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OPINIONS DA THE DAILY TIMES.GAZETTE | OSHAWA WHITBY THE OSHAWA TIMES (Established 1871) THE WHITBY GAZETTE AND CHRONICLE (Established 1863) MEMBER OF THE CANADIAN PRESS The Oanadian Press 1s exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news despatches credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters in this paper and also the local news published therein. All rights of republicatior. of special despatches herein are also reserved, The Times-Caszette is a member of the Canadian Dally News- papers Association, the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association, and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Net Paid Circulation Average Per Issue 7 99 5 JANUARY, 1948 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1948 By asYoLp pINGMAN Ottawa Correspondent Ottawa, Feb. 9--A snarling, un- happy letter written by an English emigrant has been drawn to our at. tention, "I do not consider that Canada is a land of opportunity, as so many morons seem to think," says the Englishman. Even the weather is not British, complains this man who signs his name "Ar. thur Walker," He seems full of a sick, brooding hatred of the land. "I am an Eng- Training To Serve The world needs self-reliant young people who have a sincere regard for others, irrespective of racial origin or religious belief, said a prominent world figure recently in discussing Boy Scout and Girl Guide movements. In Oshawa on Saturday, February 14, the Scouts and Guides of Oshawa in common with some 165,000 boys and girls across Canada,' will begin an annual observance known as Boy Scout-Girl | Guide Week. They are proud members of two movements | which are training young people in self-reliance with a | respect for others regardless of racial or religious beliefs. One of the tenets of the Scout Movement is the doing of | a good deed every day. The slogan of Boy Scout and Girl | Guide Week -- "Training to Serve Canada" -- has been ex- | emplified here during the past year is indicated by the fact that the 4th and 14th Cub Packs made 200 sets of play blocks for thé children of needy families; the Scout Troops | of the city assisted the city in the collection of clothing, etc., during the Bundles for Britain drive; Cub Packs and Troops delivered pamphlets and assisted in the collection of paper during the city-wide paper collection; Scouts assisted in the | preparation of, and acted as parade marshalls for the Santa Claus parade; the 11th and 8th Starboard Sea Scouts as- sisted at the grandstand during the Kinsmen Fair and the 4th | Troop assisted the Y.W.C.A. at one of its special outdoor | functions. The growth of the Scout and Guide movements in Osh- | awa is to be seen in the fact that today there are 1,600 actjve Scouts and Guides in the city. The facilities now available, or being made available, for the carrying on of these two great enterprises are such that"an even larger enrolment is anticipated. Leaders would like to have the training pro- grams within the reach of every boy and girl in the com- | munity, Unfortunately this is not possible. One of the main | reasons is the shortage of qualified leaders. When one considers the benefits accruing from Scout and Guide training in the development of future good citizenship one wonders why anyone should hesitate to give at least a part of their spare time, A Rosy Future lishman," he writes, "and although I have not yet been in Chnada a vear I have searched every town in the continent for a suitable job. I am 33, talented and ambitious as a { writer and artist. I have a good ed- | ucation and highest qualifications. I have now run out of funds and I my future could not be blacker." The letter was written in Edmon- ton, a city booming and prospering with the development of natural | wealth, Probably no other city in Canada today is growing so fast or offers such opportunities to almost | anyone. Yet a plan to bring some 700 English people to Alberta filled Walker with deep foreboding. "I must register my protest | against the bringing of British peo- ple here when there is nothing for them but the opportunity to 'starve rand generally have a damned hard time of it," said Walker, "If they do not. starve to death they will cer- | tainly freeze to death, for the cli- | mate is anything but British, The (immigration) plan is. doomed to the same fortune which identified the Ontario plan. Most of the peo- ple brought over from Britain, you may remember, wanted to go back. Some actually did. "I do not consider that Canada is a land of opportunity, as so many morons seem to think. The only op. portunity here is the opportunity to strve in the midst of plenty." Go home, Walker. You'd make a poor citizen. any wtiere, * pb ANXIETY IN ALBERTA -- New information says the Alberta gov- ernment may call an early election, possibly this spring, in the hope of getting a snap judgment before any | more troubles are exposed to public | examination. Premier Manning may again lead the party, althougn he is ill and scheduled to retire. Some Albertans claim the Social Creditors want Manning to "front" for the party until after an elec- tion, when 'a convention could choose a new leader who would be sworn in. as premier. Under this, the people would be asked to vote for Manning, and then find some. one else as premier. The greater truth is that the So. clal Creditors have not much cause to worry about an election; at least, | just yet. There is considerable an- Glowing reports of its activities during the past year were presented at the annual meeting of the Girl Guide Association of Oshawa last week. Much of value was accom- plished and the organization looks forward with confidence to a greatly enlarged program during the years which lie ahead. While Guiding has been a vital force for the development | of citizenship and a better code of morals and ethics, its | activities in Oshawa have been handicapped to a degree by the lack of accommodation. For a time Guide Headquarters was located over a store on Simcoe Street South, but since that time groups have been meeting in widely scattered halls and churches, g The gift by Col. and Mrs. R. S. McLaughlin of the property at the corner of Oak and Simcoe Streets, means that the Guides of the city will have a modern meeting place as well as a centre where social events can be held. Exten- sive alterations are to be carried out which will result in the organization having a meeting place second to none, not only | in Oshawa but in centres of comparable size throughout the length and breadth of the Dominion. Guards' Training Course The opening in the near future of a six-week course, to be followed later by others of a like nature, for Canadian penitentiary officers is the first step toward the implement- | ing of the Archambault Commission report on prison reform in Canada. It is interesting to note that the report was presented to the government in 1938. Canadian penal institutions have been the scene of "trouble" on a number of occasions in recent years, Per- haps wisely the authorities refrained from giving out any- thing birt the bare details. However, it is logical to presume that the reason behind the disorders was the manner in which discipline was maintained. In other words it boiled down to the officers and guards in charge of the institutions. Admittedly the work in prisons ig not easy. . The time has come, however, when those to whom this work is entrusted should know all there is to know about their work. This will be the objective of the courses to he given. The course is designed to give a basic training in psychology, psychiatry and criminology, as well as something of criminal law and rehabilitation work, in short to acquaint the staffs with the reasons why the men in their charge are where they are and what might be done to reform them perma- nently, rather than punish them for past offenses, While the courses will do much to promote better con- ditions in our prisons, there is much to be said for the need of securing men suitable for the work. This will only be possible if the remuneration is such as to be attractive to the type of men most needed. A start to reform the prison system must be made on this basis rather than trying to change the ways of men who have been in the service for long periods, | next xiety in Alberta, yet they have the only solid organization in the pro- vince. Their propaganda is excel- lent for their fanatical purposes. They have discovered the use of fear. They cry out against the banks and the mortgage compan. les, saying these gianits are ready | to strangle the province. Tuey re- mind the farmers of the legislation they approved to relieve them of paying thelr debis, Nice. Who, in distress, would not vote for a gov- ernment which would wipe out | debt? The Independent Parly, they say, is financed "by the mortgage com- panies." The Liberals by "eastern interests," They cry out in alarm against the "Communist province door," Saskatchewan. They rage against and threaten "foreign" Journalists and publishers who, they claim, are intent on "smear. in" tige Province of Alberta, The Social Creditors, by pestiferous in- terpretations, have discovered how to use the federal police (the RCM P) to further their interests. If, in this mad pursuit, the honored re- putation of the RCMP is smeared and degraded, what does it matter? This is the great game of politics, Intimidation is part of it, By and by the Social Credit par- ty will be ploughed under, as was the United Farmer Party before it, and the older parties before that. | As much as any other people, the people of Alberta know what they { want, and eventually they will shake off the fanatics who rule them and the Social Creditors will become an historical curiosity, How much they | will do to Alberta before that day, | only the Social Creditors can mea. | sure. With their own political sec- urity their first consideration, the SC's don't give a tinker's dam for what the outside world thinks of Al- berta. ® For A Laugh The Truth At the breakfast table he was re. lating to his wife an incident that had occurred at the club the pre. vious night. The chairman had of- fered his bowler hat to the member who could stand up and truthfully say that during (is married life he had never kissed any woman but his wife. "And, would you believe it, Mary, no one stood up!" "George," said Mary, you stand up!" * "Well," he replied, "I was gciog jo. be I look so awful in a bowier at." . "why didn't OLD SKIPPER DIES Port Hope, Feb. 9--(CP)--Captain James H. Peacock, 94, veteran Great Lakes sailor died at his home here | ries quoted the views of Senator | clearly Saturday. Born in . Colborne, Ont. he sailed the Great Lakes for years then went into the coal busi. ness here. He retired 12 years ago. 50 | "Hard To 2 7 Put Together" --Der Sozialdemokrat (U.S. Zone, Germany) Time for BY GEORGE Decision W. JAMES The Canadian .Statesman, Bowmanville, Ont, New Series, The preceding article in this se- Arthur Roebuck, a staunch, long Liberal who warned his great friend Mackenzie King and the Ottawa Liberal hierarchy to dis- card" their policis of "bullying | trade, strangling the national econ= | omy and continuing a grievously heavy tax burden which is leading inevitably to a completely con- | trolled economy." Ex-Ministers ' Protest As former articles have shown, | much of the sharpest criticism | levelled at the Liberal government has come from such great Liberals as Hon, P. J. A, Cardin, Hon. J. L. Ralston, Hon. C. G. Power and Hon. Angus Macdonald, all of whom resigned from 'the cabinet of Prime Minister King in protest over wavering and uncertain poli- cies in wlich they refused to share. Some have been extremely bitter in their condemnation, Authoritative Evidence Hence this colump has employ- ed evidence from some of the most competent and highly inform- ed members of the inner cirele of the Liberal Party to show that the course of the government has been greatly off the beam in many directions in conducting the af- fairs of the country. Even the most | confirmed Liberal partisan cannot escape the logic of great Liberals named above, They have indicated that we have reached a Time for Decision. Outright Socialism The tenor of opinion among these former Liberal Ministers is op e 15 Years Ago City Council received two com- munications containing suggestions about relieving the unemployment situation. One letter from the Women's Industrial League advised the council to put men to work renovating the old City Hall. The other communication from the | Property Owners' Association urged council to employ men "at necessary work" rather than be forced to provide them with "direct relief." Because of a re-organization program, H, F, Wheeler resigned as manager of Ontario Shore Gas Co. Ltd. and of Canada Fuels Ltd. J. T. Milner, who preceded Mr. Wheeler, returned as acting man- ager of both companies until re- organization plans were complet- ed. Elmer Dixon remained as as- sistant manager of both companies, Past president of the Rotary Club, George Hart, introduced his son, Maurice Hart, to the members as a new Rotarian. Other new members introduced were: Fred Langmaid, Hugh Hall and. Wil- liam Clark. Board of Education approved a budget for 1933 which required a municipal levy of $174,383, a cut of more than $24,000 from the 1932 levy of $199,000. Despite a 4-2 loss to Native Sons at Maple Leaf Gardens, Oshawa | Blue Imps won the junior title by | a one-goal margin in the two- | game series. Goodchild and Maun- | drell were the Oshawa marksmen in the losing 4-2 effort. STARTS to work in 2 seconds LOWEST PR ) 12 tablets, .. 24 tablets . .. 29¢ 100 tablets . ..79¢ GENUINE ASPIRIN IS MARKED THIS WAY Jckiahd 4 Article 14 that the leadership gf Mr. King in recent years Has sold Liberalism adn the river in favor of outright Socialism which is filching free- dom from Canadians and creating chaos among primary producers. Senator Roebuck was particularly bitter about closing the border against admission of our products to the U.S.A, ; Incentive Destroyed : Imposing controls on Canadian farmers in true Socialist tradition, Mr. King and his Ministers have destroyed incentive to an alarming degree. Production figuygs tell the story. From a high of over 700 million pounds of export bacon, the Britisif contract fell to 350 mil- lions in 1947 awd it was short of fulfilment by 100 million pounds. This is a serious state of affairs. Contracts and Prices The revised bacon contract for 1948 is down to a low figure of 195 million pounds, The cheese con- tract for 1947 was 125 million pounds and was less than half filled. The new 1948 contract is set at only 50 million pounds. Today, Canalian wheat, the best in the world, is sold under government monopoly to Britain at $1.55 while the British farmer gets $2.33 and Britain pays Australia $2.72 and Argentine $3.60 per bu. for in. | ferior wheat, They endorse Bracken This sort of thing is part of the general setup against which for- mer Liberal Ministers register dis- approval, They have been stating precisely the views of John Brack- en since he became leader of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1942, The logic of the thing is that these Liberal stalwarts indi- cate to the people that the Bracken policies should receive the support of the electorate at the coming elec- tion. We shall see what they are, LADY PERLEY DIES Ottawa, Feb, 9--(CP)--Lady Per. ley, 8l.year-old prominent Ottawa social workers and widow of the late Rt. Hon. Sir George Perley, for. mer federal cabinet minister and Canadian High Commissioner to London, died at her home yester- day, following an illness of several years, : CANADIAN GENERAL ELECTRIC 3) Lo | | Looking Ahead In Ottawa Ottawa, Feb, 9--(CP)--The Com. mons will swing back today to de- bate on the government's motion for a to investigate reasons costs and once that is completed at- tention ®ill return to Bill No. 3 -- the measure providing for conser. vation of American dollars. The Exchange Bill is at commit- tee stage and each of its 15 classes are expected to be debated length- ily, Attached as an appendix to the bill are schedules listing the goods banned under import restric. tions or odmitted to the country un- der quota arrangements. If debate on the measure is pro- longed, it may be interrupted to per. mit passage of an extension of the Farm Loans Improvement Act of 1944. The act is due to expire Feb. 15 and action will have to be taken before that time to extend its oper- ations. Under the government bill on the order paper the provisions would be extended for a period of three years. The Exchange Act and the Farm Loans Act debates possibly will be followed by legislation to extend the government's transitional pow- ers until March 31, 1949. The trans. itional Powers Act provides govern- mental authority to continue rent and price controls, Also of an emergency nature is legislation to provide assistance to Canadian gold mines and to give statutory effect to the excise taxes imposed when the exchange con- servation measures were announced Nov. 17. Behind these emergency esiic legislation that will keep mem- bers busy for several months. Unemployment insurance benefits ers in the logging and lumbering industry throughout Canada. Up to | now, they have applied only to the | British Columbia section bf the in. | dustry, which operates the year + around. | The seasonal nature of operatio'g in | them out. the establishment of a committee | for living | | has been considerable speculation T | that the Board of Transport Com- | missioners might hand down its | $100,000,000.a-year verdict on that day, or just before it. However, very late February or early March now is the best guess on the filing of the board's decision, CHARGED WITH MURDER Three Rivers, Que., Feb, 9-- (CP) --Fernand Grenier, businezs man held criminally sponsible Friday by a coroner's ju- ry of the death o! 15.year.old Rita Lafontaine, was arraigned Saturday before Judge Edouard Langlois on a charge of murder, He is alleged frem the fire escape of the sub. urban St. Angele School. SIX IN FAMILY KILLED | Mt. Pleasant, Mich., Feb. 9--(AP) | --A mother and her five children 25-year-old | re. | to have strangled the girl with her own scarf and to have hanged her TIMES-CAZETTE EDITORIAL PAGE ~~ reatuses oronto Telegram | Assessed $24,702 'In Damage Action i. Welland, Feb. 9--(CP)--A Su- | preme Court jury awarded $24,702.« | 44 to John Feduck, 23, of Welland { Junction, -of damages suffered in an accident in which his car was struck by a truck owned by the Evening Telegram, Toronto. The amount of damages was the largest ever awarded in Welland County in a negligence case arising from a highway accident, However, judgment by Mr. Jus. tice D. P. J. Kelly was given for $15.000, the original amount claim- ed by the plaintiff, whose elbow was shattered in the collision on High- way 58, three miles south of Wel. land last July 11. J. D. 8. Cromarty of Welland act {were killed and her husband was | ed for the plaintiff and T. N. Phe- | eritically injured when a gas stove | }an of Toronto for the trustees of | explosion and fire flattened their |the John Rcss Robertson estate, measures is a lengthy list of dom. | home here yesterday. Police identi. fied the dead as: Mrs. Margaret Wohlscheid, 27; two daughters, Beverly Jean, nine, and = Patricia, two, and three sons, Roy, Jr. 10; Richard, seven, and Dale, five, | owner of the Telegram. as | The jury found the driver of the | newspaper truck 100 per cent negli. gent. Mr. Phelan said the judgment | would be appealed. East to W. SEROLLW 7, GOUENS 574 ul 4 & 1s will be extended this year to work- | the other provinces has shut | After more than two | years, the Unemployment Insurance | Commission has worked out a scheme to cover the seasonal work- | | government and approved. | ers. It has been submitted to the | | | When it will go into effect has | | not been decided, but April 1--op- ening of the federal fiscal year -- is a likely date. Wednesday is the one.year anni- versary of the opening of public hearings of the railways' applica- THE _W. J. Fowlie tion for higher freight rates. There st OGDEN'S Rolls Best - EAST She KNOW |T JOKES THE / ",..our Company at the / present time position in its history." is in the strongest --President E. G. BAKER 101st AN a NUAL MEETING 1947 was a great year for Canada Life policyholders. Our field representatives arranged more new protection for people in all walks of life than in any previous year. Living policyholders received an average of about $60,000 every working day, Here are some additional highlights of New Insurance (excluding Annuities) Gain in Insurance in Force Total Assets Gain in Assets Paid to policyholders and berfeficiaries Interest earned | A summary of the 1947 results will be mailed to all policyholders CANADA LIFE ASSURANCE A MODERN COMPANY -- OVER A CENTURY OLD James Marshall, Manager, Peterborough Branch the year's operations: ! Insurance in Force (excluding Annuities) $1,096,877,362 119,322,359 94,746,608 367,448,771 17,700,193 24,552,867 3.81%: COMPANY \ R. A. Behm E. L. Whitley A SS A.