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OPINIONS DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE EDITORIAL PAGE FEATURES The Daily Times-Gazette . wW WHITBY A [ HAWA TIMES (Established 1871) THE WHITBY GAZETTE & CHRONICLE (Established 1863) - of the Canadian Press, Fg ea: ity Ney Association, the Ontario Daily Pp Provincial Dailies Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. oe ress is exclusively entitled to the use The Canadisn P despatches in this paper credited or Reuters and also the All rights of special Dell Vi t carrier in Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin, Por oo Pickering, 24c per week. By mall, ouside carrier delivery areas, anywhere in Canads and England, ear, U.S, $9.00 per year yO Second Class Matter, Post Office Department, Ottawa, Canada, DAILY AVERAGE CIRCULATION for OCTOBER 9,135 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1948 Extending The Highway The Oshawa and District Labour Council, at a meeting held this week, passed a resolution which should have the support of the city council, the Chamber of Com- merce, and other public bodies. It was a resolution calling upon the Ontario Depart- ment of Highways to proceed with the extension of Highway No. 2A east of Oshawa with all possible speed. This resolution is timely, for at this very moment engineers of the Department of Highways are preparing their plans and estimates for next year, so that the work to be done can be included in the estimates for the 1949 session of th Ontario Legisla- ture. Therefore it is important that the utmost pressure that can be brought to bear Tired Land upon the provincial government should be exercised now in the hope of having the extension of this highway included in the estimates for the year 1949-1950. Governments do respond to emphatic | expressions of public opinion. On the other hand, they will not move very far in advance of public opinion. If Oshawa, officially, wishes to have the highway ex- tended eastwards in the immediate future, then the government should be told that in unmistakable terms. In this matter, the Labour Council has set a good example, and its resolution should have the substantial backing of the city council and other bodies before being sent on to the Minister of Highways. Like A Snowball Advices in Ottawa indicate that the Family Allowances Act is under review, and that it is likely that it will be amended at the next session of Parliament in order to provide more generous allowances for large families. There is also a suggestion that the present provision reducing the allowance for the fifth and any subsequent child may be removed from the Act. This is following the usual trend of social legislation. Once a new social measure becomes law, there starts a pressure move- ment from various directions to have it made more and more generous. As Hon. G. D. Conant used to say when he was Premier and Attorney-General of Ontario, social measures are like snowballs, they grow as they move along, and while such measures are eay to initiate, they are not so easy to control once they find a place on the statute books. ? Family allowances at the present time are costing the taxpayers of Canada $270,000;- 000 4 year, and even in a period of inflated government revenues, that is not a light burden. Most of the people of Canada are today asking for lower taxation by the federal government, and no one has yet been able fo devise a sound method of increasing expenditures on social services and at the same time reducing taxation. Politics In France The latest developments in the political situation in France give rise to the hope that in the not too distant future a measure of stability which has been sadly lacking during the last two years may be injected into the political life of that .troubled country. The success of General de Gaulle's party in the recent elections for the Coun- cil of the Republic, which corresponds to the former Senate, and the overwhelming reverses suffered by the Communists show a distinct swing to the right and a tendency to put faith in the ability of De Gaulle to lead his country out of the morass. It is likely that if a new election for the Chamber of Deputies, on which De Gaulle is insisting, were called, the forces of the erstwhile leader of the Free French move- ment would be called upon to lead the nation. This would Bring about a radical change in government. While De Gaulle is | a zealot in his patriotism, he is apt to be dictatorial and implacable~dn his ideas. More than once he ran foul of Winston Churchill and General Eisenhower back in war days because of his insistence on hav- ing his own way, and that led to some hard feelings at the time of the allied landings in North Africa and again when they landed in Normandy. : " Perhaps that kind of leadership is what France needs at the present time. At any rate, if De Gaulle is given the opportunity of setting up a stable government for hig country, he could not possibly make a worse mess of things than has been done under the recent multi-partisan regimes. Agricultural Minister Dillon of Eire, ad- dressing a group of students at an agricul- tural college in his country, told them that through intensive production, and shor-| tages of fertilizers and machinery, the fertility of the land there has reached a degree of degradation it has not known for a hundred years. In other words, the land is tired out, and incapable of high level production. These remarks "might very well have been applied to large sections of the farm lands of Ontario. During the war and since, Ontario farms have produced record crops in many lines of agricultural ac- tivity. But in too many cases this has been done at the expense of soil fertility. There has not been a sufficient replacement of the humus, minerals and chemicals which have been drained out of the soil by rec- ord production. This is a serious business for agriculture. Degradation of the soil of this province means imperilling the future of agricul- | ture, upon which all of the peoplé of On- tario are dependent. Never before in the agricultural history of this province has the need for soil conservation and main- tenance been as important as it is today, and the warning words uttered by the Eire Minister of Agriculture hold a great sig- nificance for the farmers of Ontario. Editorial Notes Today Oshawa remembered the dead. We have, the whole 365 days of the year in which to remember the living. Hk % ¥ This is the time of the year when one feels there is some truth in the belief that the world is cooling off, but this year it is doing so rather slowly. * Jie yan HR A student in a Pennsylvania college stayed away from a class on 'Marriage Problems" in order to be married. He pre- ferred practical experience to theory. ¥ 3% % 0% Some people object to European set- tlers taking over Ontario farms. If these men from other lands can apply European methods of soil conservation to the land of this province, they will be rendering a gireat public service to this country. ® Other Editors' Views eo A SPANKING HELPS : (Vancouver: Sun) Despite the nonsense written in recent years in the name of "child psychology", there are a fair number of old-fashioned parents who continue to think boys and girls will be better if, from time to time, misconduct is corrected verbally, and the cor- rection sealed with the back of a hairbrush at the seat of the trouble. ' This is not for a moment to advocate crv-lty, or harshness, or anything that will alienate a child from its parents, or create mental and emotional "shocks", at a formadcive stage. But a colossal amount of sentimental poppycock is uttered by self-styled experts in bringing up child- ren. Indeed, it is a well-known cause of many smiles that one of the most famous teachers of child psy- chology in Canada for years was known among his pupils as the father of a set of thoroughly unruly off- spring. t e A Bit of Verse o ' LAND-HUNGRY In my nostrils is the stinging salt smell Of sea-drenched wind, and in my face the spray Is sharp as prairie hail, Far and away Ripe wheat rolls grandly like a gold sea-swell. And trees on the horizon spike the sky. My eyes are hungry for a grassy lawn Lying silver beneath a quiet moca, Or darkly green under the sun at noon. Where I would know no fearfulness when dawn Shattered night's quiet with too-brilliant light. I want to dig down deep in rich brown loam And then to watch things grow, I must go home For in the sea I find no more delight. I long to live on land before I die. Mcntrea; Bluebell Stewart Phillips. e A Bible Thought e . . ye sorrow not, even as others which have no 'hope, For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him . . . Wherefore comfort one an- other with these words." (1 Thess. 4:13,14,18.) | - I. "Cutting The Power" Hessiche Nachrichten, Germany (U.S. Zone). J Looking Around | The World | By DEWITT MACKENZIE Associated Press News Analyst Speculation over the report of a | possible meeting between President | Truman and Prime Minister Stalin | in Moscow has swept both hemi- | spheres like .a prairie fire, demon- | strating anew the intensity of world | interest in any such parley. | It's noteworthy that the Moscow press has given heavy play to this | report which was carried by Tass, the 'Soviet News Agency. Tass at- tributed the information to an item by the Washington Times-Herald, evidently referring to a column oy Tris Coffin. The story has met with mixed reception. State = Undersecretary Lovett said in Washington Wednes- day he knew nothing to substanti- ate the idea of such a meeting. The | presidential press secretary, Eben Ayers, who is with the chief execu- tive at Key West, offered no com- ment but recalled Truman's repeat- ed assertions that he would be glad to talk with Stalin any time the Soviet chief wishes to come to the United States. Of course Truman did have a plan to send Chief Justice Vinson to Russia recently, but State Sec- retary Marshall persuaded the president not to do that. However, the president leit the door open for possible consideration of a simi- lar micsion. New Sidelight From well-informed American | sources in Paris comes the sidelight | that Truman and Marshall are ex- | pected to confer shortly over the whole field of America's relations | with Russia. . i Well, what of the advisability of | a Truman-Stalin meeting, assuming that it could be arranged? On the credit side one can see! that it would give vast satisfaction | to those who feel the United States is missing a bet by not attempting such a direct approach. Further- more it would put the United | ™ States on record as having gone the limit in trying to achieve peace, even though the effort failed. On the other hand there would be the danger that the move would be interpreted as appeasement. Such an interpretation would give | Moscow grand propaganda with which to convince their own people, and doubtful foreign lands, of Red Russian supremacy. Definite Danger Then there is the definite danger that the Russians, after smoking the pipe of peace, might employ the fcllowing period of trustful tran- quility for the expansion of their fifth-column projects in foreign countries. That's a tough sugges- tion to have to make, but past ex- perience shows that it is in the cards. Employment of the double cross not only is one of the cardinal methods of Communism, but is actually part of the written code. e 35 Years Ago The town council decided to buy a new hook and ladder truck for tne Fire Department, gt a cost of $1,475, and is considering installa- tion of a non-interfering alarm system. A Tennyson Club :.as been organ- ized in Oshawa with J. H. Dolan as president and Mrs, N. Hezzle- wood as secretary. : The Board of Railway Commiss- sioners has rejected the protest of the Town Council and confirmed its order closing Centre Street at the C.P.R. crossing. The School * Board asked the ccuneil for a grant of $5,000 for the purchase of a site for a new school in the south end of the city. The Board of Trade passed a re- solution protesting against the elec- tric lights being turned off on the city streets. NURSE KNOCKED DOWN Detroit, Nov. 11--(AP) -- Police broke up an angry group of AF.L. pickets at Harper Hospital Wednes- day after arresting two of them who were accused of knocking down a nurse. No one was injured but the brief violenje pointed to mount- ing te; nn in the three-day walk- out of 400 service employees of the city's largest general hospital. MAN IDENTIFIED London, Ont., Nov. 11 -- (CP) -- The man who was found uncon- scious from head injuries in his room at a downtown hotel Wednes- day was identified by police Wed- 34, of London, who had been work- ing at Queen Alexandra Sanatorium at nearby Byron. He was unable to give police a coherent account of from Wales. nesday night as Carl Waterworth, | Business | Spotlight | By The Canadian Press Manitoba, as figures covering a 10-year sample period show, has made impressive strides in indus- trial output. | In 1933-taken as the.basic year because it represented the depth of the depression--the province's man- | ufacturing producticn was worth, in round figures, $83,000,000. By 1944 this had been more than quadrupled at $352,000,000. In the period under review the employment | more than doubled, rising from 18.- 871 to 40,937 between 1933 and 1944 Total wages rose from $18,000,000 to | $62,000,000. ' Salaries and wages paid industrial workers now are running at the rate of nearly $80,000,000 a year--a | return which, as one source put it, | "makes all the difference between g. 2d times and depression." It is significant that 80 per cent of Manitoba's industrial production | comes from plans in the Greater | Winnipeg area. Manitoba regards a diversified | economy as a stabilizing influence | in an area in which grain growing | is a basic undertaking. | Meantime,.employmant, wages and industrial output are high and there apears to be no sign of a slacken- ing of employment apart from sea- sonal recession. New York stocks rallied near the close Wednesday after early weak- | ness. Industrials were weaker on the | Toronto and Montreal boards. Base | metal issues fluctuated at Toronto and mines were easier at Montreal, | In the face of hedging sales, coarse | grains weakened on Winnipeg Grain | Exchange. Support was light in oats | and barley and rye sold down. | Pins Notebook | By JAMES McCOOK Canadian Press Staff Writer London, Nov. 11--(CP)-- Welsh- men will have their way if a Con- | servative government is elected in Britain in 1950--and a Welsh min- ister to look after their interest in| Parliament. | Winston Churchill, party leader, | speaking at the annual Conservative conference at Llandudno, Wales, | said the Conservatives look to Wales to "play an increasing part in British affairs." "We have come to Wales for this | conference. The cause of freedom is at stake and have we not often been told freedom dwells among the | mountains?" | The Labor government, despite urging by many members of Welsh) descent, has declined to approve Welsh demands for a status similar | to Scotland, which has its own Se- | cretary of State in the National | Government and Scottish office de- | In the language of state, Scotland | is a "Kingdom" and Wales a "prin- | cipality." In effect, England and | Wales are grouped for administra- tive purposes and Scotland has a| substantially separate administra-| tion for Scottish Affairs. D. R. Grenfell, Labor Member of Parliament for Gower and a former Nova Scotia coal miner, has been the leader of a group of 36 Members of Parliament, representing Welsh constituencies or of Welsh descent, who have persistently asked the government to approve Welsh aspir- ations. Government statements of policy have set forth a determination to see industries' developed in Wales to check the danger of unemploy- ment similar to that of {~~ '30s and the drift of younger people away If' the Principality's economic, welfare is 'assured, the government suggests it will do well to continue in its present adminis- tration association with England. Welsh spokesmen say frankly they are jealous of Scotland with her own' Secretary of State ard Northern Ireland with her parlia- ment. They do not want separation, from the United Kingdom but re- | | | | cognition of their ancient status. MECHANICAL 'MOLE' Los Angeles, Nov. 11--(AP) -- A | scientist said Wednesday an engine | can be developed to travel through | [the earth, with underground war- fare a possibility. The statement was made by Dr. Fritz Zwicky, pro- fessor of astro-physics at California Institute of Technology and direc- | tor of research for Aerojet, world's | what happened to him. largest builder of rocket engines. : A , : | seas friends farther partments established in Edinburgh Britain should be mail Mac's Musings There was a wintry touch To tee air This morning, As if to give warning, That _efore long Snow would be flying, And winter would be here, To city folks "he advent of winter Means only stoking up The furnace, Wearing heavier clothes, And spending the evenings In indoor entertainment. But to the man Who tills the soil Out on the farm, Winter marl, a period In a busy life, In which he plans For months ahead. The icy hand of winter Soon will spread Across the land From which not long ago, He reaped his crops, And over the pastures 'Where his cattle grazed. His season's-work is done, Save for the man Who on a dairy farm, Has to milk cows, All the year through. But yet he does not waste The time he spent Out in the ficlds Ir summer; With book and plan He looks ahead To another year, In which his crops 'citizens of the pr Must help to feed A hungry world. The farmer's winter months, Give him the chance To prepare his seed, Restore his implements, Decide what he will grow, On every field Next summer; And so that time, When all of earth Is slumbering It not wasted By the wise farmer. 100 Mysterious Passengers For European Ports Halifax, Nov. 11 -- (CP) -- More | than 100 mysterious travellers will | board the liner Batory here today | for Europe, most of them to stay. i The 116 persons of all ages, many | travelling on Russian passports, ar- B by train Wednesday |® | rived here night. | Peter Budzik, assistant manager | of the Montreal office of the Gdynia-American Line said there | was 'nothing sinister" about the travellers. [ Members of the party, he said, in most cases had lived in Canada many years. Now, finding they can | not afford to bring out wives, fami- |§ lies and friends, most of them have | decided to return home. A few had | made return trip arrangements. Some were travelling on Russian | | passports, he said, because they were | going to Eastera Poland, now under | Russian control. Cutter Will Aid Fishing Trawler Halifax, Nov. 11 -- (CP) -- The |} fishing trawler Florence and Lee is broken down in the Atlantic 60 miles off Halifax, R.C.AF. search | and rescue here reported early to- | day. They said the R.CM.P. cutter French was expected to leave port this morning to go to the aid of | & the drifting vessel, wallowing in the path of strong easterly gales sweep- ing up the eastern seaboard. | It was not known how many were |i aboard the vessel. MAIL BY NOV. 15 Ottawa, Nov. 11 -- (CP)--Christ- | mas parcels to destinations in Brit- ain should be mailed by Nov. and letters by surface mail should te on their way no later than Nov. 29, the post office announced Wed- nesday. Parcels or letters to over- away than ed now, the post oifice warned in a statement. 15 |B Assessment Opposition Holds Firm Nelson, B. C., Nov. 11--(CP)--Bri- tish Columbia's case against the mountain differential in Canada's freight rate structure closed here Wednesday on a note of form op- position to an "inequitable assess- - " ment, Organized complaints of Boards of Trade in fruit and mineral pro- ducing communities has gone before a three-man bench of the Federal Board of Transport Commissioners, headed by Mr. Justice M. B. Archi- bald of Ottawa. A four-day sessiop in Vancouver heard evidence from boards of trade in Fraser Valley, trans-British Columbia industrialists and Vancou- ver Island interests. All complained that the so-called mountain differ- ential an additional impost on the qyince, was con- trary to the letter and spirit of the confederation pact, was an "unjust discrimination against the coast | consumer, and was a detriment to the industrial development of B.C." They said the mountain freight rate was stifling: secondary indus- try, essential to a province whose natural resources would normally be an enticement to new business and new immigration. The mountain dif- ferential, they said, made a mile of freight transport on the equal to 1% miles through roountains. Trade board representatives and industrial spokesmen claimed the the | inountain differential, which pro- prairies | duced $3,000,000 a year in freight re venue, was a sore spot in the. proyin- cial economy. B. C. people thought they were being singled out for per- secution to the advantage of eastern interests. A. K. Dysart and J. Q. Maunsell, counsel for the C. N. and C. P. rail- ways respectively, suggested in cross- examination of the province's wit- nesses that the differential was not as great a sum as represented, and that other competitive factors en- tered into the plight outlined by B C. firms. The hearing postponed an appli- cation for a complete investigation of the Canadian freight rate struc- ture, which will now open some time in the new year. . The railways were granted a = per-cent increase last spring and now are seeking a further 15-per- cent hoist. | Minister Remembers B.C. Skull Binding Vancouver (CP)--The days when British Columbia's Indiana bound their skulls to produce cone- shaped heads were recalled here re- {cently by Rev. G. H. Raley. | Dr. Raley spent more than 50 (years with the west coast natives, {and now owns the "talking staff" !carried by Chief Shakes when hz | went to Queen Victoria's Diamond | Jubilee celebration. | He remembers seeing an Indian {woman whose head had been bound | with cedar strips when a child so {that it measured 16 inches from | chin to crown. AGGRESSIVE BLUEJAYS | A pair of bluejays has been | known to route a cat by a series | of attacks in which one bird at- | tracts its attention while the other | dives to give a peck. 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