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OPINIONS wr DAILY TIMES-CAZETTE EDITORIAL PAGE FEATURES THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE | OSHAWA WHITBY THE OSHAWA TIMES (Established 1871) THE WHITBY GAZETTE AND CHRONICLE (Established 1863) MEMBER OF THE CANADIAN PRESS The Canadian Press 1s exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news despatches credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters in this paper and also the tocal news published therein. All rights of republicatior of special despatches herein are also reserved. . / . « 'The Times-Gazette is a member of the Crnadian Dally News- "papers Association, the ¢)ntario Provincial Dailies Association, and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Oshawa. Whitby, Brooklin, Port Perry, Ajax or Pickering, 24c ver week. $12.00 per year. By mall, outside carrier delivery areas anywhere 'n Canada snd England $7.00 per year. $3.50 for 6 mouths $2.00 for 3 months. U.S. $9.00 per year. | Authorized as Second Class Matter, Post Office Dept., Ottawa, Can. Net Paid Circulation | Average Per Issue 8,1 4 4 MARCH, 1948 FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1948 ° Another Custom Passes Life in England, as in many other places, has changed almost out of recognition in recent years, and one example of this is in the hunting field, as Macdonald Hastings pointed out in a recent BBC broadcast. "Time was", he said, "when hunting was the most popular and fashionable exercise of the well-to-do people of England. I remember when society used to say that it was more distinguished to be a Master of Foxhounds than a Member of Parliament, for there were only six hundred Masters and six hundred and forty Mem- bers of the House of Commons. "Now, it's with the greatest difficulty that the right men can be persuaded to accept the Magtership of a pack of hounds at all. One of the great traditional sports of England is dying on its feet. Hunting is a game which most people aren't interested in any more. I've heard it said recently that the only reason it still lives is because it provides so much amusement for children. And, indeed, children learning to ride horses are now the most enthusiastic followers. And it's hard to see how hunting can continue as a rich man's spor# much longer. The reasons are not that the Englishman has lost his love of the horse but that these days there are fewer and fewer people who can take time off to chase a pack of hounds over the 'countryside. More than that. People these days can't afford the essential risks of the game. "Hunting is a sport for leisured people to whom a broken leg or collar bone and six weeks in bed doesn't mat- ter very much one way or another. But nowadays there are very few people left in England without jobs. And, if you're in a job, the risk of a broken collar bone is a serious matter. On top of that, there's the shortage of labor, the shortage of fodder for horses, the shortage of clothes coupons for things like breeches and boots, and the rest. And so hunting is dying." Britain's Health Scheme The scope of Britain's National Health Service has been underlined by the recent financial estimates published by the Ministry of Health. Altogether, $2,160,000,000 are to be spent in the coming year-on the main social services -- national insurance, housing and town planning, pensions, health and 80 on. Of this sum no less than $600,000,000 will go to im- plement the new expanded National Health Service in Eng- land, Scotland and Ireland, Expenditures in the past year were under $12,000,000. This big sum, translated into man hours and materials, repregents a very considerable inroad into the nation's re- sources at a time when they are being marshalled and con- trolled with the greatest care and skill to meet all the vast demands of postwar reconstruction. What does the nation get for this expenditure? : When the Health Scheme comes into force on July. 5th, it will apply to every person in the country. All those over school age and up to 65 in the case of men, or 60 in the case of women, will confribute to National Insurance Scheme at rates varying from 2s, 3d (45 cents) to 4s, 7d (92 cents) weekly. In return for this they will qualify for unemployment and sickness insurance and pensions on retirement in addi- tion to services provided by the Health Scheme. National Health Service will offer free hospital and speclalist services, free health centres where teams of doc- tors can be consulted, home nursing and midwifery services, dental services and numerous other special facilities. The Service is based on the principle that prevention is better than cure and good health depends on many factors besides actual trehitment of the sick. A big publicity campaign will be organized to let the public know of the facilities available and to encourage them to take positive steps to safeguard their health. Local auth- orities will provide special services for the' care and advice of expectant and nursing mothers and young children. They will send Health Visitors into their homes where necessary. They will provide domestic help for women after childbirth and in other cases where it is needed on health grounds. Moreover, special facilities will be provided for handicapped people--the Ministry of Health has recently ordered 400,000 miniature hearing aids of a new pattern for the deaf, and these will be available free of charge to all those who need them, Many of these services are already being provided by the local health services -- on of the great factors in maintaining the health of Britain's children at a very high level during the war and under present difficult conditions has been the supply of priority milk and of vitamins to children and mothers. But the new service will expand, systematize and universalize them. The operation of the scheme is something quite new in social service. The patient is free under the scheme to choose his own doctor, He can he accommodated in a private ward in.a hospital if he wishes and he can get the services of the greatest specialists in thé country freg of charge. imam -- hoi ------{iestee---eromosh ssn esta tire A--------_ etme mr i By HAROLD DINGMAN Ottawa Correspondent Ottawa, April 16--One hundred and fifty years ago Sheridan used these words: One » "Give me but the liberty of 'the |. press and I will concede to the government a corrupt-and servile House of Commons. "I will give ministers the full swing of the patronage of office. "I will give them a whole host of ministerial influence; I will give them all the power than can be conferred to purchase submission and to overawe resistance. : "And yet armed with the liberty of the press I will go forth to meet them undismayed. "I will attack the mighty fabric government has reared with the mightier engine. I will shake down from its heights corruption and bury it beneath the ruins of the abuses it was meant to shelter." John Diefenbaker, .the prairie lawyer, read that quotation to the ouse this week in an impassioned plea for a bill of rights in Canada. Why don't we have 'a bill of rights? One reason is that to get a bill requires work; work on a scale so immense that it is 'dis- couraging. It would require a wise statesman, devoting his entire ear- eer ti this one bojective, to achiéve the purpose set out by Diefenbak- er Whoever undertakes this job must first break down the oppo- sition to a bill of rights--and there is plenty of it; there is a mount- ain of it on every side. Most of it is political--the jealous political opposition of provincial govern- ments who claim to believe their own powers and authorities would be lessened by a national bill. . We are, in a sense, balkanized in Canada. What are rights and privileges in one province, are not in another, All this must be straightened out before we -can have a bill of rights. Again it will require a hardworking states- man to achieve the necessary pre- liminary unity. Who will set out the legal intri- cacies and definitions necessary in a bill of rights? Any new legis- lation is always drawn up by the advisers in the Justice Depart- ment, but already they are over- worked. So that special advisers and a special staff will be required. Yet the need is urgent. Abuses are piling up in every province and even the federal government is 'inclined to abuse the power it has. And there has been a very marked sense of defeat in the Cab- inet regarding a bill of rights. The local and provincial prejudices have discourage those in the fed- eral government who should have been at work long ago. Diefenbaker's second suggestion was the best one yet advanced re- garding freedom. His first sug- gestion was that the Supreme Court determine the jurisdiction of "Opposition mov View * ement in Poland." Bishop, in The St. Louis Star-Times the federal parliament in the whole field of liberties--that is, that the Supreme Court should define what rights the federal au- thorities have as distinct from the provincial authorities. His second suggestion was that a standing (permanent) commit- tee be set up in Parliament. This committee would have the respon- sibility of looking over all orders- in-council, declarations and stat- utes that tend to deny the indi- vidual his rights, . The committee would be a clear- ing house, it would reveal to the people the trend of government action; the committee would be a vigilant upholder of the rights and equalities of the individual. How would it be a defender? . By publicity, the merciless pub- licity of the day to day press; the "mightier engine" that Sheridan referred to. ® A Bible Thought "I smiled to see God's greatness flow round my incompleteness; round my restlessness His rest." --Dr. Graham Scroggie. "Ye are complete in Him." (Col. 2:10.) ® 45 Years Ago William Ross, M.P., introduced a bill in the House of Commons to revive and renew the charter of the Ontario and Huron Railway. The bill would authorize the con- struction of an electric line from Port Perry to Kincardine with a branch line to Toronto. The main centres affected would be Ux- bridge, Newmarket, Bradford and Shelburne. The idea had been con- ceived some years previously by a resident of Walkerton. Maple syrup and sugar were very scarce in the district. East Whitby Township instruct- ed Mr. Devitt to manufacture $325 worth of cement tile of specified sizes at Glover's gravel pit. The Peterborough Review con- demned Oshawa and Port Hope for buying all the lacrosse stars in the district and stated that Peterborough would continue to play the amateur ggme and en- deavor to form a league in the Trent Valley district with clubs at Campbellford, Hastings, Stirl- ing and Belleville, ATTENTION BUILDERS ~~ "CONTRACTOR PHONE 3744W5 . (Phone Day or Night) Rafflaub Elected As Grand Master For Ontario East Brockville, Apri! 16--(16)--Elec- tions marked the closing of the an- nual conventions of two Orange Or- der lodges here yesterday. Next Year's conventions are to be held in Peterborough. G. E. Rafflaub, of Pembroke was re-elected Grand Master of the Grand Orahge Lodge of Ontario | East; while Miss Mabel Chapman, of Ottawa, was re-elected GrarJ | Mistress of the Women's Grand Lodge of Ontario East, Secretary D. J. Sutherland and treasurer C. H. Wood, both of Otta- wa, begin their 26th terms in their Grand Orange Lodge offices. Attendances were reported better than last year by the final two con- vention groups. The G.O.L. had the largest financial increase in its his- tory and had all their 25 county masters in attendance. Tribute was paid by the L.O.B.A. to the late Deputy Grand Mistress, Mrs. Gertrude Campbell, of Peter- borougty, in the placing of flowers at her lodge station. A Toronto woman, Mrs. L. Roe, Grand Juvenile Director of British America was a guest at the L.O.B.A. sessions. Orange officers: Master, G. E, Rafflaub, Pembroke; Deputy, J. A. Corrigan, Ottawa; Junior Deputy, Fred-Bateman, Stir- ling; Chaplain, Rev. F. Beezer, Ros- lin; Secretary, D. J. Sutherland, Ot- tawa; Treasurer, C. H. Wood, Otta- wa; Lecturér, J. E. Magladry, Otta- wa; Marshal, R. Sanderson, Have- lock; Auditors, George Freed, Cor- byville and G, M. Campbell, Deser- onto; Deputy Secretary, Mel Hold- en, Claraday; Deputy Lecturer, Arch Miller, Brockville; Field Secre- tary, H. A. Graham, Kingston. L.O.B.A. Officers: Mistress, Peterborough; Junior Deputy, Mrs. Lillion Miligan, Cornwall; Chap- lain, Mrs. Flora _Dearman, Cobourg; Secretary, Miss" Rose Sexsmith, Pe- terborougl; Treasurer, Mrs. Cora Johnston, Janetville; Deputy Secre- tary, Mrs. Violet McNally, Wrigh's- ville, Que.; Deputy Treasurer, Miss Isobel Gamble, Ottawa; Director of Ceremonies, Mrs. Edith Benton, Pe- terborough; Lecturer, Mrs. Amelia Lunn, Millbrook! Deputy Lecturer, Mrs. Dorothy White, Smiths Falls; Auditors, Miss Anna Grier, Burritts Rapids, Mrs. Mabel Hill, Trenton; Mrs. Meryl Draper, Prescott; Juven= ile Director, Mrs. Ellen Gilespie, Ot- tawa, TLD LSA I PACKERS' SAD PLIGHT (Vancouver Daily Province) The price of butter went up un- til it reach a net of 11.21 cents a pound. And there was not a thing Canada Packers could about it except take the profit. Actually, something over half a million dol- lars that the company never work- ed for and really did not want was imposed upon it. Was ever a corp- oration in so dreadful a pickle? Miss Mabel Chapman, | Ottawa; Deputy. Mrs. Freda Pilling, | ' . Dear Sir: -- oe For A Laugh Epitaph Lies buried here oné William Bo Departed from this life, . Because he went out in the cold Attired like his wife. ® Readers Views PLAN FISHING CONTEST Editor, Times-Gazette: With the fishing season "just | around the corner," the Eastern Ontario Area Council of the United Steelworkers of America is" Holding | its seeond annua! fishing contest. Contestants must be members of the union in this area and of course catch a big enough fish to make the grade: There are seven classes open to the contestants: 1. Small mouth black bass; 2. Large mouth black bass; 3. Pike; 4. Muskellunge; 5. Brook trout; 6. Salmon or lake trout, and 7. Pick- erel. A contestant may enter any fish regardless of where he makes a catch provided his entry form is registered with a game warden or a recognized sports goods store. In Oshawa, Walmsley and Magill have agreéd to register prize catches by steelworkers in the city and district. The contest is known as the C. H. Millard Fishing Contest in honor of the union's national director, who is putting up the bulk of the prize money. Entry forms are available from any local union secretary. M. J. Fenwick, Representative, Inited Steelworkers of America, 377 Simcoe St. S., Oshawa, Ont. HIGH COST OF FUEL (Moose Jaw Times-Herald) If there should develop a general exodus from the Prairies to more moderate climes, it will be explain- ed by the fact that the migrants have revolted against firing their heating plants with dollar bills. Why? Festive One: ."Whash yer looking for?" "We're looking for a Policeman: drowned man." Festive One: "Whash yer want one for?" " * MONTREAL * TORONTO All Ford Hotels are cen- trally located, fireproof and have a radio in every room. For reservations write or wire the Manager well in advance of anti. cipated anival. 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