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Daily Times-Gazette, 12 Jun 1948, p. 20

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OPINIONS DAILY TIMES-CAZETTE EDITORIAL PACE FEATURES "THE DAILY TIMES.GAZETTE > OSHAWA WHITB THE OSHAWA TIMES (Established 1871) THE WHITBY GAZETTE AND CHRONICLE (Established 1863) MEMBER OF THE CANADIAN PEESS The Times-Gaszette 1s a member of the Canadian Dally News- papers Association, the Ontario Provincial Dallies Association, and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin, Port Perry, Ajax or Pickering, 240 per week, $12.00 per year. By mall, outside carrier delivery areas, anywhere !n Canada and England $7.00 per year, $350 for 6 month:, $2.00 for 3 months. U.S. $9.00 per vear. Authorized as Second Class Matter, Post Office Dept, Ottawa, Can. The Canadian Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for repablication of all news despatches credited to it or to Press or Reuters in this paper and also the local 's published therein. All rights of republicatior. of special despatches herein are Sao TST en, Net Paid Circulation Ave, ons 8 , 2 07 -- SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1948 Same Story Again? It would be consoling to know that Southern Ontario will not be faced with another embarrassing power shortage as last winter. Then the H.E.P.C. blamed water shortages at the generating stations as the basic cause. Now we are being told that the Stewartville development will be in operation by September and tha several smaller new devel- opments may be producing by the end of the year. But we are not being assured that there will be no power shortage next winter. Ontario industry and Ontario housewives would like to be told in plain language just what the pros- pects are. Power demands in Ontario are still soaring. *New fac- tories are being built and electrified. Electric stoves are being sold and put into use just as fast as they can be produced. "Rural extensions of hydro have been made this summer. All these items will use a lot of electricity. Will "they use so much next fall that the housewife will not be able to cook dinner on the electric stove? If there is a shortage, once again Oshawa, which is a very sizable user of electricity, will share equal hardships with those small consumers who could much more easily curtail their requirements. A National Asset When World War II ended, the national executive of the Royal Canadian Flying Clubs Association saw the neces- sity of keeping alive the flying club movement and of re- establishing the Canadian flying clubs which had made such a magnificent contribution to Canada's war effort through the successful operation of the 22 Elementary Flying Train- ing Schools in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. War was over, but the threat to world peace had not abatéd. Canada was on the threshold of great aviation development and her future needs for trained pilots and other civilian aviation personnel couldn't all be drawn from the ranks of war veterans, a .large percentage of whom would return to their normal peace-time pursuits. For na- tional security, a training program was needed to develop and maintain a large pool of young pilots. With these needs, the pre-war flying clubs set about peace-time opera- tions again and many new clubs were formed, Next week June 13 to 19, the 42 non-profit flying clubs which form the Royal Canadian Flying Club Association, of which the Ontario County Flying Club is one, are observ- ing National Flying Club Week. In pre-war years, the flying clubs, originally established in 1927 at the instigation and with the assistance of the Canadian Government, made important contributions to the development of civil aviation in Canada and played an im- portant role in national defence preparedness. The association of clubs has through the years pro- moted flying competitions, lectures, air meets and tours, doing a splendid educational work among the young people of Canada. Club flying training operations, across the country, have been of inestimable value in gaining public acceptance and support of aviation. This voluntary organ- ization continues to forge ahead providing, the youth of Canada with the opportunity and facilities for aviation edu- cation and flying training of the highest standard. Co-operating closely with the Air Cadet League of Canada and the R.C.A.F., the flying clubs have during the past two summers, carried out, with a perfect safety record, courses of pilot training for specially selected groups of Air Cadets. Early next month, the third R.C.AF. Scholar- ship Course of flying training for Air Cadets will begin at the flying clubs with a larger number participating than ever before. : To its great credit, the association of flying clubs has a deeper national interest and assumes a more important responsibility. Canada's pool of pilots, trained in the last war, is rapidly drying up, as by choice and perforce, these war-birds adopt other peace-time pursuits. Moreover, it will not be long before most World War II pilots will be too old for combat flying. The Royal Canadian Flying Clubs Association feels that the present is not too soon to turn its attention to the training of a new group of young men whose services can be called upon for commercial flying operations and by the R.CAAF. in the event of emergency. With the slogan, "Keep Canadians Safe--Keep Flying," the National Flying Club Week campaign seeks to.awaken public thinking in respect to Canada's need for great air-manpower, necessary to preserve our security and assure this country a leading position in this, the air age. The flying clubs of Canada, now as in the past, assume their share of the responsibility for bringing aviation edu- cation and flying training to an increasingly greater propor- tion of Canada's young people and, at the same time, hold themselves ready to rapidly expand their training facilities "In the event of future emergency. ® Other Editors A TRAGIC SPECTACLE esos ++ (Ottawa Journal) .... . It is tragic to read of fighting in the Old City cf Jerusalem, to think of the damage that may be done to a setting for which all Christen- dom has deep veneration and re- spect, ------ INSPIRING SLOGAN (Toronto Telegram) As the Ontario election campaign passes into history, let nobody for- get it was embattled Liberalism that raised the tone of public life with that inspiring slogan, "Give George the Gate in 48." NON-PARTISAN (The Printed Word) One of the two largest political par- ties in Canada, the future of one is in doubt because the leader fhreat- ens to quit. And the future of the other is in doubt because the leader threatens to stay. A DESERVED GRANT (Cornwall Standard-Freeholder) Few will quarrel with the British Government's grant of $400,000, free of tax, to Air Commodore Frank Whittle, the man who put the Allies on top in the development of jet propulsion engines for air- craft in the late stages of the war. Commodore Whittle had not claim- ed a penny in royalties for his inventions or his work, on the ground he was serving as an of- ficer in the British forces. He could have made a fortune from private industry. BIG BUSINESS (Boston Post) The parking-meter business in the cities of the United States is fast getting into the realm of high finance. A new crop of 255,000 meters appeared on the streets of municipalities last year and the coin-machine parking custom is rapidly spreading with 1,600 cities, and towns so taxing the motorists, Meter revenues in 26 cities alone totalled $4,500,000. The idea has spread from smaller cities not only to towns, but the larger cities, with Boston, Cleveland and Los Angeles authorizing the meter use for the first time this year. Canada's Authors Rapped by Writer For 'Selling Short' Ottawa, June 12--(CP)-- Cana- dian authors have been selling Can- ada short, Merrill Denison, New York writer and former resident of Canada, last night told the 27th an- nial meeting of the Canadian Au- thors' Association, They were doing this by "making little or no attempt to establish the basis for Canadian identity by re- calling the heroic struggle of the past or by interpreting contempor- ary life as seen through Canadian eyes." Mr. Denison said he was not sug- gesting that Canadian authors be- come suddenly and self-consciously nationalistic. However, he wished they would "learm more about Can- ada and write about her out of your own experience." The complaint that American publishers were not interested in books with a Canadian background was not justified, Canadian writers had failed to make Canada and Canadians interesting. Two exceptions were "Two Soli- tudes," by Hugh McLerman, and "Who Has Seen the Wind?" by W. 0. Mitchell. Both had done much to foster a nationalistic feeling. "Both writers must have a great sense of satisfaction," Mr. Denison said. "They have contributed rich- ly to Canadian understanding and sense of belonging." Canadian authors could do Can- ada a great service by "rescuing her story from the provincial depart- ments of education and text book pedagogues," the speaker. said, re- collecting his school days in Toron- to. i He blamed the pedagogues less than the departments of education because they had to earn a living. "But between them they have in- flicted monstrous cruelty upon gen- erations of helpless Canadian children. What is worse they have made unbelievably wearsome a story that can be made continuously in- teresting and at times very excit- ing." To achieve interest historians should include more information about the United States and con- centrate less on the constitutional development after the conquest of Quebec, Mr, Denison said, Tree surgery dates back to the 16th century. . COME TO THE FETTER FAMILY HOTELS On S. Kentucky Ave., near Beach ATLANTIC CITY AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLANS Delicious Meals Sun Deck & Solarium overlooking Ocean. ing TATION ROOM Corkian Lounge & Grill New Modern Tile with Showers i "Couch-and-Four" Popular Family Hotel PLEASANT ROOMS POPULAR RATES guests My secure meals at the Jefferson, if desired, wn JOHN H PETTER, Gen. Myr "l Don't Want Er, You Can Have 'Er, She's . Too Fat for Me" -~ = A, LOST or L1uING ZT fo ue) 0 Marcia, The New York Times. papiial By DOUGLAS HOW Canadian Press Staff Writer Ottawa, June 12 -- (CP); -- Mr. Parliament came to ' parliament this week, ment of Veterans Affairs, showe up to testify in a Commons com- mittee as it considered a bill to amend the Rehabilitation Act. Nobody made a wisecrack about the name but, Mr. Parliament grin- ned later, it wouldn't have made much difference anyway; the years have taught him tolerance of the , Incidentally, stems from Pennsylvania Dutch, Sir Allen Aylesworth, who as a comparative youngster of 66 nomi- nated William Lyon Mackenzie King for the Liberal leadership at the national convention of 1919, doesn't know whether he'll be arourid for the choosing of Mr. King's successor in August. Now 95 and able to attend Senate sittings only occasionally, he says he'll be on hand "if I feel all right." "They want me to go to bed," says the former cabinet colleague of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, "but I don't EARL TO MARRY FREE REUTHER- SUS London, June 12--(AP)--The Earl | Detroit, June 12--(AP) of Derby, 30, one of Britain's rich- | Friday freed the second of est men, is to marry Lady Isabel | who had been detained for ques Miles-Lade, 27, it was announced ing in the shooting last Apr Friday. Lady Isabel is a sister of | | United Auto Workers (C.I. Walter P. Reuther, Presidenf of the want to do that; not until I have to." A faint "hear, hear" breathed through the aged Senate ranks when a budget bill came in this week. It gave an extra $560 income tax exemption for persons more than 65, Taunted 70-year-old Senator John T. Haig, Progressive Conser- Claes G. H. Parliament of the Depa vative leader: "There are some 25 in this chamber who don't benefit by this, but there are a good 60 of us that do. The day after it was announced, my law office in Win- nipeg was all grins. My head girl | looked up at me and said, 'Senator, | how do you get away with it?' " What with résignations and by- elections, there has been some | shuffling of Commons members' | rooms. The C.CF., in the wake of | its, three by-election triumphs, Needed more quarters. So -E. L. Bowerman (C.CF.- | Prince Albert) found himself in| strange and ironic surroundings | when he prepared to mail out cop- | ies of a speech in which he had | answered arguments by Walter | Tucker, Liberal leadér in Saskat- | chewan. He had just taken over the | room Mr, Tucker had before he | resigned as Liberal member for Rosthern, | Ask Test Vote On Control Plan Lake 'Success, N.Y. June 12-- (CP)--The United States demanded Friday a test vote in the United | Nations Security Council on 'the | American atomic control plan. Action was postponed 'until ext Wednesday because Andrei A. Gro- myko, chief Russian delegate, said he was not ready to speak. The issue appeared likely to provoke an- other Russian veto. Gen. A. G. L. McNaughton of Canada expressed his view that it was a matter of "profound dis- appointment" that the atomic en- ergy commission "after two years of sincere effort to fulfill the mandate | given to it by the general assembly, | has to report that it has reached | an impasse." | ere i ---- ® 50 Years Ago ete tet he -- The Whitby Baseball Club was organized with the following play- ers: C., Barton, pitcher; F. Burns, catcher; 8. Thompson, first base; G. Barnes, second base; E. Nichole son, third base; A. Paquette, short stop; C. Tremer, right field; Ww, , centre field, and K. Wiz mer, left field. W. H, Parr, one of Port Perry's leading business men, fell heir to an estate estimated at $100,000 in Ireland. D. M. Tod was selling oranges at 10 cents per dozen. Jarvis Archibald <of Cedar D:le caught a pike at Ro Ti weigh ing. 9% . pounds. The Oshawa. Baseball Club ore ganized for the season with the following officers: D. Cinnamon, president; J. Ray, manager; A. Cur= tis, treasurer; H. Harris, secretary; and W. Cinnamon, captain. o A Bible Thought "Like as a father pitieth his child- ren, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him." (Psa. 103: 13.) "O little heart of mine! Shall pain or sorrow make thee moan, When all this God is all for thee, a Father all thine own?" FIRE FIGHTER DROWNS Hearst, June 12--(CP)--George O'Connor, 22, forest fire fighter was drowned Friday in the Missinabi River, near Mattice, 20 miles east of here on the Canadian National Railways line. O'Connor was starte ing an outboard motor in the rapids when his punt capsized. GM and Oshawa As another neighbor of yours, GM of Canada takes a keen interest in all the activities of Oshawa citizens. Our citizenship includes a number of things: paying municipal taxes, paying them promptly, keeping our buildings and property in good shape -- a credit to the community, supporting Community Chest appeals, buying as many as possible of the things we need right here at home. GMs chief task as a citizen is main- taining high levels of production. This puts money in circulation in our own home town. Yes, GM believes in buying at home! GENERAL Mark of a Good Citizen Where does citizenship fit into a company like GM of Canada? As far as buying things we need and paying our taxes are concerned, we're just the same as your next-door neighbour. You see, we have to "feed" our assembly lines with car and truck components, glass, steel, rubber, to keep them alive and healthy. That costs money. Last year, 'we spent several million dollars in Oshawa for materials, hydro- electric power, municipal property taxes, our telephone bill, transport charges and a long list of smaller but .. . Buying at Home Wage and salary the process, playing lars into circulation MOTORS OF CANADA LIMITED ONTARIO _A COMMUNITY AND ITS INDUSTRIES ARE ONE just as important services ; : 3 all of them supplied to us by Oshawa businesses and Oshawa people. On top of that, about 6,200 Oshawa' people help us to build cars and trucks brought our total Oshawa spending to more than $20,000,000. These figures show the connection between General Motors and this com munity. They show that we Oshawa peopte are building nationally famous, nationally accepted products and, in local economy by putting millions of dol- cheques in 1947 a worthy part in the right here at home. '

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