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OPINIONS DAILY TIMES-CAZETTE EDITORIAL P ' AGE : FEATURES THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE OSHAWA WHITBY THE OSHAWA TIMAS (Established 1871) TRE WHITBY GAZETTE AND CHRONICLE (Established 1863) An r.depenlent newspaper published daily 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-Gagzette is a member of the Canadian Daily Newspapers Assoclation, the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association, and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Authorized as Second Class Matter, Post Office Department, Ottawa, Canada. : : SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin, Port Perry, Ajax or Pickering, 24c per week. By mail outside carrier delivery area anywhere in Canada and England $7.00 per year. United States subscription $9.00 per year. : Net Paid Circulation Average Per Issue 8,1 6 6 FOR NOVEMBER TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1946 Timely Warning Hon. George Doucett, Ontario Minister of Highways, has issued a timely warning in calling upon drivers and siesirians to exercise greater care as one means toward raking this a safe as well av a Merry Christmas in Ontario. He points out that the first real freeze-up each year javariably brings a bad upswing in motor vehicle accidents. Wet, weather, ice and snow, crowds of hurrying people and everybody thinking of Christmas are conditions which pro- mote accidents. It would be well to remember alro that the hour between five and six in the evening is the peak time for accidents as people are tired while visibility is bad. "December," the Minister points out, "isn't Ontario's worst month for fatal accidents. That usually comes in October, but the December record is bad enough. In the | last 16 Decembers there have been 886 people killed and | 14,287 injured in motor vehicle accidents in Ontario. Traffic | accidents reaghed a peak in 1941 when there were 801 deaths and 14,295 personal injuries. The December toll that year was 84 killed and 1286 injured." The Christmas season is a bag time for child accidents. Over the pest 16 years there have been an average of seven | children of 14 years and under killed and 130 injured every Yrecember in the province. The toll last year was six killed and 139 injured. While accidents involving child en are a eo A Bit of Verse A PRAYER This is a prayer said to have been found in Lancashire, England, on the wall of an old inn: . Give us, Lord, a bit 0' sun, A bit o' work and a bit o' fun; Give us all, in the struggle and splut- ter, Our daily bread and a bit o' butter; Give us health our keep to make, An' a bit to spare for poor folks' sake. Give us sense, for we're some of us duffers, An' a hear to feel for all that suffers. Give us, too, a bit of song, to ghelp us An' a tale, and a book along, An' give us our share o' sorrow's lesson That we may prove how grief's a blessin', Give us, Lord, a chance to be Our goodly best, brave, wise and free, Our goodly best for ourself and others, Till all men learn to live as brothers. ® 20 Years Ago Over 600 stutlents at Oshawa Col- legiate saw a spectacular demon- stration of typing skill by Albert Tangora, professional speed typing champion of the world. One of Mr. Tangora's feats consisted of adding four columns of figures, totalling over twenty thousand, while typing at a rate of 140 words per minute. Mr, and Mrs. E. Venini reported receiving a letter from their son, Rev. Father Joseph Venini, who is doing missionary work in China. Mayor R. D. Preston announced that he would seek re-election for a second term as the city's chief magistrate. Mayor Preston had five years experience on the City Coun- cil including three years as chair- man of the Board of Works. -O. M. Alger was to oppose Mr. Preston. Only alderman to reveal his inten- tions to seek re-election was Russell R. Clarke. y A committee from the Ontario College of Art awarded Miss Agnes | | O'Reilly of St. Gregory's School a | prize in Class B of a drawing eon- | --Reprinted from the New York Times test, designed to illustrate methods of fire and accident prevention. ' Walter Lett's Intermediate O.H.A. team outscored North Toronto Sen~ jors 5-3. Feature of the Oshawa, attack was the speedy Houck-Row- den-Lott line. o For A Laugh Fifty-Fifty Dunninger, who likes to be known as "the master mentalist" called on Blackstone, who doesn't mind being known as a plain magician. When Dunninger: arrived, he found the fan ransacking his bedroom for a white tie, "You're the great mind reader," Fdackstone finally exploded, "Sup- Poss You: Wall We, Where 1. put that e." Dunninger, concentrated. "It's in that box," he said. Blackstone hurriedly went through the box, found the tie which he held up scornfully. "You're a fine mind reader," he said. "It's black." Dunninger shrugged. "If you're.any kind of magician," he answered, "you can change it into a white one.' o Other Editors | : tchener Record) Now that an inventor 'has. per- fected and successfully demonstrat- ed an automobile with wings, it probably won't be long before mo- | Central torists will be the highways. MUST ALSO COME DOWN (Windsor Star) : "Thirteen Leading - Economists Believe America Headed into 1047 Depression." One doesn't have to be playing leap-fiog on an economist, leading or.otherwise, 'oth to know that what goes up must come down. 4 SUBSTITUTE shown handling the financial and econom: ic affairs of Canada." Cut. this out | and use it for a roof over your head, Mr. Homeless Ex-Soldier ¥: BEST ANSWER (Brazitford Expositor) The best answer to shortage 1s |Jobs more production, not merely & re- shuffling of existihg machinery. The individual who finds his blanket too short and cuts a strip off the bot- tom in order to , the other end is fooling nobody but himself. LOCK YOUR CAR (Kitchener Record) This is the season of the year when petty thieves often make rich hauls from automobiles. They prey | plan on shoppers who leave bundles une guarded in unlocked cars. It is best, of course, to place packages in the trunks and then make. certain the trunk of the car is locked. It is also a reminder that too many motorists forget about removing the key from the ignition and locking the doors of their parked cars. This merely invites theft. ' first ieries of protest in re- goes never gets to the poin heavy industry feels "branches are required .: It 48 not: a new' problem. There was a roughly situation before Confederation. Maritimers © "The Plight of The Maritimes (Montreal Star) Confederation would fix economic plight--in fact there have been frequent suggestions that the Maritimers were lured into the scheme by just such promises--but _. it didn't. Certainly the latest pro- Sy a' said Bogart, "you never "No," the friend rejoined, "I de- cided it was easier to change my "Oh!" sald the nervous old lady to the Cockney bus conductor, "I do wish the driver wouldn't go quite so fast round these skiddy corners." "That's all right, lady," said the conductor. "You just want to shu your eyes, same as he does!" WITH A CLUB RESTAURANT OF INTERNATIONAL FAME DRUMMOND & ST CATHERINE STREITS 0. MW, FRAPPR, PRES. & GEN. MOR ELECTRIC terrible thing at any time, they are particularly tragic at! this time of the year. Mr. Doucett gives six suggestions for making . this al "safe as well as Merry Christmas in Ontario." 1 --Every driver, and there are over a million licensed drivers in Ontario, should remember two things: (a) in the Christmas holiday season 'here are nearly 650.000 children more exposed to traffic hazards than during the school term and (b) the children have their minds on Christmas, play and pleasures. 9. The most dangerous hours are the rush hours, particularly from 4 to 8 in the evening. 3.-- Every pedestrian including children should re- member that the greatly increased traffic, poor visibility and unfavorable weather and road surface conditions and crowds of hurrying people create added hazards. 4.-- Treat every parked vehicle as a danger-zone of hidden children. Emergency braking on slippery pave- ment will not save lives. 5.-- Exercise caution when entering or leaving your driveway. 6.-- DRIVE safely and walk safely at all times and make sure that your own children play safely too. Problems of Peace Unlike the Versailles deliberations, peace settlements following World War II have dealt with satellite states rather | than the major enemy powers, Germany and Japan. Treaties | for Italy, Roumania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Finland are in| their final stages while those concerning Germany and Japan until recently were not even on the drafting board. The Big Four Foreign Ministers, meeting in New York, | have just taken the first step to unlimber peace settlement machinery in regard to Germany. The Foreign Ministers Council has decided to meet at Moscow in March to consider a treaty for Germany. Prior to that date, a commission of deputies will convene in London to hear small-power views on Germany's future. Meeting almost two years after V-E day, the Big Four session is in strong contrast to the Versailles Conference, which finalized the German treaty less than a year after the armistice. Moreover, there is no guarantee that final agree- ment will be achieved at the Moscow conference. Walter Lippmann, one of today's most quoted political analysts, has attacked Big Four policy in its timing of the treaties. By postponing action on a German settlement, Mr. Lippmann feels that the big powers have allowed occupation zones to harden into conflicting camps. Nibbling away at the edges of the central European problem, the Big Four have created nothing but uncertainty, Mr. Lippmann con- tends. Whatever. the merits of Mr. Lippmann's position, the central importance of the German peace settlement is ob- vious. Length of occupation, reparations, boundaries, ex- port-import potentialities, permanent demilitarization--all these have a direct bearing on Europe's future and they will no doubt have some place on the agenda at the crucial Mos- cow meeting next March. -------- EN FORD Members Toronto Stock Exchange 10 KING ST. EAST, TORONTO wv OSHAWA BRANCH: 37 KING ST. EAST -- PHONE 2600 ERIC R. HENRY, Resident Parine DIRECT PRIVATE WIRE TO TORONTO = ph =\ ( BIGGAR & CRAW = SHORTAGE A critical power shortage now exists in Southern Ontario. Savings in the use of electricity will be needed on the part of all citizens in order to avoid serious difficulties during the present winter period, and Hydro is asking all consumers to conserve electrifity wherever possible in order to relieve this situation. THE DAILY PERIOD DURING WHICH SAVINGS SHOULD BE EFFECTED IS BETWEEN 8 A.M. AND 8 P.M., AND CONDITIONS ARE PARTICULARLY ACUTE BETWEEN 11 AM. TO 12 NOON Factories and industry are asked to switch from' day to night opera- tion, in whole or in part, wherever possible, and alsp to effect all power savings practicable. Street lighting should be level consistent with public safety. reduced to the lowest EMERGENCY! -- SAVE Hier THIS 18 HOW YOU CAN HELP © Eliminate the uge of electricity from § a.m. to 8 p.m. : CITY! store windows © Eliminate all Christmas, decorative lighting usitil Saturday, December 21st, and again after January ist: ® Turn off lights when no: required. -- : @ Use the minimum number of lights in the fiying-room, consistent with good vision, © Use electrically heated water sparingly and check leaking hot water taps. @ Do not use range elemerits on-"high""- whep a lower heat will serve, and turn off all elements as soon 'as possi ® Cook oven meals ss often 'as: of surface elements. © Turn the radio on only for programe desired; if not listening, turn it off. ® Operate electric toasters and other small applignces only as needed. The electric power shortage is a general condition following six years of war and arising from the fact that it was impossible to proceed with the development of sufficient new power sites during the war because of the requirements for war production. Since the war, the critical shortage of men and materials' has seriously delayed the development of new sources of power.. . The Commission has been: reducing loads within its direct control, wherever possible. These reductions are not enough, and it is now necessary to appeal for assistance on the part of all consumers. Hydro appreciated the splendid voluntary assistance on the part of its consumers during the war, and believes be forthcoming at this time. . that similar co-operation will The Present Situation Constitutes An Emergency In Your Home or Business Please Cut Down the Use 'of Electricity Oshawa Public Utilities Con GEORGE SHREVE, General Manager cl ak +8: J. BABE, Chairman