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OPINIONS DAILY TIMES-CAZETTE EDIT ORIAL PACE FEATURES The Daily Times-Gazette OSHAWA WHITBY THE OSHAWA TIMES (Established 1871) THE WHITBY GAZETTE & CHRONICLE (Establshed 1863) e Times-Gazette Is a member of the Canadian Press, ge D: i A the Ontayio Bureau for the C: ally Provincial Dailles Association and the Audit Circulations. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news despatches in this paper credited to it or to The A Press or t and also the local news published therein. od rights of special despatches herein are also reserved. A. R. ALLOWAY, President and Publisher T. L, WILSON, Vice-Presi and M | _ M. McINTYRE HOOD, Managing Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin, Port Perry, Ajax and Pickering, 24c per week. By mail, outside carrier A areas, anywhere in Canadas and England, 00 year, U.S, $9.00 per year. > pe a as Class Matter, Post Office Department, Ottawa, Canada, DAILY AVERAGE CIRCULATION for SEPTEMBER 8,592 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1948 DI May It Be Brief 1t is to be regretted that circumstances over which the company had no control have created a shortage of essential ma- terials at the Oshawa plant of the General Motors of Canada, and made it necessary for the management to announce a tempor- ary suspension of operations at the plant. It is apparent from the announcement made yesterday by W. A. Wecker, Pres- ident of the Company, that it was with great reluctance that this step had to be taken. It has been threatening for some months, but through the fine co-operation of the company and its employees, it has been possible to keep the plant operating full time up to the present week, and pro- duction of motor vehicles has gone on steadily. Motor cars are in great demand, - and both the company and the workers in the General Motors plant are anxious to produce them. The shutdown which has been nounced has nothing to do with local con- ditions or local considerations. The un- fortunate strike which has been in progress at the plant of the McKinnon Industries since July 14 of this year stopped the flow of materials from that plant, and while the company has made strenuous efforts to secure materials from other sources, these sources have dried up also, and until new supplies become available, production will be halted. ; : It is to be hoped that any stoppage of production which may be caused by this situation will be of short duration. A settle- ment of the McKinnon plant strike would have the effect of restoring the normal flow of materials and permitting the re- sumption of full scale operations here. For . the sake of the steady production of much- needed automobiles and of regular employ- ment of workers in the Oshawa plant of General Motors, it is sincerely hoped that such a settlement, fair to all parties con- cerned, may not be too long delayed. In the meantime, the people of Oshawa have no cause to take a gloomy view of the situation, since it does not in any way affect the amicable relations between the company here and its employees. Parcels" For Britain In recent weeks some conflicting state- ments regarding the food situation in Great Britain have come from people who have visited that country, and this has created some doubt as to the need for individuals or organizations sending parcels of food to relatives and friends in Britain. In consid- ering statements made by visitors to Britain, based on their own experiences, it shoukl be remembered that the food allow- ances made to tourists from other lands are niuch more generous than the rations on which the British people have to subsist. " Authoritative information from Britain, however, indicates that there is still an urgent need for the sending of parcels to the people over there. That does not mean that the people of Britain are anywhere near the siarvation level, because they are not. But there is so much monotony and sameness in the food they are allowed under the ration system that they are hungry for many of the things they cannot have, and of which there is an abundance in this country. They are desperately short of candy and sweets, canned fruits, meat, butter and.cooking fats, and other types of food which can easily be spared from this country. ~ So food parcels from Canada are a great boon to the British people in the life of austerity which they have to live. The Election Results The results of the two federal by-elec- tions this week, in Algoma East in Ontario . and Rosthern, Saskatchewan, in which the Liberal government candidates an- elected, were not unexpected. Both of | these seats were formerly held by Liberals and were considered in the category of being safe. The fact, too, that in neither case did the Progressive - Conservative party have a candidate in the field made the election of the government nominee almost a foregone conclusion. The election of the Hon. L. B. Pearson, Canada's new Minister of External Affairs, was never in doubt from the day the Progressive - Conservatives decided they would not oppose him, There was no par- ticular reason to believe that the C.C.F. or Social Credit parties had any great strength in East Algoma, so that the elec- tion of Mr. Pearson means only that the Liberal party board of strategy chose wisely when they picked East Algoma as a safe seat for him, The most significant factor in the Ros- thern election was the decline of 1,400 votes in the support given the C.C.F candidate, as compared with the 1945 election. Saskatchewan is the home of the C.C.F. It receives its strongest support in the House of Commons, in proportion to the number of seats in the Province, from Saskatchewan. The majority given to the Liberal candidate, therefore, seems to in- dicate that the C.C.F. is slipping in that province, and that may have some bearing on when the next federal genral election will be held. Editorial Notes Some papers have been making much of the announcement made by the Minister of National Revenue that cuts in'taxes are coming soon. That has been so obvious for some time that it scarcely constitutes news. d ok 0% % Ottawa government says the provinces can take over rent controls if they wish to do so. With Premier Kennedy strongly opposed to controls of any kind, it is hardly likely that Ontario will relieve the federal government of that headache. * ok Rok The mine strikes in France are en- dangering the whole economic life of the nation and may bring that country to civil war. That is exactly what the communist groups fomenting these strikes would like to see. % dk % %k Britain's army is reported to be much stronger today than it was in 1939. That could be possible without that army being anything like strong enough to make an effective contribution immediately should a war come. %* % % % J. S. Duncan, President of Massey-Har- ris-Co. Ltd. says Canada needs a much larger population as a measure of self-pre- servation. Certainly the resources of this country could support more than 12,- 000,000 people. ® Other Editors' Views eo A JURY'S HARD LOT (London Free Press) A recent case at Supreme Court sessions in London focussed attention on the hardship inflicted on jurymen. In that. instance the jurymen« were locked up for six days although the time they actually spent in court only tqtalled fifteen hours. Maybe nothing could have been done about this, and the jurymen may have been merely sacrifices on the altar of justice. But the question inevitably arises as to whether some arrangements cannot be made to make their lot a bit easier. . 4 LJ * REAL PIONEERS DON'T 'ICVE OUT (Stettler, Alta., Independent) A pioneer is not necessarily a settler who came early but he is a man who Has the pioneer tradition. He has sprung from pioneer stock, perhaps in On- tario or Michigan or Illinois or Scandinavia. A lot of men came to this country but they moved because they were not real pioneers. The pioneers don't move oul. They and their fathers have been through the same thing before. They know what hard times are and they know what gocl times are and they take the good with the bad and the bad with the good and even them up. eo A Bit of Verse eo GOD'S TEMPLES The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned to hew the shaft and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them--ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences Which, from the stilly twilight of the place, And from the grey old trunks that high in heaven Mingled their mossy boughs, ang from the sound Of the invisible breath that swayed at once All their green tops, stole over him, and bowed His spirit with the thought of boundless power And inaccessible majesty. --From a Forest Hymn, WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. e A Bible Thought @® Danger feared is folly; danger 'faced is freedom. "God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid." were | (sa. 12:2.) EN HOW ABOUT -TAKIN' OFF THIS SOME END ? ¢) Commonwealth Defence (Editor's Note: This Is the fourth of six stories in a Canadian Press series on Commonwealth defence. It describes the steps being taken by Britain, heart of the Commgn- wealth, in the face of growing in- ternational tenzion.) By STUARY UNDERHILL Canadian Press Staff Writer London, Oct. 28 -- (CP) -- Brit- ain has resigned herself to re- assemble the armor she cast aside hurriedly after the war. Keynote for the country's new feeling was struck by Field Mar- shal Viscount Montgomery at a re- cruiting drive, before he resigned as Chief of the Imperial General Staff to head the Western Euro- ptan Union's five-power military committee. "While I do no want to stress the danger of war, I do no! want to underpiay it," he said. "I just want to say: Let us be secure whatever happens." 'Britain has a triple task--pro- tecting the 'British Isles against attack, playing a dominant role in the rearming of Western Europe, and sharing the responsibility for over-all Commonwealth defence. In all three phases, the main factor is time. : Years from now, Britain may have a strong territorial (reserve) army of men who have served up to two years in the regular army under the peacetime conscription regulations. But at present this force is in the earliest stages of or- ganization. The official view is that war is not imminent. However, that feel- ing has not prevented the govern- ment from taking these precau- tions: 1. The over-all demobilization program has been slowed down; the service period for conscripts has been extended from 12 to 18 months; and a full-dress recruiting tampaign for the regular services has been started. 2. Production of equipment for 'all services is being increased. 3. The navy is taking "out of wraps" hundreds of vessels put into reserve after' the second world war ended. 4. The Pacific fleet is being doubled to a strength of two aire craft carriers, four cruisers, 12 de- stroyers and an undisclosed num- ber of submarines. 5. The biggest military exercises since VE-Day have been held by the three armed forces. 6' Construction of air, land and sea bases in Kenya, East Africa, to convert that colony into the stra- tegic nerve centre of the Common- wealth, is being speeded. 7. New civil defence plans are being worked out, to protect the population in event of enemy air attack. Best estimates are that Britain will have more 'than 800,000 men under arms at the end of this year, about 80,000 more than was plan- ned before international tension put the country back on guard. This is a long way from the 4,500,000 in mid-1944 but 60 per cent more than in 1939. The army then was about one-third its present size. However, military critics claim it was in a better state of readiness then than now. The steady inflow of 18-year-old conscripts, most of whom serve less than two years, requires widespread employment of seasoned veterans for training pur- poses. The R.AF. finds itself short of men 'and has eased its enlistment requirements. It is also keeping Looking Around The World By FRANCIS W. CARPENTER (For DeWitt Mackenzie) Associated Press News Analyst Paris, Oct. 28--(AP)--The smal- ler powers in the United Nations are talking back to the big pow- ers and slowly, but surely, they are getting results. They succeeded in keeping alive negotiations for atomic energy con- trol. They are scrapping now to keep talks going on control of con- ventional armaments, They refused to accept a west- ern-power demand that they slap Russia for the Berlin blockade. In- stead they came up with a plan which blamed no one and urged the Big Four"s Council of Foreign Ministers itself to settle the Berlin crisis. Andrei Vishinsky, Soviet deputy foreign minister, killed the "neu- tral" plan with Russia's 28th veto in the security council late Mon- day, but a spokesman for the small powers said they would keep trying for somie formula tu bring the big powers together. Need Support The small countries know that the big powers need their support' for any successful war. Knowing these things, they are treading cau- tiously, appealing for moderation and negotiation, and absolutely re- fusing to close any door that might lead to peace. The best example of their influ- ence is what happened on atomic energy. They refused to let the atomic control negotiations fall apart. Britain, the United States and France came here with the view that the, assembly should approve their plan for control, take a crack at Russia for holding up agreement and let things ride until the politi- cal climate changed for the better. Russia came in with a surprise change in tactics, demanding that a treaty banning atomic bombs and another treaty setting up controls be written and put into effect at the same time, For once the smaller powers re- fused to give in and finally forced the western group to agree to a resolution approving the majority plan, but calling for the U. N. Atomic Energy Commission to take up - negotiations where it dropped them last spring and keep working. Russians Favorable Russia voted against the final resolution in the political commit- tee because it approved the major- ity report. It is evident that Rus- slans want the talks in the Atomic Commission to continue. Everyone here makes, long speeches against war. The small members in private conversations complain that the Big Five have quarrelled so much that they are hurting the U.N. and disturbing the peace. They say fervently that they are tired of year after year of big- power politics and discord. That was the reason behind Mexico's resolytion which sailed unanimous- ly through the political committee last week. Mexico called attention to the disagreements and urged the five great powers to take eyery step to compose their differences. For a rare moment, the Big Five agreed that was a good thing. aircraft up-to-date, equipping squadrons with jet fighters and ex- perimenting with jet bombers. The navy is slowly building up a long- service force of volunteers. 3% on Guaranteed Trust Certificates Issuep for any amount. ... for a term of five years... and interest . . . . Interest cheques mailed to 1each holders on due date, or, at holder's option, may be allowed to accumulate at compound interest. An ideal investment for individuals, com- panies; authorized by law for cemstery boards, executors and other trustees. THE TERLING TRUSTS CORPORATION 372 Bay Street, Toronto 1 37 years in Business . guaranteed both as to principal Mac's Musings A story startling-- If it's true-- Has come from London To say the Scots Are up in arms, Demanding that they be Allowed to govern themselves, That they be freed From the power Of their enemy of old The Sassénach. "Tis time, say those Who favor breaking loose '| From England, That Scotland reaped The benefits Of her industry, Instead of paying out Her substance to maintain The whole United Kingdom. Scotland would he rich, 'They claim, if all her wealth Of steel and coal, Of exports to the world Of textiles and of whiskey, Were retained to build Her own economy. And so these Scots Are shouting loud For independence; To free themselves From dominance By London's Parliament, Which rules them from afar, And knows buf little Of their country's need. That, was the story, And we read it with surprise; It did not note That London Town today Has leaders In its business, industry And art, Who came from Scotland; And that its Government For ages past, Has given a place of leadership To Scetsmen great. So let us hope That Scotland's patriots Will not be hasty, Lest they find too late That England still Depends on them, To steer the ship of state. Whitehall Notebook By JAMES McCOOK Canadian Press Staff Writer London, Oct. 27.--(CP) -- The Board of Trade, export drive advis- er, has warned British business men it will be no picnic extending or holding the United States mar- ket. In the midst of government com- mendation of" efforts to increase exports, especially to Canada and the United States, the Board has surveyed the United States market and come up with the following conclusions: Whisky--Scotch whisky is a lead- ing export to the United States; but continued business will depend on economic conditions. Housewives' Patience Linen--The United States has been the greatest export market for Irish linen, but the outlook must be viewed with caution. Tar- iff reductions on some lines has been welcomed but much of the benefit was discounted by the con- tinuing rise in prices.. China and tarthenware -- Bri- tish ware has superiority in the eyes of customers. The question is, will the consumer, the American housewife, wait indefinitely for it? Autos--British cars cater to "a very special market or markets where the appeal of ,unusual ap- pearance, economy in petrol, park- ing space or deluxe fittings may have special weight." Bikes Too Expensive Bicycles -- Principal causes of a decline in {imports of British cycles have been the change from a seller's to a buyer's market. Cotton -- "Many of the 'prices quoted for United Kingdom cottons are disquietingly high. Immediate difficulties of the United Kingdom producer should not obscure the long-term possibilities of the Unit- ed States market." Leather Goods -- United States purchases of British leather in 1947 $Opped 10 per cent in value from 1946. Business Spotlight By The Canadian Press The weather, a topic of more than casual interest to Western Canada's grain farmers at any time, is particularly on their minds these days. At only thlee of the network of reporting points in the west--Riv- ers and Virden in Manitoba and Lloydminster in Saskatchewan--are moisture reserves normal. Some stations say reserves are almost five inches below normal. Prolonged dry weather has left topsoil dry and subsoil cracked and hard. This has poised a threat to the production of a good prairie grain crop in 1949. Rye seeded in the fall is Can- ada's major source of this grain, but drought conditions have: cut fall seeding sharply, and prices of rye futures traded on Winnipeg Grain Exchange--involving the buy- ing or selling of grain under con- tract to take or make delivery dur- ing a stipulated month--have advanced as a result. Heavy and opportune rains. in February, coupled with ideal grow- ing conditions gave the U. S. near- record wheat and coarse grain crops and bumper corn crop this year--the largest ever recorded. Canadian grain. farmers and traders are hoping to see compar- able development on this side. The freeze-up over the Canadian west is not far off. But wet snows with- out severe frost could provide moisture reserves at least in part by penetrating cracks in the ground left by drought. Markets Wednesday Stocks on Toronto, Montreal and New York exchanges showed an easier trend, with both Canadian markets following a decline in in- dustrials on the New York board. Wheat at Chicago was generally firm. On Winnipeg Grain Exchange the October deliveries in oats and barley futures showed independent strength, e 35 Years Ago 0) A union Thanksgiving service with the Mayor and - Council at- tending, was held in the Presbyter= ian Church, The Canadian Pacific Railway has agreed to build an overhead bridge over the tracks on Simcoe Street South, The Town Council proposes to have the ratepayers vote on a $25,000 bylaw for installation of an electric pumping plant. William Crowell's bank barn and contents on Ritson Road were total- ly destroyed by fire. : Bishop Bethune College is. affil- fated with the Toronto Conserva- tory of Music, FOURTH TERM Winnipeg, Oct. 28--(CP)--Mayor Coulter won his fourth successive two-year term as Winnipeg's Chief Magistrate Wednesday with a con- vincing victory over Donovan Swalles, backed by the C.C.F. with 320 of 353 polls reported, the count stood: Mr. Coulter, 48,144; Mr. Swalles, 24,790. x LI' ERALS IN Quebec, Oct. 28--(CP) The Liberal party will enter a candidate in the Brome by-election called by Premier Maurice Duplessis for Dec. 14, it" was reliably learned here Wednesday. GENUINE ASPIRIN IS MARKED THIS WAY Smoke a pipe-full of Picobac to find ~ why so many smokers say "Burley is best", See how easily it packs. . . how smoothly it draws... how slowly it burns... . how coolly it smokes. 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