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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 CHRONICLF : (Established 1863) An independent newspaper published aauy except Sunday oy The Time: Publishing Company of OshaWa, Limited, Arthur R. Alloway, President and Managing Director. ' COMPLETE CANADIAN PRESS LEASED WIRE SERVICE The Times-Gazette 1s a member of the Canadian Daily Newspapers Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. : Authorized as Second Class Matter, Post Office Dept., Ottawa, Canada. Net Paid Circulation tortieremoen 9,86 3 rn -------------------- SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1946 Knocks and Boosts How often, when you have been pleased with an article you purchase in a store and have seized upon the opportun- ity to commend the merchant or when someone has done you a good turn and you have thanked them for it, have you seen their face light up with appreciation? A newspaper is in the same category. It is the Job. of every member of the staff to try to please the public which is often rightfully critical but less often expressive of its appreciation, Tt is the prerogative of the public to be critical when mistakes are made. That is only right. But how often have you called up to tell the staff about a news item or the account of a meeting which has been pleasing to you. After all newspaper staffs are only human. They will accept criticism gratefully and try their best to make amends. However, they also like to receive a word of praise when they have done a good job. As perhaps no other group of persons, they are under constant strain, working to beat the minute hand of the clock. If you voice a word of praise now and again it will inspire them to do a better job. Township Bylaw The Council of East Whitby Township has taken a step in the right direction by introducing a bylaw to license such places of business as service and gasoline stations, taxi oper- ators, and the business of transient traders, auctioneers and peddlers. "To be 'sure there will he strong opposition from some quarters but Council would be well advised to stick to its guns and see the matter through. Commenting upon the situation at Thursday's Council meeting, Reeve A. E. Grass said: "The whole idea of this bylaw is not for revenue purposes but for control." This is something which should be considered by those who will be affected. : Eas. Whitby, once a rural municipality, has reached the stage ih'which a goodly portion of its southern section is in reality urban, There has been great development in recent years not only in the field of home.building but also in a business sense. The Council wishes to make sure that businesses carried on within its juridiction are on at least a par with those in Oshawa. This can only be done if it has the power to cancel licenses and compell the operators to live up to certain standards. The proponents of the bylaw 'have the interésts of the Township at stake. Planning For The Future .. The Oshawa Board of Education is to be commended upon the fact it has decided to request City Council to re- 'serve lands in the Cadillac and Highland Avenues area for the building of a school when the proper time arrives. It had | been suggested previously to Council that provision should be made for a playground in this area but as far as we are aware this is the first time anyone thought about a school. This is an area which has seen rapid development in the last three or four years. Once there was only a scattering of houses along King Street. Today the picture has changed materially with the streets running south and north well filled with better type homes. Eventually a trunk sewer will be laid down Wilson Road which will result in an even great- "er development than anything seen in the past. The Board has also taken a forward-looking step by naming a committee to draft a bylaw for presentation at the 'next election relative to its plans for a new public school and further collegiate and vocational accommodation, In connection with the proposed public school the advice of the teachers will be sought. This is'a sound move as the teach- ers have a better idea of necessary requirements than most people. Their submissions may be expected to be construc- tive. 'Chést Drive Is Extended The decision to extend the Oshawa Community Chest _ drive into another week should not be taken as an indication of failure Far from it. The decision was made due to the large territory which had to be covered and. also to assure that evepy citizen was giver ample opportunity to partici- | pate. ., The fact that 80 per cent. of the factory canvass and 90 per cent. of the general canvass had been completed yes- terday is a feather in the caps of the faithful group of can- 'vassers and workers who have given so unstintingly of their time. been accomplished in so short a time. In other campaigns of a similar nature the support of ,the public at large has been generous. The present cam- paign has been no exception. However, the committee is so 'imbued with the needs of the participating organizations that it is their desire to exceed the objective by as large a sum as possible, . If you have not been contacted, get in touch with the {campaign headquarters. There is still time and the commit- tee will be enly teo pleased to look after the picking up of Your contribution, . ry ¢ From Readers NOT SATISFIED WITH ALD. CAY'S EXPLANATION Editor, Times-Gazette, Dear Sir:--In Wednesday's issue of The Times-Gazette I noticed Mr, Cay's explanation of his proposed transfer of land to the Charlton Transport Co, and must say it is a most pitiful attempt to save his face on the deal. Mr. Cay intimates that the late Assessor, Mr, C. J. Luke, had origi- nally proposed obtaining the land necessary to cpen Richmond Street and give in exchange the land run. ning from the east of the Charlton property to the properties on the West side of Cadillac Avenue. ; This proposal would mean as follows: The city would get a piece of land 66 feet wide and 165 feet deep and give in exchange land 200 feet wide by approximately 600 feet deep. The land offered Mr, Charlton was eleven time the size of the street--right-of-way require ed, or in other words greater than his present holdings. Mr. Cay says Mr. Charlton was not agreeable to this exchange. If this offer was ever made I cannot understand Mr. Charlton turning it down and Jater offering to exchange a portion on the nor- {hers limits of his property for a | piece of city prcperty only 80 per cent larger than he was giving, and which is about only one third of what the city had supposedly offer. ed in the same location. In my opinion Mr, Cay's state- ment that the original offer was first proposed by the late Mr. Luke is indeed a reflection on his well known ability as an assessment au- thority, and it is unfortunate he can not defend himself, In view of Mr, Dafoe's statement .as a member of the committee and Council, to the Council and our delegation, to the effect that Mr. Charlton wanted to expand his business, it would be very poor bus? iness on behalf of the Council to have accepted either offer, Thanking you for allowing me space in your paper. Yours truly. GEORGE E. MARSH. 94 Cadillac Ave., N. Oct. 24, 1946. LE I IS THERE A "RUSSIAN PROBLEM? | Editor Times-Gazette, Dear Sir:--It is high time that Americans come to a realization of the fundamental fact that the "Russian problem" is in reality the "Communist problem", There is no government of the Russians by the Communists for international com- munism. The Russian people are mute-muted by the murdering, ex- iling methods of their Communist minority who are very vocal. One hundred sixty million good-natured, friendly people are ruled by four to six million savagely fanatical idea- lists and opportunists who make a mockery of the "democracy" they so loudly proclaim. : There is no Russian international policy. There is no policy of protecting Russian territory, There is a policy of extending tiroughout the world the territory controlled by Com- munists. But we accomplish nothing if we merely recognize these facts and bemoan or curse them according to our nature. We must recognize and act upon another set of facts. Com- munism is an abstract ideology. Facism and Nazism are abstract ideologies, The American ideal of government by and for free men is an abstract ideolegy. These things cannot be destroyed by destroying the men who preach them nor by destroying the cities in which they preach. The men who thought they were planting the cross on which Christ would die planted instead the seed from which sprang the | very life of the Christian religion, The solution to the "Russian pro- | blem" does not lie in the Atomic bomb nor in a "Western bloc" to seal Russia off from the rest of the world. The solution lies in convin- cing the people of the world, in- cluding the Russian majority who are not members of the Communist Party, that the American plan pro- duces more food, more clothing, more housing, more comforts and more more individual liberty than can be produced by the Communist | plan, In America it is smart to cry aloud about the inefficiency of our government; tue terribly under- nourished condition of our automo- bile-driving citizens; the brutal fashion in which our home-owning, highly paid factory hands are downtrodden by "Capital"; the high handed manner in which "Labor" seeks to "seize" the property and profits of our unbelievably wealthy corporations. Depending on where we happen to sit in the American family council we feed such pap to our children. We shout it for the world--including the Russian peo- ple--to hear. Most of it is bunk and we know it. Most of it is mouthed in the hope of gaining some mo- mentgry political advantage for our particular group. But our growing children do not realize this. The Russian people and the peoples whom the Communist party is try- ing to influence do not realize that we are just "sounding off" in time | honored Anglo-Saxon style, | Under the Communist ideology the "Labor Union" suffers the same fate as the "Capitalist Trust". The working man is broken on the same wheel as the banker, Moscow itself admits more mismanagement, trea- son, corruption and graft during the last war and in the current recon- | ; rs ¢ | version period than America has Without their co-operation so much could not have | éver known. Communism has not | raised all Russians to, a common standard of comfort and security: it has reduced all Russians to 4 common standard of discomfort and in security. ; The danger to America is not in the Kremlin; it is here in the hearts of Americans. The elimination of the danger to American institutions is not to be accomplished by: fulmination or by legislation, Tt must be accomplish- ed by education, | talking about what a job we 0d you ars concerned about "Rus- sia™ stop damning America, Begin have done. Tell your children what the Hard Goal To Make WI Rin at --Alexander in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin American ideal has done to prepare a place for them to live in the greatest of the world's nations. Tell them that any American can still reasonably hope to be President--of his country, his corporation or his union! Tell them that the American system may not be perfect but it has proven good enough to outlast all the other systems so far devised by man. Recapture your pride in being an American. Stop being ashamed to "wave the flag" a little. If it is "sophisticated" to wave the Red flag, why is it "corny" to wave the Red, White and Blue flag? ANTI-COMMUNIST. Oshawa, Oct. 24, 1946. i people", BRITISH TRADE UNIONS Editor, Times-Gazette, Dear Sir: we are certainly read- ing strange things today. In your issue of the 22nd instant appears an item by the Canadian Press re- ferring to the Trades Union Con- gress at Brighton, England--and a declaration of its general council setting forth the principle that "The liberty cf the individual is not an absolute and unqualified right", and further declared "It is subject to restrictions which admit of no compromige" by such cecuncils, In short, the sense of the quotation means the death of freedcen--deny- ing to one the very conditions that secure the dgvelopment of person- ality, Concentration of power in the hands of such men, will sooner or jater mean the autocratic rule of a single man, In contrast to the General Coun- cil's declaration, one recalls that in 1087 in order to oppose the then existing Government in Britain which was. National and mostly Conservative it financed the oppo- sition in a proposal (which it car- ried into effect) to give a salary of £2,000 a year to the Leader of His Majesty's loyal Opposition to make sure that they would be effectively opposed and that therefore both sides of all important quesions would be thorcughly presented Surely that was the greatest step in the perfecting of "government of the people, by the people, for the Even democatic America expressed undisguised amazement at such a Government's gesture to- wards the perfecting of democratic government, The voice of the General Council is the same voice as that of the Ab- solute State, or what is the same thing, the Superman, And anyone who opposes its authority--it spells only persecution, real persecution, which involves the grim alternative | "Conform or suffer to the utter- most", It is the ruthless enslave ment of the human spirit and the repression it applies to the inner man is more serious by far than the cruelties it practises on the outer man, It is a blasphemous claim be- cause of its authority to the su- preme place in the life of the indi- vidual, and yet through ignorance or sloth, multitudes of people are to- day selling liberty in utter indiffer. ence. Let us ponder how great is the loss! The Absolute State as was shown by Germany and Italy should | 4) be to the rest of the world the bea- con warning that whenever spirit ual truth is sold, whether by dis- loyalty, compromise, or indiffer- ence, civil rights and liberties are forfeited, moral sanctions are over thrown, and all that gives meaning | to life is irretrievably lost. D. M. P, Oshawa ,Cct, 24, 1946. . e A Bible Thought The Scriptures give four names to Christians, taken from the four care dinal graces that accompany salvae tion: believers for their faith, breth ren for thelr jove, disciples for their knowledge, saints for their holiness, 3 , + beseech you that | ye walk worthy of the vocatiy wherewith ye are called." (Eph.{ ) : ® 50 Years Ago James Fair and Thomas Cullen of Oshawa, working on the ime provements on Whitby All Saints' Anglican Church, Whitby, held a wocd-chopping contest at the Queen's Hotel to decide who could buck 2 cords of woed in the faster time. Cullen won by about five seconds. Thomas Wilson was the referee; Charles Stewart, the time- keeper and Jack Craw, the stake- holder. George Nesbitt of Scugog Island had his brick house destroyed by fire. The cause of the fire was said to be a defective chimney. An cdd accident happened to Rob. ert O'Hara of the Tth Concession of Scott township, near Uxbridge. He managed to dislocate his jaw while yawning. ; Judge Burnham of Whitby who has been quite 111 with pneumonia, was recovering at his home and progressing favorably. * RADIO IN EVERY ROOM OTTAWA Uh Lorect Ebgin $290. $4.90 gon ome person, pr-- rr ------ / AY \ 0 Ng SN i Maybe you are one of the more than three million Canadians Perhaps you paid for them on the instalment plan and were delighted to see how quickly--and \ easily --you accumulated a backlog of savings which gave you a new feeling of pride and assurance. Perhaps you bought them for cash. 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