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THURS., NOVEMBER 25th, 1943 THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMAN VILLE, ONTARTO PAGE THREE Chlldren's Aid Society Deserves Support of Public Spirited Citizens Gradually the people of Dur- ham County are coming to an un- derstanding of just what the Children's Aid Society is doing, or trying to do. The Statesman has carried information time and again about this fine, necessary and humanitarian organization but public appreciation is hard to arouse. The first duty of any civilized community is to care for its underprivileged children. Since war began the Society's re- sponsibilities have increased enormouslY, in particular among unmarrieJk mothers and delin- quent cl)'dren. And the expense has in . ased accordingly. FunYwhich normally accrue now 'must be supplemented by public tag days. To make those successful, the public must be warned and awakened. Where does the money normally come from? Here are the facts: The Provincial Government gives an annual grant of $2,000. The Muni- cipalities pay .75c a day for every child in the Society's care. (Last year the actual cost was $1.05). The Children's Aid Endowment Fund brings an annual $400. Through the year there are al- ways a few bequests from human- itarian individuals. The United Counties Council grants an an- nual $500. Outside of these are the funds from tag days. That is all and it is pitifully small. This year Port Hope collected $500 on its tag day. Bowman- ville should raise a similar amount on its tag day, Saturday, Dec. 4. When the returns are in it is expected that the final amount will far exceed this. To the end that all shall be impress- ed with the vital necessity of getting more money from tag days we append these letters: From The Warden of The United Counties I heartily commend the work of the Children's Aid Society in the United Counties of Northum- berland and Durham. I have at- tended several of the board meet- ings and I am much impressed with the fine work that is being done by the society. The Child- ren's Aid officials are doing a real bit of service to the com- munity, smoothing over the diffi- culties in the homes of many of our citizens and offering them kindly advice and helpful super- vision in order that the family unit may remain unbroken. Only as a last -resort is the child taken away from his parents and made a "temporary ward" of the society. When this is done, it is always with the hope that family conditions may be so improved that the child may be allowed to return to his own home. If con- ditions in the home continue to be unsatisfactory to the supervisor, the child is then made a "per- manent ward" of the society and is placed in a Boarding Home or Free Home under the careful supervision of the Society. I wishFou every success in the coming ' g Day and appeal, on behalf of the Children's Aid So- ciety which is doing so much to saftguard the homes that our men • on Active Service are fighting for. Sincerely yours, WILMOT PROUSE, Warden of the United Counties. From the Minister of Health and Public Welfare It gives me great pleasure to commend to the citizens of Northumberland and Durham the splendid work of the Children's Aid Society serving those coun- ties. For long years the Child- ren's Aid Societies in Ontario sup- ported and encouraged by inter- ested groups of citizens in each community, have created a tra- dition of child care that appeals to all. The Northumberland and Dur- ham Society, I am sure, will re- ceive the generous support of the community in its forthcoming campaign, which I have much pleasure in endorsing. Yours sincerely, R. P. VIVIAN, M.D., Minister. MEN'S BOWLING LEAGUE The end of the fifth week of bowling finds four teams battling it out for the top of the standing. E. Roach's team is still on top with 12 points after dropping 3 straight games while Westlake, Osborne and Luxton are all tied for 2nd place with 11 each. High team score for the night went to Osborne's team with 3308 and also the high single of 1140. Jack Cole was the top man with 797, consisting of 263, 245, 289, while right behind came Ken Luxton 772, E. Roach 728, A. Os- borne 711, and Mel. Dale 706. High single games were A. Os- borne 304, K. Luxton 290 and 275, H. Gay 276, Mel, Dale 274, Bill Westlake 273 and George Piper 272. Standing End of 5th Week Team Won Lost Pins Pts. E. Roach 8 7 14761 12 B. Westlake 8 7 15397 11 A. Osborne 9 6 15229 il K. Luxton 8 7 15136 11 F. Williams 7 8 15028 9 .Cale 5 10 14696 6 * -d Averages SNme Games Ave. B. Westiake -.......14 241 E. Roach 15 232 F. Williams, B.T.-__ 1 224 K. Luxton......15 221 Dr. Rundle------6 220 P. Cancilla------15 219 T. Bagnel-------12 218 A. Osborne------14 214 M. Dale 15 213 J. Coole .14 212 H. Palmer 11 i 212 W. Hearle ---14 209 M. Vanstone--- 11-l 208 B. Cochrane-----13 206 D. Carter 15 206 B. Churchill--__---9 206 G. Crevier------13 200 H. Murphy149----------4 19 J. Cole 13 197 G. Pethick -6 197 F. .Williams -- 6 197 More than 100,000 youths are members of the Royal Canadian Army Cadets. Soldier's Letter Letters received by Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Richards, Centre St., from their son, Cpl. Ron E. Richards, Irish Regt. of Canada, 4 C.I.R.U., Canadian Army Overseas. Oct. 17, 1943. Well folks, I am on 14 days' leave and what a holiday. I spent yesterday in London, staying over night at the Queensborough Club which is strictly an all Canadian Club. Went skating at Wembley and sure had some fun, it being the first time I have been on skates for ages. I find the Eng- lish gals sure can skate as one of them had me pretty well puffed out after a couple of whirls around the ice with her. Then I welt down to the Beaver Club via the underground railway which is the most amazing piece of en- gineering I have ever seen. Had dinner at the Beaver Club where I met a couple of boys formerly with the Midlands. We then went to Piccadily and saw a good show, "Stage Door Canteen." After this we took a walk around central London, saw Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, Hyde Park, etc. Went through Madame Tassaud's great exhibition of wax works. Next morning caught the train for Newport to visit Reg. Harding's people. I stopped off at Reading where I am writing this letter. Looking around the writing room here one would think it to be a "League of Nations" as I can see fellows from the States, Scot- tish and English Regiments, Free French, Polish, Australians and Canadians well represented. How are things in the old town? Seems quite some time since I ambled along the streets of Bow- manville. I was with Ray last week-end and he looks tops. We'll be able to get together often as he is not far from where I am stationed. I sure wished that I could have been with you, Mom and Dad, on your 25th wedding anniversary, but due to Hitler & Co. it was impossible. * * * Newport, Oct. 20, 1943 You will see by this address I am now guest of Reg. Harding's sisters who I have come to call aunt Bea and Bess. They sure are treating me swell down here, just like a home away from home. It is great to wake up at 11 o'clock each morning instead of six as I have been for about a year and a half. I have been here five days and have seen four shows or cinemas as they call them here. It sure is going to be a happy day for us when Ray and I step in the front door at home again. Just keep smiling and keep the home fires burning until then. RON. YOUTH GROUPS TO HOLD CONFERENCE THIS WEEK IN TORONTO An Ontario Youth Conference, embracing representatives from all types of youth groups in the province, is being called in To- ronto for the week-end of Novem- ber 27-28. With headquarters at the On- tario College of Education on Bloor Street, the young people will gather to discuss the major problems which will confront the youth of Canada in post-war years and to get a start in active par- ticipation in their solution. The Conference is sponsored by the Co-operating Committee of Youth Agencies which is working under the Canadian Youth Com- mission-a group of prominent citizens who are lending their energies to a two-year survey of the problems and needs of young people in the Dominion, so that recommendations may be made to governmental and other hodies. Representatives of church youth groups, youth agencies such as the Y.M.C.A., unions, student and language groups will come to- gether to analyse the problems at hand in the fields of health, post- war employment, education, min- ority groups, citizenship partici- pation, family life, recreation and religious problems. It is expected that the Confer- ence will result in a clear defini- tion of the problems of youth and that the young people of the pro- vince will return to their own groups prepared to work co-oper- atively with the Canadian Youth Commission to assist in their solu- tion. If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chief- ly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it stead- ily in the mind, till we have sur- veyed it accurately on all sides. -Thomas Reid Alaska Highway (Continued from page 1) months and was opened Novem- ber 20, 1942. Employed on con- struction was an army of over 30,- 000 men and a prodigious quantity of machinery. The basic idea was not so much the immediate carry- ing of supplies by motor trans- port, as that of servicing air transport. The effect was in large degree, military psychology, the intimation to Japan that supplies and manpower could be trans- ported with dispatch. Air fields dotted the route. The runway at Whitehorse was a record extend- ing over 2 miles. The road linked up with one of the world's might- iest inland, navigable wateZways extending over 2100 miles, via the Yukon River to Bering Sea. 011 Resources Coincident with construction of the highway was the development of Fort Norman oilfields, known as the Canol Project. Pipelines have been laid from Norman to Teslin, a distance of 600 miles, with booster pumps every 50 miles and these were to be ex- tended to Tanana, away to the north. A refinery is set up at Whitehorse which will produce requirements for airplanes, in- cluding 100 octane gas. Mr. Mar- tin said: "It is estimated that the highway project has advanced 100 years the normal opening of this pioneer country." Winter temper- atures generally, were not so severe as on the open prairies, due to the Japanese current and Chi- nook winds, nor was snow ex- cessively heavy. The growing season was short and summer nights lasted but an hour or so. One could read a paper easily, in the open at midnight. Crossroads of World Mr. Martin described the Whitehorse district as "truly the crossroads of the world" for planes could take off there and travel by the shortest routes to Russia, the Orient, even to Aus- tralia, and eastward to Europe, via Hudson's Bay and Greenland, all of which presaged untold de- velopments. But as to agricul- ture, there were few possibilities save in the sout14ern and eastern areas. At Dawson Creek the Company agent, normally, had a turnover of $9,000 a year, but this past season his business touched $90,000. Settlers had surged in- to the beautiful country between Dawson Creek and Ft. St. John. To the east and north in the Peace River country, it was estimated that, while the present farrn pop- ulation was some 70,000, there was room for a million more. Six months after conclusion of war the Alaska Highway is to be turned over to the Canadian gov- ernment and future develop- ment of the whole area becomes the responsibility of Canadians. The road, meantime, is to con- tinue under development. The program was mapped at the outset as follows: During 1942, its establishment and opening. For 1943, widening, straightening and grading. Beyond that, to top- surfacing as an all-weather pro- position. Then tourists, settlers and entrepreneurs will have their day and what they wish to make of it. Western Farmers Mr. Martin then turned to con- sideration of what western farm- ers, generally, had accomplished in Canada's war effort. "Every- where," he said, "was to be seen the amazing and magnificent ef- forts of farming communities that rose, like those in older areas of Canada, to the call of wartime production. Despite the fact that over 345,000 young farmers had answered the call to the armed services, farm people had continu- ed, without strikes, to amass an astounding and increasing quan- tity of war's first necessity; food for the United Nations. With lessening help, with de- teriorating machinery, with deep- ening restrictions, with no great impetus from government, they had stood the test which only some historian of the future could properly delineate. The speaker went on to quote figures in various lines of farrn production which embellished his just accolade and with it all, out- lined how diversification had en- tered the picture; how the live- stock industry had more than doubled in the west and the re- surgence frorn the bleak years had brought economic ability to retire old obligatiQns. Manitoba farmers, for instance, had paid off over $16,000,000 in mortgages since war came upon us, and in all this there was foundation for the highest optimism that free enterprise can endure to the full- est in any circumstances. Hold To Free Enterprise "There was," said Mr. Martin, "still a widespread appreciation that industry and labor cannot flourish without a prosperous ag- M Buy Maxwell House with Confidence, because: 1. It's an unusually fine blend of extra-flavor coffees - sel- ected for their delicious, full body and mellow smoothness. 2. This fine blend is roasted by a special process that cap- tures every atom of its extra goodness. H273 riculture." And he went on to predict post war prosperity for farmers. They must feed a fam- ished post war world and plans were shaping for an orderly and sustained market for post war surplusses. "Farmers," said he, "are not looking for a new heaven, and a new earth so glibly pro- claimed by Utopian visionaries, they will continue to do their job day by day." And he warned, "our way of life is endangered NOW by proponents of a system A Trulq GREAT Coffeel1 T HOSE who know cofiee best know Maxwell House is a truly great coffee. We honestly believe you will find no other coffee with quite the same satis- fying, full-bodied goodness. For wartime reasons, your grocer now sella Maxwell House in bags -in an All Purpose Grind only and at a lower cost to you. This new grind is suitable for all ways of making coffee-coffee pot, percolator or glass coffee maker. If using a glass coffee maker, you may prefer to brew the cofEee a little longer. MaxwelBouse Brand O S COFFEE A Product of Generol Foods destructive of free enterprise. Under the free system, farmers and all others, can only maintain what they have enjoyed in the past . . . freedom of the indi- vidual." Thanks of the audience was tendered by Ross Strike who termed the address and pictures as "Most informative and reveal- ing and this vision of the West was long ta be remembered." Dr. Devitt graciously tendered thanks and appreciation ta the ladies for their munificent chicken dinner. Officers of the Victorian Institute were Mrs. Norman Lambert, Pres., and Mrs. Virginia Archer, Sec'y. In charge of motion pic- tures were John Totton, operator, and Harry Deare, both of Massey- Harris Co., Toronto, the latter with 32 years of service. Presi- dent Hardy assured Mr. Martin that the whole community would be on hand to celebrate at New- castle, in 1946, the 100 year anni- versary of the founding of Massey-Harris in that village. .. . .. . .. . . . . . . . . . r, & - I MI - 1 N-.Mwmoooo THURS., NOVEMBER 25th, 1943 THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO PAGE THREE