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@. THE DAILY TIMES.GAZETTE, Wednesday, December 16, 1058 ditorials Times-G Publ Limited The Daily Times ( ys §7 Simcoe Street South, Oshawa, Ontario. Violence and Crimes Being Accepted far too Readily U.S. Supreme Court Judge Jackson spoke out the other day against the force and the lawlessness that seemed to loom so large in this present age. His words are of equal importance here as in the United States. He finds this phenomenon present both in the international and the domestic spheres of life. And what alarms him most is the prospect that "our people, appalled by the magnitude and stubbérnness of the manifestations of law- lessness, tend to sink into a suicidal fatal- ism that accepts violence, crime, injustice and misgovernment as part of the natural and changeless order of things." On the international scene, Jackson is thinking of the great power struggle with the Soviet Union, He insists "no nation is more force-minded than our ovn." He might well draw lively debate in the U.S. on that point, but he get none on the proposition that his country, and indeed our own 'Canada, is plagued by shocking crimes, inc'uding an unprece- dented delinquency among young people. The justice does not lay down an ex- haustive list of the reasons for this situa- tion. He dwells upon those he knows most about, those pertaining to the law. "Shocking crimes are followed only by long-delayed punishment, or by none," he says. "The administration of our crim- inal law, from one cause or another, is a humiliation and a discredit to our pro- fession and our country. And even civil justice is still delayed or denied and often beyond the reach of deserving men and women." di Within his 'own nation, as within oth- ers, Jackson sees a struggle for power between classes, creeds, races and ideol- ogies that tends to "take on the same uncompromosing character" found in the international struggle. Justice Jackson is not exaggerating this unhappy condition. The crime files of the police departments support him. The headlines blare the story. And since so little has been done, relatively, to arrest the rising tide of lawlessness, one cannot blame him for fearing the "tendency to sceptism as to whether a struggle for im- provement in the law is worthwhile." What Our Members Talk About At certain times members of parlia- ment seem to have unlimited scope in addressing the House of Commons. This is a good practice if used in some way to advance the deliberations of the House or result in some, even small, benefit to the country. Unfortunately, most of the speeches made at this time of the year are made to get certain facts into Hansard which are only of interest to any one member's home-town folk. A case in point is the half-hour long speech of Mr. Daniel Mclvor of- Fort William, which is a general pattern. This is a brief summary, Mr. Mclvor said Fort William is one of the cleanest and most progressive cities in Canada. He told the House that he has as his desk- mate a winner of the Victoria Cross. He likes congratulating the Prime Minister because he, and the Prime Minister, won an election without promises. He also likes congratulating the fine type of page boys employed by the House of Commons and later in his speech congratulated those members of the house who were also members of the Commons' baseball team on their election. While on this subject, Mr. Mclvor warned the Press Gallery that it should tell its members to take "care of their minds and their bodies" or they will suffer defeat in the annual ball game next year. Mr. Meclvor then went on to tell the House of Commons that Fort William has a male choir, a rugger team, a cobalt bomb, churches of several denominations, and so on. : It is difficult to see what good was accomplished by this speech, but if it pleased Mr. Mclvor and his constituents, then we suppose it has some place in our, democratic processes. It certainly made little contribution to the governing of Canada. Ontario Had 182 Autos in 1903 Since the turn of the century Canada has come a long way in more ways than one. But there is one particular change that a great many Canadians now living, who have been born in the intervening years, do not appreciate or understand. Fifty years ago the streets of Canadian cities were not crowded with automobiles and trucks. True, there were "hitching posts" in those days to which the saddle horse was tied, or the team which brought the farmer and his fomily to town for groceries was attached for the duration of the stay. Fifty years ago, according to a small paragraph in the column devoted to events of that period in the Stratford Beacon- Herald, "Permits to 182 owners of auto- mobiles in Ontario have been issued by the Provincial Secretary's department." About 1900 the first automobile chugged through the streets of Stratford. The Beacon-Herald relates that it brought a family from Detroit to visit relatives in Stratford and the owner was required to leave for home after a couple of days, Ed:torial Notes Is it not strange how rumors of an undesirable naturé seems to make so much more headway than good news? "The Daily Times-Gazette : IMES-GAZETTE PUBLISHERS LIMITED he 57 Simcoe Street South, Oshawa * fhe Daily (Imes Gazette (Oshay.a, Whithy) combining Osnawa Timest establishes 1871) aud the Whitby ve & Cl (estab 1863) 1s published daily +Sundays and y y d) ' ~ . Membe: of The Canadian Press, the Cunadian Daily "Newspapers Association and the Ontario Provincial Dailies "Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation. The %: Press is ly to the use for re I cation of all news despatches in the paper credited to or to The Associated Press or 'Reuters, and also the local gews published All rights of special despatches are = 1. L WILSON, Publisher and General Manager M. McINTYRE HOOD, Managing Editor Offices, 44 King Street West, Toronto, Tower 1d dontreal, P.Q SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby Brooklin Port , Ajax and' Pickering, not over 30c per week. By mail Ontario) oatside carrier delivery areas $15.00 per year. Ontario, 2% DAILY AVERAGE NET PAID CIRCULATION FOR NOVEMBER «12,583 after midnight when there would be no horses on the roads. Now to encounter a horse on Perth County highways or the streets of Stratford is about as rare as it was to see an auto in the first couple of years of the century. Around about 1900, if there were cars on the streets the then town of Oshawa they were few and far between. Yet the streets of all Canadian cities were designed for horse and buggy traffic. No one ever believed that there would be swift-gliding, noiseless mach- ines mounted on rubber tires, drivers of some of them wanting to go 50 miles an hour, or that the curbs of streets for blocks on end would be lined with such vehicles. Take another look at those figures, 182 owners of automobiles in Ontario in 1903. In 1905 there were only 565 auto- mobiles registered in all Canada. In 1949 there were 970,137 motor vehicles of all kinds registered in Ontario, and in all Canada 2,290,628, with Saskatchewan registering 185,027. And today the num- ber is closer to three million. Other Editors' Views OIL IN MANITOBA (Winnipeg Tribune) While ofl production in Manitoba is still far behind that in Alberta and Saskatchewan, there is cause for satisfaction that the number of wells in this province continues to increase and that the output steadily grows. Bit Of Verse THREE CANDLES When dark has shuttered all the day from sight, I set three candles ready here to light. The tall one's wick slants whitely debonair; The bright one peaks his flame with savoir-faire; The closest candle has no special art, \ But flickers to each whisper of my heart. --HELEN SEARIGHT FAULKNER. Bible Thoughts "Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a * season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that per- isheth, though it be tried with fire, might be . found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ." ¢I Peter 16,7) . ate, it was GALLUP POLL OF CANADA Big Majority Of Canadians See God As Loving Father By CANADIAN INSTITUTE Of PUBLIC OPINION When public opinion in Canada or United States is polled on the question: "Do you believe in God," the answer is inevitably an over- whelming "Yes," amounting to 98 or 99 per cent of those sampled. As the great religious festival of Christmas approaches, the Cana- dian Institute probed a little deep- er into Canadian opinion in an at- tempt to assess what kind of God it is people believe in. To do this, experienced opinion reporters living in some 200 areas "A loving Fatfier who looks after us" stretched across Canada, approach- ed the issue in this manner -- a technique which had previously been thoroughly tested: Respondents were handed agprint- ed card, and asked: 'Here's a very different sort of question. Which of the statements on this card comes closest to de- scribing the way you feel about the existence of God?" On the card, the essence of var- ious concepts of God was couched in simplest possible terms. Here they are, together with the per- centage of the public which select- ed each one: 5% "A sort of mechanical principle, or law, governing the concerned with our personal problems" .. "God does not exist" "Other description" "Can't describe" or "Don't know" nae geRs ven Admittedly, there is an infinite number of other descriptions which could have been used in this study, but in view of the fact that the Institute's cross-section covers all types of people, educated and un- educted, articulate and inarticul- elt that the above re- presented the main channels of thought. One of the interesting things about the findings is that from 21 years of age up to 49 years of age, various age groups think very A loving Father ....... Mechanical principle much alike. In other words, there is no evidence of more materialism among the Youer generation than among the middle age group. How- ever, in the group 50 years of age and over, a higher percentage were found who looked on God as a loving Father, fewer who thought of Him as a mechanical principle, or a supernatural being not con- cerned with the life of the individ- ual. Views of those who classify them- selves as Protestants and Roman Catholics compare as follows: Roman Catholics 849%, Protestants Unconcerned supernatural being ! : Ga Doesn't exist Other description Don't know; can't describe * Less than 1% Many of the other descriptions offered were combinations of the definitions printed on the card. Others looked on man 'himself as divine, and felt, therefore, that God was Mankind. While philosophers, theologians, and others may argue about the wording used in this study as per- haps lacking in finer shadings, the cergrree results do seem to indicate that in ie of the much-mooted "me- c¢hanistic materialism" of the age, an overwhelming majority of Can- adians do believe in the existence of God, and of these, the great majority see Him as their fathers saw Him -- "a loving Father who looks after us." World Copyright Reserved. Exploit Riches Champlain Found MURDOCHVILLE, Que. (CP)-- Canadian miners are preparing. to blast out of a mountainside riches first deseribed by a follower of Q 1 de Ch lain, founder of Quebec. In this little town of 2,000 per- sons in the rugged Gaspe penin- sula, Gaspe Copper Mines Limited are developing copper mines which officials believe one day will be- come eastern Canada's largest open-pit mining project. Drilling started in 1938, but large-scale operations did not be- in until after the war. It was 952 before construction workers hacked the town out of the bush. Copper mountain in the narrow York valley 65 miles west of Gaspe was first seen by a white man in 1603, and rock from the hillside has rested in the palace of the kings of France at Versailles for 350 years. CAN WORK FORTY YEARS Today, engineers estimate ore deposits in Copper mountain and Needle mountain across the val ley may total 70,000,000 tons, enough to justify 40 years of mining. Engineers plan to mine the ore, pass it down to rock-crushers 1,000 pet below the surface and carry he crushed rock out to the side of the mountain by conveyors. This will eliminate hoisting the rough rock out vertically in buck- ets as is done elsewhere in the industry, Later, the top of the mountain will be blown by explosives to lay open other deposits lying closer to the surface. At the company's mill scheduled for completion next year the rock will be ground at a rate of 7,000 tons a day. After sifting, the im pure ore will pass to a smelter where pure copper will be separ- ated and floated out. Current for the smelter will travel 120 miles, the cable diving 26 miles under the St. Lawrence river in the world's longest under- water, to the south shore. A problem still to be solved is getting the ore out. The nearest railhead at Gaspe 'is 65 miles away Officials, planning to use trucks, are building a road north to Mont Louis, Que., on the south shore of.the St. Lawrence. RUDDER DAMAGED SOUTHAMPTON, Eng. (Reuters) The new 23,000-ton luxury liner Olympia, flagship of the Greek Line, will go into dry dock here today for repairs of damage suf- fered when she ran aground on a mud bank Sunday night.- The Qlym- pia damaged her ru shortly af- in ter leaving here for Canada and the United States with 1,000 pas- sengers, including many German immigrants. Earliest known use of mahog- any in buildings was in the Cathe- gra) of Santo ingo, completed MAC'S MUSINGS Only a week remains Before the arrival of The Christmas festival, And it will be a busy Week of preparation For family reunions, For the Christmas dinner Of traditional type And for all the events Which go to make the Christmas season by far The happiest of the yéar. Folks who are scurrying Around the stores doing Their Christmas shopping Are in the midst of Frantic preparations To'make others happy When gifts are opened On Christmas morning. Mothers of families Have for many weeks Been making preparations In the creation of Christmas cakes and Christmas puddings Which will grace the Festive board of That eventful day. These things are noticed But we seldom hear of People who are making Preparations for the Spiritual and religious Aspects of Christmas On which the foundations Of the festival are laid. People are too busy with Their other pre arations To give much thought to The central theme of the Birth of the Saviour of Mankind on that first Christmas morning. Yet all of Christmas is Bound up In that great Event nearly 2000 years ago An event often forgotten In the merriment and joy Of the purely physical Christmas celebration. JUVENILES CHARGED OWEN SOUND (CP) -- Four juveniles from St. Catharines were charged Monday with theft, mal- icious damage and threatening af: ter Rocky Saugeen school, 25 miles south of here, was ransacked. They were remanded to"Dec. 21. Police said the youths followed a care- taker into the school, stole $2 from a Red Cross box and ransacked a teacher's desk. When Joudered sugar is used in- stead of granulated to sweeten whipped cream, the cream doesn't become watery in the bottom of the dish. IN DAYS GONE BY 25 YEARS AGO Having .won the Bassett Trophy for inter-school athletics, FA ars in succession, the Whitby h School was given it perman- ently. Whitby, Oshawa and Bow- manville competed for the trophy. Fire destroyed an electric furn- ace at the Feldspar Glass Co. on Ritson Road North, causing $15,- 000 damage. Steel was laid for the new front of the Commercial Hotel and al- terations were begun on the roof. I Counci! honored the members of the General Motors Blue Devils Rugby team when they were ten- de a banquet and each present- ed with a watch. H. C. Heckey was elected presi- dent of the Oshawa Blue vils Rugby Football Club. Yiooprest- dents elected were H. R. bur, E. B. Swartz and C. E. McTavish. Neil Hezzlewood was elected sec- retary-treasurer. President R. 8. McLaughlin of GMC drove the first car built in Regina, off the assembly line and presented it to the Red Cross So- ciety. He was later initiated as Chief Strong Arm into the Cree Indian Tribe. All residents of the YMCA were quarantined following an outbreak of smallpox. Ray Lutz, North Oshawa, saved 10-year-old Fed Clim in the Oshawa Creek when the latter fell through thin ce. St. Andrew's United Church Choir under of the choirmaster W. Henley. Mrs. Grant Berry was the soprano soloist; Miss M. Casselman, Mrs. W. Lesy Mrs. J. Reid were contralto soloists; W. D. Robertson sang the tenor solos and Robert Mills the bass selections. C._N. Henry was appointed to the Board of Education to succeed the late H. S. Smith. QUEEN'S PARK Price of U.S. Gas Will Be Hig By DON O'HEARN Special Correspondent to The Times-Gazette TORONTO--It now turns out the. prices of U.S. gas delivered in Canada would considerably higher than the Consumers Gas Co. of Toronto has claimed. According to the Financial Post a revision now before the federal power commission in Washington will probably mean that U.S. gas delivered in Toronto would not cost less than 60-61 cents. Whereas the cost of Alberta gas delivered at Toronto has been estimated at 55 cents a m.c.f. Very striking figures those, in view of the argument that has been put up on the high cost of Canadian gas. They will undoubtedly be dis- puted. But we will go along with the Financial Post. Its approach to the gas question has been con- sistently cbjective throughout and to date it has spoken with au- thority. Moral of the whole business, in view of this most recent develop- ment, would seem to be not to put much faith in surveys. There have been several made on the matter, and none we know of has visualized an increase in the cost of U.S. gas. (Incidentally the Post story sees a continuing increase in of ler Ss. gas as against a decrease in rta gas as volume grows). CHARLEY COX o Charley Cox is losing his steam. _ The formerly indefatigable pol- itician from the Lakehead who has been both a mayor and a member here for years, and sometimes both at the same time, recently has been under the weather. In view of recent defeats he has, it is said, lost most of his interest in politics and hasn't planned any more ventures. But his popularity in Thunder Bay is so strong he is even hav- i] trouble keeping out. rank Green, president of the Ontario Young ogressive Con- servatives, happened to be in hos- pital at the same time as Charley and even there, as he tells it, the former member couldn't keep out of the political picture. When Frank was in for a visit with him one day he told him, "You know the age of miracles never ceases. Just before you came there was a delegation in here. And do you know what they wanted? They wanted me to rum for reeve of Shuniah townShip!" And Charley didn't take the offer. A sure sign he is beco aded. A few years ago he woul ave been in the fight without a minute's thought. He would have run anywhere. One of our grand politicians of the old school. Sunday Papers Called Waste OTTAWA (CP) -- A. J. Brooks (PC--Royal) protested in the Com- mons Monday night against what he described as the huge quantity of Canadian pulpwood used by pub- lishers of week-end newspapers in Canada and the United States. He said: "I am not referring to the Can- adian daily newspapers, but rather to the Sunday issues, some of which weigh three or four pounds. "I am told that it requires the pulp from 100-to 200 acres of Can- adian forest land to produce ome of these issues. . 'Surely this is a great waste and I believe the time will come when we will realize that this production has been used wastefully. 'One buys lumber to put up a building or a house that will last for Hany Years. On the other hand the lumber used in the production of these weekly newspapers is a complete waste, once t news- paper has been read. \ "It is, to use a tommon e sion, 'gone with the wind,' and Shere is nothing left to show for Elmore Philpott (L--Vancouver South) said it would be poor con- servation policy to decrease news- print supplies merely to save pulp- wood. There was no greater need in the world thatn education and newspapers were the 'poor man's university." Mr. Philpott is a col- umnist for the Vancouver Sun. Canadian up and paper com- panies would take a "very dim view" of any orders concerning how much pulp they could cut. res- Tides are caused by both the sun and the moon, which exeri a gravitational pull on the waters of the earth: STAFFORD BROS. 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