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OPINONS DAILY TIMES-CAZETTE EDITORIAL PAGE FEATURES The Daily Times-Gazette OSHAWA WHITBY * THE OSHAWA TIMES (Kstabiished 1871) THE WHITBY GAZETTE & CHRONIGLE (Established 1863) The Times-Gazette is a member of The Canadian Press, the Canadian Daily Newspap A iation; the Amer. jcan Newspaper Publishers Association, the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication 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, President and Publisher. T. L. WILSON, Vice-President and Man:ging Director. M. McINTYRE HOOD, Managing Editor, SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin, Port Perry, Ajax and Pickering, 30c per week. By mail out- side carrier delivery areas anywhere in Canada and $9.00 per year. Authorized Post Office Department, England, $7.00 per year; U.S. as Second Class Matter, Ottawa, Canada. DAILY AVERAGE CIRCULATION - for JUNE 10,617 SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1951 Looking Ahead The Public Utilities Commission, since its inception has been a forward-looking body. It has always made plans to meet the needs of the city ahead of the development of these needs. The present Commission is following in the trail of its predecessors in this respect by the adoption of plans to ensure adequate and pure water supply for a city of at least 50,000 people. . The plans which have been adopted by the Commission call for a program of construec- tion covering a period of some years, includ- ing an underground reservoir sufficient to meet the demands on the water system, and a vast extension of water mains to serve all the area now included in the city. This program, it is estimated, will cost in the neighborhood of $1,200,000, with the cost spread over a period of years. This is an am- bitious undertaking, but if the city con- tinues its growth and development, the Com- mission will be hard pressed to maintain its reputation of always having its services * ready when they are required. Naturally, such extensions and improve- ments have to be paid for by the present and future water consumers of the city. There- fore the decision of the Commission to in- crease water rates by 25 per cent is a recog- nition that higher revenues will be required to meet the heavy expenditures planned. The people of Oshawa can have full confidence in the manner in which the Public Utilities Commission has approached the problems of expansion, and need not feel perturbed about the small individual amounts which are in- volved in the increased rates. Water is still the cheapest of all our essentials of life, and even at the new rates which will be effec- tive, no one will suffer very much, while at the same time the Commission will be endbl- ed to carry out its plans for meeting the needs of the Greater Oshawa of the future. Tourist Influx The influx of United States motor tourists to Ontario in the last week has been excep- tionally heavy. The number of cars bearing American licenses seen on the streets of . Oshawa and passing through on the high- ways has been very noticeable, and in the opinion of some observers, seems to have reached record proportions. The advent of the summer holiday season is attracting the United States tourists to seek holiday haunts in Ontario, and in view of the extensive publicity campaign being, waged by the federal tourist bureau and the Ontario gov- ernment, there is every reason to believe that last year's record will be broken. This tourist traffic is worth a great deal to Canada. Last year, according to official estimates, tourists spent some $260 million in Canada. That money was spent in the regular channels of business, and went into Canadian pockets for goods and services. The Canadian Tourist Association gives the following interesting breakdown of the chan- nels in which this money was spent, as follows: : Retail and Department Stores Restaurants and food stores Hotels, resorts and tourist camps Service stations and garages Entertainment and recreation Railways, boats and buses 0 Refreshment booths $13,000,000 Novelty and souvenir stores $ 17,800,000 These are substantial amounts to be pour- ' ed into the regular channels of trade, and elped to create prosperity for many people n Canada. With the 1951 - tourist season tarting so auspicuously, it is reasonable to xpect that equally large amounts of Am- rican dollars pour into Canada as in the ast years. egotiations Breakdown It is unfortunate that at a very early tage in the armistice negotiations between he United Nations high command and the hinese Communists, there should be a own over a matter which has nothing . $65,000,000 $57,200,000 $44,200,000 $81,200,000 $23,400,000 $18,200,000 . to do with the actual negotiations. Feeling that the time had come when the free world should be kept informed as to the progress of the armistice talks, General Ridgway asked twenty newspapermen to accompany the U.N. negotiators to Kaesong, not to at- tend the meetings, but to be available for statements which might be issued. The Chinese Communists, however, wanted none of the U.N. press in attendance, so they were barred by a military patrol from en- tering the Kaesong area. Immediately, the U.N. delegates ordered negotiations discon- tinued until such time as the presence of the newspapermen was allowed. This is another incident which throws light on the attitude of Communist coun- tries towards a free press. They themselves have no such thing. Their press is fed what- ever information the governing body wishes to give to it, so that the news given to their people is strictly controlled. They have no use for the system of freedom of the press as it prevails in the democratic countries. One cannot help feeling that the real pur- pose of the Chinese Communist ban. on the press is unwillingness of its leaders to have the people of the world told the full truth about what is going on at Kaesong. This would leave the Communist leaders free to issue their own propaganda material to the press of China and other Communist coun- tries, while debarring the reporters of the free press of United Nations countries from reporting the truth. It is hoped that this clash of opinions is cleared up speedily, but not on terms which would involve the United Nations in capitu- lation to the Communist ideas of a con- trolled press spoon-fed by government propa- ganda agencies. Editorial Notes It will be very acceptable to have a cease- fire in Korea, particularly if it could be fol- lowed, as the Windsor Star suggests, by a cease-fear. : Ra + + Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip have asked for simplicity in their program for their tour of Canada. Knowing Canadian ways, we fear that this is a vain hope. * + * Hundreds of Oshawa children are register- ing for swimming and water safety lessons. This work alone is worth all the money that is invested in the Community Recreation As- sociation. LJ + + St. Lawrence seaway legislation is being bogged down by argument in the congres- sional committee sessions. The argument would soon stop if Canada made a start on plans for an all-Canadian, seaway. * + * A United Nations spokesman says that the Communist threat to the world is mainly a political one. We wonder what the men who have been fighting in Korea for the last year think of that, : ® Other Editors' Views o THE END OF THE LINE (Time Magazine) For more than a decade, Britons have been patient- ly queuing up for virtually all of life's luxuries and necessities. Last week, Britain's nationalized railways announced a plan to relieve the lot of passengers forced to stand in line for trains. On the principle that a queue by any other name is easier to bear, British station signs reading, "Queue here" will be changed to "Assemble here." *. * 4 ERNEST EARNED REWARD (Detroit Free Press), The British Government has arranged--appropri- ately we feel -- for Ernest Bevin's ashes to be placed in Westminster Abbey. The Abbey is a national shrine and to be buried there, a recognition of service to King and Country. A dozen or more kings, several queens and numerous statesmen have been sp honored. Very few of them sewed to better purpose than Ernest Bevin, the man of humble origin, who rose to power and influence fighting labor's battles and then stood shoulder to shoulder with Winston Churchill in Britain's "finest hour." oe A Bit of Verse ® - GOLDFINCH SONG The sunshine woke us, and the knowledge of roses In the new light, and the bubbles of nur thoughts, And still we stayed inside, toying with cups, Hot water, and things to eat, until we heard The sparkle of tiny voices in the willow, Too thin for sparrows, too like broken musie. Then we were out among the carnival Of goldfinch song and looking toward the sun Where the birds of the sun with shadows on their wings Gave us a quarter hour of little magic And then were gone, a fabric of light and wonder Unravelled as it was built by the wind and sunshine-- And yet we knew in our hearts they were living birds. --ALLEN E. WOODALL ® A Bible Thought e The fulness of His blessing encompasseth our way; The fulness of His promise crown every brightning day; The fulness of His glory is beaming from above, While more and more we realize the fulness of His love. --F. R. HAVERGAL. 'Let's Se > 0) --Little, in The Nashville Tennessean By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE New York (AP) -- Coming through chemistry: Abundant food for everyone, by discovery of the secrets of photo- synthesis. Fuels for trips to the moon... heat-risistant materials for faster jet planes. Clothes that won't wrinkle or lose a crease. Fresh water from the sea to off- set water shortages.. .new foods and more minerals or metals from the oceans. Drugs to control cancer, polio an other diseases. Artificial proteins, maybe--and maybe even creation of life. Fantastic? Chemists already are on the way to bringing may of them true. And on the basis of past performances, the predictions should be treated with respect. Take a moment for a look back, and a glance ahead. The occasion is the diamond jub- ilee year of the American Chemical Society, founded 75 years ago and now the largest professional sci- entific society in the world. Special ceremonies will include a world chemical conclave this September in New York and Washington, bringing top chemists' from over the world. Seventy-five years ago, chemist was a small industry in the United States. Today, chemicals are the fore- most industry of the country, in multi-billion dollar operations. The parade of new and better and once-undreamed of things from chemistry is staggering in variety. . . . Processed foods and more nu- tritious foods, vitamins, sulfa drugs and antibiotics, synthetic gems, synthetic tires for autos, long-last- ing, bright-colored paints. Plastics to the tune of 1,500,000,- 000 pounds a year now, oils and gasoline, synthetic gasoline, dyes creating new rainbows, synthetic fertilizers boosting food supplies, insecticides, weed killers, synthetic soaps, bromine and magnesium mined from the sea, plastics and greases made from sand and car- bon. Man-made fibres from rayon to nylon and half a doxen much newer ones with special advantages shrink-proofing of clothes, moth- proofing, rainproofing; movies and photography and TV, synthetic hor- mones, modern cigarettes, better baseballs, cosmetics, cheaper and better books, more potent war weapons. And the atom bomb. Chemists had a huge hand in making the bomb possible. They have a major role in bringing about atomic pow- er for peacetime use. For centuries chemistry was a collection of arts and crafts. But the magic of research was taking form slowly. The wand created, among other things, a giant of chemical re- search, still young and vigorous. No one can predict what the com- ing years will bring. But some things are clearly on the horizon. There will be better plastics, better clothes for coolness or warmth and comfort and appear- ance, better homes, more and better drugs to control diseases, better preservation of foods. An old worry is whether there are or will be too many people, too many mouths to feed, too-many people to clothe and supply with material things. Some chemists are confident they will find answers--maybe by using inexhaustible raw materials of sand air and water in place of metals and coal and oil. Sugars may come or artificial blending of protein building blocks, fats from coal and other things. Earth may someday be used In new ways to form bricks and slabs for home. There is progress now foward solving the secrets of photosyn- thesis, the process by which plants | from wood; proteins from yeasts |ed Chemistry's Magic Wand Is Key To Future Manuals create foodstuffs from sunlight, carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen. Man could create limitless supplies of food once he can duplicate photo- synthesis in his own factories. Much of the terrific energy of the sun now is wasted. It is partly a chemical challenge to learn how to use it more efficiently for heat and for power. The human body is made of an inexpensive amount of chemicals. In biochemistry lie the answers to many secrets of health and life. Looking Around The World By M. M. H. One of the basic ideas about the organisation of the Western Europe defence force, now being formed under the leadership of General Eisenhower, was that standardiza- tion of all arms and equipment would be achieved. By this means, it would be possible for all the units within the NATO army to be sup- plied from the same sources, and to achieve unity in their operations. That was a grand idea, but is not proving too easy to put into effect. Even in so simple a matter as the rifles to be used by the infantry- men, the core of any army, there is violent disagreement about which should be used. Britain, the United States and Canada are at logger- heads on this question, because all three have adopted a different type of rifle, with even a different bore, so that they will have to use different types of ammunition: In Britain, a new type of .280 bore rifle has been adopted by the army authorities, who claim it is the best rifle that is available. The United States, on the other hand, is pinning its faith on a .300 bore weapon, while Canada is still stick- ing to the .303 rifle, which has been the calibre used by her troops in the two world wars. Naturally this - situation has created a certain amount of ap- prehension concerning the future of the arms standardization policy. If these three nations cannot come to an agreement on so simple a matter as the type and calibre of rifle to be used by their troops, it is going to be far more difficult to secure agreement among the twelve NATO nations, not only on rifles, but on other types of equipment, such as tanks, artillery weapons, transport vehicles and so on. Since it is intended if the NATO army is ever called into action to meet an aggressor, that it shall fight under a unified command, with great flexibility of movement on the part of units of the various nations, one can see that utter con- fusion would result from a multipli- city of types of weapons, even rifles. If the weapons at present favored by Britain, the United States and Canada are all kept in service, it will be necessary to pro- vide three different sizes and types of ammunition for them. That would militate against having the forces of these three countries used within the same formations. Each country, no doubt, feels that it has adopted the best weapons for the purposes for which they are intended. So there will have to be some compromise if standardization is to be attained. It might be sug- gested that a board of experts rep- resenting the various NATO nations be set up for the purpose of exam- ining all arms and equipment, and recommending what is best in the interests of standardization. Only by some such method will the goal established at the outset be attain- TORONTO UNIT TOPS Ottawa (CP) -- A Toronto unit, the 2nd Field Regiment of the Royal Canadian Engineers, has been awarded the Gzowski cup as the best all-round reserve force engineering unit in eastern Canada. Mac's Musings Whenever you feel inclined To be blue about things, To bemoan the hard luck Which is haunting you, We would suggest that you Arrange to spend only And hour or two in Company With some of the Oshawa Citizens who are blind And learn from them the Lesson of how to overcome Handicaps and misfortunes With smiling countenance, The other day we spent Three hours at a picnic Given for the blind folks Of Oshawa and district, And we have nevet seen Anything more inspiring, Or more calculated to Make one feel humble Than to watch these people Who have lost that Great blessing of sight Enjoy themselves and carry On as if they had no Handicap at all, It made one hestitate To offer them assistance To see how they found Their way around, and took Part in games of skill And interesting contests, Just as if they had As much sight as those Who were entertaining them. It seemed as if they Had found in the darkness Of their blind condition, An inner light which Illumined their spirits And shone in their faces As they met old friends, And enjoyed everything Provided for them, These blind people became Quiet heroes and heroines As we looked on at their Annual picnic, and we left Feeling that we had Witnessed a great exhibition Of human courage. Remedy For Boredom By JOSEPH LISTER RUTLEDGE Julian H. Ferguson, manufac- turer of Collingwood, Ont., and Federal member for Simcoe North, aroused a somnolent House recent- ly by a two-fisted attack on at- titudes that, he contended, were turning Canadians into a nation of leaners. He argued that neither building materials nor houses were to be had for the asking, that ma- terial shortages that were making the costs of home construction pro- hibitive did not spring from any scarcity of raw materials but from our unwillingness to work hard enough or long enough to produce them. We were raising prices on ourselves because we were reluc- tant to work and were depending oa government to provide for us. "I believe in short hours," he said, "if there is not enough work to go around. If we can produce what we need in four hours a day let us work just that long. But the fact is there are ten hours' work cut out for every man will- ing to do it for his regular pay, if we are to produce the goods we need. If we would knuckle down to this and forget the other nonsense, we'd get somewhere." In the United States Paul Hoff- man, one-time president of Stude- baker Corporation, one-time ECA Chief and presently head of the Ford Foundation was saying some- thing similar to a Chamber of Commerce gathering. He .was say- ing that in 1949, 26% 'of all U.S. wage earners"were receiving better than $3,000 where ten years before only 15% had a similar purchasing power. He put it graphically. After World War I there was scarcely a worker at the Studebaker plant who earned enough to 'buy one of the cars he produced. After World War II, one of his serious problems as president had been to convince 10,000 of their 13,000 workers that they must stand in line with the rest of the public for whatever cars were available. The differenze was in this. Fifty years ago the American worker was no more productive than his European counterpart. Today, with the aid of power and tools and ma- chines he was two and a half times as productive, and much of the ben- efit accrued to himself. Mr. Hoff- man told of a French foundryman who had adapted American meth- ods to his factory. The result was that manhours per ton of produc- tion dropped from 222 to 83, prices were reduced by 25% and wages increased by 20%. It looks as if Mr. Ferguson has something when he urges that all we have to do to bring benefit to everyone -- abundant goods, lower prices, higher wages and shorter hours--is to get to work and pro- duce. Work never killed anyone yet. It is boredom that does the damage. And boredom results when the accent is on doing too little rather than doing' too much. Trade Unions Play Part In Affairs Milan, Italy (AP) Newly- elected executives of the free world's trade union movement started yesterday to put into effect a new program of labor union participation in world affairs. The program was adopted during the last nine days by delegates to the world congress of the Inter- national .Confederation of Free Trade Unions which has a mem- bership of 50 million in 66 coun- tries. The 19-member executive board chosen at the final congress ses- sion elected Britain's Sir Vincent Tewson, 53-year-old labor leader, as president to succeed Belgium's Paul Finet, «| store ~ PORTRAITS By James J. Metcalfe Our Little Orphans LOVE the little children with . . . No have to look to someone elise . . be content and glad . . . The « . . So sad and all alone . . . and . .. No home to call their victims of . . . The world in mother and no dad . . . Who .To boys and girls who often feel Because they have no parents own . .. They are the helpless which we live . . . And they depend upon our heargs . . . And what our hands may give « « « I never overlook them and . . . I never turn them down «++ But I amull for helping them .-. . In every part of town «+ « I love our little orphans and . . . I think we all should be + + « Their fathers and their mothers in . . . Our good com' munity. Copr. 1951, FiEld Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Réserved Going Much Too Far (The Financial Post) Just what are 'labor unions after anyway? They scream about high prices. Yet they demand higher wages. ° They want price control but no wage control. Now Winnipeg provides a situa- tion which if it weren't so serious, would border on the ludicrous. A food store has been selling bread below its competitors, The CCL Bakery Workers' union in- stead of cheering for something they've been loudly demanding, ordered its drivers not to deliver to the store! Why? Because, says the union in a letter to its members, the is "practicing "unfair com- petition" by cutting the retail price and thereby jeopardizing the earn- ings of unionized salesmen. What's more, the union has told the major bakeries not to supply bread to the price-lowering "of- fender." Not asked them---warned them not to. Knowing what would happen if they didn't, the bakeries knuckled under. We have had many cases of unions flouting the law in the matter of strikes, but this sort of thing goes even further. Here we have direct and totally unjustified interference with the ordinary citi- zen in the matter of buying bread. And recently we had the same sort of interference in Toronto with the buying of milk and - earlier with the disposal of garbage in Hamilton. In addition bo being a dangerous misuse of power the unions cone cerned are demonstrating a cal= lous disregard of their national leader's plea for lower prices and lower costs. ® 40 Years Ago L. O. Clifford of Oshawa ship= ped a herd of fifteen thoroughbred Hereford cattle to Winnipeg to go on: the Western show circuit. The mortgage on Simcoe Street Methodist Church was burned at the annual meeting of the congre- gation. The official census return for 1911 gave Oshawa a population of 7439, and Whitby a population of 22417. Oshawa Orange lodges went to Cobourg to join in the July 12 celebration, its fife and drum band winning second prize. 3 The Canadian Pacific Railway made its final survey of the line on which its tracks will pass through the city. INSIDE QUEENS PARK - Jealousy Hits Twin Cities Port Arthur--A divided house can make a mess of things. If this city and its twin of Fort William could ever get together and work on an entirely allied basis one wonders how much further ahead they might be. The currnt object in the long series of disputes in which they have engaged is a new Home for the Aged. ' It has been agreed that a new home should be built under the provincial plan in which the government puts up 50 per cent of the capital cost. Both cities and the surrounding district agree the home is needed. Out there the agreement ends. The point of contention, of course, is which cry shouid have the actual home. At one stage there was a de- cision in favor of Port Arthur. But Fort William wouldn't go along with this. It had a site it declared was better. And so there was a deadlock. Welfare Minister Goodfellow was appealed to. He was asked to come to the Lakehead and decide which city had the better site. He came, wasn't willingly stepping into hot water. He told the cities they would have to decide on their own. If necessary put up two homes, he said. Smaller homes were bet- ter anyway. There has been considerable word of mouth criticism of the Minister for refusing to referee this bout. On the street they are will have a home. This, of course, won't be so. These disputes eventually are re- solved. But it probably will be a while longer than necessary before the new home or homes are built. As an outsider one can perhaps sympathize with the local disap- pointment that Mr. Goodfellow them. But one can allow it would be absurd ir the two cities were to continue their growth on the basis of calling in outside inter- mediaries. They would inevitably have the moral fibre of jellyfish. And local autonomy which means s0 much to all municipalities would grow non-existent. The two cities certainly don't seem to be growing any closer to- gether. 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