The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

OPINIONS DA LY TIMES-CAZETTE EDITORIAL PACE FEATURES THE DAILY TIMES. GAZETTE OSHAWA THE OSHAWA TIMES (Established 1871) THE WHITBY GAZETTE AND CHRONICLE (Established 1863) MEMBER OF THE CANADIAN PRESS The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news despatches credited to it or to The Associated . Press or Reuters in this paper and also the local news published therein. All rights of republicatior. of special despatches herein are also reserved. Net Paid Circulation Average Per Issue 2 2 0 IL, 1948 FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1948 Cultural Advancement In recent years not a few lovers of sport have been perturbed by the trend toward spectatorship with more and more people being content to sit on the sidelines and watch others play. Indeed the same thing could be said for music with increased emphasis being placed upon the radio and the moving picture theatre and less and less on individual mastery of a musical instrument or the ability to carry a tune. Two events in Oshawa in recent weeks have served to show that musical advancement is not being entirely over- looked. We refer to. the recital given by the O.C.V.I. orches- tra under the direction of Fred Roy and the Public School Music Festival, presented in Simcoe Street United Church under the direction of Wallace Young, supervisor of music. It is most encouraging to note that the development of an appreciation of good music as well as, singing and the playing of instruments is being furthered in no uncertain manner in the city. There was a time when only those of exceptional ability were privileged to receive training. Today's music curriculum paves the way for all children to learn to sing and so enhance their enjoyment of their, leisure |; time and their ability to enjoy and interpret good music. It also lays the foundation for those, of exceptional talent to begin their climb to fame and fortune. It has often been said that the development of a com- munity goes hand in hand with its culture. With an ever increasing number of musical organizations, of which her citizens may be justly proud, Oshawa is rapidly assuming the full proportions of the progressive industrial community it is. Mother's Day There is a wealth of beautiful sentiment in the observ- ance of Mother's Day which falls on Sunday next. Many beautiful and noble poems have been written round incidents or histories typifying a mother's love, while down through the centuries great men have given their mothers much of the credit for their spiritual and material success in life. The Master of Men during His earthly life, displayed great tender- ness for His mother, and the gospels record that as His final hour approached He commended her to the care of John, the beloved disciple. While it is generally agreed that from the standpoint of love and affection and respect every day should be Mother's Day, no harm can-come from setting aside one day in the year in which to pay tribute to the queen of the home, and, in many instances in these modern days, the corner stone of many a business and profession. This tribute goes also to the great army of noble mothers under circumstances small and great who have passed within the veil. A white flower is surely an appropriate symbol. But flowers of all kinds in all their loveliness and beauty of which love, kindness, care, and affection can be the true symbols, should, as Nellie McClung, the great author, sets forth in her popular novel, be for the living. That is, the time to remember and honor mother .is now. Tomorrow it may be too late. In this busy, material- istic age, there is a very grave danger that we might forget this solemn obligation and take mother, as we do so many other blessings, as a matter of course. Fashion Catches Up (Montreal Star) We're a victim of fashion. At least we hope it's fashion and not a racket. We're not one of those people who line up at the news stands to find out what Esquire says the well- dressed man should wear. The only time we see Esquire is when we get our hair cut and by some curious process that must operate only in barber shops we never seem to get around to the fashion articles. But wé manage to keep ourselves reasonably well dressed. Not a fashion-plate, certainly. Neat, but not gaudy, is a better description. All except our hats, that is. These (or rather this, for we have only one and have had it for years) are the only cause of domestic dispute. They spoil the ensemble, we are told, and spring, summer, autumn and winter, someone very dear to us tries to get us to invest in a new one, "You're conspicuous without a hat," reads the current advertisement of the mad hatters (we assume they're mad at us fof not buying at least two hats a year) but we shall go without a hat and risk sunstroke and frostbite rather than discard the battered, comfortable headpiece that has given such long and faithful service. Still, as we say, we are the victim of fashion. Several years ago we bought a stout leather belt. A beautiful piece of leather with an excellent buckle. Both, we thought, should last us the rest of our lives, But the other day we bought a new pair of pants to go with a new sports jacket and when we went to put on the belt found the belt loops too narrow. Now we know that the belt makers introduced narrower belts a few years ago but this was none of our business. We had a belt. Now the pantmakers are narrowing the belt loops. We can go without a hat but hardly without pants. Guess we'll just have to buy a new belt -- unless somebody who has an old pair of pants and a new belt would like to trade. By AAROLD DINGMAN Ottawa Correspondent Ottawa, May 9.--To the onlooker the debate was just jumbled jar- gon and to many members of the House of Commons, it was not much more. Yet in the Treasury benches there was a good deal of anxiety, It was a motion by the Secretary. of State, Colin Gibson, regarding the staff of the House of Commgns, their salaries, and whether or not some should be moved to the per- manent pay list. The motion should have gone through with a lazy "yea" because it was routine. This year everyone in Ottawa is getting a pay raise, all of them retroactive six months, and there was nothing different about this motion than many pre- vious ones. Thousands upon thous- ands of federal employees have had their pay hiked. Yet this motion faltered and for a solid hour questions" were pep- pered at the minister and finally he adjourned the debate. It looked like a patronage deal. The employees of the House of Commons are not ordinary folk. They do not come under the Civil Service Commission, as do other government workers. They are hired by the administration in power, and the Liberals have been in power 13 years. So the Opposition suddenly stab- bed, and stabbed hard. Not just the Conservatives, but all the Op- position. It was, in fact, the CCF that started the questioning. They wanted information--and lots of it. Who was getting a pay luikes Why? How much? And so "The Secretary of State finally adjourned the debate on his own motion, Were the quesjions get- ting too hot? It looked that way. In the corridors of the Hous2 the workers were dismayed. For they would not get their cheques as soon as they hoped. But there was no real cause for worry. Ot- tawa is generous this year. There's lots of money in the treasury, and there's patronage involved, it will not be examined too closely. Income tax collections are away up. INTERNATIONAL POKER --To anyone who listened to or read the remarks of Gordon Graydon con- cerning the United Nations, it must have been clear that the Statesmen were engaged in a dead- ly sort of poker game. Graydon had been to many sessions of the Unii- ed Nations, beginning in San Fran- cisco and London. What he had to say the other day about Russia and her satellite neighbors was enough to chill the heart, Graydon talked -about sitting around the conference tables' and wondering about the man opposite. Was the man across from you re- sponsible, for the burning of your own home while you were absent? He thought so. "I believe," he sald, that 5th column international politics made the United Nations unworkable be- cause it is not to be expected that co-operation and . wholesome. un- understanding can result when you know that the man sitting across from you at the international table may be directly or indirect- ly a party to setting fire to your home while you are away. That is putting it pretty plainly and simp- ly, but as a matter of fact it is a simple problem and I think: it de- serves simple language." Graydon wanted to change the rules of diplomacy and there was a broad hint in his speech that he'd send the Russian ambassador to Canada hpme. Expel him. Send him packing. "I am not satisfied to allow the present (diplomatic) system to go unchanged," he said. "I think the temptation is too great where there are in a nation representatives of an ideology completely different to ours and which is, in addition, so grasping and wants to change our system to their's" What would we gain by sending the Russians home? &Fheyd send the Canadian Ambassador home. Then we'd be in an even worse mess of international suspicion. It's bad enough now. There's a lot of pessimism in the East Block in Ottawa where our foreign policy is made. ® Readers Views STADIUM COSTS Editor, Times-Gazette, Dear Sir: I am in full favour with the Civic Stadium, but $60,000 is a lot for what they are building. If the stand has a total ground length of 230 feet and is 10 feet '| high, as shown in the advertise- ment, lumber can't possibly cost more than $500, and if it takes five workmen two six.day weeks to build the stand, they are pretty poor. If the wall is 450 feet by 350 feet and 10 feet high, it can't cost over $20,000 to build. The lighting and lumber esti- mates are from electricians and lumber men. The changing room certainly isn't going to be made of knotted pine. Where does the ex- tra $30,000 go. I'm probably off, but where does it go? Yours truly, BILL HARRIS 512 Simcoe St. N., Oshawa, Ontario. CHANGE OF METHOD? (Detroit Free Press) Because of Britain's five-year ban on hangings, its No. 1 executioner has taken a job serving heer in a pub. Naturally the old.line prohi- bitionists will insist that he has merely changed methods. - 'John Houdini Lewis' Little, in The Nashville Tennessean. Washington Spotlight By CLYDE BLACKBURN Canadian Press Staff Writer Washington, (CP) -- One of the democratic world's most com- plex and cumbersome electoral sys- tems is grinding into motion to se- lect a President and Vice-President of the United States. There are 48 states and almost as many variations in the system of getting a President elected. There is the electoral college which Sena- tor William Langer (Rep.-N.D.) calls "a relic of the stage coach era." And just now, move in Congress to abolish the electoral college 'and streamline procedure in capsule form. Here is an attempt to put the proceduer in capsule form. Presidential elections are held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each leap year. Candidates are selected at party nominating conventions. These nominating conventions also adopt a party platform for the ensuing four years, elect national committee members (one woman and 'one man from each state, ter- ritorial possession and the District of Columbia) and set down rules to govern the committee in the next four years. The National Committee, early in the election year, selects the date and place for the nominating con- vention, This year the Republicans meet in June, the Democrats and Wallace's third party in July, all in Philadelphia. Delegates to the convention are selected by state organizations but the national committee decides how many each can send. The number is decided on a general basis of representation in Con- gress and on the performance of the party in the last election. Number of Candidates This year the Republicans will have about 1,100 and the Democrats something over 1,200. These dele- gates are chosen at state party conventions in some states, at pri-- mary electipns in other states, and in some instances are appointed by the state committee. In the case of states selecting by primary election each aspiring candidate or his agents submits a slate of delegates he knows will vote for him. In the primary elec- tion the outcome is in some degree an indication of the popularity of that candidate, However few of the states send de egates pledged to any one can- didate and so the result of the no- minating committee may be far different from the indication giv- en in the primary. At the nominating convention, national organization is completed, nominations are cpen. Any dele- gate can nominate any qualified ci- 4 tizen. Qualification is to be a na- tive-born citizen 35 years old or older who has lived in the United States 14 years. Ballotting continues until one candidate has a majority over all others. Each state delegation votes in a block. The same procedure applies in selecting a Vice-Presi- dential candidate. The ensuing campaign is con- ducted almost exactly as in Canada or Great Britain. On election day the voters are confronted with forms of ballots different in almost every state. In some cases the names of the Presi- dent and Vice-Presidential candi- dates appear. In others the names are those of the electoral college members selected by each party in each state, In others, especially where voting machines are used, only the party tags appear. Then the electoral college comes into the picture. There are 531 members, one for every member of Congress according to representa- tion by states. Thus New York, which has 45 members in the House and two in the Senate, has 47 electoral college votes. The task of this mysterious and almost mythical body-is to elect a President and a Vice-President and they could do it without regard to what happened in the November elections. But traditionally for more than 100 years they have followed the I WALD BLADES as in every elec- | tion year for decades, there is a | popular vote in each state. Thus if New York gave one candidate a bare majority the whole 47 elec- toral college votes fyom that state would go to him. However, with one br two excep- tions, the candidate winning the electoral vote has always had the popular majority. The electoral college members in each state meet in the state capi- tal on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December and solemnly confirm what the people knew next day or two after the elections. They send their votes to the President of the Senate who opens them on the first Thursday in January and the successfu can- didates are sworn in Jan. 20. ® 45 Years Ago The Oshawa Lacrosse Club was admitted to the Ontario senior | league and was grouped with Brant- ford, St. Catharines, Tecumsehs of Toronto, Port Hope and Seaforth. Somewhat of a stir was occasion- ed at Enfield church when the members of the choir filed in and took their places in the body of the church leaving the organist with only two in the choir lof, J. E. Edmondson notified, the council that if the town wished to use Prospect Park and a supply of water for sprinkling the streets it must pay $225 instead of the $150 | paid the previous year. Council received a letter from an official of the Lindsay, Bobcay- geon and Pontypool Railway which gave no definite answer to council's request regarding the possibility of the southern terminus of the line being at Oshawa Harbor. R. J. Mackie and P. H. Punshon were appointed assessor and tax collector, respectively, at salaries of $150 a year each, eo A Bit of Versee THIS OLD HOUSE L] This old, Ji huge Wherein fond mem- orjes The Spirit of Love still lingers through the years, As seeming voices hold us here to tell Of times long past--of laughter and of tears. While ¥ime moved 4 slowly laughter Fin © Yet tears and sorrow sometimes found their way-- The echo), of of some foot-step softly fal Or do we let imagination play? Tall candles lighted when night sha- dows fell-- Enchanving. t6o, their softly mellowed glo Love must remember, for she seems to tell-- This was their home, so long, so long Klara M. Whitehouse. o A Bible Thought "If 'a man, , purge himself,. . .he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanc- tified, and meet for the Master's use, and prepared unto every good work." (II Tim. 2:21) "Christ can work in a poor vessel, but He must have a clean vessel. It does not take much of a man to be Christian, but be it takes all there is of that man. Christ must have first place."--Rev. Robert Barr. o Other Editors KIBITZERS (St. Thomas Times.Journal) With go much new work going on in 8t. Thomas, it is becoming in- creasingly difficult for idlers to de- cide. where to loiter to see the most. 'WICKED TO HEAR IT . . (Brandon. Sun) When "daughter does something very wicked, mother is bitter toward all relatives who are wicked enough to hear 4bout it. ROOT OUT THIS EVIL ¢(Brantforc Expositor) Evidently. the Stern gang, after the' manner of gangs, preys on compatriot and enemy alike. It becomes the duty of Hagana even more than of the British adminis- tration to root this evil element out of the Holy Land. ASININE CONDUCT (Brantford Expositor) A 21-year-old Windsor man was fined $20 and costs or letting off a firecracker in a theatre. The law takes a dim view of this asinine conduct. So do theatre manage- ments and patrons. If necessary the fines should be heavier. BEWARE OF WOLVES! (Brantford Expositor) Three wolves, Ma, Pa and Junior are reported to be roving about in London Township. Looking forthe Three Little Pigs, no doubt. But farmers have been warned to keep a close wattch on other 'livestock as well, BETTER BE SURE (Ottawa Citizen) The statement of an astronomer that there is only 'one chance .in 20,000,000 years of a comet hitting the éarth is the best bit of news since word came in that trout will be biting early this spring. But has he double-checked for possible error in the computation? We would hate like blazes to get a swish of a. | comet's tail when we least expect it. FIGHTING INFLATION "(Milwaukee Journal) If we are to combat inflation suc- cessfully, it is essential that we tighten .up on all forms of credit which expand consumer buying power, or which permit manipula- tion. It is just as essential that we encourage loans for increasing and cheapening production and that we | try to divert some of the "spending money" of the people into savings. GRAIN TRICKERY (Winnipeg Tribune) The Ottawa policy of oats and barley control smacks of a political game to curry favor with eastern farmers and with. elements in the West who dislike the Grain Ex- change. If Manitoba does kill the legislation Ottawa will be put in the happy position of telling opponents of the plan. "Well, it didn't go into effect," and telling proponents, "Well, we tried and failed." To the latter they could add in a whis- per, "Blame Manitoba." Plaque to Mark Trail Indians Used Years Ago Toronato, May 6.--(CP)--A rich page of Canadian history will be turned back Saturday when a plaque is unyeiled, in suburban Mount Dennis, ; It marks. 3 pathway. that was old: when the first white man: en- tered Ontario's forests -- a for- | gotten Indian portage on the route from Lake Huron's Georgian Bay | to Lake Ontario." The ancient trail cut in half the | distance from Lake Ontario to the | Place was abandoned after Yonge Street was opened as the mdin highway from Toronto tothe north, But it will be remembered Satur- day when the York Pioneer and Historical Society erects the plaque, It was Lasalle who more. than any other white man made the In- dian trail famous. He used the Ca ryinz-Place three times in 1680 {and 1681 on his way to and from the Mississ: ppl. Dr. Percy J. Robinson of Torone Upper Great Lakes be eliminating | to, to whose researches Canadians the necessity 'for travelling through | owe much to their knowledge of the Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Lake St. early days of the Indians and " Clair, Lake Huron and their con- |French explorers, observes with re- necting rivers, gret: "The name of LaSalle is re- It was the main thoroughfare | membered from Montreal to the through the Huron country in the | Rocky Mountains; he is forgotten 16th and 17th centuries, and so (in a region which knew him so well chosen that modern road en- | well." 3 pi gineers can do little to improve it. | In the main, it forms the route of | a new 60-mile, dual-lane highway | to link Toronto and Barrie on Lak: | . The highway, somewhat | straighter than the trail, is mad e | necessary by the white man's urge | to get out of town on summer week-ends. | Down this winding trail --known | as the Toronto Carrying-Place in | the 17th century--travelled the bat- | tle-painted braves of the Huron | Indians, through whose country it | ran, Later came the white explor- | ers--Etienne Brule, Champlani and | LaSalle, their eager eyes fastened always on the horizon to the west. | Laughing, bronzed ecoureurs-de- bois -- the French adventurers of | the woods -- as well as missionar- ies and traders traversed the 28- mile portage which followed the | twists and bends of the Humber | River just west of Toronto. The ancient Toronto Garyitig- | 3 |) fei / °* MONTREAL * TORONTO All Ford Hotels are cen- pally located, fireproof and have a radio in every room. For reservations write or wire the Manager well in advares of anti- cipated arrival. MORE GOVERNMENT (Brandon : Sun) We pay 40 per cent of our wages for government and 60 per cent for living--and get a lot more govern~ i than we do living. I "you can BORROW $50.10 #1000 HFC makes loans to individue als and families without en. dorsers or bankable security: If you have overdue bills, medical bills, seasonal or other expenses, let us help you: You can borrow for almost any good reason. Up to 24 months to repay us. For prompt service, for extra cash, 'phone, write or come in and talk over your problem, We're glad to help you. | Tunein* The Whistler" -- Canada's Top Mystery Show, CBC-- Wednesday mights 15 Simcoe Street South Over Kresge"s Phone Oshawa 3601 OSHAWA, ONT. Hours 9 to 5 or by appointment loons mode fo residents of nearby folyms SERVING THE PUBLIC SINCE 1878 0.1 RAL SHANAS. HE ANY m