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. = [E OPINONS DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE EDITORIAL PAGE FEATURES seessapes The Daily Times-Gazette OSHAWA WHITBY THE OSHAWA TIMES (Kstablished 1871) THE WHITBY GAZETTE & CHRONICLE (Established 1863) The Times-Gazette is a of The C Press, the Canadian Daily Newspapers Association, the Amer. ican Newspaper P A iati the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association and the Audit Bureau of Cir | The Canad 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 ""Reuvers, and also the local news published therein. All rights of special despatches herein are also reserved. "A. R. ALLOWAY, President and P T. L. WILSON, Vice-P and M _ M. MCINTYRE HOOD, Managing Editor. * SUBSCRIPTION RATES .. Delivered by carrier in Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin, Part _ Perry, Ajax and 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. Authorized 'as Second Class Matter, Post Office Department. Ottawa, Canada. DAILY AVERAGE CIRCULATION for JULY 10,284 FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1951 ed Be » al A, pn Di 4, 'Another Holiday Weekend i Civic holiday, on Monday, provides the "people of Oshawa, that is, those who are not "away on holidays, with another long week- | "efid off work, a weekend in which they can ; enjoy the summer weather which is common 'at this time of the year. Many will be seel- Zing relief from the sumer heat on the lakes : "and beaches, others will be touring far and 'wide in their cars. And to both of these "groups, there will be hazards 'of which they "might well take cognizance. % It has become customary, on the eve of ese long holiday weekends, to issue a rather solemn warning to our citizens on the Recessity of observing all the rules of safety, whether in or on the water, or on the high- way. These rules are all too well known to require further emphasis. The tragic part of it is that there will be many people drown- ed and killed this weekend because they dis- - fegard these rules. ™ Oshawa has had a very good record this summer for drowning fatalities and deaths due to traffic accidents. Very few of our "¢itizens have been included in the long list 'of victims published every Monday and Tuesday. We would like to feel that this is partly due to the atention paid to the warn- ings which we have published in this column 'from time to time during the summer. We "have done so because we feel very keenly that these deaths from drowning and traf- "Afic accidents can be prevented by people who _.are constantly' aware of the risks' before : 'them, and take precautions to avoid them. ... May your holiday weekend be a pleasant "and happy one, and that, of course, depends -on it being a safe one. Floods Difficult Problem £5" The statement has become current inthe #United States that the "Old South Las been & washed away." This does not apply entirely fio the historical significance of the Civil "War of 1861-1865, in which period the Old South was deprived of much of its glory. It is much more applicable to what has been happening for years in the depletion of its resources of soil by successive floods, not the least disastrous of which occurred re- cently. Unfortunately, the "South" is drained by the "Mississippi River, which for the lower half of its length is a slow and sluggish stream. When the spring and summer floods descend from the Ohio River and other streams on the east, and through the Mis- souri and other rivers on the west, the Mississippi becomes congested, and the ris- ing waters overflow into the rich-soiled flats, which they both fertilize and devastate. Much skill and capital have been expend- ed in the last two centuries in raising em- bankments, known as levees along the banks of that great river and streams that empty' their floods into the lower part of the mighty channel. These levees have to be raised higher from time to time, but in recent years, and again this year, the unusually high floods swept away many of the em- bankments, laid waste millions of acres of fertile land and made it necessary to de- port an industrious but poor population to temporary places of safety. Embankments of earth soon melt away in a freshet that overtops them, ana leave a vast area of devastated land exposed to the next year's floods, unless in the meantime the levees are rebuilt. This has proved each year an expensive and unsatisfactory proposition. : i Now the scientists are being called in to find a remedy for the situation--a protec- tive system better than earthworks, whose height has to be constantly increased. The people of the United States are in the mass optimistic. They are enterprising and resourceful, but they cannot work miracles, and in controlling the waters of the great Mississippi they have a difficult physical problem to solve. Fires Are Costly Report of the Ontario Fire Marshal on fire losses and deaths for the second quar- ter of 1951 and for the first six months of the year, tells a sad story. During the month of April, May and June, no less than 28 people in. Ontario lost their lives in fires, and 108 people were injured. The financial side of the story shows that in the first six months of 1951, the property loss in fires amounted to $8,924,511. Both of these figures are deplorable, because they refer to a loss of life and property which is to a very large extent preventable. While it is gratifying to note that the property loss in Ontario fires in the six months period is over $2,800,000 lower than for the same period last year, and that the number of fires recorded was down by 571, the loss is a serious one. Losses by fire rep- resent the most deplorable kind of waste, .because whatever goes up in smoke is gone forever, and cannot be reclaimed. Insurance does help to mitigate the effects of the loss, but that does not do away with the fact that the loss is permanent. It is important to note the causes of the 4,895 fires which occurred in the second quarter of 1951. Of these, the chief causes were: smoking, 1,767 fires; electricity, 598; stoves and furances, 414; petroleum and its products, 248 and matches 282. These figures supplement the often-made state- ment that the great majorty of fires are preventable, and that the exercise of great- er care with all these causative factors would result in fewer fires, with less loss of life. Fire departments render a splendid service in controlling fires once they have started; it is the responsibity of each in- dividual to see that they do not start. Editorial Notes Newspaper headline says "Thousands Visit Toronto, but Few Decide to Stay." Those few usually are governed by uncontrollable circumstances. + * * Several nations have complained that the peace treaty with Japan is not severe enough, but that may be necessary in order to have Japan on our side should another war come. * * + General MacArthur is not quite forgotten. It is announced that he placed second in a popularity contest, conducted in Holland. Only Winston Churchill was ahead of him. + * - Stratford Beacon-Herald has a bit of ad- vice for Iran. It says "With all that oil and no tankers to move it, Iran might well follow the example of the fruit farmer who hangs out a sign, 'Pick them yourself--ten cents a quart--bring your own container,' " + * * Prices of meals in railway dining cars are being increased 15 per cent. The only thing left to do now is to take along a packet of sandwiches on the railway journey. ky + * We have not heard the perennial question "Is it hot enough for you?' very much this year. * # % Proposal that a new stamp be printed in honor of the royal visit in October does not give very well with the dropping of the word "Royal" from the old designation of "Royal Mail." ® Other Editors' Views o VALUE OF A MILK BOTTLE (Moose Jaw Times-Herald) Housewives may pile the. dishes in the sink, but from now on theyll handle the lowly milk bottle with delicate hands, for by an edict of the Saskatch- ewan Milk Control Board it has been placed in the diamond and ruby classification. Today a milk bottle is worth five cents, tomorrow its value will be doubled. The empty bottle will be worth as mueh as a full one was a few years back. There'll be mighty few milk bottles put out the side door or on the front porch the night before to await the arrival of the early milkman, A milk bottle with a ticket or money in it will be too great a temptation. e A Bit of Verse ® SWEEP OF A HILL When night air washes the earth clean and cool like a blackboard, I break the hold of patterned hours, and stroll down a road canopied with trees. Out in the open, the sweep of a hill invites me to climb to a grassy height; and there to sit and watch great fires burning, across the light year, on the edge of time. --ROBERT 8. CLARK e A Bible Thought e "Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich." (II Cor. 8:0). GRACE-God's Riches at Christ's Ex- pense, N "CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE By HAL BOYLE Custer, S.D.--(AP)--If all goes well, Korczak Ziolkowski will com- plete at the age of 69 the greatest memorial ever made by man upon this earth. "And if I live only the biblical span," smiled the sculptor, 'that will give me a year to gaze at the mess I made." His thirty-year project is to carve a 563-foot high statue of the great Sioux chieftain, Crazy Horse, on Thunderhead Mountain near here. It is to be a vast memorial to the North American Indian. And Ziolkowski hopes eventually to group a $50 million Indian univer- sity and medical centre around it. He began the memorial virtually as a one-man project three years ago. Among the people of the Black Hills he met both ridicule and active opposition. They thought Ziolkowski would soon give up the project for lack of financial support and go back to Boston. But he didn't. In the last three years he has painted a white out- line of his proposed statue on the mountain, and has blasted away 240,000 tons of rock. "I like a good fight," said the self-taught sculptor, who was | orphaned at three and raised by a boxer. "They think I'm a screw- ball. And I tell them they're right. You have to be a screwball to get anything big done in this world. And, you know, it's fun to be a screwball." Where do his funds come from to fashion the biggest monument in history? He couldn't tap the bank accounts of millionaires. He wouldn't ask for federal aid. The South Dakota legislature never voted him anything. But millions of tourists drive through the state each year. And the half dollars they pay to view the Crazy Horse site are financing the memorial. 'Last year 105,000 people came,' said the big-chested, lean-waisted sculptor, 'and in eight years I figure a million a year will come. By then I will have done the head and arm of Crazy Horse. v'Seeing is believing--and my problem is to show them. The world wants results-not alibis. I DON'T believe in alibis either. I will be a great flop here or --" Ziolkowski left his sentence un- finished. But he is fascinated at his discovery that the half bucks of the common man promise him more real artistic independence than is allowed by the patronage of governments or multi-million- aire dilettantes. GREAT PYRAMID "It took 100,000 slaves thirty years to build the great Egyptian Hopes 963 Foot Statue Will Be Biggest Monument Ever Created on Earth pyramid at Giseh," he said. "In terms of cubic feet that is the biggest memorial ever made by human labor. But you could put five great pyramids in the Crazy Horse monument. 'The tallest memorial until now has been the Washington Monu- ment--555 feet. Crazy Horse, he'll have a forty-four foot feather in his hair--will be eight feet higher. And I'll be able to stand 3,700 men on his outstretched arm eight years from now--I hope." Ziolkowski is an admirer of the Mt. Rushmore memorial, 30 miles away, and of Gutzon Burglum who sculpted there the giant stone faces of four American presidents. But he is bitter at the jealousy he says some South Dakotans have shown in feeling that Crazy Horse might prove a rival attraction to Mt. Rushmore. MOUNT RUSHMORE His basic attitude, I suppose, is --well, so why not? "Rushmore was built mostly by federal funds," he said, "and Crazy Horse is being built by John Q. Public. And I'd rather have| John Q. Public do it. : | "I don't want any part of the | government. They've had two hun- dred years to help the Indian. If they haven't done it by now they never will." It took an estimated $900,000 to create Mt. Rushmore, and they had to blow off only 360,000 tons of granite, Ziolkowski says. He also says he could put four Mt. Rush- more's in the head alone of his Crazy Horse memorial. And he thinks some people out here feel that is giving an Indian too much prestige--even in his old hunting grounds. / 6,000,000 TONS "I have to blow away six million tons of rock altogether," he said. "That would build a highway four inches thick, thirty-four feet wide and fifteen hundred miles long. To do it will take three hundred thousand tons of dynamite. With dynamite costing about four hun- dred dollars a ton that means $1,200,000 for explosives alone." Ziolkowski says he uses two helpers so far at most, takes in $200 to $225 a day during the short tourist season, and spends $125 to $150 a day for mountain carving expense. "The rest of the year as we go on working we will live on rhubarb," he said. - 'Sometimes I feel I'm beating with . both my hands against a granite wall. But I suppose every- body feels that way sometimes. "To all of us life is a dream. And within that dream we create another dream, and live in it. And that is our real life." London * (CP) -- Ambassadors of closer educational ties within the commonwealth, Brig. E. C. Pepper and Brig. C. Huxley are leaving England shortly on an extended goodwill tour of Canada. The two officials, respectively warden and deputy controller of London House are due to reach Montreal Sept. 5. They plan to visit every major city in the Dominion during their three-month tour. London House is the centre of Dominion and Colonial student ac- tivity in Britain, and the trip is being undertaken chiefly in the in- terests of its expanding program to meet the growing demands for ac- commodation for overseas students. While in Ottawa the gvisitors will be guests of Governor General Viscount Alexander, patron-in-chief of the London House Association of Canada. The invitation was extend- ed when the governor-general paid an informal visit to London House recently. During his tour of the buildings Viscount Alexander stopped to chat with some of the resident students, including R. C. Stovall of Comox, B.C., and R. Melvin of Vancouver. They were congratulated when the governor-general learned they had worked their way to England on a freighter to complete their studies. In 'their coast-to-coast tour the Londoners will confer with officials of the London House Association in Canada, who have been promoting a campaign to provide financial backing for the commonwealth pro- YAL13JYS ONDIW British Visitors Seek Closer Student Ties ject. They also plan to meet presi- dents of several Canadian universi- ties serving as patrons of the asso- ciation. Since London House was opened by Queen Mary 'in 1937, more than 500 Canadian students have taken up residence there. At present about 40 are registered and nine more, winners of Lord Nuffield scholar- ships, are expected shortly. The aim of the foundation has been to provide accommodation within the means of the average student, assist them in making pro- fessional contacts and generally give them 'an insight into the Brit- ish way of life. : Additiona] "funds, however, are required to defray operating costs. Latest budget figures show that the cost of maintaining a resident has exceeded by nearly $200 the amount charged. The. deficit is made up by bequests and donations. When the building program is completed London House will have accommodation for 300 male stu- dents. A separate building is being erected to house 100 women stu- dents as well as 24 married couples. COW ON RAMPAGE Reading, England (CP) It wasn't a bull in a china shop that caused the damage in this Berk- shire town. It was -a cow in a furniture shop. The animal es- caped from a cattle market and did heavy damage to furniture be- fore it was shot. {if D {Company assessment Hindu Radio Is the Voice 0f Heaven New Delhi (Reufers) -- Indian radio Iisteners tuning in to Hindu broadcasts will in future be listen- ing to "the voice of heaven." A parliamentary committee after long deliberation chose the name "Akash Vani," meaning voice of heaven or of the gods, oracle of ancient Sanskrit mythology, as the Hindu title for the nation's broad- casting system. For the past 15 years the net- work has been generally known by its English name, the all-India radio, and the English title will continue in some programs and for general business purposes. Some have criticized the new title as too fanciful but for many Indians the radio certainly has the task of being the voice, if not of the gods, at least of the demi-gods of wisdom and learning. It is one of the main sources of education for the millions of illiterates. The number of radio sets in In- dia at present is only about 600,000, or one to every 600 persons, com- pared to a world average of about one set to every 14 persons, and the United States estimate of one for every two persons. But India is developing a wide- spread network of community- owned radio sets, purchased by the local governments to be shared by villagers or used in schools. It is a common sight in the eve- ning, particularly in southern India, to see groups of villagers squatting intent below a leafy tree, listening to the day's news broad- cast from the village loudspeaker set in tree branches. There are also daily programs on rural subjects, on new ways of growing wheat, rice or potatoes, on irrigation, drainage or farm co- operatives. Broadcasting in India is a gov- ernment monopoly. All commercial broadcasting is banned. News broadcasting is necessarily a com- plicated item in a network cater- ing for a multi-lingual audience. All-India radio news service is one of the largest in the world, putting out news daily in India's 15 main languages, as well as in eight for- eign languages. * 35 Years Ago e Fire destroyed the McCulloch Moulding Company plant on Col borne Street. The company asked the council to provide a free site, tax exemption, water and sewer connections and .a loan of $3,500 for re-locating in a new plant. A bylaw fixing the McLaughlin at $175,000 was passed by the town council. Joseph Southwell, 10, was drowned while swimming in Whitby Harbor. Lakeview Golf Club defeated Oshawa Golf Club by 10 points to 9 in an exciting golf match. Private John Evans of Oshawa was reported a prisoner of war in Germany. Wy ed £73k PORTRAITS By James J. Metcalfe In My Study GO into my study end .". . I read .X my morning mail . . . 1 light a i, little cigaret . . . And slowly I.exhale «+. Anddhen 1 ponsemplate the world . . . And how the wind may blow . . . that I know . the pl and . . . The stories The peop .. The stories touched with tragedy . .. And those that spell success . . . With faith and hope and charity . +» + Or hate and selfishness . . . And as I take my pen in hand . . . I say a fervent prayer ... That I may write some message good . . . For everyone to share . . . That it will life the lonely soul . . . And soothe the smallest strife . . . And in their grateful letters I . . . Shall live a better life. Copr. 1951, Field Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved, Toronto.--Have you had a hard time figuring out what the new pro- vincial rent regulations are all about? Well, don't worry aboul it. You have lots of company. If you are stupid or slow, so is most of the rest of the province. Never in the memory of your ob- server, which goes back here a num- ber of years now, has there been a government statement which was so vague, clumsily expressed and generally unintelligible as the press release on the new regulations. From time to time in the more complex fields of government theie have been some mystifying state- ments. We can remember some real puzzlers. But the gold-plated dunce cap goes to the rent statement. It was such a combination of le- | galistic jargon and bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo that you coulda't make head or tail of it. Out of four press stories selected at random every one had at least two errors. And one editorial two days following in one of the prov- ince's largest and most respected dailies was so wrong it was hard to find something right in :t. The regulations and the release apparently were drafted by some master-minds who were long on erudition but short on common sense. This is one instance the rent committee could have done a good job. If the regulations and the re- lease covering them had been sub- mitted to the committee it certain- ly wouldn't have gone to the public in the shape it did. The committee wouldn't have been able to under- stand it in the form in which it was presented and would have iron- ed it into shape where it made sense. For those who are trying to fig- ure out the regulations we wouid give this interpretation as the es- sence of them. If you are a tenant who has tak- en over an apartment in the past few years you are a winner. When you took over the apartment it would have been decontrolled be- cause the old tenant got out. Now it is under control again, and you can't be evicted or have your rent Provincial Rent Mix-Up raised unless the rental boys sanee tion it. If you are a landlord and wan$ to raise the rent you have one chance. You can either smile or growl at your tenant and try and convince him you need more mon- ey. If he agrees you give him back a two-year lease and you can settle at any figure you like. But if he holds out, all you can do is pack up your troubles and take them to the rentals office. They may allow you some more rent. If you have built a building since January, 1947, you are luckier still. You can charge whatever rent you can get. If taxes go up you can probably recover them in increased rent., And, oh yes, if youre a tenant who's been stuck with one of those five-year leases, you also gain. At the end of two years you can do what you like about it. Get out or stay on as a monthly tenant. And if any of this is wrong don't blame us but the rental boys. Foxes Take Heavy Toll Among Sheep Sydney, Australia (CP)--Starve ing foxes in southwestern New South Wales have killed thousands of lambs and hundreds of fully grown sheep. They are also eating fish from shallow creeks; stealing meat from dog kennels on station homesteads; and eating kitchen refuse from rubbish heaps. Epidemic disese has killed so many rabbits in the district thas foxes have little natural food. At Dunvegan Station, on the Dar- ling river foxes have killed 1,000 of 1,400 new-born lambs. Don Hill, of Roo Roo Station, poisoned with strychnine the carcase of a sheep and a lamb which foxes had killed. 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