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Net Paid Circulation Average Per Issue 8 4 03 a4 FEBRUARY, 1948 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1948 Congratulations Due Over the past two weeks, during the course of the An- nual Kiwanis Club Music Festival in Toronto, it was pleasing to note that a number of young artists from the southern part of Ontario County won awards and scholarships. The success they attained is all the more creditable when one realizes that contestants are drawn from coast to coast. The talent attracted means that those who secure placing have very marked ability. ' There has been a feeling for some time that the radio and recordings have replaced the development of individual talent. This is in a sense true, but those who devote them- selves to the advancement of their musical talent are those who have a love for it and therefore they are more inclined to attain success. In recent years, a number of Ontario counties have in- augurated music festivals which have been of great assist- ance in giving incentive to vocalists and instrumentalists. The Kiwanis Festival in its short history has offered a wider field. The increase in the number of contestants is an indi- cation of its popularity. Too Many Accidents The accidents reported to The Workmen's Compensa- tlon Board in February show an increase over the same month in 1947. In February 1948 there were 13,481 accidents reported to The Workmen's Compensation Board, including 28 fatalities, while in February a year ago the figures were 12,855 and 21. Awards by the Board in 1948 also show an increase being $1,393,549.32 as compared with $1,336,212.24 in Feb- ruary, 1947. The overall total of the awards for the first two months of 1948 show a slight reduction of about $6,000 from the previous year, but there were more injuries reported in January and February, 1948, than in the previous year, that increase being 727 cases which included three fatalities. Commenting on these figures, R. B. Morley, general manager Industrial Accident Prevention Associations, said that compensation, like other items making up the cost of living, had shown an increase over a number of years. He pointed out that increased benefits under the Workmen's Compensation Act, reduced interest rates on invested funds, greatly increased wages and extra coverage had combined to increase the cost of workmen's compensation to industry. He said that industry had evidently only one relief from in- creasing compensation costs for industrial injuries and that was effective accident prevention work in the plant or on the job where the accidents were happening. A Break For Women While it is widely recognized that women control a large percentage of the spending of the wage earnér's dollar and that advertising agencies plan their advertising campaigns to catch the interest of female readers of newspapers, maga- zines and periodicals, it has been difficult to convince the courts of the part women play in family financing. A heart-warming incident in the United States tax court, as related hy The Denver Post, illustrates the point that even cold, calculating courts can be human at times. "The court has just decided that Mrs. Louise J. Neu- mann of Sinton, Texas, whose husband died in 1944, leaving an estate of $96,788, need not pay inheritance taxes on the full amount," the Post reports. "Mrs. Neumann, by running boarding houses for twelve years, earned $27,000 which made possible the purchase of a farm which, in turn, made possible the accumulation of the $96,788 estate, the court has decided. "Lacking sufficient evidence upon which to relieve Mrs. Neumann of all inheritance taxes, the court, nonetheless, did §he best it could by holding she was solely responsible for the original $27,000, although her husband in those boarding house days had done some occasional sweeping and dish- | washing and earned $40 to $60 a month at odd jobs. "The fiction that men are responsible, single-handedly, By HAROLD DINGMAN Ottawa Correspondent Ottawa, March 10--There's a plan under consideration to break up the gevernment's whole rent - control program. " . Is rent control legal? Seems rather late to raise the question but the fact is that even the law experts in Ottawa doubt very much that the present legislation is 'worth the paper it's printed on. The discontinuance of commercial controls--accompanied by a threat against "profiteers" who shoot their rents up -- may bring the whole matter to a head. Any lawyer -- even Mr, Abbott -- will tell you that rent control is a matter of civil and property rights, and that it would be legal if the provinces took over the controls. But all these years it has been the federal government doing the con- trolling. In wartime, yes; it was legal then. The "emergency" was a real one. Is there an emergency now? The | federal government is legislating ur.der emergency power, question to be raised is this: Can but the | the federal government merely say | an emergency exists and then con- | tinue indefinitely with an emergency program? To obtain a settlement and a definition the matter would have to | go from a low court to a high court, then to the Privy Council. It costs big money, and thus far no one has attempted «it. But lately comes word that a test may be made. No one in Ottawa likes the pros- pect. Mr. Abbott would like to turn the matter of rent controls back to the provinces. He said, not so long ago, that he was going to do this just as soon as it could be arranged. But Mr. Abbott hasn't got around to making the change. Do the provinces want to control | rents? No, not likely, It's bad poli- tics. Any control makes bad friends. It isn't merely a question of a lot of big rich people soaking the ten- | ants as much as they can get. There are thousands of so-called "little" householders who want to regain possession of their own property. A decision from the Privy Council might easily rule that every rentals commission (court) is operating illegally. The headache is such a whopper --and there's so much doubt of the legality of the federal control--that wu serious threat to get a Privy Council test might force Ottawa to vacate: the rent control field and invite the provinces to do the job. { | IDLE SPECULATION--Some Press Gallery correspondents are still say- ing that Prime Minister Mackenzie King has left his retirement in doubt. Stories to this effect were sent out even after Mr. King's dec- laration to the Canadian Congress of Labor last week. I never heard of such nonsense in my life. Nothing could be clearer that Mr. King's assertion that "younger men are needed to take the important posts of leadership | and I felt that I should say the | time has come when they (the party) should choose another leader and leave me some time in which I | might do some of the things it has not heen possible to do in public life." One newspaper which carried that story, carried another saying the PM's intentions left members of Parliament "guessing". No retirement was ever signed, sealed and delivered as definitely as Mr, King's. - ® 25 Years Ago Bracebridge High School hockey team defeated Oshawa High School 8 to 2 in the first game of the finals for the Central Ontario Interscholastic title. Members of the local team were: Goal, Luke; defence, Irwin and Bouckley; cen. | tre, D. Irwin; wings, Lott and | Clarke; alternates, Conlin, Jamie. son and Browne. . Dr. Alexander B. Ford, one of Oshawa's most prominent physi- cians, died in the Oshawa General Hospital. A post of the Canadian Legion was formed in Oshawa with 60 charter members. The Water Commission set fits budget for the year at $35,000. Chief among the items were: Sal. aries, - $8,000; connections and ma. | terials, $9,000; meters, $2,600; hy. | drants, $2,600; power and light, | $5,700. e A Bible Thought Paul's ambition--"That I may know Him and the power of His re- surrection, and the fellowship of His suffering, being made conformable unto His death." (Phil. 3:10.) May we have not only a head-knowledge of the Word, but a heart-acquain- tance with the Saviour Himself, Tick-Tick-Tick! idisas -- Baltimore Sun L Other Editors ® For A Laugh ON RIGHT TRACK (St. Catharines Standard) Remember how Churchill urged an offensive up through central Europe during the war? How his- tory might have been rewritten, "had he had his way! WOULD OTTAWA CONSENT? (Windsor Star) "High Officials Believe U.S. Con- tribution to Palestine Police Force Should be Limited to Aircraft Car- riers." And we could always send our Zombies." BETTER BE BRIEF (Fort William Times-Journal) Washington reports a jet plane uses up 550 gallons of fuel an hour. The next war had better be a short one, if there is to be any oil left in the ground. ONE LITTLE NEED! (Detroit Free Press) For $8.95 you can get a pocket alarm clock. Now all that's need- ed is a way to combine it with a lapel button radar which will au- tomatically set it ringing as the boss approaches. EQUINE CHEWERS (Ottawa Citizen) A New York mounted cop arrest. ed a man for giving the horse a | chew of tobacco. Horses love chew- ing tobacco, but in a city they might acquire the habit of spit- ting on the pavement. MISREPRESENTATION (Ottawa Journal) The official reling that Printing Bureau reprints for members of Parliament from Hansard must fol- low the official text and style is a sensible one. Texts that have been amended and altered are not the Hansard text and should not be vepresented as such. TIME TO GET SCARED (Family Herald and Weekly Star) The basis of E.R.P. (European Recovery Program) is food which, at present prices, will cost a lot of money. When we worry about the cost, it should be remembered that during the war costs didn't bother us much, we were too scared. May- be it's time to get scared again in case we lose the peace, HALIFAX'S PLIGHT (St. Catharines Standard) Halifax City is sufering from serious mass unemployment. The boom days are over in the Nova Scotian capital, when a room could not be had for any price and the troops were prone to riot, It is an amazing thing that the present condition in Halifax should accrue under Provincial and Federal Lib- eral administrations behind which the city has stood so solidly, ANCIENT PROBLEM (Ottawa Journal) 'This business of a fuel supply for Canada is not some problem that has just arisen. It has been with us from the beginning grow- ing more and more acute with the years. We are told that we have vast coal and Ui] resources; coal in t°.. east and west and oil in Al- berta; but nothing effective has been done to bring the coal to central Canada and the oil rer sources remain undeveloped, for whatever financial successes they score during their life- times has been followed by the courts foo long. » . : : | "Every married man knows, although for 'disciplinary | reasons it might not always be wise to say so, that he prob- ably would be a complete failure, or at least a spendthrift | dogged by creditors, but for his wife. "The tax court has given tardy recognition to the finan- cial managers who really run 99 per cent. of the family institutions of the country, do the majority of the really hard work and still find time to have all the children and play | | i. Gen. Mgr. most of the bridge. "These women--they're amazing." Mild, sunny days meet you half-way, at this delightful, # hospitable seashore r | § vie da baths, "Ship's Sun-Deck." Luscious food. Fireproof. American and Europ | ¥ hy | TLANTIC CITY ! Paul Auchter, : THE HOTEL OF Pennsylvania Ave. hotel. 250 attractive rooms, sea- plans. Overlooking Boardwalk APPY RETURNS MANY H Cheering Economy Chairman (after economy lec- ture)--'"And now gentlemen, I am going' to ask you to give the speak- er two hearty cheers." Back Seat Driver The prosecuting solicitor his finger at the witness, "Was or was not the defendant alone in the car?" he asked. "No, he wasn't alone," said the witness; "there was a lady with him." The solicitor looked pleased. "As I thougit," he said. "And I suppose he was looking at her in. stead of where he was going?" "Not at all," said the witness. "It was his wife." shook 2 o A Bit of Versee FRIENDSHIP | Communism Challenged By Its Fears If nobody smiled and nobody cheered, | : ie Pr ns ei By Joseph Lister Rutledge If each individual looked after himself | And the good things all went to the | strong; If nobody cared just a little for you And nabdy thought about me; If we soon all alone in the battle of ife-- What a dreary old world it would be. Life's sweeter because of the friends we instead of being herded and regi- mented into organizations, That fear is based on the belief that in these family groups loyalties may arise that would transcend the loyalty to the communistic formula. By the directions of its fears, it is possible to assess the validity of a cause, For the vague and un- certain good that communism promises, it requires the forsaking of all the basic things that we have cherished. If people will follow, even distantly, a cause that has these fears, it is not because of the wickedness of radical agitators, it is because an empty life is crying to be sustained and has lost the belief in these realitics. Commun- ism knows, pas it cannot succeed in the face a belief in God, in liberty and in the home. That knowledge at least is definite, and supported by definite acts. But we are not so sure that in these be- liefs lies complete security. Too of ten we are groping for something to fill a spiritual vacuum in our lives, not by making realities work for a greater good, but by an aim less seeking for short cuts; some ready-made salvation from misery and want and our own ineffective ness. The danger of communism is in ourselves. Within the past few weeks the authorities of the Russian-occupied | territories of Germany have ban- | ned Thornton Wilder's play "Our Town." That would have been be- yond understanding had not iffi= cialdom stated its reasons with un- accustomed frankness. The reason was that the play was a "glorifica- tion of the family." Those who favor communism, or meet it with an attitude of mild and friendly interest might consider that seem- ingly inconsequential act for it has a far-reaching significance. Any cause must stand or fall not only on whatever good it espouses, but on the values it willingly sacri- fices to achieve its end. Commun- ism, to achieve its ends, is ready to sacrifice all the stable things on which our way of life and our form of government are based. Communism challenges the belief in God because belief in Him in- volves so many other beliefs. It in- volves our respect for fair play, our belief in tolerance and in the rights and obligations of individ- uals, as individuals. So God cannot be tolerated in the communistic state. Communism objects to the freedom of thought, of speech and of assembly. Because, when men gather. together and think their own thoughts, they inevitably find the God they need and the indivi- dualism He demands. And now communism objects to the home, because home suggests that indivi- duals will find their own groups have e And the things which in common we re. We want to live on, not because of ourselves But because of the people who care. It's giving and doing for somebody, else-- On that all Life's splendor depends; And the Joy the world, when it's all adde up, Is found in the making of friends. TOO MANY SPEECHES (Calgary Herald) We have often thought that there are too many organizations in Can- ada that they hold too many meet- ings and that they hear too many speeches. People might be better off if they listened less and thought more. They might be better off if they studied things for themselves instead of expecting somebody else to do the studying for them and condense it intq a 20-minute ora- tion. ' OLD RELIABLE-- (New Grasgow News) There are laws and rules and regulations aplenty these days--it has become nearly impossible for the average man to keep up to them. But the person who abides by the Ten Commandments is not likely to find himself in the courts. Warning Around dad's bier The candles burn, He failed to see That "No Left Turn." VIRGINIA PIPE TOBACCO FOR ROLLING YOUR OWN -USE OLD VIRGINIA FINE CUT [t's Open House! SAT. AFTERNOON MARCH 13th At your Nearest Naval Division HM.CS. YORK 57 Lakeshore Blvd., Toronto, Ont. COMMANDING OFFICER Capt. F. R. Base, R.C.N. [R] STAFF OFFICER Lt. V. C. Benson, R.C.N. You are cordially invited to come aboard this Saturday aftere noon and inspect the splendid equipment with which this city's "Reserve" sailors are being trained. See how the Navy looks after its men . : : how they are being equipped to study such one-time "top secret" subjects as Radar, Asdic and Loran . : ; how they are trained in such skills as seamanship, naval gunnery, and radio-telegraphy. : The signal hoisted on the left means, in our language, "Come Along Side". Accept our invitation this Saturday and we're sure you'll understand a little more what so many young Canadians mean when they say "The Navy's the life for me!" . There's room for young men today in Canada's Navy, both Permanent and Reserve. HMC.S: YORK "YOUR NAVAL RECRUITING STATION YOUR NAVAL RESERVE TRAINING STATION YOUR NAVAL COMMUNITY CENTRE Canadian Navy - RE RCN3