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OPINIONS . DA LY TIMES-CAZETTE EDITORIAL PACE rearuses THE DAILY TIMES.-GAZETTE OSHAWA WHITB THE OSHAWA TIMES (Established 1871) THE WHITBY GAZUTTE AND CHRONICLE (Established 1863) MEMBER OF THE CANADIAN PEESS The Times-Gazetle i= a member of the Canadian Dally News- papers Association, the Ontario Provincial Dailies Associatipn, and the Audit Bureau of SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin Port Perry, Ajax or Pickering, 24c per week, $12.00 per year. By mail, outside carrier delivery areas, anywhere !n Canada and England $7.00 per year, $350 for 6 months, $2.00 for 3 months. US. $9.0U per year. Authorized as Second Class Matter, Post Office Dept. Ottawa, Can. 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 Here. All U3018 OF Yepusioutior. of AG%ial despateties herdicy are reserv. Net Paid Circulation Average Per Issue 3 ' 2 3 3 JUNE, 1948 MONDAY, JULY 12, 1948 A National Catastrophe It is to be hoped that no stone will be left unturned to prevent the strike of railway workers which is scheduled for Thursday of this week. If the strike should take place it would disrupt the entire economy of the nation and have far-reaching results, the full import of which cannot 'be calculated. The Canadian Automotive Transportation Association, the parent body of the many motor transport companies which form a network across the country from coast to coast, has stated that it will do its best to provide the nation with an alternative freight service. This will, however, be limited in scope and duration due to the fact that the rail- ways are the bulk carriers of petroleum products. An official of Imperial Oil Limited has stated that there will be ample supplies of gasoline and oil in Ontario for a reason- able period. This will mean that the transport firms will be able to take up some of the slack. It should be remembered, however, that the volume of freight traffic on Canadian railways is near the wartime peak and for that reason automotive transport units will not be able to replace the railways in any sense of the word. Their main job will be to move goods essential to the welfare of the community and as a result factories will have to close as they will not be able to get necessary supplies or ship the goods they manufacture. In provinces outside Ontario supplies of petroleum products will soon be exhausted and truck transport will slow to a stop within a short time. In connection with the calling of a strike at this time it should be pointed out that it will hit Canadians at the peak of the holiday season. Many have made reservations to spend their vacations at distant points and will be forced to cancel them. This will not promote the best of feeling toward those who are on strike. Should the talks which are being continued at Ottawa fail to bring a solution, the government has but one alterna- tive. It must take over the railways as the government in the United States did. A strike, bringing with it 'all the dislocations of industry, life and economy might well mean the downfall of the Liberal regime. Party leaders are aware of this fact. Hit-And-Run Drivers Recently a young man, a visitor from Ottawa, was knocked down and severely injured by a hit-and-run driver as he was riding his bicycle along an Oshawa.street. The driver did not slow down or stop, and the bicyclist is still confined to the hospital for treatment to his knee. This is but one example of a type of driving for which Oshawa is rapidly becoming notorious, where bicycle riders are repeatedly forced to thé curb or completely off the road by local road hogs. The bicycle riders pay a license fee for the right to use the public thoroughfares, but the drivers give them no quarter whatsoever, Evidently the bicyclist cannot hit back. ; Any man who deliberately forces a bicycle rider off the road and over the curb or into the ditch is a hit-and-run driver in the blackest sense of the word. If the drivers of such cars are caught, the proper charge is not criminal negligence, but manslaughter. Human life is not yet cheap enough for automobiles to play games with. We hope that an example will be made of the first driver who is appre- hended. Advertising Oshawa Much as we dislike the idea of sign boards disfiguring the beauty of the countryside, we believe something remains to be done by the Oshawa Chamber of Commerce by way of advertising the city to tourists who pass through the district. At the present time General Motors of Canada, Limited, has a large sign just west of the Thornton's Corners road on Highway No. 2 which states that Oshawa is the home of the industry. There is another much smaller sign at the easterly boundary of the city. It seems to us that the Chamber, or its affiliate, the Retail Business Men's Association, could do the city a service by erecting signs of sufficient size to attract the attention of all travellers. These signs might well give interesting in- formation about the city and its industries which would be an inducement to travellers to stop and shop or lunch while looking over the community. . Other communities have erected signs of this nature near their borders. It might not be a bad idea to erect the signs near the railway stations so that rail travellers would know Oshawa better and perhaps be prompted to visit the sity and investigate its potentialities # INSIDE | OTTAWA By HAROLD DINGMAN Ottawa Correspondent Ottawa, July 12--They've never been quite able to get the barnyard smell out of Ottawa's Coliseum where the Liberals will be parading their finest blooded political stock in a few weeks time. The Coliseum is part of the Exhibition Grounds in these parts and at certain sea- sons of the year pigs, cows, hors- es, etc., are stabled there, The Liberals are cleaning it out for their great convention, but I remembered that the Tories clean- ed it out in 1937 when R. B, Ben- nett stepped down and Bob Man- ion stepped up to the leadership and lead his party deeper into the mire, The moist lingering smell of the livestock was there in '37 and it will be there in August. It's not too offensive, that smell, until the sun is high over the weather- cock and the place is full of steam- ing delegates. There'll be 2,000 people crowded in there (at least) and there'll be some 225 to 250 newspapermen, broadcasters and photographers. Editors and other newepaper big- shots will be put up in the tiers, to leave the floor space around the speakers' platform for the working press. It's going to be hard keep- ing the editors up there, for such is their mature; a bossy bunch, in- quisitive. There'll be no television here as there was in Philadelphia, because the CBC doesn't think television is here to stay. Several private sta- tions long ago applied for televis- ion licenses, but the CBC said no, the Canadian people were not to have such highfalutin' means of communication. The people of Canada will get their news from 30 telephones available to newspapermen (10 of them leased for distant cities) and from several dozen telegraph oper- ators supplied by the two compan- ies; and from 16 radio booths, eight of which will be operated by the CBC and the CBC grudgingly al- lowed the privatae stations to op- erate eight stations, too, Nice of them. The newspapermen will do most of their work in the perfumed "hitching room." The Liberals have lots of money to spend on the convention and there's a story going around that they intend to hire half'a dozen taxis by the day and put them at the disposal of the working report- ers. This was done at a previous affair and the taxis ended up in Hull, just across the river, where refreshments are easier come by; and reporters hopped buses or hir- ed their own hacks. Most of the shifting and conniv- ing and scheming about the lead- ership will be done in the Chateau Laurier, where every cabinet min- ister and every other party big- shot has tried to reserve a suite of rooms and a trunkful of ice. The Chateau has already alloted space to 432 delegates and some of the bigwigs are going to kick their heels in the lobby. The voting delegate is the most important man in a convention and his pledges will be extracted from him at the Chateau or the other hotels. Jimmy Gardiner will be a busy man, for Jimmy will never play at Vandenburg and sit around and wait for the delegates to come to him. He or his managers will buttonhole them early and late (the ones he hasn't already cotton- ed to). The party's new platform will be shoved before the delegates, hand- tooled by a committee of 110.. There may be some bitter arguments about the platform, and there won't be any voting if they follow the 1919 procedure, A show of hands, a 'deep chorus of "yeas" and a shrewd convention chairman can get the platform throug in jig time. The only real vote will be on the leadership. The successful candi- date must have a clear majority and there can be no prolonged deadlock. For instance, if there is no clear choice after four ballots, the candidate receiving the lowest number of votes on the 5th and succeeding ballots must drop out. '@ 15 Years Ago St. Barnard's Roman Cotholic Church, Whitby, was threatened by a fire which destroyed a shed, two autos and a truck. JRev. A. S. Doggett was inducted as minister of Albert Street and Celad Dale United Churches. Handsome new gates were dedi- cated at Zion Cemetery. Dr, K, E, Kaiser was the first person to pass through them, James Noseworthy of Corinthan Lodge, I.O.O.F., was elected Dis- trict Deputy Grand Master. The Harry D. Wilson Hardware Store suffered damage amounting to about $7,000 in a fire which was believed to have been caused by a cigarette butt tossed under a work bench at the rear of the store. eo A Bit of Verse NEW NEIGHBORS ! have many nice new neighbors Now that summertime has come, The housing is no problem And there's always room for some. These neighbors are all feathered ones, Their apartments are in trees; They must be very wealthy For they just live as they please. They seem to love their children (The family rate's quite high); e kids are never fighting, Tho' sometimes you hear a sigh. The young play well ether At a game called oto Song", They play that way all morning, In fact the whole day long. The old ones are so charmin When they call to see your Was; Their speech so soft and sprightly, You wish they'd stay for hours. I think that every single soul Can learn from feathered friends, How to live with all his neighbors With a grace that beauty lends. ~--ALBERT LEWIS. The Life of a Great Canadian Prime Minister Kept Secretary Extremely Busy By REGINALD HARDY Parliamentary Press Correspondent ON THE HUSTINGS Alexander Bean, of Kitchener, recalls that when King came to Kitchener for the 1011 election he brought with him Frances Giddens who had become his secretary when he was appointed minister of labor. Even then King worked his secre- taries for all they were worth. Giddens' time was taken up all morning by dictation on depart- mental business. In the afternoon he got out this correspondence. Then in the evening he would have to attend the meetings at which King spoke and take down in short- hand a complete account of the night's proceedings and a verbatim report of King's speech. "Some of the meetings lasted un- til midnight," recalled Bean. Most of them were held in the old skat- ing rink which burned down just this January. After the meetings Giddens would have to transcribe his notes into longhand and hand them, take by take, to the reporters on The Telegraph. Sometimes we would get out a special morning edi- tion to carry King's speeches and we would have three or four lino- type machines setting up type. "About 2 o'clock in the morning King would rush into the office and 'begin to read proofs of his speech. Slash, slash, slash, would go his pencil; grunt, grunt, grunt, and he would make revision after revision until he was satisfied with the fin- ished report. He would reconstruct whole paragraphs and where Gide dens had missed a phrase or had placed' a wrong construction on his words he would carefully make the correction. "This was all very well for King, but it was particularly tough on Giddens. Giddens would have to start in early next morning where he had left off and the whole day's proceedings would be repeated. He was pretty well fagged out by the time the election was over." * * + I dropped over to Waterloo one afternoon and looked up W. J. "Billy" Weichel, the man who trim- med King in 1911. I found him laid up with arth- ritis. He was reading the latest book on Robert Burns, but he plac- ed it aside and talked about that reciprocity campaign as if it had occurred only yesterday. "It was considered quite a good showing to beat King who was then minister of labor, with his great backing and his fine record," re- called Weichel, with pardonable pride. "King had just come back from China in July of that year and when, as Mayor.of Waterloo, I sat beside him in the ball park in Wa- terloo and opened a baseball game I had no idea that within a month or so I would be running against him." "When I was Mayor in 1911 King was a rotund, boyish-looking figure with a grin all over. his face. I considered him a very nice fellow, a decent chap, and I still do." Weichel broke off the thread of his discourse to interject: "You know, when King was here in Kitchener last summer I hoped he'd be able to drop by and see me, But I know that he was very busy while he was here, and I understood." * +b I wanted to know what kind of an election King had fought. Had there been any "fast ones" pulled? "King had been the member for three years," Weichel explained. "I had the business men behind me-- he had the women. But they had no vote! You know, in those days elections were won by a very small majority. You couldn't swing people "CASH LOANS sor Emergancie® Borrow $50, $100, $300, $500, $1000 at HouseHOLD FINANCE without en- dorsers or bankable security. Up to 24 months to repay in convenient equal monthly instalments. Protect Your Credit It's wise to protect your credit. Pay overdue bills, seasonal bills, medical or emergency expenses with your HouseHOLD FINANCE loan. If you need extra cash, 'phone, write or come in and see us for prompt, courteous attention to your money problems. We'll be glad to help you! Tunein * The Whistler" --Canada's top mystery show--CBC, Wednesday nights 18 Simcoe Street South Over Kresge's Phone Oshawa 3601 OSHAWA, ONT. Hours 9 10 5 or by appointment Loans made fo residents of nearby towne SERVING THE PUBLIC SINCE 1878 HOUSEHOLD 7777 FINANCE Some measure of the progress which was made during Mr. King's 30 years in public life is illustrated in this photo. As Prime Minister in 1927 he is talking to Stanley Baldwin in the inaugural of transatlantic telephones, very easily. My majority of 315 wasn't a big one, but it was con- sidered quite a good one under the circumstances. "Well, anyway," he rambled on, "there wasn't any underhand work. The only thing I recall Billy doing that upset me for a moment or two was sending me a challenge to de- bate publicly the issue. "At one big Conservative rally a fellow rushed into the hall and came up to the platform and hand- ed me a letter. "'I'm supposed to take back an answer,' he told me. "I stepped back from the front of the platform and asked to be excus- ed for a moment while I read the note. It said: 'I hear you have ac- cepted the nomination for the Con- servative Party and I hereby chal- lenge you to debate on the issues of the election, I write this to you as an open letter." * + WN Weichel admitted to me that for a moment or so he didn't know just what to do with the letter, but at last decided to tell the meeting he had received a challenge from his friend Mackenzie King to debate the reciprocity issue. : "'The best thing Mr. King can do,' I told them, 'is to mind his own business and let me mind mine.' "But King was a terrific worker," he went on. "He liked to go in and visit people in their homes or at their offices. He'd have two or three big shots with him and he'd go around and call on people. "But he never was unfair, and never nasty on the platform. A man gets 'along better that way--he al- ways gets away with things. "For years the people of Canada had the idea there wasn't much to King," mused Weichel. "But I have asked myself, tirse and again: 'If there is nothing to him why do people elect him/' "He has demonstrated a lot af ability. He became influential with Roosevelt and Churchill. How, do you think, he was able to hold the members from Quebec in line? He hasn't the ability to make friends easily; he is no backslapper. But '| he has something that the Liberal Party will sadly miss when they have to do without him. "One thing I always liked about King," continued Weiche!, "he al- ways talked about his horse, 'Billy' and about 'Pat' his dog. A man who likés animals has something that is all right." As T rose to take my leave, Wei- chel took my hand and thanked me for dropping in. As I turned to go he said: "If you see Billy King, tell him I was asking about him!" (To Be Continued Daily) o A Bible Thought "His face wore the utter peace of one. whose life is hid in God's own hand." --H. Hamilton King. "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee: because he trusteth in Thee." (Isa. 26:3.) ® Other Editors BADLY MIXED (Edmonton Journal) The prize for mixed metapross this season goes to an American politician who warned his col- leagues: "Washing dirty linen in public leaves wounds that are hard to heal." A LEGION ANOMALY (Calgary Herald) If you were a British conscript in either of the two World Wars, you can join the Canadian Legion. If you were a Canadian conscript in the Pirst World War, you can join it, too. But if you were a Canadian conscript in the Second World War, you cannot join, even if you served under fire. LATEST PROMISE (Niagara Falls Review) Here is a new sort of appeal. Na- tive religious fanatics in' South Africa are being charged with run- ning rackets, one sect assuring its followers that, for a sum of meney, it can guarantee that they will be- come, in the next world, Europeans living in luxurious hotels. SHEPHERD SHARKS (Australian News Letter) Grey Nurse sharks herd salmon just as humans herd sheep--and for much the same purpose. Salmon fishermen at Hamerlin Bay, in Western Australia, say the sharks hold the salmon shoals together, driving back any that try to escape and feeding when they are hungry. Frequently sharks are seen sleep ing under the shoals, NEED WASHING (Port Arthur News-Chronicle) There is some talk about keeping the public wash rooms in Ontario clean. As observations made by this newspaper, travelling in East ern Ontario, need of many of the wash rooms is washing. NON-STOP FLIGHT (Edmonton Journal) A Peruvian has run 71 hours non-stop. 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