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OPINIONS DA |Y TIMES-GAZETTE EDITORIAL PAGE FEATURES THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE OSHAWA WHITBY T4E OSHAWA TIMES 4 (Established 1871) THE WHITBY GAZETTE AND CHRONICLE (Established 1863) ' MEMBER OF THE CANADIAN PRESS The Canadian Press is 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, Net Paid Circulation Average Per Issue 13 4 [1] 3 4 FEBRUARY, 1948 FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1948 By HAROLD DINGMAN Ottawa Correspondent OTTAWA, March 5--It is now ap- parent that Mr. G. K. Fraser set out to deliberately flim-flam the House, Whether he did it, tongue in cheek, with the idea of enter- taining his fellow-members with blarney, or whether he did it for political reasons, is not quite clear. What is abundantly clear is that when Mr. G. K. Fraser, the mem- ber for Peterboro, was talking about Agricultural Expansion Immediate problems related to Britain's four-year plan | for a 20 per cent increase in food production were discussed | in a speech by Mr. Tom Williams, Minister of Agriculture, at | Taunton on January 17th. In the long-term, the program is directed towards more | livestock and to an increase in livestock products, since the | greatest opportunities for dollar saving lie in that direction. | But for the next year or two Britain has to face the urgent; necessity of growing crops which otherwise would have to| be obtained from overseas at considerable dollar cost. To expand the production of livestock, adequate sup- plies of feeding-stuffs are needed. Agreements in this con- | nection with Russia and Australia will be helpful and nego- | tiations with other countries are proceeding. In an effort | to produce feeding-stuffs at home, 150,000 acres of linseed | are to be sown this year and it is hoped that the crop can | be increased to 400,000 acres by 1951. The supply situation of this vital product is still very tight, but Mr. Wiliams | thought it possible at least to maintain the existing scales of | rations for livestock until April 1949, The Government are allocating to agriculture tens of | thousands of European volunteer workers. Local confer- ences will be held shortly to examine the 1948 seasonal labour problems in detail. For this task, 20,000 United King- dom workers will be needed, in addition to thousands of foreign workers, We Wonder How In order to conserve Canadian dollars, Finance Minister Abbott some time ago announced that the amount of money visitors could take with them to the United States would be limited to $150. This amount might be used for one trip or | spread over a year but the amount spent might not exceed | that amount in any one year. While the regulation hit a number of folk who were | accustomed to spending their winters in the south or, in | California, a letter received by The Times-Gazette from a | former Oshawa resident, now living in Florida, indicates that quite a number of Ontario folk are spending the winter there. { This is understandable as the regulations permit those who can obtain a medical certificate that they would die, if forced to spend the winter in the north, to obtain the necessary | money. On a recent train journey we overheard a conversation | between two passengers, both of whom were on their way with their families to spend two months in California. Neither appeared to be in frail health nor could this be said of mem- | bers of their families. It may have been that they were living up to the regulations and planned to have relatives in the the National Film Board, he was talking thorugh his hat and he new it. To my knowledge Mr. Fraser has never visited the Film Board to see how it operates. To my knowledge he has had at least four invita- tions to look the place over, or, as he would say it, to case the joint, before shooting off his bombast. Mr. Fraser carefully refused all the in- vitations, to Perhaps. he did not want be hampered by facts. Mr. Fraser won't like this column. However, he is a privileged fellow and he can get up in his place in Parliament and denounce me. That will ge thim some more publicity notices, and publicity, as far ac I can gather, is about the only rea- sons Mr. Fraser went shooting off so wildly against the Film Board. Here's a sample quote from Mr, Fraser: "If the National Film Board has nothing to hide it should be prepared to submit to a full investi- gation, to have its accounts and ac- tivities checked." That assertion was made in the House just a few days ago. Mr. Praser knows, as does every member of the House, that he can have an investigation any time he wants it. The responsible minister, Dr. McCann, said last year the board would welcome a Parliament- ary investigation. He complains about accounts, about salaries, travelling expenses, etc. Now this is really strange, for on February 4 a detailed list of these accounts was tabled in the House of Commons. It covered 16 pages. It was®tabled when it was demanded by a member, Who was | the member? Sure enough, it was Mr. Fraser himself. Mr. Fraser claimed that in cer- tain cities, in private homes, there W. D. Fielding Frank Hearn Announcement was made today by E. J. Umphrey, Director of Sales, that W. D. (Dudley) Fielding, after several years as acting Manager of the Toronto Zone of General Motors Products of Canada Limited, were telephones listed as NFB phones and paid for by the board. | us ; ; | . | $22 millions. He was dealing in| cents a print. The film board used | Mr. Fraser claimed the board oc- to do that, but the practice was |cupied ten buildings, Wrong again. He | Eight is the figure, = The film board says this is simply | not true, just blarney. In some | small places the field representa=- | tives of NFB use their homes as their offices and list their phones as board phones. But the board does not pay for the phones. Mr. Fraser claimed that rural | audiences got only $26,600 for films | photographers and selling govern- | only when the prints were not avail- out of an expenditure of more than with particular supervision over Parts and Acces- sories, 'AC' Products and the United Motors Service Division. Frank Hearn is promoted to Zone Manager, is returning to Oshawa as Assistant Director of Sales, and Norman Fowler to Assistant Zone Manager. would make dull reading. Mr. Fra= ser probably will claim that such criticism--accusing a member of flim-flaming his fellow members -- destroys the dignity and prestige of Parliament. Well, let's soon, Mr. Fraser. pleasure, hear from you real It wil be a Norman Fowler y bo / * MONTREAL * TORONTO half-facts, otherwise how could NFB | supply a list of 23 films that went | stopped more than a year ago. out to the rural circuit? i have been a mental holiday. He [sources of information he ing in competition with ment-subsidized pictures for 35 |able commercially. | claimed that 79,000 prints were sold The member for Peterboro must |at 35 cents. If he had checked his |of Public Works paid all' the rent. would | let out a great howl about NFB be- | have discovered that 70,000 prints |every department of government private | were sold to educational bodies and | gets its spac All Ford Hotels are cen- trally located, fireproof and have a radio in every room. For reservations write orwire the Manager well in advance of anti- cipfted arrival. He claimed that the Department Mr, Fraser should have added that through the Depart- | ment of Public Works. This could go on 'and on, but it United States finance their stay. At the same time one wonders, ; 1t would be well for foreign exchange authorities to | make a very careful check to see to it there are no abuses of the law. It takes very few exceptions to become public | property and arouse the ire of those who are trying to live within the regulations. Industry Tells Its Story From the pen of R. J. Deachman, well-known con- sultant economist, there came this week to The Times- Gazette editorial desk a most interesting article telling of the publication of a joint statement by nine industries in London, Ontario, showing how many dollars they re- ceived in a year, and what they did with them. These industries, Mr. Deachman points out, got tired of listening to tales of high profits, and decided to do something about it. The date was collected and vouched for by the Na- "tional Affairs Committee of the London Chamber of Com- merce, and revealed that total sales in these nine com- panies amounted to $16,921, 375. The greatest portion of it, $9,529,055, was spent for materials and general overhead, while the next largest item, $4,612,834, was paid to workers. Only $292,166 went to shareholders, while another $536,268 was re-invested in buildings, machinery, and working capital. ' A table showed the actual distribution of every dollar received. The article by Mr. Deachman bbserves, "A table like this never tells the whole story. It is right as far as it goes but there is something else to it. Take for instance No. 1 on the list, Materials, and General Over- head, it's mainly labor. Consider 1114 cents for taxes, that again goes back, in large measure to labor. The same thing applies to money spent for machinery, new buildings, equipment, etc. Where basic industry expands and develops its influence is felt in every section of the community. Thirty-two times as much as the shareholders received was paid out for raw materials and general over- head. Labor received fifteen times as much as capital and nearly twice as much was invested for expansion and development as went to those who invested their money." : The Times-Gazette believes that the joint state- ment of the London industries is unique and enlightening, and a copy of it might well be sent to all labor organiza- tions with the hope that it might create a better under- ONTARIO MOTOR 5 86 KING STREET EAST standing of the part which both capital and labor play in the realm of industry, OSHAWA ANNOUNGING In celebration of the great 50 years just passed . . . and in anticipation of even greater years ahead . . . we now offer the Dynamic Oldsmobile for "48. "Dynamic" is more than just another name applied to Oldsmobile . . . it's an action word, especially suited to the spirited per- sonality of these action-styled, action-engi- neered cars. Powered with an engine already famous. . . 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