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

~opmions DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE EDITORIAL PAGE ° FEATURES The Dailv Times. Gazette A AR areas) = esses T SSRIS SE OBHAWA WHITBR THE OSHAWA TIMES (Established 1871) PHE WHITBY GAZETTE & CHRONICLN (Bstablished 1968) yo of The Canadian Press, A the Amer. 0 « ri ion ana the Audit Bureau of Press is C The vely Shiite the use for republication of he paper credited to it oF to The Assooia Press or Reuters, and also theocal news published therein. AD rights of special despatches herein are also rasorved. A. R."ALLOWAY, F t and Publish T. L. WILSON, Vice-F t and M M. McINTYRE HOOD, Managing Editor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES a carrier in Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin, Port mail out- Perry, Ajax and Pickering, 30c Job week. BY AY yt side carrier delivery areas WO per Me , Post Of Du " uthorized ee fg A os" Department Ottawa, Canada. DAILY AVERAGE CIRCULATION for OCTOBER 11,345 ee em-- _ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1951 ren Municipal Election It is unfortunate, from the standpoint of interest in the municipal elections, that the provincial general election is being held on November 22. Because of this, there will be very little activity in the field of municipal politics until after that date. True, nomina- tions in the Oshawa municipal election will not be made until November 29, and voting will be on December 10, one week later than usual. But it is apparent that there will be little activity in the municipal field until the issues of the provincial campaign are decided by the electors. At the moment, it looks as if there will be a considerable shake-up in the Oshawa City Council to be elected for next year. There is a possibility that two, if not three, of the present aldermen, may be aspring for the office of mayor, and there is also a strong probability that, regardless of the result of the provincial election in which he is a candidate, Mayor Starr may again be in the field for another term of office. On top of that, it is not unlikely that one or two of the present aldermen will not be candi- dates for 1952. This. would leave room for the injection of some new blood into the City Council next year: That would be a good thing at the present juncture, particularly if candidates of outstanding qualifications and experience can be'induced to enter the contest. The af- fairs'of Oshawa will need to be handled with a tight rein next year. With capital expendi- tures mounting, and uncontrollable expendi- tures absorbing a large proportien of the tax rate, it is essential that controllable ex- penditures be really controlled. Property- owners are about reaching the limit of what they can pay in municipal taxes. What the council needs is a few aldermen who will | be real watchdogs on the City Treasury, men who will think of the poor taxpayers when setting up the budget of municipal expenditures. Independent Candidate An element of surprise was injected into | the provincial election in Ontario 'Riding when it became known that Mrs. Evelyn Bateman, member of the Oshawa City Coun- cil, had filed nomination papers to stand as a candidate. Mrs. Bateman is standing as an independent candidate, because, to use her own words. "It seems that the only way the women are going to make their wishes known in the legislative assembly is to elect one of their own sex as MLA." Mrs. Bateman, who has given Oshawa ex- cellent service as a member of the City Coun- cil for five years, is to be commended for the public spirit and courage she has shown in standing as a candidate in the 'provincial election, As we pointed out in this column only a epuple of days ago, the candidate who seeks election as an independent starts under a very decided handicap. Such a candi- date 'lacks the backing of the strong or- ganizations which are built up by the estab- lished political partigq in support of their own nominees. He or she has to work alone, save for the assistance of interested friends. Doubtless, Mrs. Bateman will have the back- ing of a wide circle of friends she has made during her public career. There will be others who will support her because of the courage of her stand. She will at least inject a new element of uncertainty into the election cam- paign in Ontario Riding, and will intensify the element of speculation which prevails as |- to the probable outcome of the voting on November 22. This : uncertainty will cause of the fact that all of the votes which Mrs. Bateman will receive will be drawn away from the support which would other- wise have been given to one of the three party candidates. All of them will have their own ideas as to which will lose and which will benefit by this defection to the indepen- dent. candidate. And since it is impossible to PR RE be increased be- | judge accurately the state of mind. of the thousands of individuai voters, it is useiess to hazard a guess on what the effect of her candidature might be. But we can at least say that a new element of interest has been added, and that this might conceivably result in a larger vote being polled on elec- tion day. 2 Realize Its Value In recent years expenditures for advertis- ing by the government have increased, evi- dence that this method of publicity has proven remunerative. Among newspapers throughout Canada there are records of commercial success built upon 'intelligent advertising. There are innumerable instances where a well-thought- out and efficiently directed advertising policy has resulted in an astonishing revival of an indifferent business. Throughout the country there is scarcely a successful enter- prise that has not in its background the invigorating tonic of aggressive publicity. "Governments are taking note of this. When they have a project that demands enthusias- tic public co-operation they appeal to the daily newspapers, and the results have been magnificently justified. In fact, it is admit- ted that daily newspaper advertising made possible the gigantic investment in Victory Bonds and War Savings Certificates during the last Great War, and government bonds since offered the public, giving the Canadian public a class of securities that will main- tain many thousands of families in a con- dition of security from want. The government need make no apologies for advertising expenditures. There are actually many avenues in which they could further exploit publicity. The Post Office De- partment could be converted into a most profitable branch of public service if the government would sell to the people the large the patronage. The same applies to the Department of Agriculture and other branches of administration, wherein active public co-operation is vital. The government would be well advised to take lessons in this regard from the most successful private enterprises. The latter know and appreciate the value of advertis- ing. They know that they cannot succeed without it. Editorial Notes Ag we write this, there are four candidates | now in the field in the Ontario Riding pro- vincial election. We wonder if there will be | any more before the nomination period closes today. * * * Britain is sending thousands of her crack | troops to Egypt. That would indicate that she is going to stand firm in Lio Setornyiny. tion to safeguard the vital Suez Canal. ; * + * _ Korean cease-fire talks are dragging on without progress. Each side is waiting to see if the other is willing to make any com- promise for the sake of peace. - * * The Canadian government is very wise in agreeing to have a special committee of Parliament to study defence expenditures. That is a problem on which the best byains of all political parties should be concentrated, not for the purpose of carping criticism, but for the saving of money wherever possible. e Other Editors' Views eo SOMETHING ON GOOD MEN (Kirkland Lake Northern News) Some years ago Bernard Russell wrote an enter- taining article on the "Harm That Good Men Do," in which he showed the handicap to prog-ess which can plainly be attributed to men who are "good" but not enlightened. A leading banker used to%ay to his family: "Don't worry about the bad people. There are not many of them anyway, and the police will take care of them as a rule. It is the stupid people who can make most of the trouble." Nature punish ple with as much ferocity as people punish what they consider wicked- ness. We, at least, should not condpne » leaders peop t imagination, intelligence and courage-- merely because they are good. ® A Bit of Verse @ \ & § tunid id ty ith . HEAVEN I shall have a clover lawn For rabbit guests to feed upon; 1 shall have a tall oak tree Where saucy squirrels flirt with me; T shell have some gum trees there For wogily bright-eyed kola bears; And from out the forest near Will come the dainty-stepping deer. All these lovely things to see When other angels come to tea! --FREDA NEWTON BUNNER. e A Bible Thought e There is always time for the thing we do first. "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His righteous- ness; and all these things shall be added unto you." (Matt. 6:33 CIERRA EFL AY many services that it operates and thus en- CAD IW 7 a "Shape of Thi --Hesse, in The St. Louis Globe-Democrat | Reader WILD LIFE PROTECTION | The Editor, The Times-Gazette, | Sir, I have r:ad with much in- | terest al etter submitted to your pa=- per by a "Whitey Township Farm- | er" and appearing in Readers | Views on November 1st. | 1 am pleased to see that there is | | someone who is interested enough | |in the local hunting scene to take | time to state views, However, I | | feel the apparefitly learned gent'. made at the recent meeting of the | Oshawa Game and Fish Protective | Association. The statement wag really a report | to the members of the Association and pointed out that there were certain statements made in the Times-Gazette that were not quite true. The statements were hardly fair in view of the fact that a lot |of work had gone into raising a | | large number of pheasants this year |by The East Whitby Game Com- | | mission, A great number of birds | were released this year and there were certainly ample birds in the field when the pheasant season opened. I referred to a specific dis- trict in my report and I still main- tain that the hunters conducted themselves well. I know that it was impossible to have frozen birds in the field at this time of year, and certainly do not think that anyone would be so foolish ag to shoot Birds out of season, have them froz- en and then carry them as legally shot game. On the other hand, mayhe some moron as is mentioned in . "Whitby Township Farmer's" letter might carryout such an act. Let me sum up the thing by say- ing that my report to our organiz- | ation was directed strictly at the | item {a thé Times-Gazette and only | from the hunter's point of view. | Those who don't hunt of course, would differ as to the idea of what good hunting is, particularly in this area. There were plenty of birds arounud; what were shot in the dis- trict I mentioned were shot legally and the hunters were satisfied with the efforts of our local Game Commission. Let me go on, however. "Whitby Township Farmer" makes certain other "contfibutions" in his letter, which I think should be zon- sidered. He mentions that his land was overrun with hunters who did not conduct themselves well; that hunt- ers didnot ask' for permission to trespass; that they shot anything that moved, whether. in season or not; that they shot toward his home at a range of not more than 50 yards; that to remonstrate with hunters was useless; that there were insufficient game wardens for ade- quate protection (keep this word | protection in mind for later refer- ence) and last but not least, that he would like to know what' the Oshawa Game and Fish Protective Association protects. First of all, I would like to say that the extent of land being over- run is a matter of opinion. He may be surprised to know that there are only four hundred non-resident township licenses to be sold this year," while there are no restric- tions on the sale of resident licen- ses. At the time of the pheasant shoot these four hundred licenses were not all sold. Therefore, the bulk, of the hunters that were out during the shoot would be town- ship residents, practically all of whom are not members of our As- | sociation, and I think that the | township hunter and sportsman has ias much to respect as the city | hunuters, | I agree most heartily that not one in a hundred hunters ask for per- mission to trespass over private property. This applies also to fish- ermen. It is extremely unfortunate that this is so, but the farmer still retains the right to order anyone from his land if he does not want them there. If he is met with "bland assurances that no harm will be done" that does not change his. status and rather than argue with them, I thefik if I were a farmer I would call the police and lay charges. I know what I would 1S s' Views (front lawn without mp permission. | It is also true that some hunters (at least they think they are hunt- ers) will shoot at anything that moves. How this can be rectified I do not know, but that something should be done is very important. At one time there was a clause printed on every township license that said one could not discharge a firearm within a certain distance of an occupied building, When this condone shooting within the range that this gentleman mentions. This is a very good item for our local Association to work on. The gentleman would like to know what we protect, yet he pub- licly announces that he knows that pheasants are constantly being shot out of season yet we have heard nothing till now. We know that this is true, and I would like to state that there are depuy game wardens in our organization who are only too anxious to know who is doing the, shooting. I nfact, there are convictions on record for this year of game law violations. He claims that if organized shooting is permitted to the extent of the last one (and says that that is what we want) that there will be no wildlife left in this pleasant land. Well, pheasants are wildlife. These same birds that he says are being shot are game birds. They arrive here one day old. Special food must be bought to start them out in life. I have seen the game-keeper at our local game farm working until mid- night, picking up these birds a few at a time and placing them under the brooder because they do not know how to do it themselves. He feeds them three and four times a day and to him they are as valu- able as Plymouth Rocks. All this and more, from the first of June to about the middle of August. Other sportsmen build ruun pens, beg, bor- | row or buy wire staples, cover tar- paulins, ison posts, release crates and other items. Theg loan their trucks, drive into the township to jelease these birds into the field. Why? Because our wildlife is being de- pleted, particularly our pheasants. And "Whitby Township Farmers" KNOWS that pheasants are being shot out of season! Unfortunately, this gentleman does not tell us anything that we already do not know. Let him tell us when birds are being shot out of season and we sure will show him what we protect. Or is he like a lot of others who do a lot of complain- | ing without any action? - Lastly, I would like to tell what part the Oshawa Game and Fish Protective Association plays in the scheme of things. Without the co-operation of The Union Rod and Gun Club and The East Whitby Game Commission and our organization the propagation of the pheasant in this area would be virtually impossible. The Depart- ment of Lands and Forests supply the birds with the understanding that there will be an open season. The Department sets the dates and everyone abides by those dates, We have no control over this except to tell our members to conduct them- selves as good sportsmen, observe the game laws and respect the rights of the landowner. Our depu- ties are omly too willing to trace down any violations, but their ef- fectiveness is only as good as time Ma¢'s Musings We have never been one Of those who believed That people elected to The federal Parliament Or Ontario Legislature Gain anything personally By devoting their time And their capabilities To the service of their Fellow-citizens in the Position to which they Have been elected. We know that in most Cases election to thes Offices means sacrifice Not only of time and Energy, but also of A financial nature, Because the amount which Is paid to members of These governing bodies Does not make up for the Loss of earnings from the Regular livelihood of Successful candidates. For that reason we believe That candidates stand In these elections only Because of a sincere and Honest desire to serve Their fellow-citizens, And that their greatest Reward lies in knowing That they are doing Their duty as citizens. Since these candidates are All ready to do their duty As Canadian citizens, How desirable it is that The electors should realize They also have a duty, And that is to be sure to Vote on election day Regardless of the candidate For whom they vote. > will allow. They do not receive any remuneration, so the least that one can do is to advise these men when there is something wrong. 'The local organizations protect only to the extent of educating its members as to the game and fish laws, good sportsmanship and res- pect for other peoples' rights. I repeat shis because we so far have only begun to get things started. Seven meetings a year is not much time to tell the members everything that exists. 'Being an organized club it is only natural that it gets blamed for everything tha happens, but remember that a relatively fishermen are members. At the present time the local As- sociation | Club isthe future hunter and fish- man has slightly misunderstood the {was deleted is rather vague, but it | erman and it is our aim that they reason for the statement that was | certainly should be revived, I don't [Will be better sportmen than the last two or three generaions has produced. We are also in the pro- cess of forming a resolution to put a curb on the use of the high-pow- ered rifle; we do stream improve- ment work which we think will get bigger as time goes, 50 that our streams will have water and trout in them twenty-five years from now. The local Game Commission (most of whom are members) were instrumental in placing a ban on the use of ferrets 'for cotton-tail rabbits. We try to protect the land- owner by instilling in the minds of create a feeling of goodwill between hunter or fisherman and farmer. These are only a few. If "Whit- by Township Farmer" and anyone | else is interested, you are cordially | invited to any or all of our meet- | ings and see and hear for your- self. . Finally, this gentleman might be glad to know that at this very mom- ent, a committee has been appoint- ed ander the direction of The On- tario Federation of Anglers and Hunters (with whom we are affil- iated) to establish contact with in- terested farmers throughout South- ern Ontario to study ways and means to put a stop to the various Syeapaces perpetrated by the ignor- an fisherman. In the meantime, our organiza- tion and others stand ready at all times to meet and discuss the prob- lems of the farmer, or anyone for that matter, so that the future will give our children a pleasan land which is not decimated of wildlife. We can do this, but only with the full co-operation of EVERYBODY. In conclusion, I think that if the views of "Whitby Township Farm- er" are good.enough for publication, they should be good enough for his signature. Sincerely yours, William Owens, Secretary-Treasurer, Oshawa Game and Fish Protective Association. Oshawa, November 6, 1951, CLEAR PLANT MANAGER London, Ont. (CP) -- A charge against Raymond W. Robinson, manager of Robinson Industrial- Crafts, of wilful damage to a picketing tent at the strike-bound plant, was dismissed by Magist- rate Donald Menzies Wednesday. The magistrate ruled that evidence showed only that Robinson had passed the tent and flourished a jar, but that the case failed to show what destroyed the tent. OVERSHOOTS RUNWAY Montreal (CP) -- Icy conditions on the transatlantic runway at Dorval airport Wednesday caused a KLM airliner, taking off for Amsterdam, to overshoot the run- way and tilt on one wing. None of the 40 passengers was injured. * . A; KENTUCKY The FETTER FAMILY HOTELS antic AVE. ery ™e Jefferson Tolophone ATLANTIC CITY $0141 do if I found picnickers on my AMERICAN PLAN Cocinoll Lounge * Coffee Shop Sede Bur * Sum Deck & Solorivm RS -- ERE small portion of the hunters and | is. sponsoring a Junior! Club at Simcoe Hall. This Junior its members to at all times conduct | | themselves in a manner that will | and uneducated hunter and | cr" A Il «+. Is all their very own . . . 1: interests and . . The vl YL PORTRA «+. Will let each other know ITS By James J. Metcalfe Skut-In Club Aree the best of helpful clubs «+. Is that which is designed . . . ' To keep the shut-ins occupied . . . In spirit and in mind . . . With letters, cards and magazines . . . For those who are alone ... . Or some small publication that A club of correspondents who . +. Their hobbies and their they b . . . For there is friendship in the mail . . . And happiness to gain . . . And life inside can be a life . . . Beyond the windowpane . . . A shut-in club. can do so mush « . +» To comfort and to bless «oo And it is very much the way . . . To conquer loneliness. Copyright. 1051, Field Enterprises, Inc. AN Rights Reserved. (INSIDE QUEEN'S PARK Reporting The Leaders | Toronto -- Notes on travelling | with leaders: Premier Frost is «easy to work with. The premier usually travels | with a driver and almost invari- | ably has at least a partial text of | his speech in advance for news- | papermen. | You don't see much of him socially. When not "dictating he | usually busies himself about the | riding or with its officials. How- | ever, before each spcech he usually calls the press in, goes over his speech and talks over things for a, few minutes. | CCF Leader Ted Jolliffe is easi- est of all to get around with. He usually drives himself, or on a long jaunt has his brother drive, and he always has an extra space to give you a lift if needed. His speeches are mostly given off the cuff but on occasion he will have notes to hand out on the more pertinent points. Socially the boys on his tour see a lot of him. An old newspaperman himself, he finds time to drop in on them and chew the fat. Walter Thomson is genial but for the most part the men don't see a great deal of him. If he has the time or if travelling on the train he will chat with them freely, but for the most part with his arduous schedule, the busiest of the three leaders, he has about all he can do to keep his speaking dates. As for the newspapermen them- selves, they don't have an easy It can be a pleasant change get- ting about the country if one can do it at leisure. But there is very little of this in a political cam- paign. y It is usually a case of getting up early in the morning. A hurried drive to an afternoon meeting. A scramble to get a story written, Then off to an evening meeting, and another writing scramble, énd- ing up at midnight. Then away to a hotel, room and of again early in the morning. And there is very little compen- sation for this strenuous routing. In each riding the particular leader's speech is more or less new to the audience. But to the men report- ing it to their newspapers it is mostly dull as ditch-water. All of the leaders have major points which they repeat in each riding and on these they have a set speech. They deliver- it almost word for word night after night, even to the jokes. It gets so that after a few days if the leader hap- pened to be ill practically any of the reporters could ge" up and give his' speech word for word. But tirey have to sit through it. For one thing there is liable to be an interruption or heckling. And from it new might come. And then in every speech each leader tries to bring ofit one new point. Other- wise they wouldn't make the news columns at all. And so the report- ers have to wait these nightly an- nouncements from which they get their copy. Assumption BY JOSEPH LISTER RUTLEDGE | The other day we received a let- | ter from a minister who inquired | earnestly: "You know something of | mib businessmen. Tell me. Do they welcome war contracts and feel that it is peace not war that brings depressions? I say that there is a suspicion among the ordinary common people of Canada, of which I am one, that big busi- ness everywhere--the ardent free | enterprisers--welcome war prepar- | ations because they promise a huge | market with sure returns." | One could answer glibly that if] all that enterprise ever asked was | big orders and sure returns, it| had all that before the shadow of | war fell upon us. But that, though | | true, is not quite enough. What | we did say was something like | this: Of course industry welcomed | the war orders. But they were wel- comed, not because they were war orders, but because they were or-| ders that came directly from the ordinary people of Canada through | their parliament. It was not in-| dustry that determined on a de | fence policy. It. was the people. | And, if the policy was wrong they | had a chance to say so. And, if it] was right, then war orders be-| eame a premier obligation on a! industry that could handle them. | | But let us not argte that indus- | | try is blinded by the huge profits in war orders. It is eager to get at a task that if knows it must do, and that it knows--better than gov- ernment--takes time. But it re- cognizes clearly enough that the profits are paper profits. During the last year or two we have read of billions being spent to readjust industries to production for peace. There went the huge profits of which we average citizens speak so blithely. And what of the other problems that are the step-children of war orders? The lost selling organization, because. it isn't need- ed to sell to one customer. Dis- persed and disorganized, it has all to be re-created when the crisis is over. Customers have to be re- discovered and re-convinced. Set these things against the pro- fits and, if you will still concede the industrialist little moral sense, give him credit at least for a com- mon sense equal to your own. Ask yourself: If you were in his place, | 1 would you prefer the long steady years of continuing and improving | business with its known methods and obligations and hazards, yes, | 4nd profits; or would you prefer | the sudden feverish activity that | would demand everything, and would end as suddenly as it had begun? Which would profit the more, not in dollars alone, but in the lasting satisfactions of a good product, a good name and a grow- ing history? Yes, my friend. If you will answer that, you will have the answer to your own question. ® 30 Years Ago A cast-iron, riveted steel pipe line 1355 feet long was completed to bring water from Lake Ontario to the Oshawa waterworks. A new Oldsmobile car, designed by W. H. Moyse, chief engineer of General Motors of Canada, Lim- ited, was placed on exhibition for the first time. A Thanksgiving market was held in Oshawa, with geese, ducks and chickens in abundance, 'but ne turkeys offered. A Studebaker car, owned and driven by George Pearse, caught fire while he was driving through Harmony and was totally destroy- Thanksgiving Day was observed as a holiday on Monday, Novem- ber 17. Fergus Quigg, foreman at the Pedlar plant, died suddenly while at work. . THOUSANDS AID AMP Washington (AP) -- Bob Smith, the Korean war's first quadruple amputee, clutched a pen in his right hook Wednesday and signed a document that will assure him financial security for life. The document, a $116,000 trust fund agreement, represented the dona- tions of thousands of Americans who wanted to make up in part what Bob gave for them in Korea --his hands and legs. RED PROPOSAL 'USELESS' Bonn, Germany (AP) -- West German President Theodor Heuss Wednesday rejected as useless a proposal by Wilhelm Pieck, Com- munist East German chief of state, for a meeting in Berlin to discuss the reunification of Ges many. | Ral haa INSTITUTE FO BUY BLINDCRAFT Do Your Christmas Shopping November 9th and 10th at the Blindcraft Sale in Zeller's THE CANADIAN NATIONAL R THE BLIND | ----