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[] ormions DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE EDITORIAL PAGE _ reatumes The Daily Times-Gazette OSHAWA WHITBY. THE OSHAWA TIMES (Established 1871) THE WHITBY GAZETTE & CHRONICLE (Established '863) The Times-Gazette 1s a member of The Canadian Press the Ca Dally A the American » paper P A 1 the Ontario Provincial " Dailies Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news despatches In the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters and also the local news published therein. All rights of special despatches herein are also reserved. A R ALLOWAY, President and Publisher T. L. WILSON, Vice-President and Manuging Director M MoINTYRE HOOD, Managing Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Oshawa, Whitby Brooklin, Port Parry, Aja and Pickering. 24c per week By mall outside carrier delivery areas anywhere in Canada and England $700 per year US $9.00 per year Authorized as Second Class Matter, Post Office Department, Ottawa. Canada. DAILY AVERAGE CIRCULATION for DECEMBER 10,100 SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1950 Into 1950 Production There will be general satisfaction amongst General Motors employees and the citizens of Oshawa as a whole that the change-over to the 1950 models of automobiles by the General Motors of Canada, Limited, has been achieved with practically no loss' of working time. On today's front page of The Times-Gazette there is a photograph of the first 1950 Pontiac and Chevrolet cars coming off the assembly line, within a few days of the time when 1949 models were still being produced. "When the delay which was-involved in the change-over from 1948 to 1949 models a year ago is recalled, the importance of the present situation is appreciated even more. Last year, it will be recalled, there was some weeks of a lapse before production reached a normal level, with a corresponding period ) of unemployment for many workers. That has been avoided this year, and for that the thanks of the community are due to General Motors. With 1950 production started at this ear- ly date, it is the hope of all Oshawa citizens that this will be another excellent year for sales of General Motors automobiles, on which go much of the prosperity of the com- munify depends. There is still a great and keen demand for new cars and given its ac- customed share of the domestic market that is available, employment at the General Mo- | tors of Canada should remain at the high level which it reached in 1948. What Does It Mean? The United States, through its ambas- sador-designate to Yugoslavia, has made a rather blunt statement regarding what will happen if Russia should attempt any aggres- sive moves against Yugoslavia. George V. | Allen, the official in question, at a press | conference. quoted a statement of President Truman to the effect that it was the policy | of the United States to oppose aggression. Then he went on to say: "That goes for Yugoslavia, which is clearly threatened if we are to listen not only to the words of Soviet propaganda but also to the official statements of high Soviet authorities such as Molotov. Yugoslavia is threatened, and in that situation Americas opposition to aggression is applicable." That is a statement which surely requires some clarification from a higher level than that of an ambassador-designate. It might be construed as a dangerous statement, as a challenge or an ultimatum to Soviet. Rus-,| gia. If it means what it says, then it is a| plain statement that if Russia undertakes aggression against' Yugoslavia, the United States is ready to fight to resist this ag- | gression. If it is means anything at all, that is the only possible construction than can be placed upon it. Certainly under the type of international diplomacy that has prevail- ed in the past, that is exactly the inter- pretation which the nation making it would wish to have placed on such a statement. | | | | Cheese Factories Passing Reading of a new item telling of the clos- ing of the cheese factory, at Salford in Ox- ford County, brings to notice the gradual | passing of these old centres of cheese manu- facturitig. The Salford factory was opened in 1882 and for nearly sifty years it was owned and operated on a co-operative basis by the farmers of the district. In 1939, it | passed into private ownership. Recently, he sold it to one of the large milk processing companies, and this firm has now closed the plant. od : This story has been repeated many times over throughout the cheese- producing dis- tricts of Ontario, and gradually the old type of co-operative cheese factory is being elim- inated. Many of them have been bought by large companies, which ceased operating | careful driver. | them, and diverted the milk produced by their patrons into other channels. It may be that this is a good thing. It may.be that there is greater efficiency in cheese pro- duction, and a more uniform quality, under the modern system. At the same time, the part played in the development of the cheese industry by the small co-operative factories should not be overlooked. They pioneered the business and produced a quality of cheese which made their products famous throughout the world. They built up a large export market for Ontario cheese on the basis of that quality. There were some fine old skilled cheese- makers among the men who operated them, a race that is becoming less 'numerous as the small units disappear. The change is a symptom of the trend of modern progress, Small units of production, such as were the local cheese factories, can- not be expected tg produce as efficiently and economically as the large mass pro- duction units of 'today. Yet there is a feel- ing of regret at the passing away of these cheese factories which meant so much to their communities in bygone days. Editorial Notes The only person we have met who it satisfied with the recent spell of mild and rainy weather js the man who has a fixed aversion of shovelling snow. # * + A township in Essex County voted against daylight saving time by 602 to 153. This shows the great divergence of opinion be- tween rural areas and cities on this question. * * + : Expanding programs and stationary bud- gets are said to provide headaches for rec- reational authorities in Oshawa. Similar conditions would have exactly the same ef- fect on the individual citizen. K. i$ + A correspondent to the London Sunday Express expressed a great truth when we wrote in a letter: "It-takes a war to show what fine people we really are, and peace to prove we'rg nothing of kind." e Other Editors' Views eo NEW GOD MANUFACTURED (Milwaukee Journal) The world is witnessing the spectacular climax of | an amazing historical development--the deification of Josef Stalin by his Communist followers. The godless are enthroning a god. It is the poor | cobbler's son, born Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the Georgian town of Gori in the Caucasus moun- tains--border between Europe and Asia. The new god's 70th birthday is being marked with pomp and adulation reminiscent only of that lavished in the past on ancient pagan deities and oriental potentates. +> * +* IT CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE (Kingston Whig-Standard) It would be a good thing for the people of Ontario if every driver of a moter. vehicle would face the | fact that no person is immune to traffic accidents. | Too many drivers, possibly without much cons¥ous thinking, adopt the attitude of "It can't happen to me." It would be far safer all around to admit that accidents can happen to anyone, but that they can happen far less often to the constantly vigilant and " * * LJ] STALIN AND HITLER (St. Catharines Standard) Janes Fighting Ships is regarded' as a reliable guide on the relative naval strength of world pow- ers. It reports that Stalin is building 1,000 fast-Snor- | kel submarines, modelled on those U-boats captured three 35,000-ton There intact from - Germany, and - also battleships. This revelation is not surprising. | is an interview with Stalin on record in which he scoffed at Hitler aiming at world power without an adequate German navy. LJ + LJ DO AWAY WITH EMBARGOES (Winnipeg Free Press) Thus while the termination of these (British food) contracts is undoybtedly a serious shock to Canad- fan agriculture, the alternative is not subsidies dis- guised as floor prices. The right response in the pres ent circumstances is to do away with the remaining embargoes against exports and to search out and open markets wherever they may be found. And | substantial reductions in our own tariff to enable other nations to sell more of their goods to us will undoubtedly be necessary. ® A Bit of Verse eo = A LONDON NIGHT Music and women's faces and a star, Blank shadows, lights that thrill and cry and burn; A railway engine screaming from afar Its obligato for the world's noctiirne; Rubies and rags and children with bright eyes, Girls with strange smiles and wonder of delight; Death as a mummer under lime-lit skies-- Night! Starved tragedies and ludierous despairs, Songs of drunk men and curses falling cold, Bright shops of jewels, hisiing naphtha flares, Feathers and shirt-fronts, beads, and cloth-of- | gold; 3 Laughter and lust, dull hearts too tired for hate, And passion triumphing in love's despite, Reaping of sorrows; pleasures come too late-- Night! > : Richard Middleton ® "A Bible Thought eo It does not read, as*thy. strehgth so shall thy days be, but, "As thy days, so shall thy strength be." (Deut. 33:25). The strength is in proportion to fhe demand, » DUEL A BIL. INE Rens' rl bs 4 12 : 7 fi ¥ 7 ; AY "4, EZ Remember What It Grew Into Lasi Time Fitzpatrick, in The St. Louls Post-Dispatch By ROSS MUNROE Ottawa, Dec. 20--The New York Times, in an unusual editorial head- ed "A Tax on News", contends that it is discrimination against the press for the Canadian Government to levy an 8 percent sales tax on newsprint used by Canadian daily newspapers and weeklies publish- ing spot news. "Freedom of -the press no less than any other sort of freedom is indivisible," said the editorial in Tuesday's edition, "Thus discrim- ination against the press gives cause for concern even when it takes place in the freest and most democratic of countries." The editorial has attracted atten- tion here for it is seldom that the Times comments in this fashion on situations in Canada. A few weeks ago, 'the question of the newsprint tax was again brought to the attention of the gov- ernment here by the Canadian Daily Newspapers Association which urged that the impost be removed. Exported Papers Exempt "The Times says that if the levy were applied to all Canadian users of printing paper without excep- tion as part of a general sales tax i* "would certainly be a purely in- ternal question not subject to com- ment by outsiders." New York Times Comments On Canada's Newsprint Tax However, the tax is applied nei- ther to newspapers exported to the United" States nor to newsprint (and ink) used in Canada for pub- lications that appear regularly but do not contain up-to-the-minute news, The purpose of the exemption for | Canadian magazines and feature weeklies is to place them in a more | | competitive position vis-a-vis Am- | erican magazines, the newspaper | observes. "But the unfortunate ef- i fect is that dispensers of fiction {and entertainment via the -printed | word are granted a tax advantage | | denied to purveyors of news, who | fin a world that needs as much in- | formation as possible are thereby penalized. Law Discriminates "The law may have been inno- cently conceived but it does dis- criminate against the Canadian newspaper press as such in favor | of other types of Canadian and | American publications which are| directly competitive in the advertis- ing field and also in favor of such American newspapers and news magazines as may be directly com- petitive in the news field. "Discrimination is discrimination; we are against it anywhere and everywhere no matter how slight or unintentional it may be'. Looking Around The World By DEWITT MACKENZIE Associated Press News Analyst Lorne L. Clemes of the Adrian (Michigan) Telegram suggests we do a bit more reminiscing in our column, devoting a day here and there. to story telling. He figures I had some unusual e- periences. Well; it's true that I've encoun- tcred some queer situations and thrills. So when anyone says "tell us a story," I find it hard to resist. This then, as an experiment is the adventure with "mouches sans raison" (crazy flies) which nearly cost me my life in the French Gui- ana jungle 14 years ago. : I had never heard of crazy flies when I started into the jungle for some shooting with 12 native hunts- men, Stings of Death ing on a side hill along which raf the only open trail. One of the huntsmen, acting' as scout about 20 yards ahead, suddenly gave an agonized scream and covered his head and face with his arms. The head man explained to me that there was a colony of crazy flies (they arg black and -about the size and shafe of hornets) up for- ward among the huge leaves of a lantain tree, ing a man to death in short order Then he gave me my instructions. The Bombardment I was to run the gauntlet first while the huntsmen waited. Later I realized that they sent me ahead because that 'was the safest spot. Those who followed me, after I had Portraits By James J. Metcalfe There Are My Friends My friends are countless as the | stars . . . That fill the clearest sky ~. . And every time we say hello . . . | hate to say goodby . . They are the neighbors on my street +... The folks who work with me , . . And all who serve the slight- est need . . . In our community . . . The grocer and the druggist and . . . The pal who prunes my: hair . . The movie usher and the one . . . Who takes my trolley fare . . . The mailman, milkman, laundryman . . . Policeman and the rest . . . Who always make me feel as though . . . | am their honored guest . ... They are the friends who comfort me . . . And help my heart to smile . . . And do so much to make this life . . . A little more worthwhile. We finally arrived in a tiny clear-, He sald they can| stirred up the crazy flies, would be { the sufferers. The crazy flies hit me as I drew | near their nest. I never have en- | dured such pain anywhere else. It | was like red-hot electric needles being jabbed into your facé and neck, Finally I staggered out into a clearing well beyond the conony: Already my face and neck were covered with lumps as big as golf balls and the pain was intense. I could barely see. | But what had happened to me was nothing compared to what my huntsmen endured. Their faces were no longer human, and they had been stung on arms and body as well. i By luck nobody was killed. I learned later that if a man should be crippled so he couldn't escape, the crazy flies would sting him to death in two or three minutes. Magazines Gave Tip To Northern Diver Timmins, Ont. (CP)--An idea formed from reading science maga- zines has developed into a going concern for Theodore Larivier, 37- year-old professional diver of this Northern Ontario town. Lariviere, a navy veteran, says he became interested in diving af- ter reading up on the subject in magazines, and started his business "on a shoe-sttring" with a home- made suit in 1933. In 1942, he joined the Royal Canadian Navy and gained further experience in the diving service. During his service he spent six months on loan to an English sal- vage company, doing underwater work in the English channel. Following his discharge in 1948, he returned here and started up a business -- the T. Lariviere Diving Company -- with his brother Rene, and two nephews, Ray and Bert. Even'in winter, when the north country's lakes are Irozen over, the firm operates. Recently, Theodore made two trips into the icy waters of Lake Kenogrami to recover the body of Peter Malnerich whose truck had crashed through. the ice. URGE REDUCTION Toronto, Jan. 6.--(CP)--A reduc- tion in' the qualifying age of 65 ar {an increase in the monthly ben- efit to $50 under the Old-age pen- Sion 'act was urged on the Ontario government Thursday by a depu- tation from the railway transporta- fion brothe hoods. FAMOUS CHOIR FESTIVAL Gloucester, England--(CP)--The| femous Three Choirs Festival of Britain will be held in the mag- nificent Norman cathedral" here in September. In addition to the choirs of the three cathedral cities, Here- ford, Worcester and Gloucester, a Copr 1949, Sun and Times Co All riights reserved {| eval leading British orchestra and sev- celebrated soloists will also take part. ada. Mac's Mus Many people will regret To learn the news That the Strand Magazine, Of London,-England, Has ceased publication And become a victim To modern difficulties Of publication in an Economy of austerity. Many will remember The familiar cover Of the Strand Magazine, With its picture of An old handsome cab Passing along the Strand That historic thoroughfare Of Old London. The Strand had a place That was unique In magazine publishing In old Britain, Because from the time It was established: Fifty-nine years ago It helped to develop Some of the greatest British fiction writers, Such as Conan Doyle, With his stories Of Sherlock Holmes, And W. W. Jacobs, famous For stories of the séa. We can remember How we used to look For the monthly issue To provide a feast Of exciting reading And attractive pictures. Now it has gone, Because its old world Style and makeup Did not have the appeal To modern readers That it used to have To those who loved it Thirty or forty . Years ago when it was A household word In British homes. Its passing is regretted Because it represénted Something fine in journalism That today is often lacking And is sadly missed. apital Close-Ups By GEORGE FORSTER Canadian Press Staff Writer Ottawa, Jan. 7 (CP).--It costs more to put a gallon of paint on a building than it does to buy the paint. So the longer paint lasts on a government building, the less it cost the taxpayers. . There are dozens of other ways in which the taxpayer can take a beating from faulty building ma- terials--or the wrong material in the wrong place. Deep in the vaults beneath the west block of the Parliament Buildings, govern- ment engineers are making sure this never happens. They test the building materials going into public-works department projects from coast to coast. That includes the seil on which the pro- ject is built, the concrete paint and steel that go into it and some- times even the water to be used in the boilers of the building's heat- ing plant, Big' Staff It all' started in. 1892 when tI Public Works Department opened concrete-testing laboratory. Nowa staff of 20 occupies some 9,000 feet of floor space, scattered around the basement of the west block. The staff is under the supervision of J. W. Lucas, a 43-year-old civil en- gineer who has been with the department since 1931 except for a wartime stretch as an R.C.AF. Engineering Officer. In the laboratories, big presses crush blocks of conorete to test the strength of samples going into government, buildings, wharves and marine works, In the paint - testing section, samples of paint are exposed to the burning light of an arc lamp and occasionally doused with water for from 15 to 20 days. That stimu- lates the effect of sun and rain on exterior surfaces. Sometimes the laboratory is ask- ed to solve building problems for public works engineers across Can- The testing section is part of the chief engineer's branch of the department and often is asked whether a particular material will be suitable for a particular job or why some material has unexpected- ly deteriorated. This work is done only for government departments, never for private contractors. ® 50 Years Ago Apples have been meeting with a ready sale at $150 to $2.00 a barrel. F. L. Fowke was elected mayor of Oshawa for the year 1900, defeat- ing John Bailes by 104 votes. T. E. Ellis and Dr. T. ©. Kaiser were elected school tru..ees. The by-law to make a grant of $45,000 to the Smith Canning fac- tory was carried by 467 votes to 44. The second annual supper and ball of the Oshawa firemen was a splendid .sqpial success. The boys of the high school have organized a hockey team with E. T. Slemon as president. The new Presbyterian Church is now near completion and plans are being made for its dedication and opening. . HEADS COMMITTEE Toronto, Jan, 7.--(CP)--Alderman Norman Freed Friday became the first Communist to head a com- mittee of Toronto City . Council, when he was elected chairman of the council's standing committee on park-~. ©, ¥ Monteith y Chartered Accountants 37 KING ST. EAST Gordon W. Riehl, C.A. Resident Partner Phone -4911R By DON DOANE Berchtesgaden, _Germany--(AP)~ Is Hitler's former mountain retreat likely to become a Nazi shrine? Not if the U.S. army can heip it. This alpine paradise where Hitler and his top Nazi henchmen used to play. is now a playground for American soldiers and allied tour- ists. Sightseers sip coffee and munch sandwiches in Hitler's famous "eague nest". Below this they scratch their initials and draw moustached car- toons on the walls of his once lux- urious mountainside villa -- now a fite-scarred shell. Refugees from eastern Europe live in former Nazi barracks. A US. army post has its headquarters in the building. Hitler used as a "sum- mer chancellory." Germans get no chance to turn these Nazi relics into a shrine. Most Germans can't even get near them. Nearly everywhere else in Germany the army is turning back requisi- tioned property to the Germans as fast as possible. But there is no sign of turning Hitler's playground back to the Germans. When the army does turn loose this area, it pPobably will go to the German government -- with careful restrictions on how it may be used. Would the Germans try to make it a shrine if they could? Well, a let of German sightseers try to get in. Hundreds scale the mountain- side afoot to get a glimpse of the Nazi Playground Attracts Germans Despite Shambles Nazi ruins from outside the guard lines. | "It's hard to tell whether it's just curiosity or whether they do regard it as a shrine," said Col. Stanley Grogan, commander of the Berche tesgaden military fst. Col. Grogan is taking no chances. He's even done some changing of place names to get rid of remind- ers of Nazism. For U.S. soldiers and allied tourists, however, these Nazi ruins are still among the chief attractions in all Germany. Every month between spring and autumn nearly 3,000 sightseers drive up the steep, winding road to this shattered mountain paradise. They get one of the most beatiful views in all Europe. But their attention still centres on the battered relics of Nazi glory. It was a fantastic place in its hey day. The Nazis poured an estimate ed $100,000,000 into its development. They drove out the local population and took over an entire mountain- side. Halfway up the mountain, on a 3,000-feet-high promontory, Hitler built. his huge house. Hitler's chief aides built similar homes nearby. Even Germans had to have a special pass to get inside this playground. Crowning touch of the whole amazing project was Hitler's "eagle's nest," perched high atop the 6,000- feet-high Mt. Kehlstein. The "nest" actually is a big stone house, Hitler never really lived there, though, and Germans say he visited the place only four or five times, 261,000 Now Looking for Employment Ottawa, Jan. 7.--(CP)--The La- bor Department today estimated that 261,000 persons were looking for work in Canada late in Decem- ber. That amounted to about 5.2 per cent of the total labor force-- the number of persons in Canada work- ing or looking for work, "A considerable portion of the current unemployment results from the continuing growth of the Ca- nadian labor force rather than from any decline in employment," tha department said in a review of em- p! yment and unemployment. It said the labor force--totalling 5,200,000 last Dec, 22--was the high- est in history for this 'time of year. _ "Over the past year, the growth of the total labor force has amounted to around 120,000, while the num- ber actually at work was increased by close to 100,000." The statement was issued by the department five days after Cana- da's two big labor congresses sent a joint letter to the cabinet claim- ing more than 300,000 persons were unemployed in Canada. The let- ter said unemployment was a "na- tional emergency" and demanded government action. . No firm. figures ment are available. The figure of 261,000 represéfil | ed the number of persons seeking | jobs through the National Em- | ployment Service for whom "0 jobs had been found. | That is not necessarily the same | as the number of unemployed. | Some of gthe pergons seeking jobs| through~N.E.S. probably have jobs| but would like to change. Others | may Have found jobs but have not ye' reported them to N.E.S, | On the other hand, some people | might be out of work but might not have registered with N.E.S. | The department said 71 per| cent of the 261,000 persons were re- ceiving unemployment insurance or had applied for benefits. ! The increased unemployment | was partly due to.a seasonal de- | cline in industries such as con-| struction. on unemploy- Declining timber and | pulpwood markets also had pre- vented the logging industry from taking up the winter slack in em- ployment as it had in other years. The Maritime provinces and the Pacific coast areas appeared to have the most serious preblem. The department said employment in the Maritimes had been cut by about 35,000 as the result of de- cling woods operations, z In the Maritimes, there were about 38,600 persons--around seven per cent of the area's labor force--look- ing for jobs. On the Pacific, there were about 39,900--nine per cent of the region's labor force. Quebec had the largest number of job-hunters -- around 83,400, re- presenting 5.8 per cent of the prov- ince's labor force. In Onfario there were 63,800 and on the prairies about 35,400, in each case about 3.5 per cent -of the labor force in those areas. The department sald it believes spring when construction actlyjty resumes, . "The general feeling throughout the country according to reporis from national employment offices is one of satisfaction with the way in which unemployment insurance is helping meet the situation and there is evidence of a desire for inclusion' under the act of groups such as lumbering and logging whereas a year ago there was cone siderable opposition to such ine clusion," the department said. Dress Collar Tight, Singer Designs Own London (CP) -- Paolo Silveri, Italian baritone and five years ago a tailor, has designed a different kind of evening suit. The trousers and shoes are con= ventional, but the shirt, made of silk, has a wide-open collar and bolero sleeves. The jacket is sleeve- less, and has a square tail; and the accessories include neither tie nor waistcoat. Silveri has a reason for it. "For five years I am choked," he said, "To sing in a tight starched collar is impossible. I cannot give 100 per cent in a proper dress suit. But with my new suit everything is free. I can sing 100 per cent. And it looks good, I think." $50 to $1000 WITHOUT ENDORSERS OR BANKABLE SECURITY You borrow $50 up to $1000 promptly at HFC, Canada's oldest and largest consumer finance organization. Borrow here to take care of old bills, medical or dental bills, repair bills -- for any emergency. Loans on signature only You don't need endorsers or bankable gecurity at HouseHoLD. This means you get the money you need promptly -- now when you need it! Repayment plans are specially arranged to ft your personal need. 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