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§ THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Wednesday, May 20, 1853 Editorials The Dally TH G Whitby), Bed by T 57 Simeoe Street South, Oshaws, Ontario Passing of Frank 1. Mason emoves Grand Old Citizen , With the passing of Frank L. Mason yesterday afternoon, Oshawa lost another of its grand old citizens who have made a note- worthy contribution - to the life of the fhnmunity. The hand of time is depleting ranks of those who come in that cate- y. In recent months, Oshawa has lost Gordon D. Conant and George Hart, men who were contemporaries of Mr. Mason, and who in past years worked along with him zealously to promote the welfare of Oshawa. Indeed they formed a triumvirate of men who figured largely in the affairs of the city for a long period of years. . Frank L. Mason had a great flare for municipal and political affairs. In the city council of Oshawa, as alderman, reeve and @ayor, and as 8 member of the county coun- of Ontario County, he gave wise leader- ship to a growing municipality. He was a pawer in the affairs of the Chambcr of Commerce in its earlier years. He served his fellow-citizens for some years on the Board of Education. He was intensely in- terested in the development of Oshawa's public utilities system, and was one of the original members and the first chairman of the Public Utilities Commission when it was formed in 1930. His interest in the city's power supply made him one of the leaders in the Eastern Ontario Municipal Electric Association, which worked hard tc secure equitable rates for electric powsr for this part of Ontario. He gave splendid service to the South Ontario Agricultural Society. In business life, Mr. Mason was for some 40 years a valued executive of the Pedlar People, Limited. He made one venture into the political field as a Conservative candi- date for the legislature, but was unsuccess- ful. : Mr. Mason lived to a ripe old age. But to the last he retained a youthful spirit. He had a happy personality which made him a host of friends. As a speaker, he had great gifts, not the least of which was a lively sense of humor and a timely wit. In his later years, he loved to reminisce about the earlier days of Oshawa which he knew so well, and in which he played so large a part. He loved his associations with his fellow- men, and there are many who can vouch for his kindliness of spirit and his generosity of heart and mind. Although his years of public service ended with his retirement some years ago, Frank L. Mason will be missed in Oshawa. There are all too few of his type of self-sacrificing public servant left today. He lived a full life, and, we believe, a satisfying life. To his bereaved family The Times-Gazette, in common with all his friends and associates, extends a sincere message of sympathy. Bad Record for Safety Month The long list of fatal accidents on the high- ways of Ontario recorded this last weekend and on the previous one is giving the month of May, which was designated as "Sofety Month" by the Canadian Automobile Cham- ber of Commerce, a bad record. This record shows the urgent need of a safety campaign such as is being conducted by the Junior Chamber of Commerce across Canada. Writing of this month-long emphasis on teaffic safety, J. L. Stewart, general man- ager of the Canadian Automobile Chamber PT Commerce, says; : "This is not just a one-month attempt to re- s duce traffic accidents; it is a positive step to : make drivers and pedestrians think in terms of 8 safety every day of the month every month of » the year, Steady increase of mechan'~al effi- = ciency so eases the task of the driver that the 4 may indulge in excessive speeds and unnecessary . risks without realizing the danger. But scientific progress in this important field should be accom- panied by a corresponding growth of personal responsibility and understanding. Safety in all circumstances is now an indispensable part of good citizenship." Mr. Stewart emphasized, however, that no matter how cautious and aware of his obligations a driver might be, accidents can happen through faulty mechanical condi- tions in his vehicle. "If we can educate Canadians to keep their more than three million vehicles in safe condition, a good part of the safety battle is won," he says. If only a fraction of these vehicles are kept safety-checked throughout the year, there is bound to be a progressive reduction of preventable accidents, a substantial ad- vance on the road to a safety-conscioue Canadian public and to the end of the era of road tragedies. Internal Russian Crisis Suggested 3 A campaign for internal unity, begun Just after Prime Minister Georgi M. Malen- kov took over has reached such a level in he Soviet press as to suggest some sort of gnternal crisis. This is the opinion of Wil. fiam L. Ryan, news analyst of the Associa- Jed Press. § Mr. Ryan finds this campaign may ex- Plain the sometimes bewildering Soviet peace ffensive, as well as the tightening up of he Russian Communist party and govern- ent. * By the beginning of May, almost every omestic item in Russian organs had some- thing to do with the theme of the "inviol- ble unity of the Soviet people." Interwoven was the theme of the super- ority of the Russian people proper and the ebt owed them by peoples of the 15 other oviet republics. The press inveighed violent y against "bourgeois nationalism"--mean- ng nationalism in any dependent. Soviet re- blic--and 'cosmopolitanism," an old des- ription of Jews with Zionist leanings. itorial Notes Only a few days more, and it will be safe #o change from the long woolies to the short milks. The Daily Times-Gazette (OSHAWA, WHITBY) The Dally Times-Gazette (Oshawa, Whitby) combining The wa Times (established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette hrosicle (established 1863) is published daily (Sundays and : Member of The Canadian Press, the Canadian Dally News Gat, Augie the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association Audit Bureau of Circulations. The Canadian Press is ex- usively emtitled to the use for republication of all news des- tches in the pa credited to it or to The Associated Press Reuters, and also the local news published therein. All rights bf special despatches are also reserved. T. L. WILSON, Publisher and General Manage: M. MGINTYRE HOOD, Managing Editor. 44 King Street West, Toronto, Ont Ry to, 225 University Stover : SUBSCRIPTION RATES . ielivered by carriers Iv Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin, Post SE ines Se Sones Cod td Basi © as anyw! $810.00 per year. US. $15.00 per Your, . DAILY AVERAGE NET PAID CIRCULATION FOR APRIL 12,278 a There js great stress on "rights" guaran- teed by the Soviet constitution, and upon the idea of 'equal right of all races and nations.' The home-front propaganda suggests that with Stalin's death there were restless stirring among the people of the Ukraine, White Russia, the three Baltic states and the republics of central Asia. All are being mentioned specifically. This may explain the general tightening up under the Malenkov regime. Each repub- lic government got a shake-up. Russians took over key positions in the republic gov- ernments and the security forces were over- hauled in each. The Communist party itself appparently was pruned of unreliable ele- ments. This also could explain, Mr. Ryan notes, the peace offensive. Previous peace cam- paigns were aimed primarily at convincing people abroad of peaceful Soviet intentions. This one seems equally concerned with con- vincing the people at home that war is not at hand. Other Editors' Views REAPING THE WHIRLWIN) (Chicago Daily News) Violence has broken out in Buenos Aires, capital of Juan Peron's experiment in totalitarianism, Argen- tine style. Someone tossed a couple of bombs and six were killed while he was speaking. A night of terror followed. # Who it was that actually threw the bombs may have little to do with who, as Peron promptly threatened, is hanged from the nearest tree. Anyone may be forgiven a bit of skepticism when he recalls the many tricks of dictators to win sympathy. The Reichstag fire in Hitler's day and the Russian purges are ready examples. The truth is that Peron has made a mess of it. The Argentine, land of the pampas and the mighty cattle herds, is short of meat. Drastic price controls are failing to check inflation. The people, including the General Confederation of Labor that has been the backbone of Peron's support, is learning that a politically rigged economy won't function. Bible Thought Jesus said, "Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of Me." (John 6:39). To bear witness of Jesus is the purport of the whole Bible. ; K STRANGE QUESTION MARK WE WERE WELL FED, WELL TREATED AND HAD NOTHING To COMPLAIN ABOUT --- RETURNED Ne READERS' VIEWS WE WERE BEATEN, THE WOUNDED SHOT, HAD DEATH MARCHES, VILE FOOD, NO MEDICAL CARE -- see: CLOTHING =" --- Evidence Presenici. On Traffic By-law Violations The Editor, The Times-Gazette. Sir,--Your report in Saturday's "Times-Gazette on traffic offenders was very timely. I hope we hear more on them soon. Will you please permit me to add to your list the question of traffic jams. Why do motorists deliberate- ly cut off all cross traffic while waiting for the green lights? Let us start at King and Centre Street going east. Try to get out of Queen Street to proceed west. The same thing happens at Athol when the light is red for Centre Street. Cafs are lined up bumper to bumper and it is impossible to move either east 'or west. Now we have Celina and Albert Street as one-way streets. There 1s a red light at King and Simcoe Streets and also at King and Mary Streets. Celina Street traffic is cut off from going north and Albert Street from going so'th. Now let us move to Bond Street west. With the light red at Simcoe Street, try to cross Bond either at Prince of Church Street. It is the same thing again. We do not have to move very far to see what hap- pened again. At rush hours, traffic officers are on a much-needed duty at Richmond Street and William Street. Try to cross Simcoe Street east or west on Colborne or Brock Street. Cars are blocking off all possible through traffic, Thé city has spent thousands of dollars of the taxpayers' money making and setting up hundreds of stop signs, to be almost completel ignored by a lot of car and truc drivers. If my memory serves me correctly, you recorded something like 1400 accidents within the city limits for 1952, and you did not get them all. In following these ac- counts, nine out of every ten were at intersections where a good view of a stop sign was possible. This alone to my mind was proof of the disregarded of many drivers for these signs. I have tried to keep personal experience out of this let- ter, but last Friday afternoon I held out my hand for a stop sign. Along came a business company truck, the driver blowing his horn and swinging out around me into the lane of northbound traffic with- out even slowing down. Then again on Saturday morning I had the same experience on Mary Street with a local taxicab, which street, by the way, seems to have become more or less a speedway since the traffic lights were put up at Rossland Road and Simcoe Street. This, I might add, has prov- en a good thing for drivers entering and leaving McLaughlin Boule- vard, Arlington, Westmoreland and Buckingham Avenues, at which points there is a very serious park- ing condition. If you are driving you cannot see what is coming from the south, and if you are walking on the sidewalk, you must worm your way around parked cars. Another cause of accidents fis speed, speed, speed. You hear and read so much about old cars. While I.drive a 1953 model, give me any old crock on the road with a careful, common-sense driver be- hind the wheel, rather than a lot of those half-wits, smart alecs, driv- ing partly-paid-for late model cars. I do an average of about 10,000 miles a year and my observation has been that there are eight late model cars wrecked for every one old car, and even fewer fatal ac- cidents in proportion. When a car hits a standing car 'waiting for the green light, nothing but speed and a foot behind the wheel could cause such an accident. That is only one of many recorded in your valuable paper from time to time. We have read and heard a lot of bickering when our Chief of Police needs a few extra men to police our streets as they should be policed. I am a taxpayer, and my taxes are more than double what they were five years ago, but if it is going to save maybe a life or two, then let him have them. I know this will cause some eye- brow-lifting and protests, but they will not come from safe, sane, com- mon-sense law-abiding citizens. I say let the Chief have the men, and I will venture that if the public will persist in breaking our civic by- laws let them pay and pay plenty. By the end of our civic fiscal year we might find that our police de- partment will not cost the taxpay- ers directly as much as it does now by being undermanned. Again I say, cut out this craze for speed and we will go a long way towards avoiding serious accidents. Mr, Editor, this is a lengthy let- ter, but it is dealing with a very serious situation as I see it in and around Oshawa. Unless the powers that be take firmer action, things are, as we all know, growing worse every month. Thanking you for whatever part or the whole of this letter you may deem advisable to publish for the welfare of the public in general, I am, Yours truly, THOMAS WATTS. 58 Buckingham Avenue, Oshawa, May 18, 1953. OTTAWA REPORT New Stamp Issue Arouses Criticism By PATRICK NICHOLSON Special Correspondent for The Times-Gazette OTTAWA -- The new series of Elizabeth postage stamps have caused a storm in Ottawa. colors are crude, the design clumsy and the portrait of the Queen badly posed, say the critics. Certainly by comparison with the new British issue bearing the like- ness of the Queen, they are a sad disappointment for . this country which has deservedly built up an international reputation for fine stamps. The British stamps carry a smal- ler Queen's -head, framed in a laurel wreath. She is wearing a far more elegant tiara in the pic- ture selected by Britain, and has her face turned more to her pro- file. In this picture too she shows the elegant swan-neck which has aroused such favorable comment. The portrait by Karsh selected for the Canadian series shows her harshly thin-lipped, and with an assymmetrical face: 'the right cheek hollowed in shadow and the left cheek crossed by an angry line from nose to mouth. The picture of the Queen selee- ted for the commemorative Core onation Medal to be distributed to all Canadian schoolchildren seems likely to arouse similar unfavor- able comment, by comparison with the more beautiful Queen more elegantly portrayed on the Corona- tion Medal struck in Britain for official distribution to top ranking Canadians, Britons and other Com- monwealth officials. GENERAL ELECTION GUISSES The date, and more especially the outcome, of the expected gen- eral election has been the main topic of scuttlbutt and speculation in members' offices and across the coffee cups during these dying days of the session. 'he Liberals know that time is not on their side. Every month which passes brings news advefse to their cause. Our foreign trade figures have taken a sharp turn in our disfavor; the premium on our dollar is slowly disappearing; higher surpluses are accumulating in a wider range of unsaleable products; tariff action and restric- tions by Washington are causing discomfort' among our exporters; and now there is considerable doubt whether the price of wheat MAC'S MUSINGS We have travelled a lot In the last year or two, Have seen many countries And have written stories Telling of their natural Beauty and scenic wonders, Until some of our readers Must have wondered if we Were trying to make out That Canada had no beauty Of its own to compare With what we saw elsewhere. But this past weekend, As we drove along some Of the highways and byways Of this province of eftirs, And saw all its beauty Of the spring months, We cannot help saying that There is no other land Which can provide so vast And varied a landscape As our own country. There is a glory about The fresh greenness of The Ontario landscape That is breath-taking, That has its own charm, And is so much superior To the artificial type of Beauty one sees in other Countries that we feel Our people do not need To go anywhere else to See nature's beauty at Its best and most natural. Our hills are just as green As those of France, and Our fields just as fruitful; Our gardens, with their Array of spring flowers Can match any others, And as we look down from A lofty hilltop on the Great panorama of color That is spread below us, We thank God for Canada, The fairest land of all. wil Seman at the present happy eight, let alone rise to the hoped- for $2.05. ® hoped On top of all this, it appears that organized labor will seek substan- tial wage increases of up to 35 cents per hour this year, in spite of almost stationary living costs and certainly no comparable in- crease in productivity. By the fall, a granting of these increases would boost the cost of living index. Rightly or wrongly, these factors loom large in the thinking of Lib- eral back-benchers, who certainly wanted a May election, and now want an August election as the next best. There are however, several pointers which make it appear that, as of now, an election on the hoped-for date of 10th Aug- ust is unlikely. SENSATIONAL AIRCRAFT Reports have reached National Defence Headquarters here that Britain has a new rocket-engined delta-wing fighter which will take off almost vertically from a ramp. It has been designed as a fighter to intercept the new jet bombers, which travel so fast that radar will not give leng enough warning to enable even the Sabre jet to climb in time to intercept them. PORTRAITS \ . . . By JAMES |. METCA'FE | WHAT WORK DO YOU? A factory, an office job If you are living for yourself . . . ++ What difference does it make . . . And no one else's sake? have no ambition to . . . Attain a place on earth , +o. 11 you «+ Or try to be of little more . . . Than ordinary worth? . .. You may as well be simple and . . .. Was meant to Be that way world . . and give . . . And those who lock to you . . best your heart . , . Is qualified to do . 'to rise . ., Above the common ranks . . . Your God eternal thanks, . . Go on from day to day ... And tell your little self that it + + + But if you want to help the . Then you will give the +. And surely you will strive . To care for those you love Copyright, 1953, Field Enterprises, inc. All Rights Reserved. IN DAYS GONE BY 25 YEARS AGO In a trans-Atlantic phone call, Col. W, E. Phillips was speaking to his party in London, Egland, 15 minutes after the call was placed. The Oshawa Checker Club won from Port Hope 30-12 in a tourna- ment held at Welsh's Parlors. Sheriff and Mrs. J. F. Paxton, of Whitby, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. The city of Oshawa purchased 8 new motor street flusher, pump- er and oiler congainer. C. B. Mcintosh was elected first Worshipful Master of the newly formed Temple Masonic Lodge. There were 30 charter members. S. F. Everson was appointed manager of Stobie, Forlong and Company, Brokerage House. National Hospital Day was observed by !'Open House" being held at the Oshawa General Hos- pital. 2,000 people attended the 39th birthday of the Arcade which had been opened under the proprietor- ship of the late Thomas Miller. The Board of Education was . considering the addition of a voca- tional department at the Oshawa Collegiate, and an extension to Ritson Road public school. The dirigible "Italia" started on a flight to the north ole from Spitzbergen; the Ottawa River was rising to flood level; a mara~ thon swim for women as well as one for men was announced as an attraction at the CNE and Mines Minister McCrea declared Northern Ontario one of the world's richest storehouses. QUEEN'S PARK Government Offices Bursting At Seams By DON O'HEARN Special Correspondent for The Times-Gazette TORONTO --We're busting out all over here. The insurance dep- lead artment is moving out of the main building here and going to offices on Bloor street. The latest in a long line of government depart- ments that have been forced out of the buildings because of shortage of space. The government machin- ery is getting so spread out it makes a Rube Goldbert mind to keep track of it. Bad business, of course. It means less efficiency, less coordination and less control. Mr. Frost realises this, but what can one do. When there isn't the space, there isn't the space. Relief will be given by the new Treasury building. This has been on the books now for three years. here is a promise it finally is to se built. At least plans are in pro- 'ess. We'll believe it when we see it, but Public Works Minister Wm. Griesinger says this time it will definitely be built. We blame the U.S. for-the seaway delay, but our own record of gettng ahead with things can be dismal at times. WON'T WORK: This brings to mind the old sug- gestion that the seat of government should be moved out of Toronto. It's a dream many people have had. The smaller-town atmosphere, clean air and slower pace of life of a town such as Lindsay looks like a much better deal as a locale for carrying on the business of gov- ernment. V However, there Is a gimmick in this. By the time the government machinery and some 10,000 emp- loyees, together with its incidental appendages, printing plants a nd the like, were moved te another site a good-sized city would auto- matically be established. And ir short order it would undoubtedly become as dirty and generally un- pleasant as Toronto. T-MAN PLAN Port Arthur has shown a lead by adopting a T-Man safety pro- gram, as first introduced into the province by Sudbury. Other centres should be follow- ing the Sudbury and Lakehead city If traffic deaths and accidents in cities are to be cut down it will be mainly by action in the cities themselves. The provincial approach to accident prévention hasn't been encouraging to date. And - anything it does do will be mainly confined to provincial high- ways. BEST YET The T-Man plan has been the brought out so far. Its reports by volunteers on both good and bad drivers are a healthy check in the one instance and a helpful pat on the back in the other. Ottawa also is planning a T-Man drive, under the Junior Chamber of Commerce. It has run into some hitches. Some people say it is an invasion of the rights of citizens. This would appear to be mis- understanding. No charges are laid out of the T-Man reports. All the driver gets, no matter how terrible, is a note from the police. So far everything we have seen and heard of the T-Man plan has been good. 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