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OPINIONS* DA FEATURES THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE OSHAWA WHITBY T.iE OSHAWA TIMES (Established 1871) THE WHITBY GAZETTE AND CHRONICLE (Established 1863) MEMBER OF THE CANADIAN PRESS The Canadian 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-Gazette is a member of the Canadian Dally News- papers Association, the Ontario Provinetal Dailies Association, and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Net Paid Circulation Average Per Issue 7 " 9 9 5 JANUARY, 1948 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1948 Canada's Olympic Record While the fifth winter Olympics came to an end last week-end, the thrill and excitement of the successes scored by Barbara Ann Scott, of Ottawa, and the R.C.A.F. hockey team in winning the ladies' singles figure skating and hockey titles respectively, are still fresh in the minds of most Cana- dians. While every Canadian is proud of their achievements, the results of the games should give occasion for thought and study. Canada was represented at the games by a compara- tively small group of athletes, so for that reason made a creditable showing. The Dominion finished ninth with 24V4 points while 13 of the 28 competing nations failed to score a single point. At the same time it should be remembered that the hockey title and Miss Scott's victory each gave Canada 10 points. Suzanne Morrow and Wally Distelmeyer, of To- ronto, who placed third in the mixed pairs figure skating event, brought another four points and Frank Stack of Win- nipeg, who finished in a four-way tie for sixth place in the 500-metre speed skating eveht, gave Canada the quarter point. : It seems to us that Canada, known as "Our Lady of the Snows", could have made a better showing if proper atten- tion had been paid to.the preparation for the Olympics. While we are wont to boast of our splendid skiing facilities, the fact remains that the Canadian Ski team was badly out of its element. Its members had never had experience with the long hills they encountered in Switzerland with the result that they sustained a number of serious injuries. The Dominion should train its sights on the next Olympic Games to be held four years hence with the idea of surpassing this year's record and gaining the position she should hold, particularly in winter sports. Snow Has Much Beauty (Owen Sound Sun-Times) While we must admit to being "pretty well fed up" with this stuff they call snow, at the same time we must admit there is much beauty in those drifts which make getting about so difficult at this time. Along this line of thought, the New York Times completes a somewhat lengthy dissertation on the great forces of Nature which make snow possible, with the words "Deep drifts cause extra labor in man's taut order, but it is a time of poignant beauty on the countryside." It also, the writer might have added, covers much of the sullen drabness of many city scenes as well. Many Canadian artists have caught the full beauty of our winter season. The warm sunshine on rolling drifts of snow, or perhaps filtering through the slumbering stalwarts of a hardwood bush, or adding soft warm reds to the deep shadows of snow-clad Canadian evergreens, the snow- draped deep mauve-blue streams--all have been subjects of many beautiful scenes portrayed in oils. Such artists as | Franz Johnston, Tom Stone and others have caught the many moods of this traditional Canadian season in a manner which has created a great appreciation and an understand- ing of the deep, curving drifts. While regarded by many as the colorless months, winter actually is a time of much pure color, the crystal clearness | of the winter skies, blue green in the sunshine of mid-day, soul-moving crimsons, mauves and purples in many shades, soft, pure and of great depth, at even time, skies sometimes almost pure golden, other times vivid red. Then there are | the many colors of the bushland, the warm umbers, the soft toned Venetian reds, the deep purples. Even the snow itself is far from white, but rather blue tones, yellows, perhaps mauves here and there or other shades reflected from the skies. While many of us bemoan our fate that we live in "such a country," enviously thinking of those enjoying the warm sunshine of the southland, how many of us but really have a warm spot in our hearts for our winter with its snow? The zestful tang of the frosty air, even the whipping winds blow- ing in our faces as the winds whirl the snow through the air in great clouds--all have a place in our Canadian lives. FRED'S "Drive-In" Open Evenings 111 KING W. -- Opposite McLaughlin Coal -- PHONE 4151W Nature's Own Beverage Apple Cider, 160 oz. Sweet Imported Fresh Crisp New Cabbage, Lb. Calif, Emperor Grapes Per Lb. WE PAY CASH FOR CLEAN 6 QUART BASKETS 49c | Ont. Delicious Apples Ont. Spy Apples, Comb. Comb. Grade 6 Qt. Basket RY apples, Comp Grade, 6 Qt. Basket By HAROLD DINGMAN Ottawa Correspondent Ottawa, Feb. 12--Leo Heaps is gone. He vanished suddenly and now there is a swirl and eddy of regret and despair, and some anger. Leo is the son of A. A. Heaps, the former Labor Member of Parlia. ment from Winnipeg. Everywhere you went in down- town Ottawa in the past year or so you noticed little arrow signs say- ing "The Gallery." Or in restaurant windows you found pictures on dis- play with a sign beneath saying "On loan from "The Gallery," or some such words. It was an old two- storey-red-krick house on Albert Street, witlh a little patch of green grass in front. In spring and sum- | mer Leo Heaps, who operated "The | Gallery," put the canvasses out on | the grass and local reporters said it was like a little bit of Paris, a side. walk display. Young Leo's initiative | and imaginativeness were applaud- | ed in Ottawa, although it is not | likely the capital city rewarded Leo | or his artists in a financial way. Still, The Gallery was popular. People liked to go there and see the pictures and talk to Leo-and the artists who were sometimes inside. The Gallery's fame was spreading. | Then one day Leo walked out and | disappeared. To England, someone said, to study medicine. His brother | David came in and collected the pic- | tures and sent them back to their | owners. The sign on the red-brick | house still says "The Gallery," but | the windows reveal a new tenant has | taken over. Women's hats for sale. | Not to England, some people whis. pered, but td the Continent, to join , Hagannah. No one knew, no one | could be sure. A fine young man | with high courage. We .remember | when he came home from the wars, | after high adventure, and with hon- | or. We were asked to print a story | about him in a morning newspaper |in Montreal. And we did. A good story. The boss didn't like the story. | "You know who he is, don't you?" | he asked harshly. Ye, we said, we did, remembering we had .been in { Ottawa briefly when A. A. Heaps sat beside the late J. 8, Woods. | worth, far to Mr. Speaker's left. | "Well?" demanded the boss, for | he did not like to print. stories of Leftists or sons of Leftists, even though they were war heroes. But the story stayed to the next edition and to the final edition. Public op- inion was stronger than the boss. Leo's friends are bewildered now in Ottawa. The empty Gallery causes some despair. But Leo will be back and the record will be all right again, LE IR J THE LOST BID--A high Liberal source says the National Liberal Convention will be held in Ottawa | this summer, despite a strong bid from Winnipeg, and overriding the wishes of many party stalwarts. The choice of Ottawa was made as a | helpful gesture to Louis St. Laur- | ent. He will not appear so much a stranger to the delegates here in Ottawa, and it will be easier for | Quebec to roll out a solid vote. op THE BEERY DAYS--Physicians, psychiatrists, penologists, civic lea- | ders, social workers and others say that the problem of alcoholism is now the most costly of any health and social problem in the State of | New York. A committee has recom- mended that chronic alcoholics be sent to state institutions rather than to private places of cure. More than six percent of all U.S. males are problem drinkers and more than 1.5 percent of females." How is it in Canada? We don't know, although we have Been known to take a mild and otherwise interest in alcohol. We do know that the na.- | tion's liquor bill (Canada's) will top i $500 millions for 1947. We doubt that state institutions would do any 'material good principally because they couldn't find the staff to han- dle problem drinkers en masse, Air Force Trainee: "You'll bring me back safe, won't you?" Instructor: "I've never left any- one up there yet." "EXPORT' CANADA'S FINEST CIGARETTE ® 30 Years Ago Following three straight wins at the Lindsay Poultry Show, William Elliott, King Street East, won per- manent pessession of the Gillies | Trophy for the best pen of Ply- mouth Rocks. The Maple Leaf Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Co. reported assets totalling $194,455.96. Losses during (1917 amounted to $24,148.03. To boost the production of food, the Ontario Government was ex- panding its farm at the Whitby Hospital, The stables were doubled in size to accomodate 75 head of cattle while a piggery was being built to house 500 hogs. A fancy dress carnival was held at Bradley's Rink with a large at- tendarice. Among the prize win- ners were:--Miss Canada, Mrs. Corrin; Uncle Sam, John Welch; French t.ady, Miss Orchard; Lady, Miss Elsie Cooke and gentleman, Margaret Luke. e A Bible Thought Paul writes to his 'son' Timothy: "Be not ashamed of the testimony of our Lord. . . . Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy call- ing," (II Tim. 1:8, 9) Charles H. Spurgeon tells his boy: "My son, if God has called you to be a missionary your father would be grieved to see you shrivel down into a King." I Print History 2nd Battalion In World War I "The History of the 2ud Canadian Battalion, C.EF." In publishing the History of the 2nd Canadian Battalion, nearly 29 years after the war in which the unit fought, the Historical Commit. tee of the 2nd Battalion are to be commended, not only for their boldness, but for their thoughtful- ness. Their boldness because there is now small public demand for such a book; their thoughtfulness because, de::ite the absence of such demand, they considered-- and rightly so--that the magnifi. cent record of their unit 'was worth preserving, and being handed down to posterity. Since the government decided to drop the project of an official his. tory of the First Great War, this courageous venture is all the more creditable. Obviously the Historical Committee is net at all concerned about any general distribution of the book, but is anxious chiefly to ensure that surviving members of the unit are advised that the book is now available, and at a price be. low cost. This has been made pos- sible, thanks to 'the generosity of friends, whose families had inti. mate links with the 2nd Battalion. The book itself is an intensely human document. It is excellently LY TIMES-GAZETTE EDITORIAL PACE written by Colonel W. W, Murray, O.B.E, M.C, one of Canada's vet- eran newspapermen; and it is put together in a style that does credit to all who had to do' with it. The story begins with the mobilization of the Battalion at Valcartier, in September, 1914. A fascinating nar. rative whese drama is lightened here and ther€ by flashes of bright humor, it portrays the intimate life of the Battalion, with attractive thumbnail sketches of those who contributed to its magnificent re- cord. : The actions in which The Second tcok part, which means every bat. tle in which the Canadians fought during their four years on the Western Front, are described with deep sincerity. Painstaking work has gone into the story of each one, and many are in themselves verit. able epics. On the whole the book is a fine piece of work indeed. The edition is limited and its sale aimed principally at former mem- bers of the unit, and the next.of. kin of those who died, PLAN R.C.A.F. HOUSING Trenton, Feb. 12--(CP)--Plans for construction of 1256 pérmanent houses. for the R.C.A.F. are com- pleted and land surveys are being made, Central Air Command head- quarters here announced yester- day. 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