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OPINIONS . DAILY TIMES-CAZETTE EDITORIAL PAGE FEATURES THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETT OSHAWA WHITBY THE OSHAWA TIMES (Established 1871) THE WHITBY GAZETTE AND CHRONICLE (Established 1863) MEMBER OF THE CANADIAN PRESS The Times-Gazette is a member c* the Canadian Daily News- papers Association, the Ontario Provincial Dallies Association, and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin, Port Perry, Ajax or Pickering, 24c per week $12.00 per year. By mail, outside carrier delivery areas, anywhere in Canada and England $7.00 per year, $3.50 for 6 months, $2.00 for 3 months. U.S. $9.00 per year. A as Second Class Matter, Post Office Dept., Ottawa, Can. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled tc the use for republication of all news despatcLes credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters in this paper and also the local news published therein. All rights of republication of special despatches herein are also reserved. . Net Paid Circulation ' Average Per Issue whe 8,018 JULY, 1948 FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1948 Beware Too Much Sun Summer will not be over for some weeks--we hope-- and thousands of people will lie on the beaches and rocks in scanty attire "to get the benefit of the sun," or merely to acquire a tan, but they should take their sunbaths in moderation. Many a sunbather has suffered serious. and painful burns, but the damage done internally can be much worse without the sunbather being aware of it. Says Hygeia, the magazine of the American Medical Association: "There is a tendency to exaggerate the vital importance of sunlight. Blistered sun worshippers put a strain on the kidneys, many develop toxema or shock, and even die. People with an unstable nervous system, an over-active thyroid gland, high blood pressure, heart disease, or active tuberculosis must be especially careful about getting an overdose of sunshine." The magazine advises people to take their sunbathing through a window, which affords some protection from the hot radiation. In any case it strongly warns against the practice of lying semi-naked in the sun for longer than 15 minutes at a time, The sunbathers may not like this, especially those who live at the lakesides all summer, or even go there for a two weeks' vacation. They want to acquire a mahogany-like color so that they may boast about it to their friends. It stands to reason, however, that when people's skin gets so burned that it is tender to the touch and needs the applica- tion of soothing lotions or ointments, the injury done to the surface is only a symptom of the injury done internally. Violence Doesn't Help (The Financial Post) On the same day as a couple of Toronto rookie con- stables seriously assaulted two innocent citizens, A. L. Thompson, a former mayor of Chatham, Ont., handed out this advice to members of the Ontario Police Association: "If we are dealing with rattlesnakes, let's treat them as rattlesnakes." That may be blunt advice but it is not good advice. It will not stop violence but increase it and it can only result in more of these already too frequent incidents where inno- cent people get roughed up by the police, or citizens sus- pected of some minor crime are shot down. Every mistake of this kind weakens the support and co-operation of the public which our police force must have if it is to function properly. Every police constable from the rawest recruit upward must be made to understand clearly that his job is to appre- hend the law breaker only.- It does not include trial and punishment. That function is reserved or should be reserved exclusively for the courts. Firearms and excessive force should never be used by the police, nor permitted, except in the last resort and only in the case of serious crime. Any other course must lead to a complete breakdown of law and order or what is just as bad, the creation of a police state where the average citizen lives in terror of the servants that he has hired to protect him. There's far too much "let's treat 'em like rattlesnakes" in police practice now. It's not and must never be part of a policeman's job to decide who's a rattlesnake or to mete out any punishment whatsoever. This Tells The Story (Christian Science Monitor) On top of the two Russian school teachers who elected to stay in the United States come reports of Olympic athletes from Soviet-dominated countries who have decided to stay in Great Britain. Desire for careers as professional athletes apparently has something to do with the decisions of the latter. But the atmosphere of political and mental freedom in both Britain and the United States undoubtedly is the underlying attraction in all these cases. . Moscow's strenuous efforts to prevent such defections forcibly, to blacken motives and confuse issues with lurid charges of coercion, do not bespeak confidence in the superior attractions of the Soviet system. We recall that earlier this year a member of the United States Information Service in Moscow, and later an army sergeant on duty at the American Embassy, left their jobs and announced their intentions of staying in Russia. While official American explanations imputed their actions to romantic befuddlement, there was certainly no attempt to make them change their minds by force.: American news- papers freely printed the reasons they gave for preferring to stay in Communist Russia. Perhaps the real strength of the democratic system is nowhere more apparent than in the absence of a frantic and panic-stricken effort to conceal the dissatisfaction of the occasional dissident who chooses to desert it. Such inner assurance speaks more loudly than any hysterical inter- change of charge and countercharge. By HAROLD DINGMAN Ottagva Correspondent Ottawa, Aug. 27--Cdrrespondents who were affronted when the Lib- eral convention issued yellow rib- bons of identification for news- papermen (the yellow press?) may well ponder the proposed action of the Progressive Conservative con- vention. Press badges for regular correspondents will be red; for visit- ing reporters, pink and for radio representatives, purple. Favorite Son It is expected in Ottawa that Davie Fulton, young member of Parliament for Kamloops, will be a first-ballot candidate at the Pro- gressive = Conservative convention. The 32-year-old British Columbia lawyer was so angry and disillu- sioned with his party leadership at the last session that he almost re- signed. Fulton, it is anticipated, will at- tempt to rally the younger and more progressive members of his party. He might get 100 or even 150 votes on the first ballot, on the sec- ond ballot he may attempt to swing his strength to Diefenbaker. The campaigns of such men as Garfield Case of North Grey, and John Hanna, an obscure M. L. A. from the little Ontario town of Wingham, are not taken seriously. The Tories are now referring to Case as "Available Gar" and they say he is merely campaigning be- cause it gives him an opportunity to make statements and speeches and obtain publicity. 'When Hanna announced he would be a candidate no one in Tory head- quarters knew who he was. They had to. look him up in the Par- liamentary Guide. When a news- paper asked for his picture, none was available in the headquarters of the political party he hopes to lead. Impostor Recalled When the government announced this week that Beaver 'would be flown from Prince Albert National Park to Wood Buffalo Park in Nor- thern Alberta, only a few around Ottawa recalled Grey Owl. One of the last places Grey Owl worked (among the beaver), was in the Prince Albert park and presumably some of the airborn beaver were descendants of his animals. Grey Owl was a great impostor who fooled even the king and queen of England. In reality he was a Scotsman (McKishnie was his name I think) and his fraud was exposed some time before his death. He posed as an Indian a great part of his life and his impersonation was Washington Spotlight By CLYDE BLACKBWRN Canadian Press Staff Writer Washington, 'Aug 27.-- (CP) -- "This nation is confronted with the greatest series of tasks that have ever fallen to the lot of any nation in history." This statement by James Forres- tal, Secretary of Defence, made be- fore a group of 300 high officers including Chiefs of Staff for Army, Navy and Air and more than 100 officers of General or Flag rank, scarcely ruffled the surface of heat- smitten Wa n. It meant that the responsibili- ties of the United States now were greater than the day Japanese bombs fell on Pearl Harbor, but sweat-misted eyes of editors paid it little attention. They were interested more in the warning Forrestal gave his highest ranking officers of the three ser- vices that they must work together as a unit if an emergency comes. Forrestal's reasons for making the appeal at this time were ex- pressed in crisp, electrifying words. They were given to men who have worked in secret, air-cooled com- partments of the vast Pentagon building for weeks and months -- s0 good that people didn't want to disbelieve him. As an Indian he was better than the real Indian. He knew what the whitemen wanted and he gave it to them, He was full of Indian lefe and he was a genuine woodsman to the ex- tent that he wrote successful books and made other money giving lec- tures. He started down in Cabano, in Quebec's Temiscouta County, and from there he moved to Riding Mountain National Park in Mani- toba, and then over to Prince Al- bert National Park. Austin Cross, a veteran Ottawa reporter, first knew that Grey Owl was an impostor of some kind as early as 1930. Grey Owl at that time was getting great publicity in the daily press and. Cross asked him to what tribe of Indians he belonged. McKishnie replied that he was a "Jickarilla". Cross searched all the history books and records for trace of such an Indian band. There was none. "I never exposed him as a fraud," Cross said, "I was fascinated by him." Forced Holiday Walter Woods, deputy minister of veterans affairs, was urged to take a month-long holiday this summer. For years he has overworked him- self at a hard task, but when the time came to take it easy he decid~ ed he could not go. Too much to do, he said. At that point his boss stepped in. Milton F. Gregg, M.M,, V.C.,sthe Sergeant-at-Arms who be- came Veterans Minister, sent Woods to Halifax where he was met by John Dickey, Liberal M. P. Gregg went down to the Maritimes later and between the two of them and other friends the Liberal politicians made sure the deputy minister had a long and restful holiday. worked with Canadians here on secret duty and officers from oth- er friendly countries. . Restoring Economies Among the unprecedented "series of tasks" facing the nation, he mentioned the job assumed by the United States of helping to restore the economies of countries all over the world, support for the United Nations and the multi-billion dol- lar economic co-operation plan for Europe and Asia. "At the same time, being uncer- tain of future international devel- opments, we are rebuilding our mili- tary power less than three years af- ter we set out to tear it down. "We start on that rebuilding without the slack in our economy which we had in 1940 when 8,000,- 000 people were unemployed and no one could even visualize short- ages in basic raw materials. "We have scarcities which, in my opinion, may lead to rationing in some of the basic metals." Just a Handful But Washington in general wor- ried more about the heat than about Russian bombers coming down_over Canada. The big attraction of the week was the show in the old house of- fice building on Capitol Hill where the un - American Committee pounded away at suspected Com- munists who have held high gov- ernment - positions while movie cameras purred and bright lights gleamed and sweaty bodies stood jammed together to cheer or hiss according to whether they were left or right. hills, eo A Bit of Versee T TALL TREES How lovely are the great tall tree: With branches spreading high. In their impressive height they all m reaching for the sky. While in the bush the white-rimmed trunks of silver birch are seen, Like sentinels who keep their guard watchful and serene. The great tall trees like signposts seem To point the, way above To where eternal glories are, And purity and love. Their spreading branches form Which all their heads adorn; And birds find sanctuary there Until the early morn. & crown The maple, elm, oak and pine, The fir and cedar, too, Majestically throw their arms Pp to the sky so blue. They all provide a glorious shade From scorching summer sun; And moonlight silvers all their leaves Whenever day is done. The slender saplings grow and strive Beside the giant trees Although their thin and mobile stems May waver in the breeze, They follow quick the pattern, which They see before their eyes: And grow 'in hope that one day, too, They'll reach up to the skies. --WILLIAM McCLURE. 37 Fitch Street, Welland. SCOUTS IN EUROPE (Windsor Daily Star) Just another step in the wrong direction, but one of those that is building up quite a path, all told, is the news that Communist countries in Europe are rejecting the Boy Scout movement. That's the word from Mr. Jackson Dodds, Dominion Scout International Committee in Switzerland. And that, in spite of the fact that the Scout motto is "Be Prepared." FORMERLY WIDESPREAD Turkeys are related to pheasants, and in three species, were formerly found wild from Maine to South America. Play along with A pleasant moment of relaxation beside the road... with the cool, rich flavour of a Player's to make your enjoyment complete. For anytime... anywhere..: Player's always Please! oh as CORK TIP and PLAIN Police Apologise For Beating Man Who Helped Them Toronto, Aug. 27. -- (CP) --Di- minutive Russell Mokriy who claim- 2d he and members of his family were beaten recently by rookie po- lice officers when he was mistak- en for a robber, received at least oral compensation Thursday. The Board of Police Commission- ers at a special meeting not only officially apologized for the arrest but also commended -the 22-year- old man for his aid to police. Mokriy told the board he was at- tacked, beaten, handcuffed and ar rested after he attempted to, help police capture two suspected thieves. He also charged his moth- er was "kicked in the stomach" and his father and brother were beaten by officers. Police denied the wo- man was kicked by them but said she had tried to interfere in the ar- rest of her son. Chief Constable John Chisholm admitted "it was a case of mistak- en identity." Two rookies in plain clothes probably manhandled Mokriy, he said. They thought he was one of the suspected shop- breakers they were chasing because of information given them. "We sincerely regret the incon- venience and trouble given him," Chief Chisholm said, Meanwhile, the injured mother was still in hospital unable to ap- pear for the hearing. She too re- ceived the apoligies of the Com- missioners. Police are paying for her hospital attention, The Board took steps to curtail the over-zealousness of its rookie policemen. - Orders were issued that rookies in training must be made to realize that they can use their guns "only as the very last resort when all other means have' failed." Regulations covering the use of firearms are to be tightened. ® 40 Years Ago The - Oshawa Vindicator was running a new serial, "In Peace and War, or The End of It All" The Oshawa Electric Light Com- pany contracted for a new 120 horse power water wheel at a cost of $3,000. The employees of the McLauglin Carriage Company took part in a rousing excursion to Peterborough. M. E. May announces his re- tirement from the grocery business which he had carried on for the past twenty-two years. . F. E Ellis and Co. were sellin ladies' white skirts at 54 cents a... 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