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"OPINIONS DAILY TIMES-CAZETTE EDITORIAL PAGE | FEATURES THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE OSHAWA . WHITBY T4E OSHAWA TIMES (Established 1871) THE WHITBY GAZETTE AND CHRONICLE * (Established 1863) Net Paid Circulation Average Per 'Issue 7 797 OCTOBER, 1947 Y J ' WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1947 : --f-- ® ® 0 Fine Citizen Removed In the death this morning of William Edmund Newton Sinclair, K.C., M.P., Oshawa and Ontario County have suf- fered a great loss. Prominent in the civic life of the community for almost half a century, he had made many contributions to the advancement and welfare of the city and county. His passing has aroused a very sincere feeling of regret among his large circle of friends who held him in the highest esteem. After completing his education, Mr. Sinclair opened his practice. of law here in 1899. His ability and many fine personal qualities resulted in the development of his practice into one of the largest in the district. In recognition of his many fine qualities and knowledge of the law he was elected a Bencher and later a Life Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada. Despite the many calls upon his time, Mr. Sinclair showed a keen appreciation of the part a true citizen should play. He entered civic politics and served as Oshawa's Chief Magistrate for six terms. He also gave unsparingly of his time and energies to a number of local organizations. He was the first president of the Oshawa Red Cross Society when it was organized in 1915 and held that office until February, 1946. He was elected president of the Oshawa Branch of the Victorian Order of Nurses when it was insti- tuted in 1933 and continued in that position until he retired this year. : ; In 1911, Mr. Sinclair entered the field of provincial poli- 'tics and brought the riding into the Liberal fold for the first time in a number of years. While he was defeated in the 1914 election, he was returned in 1919 and continued to re- present the riding until his retirement in 1934. In 1923 he was,chosen to lead the party in the Ontario Legislature and served in that capacity for seven years. Heeding the repeat- ed requests of members of the Riding Liberal Association he consented to contest the federal election in 1945 and car- .ried the riding in a three-candidate contest. : Of Mr. Sinclair it can be truly said that he submerged his own interests to those of the community in which he lived. His many contributions to its advancement and wel- fare will live as a memorial to a life devoted to public service. Interest Lacking "For the first time within the memory of City Clerk F. E. Hare, who has handled the city's nominations and elections | for over 30 years, Oshawa electors will not be required to cast their ballots to select the members of any elected body. At the expiration of the qualification period last night only the required number had been nominated-fo fill all vacancies and as a result, Mayor F. N. McCallum, the ten members of the City Council, four members of the Board of Education, and two members of the Public Utilities Commission were elected by acclamation. However, it will be the duty of the ratepayers of the municipality to go to the polls on Monday, December 1, and cast their ballots on the question. of the expenditure of $700,000 for a new secondary school plant, its equipment and the purchase of the land required for its erection. While it'has been said in the past that an election without a mayor- alty contest is lacking in interest, such should not be the case in this instance. The future welfare of the community is at stake. The Oshawa Collegiate and Vocational Institute is overcrowded, and as a result, neither the staff nor pupils are able to do their best work. Present lack of accommodation is a definite handicap and for that reason, it should be the alm of every ratepayer to turn out and support the erection of the new school.' . : To Mayor McCallum, we would extend sincere congratu- lations on his election for a tHird term. When he first con- tested the mayoralty, he,was opposed by Dr. W. H. Gifford and Harry O. Perry and won a by comfortable margin. Last year he was opposed by Finley M. Dafoe and won easily. The acclamation accorded him for 1948 is a tribute to his ability and popularity. Many vexing probleihs face him and his coun- cil during the coming year. To them we extend every good wish for harmony and success in their deliberations. Of the members of City Council for 1948, six were mem- bers of this year's Council. Of the four others, W. J. Lock, A. S. Ross and Cephas B. Gay have had previous Council experi- ence. Four members of last year's aldermanic body--Ernest Cay, John A. Coleman, A. Gordon Davis and J. Norval Willson --did not choose to run again. Of these four, the first three were well versed in the business of the city and for that reason their sage wisdom will be missed. Ald. Willson, during his fist year as an alderman, also made a distinct contribu- tion to the work of the Council. ' Three of the four retiring members of the Board of Education--Trustees BE. A. Lovell, J. L. Beaton and George A. Fletcher, were returned. The other new meniber of the board---Stephen G. Saywell--has had a number of year's experience, and therefore, there will be no dislocation in the board's program. The dean of the Public Utilities Commission--Samuel J. Babe--was also returned while Henry F. Baldwin replaced Arthur G. Shultz. : The only regret residents of Oshawa should have in con- nection with the election is that there was a deplorable lack of interest. It was necessary last night for a number inter- ested in the welfare of the city to make a last minute canvass #n order, to secure enough men to qualify and so prevent the holding ot another nomination meeting. Admittedly, the corporation is in a sound financial position, but this is no excuse for apathy. Rather than a minimum of candidates, there should be an opportunity for the electors to exercise a choice so that the city could have the hest available personnel in pocitions of trust, . By HAROLD DINGMAN Ottawa Correspondent Ottawa, Nov. 26--Alberta's Premier E. C. Manning will retire soon due to serious illness. Offi- cial word to the contrary may be issued because the Social Credit Party is in 'sore political straits and trying to mend its fences. In. gide the party there's a squabble developing about his successor, The child' welfare investigation in Alberta is not the worst hurdle that must be jumped by the Social Creditors , , . there's an even big- ger story developing which will break in a few months. LO FORTUNES WERE MADE -- Reliable information from the West says very tidy sums of mon- ey were made just after the gov- ernment decontrolled feed grains. One dealer made $7,500 on a crop delivered to him before de- control and, of course, the farmer was enrazed at the government. This story, - according to my in- formation, was repeated in hun- dreds and perhaps thousands of instances. Yesterday I reported the Liber- als from the far concessions were worried about the government's financial policy. Worried? Some of them are sick with worry and buckets of protests are rolling in- to Ottawa. The whole country appears to about the new prohibitions, quo- tas and trade treaties, The result is likely to be a series of tough government. announcements or ers bluntly that they are better off financially than they have ev- er been .. . but it is a hard poli- tica® row to hoe. J 4 EMBARRASSING MOMENTS-- The Brain Trusters in the silent cabinet were redfaced to hear Mr, Abbott's frank assertion that the Cabinet didn't realize just how much of.a legal wallop was con- tained in some of its emergency ilegislation. It is regarded as a I'rather strange admission--that a | bill can get through Parliament without anyone knowing. the full (meaning of what they were doing. The bill in question is the gov. ernment's whole legal basis for the extraordinary control mea. sures taken last week. It is the Foreign Exchange Contro] Act. Said Mr. Abbott: "At the time | this act was passed the govern. {ment did not believe that such bower was contained In the act but we are now advised by the law officers of the Crown that it | provides the le~al basis for such restrictions as are proposed." Some of the high-ranking con. tributors to that bill were Dr. | Clifford Clarke, Deputy Minister {of Finance; Louis Raminsky, {Bank of Canada, and Graham Towers, governor of the bank, Mr. Abbott now says that when these and other gentlemen were busy writing the bil] they didn't know be in a state of great confusion | speeches. Tough in the sense that | the government may tell squawk. | When The Time Is Ripe... -Fitzpatrick, fi The St. Louis Post-Dispatch ® 25 Years Ao e A Bit of Verse Reeve George Morris, Deputy- | Reeve Frank L. Mason and Council- | lors Robert Preston and Johnston | | signified their intention of stand- | ing for re-election at the coming municipal elections. | Col. J. E. Farewell, K.C,, clerk of | Ontadio County Council, was ex- pected to be appointed special ad- | visor of the council within several ! | days. i Town Engineer W. C. Smith an- | nounced his assistants had diszov- | ered that Oshawa water meters were | being tamperéd with on a whole- | | sale scale." Prosecutions against | | the offenders would ke larm:hz, he | warned, if the practice didn't halt. Advertised for a local tazawa was "everybody's favorite," Rud:lpa Val- entino, who was to appear with Lila | Lee in "Blood and Sand." | Late November or not, W. J. | Harris, Centre Street resoried al { numoer of pansies in full bloom at | the rear of his home. WOULD SPREAD INDUSTRY Pembrcke, Nov. 26--(CP) -- The Ontario Demariment of Flanning and Development, after a province- wide survey, has decided that it is |n°¢ sound nolicy to have all indus- | tries | of poou.ations, | | Citario Flomuinz {ad Develcnment Minister Porter said last night. Industry should spread si32.c over as mula L02a as | pessible," he told a joint meeting | of three service clubs, | | | congregated in great centres | CRICKET SONG Thete lingers in the cricket's lonely son g Some part of youth that romped in sunny fields; Some daydreams carried over to the long Autumnal nights that cool Octbber yields. Some adolescent loves; some scene of owers That tantalized a bygone gypsy breeze; Some redolence of all the happy hours Of courtship prodigal with pleasan- tries. And now as Indian summer comes and ngs A flaming leaf against the sunset glow, I love the cricket's song because it rings Me back those memories of long ago When we Jcoked out beyond the bridal . suite And saw the our fee --Norlin, in Chicago Tribune. A Bible Thought "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." Jesus said, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life." (Prov. 16:25; John 14:6). hole. world bowing at eo Other Editors READY-MADE EXCUSE (Windsor Star) Parents, says an expert, should let their children experience fail- ure. And little Willie hopes this sage advice will be considered the next time he brings home his report card. NO RENT AT ALL (Toronto "Saturday Night") Mayor Lewis of Oitawa, return- from Moscow, says he was im- pressed by the low rents over there. And millions of people live abso- lutely rent free in concentration camps. INDIFFERENCE BRINGS DICTATORS ah - (Chatham News) People do not have dictators merely because they choose to have dictators, and yet the people are td blame when they come into power. When the public, through indiffer- ence or ignorance, neglects to main- tain its democratic privileges, the dictator sees his chance and em- braces it. END OF HUGH DALTON : (Montreal Daily Star) Mr. Hugh Dalton, British Chan- cellor of the Exchequer and author of a book entitled = "Principles of Public Finance" has brought his -| career to a spectacular end because he broke one of those very princi- ples. can hand out advance information on a budget and go on as before. Hugh Dalton is through. No man in British public life | in| (U.S. Rubber Firm Wants $40,000 Worth Of Latex Monthly From Polymer Toronto, Nov. 26-- (OP) ~The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. of Akron, Ohio, is negotiating for the purchase from the Polymer Corp- oration, Ltd., synthe' 'ec rubber plant at Sarnia, of 180,000 pounds a month of G.R.S. latex, with a monthly value of $30,000 to $40,000. This was stated here Tuesday in an interview by Robert S. Wilson, Vice-President in charge of sales of Goodyear. = The planned export, first Cana- dian export of latex to the United States, follows reduction of the American tariff on synthetic rubber from 20 to 10 per cent under the Geneva trade agreements. Asked is the proposed deal is a result of the tariff lowering, Mr. Wilson doubted that it could have been made otherwise, and said the change "at least made it more at-: tractive." He said the deal is not completed but it is far enough advanced for him to speak about it. The terms G.RS. covers general purpose synthetic rubber and im- ports from Polymer will be used in various products including automo- bile seats, mattresses and cushion- g. \ Mr. Wilson said it was import- ant that the synthetic rubber in. dustry be maintained so that North America might never again be cut off from supplies as on the outbreak of war with Japan. Both Mr. Wilson and A. G. Part. ridge, President of Goodyear of Ca- nada, who was also present, felt it was possible that continued re- search might develop a product equal to natural rubber. For some purposes it had already done so, Mr. Partridge considered synthetic inner tubes superior to those from natural rubber. For tires, the pre. sent proportion was about 50 to 62% per cent natural rubber. Mr. WhHson said United States imports of raw rubber from Malaya was about 75 per cents of its total imports of 650,000 to 700,000 tons, This was a jump from 40 per cent obtained from Malaya before the war. Tires were continuing in short supply in the world picture longer than expected, and while inventory had risen slightly at Nov. 1 as against Oct. 1, it was still only half pre-war normal, DON'T STARTLE PEOPLE Doctors say that bursting of an inflated paper bag raises the aver age person's brain pressure four times higher than mophine or nitro- glycerine, two of the world's most powerful drugs. WU beiher shopping in the morn- ing . . . an afternoon at bridge «a. . or dinner at eight ... Player's cork tip are a 'must' in every woman's purse, Dbayo a PLAYER'S NAVY CUT CIGARETTES J OSHAWA COMMUNITY CHEST Just how far they were going, | It raises the question, of course, | as to how many other pieces of | legislation are lying around that | can suddenly be proclaimed as | containing far more power than | the government wag aware ' of | when they passed Parliament, And it recalls the assertion by | an eminent Canadian lawyer that In studying a single volume of statutes, he had discovered more than 40 ways in which the gov. ernment was whittling away at the freedom of individual citizens. . When it ig politically conven- lent--that, when ijt might be dif- ficult to get new legislation through Parliament--the govern. ment could always assert that a previous act provided the neces- sary authority. Thig would mean a further extension of govern- ment by order-in-council, And the only way it can be fought is hy testing the legislation in the courts, The cost of this proced- ure is enormous, far beyond the means of o:dinary mortals, One more reason why Parlia- ment needs an alert ahd aggres. sive party in the opposition, DOUBLE the deficiency must be paid by addressee | if postage is underpaid. | Don't take chances. | » Readers' Views ENJOYED 0.C.v.I, PLA Yy One sheet of average, lightweight : Air Mail paper, and one light weight Air Mail envelope, weigh 14 ounce or less. The Air Mail | rate is 15¢ per VY, ounce to Great | Britain, Eire and Europe. Editor, Times Gazette: Dear Sir: The talent and abil. ity so effectively used in the pre. sentation of the Barrett's of Wim. pole Street by the students in the | Oshawa Collegiate last week, was indeed a credit to all who took | part in its pre | ! sentation, Preparation and pre. | Ask at your local Post Office for As one who enjoyed the open- Fates elsewhere . | uve etiort Ing performance, it seemeq unfor-. | weighed when in doubt. tunate that a larger audience had not turned out to enjoy such a: worthwhile entertainment. W. L. PIERSON November 25, 1947, Issued by authority of - Hon. Ernest Bertrand, K.C., M.P,, | Postmaster Genera | 4 BIGGAR & CRAWFORD Sy v OSHAWA BRANCH : 37 KING ST. EAST -- PHONE 2600 ERIC R. HENRY, Resident Pariner DIRECT PRIV ATE WIRE TO TORONTO "One Campaign a Year" for the needs of Canadian Red Cross Society, Canadian Legion -- Oshawa Branch (Poppy Fund), Canadian National Institute for® the Blind, Children's Aid Society, Christmas Cheer Fund, Community Recreation Association of Oshawa And District, Navy League of Canada, Navy League (Oshawa Sea Cadets), Oshawa Boy Scouts Asso. ciation, Oshawa Girl Guides Association, Oshawa Y.W,C.A., Royal Cana. dian Army Cadets No. 1913, The Salvation Army, Victorian Order of Nurses, Women's Welfare League. ® The Executive, Campaign Committee and member agencies of Oshawa Community Chest and A Township of East Whitby Welfare Association wish to express their heartfelt thanks to all those who supported their §ommunity Chest Campaigns both with donations and personal efforts. : @® The Campaigns were successful and with generous public support, you have enabled our member agencies to carry on their varied and indispensable work during 1948. ® We say a very hearty "THANK YOU" to the Citizens of Oshawa and Fownship of East Whitby. ed Stl General Chairman, Township of East Whitby. Welfare Association, 4 General Chairman, Oshawa Community Chest.