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, OPINIONS DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE EDITORIAL PAGE FEATURES The Daily Times-Gazette WA WHITBY OSHTEE OSHAWA TIMES (Established 1871) THE WHITBY GAZETTE & CHRONICLE (Established 1863) eo Times-Gazette is a ot the Ci Press, tas Canad! Daily Ni A the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association and the Audit Bureau bb usively entitled to the use for The Canadian Press is exclusively republication of all news Qespitches in this paper credited the it or to The I news published therein All rights of special despatches herein are also reserved. A. R. ALLOWAY, President and Publisher T. L. WILSON, Vice-Pr and - M. McINTYRE HOOD, Managing Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin, Port i il, outside :. Ajax and Pickering, 24c per week. By mall, il pire areas, anywhefe in Canadas and England, ear, U.S, $0.00 per year te Second Class Matter, Post Office Department, Ottawa. Canada, DAILY AVERAGE CIRCULATION for NOVEMBER 9,138 MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1948 Sve Freedom In Banking Speaking at the annual meeting of the Do- minion Bank in Toronto last week C. H. Car- lisle, then president and now chairman of the board of directors of the bank, stated: in clear terms the advantages of the operation of free enterprise in banking, in contrast to what would happen under a system of state ownership and control of banks. In doing 80, he adopted a course rather unusual in bank reports, and made direct reference to the plank in the C.C.F. political platform which pledges that party to nationalization of bank- ing. He then proceeded to draw some interest- ing comparisons, as follows: «Bank directors are carefully chosen from various professions and occupations and from different sections of the country. Therefore the banks have the necessary information to enabie them to give the maximum service to the people in all sections of the country. This is evidently a more efficient precedure than could possibly exist under Government ownership, where a few directors, appointed by the Government, would take control. The chartered banks are under no political direction, neither are they responsible to any political party. The directorate of a Govern- ment-owned bank may change with a change of Government; that would be most disconcerting. In countries where Government ownership exists, political influence exists. Could we anticipate that Government owned banks would be an exception . . . Government ownership of banks provides only one source for your banking re- quirements; such a bank is absolute as to terms, conditions and amounts that you may borrow or the service that you may receive, whereas at present you havé® the right of dealing with ten competitive banks. One Is freedom of banking; the other is dictatorship in banking." There is a great deal more that Mr. Car- lisle might have said as to the dangers that would surround the nationalization of bank- ing, which would place in the hand of a politi- cal party, through its Government, control of the whole industrial structure of the Domin- jon and of industrial production. Over a long period of years, the competitive and free en- terprise banking system has served industry well, and has played a strategic part in the tremendous industrial development of the nation. One doubts that this could be done as efficiently under a state-owned bank which would have monopolistic control of all the credit facilities of the country, and which might be guided more by political consider- tions than by the needs of business and in- dustry. N Mr. Carlisle has rendered a distinct service to the people of Canada in departing from the usual custom and setting forth in his annual address so clear a picture of the dangers of bank nationalization. What Is The Answer ? A story which is amazing, if true, appears in: R. M. Harrison's column in the Windsor Daily Star, relative to the quality of the but- ter which has been imported from"Denmark, and which has been the subject of much complaint from Canadian buyers. Quoting a letter which he had received on the sub- ject, he has the following extract in his column: ; "The butter which has reached Canadian consumers was purchased by England in Denmark and in due course resold to Can- ada. However, after Denmark had made del- ivery in England, the shipment was not re- consigned immediately to Canada, but sent to an oleomargarine plant for re-making. "The Danish Government representatives _ in England made immediate protest against with this tampering with the pure Danish food product, and in his report to the Min- ister of Agriculture for Denmark, he stated Danish butter was being adulterated with a substance not related to the dairy industry.' A formal protest came immediately from enmark to England, but in spite of this I butter was mixed with inferior sub- stances, repacked and shipped to Canada." This is a statement which cannot be left unanswered. It is either true or false. If .it is true, it would appear that the federal government, which imported this butter * has broken its own law prohibiting the importation of oleomargarine into Canada, because the obvious inference is that there was oleomargarine mixed with the Danish butter. Apart from that legal aspect of the matter, however, the charge that an adult- erated product has been passed on to the people of Canada as pure Danish butter, is too serious to be ignored by those respons- ible for this importation, and clearly de- mands an unequivocal answer or explana- tion. The €arleton Election The federal by-election in Carleton ty is creating quite a furore. George A. Drew seems to have put his head right into a hornet's nest when he decided to seek a seat in the House of Commons by way of this Eastern Ontario constituency. While the Liberal party is not contesting the seat the contest has taken on all the appearance of the knock-'em-down and drag-'em-ou' contests of the old days of the two political parties. . The spectacle being presented to the peo- ple of Canada in this by-election is not edi- fying. Not long ago, in an editorial dealing with 'the Drew-Howe controversy over hydro - power, we referred to Mr. Drew's tendency to use violent and abusive lan- guage which was not becoming to a nation- al party leader. The same sort of thing has occurred in Carleton, where he did not hes- itate to use the terms "rat" and "Swine" in referring to a C.C.F. speaker, who, incid- entally, was W. H, Temple, the man who de- feated him in the last provincial election in High Park. Mr. Temple was just as guilty as was Mr. Drew of immoderate language, because his charge that the former Pre- mier of Ontario was a tool of the liquor in- terests merited a stinging rebuke, although perhaps in more gentlemanly terms than used by Mr. Drew. A further bit of scandal has been:inject- ed into the Carleton campaign by the state- ment that the Post Office authorities confis- cated a shipment of election circulars, direct- ed against Mr. Drew, on the ground that they constituted indecent literature. No one seems to know who was responsible for them, but the C.C.F. has denied having any- thing to do with mailing them. But this incident shows the depths to which politi- cal tactics have fallen in the effort to defeat and discredit the national leader of the Pro- gressive-Conservative Party. It is unfortunate to find election meth- ods descending into the nature of bar-room brawls and poison circulars. One would im- agine that we have, in Canada, grown beyond that sort of thing, which is an evidence of political immaturity at its worst. Political partisanship need not of necessity impel the partisans to go beyond the bounds of de- cency either in verbal argument or on the printed page. Editorial Notes Robert Rae, general manager Dominion Bank, warns men against being caught with heavy inventories in a time of falling prices. That is good common sense, and maybe it does indicate that living costs will be coming down. * x % % Provincial Treasurer Leslie Frost promis- ed the people of East Haliburton they would have power before the snow fell, and he opened their new power station just before the first snow of the season came. Lucky for him that this was not a normal early winter. . * x 2 The fact that the alleged comic books so widely distributed are beine used for pro- paganda purposes is one more reason why parents should scrutinize them carefully be- fore allowing them into the hands of thei children. ® Other Editors' Views eo A SURE CURE (Kitchener-Waterloo Record) A Manitoba farmer reports a sure cure for the gasoline thieving that has been going on from gas- oline barrels left in the field. This farmer had been missing gasoline regularly, He drums with water and left it in the accustomed, spot in the field. The next morning a car was stalled on the road. The owner had a very red face! eo A Bit of Verse * A MUTE APPEAL FROM A TB SEAL Please, stick me fast on an envelope For I am a symbol of life and hope. Thousands of sick folk look to me To help them battle the scourge--TB. For men and women--still in their prime, Who are doomed to die before their time; For restless babies with fevered cheek; For saddened youths I am here to speak I herald hope like the Christmas star So buy me freely and send me far. Let this forever our slogan be: "We'll SEAL the doom of the scourge TB." filled one of his |, "Asia For The Asiatics" --Long in Minneapolis Tribune Looking Around The World By DEWITT MACKENZIE Associated Press News Analyst The United Nations general as- sembly has concluded a torrid 12- week Paris session with results which, in the main, are of question- able concrete value. Millions of words have poured over the dam without turning any mill wheels to grind the grist for which peace-minded folk are hun- gering. Much of this torrent of language has been devoted to the bitter war- fare between the Soviet bloc and the anti-Communist countries. This reached its peak Friday when An- drei Y. Vishinsky, the Russian dele- gate, hurled at his former allies the 'charge: "The cause of the second world war is not so much Hitler, but the leaders of France and Britain, sup- ported by the U.S.A." Dangerous Division That was the note on which the assembly adjourned, with the So- viet bloc and the anti-Communists apparently further apart than ever. It is this dangerous division which presumably impelled Foreign Sec- retary Bevin to say during a speech in parliament last week: "The United Nations is giving us grave concern as to whether it is going to face up to grave problems at all." U. N. Hamstrung The answer, as I see it, is that the U.N. will remain largely ham- strung just so long as the ideologi- cal "cold war" continues. , You might as well expect the general staffs of two warring powers to get together and agree on military op- erations as to expect that those U.N. blocs can co-operate. That's an unhappy conclusion, but I dont believe it means West- ern countries must abandon the U.N. without further trial. The es- tablishment of the peace onganiza- tion is evidence of the great ideal which good men have been' pur- suing for centuries. Must Carry On It is a historic experiment. Thomas Edison didn't quit trying to create the incandescent lamp or the "talking machine" because he didn't make his experiments jell the first time. So I take it we must carry on. As a matter of fact, who would want to do anything else in view of the example set by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who an- nounced in Paris that she plans to devote the rest of her life to the U.N. as "the best hope we have for of the| eace "We may slide into war," she says, "but we must support the United Nations. It may yet save civilization from the terrible set- back of another war." ATTACKS DREW Ottawa, Dec. 13--(CP)--Transport Minister Chevrier Saturday had praise for Prime Minister St. Lau- rent but attacked George Drew, Pro- gressive Conservative leader, as "in- competent and incapable of follow- ing in the footsteps of Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir Robert Borden." In a speech before the Ontario Lib- eral Association, the Transport Min- ister said the Liberal party "has a great leader and a policy, which I think, will meet with the views of the people of Canada." Business Spotlight By The Canadian Press European recovery has on the whole been more rapid after the Second World War than after the first, says the current monthly re- view of the Bank of Nova Scotia. Production this year has praetic- ally regained pre-war proportions, while after the First World War it was 1924, or more than five years, before the same stage was reached. Progress has been made in build- ing up exports, with Britain's the most striking record, but with some other countries, such as Holland and Sweden, also making gains. Despite this advance, there are severe handicaps in the way of ob- taining a pre-war balance of trade. One is that Britain, particularly, has lost the income formerly made from foreign investments, shipping, and other sources, which enabled her to pay for purchases of goods much greater than she sold. Another handicap has been the virtual elimination of Germany as a major country in the European economy, and a further one is in- flation. ¥ Of Canada's interest the letter states: "There are few subjects of greater importance to Canadians than the recovery of Western Europe. As a trading nation, much of whose de- velopment has been geared to Euro- pean requirements, Canada needs European markets. "As a country whose prosperity depends on the ability to buy and sell freely in the markets of the world, she has a still broader inter- est in the recovery of what has been and still ¥s the key area in anl in- ternatfonal system of trade." Markets Saturday New York Stock Exchange regis- tered fair advances Saturday on ex- panding volume. Golds, Western oils and base metals were ahead in To- ronto. Industrial had little trend either in Toronto or Montreal. A loss of 10 cents in soybeans in Chi- cago brought weakness to the grain lists there and in Winnipeg. ® 15 Years Ago Peter Christie, former member of parliament for: South Ontario rid- ing, died at his home at Manches- ter in his 87th year. Oshawa's Welfare Fund Campaign reached a total of $28,840, with some returns still to be received. General Motors plant here is swinging into production on the 1934 McLaughlin-Buick models. Oshawa Public Welfare Board re- ports that relief in Oshawa is now past the peak and is showing a downward trend. The Oshawa Property Owners and Ratepayers Association and the Oshawa C.C.F. Club are uniting to sponsor a slate of candidates for the municipal elections. RETAIN CONTROL Ottawa, Dec. 13--(CP) -- New- foundland will retain control of her export trade in salt fish--the is- land's biggest industry -- for five years under the terms of Confedera- tion signed Saturday. Normally, any control over the fish export trade would be exercised by the Federal government, Mac's Musings A document of liberty Has been produced By the social committee Of the United Nations, After long st and Careful deli tion, This document recites That all mankind Has the right To life and liberty, Security of person, Freedom of thought Of conscience and religion; ® | To freedom of opinion And the right - To express it; ¥ | To living standards Adequate for health And well-being Of every human soul. This document declares All human beings Are born free and equal, In dignity and rights. For centuries, Men of many races Have been strugglin Towards this ideal, Along a path With many obstacles, Many stumbling blocks, But one by one These have been removed, Until the nations Now are ready For the final lap Towards the goal. The nations--did we say? Yes, all but those Beneath the Soviet sway, Who bitterly oppose Anything which gives to man Freedom of choice, Freedom to live As he would wish, But holds over him The lash of force To compel submission To dictatorship. Yet, just as all The obstacles of the past, Were brushed away, The day will come, When Soviet might Will be challenged, Not from outside, But from within, By people now enslaved Who will arise to claim The freedom enshrined In this document of liberty. Looking Ahead In Ottawa By The Ottawa Staff of The Canadian Press Ottawa, Dec. 13--(CP) An authoritative appeal for the gov- ernment to fill the ranks of the re- serve. army by compul:' mn will be directed at Defence Minister Clax- ton within the comparatively near future. It arises out of the recent meet- ing of the conference of defence associations, an organization of senior officers who were on active duty in the war and now are key men in the reserve force. Their concensus was that reserve units are badly undermanned, that it is "imperative" they be filled, that voluntary recruiting has failed and that some form of "selective" training will be necessary. The conference accepted the gov- ernment's argument that full-time conscription is unfeasible at the present time because of lack of accommodation or enough instruc- tors. However, its delegates said the world situation made it ur- gently necessary that the reserve army be filled, whether by ballot, draft or any other means. The Prices Commission will bring to an end this week the federal government's 1l-month investiga- tion of the reasons behind the high cost of living. The commission's report, which will probably re-survey some of the ground covered in the evid- ence taken by the committee, is not likely to be available before late in January at the earliest. Its preparation has been under way for some time but a great deal of co-ordinating work remains to be done, along with analysis of the most recent evidence. Labor And Tories Court U.K. Voters In 1949 Election - By JAMES McCOOK Canadian Press Staff Writer London, Dec. 12--(CP)--The next general election dominates British politics in 1948. Parliamentary battles between Labor and the Conservative oppo- sition were given added fury by the recognition that issues such as the government bills to nationalize the iron and steel industry and reduce the Lords' powers again will be de- bated before the voters within 18 months. Both parties bid anxiously for the support of a floating vote of about 2,000,000 middle-class people who may decide the next government. Labor strategists, led by Herbert Morrison, deputy prime minister, contended that their nationaliza- tion policies, social security legis- lation now in force and their long- range economic planning mean a better Britain for the ordinary man and woman. . The Conservatives continued to criticize Labor's interference with free enterprise and the continuance of innumerable controls. But they gave their blessing to social se- curity measures passed by parlia- ment and in policy "charters" made public proposals for progressive measures in industrial relations and agriculture. The Labor administration headed by Prime Minister Attlee said that with the iron and steel nationaliza- tion bill, passed by the Commons in November, it had implemented all the public ownership promises given in the 1945 election cam- paign. In face of Conservative state- ments that nationalization will dis- rupt Britain's economy, Labor lead- ers have asked their followers to go slow in demands for further socila- ization and allow nationalized in- dustries and services to show what they can do. Conservatives Hopeful The Conservatives said their hopes of success in 1950 have been encouraged by the poor financial showing of nationalized industries, Labor took, heart from by-elec- tion results. Votes have been held in 29 constituencies where Labor elected a member in 1945, but a de- feat for the government party has yet to be recorded. The Conservatives replied with figures showing the Labor vote has declined in many constituencies. The greatest single drop was in the London suburban district of Ed- monton where the Labor majority was 19,069 in 1945 and 3,327 in 1948. Party organization work went forward throughout the country and the Conservatives said they had reached a new stage of effi- ciency, especially in their youth organization. This was admitted by the Labor weekly, Tribune, which said "the biggest new factor in the situation is the keener Tory organi- zation." > Both Conservative and Labor spokesmen said they were not alarmed at the Liberals' plans to enter 300 candidates in the election. This third party now has only 11 of the 640 Commons members. be ejected if they failed to toe the party line on foreign affairs, Attlee made few changes in his ministry, the most important being the return of Hugh Dalton to senior cabinet rank as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. In November, 1947, Dalton resigned as chancellor of the exchequer after he revealed some budget secrets to a reporter before reading them to the house, The Labor government called a special session in September to have the Commons pass for a second time the parliament bill to reduce from two years to one the period for which the Lords can veto Commons legislation. The Lords twice rejected this bill after discussions seeking a com- promise on upper house reform failde. If the bill is passed three times by the Commons in two years it will become law in spite of Lords' opposition. PLANE CRASH Butler, N.J.,, Dec. 13--(AP)--The wife and three children of Richard E. Reeves of Georgetown, S.C., were killed Sunday night in a plane crash atop Kinney Mountain. The plane was piloted by reeves and contained two Negro servants in addition to his family. Reeves and the servants were injured, GIRL MISSING Guam, Dec. 13--(AP)--A beauti= ful American girl disappeared myse 3 teriously two nights ago. 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