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OPINIONS DAILY TIMES-GAZET 'E EDITORIAL PACE FEATURES = THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE OSHAWA WHITBY 3 THE OSHAWA TIM<S (Established 1871) TRE WHITBY GAZETTE AND CHRONICLE (Established 1863) independen! ublish except Sunday by The el i x eg R. Alloway, President and Managing Director. - COMPLETE CANADIAN PRESS LEASED WIRE SEKVICE The Times-Gazette is a member of the Canadian Daily Newspapers Association, tario Provincial Dailies Association, and the Audit Bureau of are Authorized as Second Class Matter, Post Office Department, Ottawa, Canada. SUBSCRIPTION RATES by carrier in Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin, Port Perry, Ajax Pickering, 24c per week. By mail outside carrier delivery area in Canada and England $7.00 per year. United States subscription $9.00 per year. Net Paid Circulation Average Per Issue 8,1 6 6H : FOR NOVEMBER FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1946 They Miss Out "What a wonderful gift for Christmas." How often have you heard this remark made by friends and relatives when a child is born during the Christmas season? But have you ever stopped to think that this very fact robs many children of one of the highlights of the year. : A birthday is something of more than passing im- portance in the life of any youngster. It is often the occasion for the holding of a party with a special supper prepared with all the culinary art which mother can muster; while young friends bestow gifts upon' the honored one. To be sure persons like King George can celebrate their birthday at other times in the year but something of the glamor of a birthday is' lost if it should happen to fall during the Christmas season. . Priceless Publicity Chambers of Commerce, Boards of Trade and Indus- trial Commission spend large sums every year to publicize their communities and to attract industries which will provide employment for men and women and unltimately result in the growth of the city, town or village. Space may be purchased in trade journals and newspapers but by far the best medium is that of the news of the day. The extent to which coverage is provided by The Canadian Press of the news of centres from coast to coast in Canada is scarcely realized. Today the news of Canada is being gathered and made available to the reading public on a scale never before attained. The Times-Gazette is playing its part in this gigantic undertaking. For instance in November a total of 38 items of news of events and developments in southern sections of Ontario and Durham Counties were sent in by the local correspondents of The Canadian Press. This month it is expected this total will be exceeded. The value to the community at large of this service is inestimable as by no other means would the names Oshawa, Whitby, Pickering and Port Perry appear on the front pages of newspapers from coast to coast. "Queue Up, Please!" Nobody considers the process of queuing-up for scarce articles as anything but an enforced nuisance, which should be eliminated as soon as production bottlenecks and lags disappear. But queuing-up has its value in the right places. Bus stops at Oshawa's main intersections are the centre of a great deal of unnecessary jostling, shoving and time- waste, particularly at rush hours. Some people are polite erough to refrain from the elbowing procedure but many others invariably edge forward, trying to be the first in the door. Loading of the bus is delayed as a result of this im- patient jockeying for position. Confronted with this problem, other cities have installed little signs at major bus stops, reading "Queue Up, Please." Even though no one is usually assigned to check on ob- servance of this request, the system has worked extremely well. Passengers, who get to the stop first, act as their own check on latér arrivals. An orderly line-up awaits the bus and files on in the shortest possible time with the least amount of discomfiture to anyone. Pressure on the city's transportation facilities will be heavier during the coming months of winter weather. Introduction of "Queue" signs at selected points should be an item on the city's agenda for the new year, Why The Delay? Oshawa, in common with other municipalities through- out the province, was this week still anxiously awaiting the arrival of the cheque for the one mill provincial subsidy. In the case of Oshawa the amount is $29,696.68 which is not a small amount by any means. A check with City Treasurer Peter A. Blackburn reveals that the earliest the subsidy has been paid was in 1940 when it arrived during November. In more recent years payment has been received during the last two weeks in December and on one occasion on December 29. We imagine the province is much better off than many of its municipalities. The holding back of the subsidy might | well mean they would have to borrow from the bank to tide themselves over until the arrival of the subsidy cheque. If the subsidy were to come through in August, September or October it would mean they would be able to provide many much needed services for the taxpayers whigh they might not feel in a position to do under the present circumstances. "Disarmament" ~Crawford in the Newark Evening News ® 45 Years Ago Mr and Mrs. William Gay of Detroit visited ther parents Mrs, W, Adams and Mrs. George Chan. ey of Oshawa. W. H, Piper of Whitby comple- ted a 14-pole power windmill for R. J. Mackie. He also did a com- plete overhaul job on Jerry Lick's mill. Meeting to consider the resig- nation of R, J, Sprott, who had decided to take a position in the Town of Mitchell, the School Board appointed Miss M. C, Mills. B.A, to head the moderns depart- ment at the high school. George Provan, grandson of J. W. Provan, inventor and manu- facturer of the Provan Hay Fork, visited Raglan and sampled the potatoes grown on the site of the once famous Raglan Springs, Roy Gideoh was killed when he was impaled on the spire of the Methodist ° Church after a mid-air balloon collision with Edward S. Hastings. Both had been out ballooning when a whirl. wind sprang up and caused the accident, Hastings plummented to the pavement but suffered only superficial injuries, eo A Bit of Verse CLOUDS Down the blue night the unending columns pre In noiseless tumult, break and flow, Now tread the far South, or lift rounds of sn Up to the white morn's hidden love pi and wave ness. Some pause in their grave wandering comradeless, And turn with profound gesture vague and slow, As who would pray good for the world, but know Their benediction empty as they bless. They say that the Dead die not, but remain . Near to the rich heirs of their grief and mirth, I think they ride the calm mid-fieaven, as these, In wise majestic melancholy train, And watch the moon, and the still- raging seas, And men, coming and going on the earth, --Rupert Brooke. e Readers' Views QUESTION? Editor, Times-Gazette: Dear Sir: Kindly publish the fol- lowing. Reader would like to know just wily government could grant increase of 10% on cars produced by Canadian companies so quickly when it took so long to grant small increases in wages to employees 'of same ccmpanies. "A Reader' Oshawa, December 18, 1946. NEW NAVY BRANCH London--(CP)--A new branch of the Royal Navy will be formed and known as the "L" Branch, It will be responsible for. all electrical and radio engineering matters in the fleet. Officers will: have five years special training including three years of advanced technical course at Cambridge, TO HOUSE PAINTINGS London--(CP)--Derby House near Oxford Circus, built in 1775 and known as one of the finest private houses in London, has been bought from Lord Derby by publisher Valter Hutchinson to house his famous collection of paintings. NEW YEARS REDUCED "u_. FARES! FARE AND A THIRD Good going: Monday, Dec..30 to Wednesday, Jan, 1, 1947 inclusive, Return Limit: Leaving destination not later than Midnight, Thursday, Janu. ary 2, 1947. FARE AND A HALF Good going: until Wednesday, Jan. 1, 1947 inclusive. Return Limit: Leaving destination not later than Midnight, Tuesday, January GO AWAY FOR EW YEAR'S CANADIAN NATIONAL | PACIFIC 5 Million Trucks, Cars Imported In 11 Months Ottawa, Dec. 27 -- (CP) -- More than 5,000,000 cars and trucks of foreign registry entered Canada during the first 11 months of 1946, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported, 'The figure was 38 per cent higher than that for the same period of 1945. Tourist traffic by car in November was 28 per cent higher than in the same month last year. The number of cars remaining more than 24 hours was 68497 compared with 53,330. Short-term traffic totalled 353,650 cars during the months, a 39 per cent increase. Canadian cars" remaining in the United States more than 24 hours totalled 10,399 compared with 8,068. Short-term Canadian exit traffic, chiefly between border communities, totalled 128,540, an increase of 32,000. Ld Ld Blind Legislator id ' . . To Quit Politics 3 aa---- Launceston, Tasmania (CP).--A member of the Tasmania state par- liament for 25 years, Francis Mar- riett who served in the First Great War and came home blind, is re- tiring from politics. Marriott, 70, was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly five years after his sight was destroyed by a German bullet in France in 1917. He was returned to the state house in seven consecutive elec- tions. The tall parliamentarian whose four six-foot sons served with the Australian Army in the Second Great War has always been a spokesman for returned soldiers and has represented his state at na- tional conventions of the Australian Returned Servicemen's League. London-born, Marriott ran away to sea when he was 19, came to Australia, married a clergyman's daughter in Tasmania and settled on a farm in the little island state. During the First Great War he was a captain in the Australian Army. In his parliamentary career, his wife helped him to overcome the handicap of blindness. One of Marriott's sons will seek election to his father's seat. An- other is a political party organizer in Hobart, Tasmania's capital. Place of Religion In School Life Charles Clayton Morrison, Editor of "The Christian Century," wrote in the issue of that magazine of April 1, 1946, an article entitled "Protestantism and the Public School," which began as follows: "The system of general education in the United States presents to Protestantism the most formidable magnitude which it confronts as it seeks to win American society to the Christian faith. It also affords a measure and an explanation of the degree in which Protestantism has lost its former ascendancy in the national culture. Our educational system has been the most powerful influence in determining the mind- set of generation after generation of our youth. With respect to reli- gion, this influence has been exer- cised under a theory of neutrality which has excluded all instruction in religion from general education. Thus, on a vast scale, the mentality of our citizenship has been "neutral- ( ized" on a basis of virtual ignorance of the Christian faith and religion in general. "However, this neutrality is not merely neutral, it jis positive. It takes the form of secularism which, when not overly hostile to religion, is ignorant of it and indifferent to it. Protestantism has been consist- ently loyal to the public school sys- tem. The fact must now be faced that Protestantisen hag been losing the mentality of one generation af- ter another of its own .youth to a powerfully implemented system of education whose end-product will be a national community in which Pro- testan®ism has, if any place at all, a marginal or survival position." Similar views were expressed by the renowned Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick in an address before the Protestant Council of the- City of New York and published in the "Reader's Digest," of May, 1946: "There is, I think, no possibility of cverstating the rdanger involved in what js harpening in this coun- try now -- millions of our youth growing up in our public schools and state universities almost totally illiterate with reference to the best spiritual heritage of our Western World. Separation © church and state is basic in 5 nation, by. interpreted to mean no religious teaching in our schools -- it has reached a consequence that would make the nation's founders turn over in their graves. "It isn't simply that positive reli- gious teaching is shut out. What often happens is that irrelizious teaching is permitted. To know what materialistic science teaches-- that is education. To learn all about Freud not simply as a genius is psychiatry, but as an atheist who thought all religion an illusion -- that is education, But to acquaint our youth with the great prophets of the Old Testament, or with the personality and principles of Christ --that is religion, and must often be bootlegged in if it gets in at all. We cannot go on that way." Evidence is not wanting that great public lay leaders no less than the Church leaders realize the mis- fortune of the absence cf religion in the school training and education of children and youth. Mr. Winston Churchill, in a broadcast speech in March, 1943, when he was Prime Minister, said: "Religion has been the rock in the life and character of the British people upon which they have built their hcpes and cast their cares. This fundamental element must never be taken from our schools." The present Prime Minister of Britain, Mr. Clement Attlee, in an address to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland on May 25, 1946, said: "In the course of the last thirty years... we have seen arise governments that not only did not follow but professedly and open- ly disregarded all the moral precepts . This Simple Table Explains the HOUSEHOLD FINANCE Loan Plan hat Find here the Cash Loan you need . . . then choose a Monthly Payment Plan $200 $700 $1000 $34.95 40.77 52.46 64.18 122.87 $49.92 58.25 74.94 91.68 175.53 $23.30 29.98 36.67 70.21 $29.12 37.47 45.84 87.76 are made to If you can use extra money you can arrange your loan at Household Finance. Select the amount you need from the above table. Decide how long you want to take to repay. Then phone our office -- or come in if you prefer. You'll get your money quickly, usually the same day you apply. You'll also be glad to know --that rates at Household Finance are the lowest of any Small Loans Company in Canada. 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No social system in any country will] bring us happiness, healt: and] prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than material- High Frequency Motor Roads Russian Aim London, Dec. 27 -- (AP) -- Start of construction on "the world's first high frequency motor road" -- on which cars drawing current from a cable under the concrete can run 125 miles an hour -- was reported from Moscow by Tass. The Russian news 'agency sald the idea was that of Prof. Georgi Babat, Stalin prize winner, and that construction would cost less than that of a trolley line. This is how the road works, Tass said: "A cable charged with high fre- quency electric current, laid under an ordinary motor road, will gener- ate am electric-magnetic fleld with- in a range of 10 to 13 feet. "Motor cars will be equipped with special receivers of high frequency current, rectifiers and condensers through which the current will pass into an ordinary motor installed on the car. "This motor, together with the condenser and other devices, weighs only two-fifths as much as the or- dinary four-cylinder internal com- bustion engine." Hit By Train, 2 Escape Death Campbellford, Dec. 27--(CP) --George William Brown and his son. George Jr., narrowly escaped death Christmas Day when the automobile in which they were riding was struck tr a C.N.R. freight train at a level crossing near the village of Hastings. Botr were thrown clear of the tracks and escaped with minor bruises. The vehicle was almost totally demolished, New York Paper Increases Prices New York, Dec. 26 -- Price of the New York Herald Tribune, in line with that of many other United States and Canadian publications, will be increased as of Dec. 30, the newspaper announced tonight. The weekday price. will be five cents, with 15 cents for the Sunday edition. In explanation, the newspaper pointed out in 1938, when the paper last adjusted its prices, newsprint cost $48 a ton; today the price is $84 a ton. "During this period payroll and other expenses hgve advanced in similar proportion," the paper said. "The great majority of American newspapers of much smaller content have already raised prices to those which will become effective for the Herald Tribune." Previously, prices were three and 10 cents. FAST, CONVENIENT SERVICE Daily to CHICAGO Lv. Toronto *6.55 a.m. 11.00 a.m *5.45 p.m: *Non stop--3 hours. CLEVELAND Lv. Toronto 12.25 p.m. *7.45 p.m; *Non-stop--1 hour 30 minutes 21-PASSENGER DOUGLAS AIRLINERS Luxurious seats, refreshments and meals served aloft. Stewardess service. LJ PHONE AD. 5231 Royal York Hotel Arcade and King & Yonge Streets or your Travel Agent [ AR TRANS-CANADA NATIONAL CANADA'S INERT: Ar fowea AIR SERVICE General Statement, 30th November, 1946 Notes in Circulation. ... Other Liabilities. . . . 4 Balance of Profit as per taxes, but to Contin doubtful Less p for Domini Commercial Loans in Canada. .......... Loans to Provincial Governments. ....... Sl ieh Loans to Cities, Towns, Municipalities and School Districts. Commercial Loans--Foreign...........c0o000nnnn. Other Bonsla. . ... vv. . s Acceptances and Letters of Credit ASSETS Notes of and deposits with Bank of Canada...............$ 164,618,647.54 Other Cash and Bank Balances. ..... Notes of and Cheques on other Banks. .,............00000 Government and other Public Securities. ................ 1,098,880,239.00 Other Stocks and Bonds shes srseseser ne sess ssenssnn sees teres esesnsssans Total Assets. ..... sees ssnsse LIABILITIES creas DE . cress tesecses Dividends due Shareholders Profit and Loss Account Total Liabilities PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT Profits for the year ended November 30, 1946, before Dominion Government after contributions to t taxes. . Amount carried forward ' Dividends: No. 234 at 8%, per annum. . No. 235 at 89%, per annum. . No. 236 at 8%, per annum. . No. 237 at 8% per annum. . Transferred to Reserve Fund... Balance of Profit and Loss Account, November 30, 1946 .. SYDNEY G. DOBSON, President sess snsscsisnned. CERT cesses EE EEE PRR Ta Balance of Profit and Loss Account, November 30, 1945 Staff Pension Fund, and after applopristions ncy Reserves, out of which Reserves provision for all bad and ebts has been made Gov Less appropriation for Bank Premises........... $700, + 700,000.00 700,000.00 700,000.00 "esses sesssssnennes JAMES MUIR, General Manager 154,072,826.63 66,905,144.83 $1,609,742,166.40 309,803,314.50 . 1,008,853.91 5,199,042.39 105,064,911.28 10,455,268.21 84,246,048.11 6,454,714.77 .. $2,131,974,316.57 oe -~ ..$ 5679,439.63 , .. 1,963,103,951.92 84,246,045.11 1,722,950.69 221000,000.00 40,000,000.00 754,515, 1,467,414.08 $2,131,974,316.57 $4,020,895.51 000.00 2,800,000.00 + $1,220,895.51 5,246,518.57 $6,467,414.08 §,000,000.00 ._$1,467,414.08 mmm