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OPINIONS DAILY TIME \ pn v ---- a -- The Daily Times: Gazette The Times-Gazette Canadian Daily Newspapers the Ontario Be ad association. and the Audis Buresu of i SiINTYRE HOOD, : SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin, Port Shei an Swart a Cusads sad Bags. Authorized as Second Dlass Matier, Post Office Departament, Ottawa, Canada, DAILY AVERAGE CIRCULATION for NOVEMBER 9,138 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1948 Well-Deserved Tribute Members of the Oshawa Board of Edu- cation paid a well-deserved tribute to Dr. S. J. Phillips when they presented him with an illuminated scroll on his retire- ment from the Board after sixteen consec- utive years of faithful service. Too often, men pass from the scene of municipal poli- tics, after years of service, without even a casual "thank you." In the case of Dr. Phillips, Board members took advantage of their last meeting of the year to tell " this public servant how highly they had valued his services. ' The thoughts éxpressed in the illuminat- ed scroll will be echoed by all citizens who have kept in touch with the educational affairs of Oshawa. In part, it said: "During these long years of endeavour, the citizens of Oshawa have been well served and their educational affairs have been ably ad- ministered. We are happy beyond expression to record the sincere thanks of a grateful citizenry « «+ . Through your efforts, our educational sys- tem has developed and prospered, This success has been attained to a large degree by a gener- ous contribution of your time and effort." A tribute such as this, when it is so well deserved, is the real reward which comes to any man who serves his commu- nity as faithfullly as Dr, Phillips has done, and The Times-Gazette joins not only in this expression of thanks, but also in the hope that Dr. Phillips may long continue #5 énjoy life in the city to which he has given so much. May He Be Right Dr. Herbert C. Evatt, of Australia, President of the United Nations General Assembly, may be over-optimistic, but in a statement made in London on the eve of his departure for Australia he made the forthright assertion that the United Na- tions can and will stop a third world war. Coming from a man in his position, that is an important statement. 'Judging from the reports which have come out of United Nations Assembly meeting, that body seemed to be quite impotent to-do anything in the face of the continued Russian vetoes and its apparent helpless- ness to come to grips with issues which are vital in the interest of world peace. Dr. Evatt must have some definite rea- sons for making such an assertion, and being on the inside, he probably knows of trends in the thinking of the national lead- ers which support it. The great hope which today exists in every peace-loving country is that Dr. Evatt may be right in his statement, that the United Nation§ Organization can and will prevent a third world war. Making It Difficult The Soviet Government, apparently con- cerned about the wrecking of homes through its make-believe divorce laws, which made divorce just abcut as easy as writing one's name, has made a right-about face in this matter. It has levied a heavy tax on divorces, compelling those who wish . to take action to sever their marital bonds to pay very dearly for that privilege, As a result, there has been a very great reduction in the number of divorces. ; It seems strange that we should have to look to atheistic Russia for a means where- by the flood of divorces can be halted. In this country, and in the United States, the only action taken in recent years has been to make divorce easier and cheaper for those wishing to regain their freedom from the marriage ties. The result of this has -been seen in a steadily-increasing record of divorces' in proportion to marriage, and a definite weakening of the sanctity of home life. Perhaps there may be some objection to making divorce as expensive as possible as means of reducing the number, "because that would have the semblance of creating one law for the rich and another for the 1s a member of the Canadian Press, | Association, poor, but it would. be a good thing for the country if conditions were made such that it is no longer possible for married people to cast aside their partners like an old shoe through the medium of an easily-obtained divorce. Death On The Holiday Police Chief R. W. Probert of Belleville, in a pre-Christmas message to the people of the Community he serves, coins this slogan: "Don't Let Death Take Your Holiday." His warning words were issued especially to motorists, and in view of the coming of wintry weather, with jcy and snow bound roads, they were very timely. It is tragic, each year, to have many homes cast into gloom and sorrow by the toll of death taken in traffic accidents in the midst of what should be the festive season. With driving conditions apt to be more than usually hazardous, and with a tendency on the part of many people to celebrate the festive season not wisely but too well, there is a need for &xtra care and caution on the highways at this time of the year. The wise motorist will not venture on a highway when he is warned that it is dangerous; the wise motorist will not en- deavor to crowd extra speed into his driving in his desire to reach some distant point in time for a Christmas celebration. To keep the death total at the festive season down to a minimum should be the aim of every person who drives a car, becaust he himself might be the person. to be the central figure in a funeral instead of a Christmas party. Cin Editorial Notes It is a relief to have anything drop these days, even the temperature. * % % 3 The office optimist says that now we have had some snow, perhaps Indian sum mer will soon be here. * % %x =x It's a pure democracy where they have to coax people out to vote, says the Brandon Sun. But what is it when they can't roax them out? * % kk Ontario ereameries produced 17 per cent less butter in October than in the same month in 1947. That's one reason why oleo- margarine is being welcomed. ® % x =x On these wintry days when the roads are slippery, pedestrians can give motor- ists a break by exercising care and cau- tion before starting across the street. . % kk ¥ The Peterborough Examiner criticizes Hon. W. A. Goodfellow, Minister of Pub- lic Welfare, for his pronounciation and construction of sentences in a recent broad- cast speech. He forgets that Mr. Good- fellow, as a farmer, knows that talking in the farmers' own language is worth a lot of votes. e Other Editors' Views eo - A CHANCE TO SMILE (The Hanover Post) The Bank of Montreal is trying out an interesting experiment in eastern Canada. At three Montreal branches, two in Toronto and one in Hamilton, tran- scribed background music will be played. The pro- grams consist of sem.-classical and popular selec- tions beginning every half hour and lasting 12 to 15 minutes, For a theme to open each program, it might be appropriate if they cut down an old Scot- tish air to "The Bonny, Bonny Banks--" x kx kx CANADA AND EIRE (Ottawa Journal) Canada, like Britain, plans to continue "close and triendly relations" with Eire, even though Eire, by repeal of her External Relations Act, cuts herself off constitutionally from the Commonwealth. There will be some who will object to this; who will say that Eire has no rights to benefits from the Commonwealth while rejecting its responsibilities; the trouble with it is that it produces nothing con- structive, Eire, in a constitutional sense, was depart- ing from the Commonwealth anyway; is it not bet- ter that in this constitutional departure there should remain something of friendship, of co-operation? ® A Bit of Verse eo THE CELESTIAL SURGEON IF I have faltered more or less In my great tak of happiness, If I have moved among my race And shown no glorious morning face; If beams from happy human eyes Have moved me not; if morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain; Lord, Thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broa! awake; Or, Lord, if too obdurate I, Choose Thou, before that spirit die, A piercing pain, a killing sin, And to my dead heart run them J. --Robert Louis Stevenson. e A Bible Thought e God hung His Christmas Gilt upon a Tree for us. "Christ . . Who His own self bare our sins in His - le Uzakas, in The Hartford Courant Looking Around The World By DEWITT MACKENZIE " Associated Press News Analyst The Netherland's action against the Indonesian republic is creating another dangerous crisis in an Ori- ent already seething with unrest. Asiatic peoples are bound to con- strue this as a further demonstra- tion of the Western imperialism against which many of them are in revolt. We have striking evidence of this interpretration in a state- ment by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India. Nehru told the Indian National Congress. party that Netherlands military victories never will stop the Indonesian struggle for inde- pendence. He was applauded when he declared that no Eurdpcan pow- er has any right to wage an aggres- sive action in Asia. 2 Unfortunate Development However, while the Indonesian development is unfortunate, we shall do well not to be hasty in our judgment. It is easy to register our firm belief in the inherent right of any people to full depend- ence. We must note that The Netherlands admits the right of Indonesia to independence, buf is trying to create a Commonwealth of Nations of which the Indonesian republic would be a part. But what rights, if any, has The Netherlands in. this question of in- dependence? Well. in the first place she established herself in the East Indies more than three cen- turies ago. Her roots run deep. She has made many investments in In- donesia through the generations. So The Netherlands maintains that she is under obligations not only to pro- tect the investthents of her public but to safeguard the interests of all the 75,000,000 natives of the In- donesian Archipelago. Creates Con: ..rnation The Netherlands action has created something akin to con- sternation in the United Nations circles. The U.N. good offices Com-~ mittee has been trying to mediate the dispute between The Nether- lands and the Indonesian Repub-< lic, and a United States spokesman in Paris says the American Govern- ment feels The Netherlands has "broken faith" with the committee. However, The Netherlands is go- ing ahead with the program. All high republican" leaders are in cus- tody. The Netherlands troops have been cracking down on subversive elements without great opposition. ® 20 Years Ago The Agnew-Surpass Shoe Com- pany opened a store in Oshawa, with Jack Hoover as manager. \ 8ix hundred Crevrolet dealers as- sembled at General Motors Auditor- fum to launch the 1929 sales season. Rev. A. C. Reeves tendered his resignation as minister of Knox Presbyteran Church.. A. J. Parkhill was re-elected as président of the Oshawa Kiwanis Club, along with all the other off- cers. The city assessor reports that Oshawa now has 4933 homes, of which 3,429 or 71.4 per cent are oc- cupied by their owners. Oshawa's Christmas Cheer Fund has reached a total of $2,655. 'LUCKY LADY' Toronto, Dec. 21--(CP)--Arthur PF. Margerison, 56, died of a hear! attack Monday night just a few minutes after he telephoned his wife in Gravenhurst, to tell her he had bought their 12-year-old twin sons a puppy for Christmas. Just before he hung up the telephone, they had decided on a name for the dog. It was Lucky Gady. FIRST MARGARINE Calgary, Dec. 21 -- (CP)--Retall grocery firm officials in Calgary said Monday the first shipment of margarine will arrive in Calgary Jan. 3. They said the first allot ment of the butter substitute prob- ably will "be small" but will be put on sale as soon as it arrives. DIED MONDAY Washington, Dec. 21--(AP)-- Dr. Hugh Scott Cumming, 79, retired surgeon-general of the United States Public Health Service, died Mon- own body on the Tree." (1 Peter 2:24), day night. % Business Spotlight By FORBES RHUDE Canadian Press Business Editor Canada, in the opinion of many observers, has reasca to be of good cheer as she faces. the re-adjust- ments which may follow the pres ent prolonged post-war prosperity. They say this, not only because of her wealth of natural resources, but because the world is likely to continue to need them. This is par- ticularly so because the United States has used up so much of her: resources -in two world wars. The parallel in the development of the two countries is drawn in a review issued by McLeod, Young, Weir and Co., Ltd., investment se- curities firm, and written by J. G. Weir, Over the last 100 years, it says, the United States has had periods of exceptional prosperity due to certain economic conditions. There was one of many years dur- ing railroad construction, one of several years due to canal con- struction, another due to gold dis- coveries and one due to base metal discoveries which later resulted in the birth of a huge steel industry, and a copper and lead industry. "Canada. now stands very much in the same position as the United States in the early period of her development." Taking up Canadian projects the review says: # 0 Money is being poured into Al- berta. It has long been thought that a major oil pool will be found: in our western provinces. Scientific methods have Leen s0 improved that the search is not such a hit. and miss business as formerly, and quite a number of producing wells |] have been brought in--4 sufficient number to justify the huge expen- ditures being made by the various oil companies. Iron Ore A second major development which should have a tretjgendous in- fluence upon Canada's immediate economic future is the discovery of high-grade iron ore in the Nor- thern Quebec-Labrador - Ungava area. It will require the building of a railroad, a power site, town site, roads, and so on, all of which prob- ably will take five or six years and will create employment and large purchasing power for all kinds of goods. : Power Development Several provinces and 4 number of privately-owned companies are spending huge sums in power de- velopment. Ontario has a program which will necessitate the expendi- ture of about $125,000,000. Shawini- gan (in Quebec) has a program which will involve expenditure over the next two or three years of from $40,000,000 to $60,000,000. « St. Lawrence Waterways It is possible that the United States will agree to develop the St. Lawrence Waterway project and this would of course be a tremend- ous added boost to Canadian pros- perity. Not cnly would it create a demand for labor and materials of all kinds in its construction, but would give us cheap power and cheap transportation that would be of inestimable value in the develop- ment of a young country. Markets Monday New York stock prices managed an average advance under the leadership of chemical siccks, To- ronto golds gained more than a point in the index, but base metals and western oils retreated. Wheat || was higher in Chicago and rye both there and-in Winnipeg, with most other quotations tending off. BERRY FREED Toronto, Dec. Berry, private detective, was freed Modnday on all counts 'of perjury, fabrication of evidence, collusion and creating a public mischief. Berry was the last of three Toronto private detectives to face criminal charges arising out of divorce in- vestigations here. FINED $100 Kingston, Dec. 21--(CP)--Ernest Harward, 39, former instructor in the shoe department of Kingston Penitentiary Monday was fined $100 for smuggling letters and money in and out of the prison. 21--(CP)--James || S-GAZETTE EDITORIAL PAGE : The Victor Mac's Musings This week we see The last mad rush Of Christmas shoppers Into the stores, '| Where sales people Are driven to distraction, By the demands Made upon them. In these last days 'Before Christmas, Storekeepers try To teach their staffs To maintain an outward poise, To be courteous, Polite and helpful To the customers : Who know not what they want, But rush at random, Through the shops To find the gifts, They should Have bought Weeks ago. Those people in the stores Who serve the public, Have a trying time, And in spite of rush, And wavering of Uncertain minds Of tardy shoppers, They preserve Their equanimity, And how they do it, We'll never know. As we have watched, These Christmas shoppers, Often we have felt That they and not the staffs Who 'e them in the shops, Need to be trained To be courteous, Polite and helpful, Instead of domineering, Overbearing And insulting To the men and girls, Who stand for hours, Behind those counters, Giving smiling service, To the multitudes. 80 should we not, If we have relayed Our Chrstmas shopping Until the last week, Try to make the lot Of these people, As pleasant as we can, And give some thought To the great strain To which they are subjected, As they strive to please Their fellow human beings Who give too little thought, To those who serve them, FEATURES Russia By JAMES MecCOOK Canadian Press Staff Writer London, Dec. 21--(CP)--Britain has started to examine the eco- nomic weapons available for the "cold war" with Russia, but hopes she never will have to use them. In the Lords and Commons, op- position members are increasingly critical of shipments of "war po- tential" to Russia. The Marquess of Salisbury, Con- servative leader in the Lords, said Britain was supplying countries "that use us so ill" with quantities of goods they desperately needed. This meant Britain had a potential lever "to persuade them to behave with courtesy and decency towards our nations and citizens." Salisbury Cited: Shipments of Malayan rubber to Busse, THiS Product seciild not be I ly 'ol rom anyone Plain, By og ales of jet engines for milit aircraft--""An article which, rh ably,, they are not able to manu-. facture for themselves." Machine tools, industrial dia- monds and other essential articles also presumably were being sold to Russia. "Could not this flow be stopped pending the adoption of a more proper - attitude to this country?" he asked. Lord Vansittart, former Foreign Office undersecretary, said Marshal Stalin should be asked to remove from the United Kingdom all Rus- slan missions for which no coun- terpart existed in Moscow, unless the Russian leader called "his jackals to order." The "swollen" Russian missions strained the Brit- ish counter-espionage service. Pressure should be applied against satellite states also. Yugoslavia should be told any further mis- treatment of British citizens would result in severe economic conse- quences at a time when Yugoslavs were urgently in need of wool, oil and machinery from Western coun- tries. A similar warning should be given Czechoslovakia. Lord Henderson, Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, said a country against which sanctions were imposed might be able to retaliate and seri- ously prejudice British interests. Official trade figures show that British imports from Russia, valued at nearly £22,000,000 ($88,000,000) in nine months of this year, are far in Little Effect On Smallmouth Toronto, Dec. 21 -- (CP)--Come mercial fishing has little, if any, harmful effect on smallmouth bass population, Lands Minister Scott of Ontario said Monday. His report followed a year-long survey by his department in Long Point Bay on the north shore of Lake Erie, The report said the removal of large numbers of coarse fish, some of them bass competitors, by com- mercial fishing operations, was un- doubtedly helpful to the bay's bass population. It was estimated that 20,000 ang- lers caught a minimum of . 60,000 legal-sized bass. Under-sized bass were abundant. A scale analysis was made on 125 smallmouth bass caught during July and August. It showed: The bass ranged in age from three to 11 years. Bass which had completed their fourth year of growth numbered 72 out of the sample of 1256 and were by far the most abundant year-class in the fishery. Five-year-olds numbered 27 out of the total sample. Average lengths of bass in their fifth and sixth years were 10.75 and 138 inches, respectively. The 1l-year- olds averaged 20 inches. With increased size, Long Point Bay bass showed poorer condition, although in some other lakes the opposite is the case. Most of the dead bass observed before the season opened were seen immediately following week-ends of intensive angling for perch, pike and other species. Some had sufe fered injury by hooking. The bass had completed spawne ing early in June, WORKER KILLED Glace Bay, N.S. Dec. 21--(CP)-- Archie Weeks, 42, died while being taken to hospital Monday night after being injured at work at Dominion Coal ' Company's No. 20 mine here. Weeks, a brakeman on a mine motor, fell beneath the motor. excess of exports for the same pers fod, valued at £3,750,000. Last ye:r, the balance was the other way, with Russia buying goods worth £10,362 - 000 from the United Kingdom ard selling supplies worth £6,000,000. This INGLIS CHRISTMAS GLASTEEL WATER HEATERS Specially designed to supply the average family with an abundance of hot water at low cost. Only Inglis Water Heaters have the glass-lined (glass fused to steel) storage tank. Never a, leak. No rust. new, low price. No corrosion. Yours at a ® GLASS LINED TANK © FIBREGLAS INSULATION ® AUTOMATICALLY CONTROLLED ® DOLLAR THRIETY ® TEN-YEAR GUARANTEE { sex us Tooay Fon Easy TeRws! ) STERLING WASHERS with "Housewife Designed" EXTRAS! Thousands of wash-day tests prove the Inglis Sterling the best washing machine your money can buy! 'COLVIN EL 339 SIMCOE ST. S. OSHAWA