian culture in terms of a nar- row Catholicism, a rigid provincialism of manners and customs, and purity of the French tongue. Israel is a classic example of the dangers inherent in this kind of heresy. A great cultural epoch is one that - ignores or deliberately strives to break the established patterns to liberate man. Where patterns are set decay is rampant. The belief in cultures is a superstition. It is attempting to suppress the two es- sential facts in the study of man. The \first is the infinite variety of individuals which cannot be reduced to material pat- terns. The second fact, at the opposite pole, is that: mankind. in every clime, in every. age has common aspirations. These are dignity, security, love, work and play. Culture should mean striving for self-ex- pression in art and thought. form is spurious, a human heresy. The fourth heresy is race. - This is the worst of all the heresies. Here confusion is truly confounded. = A man's intrinsic worth, his fitness for a particular task, his desirability for a.friend do not depend on those hazy synthetic patterns we: call races. Any man is still a.slave who thinks himself as belonging. to 'a particular race or creed or colour before he thinks of him- self asa human being. As George Wash- ington was fond of putting it, each of us should be able to state with sincerity and truth, "I am a citizen of the great republic of humanity at large. Not until a man is 80 able to think and feel and act will or can he be free. These then are the four great heresies of humanity. Continentalism, national- ism, culture and race. How do we exercise them? With justice and mercy, with co- operation and love. And on these things did Christ and Buddha agree. South Africa can do no good and may well do a good deal of harm. The Ontario government is going to in- vestigate drug prices. Ostensibly it has to do with the buying and distribution of drugs in hospitals and institutions, but actually it goes further and no doubt we will be hearing more about the high costs of drugs. And this in spite the fact that the Chamber of Commerce publication seeks to dismiss the whole business with a rather carelesss shrug of its editorial shoulders. - The Conservatives in Ontario have come in for considerable criticism of their edu- cation grants, Although the claim was made that no municipality would be worse off than last year, the facts seem to indi- cate that many of them will be considerab- ly below the pro rata basis for 1959. This should, of course, provide some good am- munition for the Liberals who are rather lacking in respect to this kind of hardware. Any other District OSHAWA HOSPITAL NURSING TURNOVER A PROBLEM The continual turnover of nursing personnel presented the Oshawa Gen- eral Hospital with many problems, the director of nursing, Mrs. G. Tel- ford, reported at the annual general meeting of the hospital Tuesday night. During the past year there had been 78 new appointments to the graduate nurse staff and 84 resignations, she sald, : In the nursing assistant group there had been 23 appointments and 81 re- signations; and there had been 16 ap- pointments to the nursing orderly staff and 14 resignations, A UNIVERSITY IS A BURDEN ON TAXPAYER, CLAIMS MARKHAM DEPUTY-REEVE A suggestion by York County Council that the site of the proposed new York University should be lo- cated at some point within the County Doings has not been enthusiastically received by members of Markham Twp. Coun- cil. Each municipality within the County has been asked to submit in- formation with regard to desirable sites. Deputy-Reeve Wilfred Dean charg- ed that in Ward 1 there were already too many non-revenue.producing pro- perties and any more would only con stitute an additional burden on the taxpayers. A univesity is tax exempt. INCREASE MINIMUM HOUSE SIZE IN UXBRIDGE The minimum size of new homes in the Township of Uxbridge will be increased from 720 square feet to 840 square feet according to an agree- ment reached at a regular meeting of Township Council last week. The change has been made in: their pro- posed land-use by-law that has been presented to the Ontario Municipal Board, The by-law was prepared by Solicitor Wm, Parsons of Stouffville. A public hearing will be arranged at a later date before the by-law is given final approval. RR UNLICENSED PHEASANT HUNTERS PAY $196.00 IN BUTTONVILLE COURT A pheasant hunting trip proved to be a rather costly outing for 4 un- licensed youths when they appeared before Magistrate Kelley in Bitton ville Court last week. Fines and court costs levied against the accused totalled - $196.00. Each youth was charged with hunting pheasants in a closed season and being unable to pro- duce a gun li¢ense. The charge was laid by Mr. Norman Sitwell, a Con- servation Officer, ---------- Beautiful Personalized Statiomery may be obtained from The Port Perry Star Of Many Things by Ambrose Hills FOREIGN AID If our young premier has his way, Manitoba is going to go into the for- eign-aid field and donate some tech- nical schools to Africa and Asia. No one doubts the motivation of the premier, but quite a few rather stun. ned citizens doubt the wisdom of the move as a provincial enterprise, Sure- ly enough is being done or will be done by Canada through the federal gov- ernment without all the provinces scrambling to out-do each other in helping the poor of other lands." Manitoba is one of the nation's most beautiful provinces, but surely not the wealthiest either in dollars or in edu- cational facilities. In fact, Winnipeg, its capital city, is not too well supplied with educational facilities. And in comparison with Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver and some other centers. it is impoverished for community facili- ties: of an educational and cultural kind. Vancouver's Queen Elizabeth Theatre which seats over 2,800 is envied by many Winnipeg people. And Van- couver is about to build an additional small theatre, to seat 700. Montreal's Place des Arts project will provide a hall to be used for many purposes, particularly concerts, and will seat over 8,000 persons. The same project will have a theatre capable of seating 1,250, and a Chamber of Music hall for 600. Surely Mr. Roblin might have considered something of this nature for Manitoba. before adventuring into the field of foreign aid! It is true that foreign aid sounds like a noble cause, It is also true that we may do more for other nations by remaining solvent and strong here at home than by contributions which will be, in the long run, mere drops in a huge bucket. The people who provide the money will want to balance the two truths carefully. Too often, these days, governments do not give the people very much chance to make these decisions. Once elected, the government authorities seems to feel they should have a free hand with the taxpayers' money. If Mr. Roblin meant to become an inter- national benefactor, he should have told the people about it during his e- lection campaign. Surely it isn't some- thing which has just recently occurred to him? New Road Maps Several changes designed to help the highway traveller have been in- troduced in the 1960 Ontario Official Road map which has just come off the presses. The map is revised every year, of course, to' show new highways, new highways "under construction, any changes in highway numbers and some additional place names. However, the newest feature of the 1960 map is that all county and dist- rict names and boundaries are shown. The names have been placed in a cur- ve to make them stand out as much as possible and the boundaries are emphasized by white shading. The Department of Highways places signs where county boundaries inter- sect highways. With the county boundaries shown on the map it will be possible for drivers to use them as reference points when travelling. The new map is available at any of the department's 18 district offices throughout the province, Department of Travel and Publicity tourist recep- tion centres; or in writing from the Highways Department or the De- partment of Travel and Publicity, Toronto, WHITBY PLANS REGULATIONS TO CONTROL PROPERTY LINE MARKERS Regulations aimed at ensuring the permanencey of boundary markers for building lots in the Town of Whitby will be part of the subdivision agree- ment made between the town and prospective land developers. The new regulations will call for a map to be supplied by the subdivider showing the location of all iron bar property line markers as, they were at the end of the maintenance period for the subdivision and before the subdivision is accepted by the town as being completed. In addition two-way reference brass blocks must be placed in the side- walks at the property division lines. Iron stakes two and a half feet long must be placed at each corner of the property and at any point where there is a change of direction of the property line, JUNIOR MAGAZINE PERSONALITY Young Garrick Hagon, regular par- ticipant on CBC-TV's Sunday after- noon show Junior Magazine, is living up to his theatrical name (David Gar- rick was one of England's greatest actors and lived in the 18th. century). Next season Garrick will appear in the Stratford Shakespearean Festival. In the meantime, he introduces Junior Magazine's regular features and inter- views some of the guests along with the other performers seen regularly on the show, Doug Maxwell and Hank Hedges. Anglican Notes by Mary Becker April is almost here and with it the climax of our Lenten observations in Holy Week and Easter. We will all be truly thankful for the miracles of Spring after such a long winter this year. The Evening Guild met on Monday, March 28th, at the home of Mrs. J. Jefford, with the president, Mrs. Beck- er, in the chair. Minutes were read by Mrs. Porter and Miss Jarrett gave the treasurer's report. It was decided to hold our spring rummage sale de- finitely on May 14th, = Plans were made for the serving of refreshments after the youth service on Palm Sunday evening and those not at the meeting will be contacted in this connection. An interesting chapter on cultural changes in Africa was given by Mrs. Boothman from our Study Book. The way in Africa. A discussion on racial intermarriage followed. The meeting closed with prayer and refreshments were served by Miss Jarrett and Mrs. Kenny. The next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Porter on April 11th. This Sunday Mr. Fuller will preach on the topic, "The Holy Catholic Church". This is the final sermon in Lenten series on The Creed. Next Wednesday on April 6th, there will be a service of Holy Communion at 8 p.m. This will be followed by a film strip on the History of the Prayer Book. April meetings: The adult Confir- mation class will meet on April 6th, following the service; the young peo- ple's Confirmation class as usual on Thursday after school; and the Sun- day School Teachers' group on Thurs- day, April 7, in the evening. Plans for the children's Easter service will be completed at that time. The Afternoon Guild will meet on Tuesday, April 5th, and the W.A. on Tuesday April 12th. The Evening Guild will meet on Monday April 11 as mentioned above. Our services for Holy Week will be as follows: Palm Sunday service and Blessing of the Palms on- April 10th, at 11.80 a.m. District Youth Council service for teenagers that evening at 8 p.m. consisting of Evening prayer followed by a film, "Gates of Glory"; and on Tuesday, April the 12th. a ser- vice of Holy Communion with address at 10 a.m. On Maundy Thursday, April 14th, there will be an instruction Last Sup- per, with the Laying on of Hands for the healing of the sick, at 8.00 p.m. This sacred service includes the strip- ping of the altar for the observance of Good Friday. There will be a two hour service from 1 to 3 p.m. on Good Friday afternoon, Easter Sunday, April 17th there will be a service of Holy Communion at 11.30 and Children's sercice for those up to 11 years of age at 3.00 p.m. Lenten boxes will be presented at the latter service. Those young people who are in the Confirmation Classes will be expected to attend the morning service. Boys and girls in the Sunday School of 9 years and up are making a trip to Holy Trinity Church to-morrow evening, April 1st, to see the Easter story play. The bus leaves the church at 6 p.m, and a large number of the children have planned to attend. We hope to have the new Prayer Books and Hymm books for our church by Easter. It will be interesting to acquaint ourselves with the revised prayer book, although the changes are not great enough to very much alter our accustomed form of worship. The parish still has its quota of sick. Mrs. Dagenais recently underwent major surgery at St. Michael's Hospit- al in Toronto, and we wish her a speedy recovery. Mrs, F. Christie and Mrs. A. Dow- son have also recently spent some time in hospital and we hope to see them about again soon. We are hap- py to see Mrs. Hayes out and around again, The congregation was saddened to learn of the death of Mrs. Clarence Cook during the past week. Junior Farmers Meeting Mr. W. D. Weir, Sales Representa- tive, Agricultural Chemicals Ltd., Port Hope, Ontario, was the guest speaker at the Port Perry Junior Farmers' meeting held in the Port Perry High School, on Tuesday, March 22nd. Mr. Weir gave an interesting and informative talk on commercial ferti- lizers and their use in general farm- ing practices. In addition a very in- teresting film "The Phospherous Story" was shown to the group. John Somerville, Port Perry Junior Farmer President, reported that the Ontario County Junior Farmer "At Home" Dance would be held in the Port Perry High School on Friday, April 8th. The Port Perry Junior Farmers and the Brooklin Junior In- stitute will be decorating the school auditorium for the dance. The next meeting of the Port Perry Junior Farmers will be held in the Port Perry High School, on Tuesday, April 26th, Rev. J. K. Braham, Scu- gog, will be the guest speaker. The members of the Uxbridge, Beaverton and Sharon Junior Farmers are in- vited to attend this meeting. District Churches 'Scugog, Manchester and Prospect The weather favoured us last Sun- day evening and we were able to hold our Dedicatory Service on the Is- land. It was a lovely Service, with a good congregation. Many of the friends from Highland Creek attend- ed, and their Choir led us in song and gave us two Anthems: "Hark! Hark my soul!" and "Sun of my soul". Mr, Denton, a brother of Harry Denton who served as a Student Minister on the Island, took the Solo in the first anthem. Mrs. Levi Annis, a member of the Choir from very early days, also took one of the Solos. Mr. Smith presented the organ to us, and gave the key to Mr. Maurice Fralick, who graciously thanked the members of Centennial Church on behalf of the congregation. Our organist, Mrs. John Beckett took charge of the Piano, and played The Doxology on the Organ, after it was duly dedicated. Mrs. Barnes from Centennial, then took over the organ, and handed it back to our organist for the closing Hymn. A very friendly spirit was manifested, and an enjoyable hour spent after the Service. Our thanks to our Ladles for providing the re- freshments, which were enjoyed by all. The Minister's text was taken from Psalm 96:11-12--"Let the heav- ens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness there- of. Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein; then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord". So God's children enter His Temple with music and joy. They entered with thelr trumpets and musical in- struments. They lifted up the voice in song and praise, All great events are thus recorded and whether of joy or sorrow, they are put into song. One of the early ones was the victory of Israel over the forces of Pharaoh at the Red Sea. Only once did Israel refuse, to sing, and surely we may forgive them. In Babylon they were asked by their captors to sing one of their songs. Read Psalm 137: "By the rivers of Babylon, thero we sat down, yea we wept, when we remem- bered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst there- of. For tnere, they that carried us away captive required of us a song, and they that wasted us sequired of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land 1" But this is what happened; their poets put that experience into song, and they were able to sing about it later. That must be what the negroes mean by "singing their blues". God has given us the gift of song, and whe- ther we feel like singing or not, it fs there. It ig when things are blackest, and seem quite hopeless, that in spite of it all we sing praises. So Paul and Silas sang when they were cast into prison at Philippi, and the prison was lighted up; their chains fell from them; and their jail- or was brought to God with all the members of his family. The Minister concluded by saying: "Our thanks to all who have made this Service pos- sible, and this wonderful Gift. We are glad that we have the voices to go along with the music, and we have one who will be able to bring forth the very best melodies that are locked up within this organ." On Sunday, April 10th the Sacra- ment of the Lord's Supper will be celebrated at all our Churches, There will be a Service on Good Friday evening at 8.00 p.m. in the Manches- ter Church. Will our Stewards of the Island, make arrangements to attend one of the following meetings, when the Sector Plan will be explained: April 11th at Orono, and April 12th at King St. United, Oshawa at 8.00 p.m. Should the Stewards of Man- chester and Prospect be interested, they are welcome to attend. This is one of the best plans, infusing new life into our Churches, and the Pres- bytery is anxious to train our Lead- ers to do the work. The Presbytery has requested a Meeting of our Official Board on Monday, April 26th. The Meeting is called at 8.00 p.m, in the Prospect Church. Evidently, the Presbytery has come to feel that they had no autority to give our Pastoral Charge the fifteen hundred dollars four years ago, as Manchester and Prospects share in the Myrtle Manse. This should prove to be a very interesting meeting, and we hope that all mem- bers of the Official Board will be present. It won't help to do your talking after the meeting is held. What is to be said should be said on the evening of April 26th, Happy birthdays to Jim Aird, Har- old Leach, Susan Roach of Manches- ter; to John Benschop, Glen Holtby and Linda Painter of Prospect. We have missed you Ruby Roach and Ruby Fielding. Our prayers go out on behalf of the sick and shut-in, May it be Spring time in all our hearts, We are glad that Carol Fralick is improving very well. We invite one and all to come and worship with us on Sunday. 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