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PAGE TWO THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO THURSDAY, MAY ilth, 1944 Establlshed 1854 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Wltb which 18 Incorporated The Bowmanvifle News, The Newcastle Indeiendent, ana The Orono News. 89 Year's CJontinuons Service To The Town of Bowmanvifte and Durham County. Member » Audit Bureau of circulations IuI~ Cauadian \iIuV Weekly Newspapers Assoclatior C SUBSORIPTOIRATES $2.00 a Year, strictl7 iu advance. 13.50 a Year ln the United Statea. GRO. W. JAMES, Editor. THE STATESMAN HONOR ROLL - On Active Service - Capt. John M. James Capt. W. G. James (Wounded in Action) W.O. Donald Cameron Sergt. George Graham Cpi. A. Living (KiIled in Action ln Italy) You Can IIeID If abiind mnan stood before you and You heId ini your hand a surn of mioney and if you knew that if you ]et go of the money, the seiales wvould drop fromn the blind man 's eyes and lie could sec ag-ain, what would yoil do? No inatter how great the sacrifice wouid be, 0o1 your part, there w'ould be no possible doubt about w-bat you would do. 0f course, ,you wouid spread wide your fingers and let the nibney fail. It is not likely, hoiçyever, that vou will find yourself confronted by such unuiisual and unpleasant circumstances, because unifortunately, eyesight, to many thousands of Canadian blind men, women and chiidren cannot be restored by the mere expenditure of a sum of money, but you can help. Yes, you can iîelp make the lives of blind persons brighter, warmer, happier, more like real lives. To do this does flot require .any unnecessary sacrifices on your part. By contributing a fraction of one day 's in- ,corne, once each year, to the Canadian Na- tional Institute for the Blind,, you wvill be do- ing your share in making it possible for this excellent organization to provide service of vital importance to the blind, as well as pre- ventive and curative treatment for those who are threatened by blindness. The annual campaigil for the blind will be conducted during the week beginning May 8th, and will culminate in a tag day on Saturday, May l3th. The campaign is car- ried on under the supervision of the Bow- manville-West Durham advisory Committee, members of which serve throughout the year without remuneration. The entire proceeds are used to carry on the work of the Insti- tute for the Blind in this district. Farmers' War Tax When victory is wvon and the cost sheets finaliy totalled, we believe it will be found that farmers have paid the heaviest taxes of al classesof our citizenship. We are told today that farmers are making money. Gen- erally this may be true, but it is also true of labor, industry, merchandising, transporta- tion, indeed of ail branches of business, even after taxes are paid to the limit. But the net resuit, after the shooting stops, leaves the farmer, as usual, in iinmvidious position. Broadiy speaking the economie setup may be -expressed as follows: Industry lias been financed by government and expenditures on plant and equipment have been written off at public expense. Labor enjoys the highest wages in history and with forced savings and Vietory Bonds, plus unemployment insurance, is rolling up an important back-iog. Merchants confess they are atcumulating jerofits while main- tainiîîg adequate equipment. The same goes for transportation and many other lines. The fact is that when peace cornes, the ma- jority of economie units îvill be found in generally favorable circumistances. But what of the farmer? Our observation is, and we have studied the question carcfully in this district, that every dollar farmers have been able to set aside, including Victory Bonds, is mort- gaged to the liiîit for replacements of nia- the system which Iîad macle it grcat, niarely, free enterprise and frced froin measures of rigid state control. lii îeferiîîjg to soeialist doctrine of complete p)oltical domnination, President Coiman o"rcd tlhc trouble with their teaching is that ilîe.N pince ail tîi.e empliasis on dividing rather than cercatin iwealth." The history of the C.P.R. is ani epitoie of the history of the national expanision of the Canadian economy; the opening of the ý%vst, the tranisport o? goods, the spreading- of cmn- ploynient, the delopnîeuît into the enviable statis of - The Wor]d 's C'reatest Transporta- tion Syste iin,' meeting- comptition as it greiN- and cxpan(lddlotb iiwar and peace. Th'Ie eniffloyccs ofthte C.P.R. now' nuînber 7-5,000 and siîccwar broke out it lias inoved 917) millioni tons of freiglit and carried 55 million passenigers. 'loo littie in the wvay of puiblic attention lins been brouglt to bear oii the achiev-enents of this great system. More interesting details of how the C.P.R. is serving Canada in peace and war will be foinnd in another column. Conîsistent with its policy of keeping alive f0 thle times the C.P.R. sought to integrate its transportation jy development of Cana- diaîî Pacifie Air Lines through taking over a number of struggling companies- and welding themn into an efficient organization. But the goverment 's recent action bas de- feated that projeet without gettiKng the views of an iniformed public opinion. The President wa%, incredulous that Canadians as a whoie would back the systematie extirpa- tion of free enterprise and the factors of initiative that have developed Canada to hier present greatness. Over 200.000 people own stocks and securities of the CP.R whichi is an important section of a citizen- ship that is proud of the success attained under democratie institutions of a truly great coinpany. _V Sound Canadian Banking On Tuesday, May 2, Finance Miniister Jlsley, speaking in the Honse of Commons on the bill f0 extend the charters of Can- ada 's ten commercial banks for another feu years, delivered not only a great speech but brouglit evidence to bear that Canadian banks and our banking system were prob- ably the safest and soundest in the worMd. The practice has been since the first Bank Act of 1871, to bring down re'visions every feu years. Changîng conditions have made this poiicy a sound proposition. Government regulations have acted as controls and pro- tections goveruing bank incorporations, note issues, prohibition of boans upon real estate, diversification of risk ini the braneh banik systemn and protection of creditors, etc. The soundness ini finance thus dcveloped ivas amply denionstrated iii the depression whlen Canadian banks stood flic test of eu- tire solvency wlîen thousauds of baiîks ini the U.S.A. failed witb consequent Ioss of mil- lions of depositors and deepened the severity of the depression. As part of a coutinuing prograni of safcty there came into being in 1935, the Bank 'of Canada, as a meanîs of regulating the volume of credit and currcncy. in the best infcrests of the economie life of tbe ucountry. Recently a bill has been prcsented to establish an industrial dev'eiopment bank and there is under con- sideration a central mortgage bank. So w, ifli changing conditions cornes an intelli- gèntîx- intcg-rated systém. Mr. llsley, anticipating speeches ini rebut- tai from the CCF and Social Credit parties, examined their doctrines at lengyth and re- futcd their failacies. The CCPF would take over the banks but had few concrete pro- posaIs;- a mere beckoning to the promised land 'and no spécifications as f0 how our lives would be ordered w'hen wve get there. That the Caniadian banking sysfemi meets the approval of the gencral public was at- tested ini a recent Gallup Poli whicii asked if governmeut sbould ow'n and operate banks or should wve continue witli the present sys- temn. Governnient operation w~as wantcd by onilv 23 per cent. wbile the present sys- tem w-as backed by 66 per cent, and the re- maining Il per cent w'cre undecided. Since most people bave dealings with banks it is evident the big majority have full confid- ence in the safety and compéenuce of Cana- dian l)anks. ___V Braeken Party' Strengthened Unconcerned about the Prime Minister's complaints that lic ought to seek a seat in the Comnions, John Bracken. leader of the Prog-ressive Conservative Party, goes about bis job o? building up bis party's personniel and developing national policies consistent îvith bis vicw that rational reform must îîîeet the post ivar niecds of Canada. Few ili (isagrce with flhc idea that fresh vigor sbould be infused info polifical alignmeuts tliis fo meet d'eveloping issues whidi înust be faced by the cîcetorate in the coming gYeneral lection. The government bas ac- êcpted flic principhe o? aftracting ucew talent in ifs appointînent cf ab)le men as undcrsec- retaries. Mr. Bracken bas nîatcbcd these appoint- meîîts by aftracting te bis side a nuxuber cf able mein who bave miade their mark in tfli national sphere since war hroke out and wbo, if the parfy is calicd te power, wili bring administrative sfrength and wýide ex- perieîîce into national uffairs. These ini- elude C. P. MeTague, K.C.; Henry Bordeii, K.C.; Prof. W. M. Drummond cf the On- taric Agricultural Colleg-e and Prof. E. C. Home cf the farmn management depurfmcunt University of Saskafchewan. Mr. McTaîzue resigned from the Supreme Court o? On- tario te joi Mr. Brackcn. He scrved withî distinction as head of flic War Labor Board and w-as bigbly commcnded by Mr. King wben lie gave up fliat post. Mr. Borden recently resigncid froni fli position be lbeld as oîîe of ftic key men ini flic Deparfnîent of Munitions and Snpply anîd now joins Mr. Braekcn. Thus, iu tlîesc appointments, nmen familiar witb the prob- lems e? labor, productioni and management anid o? agriculture, aligui theinselves wifh ftic party beadcd by Mr. Bracken, bimself uudefeatcd iii over 20 yeaî's o? public hife and the firsf practical fariner te seek flic Federal Primie Miniisteî'sbip.' Both leaders o? flic old-hiîîc parties recognize fliat vig-or anti sfîengfli arc desired for post war ad- nîiiîisfrafioui and Mn. Bnacken is te be coni- gratulatcd on flic facf fliat lic is steadily strnigtlhcning lus land ini fiat direction. AS 1 SEE IT M m By Capt. Ebuore Philpott BRITISH AND U.S. SO MIXED UP MAY NEVER DISENTANGLE There Is Something As Amaz- ing as significant in the fact that the British Prime Mînisters' Con- ference haci to caîl in General Eisenhower, a citizen of the Unit- ed States, toa et the last word on the war situait. Surely that is proof that the English-speaking people have got "mixed up fa- gether for the common good," as Mr. Churchill, in the early days of the war,' hoped they would. Yet it would be unwise ta jump too far to con- clusions about the permanence of the present Anglo - Amern- can relatioan - In one sense SFrance were as $.close together at the end of niitthe last war as ':the various Eng- » nations are fa- .day. Cerf ainly General Foch was Commander-in-Chief of al the allied western forces as much as Generai Eisenhower now is. Yet within a few mont hs cf the end of the war Britain and France had begun to drift apart. The final break, which came in June. 1940, could be traced back ta a lack of genuine unity of pur- pose, existing since 1919. The British Commonwealth and the United States are, how- ever, likely to remain tangled up together for the best of ail rea- sons-that it wiii be physicaily impossible to disentangle fhem. The United States has built bases ail over the Southeru Pa- cifie as well as in the Atlantic. There are chains of U.S. airports right across the continents of Af- rica and southern Asia. When these were built everybody high up in the allied world was literai. ly panting for the help that only the United States was then in a position to give. Nobody stopped to haggle about what was going to be the legal position after the war was won. What was then acutely in the minds of ail peo- ple realiy in the know was that the war might nof be won out- right, at least for long dreary years. So the United States got 99 years' lease-hoids on sites for naval and airbases, nominaliy in exchange for 50 antiquated de- stroyers. What everybody was thinkinig about was the resut- which was to build the right kind of war power ta make it impos- sible for Hitler to win-and then ta make if possible to beat)~n When the United States dSrýid- ed f0 move into Canada te buîld the Alaska Highway, numerous airports, and even vast develop- ments like the Canol project, no- body in thîs country argued any more than the English or Aus- tralians or Netherlanders or French under similar circum- stances. Had the Americans not been able and wiliing to move in with ail their vast power into the Southern Pacific zone, the Japanese might have been in Australia now. So nobody stop- ped f0 bargaîn or quibble. Canada has clarified her re- lationship with the United States by doing exactiy what we did in the case of Britain. We would not, perhaps, have buiif ail the vast factories which British money built in this country. But we have now paid back Britain for every nickel invested in such plants. And We have informed the United States that we wili do likewise in the case of ail perma- nent improvements on airports, and so on, built at her order and expense lu Canada. In other words, we are wisely forestalling any possible compli- cations about "sovereign rights." We are payin1g for these projects even though others ordered them. In The Case of Pacific Projects it would be financially impos- sible for Australia, New Zealand, France and Holland to pay the full cost of ail US. construction. But it is equally impractical to imagine that the United States will build these bases-help save or reconquer such possessions as those of France and the Nether- THE LEAST WE CAN DO Sure, if's hard for us over here, thousands of miles from if, f0 get the picture of air warfare. We can'f sce the faces cf those kids ...our kids . . . as they punch the big bombers fhrough ack-ack. We can't know what's in their heads and their heurts when a shelh cracks through and one of them slumps in his seat. And we neyer will know. For they'll neyer be able f0 tell us ail of if . .. But we can pray . . . and hope... and heip in the small ways we can ... like buying Vicfory Bonds. They ask us . . . ahi of us . . . f0 Back the Affack. with Victory Bonds ... ut leasf one more Bond than we've been buying. A few dollars more cf help . . . which we get back wîf h înferest. Will we do if? tCan we do anyfhing else and look fhem in the face on that blessdd day cf vicfory? 'Whaf do you think? A Canadian soldier lying in a hospital overseas wrote a letter to his son- My Dear Son:- The Doctors tell me that'I arn going to die soon. It is bard te believe for I am' in no pain, and it seems almost absurd that a -an with so much to live for shou.ld die se, soon. I can 't leave you much of what is known as real property to worry about, but I can leavo you Truth, Honour and Tolerance - those precions things which were jeopardized - and which we are fighting for. And a host of other things I can leave you, my son, the laughter of children play- ing, and peace and security, forever free from oppression, bigotry and fears. The love of a girl you will some day nxarry, as it was with your Mother and me, and, God grant that you may be equally happy tegether. But most of ail, we free men who are dying hope we may leave a world where children may grow old without having to face war i order that their homes nxay stand. I have seen a lot of m'en die, Son. They have died for peace and you. Cherish that peace. Pray and work that the Victory which will corne, and which will be so dearly bought, wili endure forever. Goodbye 'Bon, God bleus you. Your Father. Have you money in the bank? Could you say to this soldier-- "I have bought ail the Victory Bonds 1 can?" If not, phone Bowmanville 471 and a Victory Loan Salesman wiII cal You will sleep soundly tonight if you do! NATIONAL WAR FINANCE COMMITTEE Bowmanville, Ont. throw their hats into the ring and 1 Montgomery Advertiser.I year paid in taxes the equivalent1 the total population! Havle Another Cup, of COFFEEI UTS GRAND TO KNOW THAT YOU CAN NOW DRINK MORE COFFEE YTOU are going to find cheer I's blended from rare, extra and deliglit in every extra flavor coffees-ecach chosen for cup f yo drnk Mxwel Hose. its own special quality of ,flavor, cup f yo drnk Mxwel Hose. fragrance or body. PAGE TWO THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO TI-IURSDAY, MAY llth, 1944