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OPINIONS DK LY TIMES-CAZETTE EDITORIAL PACE FEATURES THE DAILY TIMES.GAZETTE OSHAWA WHITBY THE OSHAWA TIMES (Established 1871) THE WHITBY GAZETTE AND CHRONICLE (Established 1863) MEMBER OF THE CANADIAN PRESS The Times-Gazette is a member of the Canadian Daily Mews- papers Association, the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association, and the Audit Bureau of Circulations, Net Paid Circulation ie 8,018 SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1948 ~ Attaining True Stature Although there are those who still feel that Oshawa is still very much of an overgrown town, there are increasing indications that the city, which next March will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its cityhood, is attaining the stature of a city in every sense of the word. The decision of the Bell Telephone Company of Canada to build a sizable extension to its present plant on Victoria Street and change over to dial operation in 1950 is indica- tive of the confidence the company has in the future of the city. When the new equipment is installed, Oshawa will be on a par with the largest cities in Canada and the United States as regards its efficiency and modern character. While the dial equipment will remove the element of human error, there will be many who will regret the fact that the voice of the operator with her business-like "Number Please" will be a thing of the past as far as local calls are concerned. It will mean that the habitually bad tempered will have no one but themselves to blame when they get a wrong number. Everyone will be able to hear the dial tone and know when a number is busy and when a wanted num- ber is being rung. It is now some years since Whitby and Bowmanville joined the ranks of the communities enjoying dial telephone service. Residents of Oshawa have been envious of them for the modern service they enjoyed. With the completion - of the new Bell Building here and the installation of equip- ment to serve 12,500 subscribers, Oshawa will again be able to hold her head high and boast that she does not have to take a back seat to her neighbors. True Neighborliness The barn raising held at the farm of Mr. T. C. Glaspell, R.R. 2, Oshawa, recently was one of the best examples of co-operative effort and neighborliness it has been our privi- lege to report. On the invitation of Mr. Glaspell some 200 farmers and their sons from a radius of seven miles gathered to assist in putting the framework of the new barn together and raising it into position. Where else could such an event have occurred so spontaneously as in a rural community? One's faith in human nature is strengthened by such events, as by no other means could so much be accomplished in so short a time. It has been part of the heritage of the Canadian farmer that he has always come to the rescue in times of need and put his shoulder to the wheel. The situation was well stated by The Guelph Mercury which said editorially: "With drought, dust storms, grasshoppers and other un- satisfactory elements crowding in upon Saskatchewan folk these last few years, there have been painful, distressing experiences for thousands. But through it all has beamed the light of goodwill and kindliness and helpfulness. "Prairie neighborliness has become a byword through- out Canada, and it has been thrown into new and still brighter relief in these years of constant demand for in- creased food production, and crop failures in certain sections of the west, where more prosperous people have gone out of their way to do the kindly neighborly thing. "This personal helpfulness has become an institution in the West; it has become part of the West's philosophy. Let a neighbor be taken ill, let hardship face some family, and a hundred willing hands are at work at once. It is a great spirit, a little reminder that it might be possible to work out the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth." A Splendid Record On August 1 The Canadian Statesman of Bowmanville marked its 70th anniversary under thé direction of the James family. Founded in 1854 the newspaper has had but four editors during its long service to the community. It is indeed a tribute to the character and ability of the members of the family that for so many years the news- paper has enjoyed the confidence and popularity of the district it serves. No small credit for this achievement is due to the late Mr. M. A. James, who shaped its policies for 50 years, and his sons the late Mr. Norman S. B. James and Mr. George W. James, who took over active control in 1919. Mr. G. W. James assumed the active editorship 40 years ago. That the family tradition will continue is assured by the fact that Mr. John M. James, a son of the late Mr. Norman S. B. James became a partner in the business following his return "from overseas two years ago. No newspaper can continue to prosper unless it provides its readers with a complete and honest coverage of news and plays a leading role in the affairs of its community. These things The Canadian Statesman has done well. Its editorials are among the most widely quoted by other newspapers in Canada while the publisher has taken an active part in the civic affairs of his own community and has gained a position of high regard among his fellow publishers. 'In extending our congratulations to The Canadian Statesman on the celebration of another anniversary it is our sincere wish t¥at it may continue to lead the way in ' the journalistic field in Durham County and that its editor will be long spared to lend his facile pen to the support of tl ideal which are closest to his heart, 5 Party Leaders In Alberta "Election J. HARPER PROWSE Alberta Limeral Leader By The Canadian Press Canada's youngest political party leader is James Harper Prowse, 35- year-old chieftain of the Alberta Liberal party. In the province's Aug. 17 general election he hopes to move into a Legislature with enough strength to form a govern- ment. He has a reputation for ambition and courage. Harper Prowse sat in the re- cently-dissolved House, but as armed services representative for the army. The Liberal party ob- tained no representation in the 1944 landslide, that saw Social Cre- dit re-elected for the third time since 1935, recapturing 51 of the 57 constituency seats. Tall--just shading six feet--with dark hair and eyes, Prowse has a powerful speaking voice and plat- form experience drawn from years as debater on University of. Al- berta teams. His election campaign is the most demanding and exten- sive of the three major party lead- ers. Born at Taber, a typical Alberta pioneer town in the southwest cor- ner, he is the eldest of six sons and a daughter born to J. H. Prowse, a lawyer. He got public and high school education there and twice he represented its Anglican young peo- ple in the Alberta Older Boys' Par- liament. To attend university he worked three years as boys' supervisor at the Indian Industrial School near Edmonton and saved money which gave him one year at the Univer- sity of Alberta. During the de- pression he "rode the rods" with other thousands of young Cana- dians, working here and there, un- til he's saved enough money for the remaining three years. He represented U. of A. on inter- university debates, was voted "best- known and most-respected" mem- ber of his class and on graduation in 1938 became a reporter on the Edmonton Bulletin. Overseas with the Loyal Edmon- ton Regiment, he was wounded twice--in the December, 1943, fight- ing for Ortona and the following September in the Gothic Line compaign. He had been among the first Canadians chosen for com- mando training in Scotland and in Italy commanded the Allied train- ing school at Benevento for some months. When In 1944 Alberta decided to include servicemen's representa- tives in its Legislature, Albertans in the Italian theatre asked him to contest the election. He declined three times but finally agreed to run when a petition, signed by 250 members of his regiment, reached him. Elected, he returned to Ed- monton to represent them in the House. He resumed his newspaper work, intending to make that his career, combined with the immediate de- mands of his political responsibil- ity. In succeeding months, however, his decision ripened on political maters and he became a Liberal. In 1947 his party, having decided to re-enter Alberta politics, a conven- tion chose him as leader. Prowse is married, with two chil- dren-- a daughter seven and a son two months. His wife, the former Irene Reynolds, was an Edmonton schoolteacher. Rich Maharajah Won't Abdicate Paris, Aug. 14--(AP)--The Gaek- war of Baroda said Friday night he didn't know why his people wanted to kick him off his throne. "I have heard all these stories," he said, toi? tam TOUETInE to find out what it about." The 42-year-old Maharajah, jaunty and apparently untroubled, did not appear too greatly con- cerned about the charges made in his home state that he had dipped into the treasury to the extent of $10,000,000 for his personal use. "Why should I do that" he asked, Then he indicated that he had plent yof private resources. "To abdicate would affect my in- come, but it would have no affect on the manner in which I live," he said. Rain poured down as he entered a trans-world airline plane bound for Bombay. Previously he had flown from London to Paris in his rsonal plane. Pee Coby dressed casually in a sports jacket and grey flannel slacks. But on his wrist was an enormous gold bracelet set with two rubles and two emeralds that were as big as cherries. "1 fo not intend to abdicate," he said. "I have always served my people and I shall continue to serve them." e 45 Ycars Ago 45 YEARS AGO The Oshawa Canning Co. was appealing for women and girls to help with the record crop. Hoar's Hardware Store was of» fering "the latest in plumbing, the new oak panelled hooded bathtub" The Oshawa Brick Yard had suf- fered minor damages by fire, the cause of which remained unknown, Luke' Bros. Furniture Store was featuring a large assortment of "superb oil paintings, priced at 50c each, one tenth of their value." Whitby ratepayers voted to in- stal their first system of water- works. WRITER PASSES Toronto, Aug. 14 -- (CP) -- Jean Ainslie McMichael, writer of short stories and articles, die. Thursday. She was an active member of the Toronto branch of the Canadian Women's Press Club for many years, 1| mere mechanical Jack And Jill Seibel, in The Richmond Times-Dispatch Visitors Slam Free Drug Plan In New Zealand By J. C. GRAHAM Canadian Press Correspondent Auckland, N. Z.--(CP)--A prom- inent feature of New Zealand's so- cial security structure, the free drugs and medicines scheme, has ccme under heavy fire recently from prominent overseas visitors. Under the scheme any medicine prescribed by a doctor is supplied free to the patient on presentation of the prescription form to a drug- gist. The only exceptions are certain proprietary lines for which the pa- tient must pay. The doctor can also authorize as many free repeat or- ders as he thinks necessary. Supply- ing of free medicines now comprises a large part of the business of many druggists. The noted British authority on social security, Lord Beveridge, commented after visiting New Zea- land, on the great increase in the consumption of medicine which had followed the introduction of free medicine and expressed the hope that doctors had enough sense to make the medicine harmless. A United States authority, Dr. W., E. Neal, of Huntington, West Vir- ginia, after an investigation of the Dominion's social security services declared: "Patients receive too much medicine because they demand it. The doctor often prescribes ex- cessively because it is profitable for him to do so. Hence, the state pays for services and expensive drugs which the patient would, in many instances, be better off without. "Checks Patient" "To place a conscientious physi- cian in a position that compels him to rush trough an afternoon, pres- cribing for all, not only cheats the patient but exhausts the doctor's time in attempting to perform the phases of his training. Human complaints are too often beyond the realm of medical relief, Merely dosing an individual, mentally burdened from fear, worry, fatibue, or from some economic, domestic or business entanglement, neither relieves nor satisfies the pa- tient's yearning for sympathetic un- derstanding of his fundamental troubles." The opposition of doctors in Aus- tralia to the introduction of a free medicine scheme there has also in- volved sweeping criticism of the re- sults in New Zealand. It has been claimed that New Zealanders are being converted into a nation of drug addicts. Other -Australians have stated that New Zealand bath- 100m cupboards are filled with half- used bottles of medicine and that doctors find the easiest way to get rid of hypochondriac is to prescribe something. The result, these critics claim, is that the New Zealand tax- payer has been involved in an an- nual burden for "free" medicine three times as great as was origin= ally intended. The New Zealand minister of health, Miss Mabel Howard, has ad- mitted that the increased consump- tion of medicines and the heavy re- sulting charges on the fund is caus- ing concern. "Not only has the number of prescriptions show a striking upward trend," she said, "but the department has drawn at- tention on several occasions to a tendency on the part of a few doc- tors to prescribe unduly costly drugs." The New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association, in co- operation with government officials, is examining a number of aspects of the medcal services provided under the social security program and it is expected that recommendations will be made to improve the opera- tion of the free medicine scheme, Sudbury Boy Is Drowned Sudbury, Aug. 14--(CP) -- Billy Hanwell, 6, drowned in Bass Lake, some 12 miles north of the city Fri- day. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs, Lloyd Hanwell, of Sudbury. Hanwell is a detective with the city police force, The accident occurred shortly after noon, while Billy was wading near his family's summer cottage. He apparently slipped into deeper water and went under before he could make an outcry. A phone call was immediately put through from Hanmer to the boy's father, who rushed to Bass Lake by plane, accompanied by a Sud- bury doctor. Billy's body was brought back to the city at 2 o'clock. Artificial respiration was applied as soon as the body was recovered and continued during the airplane trip back to Sudbury. Vegetables Rot In Some Fields, Kennedy States Toronot, Aug. 14--(CP)--Ontario Agriculture Minister Kennedy said Friday that lack of proper distri- bution facilities in the province keeps the prices of fruits and veg- etables high. He said that under the present set up "enough goes to rot each year to feed a whole population." In Essex and Kent Counties at present, thousands of baskets of the finest tomatoes were going to rot in the fields, he said. "By the time the grower pays for his commission and express charges and baskets, it doesn't pay him to pick them. Perhaps when the canneries open next week they will be able to save some." Courtice Groups Lay Plans For Annual Picnic MRS. BLAKE OKE Correspondent Courtice and Ebenezer, Aug. 12-- The Courtice Women's Association will hold its meeting on Wednesday evening, August 18, at the home of Mrs. Bradley on the town line. The Courtice Sunday School is planning to hold its picnic at Orono Park, on August 24. Malcolm and Mrs. McGregor, Maxwell's, were Sunday guests with Gordon and Mrs. Trevail. Donald Courtice was a recent visitor with Douglas and Mrs, Oke. Services on Sunday were con- ducted by Stan Coverley, in the absence of the pastor, Rev. Frank Yardley. On Sunday next, the speaker will be from Toronto, and representative of the Bible Society. Lorraine Tink and Jean Down favored with a vocal duet at the morning service. Mrs. Ross Pearce and son Brooks, and Mrs. Will Bickle and son Jack, enjoyed a four-day motor trip through the Muskoka district and enoying the boat trip, also visiting Midland, Collingwood, Guelph, Mal- ton Airport and Toronto. Mrs. Louise Welsh, Rochester, N.Y,, is spending her holidays with Mrs. Ross Pearce, and visiting other relatives. b, Best wishes are extended to Mr. and Mrs. Jim Parson (nee June Marshall) whose marriage took place on Saturday last. A large gathering was held at the home of Lloyd and Mra. Crago, on Tuesday night, when base line friends tendered a shower for Miss Muriel Down and Mr. Alvin Met- calfe, whose marriage takes place on Saturday. On Wednesday night, friends and relatives, numbering about one hundred, met at the Norman Down home, and again the young couple were given a grand lot of gifts, with Mr. Glen Pickell acting as master of ceremonies. Pleasing responses were given by the young couple, after which, can- dies and fruit were served. Sympathy from the many friends here is extended to Miss Alice Arn- old, Brooklin, teacher at No. 4 school, on the sudden passing of her mother at Brooklin on Monday. Miss Marjory Blair, Oshawa, visited with Mrs. Annie Simpson. Mrs. Ralph Willis and two chil- dren, were recent visitors at Orono. Geo. and Mrs. Goddard and daughter Louise, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Kemp and son, en- joyed a few days at Mazinaw Lake. Harry and Mrs. Lean were Mon- day visitors in Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. Kozak and son, Saskatchewan, are holidaying with their daughter, Mrs. Hutton and Harry. Mrs. Hobbs, Oshawa, was a Thursday visitor with Mrs. Joe Gearing, and Mrs. Hays, Bowman- ville, was a visitor last week at the Gearing home. Geo. and Mrs. Johnston have returned after a pleasant holiday spent at Wasaga Beach. Mrs. Geo. Reynolds is holidaying with her friend, Mrs, Jack Barclay, at Head Lake. Hope for speedy recovery is ex- tended to Orville Hooey, who was taken quite ill, while on his holi- days down east, but has recovered sufficiently to return to his home. Mrs. Jack McKenzie and son, Toronto, are holidaying at the Joe McKenzie home. Norman and Mrs. Griffin, ac- companied by other relatives, visited at Loon Lake on Sunday last. U. K. STORM DAMAGE London, Aug. 14--(AP) -- Floods which followed torrential rains in- nundated 1,000 square miles of Scot- land and Northern England Friday. Property damage is expected to to- tal approximately $4,000,000. Crops flattened by storms 10 days ago suf- fered further from the soaking and battering. Wide sections of Europe also were hit by the summer's heavi- est rains, e A Bible Thought "God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all." "His way is per- fect." (I John 1:5; Psa. 18:30.) God is light! His way is perfect, Seeing not with human sight, Choosing not with human wisdom, He is doing only right; Oh, remember, in, thy blindness, God Himself is always light. Royal Navy Starts Them Young The Royal Navy policy of starting Royal Naval cadets standing trimly to attention as His Majesty King George VI looks them over during e visit to the Nore command of the Royal Navy. ; its future sailors young carries on--as witness this class of very youthful his Is Unconsti Robert Rae, president of the Can- | adian Bankers' association, said this week he believed the principle | which moved the Australian high | court to rule unconstitutional the | Australian labor government's bill | to nationalize banks also would | apply in Canada. Text of his state- ment: | "While the constitutional rela- tionship in regard to banking in Australia is not on all fours with ciple on which the judgement was based is common to both countries, This is that government ownership of commercial banking jeopardizes its present impartiality and poten- tially interferes with freedom of commerce. "That principle applies equally to Canada. Once bank credit ac- Canada, no doubt the essential prin- | Bank Nationalization tutional Here Robert Rae Holds commodation is made subject to steering or direction based on po- litical considerations of a party in power, or even opened to that possibility, freedom of commerce or of any kind of trade is beyond all effective guarantee. Availabil- ity of bank credit does not now | depend even to the slightest degree on political creed or social doc= trine. It never should. "In Australia, too, there was & manifest fear of political intrusions into the money affairs of the private | individual. This fear became $0 | potent that the Socialist govern ment actually sought to allay it by | writing a provision into the pro=- | posed legislation. My information | is that it quite signally failed to reassure the hard-headed deposi= | tors and borrowers of Australia." ar By DOUGLAS HOW Canadian Press Staff Writer Ottawa--(CP)--Around the Ex- ternal Affairs Department this week there were hollow chuckles about the story of Miss MacCallum and the Italian colonies. It was Sunday, the day after Mr. St. Laurent had accepted the lead- ership amid wild convention jubila- | tion, Miss MacCallum--Miss E. P. | MacCallum of the Commonwealth | and European -Division--was on duty alone, a skeleton week-end staff of one. . Off the cipher wires came a message from London asking for an official statement of Canadian views on the disposal of former Italian colonies in Africa. It was slugged urgent. Miss MacCallum went to work. She tried Mike Pearson, the Under- secretary, and couldn't find him. She tried Escott Reid, the chief of her division, and couldn't get him. She tried Walter Harris, Parliamen- tary Assistant to the Minister, and couldn't get him. She tried others. All around, it was no go. } The name St, Laurent kept flit- ting across her brain, but she drove it back and tried more names. Then finally, with an empty desperation, completely against a wall, she called | Mr. St. Laurent's apartment. "Is it urgent?" he asked. "Yes," she said. : a He sighed: "I'll be right down. When he got to the office, he asked: "Who is there to advise me?" "Only myself," she said. So they went to work, the next Prime Minister and the tall, slender woman, They worked for two or three hours and they finally wired London what they thought about the Italian colonies. The next day a formal statement was released to the press. One news story started: "Canada today advo- cated 'the continuation of outside assistance' for three former Italian colonies + « + " ; eer mm ------------ TOURISTS ON INCREASE Ottawa, Aug. 14--(CP)--Automo- bile tourists came. to Canada in near-record numbers during July. The bureau of statistics reported Friday that the July influx of for- eign cars was 407,884--barely one per cent lower than the all-time re- cord month of August, 1947. During the first seven months of the year, the number of entries was 911,844, compared with 8823,306 in the same period last year--an incresse of al- most 11 per cent. RUSSIANS LEAVE U. S. New York, Aug. 14--(AP) -- The New York Daily Mirror says "a pack-to-Russia movement of impor- tant Soviet citizens has been under way in this area for several months to an extent that savors of evacut- tion." It says most of those who have returned are engineers, tech- nicians and professional men and women, many of whom have been in the United States for years, maw m-------------------- WAS GOVERNESS FIRST Madame Curie, co-discovered of radium, was born Marya Sklodow=- ska, and was a governess in Po- | Aussie Machine Can Type Music Melbourne, Australia--(CP)-- An Australian musician has invented and patented a machine that types a musical score almost as fast as it can be sung. The inventor is Murray Parker, 31, of the Australian Broadcasting Commission's variety music library at Melbourne. The machine is about three feet | wide, stands two feet high and has two keyboards. One has 42 keys for letters and music symbols and the other has 27 keys for adjusting the paper. It can type forward, backe wards, vertically or horizontally. Parker spent eight years perfecte ing his machine after tiring of copying music by hand, It writes | words to the music in clear Gothic type. "In the machine I have made the original is machine-done in a pho- togenic black and white," Parker told a reporter, "Further, 10 copies can be taken at one strike and if a silk stencil is used 5,000 copies can be run off." Parker said he first devised a set of standards not unlike a = set of standards not unlike a set of typee writer standards and stuck to them, A music bureau at Melbourne is using the investion to turn out scores ranging' from Liszt rhapso- dies to boogie-woogie FACES MURDER TRIAL Fort William, Aug. 14 (CP)--John D. Germain, 20, Friday was com= mitted for trial on a charge of strangling his wife of 11 months, 21- year-old Elsie Germaine. Detective Charles Earl testified at the prelim inary hearing that Germaine had visited the police station early July 20 and reported the death of his wife. Mrs, Germaine's body. bed sheets covering her blood-stained pajamas, was found by police when they went to the residence. A COME TO THE FETTER FAMILY HOTELS On S. 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