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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 AND CHRONICLE . (Established 1863) , An independent newspaper published daiiy except Sunday by The Times Publishing Company of Oshawa, Limited, Arthur R. Alloway, President and Managing Director. COMPLETE CANADIAN PRESS LEASED WIRE SERVICE The Times-Gazette is a member of the Canadian Daily Newspapers Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Authorized as Second Class Matter, Post Office Dept., Ottawa, Canada. : SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin, Port Perry, Ajax or Pickering, 24c for two weeks. By mail outside carrier delivery area anywhere in Canada and England $4.00 rer year. United States subscriptions $5.00 per year. Net Paid Circulation Average Per Issue 9.863 rag FOR SEPTEMBER FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1946 Montreal Vice Probe To those well acquainted with conditions in Montreal it was not surprising that sweeping investigation into the ad- ministration of the Montreal Police Department .was disal- lowed and the decision reached that the judicial inquiry will be limited to specific charges against several police officers whose names were linked with underworld characters. A group of Montrealers had petitioned for an imme- diate reorganization of the police department and new regulations regarding. raids. They charged that returns from gambling and vice ran to more than $10,000,000 a year. They also alleged that police officers accepted bribes and co- operated with operators of gambling houses, and that bribes totalling millions of dollars had been distributed. The situation in a nutshell is that gambling and the acceptance of bribes has made such inroads among residents of the city that it cannot be uprooted. While it may be of minor consideration there is also the appeal which a wide open city holds for visitors. No Rowdyism It was with regret that we learned recently that while the Kinsmen Club of Whitby will continue the practice, the Oshawa Kinsmen will not sponsor a shellout this Hallowe'en. The shellout received the wholehearted endorsation of many people here and resulted in the elimination of much' of the Wasi damage to property which marked the event in the past. Mayor Robert Saunders of Toronto is calling upon home and school associations, youth organizations and churches in the Queen City to co-operate in the providing of entertain- ment for youth so their evening will be fully occupied and they will not be tempted to give vent to their exhuberance by damaging property. ? . To be sure the situation has ironed itself out in recent years and it is seldom one hears of injury being occasioned to 'anyone or serious damage due to pranks on Hallowe'en. However, it would be better to provide the means of avoiding them before they occur, . We believe that similar action to that contemplated in Toronto should be taken here. Time For A Change The Fourth Canadian Penal Congress, which was held in Windsor, certainly made more noise, and probably made - more penological history, than all its predecessors put to- 'gether. It drew the attention of the Canadian people, for the first time in any effective manner, to the fact that there exists a science of penology, with well established prin- ciples, .the result of the psychological research work of the last two generations. And when the Canadian people come -to realize that fact, they cannot fail to vealize the further fact that the Canadian penal system, unchanged in its fun- damentals since 1867, is operating in flat defiance of every one of those scientific principles. It is true that the Archambault Report of 1938 is the charter of scientific penology in Canada. But that Report was most unfortunate in its nativity. It was put before Parliament, which has never paid any attention to it, and before the Canadian people, who have paid very little, at a moment when the gathering war-clouds were darkening the sun and obscuring every other question than that of the preservation of the main liberties of the human race. In comparison with the menace of Hitlerism, the menace of an antiquated treatment of convicted criminals seemed a very minor matter. Today, with Hitlerism disposed of, and with the army of convicted (and re-convicted) criminals showing such a terrible increase, it is among the most press- ing of our problems. When the Canadian people become fully seized of the fact that the proper treatment of offenders is not a matter of guess-work nor of a clash between ruthless severity and - soft-minded sentimentality but is determined by well-tested principles which can be known and applied by skilled ex- . perts, they will refuse to tolerate any other kind of treat- ment. The day of high penological officers being appointed for purely political services will be at an end. Canada will begin to treat the problem of its offenders as it has long treated the problems of wheat-growing, its transportation, development of its mineral resources. A thousand n8 redeemed from crime to social usefulness are at . 8s important as a new gold mine. ; facts be made available to the British View of U.S. Atom Policy Henceforth the Royal Family will enjoy the blessings of trade union- ism right in their own home; Buckingham Palace has been or- joined the Civil Servants Union, which is now negotiating with the '| Trades Union Congress for affilia- --Butterworth in The Manchester Daily Dispatch Last Words of H. G. Wells By LEWIS MILLIGAN (In East Toronto Weekly) The death of H. G. Wells has called forth many articles in the press estimating his literary achievements and more especially his 'Influence upon the scientific political and social movements of his time. There can be no doubt as to his genius as a writer, He was a master in the handling of words and juggling with ideas. No writer since Dickens, with the exception of Arnold Bennett, could so enter- tainingly depict English characters, particularly of the lower middle classes, of which he was an off- spring. But it was as an imagina- tive writer in the realm of science and as a sincere and enthusiastic advocate of Socialism that he wiel- ded his greatest influence. Wells was a materialist--in his autobiography he called himself an atheist. For him there was no Ged or things . spiritual. There was nothing beyond what could be seen and handled, and Wells believed that man could by his own will and skill determine the shape of things to ccme, In a measure, this is quite true, for what men do in the present largely determines the shape of things in the future. There has been no lack of will power, skill and planning in the past fifty years, but the result has not been what Wells anticipated. Things are in pretty bad shape in the world at the present time, and Wells, in his last book, had abandomed all hope for the future of mankind, 'The title of this book, "Mind at the End of its Tether," is very sig- nificant, and in itself is a confes- sion by its author of the fallacy of his own Godless theories for the betterment of mankind. "In his earlier writings Wells was an idea- list and even a visionary in his hopes for humanity," says Dr. Car- negie Simpson, in an article in the British Weekly, August 29. . "He planned Utopias; and he confident- ly and even enthusiastically believ- ed that through human effort, equipped by education, and, parti- cularly, applied science, such dreams could be realized. But what is his view of man and man's world in this last testament which is to be taken as his 'conclusion'? It is that homo sapiens--'as he has been pleased to call himsell'--is 'played out.' The world is 'a jaded world devoid of recuperative powers. Any 'optismism' as to the future must, 'in the face of our universal inadequacy,' give place to 'a stoical cynicism.' There is 'no pattern of things to come,' instead we have 'the outline of the more and more jumbled movie on the screen. before us.' Our world is 'like a convoy lost in darkness on an unknown rocky coast, with quarrelling pirates in the chartroom and savages clamor- ing up the sides of the ship to plunder and do evil as the whim may take them." That was how Wells saw the shape of things that had come when he was preparing to depart from the world. "What are we to make of this," asks Dr. Simpson, "coming from the most representa- tive preacher of the scientific gos- pel and , according to many, 'the greatest prophet of our time? It cannot be dismissed--there are those who would like to dismiss it --as the weakness of an old man not do; Wells was not so old as that, and no one has suggested he became senile. He himself put it forth as his 'conclusion', and as such it is to be taken seriously. Certainly, it is far removed not only from the Utopia-planning idealist proclaiming salvation through applied science, but also from the optimistic characteristics of the scientific outlook of even cocksure faith in 'progress,' and so on. Does it mean that even Wells himself was, half a century ago with its confident and in the end, forced to see that the gospel of sec- ular science, in which he had placed such hopes, is not able to save the world?" It may have been, as Dr. Simp- son suggests, that Wells believed there was nothing else that could save the world At least, he offered no alternative to science, and. he held out no hope for the future of mankind. The world was all a meaningless jumble of things. Man could not save himself, and there was no one else to save him. "If this or anything like this is what it means," says® Dr. Simpson, "it is, at least, a tribute to Wells' intellec. tual honesty hat as he had long denied and even derided the gospel which relies on God and revealed religion, so now he discounts and even discards the gospel which re- lies on man and secular science." Dr. Simpson does not argue the matter further; he concludes with this question: "Does a philosophy based only on man and on mater- ialistic secular science, to the ex- clusion of all that, religion .calls God, and morality calls eternal va- lues, lead in the end to the disillu- sionment about humanity and even despair about the world which he depicts? . . , In whatever terms ex- pressed, the issue is plain, and it is a vital issue for the thought and life of our age. ® From Readers ® For A Laugh 0.C.V.I, COMPLAINT Editor, Times-Gazette, Dear Sir:-- Seeing that the Board of Educa- tion wants considerable discussion on education in Oshawa, I think it is desirable that certain pertinent public, That the.attitude of the princi- pal towards the students is scorn- ful, distrustful and dictatorial is well known. The two-shift system with all its increased difficulties and complications only serves to inten- | sify this attitude. The way the students who are eating in the cafeteria are disturbed is like hav- ing a loud-speaking system in one's bedroom. The students have a half- hour lunch period to break the monotomy of the long shifts. Dur- ing this period the students are not even allowed to leave the building in order to catch a few gasps of air. | Wit The lecturer was a celebrated Doctor of Laws, and his talk wag to be on "Fools" The chairman, who was something of a humorist, stood up to introduce him. ; "Ladies and gentlemen," he said. "We are now to have a lecture on | fools by one"--he paused, and there was loud laughter before he resum- --"of the wisest men in the country." The lecturer then rose to speak. "Ladies and gentlemen," he said. "I am not half so big a fool as the chairman '--he paused, and again there was loud laughter--"would have you suppose!" . Wasted Effort She watched the door of her new establishment open to admit her first client. Business had started: A good impression must be created! Hurriedly she grasped the tele- and perhaps failing mind. This will |: tion. In collective bargaining with His Majesty's servants, Sir Ulick Alexander, the Keeper of the Privy Purse, and Sir Piers Legh, the Mas- ter of the King's Household, will represent the king. At the moment, the servants are bargaining for a 48-hour week (be- fore the war they worked every other day, but the wartime servant changed that; on occa- sions of state, they are often oblig- ed to work until midnight), Rob- ert Anderson, Deputy General Sec- retary of the CS.U, has already obtained an average 27-shilling ($5.50) -a week raise for the recruits. There is no closed-shop talk at the Palace, but the C8.U. says it will go all out to capture the four rugged individualists who have not yet up. Besides Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, St. James' Palace and Marlborough House (Queen Mary's residence) will also be or- ganized. Sandringham and Bal- moral are personal residences, so the servants there do not come un- der the head of civil servants. Future problems between the new unionists and the King's Household will be discussed under the chair- 4 manship of one of the blue-coated (senior) servants of the household, as distinguished from the red-coat- ed (junior) servants, The union has Trade Union at Buckingham Palace (Time Magazine) also joined up with the London Trades Council, and one of the King s footmen has been selected as the delegate to the L.T.C. The Palace has given the union an 'office for meetings. There the footmen, butlers, housemaids, val- ets, cooks, pages and workers at the Royal Mews can take their gripes, if they have any. However, an aura of bliss seems to have set- tled over the Royal menage. Wrote J. R. Clynes, former Home Secre- tary, in the Municipal and General Workers Journal: "In an enlight- ened future the head of a royal household staff may not only have employment, but the honor of act- ing as shop steward for his mates." CIRRHOSIS PROBED NEW DELHI (CP).--Investiga- tions carried on at the Haffkine Institute, Bombay, show that, con- trary to the gereral belief, cirrhosis of the liver, a disease confmon in certain parts of India, is caused by deficiencies in diet rather than by excessive use of alcchol. With the aid of a grant from the Indian Re- search Fund Association, experi- mental work on animals fed on diets deficient in Vitamin B2 Com- plex has been conducted and use- ful evidence has been collected re- garding the effect of deficient diets on liver cirrhosis in animals. NEW RUBBER SOURCE? Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland-- (CP)--William H. iMlne of Balbib- nie, Forfarshire, received the high- est price ever paid in Britain for a pom, £1,200 ($4,800) at Kelso Ram Sales. the honor attaching to his place of | o Other Editors A PERFECT STOCKING (UK Information Office) A United Kingdom firm claims to have produced the perfect stocking; fully fashioned, silk, and completely ladderless. Miss Caroline Haslett, chairman of th Government Hosiery Work- ing Party which recently pub- lished its report, describes these stockings as "very, very good," She says, "I could not tell fhe difference between them and pure silk fully fashioned stockings made in the ordinary way. I sat- isfied myself that they were really ladder-proof and I think it is a tremendous development in the hosiery industry." Production at present is only in the experimental stage and it cannot be stated when the stock- ings are likely to be on the mar- ket. The firm took out a patent for them in 1939 but the war held LUCKY FELLOW Charletville, Kentucky, ; Chronicle) The bride is a woman of won- drous fascination and remarkable attractiveness, for with manner as enchanting as the wand of a siren and a disposition sweet as the odor of flowers, and spirits as joyous as the caroling of birds, and mind as brilliant as those glittering. tresses that adorn the brow of winter, and with heart as pure as,dewdrops trembling in a coronet of violets, she will make the home of her husband a para- dise of enchantment like the lovely home of her girlhood where the heaven-toned harp of | marriage with its chords of love and devotion and fond endear. ments sent forth the sweetest strains of felicity that ever thrilled the rhythmic pulsings rapture. ® 45 Years Ago proprietorship in thy" business | A change of furniture and carried on under the name of Luke Brothers was announced by Joseph Luke. It was at that time one of the oldest firms in the vicinity, having been established more than 40 years previously. The company passed into the control of another family- of the same name, under Charles A Luke of Montreal and W, A. Luke, at that time with E. I. Rowse of this city. . Sllag Chrysler's team took fright on the centre road and upset Mr, and Mrs, Chrysler and tWo other occupants of the buggy into the ditch. They were bruised but no one was seriously hurt, and the team, wl got away was caught near town. Cause of the scare was said to be a white dog with a jing- ling collar attached which passed the team in the dark. Unknown firebugs attempted to set fire to Ezra Knapp's house at the foot of Centre street. The 'win- dow of the house was opened, ker- osene poured on the floor and a: piece of lighted paper thrown in-- but it fell too short of its mark and no damage was done. T. B. Mothersill received an ap- pointment recently as Oshawa agent of Frost and Wood, well known farm implement company, NAMED FOR TREES Barbados gets its name from the numerous bearded fig trees on the island. \ -No doubt there are lots of things you intended to do in days gone by. But you just didn't get around to them. And now--how you wish you bad done them! This time it's going to be different. You're going to buy your Canada Savings Bonds--right away. Most likely you've saved more money than you ever hoped to through Victory Bonds and War Savings During the war, of course, the salesman kept after you Certificates. The food is often below standard in Phone receiver and became engaged the cafeteria as is witnessed by one in an animated conversation. Then, case in which students could only an appointmnt. having been arran- choose from chocolate milk and | ged, she replaced the receiver, and chocolate cake, there being nothing | asked: "What can I do for you sir?" else. .| A moment's pause, and then: "If How is a student to remain you please, maam, I've come to healthy on such a diet and under | connect the telephone!" i e A Bible Thought study? Christ said: "Ye shall be witness- Oshawa, Oct. 16, 1946. 2,200 BLITZ EVACUATIONS es unto Me .... (Acts 1:8" "God has not retained many of us as ated because of unexploded bombs As many as 2,200 separate areas of metropolitan London were evacu- lawyers, but He has subpoenaed all of us as witnesses." «-W, Higginson. during the height of the "blitz." until you got the habit of saving doing There's no question make. Bonds right away. 8 out of 10 will buy again..... Canada Sawngs Bonds regularly. This time there are fewer salesmen. They will not be able to call on everyone. So it's up to you to take advantage "of this fine invest. ment opportunity--without delay. Canada Savings Bonds. They're the best investment you could possibly But the things you put off are the things you never get done. Make up your mind that this is one thing you're not going to put off. You're going to get your Canada Savings about wanting