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SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1950 THE DAILY TI MES-GAZETTE oa PAGE FIFTEEN * TWO YEARS OF HOBBY FAIR REVIEWED ALAN G. QUIN Director of Recreation, R.C.A. 'What did the C.R.A. Hobby Fair ttee have in mind when they - gautiously set about the organiza- tion of last year's Fair and set the pattern for the 1950 Fair, which + is being held next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and for simi- lar events in years to come. The Committee has with just a few changes been together now for mearly two years and perhaps it's easier in the light of the experiences of two of these annual events to saw something of what C.R.A. aims to do with its "show window of hobby interests." Members of the 1949 and 1950 Committees -- Chairman Eric Mc- Veity as a profesional public rela- tions worker, Miss D. Van Luven with her intense interest in art in all its forms, Mr. R. H. Broadbent as an educator, Magistrate Ebbs as a guardian of the law, Mrs, Ken. Braithwaite as a housewife and community leader, Mr, Al Perfect and Mr. Norm Attersley as repre- sentative of our Oshawa neighbour- hood movement--all of them would have different ideas of the values and objectives of different hobbies. On the basic ideals however behind the conception of a Hobby Fair as a community exhibition of all the @inue Oshawa people make, do Wand collect in their free time, all the Committee have been in agree- ment, Object Of Fair They wanted to show just what Canadian craftsmen--and particu- larly amateur craftsmen in Oshawa and district--really can do. People have been apt to think of handi- crafts somewhat vaguely, in terms of the novelty gift shop or the gimerack tourist stand with its use- less pincushion and crude pottery whose tea cups don't quite fit the saucer. But every day right here in Oshawa men, women and chil- dren are fashioning articles of leather, wood, clay, shell and a hundred and one other materials which are beautiful and interesting as well as functional. Everyone needs to know what the man next door can do. The Committee wanted to show too that a hobby wasn't a drug or a time-killer, It has been said that "the hands and crafts are of value only as they serve the spirit." Hob- bies that are worthwhile develop, create, educate, and give life a new dimension. Everyone in view of the increasing leisure-time which tech- nical inventions are providing heeds an opportunity through events like the Hobby Fair for the study and tivation of a hobby. Co-operative Hobbies Most hobbies, too, are co-opera- tive. They call for community spirit and present an opportunity for doing things together; they build group movement and foster neighbourhood activities, Finally, hobbies are a symbol of freedom. Few people today have a choice in their jobs. Necessity and chance, heredity ard environment, all combine to dictate the way men earn -their livings. In the hearts and minds of every man and woman, there is always a corner held in re- serve, waiting for full expression during those hours in which he is completely his own master. And so it is as an exhibition of the hobby interests of the people of a talented, creative, co-operative and free city that -- next: Wednes- day, Thursday and Friday -- C.R.A. and the Hobby Fair Committee of- fer the Second Annual C.R.A. Hobby Neigh bovhoud Assoc. Head Boosts Fair By MR. ALFRED PERFECT Chairman, . Central C il of Neighbourhood--Associations I never knew half the other fel- Jow's hobbies until I began to talk about the CR.A. Hobby Fair which is being held on April 19th, 20th and 21st. Most people keep the things they do in their free time to themselves and talking about the Hobby Fair was just one way for me of finding out all the different I knew nothing of which were going on in my neighbourrood. talked to a boy with a stamp on which he spent his and patience, collect- t places. I talked to a whose sizeable collection ers extends over hun- and cities of Ameri- to a man well ox in who oould take an ordinary wood and whittle from it the delicate carvings. I talked to boy who studies aeroplanes shat he can build his own scale I talked to radio hams North Shore Radio Club. I $0 cabinet makers, carpen- fers, leathercrafters and a dozen and one of the people who do things a ORA, the Y.W.CA, and Simcoe Hall. After meeting all these people, I began to thing thatsthose perpetual complainers that "there's just noth- ing $0 do" must be mentallly, moral- Jy and spiritually blind. The Osha- wa Neighbourhood Associations things to -do, things to make and things to collect, and that is why the Associations are behind the, ORA. Hobby Fair. Everybody is interested in the things the neigh- does in his spare time and I am hoping that this year's Hobby Mair will see every neighbourhood represented in a feast of hobby dis- play at the Oshawa Recreation Centre on April 19th, 20th and 21st. | King because of his tremendous | | understanding of the black peopiés. | |and development. want youngsters of our city to have | 3 at the Hobby Fair. ii Enthusiastic Leathercraft Work ers Prepare for Fair Leathercraft is one of the most popular hobby activities at the Oshawa Recreation Centre, and next Wed- nesday, Thursday and Friday, over 200 exhibits of leathercraft design, many of them original, will be seen ~General Motors Photograph. 34 d | Street. Oshawa Childre n's Theatre Will 'Be Represented Members of the Children's Theatre are here seen preparing their marionettes for display at next week's Hobby Fair at the C.R.A. The children above, with the schools they attend, are as follows, left to right: Jacqueline Cornish, 13, Centre Street; Pet: Rokerson, 10, Mary Street; Mae Dalby, Instructress; Jane Fursey, 15, 0.C.V.I.; Grant Pearce, 9, Centre Street; Linola Lapp, 11, Mary Street, and Christine Reid, 10, Centre --General Motors Photograph. -~ Books And Their Authors -- THE RADIO IMP By Archie Binns, Published by the John C. Winston Co., Ltd., Toronto. When gremlins get inside a radio set, all sorts of sounds can come out of it.. The radio set featured in this whimsically amusing book bv |j Archie Binns, however, is inhabited by an imp which makes it do things radio sets are mot supposed to do. It gave news broadcasts of events of fifty years ago, it turned chil- dren's hour programs into per- sonally applied lessons for the youngsters who owned it, and it gave a thzilling broadcast of a large scale robbery four days before if; happened. All of which has keen built into avery readable tale. The radio, a second hand sct|j which had long been envied by little Jim and Margaret Tompkins as they saw it in the store window, at last became theirs through the kindly assistance of the policeman on the beat, Patrolman O'Donnell. At once they found it up to its tricks. First came a news broadcast, announcing the assassination of the President of the United States, but it was President McKinley who had be2n killed. A grouchy neighbour was reduced to sweetness by gay lilting music not listed on any radio pso- gram. In fact, very little of waat it produced could be found on the radio program lists, t Buys is a great story. worthy of the introduction written for it by Field Marshal Jan Smuts. In this Coenraad Buys: trievable, disaster, personal force was wasted and lost through which he moved . . story tragedy moving to inevitable doom. He had great qualities, even some go: ! ever, could not make up for his intense pride and self-will. end he remains a mystery, and the reader must form his own conclus- ions from the life recreated by Mrs. Millin," lightly. again and again because of the powerful way it is told. As told by Mrs, Millin, a South African writer all too little known n Canada, the story of Coenraad It is well introduction he says of "What he might have been and achieved, under a better star! But here was a twist in him, as there sometimes is in great men. And so n the end all went wrong in irre- and this great the frustration and desolation . His Shakespearian n reads like moral qualities, which, how- In the This is not a book. to be read It is one to be returned to It is a splendid medium through which tc the Canadian reading public. | THE TOWER AND THE TOWN By Grace Campbell, Published by William Collins and Sons of Canada Limited. { A story without an end--that is | perhaps the best way to describe Grace Campbell's new novel of a young minister, his wife, his church and their community. "The Tower and The Town" (Collins) does have a definite be- ginning when Rorie Munroe, for- mer Second War flier, leads nis first service. as minister of St.| David's in the suburban community | of Craskie. But as the last chapter closes on a gracefully written, high- | ly interesting book, the reader knows | that much of what has gone be-| fore will be repeated in the still- | young minister's life. The novel is less a carefully- plotted, integrated tale than a | study in time of a typical community that could prove highly evocative to any reader. Mrs. Campbell set out to tell how the earnest, modern pastor meets the problems of his parishioners and town, according | to religious principles. That the | author has succeeded is doubtless | due to her personal insight, for | since 1919 she has been the wife of | Rev. Harvey Campbell, a minister | Art Is a Hobby Which Appeals ; wn : - ? i Ma . _-- to Every Age Students of the Saturday morning C.R.A. art classes for children have been working for weeks on their exhibits for the second annual C.R.A. Hobby ! ir to be held next week. There are cose to 520 entrics in the Pictorial Art and Design Department of the Fair. --General Motors Photograph Power Boats Will Appeal to Male Visitors He vower boats, hand-made by Oshawa craftsmen, will b> on uisplay at next week's Hobby Fair at the C.R.A.| building. The Fair will be the show window for over 2,000 exhibits of the hobby activitics of the people of this community. --General Motors Photograph. in Montreal. Because the story is what it 15s-- a cross-section of Craskie society-- (failure, joy and heartbreak, there | its gifted author Sarah Gertrude | most of its people are commonplace. lis the supreme tragedy of the man | Millin, may become better known They could live in any town and go | who forsook his own people and found his associates among the Hot- | tentots, Kaffirs and Zulus. to any church with a grey stone tower. ognized and shown that the com- mon place can be vital. RUBBALONG TALES By Enid Blyton, Published by The | Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd., Toronto. One of the most delightful chil- dren's books it has -been our pleas- ure to read in somé time in this excellent volume of twenty-two short stories couched in Enid Blyton's most vivacious style. \ Del _htfully illustrated by Norman | Meredith, each story is a moral in itself and ot the same time is short enough so that the tiny head does not start to nod before it is finished. | Each chapter points a lesson in a manner which is easily assimilated | and it told in a manner which cap- tures the imagination. Replete with such characters as Mrs. Popalong. Mr. Rumbustious, Mr. Dozey and Mrs. Whine-A-Bit, | the tales revolve around the lives of Rubbalong, the cobbler and his Ma in Tiptop Village. Ma knows some effective spells and people soon léarn how effective they can be. difficult for such characters as Grabbit and his sister, Mrs. Well- | I-Never. Then came the sensational an- nouncement of a daring robbery and the murder of their policeman friend. It came over the radio on a Monday, but it was announced as being on Thursday night, in the midst of a thunderstorm. Then | when the thunderstorm came on the | following Thursday, the two young- | sters became alarmed, and took their tale to the policeman. He scoZfed at their yarn, but they were so earnest about it, that he went with them to the supposed scene of the robbery. Then came thrilling adventure, for the robbery was actually, in progress, but it ended with the arrest of the robbers, re- wards for the children, and with Patrolman O'Donnel marrying their widowed mother to become their stepfather. A delightfully winsome and amus- ing book; The Radio Imp is a good companion when light reading is wanted, but it will be difficult to lay it down once the reader has started it. KING OF THE BASTARDS By Sarah Gertrude Millin, Publish. ed by the British Book Service (Canada) Ltd, Toronto. The Bastards which form the theme of this book were a polygot| collection of people of mixed colors | who formed part of the story of the | transition of South Africa from a black man's country to a domain | ruled by the whites. They were not a tribe or race of their own, but a | mixture of many tribes, and their | leader, Coenraad Buys, who forsook | his family to spend a life of amaz- | ing adventure among the black | people, achieved the title of their | physical powers and his gifts for | Coenraad Buys is no fittional character. He actually lived as one of the great leaders of the early days of South African settlement | Therefore much | of th> story of Mrs, Millin is based on truth, with certain fictional espect: introduced. Living most of his life as an outcast from his own race, surrounded by his many chil- dren of varied hues of white, yellow and black, he strode across the African scene like a Colossus. Na- tive chiefs welcomed him and hail- ed him as friend. 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A few of the exhibits which will attract attention | {are: Leathercraft Unusual' designs in ladies' purses (and belts entered by the students of the Ontario Ladies' College. Art { C.R.A. Saturday morning Art Class | --boys and girls of seven to nine, | taught by Miss Daisy Baig, A.N.S. C.A.--which in the opinion of ex- perts show surprising talent for youngsters of such tender years, Abstract oils and water colors by Alexandra Luke, better known to Oshawa as Mrs. C. Ewart McLaugh- lin, some of whose work has been accepted for the Spring Exhibition of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Bird studies in oils by fourteen- Water colors by members of the | | year-old Bucky Richards who also made the frames. Woodworking A beautiful finished desk | by senior citizen, Allen Shaut A fretwork of the Lerd's Prayer | representing hours and hours of work by Mr. Douglas Blore who has also entered three ladies' knotted | handbags. | An all-purpose cupboard made | by a 64-year-old "weman as her first | woodworking projoct. | Shellcraft | A collection of chejl brooches of iof all shapes and sizes exquisitely | finished by 8-year-old Nancy Mar- tin, made Photography A beautiful composition entitled "Silent Splendor" and a collection of still lifes and portraits by an Oshawa camera fan. Miscellaneous A ladies zippered handbag fash- | loned from cork from bottle caps. " Nine-year-old Gail Pearce's beau- | tiful carved and dressed marionette. | Winnipeg, April 15--(CP) --Earl | Willlam Dunn pleaded guilty to | theft of two automobiles Friday. Police said h's arrest ended a five- month manhunt through four coun- tries -- one of the biggest in Win- nipeg police records. Dunn, believ- ed to be a native of Calgary and well known in the Regina area, will be sentenced April 17. Speaker At Hobby Fair Is Talented Mr. Kenneth Young, who will be the Guest Speaker at the Official Opening of the Second Annual C.R.A. Hobby Fair next Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. is a man who through the breadth of his interests in the fields of recre on and education is peculiarly fitted for the job of paying tribute to the hundreds of Oshawa citizens who are exhibiting examples of their leisure time work at the Fair. A native of Alberta, Mr. Young who is forty-five too" his normal school training in Alberta and then graduated in mathematical science and education at the Universities of Washington and California. » Prior to the war, Mr, Young was success= tvely a school teacher, a high school principal and a supervisor of school and adult education for a large mining company. He has had a distinguished car- eer in the R.C.AF. spending two years of his four and one-half year stint overseas as a Senjor R.C.AF, | Education Officer. On" his return |to Canada he became Assistant Die rector of the Ontario Adult Educa- | tion Board and is now district re=- presentative of the Community Programme Branch, Ontario De- partment of Education. With Mr. Youn: at the Official Opening ceremony will be Mayor Michael Starr, Alderman ywara Murdoch, Presic:nt of C.R.A.,, Mr. George Roberts, Past-President and | Mr. Eric Veity, Chairman of thz2 | Hozhy Fair Committee. While the official ceremony is designed to po'nt up the education- al and recreational features of the Fair and to provide an opportunity for the presentation of trophies, the mammoth exhibition will in point of fact, have been open to the public since 10 a.m. the same day. Opening hours each day are from 10 a.m, to 12 noon, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 7 pan. to 10 p.m Admission is 25 cents for adults and 10 cents for children Hobbies at Home (Continued from page 14) of a progressive school provide for its students These experiences, whether tech- nical in the acquisition of new skills | and methods or co-operative in the organization of democratic clubs and groups can, and need to, be | carried into the community, and | the C.R.A. Hobby Fair is just one {of many methods by which the | school can relate its activities to community life. ' NEW CORRESPONDENT Ottawa, April 15--(CP)--A new | correspondent for Tass, the Soviet press agency; has arrived in the {capital and established an office, | He is Arkady Ogorodnikov. He ree places Simeon Shcherbatykh, Tass | representative in Ottawa for several years before beng recalled to Ruse {sia last fall. A previous replace= | ment, Timofy Remizov, arrived seve | eral months ago and clashed with officials of the Parliamentary Press | Gallery when he demanded desk | space without presenting any cre- i dentials. THREE YEARS | Three Rivers, Que., April 15 --= | (CP) -- Amedex Henri, 22, of near- |by Daveluyville Friday pleaded guilty to a charge of armed rob- bery and was sentenced to three years in penitentiary. Henri was accused of robbing a branch of the | Banque Provincale Du Canada at Ste. Marie De Blanford Tuesday | night and escaping with more than $600 To The CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY, 1950 CAMPAI, The Canadian GN Cancer Society needs your help for its programme of Education and Service and for Research Send your donations to the CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY, P.O. Box 57, Oshawa, or to the Lions Club of Oshawa. This Appeal is Sponsored by . . . . LIONS CLUB of OSHAWA through: the. story of : success and