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'S$ OPINIONS DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE EDITORIAL PAGE reatuses "The Daily Times-Gazette OSHAWA THE OSHAWA TIMES (Established 1871) THE WHITBY GAZETTE & CHRONICLE (Established 1868) -- is a member of The Canadian Press, Daily Newspapers the Ameri. Associat! the Ontario Fublisiers and the Audit Bureau of Press is exclusively Sotitien The Canadian on Newspaper Circulations. The to the use for Routers, & Aeon: therein. AN rights ho S00 A180 He tones Dor are also reserved. A. R, ALLOWAY, President and Publisher. 7. L. WILSON, Vice-President and Managing Director. M. MANTYRE HOOD, Managing Editor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ™ vered carrl Osha Whitby, Brooklin, Port nig yeh f and Eh arior So per oo mail on aT os Tass U5. JO pt gor, Aoriand Eogiand, U0 hae Yiaiter, Post Office Department, Ottawa, Canada. DAILY AVERAGE CIRCULATION for JANUARY 11,152 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1951 Building Active The amount of building started in Oshawa in January, as indicated by the building per- mits issued, is a.good augury for the build- ing industry in this city for 1951. Usually, in January, there is very little building acti- vity. For instance, in 1950, the value of build- ing permits issued in January was only $16,700. This year, permits were issued in that. month to the value of over $300,000. These included permits for twenty new homes to be erected in the city. It may be that the open winter enjoyed up to the end of January gave building a stimulus, but it is noteworthy that those con- cerned showed a desire and anxiety to make as early a start as possible on their con- | struction projects. Should a proportionate amount of building be recorded throughout the year, it may well be that 1951 will set new records for construction in the city. Much depends, of course, on the avail- ability of materials and of skilled workmen for building projects. Demands of defence in- dustry may cut down the supply of materials for commercial and home building, and may also eat deeply into the available supply of labor. That depends on the extent to which controls are imposed by the federal govern- ment. From all indications at the moment, how- ever, the building industry in Oshawa is headed into another busy year in 1951, with resultant growth and progress for the city as a whole, A Good Job Done Too often civic officials receive very little in the way of praise when they do an ex- ceptionally good job in any of the operations of their own departments. We feel it is timely and appropriate, therefore, to pay a tribute to City Engineer Wesley Dempsey for the splendid job of street-cleaning which was done in the business section of Oshawa in the heavy snowstorm of last week. After nearly two full days of incessant and heavy snowfall, it was a pleasant surprise to many Oshawa people to come to the business sec- tion on Friday morning and find the streets cleared of snow from curb to curb. This did not happen by accident. It was the result of a well-planned attack on the snow drifts, and of a night of hard and painstaking work while most of the citizens of Oshawa were asleep. It is 80 chronic a habit to blame the city engineer's department for all kinds of grievances regarding streets and sidewalk conditions, collection of garbage and other responsibilities, that it is a pleasure to be able to extend a few words of congratula- tion and praise for a job well done. j 'Still Applicable How often in poring over the words of great men of the past we find phrases and sentences which seem to be directly applic- able to present-day conditions, but which were written many years ago. For instance, Jet us Iook-at the following quotation: ; "Let us beware of being lulled into a dan- gerous security; and of being weakened by ine ternal contentions apd divisions; of neglect in military exercises and discipline, and in provid- , ing stores of arms and munitions of war; for the expenses required to prevent a war are much lighter than those that will, if not prevented, be necessary to maintain it." ' How. appropriate these words are today to the position in which Canada, in common with all the free nations of the world, finds itself, Yet they were uttered by Benjamin Franklin in the year 1774, when the Ameri- can colonies were on the verge of their war of independence. In these days, when our parliament at Ottawa is dealing with matters of defence, is looking for the means whereby this coun- try can play its part in maintaining peace, it might be well to give close consideration to that message from the past which is still applicable today. Expensive as defence measures may be, they are, as Franklin indicates, only a fraction of the costs of maintaining a war, not only in dollars and cents, but in human lives and suffering. A Thrifty People The Bank of Canada has just issued an interesting analysis of the results of the sale of Canada Savings Bonds through the payroll savings plan last November. The re- port shows the extent to which the workers of Canada are taking advantage of this op- portunity to practice habits of thrift and saving. It is significant to note that 91 per cent of the larger employers of labor in the Dominion gave their employees the opportu- nity for systematic saving by purchasing bonds on a payroll deduction plan. This is seven per cent more employers thax was the case in the previous year. As a result of this plan, some 676,000 em- ployees of Canadian firms have invested $156,000,000 in the 1950 issue of Canada Savings Bonds. This is a splendid record, and shows that our people are thrifty, that they recognize the value of savings system- atically by having payments on bonds de- ducted from their perionical pay envelopes. The savings thus accumulated represeat a substantial contribution to the fight against inflation, because the spending of the many millions thus withdrawn from circulation would have been felt in the inflationary spiral of higher prices. The more our people realize that excessive spending is a cause of in- flation, and that it can be counteracted by systematic saving, the less danger there will be of inflation growing out of hand. Editorial Notes. Reds failed in their efforts to persuade British dock workers to join in a wildcat strike. Labor leaders are becoming more and more suspicious of the tactics of the Red agitators. * J * As Parliament discusses defence meas- ures, opposing opinions will be expressed by the Conservative, Liberal and C.C.F. parties. But in the final analysis, let the results ex- press the viewpoint of all Canadians. He A Oshawa curlers hit the headlines in a big way by winning both the Ontario Tankard and the Governor-General's Trophy. They have the distinction of doing something that has never been done before. Congratulations. * + + "This is the kind of weather which makes young Canadians what they are," said a leading physical instructor as snow was falling last week. But he did not mention what it does to Canadians who afe not quite as young as they used to be. ® Other Editors' Views o AT LONG LAST (Toronto Telegram) Delay in proceeding with civil defence is now ex- plained by Defence Minister Claxton as having been due to fear of moving too soon an. creating an or- ganization which would fall to pieces before an em- ergency arose. It is satisfactory that this defeatist at- titude has been displaced by the announcement of staff courses in civil defence at which municipal and provincial officials will study fire, police, transpor- tation, hospital and health problems, Parliament will be asked to define the federal contribution towards purchase of equipment by provinces and municioali- ties, * * LJ THESE ARE THE VICTIMS OF WAP (Ottawa Journal) The untold hardships being suffered by hundreds of thousands of Korean refugees is a by-product of the war in that country. Mothers abandon their babies, orphans are starying, thousands are dying of exposure. Persons both in the East and the West who talk provocatively of war, and men who would rule the world even if it meant war, should stop to think of the real victims, ® A Bit of Verse @ BOY AND TRAIN People gather by the wheel-impatient train-- And how their earnest faces strain To probe car windows For their travel-waiting folk -inside! All save the face of one small boy Who stands apart, And sees, not people, but the long, bright string Of cars so like his own (though these are reall)-- Who sees each spoke of giant-hammered wheel, And trembles in his heart For just a finger-touch of steell Who sees the snorting steam leap far (Against his legs--almost)-- Who "hears the clank of car on car; And with the porter's.long-drawled shout Of "A-l-l a-b-0-a-r-d" He thrills from head to dusty shoes To watch the train pull out! --EMMA FROST -® A Bible Thought e "We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by' the Spirit of the Lord." (11 Cor. 3:18). No beautifying of the face can make 4p for the absence of the spiritual clements which reveal depth of character, Welcome Guest Looking Around The World By DEWITT MACKENZIE Associated Press News Analyst Gen. Eisenhower has made the point that, while he doesn't deny the danger of war, "the task today is one of building for peace." That statement invites analysis. Just what is the requisite for the maintenance of peace in a world which is bitterly divided against itself? We must start, I think, from the premise that any bloc of countries which contemplates conquest of ag- gression must possess the balance of economic and military power. And by the same token, the maintenance of peace depends on the possession of the balance of military and eco- nemic 'power by the peace-makers. Need Balance of Power The corollary to this is that if the Soviet bloc holds the balance of power, it can overrun the continent; likewise if the democracies hold the balance of power they can maintain peace, because nobody is going to in- vite certain disaster by attacking. At this juncture 'the democracies hold the balance of power. And since military power i sdependent on eco- nomic power, it follows that eco- nomic power is the keystone of the structure. Now Western Europe contains a big slice of the world's economic strength. It is, all told, so great that Rusia could gain possession the balance of power would be tremen- dously altered. It might be so changed in Moscow's favor that she could succeed in her ambition to carry out world revolution for the establishment of communism, Ruhr Complication This picture is complicated by the fact that Western Germany has | within her borders the fabulously- rich coal and steel resources of the Ruhr. The importance of the Ruhr may perhaps be best summed up by say- ing that it was largely responsible for Germany being able to launch two world wars only a generation apart -- and .ome close to winning them. Small wonder that Germany's future is a matter of vital import- ance to both the Western Allies and to Russia; equally small wonder that Germany's future is one of the greatest hones of contention be- tween democracies. pH RR FAST GROWTH FOR NEW CAST IRON Ductile Iron, a product of Inter- national Nickel's research labora- tories introduced early last year, has made good progress in 1950, emerging from the pilot plant siage to become an accepted engineer- ing material. It is estimated that the output from licensed found- ries for the year 1950 will be be- tween 15,000 and 20,000 melt tons compared with 3,500 tens during 1949. . mmm ------ HELPS MATERIAL SHORTAGES Use of clad materials, such as nickel-clad, Inconel-clad and Mon- el-clad steel continued to expand this year. To help relieve pressure on these materials in their solid form during the last half of 1950, many users found is possible to substitute clad metals. URGE IMMUNIZATION Montreal--(CP) -- Dr. Adelard Groulx, Montreal health director, warned that "far too many" Mon- treal babies are not yet immunised against diphtheria and whooping cough, He said every baby at six months should be immunized. T the Soviet bloc and the] People And Parliament On Trial (Bruce Hutchison, in The Ottawa Cit izen) In times like these not only the Government, not only Parliament, but the people who nourish them are on trial. And since we have fallen so far behind our partners in defence, since we are the most fortunate nation in the world and have suffered less than anybody, many outside, foreign eyes are watching us with interest. Can a nation like ours, with un- exampled prosperity, with natural wealth unknown in any other cor- ner of the planet to a population of our size, with an easy-going Gov- ernment, a complacent Parliament and a public snugly insulated from the storms of mankind--can such 'a nation realize that the prolong- ed national cocktail party is over, the honeymoon ended and the grim business of survival begun? Parliament--through its military policies its budget and taxes, its management of the national econ- omy--will soon begin to answer that question. The answer will not be spectacu- lar here as it is the United States, We are not a spectacular people. We move slowly, like a great North ern river, but when at last we move our momentum is a powerful and a terrible thing. In the next few months, by the chips on the sur~ face of Parliament, we can judge the motion of the current beneath. That is why the present session will be the most important since the war and, perhaps, since we lack the unifying pressure of war and yet are in more danger today than in any previous war, it will be the most difficult session in our his- tory. We shall know before mid- Summer what the Government and Parliament are made of and, iniorm the world what we are made of, Festival of Britain Slated For Five-Month Program New York -- Concept oi the five- month Festival of Britain as "an act of natural reassessment" by the people of the British Isles, before tightening their Lelts and going forward into another decade of semiseige, is being given Americans by Gerald Barry, British editor and director-general of the festival. "At this time when sp. many peoples are living behind. a cur- tain of fear and secrecy, the wide world is being invited to attend our festival," explained Mr. Barry. The events, ranging goographi- cally from Belfast in uv. thern Ireland to Scotland's Inverness, and along to Llanrwst in Wales and south to Plymouth, England, will present a total picture, "Not in a spirit of boastfulness," Mr. Barry pointed out, but as "a look at what we have done. We have not only had a great past, but we promise a great future." Serious Event The editor is well awgre of the great debate, of the questions which arise almost daily in speeches deal- ing with the resoluteness of part- ners in the Atlantic act. This vast festival be describes as a very serious event: "In it can be seen the strength, resiliency, and constancy of our undertaking." Turning to the tangibles of the festival, Mr, Barry outlined the formal schedule in a press con- ference at the British Information Service headquarter at Rocke- feller Centre. On May 3, the King will open the festival officially. Church bells throughout the Isles will ring as the festival gets under way for. its five months of activities. During Mr, Barry's air trip to New York more than 30 new en- tries from towns and villages brought the total of participating communities to 1,595. Buildings on the south bank of the Thames--reclaiming and re- placing the slum and bombed-out- areas formerly there--will be the centerpiece and a permanent sec- tion of the festival. The concert hall on the south bank will be another of the fes- tival"s units which w' . remain as a continuing contribution to Lon- don's cultural life. Mr. Barry, whose main hobby is architecture, waxed enthusiastic when he spoke cf the "living archi- tecture" exhibit which is being con- structed in Poplar (Eas% Londen). It will be a complete neighbcr- hood unit, What is more, it will be lived in during the festival, and will remain as a practical demon- stration of housing accomplish ments. Such grandiose construction how=- ever, is not the rule for t} > events. In villages, the observance may take the form of tree plantings, playing fields made available, or other com- munity activities in keeping with the needs and resources of each lo- cality. During May and June "season of arts in London" will feature the festival. More than 200 musical events are planned. Toscaninni, 'Koussevitsky, and other noted conductors will present or- chestral concerts. International stars will appear at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, and the famed Sadler's Wells Ballet will present special performances. Britain's tradition of discovery and adventure will br observed un- der the Dome of Discovery located on the south bank of the Thames the and using the largest such ¢>me ever constructed. ° | In throwing open their gates to the travelers of the world, the Brit- ish have not overlooked the necessity | to care for taeir guests. While a certain percentage of usu- al hotel space will be reserved for festival visitors, other practical steps have been taken, Mr. Barry puinien, out, Private householders, in growing numbers, are offering their rooms to visitors who would like to attend the festival in "home" fashion, Camps are being arranged for student groups who are 'ready to travel hard and live hard." As for governmental controls. Mr. Barry saw no change in them for visitors, although he added that many con- trols had been lifted during the past year. | Since the beginning of the free national Blood Transfusion Service in 1947, Red Cross blood transport drivers have covered more than & million miles of Canadian roads, fo - yl : PORTRAITS By Janes J Metcalfe Happy With You FELL so happy at your side . . . So peaceful in your arms . .. And in my heart I thank you, dear . . . For all your loving charms . . . You melt away my troubles and . . . You comfort me in pain . standing smile . . . 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One cannot praise too much The services rendered By women's auxiliaries Of churches, hospitals, Veterans' organizations, Military, air and naval And Boy Scout groups, Which find the assistance Of their women folks To be invaluable in Furthering the tasks They have undertaken. These women work so hard In raising money and in Building interest in Whatever they are doing And so much of their work Is done quietly and Behind the scenes that The public generally Does not realize how useful These women's groups are To their parent bodies. It seems like fun to Be organizing those Teas and bazaars and Other functions which They sponsor as part Of their program, but A tremendous amount Of hard work goes on Behind the scenes before These events can be Acclaimed a success. Any organization is Indeed fortunate which Has behind it an active And enthusiastic band Of women workers devoted To their common cause. '® 20 Years Ago Oshawa City Council passed a resolution pressing the federal gov- ernment to make improvements at Oshawa harbor. o City Council and the Public Util- ities Commission' have opened ne- gotiations for sale of the Oshawa gas plant to a private company. Steady progress is being made with construction of the subway at the C.IN.R. tracks on Simcoe Street South. Genera] Motors placed its large auditorium at the disposal of the Canadian Legion for the provin- cial convention to be held here in August, Rev. A. W. Small of First Bap- tist Church resigned to become gen- eral secretary of the Grand Ligne Mission at Montreal. TANNIN FROM TREES Several wild plants and trees have been found to yield enough tannin in practical quantities to make substantial contributions to the needs of the tanning industry, according to a recent report from the United States Department of Agriculture, Most of the tannin used in the leather industry in the United States in the past came from chest- nut trees, it is reported, but as a serious blight has reduced this usu- al supply, researchers have been seeking other sources. Trees like hemlocks and oaks and even the shrub-like samac have been found to yleld in commercial quantities, and investigators are testing cer- tain plant roots as a possible source. LARGE PROPELLERS In Great Britain, ships' propel- lers up to 3% tons in weight are now being made regularly of a § percent - nickel-aluminum bronze, which is stronger and gives better service than the manganese- bronze previously used. The Seed Act Protects Buyer Ottawa -- . Present and future production of seed is tied up with the seed used today. Seed con- taminated with weed seeds will in- crease cost of production and may lessen for years to come, the crop yield of the land on which it is sown. Sced of a variety not adapt- ed to the area, are not suited for the purpose for which it is grown, or seed with a low percentage of germination generally involves loss. For these reasons the sale of home-grown and imported seed for seeding in Canada'is subject to the provisions of the Seeds Act which requires that all seed offered for sale should be tested and labelled with the seed grade. This grade is based on purity, germination and general quality, and new varieties must be licensed before being of fered for sale. The object of the Seeds Act is to enable purchasers to secure seed of known and suitable quality, to pre- vent misrepresentation and decep- tion in advertising and sale of seed, to restrict the distribution of weed seeds and to prevent the im- portation and sale of seed which is unsuitable either as to quality or variety Because genetic purity is the main indicator of the value of seed stocks, provision is also made for regulating the multiplication and grading of breeding stocks of ime proved varieties through register- ed and certified seed. Registered and certified grades apply only to seed of recorded pedigree, which has been tested as to variety, inspected, graded and sealed in the container by an inspector of the Plant Pro- ducts Division, Department of Age riculture, Ottawa. The overall purpose of the Act is to ensure that seed offered for sale is correctly graded and properly labelled as well as to promite the production and the use of improv- ed seed stocks. 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