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OPINONS - F EATURES The Daily Times-Gazette OBHAWA 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 Amer jcan N Publishers A i the Ontari Provincial Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled tos the use for. ; of 2 news in the paper to it or to Pregs 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, yd and Pickering, 30c per week. By mail out- side carrier delivery areas anywhere in Canada and England, $7.00 ear; U.S. $9.00 per year. Authorized as rm) Clas Ma , Post Office Department, Ottawa, Canada. DAILY AVERAGE CIRCULATION for JUNE 10,617 ha ri " Advice to Labor Councils Some excellent advice to local Labor coun- eils was contained in a statement made to a Canadian Congress of Labor summer school panel at Port Huron, Michigan, a few days ago. This school was attended by some 75 Canadian union members, and the advice was given by Wilfred List, Globe and Mail labor. reporter, who has had much exper- ience in watching local Labor councils in ac- tion. The gist of Mr. List's statement was that while Labor councils can play an important part in the community by acting as watch- dogs over municipal affairs, they should guatd against being an avenue for irrespon- sible statements that conflict with facts. He went on to say that in a number of cases, delegates to local Labor councils made state- ments or charges that did not conform 'to the facts, and these ultimately reflected om the Labor councils. We warmly agree with the statement made by Mr. List, but-with one reservation. This- is 'based on-what has happened more than once at meetings of the Oshawa and District Labor Council. This body has served a 'useful purpose.in its action on matters which afected the welfare of all the people of Oshawa. But on more than one occasion, charges and attacks 'inconsistent with the facts have been made by individual dele- gates to the Council. We have felt that these incidents, which have been reported in the press, have damaged the prestige and au- thority of the Oshawa and District Labor body. We do not, however, feel that the Council as a body, or as a Labor entity, can and should be held responsible for the state- ments made by individual members who might be extremists. In speaking, they are voicing their own personal opinions only, and it is only when a resolution is passed that views become Labor council policy. But we do feel that when such charges and at- tacks are made on institutions and individ- uals at a Labor council meeting, those who are zealous for the good name of the Coun- cil, and who recognize them as unjustifiable, should make it clear that they do not repre- sent the considered views of organized. Lab- or.' ' : : .. ' .. . eo ® Racial Discrimination 'Controller Saunders of Toronto the other day precipitated a lengthy discussion in a Board of Control meeting on the question of whether or not the Toronto City Council, in: employing help, should observe the pro- visions of the provincial Fair Employment Practices Act. For years, it has been the policy of the Toronto City Council to em- ploy only British subjects on city jobs. Un- der the above act, which was passed at the 1951 session: of the Ontario legislature, that policy would be regarded as racial discrimin- ation, which is now prohibited so far as its being a barrier to employment is concerned. - Controller Saunders was all for defying the act"and sticking to the old policy. He received no support from Mayor Hiram Mc- Callum and Controller Shannon, who felt that, the act now being the law of Ontario, it must be obeyed, even by municipal coun- cils. ; "This discussion raises a fine point which was not given much thought at the time the act was passed. That point concerns people who have come to Canada from non- British countries, and have not become Cana- dian citizens. If the City Council of Toronto were to take the viewpoint that because of this fact they were not eligible for consider- ation for employment in the public services of the city, that would constitute discrimin- ation which is forbidden under this legisla- tion. : - 'So long as a law is on the statute books of Ontario, however, it is intended to be obeyed, and it 'would ill become any muni- cipal authority to deliberately flout the law, as Controller Saunders would do. If there . ii . are matters of interpretation which are in doubt, there is'a proper place in which these can be decided. And after all, the act does contain some reservations regarding its ap- plication to public services which are essen- tial for the welfare and safety of the state. Censure for Drew When the Globe and Mail goes out of its way to administer an editorial rebuke to its favorite politician, George A. Drew, that becomes a matter of great news interest. There have been many criticisms of Mr. Drew's recent attack on the political honesty of the Rt. Hon. C. D. Howe, but most of them have been by newspapers having no partisan political views editorially. The Globe and Mail, however, is Mr. Drew's strongest newspaper supporter so that he apparently far overstepped the bounds. of - propriety when it feels impelled to censure him. The criticism of Mr. Drew by the Globe and Mail was in the following terms: "There is no doubt that in his radio speech last week he - (Mr. Drew) questioned Mr, Howe's honesty by accusing him of arranging government contracts with his own family company. If Mr, Drew believed that to be the case, his charges should not have been made over 8 OBC network; they should have been made in the House of Commons. We can only suppose that the Conservative leader was too enthusiastic over the results of the recent by- elections. While modest and realistic in his appraisals of these results, he allowed himself to be carried away by the trend, and went further in his attack on the government that the facts allowed him to go. "There have been few stronger critics of Mr. Howe than the Globe and Mail. But we do not believe any can question Mr. Howe's honesty in public life, Certainly it was fool- ish of Mr. Drew to imagine that if the De- fence Production Minister were giving ques- tionable contracts, he would give them to a company bearing his own name." This statement is very much to the point, and sets forth the facts as they have been seen by most right-thinking people. It was a mistake on Mr. Drew's part to'attack Mr. Howe in the way he did, but we doubt if even the censure of the Globe and Mail will impel him to change. his ways. He 'is too fond of this questionable method of political and personal attack to be reformed over- night by a single rebuke from his newspaper supporter. Editorial Notes Saturday's UAW picnic shows what an idealy location Lakeview Park is for large scale events of this kind. In spite of the huge crowd, there was ample accommoda- tion for all the people and for the extensive program. The only drawback was the pro- hibition on swimming in Lake Ontario at Oshawa Beach. - + We + Japanese are reported to eat three times as much fish as Americans. But if U.S. meat prices keep at their present level, the Amer- icans will soon catch up on the Japs. + * + With eggs rapidly approaching a price of a dollar a dozen, it is not the goose that lays the golden eggs in these modern days. ® Other Editors' Views o THOSE BRITISH BY-ELECTIONS (Ottawa Journal) 'Ine British Labor Party has won a couple of by- elections lately, but merely to hold Labor seats -- and by majorities sharply reduced. They give no in- dication that the Attlee government is recovering any lost ground: Conservative hopes remain strong of winning the next general election, which now is expected in the fall. ' ; * * * RUSSIA STOPS WHEN OPPOSED, (Montreal . Gazette) Perhaps the best clue to Jacob Malik's words in 1951 is to be found in what the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Lord Palmerston, said in the year 1853. Said Palmerston: "The policy and practice of the Russian Government has always been to push for- ward with its encroachments as fast and as far as the apathy or want of firmness of other govern- ments would allow it to go; but always to stop and retire, when it met with decided resistance, and then to wait for the next favorable opportunity to make another spring on its intended victim." ® A Bit of Verse @ ON MUSIC Many love music but for music's sake, Many because her touches can awake 'Thoughts that repose within the breast half-dead, And rise to follow where she loves to lead. What various feelings come from days gone by! What tears from far-off sources dim the eye! Few, when light fingers with sweet voices play, And melodies swell, pause, and melt away, Mind how at every touch, at every tone, A spark of life hath glistened and hath gone. ~WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR. - @ A Bible Thought e Measure' thy life by loss and not by gain; Not in the wine drunk, but in the wine poured out; For love's strength standeth in love's sacrifice. Christ, who "poured out His soul unto death," said, "He that findeth his life shall lose it; and he that loseth his life for My sake shall find it." (Matt. 10:39). - ter love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." (John 16:13). The Key" oie -, ET --Immel, in The Peoria Journal Looking Around The World By M. M. H, Today, in Brussels, Belgium, an event is taking place which has a high degree of importance to all the countries who are partners in the North Atlantic Treaty Organ- ization. This event is the abdica- tion of the throne of Belgium by King Leopold III and the accession as king of Prince Baudouin, who has been acting as regent. This change ol. monarch in Bel- glum is being carried out quietly and without undue excitement, be- cause the stage has been set for it for a long time. A year ago King Leopold returned to his country from exile in Switzerland, hoping to take over the throne of his fath- ers. But although 'a plebiscite of the people showed a small major- ity in tavor of Leopold remaining as King, the division of the people was such that Belgium was on the verge of a revolution when Leopold announced that he proposed to take up his duties. It was to avoid this revolt that Leopold agreed to turn over his active powers as ruler to Baudouin and to abdicate the throne when his son reached the age of 21 on September 7 of this year. For some unknown reason, how- ever, Leopold decided to vacate the throne before that date, and some time ago made an official an- nouncement that he would abdicate in favor of his son on July 16, which is today. There is a tragic background to the disappearance from the royal scene in Belgium of Leopold III. It is tragic because his father, Leo- pold II, who was ruler of Belgium during the First World War, be- came something of a symbol of de- mocracy tortured hy dictatorship when he defied the German invad- ers of Mis country. How different were the actions of his son, Leo- pold III, in World War Two. His was the shameful act of surrender to the enemy which left the Brit- ish Army isolated in Belgium, al- most ringed about with the German hordes, and forced the evacuation from Dunkirk. That shemeful surrender was never forgiven by his own Belgian people. - They never forgot, either, that he was a privileged guest of Hitler in the period after his sur- render. In fact, there seldom has been a monarch who earned the dis- like and the resentment of his peo- ple to the extent that was done by the king who gives up his throne today The change in the Belgian sov- ereignty to put an epd to what has been a very serious internal. prob- lem for that country. For the last six years, it has been torn with in- ternal strife between the Flemings and the Walloons, two sections of the population who disagreed on who should be their monarch. All that strife could have been averted had Leopold III seen the handwrit- ing on the wall and abdicated six years ago. Fortunately his son, Baudouin, is of a different stamp, and has won the popularity and acclaim of all sections of the country. He may provide the unifying influence which was lacking while his father was king. And that is important to those countries who are looking to Belgium to play a significant part in the affairs of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. - WORMS APLENTY The total weight of earthworms in habiting a pasture having me- dium clay loam soil almost equals the combined weight of the live- stock the pastume is expected to support. NEW ARRIVALS : When the Canadian destroyer las. M-y, lies Athabaskan returned from Korea 15 members of hor crew ay A li to thelr fami- for the first time. mn: WhatAreWe Defending? By JOSEPH LISTER RUTLEDGE There is no use blinking the sob- bering fact that, sooner or later, our free world must try conclusions with communism, 'Whether that will be by open war, or whether it will remain a conflict of ideolo- gies short of war, we cannot yet know. All we know is that conflict of some sort is inevitable and that we must either prepare or submit. It is easy, under the stimulus of such a threat, to encourage our- selves towards sacrifices that in bet- ter days and under different con= ditions we would not have endured. The results of these sacrifices we are beginnig to feel. Even with our too slow preparation for the worst we have taken millions of man-hours and uncounted tons of materials from production for peace to production for war, So the things we need have been getting more scarce, and the dollars that in more normal times would have been used to buy them have been accumulating in our pockets. The inevitable urge to satisfy our needs and desires at any cost sets the in- flationary trend in motion. The tendency of many people faced with this problem is to turn back to the cure-alls of the last war; to restrictions and controls and regulated prices. But then, we were at war. Today we have to pre- pare for the worst, but we have also to try to keep our world as nearly as possible on an even keel. Tc achieve that, inflation must be controlled, but, there are better ways to control inflation than by arbitrary and irksome measures. There is the way of the curtail- ment of every non-essential govern- ment spending that puts new and unproductive dollars in circulation. There is the way of encouraging the production of every possible unit of consumer goods. These are the best antidotes for the surplus of money over goods that is the root of inflation. Those who argue for controls seemingly fail to recognize that here is the actual battle-ground of our conflicting ideologies. Tell us what we may charge and pay for goods, what we may have and pay as wages, and it is only a step-- to what? To telling us what we shall buy and when; where we shall work, and how long; what we shall read, hear, believe and think. So, in the days to come when we have to face that struggle, whether physical or ideological, it may be to find that in our eagerness to discover easy remedies we have lost the feeling for freedom that en- courages us to fight. DAILY. TIMES-GAZETTE EDITORIAL PAGE "If I Only Had Mac's Musings The coming of the holiday Season is important To all of us because it Provides the opportunity To relax completely, To forget about the cares And worries of working days, And to enjoy that surcease From. the regular round Of daily toil which helps To re-create the -worker Physically and mentally, The trouble with too many Of us is that we do not Know how to relax and The constant drive of our Daily routine becomes So much a part of our Thinking that to think Of anything else seems Foreign to our natures, So that to take some time Far away from work in Body and in spirit Is what makes holidays A re-creating factor. Excessive fatigue is rarely The result of overwork, But is rather the result Of strain and worry. This strain can be fought To some degree by keeping Regular hours, but the Annual holiday where Complete relaxation is Offered through a change Of atmosphere and pursuits, Must supplement the regular Sleeping hours and healthy Conditions, so that one Can forget about the job And come back from vacation Recharged with vitality. Rearmament Holds Back U.K. Recovery London -- A sharp fall in the sterling area's gold and dollar surplus, from $360 million in the first quarter of this year to $54 million in the second quarter, was announced by the U.K. Chancellor of the Excnequer on July 4th. The surplus for the fourth quarter of last year was $398 million. The sterling area's reserves at the end of the second quarter stood at $3,867 million compared with $3,758 million in the Jirst quarter. This increase of $109 million was the sum of the surplus of $54 million and of $55 million of receipts under the European Re- covery Programme in respect of allotments made before the end of 1950. The falling-off in the surplus for the second quarter of 1951 is attrib- uted to three main factors. The first is an increase in expenditure on imports from the dollar area, both by the U.K. and the countries in the rest of the sterling area. The second is a decline of earn- ings from exports to the dollar area from the rest of the sterling area, which was in part seasonal. Against this, but only partly off- setting the decline, was a wel come increase in U.K. exports to the dollar area. The third is a reduction in net gold and dollar receipts from non-dollar countries, particularly from the European Payments Union. During ° the second quarter, receipts from E.P.U. in settlement of the UXK.'s surplus amounted to only $17 million compared with $76¢million in the first quarter. This falling-off in the gold and dollar surplus was not unexpected and the Chancellor considers it to be '"'quite likely that these less favourable influences will continue during the next few months'. The Economic Survey, published last spring, pointed out that "a sub- stantial relapse from the favour- able position reached in 1950 is, in any case, virtually inevitable, despite higher total earnings, par- ticularly if the sterling area's essential import needs are to be met in full." e 15 Years Ago Ald. W. J. Lock left Oshawa to represent the city at the unveiling of the Vimy Ridge War Memorial. Six employees of General Motors of Canada also made the trip. General Motors car sales for the first half of 1936 were 20 per cent higher than in 1935. The provincial government an- nourtced it would absorb reduction made by federal government in Osh- awa relief grant. . Mansell Gerrow of Port Perry was elected DDGM for the Masonic Order in this district, Byron Trull and Robert Campbell were killed when struck by a CPR train at the Stephenson's Road Crossing. Why are you working? To see all your earnings pass through your hands without even enough to say "Hello" using long If only a small part of those earnings could stay behind as savings, you would banish worry . . . u'd enjoy life more today... and you'd build a fund for the things you want tomorrow to bring. Find out what the vital zen per- cent means. Ask for your copy of "Personal Planning" at your neighborhood Bof M branch. Personal Planning will bel you_save . . . and you'll like saving at "MY BANK". MONTREAL WORKING WITH CANADIANS IN EVERY WALK OF LIFE SINCE 1817 PORTRAITS ou you . . . For years come . . « And you Beneath your little thumb . . . loving heart . . . he was all your own . . . Forever be agreeable . . . To all that you might say . . . 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A few days later there was a brief announcement in the local press telling that the Great Lakes Lumber ond Shipping Company had been granted certain cutting rights along the Nipigon River, on islands in Lake Superior, and in Quetico Provincial Park. This announcement which came from the Lands and Forests de- partment confirmed speculation of the past months that the govern- ment was reaching agreement with the lakehead sawmill millionaire. The dispute, it will be recalled, started better than two years ago when Mr. Johnston announced that unless he received limits from the government he would have to close down his modern sawmill, which is the largest east of the Pacific coast. The following wrangle was in- volved and often very bitter with Mr. Johnston and the pulp com- panies making charges and coun- ter-charges, and the mill owner himself directing a very wide- spread publicity campaign. The gist of the argument from the opposition was that this coun- try wasn't primarily saw-log ter- ritory and that there definitely wasn't enough saw-log material in the area to support Mr. John- ston's huge mill, which at full ca- pacity could consume more than 100 million feet a year. The lumberman's reply was that there was plenty of lumber in the area but that the pulp companies were wastefully chewing up saw- logs for pulp. It would appear that a compro+ mise - has 'been reached whereby Mr, Johnston has been given lime its which aren't as large as he want- ed, but which can still give him a fairly large operation. He says that he will be employing a maxi- mum of 800 men in the bush as against a peak of 2,500 at full capa=- city. And in the mill he will have 250 as against 650. Local feeling would seem to be one of relief that the stand-off has finally be resolved. While there have been conflicting views on the claims and counter-claims one ree mark has been generally expressed. This is that the closing of the Johnston mill affected 3,000 people in Fort William and it was a ser- ious blow to the city. Now, at least, part of these will be taken care of again. ' There has been some question- ing of the government grant of limits 'in Quetico Park, which is probably the most beautiful recrea- tion area in the province. Local conservationists are alarm ed. However, it has always been government policy to grant cute ting rights in provincial parks, though with strong restrictions de- signed to keep the shorelines well wooded, and otherwise to see that the natural beauty of the parks is retained as well as possible. EFFICIENCY is just as | important in an OFFICE as it is in a PLANT Write .. . Geom S. May Company 122 East 42nd Street, New York 17, N. Y. Established 1925 ld & (NR's Duplex Roomette Brings NEW NIGHT-AND-DAY You Q\ Picaoy and (omenince [7 National Perhaps you've always wanted a private room when you travel. 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