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Ottawa, Can. Aver NOV Net Paid Circulation | e Per Issue BER, 1947 7,915 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1947 , Planning For Leisure 'With the development of the activities of Community Recreation Associations in many towns, villages and cities in Canada, it is interesting to learn that the idea of planning for leisure time is also receiving attention in the British Isles which, often in the past, have been looked upon as ultra conservative in its outlook and ideas. According to a bulletin on Scotland, issued by the United Kingdom Information Office: "Community centres, village halls, and playing fields on a nation-wide scale are envisaged in a newl) published Scot- tish Education Department pamphlet. Present and future needs are analyzed, and a comprehensive planning guide pro- vided for interested bodies. Evidence of the interest through- out Scotland in communal activities has already been shown by the fact that at least 700 voluntary community groups are working towards the establishment of community centres or | village halls. "Much of the %ense of community, "the pamphlet re- marks, has been dying out, and it is the aim of these social centres to bring people together, and give them the emotional satisfactions of neighborliness. From this social mingling, it is believed, will arise a sénse of community, a widening of horizons, and a fuller development of personality. The pam- phlet is both practical and visionary--visionary in that it can recognize needs and possibilities beyond our day and genera- tion. "Wherever and whenever plans for social, recreational, and informal recreational facilities are being discussed," it observes, "it will be wise to remember, that practically all existing community centres and village halls have proved to be too small within a year or two of opening." "The needs of housing and school accommodation have first to be met, but it is a healthy sign that Scotland ean look ahead, and make practital plans for a future in which her citizens will lead richer and fuller lives." Weather Ships- Not so long ago one of the passenger planes flying the North Atlantic found itself in difficulties when it was too late to turn and fly back to the British Isles. Eventually the pilot brought the plane down in the ocean and its passengers and crew were picked up by a United States coastguard cutter. Thus, for the first time, the ocean weather ships made front page news in the newspapers of the world. The idea of these vessels had its origin in Montreal 13 years ago. The plan was that each nation whose plane flew the Atlantic between Iceland and the Azores should help to span the 1,800 miles of sea with a network of floating "islands" to aid fliers making the crossing with weather reports and to be ready to save life. "At an international conference held in October, 1946, eight nations took up the idea and agreed to supply weather reporting ships for 13 stations on the ocean. The U.S.A. will operate seven stations and another jointly with Canada. Britain has two 'stations, and shares another with Norway and Sweden, The others will be provided by Belgium, Holland and France. Eire and Pprtugal help with money. The service given by the weather ships will prove more and more valuable with, the passage of time. Not only will the information they radio to shore be of value to aircraft but also to shipping, while the plotting of the movement of storm centres will make it easier for weather forecasters along the seaboard to make accurate calculations. Avoiding Germs This is. the season of the year when illness is almost a calamity as it calls.a halt to the fullest participation in all | the festivities which make Christmas and New Year's the | most looked forward to holidays of the entire year. Authorities point out that it is possible to avoid the | common cold which is the most common disease during the winter months. All that is needed is the exercise of common sense and a little care. How can this be done? Use only your towel. Wash your hands before eating. Don't put your fingers in your nfouth. Don't use a common | drinking cup. Give a wide berth to careless coughers and sneezers, and be sure to use only sterilized eating utensils. NEED MUST BE SHOWN (Brantford Expositor) If a Department of National De- velopment. is really wanted, or if, say, a separate Department of Im. migration is needed, the people will - doubtless concur, but they will want the case well made out first. Their attitude is one of, "Show us." INEFFECTIVE WORDS (8t. Catharines Standard) Author Robert Stead, addressing a meeting of the Montreal Rotary Club, : "I feel especially quali. fled to deal with words, because I come from Ottawa. whers mara words ate used to less effect than | Middlesev to say if it is willing to | anywhere I know." OVER-PRODUCTION (Chicago Daily News) A tentative solution of the world problem of production is suggested in the protest of the weary hand in the Alabama explosives plant: "I don't know why Mr. Du Pont wants to make all 'this powder. Why doesn't he buy it?" 2 "UP TO MIDDLESEX (St. Thomas Times-Journal) Belmont village, sifuated partly in Elgin County and partly in Middlesex, recently voted to ask Elgin to take over the entire village. The Elgin County Council has aoraad tn do so. Now it's up to give up its portion. By HAROLD DINGMAN Ottawa Correspondent Ottawa, Dec. 23.--I have a Christ- nfas message here. It is not my own. It was written by Leslie Roberts, a dealer in words. Once I described him as a worried liberal writer although perhaps I should have said he was distressed. It is difficult to know all the things that are in a man's mind when he writes such items as the one thut appears below. You can never dot another man's i's or cross his t's. But so far as I know Roberts was always able to sit back and laugh and, occasionally, issue a defy; and there was always a mea- sure of kindness and an overflowing measure of tolerance; most of the time, anyway. This is his Christmas card: Peace, it's wonderful! Hark the herald angels shout (Just to drown Vishinsky out) "Peace to Gentile, Peace to Jew" (Echo promptly Echs: "Sez who?") Peace keeps falling, sure and certain Like a gentle iron curtain; Hits you, as you hit the deck, Where it hurts most (in the neck). | | Peace means everyone but me Is a crypto-so-and-so Peace means yelling "You're an- other!" ("Who says keeper's brother?") I'm my Sickle, Hammer, Doctrine, Plan, Stripe and Star, Commission, Ban Veto, Mandate (Say, when's Peace? Right after World War Three?) . L'ENVOI Just for Christmas '47 . Hold thine own peace, Mister Bevin. Marshall, Molotov and Bideault, Get your foot off my libido! . + . Wishing you. the hysteria. season's I have given up trying to read any profound meaning into it, but it seems to reprseent a spirit that is in many people today. Perhaps I am wrong. We are remote, living up here on Parliament Hill, although many of us profess too often to be experts of 60 dozen things. Re. mote as we are we can still feel the current and perhap one day we will feel the engufing tide. This may be illegal, reprinting Roberts' Christmas card and per- haps he will exact some tribute, in some way, for this license we have taken. Mr. Roberts, as I have said, is a distressed liberal (and with good cause), but he is also an ag- gressive one . . . and he doesn't live up here on the Hill and so perhaps he is closer to the currents. ANOTHER ONE--And . while we are at it we are going to print an- other message not ours, and it has nothing to do with Christmas. It is Jim Oastler's, who is in our judg- ment, a conténted Liberal. Jim is Snployed on a Montreal newspaper various capacities, an live on the Hill. § Ye does The night the Minister of Fi- nance announced the government's new policy toward the gold indus. try, the folks on the Hill were completely baffled. (Does anyone yet know what it means?) "I've heard something like that before," said Oastler; "but * there was a jingle to do. It went like this: "There was a mathematician named Hall "Who lived in a cylindrical b "The sum of its weight 2 | "Was seven plus eight "And two fifths of three ei that all." Wghips of eo A Bit of Versee PEACE ON EARTH Peace on erath, the bells ring clear, Drawing hearts 'at worship near; But Beihlehem's streets are dark with ear, Good will to men, the carollers raise Their voices, singing happy praise; But Asia's millions curse their days. Joy to the world, a Saviour is born, Rejoice, rejoice this Christmas morn; But Europe's children weep forlorn, And the Babe of Bethlehem we name Wanders this world of pain and shame: 'Was it for this, for this,I came?" LILLIAN COLLIER GR Mitchell, December, 1947. AY Ld WHEN WINTER COMES When we know that winter's coming With its glories so supreme, | When the cheerfulness of autumn days | departs; Then the long nights have a glamor As the social life begins, | And the cold days seem to come In fits and starts. | | | It's a highlight of the season | When the hockey has begun, And the youngsters view thelr rusted | skates with glee; Their ambition sure is boundless And there's optimism shown When each boy thinks soon a champion he'll be, . There is dancing for the young folks While the old ones reminisce, As the party season starts again its whirl; And there sure will be objections To some phases.of youth's Joy. For it's not the same since grandma was a girl! ! There'll be banquets and conventions Where old friends will meet and dine, And the latest stories should produce a smile; While the sleek, effusive person With his everlasting Will go through his old routine in| usual styls, . There'll be handshakes, intr wind Blo of gossip, too, odueuons, n e soclil functio real their stride; Ba by BY But it's only human nature And there's none of us exempt, rin | As we do the best with what the gods Drovide. --Will{ | 167 Ross. St., am McClure. Welland. | Action by Marshall Stopped Russ Attempt To Spread Propaganda By DEWITT MACKENZIE AP. Foreign Affairs Analyst Each passing day since the fail- use of the Big Four Foreign Minis- ters' conference in London it has become more and more clear that State Secretary Marshall of the United States rendered democracy a notable service by calling for ad- journment, thereby forcing accept- ance of the fact that the parley long had been dead on its feet and was merely being used as a dum=~ my for Russian propaganda pur- poses. While the conference dragged on, Moscow was getting ahead with its 'officially declared war inst the Marshall Plan, With ti meet- ing out of, the way as an acklowl- edged flop, the western allies have been able to concentrete on de- veloping their program for the re- habilitation and defence of western Europe as a counter-move against a flercely aggressive and determin- ed Communism. It's no longer the Big Four. It's the big one--Russia--versus the big three America, Britain and France. For 'the strong-arm ef- forts. of Bolshevism to secure con- trol of the Paris government have forced France to abandon her mid- dle-of-the-road course toward Mos- cow and come over completely into the -American-British camp. Meanwhile all hope of an early unification of Germany -- so im- portant to the economic recovery of Europe--must be abandoned. The indications are that America, Bri- tain and France will combine their zones of Western Germany into a politico-economic unit, while Rus- sia will continue in possession of the rich eastern Reich. The Soviet Union is going all-out to consolidate Eastern Europe ec- onomically and politically and thus create a unit which the Muscovites can use as a spear-hegd in the of- fensive to secure domination of Western Europe. In this connec- tion a European Foreign Minister yesterday told Arthur Gavshon, member of the Associated Press staff in London: : "Tightened political and econ- omic ties bewteen these Commun- ist-led countries (of Eastern Eu- rope)" will unite ' 80,000,000 to 490,- 000,000 people and in, effect will mean that a great new power has arisen in Europe." ' That may be, but we shouldn't try to put a tape-measure on this new power until we see how it de- velops. Bofore Eastern Europe can become formidable. there must be tremendous industrial expansicn. Christmas Day Marks The 70th Anniversary Of Couple At Napanee Napanee, Ont., Dec. 23.--(CP) -- On the eve of their 70th wedding anniversary, one of Canada's long- est-married couples -took time out today to offer a word of advice to young folk starting out in married life: "Consider what you are doing, work honestly together and always make your home a pleasant place." Thats the formula of Mr, and Mrs, Robert Wesley Kimmerly, who Thursday will sit down to a combined Christmas and wedding anniversary dinner for the 70th time since their wedding on Dec. 25, 18717. Both in good health and active at 91, the Kimmerlys feel that oth- er people can benefit frcm the blue- print - for marriage which has brought them seven decades of happiness since they were wed at nearby Colebrook by the Rev. W. G. Howard. Mrs. Kimmerly, formerly Ellen Jane Alkenbrack of Mcscow, Ont. and her husband vividly recall the snapping crisp buggy drive from her home to the place of their marriage. Since then they have been at home every Christmas except their 50th anniversary, when they visit- ed Mrs. Kimmerly's brother in Fort William. Through 70 years of mar- ried life they have always been to- gether for their birthdays. Congenial and energetic 'as they prepare for the event, these two natives of Lennox and Addington County proudly displayed a three- storey Christmas cake made by Mrs. Kimmerly. She is still able to do sewing and take a share of the household duties which are manag- ed principally by her nephew's wife with whom they live. The anniversary will be celebrat- ed at their home where Mrs. Kimmerly will play hostess to rela- tives in the area. Mr. Kimmerly still enjoys smok- ing his pipe and cigars. Both cast their vote in the municipal election early this month. oe 20 Years Ago Ex-Mayor G. D. Conant was ex- pected to be a candidate for City Council in 1928. He was reported ready to contest the Cedar Dale Ward following Ald. H. P. Schell's decision to withdraw from council at the end of the year. In the North-East Ward, J. T. Crawford, a General Motors employee, an- nounced he would run for office. Rev. C. W. DeMille, president of the Bay of Quinte Conference, re- signed as pastor of King Street United Church and accepted a call to Central United Church in Strat- ford. . Rebuilt after a fire had partially destroyed the church during the summer, All Saints' 'Anglican Church in Whitby was re-opened with special services conducted by Rev. Canon C. R. dePencier, rector of St. George's Anglican Church, Oshawa. A meeting of Oshawa citizens in the City Hall decided to form a local Chamber of Commerce. With Ald. D. H. J. Swanson presiding, the meeting named George W. Mec- Laughlin chairman of a 21-man committee, which was formed to work out details of the proposed organization. Vice-chairman of the committee was G. D. Conant, A rumor that Baldwin Locomo- tive Works, Philadelphia, Pa., would establish a branch plant here was squelched by the company's general manager, 8S. M, Vauclain. Mr. Vauclain in a telegram to The Oshawa Daily Times flatly denied Toronto reports of the company's future expansion plans. e A Bible Thought "There was no room for them in the iin." (Luke 2:7). Thou didst leave Thy throne and Thy kingly crown, When Thou camest to earth- for me; But in Bethlehem's home was there found no room For Thy holy nativity. Oh come to my heart, Lord Jesus There is 100m lin ny heart for Thee. E. 8. ELLIOTT. Of United Empire Loyalist stock, the couple farmed near Napanee during the earlier years of their married life and then purchased a general store at' Flinton, 40 miles north of here, wheer they lived for 35 years. During this time Mr. Kimmenly gave lengthy service in the coun- cil and in 1917 was elected Warden of the County. ° Other Editors _ QUITE DIFFERENT (Toronto Daily Star) In San Francisco a judge has (ruled that a thumb-print made with lipstick on a will has no sig- nificance. But a lip-print made with lipstick on a cheek--ah, that's different. THIS MAY END IT! (Edmonton Journal) A Harvard astronomer predicts that the universe will come apart in a few: million years. This, if nothing else, threatens to end Mr. King's premiership. --_-- COMPARISON - (Ottawa Citizen) A handful of canned goods items are back under control. The effect of this on the Great Gouge will be terrific--like calling the Fire Dept. to get a cat down out of a tree, while a 10-storey building goes up in smoke in the next block. - rr -- STRONG FOR HOSPITALS (St. Catharines Standard) Hamilton ratepayers, by three to one, approved of a $3,500,000 hos- pital expenditure. It speaks well for a community to provide gener- cus care in a matte? of this ldind and to respond to public duty so decisively. ROSY NAMES (Winnipeg Tribune) It is an old infiltration trick of the Communist party to disguise itself under rosy mames. A num- ber of cases come to mind in Win- nipeg: the Labor-Progressive party simply means Communist: domi- nated; the World Youth Festival was nothing but a meeting of sacond=generation Communists in Prague to which, the Winnipeg Communists sent a delegate. MUSIC AND MUSICIANS (Guelph Mercury) Musicians have their taste In music the same 2s one has in focds or their likes and dislikes of every- thing in the world. As soon as a numker of musicians are handed a piece to play--if the musicians like that number, they play it beauti- fully, but heaven help the piece of music that is given them to play and which they do not like. The musician must put his heart and soul into the music he draws from his instrument. If he doesn't like the composition he cannot do it. Time for 'The past few articles in this new series have shown the posi tion of farmers under constantl changing policies of the Ottawa administration, 'It has been af gued that farmers are not enjoy- ing real , prosperity under the price and cost system thrust upon them under orders and. reguls- tions promulgated largely outside of parliament ad" in some, cases in deflance of the expressed wi of parliament. Parliament - Ignored Whén parliament voted to re- 'tain milk subsidies, for instance, Prime Minister Xing permitted defiance of the people's represen- tatives. And together with Fin- ance Minister Abbott, they pro- mulgated the sweeping orders affecting the - trade and dollar crisis without any refergnce 8) parliament. Removal of ceilings on feed grain was still another Decision : BY GEORGE W. JAMES .The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, Ont. NEW SERIES, ARTICLE 8 both western and eastern produ- cers. And he predicted the ulti. mate outcome that has arisén 'in the feed grain situation. I Many Warnings ° When the trade and dollar crisis began looming up more than a year ago, many Progres. sive Conservative members in the House warned that immediata steps should be taken to protect the Canadian economy. Nothing 'was done by the government and the people were kept completely in the dark-urtil the recent new government decisions were arbi- trarily laid 'down by Mr, King and his finance minitser, Parliament Called Finally Bracken demanded that parliament be called at once to let the ef8cted members decide on the issue. Hence parliament has been called for Dec. 5, as still an- other concession to the Bracken leadership, Fortunately the farme case of rule by bureaucracy out- side the House of Commons, Farmers Protest The result has been the pres. ent threat that 25,000 farmers may go to Ottawa in angry pro- test. - Press exchanges show that! the Federatior of Agriculture and | Farm Forums unanimously c¢on- demn these in-and-out farm poli- cies laid down without reference to parliament. Hence it would appear that argument in this serles has gauged correctly the economic position of Capadian farmers under Ottawa polieies. Bracken Programme Farmers are begin. ing to see that the programme laid down by Hon. John Bracken, leader of the Progressive. Conservative Party in his Lethbridge speech three years ago, is precisely the policy farmers want. He de. manded equity for Canadian agri- culture, = expanded production, wider markets as opposed to the restrictive British Agreements and : fair share in higher prices ofthe' outside markets. Livestocls Policy" It will be recalled that Bracken won the Portage la Prairie by- election from ths Liberals on this platform. He has insisted that the U.S.A, market for Canadian beef cattle should be reopened to secure better prices in order to save the livestock 'industry for . ers of Canada plan to be in Ot. . tawa when the House meets This will further stimulate opinion in choosing between Liberals and Progressive Conservatives in the coming election. i .. For A Laugh Quite a Run Puffing and? blowing, the young man just managed to jump into a corriage as the train left the sta- tion. The middle-aged man in the cor- ner eyed him with scorn. "When I was your age, my lad" he said, "I could run half a mile, catch a train by the skin of my teeth, and yet te as fresh as & daisy." "Yes, gasped the young fellow, "but I missed this one at the last station." An Tdea He had taken a long time coming home freem work, and his wife nage ged at him for beinz late for dine ner. At last she decided to change the conversation, and sald chate tily: "I hear noor Mr. Jones has had his wife killed." "And not a bad idea, neither" replied her husband sourly. v Unchanged Within a Changing World Wh NCE again it's Christmastide, the : J old familiar Season. All through the house on Christmas Eve the well- Ly remembered chores are done anew. 1 J Cheerfully bustling about, the family creates contented chaos, for Christmas Eve without confusion would lack in geniality and warmth. There's Mother struggling with the noble turkey; she vows that next time the roasting pan will be a bigger one . : . this bird will never fit. But Mother has been 'sdying that for years. Upon the beaming face of Dad there sits a look of comical perplexity; again he has forgotten--the lights go on before the ornaments. Whirlwinds and. hurr noisily from room te room ; : icanes spin . the kids won't go to bed, Well, let them whoop it up a little longer. What's Christmas for if children can't enjoy it. Out. of it all ; ; . the mistletoe and holly, the gaily coloured wrappings, the warmly beating hearts . : . there comes again to reassure mankind a day of Faith, and Hope, and Charity -- Christmas unchanged within a changing world. Calvert Glstitlors Conace) Lonitocd AMHERSTBURG, ONTARIO