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6 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Tuesday, September 22, 1953 ditorials The Dally Times-Gasetie (Oshawa, Whitby). by Tim 5 Simooe Street South, Oshawa, Ontario Human Element Only Hope Of Preventing Almost every day stories appear in the press regarding some new development in the field of atomic weapons, and of mechanical devices to counteract them. The other day, the Russians claimed they had exploded a new type of atomic bomh And almost simultaneously, came the an- nouncement that Britain had perfected a new type of rocket, loaded with high ex- plosives, which could seek out inviding bombers at a speed of 2,000 miles an hour, and find them without fail, to ex- plode the bombers long before they reached their goal. These announcements make one think seriously of the future of atomic warfare. The British people are doubtless encour- aged by the knowledge that this new form of defensive rocket will keep planes loaded with atomic bombs away from their shores. But it is predicated on hunt- ing out the bombing planes, and shooting them down before they reach Britain. That would be splendid for the British, but not so good for the people of other countries, such as France, Holland, Bel- Atom War gium or even Germany, on whose terri- tory the lethal weapons might fall after being shot down. Some communities are bound to be wrecked once these weapons have started on their way. The one thing for which no safeguard has yet been provided is that of seeing the bombing planes, with their deadly loads, never leave the ground, never leave their airfields bent on mass destruction. There is no word of any mechanical de- vice to keep these planes moored to their bases, unable to leave the ground. To find such a safeguard, we have to depend on the human element. We have to build such a state of society that no human being will ever give the order for the bombing planes to start off on their deadly mission. It is to the human ele- ment that we have to look for all our hopes of preventing atomic warfare in the * future. And it may. be that the height of efficiency to which mechanical devices have been developed will be the greatest spur to humanity to take steps to prevent its own destruction. Great Servant of Canada Passes The passing of Gordon Graydon, M.P. for Peel Riding, after a long and serious fliness, has moved from the Canadian political scene one of its outstanding figures. Mr. Graydon was never fortunate enough to hold office in any government. Since he was elected to the House of Commons in 1935, he has always sat on the opposition benches, but nevertheless he made a great contribution to the public life of Canada, and was a devoted servant of its people. It was a tribute to the talents and sincerity of Mr. Graydon that, although a member of the opposition, he was for eight years vice-chairman of the House of Commons Committee on external af- fairs. On many occasions he was one of Canada's representatives at international assemblies, sent there by a Liberal gov- ernment. Notably, he attended the his- toric gathering at San Francisco at which the United Nations Organization was born, and he followed that up by his at- tendance at many of the meetings of its General Assembly. Thus he became one of Canada's best-informed men on foreign affairs, and he shone in parliamentary debates when such affairs were being dis- cussed. Gordon Graydon was a happy warrior. His was a genial spirit, and he made hosts of friends in the ranks of his political op- ponents. To his home folk of Peel County, he became something of a hero, a champion of their causes in the halls of parliament, as was shown by the increas- ing majorities with which he was re- elected in successive elections. The passing of Gordon Graydon will be a great loss to the Conservative party, of which he was one of the outstanding figures. It will also be a great loss to Canada, for men of his talents and de- votion to public.services are rare in these materialistic days. We mourn his passing, as the loss of a long-time friend, and as a Canadian whose life of service was an example to all his fellow-citizens. "Little Europe" Outlook Hopeful Quietly, without much sounding ef trumpets, six geographically related Buro- pean nations have united their economics in the production, sale and use of the basic essentials, coal and steel. The organization recently marked its first anniversary. "Little Europe" comprises Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Holland and Belgium. The grouped coal and steel industries of the six countries are directed by a "high authority" of nine members--an authority whose powers, in its limited sphere, are higher than those of the mem- ber governments, In the first year of operations, the high authority has achieved a good be- Editorial Notes It is reported that Churchill is again fit and ready for work. At his age, most men would be satisfied just to be fit, Ottawa reports Canadian industry 1umming right along. We don't mind how ong the hum continues, even if some people do not like the noise. The Daily Times-Gazette : (OSHAWA-WHITBY) J The Daily Times-Gazette (Oshawa, Whitby) Sombinisis The Oshawa Times( established 1871) and the thy Gazette a Chiunicle (established 1863) is published daily L¢ 2 4 ay of The C Press, the Canadian Daily Newspapers Association and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use for re- 'publication of all news despatches in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein. All rights of special despatches are also reserved. T. L. WILSON, Publisher and General Manages M. McINTYRE HOOD, Managing Editor Offices, 44 King Street West, Toronto, University Tower Building, "lontreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin Port Perry, Ajax and Pickering, not over 30c per week. By mail (n Province of Ontario) outside carrier delivery areas $12.00. Elsewere $15.00 per year, DAILY AVERAGE NET PAID CIRCUATION FOR AUGUST 11,549 Ontario, 28 ginning. Coal, steel and iron are now flowing freely between the member na- tions. ' Tariffs have been largely eliminated. Prices are free, standard, and without the government and cartel controls, which, in the past, made many interna- tional arrangements obnoxious. There is hope for economic expansion, through the assurance of raw materials; and economic expansion in turn will bring better standards of living. What Europe has long needed is the ability to get together for the futherance of common interests, rather than the con- stant fostering of ancient jealousies. The community of "Little Europe" re- presents a hopeful beginning. Other Editors' Views FOREWARNED, FOREARMED (Cleveland Plain Dealer) Armistice is merely a cessation of shooting, not peace. It is of particular interest, therefore, to note that ammunition is "pouring" into North Korea, across the Yalu River that Communists are stepping up training at four training centres, two in Korea, two in Manchuria; that Red spies constantly are being arrested. To be forewarned is to be forearmed. Bit Of Verse Brown feet pattered where he went, Home again, adventure-spent, Having toed the gray-black bark Of a walnut--lain where dark Branches spread out green and cool, Having floated in a pool, Drowsing by a moss-wet log, «Kin to meadow and to frog, - And having seen a fawn who stood Still and lovely in the wood. Brimming 'over like a tup, He sent his young whistle up, Knowing how right a day could be By heart--and perspicacity. --Anobel Armour, Bible Thoughts "I declare unto you the gospel , . . Christ died for our sins." (I Cor. 15:1,3.) "The gospel is not good advice, it's good news,"'--Rev. Gerald Gregsom. . THORN IN HIS SIDE CONTINUED -- UKHO, OTTAWA REPORT Moving Capital Away From Ottaw: orres Times-Gazette OTTAWA -- When is a Capital To this question, Canada's fight- ingest mayor, Dr. Charlotte t- ton of Ottawa, would reply: "When the government moves out." That is just what is happening to Ottawa now. Perhaps many Canadians would be happy if the whole cumbrous machine of government should move and keep on moving, until like a herd of lemmings -- or should one call it "a loss of lem- mings' -- they reach the ocean and disappear for ever beneath the waves. But our federal | government according to mayor tton, has a more sinister plan, which is to transfer itself bit by bit away from Ottawa, This plot has never been pub- licly disclosed. The taxpayers and citizens of Canada who own the joint have never been asked if they would like this done. They have By PATRICK NICKOLSON Special C pondent to The never been told where our new Ppl capital is to be} nstead, the national capital plan- ning committee just indignantly and protestingly realized that its multi-million dollar program to make Ottawa into a worthy and beautiful Washington of the North is being chiselled away; and equal- ly suddenly mayor Whitton indig- nantly and protestingly realized that one day she may wake up to find her city changed back into little Bytown, with days of govern- ment only a memory, and nothing left for her to say but "We wuz robbed." EXODUS ALREADY STARTED Two government offices have al- ready been resited outside Ottawa, and plans are far advanced to move out two more. The government printing bureau is being moved to Hull, best known to visitors to Ottawa as our red- light suburb where the more adult laws of the province of Quebec permit night clubs, Sunday movies, good wine and other joys denied in this section of the Ontario sticks. The department of external af- fairs, which deals daily. with rep- resentatives from more advanced foreign countries, is expected to copy this move across the inter- provincial bridge into that more cated atmosphere. i@ Canadian Broadcasting Cor- poration has moved a mammoth set-up even deeper into Quebec, as far as Montreal. Plans are laid to move the National Film Board there too, because Ottawa lacks the cosmopolitan culture which it needs. The Governor General how ever, although he was the author. of the Massey report on culture, has not yet found this community so uncultural that he should move to Montreal too. OUR NEW PENTAGON National defence headquarters heeding the demand of the ational Art Gallery that it should get the heck off the site allocated for a new picture palace, is yet defying the edict of the national capital anning committee that it should rehouse itself in the new southwest section of Ottawa. Instead, it wants to get further away from Peta- wawa, out of the city and east- wards to the village of Orleans. And our National War Memorial, which is now the focal point of Ottawa's Confusion square -- 'ex- cuse me, Confederation square -- is to be moved into the isolation of Quebec's Gatineau hills, where the sacrifices of two generations of Canadians can be conveniently forgotten. This is certain to raise a howl of anguish from the power- ful Canadian Legion, and rightly so. Hurricane Charlotte is going to shatter the calm of cabinet council . with her protests about this tearing apart of our capital. She has al- ready shot one of her apt and acid arrows at our capital unplanners, suggesting they should erect on the ruins of Ottawa a new cenotaph with the epitaph: "Here the Capital of Canada was proclaimed on July 1, 1867® But it died in its early infancy." READERS VIEWS Some Views On Building Oshawa's New Arena The Editor, Thé Times-Gazette, Sir: Regarding your editorial with reference to New Arena in Saturday's issue, as chairman of a rink committee sponsored by the Central Council Neighborhood As- sociations, I might say that the 'idea of a rink being built in Alex- + andra Park has been mooted for a considerable while by some mem- bers-of the Chamber of Commerce. This was thoroughly gone into by our committee earlier in the year and we came to the conclusion that Alexandra Park was not the right place -- that is if we take into consideration the children who would use the rink as a greater number of the children come from south of the Four Corners. And where would this ample parking space be, unless they did "away with, the race track? More -- the idea seems to have been overlooked that we need ice -- and more ice, and to build an arena to house the 'no end of uses to which it could be put" seems to be almost ridiculous. One other thing I would like to point out -- while we are all eager .to have an arena to take care of our Gen- erals, what about the Hundreds of children who want to skate? We don't take a horse out of the pas- ture field and expect it to win the Queen's Plate, so if we want a Junior team of Memorial Cup calibre, we must give the children a chance to skate or must we rely on imports? Yours truly, ROBERT E. WILSON. 81 Cadillac Avenue S.; Oshawa, Sept. 21, 1953. MAC'S MUSINGS IN DAYS GONE BY 20 YEARS AGO The Oshawa Public Schools held a successful fair at Alexandra Park. The Oshawa Parks Commission passed a by-law prohibiting the use of the barns at Alexandra Park for stabling horses in training except by written permission of the com- mission. Dr. T. E, Kaiser made a protest claiming it to be a ban on the rights of the puMiic. J. A. McGibbon KC, MC, was ap- Jointed judge for the counties of ictoria and Haliburton. Ain Burnett and 'Chuck" Cow- lard two "goodwill" Oshawa cy- clists, arrived safely at Halifax via bicycle. The city Welfare Board instituted a new department to supply foot- ~ Bill Engel made a fine showing in the sprinters class in the athletic games in Paris, France. . T. H. Corpe was chosen to head | the Oshawa Blue Devils Rugby | Footbail Club. | Volunteer workers started dig- | ging the excavation for the propos- | ed new Legion Hall. > G. D. Conant prosented a deer; | which he had captured at Sand | Lake near Bancroft, to the River- dale Zoo. : Mohandas K. Gandhi threatened | to 'fast to the finish" if he was denied the right to work for the betterment of the "untouchables"; | Rear Admiral R. E. Byrd announc- ed that he was ready for a second | exploration trip to the Ontarctic. | Pres. F. D. Roosevelt stated that the United Statés would buy sur- vlus foodstuffs for the needy. wear to those on relief. QUEEN'S PARK New Controversy Over Cemeteries BY DON O'HEARN Special Correspondent to The Times-Gazette TORONTO -- One of the most unusual controversies ever to have taken place here surely is that be- fore the cemeteries committe. _ The controversy centres on which is better -- "tombstone" or '"'gar- den" cemeteries. The Memorial Gardens Associa- tion, representing the "garden'" type of cemetery ( and the sales methods which were largely re- sponsible for appointment of the committee) has argued that it is picicrablc to the tombstone t b fuse maintenance is less than alf . Against this, of course, there is the rebuttal of those who think a cemetery isn't a cemetery with- gut A Aging and object highly Today we have received An imeresting letter From one Be many new Friends we made while on --- Our trip to France in April of this year, A letter which recalled The many lovely places Which we saw then are The interesting incidents Which occurred as we went Along the Riviera coast. Yet the thought that Persisted with us as we Read this letter had Nothing to do with our Memories of our travels, But rather with the much Broader thought that in The interchange of ideas And thoughts in such Correspondence there can Be a vital force for the Building up of greater Human understanding Between the peoples of Different countries. When people get to know Each other as friends, Although they may be of Different nationalities, 3 They cannot hate each other, Cannot be obsessed by the Desire to jump at each Other's throats in war, But rather are they helped To greater goodwill and Understanding which are Essential to future peace. We believe heartily that If more people visited Otber countries and there Made some new friends, And kept in touch with them Later by correspondence Kept up regularly, we ould all learn to know Each other much better, And be less liable to Indulge in the things Which divide nations and Impel them to go to War with each other. EXPERT TRAMP GRAND FALLS, Nfld. (CP)-- James Knowles of Lincoln, Mass., 21-year-old student of Massachu- setts Institute of Technology, reached here in the course of a summer's tramping tour that took in tradition. GOOD BRIEF The committee attitude towards Memorial Gardens Association, te the controversy, is much more friendly than it was at the start of proceedings. The association Jrosented an ex- cellent brief which went into its case in detail and put forward strong argument (delivered in his us Sedgwic Sokvineing style by Joe The argument centred largely ca costs, pointing out that mainten- ance of the old-style cemeteries was expensive, and that many of them had fallen back into the hands of municipalities for upkeep. Most of the larger municipalities in the province had some ceme- tary expense in their budgets, and with a number of them it ran into many thousands of dollars. Under iis own plan, it said, there was. provision for perpetual care which would take care of the mem- orial gardens for at least 150 years. STRONGER CONTROL One almost certain development out of the committee will be ' a recommendation for stronger gov- ernment supervision. sides have recommended this, though with different empha- sis on what should be supe A The gardens group stress there should be supervision of the way cemeteries are cared for. The older Semetatios are anxious to see con- over selling and promotion, and would have definite restrie- tions od the Methods used. e; as Nn some pressure for this before on a local b and the government (which oly has curosry control health department now) plobably will agree to it on the commiittee's recommendation. Better Roads Would Save 15,000 Americans Per Year By ROBERT E. GEIGER WASHINGTON (AP)--For years most fatal traffic accidents on United States highways have been blamed on "the nut that holds the steering wheel." Now experts believe that "ob- stacle course" highways -- roads with many danger spots--may be as much to blame as the driver for the 38,000 traffic deaths the United Btates records each year. 'We've emphasized the driver's deficiencies for a long time," said Dr. Bruce D. Greenshields, traffic authority. "Now it's time to Dlace more emphasis on better high. ways." Safety authorities estimate that from one-third to one-half of the lives lost every year on United States highways might be saved by better roads. By roads which eliminate sharp curves, blind hill crests, intersections, and business establishments too close to the pave aent: By roads which have better lighting, wider pavement and one-way traffic. Better highways, James Cope of the Automobile Manufacturers As- sociation told Congress recently, t save as many as 15,000 lives a year. ! The U.S. bureau of public roads has estimated that if the highways of the interstate system -- about, $2,000 rural miles--were improved, almost half of the deaths on these roads might be avoided. For example, in the state of Washington there is a 24-mile stretch of U.S. 99, south of Seattle, which has a fatality rate of 14.5 per 100,000,000 vehicle miles of travel. The rate for all rural roads In the state is 4.8. Why the heavy death toll in this one stretch? ° Police blame most of the ae- cidents on drivers who speed, fail to signal or fail to yield the right of way. But an engineering study also listed the hazards created by no less than 169 intersections, 284 private driveways, 74 'motels, 68 service stations and 101 dside cafes, drive - in stands, gh ov stores and taverns. : "The motorist," sald the engin- eering report, "is subjected to one potential accident situation after another at an -verage rate of ene every 150 feet of travel." While talking about the need fog highway improvement, the experts keep stressing that there is ne substitute for safe driving. Arizona, with a total area of about 144,000 square miles, is the fifth largest state in the Union. i | him about 3,000 miles over the eastern part of the continent. Walk- ing and hitch-hiking, he figured his Joroonal expenses at not more than SOCIAL SECURITY Denmark by law has provided relief for sick, unemployed and aged citizens since the end of the 3° {GENTLE NSTIPATON * HISTORIC SPOTS WOLFVILLE, N.S. (CP)-- Dr. Ronald Longley, president of the Wolfville Historical Society, told a meeting here "no province in Can- ada is so rich in history as Nova Scotia and local historical so- cities must co-operate with na. tional and provincial bodies to pre- serve historical sites." 5 DANGEROUS PRANK MONTREAL (CP)--Children re- leased the ropes holding a paint- ers' scaffold from the edge of the roof of a building here. 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