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OPINONS i oi ; 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 Dally Newspapers Association, the Ameri- can Newspap Pi 8 A jation, the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association and the Audit Bureau ct Circulations, The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use for repubiication of all news despatches In 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, P a and Publi . T.'L. WILSON, Vice-President and Managing Director. M.'McINTYRB 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 anywher$ In Canada and England, §7.00 per year; U.S, $9.00 per year. Authorized @8 | Second Class Matter, Post Office Dapartpent, Ottawa, Canada. DAILY AVE 4 RAGE CIRCULATION for MAY 10,585 THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1951 Bible Club Camp Appeal Some two weeks ago, in the news columns of The Times-Gazette, announcement was made of plans for a children's camp sponsor- ed by the Bible Club Committee of Oshawa, and a statement made on the purpose and meaning of the project. To attend a camp of this kind can be a great experience for any boy or girl. It means new life, release from the heat of city streets, freedom to ex- ploit all the dreams and fancies of childhood, and to revel in an atmosphere of delight and Joy. This camp is to be held on Sheebotigoon Island, nestling in the heart of Pigeon Lake, like a green emerald. Here will be found all the beauty and accommodation that a boy or girl, eager for a glimpse of new things and ways, can possibly desire. One can picture sixty children with a dream fulfilled, revell- ing from the heat of the city and enjoying a wonderful holiday, made possible because thére were citizens of Oshawa who were will- ing to give their financial support to this Bible Camp project. The Oshawa Bible Club Committee is ap- pealing to the people of the community to donate funds to make: this camp experience a living reality for sixty Oshawa boys and girls. Contributions can be sent or brought to the office of The Times-Gazette, which will' acknowledge them, and provide receipts which will be valid for income tax deduction purposes. Already a number of citizens have given generously to this project, but further funds are urgently necessary to make up the qubta required for its success. We most heartily commend this fund to the generous comsideratjon of our readers. The Inflation Danger In an éxtremely informative and well-rea- soned editorial, The Winnipeg Free Press has been carrying on a discussion of the problems of inflation in Canada. In one of these, bearing the heading," The Dynamite in Wages," The Free Press points to the pos- .sibility that continued increases in wages may push the inflationary tendency to dan- gerous levels. It goes on to say, however, that even more dangerous than increases in wages is the tendency towards shorter work- ing hours. The crux of the economic situation is pro- duction of goods. The Free Press expresses the fear that reduced working hours may re- duce output under present conditions. It is pointed out that the productivily of Canada, per capita has stood stil for five years, al- though there have been large increases in wages and other production costs. Therefore there is reason for the govérnment's fear that a reduction in working hours would re- sult in the production of less goods to meet demands and, with increased wages, a dan- gerous new inflationary pressure. In his budget speech in the House of Com- mons, Finance Minister Abbott asked Cana- dians to work harder and longer, or face an unnecessarily sharp fall in their living stand- ards. The response to this plea on the part of labor was entirely negative. Commenting on this, The Free Press says: "Despite every appeal and warning, the move- ment in industry is in the other direction at the moment. If it continues, the penalty will soon be paid in higher prices and while some groups may avoid it, the nation cannot then escape a sharp fall in living standards. Some fall is certain in apy event, simply because so much of our total output is going into guns, but if we reduce the output while Increasing wages, the damage will be unnecessarily heavy." J It is not likely that organized labor will agree with the reasoning and logic of The Winnipeg Free Press analysis of the situa- tion, but at the same time the warning is there, clear and pointed. And it is, more than possible that before too long a period has elapsed, the .accuracy of that analysis will be revealed in a rather unpleasant man- ner. ¥ The Thrifty Folk In all the discussion of old age pension changes, there seems to be a tendency to take it for granted that the great majority of Canadians will be in dire need of a state pen- sion when they reach the age of 70, or even at 65. On thc other hand, there are those who argue that the creation of a welfare state, ih which ample pensions, health ser- vices and other benefits will be provided for the whole population, will bring about a feel- ing of dependence on the state, and will dis- courage thrift and saving habits in our people. We believe that both of these viewpoints are unfortunate in that they do not take into account the sturdy independence of the great majority of the people of 'Canada. It is the goal and the hope of most of our people to provide their own security in old age. That is why so many of them invest in government annuities and in insurance policies which will provide them with an assured income when their working years are over. We believe that the majority of our people have a whole- some spirit of thrift, and are making every effort possible to make provision for their own old age, so that they can maintain them- selves without the necessity of having an old age pension. It is true that these savings incomes, be- cause of the abnormally high cost of living, have only about half their previous value, and that people who thought they had pro- vided for their old age may find. their in- comes quite inadequate. But that does not alter the fact that provision would have been sufficient for their needs. This is not an argument against having old age pensions paid at 70 years of age without a means test. We are whole-heart- edly in favor of making such provision for those who need it. But we think it is a mis- take to imagine that everyone, on reaching that age, will be in need of a pension, and we believe that in a surprisingly large number of cases the pensions paid will be returned to the government through the channel of income tax. , Editorial Notes With the increase in fruit prices negotiat- ed by the growers this year, we have an idea that strawberry shortcake is going to be shorter than ever. * + * Nationalist China is two years in arrears on its assessments due to the United Na- tions, but is still ready to put up a battle to | retain its place in that body. * * + A news story says that wooden shoes will prevent wet and clammy feet. The only thing against .them is that wood is just as expensive as leather these days. $ + a We have often wondered why rice is thrown at newly married couples. Now we learn from a medical authority that it is an effective remedy for high blood pressure-- but only when eaten. + + + Howie Meeker, Toronto Maple Leaf hockey star, is going into politics as a candidate for Parliament. « He is following the example of men like Lionel Conacher and Bucko Mec- Donald, who were successful, and Syl Apps, who did not do as well at the polls as he did on the ice. ® Other Editors' Views o WHAT $40 WILL BUY (Hamilton Spectator) Someone asked a pretty pointed question the other day. It was this: Why doesn't the government quaran- tee people over 70 a certain amount of food, shelter, clothing and so on, instead of a monthly pension that may be worth little? . The answer is, government can't. It can guarantee to pay $40 where it paid only $20 before, but it can' guarantee what that $40 will buy. If it guaranteed in 1939 pay an old age pensicner in real goods and services the same amount 10 years later it would cost the people of Canada an incredible sum to launch the new scheme outlined in Parliament the other day. Taxes would be fantastic. ® A Bit of Verse o FULL CHOIR In autumn, arrowing through a bleak sky, The birds go south -- swift squadrons of the air -- At sunset we can hear the wild geese cry; Soon they will find that milder season where Marshes are green and water laps the shore. We mark the calendar by signs that still Tell us how winter stars wheel by once more, As leaves fall slowly and the nights grow chill. But secretly the birds come back in spring. Suddenly there's a robin on the lawn: An oricle on some high branch will sing, A white-crowned sparrow whistles up the dawn. Woods wake to music, confident and clear-- And May's returning choristers are here! -- BAYKA RUSSELL. e A Bible Thought e No one can graduate from the school of life, wg must go forward or we will go backward, Con- Time Is Getting Short --Long, in The Minneapolis Tribune. 4 Looking Around The World By M. M. H. Reports from meetings of inter- national bodies have it that rela- tions. between Canada and the Uni- ted States are somewhat strained. We have not noticed any sign of it in our contacts with visitors from the United States, but since the Hon, L. B., Pearson read the US. a lecture a couple of months ago on how to treat Canada, some of the higher up folks on the other side of the border have felt a bit cold to- wards their northern neighbors. We can forsee that unless the un- expected happens, relations are go- ing to be a good deal colder in the near future, and the cause will be the St. Lawrence Waterway. Representative Charles W. Buck- ley, chairman of the United States Congressional Public Works Com- mittee, on a St. Lawrence tour dur- ing the last few days, says that the committee will be making its decis- jon within a very short time. That committee has the responsibility of deciding whether the St. Lawrence Waterway treaty is to be sent on to the House of Representatives for ac- tion, or whether it is once again going to be killed. At the present time we would say that the treaty has less than a fifty-fifty chance of surviving the committee stage, and that the project, as an internation- al venture, will be shelved, as it has been for the last quarter of a cen- tury. If the St. Lawrence treaty is again pushed aside, then relations be- tween Canada and the United States will become more strained than ever. On the one side, Cana- dian authorities, both at Ottawa | and Toronto, will hit the roof. 'There will be an immediate and urgent demand that Canada proceed alone with the seaway section of the pro- ject, as she can very well do, and make a deal with the State of New York for the hydro development project, which can also be done by the Province of Ontario and that state, And if that happens, there will be plenty of people in high places in the United States who will how! to high heaven and claim that Canada's attitude is high-handed. Canada's unilateral development of the St. Lawrence project, how- ever, would be strictly legal. The seaway would be built entirely in Canadian territory and the United States has not yet acquired any sovereignty over what we do with our own property. The hydro de- velopment project on a partnership basis between Ontario and New York State, however, is on a differ- ent project on a partnership basis between Ontario and New York State, however, is on a different basis. It would require the approval, not of the United States Congress, but only of President Truman, And providing the president is willing, the barriers would be overcome. For a joint U.S.-Canada develop- ment, the approval of Congress is necessary, but not- if the project is carried out on an all-Canadian sea~ way, and an Ontario-New York power development basis. So, as we have said, Canadian-' U.S. relations are apt to become a bit more strained, but Canadians feel that the St. Lawrence Seaway and power development project has been kicked around in U.S. politics for about a quarter of a century too long, and that the time has come for a showdown. And we ven- ture to predict that if it is again turned down by Congress, and Canada definitely decides to go it alone, the United States interests will put up a terrific howl, which will soon subside and bring the US. into the project as a partner. after all, ® 30 Years Ago Town Council desided: to ask the ratepayers to vote on four money by-laws for resurfacing King and Simcoe Streets, building a new bridge on King Street West and extending the waterworks, A fleet of tugs, dredges and scows of the Russell Construction Co arrived off Oshawa to start con- struction of a new water intake pipe. i Town Council passed a resolution asking the Oshawa Housing Com- mission not to build any more houses. Drastic reductions announced in prices of McLaughlin motor cars, with the passenger touring car re- duced to $1,650. Building permits for the first five months of 1921 had a \gtal value of $142,095. ELEPHANT TOO FRIENDLY Paignton England (CP) -- Jum- bo, a 10-year-old elephant at the 700 here, had been assigned to a special enclosure for her own pro- tection. Jumbo was placed in com- pound because of her habit of climbing a six-foot wall to visit tinue in the grace of God.--Acts 13:43. neighbors, a llama and Zebra. Innocence Of The Accused By JOSEPH LISTER RUTLEDGE Profit, the whipping-boy for évery difficulty and disadvantage of our day, 'finds a real friend in some figures recently made available by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. We can't argue with figures and the Bureau begins by admitting that corporate profits before taxes in 1939 were $618 million, while in 1949 they had reached $1,898. That is a huge advance, and it might seem suspicious but for some re- lated figures also provided by the Bureau. Using these figures it be- comes quite apparent that profits and national production moved for- ward on almost identical roads. Profits represented 11.CM% of all production in 1939. Ten years late er they had grown to only 11.59'% of that total. Even so it appears a pretty siz- able increase, It would have been if any group of individuals had re- ceived it all. But huge demands were being made or profits, more huge than ever had been made be- fore. Taxes, for instance, which in 1939 took a $112 million slice of the profits of that day, took $727 million. of 1949 profits. Then there was the matter of rehabilitation af- ter 'war's demands. Money, more money, had to be held back for re- newing, remodelling and re-equip- ping wvlants. In 1939 $219 millions were retained for such purposes, but in post-war 1949 it was $601 million, an added four hundred million item that served the public quite as much as it served the in- vestor, The profits that actually went to the investor, after adding those that came from szbroad, totalléd $130 million in 1939. In 1949 the total was $269 million. There, if anywhere, is the place on which an honest protest can be founded. It looks as if the investor had doubled his take. But, after all, we were all better off. Consider how these actually-distributed profits compar- ed with the income of agriculture and similar unincorporated busi- nesses. In 1939 the profits of the investor represented 14.6% of the income of agriculture and small business. But in the bountiful year of 1949 profits represented 'only 9.6%. Or consider how profits com- pared with all salaries and waages. They were 5.03% of all wages and salaries in 1939. Ten years later they represented only 3.5%. So the earnings of industry, of the farmer and of the average small business had increased proportion- ately more than had the wages of the investor. Or group all of us together and see vhich did best, we or profits. In 1939 profits represent- ed 3.03% of the total personal in- come of all Canadians. In 1949 they were just 2.12%. As profits gained proportionately less than any of the rest of us, how can they stand as so great a culprit? Stockholm (CP) -- A special corps of security police --about 14,000 men -- is being trained -in Sweden. Fifty per cent of the force is made up of army con- scripts, and the men will be equip- ped with wartime combat arms. DAILY TIMES-CAZETTE EDITORIAL PAGE Mac's Musings There is an aspect Of the housing shortage As it exists in Oshawa That touches our heart And arouses feelings that Are difficult to express Without giving offence To some responsible For this situation. It is bad enough that Some property-owners Should be demanding rates Out of all proportion To the worth of the Property available, And are waxing rich vith the income derived From renting premises To distracted tenants At outrageous figures. But we are more concerned About the little children, 'Who are denied the comfort And the convenience of Adequate home conditions, Because of the shortage Of houses for rent, and Who in addition are the Means of their parents Being denied accommodation. We see red every time We read in the newspaper Advertisements which say "No children wanted," And we wonder what kind of ipsividials are those Who "would shut their doors On little children and deny Their parents the right To rent accommodation. We wonder if those who Advertise thus. forget That once they, too, were Little children, and if They ever consider how They would have felt had Doors been closed to them, In their tander years. How we would welcome seeing Some folks with property To rent, advertising "Children are welcome," Because we believe they Would receive the acclaim Of our divine Master Who when on earth said, "Suffer little children To come unto me." e Readers Views PONY PICTURES The Editor, The Times-Gazette: Sir, the pony salesmen are back on the streets of Oshawa again. The mothers are told they are un- der no obligation to buy the pic tures that are taken. The poor mothers that are suspicious see the children watching longingly as the children of their neighbors have their pictures taken, then have a short ride on the poor pony, which is compelled to walk the streets o, Oshawa in the hot sun just satisfy the wallets of these so-call- ed salesmen. Then the super salesman comes around with the picture and with the line he has learned so well, the mother can hardly back up what the camera man told her, that she was under no obligation, so she is practically begged to buy a picture. If these people want to make their money this way, why don't the city fathers tell them they must use a field or the city parks. They coulda advertise in the local paper what time they will be there for those that want their children's picture taken on a pony. This would save a lot of unsuspecting mothers from criticism from their husbands. AN IRATE FATHER. Oshawa, June 6, 1951. RAF AIRCREW IN CANADA Since the scheme for training RAF pilots and navigators in Can- ada was inaugurated in January last, 89 pilots and 48 navigators--all National Servicemen -- have left England to receive training at RCAF Schools--pllots at Gimli, near Winnipeg, and navigators at Summerside, Prince Edward Island. 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A| | Cope. 1031, Field Enterprises. Inc. All Rights Reserved Trek Thousand Miles By LOUIS L. LECK Sydney, Australia (CP) -- Pedal- wireless sets of the Australian In- land Mission recently summoned people of the country's remote areas to the funeral of Rev. John Flynn -- "Flynn of the Inland." Some travelled 1000 miles to pay their last tribute of respect to the man who was their benefactor. The funeral service was held at Clon- curry in Queensland and later Dr. Flynn's ashes were flown to Cen- tral Australia for burial at the foot of Mount Gillen, near Alice Springs John Flynn was one of the Com- monwealth's great pioneers. The Flying Doctor Service was his brain child, born of his passionate desire to relieve the loneliness and isolation of the people who live in central Australia. It was for those people that radio experts at Dr. Flynn's insistence, devised the pedal -wireless although they told him he was asking for the impos- sible. John Flynn was born in Victoria in 1880 and in 1902 he joined the Home Mission staff of the Presby- terian Church. He was ordained in 1911 and in 1912 the General As- sembly appointed him to inquire into conditions in the inland and the far north. Dr. Flynn studied the inland mile, made his report, He was told to put his own report into effect and was appointed a superintend- ent of the Australian inland mis- sion becoming, in his' own words, '"'a boundary rider for the church," He resigned his post last October believing ffiat "you shouldn't hang on to a-job after you are 70." phasized that in the inland the church must provide medical skill and assistance as well as spiritual comfort and guidance. e and his helpers began by es- tablishing nursing outposts and in- spiring young city - trained nurses his 1912 report, Dr, Flynn em- | | 32-year-old to give up city life for appoint- To Honor Missionary ments where the bush came to the clinic door but where the people needed their skill desperately. These bush nursing sisters helped tremendously but Dr. Flynn had heartbreaking experiences of ine jured men and sick women dying because they could not be brought quickly enough to the places where skilled aid was available. Then came the aircraft and ra- dio and Flynn of the inland saw at once what they could mean to the outback. After many trials, a young elec» trician, A. Treagar, managed to develop a simple pedal radio by which every bushmam or his wife gould transmit news or appeals for elp. This invention was developed and improved and used to build up a radio network which now covers all the outback. Many a life has been saved by simple dos and don't the inland doctors have trans- mitted for the treatment of country accidents and ills. Next Flynn and his helpers turned to the airplane for aid. Beginning at Cloncurry with Dr. K. St. Vincent Welsh (the first Flying Doctor) They built up an organization, which in its details of risks run, difficulties overcome, tion. Now the Flying Doctor Services in Australia consist of six non- profit making public companies-- two in Western Australia, one each in South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. ONE DAY IN SEVEN London (CP) -- Rev. J. 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