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OPINIONS - DAI Y TIMES-CAZETTE EDITORIAL PAGE FEATURES THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE USHAWA THE OSHAWA TIMES (Established 1871) THE WHITBY GAZETTE AND CHRONICLE 5 (Established 1863) An independent newspaper published daily except Sundsy by The 'Times Publishing Company of Oshawa, Limited, Arthur R. Alloway, President and Managing Director. COMPLETE CANADIAN PRESS LEASED WIRE SERVICE The Times-Gazette is a member of the Canadian Daily Newspapers Association, the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association, and the Audit Bureau of Circulations, Authorized as Second Class Matter, Post Office Department, Ottawa, Canada. ; ° SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin, Port Perry, Ajax or Pickering, 24c per week, $12.00 per year. By mall, outside carrier delivery areas, anywhere in Canada and England $7.00 per year, $3.50 for 6 months, $2.00 ford months. United States subscriptions $9.00 per year, : Net Paid Circulation Average Per Issue 7, a 3 OQ DECEMBER, 1946 THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1947 A Note of Progress Residents of Oshawa have every reason for satisfaction with the address delivered by Mayor F. N. 'McCallum at Monday's inaugural meeting of the City Council in which he called for the completion this year of the "very necessary improvements" already under.consideration. In his remarks Mayor McCallum made specific reference to the proposed sewage disposal plant which has been under consideration by Council during the greater part of the past year. Marked progress has been made and it would be a pity to discard the idea even though it means the expenditure of a large sum of money. The present sewage system was constructed many years ago and was designed to serve a much smaller community than the Oshawa of today. The system has been outmoded for many years. From time to time over the years thought has been given to the construction of a new unit. With the city in che best financial position in its history it would indeed be a black mark against the civic administration to discard the idea. : Arising out of the sewage disposal plan, Mayor Mc- Callum drew attention to the need for absorbing certain sections of East Whitby Township into the city. As the Mayor pointed out, this will require serious consideration. The Harmony, North Oshawa and Westmount areas will -eventually become part of the city but whether the time is now opportune is something the City Council in its wisdom must decide. : When the city takes over these areas it will have to assume the. debentures issued for construction by the school sections. In addition it would be obligated to provide ser- vices on a comparable scale with those given in the present city area which would mean another drain on the treasury. This would for instance mean an increase in the personnel of the police and fire departments and Board of Works as well as the provision of decentralized accommodation for both police and fire departments. Accident Toll Rising Figures reported by the Industrial Accident Prevention Association covering accidents and Workmen's Compensa- tion paid out during the past two years gives food for thought. During 1945 there were 118,220 accidents, of which 467 were fatal, as compared with 138,570 accidents, of which 435 were fatal, during 1946. This is an increase of more than 20,000. During the war there was a tendency to excuse accidents on the grounds of inexperienced help and the lack of time to provide them with adequate safety training. That is not the situation today. The I.A.P.A. points out that the above figures are not a true comparison due to the extended coverage made by the Workmen's Compensation Board in 1946. However, when it is brought home that in 1946 awards for compensation and medical aid were $16,502,023.89, as against $13,135,938.38 in 1945, it is evident that Workmen's Compensation costs have become an important item in our industrial economy. Teachers' Salaries At a recent meeting of the Whitby Town Council one of the members suggested that the aims of education would be better served if the calibre of the teachers was improved rather than trying to improve the standards of education by the construction of modern schools. While there is some reasonable ground for the state- ment, we believe that the salient factor is the scale of salaries paid to teachers by many municipalities. During the war years many teachers deserted their profession for more lucrative jobs in industry. Today they are hesitant about returning to their former positions and this has resulted in a continuance of the shortage of teachers. The executive of the Ontario Teachers' Federation re- cently drew attention to the fact that this year there were nearly 1,000 persons without training or required academic qualifications teaching in the schools on letters of permit and that the Minister of Education has just announced that in order to try to meet the shortage in personnel, which is expected again next year, Normal School requirements will be lowered and "permit" teachers will be allowed to attend special summer courses to obtain teaching certificates. This cannot but have a detrimental effect upon the educational standards of the province. : The Federation submits, and we agree, that the con- tinued shortage of teachers can be met only by the payment to teachers of salaries comparable to those paid in industry and in the other professions. Until salaries compare with those of industry, the teaching profession cannot hope to attract or retain sufficient qualified personne! to maintain our standa ds of education. . OUR CAPITAL CORRESPONDENT Written Expressly for The Oshawa Ti and T Courler-Advocate By M. L. SCHWARTZ Ottawa, Jan, 14--With the new session opening Jan, 30 ia Ottawa, taxes seem to be the outstanding topic of conversation 'wherever legislators meet here, though other topics are also mentioned such as controls, housing, ete. Apparently, straws in the wind along Parliament Hill show that the lowering of taxes for private individuals as well as corporations is in the making, However, Do- minion-Provincial relationships on taxes are now whispered about in ever-increasing tones, particu- larly as seen here in this capital where there {is more optimism about such relationships being smoothed out than it is possible to detect in various provincial capitals, For instance, much has been said about the tax on elec- tricity which yields to the Domin- ion Government about $5,000,000 and which some provinces have urged that the central govern- ment should give up, the point be- ing that it would not mean much to the Dominion Government to give this up so that some prov- inces may establish their own in- creased revenues from this source. Another example was the gasoline tax which amounts to 3 cents a gallon for the Dominion Government and which provincial authorities have urged that the central authorities should surren- der, this tax being given up by the Dominion Government next April 1 and involving a loss of $30,000,000 in revenue. It was a wartime creation and it will now enable provinces to finance the construction and mainten- ance of highways. LE A Charging that governmental regulations have made it most difficult for private enterprise to construct houses and this in turn has created an inflated condition in housing values that will upset living conditions for some time, William J. LeClair secretary-man. ager, Canadian Lumbermen's As- sociation, has declared in Ottawa that the "little man" across Can- ada who builds a house, even though it may be only a shack, is doing the most to solve the housing shortage. "No contractor in Canada today is buying lumber at ceiling prices," he said, "Why carry on this farce?" LR Canada's Minister of Labour, Hon. Humphrey Mitchell, has stressed in Ottawa that a stable price structure was a "first and foremost" necessity in this coun- try. "No industry can operate un- der a dancing price structure," he stated. "No family can get along under one." Furthermore, he de- clared that failure to produce at costs permitting mass buying could result in "catastrophe." He inserted a bright message for the people of Canada in his address by reporting that "with 45 per cent more men and women employed in Canada now than in 1939, em- ployment is at an all-time high" in this country, though he hinted that to preserve this Canada must develop her external trade, main- tain price control and retain stable labour relations, LE I. Depending on several factors, there is a possibility that Cana- dians may get more sugar in 1947, according to reports heard along Parliament Hill at the pres- ent time, but it must be indicated that this would be in line v.ith any increased allotments which the world supply would be in a posi- tion to offer Canada equally with the others. LB Ever since the United States elections had returned a large Re- publican following to the Con- gress of that country, there have been all sorts of stories in circu- lation in Ottawa about the prob- able effects of this turn of events across the international border for Canada, with one of the lat- est and most interesting for the business world being about the tariff walls that may be establish- ed by the Republicans who are traditionally known to favour such high tariffs. Rumor after rumor has claimed that, with a Republican majority in the Unit- ed States Congress now, Cana- dian-American trade relations may change and traditionally high tariff walls may be built up by them, However, inquiries amongst usually well-informed sources in Ottawa have shown that there is a belief in this capi- tal that the general attitude of the Republican party in the Unit. ed States towards Canada-United States tariff walls may have changed considerably during the last few years so that it may not involve the changes suggested in some quarters. Indeed, it is held in some circles in Ottawa that during the past several years even the Republicans in the Unit- ed States have greatly weakened their desire to build a tariff wall of great height around their coun- try and this modification may af- fect their attitude in Canadian- American trade relations. + hd While emphsizing pressures on Canadian prices and controls by external conditions, especially in the United States, have influenced the action of the Canadian Gov- ernment in lifting price controls over many commodities and ser- vices now considered in relatively good supply, yet it is pointed out in Ottawa that this is only part of a deliberate plan designed to prevent boom or collapse of prices in this country since the still con- trolled list of commodities and ' services are largely in such things as are concerned with the basic importance in living and produc- tion costs, In short, the controls are still being retained on those things which affect the cost-of- living index "most," as calculated in Ottawa, including foods fuels, textiles: and rents. Indeed, no spectacular price in- creases wholesale decontrol action re. As Safe As Its Weakest Tire --Carmack in the Christian Science Monitor Jehovah's The following editorial is re- printed from "Le Quartier Latin", French-languag di paper at the University of Montreal. - The question of the Witnesses of Jehovah is so slippery with political reckonings and partisan manoeuvres --in Quebec everything results in politics--that the Quartier Latin would have willingly abstained from becoming involved, if a group of University students had not appear- ed at a protest meeting held on the 11th of December at the Monument Nationale. These Carabins certainly have the right to- reject or acelaim the pub- lic figures of their choice. They have not the right to involve the responsibility or the reputation of the student body; no one author- ized them to use our college yell. Our comrades of McGill, whom this group was freely going to provoke, were smart enough not to impute this action to the AGEUM (Gen- eral Students' Society of the Uni- versity of Montreal); we thank them for this courteous gesture, and we beg them to excuse the ir- responsibles who attempted to poi- son our fraternal friendship. No doubt, we shall be accused of defending the Witnesses of Jeho- vah. The untimely ardour of these fanatics has moved us little, and their noi propaganda does not are expected from this || cently announced in Ottawa and there is no intention of abandon- ing rental controls or eviction controls, though these controls will come off much later, per- haps, many months later, accord- ing to whispers heard now along Parliament Hill, if at all in 1947, Then again, many Canadians seemed to hayg, found the cost-of- living to be rising at a fairly steady pace in the past year and this is confirmed officially be- cause it has been reported in Ot- tawa that Canada's cost-of-living index increased from 20 per cent above the pre-war level to 27 per cent in last year, though there may be some consolation in the fact that this cost-of-living index in the United States rose 23 per cent last year, Another important observation noted here is that, whereas prices are not expected to be boosted in any spectacular manner now, yet there are hints that price adjust- ments upwards may be coming shortly as the Federal Govern. meént removes subsidies and costs in Canada are influenced by Ligh- er price trends in other lands, in- cluding U.S. "The unity of Canada is vital to the continued existence of Can- ada," said Prime Minister Mac- kenzie King in an Ottawa address ...""We are entering a new, scien. tific age and the peace is accel- erating from the impetus given by science during the war," declared Sir Alexander Clutterbuck, British High Commissioner in Canada... "It would be a mistake to assume everything that took place at the United Nations meeting was all rosy," remarked in a speech George J. Mcllrath, M.P., who was one of Canada's delegates to the United Nations Assembly... "The church holds in its hands the only means or hope for peace," sald Rev. Dr, G. G. D, Kilpatrick, principal of the Unite: Church Theological College, Montreal, in the course of an address in Ot- tawa ,.. "There is a def.nite psy- chological change in the status of the worker, in his outlook and un- derstanding," remarked Pat Con- roy in this capital. Mr, Conroy is secretary-treasurer of the Cana- dian Congress of Labour... "No factor is so important and yet re- ceives so little attention as the question of forest labour," declar- ed J O, Wilson in this nation's capital, with this comment of Mr. Wilson, chairman, management committee of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association causing much interest , . . "I don't agree with Viscount Montgomery that Russia was the greatest sufferer in the war," stated Rt. Rev. Mgr. William C. McGrath, missionary in China for many years. * A selection viars is going to tour Canada in order to pick Canadian air crew veterans of World War II for service in the peace-time organization of the Royal Air Force of Britain, with approximately 2,000 Canadians having applied for such a posi- tion . . . There is nothing in Ot- tawa to substantiate the rumour that the flour subsidy would be removed immediately . , , It is em- phasized in this capital that the United Xingdom is getting all the wheat which Canada can manage to send and price or anything else has nothing to do with Canada's inability' to send all the wheat that Britain would like to get, stressing that Britain is passing on wheat in efforts to feed others and this may account fc- her own shortages to some degree vise Quite an impressively large num- ber of civil servants in Ottawa are getting "hints" that they ought to look for other employment since their services may not be needed shortly . , . An informal preview took place in Ottawa of a Cana- dian exhibition to be shown at the Royal Easter Show to be held in Sydney, Australia, from March 31 to the middle of April. , , A se- cond 30-day stay in deportation proceedings against four Spanish refugees who landed at Vancouver in November has been granted by the authorities in the capital , . . According to the Department of Veterans' Affairs in Ottawa, there were some 2,000 amputation cases in World War II, while 3,500 sol- diers lost limbs in the First World War, ,, A report in Ottawa claim. ed that the Canadian Government Exhibition Commission supposed- ly displayed no salmon in samples of goods to be shown at a foreign exhibition simply because it could not find any but only a few short blocks from Parliament Hill can- ned salmon was on sale in a chain store in Ottawa! assure them of many disciples among us. But it is up to the com- petent courts to recognize the de- Witnesses famatory .and seditious character of their pamphlets, It is not up to us to anticipate the arrests of justice. It is to do them much honor to attach such importance to them; it is even to justify their religious pretensions. Do these words of Christ, in face of the antipathy of the mob and of the established authorities not apply here? "For they shall deliver you up to the councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten; and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them." The chief duty of the Christian is not the extermination of the heathen and the persecution of the heretics. These times have ended. Charity will frustrate the Wit- nesses of Jehovah rather than ex- tortion, or violence or reprisals; and it is also charity, rather than the strongest padlocks, . that will stop the communist menace. For "Cha- rity never faileth. It doth not be- have itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, re- joiceth not in iniquity, but re- joiceth in the truth. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity." At this time, when we prepare to celebrate the great ritual of Divine Charity, these words of the Apostle impose upon men of the State as upon" private citizens a serious ex- amination of their conscience. © Other Editors FAIR PRESENTATION Mr. A. R. Alloway, Times Publishing Co., Oshawa, Ont, Dear Mr. Alloway: Our annual meeting last night adopted a motion congratulating The Times - Gazette for its fair presentation of the issues in the recent municipal election, The delegates thought The Times-Gazette did a good job of informing the public and ag such deserves the support of all groups in Oshawa I wish to add my personal thanks for the facilities provided me as one of the candidates for City Council. With best wishes, Yours very truly, M. J. FENWICK Secretary-Treasurer, Oshawa & District Labor Council * > @ FAVORS ANNEXATION Editor, Times-Gazette, Dear Sir: As a resident of Westmount, I have, read with in- terest the comments of the Mayor of Oshawa with regard to exten- sion of the city's boundaries, Such a move on the part of the ctiy is of great importance to those in the. suburbs who have looked forward for years to the exten- sion of such services as would be provided if annexation is carried e A Bible Thought "What God's purpose plans, God's power performs." " . . . He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it un- til the day of Jesus Christ." (Phil, 1:6.) " Be careful] (anxious) for noth- ing." (Phil. 4:6) Worry comes through interference with the di- vine plan, out; sewage disposal and fire pro- tection being perhaps paramount. There will, no doubt, be some who will oppose joining with the city, believing that excessive taxes will be the result. No doubt, there will be increased taxes which we must expeet t. cover costs of these services, but the ad- vantages will fully compensate for any additional taxation, The time seems opportune for residents of the surburban areas to express themselves on this mat- ter to members of the Township! Council, Thanking you for the use of this space, I am, Yours very truly, W. L. PIERSON, 40 Gibbon Street, Oshawa Ontario, January 15, 1947, ® 30 Years Ago The Oshawa branch of the Red Cross reported its latest shipments of comforts for soldiers overseas. They included two bales of blankets containing 12 dressing gowns, one bale of socks and one bale of flan- nelette pyjamas. Scheduled for a Presbyterian Church concert were the noted boy elocutionist and gold medalist, Earl J. Reeve, and James Fiddes, famous tenor, Defeating P. T. Rowe by the ex- tremely slim margin of one vote; Frank L. Masor was elected Ward- en of Ontario County, After an intensive two week re- cruiting tour in the county, Cockburn, Major Patton and the 182nd Battalion band returned to town. Assisting in this thorough effort, Capt. Joe. Lawson of the 204th Battalion made some fiery recruiting speeches. Response to the campaign was reported as al- most nil among "men eligible for military service." Al] village officials except one at Newcastle resigned en masse when a bylaw cutting their salaries 25 per cent. was passed by the new village council, The lone remaining official was collector Eilbeck. --_-- eo A Bit of Verse OH CANADA, OH CANADA By A. W.E, MACK (Entered in contest conducted by Hon. Russell T.' Kelly, and favorably commented upon), Oh Canada, Oh Canada Our country which I love Oh Canada, Oh Canada A present from above, God in His mercy This land to us he gave That we may live in Happiness Until we're in the grave. 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