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PAGE TWO THE CANADIA STATESM~.BOWMANVILLEONI'ARTO fTHURSDl* UfT f4 in Mbe 0am"4in YAt*me~ Established 1854 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPM'ER Wlth which le Incorporated The Bowmanville News, The Newcastle Independent, ana The Orono News. 89 Year's Continuons Service To The Town of BowmanvIfte and Durham Connty. Member <~> Audit Bureau of Circulations Canadian $2.00 a Vear, strictly luRdATcE $2.50 a Year lu the United States. GEO. W. JAMES, Editor. THE STATESMAN HONOR ROLL - On Active Service -1 Major W. G. James <Wounded lu Action, Back at the Front> Capt. John M. James W.O. Donald Cameron Sergt. George Graham CPI. A. Living (KilIed lu Action lu taly) The First Midland Battalion The lîapless circumstances surrounding the First Midland Bt 'n wvi1l faîl with par- ticular concern upon the parents and rela- tives of the local boys wvho largely made up its original personnel. The story of the Midlands as gafhercd from news reports and directly fronkmany wlio served with the unit since this war begail is told in general terms in this issue. With other editorial items currently presented as affccting Can- ada 's armed services if ivili be found to con- tain illuminafing details giving, a rounded picture of our national contribution in tlie present conflict. As we have said elsewhcrc, history must evenfually be written and what lias happened f0 the Midlands is part of the complefe picture. On the masthead of this column appears the names of those of The Statesman staff who went on active service in this war. Al but one was originally identified with the Midlands. Ail have served as volunfeers, credifably, for Canada and in the cause of freedom. One lias been killed, one wounded and back in the line. But they are but a few from this communify who offered their lives and services when the caîl came. Space does not permit inclusion of namnes but every village and hamlet has sent ifs quota of brave boys into baffle. Many homes have sent every lèst member of their young manhood, Many have received officiai mes- sages telling fliaf ail of these have been kil- led or wounded. Wlien reading the story oP the Midlands, what must be in fthe minds of their parents? Witli 80,000 or more Zombies in Canada refusing to go overseas f0 back fhem up on the battle fronts because they arc protecf- ed from so doing by Canada's Prime Minis- fer, these boys are shot and killcd overseas. Tomn away from their original Midlands, fhey do their manful best among strange umits and even among conscripted foreign troops and they die and are buried in foreigil soil. The whole shameful picture is. now coming to liglit. What is f0 be the final payoff? Is fliere a singfle faflier or moflier, or even a grandfather of these brave boys, who can stili stomacli this parfy, political sentence of deatli f0 membeÈs of the First Midlands? That's ftle question. Whcn death hifs home and wounds fear human fabrie, when Zombies could stand f0 if in relief. let. us hear from fliose wlio would vote 10 kecp in power flié polificians w-ho creatc and sustain this abominable policy. Yes, speak whilc kindrcd blood flows on foreign soil! _V Venereal Disease A National Disgrace Jusf a few years ago flic above lieading would flot have appeared in any Canadian publication, least of ahl in tlie wcckly press of Canada. But fimes have clianged. We are facing a New Order ivhicli las been re- peafedly proclaimed by Canada 's Prime Minister. His pronouncement, liowevcr, liad Iargcly to do witli the national and worid- wide picture of flie polifical and cconomic structure of socicty. H1eliad nothing f0 say of fthe physio-moral aspects of flic great new world. But tlie impact of events crashed home f0 us flirougli flic world-wide clash of serions probiem. Loss of physical and mental capacities for productive work by un- treated vicfims causes econonije asfage and imposes serions and social economic strain on families invoived. Probably two factors have been principal f0 flic failure fo eradicate or hold in echcck this scourge: One the reluctance of "alec peope" f0 recognize ifs existence, and fo cali by flicir riglit names these social dis- cases, and to do somefhiling o blot ouftflic scourge. Second. flie reliietance of well-in- tentioiied nîo-aljsts fo view it as a prob- lein of sexual inînioî-ality îatlier flanl as a wide-spread nîationîal problei of decades of d isi nteizra tjoli. The weeklY pres.s of Canada. takiing ifs plaee as a 1esponisibie ]part of the voiee of the nation, is ini entire ag-i-eeneit w-tli fis Iliesenit eniightened camîpaign aand ill car-ry~ in its eoluiîs froîn w-eek fto week, as lssue(i. flecreleases of flic agcncv conveyîng fuis public iniformiation. Canada's Foreig~n Legion Nowi that i-eliav-e underfaken this wcek to say colisiderable about Canada's military affairs, ive slouid go on and tell flic public further facfs laf cly revealed about our armies overseas. Most people wlio listen carefully f0 daiiy broadcasts and'read up- t o-date, auflienticated,1 press association re- ports, must have been concerncd about flic iiicreasing complexiti, of Canadian forces at grips witli the enemy. We rcad fIat Brit- ish, Dufeli, Belgian, Czech, and finally American forces make Up part of Canada's Firsf Army. To flic many who have begun f0 wonder wlaf if was ail about, we can now quote from reports of one of Canada 's first-line, military correspondents, direct fromflic front. L. B. Shapiro wvas successful in gcfting flua past flic censors: "Foreign froops now oufnlumber Canadians in Canada's First Army. If is now tfli most ingcnious collec- tion of nationalifies sinoe flic Frendli For- eign Legion. Canadians are now in flic min- orify and the majorify werc, of course, rais- cd on a compulsory basis." These stafe- ments have nof so far been dcnicd and fliose of us who have read flic war news carefuliy can iveil believe this picture. MWe knowv, too, fromn reports and letters received fliat flie Canadians in Ifaly are associated with an infusion of Poles, Indians, Iftalians and other nationalities. So ive can conclude fliat Canada 's front line contribution is by no means solely Canadian. In tflicwords of Mr. King, "flie facfs spcak for tlicmsclves." if sucli be flic case there is one important considerafion i-c cannof overiook. Wc have been fold repeafcdiv by government spokes- mcin, thaf '-olunfeers ai-c fli only fit figlif- ing men; fliat Zombies arc useless as rein- forcements. This purely political argument fails fiat wlen iwe read of flic magnificent adhicvemiepts of "Canadians" in Belgium and Holland and If aly and arc fold with auflientie empliasis fIat conscripted foreign soldiers make Up sucli a large proportion o ifs members. We mav as ivell face now flic facf fliaf hisfory must record al fhis. Our national humiliation will hecome acuf e in the days f0 come. Our baffle flag-s wili droop f0 flic force of facts imposcd upon us b.y a parfy polifical administration whicli surely cannof have foreseen this disfressful denouneement of flic will of a proud people. "&Everythino- Si)eaks for Itself" The above headingy is direct quotaf ion from Prime Minîster Mackenzie King wlien askcd by flic press for information concern- ing flic resignafion from lis Cabinet of Hlon. J. L. Ralsf on, Mînister of National Defence. Thc press of course lias a dufy f0 perform in giving flic public fullest information on public affairs and flic Minister's resig-nafion is a public maffer of great immediafe im- portance. Tlie Prime Minister lias a duty fo perform in telling flic people, whose ser- vant lie is supposed f0 be, of flic reasons for lis Mînisfer's resig-nafion. He chose simply fo say, "Everything speaks for ifslf." Be- fore this is prinfed Mr. King may have cliang-ed lis mind about lis attitude whieh virtuaih- fellsflic public "If is none of vour business." ln flic meanfime flic prcss is obliged f0 review flic facfs and fellflic publiceliow' cveryfhîng speaks for ifself ini this parficu- lar maffer. The question was raised by niiitary and public men f hat untrained sol- diers vere sent f0 flic front wifli flicCana- dian army and reserx-es wcre inadequate for requirement s. To lcarn pcrsonally if this was truc, Col. Raiston immediafcly visited ail flic fronts, flien came home and report- cd f0 Mr. King and fhe Cabinet. Thus promptiy lie fulfilled lis dufy. Cabinet dis- cussions lasted about tw-o wecks. Th-en Ral- ston resigned. lis action lcft no of ler con- clusion flan f lat the charges made werc truc; that lis advice w~as not acceptcd and under the principle of C'abinet solidarify, lis only course was to step down and ouf. If 'ei-erytiiing speaks for itself," as Mr. King s0 naiveiy suggests, then flic Prime Minister lias rcjccfed flic findings of flic only responsible minister wh'o lias intimaf e knowledge of presWif, front line conditions, and las taken flic advicc of those wlio re- cently have been no nearer the front flan flicir Ottawa offices. TIc new Minister, General MacNaughfoîî, back iin Canada for neariy a year is reporfcd: "I'vc been baek foo long f0 know flic facfs" but le acccpf- ed office, "fearful of acute issues fIat may divide the counry."' If" everyfhing, speaks for itself" there is fia other conclusion flan that polifics, not reinforcements and saving lives, is fhe first consideration 0f Mr. King and lis Cabinet. Appease Qucbec undcr- scores MacNaugliton's stafement and Mr.i King's actions.t - Vt TIc Sevenfli Vicfory Loan is goîng over as cxpecfed, but a pusli-over impetus will le needed before flic ciosing hour to make if really somcfhing thaf will startie Hitler and Tojo. The fact fIat Canadians are behind the war effort is exemplified in tfli figures whidh show fIat there were 178,363 subscrip- fions in flic first war boan. By thc time thie sixtli boan rolled along, if lad jumped 17 times f0 3,077,123 subscî'ipfions. Just re- member tIat Canada's war expendifures simîce 1939, including budget forecasts for this fiscal ycar, wiil total more flian $15,- 000,000,000, a sfaggering amount, but cheap for liberty in flic final analysis. RED LIGHT FOR LABOR good thing for the unions and a good thing for Canada. Yet there The Two Great Trade Union are obvious dangerous conse- organizations have just conciuded quences which'can flot be ignored. their annual ilational conventions. The recent convention of the They have now reached an ail- International Woodworkers of time high point in prestige and America reaffirmed a clause in strength. its constitution which necessitates Nevertheless there are several expulsion of members of the for- danger signais visible in regard to mer Communist Party. Yet this labor in Canada. They are: union operates in many parts of 1. The confusion, waste and North America where the IWA public disadvantage of having has won ciosed shop contracts by two union organizations operate virtue of provincial state iaws in the samne fields, and compete which make the vote of 51 per for support of the samne generai cent of workers binding on ail, membership. and where the party in question 2. Complications arising from is fuliy legal. active enfry into party politics of That means that if this union trade unions-plus effect of clos- rule were carried out, workers ed shop contracts with employers. would be denied the right to earn Recent examples wiil show just their living in the trade at which how dangerous these matters the laws of the two nations say could become. they MUST work during the war. Canada 19 No Worse Off Than The Catholie Syndicate Unions the rest of North America ini re- of the Province of Quebec pre- gard to overlapping and duplica- sent an even greater danger. No tion of trade union activity as be- man can be a member of such or- tween the CIO and AFL. ganizations unless he is a Catholic. Our leadership here in Canada Yet such unions are entitled un- lias, for the most part, shown bet- der the law f0 wîn closed shop fer statesmanship than prevails rights, and have done so. below the border. Hence there The effect is to raise a relîgious has been less of that family bar against employment of non- quarrelling between rivai labor Catholics. organizations which has been re- Common sense has so far pre- sponsible for s0 mucli unneces- vented many clashes arising from sary hostility toward labor by fthe fact that such trade unions other elements in the United have been permitted to organize States. on lines which are plainly con- Yet we have had, right here in trary f0 the general national in- Canada, serious work stoppages, terest. Yet the Canadian courts which held up the whole war ef- have already awarded substantial fort, for no other reason than thaf damages to one man suspended by t wo rival unions were waging a union, which held a closed shop their own brand of economnic war contract. The whole situation is to see who was going to emerge one which challenges the states- top dog in some industry. manship of the unions themselves There is no more reason why -and the law makers. f wo rival unions should be The laws of Canada should be licensed to operafe in the samne clarified to prevent and punish field than that two rivai street attempted trade union activity car systems should be allowed f0 which would keep any citizen operaf e over the samne streets in from exercising his or hier right to the samne city. It can be doie (in work because that citizen did not fact, stili is in one or two places happen f0 share the religion or in Canada). But it can not be political affiliation of the mai ority done without severe iniury to the of the union in question. public. No union should be allowed to * * *go beyond ifs own field, nor to de- Some BY-Products of the Politi- prive any citizen of any right cal activity of trade unions are guaranteed by the national con- also dangerous. The entry int o stitution, by common law, or comn- politics by the trade unions was a mon sense. if N THmE D IM AN Prom The1 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO November 13, 1919 i. o iNaie, -iorJT*t, n*s IJugh. James Stanley's home farm o: some 80 acres-onc of the besi farms in Darlington and close tc the corporation. Miss Reta R. Cole assistcd th( choir of Brighton Methodisi Church. Dr. H. W. Riggs, Vancouver, B.C., visif cd his sister, Mrs. W. H. Carruthers. Col. E. E. Snider, B.A., has beçr appoint cd f0 succecd Dr. W. E. Tiiley, M.A., as Public School In- spector in Durham County. Olga Mary Hoar and Louis Elmer Grosskurth were marricc Nov. 9, at-flic home of Sid T. Hoar. Rev. and Mrs. W. T. Cherry af Singapore, Straits Sefflement, are home on furlough. Mr. Cherry is Manager of flic Mefhodist Mission Press and a native of Bowman- ville. Ensign Gertrude F. Hollande of London Befhesda Hospital has been promofed ta Adjutant and leaves for Nova Scofia, whcre she wili be Matron of a new hospital. Maple Grave: Ross Stevens has taken a position at McLaughlin's, Oshawa. . . Alex Laurie, R. L. Worden and A. B. Wcrry are on a deer hunt at Parry Sound... Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Snowden have a son. Hampton: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Johns and Eva, Darling- fard, Man., arc at J. L. JoIns'... Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Kersiake have movcd into the A .E. Jennings' house. Solina: Blake Balson, Mrs. L. Lander, Sask., Mrs. W. Thompson, Granton; Mrs. W. Trick, Oshiawa, wcre cailed home due ta fthc seri- ous iliness of their mother. FIFTY YEARS AGO November 14, 1894 Margaret, cldest dauglifer of flic late Hon. John Simpson, Sena- for, was unifed in marriage with Arthur Agard-Evans of Cheshire, England, at "Açorn CotXagc," Bowmanviile, Nov. 10. George Bryant, Gea. S. Staples and Lewis Poland won 1sf, 2nd and 5th prizes at Ont aria County plowing match. Mr. and Mrs. John Hughes, Blackstock, celebratcd their 5Oth w e d d i n g anniversary. Their dhildrcn present wcre James L. Hughes, Inspector of Schools, To- ronto; Major John Hughes, New- tonville; Mrs. Wm. Scott, Toron- ta; Major Sam Hughes, Mrs. (Dr.) McAlpinc, Lindsay; Mrs. Robert Jobb, Mrs. James Beacock, Cart- wright. Aimond's Churcli, Pickering, bouglit a nice dhapel organ from the Dominion Organ Ca., Bow- manville. Enniskilien: Aif. N. Mitchell has secured an excellent sdhool in the suburbs 0f Peterboro. Tyrone: A Junior League was organizcd with these officers: Rev. A. C. Wilson, Emma Wcrry, MVay Clemens, Russell Bingham, Wiilie Stock, Ethel Courtice, Uillie Saunders. . . Harry Rahm and family have moved fa fhIs community. New Haven: Levi VanCamp, ID DISTANT PIAST Statesman Files Reeve of Darlington, and Mrs. Charles Rundie were married af ft he home of S. C. Rundle. of Solina: October school report st confained fhe names of these to puipils with their teacher, C. Evcrett Brown: Algernon, Her- ieman, Edifli, Beafrice and Frank eVice, Bertie Northcuft, Maggie ,s Pascoe, Edgar Werry, John and Edifli Baker, Ella Mont gomery, 'Annie Cox, Harry Tom, Lola and Mabel Argue, Hilda and Arthur Westlake, Katie and Fred Moore, ýnMaud Reynolds, Mandy Tapp, Ethel VanNest, Ivan Law, How- ard Nichols, Minnie Ashton, Ruby isPhillips. F. This is subscription fime! **DAD'S PROMISED) TO BUY ME-A VICTORY BOND FOR EVERVONE 0F THESE SUPERMEN 1 CAPTURE:' This advL. contrlbuted by En! Si NAYLOR SHOE REPAIRS health. bu*t hal of raur family and your communiy.' Mareà 24 1944 L ET'S be quite frank. Wlen you read-as yau probably did during the past fcw months- tht more than 300,000 people in Canada have syphilis, wlat was your reaction? Did you say, -Tlat's too bad; soinerhing sliould bce donc about it-, and tIen mmtar o the comic page? Chances are you did. But if that article had told yau that Tommy joncs, the lad wha used ta mow your lawn afrer scliool, had syphlis-how would you have feir about it? Or that the young couple wlio built that cure house in the next block, lad jusr lost a baby througl syphilis ... wouid thar have made you stop ana think? Or, if you suddenly discovered that your Mar - - . . . No? That couldn't happen? But ir can. And it does . . . ta liundreds of Tommies and Marys every year, rigit liere in Canada. Rîghr in your community. You'Il neer read articles like that, of course, for these arc the personal tragedis that people bear in silence. So, when you pick up the paper sometime and read,- . . . there were 5,000 new VENEREAL DISEASE caes reported i this province last year .. .-, remembcr i Thes are not: cold figures. Tley represent 5,000 hcat-breaig ... lieart-aching situations. Yes, VENEREAL DISEASI is a serious problem. It's a problem for parents; for taxpayers; for young people on the tIres- hold of life; for everyane. VENEREAL DISEASE need neyer stri.ke il we ail do aur part. If we know the facrs. If we use these facts ta advantage. If we don't shrug aur shoulders and say, "This couldn't happen ta anyone in my family.'- You have a duty ta your family and tlie conimunity. AmrVa Off For ail the facts about '/D write your Pinvinclal Departmeat of I-ealth for the new. free bookiet - VICTOILY OVER DISEASE". VWILFARS VLIOAL VMORAt .Sponsored hy DEPARTMENT OP NATIONAL REAL=E AND WELPARE I l-vw tv>94teg 8e*-tvw 0 suy War Savings SIampa Manager '. - - I imagine you are more concerned wif h what conditions will be in the company when you re- turn. Already we have done Our best f0 look ahead and plan for the post-war period . . Our present estimates indicate fhat we wil need f0 retain ai Our employeca now on the force; that there wili be a job for you and ail other Bell employees wlio return fromn active service, and thaf if wili be necessary for us f0 bure a number o± new cm- ployce." &ù 4 f uf a 2 > & W. LEARN THE FACTSI THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE. ONTARIO 'rTJTT1:?QrIAV h7nU Ofh 10&& 1 Frank WilUams 'l