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PAGE TWO Establtshed 1854 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER With which 18 Incorporateti The Bowmanvifle News, The Newcastle Independent, ana The Orono News. 91 Year's Continilous Service To The Town of BowmanvIfle and Durham County. Member ~> Audit Bureau of Circulation$ Canadiane Weekly Newspapers Associatlor c SUBSCRIMTON RATES $2.00 a Year, strlctiy ln advance. $2.50 a Year ln the United States. GEO. W. JAMES, Editor. THE STATESMAN HONOR ROLL - On Active Service -1 Major W. G. James (Wounded hn Action, Back at the Front) Capt. John M. James W.O. Donald Camaron CSM. George Graham Cpi. A. Living (Killed in Action i Italy) Political Dock-Walîooing ln Grev By-Election We cannot be persuaded that the type of political campaigil ilow being waged ini the Grey North by-election Nvili meet -%vith gen- erai publie approval. For downirighit refusai to accept and discuiss issues and resort rather to political scurrilitv', the contest harks back to the days of a past generation. Ail that is needed is to add vote-buying- to return to the political jungles. ln order to keep in- forrned. The Statesman arrangcd to reccive copies of the current issues of The Owen Sound Daily Sunl-Times. Wiîile that jour- nal takes 110 sides in the issue it certainiv gives ail illuminàting picture of thue do.- figbt ini the paid advertisiîîg of the politi- cal parties harrauguing the public and ab- using each other. In the Jan. 26 issue of The Sun-Times ap- pears a double-page spread paid for by the Liberals, and a quarter page paid for by the Political Action Commnittee affiliated with the CCF. Both -exuide "amear" tacties and avoid issues. The Prog-ressive Conserva- tives liave no sncb advertising, but report a local trade unionist spe aking for their can- didate aiid that the Seeretarv of the EIec- trical Union lias disavowed the CCP. On the other hand. the PAC, backing the CCF, screams with headlines, "Commnnists Back MeNaughtoii." But this is mild compared with the two-page. effusion of the Liberais. Arthur Roebnck, K.C.. M.P., and "W. P. Telford, K.C.. Liberals, the latter resigning as M.P. to make way for Geni. McNangbton, are featured in certif3-ing to a letter writ- ten by Prog-. Con. candidate Case in an at- tempt to prove hie is ag-ainst conscription. The letter is produced ini fac-simile. It was writteil by Case to anl assuined frieîid, Jock Willis, Druggist, of Aurora, and apparentiv Willi.s bad no0 scruples in seiling ont bis friend. Many- will find it liard to believe that two "eminent" K.C. 's w-ouid stoop so low but the facts are there. There w-as no good reason for the election in the first place and if this is the sort of stn'ff to expeet in a general election it migbt be a good idea to postpone the circus tili the boys corne home and restore sanitv opbi life.topbi We Must Face Post War Economic Problems Realistically For the past tlîree years w-e have harped on the subjeet cf practical planning for post war trade, for exportiuig oum surplus goods as the primary means of preventing unern- pîcyment and assuring continued prosperity, especially witli an eye to agriculture. We have insisted that this should b-e effected by employment of trainied trade agents abroad, even as we fight abroad. Again w'c retuima te the subjeet with flue idea of keeping the pub- lic keyed to its importance. anîd iin doing so we incorporate herein opinions recently ex- pressed by twvo emiment authorities. They are J. S. Duncan, President, Masse-Ilarris o., and Lord Keynes, fanous economist and Director of tîhe Banîk of England. Both re- fer particularlv 40 post w-ar trade witb Bni- tain. Speaking in Brantford, Mr. Duncan, re- cently returlied from overseas, found eco- nomie prospects in Brtiain profoundly- dis- turbed. Thev ne longer have dollar balanc- es to buy from Canada even on the scale of 1938: Today the Dominionî is the second ex- porting nationî of the worid, but this bas uio particular post war significaîuce. When peace cemes wve shaîl have a domestie budget must tax. And to tax adequately we must haehigh ernployment. To have employ- ment we must export. To hold British trade we must work iith them te ebuild pros- Perit not for a decade but for a genera- tion. Catchwords, sloganîs and eratory muîst give way to hard work, long range planning fand fullest co-eperatioîî. Lord Keynes at Ottawa wvarned that k Britain must increase, by eue haif the vol- ure cf her experts fî'om the lJnited King- dom te ensure steadyi employ-ment at fair wages. Canada formerJY, soid to Britain twi'e as much as she bougbt. That balance must be redressed after thîe war. If Canada %on't buy she cannet be expected to el]d. %horn cf sterling balaîîeps, iitain mîust ex- change goods. for gocds to jrevent cconomic collapse. These warnings have parti'u]ar signifi- cance for farmers for we iist have assured outiets for bacon, wheat, anîd a wliole range of primary produets. They aî how' the broadening inter-independence tluat nder- lies Post war trade, which no longer ean be abeepte d as a onea way street. As Mr. Dun- can emphasizes, we must face these prob- lems realistieally. THE CANADIAN STATESMAN RC~iUTMAM'VTT.T.W i , How To Start Your Own Busines.- Almost evcry comnîîitv in Canîada is now eoîîcerîîed witlî studyiîîg problems of re- habilitation most gcneralya feciî h welfare of mein and women ivlio have I been on active service in the present w-ar. No matter w-bat steps Governients have takeil it is becomiîîg more and more evident that local conumunities are no less obligated to play- an important part in plans for success- fui reestablishîneuit of those w-ho have borne the battie. Some of these plans are engag- ing the attention of Farm and Citizenls' Forumis aîîd anl added interest is rnanifest ini the couimittees being set up under authority of municipal Councils. Cliamber of Com- merce, tlîe Manufacturers' Association, fin- auîcial inîstitutionîs and industrial corpora- tions are in mny cases making comprehen- sive surveys. The w-bote sebeme is gradnally getting under wvay. But by far tlîe nost important, practical and iniformed steps bcing taken for those wishing to set up îîîdividually and independ- ently, is the extended series of articles cuir- rcntly appearing in The Financial Post, To- ronîto, on " How To Shirt Your Own Busi- nîess. " The series is concerned with how- to succeed lin"sînaîl businîess'" and in that re- spect bas natuiraliy a special appeal for soi- diers. Thousands of boys w-ho have grewn te maturity overseas will corne home wanting to set Up iin their owîî smaii businesses and for tbemn this series in The Financial Post wvould be of incalculable benefit, for the ar- ticles are writteîi by experts. The Financial Post, one of the most authoritatîi'e business jourîîals of thîis continent, is a Maclean pub- lication foîînded by- one of Canada's greatest Canadians, Col. John Bayne Maclean. In alI these planining endeavors theme are one or tw-o suggestions The Statesman wisbes to advance. First, there should be compiete coordinîation among ah the planning agen- cies, governiment, civic, industrial, financial and individuai ecoîîomists. Second, wvc shonld wisli to sec the series now- runniingy in The Financial Post consolidated into book form and made available for the personiiel of all nuits overseas. The Governinent now dis- tributes anîong tlîem a booklet telling- of its pla.ns for assistanîce on dischar-ge. The Post series w'ould becunost hiilyl complementary for it gets rigbt to the root of wliat soldiers planning busiîîesses really îvant to know'. We have seen nothing more practicai than this series and oîlx- regret thuat newsprint limitations preclude their publication ln the weekly press wvhich bas a ivide circulation overseas. Election Forccast f neditorial release from National Liberal Hea d qnarters gives a foecast of the prob- Jlems being considemed by the board of sta- tegy at Ottawa at the present tirne. The item states: "Rumors that, no niatter what the result la North Grey, Premier King ivili not cal] parliarnent, have been dispelled by him. - Both M.P.'s and Senators xiil assem- bIc, Jan. 31, as planîîed, but parliamemit wil sit only a day or two and then prorogne umtil aft-er the by-electioî." "Xhiethuer it will meet again before a gen- eral election xnay depend on thue North Grey r('su]t. An adverse vote mighît bec('onsider- -d by the Governaient as justifying an ap- peai to the Canadian pel)Ce as a whoe." Thîis, comiiîg igbt froinithe partY feed-hox needs mîo ftrthez- comnaent. Plainlv it, is an expression of doubt ('onceraig yMe- Naugiitoîu's chances, and ami indlieation tluat, if hie is defeated à -enerai electioî w'i]l be thie pmobabl,e î'esult. What happeits afteî' the wvar mas- be purch- a matter of cliance, umîless you 'andi 1 make it a matter of choice. Our' chîoice wil wiin omly if w-c back it withu ever t 1io w-e've got. yhn Famiiy Allowience Registration Now Under Way 'Wben fannuil allowaîîees coine into effeet onuJ îil 1, 1945~, it is *stinatd tlîat saine 3536,000 ehildrcn under 16 yc'ars of a ge w~il1 bceligible for, paynients. Tite budget passcd 1w the (iovcrîîîîîcît foi' these paynents is $256i millions, %vith au average cost per child per yvei' of $72.48, oîîtsidc of adminilstrative eosts andf witlîoiit d(idictioii of ineome tax i'elates. The scale of paynient is.* $5 a montb for cbiidren up to 5 ycars; $6 from (i to !) vears ; $7 from 10 to 12 years and $8 fî'om 131 to 15 v cars. In families of more than 4 cli idreji there are these deductions: $1 less foi' the Stlu hild, $2 lcss for tlhe 6th and 7tlî. amIf $3 foi' caeb additional cbild. The uýeeral brcakdow-n is tbis: Some 40.2 p)ercent, or 1,424,900 will be 5 years or lcss, hcuuce will draw $5 per month.. The second elass, beti-cen 6 and 9, is 23.8 percent, or 839,700, eligible foi' $6 per month. Next eomces 618,400 or 17.5 percent. between 10 and 12 years at $7 per month. Finally, 652,- 900 or 18.5 percent, between 13 and 16. di'awingý $8 per montb, with the above ded- uetions oitaining. This information is pre- sentcd for parents baving cbildren eligibie and for taxpaveî's generally, vbo will foot tbe bill. These paynicnts are available as, of riglît bothi to the inillionaire and the poorest famIniin tbe ]and. To bcelcig-ible for paymcnts the birth of ecd child mnust be rcgistcred under pro- per v'itail statisties authorit.v whieh means Provincial Governînents. Tt is reported that some 70,000 are îiot registered at ail and tbcv inust be to get the pa,%ments. Applica- tion forms ,for famil.v allowanccs will be delivered tlîrongb flic post office to every houscbold in Canada wbcrechcildren under 16 are know-n to be living. The simple ques- tions asked are casily filled with name, age, and( zeneralv 'vs"or '"no" answ-ers, but in ail cases birthîs mnst be registered aq al)ove noted. Chîecks are to be made to mothers aînd the Act requires tbat the moncv be spent for tbe welfare of the chul- dren. Begistratioîî for Ontario will begin diiring February. Meantime, births should bce rccorded no matter i-hat the age uli to 16 Nears, if îîot formcrly registered. END 0F GERMAN DRANG The Last Act of the Great Hitler drama is nearing its climax. The second German bid for world mastery is very near its final de- feat. But we are witnessing, rîght now, more than just the end of another war. We are watching the migbty flow of buman tides at one of the turning points in his- tory. The most symbolic act of this whole war was what the Ger- mans did when they saw that the Soviet aîmies were about to sweep over and past Tannenberg. Tbey hastily extracted the corpse of their greatest military idol, Hindenburg. They themselves blew up and destroyed the shrine that commemorated their most decisive vîctory of World War I. Then they fled-West. Surely This Act .. This Hasty and final retreat-marks the last act in thc age-old struggie be- tween Teuton and Slav. It was at Tannenberg in 1410 that the Slavs (Letts and Poles) inflicted a most catastrophic defeat on the Teu- tonic knights. Yet even that de- feat did flot stop the deliberate and planned Drnag Nach Osten or "march to the East." Thus it was that Hindenburg in 1914 knew every inch, every lake, and every crossroad in this area. There Germany's armies literai- ly annihilated the fiower of the Czar's fighting men. It was the greatest victory of the entire war. Without it the Kaiser's war could not have iasted tWo years, let alone four. There wouid prob- ably have been no Russian revo- lution, at ieast in 1917. Now The Armies of The Siavs, whom the Teutons assumed they had a God-given right to conquer, have reversed the tides of cen- turies. What the Germans tooki from the Slavs, by force, over a1 period of many centuries, is be-1 ing taken back again. But this time things are different. This great Red sweep towards Berlin is more than just anothert battie in another war. East Prus-t sia is not only being conquered by1 Soviet armies. But one certainc consequence of its conquest willa be to unscramble the holdings of i TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO January 29, 1920 Mrs. (Rev.) T. W. Jolliffe be- queathed $300 te Bowrnanville High School te be used for best essays on some topic of Imperial interest, aiso $200 to the Public Library and 100 te W.M.S. of the Methodist Church. Mn. and Mrs. F. H. Orchard, Miami, Man., bave been visiting Thos. Stainton. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Ward, Owen Sound, attended the mar- niage of ber sister, Aedra E. Grigg and R. Hemman Westaway, Jan. 2Oth. Nurse Berta E. Harris, niece of Mrs. James Courtice, bas been ap- pointed P.H.N. in Oshawa after two yeams' service overseas. Miss Jessie Womden, who bas been living wîtb ber aunts, the Misses Spry, lef t in company with hem uncle, Ernest Wonden, to make hem home witb ber father, Charles Wonden, Roleau, Sask. Foilowing our special "Made- in-Bowmanvihle Carnpaign" we call attention te our newest in- dustry, Durham Fiax Co. Ltd. A\fter huoking around for a suit- able building it finally acquimed possession 0f the brick structure at King and Scugog Sts., owned by W. M. Horsey. Darlington: John Metcalf had a bec, drawing the grain elevator imbers fmom the wharf. Deanville: Taking p a r t at League meeting were Alta Pîckell, Florence Gardiner, Elton Wemmy and Mac Gardiner. Solina: Jack Brooks, Welling- tn, Somerset, England, visited his cousin, Mrs. S Edgar Werny, "Roselandvale" . .. Ivan M. Law as purchased a new Fordson t a t h h REGIMENTAL CHAPLAIN TELLS 0F DEATH 0F PTE. W. FEWSTER Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Few- ster, Bowranvile, ave recently received a letter frorn Capt. J. F. Goforth, Chaplain of the Hast- ings and Prince Edward Regt., Italy, telling of the deatb in action of their son, Pte. William Few- ster. The letter says in part: "You will forgive me for not aving written sooner but I was wounded in the present campaign and ave only lately resumed my duties. I cannot tell you how badly we al fet wen your son was killed on the nigt of Dec. 8. Hle was on patrol when a shel landed close, killing hfn instant- ly. There is some comfort in knowing e did not suffer at al. "We are proud that be was one Read the Ciassified Ads, it pays. the Teutons and the Slavs in such a way that there wili be no more German Drang Nach Osten. Far From Being a Bad Thing for Europe this is about the best thing that could happen. "Wben we tbink cSf expansion," raved Hitler, "we naturallyý think of the East." It was because Hitler knew that land-grabbing in the East had been a profitable German custom for about a thousand years that bis appeals were so effective. The Red armies are now near- ing Breslau. It is solidiy German and bas been for centuries. But Breslau was built by Slavs--cen- turies before there was anything in the way of a German nation. Humanity gains nothing if we merely go from war to war - with eacb more diaborical than the one before. There will be no real peace in the world if after each war we do no more than sow the seeds of another one. But human beings in the mass learn ehe greatest lessons when those lessons are impressed in what the experts cai the uncon- scious mmnd. One thing that every German will be taugbt, as a result of this war, is that thue days of the Drang Nacb Osten are over. He Mnay or may not be brought to realize that "crime does not pay." But with every fibre of his being he will shrink frorn the foliy of making another attack on the Slav giant to the east. Sweden Once Suffered From the militarist and imperialist dis- ease which later took paranoic form in Germany. Sweden once rield vast alien areas in forcible subjection. Wben Sweden took ber licking she learned ber lesson. She began :0 improve ber own country and Aork out her own salvation with her own resources within ber own borders. The Germans are the rnost tecb- nicaliy advanced people in the t world. Tbey are politically among r the most backward-so backward t that tbey border on the moronic. 1 WhTen they get the military bug f out of their brains they may do on c agrand scale wbat Sweden did c By HELEN MARSH A Showing of Russian Movies Recently the Soviet Ambassa- dor to Canada arranged a private showing of three Russian films. One was a musical film, com- parable superficially to Holly- wood's many films of the "Stage Door" type; featured were two actors Who bold the coveted titie, "Honored Artists of the Republic."1 The second was "No Greater Love," a story of peasant parti- sans figbting bebind the German limes; it was a stark, reaiistic play and, like most modern Russian movies, made no attempt to glamorize or dramatize essential motives and actions. But it was tbe third-the news- reel-that gripped the audience in tense concentration, for it sbowed actual pictures of the liberation of Tarnopol. For the first timhe I realized what lay behind the of- ficiai bulletins whicb say, "There was street figbting, and mopping- up operations continue." These pictures, taken by cameramen wbo made no attempt to stay in the safe areas, sbowed wbat "mopping-up" a City really means: the many kinds of artillery used; the techniques of getting entrance to a bouse and occupying it. Thei rnost exciting scene was taken Eromn a window just across the street from a bouse wbich. bad been used 'as German bead- quarters. A Russian soldier man- aged to get on to one of the bal- conies; first be tbrew a irenadte .nto the room, then with an ef- ficient littie machine-gun, sprayed the roorn through the window vitbout exposing birnself. Then he went tbrough the window himself, followed by others, and bhey went systernatically from room to room until the bouse wa heirs. You saw street barricades hurriedly thrown up and ef- C iciently demolished; you saw the 'ity's inhabitants emerging from 'cars and streaming back from I the countryside, ragged, bungry and nerve-racked; you saw tbem heer as the red flag broke out< on the city's town bail. There is no need to ask the Russians what they are fighting or! Mexican Wireiess Operator When Francisco Lua Manzo, of rlazazalea, Mexico, saw "Captain c )f the Clouds' two years a go, be nade up is mind to enlist in'the0 î.C.A.F. Today he is a wireless )perator serving witb the Lion 3quadron of the R.C.A.F. Bomb- ýr Group overseas, and bas made- Lnumber of operational sorties.- ;alud, Sergeant Lua Manzo! How's the Food in India By invitation of the Indian Gov- rnment, tbree Canadian Army aen recently set off for India, and rrived in New Delhi just before 'ristmas. Their mission? To tudy dietary problems in the 'ina-Burma-India theatre, in- ludirig the relationsbip of cli- iate to nutrition, nutritional alues cf concentrated foods, and >spital diets. The three-man arn, beaded by Major R. M. ýark, forrneriy officer in charge fnutrition for the Director Gen- ra of Medicai Services of the xmy, bave taken with tbem a biie lab, consisting of 34 abinets, each a compiete unit for àrrying out a specific test. The Canadian Nutritional Re- ýarcb Unit will travel on flght- ig missions witb the troops to eamine the value of current ra- 'ns issued front-line soldiers. Canadians in UNRRA No less than 80 Canadians... of thern women , . . are now acbed to the United Nations lief and Rehabilitation Admin- tration, serving in Washington, )ndon and European centres. iey range frorn stenographers to ction beads, and a good many of ýrn are nurses. From Ontario nt 30, frorn Quebec 26, from . 9, Manitoba 5, Saskatche- un and Alberta 4 each, and one ch from, New Brunswick and :va Scotia. liq 'rUTTP~ WWPPTTARV lqt 10~i~ CANADA From ail Bookseliers n a modest way. t tractor. . . Jack Reynolds bas me- turned to duties at Toronto. . <File copy of 50 years ago for this week is missing.) BOWMANVILLE FIRE DEPT. GETS HONORABLE MENTION An international comrnittee of judges was set up te review re- Ports submitted -te the Director of Conservation of the National Board 0f Fire Underwritcrs and chairman of the Fire Prevention and Clean-up Carnpaign Com- rnittee of the National Fire Pro- tection Association, and the final report is now available. Submissions were made cover- ing activities during Fire Preven- tien Week, Oct. 8-14, 1944, affect- ing towns and cities in botb Can- ada and the United States, and the releases listed the varlous centres winning honorable men- tion for efficiency. In ahi there weme 2,121 reports and 498 of these were fmom Canada. Menit awamds weme given on the basis of cities, towns and villages listed according te Population goups and included both paid and volunteer fire departments. The womk undertaken in Bowman- ville was under leadership of Fine Chief Lucius Hooper, wbo is also a Deputy Marshall for Ontario. Chief Hoopen's annual reportE will be submitted to Town Coun-z cil at its next sittîng, but in the1 meantime it is iearned that thei fire loss for 1944 in Bowrnanville I is onhy $3,1l9.50 for a total of 321 separate calis for the year. In thes "Honorable Mention" awamds in t the above competition, Bowman-v ville is tied for top place with il Kapuskasing, Ont., in a total ofv 13 towns competing, whicb is in-Ie deed a creditable record. D] Empire Loses Over r I 49O51RWONTgOn S.2Bs TORONTO 2Bokelr fc or SE mi ar stt a te Mc ýe i exz ticl 61 atti Re] ist Th( sec, the wa Noi M British Empire casualties in the 5 years and two montbs of fight- ing in the present war now total 1,043,554, according to figures re- leased by Pr i me Minister Churchill, Tuesday. The break- down is as follows: United King- dom, 635,107, India 152,597, Austrialia 84,861, Canada 78,985, New Zealand 34,115, South Africa 28,943, and Colonies 28,943. Of the total, 282,162 were killed, 386,374 wounded, 294,438 prison- e rs and 80,580 missing. For Can- Iada the totals are: killeà 28,040, Iwounded 39,010, missing 4,807, Iprisoners 7,128. Casualties for the four years and three months of the last great war were, for the Empire, deatbs 1,089,919, wound- cd 2,400,988. In the two wars to date the total score is killed, 1,372,081, wounded 2,787,362, or an overaîl total of 4,159,443 people of the Empire brutalized within a single genera- tion at the instance of Germans. People who incline to'a sof t peace ougbt to paste theAe figures in a prominent place to be viewed daily until . the present conflict ends. 1 FruI a AdedPoeto $21415 0 More than our Total Increase lni Assets lnvested ln Vlctory Bonds. S. E. WHITE District Representative R. R. No. 4, Bowmanvile of us, always a good soldier, will- ing to go anywbere. Everyone lik- ed hlm 50 you may know we al share your loss. Ail join in ex- pressing to you our must heart- feit syrnpathy. It was my privi- vices. A beautifully inscribed cross made by our own boys marks bis grave. We have our own littie regimental cernetery and it is being well cared for. "Some Italians living nearby are continually laying flowers on the graves. Our prayers we hope will comfort you in your great loss and may we be given strengtb to complete the task for whicb. your gallant son laid down bis life. With kindest regards, J. F. GOFORTH, Capt., Chaplain. The Canadian Almanac m 1945 98th Consecutive Year of Publication A Directory of General Information relatlng The Canadian Almanac is approacluing Its lOOth year. -.It was first publlshed ln 1847, and has been revised annually since tluat time The 1944 revision embodies changes in Provincial and Dominion Governmnents up to a date in December, 1944 CONTAINS MAP 0F CANADA Showing through railways and steamship distances PUBLISHED BY THE COPP CLARK CO. LiMITED Io g g o i i g I ao 'w PI, You caxi depend on our garage for prompt and efficient service by skîlled and thoroughly experienced workxuen. Have us give your car or truck a check-over, for they have to give a lot of service yet before you will be able to get a new one. 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