The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

OPINIONS DAILY. TIMES-CAZETTE EDITORIAL PAGE FEATURES THE DAILY TIMES.GAZETTE OSHAWA WHI THE OSHAWA TIMES (Established 1871) THE WHITBY GAZETTE AND CHRONICLF (Established 1863) epend r published daily except Sunday by The Ae ohana Li Oshawa, Limited, Arthur R. Alloway, President and Managing Director. . COMPLETE CANADIAN PRESS LEASED WIRE SERVICE The Times-Gazette is a member of the Canadian Dally Newspapers Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Net Paid Circulation Average Per Issue 9 8 4 3 FOR SEPTEMBER WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1946 The Air Disasters Public attention has bgen centred recently upon the two disastrous airplane crashes in Newfoundland. Although they resulted in a terrible loss of life, they by no means indi- cate that travel by air is decidedly unsafe. We believe that travel by air will play an increasingly important role in our lives. It should be remembered that aviation is only in its infancy. It is less than 50 years old and is still in the expan- sion stage. The fact that there have been accidents will only: serve to spur scientific research to develop new safety devices. Every form of transportation when in its formative stages was plagued by accidents. It is the same with aviation. Some idea of the magnitude of Passenger aviation may be gained from the fact that American Overseas Air Lines-- one of whose planes was involved in a Newfoundland crash-- operates 30 flights a week across the North Atlantic. All told there are six companies engaged in this passenger run with a total of 180 flights a week. Further evidence of the safety of such flights is the fact that it was A.0.A.'s first fatal crash in 13,000 trans-Atlantic trips. The amazing flights of two United States planes--the Turbulent Turtle, which flew from Australia to Ohio, and the Super Fortress Dreamboat, which flew from Hawaii to Cairo--give promise of the part aviation will play in bringing all 'sections of the world closer together. A Test of Skill Down through the years one of the lasting institutions in the rural communities across the length and breadth of the land has been the plowing match. Despite he passage of the years it is as popular today as it ever was, In Ontario com- petitions are held in almost every county while an interna- tional match each year attracts its thousands of enthusiastic patrons. It is perhaps due to that spirit of rivalry to be found among men that the plowing match continues to be so popu- lar. It takes as prominent a place among those who live in agricultural sections as in the industrial cities. Each farmer . desires to be just a little bit better than his neighbor. Hence the success of fall fairs, which specialize in produce and livestock, and plowing matches, where personal ability is at a premium. Tomorrow the South Ontario Plowmen's Association is holding its annual competition on the farm of Elmer Powell in East Whitby Township. The day of the yoke of oxen has passed but lovers of fine horses and good plowing will still go miles to see this annual event. Tractors have to some extent replaced the slow, plodding horse but the appeal of the well cut furrow still remains. The Crossroads There is much evidence that the address given by Rt. Hon, C. D. Howe, Canada's minister of reconstruction, before the largest of our trade unions, the Trades and Labor Con- gress of Canada, has made a marked impression on the country. Great as the damage to our people's welfare from strikes hag been, Mr. Howe gives assurance that "lost ground can be rscovered provided industrial pesce can be restored without delay." If we are to retain a free democracy public opinion must' exert its power now so that both managament and labor will sincerely work for 2 settlement which will also be made to . the consumer--the greatest body of Canadians. Both that part of management which feels that it should now show its power over labor and those labor leaders who are determined to continue strikes for political reasons must both be brought by the force of public opinion to consider first the public good and it is apparent that the long suffering publis is now aroused. Self-Confidence It you want an interesting answer to a question put it to a youngster. Recently a teen-age lass was asked: "What is self-cont.dence?" The answer was that self-confidence is knowing that whatever happens you're certainly not going to fall flat on your face. That is exactly what it is, The. ability to meet situations as they arise without clammy hands, or a beet-red face is self-confidence. Life often hands out strange packets in quaint ways, but if you "have acquired poise and self-confidence they won't bowl you over." ' Life is also full of little things and it's the little things that build up a lot of self-confidence, Being able to do things] --being good at things. Sports for instance, How good are you at Swimming, tennis, bicycling or maybe dancing? Can you sing--or carry a tune without going off key ? Being good ~really good at any game gives you assurance. How are you as a hostess in your own home--easy or awkward--apolo- "Among Those Present" bY 74 vr getic or poised? How are your table manners--good enough to be able to.juggle properly with all the knives, forks and spoons if you're invited to a banquet? Can you make an introduction properly--or are you always in a dither wonder- ing who should be introduced to who? Yes, it's all the little things, the everyday things that can build up your confidence in yourself, or tear it down. If you are not sure of your- self, find out the reason and try to remedy it. There's always a remedy. Be your best self and be the best you can at everything you do. Keep yourself well-groomed and be the kind of a person whom it's nice to be near. In this way you can become self-confident--and that doesn't mean feeling superior. 4 eo Other Editors A COSTLY SMOKE (Vancouver News-Herald) A forest fire which has destroyed two million feet of standing timber and has been menacing five mil- lion felled and bucked timber, has been raging in the Campbell River area, According to officials of the Elk River Timber Company, the fire was started as a result of smoking on the job in defiance of orders, AND WHAT A STATE (Braatford Exporitor) Austin Cross, Ottawa Citizen col- umnist who used -to do a spot of re- porting hereabouts in his youth, says a lady phoned him recently to state succinctly, "Ottawa is a hick town." Could Be, but one prefers the definition by another lady who asserted, "Ottawa isn't a city, it's a state of mind' And what a state when the House is in session! YEAR OF AGGRESSION (Baltimore Sun) For whatever reasons, the Rus- sian government apparently decid. ed that the period of uncertainty following the end of the fighting was the best time for consolidating and extending its position in fhe world. The story of the last year is the story of Russian aggressive- ness. In almost no instance have the Russians agreed without a struggle to the proposals of the other powers. In most instances, the Russians have insisted upon their own interpretation of exist- ing agreements, using the power to veto when necessary to prevent ad- verse decisions. As expected, the Canadian steel strike has ended in compromise. The workers, out on strike for weeks, do not get all that they demanded. The steel companies give more than they were willing to give when the strike occurred. That has been the history of prac- tically every major dispute affecting Canadian industry within recent months, Inevitably these disputes are settled by both sides giving ground. But while the strikes are in pro- gress there is all-round loss--Iloss to the workers in wages they might have earned if they had rmained on the job, loss to their employers if the income from sales of mer- chandise that was not producd. In the case of the steel strike, itis estimated that the workers who went out on July 15 have lost between four and five million dollars in wages alone, and Canada has lost about five and one-half million man hours of badly need- ed production, It is further es- timated that, in' the case of the steel workers at Hamilton alone, they will have to work for 226 weeks at the new scale to receive as much money as they would have obtained | had they accepted the company's or- iginal offer. But this steel strike did not in- jure only the steel workers and the steel ccmpanies. It aflected scores and scores of other industrial plants throughout the Dominion and thous. ands and thousands of their york- ers, Many of the latter also found themselves short of work and wages | because their employers coud not obtain materials or parts, And all Strikes Mean Only Loss (Brockville Recorder and Times) over Canada the consumer, the ev- entual user of the steel that might have been made was also affected. The folly of strikes was never brought more forcibly to notice than in this instance. If employer and employee had been less adam- ant at the very start of the dispute and had agreed to a compromise such as that which they finally ac- cepted, all this production, all this work, all these wages, might have been saved. Strikers would not have used up their savings trying to maintain themselves and their dependents. Steel companies would have been able to keep their pro- ducts moving to market. The cone sumer would not have been anta- gonized And hard feeling and bit- terness would have been avoided, Is it too much to hope that, with this jesson and other lessons before them, management and labor can resolve to get together and keep to- gether in a mutual devotion tocon= tinued production so that neither side will lose so heavily and so that prolonged work stoppages can be avoided? Many labor unions and their employers manage to get along together very well on this basis, why can't it become the general e ® 25 Years Ago The price of bread in Oshawa was cut from 12 to 11 cents, The Oshawa Dairy and Lander's Dairy announced milk would be sold for 3 cents a quart during the win. er. The Town Council decided match G. W. McLaughlin's $500 offer towards the improvement of the, athijety area at Alexandra Park. ; Fire Chief A. C. Cameron rs ported losses in 10 fires during the nine months of 1921 totalled $6,205, The Russell Construction Co. of Toronto fin'shed work on the new intake at the pumping station. F. 8. Rutherford of the Technical Branch of the Department of Edu- cation made a survey here in con- nection with the establishing of a technical school. ' Claude Kewin, an employee of the Oshawa Railway, had a leg amputated and the other broken as the result of a collision between the shunter, on which he was work- ing, and a auto at the King Street East and Ritson Road Intersection, Wilson G. Gamble and Jack Me- Masters, who were in the auto, were also hospitalized. SLOW BRITISH (Bragtford Expositor) British firms are turning out small, portable radios which can be carried on shoulder straps, like wartime C.W.A.C. handbags. The sets are strong enough to bring in stations in Holland, rance and Bel- glum, The slow British, it seems, are not so slow, after all, o A Bible Thought "As thou goest, step by step, I will open up thy way before thee," (Prov, 4:12, Syriac version.) "My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not." (Prov, 1:10.) Sin 1s never so dangerous as when it is thought "smart." More and more, it seems, the trial of accused murderers is falling in- to the hands of psychologists and psychiatrists. Seldom does a per- son charged with killing admit that he was in his right mind at the time of the crime} and some of them go to fantastic 'extremes to find scientific support (for their claims. It is a cunning way to cheat justice, and unfortunately it works with greater and greater fre- quency. Of late, for instance, we have had an epidemic of "blackout" pleas. This is a word which came into popular usage during the war, particularly in the flying services, It denotes a temporary period of unconsciousness caused, in aviation, by the stresses of great speed at high altitudes. The term has been adopted into murder cases with a celerity which indicates what a useful tool it has become for the man trying to escape justice. It seems strange that otherwise normal people can suddenly suffer one of these fits, though they have never had them before, and that they invariably kill somone when they come on, Frankly, it strains credulity, One seldom hears, nowadays, of a straight insanitary plea. Murder- ers have found out these have un- comfortable consequences. If an alienist testifies that they are men- tally deficient, they do not get off free, but are kept in an institution, probably for the rest of their lives. Many find this little preferable to hanging. A pleasant substitute is the de- Fantastic Excuses for Killing (Windsor Daily Star) fence that the accused person had 'one of those strange visitations of temporary unawareness of his ac- tions. A jury, made up of laymen, is easily confused by a flood of scientific jargon, and often, in fear of doing an injustice, gives the per- son charged the benefit of the doubt. The result is either a man- slaughter verdict or an acquittal. Either way, a guilty slayer ascapes his proper penalty, Making a farce of justice in this way is more prevalent in the Unit- ed States than here. In Canada, we at least do not go to the length of allowing an accused person to introduce evidemce by an alienist whom he is employing and paying. Such expert testimony can come only from an impartial expert em- ployed by the state. We do keep clear of 'biased witnesses. Nevertheless, there are too many variations of the insanity theme. This mental state should be an ex- cuse for 'killing only if it can be conclusively proven that it is so ser- fous as to rob the victim of his sense of right and wrong, that he is so mentally deficient . that he does not know he is sinning when he takes human life. In such cases, permanent incarceration in an asy- lum is the only safe course. No reasonable person has a craze for vengeance against murderers. It is the concern of everyone, how= ver, that human life be kept inviol« ate. A most dangerous situation arises when it becomes general knowledge that people can kill and then, by use of a bit of scientific mumbo-jumbo, evade just punish- ment, Misplaced An editorial in Saturday Night dealing with the Co-operative Com- monwealth youth movement drive for the extension of the vote to all those over 18, brings up once more a present-day tendency to saddle youth with an ever growing respon- sibility the while we tend to take it away from their elders who, in the natural course of events, should be in a position to shoulder it, Thus we have school children {ace with decisions, whole systems ucation built up on the idea that children will develop by fol- low.ng their own desires -- and where those desires are likely to lead nobody knows, unless it is the parent of a child attending an ad- vanced school. We have been relia- bly informed by some of these par- ents that the results are surprising. We expect them to go out into the world with a wide grounding of cul- ture and an insufficient amount of the three "R's" and little or no dis- cipline or disciplinary education, and then hand them a vote at 18, On the other hand, adults who might normally be expected to have applied the principles .learned in school to living a grown-up life, are offered adult education. This Education (Eloisa Express) may take a number of forms, from dancing on the green to participat- ing in debates or looking at docu- mentdry films, and it is supposed to be just what they are clamoring for at the end of a long hard day's work. We doubt it very much. Where we should be placing the emphasis is on a good solid education . for youth, with fewer frills and one fitted to teach them to earn a living by the time they are men. At the present rate of getting through school, they are far from even fin- ishing their education at the age of 18, let alone exercising a fran- chise which can only be properly used by persons who have had some préctical experience in re- sponsible living, At the same time it might be an idea to leave the nnor adults alone to sit by the fire or see a nice ghost movie or read a detective story in the evening. Between the day's hard work, which is vital to the evening program, and a bit of relaxation according to their own lights, they will probably drum up enough perspective to vote with some degree of intelligence when the next election rolls around. (Victoria Thinking people will agree with the Nova Scotia senator who took issue with the Canadian Congress of Labor resolution calling for the abolition of the Canadian Senate that "it is a part of the constitu- tion of the country." This is the important point, and one too easily overlooked by groups who meet to pass resolutions upon all and sun- dry subjects. There may be, and no doubt is, room for improvement in proceedings of the Red Cham- ber, but as a constitutional entity the Senate is neither outmoded nor antiquated, despite what some labor leaders may profess to believe, It is an interesting fact that uni- cameral Parliaments are to be found mostly in lands where demo- cracy, as this country understands it, 1s no longer pre-eminent. The spirit of free govetnment flourish- es best in those countries where a scond chamber is an integral part of Parliament, as it is in Canada. No lower House, if left unchecked against its own haste and impru- dence, has never been able to up- hold the best interests of a nation ~ Value of The Senate Colonist) and the people who elected it. It is not without significance that to- talitarian regimes favor single- chamber Legislatures, which often then become mere automatic ech- oes of the government in power. Th Canadian Senate, like its counterparts elsewhere, provides a balance whose value cannot be over= estimated. Senators may have need to amend their ways in some respects but they are a steadying in« flunce in the public life of this country, and do more good work than they are generally credited with. The record of Canadian Parliaments in recent years testi- fies to the need of some Upper Chamber, The Senate is part of the Cana- dian Parliament, and no less im- portant than Its constitutional partner, the House of Commons. Together they comprise the best means yet devised for giving ex- pression to the public will..In a free country this is all important, and it has never been more so than at the present time. The Senate should not be tampered with by ill-advised resolutions, You who spend ow how to save family income is spent by women--it's women who shop around to get the best return for their money--it's women who know a good thing when they see it! By far the greatest proportion of the dreams come true. everyone. So it's up to you to take without delay. ~ ARR = That's why you Canadian women are not going to pass up the chance of putting your money into Canada Savings Bonds--successor to the Victory Bonds and War Savings Certificates which enabled you to put away savings that otherwise would have been spent . . . protection for a rainy day . .. money to help make your CANADA'S FINEST INVESTMENT You can buy Canada Savings Bonds in units of $50, $100, $500 and $1000. You may buy up to $2000 per person. They pay 28% interest each year for 10 years. Your bonds will be registered in your own name, providing protection against loss. You can cash Canada Savings Bonds at full face value, with interest, at any time at any branch in Canada of any chartered bank. They are better than any com- parable form of saving . . . providing a higher return than you can get today on any investment as safe and cashable. You can buy them at any bank; authorized investment dealer; stock broker; trust or loan company--for cash or by the monthly Savings Plan. Where your employer offers a Payroll Savings Plan you can buy Canada Savings Bonds by regular deduc- tions from your pay. But please remember this point--These are "Serve Yourself Bonds. 'This time there will be fewer salesmen. They will not be able to call on advantage of this fine investment opportunity-- " 8 out of 10 will buy again &