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OPINIONS DA LY TIMES-CAZETTE EDITORIAL PAGE FEATURES THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE OSHAWA ~ WHITBY THE OSHAWA TIMES (Established 1871) / THE WHIXBY 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 Cenadian Dally News- papers Association, the Ontario Provincia! Dailies Association, and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. : SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin Port Perry, Ajax or Pickering, 24c per week, $12.00 per year. By mail, outside carrier delivery areas, anywhere 'n Canada and England $7.00 per year, $3.50 for 6 months. $2.00 for 3 months. U.S. $9.00 per year. Authorized as Second Class Matter, Post Office Dept, Ottawa, Can. Net Paid Circulation Average Per Issue 8 * 2 2 iJ APRIL, 1948 --F SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1948 Uncertain Situation The Oshawa City Council was not a little perturbed at its last regular meeting when it learned from officials of the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation, with which it has contracted for the erection of 56 rental houses, that the calibre of the houses to be erected was somewhat below the level pictured by council members. That the cost of building materials has made the situa- tion uncertain is evidenced by the statement in the House of Commons recently by Hon. C. D. Howe who warned that an increase in these costs would mean that the government agency would no longer be able to construct houses to rent at the present figure unless municipalities were willing to subsidize the projects. ties are in this happy position. A sharp warning of government housing polices was contained in the annual report of the Dominion Mortgage and Investment Association and in the report of its president, R. H. Reid. Mr. Reid stated: "From an immediate political standpoint, it is very at- tractive to governments to encourage and facilitate increased home ownership through easement in purchase terms. From past experience, the lending institutions know the almost certain consequences all too well. It appears inevitable that, at some period in the not too distant future, here will be a substantial decline in the real estate market. All too little consideration is being given by government authorities to the repercussions which will follow when slender equities disappear and indebtedness exceeds the market value of the home owners' property. : "There is considerable evidence of maldistribution of housing. Continuation of rental control may well be con- tributing. It is unprofitable for those who occupy an excess space in older houses to move to new and smaller units." Month to month reports from the Oshawa City En- gineer's Department dealing with building permits show there is a considerable volume of home building: At the same time many prospective builders have been priced out of the market. While the need for more housing accommo- dation is imperative there are increasing indications that if today's inflated price levels-continue the building boom will come to an abrupt end. JT Protecting The Consumer During the war a very able and worthwhile work was carried on by the Consumer Branch of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. This organization did much to prevent overcharging and so make the family budget go further. Since the return of peace, the Canadian Association of Con- sumers--an off-shoot of the wartime organization--has been carrying on a commendable work. Mrs. R. J. Marshall is its president and Mrs. Uriah Jones is head of the Oshawa branch. The C.A.C. is the product of the combined efforts and influence of all the leading national women's organizations | in the country along with a few (like the Home and School Clubs) in which men are admitted but the major responsi- bility is borne by women. Its structure and purposes were fully described to the Prices Committee on March 12. It has done a great deal of valuable work, both in providing in- formation and guidance for consumers, and in advocating government policies: considered necessary to protect the legitimate interests of consumers, particularly in the lower income brackets. It studiously aims at fairness towards the equally legitimate interests of producers of all kinds, its policy being that "of getting at the facts and understanding the position of other groups who also help to constitute the consuming public." During the war leading Canadian women found that they had much to learn from Ottawa-- and much to tell it. The C.A.C. tries to be a two-way channel of information. : % Liked Best in Home Town Well aware of the fact that so often fame comes to authors and other artists after they are dead and gone, it is encouraging to note that Editor Robertson Davies of The Peterborough Examiner, scholar and playwright, had again scored a success. This time his own book "The Diary of As a matter of fact few municipali- | By AAROLD DINGMAN Ottawa Correspondant Ottawa, May 8 -- Not many of you have read or listened to the speeches of William Irvine, CCF member for the Cariboo, a man of several political stripes, and usually on the far left. Mr. Irvine occa- sionally strikes home with good sense. "Show me the man who has work to do, work that he likes to do, work ,which ought to be done in the interests of himself and his com- munity; show me the man who has his famliy and his home and Who lives comfortably, and who has the opportunity to maintain the health of his family and to give them education, the man who has a little of the leisure required to enable him to enjoy the better things of life, show, me the man who has that sense of security--and I will show you a man who can neither be a Communist nor wants to be a Communist," said Mr. Irvine. A long sentence full of good sense. Mr. Irvine makes less sense in other directions and we wonder why. "1 see no .reason why Russia {should mot be permitted to go !ahead with her system in Russia |and do the best she can with it for | her people, and why we in this country and in the U.S. and other countries should not proceed with our systems that we like best and do the same thing," said Mr. Ir- vine. "I prophesy that, if that can be managed, fifty years frrom now the world will take neither what we have now or what Russia has now." But should Canadain ships plying the Great Lakes take their orders from Communists? International Communists? Communists who | are answering to Moscow? | Mr. Irvine knows about these | things and he doesn't make sense. | Anyone who reads the Canadian | Tribune and faithfully as does Mr. | Irvine knows that a small group of | malcontents in this country is try- ling to make Canada subservient to International Communism. Some- | times they refer to it as the inter- national brotherhood of man, a fine high-sounding phrase that has no relationship to reality. It means that you get a change of bosses. Instead of the boss you have now you get someone else. The Ger- mans tried shifting their bosses and they found that all their new ones were tough thugs wearing brown shirts. Our mew bosses would be this same gang of mancontents who now take their directions and their inspirataions from International Communism. It isn't the Com- munists in Russia that anyone in Canada objects to, it's the thugs in this country who would destroy the parliament of which Mr. Irvine is a member. : The international thugs destroy- ed the free parliament of Czecho- slovakia; and the thugs in Canada sent a cable of congratulations. Mr, Irvine made great sense when he said: "A world war, how- ever, to determine which of these two ideologies shall dominate in the world would be in my 'view the greatest of all great tragedies of all times, for in such a war, whic- ever of the two was victorious, it would 'mean that there would be foisted on the world a system which the people of the world 'would not want, because there are elements in our system which we do not want, while there are elements in the Russian system which we do not want and which perhaps they do not want. Mr. Irvine had no final solution. He seemed to suggest appeasement, forgetting that appeasers usually get a brutal kick in the teeth. 'e A Bible Thought "The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: nei- ther can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." (1 Cor. 2:14) "The Bible js not a book to be un- derstood with 'the head, but to be accepted with the heart. You take your intellect in, but your intellect will not take you in."--Rev. Robert Barr. "0 fools, and slow of heart to be- lieve. . . 1" "For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness." (Luke 24:25; Rom. 10:10.) COME TO THE FETTER FAMILY HOTELS On S. Kentucky Ave., near Beach ATLANTIC CITY ~ AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLANS Delicious Meals Sun Deck & Solarium Ocean. rill Samuel Marchbanks", which appeared in print last fall, is | heading the circulation list in his own home town library. Most of the material was originally published in weekly installments in The Examiner. It combines whimsy, humor, pungent comments on Canadian politics, travel, customs and habits. No subject escapes Davies' razor-keen examinations. | To the casual reader the whole diary is likely to appear simply humorous and lightly facetious. Behind this enter- taining facade can be found perceptive comments and wise expositions of the Canadian scene. Many of Davies' contro- versial editorials are severely criticized in his home town, yet the popularity of this weekly "Diary" continues unabated and has been a factor in building up the circulation of The Examiner. New Modern Tile Baths with Showers Lounge & Grill Popular Family Hotel PLEASANT ROOMS a POPULAR RATES es Monticello and Boscobel guests may secure meals at the Jefferson, if desired, JOHN H FETTER, Gen. Mgr 'Whatever Became Of Him?' Fran ~ ANAL wtb LANIER LI LL sas RUN Barrow, in The New Hampshire Union. ® 50 Years Ago The Grand Trunk Railway was carrying on quite a business in transporting livestock from the Oe- dar Dale Station. Outward bound shipments averaged three carloads per week while three to five car- loads were brought in to fit for market. Messrs Reynolds, Demp- ster and the Conlin Brothers were the principle dealers. By purchasing property from James Davis and A. Mackie, the town council secured a right-of- way for a street to connect thé north end of Mary Street with Simcoe Street. East Whitby Township Council passed a by-law prohibiting bicyc- lists using the sidewalks. Penalties were set at $1 to $10. ? Through Councillor McLaughlin the market committee of the coun- ci advised the establishment of a market and recommended the pro- perty at the corner of Bond and Church Streets as the most suitable site. It was recommended that a building be ere~ted at a cost of not more than $2,500. The town council estimated its relief costs for 1898 would be $900. eo A Bit of Versee THE SURVIVOR AND THE PSALMIST The Lord 4 my shepherd; I shall not wan! (so harped their David in his happier ay); Yet I in direst want have crept and crouc! Where no still waters lay. Through jangle' paths where gun-pits lur! Thy rod came not to comfort me, And In the valley of the shadow of death Grim-lipped I faced the fox-hole's snarl of lead And saw green pastures turned to fields of red. When hawi-like swooped the bomber's ngs The dews of hate anointed my bent ei And life was not what David dreamed; When sudden steel struck deep in startled flesh And a blood-drenched comrade screamed My cup that overflowed was not of joy; And when the midnight bullet found its mar] And left me standing by the .greying ead, It sounded empty, all their Psalmist sald. And at the table Thou hast laid for me, Amid these ghosts in mortal dress, I gnaw the broken crusts of memory And merely ask forgetfulness. Arthur Stringer In Saturday Night Toronto. Falcons Clear Air Over R.A.F. Ports London--(CP)--Royal Air Force experiments with falcons to dis- courage birds from flocking on air fields were so satisfactory that they will be continued on a larger scale next fall when the mating season is over. In 1947 there were 17 accidents to R.AF, aircraft in Europe caused by impoct with birds. - - ware, died in his sleep today. A Hardware Merchant great.grandson of Adam Sgott, founder of the first industry in Dies at Peterborough Peterborough in 1827, Mr. Matchett Peterborough, May 8 -- (CP) -- | was in his late 70s. A hardware merchant for more He had long been prominent in than 50 years, Robert J. Matchett, | local Masonry and was also an Odd- senior partner in the Higgins Hard- fellow. T0 KNOW... Do you find saving easy? Whenever a Mutual Life of Canada representative asks that question, he gets a rueful "No." And if you're like most of us, your answer will be "No," too. Life insurance offers you a sure way of saving for old age, sick. ness, or emergencies. In addition it protects your family against your untimely death. The Mutual Life of Canada offers low cost life insurance combining savings with protection. Ask a Mutual Life representative to tell you about it today. THE MUTUAL Ji aN FRANK V. EVANS - DONALD W. HOLDEN "Phone 93 D. McPHAIL POLSON - - 'Phone 395-W Office--87 King Street East, Oshawa, Ontario, i _N Providing life insurance service since 1869 HEAD OFFICE * WATERLOO, ONT. J "Phone 1234 v2 Ski club Oshawa looks to its youth Baseball clubs, all ages Hockey leagues, all ages Track and field club Tennis club Stage, radio and drama clubs Learn-to-swim program Inter-school sports Community recreation centre Boy Scout troops Brownies and Cub packs Girl Guides and C.G.L.T. Camps for boys and girls Teen-age club Church young people's groups Five parks with 85 acres OSHAWA A COMMUNITY AND ITS INDUSTRIES ARE ONE Our Children Are Important Never have people been more concerned with the welfare of their children than in these days. Aware of new problems which coming generations must face, parents want their chil- dren to have careful, That's why so much importance is constantly attached to Oshawa's eight public schools, two separate schools and the Collegiate and Vocational Institute. That's why Oshawa people take a keen interest in all youth activities in both churches and schools. That's why Oshawa has taken a bold step forward in the establishment of the Community Recreation Association. GM -- one part of the Oshawa family -- is just as interested as you are in the Scouts, the Cadets, the Girl Guides, the Cubs, educational groups . . . all youth organizations. Young people in schools today will be in industry tomorrow. It's good business to be concerned about the future of our young people . . . they, in their time, will serve the needs of this community and this Canada of ours. GENERAL MOTORS OF CANADA LIMITED hr / ONTARIO thoughtful and complete preparation.