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OPINIONS DAILY TIMES-G AZETTE EDITORIAL PAGE FEATURES The Daily Times-Gazette OSHAWA WHITBY THE OSHAWA TIMES (Established 1871) THE WHITBY GAZETTE & CHRONICLE (Established 1863) The Times-Gazette is a member of The Canadian Press, the Canadian Daily Newspapers Association, the Ameri- can Newspaper Publishers Association, the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association and the Audit Bureau ct C! he C Press 1s exclusively entitled the use for republication of all news despatches in 4) fin hin Ti i 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 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 MARCH 10,558 MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1951 Oshawa's Mail Service It is not surprising that Oshawa business men in the downtown area are up in arms regarding the recent changes in the mail delivery service, and that the Chamber of Commerce has made a vigorous protest to the Postmaster-General regarding them. People in the residential areas had accepted with as good grace as possible the limitation of their mail deliveries to one a day, but the changes which have delayed 'mail delivery in the business section, in a great many cases, until between 11 a.m. and noon, were the last straw, and so the protest has gone forward. In their desperate efforts to economize, the post office officials have shown little re- gard for the needs of a city like Oshawa for an efficient mail delivery service to suit the city's needs. They have paid little attention to the representations made to them by the Chamber of Commerce. They have ignored entirely the excellent suggestions which have been made by Postmaster Norman Mor- an to give Oshawa the kind of service it should have. These postal officials do not seem to realize that this community is no longer Skea's Corners, but that it is a progressive and rap- idly-growing industrial city of close to 40,000 inhabitants. The post office facilities of Osh- awa, as we have often pointed out, might be all very well for one of the small towns of Canada, but they are totally inadequate for a city of this size. Now has 'come this cur- tailment of service which delays deliveries in such a way as to interfere seriously with the proper conduct of business. So far as Oshawa in concerned, this post office economy bug has gone much too far, and it is to be hoped that the protest of the business men, voiced through the Chamber of Commerce, will bring a greater recognition of the fact that Oshawa is entitled to a service in keeping with the importance, and the needs, of the community. Buying Controls Needed In the midst of the loud demands for price controls to halt the rise of the cost of living and slow down the process of inflation, there comes from the Dominion Bureau of Statis- tics a statement which indicates that there is an even greater need for public self-control in buying. This statement is in the form of a'report on retail sales in Canada in the month of January of this year. It is very en- lightening. It shows exactly why the cost of living index rose so much in that month and in February. Inflation comes when the public demand for goods and services becomes much greater than the supply. Its process is accelerated when there is a splurge of over-buying on the part of the public. That is exactly what took place in January. In that month, retail sales showed the phenomenal increase of twenty per cent over the same month in 1950. Normally, increases in retail sales, over a period of the last two or three years, have shown an average increase of two or three per cent. Why then, the sudden rise to twen- ty per cent in January ? This increase was spread over a wide range of commodities, including food, in vari- ous degrees. Automobile sales increased 53 per cent. Sales of lumber went up 31.8 per cent. Grocery and combination stores in- ¢reasd their sales 14.4 per cent and depart- ment stores increased their takings by 17.2 per cent. Men's and women's clothing sales increased by 12 per cent and sales of lin- gerie and hosiery by 20 per cent. So goes the story right down. the list. People, pro- bably inspired by fears of higher prices and scarcities, rushed into the market .o buy be- yond their normal needs, and the result was inevitable. The things they feared happened, and both scarcities and hizher prices become a reality. ; The most difficult factor in the situation, according to one financial authority, is that the surplus money in Canadian hands at [ 2 / present amounts to about $500,000,000. That is, there is that amourt of money over and above the goods and services that are : il- able to the public. And' when the public rushes to spend as much of that half-billion dollars as possible, there can be only one re- sult, inflation, higher prices and a rise in the cost of living index. So, in considering controls, the one that is most needed is public self-control. It is dif- ficult to make individuals recognize "/hat is a collective necessity. But it is a fact thet if individuals would refrain from over-buy- ing, would concentrate on saving rather than spending their surplus money, the strain on supplies would be relieved and inflation halt- ed. Perhaps Mr. Abbott's budget t be intro- duced in the House of Commons this evening may provide an element of compulsion in this direction. Testing Motor Vehicles The Legislature of Alberta has passed a new amendment to the Vehicles and High- way Traffic Act which provides for compul- sory inspection of all motor vehicles for which licenses are required in the province. After July 1 of this year, no persons will be allowed to drive on the highways any motor vehicle that has not been inspected within a twelve-months period and has not been certified as safe. This legislation is, of course, part of the effort of the Alberta government to reduce the number of traffic accidents on its high- ways, by eliminating those cars which are not mechanically safe. The principle °f it is very sound, and it will have the effect of re- moving from use cars of the "old crock" type which might be traffic hazards because of lack of proper equipment, in good condi- tion. Every once in a while one reads of seri- ous accidents caused by old cars having im- perfect brakes, steering equipment that breaks down or other defects which render them unsafe. In Canada, Alberta is pioneering in this type of legislation. From the standpcint of safeguarding human life, it is good legisla- tion, It is a plan which might very well be adopted by other. provinces, including On- tario. It might be said by highways depart- ment officials that the problem of providing an inspection service for over one million vehicles in this province every year, wou'd be a tremendous, if not impossible task. Yet there are no difficulties in it which cannot be overcome by efficient organization, and the effort would be worth while if, by re- moving unsafe cars from the highways, a few lives could be saved each year. Editorial Notes A psychologist declares that ugliness is an asset. About seven million Canadian femal-s rise up to disagree with him. * * + Britain's fresh meat ration is, to be in- creased by about three cents a week. We wonder how much more meat that will buy at present day prices. ; * wp + It takes a generation to grow a fine tree which can be cut down in an hour or two. That should be remembered whenever any- one has the urge to cut down a tree. + * * A Communist-led union has been ousted in the gold-mining areas of Northern On- tario. This is another sign that sensible workers refuse to have their unions made tools of the Communists. + * * Ontario's Live Stock Commissioner makes a plea for a strong revival of sheep-raising in Ontario to help provide additional meat supplies. His plea will be echoed by lovers of lamb who find it difficult to buy these days. ® Other Editors' Views o HELP INFLATION FIGHT (Winnipeg Free Press) The greatest contribution that the individual citizen can make in the present inflationary period is to cut down his or her expenditures wherever pos- sible and save money against a. future time of plenty. It may well be that money thus saved will go down somewhat in value but any loss of this kind will be much less than the loss which will result from every- body bidding up present prices in an effort to buy goods which are simply not there to. be bought. ® A Bit of Verse o ODE ON SOLITUDE Bless'd who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days and years slide soft away, In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet by day. Sound sleep by night; study and ease Together mix'd, sweet recreation; And innocence, which most does please, With meditation. -- Alexander Pope--1705 e A Bible Thought e We are surrounded by petty injustice but eternity is ruled by justice. We need patience and faith. And He will judge the world in righteousness.--Ps, 9: 8. Spring rhe dr --Little, in The Nashville Tennessean Question Standards Of Public Morality In U.S. By JOHN TRACY Canadian Press Staff Writer New York, April 9--(CP) Americans reading newspaper {ill- ed with reports of crime, scandal and corruption have come up against the questions of what has happened to public morality and what can be done about it. Half- a dozen observers of the United States scene this week gave them the answers and suggested remedies ranging from a higher moral tone in top government levels to a change in newspaper policy. Within a fortnight, newspapers have carried stories about a visa racket in a U.S. consulate, arrests in a college basketball betting scandal, a hunt for a corrupt police official and the sentencing of four spies for giving Russia their coun- try's atomic secrets. In Washington, Senator William Fulbright, head of a committee in- quiring into influence in govern- ment-authorized loans, spoke to Congress of "moral blindness" in public life. Most authorities give the Ameri- can people a clean bill of moral health but suggest that those in public life pull up their ethics. "The degree of shock . . . with which some of these revelations have been received is ample evi- dence that the condition does not reflect the basic temper -of this | people . . ." the New York Times said in an editorial. "It is, we think, eminently fair to call upon our national government to give us some leadership at this point | and to set us example." ° The New York Herald Tribune said the government should "insist that at the highest level a respect for plain honesty prevail." With an easy tolerance or wilful blindness at the top, it said edi- torially, the standards below can hardly be expected to remain high. Relman Morin, Associated Press Correspondent, interviewed four Americans prominent in the church, education and business on what has happened to morality. Only one, Dr. John Haynes Holmes, pastor of New York's Inter - denominational Church, thought morality had deteriorated. He said flatly that in more than 40 years of church work he had never seen moral standards in America as low as they now are. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen, promi- nent Roman Catholic churchman, did not believe a downward trend had begun, generally, in public morality. But if a crisis in morals has appeared, he said, American schools and newspapers have "been large contributing factors. The schools had denied responsi- + bility for teaching and ethics. He conceded that newspapers report only what has already happened, but by selection, he said, they give a distorted picture of life in America, As an antidote to disclosures of corruption, he urged that every newspaper "publish, on its front page, every day, just one story of virtue," because "people are en- couraged by examples of good." an illuminating Looking Around The World By DEWITT MACKENZIE Associated Press News Analyst Britain's new Foreign Secretary, Herbert Mogrison, in a recent speech supported the thesis that "international co-operation can flourish despite differences of poli- tical systems." As a generality, that undoubtedly is true, but the question immediaty- ly arises whether it can be stretch- ed to cover the outsider of the ideologies--Communism. Is there any possibility of co-operation be- tween Communism and Dem- ocracy? That's a mighty important ques- tion in these dangerous times of political turmoil. Upon the answer must depend our attitude towards the Red ism. The answer is, I think, that there may be co-operation on some lines between Communist states and non-Communist states. There can be no real co-operation between Communism and any other ideal- ogy within the borders of one country. Wartime Example As to partial co-operation be- tween Communist and non-Com- munist states, we had an excellent example in the alliance during the Second World War. However, that was a matter of life and death-- and danger makes strange bed- fellows. No such partnership is likely among Red and non-Red elements within one country. Why? Because if a Communist party gets a foothold in a largely- democratic country, the Reds give their allegiance, not to their na- tional government but to Moscow. This is so true that when a seri- ous difference arises between Rus- sia and a democracy the Com- munist citizens of the democracy will side with the Soviet Union. Indeed, the fact provides Moscow with. one of its most useful wea- pons in waging its world revolu- tion for the spread of Communism. Every non-Russian Communist is a subject first of Moscow, and after that is a citizen of his own coun- try. Unforgettable Example We had an unforgettable (and perhaps unforgivable) example of trying to force nationalism to mix with Communism in China during the Second World War. The plan was a dismal failure and the out- come, as was to be expected, was that the Communists finally took over. In such fashion did Moscow become the overlord of a country of 500,000,000. The moral would seem to be that no democracy can afford to be tolerant towards a Communist party within its borders. Commu- nism is the cuckoo in the nest of democracy. : However, this doesn't preclude the cultivation of co-operation between Communist and democratic coun- tries in matters which adapt them- selves to such treatment, More Colonies Of Rare Bird 'Found In N.Z. By J. C. GRAHAM Canadian Press Correspondent Dunedin -- (CP) -- More living specimens of the rare bird Notor- | nis have been discovered in moun- tainous Lake Te Anau Region of New Zealand's fiordland in the al- most uninhabited extreme south- west of the country. For half a century the Notornis were thought to be extinct until Dr. G. B. Orbell found a living col- ony of the birds--a flightless swamp hen species about the size of a turkey--in the area in 1948. So little has the region been explored, however, and so broken and diffi- cult is the heavily-forested coun- try, that widespread searches for more colonies have all been un- succsesful until now, During the present summer a party of field officers of the Wild Life Branch of the Internal Affairs Department has been living in the area and conducting an intensive survey. It has been found that colonies of Notornis live in six valleys and breed in at least four. It is highly probable that there are still further colonies in even more inaccessible portions of the region. The original colony was thought to contain no more than 20 birds, but at least 30 or 40 were seen in the various valleys visited during the survey, so that the future of the species now seems much brighter. As a result of trapping of Stoats and deer--enemies of the Notornis --by field officers, five chicks have been reared in the original colony this season, a higher proportion than in the past. The discovery of the new colonies has revived the possibility that pairs of young birds will be removed to a more accessible district and ef- forts made to breed them and ex- amine their habits. This project was abandoned when the smallness and precarious existence of the original colony was realized, as it was considered that it would be unsafe to remove any of the few known birds. a TELEPHONE OPERATORS FOR "CAMPANIA" Five lucky girls in Britain will be selected to- "man" the switchboard on the Festival ship "Campania" during its voyages around U.K. shores, from April 24th to Septem- ber 29th. Competition is so keen that lots will be drawn for the much-coveted interviews for the Job. IT'S TIME TO STORE YOUR FURS Phone 3566 FASHION VILLAGE 26 Simcoe South Mac's Musings It has been good In these glorious days Of the early spring . To get out once more Into the garden and make The first feeble efforts At Starting the work which In the months ahead will Pay such rich dividends In the products of the Garden bountiful, In spite of all the work That was done last fall To leave the garden in Neat and tidy condition Before 'the winter came, It almost seems as if Nothing had been done, And the laborious task Of cleaning up the Dead leaves and debris Becomes a job which Leaves the muscles aching And the limbs weary After the first few hours. There is so much to do Before the ground can Be cleaned up ready For digging fork and spade, And the flower borders Denuded of debris to make Way for the coming of the Tender green shots which Give rich promise of Future beauty. Yet all this strenuous Labor of cleaning up Must be done before we can Carry out the work which Is needed, in partnership With nature to make the Summer-time garden all That we want it to be. There is no work which Pays such rich rewards As that which is done In the garden in the Earliest days of spring, Because what it will be In the summer months Depends on how thoroughly The preparatory work Of spring is done. Vatican Dismayed By Destruction Mission Fields By PATRICK CROSSE Vatican City, April 9-- (Reuters) --The Vatican is watching with dismay the gradual destruction of one of the greatest missionary or- ganizations ever built. Fragmentary reports tell of pro- gressive elimination of the great structure built up during the 400 years since the followers of St. Francis Xavier first China. Little now remains of the archdioceses, 89 dioceses, 34 aposto- lic prefectures and the Urga Mis- sion "Sui Iuris" of Mongolia, which three years ago grouped 3,251,347 Roman Catholics and 14,000 foreign and Chinese priests, friars and nuns, Latest reports from parts of China have indicated an extra- ordinary revival of religious fervor among Roman Catholics. But on the whole the tremendous pressure of the Communist regime appears to be having its inevitable effect. No funds can be sent to the Catholic communities in China. Hostile government action, inten- sive propaganda and indifference penetrated. | | 19 | PORTRAITS By James J. Metcalfe Getting Fired w= we get fired from a job... It always seems to be . . . A bitter disappointment and . . . A sort of tragedy . . . We may have had it coming or . ... We may not be to blame . . . But we should not be overwrought . . Or ever quit the game . . . It may be possible that we . . . Have gotten quite a break . . . Although the boss did not intend . . . To do it for our sake ... There may be oppor. tunities . . . That never would have been . . . If we had not been fired from . . . The job that we were in . .. So let us keep our courage high . .. And let us strive each day... To take advantage of the breaks . .. That come along our way. Copr. 1951, Field Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved. 'Jet Stream' Big Factor In Weather By LAWRENCE N. ELDRED Chicago, April 9 -- (AP) -- A new-found factor in the weather already is solving many forecast- ing puzzles. Called the "Jet Stream" by Uni- versity of Chicago scientists who discovered it, it is a narrow wind with speeds up to 300 miles an hour. It rides six to 10 miles above | the earth, always moving from west to east, near the top of the atmos- pheric envelope. Telling about its discovery, Uni- | versity Scientist Herbert Riehl said | the swift current is considered the hatchery for much of the world's weather. | A tremendous storm which hit | the United States last Nov, 25 came | three days after a jet stream had | passed at 150 miles an hour. Dam- | age was estimated at $400,000,000 and 278 deaths were attributed to the high winds, rain, snow and blizzards hatched by the jet stream. Jet-stream information had not been incorporated im general fore- casts then, but Riehl thinks ob- servation of that and other ex- amples will help detect similar pos- sibilities in the future. The jet stream also is coming in- to some commercial use. Airliner pilots are learning to utilize it as an auxiliary power source. Long-range aircraft save fuel and flight time by riding the jet stream from west to east and by avoiding bucking it .when returning from east to west. ' Riehl described the jet stream as about 300 miles wide. It swings back and forth from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, partly influenc= ed by the seasons and other face tors. This is essentially what is known about the jet stream today: It averages 100 miles an hour in summer, 150 in winter. Velocity can drop as low as 75 and rise to 300 miles an hour. At varied speeds it circles the world in four days, Its national habitat in winter is around Latitude 40, which crosses the United States near Salt Lake City. In summer, Latitude 55 is its favorite haunt, running near Ketchikan, Alaska; Edmonton; the foot of the Hudson Bay; across Labrador, and out across the North Atlantic. The jet stream affects ground- level weather because it changes the pattern of lower air move- ments. A jet stream can cause low- er air to rise, literally pulling it along in its wake. As this air climbs, its moisture condenses in the form of rainfall. As air is jerk- ed up, other air is pulled in to take its place. This creates horizontal air movements which can become low-pressure areas, storms and cyclones. are crushing the church structure. | The poverty of the clergy is an- other factor; in many cases, mis- sionaries have had to become laborers, clerks or shep-herds. The great bulwark of the mis- sionary effort in China, the hun- dreds of little country schools with a dozen or two pupils, has been almost wiped out. Regular Catho- lic schools have been taken over by the Communist authorities. In the government primary schools, according to one report, Catholic pupils are forced to join communist associations ® 15 Years Ago Ernest Cay was appointed a mem- ber of the Oshawa Public Welfare Board. C. H. Millard was elected president of the Qshawa Ratepayers' Asso- ciation for the year 1936-1937. Leonard Richer, Supervisor of Music in the Cchools of Oshawa, was selected to conduct a Provincial Schools Orchestra in Massey Hall, | Toronto. Capt. the Rev. E. Harston was guest speaker at the annual Vimy Anniversary Banquet of the Can- adian Legion. City and County leaders joined in tendering a complimentary farewell banquet to W. M. Croskery, Agri- cultural representative, who has been transferred to Carleton County. TWO BOYS RESCUED Peterborough, April 9 -- (CP) -- A few seconds from being swept over the falls on the' Otonabee River, two boys, Phillip Johnson, 13, and Howard Thompson, 12, were rescued Saturday. 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