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PAGE TWO THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO THURSDAY, APRIL 1lTH, 1940 MM4 gànai-an it*ginm Establlshed 1854 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER With whlch are Incorporated The Dowmanville News, The Newcastle Independent, and The Orono News. 85 years' continuons service to the Town of Bowmanville and Durham County. MEMBER Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and Clms A Weeklles of Canada. SUBSCRIPTION RATES $2.00 a Year, strictiy in advance. 52.50 a Year In the United States. GEO. W. JAMES, Editor. THURSDAY, APRIL 11TH, 1940 Diphtheria Prevention Campaign. The annual diphtheria prevention cam- paign of the Health League of Canada is being, launclied this week throughout On- tario. "Toxoid Week" the name given to the campaigl, lias been confined to Toronto since 1929, but during the past few years efforts have been made to spread the cdu- cational campaign throughout Ontario. In many parts of Ontario, Medical Officers of Health are urging parents to have their children immunized against diplitheria. Toxoid lias been in use in Bowmanville for several years, and amazing, resuits have been achieved, there heing "No cases of Diphtheria" for five years as a resuit of the use of Toxoid. Tlirough the leadership given by Dr. W. H. Birks, M.O.H., and the local doctors, Bowmanviie lias au enviable heaith record. Death toil in Ontario from diplitheria 10 years ago was 262. In .1937 the number of deaths throughout the whole of Canada was 369. In 1937, 30 deaths from diphtheria oc- curred in Ontario. In 1938 the nu.mber drop- ped to 12. Last year there were 7. As diplitheria is especially fatal to child- ren between six months and six years of age, emphasis is plaeed by the Health League of Canada on watching the pre- school chiîdren. One method used in the Toronto campaign is to reacli a large per- centage of the parents of younger chidren through sending a message home through the pupils at sehool. "Death through diphtheria can be pre- vented," states Dr. Gordon Bates, General Director of the Health League of Canada. "Life is important enough in peace-time, but in war-time it is doubly important. Canada can make a great contribution to- ward winning the war by keeping its people healthy."_____ "Highways of the Volce" So reads the heading of the Bell Tele- phone Comnpany advertisement in a nother column of this paper which is one of a series of historical significance depicting, in word and picture the amazing progress of tele- phone communication siîice the company w-as formed sixty years ago. With the aftermath of a federal election, the outbreak of a world war ini ail its hor- rors and the strain and tension accompafly- ing these conditions, one is apt to overlook the importance of the anniversary of such a remarkable invention that has become common place. But when vou stop to think of the vast speed-up in the tcmpo of life in recent decades - for much of which the telephone is responsible - you are likely to attach some importance to this story of telephone growth here ini Canada. Canadians make more telephone calls per head of population than the people of any other land on earth. One may even go so far as to say without contradiction that this country's leadership in this public utiiity has corne about mainly because of the company's steadilv improving stan"d- ard of service at rates wvieh are iower than prevail ini almost any other coinitrNv. but w'ill selil al that lie'lias-as--weil, Thle April issue of "Chatelaine," out- standing mag-aziiîe for ('anad ian wcomen, lîas a inost informative article oni this sub- jeet cntitled "What Does New York Want?' lu brief here are the requireen-ts. 1. Characteristically Canadians, cînbodying symbols. of the rugged strength of a newN country; 2. Their standard must be higli and unifrom; 3. The supply must be ample and continu.ous; 4. The Canadian price imust bc competitive. And moreover the style of these handicrafts must lie the up-to-the-minute New York style. We must know what Americans will appreciate and then the produets îvill meet a warm welcome and a quick sale. Getting a Proper Mental Attitude What a differemîce briglit sunshine, warm winds and the removal of snow and ice from our streets inakes in our mental atti- tude! If wc are surrounded by dirty suow and ice and cold winds our attitude mcntally cannot be of the best. Spring with its birds and flow-crs stiamulates us ail to new life and renew-ed mental vigour. Everyone feels this and knows it to be absolutely true. May wve then work toward a better mental at- titude which wiil hclp us to look beyond the dark louds? To become obsessed with the idea that the world is heading for chaos and is witliout hope is only to create a spirit of despondency and hopelessness within our- selves and others. This is created by wrong enterta4.nment, reading and nonversation. Let us make a definite effort to select the right kind of books to read and the right kind of pictures to sec, and let us keep our conversation on a cheerful plane, keeping our thoughts on brigliter things. We can in this way create an optimism which ivill work toward greater happiness for ourselves and others, and make our conmmunity a better place in which to live. Observations and Opinions A Statesman reader in Toronto whose wide knowledge and long experience qual- ifies him as a student of. human nature, sends us a comment about our editorial on viclous literature in soene American maga- zincs and the reprimand given us by a local stationer. Here is lis opinion: '«I was much interested in the views, but I am not excited. Running waters cleanse tliem- selves. I have faith i11 the future. The filth being- poured into the main stream may damage some minds, but there will bie a correction - by Time." Roger W. Babson, the. man who 9keeps lis fingjer on the pulse of United Stat -es and diagnoses lier ailments, financial and and industriai, as well as unemploymcnt, and preseribes for them, addressed the St. Petersburg Rotary Club in Florida, the other day. In referring to tlie war in Europe lie said.: "The United States wiil not enter the European war before November 8, 1940. What will lie donc after thlt will depend on conditions. If the Allies aeed our lielp in order to win, w-e may b:an tliem part of our navy and possibly some of our air force." Witli the announcement from Ottawa that R. Watson Sellar had been promoted £rom Comptroller of rreasury-to Auditor General of Canada, editors of weekly newspapers re- ceived the news of this appointment with considerable satisfaction and pride. For Mr. Sellar was at one time editor of Qucbec's outstanding Engliali speaking weekly news- paper, the Huntingdon Gleaner, which con- tinues to be capably edited by lis brother, Adam L. Seilar, a former President of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. It is iiiter*e.ç<ing- to note that Mr. Sellar's f irst job with the Dominion of Canada was ini the army during the Great War at $1.10. a day. To-day as Audîtor General lis salary is $15,000 per annum. Citizens of Midland must have receivcd a mild shock last week wlen they rcceived their local paper, The Frce Press. Instead of the usual standard size newspaper which tlmcv have been acetistomed te for mai13 years, the Free Press blossomed forth as a super-mcdem-u streaînlined tabioi<l news- paper cf the metropolitan city variety. It w-as mnade tmp of three sections of 28 pag-es, including a comie section, with local news a-plenty, feature articles, editorials and profuseiy ilîmstratecl. We admire .1. H. Gran- ,-ton & Son, editors and publishers, for their initiative and congratulate theni for the advance step they have made in weeki3- journalism, and thc pace they have set, for the rcst of u.5 wcekly editors te foilow. In the passing of the 93-3-ar-cId Barrie Advancc, by being amalgamated with the Barrie Examiner, another co.mmunit3- bc- cornes a one-paper town. Truc, many faith- fui readers of the Advancc will feel the3- have lost an old fricnd of thc faînil3-, for that's just how many suliscribers look upoui tlîeir local paper - a truc and valucd friend whieh is a welcome visitor te famiiv fire- sie every week. The Examminer s wcll cquipped to Taeet the extra dcmands cf a larger cîrcle of readers. Edited by J. A. MacLiareni, Thc Examiner is thc permanent possessor of the first Mason Trophy, em- llematie of thc lest ail-round weckly news- paper published in Camnada. W\e have often thouglit with a model paper sudh as the Examiner, which serves its readers amni advertisers se weIl, it seeîned superfînous anîd unnccessary to have a second paper in Barrie. W'e therefore cougratulate the pub- lishiers anmd advertiscrs on this desirable -ondition of letting The Examiner do a (Ymmunity-widc job wvhich it is well quaI- if ied to do - and will do. AsIaÇeet. By Elmore Philpott CUMBERSOME DEMOCRACY It took Canada 55 days ta ob- tain a new parliament. Long before tbe end o! tbe election everytbing tbat could possibly be said to state tbe case of tbe var- ious candidates and parties bad been said so of ten tbat most people refused to put tbemselves in a position wbere tbey might bave 'to listen to it again. There was less speech-making by the big leaders tban in any other campaign in memory. ,Yet, in spite o! that, it was far too long. Had tbis war been like previous wars whole nations migbt bave crumbled, and vast revolutions staged, before Canada completed the too-cumbersome process of renewing ber parliamentary re- presentation. The actual mecban- ics of tbis election were less clumsy than tbey used ta b&. But in my opinion the wbole process could be simplified and stream- lined, both to reduce the cost of taking the vote and to reduce the amount of inconvenience there is to tbe voters in casting their ballots. I cannot see wby ahl voters should not bave the rigbt ta vote at any time between nomination day and election day. After the candidates are once officially re- gistered tbere is no reason why any electar sbonld not cast bis - vote tbrougb the same channels as the soldier voters used in the the election just over. The double envelope system preserves thee secrecy o! the ballot, and also prevents impersonation as effec- tively as impersonation can be prevented. It seems to me that a few cen- ters migbt be set aside in thee next general election to test out a dual aystem o! voting. Those who wanted ta vote as they bave always done conld do so. But teose who wanted to go to some central office and obtain their ballots, mailing same M advance of tee final poil could do teat. Under our present system tbou- sands of students, traveilers, and oteers wbo bappen to be away from home are disfrancbised. I met men on the prairies wbo drove over a thousand miles, and lost several days' pay, because teey were interested enongh in tee election ta go home ta vote. This need not be. We do not apply a fraction of the same common sense ta our political processes as we do to any modern business enterprise. There is anoteer aspect ta the question wbich greatly intereats me. The necessity for campaign funds, and tee corruption whicb, s0 often surrounds campaign funds, centers about a very simple !act: That is that tee practicai politicians bave found by bitter experience tbat about thee ardeat part of any election is ta get the. voters out on election day. I can- not speak from personal know- ledge in tee west. But I do know teat any candidate in any eastern Canadian city riding wbo does not have from one, hundred ta three bundred cars working all day, al- most literally to drag tee voters to tee poils, does not have a chance to be elected, even tbougb the majority o! the elçctors in the riding migbt be quite willing ta vote for hlm if teey ever did happen ta get there. It is easy to say that if the voters are too downrigbt lazy to take tee trouble ta get themselves to the polis they do not deserve tee vote anyway, and that if de- mocracy is s0 rotten that sncb is tee way it works, let it go any- way. The real question is: What other syatem bas ever worked so well: and could not tee littie in- efficiencies of democracies be cbecked up and wiped ont if we were willing to take tee pains? FINANCIAL REVOLUTION The biggest political story in Canada to-day is not concerned wite tee repercussions o! the gen- eral election. It centers about the financial policy being pursued by the governments at Ottawa and London. There are some observers who teink that the social impli- cations o! these policies are con- nected with the actual strategy o! the war - and that the pro- longed inactîvity on the fighting fronts is not alone due to the- inability ta find a battlefront but because tee ruling class in Britain realizes teat once totalitarian war starts it cannot be stapped. And while there la very littie doubt o! the military ontcome of a tatalitarian war, there is very real doubt about the social effect of having ta fight such a war. The financial question vitally affects Canada in two ways. In tee first place Britain is making huge purchases in Canada. To find the money to pay for sucb purchases Britain is selling ta Canada stocks and bonds held in the Old Country. These stocks and bonds cover Canadian pro- perties. The net e!fect therefore is ta reduce tbe amount o! capital teat citizens o! the United King- dom have invested in Canada. The details of this scheme have been kept secret. But as time goea on there will have ta be more investigation o! those details. For instance, it la no absolute secret that the Canadian government is buying common stock o! the C.P. R. from time ta time on the Brit. ish market. It is therefore highly probable that if the war lasts three or four years the people o! Canada will find themselves owning not only one railway but two, Railways amalgamation has been a red lot political question in Canada for several years. It is well within the realm o! possibil. ity that railway amalgalnation will become a forgone. conclusion as a by-product o! the financial arrangement already in operation between the two governments. Railway amalgamation may prove to be inevitable and may or may not be desirable. But certainly the Canadian people should flot be led toward it blindfold. The new par. liament has a real duty to perform in pressing for fu publicity on the exact nature of the plan. The larger question concerns the so-called Keynes plan of war finance. One financial man wbo knows about as mucb of public finance as any man in Canada 'said to me recently that the Keynes philosopby already was the underlying basis of the trea- sury policy both in London and at Ottawa. In a nutshell the Key- nes plan is this: That in the last war prices rose faster than wages and the net effect of the lopsided spiral of inflation was the dis- astrous post war collapse; that all wage earners and income re- ceivers should be forced to accept a certain percentage their earn. ings in "savings certificates" And that these savings certificates should be redeemable when the war is over if necessary from - the proceeds o! a capital levy. Let me hasten ta add that so far it is just the Keynes phil- osophy and not the actual Keynes plan that is in operation. But the word lias been effectively passed around both in Britain and Canada that if money is flot suf- ficiently readily forthcoming in response to voluntary boans the compulsory principle will be ap- plied. The strangest part o! this strange war is that it has created conflicts behind the scenes in ahl countries. So far tbey have been kept pretty well behind the scenes. But I do not believe they can be kept there much longer. THERE'LL ALWAYS BE- A Scotcbman in our midst has sent this to the Editor with tbe suggestion that he needn't keep it a secret. There'll always be an England So long as Scotland stands, For it's due to dear old Scotland That England's wealth expands. Our friendly neighbor England We always will defend, We'll help to fight ber batties, Her broken ships we'll mend. And when the war is over And victory is won, We'll sing of England's glory And the wonders she bas done. 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Victor EXIDE GOODYEARS CAR RADIO Ca DEAN HODOSON Phone 2600 King St. E., Bowmanville When everytbing seems lost, Education has for its object thel Instruction increases inborn noble souls find their opportunity. formation of character-Herbert w o r t h, and right discipline -Lacordaire. Spencer. - strengthens the heart-Horaoe. ClOýM"PARE 1)0iIE'T1 CHECK DONGE SIZE, RIDE SAFET, ECONONT, BEAIT.. The More Yom Compar-'I/Se e1e4 %a'uli/a& oc W. J. CHALLIS King Street Bewmanvile n '-'9 TIIURSDAY, APRIL 11TH, 1940 PAGE TWO THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO