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ç'~r ~ y ~ THE CANADIAN STATESMAI(, EOWMANVILLEOIÇTMtIO "RIRSDAY. AU.GUST 17th, 1950 DRUNKENNESS NO EXCUSE "I dldn't know what I was doing. I didn't really Intend ta hurt him" .."ta crash into the car" ..."fa commit mur- der" . . . "ta leave my çhild" . . . "fa bit thaf policeman" . . . "You see, Your Hon- or, I was a littie high!" "I was intoxicated." "I was under the influence of liquor. . .' "I didn't mean ta". . "The acf was flot premedifatcd -." Intoxication as an excuse, twisted ànd turned this way and that, but still an ex- cuse. Something to lean on when commion sense bas gone. An appeal to the court on the ground that ail men have this cammon failing, and you, Your Ronor, know that a man inat quite ahl there when he is drunk and shouldn't, therefore, be held respon- sible for what he does. * When is ahl this nonsense in aur courts going ta stop? Drunkenness is no excuse and neyer can or shouid be held as such. Drunkenness is a cause. A man or womnan who, when intoxi- cated, damages, injures, or kilis, is and *shoulci be jusf as hiable as the man or woman who, when sober, damages, in- jures, or kihîs. To the dead child if makes no differ- ence whefher its killer was sober or intox- icated. If an ything, a sober kilier is more likely ta have taken precautian ta avald the deafh. The drunk kilier is a killer *whether in a car or with a gun or knife in hand. "THg9 CUSTOMER WHO NE VER COMES BACK" 1'm a nice customer. You aIl know me - 'm the one who neyer complains, no matter what kind of service 1 get. l'Il go ln à restaurant and l'Il it .whlle the waltrebs gossips with her friends and neyer bothers to serve me. But I don't say a word - 1 just wait. If the soup is cold, or the cream sour, I try to be nice about it. It's the same when I go to a store. I don't throw my weight around. I try to be thoughtful about the other persan. If I get a salesgirl who becomes "uppity" because I want to look at several things, I'm polite as I can be. I don't believe that rudeness is the answer - you see, I wasn't ralsed that way. 1 seldom take anyfhing back ta a store, because I lind people no disagreeable about such things, but ane day I did take back a pair ai nylons. I'd bought three pairs in a box and anc pair had a run in them. The girl crossly told me if was my faulf. 'I guess if was, for I hadn't examin- ed themn before I bought fhem. But I didn't make a fusa about if. I just decided to take the Ions myseli. A short time later 1 bought a toaster that burned ouf affer I'd had if only two weeks. I certainly hated ta take that back. But I 'fthogsght mnaybe they would know where f0 send if Ind I could pay for hav- ing if repaired. I didn't get the chance ta tell them this, they were s0 busy telling me I had burned if ouf on purpose. I ctuldn't think ai anything ta do but heave. Sa I quletly walked ouf. I neyer kick, I neyer nag, I neyer criticize, and I wouidn't dream of maklng a scene. No, I'm the "nice" customer. But l'Il tell you whaf cisc I am - I'm the Customer who neyer cames back. That's ah I1 do - I juat neyer came back. 13ut unfortunately a dissafisfied custamer like myselI, multiplied by others like me, can just about ruin a business. I olten wander why they spcnd so much money on expensive advertising trying ta get us back when thcy could have kepf us in the first place b-v a few words and a smile! -Kiwanls Magazine PILLAR OF ECONOMY In this country, dozens of new busi- nasses start up every day. Some of themi fali by. the wayside - after ail. it's a proflt-anda-Ioss system and nobody's in- vented a profit-without-the-loss system ~.Yet! - but certainly a good number make & go of it. This growth of small businesses Is one of the healthy characteristics of our economy. Just as important as a supporting influence on the Canadian economie scheme, however. is the con- tlnued private and public investment in the country.' Happlly, the outlook for 1950 is good. Estimatesi of the Department of Trade and Commnerce indicate that the total capital expenditure programme for this year - soeniline, for the new enterprise and ex- panding and strengthening the old - will PAGE TWC, %b anaom »wtaegîna Bêtablshed 1854 viithwbicb in aacorporat.d r» sowiwza-vW Nws, The. Newcastle ladepeadeat and The. Orono Nova 95 Yeara Continuoua Service ta the Town 01 DawmanvlUe and Durham Couni y AN NDEENDNTNEWSPAPER Momboir Audit bueau et Crculation» Canadian Wéekly Newsapffrs SV3BCRWTION RATES $2.50 a Yomr, atricthy ln advac. $3.00 a '(car in thoeLUnited Statsa Publshed by TME JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY Authoraa.d cru Second Clasa Mail Pont OUifc. Deparlont, Ottawa. BowManville, Ontario QEO. W. JAMES, Lumron Double page colour spreads in ail th leading Canadian magazines for Augus have by this time captured the plaudil ai the discerning public who feed thé inm pact of modern forms ai advertising. Wi refer ta the advertisemenf sponsored bi The Canadian Bank of Commerce unde, the titie, "The Bachehor's Dihemma." 1 is a short, short-story written by the dis finguished Canadian author, Morley Cal laghan. By thé time this comment ap pears it is probable that thousands o people have lifted ouf this bnief masterý piece af literature and art ta be read agair for ifs infrinsic moral value. The story tells ai a Toronto bachelor who having won a huge Christmas turke3 on a raflfle, tries repeatedly and unsuccess. stocked up. Finally he takes the furkey to a church door, where hate at nighf, Christ mas eve, the white-haired sextorl says: "It's neyer too late son, T knowa hundred poor families who would apprec- iaf e if." The more anc reads the story the greater are the imphications inhereni in If. For the bachelor himself, as the conchudinig paragraph reveais, found he hadn't been looking for sameone ýwhc wouid appreciafe a turkey, he had been haçking for someone who would appreciate him. If happens at the marnent that tht. edifor ics in hospital under a long sen- tence ai complete resf. The story was a real tonic and continues as a fine daiiy companlon. If wa's only by accident that aur bifocals caught the small.prnn foot- nofte ut the bottom ai the page, 'Publlshed by The Canadian Bank ai Commerce, - because we liked if." We have since earned that this en- terpnislng and growing banking institu- tion plans a series of these short, illustrat- ed stories at the hands ai Canadian auth- ors and artisf s. If is a new and commend- able departure in the realm of adverfising in these times. It introduces "character" ini a f ield that is becoming jaded with a sensehess cacophony ai sound and half- baked ideas fhaoding the air-waves day and nighf. Turn your dial and listen ta the plethiora af shouters, torch singera and soap box operas chanting superlatives on the alleged menits ai a thousand commer- cial products, then shut off the silly as- sault and quiefhy read "The Bachelor's Dilemma." There is ahi the difierence between the mad, naisy scrarffble ai the clfy and the cool shade af a quiet, country lane. The dilierence between thoughfless scurry and scramble and the calm con-tem- plat ion ai the things that make life worth- while, the dilîcrence between sanity and the fimsy, mental somnolence grawing in upon us. We have came quite a way from the day when financial institutions used ta contact the public wifh. the cold formality of stilted stafement s brisfhing with unin- telhigible statistics. For the past few years we have scen the efforts ai The Cari- adian Bankers' Association bring forth a more "humanizinL-" insight ai their func- tian in the Canadian economny. Now we f ind this approach brought handsomeiy ta the fore in the series planned by The Canadian Bank ai Commerce. The Can- adian public wilh came ta realize that the keen minds that conceived thi.s nriewaD- proach ta advcrtising have donc some- thing highly important ut an opportune fime in the hile and progress ai Canada. EDITORIAL NOTES An investment in soul conservation, in reforestation, in wihd ile presce-vation. is a e-affirmation ai aur baud fin Ieaving fa aur children a heritage ai which they may be increasingly proud. James Syme Hastings, who worked on the Cincinuati Enquirer in the early 1900's, contribufed many famous sayings which are stihl uscd by current wifs. Among them are the hunes: "Every baby resembles the relatives who has the mnost inoney."' "Do ight and fear no man; don'f write and icar no woman" was anather. Again, "Most husbands develop info pmetf y de- cent animaIs, considerfrug the material their wives have ta work with." lu Per cent comnpared--w-it-h'pre- FOR A POUND 0F TE A? war, that the U. S. and ta a lesser offitCiaadais are encuaged iooked le Ja veny nice thin fr OfelutCanaa, are encoage in Uncle aJoe r ccntly i whfo decrease af production. ,It is Ivan and bis wiie and ahl the nat truc that there is danger ai littie Russians. Uncle reducd- averproduction ai bread grains. by gavernment decrea--the pricea There la an acute sud incraasing On a number afiItems, from 10 condition ai shortage. Ail that ta 35 percent. is fthc matter la that refusai ta But, strarigely euough, Ivan permit producers aifaod ta trade sf111 bas to, work from two and freely with consumera la creatiug a bah ta 37 times as long ta buy local aurpluses." those goads, as campared with a Canadian womker! EMBARRASSING MOMENT And, even sa, the reduction lu price had mare prapaganda value Asalesman taking bis bride on than any real advantage to Ivan 2 their honcymoon visited a hotel and bis brothens. For Ruasia sf111 where ho baastcd ai the fine Is concentrating on production of honey served thare. Turniug ta tanks planes anad bomba, wifli thue walf an le asked, "Sam, where's anly a sligbt increase I produc- my honey." tlan ai consumer goods. Sa fthc "I don't kuow, air," anawered uew prices mean little ta Ivan ex- the waifer, eyeing the bride eau- cept that the new sboes which tiously. 'She don'f wark here he caunot iind lu the atones this any mono." y'ear would have cont hlm ls -i a be about $3.6 billion, which is fivej cent. above the record established iC 19 0f this total, construction is about 12 p £ent. higher, while machinery and equ: ment are about five per cent. lower, thi last year. It is expected that this over-ali capit programme wiMl account this yeRr f about 22 per cent. of the total nation expenditure on goods and services. In Spité of the uncertainty of ove seas markets for lumber, agricultural PI ducts and some manufactured goods, e: penditures on construction by Canadi. manufacturers is> 1950 are expected be over $212,000,000, which is over $9,00( 000 higher than in 1949. Expenditures fi machinery and equipment wlll be aboi $594.000,000. Add these two lots of d< lar figures together and you've got 0Vg four-f if ths of a billion dollars in capiti expenditure by manufacturers - monE laid out of expansion, which In turn mear more jobs. .This might be likened to a farmeri the sprlng. Hie spends money in the plan ing to harvest a good crop in the fa] nvestors "plant" money now - now bi lng the sprin - and the labour forci expanded by the trust the investors hav in the country's future, harvest a biggE Sroduction capacity in the faîl - the fa' eing the future. Ail of this simply emphasizes the lac that investment requirements forma powerful pillar'in the current Canadia economy. ~ANADIAN pr The Country Editor er Canadiana: The Clinton, Ont., O è 'ï Ea ip.. Record thinks the Dionne quin. Lan uplets Ian't a thing, points to W. L. Johnson brmnging in eight per.9 aleictly-formed strawbcrries all Progressive Progresa joied n oe .. Cved Was From New York cornes the re- :or the air conditioning resevoir at port± that Henry Wallace pulled. nal Dauphin, Man., theatre by a out f -h PoresvePrtth loud crack af thundr ... A Port organization that sponsored hlmt er- Credif, Ont., item fellh af Jack in the Presidenfial race I 1948,1 ro lateau returning from a fishlng follawing a split with other parfy1 trip ta northcrn Ontario stopplng leaders aver the Korean criais.a e t the scene of an accident an Wallace was ini favar af U.S. in- ýan the Queen, Elizabeth Hlghway tervenhtion -.fthe Party advocated ta and learned his parents were In- a banda-off pôlicy. 0,- volved in. a head-on collision From aur position an the back lor wbich sent them and five oithers fencedIt 'Iooka like Mr. Wallacea ut Altona, Man., reveals 797 eligible ing af. "progressive" and lias 1. votera, with 79 having the namne finally decided to employ if. r ,er Fniesen, one ini every ten ...**0 tai Movie fans in High River, Aita., Attention Mrs. Robinson à ey were burned when they discover- Advice ta the mother af Keifh t ls ed Joan Crawford had been a Robinson, winner of the Samay-h visitor in town, only Mns. Hunter ede pup at the Bawmanvillet Ramage at the B.A. Cofie Shop Legion Carnival, Fnlday, July 28, t in recognized her and got an auto- In anc year Mis. Elizabeth t- graph . . . Raderick Cummiga Wyrflan ai Santa Barbara, Cali- fl1 89-yean-ald ploneer of Mury fornia, gleaned cnough yarn fnom îe- ville, B.C., boarded a 'plane for the combings af her two Samaoy- r a ltl viait to, his aid home in ede pets ta make nine sweaters. ePrince Edwand Island . Sar- 21.* Ve dines remalh a drug on fthc mar- Canadian Manpower $ er ket places oi Nova Scotia, the iish The Bureau ai Stafistics re- fit il going for $10 a hagshead at Grand ported recently that Canada bas 6 Manan, it ls reportcd ... At High 250,000 more men of fighting age à] ct River, Alta., Old Home Week a than she had at the outbreak afi1, cablegram af congratulations the Second World War. e $ a came from Jim and Aima Cain- The repart said that there were fi n eran af Calcutta, India ... Sixty. an estlmated 1,685,900. men in the a] ane years aga a tower was built 20dao-34year age graup as of cE for a bell atop the Anglican June i compared wlth 1,399,200 w Church; today there lsaet lantta in 1939. The 20-to-44 age group 5( bell a-ringing, a git fram .Joseph was estimated at 2,527,100 com- 5 G E. Maylan ai London, for the pared with 2,123,700 in 1939.- Es church in Forest, Ont. . .' . Mrs.*** D. Raahawakl ai the Sylvania dis- Negative ShottunW e trict near Tisdale, Sask., et 87 Shades af a shotgun wedding. th st stililihas her own teeth, daily Kitchener police responded ta a rc S wheeIs in the wood with a wheel- cali made by a complaining papa Il barrow, hoca the garden, etc.; has who ciaimed that his daughter's or k two daughters, but 20 grandchild- boy friend reiused ta leave the A re ren, 30 great grandchildren and premises. Times sure h av e v ýy two great Éreat. changed. In Grandpappie's day, In r Morosely the Smiths Falls, Ont., we remember, there waa always- .t Rcor-Nes sys:"On aithea shotgun handy for just such most deplorable and fao irequent ocain0 aights on aur streets Is a man or Russian Fary Tale woman dragging along a child Who can h.ardly walk . . . when It's reported irom Vienna that fthe child starts ta cry or fails, the Russian propagandists have en- -thick-headed keeper usualîy furns tered the field ai fairy tales. This n with a elap or snari." cames as no surprise obsenving Langiey, B.C., News: Quite re- that the tale ai "Stubborn Malik cently the people ai BC. were and the Democratic Dragons" is rtold bY the Red Dean and jater being enacted at Lake Success at y byRèv Endcot, tht eerytingthe present tIme. inb Rus. Edicot, tat eerythand Han sel and Gratel ha. beeu Sleul-Rusi w il sfor ee sudchanged ta Ivan and Vers - we peaciulbuidin fo pece--.-didn't know the Russians dlaim- ~'they should came back aud ex- cd Germnan blood. Kings, queuns, Y_ plain why Russia has appropri- brave princes and beautiful prin- to ated $20 billion, which is $6 bil. cesses have been deietied, oriiy the, ri lion more than the United Stae a nsrelf.Ithised fir or Erie Ties eviw: prpaganda re one Joseph Stalin FortEri Tims Rview Inhas been intenjected. -recent votes ou Sunday sports Thlnking af the Yankee tale the fundamental principie. behinci "The Devil and Daniel Webster,'I t Sunday observance seems ta have we wonder which part Joe couid been fongotten. There is a ten- play lu the saul-seliing story. dency ta ester, even lu defeat, ta Surely flot the démocratic Daniel. those for whom Sunday is simply*** the occasion for a good sleep, ra-, Here and There ther than for auy sort of me- Washington - (Brama aif Can- ligiaus sctivity. Where such ada note) - United Statcs Selec- people are In the minority they tive Servýice Headquarters baes have no rlght ta any speciai con- autharized draft boards ta defer sideration. even If it is clalmed brainy students who have com- *ou quasi-religiaus grounds. pleted et least a year ai college k An argument on tariffs: "Ciearly and are planning ta continue tarifi cuts by dollar countries their education this faîl. have ta be comnpensated for by If they rejected "brainy"' people relaxation ai F.E.C. regulatuons on in Canada, we. could neyer hope the part of sterling ares. Failiug ta raise an armny. Aren't we the this, Canada wîîî import Stijli clever race, thaugh?. more uniemployment while she Hsmburg, Germa'ny - Former will export few stapie camnmodi- officersai the Nazi S.S. (Black ties. Russian trade with Britain Shirts) volunteered for the fight needs aiao ta be watched care- in Korea with hundreds ai others. fully. Case can hsrdly be made Consulate officiais said, howcver, for reducing tariffa on UIC goods that the U.S. Army didflot take Stijli urther if that country' Germens. soswiilingneas ta buy cereals palek ton - A mani sswing a showswhe a lady rushed into in Soviet Union aiter having ex- hip hpswd ho~ h ploited ta the limit ita advantage board sud cut off h,,is lt littie under the wheat buik-trading finger when she kiased him. Al agreements. thîs for a waman's kîss. If turn- The Peace River Record-Gaz- ed out the lady was bis daughter, ette deplores editorially that in aud the kiss a greeting-she just the West they are wssteiul Of returned siter a long absence. aur historic landmarks and negli- Penticton, B.C. - An oiisprlng gent in recordiug the history af af a New Hampshire hienlbas dual the early days. talents. He or she can lay an The Renirew Mercury halds egg-did so twa months ago- that the bright future af Canada and naw. it crows raveille like lies not in the big, shopwarn, any good rooster in the wee smoked, dirty and unclean cities, houra. A foui fowl, we would but lu the country and little saY. towns. Whitchurch, Eugland - Four Aimante Gazette: Canadien womeu were fiiied 38 cents cach zNATIÔONAL Ivans sf111 will keep an substitut- ing hope, for dry feet. RoW rMuch Work? It'g a bit difficult ta evaluate t ust how much labour If takes ta uiy a Pound ai butter lu Russia, camparcd with' the work a Can- adian needs ta do ta buy butter. For one thiug it la tied up with fthe new value Stalin bas put on fthc Russian rouble af about four ta fthc United States dollar. That had littie result for the Russian people-who ara able ta buy aniy a banc minimum ai consumer gooda. aflyway. But It did put a«reai squeeze on we4teruers employed in Russa, wlio now will need aimoat million- aires' salaries fa live. And It made fthc Anglo-Russian frade Pacf cosf the British more; it made fthc. cost ai buying from Russa higlier for the Communiat satellite countnica; and it made the Chinese Communiets pay higben for their new $300 million trade agreement. Quite a neat trick af finance! Incentive? Shacking! But ta get back tô Ivan. The Economiat, ai Landau, England, reports mauthly wage eamnings of .inskiilcd workers lu Russia as 250 ta 500 roubles, equivaient ta $68.75 ta $137.50 lu Canadian funds on flc basis ai the uew iilicJal value for the rouble; while ikiiled warkers receive 500 ta 1,500 roubles, equal ta $137.50 to $412.50 Iu Canadian funds. And fi yau fhink everyone is treated ilike lu Russia sud there is no lu- centive system, look at this-shock workers or Stakhanovites get 1, 500 ta 3,000 roubles, which is $412.- 50 ta $825 per month, based on Staîin's new rouble. Although there are s few shack workers earuing high salaries, th average monthly wage la 600 roubles, the Econamist iaund. 'hat la equivalent to about $150 on the basis ai the new rouble. Average mauthiy salaries and wages in Canadian manufactur- Drv rsi howuttr k a eck group were involved in 256 Fatal Accidents. than fice shoas which lie couldn't iind hast year, eiliher. Sa many But wbat about prices? The neareat thing ta a Canadian worth 25 cents a pound lu terma ai Canadian money--compaved fa about 10 cents a paund in ifHam- iltan. But what about tes? Evi- dently Ivan la supposed ta rosat wheat. or somethiug. Tes coý,ts the equivalent af $39.91 per paund,, compared ta $1.06 for fthc same grade ln Hamilton. Cheese At $5.0 While Ivan bas ta work two and a haif times as long as a Canadian worker ta earn a boai ai bread, he wonks nine tîmes as longi as a Hamiltonian ta acquire a1 pouud ai cheese, which in Russa adisu. 1How Ivan cap £ive hMa eilîdren milk la anybody's guesa. A quart ai milk costs birtu $1.13 lu tcrms ai e!anadian value. Ho probably does withaut butter on has hread-it costs $5.37, or cighf; times as mucb as in Canada, in terma ai boums ai work. Beef wouhd coat the Russian an amount equal ta $4.36 per paund, if be could get if; iamb la worth $2.87 per pouud. Ciotbing prices are aven worse. Ivan would womk more than' a month ta get a suit-af 632 roubles, or $173.80 Canadian. A wooilen dresa for his wife would take fline week's work-413 roubles or $113,58. A pair ai good shoe coos more than flirea wceka' la~U. bour, 470 roubles or $429.28. V - -~ - -w---~~ - - ng as ai December, 1949, amount CNR'S DUPLEX ROOMETTE BRINOS YOU, OJNTARIO DEPARIMENT OF HIGHWAYS 050. H. DOUCETT. Minlale, fg o . i Read, write, play cards, relax. Pull-out wash basin and foilet facilifles of your own. bý ýrm or cool . .. a touch adjusts the temperaitur. to your liking. 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