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a _ |. months of the year. OPINIONS THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETT WHITBY Oghays THE OSHAWA TIMES (Established 1871) THE WHITBY GAZETTE AND CHRONICLE (Established 1863) y i epend: newspa) published daily except Sunday by e es pin on 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 Dally Newspapers Association, the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association, and the Audit Bureau of Circulations, Authorized as Second Class Matter, Post Office Department, Ottawa, Canada. . a jo klin, Port Perry, Ajax in Oshawa, y, Brooklin, A Deliyoios w 24c per week, $12.00 per year. By mail, outside carrier delivery areas, anywhere in Canada and England $7.00 per year, $3.60 for 6 months, $2.00 for 3 months. U.S. subscriptions $9.00 per year. - Net Paid Circulation Average Per Issue 7 . 6 3 5 JUNE, 1947 SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1947 Elizabeth's Betrothal The formal announcement by King George VI that his elder daughter, Princess Elizabeth, is to marry Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten is being received with approbation throughout the empire and by the peoples of lands friendly to Britain. The announcement came as a highly satisfactory conclusion to rumors which have been current for some months. Princess Elizabeth is loved throughout the Empire. Her birth, education and activities have been followed with interest, and through her broadcasts to her people overseas she has become almost a member of thousands of families. Lieut. Mountbatten is not so well known. He is English and his uncle is a great commander and a diplomat. He himself had a distinguished war record. He comes of a noble family and has renounced his foreign titles. More than that he is young and he is handsome. The people of Britain and of the British Commonwealth will learn with deeply sincere pleasure that the course of royal romance has run smoothly for the future Queen of England and her betrothed. Behind the official expressions of good wishes which will go to Britain are the hearty good wishes of millions of people throughout the British Common- wealth of Nations. Children Visit Britain Despite the hardships they have been called upon to endure during the war years and the serious shortage of food which still confronts families in the British Isles, a large number have volunteered to open their homes this summer to children from war-devastated countries in Europe. Since 1942, 15,000 private families have given temporary homes to young Europeans in an attempt to provide a few months' relief from the miserable conditions of their homes in countries that were occupied by the Nazis. In selecting suitable homes for the children the com- mittee writes to the mayor of a given town in Britain asking whether the community would be-interested in offering hos- pitality. If the reply is affirmative, the mayor sets up a committee (of which there are now 200) of local citizens whose duty it is to select those homes which are most suitable, and to be responsible for the children while they are in residence. The children are divided into groups of 10; an adult accompanies each group from its own country, and keeps her charges under benevolent supervision throughout their stay. In general, the children visit pros- perous working people, the local committee doing what it can to see that a child is received at a home fairly similar to that from which it came. Strictly rationed though Britain is, her fare is abundant by standards in the homes of many of these young war vic- tims. A month in the quarantine camp and two months with a family in Britain have, in the past few years, meant much to thousands of young Europeans. Nor have the benefits been one-sided. The hosts have become quickly attached to their guests, and firm friendships have sprung up during the visits. The children to be brought this summer have already | been selected, and so many homes have offered to receive them that a welcome is assured as soon as sufficient funds | are available to finance the quarantine period. July, Holiday Month og y Characterized by its sunny skies and hot weather, the month of July is looked upon as one of the ideal holiday Writing in The New York Times, a columnist describes the rural scene at this time in words which reveal his close observation of nature. He says' "July is the heart of summer. The monotone of the mowing machine comes from meadows and upland fields. Nostril-tingling fragrance of wilting hay floats in soft air. Heaping loads of cured timothy, alfalfa and clover are stored -on scaffolds beneath barn roofs. Corn is better than knee- high, and when west winds move across the long lines silver- gray ripples make a moving picture. : : "Gone now is the morning symphony of bird music, but through the days' hot hours song sparrows toss cheerful medleys from fence posts and woodshed roofs. Bob-whites call their names from slough spots and catbirds complain querutously from the tangle of blackberry vines behind the garden. "Rambling roses paint a border above worn granite doorsteps. Sweet Williams and red geraniums are patches of color beneath kitchen windows. Hardhack lifts purple- red spires on stiff stems around gray boulders on upland hillsides. Pink pasture roses trail among the rocks and hold fragile loveliness to the sun. Highbush cranberries are covered with small. green fruits, and chokecherries are showing the first tinges of purple. Spreading 'clumps of prickly junipers are dotted with gray-blue berries. Dusk comes on padded feet at the end of day. This is the heart | of summer." By HAROLD DINGMAN Ott dent Ottawa, July 12--A little more than four hours after the "secret" session of Parliament adjourned, the first cables reporting what transpired inside that meeting were sent to Moscow. They were sent there by my good friend Si- mon Shcherbatykh of Tass, the Russian news agency. Simor sits one desk removed from me in the Press Gallery. His is quiet, a friendly man who works hard and thinks well of Canada. Before he was a newspaperman he was a lawyer in Moscow and is far removed from the customary public conception of a "Communist agent" operating secretly for his own coun- try; or the harsh caricatures drawn by anti-Russians. The cables he sent were merely the reports carried in the news columns of the Ottawa papers, but the Canadian government has itself to blame if Moscow radio uses them for the basis of anti-Cana- dian propaganda. Mr. St. Laurent said that the newspapers over-rat- ed the importance of this secret session, but he ought to know more than anyone else that as soon as a public body starts meeting behind closed doors that deep suspicion will attach, to it. He ought to know that no "secret" session remains secret for long. Oniy 37 minutes after the session opened the first report of what was being said behind those closed doors was laid down by wire on the news desk of the Toronto Daily Star. That's how secret it was. Subsequently there were fresh stor- ies for each addition until the fin- al paper was put to bed. That night a roundup story was filed giving more complete details. This was good, fast handling of a hot story and any news editor would be glad to get it. It was far better service than any newspapers get on an ordinary session of Par- liament. Last Tuesday, when the doors were closed, I predicted that 20 minutes after they .opened the secret would be known, Well, I was wrong. Details of the secret discussions came out of the meet- ing only 25 minutes after it started and a full hour and a half before it finished. Last Tuesday I pre- dicted Moscow would have the news that night. Wrong again, Moscow had the news by 6 o'clock in the evening. True enough, as soon as the sec- ret meeting was over there was a press conference at which some in- formation was given out. Joe Bra- dette, the chairman of the Exter- nal Affairs Committee, and Mike Pearson, the undersecretary, came upstairs to the Press Gallery and gave a little talk. Joe explained that he had invited Mike to give a frank talk on the world's problems. Previously, in the House, Joe said the idea for the session was Mike's. For my money, Mike Pearson is the best brain in Ottawa today, but when a committee of the House asks him to talk, he has no choice. He has no chojce even if he knows that what he says will serve no good purpose. Here is what the Toronto Star reporter said in his overnight story: "The picture of Soviet Russia, drained of its strength by its im- mense war effort and unable to en- gage in any major war until 1959 mentarians, placed there yester- day at a secret session of the Joint Committee on External Af- fairs." Two paragraphs later the report said North America would be subjected . to projectile attacks only. That was cabled to Moscow. That isn't what Mike told the press conference--it's what he said at the "secret" meeting. The net result of that session of Canada's politic- ians was this: More needless hos- tile feeling in Russia for Canada. On the subject of secrecy the words of Dr, Victor Hoo , assistant secretary general of UNO, are apt. Said he to Gordon Graydon a year or so ag: If you want to keep a secret, tell it to a public meeting and no one will suspect its importance. If you tell it in a private meeting the secret is known as soon as the meeting is over, But if you tell a secret at a secret meeting it is known before the meeting starts. ® 50 Years Ago Evergreen-bedecked streets greet- ed the long lines of children as they marched to Prospect Park in Oshawa's Jubilee celebration. The parade was headed by Capt. Grier- son and the 34th Battalion Band. At the park, W. R. Riddell, of To- ronto, spoke about Queen Victoria as "the greatest monarch of the greatest empire." John A, Thomson's storefront de- corations for Jubilee day received high praise with The Vindicator calling them "the most attractive pieces of decorative work along the street." F. A. Guy escaped serious injury when he was thrown from his bug- gy on Simcoe Street North after the front*wheel had rolled off. A fine organ recital was given by Messrs Geiger and Punshon in a special room at the R. S. Williams and Sons Co. building. Mrs. William Angel, who had been confined to bed for six weeks with typhoid fever, was reported "able to be about again." Messers Crews and Webster were busy with a prize list for the sec- ond annual picnic of McLaughlin Carriage Works, employees, schedul- to to be held at the lake. COWS AND MUSIC (St. Thomas Times-Journal) New Zealand dairy cows, under test, produce more milk when crooner-type music is being play- ed. Classical music makes them fidget and cuts their milk produc- tion. That statement will bring varied comment from people, ac- cording to their tastes in music. RESULTS ASSURED (St. Thomas Times-Journal) No one can dispute the wisdom of Mexico's reforestation policy which is to plant ten trees for each one cut down. That should ulti- mately produce results. ® _\ Bible Thought A missionary in India had been trying to explain the mystery of the Incarnation to a clever Hindu. As tthey walked together they be- came interested in a colony of ants, busying themselves around their ant-hill. "Suppose," sald the missionary, across to them?" After a moment's thought, the Hindu replied, "by becoming an ant, I guess." "Exactly," said the missionary. made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we hebeld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth!" is today before Canadian Parlia- (John 1:14) Barn swallows swoop and swirl, climb and dive. L withoo! At Household Finance Cor- poration, you may borrow from $20 to $1000 without endorsers or bankable security. And you may take 12 or 15 months to repay. Or even 20 or 24 months on loans of larger amounts. JUST 3 SIMPLE STEPS. :: to get the money you need. First: phone, visit or write the Household Finance office nearest your home. Second: decide how much money you . need and how you want to repay it. Third: when your application is approved, the 15 Simcoe Street South (over Kresge's) Phone Oshawa 3601 OSHAWA, ONT. Hours 9 to 5 or by appointment -- Lode: mode fo farmers and residents of nearby owns BACKED BY 69 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE money is yours, usually the same day you apply. You 'may borrow at Household Finance for almost any worthwhile purpose: To pay overdue bills Repair your property Educational expenses Purchase new equipment Doctor, dentist fees Business opportunities So, next time you needextra money, use Household's prompt, friendly money ser- vice. Phone, write or visit the Household Finance Corporation office nearest your home today. 77) HOUSEHOLD FINANC ---- Oh oraleor: of Canad -- e Readers' Views OBJECTS TO "RED" LABEL Editor Times-Gazette. Dear Sir: I strongly protest the unneighborly head-line reporting of anything tne Soviet Government does or does fiot do. Only yesterday you referred to the, Soviet people in a head line report--"Red States Boycotting Paris Talk." Are the Soviet people Reds? We know of a Red Army who by their extrem sacrifice 'substantially contribu emy--the Nazis, remember? I not, interested in Sovietism for don't know what it all is abou However I do strongly object to such unneighborly headlines report- ing of a great people. "LEST FORGET" WE Oshawa, July 11, 1047. Editor's Note: In referring to the Russian Government as a "Red" government The Times-Gazétte uses a common (and we believe quite proper) means of identification. Russia itself uses the word freely. Those nations that come under the Soviet government's domination are also quite properly classified for convenience in brief description as "Red States,"--] o Other Editors SAME WITH POLITICIANS (Winnipeg Tribune) "How far a baseball will travel depends not so much on what's in- side as the thickness of the cover." To a degree this is true also of the politician, YES, OF COURSE (Windsor Daily Star) Conductor of the Boston Sym- phony plans to make the loudest noise in America in 55 years. Pro- vided, of course, Henry Wallace is no longer around. BIG INDIAN RAILWAY (St. Thomas Times-Journal) All of the vast railway systems aren't on the continent of North America. The government-owned railway system in India has a mile- age of 41,13¢ miles and employs more than 700.000 men. e For A Laugh i Thrifty The thrifty wife had persuaded her husband to buy a small cask of beer instead of going each eve- ning to the local pub. 'When he had drunk the first glass his wife said: "Now, John, lad, you can reckon you've saved a penny." "You're right, lass," replied John. "Ill draw another one and make it twopence we've saved. At this rate I'll soon be able to buy thee a fur coat." toward the defeat of Canada's en- WHAT NEXT? bai What's e now? Lumber, nails, pl g or wiring equipment . . . the list is endless, No sooner is one problem solved than another comes along. The scarcity of materials has delayed the completion of many new Hydro projects. This, combined with a greatly increased demand, has limited the power supply. Never has Ontario used so much electricity as now . . . not even during the record-breaking war years. Anothe? half million horsepower could be utilized almost immediately, if available. Hydro plants to generate that much and more have been planned and are under construction. Some additional power will be delivered this year . . . more in 1948. But it will be 1950 before the big new Hydro plant on the Ottawa river can start to pour its 360,000 horsepower into the Hydro system. Why so long? It's because of the shortage of building supplies . . . a fre= mendous quantity of constructi terials and electrical equip t must be sought and bought to build such a plant. The Olawa [river development alone requires a concrete dam nearly half a mile long, in addition to the power house and the thousands of items of electrical equipment, small and large. Building a new power plant often creates an entirely new ity. It takes a long time... especially when materials are as scarce as they are now. Few places in the world have as much electricity available per person as Ontario has. However, it must be conserved so that new homes and industries will all receive their share . . . so that the wheels of our factories will be kept turning and maximum employment and production maintained . . . use Hydro wisely and there will be enough for all. -- "that I had a message to give to! those ants; how would I get it | "The Bible says, 'The Word was i J ¥ # KEEP YOUR CAR IN GOOD HEALTH! A car, like a human being, must be kept in good health. Regular check-ups are in order every 80 often, and special overhauling before subjection to unusual strains. 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