The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

TT opinions DAILY, TIMES-GAZETTE EDITORIAL PAGE FEATURES The Daily Times-Gazette. OSHAWA WHITBY THE OSHAWA TIMES (Kstablished 1871) THE WHITBY GAZETTE & CHRONICLN (Established 1863) The Times-Gazgetts is a member of The Canadian Press, the Canadian Dally A ti the Amer. ial Dailies A ana the Audit Bureau of P lations. The ( dian Press is vely 8 to the use for republication of all news despatches in the paper c to it or to The Assocfated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein. All rights of special despatches herein are also reserved. A. R. ALLOWAY, President and F he T. L. WILSON, Vice-P d and M Di . M. McINTYRE HOOD, Managing Editor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES red carrier in Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin, Port Ling Fig and Pickering, 30c per week. By mail outs side carrier delivery areas anywhere in Canada an land, year; . Authorized a ot Av 5 of 1 dl pie Ottawa, Canada. DAILY AVERAGE CIRCULATION 10,019 " FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1951 Traffic Problems Acute Traffic and parking problems in Oshawa are becoming more and more acute, and the situation is not made any easier by the congested nature of the downtown area and the fact that there is no direction in which the business district can expand without certain limitations. It would appear that the business area will be congested until such times as the Traffic Advisory Council of the Planning Board comes up with some solution for the problem. The Advisory Traffic Council is wrestling with the problem of creating some new major traffic arteries running from east to west, north and south of the congested busi- ness area. There can be no doubt that the creation of these new through street: would relieve the situation considerably. They would permit local traffic to flow east and west to the outskirts of the city and the new residential areas there, without en- croaching on the business section. That is probably the city's greatest traffic need, as is evident during the rush hours when workers are going to and from the factories. There will still, however, be the problem of the congestion in the business section during shopping hours, and the lack. of parking places in close proximity to it. This is not going to be an easy problem for the Traffic Council to solve, because of the lack of open areas which might be used as parking lots, on a metered basis. This situa- tion 1s further complicated by the exten- sion of the no parking areas to the streets within the downtown area other tha. Simcoe Street. Every citizen who drives a car knows of the difficulty of securing a parking space at certain times, and yet there does not seem to be any reasonable solution that is easily discernible. In dealing with this, the Traffic Council has a big job on its hands, but it will earn the gratitude of the citizens if it can provide any reasonable measures thats will bring relief. The Social End Kills Recently, when the health of King George VI was very uncértain, a plea was made that he be relieved of the social duties which go with the high position he holds. Since then, there have been many comments about the strain on his health caused by too strict at- tention to fulfilling his many social obliga- tions. : The king is not alone in this respect. Public men do not always find the holding of office an unalloyed delight or desirable, - once they have passed through the. novelty stage. There are fascinations in plenty in public life, but only those on the inside know anything of the hardships that are hidden amid the pleasurable surroundings of the social side of officialdom. One of the most noted of the world's prom- inent men was wont to say that hard work never killed anybody. He ridiculed the idea that cares and worries of office hurt any man, maintaining that, on the contrary, they were a stimulant to greater endeavor and kept a man keyed up mentally and physi- cally. There are thousands who will not agree with this, but they will agree with the state- ment that the social end of a public career is the hardest to carry. We could name quite a few men who have been, prominent in the public life of Canada and of Ontario in recent years who abhored the round of social engagements that had to be undertaken be- cause of cabinet positions. Banquetings late at night eventually get the verve of the stoutest and undermine the constitution. Public men are eager to get away from the formality of social functions because they grow tiresome through frequency. If they could be abolished, public life would be a great deal more inviting. Hard work in office, with a reasonable amount of leisure and outdoor exercise, never hurt anyone. But everywhere public men . seek to be saved from their friends;-who-act Newspap ae A the as though it was the duty of those in office to gorge themselves unceasingly. It is the social end that kills. No Man Indispensable The theory that no man is indispensable received an abrupt challenge recently in a United States magazine which has a fairly large circulation in Ontario. In this maga- zine there was an advertisement for a cor- respondence course of training, and in one place it contained the following statement: "Young man, place yourself in the indispen- sable class. You can do if, not all at once, but by degrees. First aim to gain the place where you are missed when absent, then from that on to the place where the firm that employs you comes to realize that they can not get along without you." That would be very nice if it were true, but it is not, and it never will be: The world's history is full of stories of great and illus- trious men who seemed indispensable to their countries. It seemed that if anything happened to remove them, things would go to pieces. There have been instances in fairly recent history. When Franklin D. Roosevelt was at the height of his power during world war two, it seemed as if he was a proper ex- ample of an indispensable man. But the grim reaper removed him, and the affairs of his country and of the world kept going on. It is the same in business. No man can be regarded as indispensable, because no one knows the day or the hour when that man may be called away. It is all wrong for any | business to be in the position where any man is considered to be indispensable. And it is even more wrong for any individual to de- velop the idea that he is in that class. Editorial Notes Some Canadians who have been visiting in New York charge that the people of that city are rude to Canadians. But are they any different with people from other countries? + * k Several places in the United States are complaining 'of a shortage of water. They would be happy if they could have some of the water flooded Kansas about a month ago. +* * +* Male fashion experts claim gaudy ties are on the way out. But they will continue to be worn so long as there are extroverts in the world. +* * +» "Women buy more beauty aids then they need" says a government official, in as gal- lant a tribute as ever we read, and it rates him the OBE or something. -- Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph. ® Other Editors' Views o ~--GREATEST DANGER IN THE U.S.-- (Detroit Free Press) The greatest danger this Nation faces is no longer from abroad. We might suffer heavy damage, it another all-out war occurred, but we are strong enough to meet and defeat any nation or combination of nations that is likely to attack us. Our greatest danger is that we shall not develop the calibre of leadership in Government--when Gov- ernment is exercising more and more control over our economy--that can groove our power with courage and foresight wisely and courageously from our own good. We have developed the muscles. We still lack the brains in Washington to direct them toward the fulfillment of our traditionally con- ceived destiny. PARR) ss RCE CIVIL DEFENCE PROBLEM (Ottawa Citizen) In Canada, all panic which might lead to a dis sipation of resources in wasteful effort should be avoided. So should a fatalistic attitude toward atomic warfare. The senior governments can give a lead, and in doing so the federal authorities expect to spend more than $4,000,000. But what is even more important, the municipalities should lay down a pro- gram of co-ordinating and training volunteer or- ganizations in rescue work, firs} aid, as auxiliary fire. men and policemen. Citizens should be taught how to create shelters in their basements, for the home should be the care of civil defence. eo A Bit of Verse @ WHEN WE ARE GONE The spring will come again, and bloom and pass, When we are gone, and all the loves we knew . Are blown like jonquil petals on the grass, Irreparable as broken beads of dew; The cherry trees will stand in bouffant row, Quite unaware that we, forgotten, lie Beyond the reach of springtime, or of snow, Beyond the arch of pale, delphinium sky. Yet, what of those who come, flesh of our flesh, To stand beneath the trellis where we stand? Will they not know this moment's silver mesh, The swift caress of lip and throat, and hand? And will they not, finally, prove to-be Our proud, triumphant immortality? --Christie Lund Coles in The New York Times, e A Bible Thought * Long listening to Thy words, My voice shall catch Thy tone, And locked in Thine, my hand shall grow All loving like Thine own. "We all with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of<the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the-Tord"-(11-Cor--8:18) ve 'Stepping Stones' RTICIPATION IN COLLECTIVE DEFENSE. Britain (Continued from page 3) at outrageous rentals, and under intolerable conditions, and although they all claimed that they had good jobs, they had returned to Britain because their families just "could not stick it." HEAR OF HOME SHORTAGE Naturally, reports of these people get around. It is surprising how widely the story has spread that housing accommodation is im- possible to obtain in Canada. So thousands of people who would like to try their luck in another part of the Commonwealth have shied away from Canada because they are doubtful about being able to secure a home for their families when they get there. And a British- er wants a home above everything else. He is a home-proud individ- ual, and the fear of a cramped existence in oneor two rooms makes him decide to give Canada a wide berth. I have told many of the need for more workers in Canada, but in every case, the answering query has been the rsame, 'But can I find a place to live there?" And we have to admit the difficulties of the housing situation in Canada. Mark you, housing conditions in Britain are just as bad, if not worse. There is a desperate short- age of working-class housing. But these folks prefer the devil they know to the devil they don't, and so they either stay at home in Brit ain, or take steps to migrate to lia. Augirats. barrier to migration to Canada is found in the govern- ment regulations limiting the amount of money which may be taken out of the country into the dollar area. People who have com- piled fairly substantial resources are faced with the fact that if they migrate to Canada they will be compelled to leave much of their capital in Britain, and the amount they are allowed to bring is spread over four years of instalments, On the other hand, Australia is in the sterling area, and the same re- strictions do not apply to emi- grants going to that country. This is a situation which can only be remedied by the British govern- ment, and the present government is not disposed to make any change. Perhaps the government is luke- warm towards emigration because there is a serious shortage df man- power and womanpower to meet the industrial needs of the na- tion and the demands for increas- ed defence forces. The two years of national service demanded of every young man, Irom the years of 18 to 20, drain off tens of thou- sands of potential workers, giving them military training in place of apprenticeship for civilian trades. We have noted "help wanted" signs, for both men and women workers, everywhere we have gone --at factory gates, in store and of- fice windows -- scores and scores of them, all offering special in- ducements to the people to come and apply for employment. And there are few, if any, applicants. Therefore it is not surprising that the government ds not anxious to see the country's working force re- duced by emigration, AUSTRALIA MAKING BID Australia, however, is making a tremendous bid for British immi- grants. I have before me at this moment an advertisement which appeared in today's issue of the Scottish Sunday Mail, inserted by the Glasgow office of the Austral- ian Department of Immigration: It sets forth in glowing terms, the possibilities for immigration in Australia, and the attractive plan of assisted passages which is offer- ed to them. "Thousands of well-paid jobs," the advertisement reads, "in prac- tically all occupations, await new settlers." It goes on to say that im- mediate vacancies for single men qualified and semi-skilled in the building, engineering, public trans- port and rural occupations, for single women in hospital and do- mestic duties, clothing and canning factories, for fully qualified mar- ried tradesmen for building, en- gineering and brickmaking indus- tries. Wages are high and taxation low, it states, with wages based on the cost of living index and ad- justed every three months, ASSISTED PASSAGE PLAN The assisted passage scheme is really something. Adults are trans- ported to Australia, twice the dis- tange of the trip' to Canada, for ten pounds, or thirty dollars; children between 14 and 18 for five pounds or fifteen dolars, and chil- dren under 14 free of charge. There is no mention at all of repayment of the rest of the passage. And the advancement ends with this sig- nificant statement, so far as the Britisher is concerned: "Accommodation is assured to all successful applicants, immediately upon their arrival in Australia." That perhaps explains why Australia has the edge on Canada in appeal to those who are of a mind to migrate to another Com- monwealth country, Canada cannot match that type of advertising in some of its important aspects. Cer- tainly Canada cannot give an as- surance of accommodation for all immigrants immediately on arrival. Mind you, we have met many with a hankering to come to Can- ada. There is still, to the Britisher, a great glamor attached to our country, partly because so manywof his kinfolk have made good thefe. And despite the risks with housing, many will sail westward hoping for the best. But our country can- not take first place in the minds of the prospective immigrants so long as a grave doubt exists as to the availability of housing ace commodation, Two Atom Figures Ahoard Stratocruiser London ' (Reuters) -- Sir John Cockcroft, Britain's No. 1 atom scientist, boarded a stratocruiser last night and sat next to the man who stole the atom bomb and nearly blew up London--in a movie. The man was actor Barry Jones, who played a mad scientist in the film "Seven Days to Noon." TIRE HEADQUARTERS For Authorized GOODSYEAR Sales & Service Social Notes Of Enniskillen MRS. RUSSELL GRIFFIN Correspondent Enniskillen -- Mr. B. Olver and Mr. B. Saddle of Toronto, with Mr. and Mrs, A. Leadbeater and Mrs. B. Olver, David and Jimmy have returned home with them after spending a week's holidays with Mr. and Mrs. A. Leadbeater, Mr. and Mrs. F. Hepburn, Osh- awa, at Mr. and Mrs. R. McNeil's, Mr, and Mrs. Roy McGill and family were Sunday visitors at Mr. and Mrs. Roy Langmaid's, Solina. Miss Alice and Harold Steven- son, Thornhill, accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Lamb and Ruth on a week-end trip north to visit Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Yeo, Port Loring. Mrs. J. D. Brown, Orono, was a Labor Day visitor at Mr. R. J. Ormiston's, Miss Carol Wright has returned from holidays at Mr, W. Sander- son's, Columbus. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Jeffery, Mr. and Mrs. Orr Jeffery, Port Perry, Miss Lois Jeffery, nurse-in- training, Sick Children's Hospital, Toronto, Mr. Morris Preston, Maple Grove, were Sunday visitors at Mr. and Mrs, Arthur Brunt's. M. and Mrs. P. Ellis and family spent the week end with Mrs, S. Vanvolkenburg, Cordova Mines, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Werry and Boyd, Toronto were last week visitors at Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Ormiston, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Billett and boys, Scarboro Bluffs, were Sun- day guests at Mr. R. McGill's. Miss Janice Beech, Maple Grove, spent a week of holidays with her cousin, Miss Lois and Charles Ashton. Mr. and Mrs. N. Collacutt, Mr, and Mrs. J. Giles and Gerald, Ty- Tons, with Mr. and Mrs. W, Grif- in. We welcome Mr. and Mrs. John E. Griffin and family to their new home in Enniskillen. Miss Betty Knox, Toronto, at Mr, and Mrs, John Slemons. School days have opened here with a bang, just as large at- tendance as last with five little | beginners, Mrs. O. Mitchell of Pon- typool as teacher. We have a touch of whooping cough in our town, and hope it will clear away. Miss Elsie Oke, of Toronto, visit- ed at Mr. and Mrs, A. Oke's, Mr. Wallace Stainton, Toronto, with Mr. and Mrs. H. Stevens and also visited at Mr. and Mrs. W. Trewin's, Haydon. Mr, and Mrs. Russell Ormiston were Sunday tea guests at Mr, and Mrs. L. Ashton's, Haydon. Mr. and Mrs. Frank McGill and Don, Toronto, had Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. A, Brunt, and spent the week 'end with his mother, Mrs, J. McGill. Mr, and Mrs. O, C. Ashton, Lois and Charles holidayed with Mr. and Mrs. S. H. May, at their sum- mer cottage on Lake Bernard, Sundridge, Ont. Miss Elsie Oke, Toronto, accom- panied Mr, and Mrs. Albert Oke, to visit Mrs. James Oke, Shaws. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Carr and family at Mr. and Mrs, A. Beech, Maple Grove, Maid to Wed Boss's Son Ottawa (CP) -- A pretty blonde Esthonian will be married Satur- day to the son of the former head of Canada's Immigration Depart- ment to whose home she came four years ago to serve as a domestic. The wedding of Hilda Alev and 23-year-old Miles Keenleyside, son of Dr. H. L. Keenleyside, will take place Saturday in St. Peter's Luth- eran Church here. Dr. Keenleyside now is a member of the United Nations staff, but was head of the immigration department when Miss Alev came to Canada in 1947. He gave her a job in his Ottawa home. Miles Keenleyside is a student at the University of British Columbia 2 Vancouver, where the couple will ive. WELSH LAKE The largest natural lake in Wales is Bala in Merionethshire, about four miles long and a mile wide. (ittra-Modern Robins Our people at the Kingston plant enjoyed watching a cou- ple of robins build a nest with shreds of aluminum foil. The rebins seemed delighted to find their new building mate- rial so easy on the wings, so soft, so cosy. But , .. A wind arose. The nest was so light that it blew away. The robins rebuilt with the same material; but more firmly anchored. While we have no ambition to supply the world's robins with nesting material, we are eager to provide aluminum for hofne-building humans -- and for the thousand other uses of this modern metal. Therefore, our huge expansion pro- gramme in Quebec and British Columbia. Aluminum Com- pany of Canada, Ltd. (Alcan), PORTRAITS By James J. Metcalfe . Jimmie's Car | OR Jimmie got his car today . . . But we ivere forced to rob... 4 portion of our bank account ...To get that special job , .. We looked around for something old - +» That might be pretty good .". . To carry him to school and run . .'s Around the neighborhood . . . But there were sickly tires and . . . A most cnn or yl «s+ And.many other pictures of . . . re Replacement or gave 'a mortgage for . .. The balance t : And so we tisdue...To buy our boy an auto that . . . Is near to being new . . . And now we only hope that ke . . . Will think a little bit . . . And Ao his very best each day . .. To take good care of it. Coor. 1951, Field Enterorises, Ine. All Rizhis Reserved INSIDE QUEEN'S PARK Autumn Election Fenelon Falls -- After a few days gt the Young Progressive Conservative summer conference certainly very little has happened to do away with the current im- pression there will be an election this fall. All the delegates one talks seem confidently to believe there will be one and the way the gov- ernment representatives present have been conducting themselves adds to the impression. There is a certain amount of op- position among the delegates. A few particularly, who come from predominantly rural ridings aren't at all happy about appealing to the rural vote with a late fall bid. The point they take is that the great P.C. strength rests in rural Ontario and it might be unduly gambling with this to call an election when it might be difficult to get to the polls. There have been many ex- ceptionally heavy snows in late October and early November, they point out. However, the feeling of most of the delegates, who represent the opinions of the bulk of the younger element in' the party at least is that Mr. Frost couldn't find a bet- ter time to make his bid than this fall. On the part of the cabinet men, Hon. George Dunbar, for one, gave a significant indication when for no particular reason at all he an- nounced to a conference meeting that his riding organization was in shape for an election. He didn't say there would be one but he showed at least he was thinking in terms of one. Mr, Frost in his appearance at the conference hasn't discussed the matter of an election directly, but one can detect at least one key point in the government's poten- tial campaign, This is the stress on the "bipar- tizan" attitude of the P. C. party under his leadership. In two addresses 'he stressed that the party's outlook should not be narrow, He stressed his own belief in the to | Wisdom of admitting the mistakes, which every human has to make, and of correcting them. Several times recently he has used the term "bipartizan" itself. And from the tenor' one would judge he is going to make a strong attempt to break down the barrier of "Toryism" which has stamped the P. C's as a class party and attempt to get across the idea it is truly representative. This stigma is perhaps its major obstacle at the polls. There have been attempts to do away with it before, but Mr. Frost, we would say, has a better chance than any re- cent leader. ¢ 35 Years Ago e Town Council gave up its ape proval-to an application by the Osh- awa Railway Company to operate street cars on Sunday, but not dur- ing church services. The town farm. on Simcoe Street South was leased to Arnold Brothers for a term of seven years. A patriotic meeting in the in- terest of recruiting for the 182nd Battalion was held in Simcoe Street Methodist Church. Oshawa schools re-opened with a large increase in enrolment, The Ernie Marks Stock Company, with Kitty Marks as its leading ac- tress, put on a week's stand at the Grand Opera House. OCEAN DOTS The Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal were ceded by the Dutch to the British in 1869. py 5 NATIONAL Fe Railways can gal 0/ esr 2274 ~--wwsgy \ a pa -------- qo Comadiom Nation ol A meal in one of Canadian National's attractive modern dining cars is among the relaxing, pleasant interludes you'll experience when you travel our line. You'll enjoy also the comfort of our latest coaches with wide picture windows and "Sleepy Hollow" seats; the bedroom lounge and duplex roomette cars which are as inviting as your own living room. You'll be pleased with the courteous ervice you receive. East or West, North or South, go Canadian National and travel in comfort, You'll enjoy, too, staying at Canadian National hotels -- they're conveniently located in ten cities from Coast to Coast. For reservations and information regarding your business and pleasure travel needs, see, write or phone your local Canadian National Passenger Agent. CANADIAN NATIONAL THE ONLY KATLWAY SERVING ALL TEN PROVINCES J