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~ OPINIONS Ber "THE DAILY TIMES.GAZETT THE OSHAWA TIMES (Established 1871) THE WHITBY GAZETTE AND, CHEONICLE ) ar . MEMBER OF THE CANADIAN PRESS "». The Osnadian Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for 'Fepublication 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 "aldo reserved. The Times-Gagette is & member of the Cenadian Dally News- eis by carrier in Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin Port Perry, "Ajax or Pickering, 24c per week, $12.00 per year. By mail, outside a-earrier delivery areas anywhere n Canada and England $7.00 per year, $350 for 6 months, $2.00 for 3 months. U.S. $0.00 per yesr. Authorized as Second Class Matter, Post Office Dept., Ottawa, Can. Net Paid Circulation Aver: Per Issue 8,1 4 4 MARCH, 1948 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1948 Who Will It Be? With no formal announcement forthcoming from any official source, the identity of the person or persons who will seek the Liberal Party nomination at the Ontario Riding Liberal Association convention in Whitby tonight is still a question mark. : ; 1 Some' little time ago it was rumored that Mr. James Heffering, of Whitby, president of the Association, would be one of the candidates. However, following his return from the South he announced that his health would not permit of such action, Most Liberals as well as those interested in riding politics believed that Dr. W. H. Gifford, who unsuc- cessfully contested the riding against Mr. T. K. Creighton, K.C., and Mr. Arthur Williams in the 1945 provincial election, would be given another chance. His announcement yesterday that he would not contest the nomination came as a surprise in many circles. In view of the trend of events there is every indication that a "dark horse" will appear at the last minute. Several gatherings of the riding executive have been held in recent weeks to prepare for the convention and it may well be that a decision has been made regarding a candidate. C.N.R. Deficit - In view of the increases in wage scales and also of ma- térials it was not surprising to learn that the Canadian National Railways had incurred a deficit of $15,885,000 on its operations in 1947, ... Operating revenues of the C.N.R. last year jumped about $38,000,000 but this was more than outweighed by the rise of almost $40,000,000 in operating costs. The total operating revenues for 1947 were $438,197,000 as compared with $400,586,000 in 1946. At the same time operating expenses for the year were $397,122,000 as compared with $357,236,000 in 1946. The trend is indicated from the fact that while the company's freight traffic was the greatest in its history, and its gross revenue compared favorably with the wartime peaks of 1945 and 1944, there was stil la deficit. This is not an un- common situation today as Canadian companies struggle to make both ends meet and at the same time find money for necessary improvements and expansions. In common with mayy Industries the C.N.R. found itself confronted with a heavy burden of interest charges which in this instance amounted to $43,823,000. While passenger revenues may be expected. to shrink even further due to the drying up of surplus money, there is hop for the future in as much as there is every indication that freight traffic will continue to hold or even surpass present levels. This combined with the recent increase of 21 per cent. in freight rates should go a long way toward better- ing the position of the company a year hence. All Immigrant Stock (Brockville Recorder and Times) 4 Something we'could do well to remember as immigrants continue to reach us from different lands seeking to better themselves in this country of freedom and opportunity is that all of us have also sprung from immigrant stock of one kind or another unless we happen to be Indians and, even in their case, there is good reason to believe that the parent stock came to this continent from elsewhere. Canada's French-speaking population is based on immi- gration of many long years ago. When anyone who speaks English is confronted with a question concerning his racial origin, he is compelled to admit that it is English or Scottish or Irish or Welsh (if that is recognized) because his an- cestors came to this country from the British Isles. That is equally true of those who are able to boast of descent from the United Empire Loyalists because they in turn had their American roots in immigration into the colonies. Incident- ally, a good many of these Loyalists were of German origin. In latér years this country received large influxes of population from other lands as well as from the British Isles and we are thus all, whatever our names or our language or our creed, our occupation or our standing, of immigrant stock at one stage or another of the existence of our families. If we can bear this in mind and also remember that in very many cases our immigrant ancestors had rather an onerous and difficult time of it establishing their primitive homesteads in the Canadian wilderness or on the Canadian prairie, notwithstanding which they overcame adversity and hardship to make this country what it is today, we can per- haps sympathize to a greater extent than ever with the new- comers who are now reaching us to pit their courage and re fulness against the trials of existence in a new and ry and welcome them with greater warmth in s that they, too, will be helping to develop and this country as our own ancestors did generations = re o iow, By HAROLD DINGMAN Ottawa Correspondent Ottawa, April 14. -- Out in the. west they speak of the Alberta oil fields as becoming another Okla- homa, This is oil they expect to drill, and does not take into account the fabulous wealth of the Athabaska tar sands, as they are called. Up In the northeastern section of that amazingly rich province there | are 30,000 square miles of sand con- taining oil. The U.S. Bureau of Mines, which investigated this area, estimates that these bituminous sands contain 260 BILLION barrels of oil. And the U.S. Geological Survey esti- mates that the proven oil well re- serves in the world are about 24.5 BILLION. So that in the Athabaska area alone Alberta has a ntration 1% DAILY TIMES-CAZETTE EDITORIAL PAGE rearuses But How Can We Know What the U.S. Would Be Getting? NO, WE WAVE NO DEMONSTRATORS NO FLOOR MODELS, NO CATALOGS, NO SPECIFICATIONS, BUT WE Wi vt YOUR CRDERS NOW _Lewis, in The Milwaukee Journal of oil wealth greater than the re- serves of the entire world. The means of processing still pre. sent the greatest barrier to be ov- ercome before the wealth can be tapped. But this is only a matter of time, and, indeed, it is now claimed that processing is feasible. The sands contain oil which can be made into 100 octane aviation gasoline. And in addition the products of the sand are tractor and diesel uels. Still! other by-products are materials essential for roofing, paint, battery insulation and rub- ber industries. And the sands also make hard-surfaced roads of the finest quality, NATURE'S TRZASURE HOUSE --That is how the province is de- scribed in official literature, and it is a fantastic land. Oil is only a small part of the natural wealth. There are 70 million acres of arable land, and only 20 million are occu- pied. Every yeas the province con- tributes more than 100 million bushels of oats. Alberta produces 100 million pounds of beet sugar annually. The province has experienced in a spectacular way with irrigation | and now has 13 districts in opera- | tion. The result has been agricul- | tural-industrialization; ie. three canning factories export the pro- ducts of the land. Three quarters of the province is covered with trees, and much of the growth is of marketable size, On the east slopes of the Rockies and in the northern end of the prov- ince, Alberta has 159,000 square miles of forest land. These for- ests contain some 30 million cubic feet of saw and pulp material. More than 41 billion cubic feet of natural gas is burned commercial- ly each year in the province. There are 46 billion tons of coal reserves. This is more than the combined coal fields of Germany and Poland and Alberta's coal is superior to the brown coals of Europe. Alberta has more than 30 million tons of salt reserves. Industry has already harnessed 100,000 horsepower from three drainage systems and water power potential is put at more than 1,- 000,000 : Alberta is one of the natural giants of the world. Even the simplest survey of the wealth is enough to make you dizzy with ex- ii dreams of the province's fu- ure, ® 25 Years Ago ® Other Editors ONE DEGREE WORSE (Kitcheher-Waterloo Record) "You can't tell what a' man is thinking by looking at him," de- clares a psychologist. And if he's a pelitician, you can't tell what he's thinking by listening to him either. HE COULD BE ADOLF (Detroit Free Press) Grave diggers out at Utica re- port unearthing a human skpl] with horns, That's going to start a lot of new stories about what really became of Hitler. CANDIES FOR COPS (Windsor Daily Star) Five policemen in Palo Alto, California, have been fired from the force for stealing candy. »Boys | will be boys, even.when they wear the blue of authority. JAP REFORM (Windsor Star) The Japanese, says their prime minister, are holding to a policy of self-help. Their neighbors, no doubt, will find it a great improve. ment over the old slash and camry system of self_serve. WON'T RESIGN (Ottawa Journal) Gordon Graydon, disturbed, as well he might be, by the spectacle of members of Mr. King's Cabinet standing up in the House and vot- ing one against the other (shades of the old doctrine "of Cabinet soli- darity!) called on the Government to resign. Come, come, Mr, Gray- don! Cry for the moon if you like, bpt please don't even consider such an absolute impossibility as the present Government's resigning. FOOTNOTE TO CRISIS (Winnipeg Free Press) As a footnote to 'the economic crisis in the Unmited Kingdom, a brief item in the Manchester Guardian of March 17 is of inter- est. It reports that on the advice of the Minister of Fuel, and as a measure of "pest control" regional fuel controllers have been instruct- | ed" to make petrol (gasoline) avail- able to masters of hounds to facil- itate fox hunting. * WOMAN BITES DOG (London Times) To prove to the Lewes trates last week that her months-old terrier was not vicious Miss Ethel May Attenborough, 80, magis- The O:hawa Pire Department took delivery of a new ladder truck. The chassis was manufac- tured by General Motors and the body by the McCulloch Auto Body shop on Church Street. The Oshawa Board of Educatio decided to erect a new school ony the site of the then Centre Stree! Public School. A. R. Alloway purchase of the Argus. ] Town Engineer W. C. Smith re- announced his ported Oshawa had approximately 4 33 miles of watermains and 80 miles' of sidewalks. F. W. Cowan was elected presi- dent of the Oshawa Golf Club Limited to succeed the late Dr. A. B. Ford. oA Bit of + DAY THAT I HAVE LOVED Versee Tenderly, day that I have loved, I close your eyes, . And smooth your quiet brow, and fold your thin dead hands. The grey yells of the half-light deepen, color dies. I bear you, a light burden, to the led sands, shrou A Where lies Jour walting boat, by wreaths of the sea's making Mist-garlanded, with all grey weeds of the water crowned . . . Close in the nest is folded every weary wing, Hushed al the joyful voices; and we, who held you de; Eastward we turn, Stirling News- | | and homeward, alone, remembering . . . Day that I loved, day that I loved, the Night is here! Rupert Brooke. e A Bible Thought "Behold, what manner of the Father hath bestowed upon: us, that we should be called the sons of God!" (I John 3:1) That Thou shouldst love a thing like me And be the God Thou art, Is darkness to my intellect But sunshine to my heart. PRACTICAL PROOF (Guelph Mercury) When you finish paying the groc- er, butcher, milkman and the rent, you understand why you "cant take it with you." love | I | fave god = in UNITED STATES Howey Z ® o Existing regulations make it illegal for any Canadian resident to retain in his possession more than $10 in United States cash. ®' You are required to turn in to your bank, for ex- change into Canadian money, apy amount you have in extess of $10 in United States funds, without delay. THERE'S A REASON ® The reason is that Canada must have the U.S. dollars spent here by tour- ists; in order to make them. | available for the payment of imported goods and ser- vices needed to keep pro- duction and employment at a high level. NARA NERDS SL pouses FOREIGN EXCHANGE CONTROL BOARD OTTAWA eigat- |' of Malling street, Lewes, called it into court and bit its nose and a paw, The dog did not seem to mind, but Miss Attenborough was fined £1 for failing to comply with an order to keep the dog under control and was ordered to pay 5s costs. A> neighbor complained that the dog attacked her in the street. "BIG STICK" NEEDED (Detroit Free Press Again President Truman declares that the United States will not shand idly by "and see the liber- ties of the world debauched." Those are brave words, Where is the Big Stick to back them up? HOLDING THE BUCKET (Brantford Expositor) Ottawa has decided that respon- sibility for flood control is outside the jurisdiction 'of the federal gov- ernment except in cases that come under the Naviagable Wataers Pro- tection Act. That leaves the prov- inces, the municipalities and the victims holding the bucket. IT'S HIGH TIME (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. London Letter By STUART UNDERHILL anadian Press Staff . Writer London, April 14. -- (CP)--Lon- doners take all their seasons ser- | iously, but they welcome none more | eagerly than spring, . which comes | capriciously, but with a certain | promise of greenery and outings. This year it was in a hurry to ar- | rive. Bland, sunny days miracu- | iously appeared in February and! March, luring office workers away from their desks to stroll along the Thames Embankment or 'to throng the grassy parks. Just as everyone expected, the mild spells were followed by dreary days of showers and chill winds, with rainclouds racing low over the grey buildings. But nobody minded much. So, few of the expected dis- comforts materialized during the winter that it seemed improper to grumble, | London this spring looks much | like it did last spring. Buildings are | still shabby and neglected, though | here and theré a few bright paint | patches stand out. Reconstruction | work goes grimly ahead, although a | pwalk around almost any corner will | pring you on piles of wartime ple e. But people are feeling better | than they did last year, when the | long, cruel winter which forced the | factories to close almost broke their spirits, Worrles are just as in- tense--perhaps more so -- but the last winter hasn't sapped theif en- | ergy as much and they seem to face their difficulties more cheerfully. Helping to bolster the feeling of well-being was the continued ap- pearance in the stores of many things that have been in short sup- ply. Ever since the new year, for example, vegetable store windows have glowed with supplies of orang- es, hitherto doled out grudgingly, and they are expected to be plenti- ful until the end of April. For the first time in years gin | and rum can be obtained: easily ay) wine stores, though no one knows | how long this situation will last. | Even precious eggs are appearing | more frequently on the ration. | On the obverse side the meagre cheese ration has been whittled | down, the clothing ration remains | restrictive and the government | keeps up its campaign warning that worse will come unless production improves. : SPEED UNDERGROUND TRAVEL London -- (CP) <= The London Transport executive has announced a new scheme to speed travel. An illuminated signalling system" will allow 20 per cent more trains to run on. the underground 'in: the busiest hours. Rush hour trains already run at less than two-minute intervals, Remains | [Self-Government | Keystone Of Colonial Aims By JAMES McCOOK Canadian Press Staff Writer London ---(CP)-- The growing pains of an empire in transition are felt in London as cables pour onto desks of the colonial office | with news of local disturbances and discontentments around the world. Riots on the Gold Coast, disord- ers in Aden, South American claims on British possessions, Chinese digs at British "imperial- ism" in Hong Kong, harass the officials whose avowed policy is to guide 60,000,000 persons scattered over 3,000,000 square miles toward self-government. In . headquarters in Church ouse, which they share with Church of England bishops, col- onial office adminstrators prefer to talk of the millions whose: pre= gress is peaceful rather thun the few who are involved in tumult. But change 1s In the air, Some- times the demand of colonial peo- ple for a greater voice in their own | affairs runs faster than policy- | makers think wise. Then there are clashes, like those in Kenya where police bullets haited fanatics. Else- where they may speed independ- ence, as in Ceylon, where. 6,500,000 persons on Feb. 4 became citizens of a Dominion, as free from United Kingdom control as Canada.. Burma left the Empire 'alfo- gether on Jan. 4, the day chosen for independence' by her astrolo- gers, with an assurance of British goodwill and the return of national treasures she "desired, India has become two dominions. This very progress toward sclf- government fans the hopesiof oth. ers and is one of the factors behind disturbances. There are many others. The House of Commons was told there was "almost certainly Com- munist" incitement in Gold Coast riots where 26 Africans were killed. { In the Asiatic colonies white pres- tige was shattered by the victories of the invading Japanese. Reduction in Britain's military and financial power have been, pub- licized. There were claims by Ar- gentina and Chile on the Falklaad Islands and Guatemala cast hungiy eyes on British Honduras. The United Nations original de- cision in favor of partition in Pal- estine resulted in riots in Aden protectorate, where British air- borne troops were hurried to re store order. In the United Nations ¢ouncils, Egyptians' dispute British policy in the Sudan, South Africans op- posed United Nations trusteeship for the Southwest Africa mandate, and the British decision to lay down the Palestine mandate on May 15 is alternately praised and blamed. These troubles have failed to curb or hasten Britain's basic pol- icy, enunciated by E. Creech Jones, colonial secretary, #nd endorsed by ather parties of parliament: "The test of our policy. should not be British advantage, but the happiness, prosperity and freedom of the colonial people themselves." In. 1943, Conservative Oliver Stanley, colonial secretary in tha Churchill wartime coalition, stress- ed the sincerity of "Britain's ulti= mate aim in her colonial empire «+. to Bee self-government estab- lished in the various territories." Creech Jones said Britain's pri- mary, object in administration is to train the native inhabitants "so that they may be able, in the short. est possible time, to govern them- selves." Then he emphasized the diffi. 'culty which prevents Britain simp- ly turning over the. colonies to their native inhabitants without more ado: "I. want political responsibility considered in a proper persepetive. The granting of responsible. gov ernment in plural societies or' reg- ions of tribal animosities or of rae cial complexity is not easy to ach- ieve, and comparatively few of the British territories 'are simple. "What I want to stress here is the importance of underpinning political responsibility at the cen- tre with sound social and economic organization. But the pace of change is quickening and we must be prepared to take few risks be- cause we know that there is no greater educational force than the exercise of responsibility itself, People learn by practice." NEW TELEVISION STATION Birmingham, England -- (CP) -- Building has begun on a new tele. vision transmitter near here. Tice as powerful as the present transmite ter at London, it will serve the cen- tral area of England, reaching 6,. 000,000 people over a range of 50 miles. ar is his career _ When you register at a Canadian Pacific hotel, you're sure to meet a bellboy. You'll notice his smart appearance ~ «+ « his courteous efficiency as he carries your luggage and escorts you to your room. GRIER.' He'll adjust the lights and windows the way you like them . . ..or perform any other little duties you may require. Throughout your stay, you will find him always on the spot with speedy, cheerful attention to your needs. Serving you is his career . . . and it is also a tradition among the many thousands of employees in Canadian Pacific's world-wide travel system. L 4 Canadian Pacific service is ao tradition in travel. This advertise- 'ment is one of a series depicting some of the men who make It so.