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THE TIMES-GAZETTE OSHAWA WHITBY THE OSHAWA TIMES (Established 1871) THE WHITBY GAZETTE AND CHRONICLE (Established 1863) newspaper published every 2a ingepe de Times Publishing Company of Oshawa, Arthur R. Alloway, President and Managing Directof. SUBSCRIPTION BATES Palp mn by carrier in Oshawa, tby, Brooklin, Po erry, Ajax Dos. 24c, for two weeks, $6.24 per year if paid in advance, By mail outside carrier delivery area anywhere in Canada and Eng- land $400 per year. United States subscriptions $5.00 per year, Authorized as Second Class Mall, Post Office Department, Ottawa. Tuesday, Thursday and Limited, Net Paid Circulation Average per Issue Q : 6 2% 4 FOR AUGUST SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1946 Twenty-Five Years Progress Just twenty-five years ago this month, the Toronto Transportation Commission took over a- job that bids fair to become a pattern in the field of public ownership. Following a vote by Toronto ratepayers in 1920, which approved taking over transportation facilities, a commission was put in office. In September, 1921, was commenced the amalgamation of nine electric railroad systems, then operat- ing within the limits of Greater Toronto. Older citizens of Oshawa can recall the dirty, uncom- fortable, ramshackle cars forming the greater part of the old Street Railway equipment, after the last war. Many of these units were formerly horse-drawn relics, roughly con- verted for towing behind the electric cars. Service in general can be said to have reached an all-time low. Certainly, there was nothing of worthy tradition, or much in the way of equipment for the new governing body to take over. However, with high ideals, cautious direction and always a finger on the public pulse, the T.T.C. has carried on with steady progress. Each year sees some fresh improvement, raising either standard of equipment or efficiency of service. Carrying over 300 million passengers-a year, it is esti- mated that nearly 90 per cent. of Toronto citizens are now located within 1000 feet of TTC street car or bus services." Constant attention is given equally to public needs. ans the background of means by which those needs are supplied. Herein, is without doubt the reason for a high record of safety, both on the road and in the shops where equipment ic maintained at its most effective pitch. The next 25 years will see more changes. Underground service and Rapid Transit methods are already projected on a broad scale. But with the wonderful background of experience already behind the TTC and with a staff of long and loyal service, there need be no fear but that efficient standards will continue. We join in the well deserved tributes offered the Toronto Transportation Commission on this 25th Anniversary.. Long may their good work continue--in every way a model of effective municipal ownership and civic administration. Small-Word Language Examination of the fundamentals of the English language reveals that it is a small-word means of communi- cation. It can therefore be understood why it is proposed to | make English a world-wide language to take the place of | what Esperanto would have been had it been fostered a decade ago. that Esperanto should be used as a world-wide tongue be- cause of its simple construction, no exceptions to any | grammatical rule and the fact that it is composed of words | and phrases from many languages. But today English is widely used in foreign lands; to such an extent it has replaced French. - This growth in | popularity is welcomed but it is no reason why we should | start using big words in order to make an impression. It is more effective to use small words. For instance: "With the consummation of the holocaust, the unparalleled quality of tobacco found only on the bench lands of Omar Khayyam's romantic country is now here." How much easier to say: "Now the war is over we can get that good Persian tobacco again." Certainly there are words like '"'consummation" but when you're through, all you've said is "end." Why not | start there? The universe, Volney Irons has pointed out, is known by little words--Iland, sea, air, sky, cloud, rain, sun, moon, star, wind, heat, cold, snow and so on. : Further study shows our bodies are understood by little words--arm, 'leg, head, ear, lip, toe, heart, vein, liver, hand, neck, hair. Commands are short words, too--go, come, stop, halt, march, gee, haw, run, walk, turn. Colors are mainly little words--red, brown, black, blue, rose, pink, white, mauve, tan, green, ' And emotions can be squeezed into short words. The greatest emotions in the world are love and hate. The most you can say is, "I love you," or, "I hate you." In the Bible you have the basis of all Christianity in one verse of little words: "For the Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which is lost." Look it up in St. Luke, Chapter 19, Verse 10. There is no end of examples of the use of little words. Take directions--up, down, north, south, east, west. The | trick in writing letters, for instance, is not the use of 16-| cylinder words; it's putting little ones together in new ways. Here's another angle of the English tongue that will cause some thought. Study the dictionary for combined words. The word jounce is a combination of jolt and bounce, and it is exactly true. Prance is proud and dance. Then there are shortened words like bus, van, wig, fag, prim-- . from omnibus, caravan, periwig, fatigue, primitive. So there is a vast store of little words that move the world. The thing is to toss them around and make them do rew tricks, We do not say that you should shun big words 2itogether. Use a whopping lalapaloser now and then, but don't get into the habit of leaning on them. ® Readers' Views FRIENDLY CO-OPERATION IS APPRECIATED The Editor Times-Gazette Dear Sir: I would liké through the medium of your paper to con- vey my sincere appreciation for the trouble and effort that was displayed by numerous people in Oshawa in the search for our Dal- mation, lost on August 31st. Par- ticularly would I like to mention Mrs. R. B. Smith, and the Humane Society, of which she is a director, and also Dr. W, H. Gifford, who lent a great deal of time, and who placed his office at the disposal of anyone who thought they could possibly trace the dog. The firemen, the policemen, and the garbage col- lectors who were all, most willing to lend every effort they could in the recovery of "Mr, Moses". As any true lover of dogs realizes, it is not the bench value that counts nearly as much as the com- panionship that a dog can give children in a family where he has been for nine years, and we were very pleased yesterday to receive a telephone call stating that the dog had been found in Enniskillen, and that Mrs. R, MaclInally, of 79 Av- enue Street, had brought the dog to her home, and was keeping him there for us. It was through your personal kindness in printing an article about the loss of this dog, on Page 9 of your Saturday September 7th issue, that Mrs, MacInally was able to identify him, and return him to us Let me say again how much we appreciate the splendid spirit dis- played by the citizens of Oshawa in their assistance to us. Yours very truly, ROBT. RUDDY, Hermitage Farms, Pickering, Sept. 12, 1946. * BOOST FOR "COURIER" Editor Times-Gazette-- Dear Sir: Thanking you for a small space in your paper, I would like to inform Mr. Turner that the people of Oshawa do read the Courier, also The Times-Gazette, In an office in Oshawa on Thursday afternoon a lady was reading a Courier, also a gentleman in Osh- awa tips his paper boy for leaving it ai his home every week, so Mr. Turner, it is not the useless thing you would hope it to be. So the best of luck to Mr. A. Walker and his staff, This is a free country, we are not all con- trolled by the C.1.O. Thanking you, MRS. L. WILLIAMS. 76 Colborne St. W. Oshawa, Sept. 13, 1946. ® For A Laugh Recently a Canadian editor was in a gunplant where extremely fine tooling operations were being car- ried on. "What are your tolerances on this Job?" he asked a man at a lathe, "One five-thousandths of inch," replied the workman, The figure conveyed little to the editor. He asked, "How fine is that?" The workman, too, seemed puz- zled. He called to his neighbor on the next machine: "Bill, how eany five-thousandths are there to an inch " . Bill scratched his head. "Gee, I don't know. But there must be mil- lions of them." an When the youngster applied for { his first job, his mother went with him. After various questions, the prospective employer asked: 'Are you truthful? myaboy.?" Before the lad could afiswer, his mother spoke for him. 'Aye, he is," she said; "but, of There are still those, however, who believe | course, he understands that busi- f ket. ness is business." THREE QUESTIONS (Brantford Expositor) Speaking of Civil Service jobs, have all of them been checked since that notable and overdue fir- ing bee was held by the Bennett Government? Are there no sine- cure posts paying fat salaries for little or no work? How many de- partments are over-staffed by peo- ple performing tasks that are nei- ther creative nor useful? MAN WITH SEPTEMBER VACATION (This Week Magazine) The man who waited till Septem- ber for his vacation bade his office mates good-bye, He tried to be casual about it, but we could sce the gloatful gleam 'in his eye. Earl- ier in the season, while the rest of us squandered our holidays at the [first chance, he hoarded his like the small boy at the party who saves his cake till the last. Now, as - he goes to collect his reward, he pities us. We hope he won't be lonely on the bleak, abandoned bathing beach, We hope he won't get chilblains in his mountain ho- tel, We hope he won't be caught out in a hurricane. ® 25 Years Ago An airplane, on its way from Ot- tawa to Camp Borden, created quite a little excitement when it landed in Cedardale to replenish its sup- ply of gasoline. The Township of East Whitby set its tax rate of 7'4 Mills, an increase of 1'4 mills over the previous year. The increase was attributed to ex- penditures for roads and bridges. William Purves, Clerk of East Whitby Township for 41 years, pas- sed away in his 72nd year, Paced by "Duke" Dainty who al- lowed but three hits, Oshawa won the Central Ontario Baseball Lea- gue Championship from Belleville Grand Trunks with a 2-0 victory at Port Hope before 2,300 spectators. ® A Bible Thought "As for you, (said Joseph), ye thought evil against me; but God meant it for good." (Gen. 50:20.) "Enemies may strive to injure, Satan all his arts employ: : God will turn what seems to harm me Into everlasting joy." ' M, E. Servoss, | --Talburt ET el om -- Ae HT in the New York World-Telegram. Canadian The future and status of Neéw- foundland, which will come up for discussion this week, is of interest to Canadians, inasmuch as there are many in this country who are strongly of the opinion that the is- land should become part of Can- ada The 'national convention which convenes on Wednesday will, it_is expected, decide on what pro- cedure should be taken. Since 1934 the government of Newfoundland has been conducted under a commission named by the British government, as in the de- pression years the island's. financial position became unsatisfactory. This year an election was held when 45 menibers were elected to consid- er and recommend the form of government to succeed the ccm- mission, Newfoundland is the old- est settlement of the Empire, The first thing the gathering will have to do is agree to a procedure and then get down to the task of discussing whether Newfoundland, after 12 years of commission goy- | Canada. Will Newfoundland Become Tenth Province ? (Owen Sound Sun-Times) ernment should form a government of their own, When the matter came before the British ' government some months ago Prime Minister Attlee pointed out that there were four possible recommendations, the continuation of the ccnmission government, re- turn to responsible government, re. presentative government with some | members elected and others named by the Crown, and federation with No matter what decision is reached in the national conven- tion, it is understood that the re- commendation will pe submitted to the people in a national referendum, It is unlikely a decision - will be reached this year, The inclusion of Newfoundland as a part of the Dominion of Ca- nada has been discussed but until now no proposals have been made by either Canada or the island col- ony. No doubt Newfoundland would be heartily welcomed into the Do- minijon Federation as a tenth prov- ince if it should decide to throw in its lot with this country. The 1,150 million-bushel wheat crop now being harvested over the United States, together with the re- cent Canadian-British wheat agree ment, raises the question: What is going to happen to the price of wheat? Everyone expects the price to go down. Obviously, a larges supply tends to produce a lower price. Ob- viously, if relief demand abroad de- clines as Europe's agriculture is re- stored, the price will tend to fall. | In making an agreement at a | price of 40 cents below the present | price and at a lower price later in the life of the agreement, Canada be ieves the world price of wheat is {going to fall. The Canadians are shrewd students of the wheat mar- Canada needs at home only about 125 million bushels of wheat, yet its annual wheat production wil] run to three times this figure and scaetimes four times, Exports of wheat are vital to Canada's welfare. That is why Canada wants a firm | market for wheat over enough | years to permit adequate postwar adjustment. The focusing of Canada's future wheat sales upon the smal isand of | Britain-- {illustrates that this agree- ment, which may be "insurance" to | What Is to Happen Price of Wheat ? (Minneapolis Star-Journal) Canada, is a poor agreement to meet the needs of world progress. 'The plain fact is that any post- war downward readjustment of wheat acreage should not come in the efficient producing countries of Canada, Australia, Argentina and the United States--that is, if the world is going to dedicate itself to the principles of efficiency, pro- gress, and better and cheaper food. The downward adjustment in wheat acreage should occur on the contin- ent of Europe. There wheat has been "hot-house" grown to yield enough to provide self-sufficiency in war. The consumer has paid dearly for it and has not gotten what he would have preferred and been able to buy had his wheat not Sot him more than twice the world price. ' If the principles of the Atlantic Charter are to be.carried out, the UN's economic and social counci has & job to tackle. A wheat agree- ment, covering all exporting coun- aries, could provide for steadily in- creasing wheat markets in Europe, as European agriculture is shifted over to production of more of the fresh and 'protective' foods. Thus our agricu ture, European agricul- ture, and the consumers in Europe all would gain, (Ottawa Creation of External Affairs into a separate ministry was long over- due, should have come during the war, or immediately afterwards. But any censure which Mr, King invited by delay in such action will be softened by his choice of Mr. St. Laurent as minister. Mr. St. Laur- ent, ables public man to come out of Quebec since Sir Wilfrid Laurier, will bring to his new post charac ter and distinction, Deserving of high praise, too, are the changes which Mr. King has made - in External Affairs posts. This newspaper has spoken often of the extraordinary high qualities of men like Norman Robertson, Lester B. Pearson and Hume Wrong. There is nothing it needs to add at this time except that Canada is reaping the harvest of a wise policy inaugurated by the late Dr. O. D. Skelton--the policy of training career men to handle external relations, Diplomacy, which is simply the art of agency, calls for training, for the serving of an cpprenticeship. Dr, Skelton realized this early, knew that our representation abroad could not be committed safely to men whose only qualifi< cation might be success in business or in some profession, or, worse still service to some party. Dr, Skelton recruited young men of talent, trained them, built up a tradition. That is why today we have a Les- ter M. Pearson, and that also is why we have a Norman Robertson to send to London and a Hume Wrong to send to Washington. One of the problems of our day, likely to become more difficult with time, is to enlist men capable" of running successfully the great, in- tricate machine of government which we are building up. Plan- ners may blueprint and plan, leg- islators may write laws; the real trick is to get skilled technicians and officials to build upon the blue- prints, to operate the laws. What it seems to call for is public under. Canada Well Represented Abroad Journal) standing to begin with that this vast new machine of government cannot be run by amateurs, that if our capacity to plan is not to out- run our ability to execute, leaving us in confusion and chaos, we must have more trained officials, give up our old easygoing ideas that public service does not require an appren- ticeship. The Department of External Af- fairs, with its corps of trained ex- perts, shows what can be done. ONE SURE. THING (Vancouver Province) Whatever it's been since V-J day, honeymoon, holiday or what not, the signs are now that it's over and we'd better go to work again. e Other Editors NOT IMPRESSED (Ottawa Journal) The strikers motorcade with its placards of "Mitchell Must Go" and other slogans received little notice in Ottawa. Apparently the public feels the situation is too serious for juvenile and old-fashioned demon- strations. PENITENTIARY REFORM . (Peterborough Examiner) There has been so much talk re- cently about penitentiary reform and improvement of living condi- tions for convicts that many peo- ple--and perhaps some convicts -- may have lost sight of the fact that penitentiaries are instruments of punishment, Admittedly, there is plenty of room for reform and im- provemént, but prisons should not be made so attractive as to encour- age repeated visits. RENO DIVORCES (LHR. in New York Times) 'To the high cost of living add the increase in lawyer fees in divorce proceedings. Attorneys at Reno are charging $100 to $150 more than a Year ago. Even so, there's no sign of a divorce-buyers' strike in Neva- da. Last year's sunderings totalled 8,500. The yearly average before the war was only 2,500. (This para- graph started out to make some moral point or other, but we forget what it was.) END STRIKES--OR CANADA (Toronto Telegram) Oshawa is not the only place to be affected by lack of basic ma- terials due to strikes. The cancer is spreading through many trades and many communities. There is no bottomless purse to pay the ex- penses of a national holiday from work, The situation emphasizes the necessity for devising and put- ting into action a plan to end strikes if strikes are not to end Canada. NEW COVERING FOR IRONING BOARDS (The Rotarian Magazine) The use of fiber-glass for drapes, shower-bath curtains, and many other purposes is' well known. Now comes a new use for which it seems to be admirably adapted: as cover- ing for ironing boards. It will not burn clear, or discolor and it need never be washed, Housewives like its smooth-gliding surface, and, if they use it over an asbestos under- pad, as one should always do, they need not up-end the iron between strokes, but can stand it on the glass cover and it will not burn. THE KIND OF PEOPLE WE WANT (Niagara Falls Review) Canada needs more people, but the gates should not be thrown wide open to allow everyone in who desires fo come here. Those people who can contribute to the progress, prosperity and happiness of this na- tion as well as benefit themselves, are logical choices for future citi- zens. But it also must bé remem- bered that they are expected to be- come loyal Canadians, to help de- fend this country in time of peril, and not to create trouble or dissen- sion. Canada wants and needs more new citizens--but only good, solid, loyal, progressive and indus- trious people. RED CROSS WORK (Toronto Star) Although the overseas work of the Canadian Red Cross has lessened because the war is over, it still is an essential part of the society's program, During June, 1,000 cas- es of relief clothing, quilts and hos- pital supplies were sent direct to Normandy, where a Red Cross dis- tributing centre is located at Bay- eux. Thus Canada has a part in re- establishing normal life in a part of France that was laid waste by the fighting done by Canadian soldiers. Next winter it is expected that 39,- 000 outfits for infants and boys and girls up to 14 years of age will be supplied and the sum of $25,000 be spent in purchasing certain cloth- ing articles and much-needed house- hold utensils. DEBT TO FARMERS (Clinton News Record) Canada owes Canadian agrieul- ture billions of dollars that went to urban Canadians during the war period. Farmers expect the small part of this debt necessary to sus- tain agriculture temporarily at low levels compared with urban earn- ings, to be paid. Whether the war= time agriculture policy was the wis- est or not, will be decided by history. It was, perhaps, the best that could be done. It was part of a war pol- icy that brought the end of armed conflict and gave farmers and all others a chance for peace, There can be no doubt about whether the war-time bargain with farmers is to be kept. Farmers will not be en- joying any .privilege in whatever is done to sustain agriculture, ROYAL NAVY IN RUSSIA (London Daily Graphic) Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser paid tribute on the return of HMS Tri- umph. from the Soviet Union, to the friendliness shown by the Rus- sians . throughout the aircraft care rier's visit. But we must share his regret that our sailors were not al- lowed to mix freely, as individuals, with the citizens of .the USSR, or to see things for themselves. They fo an aiea--------- fa ww a -- L&E KA rm ra JY ed J my wm) aa | = j mm---- | mv wy; ®_2 8 4 8 BR 28 i g Mure RI pf OA A&R A&A ee La Sue : A . - 'The new 1700-room Laurentian Hotel row in course of erection in Montreal, as it will appear when completed. beautiful world-famous Dominion Square. The hotel is being erected It will face Mon 's by the Ford Hotel Co. of Canada Ltd, of which John C, Udd is presid It will be 24 stories high and large area: of aluminum will be used on the outside facings in place of the conventional brick or stone fin It is scheduled for opening in the early part of June, 1947. H % To Irrigate Two Million New Acres (Time Magazine, New Yor . 'The arid prairies of southwestern Alberta looked like an inhospitable place to farm. The spring rains ran off the soil; the warm chinooks seared crops. But drought was nothing new to Charles Ora Card and his little band of 40 Mormons who fled to Alberta in 1887 to get away from the US. anti-polygamy law. They set up homesteads near Lee's Creek and planted their wheat. As Mormons had done in Salt Lake Valley, they dug a ditch to the creek and irrigated their lands in the dry summer months. Their crops thrived. More Mormons crossed into Al- berta. The firsi rough homesteads blcssomed into thriving Cardston (named for Mormon Card). JIrriga- tion trenches veined the district, and other prosperous little Mormon towns sprang up: Magrath, Stirling, Raymond. They formed the nucleus of southern Alberta's Mormon colony, 12,00 strong; their sugar- beet crops were the beginning of Alberta's 100,000,000-pounds-a-year sugar-refining business. Gradually, cases of rich irrigated farmland dotted the dry, sparse prairies. But water was still the No. 1 problem. So in 1936 the Do- minion Government created Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Act, started modestly. In ten years 4% spent only $4,000,000, more than half on 18,000 plain water holes. s Last week PFRA was hard &t work on its most ambitious project, Along the St. Mary River, not far from the first crude Mormon ditch, a $15,000,000 irrigation project was under way, financed jointly by tHe Dominion and Alberta Governe ments. Bulldozers and steam shove els were hacking out two tunnels, one to divert water into a huge sys tem of irrigation ditches, the other to divert the river while the dam is built. By April 1947 work is scheduled. to begin on the largest earthen dam in Canada (2,200 ft, long, 185 ft. high). It will create & 15-mile-long frrigation reservoir. The whole irrigation job, expecte ed to take until 1950, will turn 345,» 000 dry acres into fertile farmland, Other prairie irrigation projects are planned;' some to tap Canadian rivers, others to take Canada's 50% share (by international agreement) of the waters that rise in Mone tana, flow into Canada. The goal: two million new acres of irrigated land. . were taken everywhere in organized parties. True understanding of and friendship for other nations cannot be attained in this way. The soil on which it flourishes is that of free association, untrammelled and unre- | stricted, between those who are guests in a strange land and the or- dinary men and women of the coun- try, Only when the Russians real- ize this will there be a real pros- pect of those more comradely rela- tions which, we believe they desire no less than the people of Britain, TALL TALKING NEEDED (Winnipeg Tribune) It will take some tall talking on the part of Mr. Howe to convince thousands of ex-servicemen who who are living under appalling con- ditions that the Dominion is doing | its best to provide them with homes when they see scores of service sta- tions and warehouses under con- struction, LOW STREAK IN HUNS (8t. 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