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FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1948 "THE 'DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE PAGE THREE New Budget Of $257,328,341 Is Approved In L o ° Exclusive Use of N.E.S. By G.M. Sets New Pattern By Ronald Williams (The Financial Post) The "Help Wanted" sign has been hung outside the vast Oshawa plant of General Motors Corp. of Canada for the last time. Not that GM, one of the largest employers in Canada, is through hiring men. Far from it. What's happened is this: GM has become the first major employer to use National Employ-® ment Service exclusively for hiring new employees. From now on, when GM wants some help, the Oshawa branch of NES will hang out the sign, This makes it one, two for Osh- awa Duplate Canada which employs around 700 also uses NES exclusive- iy, even for office help. Other Oshawa firms, almost of necessity, are now using NES ex- tensively, but they also still hire at the gate. GM and Duplate don't even in- terview an applicant without a chit from NES. GM even directs those who apply by letter to the local em- ployment service branch. The reason: it's written right into the contract with the CIO Auto 'Workers' Union that NES is an es- sential cog ip the hiring procedure. Ang everybody seems to be hap- py about it all round. GM is able to get skilled tradesmen without too much trouble while other firms not using NES are having all kinds of trouble. 1,000 Hired Through NES Actually, Oshawa NES has been hanging out GM's "help wanted" sign for some time --since 1944--al- though on an unofficial basis, During the last seven months, for example, GM has hired 1,000 new employees from those referred to it by NES. NES exclusive job-placing rights with the big motor car making firm became official, but not public, last November when it was definitely re- ferred to in the union contract. A month ago it was announced as general policy in a letter from GM's Industrial Relations Mana- ger R. B. Reddoch to Oshawa NES Manager, L. R. Coulson, The letter explains why GM turn- ed over this highly important part of its business to a government agency. Briefly, here are the rea- sons: --NES could turn up a more sta- ble employee because it had up-to- date records due to wartime con- trols: GM didn't. --Long lineups of job seekers out- side the plant were eliminated. --Other industries couldn't accuse GM of enticing their employees away with higher pay. --GM's Employment Manager couldnt be accused of playing favor- ites in taking on new people. --Because of the NES "preselec- "tion the chances of hiring a "dud" were lessened, thus lowering labor turnover, NES Best Compliment This was the best. compliment NES had ever received. It marked a milestone in its development as an important cog in Canadian econ- omy. With this first victory under its belt, NES hopes the next will come a lot quicker. Federal Labor Department offi- clals are so enthused that they are using the GM letter in a national advertising campaign in financial and business newspapers (with GM's permission). The idea is to try and show other big employers that what's good for GM might be just as good for them. But even as it is, NBS isn't doing too badly. When the present volun- tary system of registering jobless al jobs was introduced in 1947 (succeeding compulsory National Selective Service) a marked falling off in the volume of placements might have been expected. T did fall, but nothing like as far as was expected. Statistics released recently indicate workers and em- ployers have considerable confi- dence in the government service: 769,849 jobs filled in 1947 compared with 850,412 in 1946. NES and its social security twin, Unemployment Insurance, have be- come an almost essential part of Canadian life. Financially, it is big business. Since the doors 'were open- ed Aug. 1, 1041, $551.9 millions has been collected: $443.2 millions from employers and employees; $84 mil- lions by the Government; $34.6 mil- lions from investment. Out of this fund of nickels and dimes, $110 millions has been paid out in unemployment benefits. At Feb. 29, the balance was $440.8 mil- lion, a nice fat cushion to take some of the shock if the bottom falls out of things. * But there were other reasons be- hing GM's decision to use NES ex- clusively. GM found out that NES could get skilled tradesmen when firms not using the government ser- vice, couldn't. One day GM put in an order for eight toolmakers. Within four days they had four and within eight days, the whole eight. . Other firms, which had been ad- vertising for toolmakers when GM placed its order with NES were still advertising long after GM had the men they wanted. Incidentally, one, a British immi- grant, turned out to be a find. After an interview with the superinten- dent he was a tool designer, he was that skilled. GM had the same success in get- ting pattern-makers which are just about as hard to hire as toolmak- ers. While other firms were adver- tising nationally and not having much success, GM put an order in with NES and got all they wanted NEW PATTERN (Continued on Page 8) Club President A. H, DANCEY Who was elected president of the Oshawa Camera Club at its meet. ing on Wednesday night at Adelaide Mouse. Less Liquor Is Sold Now Drew States Toronto, April 16--(CP)--Premier Drew last night defended Ontario's liquor policy with the statement in the Legislature that snice the in- troduction of cocktail bars there had been a decrease in the consumption of hard liquor. : Since April, 1947, when cocktail bars first went into operation, there was consumed 55.784 gallons less than the same period of the previous year, the Premier declared. "This is the first positive evidence we have been able to show of our practical attempt to guide the peo- ple toward a témperate-approach to the liquor problem." Premier Drew said Ontario's li. quor program was one designed to "pring people out of the bedrooms and into the open." He declared that before institution of cocktail bars hotel bendroms were the cen- tre of great abuses in drinking. Answering what he said was cri- ticism of the Ontario approach to temperance education, Premier Drew said there is "extensive tem- perence education" in the schools of this province. There was some teaching in the elementary schools and advanced education on temper. ance in the high' schools. The reason there was not more awareness of this teaching was that it was not segregated in Ontario schools. Premier Drew said it is the opinion of his department that it is much better to teach temperance in the broad field of health instead of making it a separate subject which from the: psychological viewpoint might defeat its own aim. He said he didn't suppose there was any such thing as a perfect an- swer to the problem. But the high school course on it had been de- signed with all the knowledge of whi! had been done ebfore. Premier Drew said "prohibition could not be considered a practical approach to this problem." For one thing, he said, it could not be prop- erly enforced and it had never worked. Thus the government de. cided on "legislation to establish laws which can eb enforced." He dealt with what he termed a need for closed education in the homes. "If every child were brought up with a complete sense of disci- pline, self respect, self control and self restraint we wouldn't have to worry about any one of them even if they were surrounded by a sea of alcohol." Nowhere in the world could par- eints leave children to the state to bring them up. If the parents in every home in the province were teaching proper personal standards and self restraint there would be need for fewer laws, fewer restric- tions and less legislation. The Premier concluded with his definition of temperance. It does not mean prohibition, he declared. It means self control, moderation and self restraint. problempRf( VISITED IN CITY F, H. Leslie, publisher of the Ni- agara Falls Review, who is attending the Canadian Daily Newspapers As. sociation meeting in Toronto, was the guest of Mr: and Mrs. A. R. Al- loway last night. \ FALSE ALAM semen responded to a false alarm at 9.13 p.m. yesterday from an alarm box on the corner" of Elm and Albert Streets. Se So Mine In Far | North Gives Fine Promise Jack Mathews, Park Road North, who four years ago penetrated the Arctic wastelands 175 miles north east of Yellowknife with his partner Roman Onyschuk. is looking for- ward to being well rewarded for t..c hardships they endured. The site staked by the two men and recently called the Bull Dog Mine, is now being developed by the Trans-American Corporation at an estimated cost of $100,000. Encouraging gold samples have, | been discovered and a "cat-train" carrying extensive diamond drilling equipment and nine men has al- ready begun the long slow trek north to the location. Mr. Mathews, who for the past 4 years has been a resident of Osh- awa, plans to make the $1,000 trip to the mine in a week or so. OSHAWA CAMERA CLUB The first half of Wednedays meeting of the Camera Club was devoted to winding up the year's business, and the presentation of the slate of officers for the com- ing year. The Treasurer's report showed that we are still solvent, not by a very large margin it is true, but definitely not in the red. A. H. Dancey was proposed and elected president for the 1948-49 Thought Poor, Has Fortune Concealed in this mattress in a house at Brantford, owned by the late Mrs. Rosina Birkett, was $8,000 in old bills. In a bank was another $8,000. Money in the mattress, found by Mrs. Jack McInnis (above) and John Clouse, is believed to have been put there by Mrs. Birkett's mother. a choice if his 'work with the Print Committee during the past year is any indication. The members were treated to a pre-view of prints received from Sudbury, North Bay, and Belleville for the coming salon which, from all indications, should be a success- ful one. It is proposed to have a members' get together on the opening night of the salon at Ade- laide House, on May 3, at which re. freshments will be available for member and their guests. Prints for the salon must be delivered to Dancey's Shoe Store by 6 p.m. Fri- day, April 23rd so that they may be shipped to Toronto for judging. We came across a very interesting article recently in General Motors Materials and Processes Bulletin on the coating of lenses, and are re- printing it for the benefit of other members. Magnesium fluoride films, ap- proximately 4 millionths of an inch thick are being deposited on the surfaces of glass components of op- tical devices, to reduce surface re- flection, flare, ghosts, etc. The films are deposited on the surfaces by condensation of the vapor of the Magnesium fluoride, which has been volatilized by . heating to about 2700 degrees F in a vacuum. The best and hardest coatings are produced on glass surfaces when the latter are heated to about 400 degrees F. Coatings deposited on much heated glass surfaces will re- sist considerable abrasion and will withstand soaking in water with- out damage. Films deposited on cold surfacgs are relatively soft, do not withstand abrasion and can be re. moved by soaking for a short time in water. ' Agcordingly, with such a wide va- riatidn in quality of the film, there must be some assurance that the coating 1s "hot;" often known as "hard baked," "high temperature baked," "hard fluoride baked," etc. Coatings applied to cold lens sur- faces, or so-called "cold coatings, are distinctly inferior and should only be resorted to in instances where the lenses are so cemented or mounted that they absolutely cannot be dismounted and heated. In cases where lenses are crisped into mounts and cannot be dis- mounted, there is an improvement over the cold coating method which can be used. This is a process where the lens is subjected to a high vol- tage glow discharge im the vacuum chamber. This process deposits a film which is inferior to the hot coating process, but which is de- finitely superior to the cold coat- ing process. Properly coated lenses have a reddish.purple cast under fluores- cent light, indicating correct film thickness. ' Lenses showing blue-green or green undef fluorescent light are over-coated; the green cast indica- ting a film thickness double the cor- rect thickness. Inasmuch as the hot coating me. thod is the one to be used, the op- tical elements must all be dismount- ed and uncemented before cleaning and coating. After coating, the ele. ments must all be re-cemented, re- mounted and checked for centering and spacing. This entails high-pre- cision manipulations and requires optical benches, collimators, miscro. scopes and various other devices to properly accomplish, This accounts for the high cost of having old lenses coated. | Cleaning and care of coated op- tics should be the same as uircoat- ed, The coating is subject to scratch. ing and wear. so should not be abused any more than the bare glass. Keep the surfaces clean. Do not clean oftener than necessary and then only with lens tissue, plain surgical cotton swab, or clean soft cloth (not a hard-woven cloth). Greasy finger marks should be carefully removed with a clean swab and alcohol, being careful to use a minimum of alcohol, which is a solvent for lens cement and will ruin the lens, if let soak. HELPED DESIGN SPIT London--(CP)--Beverley Shen- stone, 41, Who helped the late R. J. Mitchell to. design the Spit- fire, has become chief engineer to British European Airways, season, and should prove a good |, Debris-Cluttered House Yields $16,000 Fortune After Charwoman Dies | Brantford, April 16--(CP)--The finding of five-year-old unwrapped Christmas presents in the debris- filled home of a charwoman led searchers here to a modest fortune of $16,000 in old currency. Relatives of the woman, Mrs. Rosina Birkett, who died in hospi- tal last month after spending a frugal life, were surprised yester- day when an old mattress yielded $8,000 neatly bundled in one, two, five and ten dollar stacks. Mrs. Birkett's uncle, Jack Clouse and his niece, Mrs. Jack McInnis were searching trough the junk- filled house in search of the dead woman's will when they uncovered the hidden cache. They said they believed the money was put into the mattress by Mrs. Birkett's mother, who died 17 years ago. Mrs. Birkett occasionally slept on the mattress but used a couch in one of the paper-filled rooms most of the time. Further investigation disclosed she had deposited $8,000 under her own name in a local bank despite the fact that she told her doctor shortly before she died that "I'm too poor to quit work." . Many of the old bills uncovered in the weather-beaten old home represented many banking institu- tions long closed. The included the Many Miners Remain Out Of US. Pits Pittsburgh, April 16--(AP)-- One-third of the 400,000 United States soft coal miners today grim- ly maintained their protest strike pending the federal court's verdict on John L. Lewis. The . trial of the United Mine Workers chieftain on charges of contempt ended yesterday, except for the final judgment. d Monday morning Judge Alan Goldborough will announce wheth- er Lewis and the U.M.W., are guilty of failing to heed a court order of April 5 to end the 29-day soft coal walkout. The walkout, by whih miners en- forced their demands for a $100- a-month pensions, ended last Mon- day. An estimated 250,000 min- ers have returned to the pits, the number growing from day to day. On the fourth day after the set- tlement, however, more than one- third of the U.M.W. members still refused to return to their jobs. Thousands of these were in the old, strike-hardened Pennsylvania soft coal region, where the U.M.W. has fought many of its bitterest bat- tles. 4 Onl about 44,000 of Pennsyl- vania's 96,000 soft coal diggers were"at work. Most of the others had gone to their union meetings and voted to postpone their return "until after we learn what the court does about Uncle John." The Pittsburgh Steel Company announced the re-opening today of its coke plant and one blast furn- ace at nearby Monessen. Another blast furnace, it said, will be -re- turned to production Saturday. The Lackawanna Railroad will call 700 locomotive and repair shop workers back on Monday. But these were only a few of the 160,000 workers made idle in vari- ous industries as a result of the coal shut down. Generally, the at- titude of the steel companies and the railroads was the.same as that of the miners: They are waiting tq learn "What the court does about John L. Lewis." Bank of North America, Home Bank, Standard Bank, and Bank of Hamilton. Friends and relatives of the wo- man said they did not suspect her of having even small sums of money. Mrs. Margaret Cavan, a friend who looked after Mrs. Birk- ett when she was sick, said the aged woman always complained of poverty. The money was turned over to Mrs. Birkett's sister, Mrs. Annie Chamberlain of Flint, Mich. City officials yesterday condemn- ed the house after the department of health was forced to take four truckloads of dirty rags, paper and other junk from it. The house, which 'has no plumbing, is located in the heart of the city. Two Young Artists Plan Exhibition : Harry Ross, young Oshawa art- ist who feels that painting should be done so that people can chal- lenge it, will be displaying some of his works with those of Peter Egnatoff, B.A., of Toronto. The show is free to the public and will be open next Monday and Tues- day evenings after 8 p.m. in the Genosha Hotel Blue Room. Mr. Ross, a tonsorial artist by trade, spends his leisure time in transposing objects and views to canvas and to photographic print, being an active member of the Oshawa Camera Club. Popular among residents of the city who are interested in painting, Mr. Ross was requested by numbers of them to put on an exhibition. Some claimed there was a lack of real- istic painting being displayed here. A long time friend of Mr. Eg- natoff, the Oshawa artist says about him: "One of the supreme tests in art work is the ability to paint flesh well, so I am sure Peter can_paint anything his portraits are magnifiicent." Mr. Egnatoff was a medical stu- dent at the University:of Saskat- chewan for four years before fail- ing health caused him to leave his chosen endeavor. Coming to To- ronto, he studied at the Ontario College of Art from which he graduated early in World War II. He operates a studio at 67 Carl- ton- Street in Toronto where most of his portrait commissions are fulfilled but at the present time he is teaching art and language at the collegiate in Pembroke, On- tario. Art, however, is his bus- iness. A life-size portrait of Mrs. Eg- natoff and another of the Toronto artists's brother will feature the exhibition of approximately 30 paintings. Mr. Ross intends to show an oil sketch of his wife too. Still life studies and landscapes will also be on display. In direct contrast to abstracts, impressionistic, non-objective and surrealistic works the Blue Room exhibition will be of people and things painted as the artist saw them and interpretéd them. The layman can recognize them as real. Only difference between the artist and the layman is that the latter cannot transpose what he sees, to a canvas. Kach work is painted in such a manner that it can be challenged by a non-professional critic. Appointments for portrait sit- tings can be arranged with the artists who will be present at their exhibition. égis islature Surplus Is Rapped By Liberal Leader As Over-Taxation 1 Toronto, April 16 (CP)--The largest budget-in Ontario | history -- providing for estimated expenditure this year of | $257,328,341 -- was approved in the Legislature yesterday on a recorded vote of 54 to 17. i All three opposition groups -- the Liberals, C.C.F. and Labor.Progressives--lined up against ® the government forces in the bud- get vote. It followed a similar count by which a Liberal amendment was defeated. The Liberal amendment expressed regret that the government "has not taken the necessary accion to render greater assistance to old age pensioners and others requiring fi nancial aid and to reduce the bur- den of taxation." Premier George Drew and 4 al Leader Farquhar Oliver were the last two participants in the budget. The gist of opposition to the bud- get was that the $25,000,000 surplus reported for last year had not been used to expand social services and to reduce taxation. Permier Drew defended that as- pect of the budget when he spoke yesterday. With the surplus, he said, this province reduced its debt considerably, and thus did what the leader of the opposition had recom- mended. He recalled that Mr. Oli. ver had urged that all be done to place the province in a position where it could meet any uncertain- ties of the future. Mr. Oliver strongly criticized the surplus and said it means only one thing--that the people of Ontario had been taxed too heavily. He expressed belief that the Min- ister of Highways had laid too much stress on construction of four-lane highways and not enough on the need for secondary highways. He was all in favor of the four-lane highways but felt that they should not be built while sacrificing the needs of rural residents. « Mr. Oliver commended the report on forestry made by Howard Ken. nedy and called on the government to be realistic about reforestation. The Liberal leader declared that proper reforestation would aid in preventing erosion which is a ma- jor problem in Ontario. The forests of Northern Ontario would not per- petuate themselves ' without 'steps by 'the province. , x Mr. Oliver said there are 158,000 square miles of Ontario in which forests are infected by budworm. Forest fires took a secondary posi- tion to insect enemies. He called for i expansion of research against in.| sects and advocated a program to) i" encourage removal of decaying tims ber 'before it is beyond utilization." In reply to Mr. Oliver's criticism, Premier Drew defended his govern-| ment's position on gas taxation. He said that 11 cents is a small sum to pay for use of 20 miles "of our magnificent higltways," He referred to the 1l-cent tax on one gallon which provides about 20 miles of travel. Premier Drew bitterly attacked] the Communists and accused them! of using threats to silence opposi. tion to the Communists from per= sons in Canada who have relatives in countries like Russia and Poland. He also charged that the Com- munists in Canada are making ap- plications for cultural groups and then under these innocent veils are distributing their propaganda. The Premier discussed remarks made by Harry C. Nixon (Lib-- Brant) who moved the Liberal amendment to the budget motion, Mr. Nixon had criticized the Pre. mier for the methods he followed i. asking for the resignation of Dr, Thomas Hogg, Chairman of the On= tario Hydro-Electric Power Com- mission during the former Liberal administration. Premier Drew said that if Dr. Hogg had not chosen to make an issue of the affair he could have re. signed under the excuse of ill health which was a real reason. On Forestry, Premier Drew said the government is going to see that all types of woods are cut to avoid leaving inferior trees standing so that they could reproduce and thus lower the general standard of On- trio forests. POLICE NAB DRIVER Toronto, April 16--(CP)--After ramming a police cruiser in down- town Toronto last night, John Darby, 40, was arrested and charg- ed with dangerous and careless driving. 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