The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

"WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1947 ~ + - THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTEYX Writer Insists Worth Of Auto Is Overrated A great invention, the auto, and | one without which the people of North America would be totally lost, Richard J. Needham writes in The Calgary Herald. We looked up the figures the other day, and dis- covered that in the last year of re- cord, 1944, there were 1,177,558 pas- senger cars (including taxis) in Canpda; one for every 10 persons. The total number of all motor ve- hicles in Canada was 1,502,567; one for every eight persons. At any giv- en moment the entire population of Canada could be travelling on four wheels. Most Sunany after- , they apparently are. rhe same thing applies to the United States, only it wouldn't be to pack 'em in quite so tight, the last year of record, also 1044, there were 25,466,331 pas- senger cars (in-cluding taxis) in the United States; one for every five persons. The total number of all motor vehicles in the United States was 30,499,608; one for every four persons. Crowded In Russia We may note that if all the Rus- slans tried to go motoring at once, there would be 252 persons in every vehicle, which would make things rather crowded, and even if all the British tried to go riding at once, there would be 22 in every vehicle. The United States and Canada are the only countries in the world with motor vehicle space for 'the entire population. Having made this clear, we must say that we do not own, have never owned, and never intend to own a car. There are various reasons for this. One of them is that we think the automobile inefficient, Maybe we are wrong about this, how come there are so many garages around town? Another is that we think the automobile too complex; it seems to us that a man would spend a whole lifetimes learning how his car worked and how to look after it. Again, we think the automobile expensive: people are always telling us casually about the $200 repair Job they just had done, or the $2,- 500 lawsuit they settled ouf of court, or the $150 gadget they pick- ed up on that trip to Seattle. From talking to car-owners, we have come to think that automobiles de- vour dollar bills as an elephant de- vours hay. . Need Is Doubted Lastly, we do not see that auto- are necessary for people who live in cities. We either walk or ride on the street car; when in , we take a taxi. is a purely personal view- t, and a highly unpopular one. majority of Canadians HEE £58 m as eating or sleeping or smok- More essential, perhaps. Prof. Evans, now well- deserved fame for his "Natural of Nonsense," remarks in Ss: vote agains housing, national soourily, or pub- lic health and hope to keep his job, but if he opposed any measure that favors automobiles he would be out. The American citizen wild sleep in tenements, trailers, base- ments, or Quonset huts. He will eat adulterated food, wear shoddy clothes, and ache for lack of medi- cal care--beefing, to be sure, but putting up with it. But if any- thing threatened the jinggling ecs- tasy of joy-riding, he would risé in maniacal wrath." In America, says Prof. Evans, the automobile is a god, and nothing spent in its service is begrudged. It is a jealous god, though, and de- mands heavy sacrifices. It has weakened the family as a social unit; it has reduced the age of in- | nocence to "something under 10: it has littered the country with billboards: it has built up the su- bs at the expense of the ci- es, The truth of this latter state- ment may not be clear in Calgary: put it is dreadfully clear in Toronto nd Montreal. The automobile is obviously a me-saver in open country: you n travel from Red Deer to Cal- y much faster in a car than in ly other way. But it is not a me-saver in cities, particularly in g cities, We would be willing to that a man running, or even ng, town, Toronto or bntreal cou at a car with nutes to spare, of. Evans notes: "The Boston p department has found that its orized equipment can't get to 8s as fast as its horse-drawn pment did 50 years ago. If you injured in Chicago's Loop, you d be takeneto the nearest hos- in a wheelbarrow faster than n ambulance." . t the car is here, and it is here y. Bergen Evans Is a dodder- eactionary, and so is the writ- this column. The car will pph, because the car .means and power and social posi- and that is what people want. poaks in a trolley is plain Joe , but behind the wheel of a is a blissful combination of man, Casanova, and Ivan the le, Wheeee! i rican Birdmen in Toronto nto--(CP)--One of the old- ntific ons in the orid--the Ornith- nion--will hold its annua! in TorontUo this year, The founded in 1883, will con- the Royal Ontario Museum al sessions Sept. 9, 10 and test: discoveries in the world will be discussed by special. all over the United States ada. Habits, behavior, struc, ter-relationships, popula- servation, are subjects to ved. Birds in action and in , presented through the of motion pictures, will pe Ogram. eting of tile Americah Or ts' Union in Toronto is idence that this region ¢ 0 | are used. e an important centre for Late Sown Spring Crops Spring seeding in Ontario com- on the average around the little grain was sown before May th. Cold weather and wet land caused the delay. Many farmers have not been able to get in as mences es of April, but this year very large an acreage of oats, barley or | mixed g rain as they had planned for, and experience has shown that spring grain sown after May 24th is likely to give a low yield of light grain unless the season is excep- tionally "favorable. However, there are other good grain crops that can be sown during the latter part of May or early June with excellent chances of success, says Prof. Jas, Laughland, Field Husbandry De- partment, Ontario Agriculture Col- ege. One of these is grain corn. They are suitable strains for many parts of Ontario, and the only thing that is holdirfeit back is the question of harvesting where .nfechanical pickers are not available, I would recommend a few acres of corn for grain on the average stock farm in Central and Southern Ontario, even if the husking has to be done by hand, Harvesting comes at a time when other field work is pret- ty well over. Forty to fifty bush- els per acre of shelled corn can reasonably be expected, and in some of the corn contests yields of sixty to seventy bushels have been obtained. Low Moisture Content Desirable In growing grain gorn one of the most. important conBiderations is the selection of an early maturing | variety or hybrid. Even if there has to be a little sacrifice in yield it is desirable to grow corn that will have a low percentage of mois- ture at harvest time, so that it can be stored without going moul- dy. A list of good varieties will be found in the pamphlet "Guide to Crop - Production in Ontario," which may be obtained from the office 'of the county agricultural representative. Grain corn should be thinned to three stocks per hill, or, if it is in rows, the stalks should be at least a foot apart. For spring sown grains and corn the addition of a fertilizer em- phazing phosphorus, and with a medium supply of nitrogen and potash, should hasten growth and promote maturity, These are im- portant points this lite spring. Wé would suggest 200 to 300 pounds of 2-12-6 or 2-16-86 per acre. . . The soybean is another crop tha could still be sown with good pros pects for success if early varieties So! are required for the oil they contain, and if more of them were grown there would be more soybean oilmeal, which is a valuable concentrate in feeding rations. Soybeans 50 be chopped with other grain and fed on the farm to cattle and sheep. They should not be used for fattening hogs. Almost any of the medium maturing varieties could be grown in the south-west- ern counties, but for the central part of Ontario only early kinds should be used. Mandarin is probably the most readily obtain ed. Capital and Goldsoy would al- 50 be suitable if seed is-available. Around forty pounds of seed is re- quired to sow an acre, and it should be sown in rows 28 inches apart. Harrowing the crop after it is well up will help to control The combine makes the most tory job of harvesting so A mixture of buckwheat and bar- ley sown before - the end of May should give fair returns, or buck- wheat may be sown alone until June 15th. An experiment con- ducted at Guelph where a mixture of three pecks of buckwheat and three pecks of barley was sown, prodyced over 1500 pounds of grain per acre in some of the years during which the test was run. A strong strawed variety of barley like Barboff would help to keep the buckwheat up, Millet is another crop that can be sown in June and under fav- ourable conditions will yield from thirty to thirty-five bushels per acre. It has a feeding value about equal to barley, but should always be fed in conjunction with other cereals. The Proso type is best for grain, and Crown is one of the highest yielding varieties of this . If it cannot be obtained Si- berian may be substituted. eyo ilgly Emntial 8 supply roughage for winter is important and some isfac- of twenty-five pounds per sown on warm, well drained the early part of June, good hay. It should be in full bloom. If not re- hay it can be pastured reached 1-1% feet in 2222F} LEP he E I's Blossom Time In Niagara 7 they stroll through blooming orchards in the Niagara peninsula. fry Bgl el will near the peak of their annual splendor LASS The age-old battle of the "outs" against the "ins" is depicted in Mel- ©, not without the , in a miner key. "Caesar" came, saw and conquered, but aid and abbetance of Mrs. Ralph Simmons, who happens to be the grandmother of the little. loud-voiced dissenter. She thought that it would be well if little. Bobby walked home from the beach as the exercise would do him good. Caesar thereupon with smug satisfaction took his throne in Bobby's carriage. Later the squall blew over and three way forgiveness put life on a more placid base, height. Cattle should not be put on frozen Sudan Grass. e t sown at the rate of twenty + per acre will produce a large amount of hay which"can be fed to advantage along with hay of the higher qual- ity grasses and clovers. Sorghum can be sown later than corn and used as a green sup- plementary feed in early fall, or it may be stooked and dried for feeding in late fall to save some of the regular hay crop. Enough corn for fodder should be planted to make sure that.the last inch of the silo will be filled. A patch of rape or Marrowstem Eale sown in July will provide fall pasture for sheep and young cattle. Anything that can be done to pro- vide additional summer and fall pasture may make it' possible to save more of the aftermath from the regular 'meadows for next win- ter'; hay, and no farmer wants to lng his mows empty 'before spring ves, NEW FUEL-SAVER New Delhi--(CP)--A member of the all-India planning committee has disclosed that he recently in- vented a new oven which would cut down domestic consumption of soft coke and coal by about 50 per cent. STARTED IN GREECE Matilematios originated'in Greece Nith e school 'of Thales about 600 ENJOY ECONOMY AND Here's streamlined permanent beauty--more light per room --and a cut in cosis for builders and home-owners. Sterling Aluminum Windows are complete "sprin, units, ready for Ld Lh installation except for glazing. Aluminum Windows are impervious to weather, cannot warp, shrink or swell. No painting or other maintenance expense, Get them at all and PPL Made in Canada by THE ALUMINUM WINDOW COMPANY im. 20 VINCENT STREET TORONTO ldo ® Wearngp no¥t Recover Loot From B.C. Bank Vancouver, May 28---(CP) Police announced last night that they had recovered 'most' of the $5,129 stolen {in a daring daylight holdup of the Grand- view district branch of the Bank of Nova Scotia here last Monday. Suspect, jdentified by police as Clifford Service LaPierre, was arrested. preceding the Second World War, Canada did not produce a single sea-going mer- chant ship, L% Ask Right To Prosecute Builders Toronto, May 28--(CP)--The Amalgamated Building Construc- tion Workers Union (CCL) whose 350 Toronto construction workers are striking for a $1-an-. hour minimum wage, will apply to the Ontario Labor Relations Board today for leave to prose- cute the Toronto Builders' Ex- change, union director David Dickson said last night. The wor- kers want a 26-cent increase. The union claims the Builders' Exchange has violated labor re- gulations by interfering with a trade union through its assist- ance to the rival A.F.L. building union, Mr, Dickson added that H. C. Nicholls, chairman of change, will not bargain with a C.C.L, union and is helping the A.F.L, to organize in the fiell, Old Survey Shows Huge Coal Field Vancouver-- (CP) . M. Aiml- tage-moore believes t in the Groundhog in the north central in- terior, British Columbia had "one of the richest and largest coal fields in the world." She owns the only known plans of the Groundhog deposits and also | samples of anthracite taken from the "field 150 miles north of Hagzel- ton. The is shining, clean and hard, alfhough taken from the ter- rain 37 ago by her father, the late Campbell-Johnson. H. G. Archibald, (C.C.F.--Skeena) recently made public a letter from Mines Minister Glen stating "the area clearly warrants further atten. tion, but we lack base maps." Mrs. Armitage-Moore hag the base maps made by her father from 1909-11, "There is gold, gelina, hematite, oil and coal there," she said in an interview, reading from her father's reports. "The coal extends over 2,000 square miles. There is the larg- est untouched stand of timber in Canada--and the biggest stretch of frruce." Transportation probletts have prevented opening up the rich area to date and numerous private hold- ings have reverted to the govern- ment, MINIATURE MOTORCYCLE London--(COP)--A miniature mo- toreycle, designed for paratroops and dropped with them at Arnhem, now is being built for export. w x x x WINNIPEG REGINA 7 PASSENGER * X ¥ ¥ X X ¥ ¥ X ¥ ¥ X ¥ ¥ x x * x * FLY WEST CONVENIENT DAILY FLIGHTS 10 CALGARY EDMONTON OR 'YOUR TRAVEL AGENT AIR MAIL «. TRANS -CANADA A fovea. "TRANSCONTINENTAL eo INTERNATIONAL e TRANS-OCEAN ¥* x x 4, x VANCOUVER ¥X ¥ ¥% ¥ ¥ x ¥ x ALSO TO VICTORIA AND SEATTLE ALL FLIGHTS OPERATED ON STANDARD TIME ADELAIDE 5231 TORONTO ¥ Xx x ToL 18 AIR EXPRESS » vir ¥ x the ex- | R.C. Church With Indians Ottawa, May 28--(CP)--The Ro- man Catholic Church, in a brief placed before the joint Parliamen- tary committee on Indian Affairs, today called fo» Government as- sistance in promoting the develop- ment of Indian co-operatives, Headed by James Cardinal Mc- Guigan, Archbishop. of Toronto, and ,. Alexandre Vachon, Archbishop of Ottawa, a large delegation fr the church said the three co-oj tives now in op- eration under missionary guid- ance had done "a great deal to in- spire Indians with a sense of re- sponsibility of ownership, of man- agement which it is difficult to ap- preciate unless one knew the con- ditions that existed on each of these three reserves before the es- They were located Vancouver Island, B.C., Grayson, Sask.,, and Grouard, Alta. The brief called for: . 1, Continuance of denoniina- tional schools and sections of thea Indian Act providing that Protes- tant children shall not attend Ca- tholic schools and Catholic child- ren shall not attend Protestant schools. 2. Additional funds for increas- ed accommodation and moderniza- tion of both residential and day schools. 3. Provision of special schools for girls from 16 to 18 years of age who have previously attended resi- dential or day schools. 4. The right to Catholic hospi- tal .care for the Catholic Indian population, 5. An intensified housing pro- gram on Indian reserves. 6. Honoring "to the fullest poss- ible extent" of Indian treaties. 7. Extension to Indians of old age pension legislation. 8. Selection of Indian agents and farm instructors on a provin- cial or, if necessary, national bas- is rather than from the electoral district in which the agency is lo- cated. 9. Royal Canadian Mounted Police protection for larger reser- vations, 10. Continuance of the reserve system, Practical vocational training for Indian children and initiation of a follow-up post-schcol program. 12. Continuation of Indians' ex- emption from real estate taxation. 13. Extension of Indian fur con- servation programs. 14. Re-establishment of the Ine dian Department (absorbed by the Mines and Resources Department in 1936) with a separate minister and deputy. . ALL CAN UNDERSTAND Castle Bromwich, Birmingham, England--(CP)--Visitors to the British Industries Fair will suffer no handicap in their inability to! speak English, Fourteen interpre- ! ters, able to speak 26 different lan- guages are standing by. New Livestock Policies Stated NN ---- Toronto, May 28--(OPy -- Three new livestock policies directed to- ward improvement of swine and beef cattle by means of direct gov- ernment assistance were announced a} t Agriculture Minister T . . 'The demonstration hog production policy involves selection of one or more commercial hg raisers in each county who must maintain between threé¢ and eight sows and produce hogs at all seasons under govern- ment inspection and a grant of $50 per sow, { Under the bacon hog club policy boars will be rented to clubs organ- ized for benefit of the community gible for grants on more than one bull in any thiee y: Billie Holiday Gets Year Term drugs and was sentenced to a year and a day in a federal reformatory for women. THE FAMOUS FOUR quayry FINISHES 4 P INTERNATIONA, 7 For HOME p24 o THe RNISH company BEAUTY INSIDE AND yy pastel s work. Hard like china. the oil paint for color charm in ades for walls and wood- -wearing, washes give natural for 'a glass-like clear finish to and added lustre, D beauty protection a quick-dr enamel of ying, high gloss 'one coat magic". It goes one-third farther. the sun. high quality house paint beau i+ ~ and toughness to duel wit 13.47 J. NELSON PAINT & WALLPAPE 14 BOND ST. WEST PHONE 841 D g 7 Z / a Lot about Risks {* "Sooner or later I'd have learned how uncertain life can be, but the war sure speeded up the process. For the rest of my days I intend to be prepared for risks and uncertainties. Ibuy life insurance for that purpese. *It guards my wife, if anything happens to me. It guards the children until they get their education. It guards mein case of lengthy disability and it will guard me when I retire. In fact, every way I look and at all times I can see my policies like soldiers on guard--pro- tecting me and mine, That's why I'm not worrying about risks and uncertainties." The London Life representative can bring to your problems the experience gained in planning security _ risks of life, for young people facing the Insurance Company otead Office - London, Canada District Office -- Alger Bldg., King St. E., Oshawa