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Daily Times-Gazette, 21 Oct 1948, p. 6

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OPINIONS DAILY TIMES-CAZETTE EDITORIAL PAGE FEATURES The Daily Times-Gazette OSHAWA WHITBY THE OSHAWA TIMES (Established 1871) THE WHITBY GAZETTE & CHRONICLE. (Establshed 1863) The Times-Gazette is a ber of the Canadian Press, the Canadi A atl the Ontario Daily Ni Pp Provincial Dailies Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. . The Canadian Press is vely | to the use for republication of all news despatches in this paper credited to it or to The A Press or and also the local news published therein. All rights of special despatches herein are also reserved. * A. R. ALLOWAY, President and Publisher T. L, WILSON, Vice-F and 1 M. McINTYRE HOOD, Managing Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriep in oghava, id ag Te Bot Perry, Ajax and ering, per week. mi outs! carrier delivery areas, anywhere in Canada and England, $7.00 per year, US, $0.00 per year, Authorized as Second Class Matter, Post Office Department, Ottawa, Canada, DAILY AVERAGE CIRCULATION for SEPTEMBER 8,592. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1948 Not A New Idea Robert H. Saunders, chairman of the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of On- tario, aroused some interested comment when he said the other day that the Com- mission was considering having ships of the Canadian Navy brought into harbours along the shore of Lake Ontario to generate in assessing the situation in which the world finds itself today as Russia spreads her communist tentacles all over the globe. Mr. Bevan might have gone further and pointed out that, in spite of the grandilo- quent claims of its protagonists regarding its democracy, Russia is not a democratic country in any sense of the word. It is a 'totalitarian dictatorship, just as cruel and autocratic as any which existed under the rule of the czars of old, and much more dangerous because it is led by men who see before them visions of world domination. That is something to which the old czars never aspired. That is why it is so difficult to secure Russian co-operation in any sound schemes to ensure world peace and amity. Her leaders are under no obligation to submit their policies to the will of their people, as is the case in the true democracies, and so they go brutally forward on their course which is imposing on the world the threat of another war which none of the masses of the people in any country, including Russia, 'want. Editorial Notes Has your Community Chest canvasser luxury across Northern Ontario are inclined to write off much of it as a place of rocks, lakes and trees. . payne are not Timmins, called yet? If not, be reddy for him--or |g' Kirkland Lake. But as R. A. | "WE KNOW IT'S A ARK HORSE -- BUT LET'S SEE iT" McLeish, in The Glasgow Bulletin, Scotland. Business Spotlight By FORBES RHUDE | Canadian Press Staff Writer | Many passengers travelling | 'True, Capreol, Foieyet, or Horne- | Noranda Looking Around is a "plain" policy, concerned with | and Kirkland | Security, trade, and all the interests The We orid +4 Long columns to reveal By RELMAN MORIN Associated Press News Analyst (For Dewitt Mackenzie) Simultaneously, it is pursuing not one, but.two foreign policies. One | | | of high adventure; in| | The real key to the Russian rid- | Science, history, dle lies, I believe, in the fact that | Business and romance.' the Soviet government forever leads | | a double life. Bryce of Toronto that go to form the foreign policy Mac's Musings Each month our banks Sand out reports In form of letters Which discuss the trend And pace of business; Which devote The thoughts Of business leaders On credit, loans and debts. But yesterday there came Upon the desi, A dliferent type Of letter from A chartered bank. The heading on the letter Gave no hint Of business matters, For it said, "Books and Reading." Then it went on In language choice To tell of joys, And knowledge, And understanding Which come from reading Wisely chosen books. In reading books, The letter said, One finds a magic carpet That can transport The jaded mind to fields anew was ordered kept in jail at the 'or. He will eventually be committed pleasure of the Lieutenant-Govern- | to mental hospital, it was indicated. | So here we have a bank, Supposed to be remote, And cold and with a soul Only for business, Dividends and profits, Holding aloft the light Of culture; her--when the call is made. "* hh Lake, vice-president of the Cana- dian Chamber of Commerce, com- . : :+ » | mented on some of the apparent] "It's your Community Chest--TFill it, unpromising parts: Pm y is the slogan of the canvassers who are| "What this country needs is a . .- a . . permanent forest policy and a few giving leadership in the drive starting to-| good mines." morrow. Let's do it. Much of the forest has been cut of any land. The other is the for- . Telling all who read eign policy of the communist That ge and friendship, par ty. 5 . | Humor, pain and pathos, These two are not always either | Ships at sea by night parallel or compatible. The objec- | a]] of heaven and earth tives are by no means the same. | snp, be found Sometimes, they seem to oppose In books eal other. : But only when ere is an example: power to be fed into the electric system. This is not a new idea. Once before, the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of On- tario toyed with the same idea. That was back in 1935, when the Quebec power con- in accessible areas, but it is hoped tracts were cancelled by the Hepburn Gov- ernment, and there was grave fear of a power shortage. Hon. Arthur Roebuck, then a member of the Commission repre- senting the Government, testified at a Hydro Inquiry held in 1938 that three years before plans had been made for gen- erating power from steamships in the harbours at Kingston and Toronto to bolster up the situation should a sortage develop. Further, there were also plans for securing the use of railway locomotives, placing them on sidings in areas of power shortage and using them to generate energy to make up the leeway. While these plans were made, they were not put into effect because new arrangements were made with the "Quebec power companies. Sp Mr. Saunders' suggestion is by no means new, although it is decidedly in- teresting. Riding Their Own Hobby It is typical of organizations devoted to a definite specific object that they are apt to develop one-track minds, and ride their own hobby to the limit, regardless of what the effects might be on other groups of the population. An instance of this which might be amusing if it were not intended to be taken seriously is noticed in the pro- ceedings of the third Dominion-Provincial tourist conference, attended by the heads of the tourist branches of the dominion and provincial governments. Their one interest, of course, is to bring more tourists to. Canada, a very laudable objective. The tourist traffic is of great importance and value to Canada, but some of the suggestions made for increasing it were rather naive to come from responsible government officials. Here are some of them: That Labour Day be moved from the first Monday in September to the third Monday, in order to lengthen the tourist season. That colleges and universities close earlier in the spring and open later in the fall, so as to make student help available to tourist resorts for a longer period. That Canadian golf courses be made easier to play, so that an Amerigan who takes 100 strokes on his home course can shoot a 75 or 80 in Canada. That retired constables be hired and dressed in R.C.M.P. uniforms at provincial tourist reception centres, because of the glamour of the uniform. We are all for encouraging and develop- ing tourist trade, but we do not think it should be done to the detriment of educa- tion, or by trying to deceive the American golfer into thinking that he is 25 per cent better than he really is. But these sugges- tions are cited to show what happens when men bécome so enthusiastic over their own job that they are apt to lose their sense of perspective, Not A Democracy British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevan gaid something which needed to be said when he told the House of Commons that Russi of today is siiii imperiaiistic--still #¢ imperialistic as Ivan the Terrible, Fred- &vick the Great or Alexander. That is a # froth whieh is very apt to be overlooked '® Other Editors' Views eo court order to take his two young sons to gangster movies or give them books. sons. * kk % * + * . that forest programs now under A Chicago father has been forbidden, by | way or consideration will see that there is future growth. 5 Mr. Bryce, now head of a pro- comic | ducing gold mine and once a coal- : it worker in Glace Bay, N.S., thinks Wise fathers would not need a Pit Oiker i Ginoe Bay aime * court order to make them follow that prin- | tience, intelligence and a spirit of . ; . 3 ._|Irisk to uncover a mine. But new ciple in selecting entertainment for their| mines are still coming into produc- tion. Neither he nor any one else will say there is gold or copper or sil- ver under every Northern Ontario If the adults in Oshawa have as clear boiled Hpi an understanding of the needs of the be no doubt of the Chest going over its|noney . winning it. Business men from the east travelling in the Chamber of Com- merce's 17-car special train over An Ottawa correspondent of the Globe the Canadian National route could and Mail says there will be an election |only glimpse the huge land Wed- : : oe) nesday. Today they stop in Wia- néxt year only if economic conditions are aiid SY De on aren: hii That | prairie for their meeting in Van- couver next week, objective. * dk Kk k favourable to the government's case. seems to point to an almost cynical disre- ties. They go to the country think the going is good. In view, however, of what has : : been found in the last quarter or Community Chest as ha expressed in pe Dr CY i madd or Ih Tass essays written by school pupils, there will [son that most of Canada's mineral ny y pups, wealth still lies 'intapped. A lot of will be made and lost in Markets Wednesday - Security markets continued their gard for the welfare of the people as COM | os er. pared with the welfare of the party, but it | expanded in New York with steels i iti _land rails leading the is an attitude common to all political par BE rer rd when they | with industrials showing the way. Grain markets showed a slightly better tone. : advance. WASTE OF DIVISIONS (Windsor Star) Foreign Minister Count Carlo Sforza says if war comes Italy will side with the Western powers. This is bad news. It will take more divisions to protect her as a friend than to defeat her as an enemy. * +* * A NEW TAX ON MINISTERS (Toronto Daily" Star) } London . Letton By JAMES McCOOK Canadian Press Staff Writer London, Oct. 20 -- (CP) -- As firmly as his policeman father used to control London traffic, Herbert Morrison, Deputy Prime Minister, now calls "stop" te hasty trade The present is not a fine time for higher taxation. | ynjonists. But the Canadian government has increased the taxes on a cldss of men least able to bear the added! rison is as burden. It has withdrawn a directive which ex-|:« empted pastors from free manses from paying in-|jahor movement avers he has fol- come tax on the rental value of their homes. The | owed In his father's footsteps. estimated rental value now becomes part of their income for taxation p upon them. * * * TOWARD NATIONAL SERVICE (Guelph Mercury) One of the prime requirements for this country's emergency citizen army. The military also should be labor part ma y conference this year, bel- expanded, éithér by enlarging present units or by Ee by Health Minis- forming néw ones. This could easily be done, if it | ter Bevan and Hugh Dalton, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, drew policy. From the appearance of Hitler to the outbreak of war the Soviets were fiercely opposed to Germany. The 'two governments fulminated against each other, for years in such terms as "Bolshevik, Mongolian savages," and similar pleasantries. The Nazis stroyed their communists; the Reds, by deed and Word, were openly hostile to everything German. Magic Change Yet, in 1939, Russia swddenly signed a non-aggression treaty with Germany. Magically, overnight, the two governments became "friendly." Do you remember the amazing circumlocutions and mental acro- batics performed by Canadian and American communist leaders in trying to explain this to the shock- ed and bewildered brethren? What they couldn't say, by way of explanation, was this: That, at that moment, Communist Party policy, with its line and its way to the "plain" foreign policy, which had, as its objective, mili- tary security. The Kremlin saw a war coming. Sooner or later, the German hordes would be turned on Russia. The Red army wasn't ready, then. Another Switch Then, in 1940, Germany attacked Russia, as the Kremlin had fore- seen. Russia suddenly found her- self "allied" with some other filthy capitalists. But was she? Not ac- cording to Eugene Varga, a Soviet political expert. He wrote: "The fact that the Soviet Union and highly developed capitalist states were in the same camp against Fascist aggression meant that the struggle of the two sys- tems was relaxed and temporarily that the struggle was ended." As of today, it is the Communist Party policy which shapes and directs Russian foreign policy. It also aids "plain" foreign policy by putting Communist-controlled gov- "Fascist beasts," | hunted down and ruthlessly de- | objectives, had been forced to give | stopped. It did not mean, of course, | urposes. ing strength, the little cockney in- The Christian Chyréh does not pay its servants ne engl words and even blows well. With living costs as at present, many minis- | jj gtreet-corner campaigning. As a ters simply exist. They should not have to bear the |yonden County Council member he additional burden when this new taxation will place | japored for administrative changes and economies. fated with civil defense and the recruitment of civilians to protect their families and homes. When the present Labor defence is a permanent military force, which cannot | food' he only be used as a well organized striking weapon, but | leader in the House of Commons, which can also supply instructors for military reserves | the custodian of peace within the or afford a nucleus of highly trained troops for an | governing party. Short, lively, bespectacled, Mor- | ernments in the unlike a Loadon satellite states, They are books worth while. © 35 Years Ago eo The Oshawa Hospital board is | making plans to build an extension | [to the hospital next year. | The Baptist Church was re-op- {ened with special sérvices on the | completion of extensive alterations | [to the building. | The Oriental Textile Company is | | taking action against the town for $25,000 damages in connection with | the opening of Drew Street. A new industry, known as Ce- ment Builders,* Limited, has been | established near the C.N.R. station. | Oshawa's population is reported |as 8,248, an increase of 239 over 1912. | thus erecting buffers between Rus- | sia and the west. Soviet dctions in Germany and Korea, and elsewhere in the world, | however, are mainly dictated, mot | by considerations of -trade or se- | curity, but by the original and un- | changed objectives of the Com- | munists. | RELEASED ON BOND Montreal, Oct. 21--(CP) -- Mr. and Mrs. Jean St. Andre, detained at immigration headquarters here | for the last six weeks, have been ! released on $500 cash bond, but | must report once a' week and be available for deportation. St. Andre is a former French merchant sea- man. They were ordered deported to France some time ago, but the French government could not find their records and their departure was cancelled. FOUND INSANE Prince Albert, 'Sask, Oct. 21 -- | (CP)--A vlrdict of not guilty be- | cause of insanity was returned Wed- | nesday by a jury hearing the trial | of Albert James Allen, 29, on al charge of murdering his three-year- | old son, David, on Sept. 20, 1946. He | | 'bobby" as anyone could be, but the When the movement was gather- In wartime, he long was assoc- Government was became government At the Scarborough, Yorkshire, were adopted as a definite part of our def For a full use of our potential manpower, some system worked carefully through a pre- of national service, of course, would be required, as| pared text in Yukon ne said Fine party mow must consolidate its gains and avoid rash experiments. publie opinion is beginning to realize. e A Bit of Verse eo AUTUMN'S CALL Listen! The leaves hear autumn's call. And chanting a soft, sweét hymn they fall, They flutter as wounded butterflies, That drop to the ground from cooling skies. Beyond the meadows, over the dale, Toys of the wind, they spread their sail, And sometimes 'float where the waters ride Ships all crimson and flame inside. The autumn days are a soft lullaby, Sad is the tune, that breathes in the sigh, The falling leavés sing a chant we hear The vesper song when twilight's near. ELISE REID HEARST. eo A Bible Thought e Jesus said, "Why call ye Me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do the network, the main communica- 'tion link for Canada's saith unto Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter into the king- | outposts, he sent a message of con- dom of heaven but he that doeth the will of My |8T aol Lhe things which I say? . . . Nol-evéryone that Father which is in heaven." (Luke 6:46; Matt. 7:21.) If He 1s not Lord of all, He is not Lord at all. rousi applause. unions. speech, he gave this warning: the worker. Will he exploit his im- mediate tactical advantage against Minister Claxton sent of one of Canada's least-known ra- dio networks--tht Northwest Terri- But Morrison Now he has turned to the trade To them, in a recent "The ball is now at the feet of needs of the community and take a line as bad and selfish as the old employer did when he was on top? If so, these great victories which trade unionism has gained will melt away and deserve to melt. "The privileges of full employ- ment carry with them social re- sponsibilities which must be hon- ored. Any fool can put forward bigger and bigger demands, and for the people who are always looking for trouble no game could be bet- ter." BIRTHDAY GREETINGS Ottawa. Oct. 21--(CP)--Defence birthday greetings Wednesday to the men tories and Yukon Radio System. Marking the 26th anniversary of northern atulations via Maj. Frank J. Mc- Cauley, formerly of Walkerton and Owen Sound, officer commanding the system at Edmonton. 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