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@ THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Wednesday, August 5, 1953 ditorials The Oslly Times-Gasette (Oshawa, Whitby). published by Times-Gazeite Publishers, Limied. 67 Simeoe Street South, Oshawa, Outarie Special Courses for Clergy Might be Very Valuable The annual course in agriculture for rural clergymen has just been completed at the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph. This is a course which has been attended by many clergymen in rural charges, who take advantage of it to ac- quire an agricultural background and a grounding in farming problems which they had lacked. They gave up the time to take this course, which was featured by sessions on "The Business of Farm- ing," so that they could have a better urfderstanding of the problems of the members of their rural congregations. The Owen Sound Sun-Times, com- menting on this course for rural clergy- men, comes up with a rather novel idea. It says: "The plan could be extended, of course, to provide clergymen with similar insight into the actual living conditions of the men of the plant and the factory for ministers who serve in towns and cities. In fact, from remarks heard from such quarters, many of the clergy would do well to meet with such persons as alcoholics to get the first hand, frank viewpoint of such problems. In this present day, those who give spiritual leadership require, as neven before, a down-to-earth insight into the problems of those they seek to lead. They must, personally, share these problems to a very great degree." . There is a great deal of merit in this : suggestion. The annual course at Guelph has been continued from year to year because it was found of solid value. Courses for ministers in industrial areas, such as The Sun-Times suggests, might very well be just as valuable. No More Harvesters' Excursions Looking over the old Oshawa news- paper files of 650 years ago, we were in- trigued by advertisements inserted by the railway companies announcing harvest- ers' excursions to Western Canada. They told of the need for thousands of men to go west to help harvest the crops, and offered the inducement of a fare of $10 to Saskatchewan. We can recall how popular these excursions were some 85 ) 40 years ago, and how each year thousands of young men trekked to the prairie provinces and took part in the ingathering of the harvest, in days when much of the work had to be done by hand. The advent of modern combines and other machinery has done away with the necessity for this annual migration of harvesters. Today, machinery is doing much more efficiently and cheaply what used to be done by manpower. Yet in the old days, going west on a harvester's excursion could be made quite profitable. The harvesters earned good money, and usually returned east with a substantial stake for the winter. They had another value, too. Each year, many of those who went west be- came enamoured of the prairie farm life. They stayed out there, took up home- steads, and became numbered among the successful grain growers of the west. Many of the men who became prominent in the public life of the three prairie provinces went there as young men on harvest excursions and stayed to find their proper niche in life. Perhaps the mechanical age is more efficient and practical. But there was something romantie and spectacular about these annual excursions to the western harvest fields, and something worth while disappeared from the life of Canada when they were discontinued. The Man Behind the Wheel During these summer months, thous- ands are riding in their automobiles along the highways, hastening to or from a vacation. Every day, tragically, some of them will die in needless accidents. Driving a car is a phase of human conduct like other activities. Like the rest of our conduct, it reflects our nature. Our driving may be inconsiderate, thoughtless, reckless, or even wicked; it may be careful, competent, or admirable. All of us express our natures in our daily living. And if we drive a car, that is merely one form of expression. It can, however, be a very dangerous form. Ordinary rudeness, such as not Editorial Notes Construction of a highway bypass at Washago will come as a great relief to Oshawa motorists who drive into the Muskoka region. The traffic there has caused a bad bottleneck for many years. Politicians who have to hark back to the depression days of the thirties for election material must be sadly lacking in ideas. It is still a mont question as to which party was responsible for the sit:ia- ticn which prevailed then, if any. ' If the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, the United States is scor- ing well by offering the East Germans a supply of food which Russia is not will- ing that they should have. The Daily Times-Gazette (OSHAWA. WHITBY) 'fhe rally Times-Gazette (Oshawa, The Oshawa Times (established 1871) the Whitby a : tle. ) is pub d [1 s and y houdays ). aly Member ot The Canadian Press, the Canadian Daily Newspapers Association, the Ontario Provincial Dailies As- sociation and the Audit Bureau of Circulation. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use tor republication of all news despatches in the paper credited to it or to The Associated ss or Reuters, also the local news published therein. All rights of special despa are also Teserv T. L. WILSON, Publisher and General Manager M. McINTYRE HOOD, Managing Editor Offices, 44 King Street West, Toronto, Ontario, 229 University Tower Building, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin Port Perry, Ajax and Pickering, not over 30¢ per week. By mai Whitby) com! hithy bining outside carrier delivery areas anywhere in Canada England, $10.00 per year. U.S., $15.00 per year, DAILY AVERAGE NET PAID CIRCULATIOi: FOR JUNE 12,301 tipping one's hat or crowding ahead of others through a doorway, may be un- pleasant, but it is seldom fatal. But when a man becomes rude and aggressive with a ton or two of steel' moving a mile a minute, the consequences may be fright- ful indeed. Human life is not only sacred: it is divine. Only God can give it, and not all the efforts of scientists have ever found a way to create it, or to restore it once it has been destroyed. No amount of money, goodwill, or remorse can replace a life snuffed out in an accident. Remember that, when next you sit behind the wheel. Other Editors' Views THE EASIEST WAY (Port Arthur News Chronicle) The trouble with a strike is that the people who must pay have no say in the settlement. That is generally arranged by the employing company or companies who immediately arrange to pass i$ along to the customers. It's easier that way. R Bit of Verse MY TURN TO SHARE You have told me of many wonders: I have seen through your eyes Distant mountains, far-flung valleys; The bright gardens of Persia; The age-old cities of the Nile, All through the vivid imagery of words. Come with me now To a nearby wonderland; To a stretch of unfrequented forest Bordering the green banks Of the Brandywine. These are the lands the Lenape once owned: Over these laurel-bordered hills That friendly tribe Ruled in quiet dignity. ! Here, in the stillness of the forest's hush, One almost hears the tread of moccasins; One almost smells the smoke Of Indian fires Rising in blue streaks From their wattled huts. 'This is Americana-- Still echoing the primitive and plain-- A land of Indian lore And tribal legends, Bible Thought "Devotion is the thermometer to our giving, and giving is the evidence of our devotion,"---Christian Life. Jesus said, "THis woman hath anointed My feet with ointment . , . She loved much." Luke 7:46, 47) JUNIOR, THE MATHEMATICAL WHIZ --- ~ < THIS MAY WAKE You UP, FATHER. . THE AUG. 10 ELECTION # 7,000,000, OF WHICH 4 5,500,000 1S QF OUR IS COSTING PUBLIC MONIES. I WOULD SUGGEST YOU GET UP AND VOTE / OTTAWA REPORT Jack Pickersgill Unknown Canuck By PATRICK NICHOLSON Special Correspondent for The Times-Gaszette OTTAWA--Easily the most con- in this summer's rookie to electioneering has cre- ated many hustings hassles by his incautious words and deeds. His name geems Sertala to be Jatrichs, and espec ow Newfoundlanders, he is today the Unknown Canadian. few people know this political Mr. Belvedere well enough to say what makes him tick. . He started in Ottawa 15 years ago as an obscure civil servant, a shy junior secretary in Prime Minister Mackenzie King's office. From that strategic bottom rung, Pickersgill's progress h been sensational, profitable, served but unpublicised. Ten years ago he was paid $5,000 a year. Last year this one and time Ontario farm boy leap-frogged over the heads of the last of his thousands of seniors in the eiyil service to capture®the plum job as clerk of the Privy at $15,000 a year. Now he is a cabinet minister, ultimate and a shoo-in as member of Parl- jament for what has been de- scribed as a pocket borough in Newfoundland. If expectations 'to raise cabinet and parliamentary salaries are fulfilled next year, his annual earnings will be $25,000. But with the non-material out- look he acquired as a professor at the University of Manitoba, he measures his progress less by his fattening pay-check than by his approach towards the throne hind which he has been the power for so long, as the unofficial main- Sp) behind two prime ministers. Politics are food and drink to him, but his' pudgy bounce shows that he is not allergic to the pleas- ures of the trough. He lives mod- estly with the second Mrs. Pick- ersgill and his four children in a new clapboard home in Ottawa's swagger suburb of Rockcliffe. He talks of moving his family to an outport in Newfoundland: a pro- ject which Mrs. P. regards with alarm. With his usual Hg suit, flapping tie and str. fore- lock, he looks every inch a non- entity, which now a few politicians and civil servants wish he still But has Ary corner of the his important behind-the- scenes activities. Not only the leader but the whole Liberal party benefits from the 9 reasoning of our newest cabinet minister. For this ex-Conservative, as well-de- of Bus Crash Inquest On Friday MORRISBURG (CP)--Bodies of two of the 20 victims of the bus accident near here last Friday are still at the Keck Funeral Home, identified but unclaimed by rela- tives. G. Leonard Keck said Tuesday he expects shortly to receive in- structions on disposition of the of Margaret McKee of Val- body curtain ley Murphy, County Down, North- ern Ireland. No one has claimed the body of Eleanor Kormer of Austria, he said. The Canadian Red Cross So- ciety was trying to get in touch with relatives either in Canada or Austria. Hospital authorities in Cornwall, 25 miles east, said they believe the two drivers involved in the bus- truck collision which sent both ve- hicles into a St. Lawrence river canal will be able to te! at a coroner's inquest scheduled for Fri- ay. They are Lorne Chesebrough of Kingston, driver of the Colonial Coach Lines bus, and Max Rood- Ta of Toronto, driver of the light ck. SE Jet Flew « 4,450 Miles aboiphioh « classic Lib- eralism by the C. C. F. 1 Now that Pickersgill oso from the expected neutralism of civil servants--whom, he says, like children should be seen but not heard in politics--his capabil- ity will be fully used by the Liber- als on Parliament Hill. As the big Mr. Fix-it here, he is master of the technique of making patron- e flow by order in council. So Ww] "Skipper Skill" first visited be- his new tical home, he was able to not only pensions for Newfoundland's railwaymen, but financial help for its coastal skip- TS. Je He says his only ambition is to continue his jour. yuak-old job as chore-boy to Mr. St. Laurent, just so long as he remains prime min- ister. And then? That is $64 question behind the ids er anguish of some long-term aspir- rants to the leadership of the Lib- eral party. FRENCHMAN'S BAY Pastor Takes First Service IVY THOMPSON Correspondent FRENCHMAN'S BAY--Guests at the week-end visiting Mr. and Mrs. H. Pike were Mr. and Mrs. Fergu- son, Cobourg; Mrs, Partridge, To- ronto, and their two grandsons, Gordon and Douglas Jackson. Mrs. W. E. Guthrie was hostess at an afternoon tea for Mrs. H. C. Wells who is leaving the Bay after twenty-five years as a summer resident. Mrs. J. H. McClement and Mary- Beth are at Riverview Lodge, near Bracebridge, - Muskoka, for two weeks. Mr. McClement is spending the holiday week-end too, prior to his holiday next week when he will join his family. We are sotry to learn that Mrs. Jas. Oakly is quite ill, and hope for a speedy recovery. Mr. and Mrs. E. Kirby enter- tained their nephew and neice. Mr. and-Mrs. Roy Ledger of Madison, New Jersey, and Mrs. Ledger, Sr., of Toronto. Gary Balsdon has had a seige of illness. We hope that he will soon be fully recovered. Mr. and Mrs. J. Henderson and family have had a very enjoyabl tour of Maine and New Hampshire and other parts of the East Coast. We: hope that Donna and Linda Gaskin are now fully recovered from their bout with the chicken- POX. his first service at Fairport Beach United Church choosing as his topic, "the Ideal: Church", based on the text 'Now therefore are on the text 'Now therefor ar we all here present before God, to hear all things that are command- ed thee of God" from Acts 10, verse 33. Mr. Empey said that for the Ideal Church there should be regular attendance and punctual- ity. The attitude should be one of worship and humility. The Ideal Church should teach a lesson as well as give inspiration. On Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Jo- seph White moved into their brand new home rented from Mr. Wm. Powell. Mr. and Mrs: Perrin Wells have In 9 Hours TAMPA, Fla. (AP)--A US. Air Force B-47 jet bomber flew here non-stop from England Tuesday in nine hours 53 minutes. Its average speed for the 4,450- mile flight--the longest known jet hop on record in distance between points of takeoff and landing--was 454 (statute) miles an hour. The six-jet Boeing, world's fast- est known bomber, topped off (filled) its fuel tanks off the south- ern tip of Ireland, by refuelling from a Boeing KO-97 tanker air- plane. The 85-ton plane left an airbase near Fairford, England, 80 miles west of London, at 6 a.m. EDT. It put down at MacDill Air Force base here at 3:53 p.m. EDT. ATTACKED BY TWO MEN BEAVERTON (CP)--A semi-hy- sterical mother of two staggered into the police station here early Tuesday and told officers she had been dragged into a ditch and raped by two men who were giving her a ride home in their pickup truck. The 36-year-old Hamilton woman, visiting with her parents at Brechin, 10 miles to the north, said she met the men in a bever- age room at Atherly, three miles outside Orillia. moved into the home formerly owned by Bay Street. The farmers of the district are all busy this week threshing the fall wheat with prospects of a - bumper crop. EXAMPLES OF LOANS 15 Mo. | 24 mo. | 24 mo. 154.19) 529.59 | 756.56 $12 | $28 $40 Above poyments cover everything! Even § Payments for in-between omounts ore in proportion. Can.p $350 TO $1200 ® "YES" promptly to 4 out of § employed people--married or sin- gle. ® 1l.visit loan . . . phone first. ® You select best payment date. ® No bankable security required. Phone, write, or come in today. Leans made on Signature, Furniture or Auto Bison ine es 2nd Fl., 111/, SIMCOE ST., NORTH (Over Bank of Nova Scotia), OSHAWA Phone: 3-4687 « John P. Alexander, YES MANager OPEN DAILY 9 TO 5 © SATURDAY 9 TO 12:30 Loons made Yo residents of oll surrounding towns * Personol Finance Compony of Conede the Bottrells on Bay ' IN DAYS GONE BY 25 YEARS AGO Oliver Hezzlewood well-known former Oshawa resident, wrote to the newly - formed Motor Club, extolling the scenic beauty of the road .o Port Perry, especially at the height of land where both Lake Ontario and Lake Scugog could be seen, The Ontario Regiment, under the charge of Col. Frank Chappell and Major R. B. Smith, left for camp at Niagara. There were more than 100 officers and men in the com- pany. J. Norval Willson, president and manager of Mercury Service Lim- ited, announced that a new three. storey garage would be built on the corner of King and Mary Streets at a cost of $90,000. St. George's Ukranian Hall, Al- bert Street, was officially opened. Heavy rains during a violent thunder storm flooded basements of a numbr of Oshawa homes. Excavation was begun for the proposed new Albert Street United Church which would cost $30,000. Rev. R. A. Whattam, pastor, was in charge of ceremonies at the sod - turning. Miss Effie Smith, assistant sup- erintendent of the Oshawa General . Hospital, and Miss Bessie Scott, bookkeeper at Fittings Ltd., were passengers aboard th. "SS Huron- ic" which ran aground in Lake Superior. The ladies were on holi- "days enroute to Vancouvef, North Simcoe, Street United Church (later renamed Northmin- ster) held a street fair on Greta Street between Simcoe and Mary Streets. G. D. Conant announcd that ex- tensive alterations would be made on the old Dominion Bank Build- ing, 7% Simcoe Street South. The cost was estimated at $7,000. The National Chain Broadcasti organization announced that Hane Canada broadcasting would begin on September 1; King George V was confident that the Kellog Pact | would insure world peace; 11,000 ex-servicemen and their f: 1] made a pilgrimage to Fla ers; the east coast of Florida was iso- lated by a hurricane; Prince George (Duke of Kent) left London for the West Indies where he was appointed as French interpreter at a naval station. QUEEN'S PARK Niagara By-election Is Expected Soon TORONTO--A by-election will shortly be in the provincial books. And a good thing. Elections always stimulate the political picture and give the livers of the various par- ties a needed shaking up. Date of the vote to replace Lib- eral Bill Houck of Niagara Falls of probably will not be until after the federal general el- ection. But it undoubtedly will be held quite soon. The Conservative administration has not shown any o the landency of the late Prem- er Hepburn who used to leave ridings ions. Whenever a vacancy has come up during the last 10 years it Bag Deen speedily filled. A Bill Houck will be a loss to the House. One of the veteran members he gave long years of loyal service. He was one of the most fluent speakers and was well-informed on pubue affairs, particularly on In the last few sessions he re- laxed a bit. Probably during the last winter's term especially, he took it easy being anxious not to say anything that might Tory friends. But in his day he had led many a stirring debate and delivered astute criticism. His inclination now is to go to the House of the at back benches in Ottaws, and then even- tually, one imagines, to go upstairs to the chamber of the living dead. announced vacant until general elec-* There isn't wish him well. good rest. BRIDGES, ETC. Surprising there hasn't more talk on the hus of action in the federal ke works. who doesn't , e has earned a been s on lack partment Sterling Area Puts Away Cash LONDON (AP)--The British-led sterling area gained $89,000,000 during July, Jushing soa group's reserves up $2,456,000,000 the Treasury announced. The rise was une big. The reserves of Britain's world- wide money system, which is pessed to the pound sterling, have n climbing all this year but at a declining rate. American defense aid formed art of the gain to the extent of ,000,000 -- additionally Britain got $2,000,000 as part of monthly settlement with the Euro- pean Payments Union. Altogether then the sterling area earned $51,000,000 more than fit spent in the United States and other hard currency countries. WALKED IN SLEEP HULL, Que. (CP)--Nine-year-old Bobby Rothman, barefooted and wearing only pyjamas, was found late Tuesday night under a rain- soaked blanket a garage less than five blocks from his home. her GOING 70, N Hos J & Se: \- soos, &F cowl + Garage facilities avilable e Airport bus stops at our deer © Grand Central and Pennsylvania \ Stations are convenient dif, "i Completely Modernized and r Ta Y Vy -- 2 Nia» It's just what the doctor orders to rest your nerves and to give you new pep and vigour after a strenu- ous year on the job. Make your vacation completely restful--leave your cares behind and travel by bus. ASK YOUR LOCAL AGENT ABOUT "HIGHWAY TOURS" TO ALL PARTS OF THE U.S.A. Se 5 Y= I Qraat, to Relax / Round Trip Fares Collingwood .. 7.30 5.25 6.70 Orillia (Subject to Change) PR Aispiad Rev. George Empey