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Net Paid Circulation Average Per Issue # ' 0 3 4 FEBRUARY, 1948 SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1948 Speeders Need Checking With the passing of winter and the opening of the new fighway there is a noticeable increase in traffic on Simcoe Street South. Much of the traffic comprises heavily.laden transports enroute between Toronto and Montreal and priv- ate cars whose occupants are bound for other cities and, apparently, anxious to get there as quickly as possible. With snow and ice cleared from the street during the past week the prevalence of speeding and, in soma cases, dangerous driving, has been noted. i This inspires the question in the minds of many people living on Simcoe Street South between King and Bloor; and the side streets: What measures are being taken by the authorities to curb recklessness and assure that .through commercial and private automotive traffic observes speed regulations? It should be remembered that in the Memorial Park section, many children from Centre Street School cross Simcoe Street. With parking permitted on both sides of the street it is often impossible for pedestrians to have a clear view in either direction and this adds to the danger. Oshawa motorists travelling through large centres have often remarked on "the motorcycle men". Indeed, few large cities in the United States and Canada are without this form of traffic rgulation. The police officer on a motorcycle is a sure retarding influence on motorists who like to forget the rights of others. The police officer on a motorcycle is in the best position to deal with such motorists. He can act fast when the need arises. While the pedestrian is at a dis- advantage at even obtaining the number of the speeding car or the reckless driver, the motorcycle man is not. He's on an even basis with the car driver. One motorcycle officer patrolling Simcoe and King Streets would cause the "fool" at the wheel to act sensible. Ten thousand sensible drivers are harmless. One foolish driver is murder on the loose. There should be no delay in moving to cope with the increased danger due to the volume of traffic which will build up to an even greater extent from now on. When You Pluck a Bud "You hold Spring in your hand when you pluck a bud," ruminates a New York Times Nature-wise editorial writer, as he sets down the signs of Winter's retreat, in the following faithful terms: "This is the season of counter-balance. The snow covering on meadows and fields shrinks to a brittle granu- lar quilt. Bare patches appear around granite: boulders on steep Southern-slope pastures. High-piled banks along country roads become wizened windrows of drab gray. As Winter withdraws, new forces go into action. Across the Northern half of the nation snow-fed brooks wind down from the hills and start journeys to the sea. "The red maples are advance scouts, and they have already flung out tiny pointed pennants: Study the twigs and their chestnut-brown bark, warm and glowing as the promise of spring in the, air. The twig is dotted with tiny gray scales, each with its darker nucleus. Look at the paired chunky buds along the wood and the larger blossom bud at the end. The buds have started to swell, but the imbricated scales are still folded tightly. Where the scales overlap there's a gray-white thin line, and the smooth seams remind one of the tight-fitting layers of certain bulbs. "Take one of the blossom buds, slice it with a thin blade and study it beneath the microscope. There is a rain- bow arc of warm, deep colors beneath the outer protecting scales. There are shades of reds, purples, violets and orange. In the heart of the bud is an area of pale soft green, promise of the leaves that will make a Corot painting of hardwood ridges a few weeks hence. You hold Spring in your hand when you pluck a bud. The calendar says it is still Winter. There will be frosts and snow and sleet before the miracle is completed. But the beauty of the buds is a promise that is always fulfilled; for when they begin to swell a man 'can hold Spring in his hand." NATIONAL HOUSING ACT BUILDING- LOANS We are official Representatives We also arrange ordinary loans for buyers and builders Dhows 1000 choficld JNSURANCS <Agonty 8 Simcoe St. North Real Estate Brokers By HAROLD DINGMAN Ottawa Correspondent Ottawa, March 20.--Mrs. Strum was resentful. Her eyes flashed and her color mounted. Across the green strip of carpet in the House of Com- mons a Liberal was teasing her. Mrs. Strum did not like being teased. It was unparliamentary, she said, Mrs. Strum was being teased about her good looks. She was ac- cused of vamping the Cabinet mini- sters and getting them to adopt Socialist measures. The only wo- man of the House did not like that at all, It was the garrulous Mr. Pouliot who started the affair. He was comparing the CCF Party with horses who have eye-shades on each side of the head and can only see in the direction in which they are driven, "When somebody says there is something alongside the way they deny it. They dp not see it because their leader does not want them to see it. I will tell my lady friend (Mrs. Strum) that she does not sit in the driver's seat. As a lady, she sits in the back seat and her view of what goes forward is obstructed by the back of the big driver." Mrs. Strum: "I would like to ask a question. How much influence did he (Pouliot) have on his party on price control?" Mr. Pouliot: "I will admit that my hon. friends of the CCF group have much more influence than any Liberal ever had with the govern- ment to maintain controls. It is probably on account of the good looks of my hon. friend that she vamped the government and she used them to get the government to adopt Socialist policy." Mrs. Strum: "I object, this is unparliamentary language." ) Mr, Pouliot: "It is not unparlia- mentary and my hon. friend knows it. I have the greatest respect for her." Mrs. Strum: "It has nothing to do with the question and I resent it." Mr. Pouliot: "If my hon. friend disagrees with me it is her right; but if she comes within the domain of my discussion now I cannot do otherwise than make little jokes with her, although in a very res- pectful way." Mrs, Strum gave up and was silent. Mr, Pouliot almost always has the last word, even with a lady. FRANK ANSWERS ---~ No one seemed shocked when a witness at the prices probe testified that more than 300,000 pounds of butter were deliberately held off the market to get a higher price. The answers were appallingly frank. The witness was J. S. Turnbull, general manager of the Saskatch- ewan Co-operative Creamery Asso- ciation. He was being. questioned by Ralph Maybank, of Winnipeg. Here is some of the evidence, Mr. Maybank asked if the with- holding of the butter brought a higher price. Mr. Turnbull: "I would say dur- ing that period the market ad- vanced somewhere between four and five cents a pound." Question: It would not be entire- ly due to what you were holding, 1 presume?" " Answer: "I would not think so." Question: "Because it is only 332,000 pourids, is that not right?" Answer: "Yes." Question: "Did you have sales for it?" Answer: "We could have sold it, but we held it." Question: "You held it in the hope you would get an increased price?" Answer: "In the hope we would help work the market higher." ® For A Laugh Something Tender Mr. Henpeck: "Wot's yer steak like today?" The Sentimental Butcher: "Ten- der as a woman's 'eart, Mr. 'En- peck." Mr. Henpeck; "Oh, is it! Then I'll 'ave some mutton chops." Fear of Work A young man walked into the yard of a local works, and after wandering around was stopped by the manager who asked, "What do for you?" "Oh," said the young man, "is there any fear of a job here?" COME TO THE FETTER FAMILY HOTELS On S. Kentucky Ave., near Bea h ATLANTIC CITY AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLANS Delicious Meals Sun Deck & Solarium erlooking Ocea sa \ EUROPEAN PLAN Moderate Rates New Modern Tile Baths with Showers 7 ""Couch-and-Four" Lounge & Grill Popular Family Hotel PLEASANT ROOMS POPULAR RATES Monticello and Boscobel Buests may secure meals at the Jefferson, if desired, JOHN H FETTER, Gen. Mgr 'New French Resistance Movement' WL 4 --York in the Louisville Times Rule of The Open Market By Joseph Lister Rutledge Quite recently a rather slick in. vestigator for Forbes' Magazine challenged a number of top.rank executives to justify the salaries they earned. The investigator posed as a shareholder of the company of the executive addressed, so that there would be no attempt to make an abstract case. Among those who replied was Walter S. Carpenter Jr. chief of the du Pont de Nemours Company. Mr, Carpenter contended that the justification was that both execu. tives nad workers must meet the same conditions -- competition on the open market, their value and, consequently, their income or wages being determined by what they could produce that would keep their effort in demand. If the workers' production did not total substantial- ly more than the cost of his own time, it would be obvious to anyone that the arrangement was unecon. omic. If the top executive, earning 50 much more, did not make it pos. sible for the worker to produce this surplus, then the executive too was in an uneconomic position. The point of the argument, said Mr. Car- penter, was that if the du Pont company didn't pay its top execu- tives and workers must meet the company would, evidencing their ]| confidence in the executive's abil. ity to deliver the goods. The com. pany, therefore, and ultimately the public, was best served by paying the large salaries rather than by losing the creative services of these men. In a free economy, surely that is what everyone should want; to be subject to the rules of the open market; to be able to justify an income; and to be entitled to the resulting benefits. That is what has made it possible for $2,500 workers to become $150,000 executives. ® 50 Years Ago Returning Officer G. Y. Smith re- ported Charles Calder, Conserva- tive candidate had defeated Hon. John Dryden, Liberal, by a major. ity of 96 votes in the federal elec- tion in the riding. A special railway car advertising the Florida State Fair was due to arrive in Oshawa. It was stated it had cost $20,000 to prepare the dis. play. Robert Hodgson, treasurer of East Whitby Township, reported receipts during 1897 amounted to $11,312 of which $8,695 was from taxes. The township had a balance on hand of $421.03 at the end of the year. The Oshawa Board of Trade was negotiating with Mr. Coleman of Paisley to move his meat packing plant to Oshawa. Boy Scout Rescues Youngster from Well WINS DOW AWARD ALAN LAKING OF KEARNEY, ONT. earns praise of whole community A little girl's screams caused 15-year-old Alan Laking to jam on the brakes of his bicycle and investigate. Seeing him, the girl screamed again . . . and, in spite of her excitement, Alan made out the words "Kanneth's fallen in the well . . . Kenneth's in the well!" Racing to the scene, Alan found that a small boy of four had indeed fallen about 16 feet into a well . . . and was flounder- ing, semi-conscious, in 8 feet of water. LOWERS SELF INTO WELL The young Scout acted quickly. Gripping the side walls as well as he could, he let himself down into the water. Diving beneath the surface he grasped the boy's | clothing and brought his head up. Then he tread water, holding the inert form of the little victim until help came and a ladder could be lowered into the well. The youngster recovered after artificial respiration had been given. This Boy Scout's good deed for the day included a display of cool courage and presence of mind unusual in one so young. We are proud to pay tribute to Alan Laking of Kearney, Ontario, through the presentation of The Dow Award. THE DOW AWARD is a citation for outstanding hero- ism and includes, as a tangible expression of appreciation, a $100 Canada Savings Bond. Winners are selected by the Dow Award Committee, a group of editors of leading Canadian newspapers. Hearing the little girl's desperate cries, Alan leaped from his bicycle and raced to the well at full speed. Holding the boy's head above the sur- face, Laking tread water until a ladder was lowered and he was able to carry the lad up to safety. Time for Decision BY GEORGE W. JAMES The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, Ont. NEW SERIES, ARTICLE 19 The whole point in this series of articles has been to direct public attention to the main considera. tions to be weighed at the ap. proaching Dominion election. It has been maintained that the test of public confidence is the sole choice between the present Liberal admin. istration and the Progressive Con. servative Party, the official opposi. tion, Jed by Hon. John Bracken. Evidence Submitted Previous articles have examined the course of the government by quoting 'extensively from Hansard, the official record of the House, and by quoting the opinions of many leading Liberals who have been severely critical of the poli- cies pursued by their leader, Prime Minister Mackenzie King. But Mr. King has announced his retirement and leadership of the party will pass to someone else at an ap. proaching party convention, Question of Leadership Hence the question of leadership, ability and experience will be of paramount concern to the elector- ate when the time comes to go to the polls. Therefore, the current ar. ticles in this series have centred about the career of John Bracken Ten years as Professor of Field Husbandry in the University of Sas. katchewan occupied his aggressive leadership to increase agricultural productivity during the first World. War. His work became wide. ly known. Farmers' Delegation Then followed two years as Pre. sident of Manitoba's Agricultural College, a position gained without solitication, through sheer ability and leadership in western agricul. ture. Next came the election of the Farmer's Party to power in Mani. toba without an acknowledged leader. They sent a delegation to urge John Bracken to lead them and thus to become the Premier of Manitoba. been for the farm plank in the rlatform, I would not be here to- day." Thus, since 1910, a period of 32 years straight, Leadership had been literally thrust upon Johm Bracken. Father, looking over son's .ex- penses at college: "How's this! 'A pair of rubbers, $50, That's out- rageous, explain it." Son: "It was for two massage artists who rubbed me while I was training for the team." Fron Bran ter of Mi en declined on the plea that he had no politica] ri and held that his most effective sphere wag to continue to serve agriculture in the Manitoba Agri. cultural College, Another delega.- tion was sent and again the offer was declined. Finally, promised a free hand in shaping peilicy, he con. sented and took office as Premier of Manitoba on August 8, 1922. So once again his leadership was re. cognized. Twenty-one Years' Work With an administrative back. ground of 12 years in directing scientific agriculture, Bracken set about his new task with character. istic thoroughness. He took off his coat, literally, sought the best ad. vice obtainable, worked 16 hour days to obtain complete mastership of the problems of the province, and made good the predictions of his supporters. Indeed he made so good that he was never defeated and remained Premier of Manito. ba until January 14, 1943. National Leadership He resigned on that date due to the fact that once again a delega. tion sought him out to take the national leadership of the Progres- sive Conservative Party. He declined his job too, until the convention accepted his insistence on the de. signation, "Progressive" as party policy. 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