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OPINIONS FEATURES Ry 1 he Daily Times-Gazette OSHAWA WHITBY THE' OSHAWA TIMES (Established 1871) THE WHITBY GAZETTE & CHRONICLE (Established 1363) E3ERRE a3 b a s Times-Gazette is a of Ihe Ci Press, 1 Canadi Daily N papers A tion, the Ameri pean Newspaper Publishers Assuciation, the Ontario i Provincial Dailies Association and the Audit Bureau ct | Circulations, The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled { to the use for republication of all news despatches in i. 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. 7. L. WILSON, Vice-President and Managing Director. M. McINTYRE HOOD, Managing Editor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES "Delivered by carrier in Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin, Port Perry, Ajax and Pickering, 30c per week. By mall out. side carrier delivery areas anywhere In Canada and England, $7.00 per year; U.S. $9.00 per year. Authorized ss Second Class Matter, Post Office Department, , Ottawa, Canada. DAILY AVERAGE CIRCULATION for FEBRUARY 10,842. TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1951 ghyie 0 Freedom Dies When the freedom of the press is destroy- ed, when the written word is made subject to the whims and dictates of a tyrannical Jesper, then the freedom of the individual so dies. That is the lesson which has been arned from totalitarian countries, where e press. becomes simply the willing and gubservient tool of the dictator in power, nd the minds of the people are enslaved by fhe control of what they are allowed to read. & It is against the bacground of this truth hat the seizure and suppression of the news- Baper La Prenza of Buenos Aires, in the Argentine Republic must be regarded. La Prenza, the largest newspaper in the Spanish peaking world, with 81 years of public ser- ice behind it, has been taken into the con- 1 of a congressional committee dominated President Juan D. Peron, the dictator of $e Argentine. For nearly two months it has 'Peen unable to publish because of a boycott/ and strike by government-controlled unions, so that it has been silenced by order of the dictator in power. And the only reason for fts suppression is that it has been courageous "enough to attack and criticize those who are *puling the country. It has exercised the pre- '¥ogative of the freedom of the press to point sout the weaknesses and iniquities of the gov- "grnment, and for so doing has virtually been ~put out of business. =a Thus, in the Argentine Republic, freedom "for all is being destroyed. A free and un- sgontrolled press is the greatest bulwark of "fhe freedom of the people. Under Peron, it =4s apparent that ruthless suppression is to "Pe the lot of any who oppose him, just as <was the case in Nazi Germany under Hitler, and as is done in Russia under Joe Stalin. One can readily imagine what will happen to an old and honorable newspaper, La Pren- 7a, when it is forcibly taken into the control of Peron and his associates. It will become simply a mouthpiece of the dictator, who will have control over everything the people are allowed to read, which means taking con- trol of their minds. Under such circum- stances, truth dies, along with freedom, and one more country takes on the guise of a totalitarian state. C.N.R. Financing One of the most important recommenda- tions of the Royal Commission on Trani- portation is that which deals with the fin- ancial structure of the Canadian National Railways. Ever since the amalgamation of the railroads which make up the national system, it has had a great accumulation of debt hung around its neck like a millstone. This debt, owing to the government of Can .- da, was an inheritance from the bankrupt roads, and each year the C.N.R. system had to pay the interest to the government on that debt, regardless of whether or not its earnings were sufficient to do so. If they were not, the amount was charged up to the taxpayers of Canada as a deficit to be met 'out of the public treasury, Under the scheme proposed by the Royal Commission on Transportation, an ingen- jous method of overcoming these deficits is proposed. The plan is to convert the govern- ment-held debt of $734,000,000 from fixed- interest securities to income bonds. Thzse bonds would bear interest at three per cent, but--and this is the saving factor--this in- terest would be paid only when the railway system earned sufficient money to pay it. If it failed to earn sufficient to meet the inter- est, then no interest would be paid. ' This solution is, of course, not exactly What the C.N.R. management would have liked. The railway management sought a gomplete re-urganization of its capital struc- ture, by a method which would have saved it about $31,000,000 a year in interest. The plan now recommended, however, should do a great deal to put the Canadian National Railway system back on its feet financially, and thus make it possible for it to present & much more satisfactory balance sheet at the end of each year. DAILY TIMES-CAZETTE EDITORIAL PACE The Long and Short of It Where Is the Economy? There has been considerable controversy over the action of the Post Office Depart- ment in reducing the postal service to the people of Canada by limiting mail delivery in residential areas to one delivery a day. This step is being taken, we are told, in the interests of national economy. It is being held up by the government as a spectacular in- stance of saving the money of the people of Canada by reducing the number of employees of the Post Office Department. The an- nouncement is made that 1,200 postmen will be laid off work, thus saving their salaries, while the government basks in the glory of this widely-heralded economy measure. No thought is given to the inconvenience suffer- ed by the people of Canada, or the delays in mail delivery to which they are subjected. No thought is given to the over-loading of the postmen who are retained in the service. Economy, we are told, is the guiding prin- ciple. But where is the economy? In the same breath as the government announces 1,200 postmen are being laid off to save money, we are told that the men laid off, as far as as possible, will be absorbed in other govern- ment work, 'either in the Post Office Depart- ment or some other branch of the civil ser- vice. In other words, positions will be found for them in other departments, and they will continue to be on the government payroll. Thus the claim that this disruption of the mail delivery service is an economy measure becomes a farce, since it will not make any appreciable reduction in the number of men being paid by the government. The whole thing is so ridiculous that it is apparent that someone has blundered, and it would be much better for the government to restore the postal delivery service to which the people have become accustomed and to which they are entitled, rather than to keep up the pretence that great economies are be- ing effected on the people's behalf. Editorial Notes This spring-like weather is very encourag- ing. On this date last year we had about a foot of snow on the ground. # * + People will not object to higher taxes when they realize that they are the price we pay for security, not only for ourselves, but for all future generations. RA * + We are still waiting to hear official reports on the terrific "earthquake" which rocked Europe a few days ago. The con- tinued silence makes us suspicious it might have been something else. * + 4 Walter Thomson insists that Premier Frost is going to call a provincial general election in June, which indicates that the new Liberal leader is aiming at acquiring fame as a mind-reader, ® Other Editors' Views ® JUST LIKE THEM . (Lethbridge Herald) How many people do you know who never follow their own advice? For instance, those who tell you to go to bed when you have a cold, but who never go when they have one. Or the fellow who curses you When you drive fast, but invariably breaks the speed limits when he's behind the wheel of his car. Or the lady who tells you that brown is unbecoming to you, and then wears blue, a color which is definitely un- becoming to her. 4 As a matter of fact, how many people do you know who actually practice everything they preach? That might be an easier question to answer. TRUTH-IT'S WONDERFUL (Newsweek Magazine) The Zagreb Naprijed (Forward) in Marshal Tito's Yugoslavia counted 101 mentions of Premier Joseph Stalin on a single front page of Pravda (Truth), the Communist Party organ in Moscow. Last week the Zagreb Vjesnik (Informer); not to be outdone, calcu- lated that Pravda, in one two-colum article on the Korea war, used 43 epithets for United Nations troops. The breakdown: Bandits, 12 times; Barbarians, 10 times; Cannibals, 8 times; Monsters, 7 times; Sav- ages, 4 times; Invaders, twice, eo A Bit of Verse @ CON AioR An autumn garden is a benediction the epitome and summary of service well performed; Evaluation of the lessons learned, fruition earned in food for body and for mind; With flowers for beauty and good fruit to eat (Just as a poem and invention meet) Utilization of the things at hand The soil refined, enriched to make the land ® blossom and bud and bear -- But have a care To recognise love was the blessing there. ~--Edith Gaddis Brewer e A Bible Thought e "Christ hath suffered for sins, the Just for the un- just, that He might bring us to God." (1 Peter 3:18.) "Jesus received something less than justice at the hands of men, that we might receive something more than justice at the hands of God." | Looking Around The World By SIGRID ARNE Associated Press News Analyst (For Dewitt MacKenzie) The next place to watch on the map is Iran. The troubles there could end in pracing Russia many steps closer to a third world war. Russia needs oil. Iran has it. Rus- sia has been both pressuring Iran and holding out the olive branch of good trade. 'For the west, the big question is who gets Iran's oil. The scales weighing out Iran's precious golden fluid will be tipped either toward Russia or toward the west, depend- ing on how well the new Premier, Hussein Ala, is able to prevent cha- os in his country. But he is up against trouble from both the right and the left. Right now reports from Iran are contradictory. There is no way of predicting what will happen. But here are the parts of the jigsaw puzzle which means so much to the safety of the western world. Two top Iranians have been shot. By whom? For what reason? On the surface both affairs look like local brawls. Two weeks ago the Premier, Gen. Ali Razmara, died after he was at- tacked in a mosjue, The assassin was a Nationalist who wanted Iran's oil nationalized. Opposed Nationalization Razmara opposed nationalization. He was satisfied to handle the big- gest lot of oil through a new agree- ment with the British government which owns 52 per cent of Anglo- Iranian, the biggest company in the country. Britain had offered to split profits 50-50 even though the United Kingdom had made all the initial investments for prospecting, machinery, pipelines and staff. Razmara was fighting for big money and quick, which he, would have received through the itish offer, because most Iranians -- 90 per cent of them -- are poorly fed and illiterat:. Russian propaganda is trying $0 swing them to Com- munism. So Razmara needed quick money to raise the common Irani- an's standard of living. He is dead. He has been followed in office by another friend of the west, Hussein Ala. Ala was Iran's delegate to the United Nations in 1946 when world public opinion forced Moscow to take her troops out of Iran. Local Brawl The second top Iranian attacked was Dr. Abdul Hamid 2Zanganeh, former Minister of Education, who was shot yesterday by a student who had been discovered cheating on exams. It could be just a local brawl. But listen to the brother of the dead Premier, Raza Razmara, who is working this year with a Boston engineering concern. When he heard of his brother's fate he said: "I ex- pected it. My brother was known to be strongly opposed to Communism before he came to power. There has been a movement for the national- ization of Iranian oil and I belleve that the Communist underground took advantage of conditions, and are using them as a springboard to stimulate national unrest." WOULD PROBE SLAVE LABOR Santiago, Chile, March 20--(CP) --The United Nations économic and social council yesterday voted in favor of establishing an impartial commission to investigate allega- tions for forced labor throughout the world, Sponsored by the Unit- ed States and Britain, the resolu- tion is largely aimed at looking in- to the accuracy of slave-labor = Rev. J. C. Macaulay. charges agains* Russia and other Iron Curtain countries. e Readers Views TRIBUTE TO [ DR. W. 8. MILLMAN | The Editor, The Times-Gazette. Sir: It is with a sense of great loss that we feel the 'unexpected passing of Dr. W. S. Millman. I have known Dr. Millman for a number of years and believe this friendship dated from the time we both joined Kiwanis. Beyond these contacts, however, is his contribution to many fami- lies and friends of this community whom he served in his professional capacity and also as a friend; this standard of service makes his pass- ing more keenly felt by all. Dr. Millman has'been taken to his just reward, he will live in our memories and we of this community will mourn his passing. Our very sincere sympathy goes out to his wife and family in this their hour of trouble. May God with them. y C. H. TUCK. Lady Lloyd George For Welsh Freedom Cardiff, Wales, March 20--Reut- ers)--Lady Megan Lloyd George, Liberal Member of Parliament and daughter of Britain's First World War Prime minister, launched a campaign Saturday for self-gov- ernment for Wales. "Wales has the same moral right to self-government as the Atlantic Charter proclaims for all nations," she told an audience of 500 repre- sentatives of Welsh political and religious life. 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Hours 9 to 5 or by eppointmen ® 20 Years Ago Oshawa electors passed over= whelmingly three by-laws to sell the Municipal gas plant to Ben E. Yate of Chicago, to grant the new owner a gas franchise, and to grant a fixed assessment. C. D. Lyons took over the man- agership of the Oshawa branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce. The Sir Francis Drake Corps of the Sea Cadets was formally or- ganized in Oshawa. Lieut. Charles Rutherford, V.C., M.C., M.M., was guest speaker at a National Week dinner of the Osh- awa Kinsmen Club. Winnipeg Remwoods, Junior Hockey Champions of Canada, paid a visit to the General Motors plant. & PORTRAITS By James J. Metcalfe Our Home Moviés UR movies of the family ... Are like a memory book . .. Where we may turn the pages back. . . And take another look . . . We sce our Jimmie on his bike . . .| . Young Donnie rolling cggs . . . She tries her baby legs . stumbling as . . . And dear Kristina . . The home where happy dreams were born . . . The pretty birthday cake . .. The parties and the picnics and . . . The trips we used to take . . . Each frame reflects our memories . . . In colors bright and gay . . . Our progress and our [riendships and ... The children at their play . . . We cherish and we keep with care . . endearing views of how . . . Our motion picture book . . . With those . Our youngsters used to look. Corp.. 1051, Field. Enterprises. Inc. All rights reserved. Mac's Musings We sometimes wonder If those men who are Leading the nations Of the world are losing Their sanity completely, When they are concentrating Their efforts on producing New and more diabolical Methods of waging war, Under the guise of Trying to preserve peace, Instead of devoting their Energies' to finding more Positive means of making Future peace a certainty. This is inspired by Reading that Britain Is now beginning to Produce atomic bombs, That Russia is making Cosmic rays experiments With a view to using Them as a war weapon, And that we here in Canada Are making great progress In bacteriological warfare To produce a weapon that Would be devastating. It seems stark madness That money and effort And all the resources Of our modern science Should be working so hard To establish the means By which to encompass Our own destruction. It would appear that Mankind is determined To destroy itself by the Use of diabolical forces, Through which the various Factions hope to attain Supremacy over others, As a means of bringing Peace at some distance date. But if we are to ensure Peace in our time, rather Than at some future date After most of the world Has been lald desolate, They let our leaders really Take hold of the problem Of reconciling all the Differences that are leading The world towards war. Warwick, England -- (CP) -- Ten thousand housewives here are to be given packets of flower seeds to sow on bare spots. The idea is to brighten up the city for the Festi- val of Britain. . Chickens Come Home to Roost (From "The Rural Scene") The refusal of the Milk Cone trol Board to permit four Pick- ering farmers to ship their milk co-operatively is just one more chicken come home to roost. For years farmers have been asking for more and more gove ernment regulation of the var- ious activities incidental to the marketing of their products, and governments have been glad te comply with their wishes. Few of us see any harm in regu- lations designed to regulate the conduct of others; but when our own freedom of action is inter fered with we sometimes see things in a different light. Such seems to be the position of the four farmers. In making its decision the Board was doing its duty under the law. And the law was asked for by the milk producers. 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