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DAI OPINIONS VY TIMES-CAZETTE EDITORIAL PAGE FEATURES THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE OSHAWA WHITBY THE OSHAWA TIMES (Established 1871) THE WHITBY GAZETTE AND CHRONICLE (Established 1863) independent newspaper published daily except Sundsy by The lb Publishing Company of Oshawa, Limited, Arthur R. Alloway, President and Managing Director. COMPLETE CANADIAN PRESS LEASED WIRE SERVICE The T)mes-Gazette 1s a member of the Canadian Dally Newspapers Association, 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, Porf Perry, Ajax or Pickering, 24c pe: week, $12.00 per year. By mail, outside carrier delivery areas, anywhere in Canada and Englana $7.00 per year, $3.50 for 6 months, $2.00 for 3 months. U.S. subscriptions $9.00 per year. Net Paid Circulation Average Per Issue 7 : 7 1 4 JANUARY, 1947 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1947 Real Community Spirit The City Council at its meeting on Monday passed a bylaw appointing the members of the various civic boards and commissions. We would humbly suggest that this action is of more than passing interest to the taxpayers of the city. We would in the first instance like to point out that these appointments are made only after careful considera- tion by the Council and after those appointed have signified their willingness to perform the duties of their office. This willingness to serve is indicative of their high ideals and desire to serve the community. There is no remuneration connected with any of these appointments, which in some instances require much work and the spending of long hours in attendance at meetings. dt is significant also that with two exceptions all those named by Council to serve a further term in office had served before. Their re-appointment is in a sense a mark of recognition of a duty well perfomed. y It is with regret that we note that Col. R. S. McLaughlin and Mr. J. H. Beaton, at their own requests, have relinquish- ed their duties as members of the Parks Board of Manage- ment. Both gentlemen gave unstintingly of their time and energies to the development of Oshawa's park system. Although both might well have declined to serve they saw their duty to the community. To them, on behalf of the citizens, we would express heartfelt thanks for their contri- butions to public welfare. ; Both the new appointees to the Parks Board, Dr. R. E. Cox and A. W. "Army" Armstrong, are well fitted to serve their community. Dr. Cox has been active as a member of the Kinsmen Club, which he served as President, and was one of the prime movers behind the establishment of Kinsmen Park. Mr. Armstrong has been equally prominent as a member of the Rotary Club and has also been prominent as a sports participant and executive. The "Roaring" Game While there are many forms of sporting activity in Oshawa during the winter season none is more deservedly popular than that of curling. The Oshawa Curling Club has seen renewed enthusiasm in recent years while the present season following the arrival last fall of a complete set of matched "rocks" from Scotland has surpassed many others in membership and keen competition. - We are sure that the many devotees of curling in the district will be interested in a history of the grana old game which was published recently in the St. Thomas Times- Journal. The St. Thomas writer, who regrets a decline in the game there due to the uncertainty of natural ice, writes: "Like golf and soccer, curling had its origin in Scotland, where it has been played for more than 400 years. The stones used by these 'ancients' were boulders taken from dykes and were of all shapes and sizes. They had no handles, but holes were cut to insert the tingers and thumbs. The stones usually weighed about 25 pounds, and, according to an old report of the Royal Montreal Curling club, which was the first in Canada, the Scots of those- days regarded them as no fit "stane" for the hefty men of those days. A new era came when iron handles, run in with lead, were attached to the stones, and soon the Scots were hurling stones of 100 pounds and more. In fact, one 100-pounder is exhibited in the clubhouse of the Royal Montreal club. "Curling was introduced in Canada by the Scottish Highland troops toward the end of the 18th century, and in Quebec City may be seen stones made from cannon balls. There was no standard size or shape of stones in Scotland until the formation of the Royal Caledonian Curling club about the beginning of the last century. The maximum weight was fixed at 50 pounds, but this was reduced to 44 in 1896. The majority of stones weigh from 35 to 40 pounds. "The game still has a tremendous following in Scotland, there being about 800 clubs attached to the Royal. Scots have carried the game with them wherever they go, and the parent body sometimes sends teams to compete in Canada, the United States, New Zealand and Switzerldind. For more than 50 years there has been an international game between Scotlan¢ and England, and innumerable bonspiels between the repre- sentatives of many cities. "In Scotland the bonspiels are mostly held in the open-air, and there is an enormous number of rinks. There are clan rinks--McDonalds against McPhersons, Camerons against Campbells, and so on--and each player wears a tam-o'-shanter and plaid of his own tartan. Pipers liven the proceedings, and great feasts follow the games, with plenty of 'the cratur" to put spirit into the event. In fact the teams sometimes 'stack brooms' while playing in order to pass from labor to refreshment. "In western Canada curling is taking a greater hold than ever. In Manitoba, for instance; it is one of the high "school sports, with the result that the rising generation is proficient before leaving school and has laid the foundation for a recreation that will stay with them all their lives. Last year in Winnipeg, a bonspiel for collegiate students attracted no fewer than 600 Tinks." "Yep! He Seems Interested " ~--Duffy in the Baltimore Sun ® Other Editors PEAK PASSED (Brantford Expositor) A survey of Baltimore's real estate market shows a decline of about ten per cent. in the prices of old homes and real estate men are described as being unanimously of the opinion that the price peak is past. The indication may be significant. BALANCE ON THE WRONG SIDE (Port Arthur News-Chronicle) While some 16,000 Canadians were going to the United States, 8,649 Americans came to Canada as new residents in the first nine months of last year. The balance is still on the wrong side, to say nothing of the investment in education which the migrating Canadians car- ried with them. WEATHERMAN'S WOES (Lethbridge Herald) The official weather forecaster is having his troubles these days. When he predicts colder weather with snow, the Chinook comes along and knocks his prediction into a cocked hat. The other day in Vancouver he. predicted milder weather and the mercury dropped to four above and it snowed some more. Being a forecaster these days is no sinecure. TWO-PANT SUIT BAN IS OFF (Edmonton Journal) Two-pant suits are again being sold in the U.S. Canadian men, with trouser-less coats and vests hanging in their closets, hope they will soon be sold generally in the Dominion again. Many are con- vinced that the wartime ban on two-pant suits was the most short- sighted conservation order of the war. SAFETY IN THE AIR (Financial Post) When an airliner crashes it is front page news but when it ar- rives safely the press quite properly ignores it. One event is news be- cause it is rare, the other is not because it is commonplace. But a jittery citizen may forget all about this fundamental distinc- tion if he reads of two or three crashes in a row. He may also forget that each day sees far more air passengers than ever before and far more airplanes safely carrying them. Here are some of the basic figures: The Civil Aeronautics Board Safety Bureau reported last week that airplanes in the United States flew 3,465,755 miles for every pass- enger killed and 13,452,000 miles for every crew member killed during the 1939-46 period. In Canada TCA reports, 7,234,964 miles flown for every passenger killed in the same period and 21,704,839 miles for every crew member. Actually, for the latter line, there was only one fatal accident (in 1941) in the seven-year period. Instead of worrying about the almost negligible chance of getting hurt in an airplane, which is oper- ated by experts, the average citizen might be better advised to give more heed to the automobile which is operated by himself. Motor ac- cidents on this continent have taken a toll of human life ten times greater-than that of war and they will continue to do so until we have the drivers at least partly as skilful and careful as our air pilots. ® 30 Years Ago Scheduled for February 14 in the Local Grand Opera House were three tamous Russian singers, Leo, Jan and Mischel Cherniavsky. They had already toured Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia and were con- sidered the only great artists to have travelled to all five continents. County Counci] appointed the fol- lowing high school trustees for three-year terms: A. T. Lawler, Whitby; H. B. Sammels, Oshawa; Thomas Ward, Uxbridge; W. H. McCaw, Port Perry. Miss Nina Holland, assisted by Mr, Allison, presented an interest- ing travel talk in aid of Canadian prisoners of war in Ge:many. The meeting was held in the music room of Bishop Bethune College. Well-known as an inspiring preacher, Rev. P. W. Phiipott, of Hamilton, conducted specia] evan- gelistic meetings at Athol Street Mission. The Canadian Club elected T. B. Mitchell as president for 1917. Oth- er members of the executive were: J. P. Owens, first vice-president; C. R. Bailes, secretary-treasurer; and F. W. Cowan, L. V. Stephenson, G. W. McLaughlin, Dr. D. 8. Hoig and Dr. T. E. Kaiser, as members of the executive council, Charges US MD's Experimented Too Nuernberg, Germany, Feb. 6-- (AP)--Prof. Karl Brandt, formerly Hitler's personal physician, said here that medical experiments such as those performed on human be- ings at the Dachau concentration camp were conducted also by other conutries. . Brandt, one of 23 doctors being tried by an American court on charges of committing war crimes through cruel experiments, said that in the United States freezing experiments performed on insane persons caused six deaths. He did not specify where or when this took place. SWINDLER SENTENCED New York, Feb. 6 --= (AP) -- An- tonia Navarro Fernandez, 52-year- old international swindler, was sen- tenced yesterday to three years in prison for a hoax based on claims of having $340,000,000 in prohibition era liquor-smuggling profits in safe deposity boxes in various parts of the United States. e A Bible Thought "Gratitude to God should be as habitual as the reception of mercies is constant."--Seneca. "In everything give thanks."--(I Thess 5:18.) THE CENTRE OF CONVENIENCE IN WITH A CLUB RESTAURANT OF INTERNATIONAL FAME DRUMMOND & ST CATHERINE STRELTS 6. H. FRAPPIER, PRES. & GEN. MOR 150 BATHS - RATES '3 '4 '500 NEW LOW-COST MILES A New Deal--for old smooth-worn Tires! New Deal, too, for car owners tired of Tire expense! Your "smooth- ed," skiddy Tires are not ready for junking. Send them to us, for Re-Treading! We Re-Tread them with deep, safe, armorlike New Anti- Skid surfaces. Life begins (again) at Twenty (or Thir- ty or Forty) thousand miles, for Tires--now. Agents for DUNLOP TIRES "THE WORLD'S FINEST" Expert Val and Recapping 25 ALEXANDER BLVD. IRWIN AUTO PARTS "Oshawa's Largest Tire Doctors" PHONE 1094 Want Ceiling Off Butter Toronto, Feb. 6--(CP)--Removal of price ceilings from butter for at least parity prices as a means of stimulating butter production was proposed yesterday in a brief pre- sented to the Royal Commission in- vestigating Ontario's milk industry. The brief was delivered by Wil- liam Thurston on behalf of the On- tario Creamery ation. Mr. Thurston told' the Commis- sion that if curtailment of subsid- ies was affected and a reconversion of income 'taxes was made, "it would work out much better for all." "If we had 15 cents more per pound for butter, more cows would be milked, which in turn would create a diversion from dry to milk- ing cows," Mr. Thursston said. "Until rationing is curtailled, prices' will remain as they are." The Association's brief held that there was a declining production of "butter in Ontario, with a marked reduction in the number of cream- eries and the number of farms sell- ing churning cream, and that there was at the same time an increasing demand. ' Warns Against Oleomargarine Toronto, Feb, 6--(CP)--W. R. Reek, acting president of the On- tario Agricultural College, told the Canadian Jersey Cattle Club here that if oleomargarine were put on the Canadian market it would de- crease the farmer's purchasing pow- er by cutting off returns from thi sale of butter. . "Butter production has been too much of a sideline," he said. "We will have to make it a business be- fore we can have enough butter." Re-elected to the club's execu- tive were: Dr. R. H. Chant, Foam Lake, Sask., president; W. J. Rus- sell of Unionville, Ont, and F. G. Muirhead, Winnipeg, vice-presi- dents; H. R. White, Guelph, secre- tary-treasurer; R. G. T. Hitchman, Ottawa, registrar; and W. Durno, Calgary, western representative. Says Wolf Yarn Phonus Balonus Sault Ste. Marie, Feb. 6--(CP)-- J. W. Curran, retired publisher of the Sault Daily Star who has long insisted that a wolf will not attack & man, today said he didn't believe a story that a crazed timber wolf had bitten a Manitoba trapper from behind and that the trapper, who was 83, forced the animal into a river and drowned it. His offer of $100 to anyone who could prove he had been attacked by a wolf still stands. It applies only to Northern Ontario's Algoma district because of the difficulty of personally verifying reports of more distant incidents. Ellen Wilkinson, UK Labor Education Minister Dead London, Feb. 6 (AP)--Pert, tiny red-haired Ellen Wilkinson, Minis- ter of Education, died today 24 hours after entering a hospital for treatment for bronchitis. Miss Wilkinson never disclosed | paign her age, but Debrett's Peerage a leading biographical authority, gave it as 55. "~, Her death, the first in Prime in 1089, in the Chamberlain Con- servative government. Miss Wilkinson's most lasting contribution as a Cabinet Minister probably was her successful cam- to raise the age for leaving school from 14 to 15, a fight she won: despite the opposition of fel- low ministers and the acute need for young recruits for British in® Minister Attlee's Cabinet since it | dustry. was formed in August, 1945, was at- tributed to a heart attack. She had been ill for months. Incredibly hard-working, she was the second woman ever to serve in a British Cabinet. The first woman minister was t Bond- field, who held the Labor portfolio next April, British will be compelled to attend children .school until they are 15. A member of a Manchester work- ing class family, she trained to be- come a teacher but entered politics instead and won a seat in Parlia- ment in 1924, . Whitehall. Notebook. . London, Feb. 8.--(CP)--Most Bri- tish Members of Parliament now are products of elementary schools rather than the expensive establish- ments like Harrow, Eton, Winches- ter and Wellington, : This was one of the facts un- earthed by Manchester University psychology = department through questionnaires sent to M.P.'s, heads of civil service departments, judges and magistrates. About 63 per cent replied. From answers by M.P.s, it was found 56 per cent had attended ele- mentary schools. This was consid- ered unusually high by observers who recalled times when "public" schools provided almost every mem- ber. Even in 1943 one in every seven members, including labor, was eith- er from Eton or Harrow. At that time the Commons had 105 old Etonians, including such luminar- ies as Anthony Eden and Hugh Dal- ton, now Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, and Harrow averaged 43, including Winston Churchill, Elementary schools were attended by 76 per cent of Labor members, and most-of them ended their for- mal education there. But 49 per cent of Labor Members went to night classes against six per cent for the Conservatives and 10 per cent of Liberals and others. Attlee Course: Prime Minister Attlee appears to be following out a problem he outlined in a book, "The Labor Party in Perspective," published in 1937. Eight years be- fore he took office, he said it was essential] to make a distinction be- tween Cabinet ministers who were responsible for detailed adminis- tration and those given the care of broader issues. . This system has been carried through in the present Labor ade ministration. Herbert Morrison, Lord President of the Council, has charge of economic 1esearch and planning; Foreign Secretary Bevid deals with externa] affhirs general- ly, and it sometimes appears In matters like Palestine that he takes a hand in matters formerly left to the. Colonia] Secretary; Hugh Dal- ton, as Chancellor of the Exchequ= er, has over-all supervision of fi- ce; Arthur Greenwood, Lord Privy Seal, co-ordinates social ser- vices and A. V. Alexander, as De- fence Minister, will keep an eye on all three defence services. : Below these senior ministers, all trusted associates of the Prime Minister who long have worked to- gether, are lesser lights who deal specifically with the problems of their own departments. Roncarelli Petition Is Rejected Montreal, Feb. 6--(CP)--Petition by Frank Roncarelli, Montreal res- taurateur whose liquor vending li- cence was revoked because he furn- ished bail bond for Witnesses of Jehovah, for permission to sue Judge Edoyard Archambault, gen- eral manager of the Quebec Li Commission, for alleged damages was rejected by Chief Justice Sev- erin Letourneau in King's Bench Court here. . Roncarelli sought to sue the Lig- uor Commission manager for $253,« 471, at which amount he set the damages allegedly suffered as a re- sult of cancellation of his license. He has petitioned the provincial Attorney-General (Premier Du- plessis) as well for leave to sue the commission itself for a : amount, but decision by the Attor- nSy-Genera) iss not been announce yet. : Chief Justice Letourneau in his judgment ruled that the law gave no right of action against the man- ager of the Liquor Commission for Bete committed inl his official cap acity. 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