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THURS., OCTOBER 28th, 1943 THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO PAGE ELEVEN f A WEEKLY EDITOR LOOKS AT' Ottawa là *wee.Myn.wspop.rs of Conde BY JIM GREENBLAT Regina, Sask: Taking a week's holiday from this news letter turned out to be a busman's holi- day and I wound up in Regina, Sask., Queen City of the Plains, taking in the annual convention of the Saskatchewan Division of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. After two days and two nights on the train, Ottawa and its hive of war activity seems a remote place. Out bere on the long stretches of flat prairie, with the manpower available, the farmers IBusiness Directory Legal M. G. V. GOULU, B.A. L.J.B. Barrister, Solicitor. Notary Phone 351 Bank of Commerce Bldg. Bowmanville W. R. STRIKE Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Solicitor for Bank of Montreal Money te Loan . Phone 791 Bowxnanville, Ontario LAWRENCE C. MASON, B.A., Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public. King Street W., Bowmanville Phone: Office 688 Residence 553 Dentist DR. J. CJ. DEVITT Assistant: Dr. E. W. Sisson (raduate of Royal Dental Col1 1ege, Toronto, Office: Jury Jubileei Bldg., Bowmanville. Office hours 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, 1 except Sunday1 Phone 790 - House Phone 3251 X-Ray Equipment. in Office I Funeral Directors F4 ERAL DIRECTORSf Service, any heur, any day F. F. Morris Co. Modern Motor Equipment, Am-. bulance and Invalid Car. Tele, phone 480 or 734, Assistant 573. Licensed Auctioneers t CLIFFORD PETHICK Auctioneer - Enniskillen Phone Bowmanville 2536 Specializing in Farm, Livestock, Implements and Furniture Sales c Coinsuit me for terms and cdpt- r 50-tf, Monuments a The Rutter Granite CJompany Phone 501 - P.O. Box 622 Port Hope, OntarioV Monuments, Gravemarkers, b Engravîng, Goldleafing 28-tfn VeterinariesP DR. W. W. SHERWIN and ] DR. J. T. SHEPPARD Il Veterinarians b Office - Main St. - Orone t] Phone 56r7, Orono ti SOU e s( lED FEe. ILHPENE î 1H! ÂTISETIC LUNE u Up Each Nostril Quickly Relievo --I Stu 1ffiness of Catarrh ýrI Specialized Medication Worhs Fast Right Where Trouble hl! Soothingreief fron stuffy, painful distress of acute catarrh cornes fastas Va-tro-nol spreads through the riose, reduces swollen membranes-soothes irritation, relieves- congestion, help$ flush out cold-clogged nasal VICKS passages. Makes rahnesi- tryitlFolowdirections in package. A-R - O are garnering a crop which, while it isn't so much compared to last ycar's record bumper, will con- tribute greatiy to feeding the United Nations. For miles and miles on end one sees threshing rigs going full blast and numberless straw stacks -golden Yellow mounds that tell a story of nature's gift in fruition. On the train, which rumbles ceaselessîy on, is found part of the Public opinion of Canada, and for anyone interested in the dis- semination of information bere is a fountain of interesting bours te, be spent. It is on a train too, I think, that some of the mechanics of Public opinion is moulded and considerable inter-sectional gond- will is cemented. But rumours are also spread, and misinforma- tion is spilled around promis- cuously. And it is also where political hash is potted. More People are travelling than ever before; and more people are learning more about Canada than they ever did before. Good wil] come of it. I was talking to a western agriculturist who had been down in Quebec taking a looksee. He had probably bated to Persuade bimself, but he ad- mitted frankly that the Quebec fermer "was doing a good job" ...that he was in most cases, and in his own way, really farm- îng better than the westerner had given him credit for. I only men- tion this because it shows wbat travel and inter-mingling can do for a people. You run into interesting things on a train alrigbt. I talked with a diplomnat's wife who was just three weeks away from Stock- holm with her two small children and a Norwegian nurse. A bigh priority got ber out of Sweden by Plane. Some of ber observations I think will record here some- thing that I baven't seen suggest- ed anywhere in the press of Can- ada or the United States. She had spoken to newspaper people in Stockholm, to people from, Ger- many who had been in Sweden on business, to refugees just es- caped from occupied Norway, and she said the feeling is growing that Germany will soon quietly move out of Norway and be rid of what's turning out to be a decide.d pain in the neck to her-economi- cally, militarily, and otberwise. This is the "something" that I haven't seen even suggested be- fore. She said conditions in Norway1 are terrible, worse than what you read about. There is an average of about forty Norwegians getting out every day to Sweden and she bas had the opportunity of gettingt first hand information. She con-t firmed the reports that no Ger-t man troops have moved through8 Sweden for some time, ever sinceE the Swedisb government pro-i mulgated that edict.1 People recently from Germenyc had told ber that the city of Ham-à hurg, for instanêe, was really totally obliterated. Pires so ter- rible raged there after the bigs raids that they didn't even try to, stop tbem, and cernent flowed clown the streets like lava. Ber- lin bas taken a terrible pasting1 and is in a bad way, but ber in- formation was that tbe morale of the German people'is net yet shaken to tbe extent where there [s hiable to be an eerly collapse. t To get back to this prairie con-1 vention, wbicb is tbougbt im-L portant enougb to be attended byt the National President, J. W. Rowe of Manitou, Manitoba, and the Managing Director, C. V.c Charters of Brampton, Ont., as riigh note of the convention, as it ' ,vas at the national affair in To-v ronto, is the contribution weekly t papers can make to the winnîng of victory. Why I mention this is because they merely reflect the opinions and the physical and noral effort of those who readn .veekiy newspapers-tbe peoplea ,vho live in the areas not classe c~ is urban. 0 The Regina Leader-Post irn an9 editorial today voiced this senti- t: ment aptly and in the following t paragrapb of that dditorial show- M ed what the daily newspapers- t wvbich means the daily readers- i :oo-tbink of the weeklies, whichh - as we mentioned before - f neans you and you, too. p "The weekly newspapers con-b stitute the veritable backbone of public opinion. Tbey reach 01O reading group that the dailies barely toucb. Tbey enjoy anp ntimacy of reletionsbip witb s bheir subscribers that metropoli- t an newspepers regard witb envy ci but can scarcely hope te equal sî because of their much greater and t hereby more impersonal circula- YV ion. i "Wben this has been said, let 01 it be quickly added that in this W war up to now the weekly news-A papers bave done a remarkably . H vi et t) b w a. h( hi hi ai ti. ar th cc f duct of individuel initiative or private enterprise. Thousands of men, engîneers, designers, mecbanics, metal and assembly- îline workers, bave welded their initiative and enterprise inte one ce-operative effort to render unto Hitler one more wagen-load of destruction. A whole generation of scientists, engineers and crafts- men, including thousands of pilots have been building and testing our planes in practice. Likewise, the mechanism of our society is buiit and tested by thousands of tbousands of hends and minds. Co-operative brother- boed, and the initiative of the masses is our greetest. tradition and the source of our power. It is time we start teelng our cbildren te reward their fellow- man, net by wbat tbey exact from seciety by greedy fingers and long knives, but by what they give te it. One man, werking or think- ing alone, without contact with bis contemporarieg and prede- cessors, n e v e r did anything worthwhile. When Do 1 Get My Tax Refund And papermen in their various cem- munities to, preacb tbe doctrine ol hope and optimism, wbich must, however, be cbecked by the pros- pect of the serieus problems which are stili facing us. He thought it was up to people te re- tain tbeir true sense of proportion, net te, regard the general outlook from eny standpoint of our owr personal problems; we sboulc take the broader and national view. He meant we sbould not miss the forest because of the trees. A former weekly newspaper man from Bowmanville, now as- sociate editor of publications for Boy Scouts Association of Can- ada, Bert Mortlock, came to, my Ottawa office the other day and mentioned a little tbing be'd like a "plug" on nationally. Tbat's "Apple Day" carried eut by the Scouts in communities across the country at varieus dates next montb. A bundre d tbousand streng, the Boy' Scouts seek te raise money for summer camp equipment, a hundred and one other activities. It's net a little tbing, but a big one. These are the boys whom we'll depend on te "Carry On, Canada" wben the still visionary days of peace come; our future citizens, workers, bus- iness men, stetesmen. Sure, the folks aren't going to turn the Scouts down on Apple Day in any community. And thet ends a rambling news- letter that had te, be, despite the supposed week's holiday. WORKING TOGETHER MARES US ALL NEIGHBOURS TODAY We are 'censtantly informed that individual initiative a n d private enterprise are our life- blood. This country, its indus- tries and farms, its scbools and churches, its bigh standard of living, wide acceptance of politi- cal freedom, free press and speech, we are told, were de- veleped by and exists solely by virtue of private enterprise. I have ne objection to, this :eaching, se far as it gees says Horace Bryan in Blue Book. But t is only part of the story. America as it exists teday is nainly the prduct of ce-operative activity and struggle, and the ac- cumulated experience and effort of millions of people. Eacb new generation bas built new addi- tions to the structure lef t by those who bave passed. --When we analyze seciety from the bis- torical view, alI the talk about individuals climbing te, great heights, and accumulating great fortunes by virtue of their own power,' fades into insignifîcence bef are the cetributi1ns made by the masses by thgir cembined ce- operetive efforts. Teday the terni "private enter- prise" is being used te mean ometbing entirely different from the, concept beld by the average citizen. It is being used as a acred cew by demagegic poli- icians. befere wbich all must worship, or be accused of advàcat- rig a "communîstic planned econ- mry' and importing foreign isms witb the intent of destroying American business. The American tradition is net fundamentally one of individuel iitiative and private enterprise. Certainly eur forefathers bad plenty of individual initiative, but this did net keep tbem froma working together, and their main nterprises were net private. Many of the bouses built on the frntier were net built by indi- viduals. and they were net private ntérprises. The people got te- ether, and by co-eperative effort eoisted the heavy legs into place. [og-killings and cotn-huskings were always ce-operative enter- rises. Sickness brought the peo- ple together te help, and tbey :ften went se fer as te plant and altivete, or harvest the creps of te unfertunate. Our fathers banded themselves together in wagon-trains te cross the plains; fid wben an atteck was made by estile Indiens, eacb did net go is own way declaring that be 'as big enougb te take care of imself. Instead tbey formed e rt with their cevered wagons, od fought side by side. That is our tradition. Times bave changed, and we ire ail neigbbours teday. And àis modern Amerîce bas net more about througb the doings )fgreat individuels. No railroed vas laid ecross the country by iny indivaduel. Theusends of îen, working and living tegether, eared the forests, graded the -adbed, laid the rails and ties 'hich today link this country te- .ether. Todey, wben a boihber plane >lls off the line, it is not the pro- THE RAILWAY AND THE WAR . . . Dy Thurstan Topham A qreat armi- of mainfrteI-vce of wb workers forme, tte backborte of yaiIcat- opercvior.1heirteask listo kecpitrack amd bridqes in proper condiionî - or-te of th.e vi+c s-ýeti\ls ing director of the Association told these men, whose papers go to one eut of cvery two homes from Yukon to Newfoundland, that if they didn't stand for some- thing, they woiîld faîl for any- thing. "We have a fight te win here no less than our soldiers in Europe," he said. Then he gave them fii points to "prevent us from fallîng for every seemingly 'good idea' which may happen te come along." The points he suggested we stand for were in essence: 1. Restore for the country the great bulwarks of teamwork, home life and faith in God. 2. Plant abselute moral stand- ards as the yardstick for both public and private action te fore- arm the nation against post-war moral landslides and consequent economic collapse. 3. Fight for national unity by spotlighting what is sound and constructive and teach the public te discern what inflames and divides. 4. Show the nation that the war of arms is only the first phase t in the fight for a Christian civiliz- atien against materialistic ideas. t 5. Enlist every reader te buildp in bis home, office, factory orC community the pattern of the new e world we ail want.0 * * *n This is a task worthy of a free" press. I know of newsmen in this p country and ail over the world tl who are already putting it inte p BUILDING NEW BRIDGES By DuBois Morris, Jr. "Getting eut a paper in a criti- cal war area is an important job," seid the editor. "Pulp shortage, manpewer shortege and gevern- ment centrols are making it pretty tougb fer us. But wboever is left te run it, the peper will still manage te get eut semehjw." A few days later the C.IO. leader for thousands of union workers in the war plants of six states told me that the newspeper had hecome "their lecture course" fer many men on the assembly lines. 1 wendered whether the editor realized what influence bis printed words were having and what the value weuld be te these workers and te the cemmunity of a newspaper which just managed te "get eut somebow." There were problems in this community - black markets, in- creasing juvenile delinquency, race neots, a drift of laber eut of eircraft factories te the higber wages of the shipyards, and an all-timebhigh in the divorce rate. Sharing the rides was becoming in tee many cases, almost a met- ter of shering the wives. If there is an answer te these problems, reporters sheuld be the ones best able te uncover it - and editers te give it te the pub- lic. A newspaper staff treined and able te meet the cemmunity's need in this way deserves a bigb prierity rating in the war effort. These men and their typeWriters weuld be an "inexpendable' task force on the home front. Both on the fighting fronts and the home front the press bas done a greet job te provide the fullest coverage of eny war in history. At risk of life and limb they have brought the screech of bombs, the mud of the foxholes and the back- reom consultations of seldiers and statesmen to every breakfast table. Already 14 correspondents have lest their lives, 'two are missing and many have been weunded in the global quest for f irst-hand- f acts. Tbey have also found them- selves mixed up in anether form of conflict as they rattled off their dispatches. On almost every na- tional battlegreund, ideas as well as armies have fought it eut. Events bave been complîceted by the struggle of world ideologies that prostitute words and bide bebind well-seunding phrases. "These forces have planted plenty of booby traps for the unwary' re- porter," said an experienced journalist recently returned from foreign assignment. More than ever in this war there have been problems of in- terpretation. Newsmen and read- ers alike have needed a basic yardstick as e guide te clear tbinking and reporting. C. V. Charters offered such a yardstick to the recent "warven- tien"' of the Canadien Weekly Newspepers Association in Toron- te. The stocky, ferceful manag- HAMILTE EMPIRE BRASS MFG. CO.,r LIMITED Duro Pumps and Imco Plumbing fixtur.s Head Office und Factory: LONDON, Ontario ON IORONTO SUDBURY WINNIPEG VANC OUVER j ISV'T l T/E TRTII ~wNo. 227 practise. I remember the last Fredrik Ramm, editor of Mor- time I was in England sitting in genbledet in Oslo, did a series of ;he musty, paneled offices of the articles for Norway along the press gallery in the House of lunes of the Charters' points. The ..ommons with Arthur Baker, country's response to the leader- chief of the Parliamentary staff ship he gave made him a marked of the London Times. He told man when the Nazis arrived. He ne then of his efforts to give is now in a German concentration 'hope in the headlines"-to em- camp. phasize the constructive rather These men and others like tbemn than purely sensational in bis re- are part of a growing journalistic ports of proceedings. task force in the war of ideas. 'Che Sperry> Car:ie1rcr~' spots FivddtenLflà s (icksontehhmes M Iie 6400 bv4dýes of the~ dýef~O.p in Wh edetrAcksieeI. CNR N1oiI1kasytm tnàîn IïKes taWl tXaie Stft ad *onedioqe-lher w(ouild spanihe htpii~ n~reI f nod.en. -ô~h-o~d<i9.andcL iirqton Ont- 17 Miles. Savings Certif icate? L It is a humbling experience to venture into the income tex office these days. I, together with 1,999,999 other Canadien citizens had added, multiplied, subtracted, divided and guessed te fill in my income tex forma before June 30th. The other day I got impatient about nuy $7.63 refusid, and my Cern- pulsory Savings Certif icate for $31.23, and resolved te visit the tex collecter and see what he wes doing about them. The Third Fleor was e sea of new faces, piles of incarne tex forms, desks and adding ma- chines, now spilled over into halls, as well as pecked like sar- dines into offices. Carefully I weve my way around them te get a few facts on the situation from the chief. "When do I get my $7.63 re- fund, and rny Compulsory Sav- ings Certîfîcate for $3 1.23?" I wbispered, so as net te disturb the concentration. Equally seftly came the facts. In the first place, I was told, for every dollar the inceme tex collecter had te gather in before the wer, be now bas te collect nine dollars. For every payer of iiersonal income tex with whom he had te deal before the war there are now seven. But for every man in the income tex of- fices before the war, there are less than three. In other words, the job per man employed is now reughly twice te three times as great as befere the war. The case is semewhat irnpreved by the col- lection of taxes et source, but this dees net take as large e burden from the tax collecter as migbt be expected. The tex collecter still bas te go through substan- tielly the same procedure te col- lect the balance, te check on other sources of the taxpayer's inceme, and se forth. In addition, I was told, the wbole tex collection system this year is furtber cemplicated by the fact that we are geing on a pay- as-you-ge plan. and that Compul- sory Savings Certificates and re- fundable portions must be taken cere of. It seems that six eut of every ten peyers, this yeer, like myself, are entitled te a refunci on their 1942 taxes. It is ]ikely thet the first of these will be sent eut around the beginning of 1944, but' it may teke some heavily bur- dened officer a year te dispose of tbem all. Receipts for the Refundable Portion-My $31.23 - will be sent eut early in 1944 aIse, and mey be turned in for cash within two years after the war is over. Dept. National Revenue The blessed work of helping the world forward, happîly dees net wait te be dene by perfect men. Kidney Acids Rob Your Rest nayp openyer sien to get a good 2ibtC e.They turo and tos-lie awake and count sbeep. Often they bian it on "nerves" when it cosy be their kidaeys. IIealthy kidneys filiter poisons frin the blood. If they are faulty and fait, poisons stay in the systen and leeplessness, head- ache, hackache often follow. If you dont sloep weII, try Dodd'a Kidney Pils-for ali a century die favorite remedy. 103 Dodd's KidneyPils 1I. THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO PAGE ELEVEN 1 . COUVER