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oe mea wget m swan FEATURES ormons DAILY TIMES.CAZETTE EDITORIAL PAGE "O'er the Ramparts We Watch' The Daily Times-Gazette OBHAWA 'WRITBY THE OSHAWA TIMES (Established 1871) THE WHITBY GAZEI'TE & CHRONICLE (Established 1863) 4 The Times-Gazette is a ber of The Canadi the Canadian Daily N pap A ion, the Ameri- can Newspaper Publishers Association, the OUntario Provincial Dailies Association and the Audit Bureau cf Circulations. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use fof republication of all news despatches in the paper credited to it or to The Aspociated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein. Al) rights of special despatches herein are also reserved. A. R. ALLOWAZY, P, d and Publ T. L. WILSON, Vice-Pr and M M. McINTYRE HOOD, Managing Editor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin, Port Perry, Ajax and Pickering, 80c per week. By mall out. side carrier delivery areas anywhere in Canada and England, $7.00 per year; U.S, $9.00 per year. Authorised sa Second Class Matter, Post Office Dapartment, Ottawa, Canada. DAILY AVERAGE CIRCULATION for APRIL 10,591 TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1951 Is This Tax Legal? A statement made by a Quebec govern- ment with reference to Quebec retailers buy- ing their tobacco supplies in Ontario to escape payment of the provincial tobacco tax of ten per cent brings into the spotlight the peculiar nature of some Quebec tax regula- tions. The statement intimates that these re- tailers are reaping a nice harvest by buying supplies from Ontario wholesalers, and then re-selling them at the regular Quebec price, which includes the ten per cent tax. This tax is only one of the taxes peculiar to the province of Quebec. There is also a provincial sales tax which is applied to a long list of commodities. And in the tax law is a provision that if a resident of Quebec buys Press, g Director. much these advances are going to cost them. It seems to us that this will rather change the picture, and that some of those who have been advocating higher pensions at lower ages may find themselves somewhat unpopu- lar once the taxpayers realize that they are to have to pay for them by a direct levy on their earnings. Commendable Project Junior Farmer organizations in several counties of Ontario are undertaking a pro- Ject which is highly commendable. They are organizing their membership to carry out a plan whereby every rural mail box in their area will be painted, and the names placed on them in letters at least one inch high. By the combined efforts of these young farm people, tens of thousands of these roadside mail boxes will serve the additional useful purpose of identification of the occupants of farms. Anyone who has done much travelling in the rural sections of Ontario will recognize the worth-while nature of such a project. In the great majority of cases, rural mail boxes are unsightly contraptions, bearing no name that is legible. To have them painted and lettered will brighten the landscape and make it possible to learn the name of the oc- cupant of the farm. One wonders why a sense of pride does not impel farm people to keep their mail boxes painted and lettered of their own volition, without a campaign such as that of the Junior Farmers being necessary. The fact is, however, that this is too often 'neglected, because many simply do not take enough interest in it. The project of the Junior Farmers should, by the example which it sets, bring about a general improvement in rural mail boxes, un- til the time may come when it will be the ex- ception rather than the rule to have an un- painted box without a name, outside an On- A Mac's Musings Folks who live in Oshawa Are much more fortunate Than those who live in The other day we started Off for a stroll, and Within a couple of Minutes we were enoying The grateful shade of A thickly wooded area, Where all the fragrance Of growing, living things Could be sensed as we Walked along a path Made by many feet in The thick of the woods. . Water rippling from a Some of the larger cities Because they have to go Only a short distance To reach the open spaces, To, revel in the woods And to enoy themselves Listening to the soft Rippling of a stream. E in os | | PORTRAITS By James J. Metcalfe The Longer I Live TEE longer I am here on earth... The happier I feel . . . Among the many wonders tha: . . . The passing Years reveal . . . My soul grows calmer every day . . . And there is peace at night . . . And I become more confident . . . That life will turn out right . . And seldom fear or fret . . . Or try te run away from things. «If only to forget . . . For there is solace in the sun «eo And comfort in the dark . . . And there are eople on the street + + - And flowers in the park . . 4 comes . . . At least I have today . . . And I have God's assure ing word . . . That will not pass away. Copr. 1951, Field Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved. - I do not worry overmuch . ., . And if tomorrow never Drug Sales Finance ® 20 Years Ago A memorial window in memory Waters of the creek, The limits of a city. As lovely as this And giving forth all V 'oodland spring made music, And through the trees: Could be seen the rushing It was hard to realize That in the shady woods We were only a few moments Walk from busy industries, And that we were within ° There are many spots Within the boundaries Of Oshawa to be enjoyed By those who have within Them a love of nature Unspoiled by man's hand, Of its beauty and sweetness To those who seek it. North Korean Spies Tokyo, May 15--(AP)--The .pros- ecution charged yesterday that sale of narcotics and penicillen financed the operations of 16 Koreans and two Japanese charged with spying against allied forces in Japan for Communist North Korea. Chief Prosecutor Maj. Robert M. Murray of the United States Army told the court the defendants, who pleaded innocent, were trained in espionage schools. DEFENCE INDUSTRIES TO HAVE SULPHUR PRIORITY Britain's defence industries will be able to maintain full output under new schemes for the alloca- tion of sulphur and sulphuric acid, which came into force on May 1st. of the late Hon. Willlam Smith was unveiled in Columbus United Church, Bowmanville ratepayers voted by 867 to 72 in favor of granting a franchise to the Ontario Shore Gas Company, Ltd. James Haverspn, K.C., brother of David and George Haverson, died in Toronto.in his 79th year, A. G. Storie was elected presj- dent of the Oshawa 'Associated Welfare Societies. : A. R. Alloway was re-elected president of the Ontario Provincial Dailies. Freighters of the Tree Line Navigation Company refused to call at Oshawa harbor because of inadequate docking facilities, | City Wages and Work On Farms (By John Atkins, In "The Rural Scene") How can we keep la"or on the week, he does have more free time farm when urban industry offers so |than he did twenty years ago; and AWN * much higher wages for so much less | his opportunities for improvement work? |and reaction have also increased. The trend of migration from the| As he finds it harder to compete farm to the city has been going on | with city wages, he is also finding ever since the palmy days of Rome: | ways of doing with less hired help. | but the farm still remains the one | Even' in the raising of livestock and source on which we can depend for poultry, one man with modern the perpetuation of the human race. |equipmént and improved methods | It is true that as city life becomes can do much more in a given time | more and more attractive, the trend |than was possible a few years ago. | cityward increases. But there are| It would not be desirable to stop | counteracting forces at work. [this trend to the cities even if we There is less drudgery in farm could do so, for the farm needs the | work than there used to be. Though |city quite as much as the city needs | the farmer does not have a five-day the farm, tario farmhouse. Editorial Notes A naturalist's note says that the stinger on a wasp is only one twenty-eighth of an any of these commodities in another prov- ince, he must-declare th®m to the provincial tax officials and pay the sales tax on them. For instance, if a Montreal man came to Oshawa and bought an automobile here, he would have to declare it on returning home and pay the provincial tax on its value. inch long. The last one to sting us must have Such a tax is, in our opinion, a contraven- | been overgrown, tion of the British North America Act pro- * * * vision that there shall be no duties levied by An economist has described wealth as a any one province against gnother. This sales | disease. A great many people, however, will tax, imposed against articles bought in an- | be disappointed that it is not contagious or other province and taken home by Quebec | communicable. residents, is in effect an additional excise * * * tax, or it might perhaps be termed an inter- One result of the evidence of gambling provincial customs duty. To make it effec- rings in Toronto district will be to make tive must require the services of a large | Windsor feel that it has not had any monop- force of provincial tax officials, not only to | oly on that type of law-breaking. keep watch on border points, but also to * * . check on purchases made outside their own News report from China says that some province by Quebec residents. 600,000 landlords have been executed in that In the specific case in point, because there | country. We know some tenants who would is no direct tobacco tax in Ontario, tobacco | welcome the opportunity to do likewise in and cigarettes can be bought in this province | Canada. : at ten per cent less than the Quebec price. . This offers a direct temptation to retailers | @ (ther Editors' Views eo to circumvent the tax law by buying in On- CANADA SHAMES OTHER NATIONS (Washington Pest) tario and keeping the extra profit for them- The departure of a new Canadian brigade group | the government announced that the { hotly-criticized rubber shipménts to | Red China had been halted for the | rest of 1951. Then yesterday the Un- ited Nations took its sweeping ac- tion, with Britain and France sup- By DEWITT MacKENZIE porting the measure. Associated Press News Analyst The consensus of observers is Further consolidation of big-three | that this represents a proper: sete (Britain, France, the United States) | tlement of, the controversy, How= policies for the Far East was achiev- | ever, this doesn't mean that deci= ed when the United Nations sanc- | sions, should be dictated by the tions committee, which includes |fact of American leadership. these great powers, voted a world- Decisions should be reached on | wide ban on shipments of war | the basis of the common interests. goods to Communist China. We of the western hemisphere must There remain several more steps | '8CO8Nize that Europe has its prob- before the measure becomes effec- | MS. : % tive. However a big hurdle has been al 2 Sp im mnomss; Yo ; . laken Bight az, three URI: | has announced that the status of | 4 | the strategic island of Formosa | The first break in the embargo [needn't be defined until after a | sue came last week Just after | gorean settlement. This has remov- Britain's Conservative. leader, Win- | eq one of the main Anglo-Ameri- ston Churchill, made a dramatic |, differences over 'a Japanese | plea for big three 'unity in the peace treaty, Looking Around The World selves. But at the same time they run the risk of being caught and possibly fined. The to be friendly, pleasant and easy to get Giving you the kind of telephone serv- suggestion is made that all Quebec-made tobacco and cigarettes be given a distinctive marking, so as to prevent this practice. But if that it put into effect, there would be a good case for charging the province of Que- bec with a breach of the British North America Act. for Korea sets a good example in the appeals for more trogps to support the United Nations action. Here is a nation which has taken its responsibility seriously. A Canadian battalion is already in 'combat in Korea. The approximately 6,000 men in the new group, a self contained fighting unit, will bring the total of Canadian troops in Korea to 7,500. In addition, Canada has furnished an air transport squadron of vital importance in the air lift across the Pacific, and three Canadian destroyers have been on House of Commons. The shipment of war materials to China was then a burning issue, The man who skippered Britain through the last world war told the .commons that preservation of the friendliest relations with the US. is a matter of life and death, not only for Britain but for all Western Europe. He could have been more blunt, barring diploma- ic nicety, and said that the secur- is gathering speed. It looks as though the unity ball ® Bouquets The Editor, The Times-Gazette. Sir: Club of Oshawa, take this opportun- THANKS FROM KINETTES May I, on behglf of the Kinette ice you want is our job. You want it to be fast and depend- able --and to keep on getting better. But at the same time, we believe there's more to good service than just technical efficiency and steady improvement. along with. You want to deal with someone who takes a real interest in your problems and who is willing; to give you a little extra attention. That's the kind of service we want you to have. It makes your telephone ity to thank you and your staff for : mean 'more to you, makes our job the very fine co-operation we have 4 duty in Korean waters from the beginning. ity of the western bloc depends mean more to us. The People Will Pay When the new fot'm of old age pensions at 70, without a means test, goes into effect, - the people of Canada will have no difficulty in knowing that they are paying for it. In a sgnse, this pension will be on a contributory basis. How the contributions will be paid, and how much they will be, has not y®t been an- nounced officially. Reports from Ottawa cor- respondents, however, indicate that there will be a special levy on earnings to provide the funds for payment of the old age pension at 70. One report states that to finance the new | scheme there will be a levy of from one to two dollars a week on earnings, deducted at the source, from personal earnings. For -gelf-employed persons, there will also, be a special tax levy. Thus every individual will know just how much the cost to the pay envelope is of the contributory pension. This, however, will serve another useful purpose. The individual will' be able to figure out what his or her costs will be for increases in pensions or making them applicable at an earlier age. If it costs workers $1.00 a week "to pay for a pension of $40 a month at 70, then it will cost $2.00 a week if the pension is increased to $80. And if the age is lowered to 65, there will also be further increases in the weekly deduction. This will have the effect of removing the old age pension from the field of party poli- tics. Groups and organizations which ask for increased pensions at earlier ages will have to deal, not 'with the government, but with the taxpayers, who will know exactly how Comparisons of troop quotas to population statist- ics are invidious, for they do not take account of rela- @ive resources. For a country which is short of man- power, and whose greatest defence contribution prob- ably is in raw materials and weapons, Canada's sup- port is substantial, In fact, it ought to shame those nations which, as well or better equipped to send aid, have done noth- ing but offer polite excuses. ® A Bit of Verse o MONTEREY COAST Cliff-sheltered from salt-tang wind, we walked the cove's way-- our feet crunched on wave-crushed shells, slipped on a tangle of oarsweed; and where the shore sloped smooth Wwe scooped up purple sand dollars, skimmed them toward far-out breakers-- Beyond cypress shadowed on rock, a tidal creek narrowed inland; on its banks fiddler crabs sunned themselves in their burrows; we saw them reflected in blue shot through and through with shiners; flashes of silver lightning-- As, this was the warm place, the flat place to lean from rim, * to lower hands to water; to stretch the wingers wide, and in translucent green behold, bisected from the wrists, twin shapes of starfish, : Where hands had bpen before, -- GERTRUDE MAY LUTZ ® A Bible Thought e "I smiled to see God's greatness flow round my incompleteness; round my restlessness His rest." --Dr. Graham Scroggie. "Ye are complete in Him." (Col. 3:10.) on big-three solidarity. received during the past year, There are no political or econ- omic interests which begin to touch the importance of that fact: The big three must stand toge- ther for security. . Churchill's statement obviously was tacit recognition of America's vast strength and consequent lead- ership. We think you like telephone people our many projects as well as reports of regular meetings, has been most generous, and I can assure you is sincerely appreciated. Oshawa, May 15, 1951. . Shortly after he resumed his seat, The space given in your paper to Yours truly, ISABEL M. PARR. (Mrs. H. E. Parr). 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