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e House pinion Day, bn July 1 and Pserved in future hese two dates. It that the bill will be nt session of Parliament, 8 a thought which is gaining avor to a very large degree. a here are arguments both for and against the bill. On the one hand, there are those who argue that the traditional significance * of these two holidays would be lost if they v vu v 8.4 " ¥ ' 4 x 4 v L] "Were moved away from the exact dates they are intended to honor, There was a time, years ago, when that might have been true. Dominion Day and Victoria Day used to be 'observed as days for patriotic exercises, and 'they were really days of national celebration. . In more recent years, however, the real significance of these two holidays has. been almost entirely forgotten. To the great bulk of people, they are simply holidays, days on which they do not have to work, and when they can follow their own particular bent for pleasure. Usually this takes the form of going off in the family car for a holiday jaunt. There is no thought as to what the day means and why it is being observed as a holiday. Therefore the Monday nearest to the date of these anniversaries would serve the purpose just as well as, and in most years even better than, their observance on the actual date. Certainly, industrial work- ers and men in business would welcome the change in that it would enable them to have a more extended weekend holiday, and would cause much less interference with business and industry than the present system. Steps Toward Economy It is rather strange that the government announcement that civil servants are being laid off at Ottawa and in the public services across the Dominion, as part of its program for economy in all branches of administra- tion other than those responsible for national defence, is not being well received in many quarters. For instance, re-organization of the / postal .services so as to save some $3,500,000 a year is being undertaken, and ,-that involves dispensing with the services of some 1,400 civil servants. Announcement of this has been received with widespread protests, which have already resulted in some modifications of the original plans. . While everyone will have a great deal of sympathy with those civil servants who are being retired as a matter of economy in the public service, it must be recognized that, if there are to be any substantial economies in government spending, fewer people will have i to be employed by the government. There : are now some 155,000 persons employed by "{ the federal government, and it is proposed ! to reduce that number by about 6,000. Most { of those laid off will be temporary employees or civil servants who are getting near the i superannuation age. ! When one considers the outspoken de- : for reductions in the cost of those depart- "ments not associated with national defence, it is rather surprising that so many protests . should arise when the government makes a i genuine effort to economize. We cannot have ! our cake and eat it too. We cannot have re- : ductions in government expenditures with- : out cutting down the number of people on ~the government payroll. To expect anything else is tantamount to ignoring the fact that : these two things go hand in hand. «HM - Lieut-Governor's Residence Premier L. M. Frost has informed the On- | tario Legislature that his government has in mind the provision of a suitable residence for the Lientenant-Governor of Ontario as soon as housing conditions become easier and - buildg materials more readily /available. a ed .; mands which have been made, in parliament | % and out of it, for governmental economies, AES-CAZETTE EDITORIAL PAGE FEATURES roversy which n Premier M. F. nced his decision Park, in Toronto, bf the King's rep- e controversy be- ir. Hepburn persist- brley Park was aban- er as & military hos- e depression years the ning Chorley Park may unwarranted extravagance, w of the situation would have t was a mistake to deprive the overnor, no matter who he J of an official residence worthy of ce. Perhaps Chorley Park was too jous and extravagant, but the duties esponsibilities of the office require t there be some place in which the Lieu- Enant-Governor can properly discharge all is functions, social as well as legal. It is fortunate that the present incumbent of the office, Hon, Ray Lawson, has a magnificent home at Oakville which he can use for dis- charging his social responsibilities, but it may well be that the 'hext Lieutenant-Gov- ernor will not be so fortunately placed. We believe the people of Ontario will agree with the Premier's proposal to provide an of- ficial residence as soon as it can be done. But care should be taken to guard against making it too ornate xtravagant, while at the same time ensuring that it is in keep- ing with the dignity of the official represen- tative of His Majesty in Ontario. Editorial Notes Putting on the light overcoat is one of the indications that spring is almost here. Yes- terday it felt as if it had arrived. + * + Oshawa's employment situation is excel lent. And if ample building materials were available it would be even more so. * * + Oshawa has had its first casualty in the Korea fighting. That gives us all a more personal interest in the war over there. + 4 wv The taxpayers are merely. sideline specta- tors in the battles of school teachers for higher salaries, but they are the people who have to pay when the increases are granted. RA * 4 Member of the U.S. House of Represen- tatives' predicts that the St. Lawrence Waterway project will be defeated by Con- gress. Oh well, Canadians have become used to that during the last twenty-five years. * * + That women doing equal work with men receive equal pay is one of the tenets of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. This is a concrete example of how United Nations decisions come right down to individuals in the countries which sign its covenants. e Other Editors' Views @ BRITISH SKILL ' + (St. Thomas Times-Journal) There is no doubt Britain, in view of the re- armament program, can ill afford to let her skilled workers go, but in the final analysis they would be no loss to the Atlantic Pact countries because these men will transfer their skill to other parts of the Com- monwealth, $rne ah mica? (Ottawa Evening Journal) Labor wants price controls without wage controls, farmers seek stabilized prices for farm products and easier rates for implements, the House of Commons disagrees, the Senate worries about its future, the [19 ' nd Expected!" 5: Looking Around The World By DEWITT MacKENZIE Associated Press News Analyst Quietly but inevitably the Red avalanche is moving westward from Communist China" into new fields of conquest. Tibet, already occupied by invad- ing Chinese troops, now is studying a Peiping peace offer which would in effect make this little state in the "roof of the world" a part of China. The proposal provides that the Chinese recognize Tibetan autonomy and freedom of religious activity under the Dalai Lama "within the framework of the Chinese People's Republic." The Chinese would have absolute control of Tibei's defences. All Tibetan foreign relations would be controlled by Peiping. Cautions Concern India is watching with cautious concern as this drama unfolds on her Himalayan frontier to the north. The position is rendered more grave by the fact that Peiping last November issued maps showing as Chinese territory an area 300 miles long and 100 wide in India's great province of Assam which lies up against Tibet. Indian surrender to this Chinese claim would cost New Delhi her de- fensive Himalayan Mountain wall. This was agreed upon as a frontier in 1914 and was accepted by Tibet. However, China never approved this line. 0) This same map also showed as Chinese territory a huge triangle of neighboring Burma, former British territory and one of the world's rice bowls. Publication of the map created a sensation and Prime Minister Nehru declared that India would defend her northern frontier according to her own maps. The situation was motorists grieve about their mudguards, the King is| tense. on his throne and all's right with the world, L J * * HUGE NORTHLAND (Port Arthur News-Chronicle) J. G. White, Kenora M.L.A., gave an impressive il- lustration of the "huge land area" of Northern Ontar- io in a talk the other day: "Halifax, down on the At- lantic seaboard, is closer to the seat of our provincial government than is the . town of Kenora, and our western boundary is still 40 miles west," he sald. ® A Bit of Verse @ WINTER SONG Snow is a pilgrim cold and chaste, A runner not to be outraced,-- However nimbly you may travel, Snow has a skein he must unravel, A pattern of his own design With phantom footsteps quick and fine, With bright agility to spend, He will elude you in the end. Better to think you may outrun Tempest and cloud and rain and sun Than dream with fleetness to surprise The ghostly runner of the skies. -- SYDNEY KING RUSSELL e A Bible Thought e Jesus ssid, "Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world." (Matt. 28:30.) ! Thy promise, Lord, in all its length, "odth and fulness, as my daily strength; , fearless I may gase 'rt with me all the days. : --H. L. R. Dick. Three weeks ago Red China an- nounced that she would waive set tlement of her claims to Northern Assam to some future date. How- ever, the Indian Home Minister simultaneously told parliament that Communists in 13 villages of Assam were engaged in a reign. of terror. He declined to say whether the Assam Communists were getting help from their comrades in Burma and China, but said it is "well known that Communist organiza- tions are more or less interna- tional." Big Question 80 that's the way the position stands along the Indian frontier. The big question naturally is what, if anything, is anybody going to do about this imbroglio along the "roof of the world." Barring Ne- hru's declaration that India will de- fend her frontiers, there has been no obstruction piaced in the way of Peiping. The U.N. has had a look at the situation, but hasn't made any move to intervene. As a matter of fact, if the UN. did decide to intervene, it first would have to puzzle out what it could do about it. It isn't a position which lends itself to easy treatment. U.K. CALLS IN EXPERTS London, March 13--(AP) -- Bri- tain's Socialist government disclos- ed Monday it is calling in execu- tives from private enterprise to help run its rearmament program. G. R. Strauss, the Minister of Supply, told the House of Commons that industrialists involved will act as his advisors and will carry out policy which he lays down, FIRE HAZARD RESEARCH In Manitoba a Forest Fire Haz- ard Research Station is located in the Whiteshell forest reserve, The heartwarming story of a boy who in less than two years, was transformed from a hopeless cripple to an active, happy youngster with a brace on one leg was told today by a case worker of the Ontaric Society for Crippled Children. "What's happened to him is mar- vellous--I know that's a pretty ex- travagant word, but I still say it's marvellous," the case worker ex- claimed as she recounted the brief history of a 15-year-old lad named Donald. It's on just such histories as Don- ald's that the society is basing its appeal for public contributions through the Easter Seal Campaign, Feb. 25 to March 25. Donald was a poor %oy, living on a farm in Western Ontario where his father was an elected official. The boy had shown extraordinary progress at school when suddenly, at the age of 12, he was stricken with polio. He recovered from the dread dis- ease, but it left him so severely crippled with a spinal curvature that he couldn't even get out of a chair without help. And school, of course, was out of the question. He kept at his studies only through correspondence courses, It was in the summer of 1049 that Lthe boy's mother visited the offices of the Society for Crippled Chil- dren, explaining that doctors had ad- vised the boy be taken to the Hos- pital for Sick Children for a spinal fusion, to reduce the spine curva- ture. But she explained also that the family could not afford the treat- ment and the soclety agreed to pay the costs of Lonald's rehabilitation. Donald was in hospital for three straight months undergoing the spine operation, and since he has had to return periodically for treat- ment. But last summer he was able to go to the Society's Blue Mountain Camp on Georgian Bay, where he posted a phenomenal gain in strength so that before the sum- mer's end he was walking--though still with a brace on one leg. More particularly, however, the boy shed the stultifying shyness and fear of other youngsters which [Rehabilitation of Crippled Children Is Heartwarming Effort had seized him since his misfortune overtook him. Next summer the case workers want him to go back to camp again for further progress. And. the fol- lowing step in his rehabilitation will be enrolment at Variety Village, operated by the society where voca- tional training is given to handi- capped boys. ' The Oshawa Rotary Club is now soliciting help with the aid of East- er Seals for this worthy effort. Food and Climate Slow Australians Sydney, Australia -- (CP)--Most Australians like to think they come of a race of "supermen," but they don't. The traditional Australian is tall, broad-shouldered, narrow-hip- ped, lean-jawed with steely eyes. Maybe there were a lot of these at the turn of the century, but that isn't the picture today. Statistics kept by service doc- tors in the second. world war re- cenjly reviewed here showed the average Australian now is five feet 7% inches tall, weighing 143 pounds with a 34-inch chest. He is bald early in life and loses his teeth be- fore he loses his hair. He also has a tendency toward nervous disord- ers and stomach ulcers, Two of every three Australians volunteering for the services in the last three months have been turn- ed down as not meeting the physical requirements. Doctors have various reasons for what appears to be the physical de- terioration of Australians. One fis the climate, warm and humid, en- couraging a tendency to take things easy. Over-exposure to the sun is a common habit among Australians, taking its toll of nervous and phys ical energy. Food is another big cause. Doc- tors say Australians -eat too much meat and not enough vegetables and fruit. They drink $00 much tea and beer, and they are the big- gest sugar users in the world. In their relations with SY ||PORTRAITS By James J. Metcalfe Order Taker, HE is the one who goes around . 4 With pencil or with pen ...Te . take another order for . .. The same old thing again . . , He is no salesman in the sense . . , Of selling more and more . . . Nor is he really interested . . . In any higher score . . . He mereiy serves the common «+. Of all his customers . . . With some attractive product thet .. . he public quite prefers . . . It is. a somewhat lazy way . .. To make a livelihood . . . And one that will not make him rich . . . Or do him too much good . . . And, yet someone must do that job ... And measure to that sise And that may be the only task . . . For which he qualifies. Corp., 1931, Field Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved. oR \ i Mac's Musings |News Notes Of Greenbank Area Greenbank, March 12.--Several of our residents attended the Temper ance Rally in Oshawa last Thurs day afternoon. Miss Clarance Reycraft is in To= ronto for several days this week. Mrs. Mary Langmaid of Oshawa is visiting her cousin, Mrs. Wilmot Walker here. ; Mrs. Ethel Bagshaw of Sunder« land has been the guest of her Greenbank relatives during 'the past week. Mr. Roy Crapper has returned home after an appendictomy and is convalescing rapidly. Mrs. Catharine Graham and son John of Lindsay, visited her sister, Mrs. Cecil Leask of this vil lage on Thursday. On Wednesday evening, March 14 the Fidelis and Pilot 8.8. classes, are sponsoring an oyster supper in the United Church. - Following it, there will be a play given by a group from Cannington. A large ate tendance is anticipated. All the great immortal Leaders through the ages Including Buddha, Confucius, Mohammed, Moses and Christ Have taught and preached A doctrine of love Compassion and humility As the highest goals To which men can aspire Their fellow-men, Yet in this twentieth Century in spite of All the teaching that Has been done down from The earliest ages of man, We find these attributes Have little place in The relations between Individuals and nations, And so we are engaged In the greatest race to Build up armaments that The world has ever known. The doctrines of love, Compassion and humility Were dreams of heaven- Inspired sages and prophets, And for them humanity Has prayed through the ages. What a blessing it would be For all of mankind If these doctrines should Become the inspiring And guiding force of The people and leaders Of all nations, because Then we could banish The spectre of war From our troubled world. ® 20 Years Ago A new gas-electric locomotive, built in the Oshawa C.N.R. shops, was the first of its kind to go into service on the railway. Oshawa Pats were given a bye into the semi-finals for the O.H.A, Intermediate title. A start was made with installing machinery in the new plant of the Coulter Manufacturing Company. Two divorce actions, the first to | come before a Supreme Court sit ting in Ontario County, were heard in court at Whitby. Liberal members of the Legisla- ture presented W. E. N. Sinclair with a portrait of himself to be hung in the Liberal Committee room. Keen interest was developed at a series of public meetings to deal with the by-law to sell the muni- cipal gas system. Carves 288 Rations Out of Small Sheep Leeds, England -- (CP)--Britain's "match-box" meat ration means that one sheep can be made to serve 228 customers. A Leeds butcher demonstrated that by carefully carving a small sheep into 228 rations, less excess fat and bone. . "It has to be lean meat because customers won't take anything else when they get so little anyway," the butcher said. The ration now Is eightpence (about 10 cents) worth of fresh meet a week. Butchers say that far from having less to do in providing the small ration, they are busier than ever trying to keep the cuts the right size. HOLIDAY FUN. Auckland, N. 8.--(CP) -- Week« long pony treks for youngsters have become popular throughout New Zealand. Organized by pony clubs, the treks cover about 20 to 25 miles a day by road, truck or open coun try. Even tots of four or five years ride with the groups. 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