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DAI OPINIONS Y TIMES-GCAZETTE EDITORIAL PAGE FEATURES THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE OSHAWA WHITBY THE OSHAWA TIMES (Established 1871) THE WHITBY GAZETTE AND CHRONICLE (Established 1863) except Sundsy published daily Oshawa, Limited, Arthur R. ) Net Paid Circulation ey sr 7,714 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1947 Excellent Fire Record The report of Fire Chief Wesley R. Elliott, which is sum- marised In an article on page one of this issue, indicates an excellent record for the past year, With 328 ealls answered during the year, fire losses were held down to less than $25,000. Of this amount only $3,184 was not covered by insurance. : Of course, fire losses are not the only tests of efficiency of a local fire department. One bad fire during the year may send the losses for that year into large figures. But, it must be remembered that every large fire is always a small fire to begin with and for that reason prompt, effective action is essential in dealing with fires. Without in the least detracting from the excellent work of the fire chief and his efficient staff in their work of put- ting out fires when they occur, we believe that much progress has been made in educating the public with respect to fire prevention. Every factory worker and every householder and housewife--yes, every child--of the community should regard himself or herself as an asgistant to the fire depart- ment. The elimination of fire hazards of all sorts, care in the handling of matches, cigarettes and explosives, will go a long ways toward preventing fires from getting started. The fire department is doing a good job in making numer- ous inspections and the public should be quick to respond to every suggestion for the improvement of their premises with a view to eliminating fire hazards, Prestige Lost Forever Evidence being adduced at the trials of members of the medical profession in Germany indicate beyond a shadow of a doubt that the charges of maltreatment and absolute sadism are well founded. It is to be hoped that the doctors who butchered millions of helpless victims of Nazi tyranny will. be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and that sentences in keeping with the enormity of their crimes will be imposed. There was a time when' the profession throughout the world looked up to its professors and practitioners in Ger- many. Post-graduate scholarships were eagerly sought after/ while many to advance their knowledge took post- graduate courses at their own expense. The revelations of those who survived the concentration camps ends. that prestige forever, Evidence has been given of persons from conquered countries being subjected to heat and cold, pressure experi- 'ments and, even more perverted, innoculations and surgery which they, in their weakened state, could never hope to survive. Although it is not a factor or an alleviation of the crimes, the medical profession in Germany failed to make as great.a contribution 'to the advancement of science as did the members of the profession in the Allied countries. Members of the profession in Germany have dropped to the lowest depths of degradation as the result of their un- orthodox and unprincipled methods and practices. With the world facing a new era, the North American continent now stands practically alone. It is needless to say its medical men will continue to make contributions to the advancement of medical science which 'will result in the United States and Canada replacing Germany as the fountain head of this particular type of knowledge. : May Increase Pensions In the speech read to the Senate and the House of Commons by Governor-General Viscount Alexander last Thursday was the hint that Old Age Pensions will be up for review during the session and it is hinted that there will be an increase. To our way of thinking it is high time such acton was taken. The institution of Old Age Pension payments some years ago was an admission that Canada owes subsistence to those residents who have passed the age when they can work and who, for one reason or another, were not able to lay enough aside to take care of them in their declining If pensions are to be paid at all they should be sufficient to provide a decent standard of living. Payments up to the present have not taken into consideration the increased cost of living in recent years. These pensions should not be restricted to narrow dollar values, but should be realistic contributions on the basis of prices as they apply today. 'Member Toronto Stock Exchange 20 KING ST. EAST, TORONTO v OSHAWA BRANCH: 37 KING ST. EAST -- PHONE 2600 ERIC R. HENRY, Resident Partner DIRECT PRIVATE WIRE TO TORONTO BIGGAR & CRAWFORD ® 20 Years Ago Mayor R. D, Preston called a special meeting of City Council to consider action in view of an an- nounced domestic Hydro rates for Oshawa. "We are prepared to fight it to the finish," declared Preston. Mayor At a meeting of the Oshawa Young People's place was suddenly enveloped in flames, |W. E, N. Sinclair, KC, MPP, left to attend the opening of the provincial legislature, His office was left in charge of J. C. Aader- son, who had joined Mr, Sinclair the August, Ratepayers of Westmount elected a committee to approach City Coun- cil concerning the question of West- mount's annexation by the city. C. T. Barnes and John Ross were the members of the committee. o Other Editors WHERE HOCKEY TALENT DEVELOPS , (Port Arthur News-Chronicle) An American authority says Unit- ed States may Joplace Canada as a producer of hockey talent, Not un- til they have weather that makes the outdoor, corner lot and back yard rinks, They've got to start when they are young and they don't do that in the pay palaces. WHAT CAN BE DONE BY RELAXING (Royal Bank Bulletin) It is amazing what can be done by just relaxing. It may not be ne- cessary to take a long sea voyage; all a man may need is to slacken his pace at periods during the day, loosen his necktie and shoe strings, put his feet up on his desk or an- other chair, gnd let the world roll by for two or three minutes without worrying about it. It has been found that a good proportion of persons who suffered heart attacks of the most severe nature, and ad- opted right measures of living, are still alive and enjoying life "ten or more years later. e A Bit of Verse THE BONES IN THE HUMAN BODY From the Irish Ambulance Gazette, Dublin How many bones in the human face? Fourteen when they are all in place. How many bones in the human head? Ligh, my friend, as I have said. How many bones in the human ear? Three in each and they help to hear, bones in the the human How many bones in th In each are one: two in each fore- arm. How many bones in the human wrist? Eight 4n each If none are missed How many bones in the palm of the hand? Five in each with many a band. How many bones in the fingers' end? TWonz-sight, and by Joints they How many bones in the human hip? One in each, like a dish they lle. How many bones in the human knees? One in each, the knee-pan please. How many bones in the leg from, the knees? Two in each we can plainly see, How many bones in the ankle strong? Seven in each, but none are long. How pally bones in the ball of the Pive in each like the palms are put, How many bones in the toes--half a score Twenty-eight and there are no more. ~--Anonymous. e A Bible Thought "If you cannot be a lighthouse, be a candle,"--Dwight L. Moody. "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is In Heaven." (Matt. 5:16). THE MARK OF DEPENDABILITY CANADIAN GENERAL ELECTRIC 7 "Prelude Moscow' e Readers' Views RELATION OF WAGES TO PRICES Editor, Times-Gazette, Dear Bir: In your editorial on Wednesday, Jan, 29, you state that Mr. Conroy has made a mistake in condemning the lifting of the price control by the federal government, and further in fewer words, you also state that an increase in wages must neces- sarily mean an increase in prices. This assertion that the workers are the cause of high prices is false and your economic study of the situation places you in line with Mr, Gordon and Mr. Mitchell when they fought against increased wages in last year's wage struggle. Shoe workers in Quebec are among the lowest paid workers in Canadian industry; some of these workers receive as low as twelve dollars per week. But the shoes produced by these workers sell in retail stores in competition with union made shoes on the basis of style, quality and demand, not on the basis of what wages were paid to the workers that produced them. This example can be used generally throughout Canadian industry, Further 'in your editorial you write that "Jf Mr. Conroy wants to do labor a real service and to maintain the wage gains which labor has made, he should not argue against price adjustments which wage increases have made necessary." Even before the workers received their wage increases last year, the manufacturers had already received price increases, This was evident when Mr, Mitchell, speaking in Parliament on the BStelco strike, stated that the increase given the Steel Company of Canada before the strike was to allow them to give the workers a ten cent an hour increase. The amount authorized to Stelco as an increase on steel was considerably more than the steel workers were asking in wage increases. On January the copper in- dustry was granted an increase of five cents per pound, which will mean an extra few million to the mining magnates, including Nor- anda, On Jan, 23 the workers of Noranda who are on strike for a ? . | sixteen cent wage increase were attacked with tear gas by Provin- cial Police, Where, Mr. Editor, is the relationship between the wages and the price increase granted Noranda? Supply and demand play the major role in the cost of a pro- duct. Our wives run into ex- amples in the stores every day. With the ceiling price on an article it can't be found on the grocers shelf; immediately the ceiling is lifted, the shelves are full and in class | among producing. In t! report of the UAW, (C10, it was reported that seventy per cemt, the capital in the United States is controlled by less than ten per cent. of the people and depression is pre- dicted, a depression that will under, being tied so closely to American economy. Further, on the question of auto- mobile profits, I quote figures from the Research Bulletin of the U.AW.: 1041 1047 Wholesale Price Per Car .... $707.00 $1,020.00 Material Cost ...., 308.00 388.00 Labor Cost ., 186.00 245.00 Other Cost 93.00 117.00 Profit per Car ... $120.00 $270.00 In closing, I feel in the interest of Labor that this letter should be published. WILLIAM RUTHERFORD. 04 Olive Avenue, Oshawa, Jan, 31, 1047, Outfitters Open Northern Meet Sudbury, Feb, 4--(CP)--Near- ly 400 delegates were on hand for the opening today of the North- ern Ontario Outfitters' Associa- tion convention, and hundreds more were arriving to join them in celebrations at Sudbury's win. ter carnival opening Wednesday, Mayor W, 8, Beaton will wel- come the Association delegates and one of the speakers will be G. A. Welsh, Ontario Minister of Travel and Publicity, The ques- tion of zoning will bulk large in their discussions, some delegates feeling that where a camp is lo- cated on a lake large enough for only one outfit, other camps should not be granted licences in the locality. Provincial govern- ment department officials were here to help thresh out the prob. lem, Fishing limits and fishing 1. cences are also up for study, Reso lutons drawn up by the ¢onven- tion will be presented later to the Ontario Legislature's Fish and Game Committee. 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The South CHILE'S AREA American Chile has an area of 206, On The 1.Q., Down | Grade London, Feb, 4--(OP)--In the next B50 years, Britain faces the prospect of a serious lowering in general intelligence, says 8ir Cyril Burt, professor of chology at University College, on, His t, set forth in a re- entitled "Intelligence and Fer- ility", is that general ability "ap- pears to be largely inheritable and innate . , , the average] innate, fertility of the less intelli- gent must raise a serious social "The conclusion to be stressed . . . is not so much that the smaller, well-to-do or professional classes are producing few children, but that, the far more numerous working classes it is still the most intelligent families who contribute fewest to the next generation." Sir Cyril admitted that his find- that further large-scale studies be conducted since "as a nation we should know our resourcés in mind- power as accurately as we do in manpower, iron or Fd Some readers thought Sir Cyril meant that large families were less intelligent ,than small ones (what he sald was that less intelligent people tended to produce larger families) and there was consider- able correspondence about it in the press. : "I suppose that when my first child, Keith, was born, the sharer- out of innate intelligence was aware how big my family would finally be, and made an allocation to Keith accordingly," said one writer in The Times. "What really puzzles me is, are my wife and I fated to fill the quiver up to the Sharer-out's re- quirements, or can we frustrate him by stopping too soon or going on too long, and, if so, what about Keith's allocation?" Bir Cyril sald his figures after years of research 'suggest a drop of nearly two 1.Q. points per genera- tion (that is, expressed in terms of mental age, about q third of one year's mental develorment)." "It will be seen that, if the rate assumed continues, then in - little over 50 years the number of pupils 'Canadian Unlisted TION. you own, market value of which developments. 'f you desire Imperial Bank Bldg, TORONTO 1, Ontario Toronto 1, Ontario, I desire to rec CATHROY LARDER are fo be mentioned in our Bulletin which will be available for distribution in a few days, ON REQUEST A COPY WILL BE FORWARDED WITHOUT OBILGA- In the list of 700 stocks may be mentioned a few which A great number of these stocks have a are dormant companies; some are under active develop- ment. 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