The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Roar Of Newspaper Presses Echo 100-Year-Old Thunder VANCOUVER (CP) --~ When, Next day publisher James H. To fill in the blank Mondays, the offset presses of the Van-|Ross of The News went to Vie-| the Vancouver Ledger came out} couver Times began to turn onjtoria and bought another print-|as a weekly, later going into the} Sept. 5, their roar echoed aling plant. On Wednesday, using/daily field. It lasted t hres! same year with The Evening Star. GENERAL RETURNS The Star was about six weeks old when it sold out to Maj.- Gen, Victor W. Odlum, who had been associated with The World and who today is chairman of the board of the Vancouver Times. In January, 1926, The Evening Star became The Morning Star, taking over the Morning Sun's thunder nearly 100 years old. |borrowed facilities, he produced) months. 'circulation, while The Sun ac- By DAN COGGIN NEW DELHI (AP)--A little boy squats in the dust and taunts an ant with a stick, The ant races about frantically, and the lad smiles on his unwilling The Times, an evening paper|the story of the fire which had 'The Morning Guardian was is the latest publication to enter|halted his press on the Sunday.| started in 1907, but didn't get the lively, brassy world of the! The Herald and The Adverti- off the ground. In 1910 The Vancouver newspaper business, ser resumed publication soon' News-Advertiser was sold to a way of life born across the afterward. J. §. H. Matson, owner of the harbor in an old mill on July) {p 1887 Francis L. Carter-Cot-| Victoria Colonist, for $500,000. 20, 1878. 'ton and R. W. Gordon bought! In 1912 the weekly B.C. Satur- The first newspaper in the/The News and The Advertiser/day Sunset became the Van- area was the Moodyville Tick-|and combined them into Ri cnncas Gan pivine the ely: twdl ler, published by William Royde}daily. So careful was its report- ore giving . | Colbeck, a 26-year-old clerk in|ing of politics, that The Daily) Morning hewspapers--The Sua} a lumber yard. |News-Advertiser won the nick-/4"4 The News-Advertiser--and It sold for 50 cents a copy,/name Hansard of British Colum-|two evening publications--The came out weekly and lasted/bia. |World and The Province. lald, a daily which died quietly| tempted, The Evening Journal! "Tt was written at odd inter- | ths lat iii Ns Lag nr agg ego br century were hectic for the Van- riedly stolen from that sleep re.| dence." gestigas jof The Sun and, in 1917, The} The Port Moody Gazette was 1883, It lasted four years. in the hands of the receivers. The first major change in the| three, possibly four weeks. | The Weekly Herald meanwhile) Around 1915 two short-lived Célbeck wrote: |had become The Evening Her-|publishing ventures were at- lin June,' 1888, and The Evening Times. vals, during the wee sma' hours) The early years. of the 20th of the night, in moments Buy) saver Daily World was begun cs gin ath enemy | A ' t h t on | a PWS b} 58. which one was loth to with a -atyieeot aout: of "iaae R. J, Cromie took over as owner nounce,"' e one The Daily Telegram was Sun bought out The News-Ad-! next on the scene, appearing in|launched in 1890--by 1892 it was! vertiser for $100,000. | In 1886 the Vancouver Weekly, In 1898, a lusty young weekly|post-war period came in 1921) |Herald and North Pacific News\in Victoria suddenly became ajwhen John Nelson sold The quired the Star's evening circu- lation and withdrew from the) (playmate. This might be a glimpse of a Untouchables In India Live And Die In Poverty ization still struggling toward the industrial revolution. Prime Minister Shastri's gov- ernment is trying to better the lot of India's downtrodden, but what could any regime do right away, today, when 356,000,000 of its 465,000,000 people are illiter iat Indian life. Bizarre contrasts esult: A' destitute family lives in a ditch beneath the wall around a rich man's magnificent mosque. Gaunt men sweat to pull over- loaded carts while shiny little cars weave in and out of traf- fic, Barefooted women workers a construction site take bricks off a western-built truck and balance a dozen on their heads as they walk to a wall going up. A_ well-fed Indian businessman shoos a stray bul- lock off the alwnof hisc omfo rt- morning field. The Sunday Sun,|child at play in North America ate, when 5,000,000 of its citizens/lock off the lawn of his comfort relic of the Sunday morning edi- tion of The News-Advertiser, ceased publication as a Sunday paper and became the Saturday edition of The Evening Sun. The Star ceased publication in 1932, leaving Vancouver without a morning newspaper for the first time in 40 years, The move set the stage for the appear- ance of the Vancouver News- Herald. ; It was founded in 1933 by for- jmer Star. men' who preferred deadlines to breadlines. It was begun as a co-operative and in its formative period: the foun- ders bartered advertising for food, clothing and rent. Some took stock in lieu of sal- aries, It was sold to Duncan A. Hamilton in 1938. Controlling in- terest went to The Sun in 1951. The following year it was pur- chased by the Thomson newspa- but the differences are shanp) and clear, | The boy is dirty, sickly and the rags he wears leave his emaciated frame half naked, He plays in a dusty narrow strip between two dilapidated buildings, smelly and_ littered! with filth. | Home is a tattered tarpaulin |stretched between the buildings. It's all he knows. Here he was born, here he lives and here or in some other squalid place h¢ probably will die. Born an untouchable, the low- est caste in India's social sys-| tem, the boy's prospects of al brighter future are virtually| nil, It takes all his father can make as a sweeper to keep the family alive. Money for an edu- cation is out of the question, MAIM INFANTS |bowed in, published on a hand|daily and moved across to Van-| World to Charles Campbell for|pers,. It ceased publication in| Even for this 'urchin things) press brought from. Toronto.| couver and the Vancouver Daily|$250,000, In 1923, the Southam) Later the same year the Van-| Province was born, Company bought The Province, couver Advertiser and the Van-| For 14 years The News-Adver-|Paying about $3,500,000 couver News began publication. tiser appeared each morning ex-| _ In 1924 The Sun took over The All three were wiped out on|cept Monday. The World and/World and started morning and 1957. could have been worse, He| are utterly homeless? The grim, grinding poverty engulfing India's masses makes a stark impression because it is so inescapably widespread and tightly woven into the fabric of lable cottage. MEETING PLACE The waters of 48 rivers drain into Chesapeake Bay on the U.S. Atlantic coast. TREAT YOURSELF TO AN ENJOYABLE EVENING AT THE CANADIANA! Only 20 minutes from Oshawo . . the luxurious Canadiana welcomes you with sophisticated elegance. Dine in the magnifi- cent glass-encircled dining room. . . tal and Canadian dishes. Afterwards... . Blue Room, Treat yourself to soon! enjoy delicious Continen- relox in theAntimate 'anadiane an evening a LICENSED UNDER THE LIQUOR LICENCE ACT. the Canadiana With the mofning field again|could have fallen into the hands} vacant, The Sun and Province|of professional beggars who} pooled their assets in a new|would have maimed him in in-| calted Pacific|/fancy to stir sympathy among publishing firm Press, The Province became a MOTOR HOTEL at Kennedy Rd. Agincourt, Ont. Right on Hwy. 401 WOMAN CHIMNEY SWEEP War Gave Girls Plenty Of Work By CAROL KENNEDY LONDON (CP) -- "Oh, we "ion't want to lose you, but we think you ought to go,' sang the chorus girls coquettishly in 'August, 1914. * "Women of Britain Say -- Go!" proclaimed posters show- ing two girls watching soulfully as their boys in khaki marched away. Another, particularly hated in the trenches, showed a white-haired mother telling her son: 'Go! It's Your Duty, Lad. Join Today." ; One feverishly patriotic girl spent a whole day calJ'nz num- bers in the telephone directory) whoever an- and saying to swered: "Is there a man in the} house? I have a message for him from Lord Kitchener." | Other women handed a white feather to any man they saw in) civilian clothes. Some | found they had given the sym- hol of cowardice to soldiers dis- charged because of wounds. Thus began the First World War on the "home front"--in an atmosphere of unhealthy zeal and emotional blackmail that found no counterpart in 1939. Not that there was « lack of volunteers. War was still an wbstract concept touched with giory to the young men who flocked to the colors, eager to escape a too-settled figure, feel- ing with Rupert Brooke "like swimmers into cleanness leap- ing." This illusion soon withered in the squalor of the Western Front, but it persisted at home. "Belgium put the kibosh on the Kaiser,' sang the music- hall audiences, while Be'gian troops Liege. KEEP GOD OUT A clergyman in-a crowded troop-train remarked: "So you were slaughtered at a | swept through the city. mobs stormed the London streets wrecking and looting shops with Germanic-sounding names. The anti - German orgy jreached ridiculous lengths. At lone stage it was even unpatri- lotic to keep a dachshund. |An umbrella advertisement jwarned: "Beware of umbrel- jlas made on German frames," Reputations were ruined be- cause of real .or rumored Ger- man connections. Lord Haldane jresigned from the cabinet; Prince Louis of Battenberg changed his family name to | Mountbatten. Conscientious objectors could expect brutal treatment. Some were sexually assaulted by prison guards, Bertrand Rus- sell, now the venerable philoso- pher and ban-the-bomb leader, Lord Russell, was jailed for six months for writing a |tious" article. | H. G. Wells, initially in doubt jabout the war, became con- iverted to a belief in its right- jness and enshrined his change | of heart in a 1916 best - seller jealled Mr. Britling Sees It /Through. In it he coined the jphrase 'thy war to end war." He lived just long enough to see the Second World War. | |\SOVEREIGNS VANISH Soon after war broke out, gold sovereigns were with- drawn "for the duration" and replaced by the first banknotes. They never reappeared in cir- culation, The war cost Britain about £500,000 ($1,500,000) a day, but some government committees thought five shill- ings a generous grant for the \pregnant wife of a serving sol- ier. The Defence of the Realm Act curtailed some liberties. Its) restrictive licensing laws. still) influence British life. But in First World War Lon-} Sunday, June 13, 1886, when fire/The Province came out every) evening editions, Charles Camp- levening except Sunday. see the LEW | |bell returned to the business the! morning publication. alms givers, Such sights are not! uncommon in this ancient civil-| F85 OLDS tomorrow { are going to fight God's war?" There was a leaden silence, don one would not have gusesed then one man told him: 'Keep at the slaughter raging across your friend out of this bloody the Channel. The watchword mess." was "business as. usual." The | } Women took up war work; | capital was scarcely ggazed by) driving trams, making ammu- bombs and the cigar - nition or nursing, even sweep- Zeppelins were regarded with ing chimneys and mending the|more excitement. than fear, es- roads. A cut above ordinary|pecially if one were brought nurses in the social scale were|down flaming out of the night VADs--members of the Volun-|sky. tary Aid Detachment. Society, Ivor Novello's first song, beauties like Lady Diana Man-|Keep the Home Fires Burning, hers were photographed in their|set the tone of the wartime starched, ankle - length uni-\capital. The West End was forms. brightly lit--in eontrast to the . War fever raged and atrocity|blackout gloom of the Second rumors spread on the home|World War -- and drew vast front in 1915, a year that in-| crowds to "tango teas" and ro- cluded the sinking of the Lu-| mantic musicals like The Maid Sitania and the shooting of of the Mountains. nurse Edith Cavell for helping) Men on leave recorded dis- wounded and refugee soldiers gust or bewilderment at the escape from occupied Belgium. hysterical optimism and biased When the Lusitania was torpe-|war reports they found at doed with the loss of 1,198 lives,' home. STOP AT Ancus-GRAYDON CARPET COMPANY 282 King W., Oshawa ® Tel. 728-6254 Oshawa's Rug and Carpet Centre Broadloom-Tile-Linoleum Rug Cleaning shaped) | The style is new. There's a new die-cast grille, front more massive, more impressive. And there' ride. Quieter and smoother. And that's saying som corrosion protection. Starting with galvanized roc corrosion soft spot in many cars. New interiors, P| inviting. New almost everything. A GENERAL MOTORS VALUE to the rear deck. But that's not all that's new. There's a new 1 isis. making the s a new flair ething. New ker panels, a ushier, more new F- them 85's.Give che a call. ew Tel. 291-1171 Area Code 416 (we callit the pocket-book sized Olds F-85 is new this year. Just about every way--except one. Except its price which is again pocket-book pleasing. F-85 is still an easy car to own. Nice car to own, too. Why don't you talk to the people selling the new 1965 Oldsmobiles? They'll be glad to see you driving one of their F85 Model illustrated: F-85 Cutlass Holiday Coupe. VISIT YOUR LOCAL AUTHORIZED QUALITY OLDSMOBILE DEALER Authorjzed Dealers in Oshawa-Whitby ONTARIO MOTOR SALES LTD. 140 BOND ST. WEST, OSHAWA, ONT, PHONE: 725-6501 HARRY DONALD LID. 300 DUNDAS ST. EAST, WHITBY, ONT. PHONE 668-3304, 668-3305, 668-3306 Be Sure to See Bonanza over Channel 6 at 9 O'Clock Sunday Night -