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8 TUE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Selurdey, August 8, 1908 Editorials The Bally Tim Whitby), #7 Simooe Sirest South, Oshawa, Ontario Every Citizen Has Duty To Go To Polls Monday Monday is an important day in the life of every Canadian citizen. On that day, the people of Canada have the op- portunity of going to the polls and elect- ing those who will govern them for the next four or five years. They will decide whether the present government is to have a renewal of the confidence of the electors, or whether it will be replaced by that of another political party. That decision rests in the hands of a free elec- torate which has the democratic privilege of choosing, by secret ballot, those who will conduct the business of the country, The importance of voting in Monday's election should transcend all otffer con- siderations for the individual. It is, as we have said previously ia this column, un- fortunate that the date of the election should clash with the annual vacation period for thousands-'of industrial workers in Oshawa and Ontario Riding. Many of them, undoubtedly, will not return to the city and district to vote on Monday. That makes it all the more important that those who will be at home on Monday should go to the polls and record' their preferences. Unless they do, it is certain that whoever is elected will be the choice of only a small minority of the electors of the riding, and that is not conducive to good government. The value of democracy, so far as choosing a government is concerned, does not lie nearly so much in how the imdi- vidual votes, as in the fact that he or she does vote. The franchise was won for our generation by the blood and sacri- fices of our forefathers. It is, therefore, not a thing to be lightly regarded, but is a precious heritage to be used when the opportunity arises. That opportunity comes or Monday. We appeal to all who read these words to take full advantage of it, and go to the polls on Monday and vote for the candidates of their choice, In the time-honored slogan, we repeat, "vote as you like, but vote." Canada Not Keeping in Step As the days roll by, more and more of us get a feeling of being pressed in upon. It is common to blanie this on the tension of the cold war, the frustration of the unsettled little wars, the strain of the high cost of living. No doubt all these things contribute. But we do not have to look to such mental harassments for the whole answer. For, in fact, we are being sub- jected to more and more actual physical pressures all the time. They come from population increases and which follows in their train. By 1980, says the Nova Scotia Bank Review, already discussed in these columns, Canada's population could reach 25 millions. Look- ing more to the present, what are we do- ing about it. The point is that already we seem to be in the midst of a veritable population revolution. Since most of the gains are reflected in the country's great cities, those are literally overrun with people. : Walk the streets here, or Montreal, or everything ' Toronto on any business day and you feel like a chip in a millrace. Get in your car--but why tell that familiar story. Housing carries on, but in lots of cities, try to find a place. We have to under- stand that, with present trends continu- ing, all these pressures upon us are going to get worse instead of better. Perhaps much worse. In field after field -- highways, schools, hospitals, countless types of municipal facilities -- we not only are not keeping pace but are falling farther behind. Our plans are too small, too limited, too un- imaginative. By the time they are cast in stone and steel they are long out of date. And because of that they are, in the long run, more expensive than more ambi- tious plans. We need plans big enough to fit the commanding facts of population growth. M we do not get them, and the money to pay for them, a lot of us will be looking around for new nervous systems to take in trade for the ones we have now. Great Agriculturist Passes + Ontario agriculture suffered a great loss with the passing, this week, of Dr. George I. Christie, president emeritus of the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph. Dr. Christie made a notable contribution to agriculture during the 19 years .he served as president of the OAC, the long- est tenure of any of the college's seven presidents. The outstanding work he achieved in Ontario followed a distin- guished record of service at Purdue Uni- versity and with the United States De- partment of Agriculture, during which He filled the high position of assistant sec- retary. While his attainments in the field of agriculture were many, it was in the pro- motion of research that Dr. Christie put the O.A.C. well in the forefront during his active term as president. The exten- sive programs he designd to bring the benefits of research to farmers in a prac- tical form attracted attention across the Dominion. : Editorial Notes Ontario Department of Highways wiped out election signs painted on rocks bordering the roads in Northern Ontario. What about the signs which are tacked on telephone and telegraph poles? The Daily Times-Gazette (OSHAWA. WHITBY) Times-Gazette (Oshawa, Whitby) combining Times (established 1871) and the Whitby L$ d 1863) is daily The Dally The Oshawa Gazette & Ch ( and y hondays x Member of 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 Press or Reuters, and the published therein. All rights of special despatches reserved. T. L. WILSON, Publisher and Genera) Manager M. McINTYRE HOOD, Managing Bditer Offices, 44 King Street West, T\ 3 University Tower Building, Montreal, Pa Quins. 3 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by cdiriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin Port Perry, Ajax and Pickering, not Over 30¢ Der Week. mail outside carrier delivery areas' shywhore in oanads "and England, $10.00 per year. U.S. $15.00 per year. DAILY AVERAGE NET PAID CIRCULATIOI: FOR JUNE 112,301 The Guelph college also grew In size and stature under his capable direction, and through his foresightedness many new buildings were erected. They include the impressive stone administration build- ing overlooking the main campus. A man of dynamic personality and un- limited energy, Dr. Christie never spared himself in giving the farmers of the prov- ince the benefit of his wide knowledge of agriculture. In addition to his arduous duties at the college, he travelled exten- sively in filling public speaking engage- ments. His collapse while attending a foot- ball game at the O.A.C. in 1948 was at- tributed to the strain of overwork. While he retained the position of president un- til 1947, his illness terminated his active and aggressive career as head of the larg- est agricultural college in the British Commonwealth. : His life might be described as one de- voted to the service of others, and he died knowing that he had fulfilled his task in many fields capably and well. Other Editors' Views LAG IN PENAL REFORM (Winnipeg Tribune) The big difficulty in instituting a rea} program of the penal reform in Canada is the divided jurisdiction of our penal institutions. It is ad- mitted the federal government has done an ex- cellent job over the last five years in. bettering conditions in the penitentiaries over which it has full control. Today youths committed to these ine stitutions are given a real chance of rehabilitation and are, to all intents and purposes, separated from confirmed criminals. Few of the provinces, however, have kept pace with Ottaws in improving conditions in the jails and reformatories over which they have control. R Bit of Verse . INTO THE TWILIGHT And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever flight; And love is less kind than the grey twilight, And hope iz less dear than the dew of the morn. ~WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS. Bible Thought "The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much" (James 5:16) Be much WITH God ¥ you would be much FOR God. IT'S UP TO YOU ' EXERCISE YOVR FRANCHISE NEXT MONDAY GALLUP POLL OF CANADA Liberals Still Retain Edge In Final Pre-Election Poll Based on interviewing which end- ed early in the past week final Institute studies of a cross-section of eligible voters showed voting in- tentions at that time to be: Liberals -- 45 per cent. Progressive Conservatives, 2 per cent. CCF -- 10 per cent. Social Credit -- 5 per cent. Others -- 1 per cent. Undecided -- 12 per cent. The table shows 12 per cent had not made up their minds at the time of Institute interviewing. No foolproof method has yet been de- vised for determining the be- haviour of this group on election day. However further probing by interviewers indicates that of this 12 per cent, two per cent leaned towards the Liberals, two per cent towards the Conservatives, and two per cent towards CCF, Social Cred- it and other parties combined, leav- ing six per cent still undecided, or non-committal. If it is assumed that this final group will either not vote, or divide the way the rest of the country divides, resultant figures would give: Liberals -- 50 per cent. Progressive Conservatives -- 3 per cent. Social Credit -- 7 per cent. Others -- 1 per cent. As it has in the past, the key province of Quebec remains a Lib- eral stronghold, although the Con- servatives show gains over 1949. QUEBEC ONLY Liberals -- 64 per cent. Progressive Conservatives -- 30 per cent. Others -- 5 per cent. In the key province of Ontario, the fight is much closer, although here again the Institute tabulations give Liberals the edge. ONTARIO ONLY Liberals -- 47 per cent. Progressive Conservatives -- #1 per cent. CCF -- 10 per cent. Others 2 per cent. Provincial figures are subject to wider margin of error than the OTTAWA REPORT Campaign Apathy Must Be Overcome By PATRICK NICHOLSON Special Correspondent for The Times-Gazette OTTAWA -- The average Cana- dian father will spend $6,500 on food for himself, his wife and two kids during the next five years. This is almost exactly the same amount as the total tax bill, in direct income tax and in hidden indirect taxes, which the average Canadian family of four will pay to the federal government during the next five years, if present tax rates remain substantially un- changed. If that average father had to choose next Monday which grocet- eria he would hire to supply all the food for his family during the next five years, with no possibility of making a change even if the service became unsatisfactory, he would give the choice long and careful thought. In the same way he should give sufficient thought to the election, and perhaps discuss with his wife which of the various candidates in their constituency they wish to hire to look after their interests, and their tax money, in Parliament during the next five years. TAKE TIME TO VOTE And they should both devote suf- ficient time -- perhaps no more than it takes the wife to choose and buy just one roast -- to go to the polling station and exercise the citizen's greatest democratic right: The greatest single privil- ~ege which differentiates a demo- cratic country from a dictatorship. In the 1949 general election, one out of every four qualified voters faild to vote. Owing to -polling day falling in the middle of the peak holiday season this year, many families will have no alter- native to being deprived of their votes. To return home especially to vote would in many cases either cost them money which they could not afford, or else curtail their holiday, which their health should not be expected to afford. Many service clubs and similar organizations are making a praise- worthy non-partisan drive to "get out the vote." A typical effort is sponsored by the Kiwanis International, through its International Committee on Public and Business Affairs for Canada. The chairman is Ralph D. Steele of Chatham, Ont. Com- mittee members from other prov- inces . include Arthur D. Richard- son of Vancouver: This committee is distributing a entitled Ballot Battalion, urging the sponsorship of non- partisans Get-ou-the- Vote camp- paigns on a community-wide basis using all possible media and lead- ership. ALL 18 CALM ; Four candidates are running in the constituency where I live. A small boy put a pamphlet issued by one candidate in each mail box down our street; there has been positively no other sign of electoral life. Here is one case where the apathy which has mark- d this campaign can be at least partly attributed to the candidates and to their canvassers and other workers. But we must not let our demo- cratic muscles become atrophied through non-use of them. Some 30,000 votes may be cast in each constituency, and an individual voter may be too busy or too tired to vote, and excuse himself with the thought that his vote will make no difference to the result. That may be true. But what if the other 29.999 voters should do the same thing? Apathy and public indifference is the enemy which every candi- date across the country and every party headquarters at Ottawa fears the most today; fears even more than the rival candidates. It is ommon knowledge that a. hard- working disruptive minority of members can capture control; and in many cases 'has captured con- trol of labor unions. Let us not allow this to happen to our Parlia- ment. national debt to the size of the sample. Above figures indicate, in terms of popular vote, the Liberal and Progressive Conservative party will each obtain approximately the same relative support from the electors of Canada as they did in the last general election, June 27, 1949. The CCF support appears to have fallen off since 1949, while Social Credt has made gains, cen- tered largely in Western Canada. For comparison, here is the share of the popular vote actually ob- tained by each party in the 1949 election: 1949 COMPARISON Progressive Conservative CCF "i Other partie Pct vari gl . 50 d Independents 5 ; 100 All data reported by the Institute is based on popular vote, and it is therefore unsound to translate these percentages into actual seats. In many an election a political party has obtained a clear-cut ma- jority of seats, with less than a majority of popular vote. In obtaining its information, The Institute used modern sampling techniques, in which comparative- ly small (between 2,000 and 3,000 persons), but accurate samples of eligible voters were asked by train- ed opinion reporters: "If a .Dominion election were being held today, which party's candidate do you think you would favor?" From the start of the campaign, it was apparent that popular inter- est in the election was less than at the time of the 1949 election and this may have a bearing on turn- out. Turnout still presents one of the great unlicked challenges of this type of sampling, as no way has yet been devised to ascertain, almost a week ahead of voting day, whether or not an individual will actually go to the polls. In most elections, from a third to a quarter of the eligible voters don't vote in elections, whereas, of necessity, The Institute's sample is based on all eligible voters. / In a light turnout, party organiz- ation gets its best chance to oper- ate, because in individual ridings, a well-organized effort to get out the vote might easily reverse the popular vote trend. Apart from any effect which the time of year might have on turn- out, The Institute reported that electors were hart put to it to find any clear-cut issue to be decided in the vote. Finally, in reading the above figures, it should never be over- looked that they are based on the sampling principle, and that all sampling is subject to some margin of error. The only claim ever made by modern polls is that they con- stitute the most accurate method yet devised for assessing public attitudes, short of a complete cen- sus. IMPRESSIVE TOMB The T built by Shash Jehan as a tom for his wife. : I paid my fuel bill with an HFC loan! So quick! So convenient! Thousands pay bi this modern, businesslike way. So can you... today! Loans for any good reason! Te $50 to $1000 on your own signature. No bankable security needed. Up to 24 months io repay. da {42} OUSEHOLD FINANCE C. MN. Brook, Manager 11%; Simcoe St. South, second floor, phone Oshawa 5-1 139 IN DAYS GONE BY 50. YEARS AGO E. S. Edmondson and L. M. Brooks endorsed Woodstock wind- mills as both having had their machines for seven years without repairs. The town of Oshawa offered de- bentures for sale to the amount of $3,000 at 4%. per cent interest. An article appeared in the Vin- dicator asking that Council arrange for the cleaning of the streets which were in a filthy condition. J. Sutcliffe Drygoods Store ad- vertised men's summer weight white shirts at 19 cents each. Council was. disturbed by the in- ability to reorganize the Citizen's Band. Bandmaster Trew refused to carry on in this capacity but agreed to play if another leader could be found. William Hamilton reported hav- ing caught nine muskalonge with a combined weight of 116 pounds, and two bass weighing four pounds each, at Port Perry. An excursion for farm laborers to go to the west for the harvest was advertised for $10 return fare. Six Mexican horses were sold at public auction at Prospect Park. Christopher Valentine, of Myrtle, had four hogs killed by a C.P.R. rain. ; The Whitby Model Fair offered prizes of $5.00 for the best essay on each of the following subjects; 'Wild Flowers of the Locality," "How to Destroy Weeds," "Grains, and the best Method of Cultiva- | on." QUEEN'S PARK Public Opinion Best Enforcement TORONTO--Premier Frost struck a key point in his statement on picketing on Thursday. The best enforcement agency of lawful picketing, he said, was pub- lic opinion. Particularly he was impressed by the widespread misunderstanding as to the law and duties and obli- gations of the police and law en forcement agencies and the duties of citizens generally . . . a point which has been made more than once in this space. PROPER PICKETING The premier gave an explanation of what is lawful and what is un- lawful in picketing which should be useful. 1. It is lawful if carried on by a reasonable number of persons and if the effect is simply to obtain or impart information or to per- suade. This is what is commonly known as peaceful picketing. 2. Picketing is unlawful if it in- volves intimidations, violence, nui- sance, threats, trespass os other un- lawful acts. Such picketing is can- trary to the laws of Canada and is a criminal offence. 3. Mass picketing may be held to be a form of intimidation and it has so been ruled by the courts of the land. PROVINCE TOO Mr, Frost pointed out that the responsibility for the law on picket- ing was with the federal govern- ment. It comes under the criminal code 'which is a federal statute. Nevertheless the province can't | entirely escape from blame for the public misunderstanding that ex- ists. Enforcement is a provincial mat- ter and often in the past this has been lax. True, in many cases it has been the local lice that have fallen down and let flagrant abuses continue, but the province and particularly the local Crown Attorney are over the local police and the final responsibility rests * with them. COMPANIES TOO It was good to see the premier include the management side of | disputes along with labor in his statement. He had no more brief for the arming of guards and instructions to *'shoot to maim' than he had for violence on the picket line. "The use of force to repel force can only at law be used to a suf- ficient degree to protect oneself from injury and no further," he id. This won't be popular with some sections of management, who would give another interpretation, but the premier had the courage to say it. GOOD STATEMENT In fact the whole statement was courageous -- sections of labor won't like it either. And as the first utterance from government in our memory which clarified what could and could not be done it should have great value. Canada's Cultural Life Becoming "Exciting" STRATFORD, Ont. (CP)--A suc- cessful musical composer who re- turned to Canada on a sudden in- spiration says "it's in. Canada that the exciting things are happening." The composer is Louis Apple- baum of Toronto, who wrote the music for the two plays of the Shakesperian Festival here. He has done 'the musical score for about 150 documentary films. He started composing music at 16, and won a couple of "prizes from the Composers, Authors and Publishers Association of Canada. Applebaum then studied in New York with Roy Harris and Ber- nard Wagenaar and became in- terested in music for films. The tall young musician with the black curly hair came back to Canada and in 1944 became mu- sical director of the national film board. HOLLYWOOD EXPERIENCE At this time one of his scores was screened in Hollywood for a documentary on the Royal Cana- dian Navy. He was then invited to Hollywood in connection with a documentary on the Swedish Navy starring Greta Garbo. While there Applebaum composed the music for "Tomorrow the World' star- ring Frederic March, and '"The Story of G. I. Joe" based on the life of Ernie Pyle. The latter film was nominated for an academy award in music. : In 1947 he returned to New York to do research on synthetic musie and sound. "Then one day," he recalls, "it | took me an hour and a half to cross from Fifth to Sixth avenue, so I decided to come back home to Canada, where the excitin, things happen now--like this Testr val." Another "exciting thing" Louis Applebaum likes to talk about is | 'the composertron'" on which, he | says, "the national film board has scooped the rest of the world." This device will produce elec- tronically any conceivable sound from the crowing of a rooster to the music of a symphony orches- ra. In between conducting the or chestras at the Shakespeare Fes- tival Theatre and arranging and managing an afternoon concert series, Applebaum is wondering when he'll have time to compose the ballet he has promised for September, or the television scores which come due soon. a Spent $17,000 Within 4 Months WINNIPEG (CP)--Robert How- ard Alberts, 37, of Vancouver, who told police he had cashed bogus cheques worth $17,000 in various parts of Canada since April, was sentenced Friday to three years in penitentiary. 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