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¢ THE DAILY TIMES.GAZETTE, Thursday, November 3 189 ditorial g Times- The Daily Times-Gazette (Oshawa, Whitby), ~ 57 Simcoe Street South, Oshawa, Ontario Negotiations With Sklar Firm. Should Be Continued At the City Council meeting on Mon- day evening, after considerable discus- gion, the council adopted a blunt offer to sell an industrial site to the Sklar Manu- facturing Company of this city at a price of $1,000 an acre. The company had made an offer of $533 an acre for the land, which is part of the former Lloyd Gifford Farm, bought by the City Council earlier this year for $80,000. This purchase was not made primar- ily to provide industrial sites. The pur- chase was linked up with the sewage dis- posal plant project and also with a dam- age action which Mr, Gifford had pending against the city. Therefore there was a certain value received by the city in pur- chasing the land over and above its ac- tual value as acreage. The purchase price worked out at acreage value of approxi- matel $420 an acre, but there were other considerations involved in buying it, and these would of necessity lower the value of at least part of the property. The decision of the City Council re- garding the Sklar offer to buy 1314 acres of land should not be allowed to drop with the counter-offer to sell at $1,000 an acre. That need not be the final word. The Sklar Manufacturing Company is a well- established Oshawa industry. If started on a small scale in rented premises in the Coulter Manufacturing building on Rich- mond Street. Through the wisdom, éner- gy and application of the partners in it, the firm developed rapidly, and now has a staff of 125 employees. It is just the kind of industry that any city in Ontario would be delighted to grab off from under Osh- awa's nose, and that is quite likely to hap- pen should there be no solution to the im- passe. The loss of that industry would mean a much moré substantial loss to the city of Oshawa than any difference be- tween the price offered and the price ask- ed for the land in question. Our suggstion is that this whole matter be made the subject of around-the-table conference between the company and a committee of the City Council. A matter of this kind cannot be dealt with satisfac- torily in a one-sided discussion at a eity council meeting. The whole problem might be amicably and satisfactorily re- solved by the two parties getting together in a spirit of helpfulness, in the interest of retaining for Oshawa an industry which has great future possibilities. CCF Party Has New Leader Election of Donald C. MacDonald as leader of the Ontario Co-operative Com- monwealth party will bring to that poli- tical group a new type of leadership. Mr. MacDonald is the successor to E. B. Jolliffe, Q.C., who resigned from the party a few months ago. He was elected at the convention which assembled in To- ronto on Friday and Saturday last. Mr. Jolliffe, a successful lawyer, gave to the CCF a very fine type of leader- ship. He was an academic Socialist, and there was little in the way of histronics or fireworks in his type of leadership, apart from his one splurge in making an issue of an alleged secret "gestapo" with- in the Ontario Provincial Police. Mr. MacDonald is quite a different type of personality. He has been on the administrative staff of the CCF sinee Veterans Commit The quite general theory that mili- tary service teaches men to be heedless of human life is, in substantial measure, contradicted by James V. Bennett, di- rector of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. Re- cently, addressing the 83rd Congress of Correction of the American Prison So- ciety, Bennett bluntly stated that a vet- eran of the Second World War was less likely to get into serious trouble with the law than a man without a military ser- vice background. While statistical analysis of U.S. fed- eral penitentiary inmates does not' estab- lish that war service makes men more law-abiding, the figures .in Bennett's estimation indicate that a man who served in the armed forces in the Second World War was less likely after the war to be sent to prison for federal crime. Going further, Bennett reports chat not only were fewer veterans sent to pri- son but those committed, having engaged in less serious crime, were easier to re- Editorial Notes The lovely weather continues, but it is hardly the kind to put anyone in the right mood for a spree of Christmas shop- ping. A flake or two of snow would work wonders in that direction. - . The Daily Times-Gazette - Published By TIMES-GAZETTE PUBLISHERS LIMITED 57 Simcoe Street South, Oshawa The Daily [imes-Gazette (Oshawa, Whitby) combining The Oshawa Times( established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette & Chronicle (estabiished 1863) is published daily (Sundays and statutory holidays excepted). Member ot The Canadian Press, the Canadian Daily Newspapers Association and the Ontario Provincial Dailies A ciation and the Audit Bureau Circulation. The A 8s Ca adian Press i5 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 ave also reserved. : T. L. WILSON, 'Publisher and General Manager M. McINTYRE HOOD, Managing Editor Offices, 44 King Street West, Toronto, University Tower Building Jontreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin Port Perry, Ajax and Pickering, not over 30c per week. By mall (in Province of Ontario) oatside carrier delivery areas $12.00. Elsewhere $135.00 per year. DAILY AVERAGE NET PAID CIRCULATION FOR OCTOBER 12,626 Ontario, 298 1946, and is known as a dynamic indi- vidual and a rugged fighter. He can be depended upon to do just what he said in his speech of acceptance of the leader- ship "provide the Frost government with a fighting opposition or the alternative." The new leader has no easy task ahead of him in his efforts to put new life into the CCF party. In the last pro- vincial election, it was cut down to two members in the Ontario Legislature, a big drop from the 34 members who were elected. in 1948. This, naturally, reduced its effectiveness as a political force in the Ontario House. To rejuvenate the party will require strenuous measures, and it may be that Mr. MacDonald is just the right type of man to do it, since he is an active rather than an academic Socialist. Few Crimes habilitate and were less likely te become repeaters. This may be partly due to the more careful screening of volunteers and draftees at the outset, and partly to the discipline of military life, inculcating a sense of responsibility. A characteristie of most violent crimes is that the offend- ers are decidedly lacking in discipline, especially self-discipline, and have little sense of responsibility, In our limited observation of the courts, it has been a rare thing for a bona fide war veteran to appear on a criminal charge. The so-called soldiers occasionally arraigned in uniform and otherwise were almost without exception, absent without leave, outright deserters "or men dis- charged for cause -- fellows who were of as small use in the armed forces as they were in civilian life. Yet the armed services are undeserv- edly blamed for the misdeeds of a few who were constitutionally and tempera- mentally unable to integrate themselves with military life. Bit Of Verse SOUTHWARD Now small brown birds like tossed brown leaves fly frem orchards, spurt from eaves, desert red barns and white church spires, gather on fences and telegraph wires, approve this instant of fine blue weather, lke a whirl of leaves blew off together, leaving fences and wire without gey throats like a page of music without any notes. Franees Frost Bible Thoughts "As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, © Go. My soul thirst- eth for God, for the living God." (Psalm 42:1-2.) There's a Christ-shape vacuum in everyone's heart, PARIS LETTER International Groups As A World Within A World By FRANCES KNECHT Like an apple tree on which has been grafted a branch of varied and expensive fruits which have no- thing in common with the apples, is the provisional population of Paris. is population, numbering many thousands -- against the three million Parisiens,--is the per- sonnel of the various international organizations. 1. First of all is ONU (Organiza- tion of United Nations), a simple reduced information delegation. 2. UNESCO (Unitdd Organization of Education, Science, and Cul- ture.) 3. OACI (International Organiza- tion of Civil Aviation). 3. NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization, housed in the tem- porary building built for the United Nations Assembly in 1951, and which is a perpetual eyesore of the Palais de Chaillot. Here are the representatives of 14 countries, America, Canada, and all Euro- pean countries except Spain and Germany. $. SHAPE (Supreme Headquar- ters of European Allied Powers), military anization of the Atlan-- "tic Pact, with headquarters at Fon- tainbleau. 6. FOA (Foreign Aid Diganisa tion), the American Cen for European aid. 7. OFCE (Organization of Econ: omic Cooperation in Europe) utilis- ing the American funds between the 16 countries participating, of which Germany, Portugal, and Sweden are members. 8. The diplomatic corps, and com- mercial attaches. For instance Den- mark which had 20 people before the war, now numbers over 80. The American population is at least 20 times more. ' LIVE UNTO THEMSELVES These international organizations have their own canteen, their own p bar, and their own co-operative for food stuffs, so except for breathing the same aid, enjoying the same weather, and wallking in the same streets, this population differs en- tirely. from the Parisian. There is little or nothing in common, and in a great many cases to learn even the French language is considered unnecessary. One lady I know, whose husband holds a big official position, told me that she had taken up Italian. When 1 suggested that she might also learn French, she replied, "Oh no, I shall never have any use for it as everyone speaks English, but Ital- ian is such a pretty language." This same lady complains that she has no friends or acquaintances outside official circles, and does not know a single French person. "These French people never invite us" she says, "I can't think how they spendMtheir time -- they never seem to give cocktail parties." UP ON A PERCH It never occurs to these "foreign- ers' to drop their superiority com. plex and come down from. their Jereh to try to get to know the nch, and to learn at the same time that money has little import-- ance with a people who respect real values and with whom the individ- ual personality counts. The international lady brags so much about her cocktail parties, her late nights, and the hectic rush pa to another where she sees always the same faces and hears the same nonsensical chatter, ris- So ing to a crescendo as the evening vances. When I suggested that it must be very boring she said, 'Oh we usually go to dinner and a cabaret afterwards, -- last night we spent 15,000 francs on drinks alone, not counting 'eats, and there were only three of us." MONEY COMPARISONS The vital minimum wage of the French worker is 20,000 francs ($55.50) a month, in many cases even less, and many homes have to manage on this. The average in- come in well under 50,000 francs ($139.00) a month. Earning 100,000 ( .00) a month is considered nearly rich, -- yet the internation- al people, paid in dollars, will give as much as 250,000 francs a month for a furnished flat, a modest sec- retary pas 50,000 francs for one. The breach is not only material, but also intellectual. e French are more formal in their recrea- tion, which is on a high intellectual plane. Cocktail parties are not so popula as more intimate dinners. ine is prefered to liquor. A Frenchman can hold a long and very interesting conversation with- out a glass in his hand. The French hostess is a true artiste, with her choice of dishes, excellent wine, and the knack of getting together interesting people to share her table. Then there is the theatre. The intellectual plays have the most success. Evidently a knowl- edge of the language is necessary to appreciate them. Cl M IN SIMPLE THINGS Night clubs, cabarets, and music alls are out of the question, ex- sept perhaps once in a blue moon, et what charm one finds in the ittle "Bistro's" where a refined dinner with wine can be found for 500 francs, and the Paris "Salon Litteraire'" where nothing at all is 'offered, but a feast of poesie, mus- ic, and art, -- a stroll along the boulevards under the settin sun, the "Sacre Coeur' outline against the skyline, and the Seine with all its mystery. These are the things which money cannot buy. In Paris one must find time to dream, It is true that hours are long in these international offices, with little time for lunch taken hurried- ly in the canteen, and the work of- ten tedious. One's social standing depends on one's grade. I have heard it said that only the French delegates take their secretaries to arties, as if this were a crime. at a pity it seems that a more get-together attitude is not adopted towards the people of the city which houses them, and towards the desire to learn more about the habits and "customs of a country other than their own. HAMPTON M. HORN Correspondent HAMPTON -- Mr. and Mrs. Bert McMullen and Gary, Janet- ville: Mr. and Mrs. Sam Adams and Lyn, Bowmanville were re- cent visitors with Mr. and Mrs, Harold Quarry and Mrs. T. Me- Mullen. Mrs. Terrill 8r. is with friends in Port Perry. Mr. and Mrs. H. Quarry and Mrs. McMullen visited Mrs. Fred Cowle and family at Bowmanville. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Hogarth and family visited her parents, Rev. and Mrs. W. Rackham at Lindsay Wilfrid Smale has been a patieni in the Toronto General Hospital for the past week having under- one an operation on Thursday fast: Mr. and Mrs. S. Sharp Laura and Bruce, and Mr. Sharp, Sr. of Ida were recent visitors with Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Yellowlees. Mr. and Mrs. James Saunders and family, Oshawa, visited at G. Adcock's. Miss Annie Mountjoy, Bowman- ville, was a recent visitor with Mr. and Mrs. Theron Mountjoy. Mr. and Mrs. George Gilbert spent a few days in Toronto and attended the Royal Winter Fair and Ice Capades. Trinchinopoly in India is noted for manufacture of jewelry, cut- lery and cigars. eneral, -- the race from one Qr f MAC'S MUSINGS Today on nearly every Page of our newspapers We read about problems That are facing the world Or some of its nations, Problems that perplex those Who govern communities, And even individuals, Until we are almost sick Of sight of the word. Problems take many forms Individual and collective And arise from difficulties In meeting situations rom circumstances Which seem to be almost Impossible to overcome in thinking of them That apt word "problem" Comes quickly to mind. Yet some of the things Which we call problems Might rather be regarded As JrEsenting challenges To bring out the best That is in every one, Challenges to overcome The difficulties and trials Which almost seem to be Overwhelming to us. If what we call problems Were accepted as challenges To our hearts and minds And to our fortitude To demand from us that We should put forth Our greatest efforts To meet them and cause Difficulties to disappear We would soon forget To use the word "problem" And begin to realize That such things come te Test skill and ingenuity, Our ability and character, And that we must rise to Meet these challenges That life brings to us To test our mettle. Auto Firms Make Deals NEW YORK (AP)--A growing flow of orders from the auto in- dustry is brightening prospects in the steel business even while steel- making operations in the United States sank this week to 88 per cent of capacity, a new low for the year, Iron Age, national metal-- working weekly, reported today. "Through most steel sales people had kept whistling a brave tune, some were frankly puzzled over the long silence of auto industry buyers," said Iron Age. 'Now that the ice has been broken they ex-- pect automotive customers to enter the market heavily for first-quarter business in the next two or three weeks." However, auto steel buyers were "in a mood to squeeze the best bargains possible out of a buyers' market." The publication added that mar- ginal and high-cost steel mills are not sharing the brighter outlook for new business, and some don't expect a business pick-up before February. si Re ATME bh Ann Tire? i » : ' 3 Yo \ Wn YURinapy RR! ) LADO D15¢ The | Dealers A iation of Canade THOMSON, KERNAGHAN & CO. (MEMBERS TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE) BOND and BROKERAGE OFFICE 16 KING ST. W., OSHAWA : NOW OFFERING! -- SERIES "8" CANADA SAVINGS BONDS PAYING INTEREST 334% Moy Be Purchased In Amounts From $50 to $5,000 For Information DIAL 5-1104 ERIC R. HENRY Resident Mgr IN DAYS GONE BY 3 YEARS AGO H. P. Schell, president of the Ontario County Children's Aid So- ciety, presided over the annual meeting at which H. W. Elliott, su- perintendent, outlined an encour- aging year's work. Roland Moffatt, chairman of the Crippled Children's Committee of the Rotary Club, announced that the club would conduct a clinic for children needing the service by taking them to a hospital for ex- amination and bearing the expense. The maximum for women teach- ers' salaries in Oshawa Public Schools was $1,150 as compared with $1,500 and $1,600 in towns of comparable size. H. J. Johnson, Alex Storie, S. J. Babe, J. C. Cormack, George Hav- erson and Dr. S. J. Phillips were' elected elders of the St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. Two of Oshawa's men's clothing stores advertised the latest fashion in men's wear to be colored hat bands and narrow ties. Oshawa citizens were asked to vote on their favorite pseudonym for Oshawa which was soon to be- come a city. The Board of Trade offered a prize of $10 to the per- son who had submitted the favored name. Mayor Trick, E. A. Lovell, president of the Board of Trade and George Miller were asked tg count the votes. ' Hambly Brothers announced that they would add to Oshawa's grow- ing industries by erecting a $50, 000 ice plant on King Stréet West. R. S. McLaughlin gave an inter- view to the "Ontario Reformer" regarding his recent trip to Britain and France where he was studying Canada's car export trade, . The YMCA Board of Directors decided to use the dormitories in the building for strangers and transients in the city. G. W. Hezzlewood was elected vice-president of the Rotary Club to succeed J. L. Whattam who had stepped up to president when Mr. Hicks, former president, resigned at he time of his moving to Tor- onto. : OTTAWA REPORT Canada's Gift To Medical Science By PATRICK NICHOLSON Special Correspondent of The Times-Gazette OTTAWA -- Canada's atomic re- search centre at Chalk River, which has never made a military atomic bomb, is now turning out humanitarian atomic bombs at a steady rate of four per year. The tenth such humanitarian atomic bomb to be made for Can- adian hospitals by these govern- ment scientist will be intalled in Port Arthur's general hospital some time this winter. This bomb is the life-saving co- balt 60 beam therapy unit, com- monly known as the cobalt bomb, for treatment of cancer. FIRST ONE IN '51 The world's first cobalt bomb was built just two years -ago by scientists of the government-con- trolled Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., which handles the commer- cialization of atomic research work carried out at Chalk River, This bomb was installed in Vie- toria hospital at London, Ontario. While government physicists were working on the development of this first cobalt bomb, similar equipment was built independently in Saskatchewan by Dr. Johns and installed at Saskatoon. The crown company is today the only ucer in the world of co- balt bombs. It has already sup- Gilead further units to Vancouver, innipeg and Toronto; it has sold cobalt bombs to four hospitals in the states and to one hospital in Italy. One of its bombs has been presented to a hospital in London, England by the Montreal philan- thropist, J. W. McConnell. LIFE-SAVERS FOR CANADA That crown company now plans to deliver further cobalt bombs this winter to cancer clinics in Windsor, Hamilton, Ottawa, Port Arthur, Kingston and Edmonton. The $60, bomb for Port Ar- thur is a generous gift to the le of the Lakeh i from Hoa. Norman Paterson, senator from Thunder Bay. J For its safe and efficient op- eration, the general hospital there has constructed an underground treatment room, where concrete walls will protect hospital work- ers and other patients from pos- sible harmful doses of the power ful rays emitted by the radio-ac- tive cobalt. The hospital has also sent its Dr. Hargan to Britain to study deep therapy techniques in hospitals at Manchester and Birm- ingham, so that cancer sufferers at the Lakehead will have the benefit of the most up-to-date treatment with this new equip- ment. The senator tells me that he hopes everything will be ready for the bomb to be installed and operated at Port Arthur within five months. WHAT THE BOMB DOES Cobalt which has been cooked in the atomic Je at Chalk River' has been found to emit rays just like radium. When directed at diseased tissue in the human body, these rays will kill' it and thus halt the spread of cancer. Re search to date shows that the bomh does not cure all forms of cancer. Doctors are showing a cuatious optimism about its effectiveness, although none will ever pronounce a cancer patient cured until five years have passed without a re- currence of the disease, and the oldest cobalt bomb is now only two years old. HAVE HIGH HOPES "The bomb's success to date jive rise to great hope," says r. Ivan Smith, who as director of the cancer clinic at London's Victoria Hospital, accepted the first bomb and has had more ex- perience with it than any other doctor in the world. "We have ledrned that the bomb is about 80 per cent effective in treating cancer of the breast, 7 per cent effective against cancer of the uterus, 98 per cent effective against skin cancers, and suffice iently effective against deep-seated cancers in the stomach 3nd lung that medical men no longer be completely discouraged. by these. The kick in the bomb is a packet of cobal pellets worth 75 cents in their natural state and weighing two ounces. When these have been cooked in the atomic pile for about nine months, they emit rays more powerful thatn those given off by all the radium in the whole worl now in medical use 'valued® around $60,000,000. Canada's de: velopment may fairly be described as the invention of "poor man's radium." v MORE TRAFFIC EDMONTON (CP) -- Automo- bile passages through Alberta cus- toms points showed an increase of more than six per cent in the first eight months of 1953. At Coutts, Atla., the gain was almost 10 per cent. STAFFORD BROS. 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