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OPINIONS DA ~ LY TIMES-CAZETTE EDITORIAL. PAGE FEATURES THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE (Established 1871) THE WHITBY GAZETTE AND CHRONICLE Established ( 1863) MEMBER OF THE CANADIAN PRESS The Canadian Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters in this paper and also the local news published therein. All rights of republicatior of special despatches herein are . Blso reserved. ' Net Paid Circulation Average Per Issue 8,1 4 4 MARCH, 1948 SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1948 A Flimsy Excuse After Provincial Treasurer Leslie Frost tabled the budget on April 2 in which he announced a record $25,039,000 surplus in Ontario Government accounts for the fiscal year ending March 31 last, The Times-Gazette suggested 'editor- ially that it was a budget on which Premier Drew might well call an election. Proof that we hit the nail squarely on the head came with the announcement by the Premier, prior to prorogation yesterday afternoon, that an election would be held on Monday, June 7. He stated that the main election issue would be the conversion from 25 to 60 cycle electric power, and emphasized that the ballot was the only democratic method of deciding this issue. Surely he realizes that Ontario electors are not so short of memory as to have forgotten that on March 31 last the Ontario Legislature voted by 71 to 0 in favor of giving third reading to the government bill for converting Southern Ontario from 25 to 60 cycle current. This was one of the few occasions, if not the only one, when Liberal, Labor Pro- gressive and C.C.F. members voted with the government. No more decisive mandate could be given to any project. It seems to us that if Premier Drew had laid his govern- ment's liquor policy on the line as the main issue for the election it would have been more to the point. It must be admitted tht Premier Dr-w is an astute politician, but he will no doubc find that other issues of far more importance than the power conversion will be dragged in before the vote is cast, 5 We in Ontario Riding have more than the usual interest in the provincial election jn view of the fact that the federal by-election will be held the following day, June 8. It means that there will be added excitement and additional work for the workers of all parties at a period of the year when the farming community is busiest. The calling of the two votes 80 close together recalls vivid memories of June, 1945, when the provinci#l and federal elections were held on successive Mondays. In view of the fact that the Drew Government's term dr of office did not expire until 1950, we feel that it would have been much better practice to have postponed an election for a year at least as a means of saving the expense of a vote, particularly when there was no other apparent reason to call an election than to assure the continuance of the government in power. Recreational Centres Recreation centres, similar to that operating in Oshawa, are seen by Premier George Drew, of Ontario, as factors in live-together democracy. Speaking at Oshawa last week to a group of Ontario recreational leaders, the premier said that recreation projects afford youth the opportunity to build healthy minds and bodies and thus master the .most important science of all--that of human relationships. Cana- dians through such projects have an opportunity te show the world how free people can live together and the very strength of our democracy rests on how far it can be guided and directed by the people of the individual community con- cerned. The premfer pointed out that rather than dictate the lines an individual community should follow in its recreation work the province had set up a special branch of the Depart- ment of Education to advise-and assist Ontario municipali- ties. By the individual communities bearing their own share of the costs, assisted by the government, the task of working out the genergl policy of recreation in each town or city has been left in the hands of the municipality concerned. The Times-Gazette, strongly in favor of a recrea- tional centre for citizens of all ages in Oshawa, particularly you#i, believes that the Premier's declaration of the func- tions of such projects has been well defined. Large School Areas (Windsor Daily Star) In some parts of the province, large school areas have been established. In others, such as the Leamington district, they are being discussed, The objective is to eliminate the smaller continuation schools in rural parts of the province, and provide that all students have an opportunity to attend large and modern high schools in the most convenient towns. This plan of the Department of Education is meeting with some resistance, especially in villages or small towns which already have continuation schools. They dislike losing these schools and object to their children traveling up to 15 miles or more morning and evening by bus. , The continuation schools were established tc bring some higher education to those in rural parts. They served a good purpose, but it is doubtful if they do so today. a - The larger schools will provide increased facilities, a! greater variety in curriculum----such as handicraft work | and domestic sciences. They will be able to pay for a higher calibre of teachers than the smaller schools could do. Transportation of students is one problem, especially in the snow belt of Ontario. But, with consistent imprdvement of roads the buses allow many farm children, who otherwise could not afford it, to attend high school. The larger school areas are a progressive step. {4 By HABOLD DINGMAN Ottawa Correspondent Ottawa, April 17--Some sample quotes from an otherwise good de- bate in Parliament: Mr. Case: "Are you in favor of ommunism or against it?" Mr. MacInnis: "I will tell my hon. friend this, that it. would be useless to tell him whether I am in favor of it. or against it, be- cause he would not know after I had told him." Mr. Case: "Oh yes he would." (A minute later). Mr. Case: "May I ask the hon. gentleman a question? Do you subscribe to the theory introduced in the book 'Make This Your Can- ada'?" Mr. Archibald: drunken bum." Mr. Maclnnis: "I suggest that the question is quite unworthy of an answer. David Lewis never wrote any -book such as 'Make This Your Canada.' He collabor- ated with Someone else in writing the book. May I say that before that book was published I went over every line of it." < Mr. Cardiff: "I ask that the hon. member of the CCF here at the back withdraw at once the state- ment he made about the hon. gentleman." An Hon. Membef: "Who are you talking about ?" Mr. Cardiff: "I ask that the hon. member withdraw: that statement." Mr. Speaker: "Is the hon. mem- ber rising on a point of order?" Mr. Cardiff: "Yes." Mr. Speaker: "Would the hon. member be kind enough to state his point of order?" Mr. Cardiff: "The hon, member from Skeena made a slanderous remark about this hon. gentleman here and I ask him to withdrawn the statement." Mr. Archibald: "The hon. mem- ber for Grey North made a sland- erous statement about a member of our sgovernment and implied race hatred." Mr. Cardiff: "Take back your statement." Mr. Speaker: "I would ask the hon. gentleman to state the words he would like to have withdrawn." Mr. Cardiff: "He said he was a drunken bum." Mr. Speaker: "I ask the hon. member to withdraw that state- ment." Mr. Archibald: "Under your in- structions, Mr. Speaker, I with- aw." ! 4 "Take out the Mr. Fraser: "Not under instruc- tions; that is not good enough." Mr. Speaker: "I would ask hon. members to keep silent in order that the Speaker may hear what is going on. I ask the hon. mem- ber for Skeena to withdraw his re- mark." Mr. Archibald: "I withdraw." (And a minute later.) Mr. Ferguson: "May I ask the "Wanted: A Good Referee" Walker in The South Wales Echo (Cardiff) hon. member (Mr. Maclnnis) a question. Do you support the view of David Lewis and the co-author of that book 'Make This Your Can- ada'? Declare yourself yes or no now in this House of Commons." An Hon. Member: "Who are you?™ Mr. MacInnis: "Of course I sup- port the views expressed in the book 'Make This Your Canada.' If you do not like them you do not have to support them." Mr. Ferguson: "We know you for what you are." An Hon. Member: "You do: not know anything; you never did." Mr. Speaker: "Order. Hon. mem- bers will realize that it is one 'of the duties of the Speaker to pro- tect freedom of speech in this House.' Hon. members will realize that it is not necessary to pass a bill to, have freedom of speech in this. House and they v.:ll permit the hon. member who has the floor to carry on with his speech." ® 50 Years Ago East Whitby Township decided to pay George E. Mowbray, its asses sor, $70 for his work during the year. W. Rundle was installed as head of the Oshawa branch of the Sons of Temperance. Lyman C. Smith, principal of the Oshawa High School, reported the attendance at the high school and public schools was 1,027 as com- pared with 1,023 in 1896. W. G. Howden, J. J. Terwillegar, R. Flintoff and John Bartley were named fence viewers and pound keepers by East Whitby Township Council. Miss Bessie Tonkin, of Columbus, having completed hel normal school course at: 6 Hamilton, left to take charge of a school in Alberta. ® A Bible Thought Only one life-- "Twill soon be past-- Only What's done For Christ will last. "Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, siways abounding in the works of the Lord, forasmucih as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord." (I Cor. 15:58.) $900 LUNCH" 1. Your coat is examined natural beauty. I | "I JUST ATE A + Pardon my contented look | just lunched on Persian Lamb. There hung the coat in Mrs. Smith's closet, just waiting for a hungry moth like myséIf." Don't gamble with the life of your fur coat. Marten's Furs triple-protect your precious pelts. and compressed-air blown removing all dust. 2. Your coat is combed and brushed to restore its 3. Your coat is hung in the most modern refrigerated storage vault in Canada right on the premises of "Marten's Furs in Toronto. CALL TODAY -- OUR STORAGE SPACE IS LIMITED = Phone Oshawa 929 70 King St. E. [Hotel Genosha] Let IMMEDIATELY on receipt ! FURS e Other Editors SPEAKING OF SIGNS (Kitchener-Waterloo Record) A lot of people believe in all kinds of signs--signs of the moon, weather signs, even sings of busts and booms. But some people ap- parently don't believe in real signs. Records show that many level crossing accidents happen even at protected crossings. So stop, look and lessen accidents. ' IN SAME SITUATION (St. Thomas Times-Journal) Stratford City Council is asking the provincial" highways depart- ment .to pay some of the cost of repairing Erie stfeet, there, which is used as part of No. 7 highway through the city. folks are on the right track, but their claim can with justification be duplicated by many other On- tario towns and cities, St. Thomas included. PIE IN THE SKY (Hamilton Spectator) With Health Minister Paul Mar- | tin promising gaudy new adven- | tures in "social welfare" it is per- haps permissible to ask if our main ' attention might not be turned for | a& moment to protecting our physi- | cal ability to have any kind of wel- | fare at all, and second whether the | people. have not been fooled too | long on the magic pot of gold from | which all these good things are to come. GOOD MORNING ° (Calgary Albertan) Because he deplored - the general lack of human kindness, a New | York man started on a recent morning to spread sweetness and light in his «daily contacts, His first effort was in a department store. "Good morning," he said to the woman who came to wait on him. "And how are you this fine morning?" Instead of the pleas- ant smile he expected to receive in return, she said: "A_hell of a lot n church can be an effective ® Readers Views LORD'S DAY ENCROACHMENT Editor, Times-Gazette: Dear Sir; I wish to make my protest (through the medium of your pap- er) at the continual encroachments on the Lord's Day in this commun- ity. If the Lord's Day is to be used by the Ontario Recreation Association for "promoting the in- terest of recreation in all its Phases in Ontario," as was done ere last week--then it is abso- lutely certain their methods are not for the good of the coming generation. When the American president of this association told the Ontario group that "they had made history" -- then one could have added -- "but not on the foundation of the Canadians of Ontario who built truly and well in the past." : It appears that vast numbers of men--including' so called and self- appointed leaders--are motivated a purely secularist world view. hece were these so called leaders during the war years? If they were leaders during these years-- one never heard of them. We heard of men who followed leaders such as Montgomery, Dobbie 'and Orde-Wingate. Such leaders as these maintained and defended the Sabbath Day (and still do) even during their war campaigns. For the new self-appointed leaders God is dead and His Day too. So if the Christian God--according to them is dead and His Day too--is there any reasons why they should These Stratford | of difference it makes to you how I am," enjoy and their followers also-- { the Christian civilization and ethic which are woven into the very fab- ric of our so called Democracy ? You cannot have the ethic--if you do not believe the, Gospel. The question is: What kind of : system do you wish to replace the Christian ethic? We cannot af- i ford to forget that this Day is an integral and unchangeable part of the ethial constitution of the world. It is a law placed right at the centre of those laws which men must observe or perish. As a mor- al law it is incapable of suspen- sion or cancellation. It is etern- | ally binding on nations and men professing thhe Christian religion, | fighting force in the war that must yet be fought out between Chris- tianity and the materialistic earth- bound paganism which at present holds our country in its icy grasp-- there will have to be a. drastic weeding. Yours, "A PRESBYTERIAN" April 15, 1948. * +P DEFENDS HOUSEWIVES' ASSOCIATION Editor, Times-Gazette. ) Dear Sir: In your top editorial in Thursday's. paper you try fo leave the impression with your readers that the Oshawa and District Labor Ccuncil was wrong in supporting the Housewives' Consumers' Asso- ciation in' seeking to re-impose price controls. In addition you had your facts somewhat scrambled. The 1,000 signatures ycu refer to were obtained from vofers in Osha- wa who urged the Dominion gov- ernment to call an early by-elec- tion in Ontario Riding. The peti- tion was published in The Times- Gazette and was circulated among union members in local plants. It was filed in thie House of Commons on March 17. There is nothing subversive about that, is there? In these days of artificial Giyster- ia against communism even govern- ments have decided to evade their responsibility to the. people by merely crying "that's communistic and therefore we won't hear of it." Are you suggesting, Mr. Editor, that seeking re-imposition of price controls and fighting the high cost of living is communism? If so, there are millions of Communists in this nation including your wife who undoubtedly complains about high prices just as much as -any other housewife who has to feed wer family on a sharply-reduced income. The Dcminion cabinet which blundered badly when it lifted price controls cannot hide its re sponsibility for the high cost of live ing by crying "wolf", It is possible some women of Communist beliefs are on the delegation which wants to meet the government. That in itself should make' the government eager to explain to the nation what it inténds to do about -prices. Tue | high cost of living and the general ; attitude of employers when it | comes to wage raises makes more | Communists than any other factor. While the Oshawa and District Labor Council did not itself circu- late the price roll back petitions it endorsed the drive as did the On- tario Federation of Laber (CCL) at its convention in February. All our affiliates backed the campaign. It is a worthy cause and one which should enlist the support of all people including The Times- Gazette which has followed rather an anemic course in fighting the high cost of living. M. J. FENWICK, . Secretary-Treasurer, Oshawa and District Labor Council Arril 16, 1948. Silly of Him Father (doing crossword puzzle) --"Vat is another word for snake wid five letters?" Tkey--""A viper." "You silly! That's a handker. chief." want to know... It is essentially ethical--appointed ! 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