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OPINONS / FEATURES The Daily Times-Gazette OSHAWA WHITBY THE OSHAWA TIMES (Established 187) THE WHITBY GAZETTE & CHRONICLE (Established 1863) - te is a member of The Canadian Press, Tn me og ly Newspap A iat 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, P h ident and Publi ; T. L. WILSON, Vice-President and Managing Director. M. McINTYRE HOOD, Managing Editor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ivered by carrier in Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin, Port Pelivs yo Pickering, 30c per week. By mail out- side carrier delivery areas anywhere in Canada and England, $7.00 per year; U.S. $9.00 per year, Authorix as Second Class Matter, Post Office Department, Ottawa, Canada. DAILY AVERAGE CIRCULATION for JUNE 10,617 WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1951 Milk Control Influences Maurice G. Hart, manager of the Oshawa Dairy Limited, whose resignation from the Milk Control Board of Ontario was announc- ed yesterday. said that he resigned because of his conviction that the policies of the Board were being influenced by outside sources. This raises an issue which far transcends in importance the question of the milk price to be established for Toronto. It brings up the point of what outside in- fluences are being exercised upon the actions of the Milk Control Board. In his letter of resignation to the Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Hart said either too much or too little. Knowing Mr. Hart as we do, we believe absolutely in the conscien- tiousness of his statement that the Board was being subjected to the pressure of out- side influences. But he did not go far enough. He would have rendered an important ser- vice if he had indicated, publicly in his let- ter, what these influences were and the source from which they came. If political influence is being brought to bear on the members of the Board, the people of Ontario have the right to know all about it. As the matter now stands, Mr. Hart's let- ter leaves the people of Ontario wondering who those people are whose influence is suf- ficient to make the Board change its de- cisions, If, as he states, the decision of the Board was changed between two meetings; because of outside influence, it would be im- portant to know who influenced its other members. Did the Ontario Minister of Agri- culture step into the picture and tell the Board what he wished it to do? Or did the Premier of the Province give some direction to the Board in regard to the milk price situ- ation in Ontario? These are questions which now arise since the charge of outside in- fluence has been made openly. They are questions which should be answered, and they could have been answered before being asked if. Mr. Hart had told the whole story in his letter of resignation. Cutting Newsprint Prices A somewhat amazing controversy is going on in the Province of Quebec. Premier Du- plessis is a great champion for the rights of his own province, but in suggesting that Quebec newsprint mills should grant a pre- ferred reduced price for their supplies of newsprint, he is going beyond what is good business and common-sense. He even went so far as to suggest that his government might impose some form of control over newsprint if the manufacturers did not agree to his de- mand. It should be obvious to anyone with the slightest degree of business sense that a proposal like that of Premier Duplessis sim- ply would not work. Newsprint is a com- modity of which the .greater part is ex- ported. Through the years the policy has been built up that the price is the same to all customers, and that price is announced * publicly, so that all users of newsprint may know what it is. To grant a reduced price to Quebec newspapers, just because they are published in the province in which the news- print is produced by Quebec firms, would be grossly unfair to all the other customers of these companies. There is another implication to this, how- ever, which shows how foolish it is. If the Quebec newspaper companies acceded to the demands of Premier Duplessis, then it would be perfectly in order for Premier Frost of Ontario to make a similar demand on On- tario newsprint manufacturers, and insist that they sell to Ontario newspapers at cut- rate prices. This could only result in disas- trous confusion within the newsprint in. dustry. We confess that we would welcome any constructive steps which would reduce the price of newsprint, but we cannot see that any progress in that direction could be made by a policy of provincial preferences such as is advocated and demanded by Duplessis. Colorful Figure Passes The death of Controller John Innes of To- ronto removes from the municipal scene in the provincial capital its most colorful figure. John Innes was a man who stood out among his fellows, not because of any bril- nature, his outspoken forthrightness and his great capacity for making friends. John Innes reached the position which he aftained by sheer force of character, and by his innate quality of' seeking to spend his life in helping those less fortunate than him- self. He achieved fame as the originator of the British War Victims' Fund, through which Canadians subscribed close to $3,000,- 000 towards providing assistance and relief for those who suffered in the German air raids on British towns and cities. He started the fund with a contribution and he worked zealously on its behalf until the need for it no longer existed. John Innes became alderman and control- ler because the people of Toronto saw in him 'a man who, without fuss or frills, had the faculty of getting things done. He was in- tolerant of lackadaisical methods in the civie administration. He seemed able to put his finger on the weak spots, and to advocate measures to remove them. And he won the confidence of his fellow-citizens to a degree attained by few men. John Innes was more than a citizen of To- ronto. He was known all over Ontario as a worker for the common folk, and he had friends far beyond the confines of his own city. It seems platitudinous to say that he will be greatly missed, but we know of few men of whom it could be said with more truth and emphasis. Editorial Notes Citizens of Oshawa whose cellars are fre- quently flooded by rain backing up in the storm sewers have every right to question whether these sewers are adequate for the purposes for which they have been installed. + + + Britain and France are opposed to admit- ting Spain to the North Atlantic Treaty or- ganization. They do not feel like trusting the only out-and-out Fascist government that is left in Europe. * ) + A Detroit newspaper story says the Cana- dian government plans subsidies to enable automobile manufacturers to reduce down payments on cars. That sounds like a very improbable story, but it could be nice if it were true. RA * * Oshawa, on a very small scale, has had a taste of what flood conditions mean to a community. ® Other Editors' Views o A PRESENT TREND (Ottawa Journal) The word "Dominion" in the Election Act is to be changed to "Canada." Harmless enough, of course, except insofar as it represents a surreptitious design to altar the traditional name of this country because to some people "Dominion," strangely enough, indi- cates a state of inferiority. "Part of the present trend" observes Minister Harris. Then it's time the trend was halted. ® A Bit of Verse ° JOE BOWERS ~~ TO HIS GIRL IN MUSKOKA On lakes and streams, our paddles gleam, Ashore, our bright maples croon; On waves of light, we ride the bright Gold highways of the moon, Past shady isles where evening smiles, On a little bark canoe. The moonlight gleams on silver streams And the boat that was built for two. Bless the little Indian, To glide and creep through the wildwood deep, From evening until morn, I could sit and float in that little boat, Till Gabriel blows his Horn. That little craft, it makes me laugh, The Indian man he knew, When he made that boat the waters to float, It would only carry two, Bless the little Boat. Coney Island's bright and has its delight, For Long Branch I do not wail; Old Orchard Beach is no great peach, And the seashore is getting' stale, The water bright in Muskoka height, Is the place I'd like to go; To spend my days in its waterways In a little bark canoe, For the little Indian dark make a boat of bark That would only carry two. Bless the Little Red Skin. --LITTLE JOE e A Bible Thought e Heaven's limitless resources are set over against the mean calculations of earth. Whenever it is a question between bold and the favour of God, hesi- tation is as foolish as it is wicked. The purchasing power of money is constantly shrinking; the coinage of Caesar's world can buy fewer and fewer articles of value as the days go by. "The Lord is able to give thee much more than this. (II -Chron, 25:9). is a watchword that covers every act of sacrifice.--Scrip- ture Union Notes. liance of intellect, but because of his rugged | LL -- Summers, in The Buffalo Evening News Looking Around The World By M. M. H. A despatch from Washington the other day started off with the fol- lowing sentence: "A secret billion-dollar air force building project in Europe and areas rimming Russia was approved today by the House of Representa- tives Armed Services Committee." Please note the use of the word "secret" in the announcement. We took this to mean that the com- mittee was doing something about which a potential enemy should be kept absolutely in the dark. It is natural to expect that not a word should be allowed to leak out into enemy ears about a policy which is branded as secret, So we had no expectation that a single idea would be divulged to give anyone an inkling of the real nature of this secret project. What was our astonishmen, on reading further down in the Wash- ington article, to find all the de- tails of the so-called secret pro- gram set down for anyone to read, even the emissaries of the Kremlin in the United States and Canada. Here are some of the "secrets" revealed in the article: The United States proposes to forge a mighty global ring of American air bases against any Soviet aggression. We are told further that Saudi Arabia has agreed to lease the strategic Dhahran airfield for the use of next five years; that appropriations were approved for the construction of eight new air bases in Alaska and Puerto Rico and six in the United States; that the construction of a system of North African air bases is to be rushed ahead. Secret projects, forsooth! What is secret about it when all the de- tails are given to the Associated Press to be circulated throughout the world. Russia will no doubt be delighted to have all this gratui- tous information as to the plans of the United States for her encircle- ment, particularly when it deals with "secret" plans. Russian reaction was rapid and incisive. A couple of days later it was announced that Russia is plan ning a series of large-scale air bases in China and Manchuria, and has been given the right to station troops in the vicinity of these air bases. It was just as if the Krem- lin had sald to Washington "Go ahead and set up your air bases around us; two can play at that game." We are all for giving the public all the information possible, within the bounds of national security, re- garding plans for global defence. But we just cannot understand why information should be termed sec- ret when it is handed out for pub- lication to the press of the world. 'Herring Choker' Special Takes Maritimers Home Montreal--A' Canadian National Railways train, dubbed the "Herring Choker's Special", last week took Maritimers, who have emigrated to other parts of Canada, "home" for a month-long visit of the Eastern town, Halifax, Saint John, Sydney, and St. John's, Newfoundland. The train, carrying Maritimers from points as far away as Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories, caried toys for the youngsters, a pipe band, and motion pictures for all ages. The train crew and porters were all from the Atlantic Procine- es, and were called on for extra duty as baby sitters en route. Birthdays and other special events were celebrated on boad with the chef whipping up the trimmings. Other Maritimers who could not make the tour, turned out at every town and city to greet the lucky ones along the way. SCOUTS EUROPE-BOUND Montreal (CP) -- Thirty two King Scouts, representatives of all parts of Canada, sail for Europe today to represent this country at the seventh world scout jamboree to be held in the United States zone of Austria. The boys, whose average age is 17,' will demon- strate North American square dancing and will take part in a bridge - building exhibition at the jamboree. U.S. bombers and fighters for the | tants Seaboard, with stops at Charlotte- |' RCAF NURSES PARATROOPS MERCY WORK Edmonton (CP)-- Five women yesterday became the first RCAF nursing sisters to undergo training in parachuting and wilderness res- cue work. With two RCAF medical officers and nine medical assistants, the five nursing sisters started an ab- breviated 11-week para - rescue course at North West Air Com- mand here.- The course also is the first for RCAF medical assistants. When they graduate, the train- ess will be attached to existing para-rescue teams as medical spe- cialists. Taking the third course are: Flight Lieutenants D. O. Voons and J. R. Wynn, medical officers; Flying Officers A. Peden and M. D. E. Beaton and Pilot Officers M. F. Neilly, M. L. MacDonald and J. I. Thomson, nursing sisters; Corporals L. O. Foster, J. H. F, Deschenes, G. H. Westwood, H. W. B. Campbell and J. H. Ferguson and leading aircraftsman H. B. White, J. P. Strachan, J.E.G. Pare and C, P. Cooney, medical assis- Writer New Champion Of Human Race At a time when every other critic is taking a crack at the human race for the mess it has made of the world, along comes a man who dares to stand up and express his ad- miration for people in general, This newly vocal champion of the hr, of which, to be sure, he is a member, is Roger William Rils, a Reader's Digest writer and roving editor. Riis' defence of humans appears in the Digest's August issue, con- densed from a Book-of-the-Month Club leaflet. Short-range criticism may be sound, he concedes, but over the long haul we have done better than anybody (and "anybody" is perforce a member of the hr, too) had any right to expect. Specifically, Riis says, we found a 'God, got sense of direction, set a goal, established workable stand- ards for living together and made the revolutionary discovery that kindness pays off better than brute strength. Despite detractors who think otherwise, man, on the whole, is honest. Proof is the fact that theft is new--ergo, it's the excep- tion. With silence and mystery ahead of us and behind us, we make up gay little gongs and whistle them. Alone among all living things, we've discovered Beauty and learned how to re-create it and cherish it. With nothing but the earth, water and air to work with, we've taken food, heat and light, and made ourselves an unparalleled collection of gadg- ets to make life and work easier. If the human race has any lim- its, Riis doesn't see them, Others, less optimistic than he, have sug- gested that humanity's limit might4 be the Bomb which humanity itself has made. But the type of limita- tion is hardly in the mood of Mr. Riis' current paean of praise to people. Highway Dept. Wants Pooling Area Near Entry to Bridge Fort Erie, Ont. (CP)--The On- tario Department of Highways has expressed opposition to the pro- posed Peace Bridge authority im- provement program, involving ap- proximately $600,000 expense, un- less a pooling area for traffic is established near the Ontario en- trance. This was made known today in a letter to Fort Erie council from J. D. Millar, deputy minis- ter of highways. The. Peace bridge crosses the DAILY TIMES-CAZETTE EDITORIAL. PACE Bear Tracks Mac's Musings It was quite a sight On Monday afternoon To see Oshawa children In their hundreds Finding relief from The humid atmosphere By bathing gleefully In the swimming pools Created on many streets By a torrential downpour Of concentrated rain. We could not help thinking As we watched their gambols In these temporary lakes That on these summer days Children love the water, And find it refreshing When the heat bounces Up from the city streets. This leads to the thought That the two swimming pools Which the city now enjoys Are quite inadequate to Meet the needs of all The children who love To gambol in the water, Because of all these who Bathing in the pools which Were created by the rainfall Sought to use the regular Pools at the same time On a hot summer day, They could never find Room to wet their feet. And this brings back the Oft-repeated thought Of how unfortunate it is That with the whole of Lake Ontario at our door With a lovely sand beach, We cannot allow the Children to bathe in it, The Eaten Cake BY JOSEPH LISTER RUTLEDGE That bewhiskered old saw about eating the cake and having it too has an unassailable validity. To achieve some advantage we must forgo others. We have a universal pension plan so we might consider just what that fact involves. At the end of last December there were 208,473 pensioners of seventy years and over receiving means test pensions. There were 11,036 pensioned blind persons. To- gether they received $136 million. Possibly it might be assumed that this was our reasonable and ines- capable obligation to less fortunate fellow citizens. Recently the Senate-House Com- mittee on Old Age Pensions, delving into the matter, discovered that when the "no means test" pensions begin this year, they will be paid to 647,5000 persons at a cost of some $323,760,000 exclusive of adminis- tration costs. This would probably increase to 869,500 persons and $417,614,000 within ten years' time. Again, these figures do not provide for administrative costs nor for the lost production of the thousands of persons who must be taken from creative employment to administer the plan. Now that the decision is final there is no purpose in belaboring it other than to refer again to the old saw that points the impossi- blity of eating our cake and hav- ing it too. The actual outgo ex- pense of this plan will require ap- proximately one out of every eight dollars that the government re- celves from every source, Though, admittedly, some of them will come back in taxes, there is the fact that each year will add to the obli- gation and eat into this recoverable margin, Should the government's income not increase commensurate- ly, ten years from now the pension cost would take one out of every six dollars. There is no limitless pool on which government can draw at will. Personal taxes are al- ready denying the incentive that works for progress. Business and sales taxes are resulting in a slow- down that, long continued, might be disastrous. We have eaten our cake and there are $325 million that we cannot spend again. The price of such benefactions means that there must be rigid economy somewhere. The public that has helped with the demand for such security must be ready to concede that -- if one security is not to be achieved at the cost of all security -- many other popular measures and plans must be forgone, That is the penalty for eating the cake. ® 25 Years Ago Robert W. McKay, resident of Llewelyn Hall, was announced win- ner of two major scholarships at the University of Toronto. Alex Neilson of Toronto was appointed yardmaster for the Osh- awa Railway Company. Work was started on an addition to the Oldsmobile factory of Gen- eral Motors of Canada, Limited. The annual Chautauqua season was opened in a huge marquee at Alexandra Park, ' Wiliam J. Maynard Was drowned in Lake Ontario when he fell off the new pier at Oshawa harbor, DO : gladl some good friend . . . And than . .. A friendship that is PORTRAITS By James J. Metcalfe To Have a Friend not lil:e to borrow and . . . I do not like to lend . . . But I would lend my heart . . . And borrow would like to borrow him . . . Forever and a day . . . And let him keep my grateful heart «++ As long as he would stay . . . For there is nothing finer real . . . And there is nothing warmer than . . . The handshake we can feel . . . In time of joy or sorrow and . . . In sunshine or in rain . . . There is no thought more comforting . . . Along our daily lane . . . I do not want to borrow and . . . I do not care to lend . . . Bue I would do most anything . . . To have a faithful friend. Copr. 1951, Field Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved Fort Frances--Something said the other day is going to be taken back. Writing from 'Port Arthur we took a strongly sympathetic attitude to- wards its complaint about the prov- incial highway leading from the Lakehead cities to the border. After driving over the road today, however, we can't be quite so con- cerned. The road is admittedly bad. It is under construction a lot of the way, and is not only slow going, hut is very dusty. However, it still isn't as bad as many of the roads in the south which, necessarily, are under- going reconditioning, There, as southern readers know, one will encounter stretches miles long where repairs are under way and which can be negotiated only with great care. Of course we complain here but not with the universal bitterness one finds at the Lakehead over their road. In their defence it is true one must consider that there are so few roads in the area, comparatively speaking, that the condition of all of them is of major importance. Also the Minnesota road, into which the Lakehead highway leads, is in superb condition and one of the finest drives on the continent. US. tourists coming off this highway onto the dusty Ontario road are usually in a sour mood by the time they reach Fort William and Port Arthur and this, of course, doesn't help the already in- censed feelings of the local citizens. This all leads to a general at- INSIDE QUEENS PARK Northern Roads Not Bad mosphere of resentment, and though one can sympathize with it one can't go along with it. From the talk in the two Lake- head cities we had expected the road today to be something really indescribable. Terrifying. But it wasn't so; it was in no worse con- dition than many other roads throughout the province at the present time. Or so far as that goes in other provinces, for the same dif- ficulty as here exists right across the country. The recommendation made to the Highways Department the other Mia. ,-that in its own interests it get the road fixed up as quickly as pos- sible, still stands. But if by any chance you are thinking of driving over the road go ahead. There will be a little discomfort, but what mo- torist in the province .today isn't accustomed to at least a little dis- comfort! George Doucett despite the many complaints about his roads has at least one friend the world. Russ Larsen, editor and publishe er of the local"paper, tells how the Highways Minister flew into town here a while ago, and during the visit asked Russ if he knew where he could buy a pen-knife. He did and took him to a store which had an exceptional selection. The Minis- ter apparently deliberated long and animatedly over his choice and fi- nally made the purchase. He was so enthusiastic you cculd not help but like and remembey him, the editor said. He was human enough to be a grown-up kid. Times was when Canadians could be proud of their postal service. Now there is little or nothing even to be satisfied with, When a business envelope is mail ed in the early evening in downtown Toronto and is not delivered in Montreal until two days later--with no holiday interfering by the way-- then obviously it is time that some- body should "pull up his socks." It is all very well to talk of higher costs; these are always passed on the user of the mails anyway. If first class mail, however, is now carried by air, with more time con- sumed by trucks on the roads to and from the airports than actually in flying, then it begins to look as if the air-for-first-class-service has revenues for airlines and not, as we were given to understand, for the sake of speeding up the mails. Even the slowest of trains could take taken a letter from Toronto to That Free Air Mail Service (The Financial Times) been created primarily to create nonsense except over long distances. It provides apparently only air speed while actually in the air. What happens to such mail at points where it is transferred from truck to plane and from plane to truck is another matter. There is no reason why mail from Brockville to Windsor should have to go by train to Toronto and then be flown from there to its destina- tion. The train, counting the period of transfer and waiting would get to Windsor almost as speedily and frequently more speedily. Perhaps it will yet become necessary for users of business mail who have messages going one-day distances to stamp their envelopes "via sure face mail only, please". Certainly, however, if the Post Office wants to justify a four-cent stamp on a letter it should be able to give better services than a two- day trip for a letter from Toronto to Montreal. Or else it should give {the franchise to the bus companies. Montreal in one day. Air service is | They manage to get through. | The most powerful gasoline your car can use... 'activated' Shell Premium! nen ute 1950 FORD CUSTOM 2-DOOR Ya Excellent buy. Like Niagara river from here fo Buffa- 1950 FORD nicely broken in. SISSON'S GARAGE® TON PICKUP new . . Undercoat . . . wall tires . . . like new. just J =< 1947 CHRYSLER 1934 CHEVROLET WINDSOR SEDAN positively $1750 COACH Good motor and tires + + +» clean body. white MILE SOUTH OF ORONO HIGHWAY 35 ON A i a