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L'HUBSDA, MARC! l4th, 146 'IRECANADIAN STATESifAN, OWMALNVIJ.L, .iwJTxu' PIE8)YTiERIAN CH cH Value of Paper IISSUES NEW PAPER To Subscrlber In support of the Presbyterian Th tesai p ,Church Advance for Christ and aThe Statesan 15 pi Peace Thank Off ering campaign a faly te nspapEr ,which will attempt to raise ap- mrfiec the cieofty i proximateiy $2,000,000 from the the cradie to the grave presbyteries of the Church acrose to educate and to entert the Dominion, the second edition courage and to stimula ,of the Presbyterian Church in is n doubt tliat some ri ,Canada's new publication, "The agree with opinions Presbyterian Advance," wiii be They are always free reieased shortiy from * Toronto. letter to the editor gi 'The new publication' is designed views. Newspapers wei% to iay before 87,000 families of the letters and The States: ,Church across the Dominion, the exception. needs.of the Church both in Can- The Statesman is pro ada Mid throughout the world. become the favorite fa: Rev. TC.L. Cowan, Hamilton, is paper in this area. Il itor. readers to feel thatj paper too. Contributic kind are welcome. M Seven Trans-Canada Air Lines splendid help of reade passenger agents, ail R.C.A.F. men tributing news, the mei in the war, took a special course vertising, and prinl to fit them for new duties as pur- Statesman wouid not ýser-stewards on the trans-Atlantic position it is today ta Lancastrians operated by T.C.A. interests of the people Ontario profits alniost as mucli: from the tourist business as from the gold rining industry,. It's up to us to keep this business growing. Eve sha 1. 1 3.FI etc. 6. C TUNE IN "ONTARIO - ~ OP ItOLIDAY"' CFRB, 10.30 p.m., Jhurs., Fr. and Saf. Through Fanm Improve- ment Loa ns with special ternis The Canadian Bank of Commerce finances in- stallation of the necessary Hydro equipment on the farm itself, or the purchase of an independent fanm electric systeni. These loans are aZso applicable ta the purchase of many electrical appliances. This is Baznk- ing in Action. ublished as .esigned to serves. It idents from e.It seeks -tain, to en- ate. There 'eaders dis- expressed. to write a Lving their come these sman is no oud to*have Lmily news- :wants al it is their ins of any fithout the ers in con- ýrchants ad- ting, The 1be in the Dserve the as a whoie. OTTAWA SPY CASE The Ottawa spy case is bad from any point of view. The hard core of the matter is that certain officiais of the Soviet em- bassy at Ottawa were engaged in spying operations in Canada. It does not make their offense any the lesser to state, as does ex- Ambassador Davies, that ail na- tions spy on others; that the big- ger they are the more they spy- and that the more eager they are to obtain certain facts from other countries the more zealous and less scrupulous their spying wil be. The un! orgiv-.... able sin of a spy is to get caught. that sin he is aware that his . government will disown him , «" -will pretend that he was ex-~. ceeding his au- ~.. thority - will "~ cluck its tongue "tut tut" and a shake its head ' i n hypocritîcai disapproval - But none f~ that altersth fact that international spying is a very dirty and demoraliîzng business. Russian off iciais have been engaged in that business in Canada; have got caught-and the exploitation of those two facts will undo much of the friendly outiook that has been held by more and more of our people to- ward the Soviet. Just how far Canadian citizens are involved we do not know at this time of writing (which is six days after the spy-scare bomb- sheli was exploded in Ottawa). Our government has been strange- ly slow in giving out hard, au- thentic facts. Meanwhile the. ~»~flood of rumor, smears, manufac- tured hysteria that poured out .::..:::~..:»:~of Ottawa was the most disgrace- fui that I have seen in a quarter Ille of a century of newspaper work. SAs the London Daily Mirror pointed out on Feb. 20, the great 4 national and international press services undermined gravely their Q own most priceless asset-that is, public confidence in their factual trustworthiness. They were "tak- eytourist dollar is en for a ride" by somebody, and redti a did harm which will take years .res thiStorys; to undo. Reoteuas; 2. STores; Some of the stories were, on the 5.tAusmnts;xs face of them, so ridiculous that an 5aae.Amsmns eight-year-old child could see the gross absurdities. Two days after to corne bock!l" the bomb-shell was burst excited dispatches from Montreal told o! the roundup of no less than 220 Soviet spies. Within forty-eight hours this had shrunk from 220 eodr Pbllmsh,*d int th a to two. Being part Scot, I rarely Public Interest b>' bet except on a sure thing. But John Labanti Lmit I would bec right now that there will not be even two spies, let LECTRIFICATION! What magic in the word- E particularly for the farmer, the rural home ownmer! power for the cream separator, the churn; for the silage cutter and the hardwood saw; for implements that used to speil back- breaking work. Energy for lighti.ng, cooking, refrigeration; for household appliancesl of al kinds. Tbe coming of Hydro lifts burdens, speeds tasks, transforma life on the conessions. Once electri.fication is decided on, Banking goes into Action. alone 220, from ail Montreal put on trial. Whatever may prove the meriti of the government's case agaiflst Soviet spies, there can be no doubt that in timing and handling of this case we have done grave, partly irreparable damage to in- ternational relationships at the very moment when the world could not afford that. The question therefore arises- why was the case handled this way? Why was no action taken tili Feb. 15-when the main facts on which the government bases its compiaints were ail in its hands on Sept. 7-that is iast year-over five months eariier? The government has laid itself open to the serious charge that it exploded the spy-scare bombshel when, and how, it did-not to make international reiationships better but worse.* The worst feature of the hand- ling of the case was that whiie nobody would speak for the gov- ernment authoritatively and com- petently the government was per- mitting so-called "authoritative spokesmen" or "high sources" ta give to press and radi') the crud- est, most malicious and libelous defamations against any persons or groups who had shown sympa- thy with or friendship for our al- 'y. sions were given the impressior that our civil service and scien- tific services were rotten with treachery. This whole story was first brok- en by Drew Pearson on a tip-ofi which could only have come frori the White House. Pearson says that it was Truman and not King who decided the time for explod- ing the spy scare bomb. Presi- dent Truman confirms that he knew' of the spy situation last September. 0f course there are wheels within wheels-and ail is grist to the political miii. It will be a lot easier for President Tru- man to hold the Democratic no- mination now that Henry A. Wal- lace, the CIO political action com- mittee and other avowed friends of Russian will be kept on the de- fensive by the calculated reper- cussions of the Ottawa spy scare No doubt any connection iE purely coincidental. SCOUT AND CUB NEWS The 2nd Bowmanviile Scoul arrived Thursday ail siicked ul for the last night in. which the3 could receive points. Five point! went to John Stainton, Paul Vine Glenn Brooks and John Brooký for the four best-dressed Scouts Glenn also received 10 points fo the most Scout-like boy. At this meeting Jack McCo, and Albert Lingard were invest ed into the Troop. In the presen tation of badges Jim Levitt re ceived his gardener's badge, whil Glenn Brooks received his wood man's badge. Instead o! just eight boys goir, to see the hockey game in Toron to Saturday night, il Scouts wen as we had three extra tickets. Th Scouts who went were Georg Brown, John Brooks, Gler Brooks, Jack Munday, Lloyd Wir nacott, Larry Chant, Paul Vini Jim Allun, John Stainton, Tor Annis and George Shaw. Next week we start anothE contest that will end in June. The Cubs who went to the hocl ey game Saturday night wei Ralph Vine, Arthur Joness, Ke King, Murray Winnacott, Hewi Lake and Bruce Colwell. FARM FORUM FINDINGS Br Capt. Elmore PhIIlPet At the Forum meetings held in Durham at which the debate was on the question "Will the consum- er pay for Quality?" the general opinion was "yes," but in neanly every case the switch was made to grading. Speaking about grad- ing the farmers are far from sat- isfied with the system. The order o! gradinig as far as satisfactiori. is as follows: Cream, butter, milk, meat, fowl, fruit and last, eggs. Not one forum was satîsfied with egg grading. There were some constructive suggestions such as a central warehouse for gradiing, govern- ment controlled and trained grad- ers, but the general opinion seem- ed to be that there is too much grading, and also that a suspicion is justified as to up grading when close to the border Une. Here are some of the opinions of different Forums: Shaw's: "We think that the pro- ducers, through co-operative ac- tion should process their own pro- ducts and follow through to the consumer. An example o! this is the Co-operative plant at Bar- rie." Wesleyville: "There is room for improvement in the grading o! peas and tomatoes. Whenever to- matoes are plentiful the grade is always lower. We have the opin- ion that butter is up-graded be- cause a second gra de is 50 seldom seen on the market."9 Ten Line, Cavan: "To use the words o! a well known manufac- turer, 'The priceless ingredient o! any product is the honesty and integrity o! its producer.' We hope the 1946 peach crop will really be No. 1 and not covered with anything which wiil make them look like 'what they ain't."' Bethesda: "Egg grading cer- tainly needs some checking up. Any o! our Forum members ship- ping eggs to Toronto markets are getting better grades than those who are shipping to a local station (Orono). Garden Hill and Providence both advocate a central. ware- house for grading under quaiified graders. SThe 1945 crop o! peaches was roundly panned and none o! the Forums seem to be in favor of the covering which seems to be able to fool the buyer. s i IS is s Lp ýy ,e ts. y t- ,e- le d- ag 'n he, er kn- >re an itt Mention spring to a man and he immediately thinks of robins and house painting. 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