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PAGE TWO Established 1854 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPEIR Wlth whlch are Incorporated Thic Dowmanvllle News, The Newcastle Independent, and The Orono New&. 85 years' continuons service to the Town ol Bowmanville and Durham County. MEMBER Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and Clafs A Weekllcs of Canada. SUBSCRIPTON RATES $2.00 a Year, strlctly in advance. $2.50 a Year hi thc United States. GEO. W. JAMES, Editor. THURSDAY, MAY 9TH, 1940 Conservation Service, Incorp. Township and county counceils in Nort] urnberland and Durham have so far on] showed a half-hearted inferest in the in portant problem'of reforestation. If is long range program in which many of fi present generation will flot live to share i its benefits. This xnay account for so man reeves and councillors lacking in initiatiî and vision, in the lackadaisjcal and indil ferent attitude they show toward reforesi ing, the many acres of barren land in thes united couatie.s. We have been told party polities ente into the local situation which may contai more truth than fiction. It is a crime tha some of our electcd representatives in coun cils deliberately stand in the way of plant ing more foresfs lest somebodyt or politica party other than their own might makej success of the venture and be given thi credif for such an accmplishinenf. With sucli facts facing, us if is encoux aging to find that a group of public spirit ed men headed by Dr. J. B. Reynolds hav( formed The Northumberland and Durhaij Conservation Service, Incorporated, an< are inviting the public fo a dinner and or. ganization meeting at Cobourg on Satur day, May llth at 6 p.m. (Standard Time). The objects of this service among other worfhy things are to conserve the rehabil- itate the nafural resources of the United Counties including developing forest re- sources. More power to these men in their endea- vours. We hope they will awaken a new desire in the local powers that rule to do some reforestation regardless of who gets the eredit for doing if - or who gets the jobs. __________ __ To Discuss RoweII Report The report of the Royal Commission on the Do'minion Pro'vincial Relations is to be released on Monday, May l3th. The re- commendations of this report are expected te contain fundamental proposals for fin- ancial and cohsitutional changes in the federal system. These recommendations will doubtless form the principal items of debate fhrough the coming session of Par- liament. For fisteners throughout the country, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has ar- rang-ed for that evening, May 13, at 10.30 te il p.m. E.D.S.T., a talk by L. W. Brock- ington, KC, of Winnipeg, Counsellor to the War Committee of the Cabinet on Public Information, on the background and sign- ificance of the report. We have heard manv ahter dinner speakers in recent vears and wifhout hesitation w-e place Mr. Brocking- ton at the top of the list in speech making for bis fascinating and delightful manipula- fion of the English language. He'is pleasing, informative and convincing-. So don't fail te tune in Monday night next as the Rowell Report will be one of the important docu- ments t0 be considered at the coming session of parliamenit. Also f0 bc described briefly ini this ad- dress w~ilL be the men under whose gnid- ance the report ivas creafed - lion. Newton W. Rowell, the first Chairman of the Com- mission, Josephi Sirois, Dr. J. W, Dafoe and oth ers. quircînents and turîied fo prodcljing nelv lines, thus stabilizin.- its onntpuft. "et thé Dominion Organ & Piano (n a t sales cnrfailed but miaîaged tn keep most of ifs nmen at work. Alsfo John A. Holgafe & Son employed 35 meni and wouecn to'fi extra wvar orders for thecir evaporated ap- pIes during the Faîl season. And therewe- other activifies going on af the time in ttnwîi sucli as instailing the waterworks, se i lait unemployment was obliterated. To-day business conditions here arc' some- what different. After a similar length of THE ANADAN SATESAN.BOWMNVILE -jtRu ivad(i bave weed law-s and wee(I ilsJ)ectoi-s iar hu wtl tes iws ,)eiiig evaded eveî-y MI no wl-io ever heard of an offeîîder being lîrnuglît new iii) ini cour-t 1)3 an inspccfou-? If 's 10 lie bnped hrer t iive'weed cunfmol meetings wil] go fai-tier foreg thaui isfening te addresscs by paid offie- Hous iais and having a dandy fime swapping stor- I ies that the reporter dare nef print. State time, business cannot be said f0 be really good nor is unemploymcnt a myfh. Neyer- Il tbeless t here is ene factor f haf should al- ways ward off hard times, in and around Bowmanville, and that is the prosperous agmriculfural lands surrounding if. The fac- tories beme are at leasf holding flîcir own and there is cvery indication they shal eontinue to do se. The cosf of living lias gene up slighfly since fhe confîict began but there is no in- dication if will soar as it did 25 years ago. The type of prosperty we don 'f want is that which can't stand up against a little adver- sity. These cemments indicafe wliaf basis fiere niay be for the belief thaf this fown is ag-ain siatcd for an era of comparative prespe rty. Sacrifices Are Stili to Corne The besf aufhorîfy on finaming this -ar - roni Canada's sfandpoinf should bie Mr-. Graham F. Towems, Govcmnor of fthe Bank * of Canada. Spcaking, before fthe Canadian Club in Toront o, lie said f haf for "Canad- h- ians their sacrifices are still te come, and ly that f hey must spend f heir money te buy- Ml shelîs, guns, ships and airpianes rather than ,a for privaf e purpeses. , ie "Increased incemes from w-ar activify n must be returned te the Stafe in the form Ly of taxation, or iubscripf ion te war loans," Ve lie affirmed. In flie case of many, a large I- percentage ef pre-w-ar income would haZve t- te be ce'nfribufed or lent. "The people ef e this country are geing te have te f hink fwico before f hey make expendifures which arç 'r nef essenfial. They are -oing te have fo In ask theniselves can I do withouf this article, if or this service - this cruise, or this im- I- porfed luxury." t- "The real cosf et the war," he confinued, al 'must bie met ouf of current production. a There are ne countries fromn whomn we can te borrow, we have tô stand on our own feet. " This is te the peint, anyone can under- r- stand if, we simpîy cannot berrew, and we t- have te meef ail the cesfs of his war our- ,e selves. The cost of the war this year will be, n 500,000,000, and for the future years ui3 d doubt more. AIL will have te confribute, all wage earners- perhaps dirccfly, if nef, then assurediy indirecfly. rFleecing Local Merchants Bowmanvilîe merchants lose tlîousands of dollars evcry 3-ar by giving credifte habit- ual "dead beat" customers Who run a 7 credif acceunt as long as f hcy dame before * swifehing their patronage te another mer- chant wbo receives fhem with open arms until hie ealizes lic is the ýicfim of a racket. The merchants have fhemselves f0 blame c for this systemafie fleeeing as f hey could stop if immediafel3- with a liffle co-oper- af ion. In a number of owns Credif Ex- changes are conducted te overceme f his skin game. By this mcfhod the credif rat- ings of alI prospective credif customers is t available te al nierchants. In t hese days o? keen compefition aîîd narrow margrins a sncb protection should prove a boon te the c home-f own merchant Who is anxious te deals with his fcllow citizens on a credif basîs, but Who must bc protected from t he "tee slow's" and the "ncver's."P Observation~s and Opinions Elscwhcre in this issue Alex Maclaren, l director cf farm training for the Ontarioe i Dept. of Labor, dlaims "farniers are going te be gasping for help ewing ,te fthe f mc- mendous shortage et farmn heip." His de- n part ment is therefore puffing forth an ap- & peal for fown and city boys te appl3- for M jobs on famms. In other words these tender- b foot, plcasurc-loving urban lads arc bcing sougbfte take the places of farmers' sons Who have left the homcsteads to seek faîne and fortune in the cities. This is jusf anotiier blundering bit of iniefficicncv and stupidity al in our socalled economie sysfem. But Who is b, tn blame for such coniditfins? e eu Edifors of w-ek] 'v newspapers ow-e mmiti it of the reader-interest and suîeeess of their A, papers te the eo-operafion of lieir sub- O seibeî-s. Neyer a wcek passes thaf some b' tbou-htfuîl readers send in items or other we articles of special inferesf. In the latter- b ciass ivili be found in this issue flic first of a series o? buman interest stories headed yc "Siners id TeirSong" byFredR. l TH7DY-MY9H.ilm SWEDEN'S HAND FORCED visibly soaring teward power. In those days bis new, worst enemies If Hitler deliberately aftacks weme full of secret admiration for Swedcn the Scandanavian penîn- him. His speeches were all about sula will inevifably become the the "forgotten man," but the sixty main battlefield of this war. For families aristocratic - plutocratic such an attack would invobve fhree elenrient did nef mind that. They things: If weuld macan that Hitler knew Franklin, and fhought they was nef willing te consider the knew what he would do, when Norwegian invasion a limited the election was over. He did net liability affair, but was going te run true te their idea of form. fight if ouf with the allies on a In those days Mrs. Roosevelt really large scale. If would nean was almost as unpopular wifh the that the allies would be forced whole general public as hem bus- te land, nef three or four divisions band was popular. Fer years affer totalling nef more than 80,000 the Roosevelts went te Washing- men but probably 300,000. I tatn the President's wife was a would mean that Hitler would polit ical liability, net an asset. have te relinquish large scale at- But ne longer. The mest irrecon- facks contemplafed for other ciliable of the President's enemies fronts, such as that towamds the wili admit that Mrs. Roosevelt is Black Sea and Asia Minor. alright. In a nation where a quiet . I do nef think that Hitler will Ifamily's idea o! a restful Sunday deli4erately attack Sweden, any aftemnoon is te travel at about more than I thought he would sixty miles an heur, te get ne - attack Norway, because if would where, Mrs. Roosevelt is tops. seeni te me that an attack on She fravels evemywhere, by plane Sweden now would be an even if she can, but really te do things. more disastrous blunder froni bis She has literally made them like own point o! view. But e! course hem. there are factors in the situation The only person in the United in Germany which we outsiders States who would have a chance cannot pessibly fathom. te beat Mm. Roosevelt for the But in my estimation Hitler's Presidency this yeam is Mrs. invasion o! Norway was the Roosevelt. I really think she greatest blunder in his whole mighf win. But as she is unlikcly - amazing career for this reason: te run againsf Franklin I wish That it made it absolutely certain they woubd namne ber as ber hus- thaf Sweden would sooner or band's teammate - democratic later enter this war on the side nemince for Vice-President. For o! the allies. For whafever people the firsf fime in history the whole thought before April 8th about world weuld know the namne of the Nazi program of world ex-. the Vice-President. She might pansion there iq ne longer the even outshine her husband. smnallest shmed e! doubf. Hifler's _____ neighbours have enly fwo choices ARE ALL GERMANS BRUTES? - tbey can fight te maintain their past liberty or they can reconcile Duff Cooper bas made a speech thengelves te become slaves o! in Brifain in which he urges cein- the mising empire o! Nazidom. plete wam against the whole Gem- Take specifically the cases o! man people, and nef just against Sweden and Holland. Swedeii the Nazis alone. If is ridiculous, cannot possibly afford te sec hie argues, te put the whole blame Hitl1er win this wam. For if for Hitler's aggressions on Hitlber Swecns cadaavan neghalne I i nef Hitler alene who bourns aveaeaenvinnaeisof!ighÙtingthis wam any more than andr avtial sallowed by Gaem-it was the Kaiser alone who !oughf andparialy sallwedby er-the lasf. The Gemman people must many when two o! the greatest be taughf by a stern lesson what military powers o! aIl time are war feels like, nef when if is actively arrayed against hiem, fought hundreds of miles from what chance has Sweden f0 home, but when if is fought right escape once Hitler regains the wheme their own women and power te stage his blitzmeigs like chîldren live. lightning boîts fmom a clear sky? With this argument I feel much It would seem te me that the sympafhy. If is shamed by almost Swedish goverament was nowal the ex-service men I know. fully aware of the dangers. I Taf appies ta French as well as. imagine that Sweden will stay eut British, and te Americans as well. of fhe wam just as long as she A few weks ago General Persh- possibly can. Cemtainly she would ing mcvealed that lie had strenu- be rash te plunge inte the wam ously epposed the granting of the befome Hitler gets hinisel! pretty Armistice in November 1918 and well involved in the Balkans or urged pushing the war ighf on some other front. Otherwise fhrougb te Berlin. Short ly before Sweden would be the fimst nation thaf Mamshal Weygand, on short te feel the full fumy o! the Nazi leave !mom bis active duties in Air Force. The besson of the command o! aur forces in the wholesale murder o! civilians by Near East, declared that the nexf the Russians in Finland bas Pot Peace must be "a French peace." been lest on Swedcn., What he meant was the kmnd o! But unless Sweden is willing peace whicb soldiers like Foch te commit national suicide she would have dictated if left te must came ini- on the side o! the their own devices in 1919. allies, if the allies need hiem help Yef whaf these soldiers say and te win the wam. There is ne imply is only haîf truc. There is country in all the womld quite se nef hing quite se deceptive as a strategically sifuated te co-oper- bal! truth.- And there is nothing ate with Britain and France in in all the cumment thinking o! the smashing Hitler's bid for warld womld which may do quite se power. much damage in the future, es- If may be that Hiflcm's desper- pecially te aur own children, as ate need for Swedish high grade the foolish and unfair application imon ore will force hinM af any of the policy which these soldiers minute te tmansform the Norweg- urge. ian adventurc inte a tofalitariaui The womld is at wam again te- .vam in Scandanavia. But a more day, net because the mulitary .ikcly development in my opinion ternis o! the Tmeaty of Versaibles is that Sweden weuld enter the wcme insu!!iciently seveme but be- wr on ber own accord at abiout cause ta pobitical conditions per- he tme hcnHitcm' ariesarepetuated by the basf peace wcme i nost inextmicably invelved some- eofwte o-ad aceconic as where down in tac oiî amea - o!inshe.s-aldsfbmn a Soufh Eastern Europe and Asiainae Miner. Then hem participation might 'e really decisive. THE ROOSEVELT PUZZLE Use this A visit te tac United States is Voitohe Peple Dear Mr. Editor: Walking down our Main Street the other nighf I was struck by the singular lack of illumination in the store windows. Of the stores who do flot regularly re- main open in the evening there were only two who had their windows lit and one o!f hese was the Hydro Shop which could hardly conscientiously do other- Wise. Can if be parsimonious im- pulses on the part of the mer- chants leading them te save a few cents each evening? Perhaps they don'f came te display their stock to the public gaze after business hours. I know that in some towns ai extra tough spray hose -resiets cliemical action * ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ io Godca aksaspclhs for spraying ...oune that is easy pressures! Its tough outer cover- te bande. .. flexible . .. kinkless. nisb ltogveogwarvn It resists the action of destructive igf ieln eree 4 M t I 1 à 1 1 ý w v mmum se, the night constable can turn SOPER ESTATE ON off the lights at a certain time. These nice evenings people like COBOUR G DOCKEJ? to stroîl up and down the street and "window shop" se I feel that A case of local inferest on tý local merchants are missing a Cobourg dockef whee the non- nice bit of cheap advertising by jury assizes o! the Supremne Court nt burning their window lights for Northumberland and Durham at night. O! course ye, Mr. are being held this week, evolves Editor, mighf say these merchants around the estate of the late advertise in The Statesman. I George Washington Soper Who grant yen a few do, but a well esided in Bowmanville. lighted store and window along This action was begun by Olga with the local newspaper adver- Soper Gilmour of Peterborough, tising makes a great combination George Marcus Sper of the town- for effective store publicity. ship of Clarke, Leonard W. Soper of Toronto, Arthur Soper o! Sas- May I make this cmparison: katchewan, Mary S. Glmour af Tee many o! our merchants are Cavan township, Lena Sleemnan of like the yung chap and his sweet- Oshawa, Ameia Harding of King- heart sitting in the parlr with ston, as heirs of the estate of the lights ut. They know what nie Soper, against Arthur Vi they are doing but nobody else Sper o! the township e! Cla*rk. des, and se if is with some mer- sole executor and trustee o! the chants, they have the goods but i late George Washington Soper of don'f display them te advantage Bowmanville. If is alleged the es- or tell the public about themn. i ate was improperly disfributed. FOREIGN EXCHANGE ACQUISITION ORDER IMPORTANT NOTICE As announced by the Minister of Finance, the Foreign Exchange Acquisi- tion Order, 1940, has been enacfed by Order-in-Council under the authority of the War Measures Act. Unless exempted by the Order, every resident of Canada who, on May lst, 1940, has any foreign currency in his possession, ownership or control, whether in Canada or oufside Canada, is required forthwith te seli such foreign currency to an Authorized Dealer (i.e. a brandi of a chartered hank) for payment in Canadian dollars at the officiai buying rate of the Foreign Exchange Confrol Board. "Foreign currency", for the purposes of the Order, means any cur- rency (excluding coin) other than Canadian currency and includes bank notes, postal notes, money orders, cheques, travellers' cheques, prepaid let- ters ef credit, bank drafts and other similar instruments payable in any currency other than Canadian currency, and aIse includes any amount in foreigu currency ef which a resident has a right te obtain payment by rea- son of a deposit, credit or balance of any kind at or with a bank, savings bank, trust company, boan company, stockbroker, investment dealer or other similar deposifory. The Order dees net require the sale ef any foreign securities. The Order dees flot affect any foreign currency, deposit or securities of any non-resident of Canada and for greafer cerf ainty tie Order ex- pressly declares that a non-resident visiting Canada for business or pleas- ure for a period or periods not exceeding six months in the year continues te be a non-resident for fie purposes efthfe Order unless such perspn enfers or lias entered Canada with the intention et becoming a permanent resident. QNo resident is required te, seil any foreign currency if he satisties the Foreign Exchange Confrol Board that he ield suci foreign currency on May 1sf, 1910, solely as trustee or agent for a non-resident and that the non-resident's interest therein hàd net been acquired trom a resident since Septeniber l5ti, 1939, except in a manner approved by the Board Under -certain conditions stipulated in Section 1 (b) of the Order, a resident wio is nef a Canadian citizen may be granted exemption, but only affer application for exemption is approved by the Board. No life insurance company incorporated in Canada is required by the Order te relI any foreign currency which if needs for the purpose et carry- ing on ifs business outside Canada. Further particulars may be obtained from branches ef chartered banks. Any resident who lias any foreign currency in lis possession, ownership or control on May 1sf, 1940, regardless of amount, should con- suit his bank at once in order te ascertain de extent te whiic he is affected by fhe Order. FOREIGN EXCHANGE CONTROL BOARD ai ayu efit ta me. Wtuerc ut in the United States would te waifmcsscs parade in a *stauranf, before the dazzled astemers, as living adverfisc- nents for the marvels o! tac memican beauty parlor - hair Ied a dozen different shades >hcr than were ever produced )y the whims o! biology - hair vavcd like streambined ocean bllows suddenly turned to waxed id polished stene - finger nails omcd thaf they would remmnd 'u o! tigresses' claws, just affer hard day's womk, except thaf .ey shine like Neon lights. >blomon, who had had a lot e! :perience, could still be sur- rised and inspimed cnough when emet the Qucen o! Sheba te reak eut into poetmy. Probably ewould be struck dumb by the -S. ladies e! 1940. But net for mg. He would have te ftalk bixn- L!, a bit, in only te prevent hav- ig te spend tac mest o! bis life sening. He woubd quickly dis- wer one phenonr4enon, howcver: hat if he fmicd te falk about tac resident o! tac United Stafes nebedy, somewhcrc would get j etty mad. But on the ather td if he braughf Up tac subject Mrs. Roosevelt everybody, ,eywhcre, would be per!cctly ipy and per!ectly !riendly. 1did net happen te meef any- ly an my lit fle trip te thc ifted States who thought that 'esident Roosevelt could be aten if he decides te run again. hat his enemies are doing their st explosive cussing about -se days seems te be that he lly is going te run - indecd it he is goîng te be forced te ýbecause o! tac gravify o! the ernatienal situation. The Amer- is always did seem ta hafe flm more than we did, and w anc section o!f hcm has a vgrievance against the Feu- -r - thaf he has made if a egne conclusion thaf Mr. )sevelt will be af the White ise till 1944. spent a wintem in the United tes jusf when Roosevelt was THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLF, ONTARIO THURSDAY, MAY 9TI-J, 1940 i n 0 Goodyear makes a special hose sprayers . . . reinforeed for hioh