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THE CAKADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMAKVILL, ONTARIO THURSDAY DCMBEW loi.1I A JOY NO EARTHLY WEALTH CAN GIVE There is an oid tale whicb becomes lapropas cbiefly at the Christmas time. An agnstic-a disbeliever inx Gad- znade this affer ta a nine-year-aid: "I will give you an orange if yau will tell me where Gad is." The youngster was equai to the chal- *lenge. "I wili give yau twa aranges," be said, "if you will tell me where He is flot." *Many great men have always felt the spirituality af Christmas, and some have nianaged, ta put it inta words. For in- stance, when Woodrow Wilson was asked ta prove the greatness of Cbristianity, whose founder was the Christchild, he said simply, "Try it." Cardinal -Spelîman bad a Christmas gift for the mind when he said: "The joy of Christmas is a joy tbat war cannot kill, for it is a joy of the soul, and the soul cannot die. Poverty cannot prevent the joy of Christmas, for it is a joy no earthly wealth can give. Time cannot wither Christmas, for it belongs ta eternity. The world cannot shatter it, for it is a union with Him who bas overcome the world." The late Franklin D. Roosevelt once i llustrated the spirit of Christmas witb .tbis story: "A thief broke into the home of a priest and stale bis purse. That nigbt the priest wrote in bis diary: 'Let me be tbank- ;fui. First because I was neyer robbed before. Second because although be took nxy purse, he neyer took my life. Third because aitbougb he took al I bad it was flot much. And fourth because it was he who stole, and not I' ." SOME MUNICIPAL STATISTICS Property owners paid $169,831,000 in' taxes ta Ontario municipalities lasf year. This is an increase of 56% over 1939 but as the depreciation in the value of the dollar is in excess of the actual increase inx expenditures, the cost of municipal supplies and services bas in fact declined. Cost of education to the property own- ers in the Province of Ontario was 53%7 higher in 1949 than it was ten years earl- fer. Considering the general increase inx costs which bas hit the taxpayer, this is a very moder-ate boost. Bath educational fax levies and general municipal tax levies .have increased less than the rise in the cost of living. Who says it isn't cheaper to live out- side the cities? Recent statistics released by the Ontario Department of Municipal Affairs point out that in 1949 the per capita tax levy in Ontario's 29 cities averaged $52.35 whereas the same f igure for the towns and villages was $34.44 and for people living in the townships, $3238. However, city taxation is littie higher to- day than it was nearly twenty years aeo on a per capita basis, whereas it is uD 50%/, in the townships in the past decade and up 25%,ï in the towns and villages. Ontario's rural residents are appar- ently much more cautious in their mun- icipal f inancing than their cousins in the towns and cities. While Ontario's 29 cities cut their per capita debt from $192 in 1926 to $75 in 1949, it still remains far above the $40 per capita debt of the average township. The towns and villages of the prvne have not had such an auspicious rcr.The average per capita town and village debt in 1926 was $107 and it is now just under $80. Town and village per capita debt was down to $48.85 in 1945 but has climbed nearly 60% in the last five years. Did you know that Ontario bas seven towns which operate their municipal gov- ernments entirelv apart from the ad jacent county councils? They are ,Brockville Trenton ,Smiths Falls. Ingersoîl, Ganan- Dque, St. Marys and Prescott. OBSERVATIONS AND OPINIONS Came Christmas day, the average Can- '-adian dinner table this year will be graced with the greatest array of food delicacies -since the war. Everything from turkey ',to nuts wil be in plentiful SUDply and at -prices not far remnoved from those of last ,Christmas. Inx the first nine nxonths of 1950, the 60-odd Canadian, British and United States life insurance campanies operating .in Canada paid out to beneficiaries of de- oeased polieyho1dersand to living policy- bo;hlders in Canada $173,332,040 compared :with $154,937.476 last year according ta the ,Çanadian Li1. Insurance Officers report. LOVE - THE LAW OF LIFE 0earlâmmn tiiegm Butabll5h.d 1854 Witb whlch je incOrPorated TeBOWnaajn. News, Th» Noecaul. e ndnî arnd The Orono News 95 Years Contjnuoua Service Io the Town of BowmanvWDe and Durham County AU INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Mlember Audit Bureru et Circulations U4iID> Canadien Weekly Newsapfflt a ~Association+ SUESCRIPTON RATES $2.50 at Year, strlctly in udvance $3.00 a Year in the United States Publlshed by THE JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY Authorized as Second Clas& Mail Pont Office Department. Ottawct. Bowmanvill., Ontario GEO. W. JAMES, EDrTOE STANDARD 0F LIVING- The recent publication of the Domir ion Bureau of Statistics entitled "Nation Accounts Income and Expenditures 1942 49," brings to light some very interestin facts. Among other thinpgs this releas shows that personal expenditures on con sumer goods and services for the year 194 amounted to 10,956 millions of dollar. Unless this figure is related to somethirý else of course, it means very little. Per hapDs the average reaction would be tha with the price of thingýs so high it is ri wonder that expenditures reach thesi astronomical figures. Checking back hov ever, we find that the cost of living indeý between the vears 1941 and 1949 showe( an increase of 44',,. Personal expenditureý of consumer goods and services rose somr 118%,7. While there has been, of course some small increase in population duriný that period, these figures show definitel) that despite the dlaims of the demagogues the Canadian people are living better nom than they ever have before. Further evid. ence of the prosperity of Canadians . found in the fact that for every threE dollars spent for food in 1949 Canadian spent over a dollar for tobacco and alcc- holic beverages. UNNECESSARY THINGS "Why bas man the will and power t( make bis fellow mourn?"-Robt. Burns. It is not necessary ta establish a nev tyranny in order to destroy an old one. It is flot necessary to destroy the laboi unions in order ta correct their abuses. AL that is needed is to deprive tbem of thE extra-territorial powers they wield, and tc require them ta observe the laws of thE country the same as others do. If is flot necessary to force men ta join unions against their wills, or to pay dues ta unions to which they don't belong. Unions should be voluntary organizations, as they were in their younger and bettex days, without power to eoerce unwilling people into joining them. If is not necessary ta establish a closed sbop in order ta give labor ifs rights. A closed shop enables some men ta deprive others of the right ta earn a living, and should be forbidden by law. It is not necessary ta require emplby- ers to deducf union dues from their work- ers. Wîllingness ta pay one's own dues should be a condition of membership in any voluntary organization. It is flot necessary to deprive empioy- ers of the right ta discharge unsafisfa.ctory workers. The employer knows the job he wants done and how be wants it done. He should be free ta chaose the man ta do it and ta change him if unsatisfactory. It is not necessary f0 condone iawless- ness in labor disputes or ta allow concilia- tion officers ta settie disputes by promis- ing that law-breakers will flot be pro- secuted. If is nof riecessary ta substitute pal- itical influence for collective bargaining in labor negotiations. Bargaining is bargain- ing anly sa long as both parties are free from intimidation. It is flot necessary ta make farm mar- keting schemes compulsory or ta deprive farmers of the right ta seil their products wbenever anxd wherever they think they can seil ta the best advantage. It is flot necessary for the- governinent ta rid the wheat pools of embarrassixxg campetition by abolishing the open mar- ket. The pools have had a quarter of a century to show whether they could give the farmers better service than the open market. If they are still asking the gov- ernment to destroy this competitor, it is an open confession that they have failed to make good. -John Atkins in The Rural Scene SOCIALIST CCF IN DOLDRUMS The CCF, born of bard times, is hav- ing a bard time itself lately. Across the country come camplaints from party lead- ers that membersbip is falling off, revenue declixxîng. Representation bas dropped inx the legislatures of B.C., Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario, the only provinces where the CCF bas bad any strengtb, and in Parliament. Socialist leaders admit the decline inx their party's fortunes but tell their foliowers if is only temporary. This is a delusian, declares The Financiai Post. A nation with the boundless resources of Canada and the ability ta produce weaith an the sfale that this country is producing is fia place for a party af negativism and despair. flo do50 ecase e i flt yt gde as ot even reached Korea. in possession of the best or the The appeasers must realize thatD ST B most atomic bombs. things are happening mucb fast- %tfU1D I T I It is known that the military er today than they were eleven chiefs of the United States have years aga. The time is rapidlyN R LG . F J m es studied the tactically use of atamn- runningz out wvben the atomietcin s jc weapons. There is aiso iittie bomb mnay be put to its proper G E E RA doubt that If this bomb were military use. By immediate as- placed at the disposai of the comn- sistance of tbe highest order onlv, I Cre Kic&Slv fs manders of the U.N. forces in can the powerful U.N. army be :REC ne Kiç&SlerSs Korea, with instructions that it saved ta figbt Stalin on another be used locally, the advantages front. We hope týhat face-saving Bw a that the North Koreans now bave conferences are assistance of the inte 0r f the neutral Chin- highest order. Must we allow - fa!, ese hordes could be neutralized. the fear that we, as civilians'. mi D alr But the Nations that have the feel the iran fist of war, Iead us least stake in the U.N. army are ta ignominious appeasement and, GRAHAM'S GARAGE BURKETON GARAGE the ones wha would sooner ap- perbaps, eventual slavery? Haydon Burketon' pease Communist China. than bac uptht arnywih te olyVIRTUE'S GARAGE MART SISSON'S GARAGE weapon likely to save it. The Tyrone Orono reason is of course, that tbey are I LEHMAN'S GARAGE KINGSWAY GARAGE afraid that the Russians wili use H wampton R.R.4,Ohw the same bomb on their home- h a t4Ohw lands. Let us ibe frank, we are WM. MORRISON GARAGE L. FALLIS GARAGE all afraid of it. Even the Ameri- Pontypool Cadmus cans, w~hase President suggested the use of the bomb, ue afraict 01 Mi 1 eni Tire Shop ~ Phone 467 avlie J. TRIPP GARAGE Port Perry BURLEY'S GARAGE FRANK HOSKIN STORE Blackstock 1 Christmas has one universal meani which ail the world recognizes; in 1 wards of Christina Rasetti: Lave came down at Christmas, Lave ail lovely, Lave Divine; Lave was born at Christmas. Star and angels gave the sign. From the first Christmas Day onwai that gaad news bas warmed the bearts men and wamen and children everywbe: Althaugb nearly twa tbausand years o' it is stili the loveliest stary of ail tin and the mast profound ane. It means th God rules tbe world in lave, and tbat1 sent His Son Jesus Christ ta Eartb as little Cbild ta make that truth plain ai understandable toalal mankind. Every Christmas brings tbat messe, of love and spreads a spirit of gaod w'~ among us. It is that spirit wbich mal'< it a season of gifts; inx tbat spirit the Chril mas tree is lit, and tbe melody of tbe carc goes. round the warld. Everybady shar witb everybody else; noa one is forgotte This is tbe time wben the wboie wor is reminded tbat love is the law of li: Upon that truth depends al aur baopinee ail aur good wisbes, and al aur hope better times ta come. -Christmas issue of The War Ci has iig tte rith ac- hat oo be - -Ný - . - . . ý , LV, La Observer Editor grip on things ln general. It ing In ihe Diii and Distant Past Warns United Church centres o ouain h MustBe n th Alri ities of the world, there is liti 1rmToSataa ie the youth of the land, and the <'It isn't good enough to rest appears to be ground for thea satisfied with past achievements,"1 cusation. It has been feared th~ FIFTY YEARS AGO Reynolds' property ini the vill- Rev. Dr. A. J. Wilson, editor, commercialism bas taken t age. writes in the current issue of The strong a grip on the church to Ex-Town Treasurer Thos. Bur- Orono-Will Davy has returncd United Church Observer, calling easily shaken off. rds den hps a long letter in the paper from spendîng a year in the Yu- for an advance of the whole Business was neyer intended urging the town council "to get kon where hie was engaged in re- United Church of Canada. be an idol for man or natlc of busy and do something to fi the pairing harness. "h hrhi ntedfn Whatever it is, the effect on tl re. empy ouss o b fondon i- Tyrone-Peter Werry and famn- sive," Dr. Wilson writes. "There rTorîd is soon noticeable in a cari )d, most every street in town, give ili have moved to town, OCCUpy- is a tendency to be satisfied just lessness of living that is regre employment ta working people uig Mrs. G. A. Watt's residen nie, and assist in paying our taxes s * ne. to hold the line. We talk rather tale. There is a place for tC ha hihae etighave eeyglibly about Christianity being a - - Hle year." TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO that iy movement, fogetng ý a ame McCnnahiewant a hatone wîth God is a major- ad cl Joaes McConnach et w ntsa Alex McGregor was elected ta ity." nd cld torge areous se UP111represent West Durham in the Dr. Wilson says there are vast Bowmanville to take care of the Fifth Ontario Older Boys' Par- areas of Canada "utuhd ý groin pulry ndsty. liament. He defeated Norman the Church. There are other areas ge Misses Maggie Tait and Edith Winter of Orono. where a minister is doing the 'iii Carscadden sang two solos ac- Harvey Winter has resigned work of two or three; there arc es companied by Edith Freeland at from the Public School teaching still others where a student or~ st- the piano at the newly organized staff and is succeeded by John superannuated minister is hol(, îs Women's Institute meig The Kaywood of Warkworth.. ing the uine until reinforcemen; 1* es "Those present were among the class of Public School won first "The Church needs millions c' n. most intelligent ladies of the coin- prize of $25 in The Toronto Star dollars. The three million do]] id munity who desire to add stili a "Earn a Book" contest. . goal of' our Church this year e. little more knowledge ta their ai- Sherwood J. Collacutt, native just peanuts from a nation whic .f. ready well eciuipped minds in the of Maple Grove, who has operat- plans to spend a billion dolla ss, management of their homes." ed a bus service from Oshawa toa etya nwrpeaain"~ of Enfield--School Trustees have Toronto bas now extended it to Dr. Wilsron wgoe on tio ta engaged Norman Heatlie as teach- Cobourg. Dmreiso fn group ofta men er for 1901. Starkville-Sid Hallowell and te inofergupfmn !y Newtonville-Prof. Kent of Kenneth Haw are home from Cal- in the world than the laymen of Bowmanville gave one of his gary. teUie hrh u hr famous lectures on the mysteries Photos of Mr. and Mrs. A. H aren't enough of them working at v of electricity, in the Temperance Fletcher and their beautiful rose the job." *a Hall.i gardien of over 500 bushels along He concludes: "We of the In- Four fires took place in town ini with write-up in the Toronto Star Church must raise our sights, h t B 2- Balmoral Hotel and Salvation Ebenezer community turned out mnarch. The men wbo raised the 12 Army barracks, owned by Wm. in full force at a fareweli party one and three-quarter million àASubscril ng Muir; later, a frame building in and presentation to R. E. Osborne dollars to wipe out the deficit, and ýse he ear f te Mir popety;and family who are moving to another 'five million dollars for se the drtea r o Muir poey Bowmanville. the Pension Fund could provide]Fvrt 49 the Eastern House; Warren Evap- Mark L. Roenigk who joîned ail that the- Church needs if re- oýatr whch pper Caada ur-the 1noya Bank staff here in 1909 cruited for the task." rs niture factory once used as a fin- bas received another important The____________ îg isbing room. Chief Jarvis arrest- promotion by being transferred ýr- ed George Payne and charged hlm to anuvrB..A eVei an A Just like a letter from ho: at with setting fire to the evaporat- Wilfred Bigelow, Kirby, won A eW na g or. is ril cn te el t..orn O0f Spiritual Decline ?l to Dad - ta the WhoIE 10 a~~~~~~frt priz cesin l the W.C.T.U. or-sbrugt o 10 Dr. A. T. Stanton, Pontypool, Bert Saunders, Rickford, Il.Ionynwsbogtt se is President of the Post-Graduaie who is engaged in Evangelis1i (Daily Commercial *News) subscription ut$.0a V_ Medical Society of Toronto, and work in Uncle Sam's country. re- "The present age is threatened the U.usS$.5 a ýX Dr. F. W. Marlow, native Of newed oid acquaintances in 1jus with moral and spiritual decline d Cartwright, is Vicé-President. native town in company with fils and the church is looking for nmen Solina-Edwin Reynolds bas sister, Mrs. W. Raine, Toronto. who will rise up and check it,' A1"~P es bougbt Stephen Hogarth's 30-acre J. E. W. Philp bas retîred as raid à prominent preacher the Y .LLU JU a ie farm east of village for $2000. C.N.R. Station Agent at Newcastle other day. eP o i aC e, Sam Sortridge bas bougbt Mr. after 30 Years faithful service. This statement is one that w;il g create considerable controversy y '>..., li i I *ain and out of the church, yet ti ý'Y o r rellV Christmas Tree one that will bear looking into GlUf Su] by people who make a suyo V "rn ~practical conditions as they bearTECA DI ~- a ieon the tapic under discussion.TH A DI îs I aD n er u F r aa rd That there is a raefe- ýe dom of thought and action now Name of Sender - is Cbristmas, the traditionai sea- ance" that its beauty was destroy- than previously, will not b)e son of goodwill, is marred in ed. One preparation, long recom_ questioned by those Who have hundreds of homes each year nDy mçnded by government experts even a superficial knowledge of Address Christmas tree fires. Warning bas since been found to lessen things that pertain to rigbt living VI against this hazard, Donovan Fitz- rather than increase the tree's re- and thinking and already con- patrick and David A. Weiss state: sistance to ignition. siderable concern bas been' voiced Name of Receiver "The outstanding Christmas tree Foulty wiring of ligbts is a no- by those wbo are endeavoring to killer is the evergreen tree." Last torious cause of Christmas trec effect somne betterment of con- Address year 52 people burned to death fires. Tbe article urges that wir- ditions in the vriovs grades of ;0 in Christmas fires. Hundreds are ing be checked for worn spots Society.wode injured and more than a million and loose connections, that no Tbere may be many whode Sdollars worth of property is de- eiectric bulb touch a branch and clare that the church is losing its stroyed, each Yule season, in the that lights be turned off wben ________________________________ United States and Canada. the family leaves the house or re- r The article, condensed from the tires for the nigbt. 1 Rotarian, says that many people Other means of avoiding a EHR ' e believe certain chemicals will Christmas fire tragedy: Keep the render a tree fireproof or fire- tree outside a few days beforeT HW EHR S resistant. Underwriters labora- Christmas and, once it 15 inside, t ories enginéers, bowever, say that keep it moist by cutting the trunk they have yet to test a solution on a diagonal and placing the they cani recommend. A fire- base in water. Neyer use light- proofing "paint" tried an bis own ed candles. Remo evaccumula- tree by an officier 0f the National tions of gift wrappings. Use oniv Bureau of Underwriters. did make fireproof decorations, neyer cot- BT TE ES I the tree fire-resistant but gave it ton or paper. Get rid of the r "such a sticky, brown appear- tree by New Year's Day. The Use tof Atomic WeaponsJUTARVD (By Glenhoinie Hughes) THEGENERAL Ignorance of the preparations it. But if Britain badl been afraid made by Communîst China, and of retaliation in 1939, or, to be lack of realization that any Coin- frank again, bad not faced that munist, placed in the advar- fear, we might now be the slavcs tageous position ta help the cause of the German conqueror, or more ilra19 2 l that China is in, was likely ta likely, already be the corpses that WHEELSMm abîde by the rules, bas led the mark tbe last stand of Hitier ESPECIALLY FOR REAR W EL United Nations army into a death against the Stalin controlled trap. After liberating practically hordes. the whole of the Korean peninsula I The appeasers declare that, at U II*C E U *M ii the U.N. army is now outnumb-I ail costs, formai war with Com- FOR SNO~W a LUSH MIWID ered by ne'ariy ten ta one. munist China must be avoided. Tbe Commander-in-Chief of But these men have onîy a paltry Tihis is the tire that's especially built for the United States military forces,[ brigade or ftwo facing the b-Ad arkn fwnes tstedi ab UNIMPROVED OADS- Winter-Cleats are made higher and spiritual things lia 'the life of ail, and if these ar ne- glected or ignored, the resuits to , the national life are saddening and disastrous. If the moral devitalization of the race is to be prevented, and the world beid back from inter- national degeneracy. there must be regard for religion. The su>- ject is worthy of the serious at- tention of educators the world over. The human race is worth making ideal, and ta accompijuli this the worid and its leaders must learn to place first things first. -. h etter «01ft i ipion Io Your Newspaper 'an Statesman Dme- of interest to Mother, le family. Ail the local and rou once a week. One year's nywhere in Canada; $3.00 in irisîmas Gifi Card ibscripion AN STATESMAN GOODI 1 I I Dvided '980