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ivS OJ¥DiIW 8 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Tuesday, March 23, 1954 Editorials by TY F Umitesd The Daily Times-Gazette Datawa, Whitby), Simcoe Street South, Oshawa, Ontario Life Insurance Benents Whole National Economy For every working day in 1953, Can- adian families shared over $400,000 in life insurance death benefits, but for every day, more than $650,000 was paid to liv- ing policy-holders. This is a significant statement made in a report on 1953 dis- tribution of benefits, issued by the Can- « adian Life Insurance Officers Association. It illustrates something which is not gen- erally appreciated, that more money is * paid out in benefits to living policy-hold- ' ers by insurance companies than is paid 'out to the beneficiaries of persons who have died. Thus insurance becomes a very im- portant factor in the national economy. For example, death benefit payments in 1958 amounted to $105 million, an in- crease of about $8 million over 1952, and almost double the figure of 10 years ago. But a total of $165 million was paid out to living policy-holders in matured en- dowments, annuities and policy dividends, \ an increase of some $7 million over the year before. So, in a very tangible way, this illustrates the increasing use of life insurance benefits in meeting the day-to- day needs of Canadian families. Com- menting on the report, George L. Holmes, association president, says; "The sharp rise in payments of life in- surance benefits to Canadian families will continue over the years just ahead. The number of families owning life insurance has risen sharply in the last 10 years. As these policies become claims or mature, payments will in- crease at an even greater rate than the 1953 report indicates." In all, life insurance payments to Canadian families in 1953 totalled $275 million. That is a potent amount of life- blood to be pumped into the national economy in the form of money placed at the disposal of the Canadian people to be used in meeting their needs. It benefits not only the recipients, but also the country as a whole, when that amount of money is paid out to go into circulation to keep the wheels of business and industry turning. . Conservation Protects Resources Canada's natural resources are due for an extensive study next month when delegates from five organizations gather in Ottawa for a thorough review of con- servation. Canadians, for the most part, have come to accept much of these re- sources as inexhaustible, but the truth of the matter is quite the opposite. Un- less we are prepared to give some se- rious attention to our soil, water, forests and wildlife, we will awaken one day to find that we have frittered away much of the natural wealth of our country. We will have suffered a loss, which had we paid attention at the right time, could have been avoided. : We should be thankful that organiz- ations are taking an interest in this im- portant matter of conservation. Unless those who are making use of these re- sources are acquainted with the urgency Sales Tax in Five Folks out in British Columbia are not at all happy over the announcement that their provincial sales tax is to be in- creased from three to five per cent by the _ Bennett government. The reason given is that the premiums being charged the people for their hospital insurance have become too heavy for the average family to bear. They are therefore to be met, in part, by increasing the sales tax levy, so that the people will pay them in hidden taxes rather than by direct contribution. This rather puts the spotlight on the fact that there are five provinces in Canada which levy sales taxes. Quebec has a two per cent sales tax, but in that province many towns and cities have a municipal sales tax of one or two per cent and an education tax of one per cent. New Brunswick has just decreased its sales tax from four to three per cent. Newfoundland and Saskatchewan have a three per cent sales tax, and, as noted above, the tax in British Columbia is going up from three to five per cent. And in the aggregate, these taxes amount to $128 El.iczial Notes ii more of the careless drivers would : turn over a new leaf, there would be fewer cars turning over on the' highways. . . :¢ Daily Times-G The Daily Times-Gazette Published By FIMES-GAZETTE PUBLISHERS LIMITED 57 Simcoe Street South Oshawa The Daily lmes-Gazette tUshawa, Whitby) combining fhe Oshawa [limes (established 1871) and the Whitby Ga_cetle & Chronicie ( 1863) is daily (Sundays and statutory holidays excepted) Member of The Canadian Press, the Canadian Daily Newspapers Association and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use for te publication of all news despatches in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein. All rights of special des patches are also reserved. I L. WILSON, Pi and M. McINTYRE HOOD, Managing Editor. Offices, 44 King Street West, loronto, Ontario, 203 University "ower Building, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers \n Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin, Port Perry, Ajax and Pickering, not over 30c per week. By mail (in Provnice of Ontario) outside carrier delivery areas $12.00. Elsewhere $15.00 per vear. The Daily Times-Gazette (Oshawa published by Times-Gazette Publishers, Limited 57 Simcoe Street South Oshawa, Ontario. DAILY AVERAGE NET PAID CIRCULATION FOR FEBRUARY 12,986 Whitby, ifn of the situation, they will continue to em- ploy methods that are not.at all conductive to conservation. Such errors must be set aside. Much has been done in this direction, but the task is continuous. The confe- rence in Ottawa brings together leaders of agriculture, forestry, and representa- tives of national business, engineering and public service groups. Its aim is to give conservation of all renewable resources a new urgency and broader meaning and will submit its conclusions as recommend- ations to industry and the several levels of government. In a country that depends so largely upon its natural resources, conservation is a highly important matter. The forth- coming conference will be watched with great interest by all who are interested in the welfare of the country. Provinces million a year. On top of the ten per cent federal sales tax, they represent a size- able addition to the cost of living in the form of hidden taxation. We are fortunate in this province that the government of Ontario, in spite of its huge budget of approximately $350 mil- lion, has been able to get along without imposing a provincial sales tax. This makes the cost of living in this province that much lower than it is in the five provinces mentioned. Premier Frost has resolutely set his face against a sales tax being imposed by the Ontario govern- ment, although with the buoyant revenues the province has enjoyed from other sources in all the years during which he has been premier, such an impost has not been necessary. In British Columbia the people are finding out that nothing provided by the government can ever be free. They and they alone, have to pay for everything, And it is just as costly to pay for hos- pitalization plans through a hidden sales tax as it is to pay for it by direct contri- butions. : Bit Of Verse WINTER TREE I do not think this tree remembers spring and green winds softly, firmly whistling birds back to feather boughs. Though she expressed herself in music once in leaf and nest, stillness, now, is all that she can know -- She is so choked, go weighted down with snow. Nor do I think that this tree can be reached by autumn leaves that lie beneath her bleached to gray. Scarlet is a word she cannot recall she ever heard. Repeat green to her, gold, or some brief bright fleck of brown--all she understands is white. HELEN HARRINGTON In The Christian Science Monitor, Other Editors' Views PATRONS ARE MERELY SUCKERS (Port Arthur News-Chronicle) Operators of an alleged gambling resort at Toronto had to be given police protection when patrons found the games had been rigged with dice carrying two "twos" and two "threes". Don't people yet know that these professional operators, local or itinerant, make it their prac- tice to use games that can be rigged or fixed? The patrons are merely suckers. GILBERT AND SULLIVAN REVIVAL MY OBJECT ALL SUBLIME 1 SHALL ACHIEVE IN TIME / ' \ LORD HIGH ~« EXECUTIONER , MCCARTHY OTTAWA REPORT How Immigrants Boost Markets By PATRICK NICHOLSON Special Correspondent to The Times-Gazette OTTAWA -- The department of citizenship and immigration ests imates that about 165,000 immi- grants will be admitted into Can- ada this year. This is approx- imately the same number as in each of the past two years. Deputations from organized la- bor in industries where there is now unemployment are coming to Ottawa frequently now, to ask for overnment assistance in restoring bs. One step suggested is restriction of immigration. New Canadians, runs the argument, are taking jobs away from Old Cana- dians. , his is a very short-sighted and selfish argument. Certainly there may be--there probably are--indi- vidual cases where a job is offered to an immigrant while citizens liv- ing in the same community are out of work. It is a tribute to the immigrant's skill, experience and record when this happens; it would not happen if the citizen had equally good qualifications. But in the long run immigrants are creat- ing jobs by increasing consumer demand in Canada; we had enough immigrants to double or treble our population, we would be economically a much stronger country, because we would be less devendent upon other countries buying our surpluses. CONTRAST The present level of immigration errs on the side of caution. 165, 000 immigrants per year should not be beyond Canada's abso tive capacity, especially when it is remembered that nearly half of them are wives, young children and other dependents who will not take a job. In the peak period of immigra- tion. when our population was half its present size, we admitted twice as many immigrants. In 1913 400,- 870 settlers arrived in Canada; if we were following that pattern to- day we would be admitting not 165,000 settlers but 801,740 this year. As it is, it took us seven and one half years from the end of the war until the end of 1952, to admit the same proportion of immigrants which our grandfath- ers welcomed in the one year 1913. if a new city were created to accommodate all the immigrants arriving in Canada this year, it would rank as our seventh largest city, exceeded in size only by Tor- onto, Mc traeal, Vancouver, Winni- peg, Ottawa and Hamilton. That Immigrationville would be as big as Quebec. Yet even spread out across the country, that new city creates as much work as the cop- struction of a new Quebec City would create. IMMIGRANTS MAKE WORK This year's flow of immigrants will create a demand for about 25,000 homes, as well as schools, shops, churches, cinemas and workplaces. The post-war immi- the gration has raised by about 7 per cent the domestic demand for wheat milk, meat, eggs, cheese and other foodstuffs which Cana: dian farmers produce. IAINHXE TIME OF THE LA Wh At the time of the last census in 1951, something less than 500,- 000 immigrants had arrived since the war. They had set up 62,160 new households; and even though many of them had been in Canada only a year or two, 24,000 of those families already owned their own homes and 7,000 of those 'ere en- tirely clear of mortgage. Of those 62,160 new households, more than 43,000 were equipped had power washing machines: 52, 000 had radios; 26,000 had mech- anical refrigerators; 18,000 I~d vacuum cleaners, 21,000 had auto- mobiles. In addition, the members of those 62,160 households and all the other immigrants as well were buying clothes and other daily needs. They were also paying taxes to help Old Canadians carry the cost of their country. Many of them had even started up their "own busi or opened factories where they had created jobs for Old Canadians or other immi- grants, In total, one million New Cana- dians have reached our shores since the war; of these, an est- imated 650,000 have jobs. Rather than consider immigration as the means by which 650,000 jobs have -099 I[qEIUIPUN AY} Aq PI] IB IM been taken away from Canadians, nomic statistics to regard immi- ration as the means by which 1.- 80,000 new consumers have boosted by 7 per cent the market for Canadian farm produce, fac- tory-made goods, and all forms of construction, transportation, enter- tainment, professional services and the other amenities produced--for a fair wage--in Canada. Says Highways Commission Would Stop Irregularities WINDSOR, Ont. (CP) -- Albert Wren, Liberal-Labor member of the legislature for Kenora, Monday night proposed formation of an On- tario highways commission to make sure that "irregularities" in the provincal highways depart m-nt do not occur again. "We must share the full respon- sibility of seeking out and remov- ing the policies, or lack of them, which allow these irregularites to result," he told a Liberal rally in suburban Tecumseh. The highways commission pro- posed by Mr. Wren would com- prise three members: A "leading rofessional engineer" with at east 20 years' experience as chalr- man; the provincial highways min- ister as vice-chairman and a mem- ber of the official opposition, PROPOSES COMMITTEE The Liberal member would set up an "advisory com iittee" com: prising - representatives of municl- pal organizations, highway assoc- ation: highway users, labor and industry. Those reposible for the situ. ation leading to "e present pro- vincial highways probe, he de- clared, are the government policy- 1..zkers. He said: "I'm 'joing to see that these policies are corrected not just for the present but for many years to come." Earlier he said in an interview that lack of pre-engineering on highway projects Ejee 1949 may have cost Ontario payers $17.- "Over five years of andling highway contracts the difference between amounts bid by contract- ing firras and the amounts actually finalized and paid by the province would amount to several millions al "might reach $17,000,000," he said. VITAL LINK The first submarine communica- tions cable from Malta to Alex. andria, 900 miles along the Medi- terranean, was laid in 1869. MAC'S MUSINGS After a long drawn out And sometimes dreary Winter season we have At last reached the day* In March when spring Is supposed to be here And we look forward in A week or so to the Advent of April as if The date on the calendar Gives us assurance that We iwll at once begin To enjoy balmy days. When spring comes we look For warmer sunshine, Longer and brighter days And the opportunity to Spend more time outdoors In the refreshing air, We look forward to the Early removal of storm Windows and doors to Bring the pleasant air Into our homes. The housewife looks Forward to the bustle Of her spring cleaning, ich in spite of its Arduous labor she really Seems to enjoy. Spring seems to bring A new beginning of life To an even greater exteng Than New Year's Day, Because all around us That new life is coming Into being as the sun Warms the earth and sets The plants and grass Growing abundantly. So spring is welcomed Far beyond any other Season of the year, For its welcome transition From the dreary days Of rain, fog and mud that Have plagued us since The month of March began. Red Farms Said In Sorry State LONDON (Reuters) Soviet ministers responsible for Russia's food production drive were blasted by Nikita S. Khrushchev, Com- munist party chief, in a report published in the party paper Pravda. Khrushchev, who has personally supervised the campaign to boost food. output since launching it last September, blamed bureaucracy and red tape for a "sorry state of affairs' in Soviet agriculture. Though Khrushchev has consis. tently ridden herd on officials re- sponsible for carrying through the food drive, this was the strong- est public denunciation he has yet made of agricultural leaders. COWBOY SUED LOS ANGELES (AP)--Damages of $100,000 are demanded in a suit filed Friday by a clock salesman against cowboy singer Gene Autry. The suit alleges that Autry *'wan- tonly, maliciously and outrage- ously" assaulted Harrison Will--d last April 3 and beat him on the head after a traffic accident. ACTRESS IS VICTIM LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Police reported that burglars entered the home of actress Jane Wyman and her husband. Frederick Karger, Friday and took $19000 worth of jewelry and $50 cash. Missing were a ruby necklace, three pairs of diamond ear clips, a diamond necklace, a diamond ring. a watch and Miss Wyman's wedding ring. Dealers of Canad: The | (MEMBERS TORONTO DIAL 5-1104 For Information THOMSON, KERNAGHAN & CO. BOND and BROKERAGE OFFICE 16 KING ST. W., OSHAWA STOCK EXCHANGE) ERIC R. HENRY Resident ' Mgr IN DAYS GONE BY 20 YEARS AGO T. B. Mitchell, president of the Chamber of Commerce, announced that there would be a three-da: drive for membership for the Local merchants, particularly in the electrical appliance business, were highly incensed at the idea that the hydro commission would open a retail store. George Shreve, manager of the Utilities, received many complaints. The Oshawa Colle cational Institute the first "at home" of its history. William J. Lock was elected of the Oshawa Branch Legion. te and Vo- a school fair, Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Richardson, sprin; Golf Street, celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. Dr. Grant L. Bird, District Gov- ernor of Rotary International paid an official visit to the Oshawa Ro- tary and spoke there. OCVI won the Ontario Inter-Schol- astic Hockey trophy for the first time. M. F. Kirkland was the team's coach. bor oy six families were ole to C - self-suppo an removed from the cig' relief lists, This left a total of families and 62 single men on relief which was sousigarably jower ban at the same ous when figures showed those ob yertef $0 be 1136 families and 200 single en. Snow, sleet and rain made Osh- awa citizens very uncomfortable and incredulous of the arrival of g. Good Friday was on March with Easter on April 1. Snow X. no inducement for milady to wear her new finery. PARIS LETTER Winter Sports In France Popular By FRANCES KNECHT Special Correspondent to The Times-Gazette PARIS, France --Ask a Parisian where "La Toussuire" is, and he will probably think you are talk- ing of some distant outpost of the colonies. Certainly not one in a hundred will know that it is a little Save hamlet 1800 metres up in the French Alps. Only a few years ago La Tou- suire was simply the pasture land for cows, goats and sheep, with shepherds' huts sparsely dotted here and there. Today it boasts of half a dozen chalets with a dozen ms or so each and the proud owners pretentiously calling them hotels. There are one or two pri- vate log cabins, a little wooden church and two general shops, where one can hire skis, buy sou- venirs, postcards, chocolates, cig- arettes, newspapers and the thou- sand and one things one needs on holiday. There is no post office. The "facteur" (postman), calls to deliver and collect the mail, weather permitting. RECORD SPEED Leaving Paris 4 the imposi through train to Rome, of whic several coaches are Italian (three compartments are artisti- cally decorated with reproductions of paintings by the great mas- ters) -- the traveller is carried along on the swiftest line in France. This is the run on which a speed of 243 kilometres an hour was reached to break the world's train speed record three weeks ago by an electric efigine. This means the rail travel is much less tiring and far cleaner than the steam engine which little by little is giving place to the electric type train. The obvjective of the French railways is eventually to electrify all the main lines as sobn as the "Electricity of France" has in- creased its power supply through a series of new dams now under construction. Unfortunately at Dijon, after a run of less than three hours, the electrified system ends and the trip continues at a considerably re- duced speed. Another five hours south of Dijon and litile more than an hour from the Italian fron- tier at Modane, one arrives at "Et-Jean-De-Maurienne", a lovely little historical town, rather off the beaten track, but at the same time worth a visit. ANCIENT TOWER An old clock tower, dating from the 10th century, dominates the centre. It is all that is left of an ancient fortress. The first Count de Maurienne was born in 170 and be- longed to the royal family of Bour- goyne. Later the Counts de Mau- rienne became the Dukes of Sa- voy. The religious history of Mau- rienne goes as far. back as 565, when an ancient church, dedicat- ed to the Virgin Mary and to St. John the Baptist, - was erected. This church was destroyed by fire in 1034 and rebuilt shortly after- wards and stands to this day. Evi- dently it was restored several times through the ages. It has a most original aspect with three naves and an architectural mix- ture of Roman and Gothic. Many of the houses date from the middle ages, with immensely thick walls, low doorways and for- bidding dark passages. These houses are absolutel, the period, in the sense that they lack com- pletely running water, and even the most primitive form of sani- tation. Nevertheless, these Savoy- ards are a kindly, slow - oving people and the picture of g health. The somewhat ramshackle mo- tor bus, the only link between this little town and the mountain vil- lages, takes the traveller, after a good hour's climbing with man, hair - raising bends in the roa and several stops at little cafes to allow the driver time for a well- deserved apertif -- to La Tous- suire. On the advice of friends, I chose this little winter sports station for a fresh-air cure, and must say it is delightful. It -is surrounded by peaks, some of which are 3,400 metres high and the scenery is superb. FRANCE DISCOVERS ALPS France has little by little discov ered her . Ips, which are pally as beautiful as in Switzerlan developing rapidly many such cen- tres, where the facilities are equal to the better known re su as Megeve, Alp d' Huez, of Val d'Isere.. The well-heated chalet « hotels have their showers, comfort- able beds and good country food, ust what one needs for a rugged « oliday without frills. La Toussuijre has three ski-lifts, one of which goes up to 2,200 metres in height, to the point of a peak. One guards jealously the al- lures of these lesser known winter sports stations, where the prices are just about a third of what is asked at more fashionable resorts. Skiing is becoming more and more popular in France and is now within the reach of all. For the long weekend of the '"'Mardi-Gras" there was not a room to had anywhere. I was rather disappointed on trying out the little skis described in a previous letter to The Times- Gazette. I had more difficulty in keeping a good balance on them, but on straight runs they are un- doubtedly an advantage over the others. However, after giving a good tryout for two days, I was happy to return to my long ones. OVER-ENTHUSIASTIC It is said that the French do not enjoy themselves at sport as they take it too seriously. In any case, their enthusiasm for skiing is extraordinary and the spirit of competition often pushes the younger ones to take unnecessa risks which frequently lead to acci- dents. It is certain that many a broken leg could have been avoid- ed by a little more caution. The development of winter sports in France has brought un- dreamed of prosperity to these mountain folk, and the improve- ment of roads and transportation has brought Alpine resorts within easy reach, when one thinks, for instance, that breakfast can taken in Paris and dinner at La Toussuire. . if your body is not getting suf- ficient iron, eat more liver kid. ney, heart and tongue, as well as leafy vegetables. When Milt "Speaks" enjoy listenir } MILT DUNNELL a on Sport. Speaking (3) t 2 Mur | Dun When Milt Dunnell writes about sports, he writes with authority earned as a player and team manager. And when he writes about sports celebrities, he writes about people he knows Milt is a product ot western Ontario where every sport fan is a well-informed critic Milt has been in the big league for a long time now as Sports Editor of The Toronto Daily Star Milt is a quiet, modest fellow for whom sportsmen loosen up when they talk, so he hears a lot of inside information which makes interesting reading. You'll enjoy Milt's column, "Speaking on Sport", which appears every day in The Daily Star. It's packed with news about sports events and sports characters and it sparkles with the lighter and brighter. kind of humor that makes life Have The Toronto Daily Star delivered to your home. It has all the news and the best news features. Delivered by Carrier, 30c a Week 1 month Mailed to Any Address « $ 1.2% 3 months ..... 6 Hy 1 year Address Circulation Dept., Daily Star. 80 King St. W Toronto STA 8 i]