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THURSDAY. OCTOBER M3.1948 A A1v A A Rnw U1t1wiAm.T. nT? N'A RTf FAGE ~~~ AL~~~ TkR ANAIAN bTi~.~ATEA £,VL15 U.JYVAYZA1VI A.. £stabllshod 18b4 wtb whIch là incorporated Me. owinanVtll.News, Th.efNewcastle Lud.enOêlI =md The Orono News 94 Yeais' Continuous Service to the Town of Bowmanville and Duiham County Authgqnzed as Second Class Mail. Posi Office Departrnt. Ottawa AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPEH Membet Audit Bureau ai Circulations Waekly NewspapOrB 0 Associaton SUBSCR1PTION RATES $250 a Year, strictly in advanc:e $3.00 o Yeai in the United States Published by THE JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY Bowmanville, Ontario GEO. W. IAMES. Editoi Autumn Ref lections Notice anything different about the air theae days. An exhiiarating tang, a hint cf froat? An urge ta close the window when ycu get up in the morning? That's autumn, the 'season cf mista and mellow fruitfulness." A time when Nature proudly displays ail the hues in lier paintbox, *presenting a kaleidoscope cf colour along the highways and river banks. A f ew ail-toc-short weeks when nostrils are assaiied by the pungent oroma cf burning beaves, and the f ragrant wind whips a deep glow juta cheeks still tanned from summer vacations. This is the time for banfires, for golden harveat mous, for exultant whoops as the bal sails aver for a tauchdown. The tang and iuvigorating air cf the f al season seemis ta give one and ahl a renewod zest for the important tasks ahead as we maya iuta the home stretch cf 1949. New View on Assessment Bebellion is shawing its ugly head, net against the church or state but againat aur system cof assessing land, says the Farmer's Advocate. The praciice, cf course, la ta assesa good property highier than pon property, but the Kent County Comrmittee tcld the Ontario Logis- lativo Committee cf Inquiry on Conservation that present methods oblige the industriaus, painstak- ing prcperty owners ta carry the caroleas, the indifferent and the indolent. Millions af acres ln Ontario lie idle. They have been non-pnaduciug lauds since the orig- inal forest waa stripped f rom thomn and f ire completed the destruction. A large percentage cf these soils are unsuitable for agriculture and are, therefare, assessod at little or nothing. They wauld, however, praduce a crap cf timber and are consequently potentially productive. Be- cause they pay little or ne taxes these acres are allowed ta lie ide, in which condition they are a menace ta the surrounding cauntryside and a burden on the state. On the othen hand, woeded land is often aasessed at a higher rate than surrounding praporty, which is tantamaunt ta a tax on a grawing crop. With these circumstances in mnd the On- tarie Conservation and Reorestation Assaccia- tien cames farward with the suggestion that land be assessed accarding ta its potential value and specifically that grawing timbor, like othor crops, should net ho taxed. P-.cst No Bis on Polze3 lu Bowmanville in recent months hydre and telephone pales have become unsightly bill- boards for ail sorts of advertising materiai. Along this lino Fart Erie teck a step receutly which @hould win wide approval. A new by-law prohibits posters, political or any other kind, on any cf the municipality's utility poles. "It's al part cf - aur beautification drive," explained Mayor Zif f. Most people, we feel, will agree with Fort Erie's mayer that the buik cf these posters are f ar f rom beautiful. This is especially true after the wind and ramn and sun have played with them for a week an twe. In Bowmanvilie there is a by-law which pro- hibits people tackiug or nailing up pestera on local hydro pales, but many have gotten around this by tying themn up with strings. There needs te be no law ta tell the crdinory citizen whc hos some pride lu the appearance of his towu that posters and bills plcistered up and dewu the local streets are detrimental ta aur town's appearance. Any local organiza- tion which indulges lu this prootice would do well ta revise their methoda cf odvertising. The local P.U.C. mon wili usually look after posters pinned up by outsiders. The Best Selling Book The Bible ia stili the wold's fasteat and beat aelling bock. No bock penned by mon has ever been able ta came anywhere within reach cf the distribution given, year by year, te the Holy Scriptures. That was mode evi- dent «t a recent meeting held lu the Unted States cf representatives cf twenty national Bible Societies. At this meeting. these societios combined net their annual goal for distribution cf 35,000,. 000 copies. This consista cf 4,000,000 comploe Bibles, 5000,000 copies cf the New Testament and 26000,000 copies cf selected portions of the Scriptures. According ta officials cf the American Bible Society the demand for copies cf the Scrlptiires in phenomenal. Restricted produc- tion in the war years, lbas and destruction of copies during the world wor, have combined ta brug about a backlog cf demand which will take many yoars ta overtake. lu pre-war days, production amaunted ta about 24,000,000 copies a year. It ln hoped ta excoed that figure by h11,000,000 copies in fte immediate future. There ia hope for humnanlty, aftor ail, when the Bible and partions cf it are in such demand. The Holy Scrlptures. with their meage of ",peace, goodwill toward mon" off or the uurest f oundaition an which a world of peace and security can b. built. Positive Approach Best Editorial Notes Thora is a dosperate need at present for leaders in the local Bey Sceut Movoment. It would bo mast regrotable if this valuable youth training and service organizatian, lu active aporation liane for the past tweive years, now had ta curtail its growiug activities and dis- appoint some keen ycung lads fer the need cf twe or three voluntary leaders. "Local administration may b. defined as the science cf management applied ta the local govennment' service, lu private business and îndustry the umotive cf profits is sufficieut te set up the moat efficient formn of management, but iu public administration the lucontive cf privato gain is lackiug - leaving prestige, pride in stervice and a sense cf public duty on the ment actuating elements."-Selected. If we hold firm ta aur ideological, national and racial ivaîries and hatred, if we place on aur scientiste the bitter burden of the prostitution of their services iu war, if we fou teo realise the danger as well as the immoraility of the irresponsible behavior that has marked the past conduct of international affaire, humanlty will suffer the fate that it han long invted.-Dr. H. L. Keenloyside, Canadian Deputy Minster of Mines and Resources. We frequently hear it stated that Canad- ian history 15 unlnteresting. lu aur public and high schoals -it is a subject that seemingly la difficuit ta encourage the studont ta study with any dogree cf enthusîasm. This is meut un- fortunate. Determined offerts should be initfated ta moka the chronicles of aur nation more en- ticing, for it would ho a major disaster ta have, in predominant numbers, Camadions who know littie cf and cane less for the traditions of thoir country.-Chacthatm News. SAny meve ta ban books or efercise censor- ship, over printed matter should be viowed with the greatest caution as having within it nomne- thing of an anti-domocratit nature. Howover oe must concede that there aro magazines allawod . on the newsstands today whose oniy functian is ta cater ta tho licentious impulses in hwnanity. As literature, they are worthloss; as humer magazines. thoy are not f unny; thoy are ooed for nothing. At the same ime It ian nt wise te overemphasizo the danger ta marais cf youth which may result from thom. A publication may be warthless without being morally evil. In any event. parents and toachers should infarm adol- escents about the true value of thesé public- ations. They should be told about the more worth-while magazines ta b. read, about the bocks that are' really interesting. A positive approach ta this problem is altogether desirable. Canadians Seek Own Security .Most Canadians feel it isa a personal re- sponsibility ta provide their own desired objec- tive cf security for themselves and their familles despite a tendency in some quartera td shif t this- responsibility from their cwn shoulders ta the gcvernment. This- spirit cf independence is strikinqly demonstrated by the large amcunt of life in- surance idi force in this country .- a sura cf more than $13 billions. The determination cf most Canadians ta provide for the financial welfare cf their fam- illes shows that the vast majority is flot content ta depend upon public doles or charîty in the event they are no longer here ta provide for them. It indicates that the Canadian people still possess that, spirit cf independence and thrif t which has made Canada one cf the world's great nations. Government Spending Decried By Ex-President Hoover Few Ex-Presidents cf the United States have kept abreast cf the times like Herbert Hoo ver. His public speeches in recent years have won repeated press headlines for the very soundness cf their economnic reasoning. Speaking recently ait Stanford University he summed up the trend to government spending as definltely detrimen- tal te the free democracy set up in Americai 174 years ago. We take the liberty cf quoting some cf his observations which appiy with equal force ta the Canadian scene cf the present day. Mr. Hoover said: "The real test cf dur thinking should ho in terms cf the coming generation. If we wish ta remain a dynamic. progressive people we must take heed cf the geometric increase cf spending hy our governments - f ederal, state and local, and see where we are heading. "Twenty years ago the total burden cf al these governments was bass than $200 annualiy fcrr the average f amily. Today it has risen ta $1300. Twenty years ago persans directly or indirect ly receiving regular manies from gov- ernments were one in forty. Today the figure is one ln seven. "Such public payments drawn from tax- ation, bath actucd and in prospect, require the revenue from 81 days cf worlc performed by the earning population, leaving on the average cnly 154 days' earnings for the average f amily. "One end result cf this increasinj taxation is that government becomes the major source cf credit and capital ta the economic aystem. Along the road cf spending, the goverrnent either takes over - which is Socialism, or dictates oùr econamic if e - which la Fascism. "There is far more courage in reducing aur debts than in increasing themn. And that ia à duty te aur children. We have nat had a great socialization cf prcperty, but we are on the last mile ta coll'ectivism through gcvernment- aI collection and spending cf the savings cf the people." Mr. Hoover went on te say: "The American people have solved many great crises in national life. The qualities cf self-restraint, cf integrity, cf conscience and courage, still liv. in aur people. It is flot toc late ta summan these qualities. Think it over.'" "A Hundred Years Ago" We are indebted te Dr. L. B. Willianis, a past president cf the Durham County Club of Taranto, for sending us the folawing peem. In his letton te the editon the genial Docter makes these comments: "I accidentally came apross the enclesed peetny today. You will notice the date - 1894. I think it must have been amang papers cf Mrs. Williams' mether. I don't know anything about E. .M. Mcrphy, the author cf it. I thought since it is.100 years ago you might like te use it this year. I intend te set Aitot pictures for the pragram h amn giving at Eldad Church on Friday evening, Oct. 14.-L.B.W." "A HUNDRED YEARS AGO'* We've met to-day ta celebrate a deuble Jubilee, In hanor of the worthy sires who cnessed aur inland sea;, Brave hardy "Susquehanna"' men, wvho feared net frost an snaw. Such were Durham's herees, a hundred years age. In Canada they found a home carved eut by willing hands- From woods cf beech and maple, new turned te fertile lands, Like promised land cf Scripture "where milk and honey flow,» Once a xilderness for wolves, a hundred years ago. "The pastures naw are c]othed with flacks," 2.h nature hears Gad's veice And sings His praises ever mare, while husbandmen rejeice, In homes cf peace and plenty, with barns that overfiow, Ail honar ta those pioneers a hundred years ago. Non do xve trust te fruitful farms, but trade and commerce tee, Our factonies are numereus, and experts net a f ew, Of fruits and dairy preduce, geod herses, sce our shew! Yet dan't despise "the oxen" cf a hundred years ago. Our cauntny's bl est with inland sc-,s, and ivors long and xide, Broad prairies, mines and timber lands, eur heritage and pnide; While farnis se rich produce such crops, and mines of riches show Investments gaod, thaugh hid from sight, a hundred years age. This Canada of ours, "bright jewel cf the crowvn," That sways the sceptre far and wide where sun can neer go down; Our fathers loved the British flag, &Il others we forege! As did those *"U E. Loyalists," a hundred years age. A numerous effspring here to-day, ike "olive branches" share- The baunties of that Providence, by whose Almighty care Those aged sires were proscrved, and worshipped "here below," The author of their mercies, a hundred years ago. Their harvest day is ove", they're gathered sheaves above; And se will their successors be. when ripened in God's Love; "The angels are the reapers," and ail with them may go, As did our pieus fathers, a hundred y2ars ago. E. M. Morphy, A. York Pionet Bawmanville, September 22, 1894 *Messrs. Burk, Truli, Conant and others. Interesting Career C.W.N.A. President (The Fnanciai Post) A third generation uewspaper- man was clected head of the Can- adan Weekly Newspapers Asso- ciation at Jasper recentiy. Ho is Roy Beau, publishen o! the Water- lac (Ont.) Chronicle and manag- ing director of the Bean Printing and Publishing Ce. If all gees well, the Chronicle will sean becelebrating its hund- redth anniveàsary. It was estab- lshed by Roy Bean's grandfather iu 1856 and ever since has been ROY BEAN gnewing with the community. Indeed its work now extends be- yond that fer other uewspapers, magazines and peniodicals are published in the Chrbnicle plant. Since 1939, when he was just 27. Roy Beau las been iu full charge' On the large metropalitan newspapers there are plenty cf people who have seldem if even strayed eut cf their specialist fields. But the weekly newspapen- man is df!erent. Ho must have expenience lu ail branches cf the business if ho is ta ho a successful publisher. And ho must have wide communiýN' iuterests tco. lu al respects Roy Beau can claim the necessary qualfications, While attending school in his native Waterloo he was aise spare time reporter on what was then .is father's paper. Later came a full time job in the same line. To rouind this eut ho sold advertising and subserîptions, made layeuts, dd some crawing and dlabbled with phetognaphy. He put in a speil in the stereetype room cf the old Daily Telegraph of Kitchener, set type, wvashed the presses and even swept the fleor. Cemmunity activities include active membership in the lncal Chamber of Cemmerce, 'Kitchen- er-Waterloo Rotary and the Wa- terloe Young Men's Club. Like bis business expenience, Bean's reactions are aise vanied. He likes te ride herses at any time and also te take a few piztures. When ho is net skeet sheeting lu winter ho is skiing or woodwork- ng. The rost of the year ho tinkers around with a pawer boat and does a littie fly fishiug for treut. Building World Peace (By R. J. Deachman) The United States is an extra- erdinary cepantny. It has enar- meus wcaith, an intelligent peeple and seme cf the most pe- culiar political conceptions of any country lu the wanid. I locked up the trade returus this mcraling. Experts in 1947 amouuted to, the stupeudeus sum cf $15,201890,000-imparts were ony $6,953,707,000. Now nermally imports are payments which wel receive for experts, se, as the pictune appeans on the surface the United States 15 giving away goods valued at almest $9,000,000, 000, It's net quite se, bad as that, t.hene are many cross-currents in that meving stneam of wealth. There is Marshall aid-that is a gift to the people cf Europe- those wilng ta accept it. The United States aise, maintains armed forces lu Europe. Part o! it nepresents American taunist ex- peuditunes abroad-and American taurists are scattered ail over the world. The number will increase as peace becomes mare and mere, cf a reality. The Amenican contri- bution te the uplift cf the people of Europe i's an act cf charity un- surpassed lu human history-no on your bank book YOUR BANK BOOK is a littie book ... yet ini it you can just about trace the outlines of your life story. Lt pictures at a glance how much you've spent, how much you have left. It's one of your most personal, most private belongings. Lt gives you a fuit accountmng, figured to the penny by your bank's trained staff. Clear as a bell! Your bank book is a limited edition - one copy only. What is in it is known only to your bank and to yoil Multiply your bank book by seven million and you get some idea of the book-keeping job your Canadian chartered banks are doing. There are more than seven' million deposit accounts like yours . .. 5 PON SOR ED B Y YO0UR8BA N K other counttry could afford ta meet the bill. There are items on the otherside. The United States has neyer ,felt the impact of an European war-the destruction of capital, the task of facing day after day the struggle for bread, the fear, the misery, the death of hope- which in two long wars have bro- ken te hearts and minds of the people of Europe. Fortunate in- deed is the world today, that America as a whole, escaped this supremne disaster. America, North and South has remained as an island of hope and peace. There is a road towards peace -difficult as it may appear. Churchill in his recent speech pointed out how Britain, about the middle of the hast century. opened her markets ta the world, even her costal shipping was free to the ships of other cauntries. This freedom gave to Britain the position she sa long held. The United States Is a higli tariff country-not as high as it once was but stili very high. She is adept at keeping the commodities of other countries out of the United States. This restricts the movements of goods and hampers the development of Europe and America. The United States needs Great Britain-Great Britain needs the United States. Look for a moment with a mind, as far as possible freed fromn prejudice. In Grea War 1, it was Britain which held her ground until Amierica came to the rescue. In World War II, the pracess was repeated. If Bni- tain had fallen in that conflict- if faced by a more powerful mili- tary force than ever previously contronted pny other power she had been forced to surrender what would have been the position of the United States, Canada and the rest cf the free world? There might well have followed a con- flict which would make World War II only the opening salvo of a stili greater struggle. Men are thinking these days. A union of the Anglo-Saxon world is nat improbable. It would be a free wonld, with no desire to conquer, or ta restrain the freedom of others. It would not ry to impose its will on other,- but united and free to keep the' peace. The world would be with us in this-only despots want war. I am not even sure that this would prevent war. If there is a better way let us hear about it, there is no time to lose-it may be later than we think! The improvemnent of the under- standing«is for two ends; first, our own increase of knowledge; sec- ondly, to cnable us to deliver thati knowledge to others.-Locke. We cannot flatter ourselves that we have understood a truth until it is impossible for us not to shape our lives in accordance with it.-Maeterlinck. We solicit your subscriptiona for - Canada Savings Bonds* Fourth Series -J The, pay 2 4 per cent interest each year for ten years. -1 They can ho cashed at any bank at any time for full face value. Complete deiails and officiai appli- eation form will be sent on request. 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