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Authorized as Second Class Matter, Post Office Department, Ottawa, Canada, DAILY AVERAGE CIRCULATION for SEPTEMBER 8,592 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1948 The Decision Made The Ontario Progressive - Conservative caucus has decided that Col. The Hon. Thomas L. Kennedy is to become Premier of Ontario in place of George A. Drew. At the same time, the caucus recommended that a convention to select a new leader for the party in Ontario be held as soon as possible. This decision to hold a convention to select a leader is no reflection"on the man who is to be the next Premier of the Pro- | vince. It is simply a recognition of the © fact that, because of his age--he is just over seventy--Col. T. L. Kennedy cannot be expected to carry on the duties of 7 premier for a lengthy period. He will be * more or less of a caretaker-premier until a convention can be organized, and in spite of the wish expressed by the caucus, we do not expect there will be too much haste in calling one. Meanwhile, Col. Kennedy can be ex- pected to do a good job of heading the administration of the Province. He is a sagacious politician, but at the same time he is sincere and honest, and has the wel- fare of the whole Province very much at heart. He has a great vision of the future of Ontario, a future he may not live to. see, but nevertheless one in which he believes implicitly. His leadership of the Legislature will be quiet and painstaking, and since he has an amazing faculty for disarming his opponents in a quiet manner, proceedings may lack some of the colour and dynamite of the last two sessions. The thing that is giving some cause for deep thought is the question of who wil succeed Col. Kennedy. Attorney-General Blackwell, before his recent ill-advised outburst, held the inside track to the suc- cessorship, but his abrupt announcement of his candidature, coupled with the tone of it, has had the effect of making many of his colleagues turn sour on him, and his chances have dropped fairly close to zero. So the field will be wide open, and it would not be surprising to find one of the leading members of the House of Commons well in the running when convention time comes around. Labour And Communism 'The proceedings of the convention of the Canadian Congress of Labour in Toron- to reveal the rather disturbing fact that there are many in that movement who are out-and-out communists and make no bones about it.. They were very outspoken in their defence of their own party line creed at the convention, and put up a hard battle against the anti-communist resolution which was debated at Wednesday's session. The fact that the communists in the or- ganization are so vocal, however, does not brand the Canadian Congress of Labour as a communist-dominated organization. It would be disastrous for Canada if this were 80. The strong stand of such leaders of labour as A. R. Mosher and Pat Conroy, who are determined to clean out the com- munists within their ranks, is re-assuring, and probably expresses the real views of the rank and file of labour men in this country. They deserve great credit for the courageous attitude they expressed in the face of the vituperation and insults of the communist disturbers, and they certainly left no doubt in anyone's mind as to where the real leadership of the Congress stands on the question, Pedestrian Safety Montreal Boy Scouts are engaged in a worthy enterprise. They have undertaken to station themselves at street intersections and guide pedestrians so that they may learn to walk safely across the streets. This might very well be termed a life-saving project, for accidents at busy street inter- sections are responsible for much of the toll of life taken by traffic mishaps each year. Under today's traffic conditions, pedes- trians move across the street in constant peril of their lives. They have to keep their wits about them every moment, and be just as careful about observing traffic lights as motorists have to be, in order to continue living. Much is done in an effort to educate and to observe the rules of the road, but more attention needs to be given to the responsibility of the pedestrian for safe- guarding his own life. The Montreal Boy Scouts' project is a praiseworthy one, which might very well be emulated in other communities. Too Many Now Professor A. M. Lower, of Queen's University, in an article in the current issue of Maclean's Magazine, puts forward an idea which is somewhat. startling, and is all against the popular trend of thought in this country. He disagrees entirely with those who feel that Canada has too many governments, and comes out boldly to say v'hat this country needs is smaller pro- vinces and more of them. Instead of nine provinces, he would have nineteen, or twenty when Newfoundland becomes a part of the confederation. His argument is somewhat ingenious. He believes the perpetual feud between Ottawa and the provinces would be elim- inated if the provinces were cut down in size, shorn of much of their power and im- portance, and have simply the status of local authorities safeguarding local rights. There are few who will agree with Prof. Lower. One of the difficulties in governing Canada today is that the country has too many governing bodies for its popu- lation. To double the number of govern- ments would mean that Canada would have one government for each 650,000 of population, and another central govern- ment for the whole Dominion. To cite the United States -as an example misses the point, because that country has forty-nine states for a population of 140,000,000 people. Doubling the number of govern- ments in this country would simply add to the confusion and disunity which now pre- vail, without any corresponding benefits to the people. Prof. Lower is perfectly right when he admits he has little hope of seeing his dream come true. The Ottawa govern- ment has enough trouble now dealing with nine provinces, so what would the situa- tion be if it had twenty camped on its door- step, all clamouring for provincial rights. Editorial Notes The British have made 35 per cent and the Americans 65 per cent of the del- iveries by air into Berlin. What about the Canadian contribution? \ * * + Hon. Dana Porter reports 213 new in- dustries established in Ontario. Doubtless this is part of the prosperity programme which Robert Saunders blames for the shortage of hydro power. e Other Editors' Views eo THEY MAY NEED IT (Brockville Recorder and Times) As the government has arranged for sufficient imports of butter to meet the winter's needs, the Joke will be on all those people who have been storing butter against an anticipated shortage. * + + WANT RECORD PIG CROP (London Free Press) A record pig crop is asked of U. S. farmers by agri- cultural officials, who probably feel it would be better not to have squeals coming exclusively from con. sumers. * * * DISABLED VETS DO WELL (Niagara Falls Review) Although a heavy industry, manufacturing cranes and monorail systems, the Richards-Wilcox Canadian Company Limited, of London, Ontario, is finding that the employment of disabled veterans in its plant is paying dividends. Recently the manager of the company wrote to London district office expressing the company's com- plete satisfaction with its physically disabled vet- erans. The company is in 2 position to judge, be- cause, of its total of approximately 450 employees, roughly fifteen per cent are disability cases, while about fifty-five per cent are veterans. eo A Bit of Verse * REFUGE Are your burdens heavy? Are you feeling low? There is just one thing to do, Just one. place to go; Though yor be bruised and panting, And your efforts come to naught . . . By placing all within His harfds, Miracles are wrought, Amy L. Ratz. motorists to drive with care and courtesy A Real Test For The Teacher b] » Mac's Musings There are some folks Who think that size is all That counts. If they can grow The biggest beans Or any other kind of thing, Their pride is great. The other day There lay upcn the desk A huge potato, Its skin was shining Just as if to say "Lock at my size "Am I not a wonder". Six inches long; Four inches wide, In weight two pounds, four ounces. But someone there, A sceptic, Called for a knife. Into the heart of that potato, Plinged the tlade, Cutting it asunder . To reveal, A large deep hole, Tinged with brown of rot, A heart devoid of pulpy flesh, Nothing but emptiness. The monster size was but a mask; | Inside was shallow, hollow. sham. | So size is not the only guide | Ray, in The Kansas City Star | In judging what is good By HAROLD DINGMAN Ottawa Correspondent Ottawa, Oct. 14--The people around Louis St. Laurent -- the working people--report is he is "Prince and a Gentleman." The new Liberal leader has retained all the staff brought together by Mr. King. : ' $10,000 AND MORE--Nearly 18,- | 000 Canadians are earning more | total | than $10,000 each and the earnings of this group is nearly $310 millions. Looks like people are fabulously wealthy while the rest of us are poor. If we divid- ed their total earnings among the taxpayers each ome of us would receive only $118 a year; and if we divided the total among all Cana- dians we'd receive only $25 apiece. Schemes to "soak-the-rich" and "divide-the-wealth" don't promizz much to anyone. TORIES WERE 'ASLEEP -- Al- though the Progressive Conserva- tives had the same knowledge of what was happening in Newfound- land, the Liberal party got off to a head start in organizing for the general election. The Liberals have a party started in the new prov- ince; the Tories have nothing. When a visiting newspaperman inquired at Tory headquarters about plans for Newfoundland he was told that the party was "wait- ing for Drew." Col. Drew is going to have his work cut out for him trying to catch up with the things that should have been done while the party organizers slept com- fortably on their jobs. A 'FREE RADIO'--The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation seat "ob- servers" to the Progressive Ccnser- vative convention. These officials, whose salaries are paid by your in- come and other taxes, were openly critical of the "free radio" policy adopted by the convention. The Tories want to put both. the CBC and the private stations under the authority of a commission or body which would be responsible only to parliament. Under the present set-up the CBC says to any private station: "Well, you haven't behaved °tco badly this year, perhaps we'll give you a license for another year." Under the present set-up the CBC is able to order a program off the air if it competes with a CBC pro- gram, Under the present set-up the CBC is able to tell a private station to cancel a money-making program and carry a CBC program free. The CBC theory is that it gives the public "what it wants" without any radio ' commercials. This overlooks the simple fact that no advertiser would give any money to any private stations if all Canadians listened to the CBC. The Tory project for Canadian radio worries the CBC officials cn two grounds: (1) It would destroy the complete and autocratic au- thority of the CBC; and (2) It would permit the development of new programs on radio networks. If private stations can give bet- ter programs via the networks, what will happen to the CBC? How can the CBC appeal for huge sums of money {rem the taxpayers every year if the private stations can operate without taxes and do - bet- ter job? Already the CBC is in sore trouble in the rich area of Central Ontario where two private stations (CFRB and CKEY) have a bigger listening audience than the CBC's key station CJBC which cost the taxpayers of Canada a fortune 'to build and operate, If private stations objain equal- ity with the subsidized system there'll be more money for writers, singers, actors, etc. The money will come. from private industry, not the public treasury. ! The CBC is vigorously opposed to this, as demcnsirated in anaual appearances before the radio com- mittee of parliament. these | | Or what is bad. | And just as a potato | | Looking Around Sosst gn le judged, The inner quclity of heart | The World [In every phase of life | By DEWITT MACKENZIE | | Associated Press News Analyst | | Back in the late war, world conflict started by Germany [in a generation, the Allies swore a | | mighty oath they would so thor- | oughly. smash the Reich that never | {again would it be able to wage ag- | | gression. I Naturally destruction of the Ger- man war potential involved the wiping out of all arsenals and fac- tories capable of material contribu- | i tion to armaments. Many of these factories were destroyed by bomb- | | ing, and those which survived were | slated by Allied agreement to be | dismantled and removed as repa- | rations. | It wasn't foreseen, of course, that | the conflict was going to be fol- | lowed by another struggle among the Allies themselves--the "cold war" which shortly grew out of | communist aggression, So in the | flysh of victory over Hitlerism the | Alles made agreements which not | only emasculated Germany's mili- | tary potential but cut heavily into, the ordinary industrial potential. When the communist drive | {against Western Europe got into | full swing it became apparent that | defence depended on economic re- | covery of the war-stricken coun- tries. The corollary to this was the | Marshall plan for rehabilitation. | This plan has become the target of the communists. Their offensive is aimed at preventing the program {from succeeding and so rendering | Western Europe incapable of de- | fending itself. | Along with this development has | come a widespread realization that | | before the war Germany | of the keystones of European econ- |omy. It is clear that general re- habilitation depends heavily on | German recovery. This is a disturbing countries like France, Britain and | Belgium, which twice have stood [the brunt of the Reich's initial on- | | slaughts. France in particular has | | been fearful of putiing the Ger- | | mans on their feet again industrial- '1y. | ower, a remarkable change | | has come about recently in the | | viewpoint of the Western Eurcpean | | countries. 'And Wednesday it ap- | peared that both France and Brit- | ain were prepared to halt the dis- | { mantling of important German | | plants pending a review of the part | | which the Reich can play in Eure- | | pean economic recovery. iE | The French Foreign Minister, Robert Schuman, came out in sup- port of this procedure. That was 24 | hcurs after he had talked with Paul | Hoffman, United States adminis- | trator for the European Recovery | Program. Meantime Hoffman had gone to London for a conference with Foreign Secretary Bevin, who also is said to have agreed Te-| luctantly to the proposal,' Now this doesn't necessarily mean | that there will be any alteration | in the German reparations pro- gram as originally laid down. A re- view may not change the situation. | Still, the mere fact that the West- | ern Allies appear prepared to re- | consider the whole German situ- ation is in itself a momentous de- velopment. thought for e 35 Years Ago eo | Fred McBrien of Brooklin nar- rowly escaped death when he was Luried in the collapse of a well in which he was working. He was dug out in time by neighboi:. President W. A. Henderson pre- sided over the annual convention of school teachers of South Ontar- io. One of the entertainment fea tures was a free street car ride to the lake and back. Town engineer reports to council that flooding of cellars in the busi- ness section was due to property owners breaking the by-laws re- garding the. size of sewer pipes. The town council received a large- ly-signed petition protesting against the closing of Centre Street at the C.P.R. tracks. McGILL APPOINTMENT Montreal, Oct. 14 -- (CP) -- Ap- pointment of Dr. James Sutherland Theemson, president of the Univer- sity, of Saskatchewan, as Dean of | McGill University's new Faculty of opliyy of Religion at McGill was |regime is deep-seated in was one y a And soul and mind Mean encore by far, second | Than the pretentious outer shell. Report From Westminster By JAMES McCOOK Canadian Press Staff Writer London, Oct, 13--(CP)--If any- one offers the olive branch to Span- ish Dictator Generalissimo Fran- cisco Franco, it won't be the British Labor Government. Amid reports that the United | Business Spotlight By FORBES RHUDE : Canadian Press Business Editor No wonder it is hard to buy a car in Britain. For instance, the Austin Motor Company in a recent week produced 2,705 vehicles, most- ly cars, and only 639 were kept at home, The rest, 2,066, were export- ed, 711 of them to North America. Many observers hold that the market for the small British car in Canada is one of scarcity--that it won't compete with the larger North American types which sell about the same price, when the latter are more plentiful. However that may be, the British car is getting a good chance to establish its selling points with the public. Its manufacturers, as indi- cated by expansion of their facili- ties here, believe they can hold a chunk of the market. Markets Yesterday There's always a bit of heartache { when a gold mine promise fails. A [couple suffered on the Toronto | Stock Exchange Wednesday. | Armistice Gold Mines, Ltd., which | had thought it had a favorable | property near Kerr-Addison in the | Larder Lake area of Northern On- | taric, announced that it had sus- | pended operations, removed under- | ground equipment and sold mine stores. No plans have been made for disposal cf plant and equipment. | The stock dropped from 13% to | 7% and recovered to 8%. | God's Lake Gold Mines, Ltd., in | Northern Manitoba, announced that | it had failed to find a mine. It pro- | poses to sell its Elk Island mining {and milling equipment and the | Kanuchuan Rapids power plant and site to Lingman Lake Gold | Mines, Ltd., in the Patricia district | of Northwestern Ontario, for 500,- | 000 shares of Lingman. On the an- nouncement, God's Lake dropped | from 48%: cents to 40 and rallied | to 42. Lingman jumped eight cents | to 42, but retreated to 35. The Lingman retreat followed | word that a new company is plan- (ned with a capital of | shares of which 1,500,000 will be {issued to present shareholders and 500,00 to God's Lake. | . . | Life In Berlin By RICHARD K. O'MALLEY | AND TOM REEDY | Berlin, O:t. 14--(CP)--Imagine | living in a city where, if you step | outside certain boundaries, you will | be arrested. Imagine living in a city where all 3,000,000 | comb the parks for dead timber and tree stumps. Under blockade conditions the health of the German has remain- ed surprisingly good. A British re- port said flatly that there has been "no apparent effect." One helpful factor is the abundance of drugs. There has been some new un- employment, but not as much as had been expected. As part of a "made work" program instituted by the Germans, thousands are toiling part-time clearing bomb rubble, or plugging up holes in damaged buildings. It is necessary to shut down the German subway system at 6 p.m. The street railways stop at 11 pm, Only the affluent have gasoline for private cars. The German has once in a while looked away from his own troubles long enough to admire the Western Allies' willingness to accept aus- terity, too. They figure: "We're in this together and we'll stick it out." Present Session Of U.N. At Paris By ALAN HARVEY Canadian Press Staff Writer Paris -- (CP) -- There are 1,800 correspondents covering the Paris session of the United Nations and it's a safe bet theyll remember the Palais de Chaillot for a long, long time, Most poignantly, they'll remember "Thrombosis Hill." That's the tag one reporter hung on the 155--count "em--marble steps linking the Assembly Hall in {in the Palais basement to press [offices on the second floor. There {are elevators, too, but they're usually crowded and sometimes they don't work. So, if you want to watch a plen- ary session, or flush a delegate in an off moment, it's a two-day trip | --down 25 yards below ground level and back up to write the story, Most reporters say they prefer | the cosy propinquit of Hall and [press rogm at Lake Success. | But the Palais has its points. Ale most any room in, the cool, spa | cious buildings is a room with a | view--and what a view. Terraced | lawns, placid ponds, cone-shape: | hedges, flags of 58 countries--and [finally the Eiffel Tower. | On the twin towers of the Palas | are inscriptions by the French poe: | Paul Valery, including one that | might have been written by the | Yrited Nations: | "Paserby, it depends on thee | "Whether I tomb or treasure be, "Friend, enter not here without de [sire | Inside, the Palais is a building |of almost oppressive luxury. The effect is incongruous, though: catn- States would like to line up Spain [your food and other supplies are edral carvings and massive medie- among the western powers deter- mined to check Russian ambitions, there is no indication 'the Labor Party or government locks more kindly on Franco. Dislike of the Spanish dictator's British abor. The Spanish civil war stirred even former pacifists to a degree of belligerency that surprised | themselves. After Italy's attack on Ethicpia, the old attitude of "Peace | at almost any price" vanished with the retirement of gentle George Lansbury, their former leader. Frime Minister Attlee and all his | ministers were vigorous supporters o. the Republican cause. in Spain. Attlee was among those who visited £panich battlefields, Republican battalion named after him. The years have softened many of labor's dislikes and the respoasi- cilities of office have made govern- ment leaders more temperate in their comments é6n international affairs. But on Spain their old critical viger remains. Political observers said that even if the United States made an agree- ment with Epain for co-operative association for security, the United Kingdom would not automatically | follow suit, even | and had a| | dependent on an air lift. Where | you have lights a few hours ia the | morning ard a few hours at night. | Where simple, everyday items such |as candles are rationed. Where | winter is coming on and the pros- | pect. for sufficient cecal is dim. | Where war is not out of the realm | of" possibility. How will the Germans | through the winter? All right, say the Western Allies. | Better han they survived the 1944- 45 winter when they were cold and hungry and pounded by bombs. The average German' gets a basic | ration of 1608 calories. Heavy | workers get a top ration of 2985 |and housewives, 1,680. (The average North American | receives about 3,000 calories daily, | The food of heavy workers, such as | lumkerjacks, may total up to 6,000. | The average Briton received 2,800 |calcries daily in the first six | months of 1948.) The biggest problem is coal. Ger- {mans are going to have a mighty cold winter unless more planes can be added to the airlift, The old | warming halls--public places where | one came to get the chill out of his | bones--probably will be revived. | Many Germans are preparing to augment, their fuel supplies. They come | val frescoes, too large to be ree | moved when the U.N. took over, | look down on new, purely functional | offices partitioned off for adminis- tration officials, delegates and journalists. Originally called the Trocadero, the Palais was built to house the 1878 French exhibition. It was | ready one month ater the official | date. It was remodelled in 1937, and | again preparations were weeks late. |" In "1948 the French are still run- {ning true to ofrm. One week after (the Paris talks opened, scantling lay in ungainly rows, hammers | banged and plaster dust smeared | the clothes of the Palais inhabit- ants. | British Exhibitors Bar | Pictures by Ben Hecht | Londca, Oct. 14--(AP)--British film exhibitors have decided to boy- cott the work of Ben Hecht, Am- erican writer-producer, because of what they term his anti-British attiude of the Palestine question. 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