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PAGE TWO fablabeil 1854 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER With wblch are Jneorporated Thec Bowmanville News, The Newcastle Independent, and The Orono News. 85 years' entinuous service te the Town of Bowmanville and Durham County. MEMBER Canadian Weekly NewsPpieru Association and C1IW A Weeklies of Cana"a SuBScaoRTON ]RATES $2.00a Year, trlotir ha advance. 33.50 a Vear ta the Unlted States. GEO. W. JAMES, Editor. THURSDAY, AUGUST 1ST, 1940 The Editorial of the Week Each week The Financial Post, Canada 's .ý ùôutst4Ading financial publication, features en ÏtA editorial page what it ternis "The Oanadian Editorial of the Week," which means that the editorial staff of The Post in looking over Canadian newspapers from week ta week seleets one editorial froni among the daily and weekly newspapers across the Dominion which they consider outstanding. Believe it or not, that honar and distinction was given ta The Statesman for the editorial in its issue of July lth headed "Mackenzie King, a Statesman-and a Folitiian." NaturaIly we greatly apprec- iate this hoùlor coming from sucli a highly rated publication as The Financial Post, whose own editorials and news columns delve deeper than the mere surface of things. That is why readers of The Post look forward ta its arrivai eneli week as they read it with confidence that the editor- ilnews columnne and its interpretation of national and international affaira bave been studied and written by a staff of experts the like of which no other publication in Canada eau match for dependability and uane judgment. A Message to Garcia Forty-two years ago Elbert Hubbard wrote that smashing tribute ta R.owan. He told how Rowah landed from a small boat, by night, and penetrated the mountain fast- nesses of Cuba ta find Garcia, the Insurgent leader. He found him and delivered a vital mes- sage from the President of the United States. That was during the Spanish-Aâmer- jean war. The point stressed b3r Hubbard was this: Bowan was given orders-a mandate-to do a certain job-and quickly. He had ta chart his own course-there was a war on- s0 he drove straigbt ta bis objective. He did the job, neatly, completely, and on time. He did flot quibble nor confer; consut vith comaittees, refer ta blue prints, nor root among the ramifications of red-tape. He did the job! He was a man of initia- tive and action. He had no political ambi- tions, bence his eyes were not asiant upon the voting populace. Yet the plaudits of the public still acclaim his achievement. There is a lesson here for any man, who- ever or wherever lie may be found. And it is this: If a mandate be given-especially a public mandate-get on with the job- MOVE, ACT, straight upon tbe objective. There will be na need to worry about future votes. The highest place in the State will be thrust, in perpetuity, upon any man who, iii times of peril, can hew to the 15ne, un- fettered by devious p6litical ruminations- and get the job done. There is a lesson here for anyone holding awartime mandate. Not ta heed it means, in Gfod's gaad time, te~e rumble of the political hearse along. the cobbled street called - Cautiousness. " P~or a long time now, ini these columns and by private correspondence with varioa departments of government, we have been urging Ottawa to consider and act upon suggestions made in ail good faith. Sug- gestions aisned toward timely wartime needs. We have endeavoured to penetrate the "niuntain fastnesses" of an ever-growing bureaucracy. Many of these suggestions StAmpa 1 1Reatriçt The tinuel luxuries of the thouglit- leus astb.y have ini Britain. . ather serap iron as a national enterprise anud curb thle oily salesman Ieeching hard- won dollars from hard-up farmers for spec- ulative mm'unjg enterprises. Reairret the nioribund Department of Agriculture and plan a course for Canadian farinera for 1941; thie plows are even now turning the sod. We cannot locate the Garcia in that Department. Do something for the bard, keen, veterans of the Home Guard who have answered the Government's calI-who are drilling in their own time, paying their own transporatian, but, as yet, with 110 word as ta pay or ulti- mate equipment, or whither. These are a few-anly a few-af the items in the "shoulder ta shoulder" pragram. People are cammencing ta ask: "Where is this man GarciaV" Boys of the OId Brigade There are same things which many people can hardly comprehend. We encountered one of them this week while an onlooker at the Veterans' Home Guard drill at the Fub- lic School grounds and during their medicai examinatian last Thursday.. Some men, well over 50 ycars of age, their bodies showing the effeet of age and past service with variaus units of the army, presented themselves for cxa.minatian, lied about their ages and iitcrally did' their ut- most ta be taken on for furthcr mlitary service. Many of these men had seen four ycars' service overseas with active and dangerous outfits during the last Great War. They kncw the privation and the peril of war. They were not filied with youth and eager- ness for excitement, but were trying ta do their bit ta keep England and the British Empire alive - the same thing they bad dane a quarter century ago. One man was. a veteran of not only the Great War, but the Boer war as well and was as disappointed as a youngster when the M.O. gave him an E rating because of bis 60 years. Gun sbat wounds were plentiful amongst these brave veterans, but they did not bother ta go into details. Most af them passed thcm off as iightly as tbey could, attempting ta fool the doctor into thinking there was no- thing wrong. We wondered if the young people of Canada were as full of spirit aud loyalty ta the British Empire and whether they would go througb bell as these men have and came back for more when they were needed. It was an evening sucli as we have neyer spent before and anc which wiil be difficult ta forget. We say more poWer ta these men of menit and experience. No matter how aid they may be, nor how emaciated with wounds, their bodies are, the spirit they are showingy is the finest example of courage and loyalty we have ever seen. Wben you sec them on parade, remember that these men fought for liberty once befane and won and now tbey carry on again. Let's give them a real cheer! Reward Treachery With Death Gucas we must be getting a bit liard- boiied for when*we read iast wcek that par- uinent at Ottawa had passed a, treachery, billI fnficting capital punîahment 'on any anc guilty of treason or assisting cncmy forces we mentally observed; "Thein s my senti- ments. " The trend in the past century bas been away froin capital punishanent but circum- stances have altcred the trend in the present war. It is aimed at the type of trcachery which enabled Nazi forces averrun Europ- ean cauntries they hald under subjection. The ncw law wiil send Fifth Columnists ta the gallows. Finance Minister J. L. Iisley defincd trcacliery under the new bill. He said: "'Trcachery or the offense which it is thought proper ta punish with death is that if, with' intent ta help the enejny, any persan does or attcmpts or conspires with any ather person ta do' an act which la designcd or likely ta give assistance ta the naval, miii- tary or air operations of His Majesty 's forces, or to endanger if e, he shail be guilty of an indictable offense and shahl, on con- viction, suffer dcath." Hospitals Have Problem Non-paying patients are a worry ta the hospitals and ta the municipalities. There are 50 many who go on the principle that the state owes them hospitalization that it is difficult for the institutions ta meet the demandsansd keep their doors open. Legislation bas been passcd, and amended again and again, in the hope of kecping up witb the situation, but with so many municipalities constantly sidestcpping, even The Federal Minister of Justice has de- clare d Jehovah's Witnesscs an illegal or- ganization. In vicw of this, thase, who in their innocence, joined this organization in this town, will be obliged ta renounce al connection with the same or suffer the con- sequences. T THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO W AR The Word's GratstM There has always been contra- - ur own1 smail navy, growlng and versy about the size of the navies mavmng, week by week.. arnong world powers. There have Security, paramount and pre- been conferences fro time ta dominant!1 time aimed at limitation, at parity, It is National Insurance upan at ratio.th ats clinCrtedm Yet the country - the nationthvaessceinCrtndm that has had at its instant service And how shail we pay the pre- the world's mast powerful array im of battle-ships has neyer yet been We must and shail, of course, cailed into conference upon limi- sustain Britain ta the lmit of aur tations, nor has that nation been resources i men, money, muni- heavily taxed for construction tions, goods, -services - and week- and maintenance. ly broadcasts by the Voice at Ot- For many decades Canada bas tawa reassuring the common peo- held that eminent distinction. ple of Britain;, thase who have Geagraphy and affinity have been harried and bereaved; those brought about that happy securi- who shudder and try ta protect ty. the children who have now ta re- No nation on earth has ever, or main behind - as the sirens can evrer match the mldght of the screech and bomba burst. battle-ships that 'would muster Frequent broadcasts from Can- from the shores of two hemi- ada, in a voice resoluteý and spheres and hasten ta Canadian strong, as is Mackenzie King's waters, there ta do battie with upon occasion, aught ta join with any predatary foc that dared in- Churchill's in those moments of vasion of Canada. silenc§!'lately decreed and teil the Sa, we can say, and it is -the British wamen and the children fact, that Canada commianda the that Canada is with them tiil Vic- Worlds Greatest Navy, evèn if it tory is ensured. may be conunanded by indirec- We can pay that premium in tian. many ways - so, let's speed it. Thinking in these terms ought And as for the United States af ta lighten aur sense of oppression America, though the prcmium ob- as this war merges itot the sta- ligation may be absent, we ought tic. We do nat know how, when, ta engage right now in military or where Europe's madmen will and naval conferences of the resume the confllct. minutest character; ta explore-the But we do know that Britai.n's possibilities, calculate the proba- mighty naV< stands intact, on biities of the immediate future guard, widely stationed, alive, on while the luil orna over Europe. the move constantly ta defend, And then tel aur peoples al protect and preserve the integrity about it. of the Empire and of Canada., For we are wondering! No less have we the full weight, It May be that staff-conferences of the equally powerful navy of have already taken place - in- the United States of America in, formally. If true, s0 much the defence of oaur shores, even should better;- but we 'should make thbem we issue no appeal for aid. 1 formal, definite and conclusive There are twa reasons for as- and thus boldly serve notice upon suming tis; in fact it la no as- Hitler and his Heel. sumption, it is a certainty. First, This status af neutrality and because of the principle embodied semi-neutrality and the pooh-bah in the Monroe Doctrine, which la of politicai demagogues has been in brief, this: ."We, the U.S.A. the n*ost corrading influence serve notice upon ail trans-aceanic amang ail the weakling Democra- Imperialists that they must and cies. shall keep their predatary and The United States aught ta be blood-stained hands off ail the big enough and bold enough ta lands af the Western Hemi- mnitiate the mavement taward sphere." military ca-operatian with Can- George Canning and James ada. If not, then Mackenzie King Monroe conceived that document, ought ta be bold enough ta tilt a and it has staod the test of time. cigar from the corner of hMa It doesn't mention Canada but it mouth, cant his straw-boater at a means Canada, too., fighting angle and say ta Frank- Second: Any attcmpted inva- lin D.: sion of Canada is likewise an at- "Came on Big Boy, we're both tempt on the U.S.A. in the same boat - and your end Then we have Mr. Roosevelt's is leaking toa - s0 let's get busy speech an his latest visit ta Can- and bail, taking turns, ca-ardin- ada: ating aur efforts." 4 "We shall not stand idly by And the Big Boy midght respond should Canada be attacked!" - openly - and not count votera' Geography . lends ta us this nases. mighty f leet of the Western Hemi- Meantixne, we stand with sphere and affinity with Britainj heightened fortitude because we doubles the score. know that Canada has th'e World's And ta tisveât array we«%È4stGreatest Navy. In the Dim and Distant Past From flhe Statesman Files FIJTY YEAES AGO Prom fTie Canad"anStatesman, August 6, 1890 Bahilng la vcry popuhar at Uic lake, and Uic water la ta fine con- dition. Saturday rnany citizens were down piçnicking. Bathing was very general and amang Uic bathers were several ladies. Misa- Dinghe, Oshawa, bas been appointed teacher at Uic South Ward. Scbooh. Joshua Grant while tarring Uic roof of Uic D.. O. & P. factory, while carrying a buckct of hot boiling pitch on Uic top of Uic roof slippcd and immerscd bis bandit thUicliquid. Hia baud was badly burnt. Town Couneil bas deciled ta buihd a bridge acrosUic crcck at Vantone's MUl, costtag $5.320. The new bridge wiil have two spana 85 feet long, a roadway.18 ft. wide, and a sidewahk 4 fi. wide. The old spire of the Mthodist Church islata ha taken down and a tawer, runnmng up 30 feet higb, erected tastead. This wilh be more in keeptag with the edifice at present altered. A gaine of basebail was phayed between Uic 3rd nine of this town and Uic Stars of Oshawa, at Osh- awa on Saturday, resuhting tnaa score of 14 ta 15 for Bowmauviile. Oshawa: A srnail fire occurred an Friday rnorning ta Uic under- ground flat cf Lang's bhock. lhe firernen responded prornptly and soon had two bcavy streams play- tag on the blaze. In about two bours Uic fire was extiuguished with vcry litthe damage being donc. A new telephonie company wasi organized ta Peterboro. Stock- bolders anticipate that it wMi prove a succeas. Haydau: Six uhen, two womeni pnd a squad of yauugsters went tbrougb here on Mondsy lcading four bears sud anc monkey. The wbohc gang were bhack as tar. Salins: On July 24th an inter- csttag event was celc.brated at Heathwaite Green, Sauina - thc golden wcdding of Mr. aud Mrs. Daniel Hogarth. Their cbldren, grandcbildren sud friends ta Uic extent of seveuty or more people gathered for the celebration. Ennlskillen: Wihbur Hutchin- son, Winnipeg, Man., was warmly wclcomed by bis numerous tri- ends while making a shdrt visit bere ast weck. Mr. Hutchinson Jâ looking well end la a general fav- orite in these parts. Cacsarea: Camps are getting th!cker every week on Uic shores of Our beautiful ake. Tiere are about anc hundrcd tents on Wasbburn Island. -TWENTY-FIV TEARS AGO Prom Thec Canadian Statesman, Augusi 5, 1915 Durhamn Old Boys' Reunian was beld here last week, when literal. ly thousanda of former West Dur- bamites came back ta their native baunts, ta freshen Uic memory cf their youth. Special ceremanies were carricd out by Town Coun- cil and other public spiitcd bodies. James Edward Tate, Port Hope, wbo rnurdered Mis daughter, coin- nutted suicide ina Ms cehl. The public drinktag fountain prcsentcd ta Uic town by Coun. Levi Tole and situated by the town park was Uic centre of at- traction for horses and bumans. Skinncr's sprtag water was de- clared ta ha vcry gaod by the aid boys wha shaked their thirst by it for Uic first time. For Uic best field crap of oas in West Durham, A. W. Annis, John Baker, Hugb Greenlesa, L. C. Pascoe, J. F. Osborne, W. J. Bragg, S. Rickard & Son wcre winners. An enviable record was set up by the bigh scbool wben al Uic Lower Scbool students passed their departinental exams. Councillor Fred R. Fahey wauld like ail who put bird bouses this spring ta report resulta 50 hie may award Uic prises.* Twenty-four rinks competcd ta Bowmanville Bowling Taurney Monday wbicb was won by A. Stubbings, Toronto Witbrow Park, wbo carricd borne Uic bendsome Goodycar Trophy. The Garden Fete at the Firs on Wednesday wss an exceedingly successfuh eveut. For weeks Uic young people, older people, in fact citizens in general bave becu busy preparing for this big event. Booths were gaily sud artisticafly decorated and the yaung ladies ta their fancy yet very becoming costumes added muchi ta the scene. OLD WORLD PROVERBS He wbo pitches toa blgb wan't get Uirougb bis song.-Germsn. The offender neyer pardons.- Italian. A brave retreat la a brave cx- phoit.-Englsh. Debts -oncc paid give no more trouble.-Scottlsh, Power weakenctb the wlcked. -Welsb. Love your nelgbbor, yet pull not down your hedge.-Englih The mother's heart la the cbld's schoolroom.-H. W. Beecher. There la nô dignlty qulte sa impressive, and no tadependence quite go important, as living within your means. -Calvin Coolidge. AS1IEEITu Dy Capt. Elniore Fhilpott i (Contlnued from page 1) I mean the sort of thing donc on Sunday atternoans by variaus prafessars, some good, some not s0 good. The rule ou this series seems to be, whatever yau do, pull your punches, and for heav- en's sake neyer talk as George V. Ferguson of Winnipeg talked when be (and many others in- cluding Winston Churchill) were tryring to warn the world of the catastrophic effects of Uic "false lulaby of appeasement." What Canada needs fram Ot- tawa la anc good daily Canadien commentary tefling what thc *orld news means ta' Canada, what the Canadien gaverninent la doing, or whist it is not doing, and why. When 'Chubby' Power became Air Minister he gave exactly the kind oL taiks which are needed, but needcd nat once every couple of monthis, but evcry day. He talked straight froin the shoulder, did not try ta conceal or excuse anything, stated thc bald facts, and what the governnient pro- posed ta do about thein. That is thc stuff ta give thern. Democracy cannot flght a war with its head in a bag. Canada bas a right ta far mare public information froin Ottawa than it bas got sa far. And if the situa- tion gets as criticai as some of us think it wiil in the next four years, that information, every day, will be not only desirable but vital. DAYS 0F DECISION I heard rny old achool churn, Dr. Bill Bhatz, spcak over Uic C.B.C. Uic other day on this war of nerves. It wss the most sen- sible Uhitg on Uic subject that I bad heard. Bill, of course, has long since became anc of Uic moat eminent psychalogists lu ail the warhd, particularhy in thc field of child tramning. His advicc alh bail- cd down ta this: Make up your mind what you arc going ta do ta this war and then go ahead sud do it. It is the warrytag which gets you dawn. It seema ta me that that advicc la sound, bath for the individual, and for the wbole demacratic world. Where Hitler bas put it al over us ta date la in kecping us waiting for wbat he la going ta do. We have been waiting for bis speeches, bis causpiracies, bis blitzkreigs, bis invasions. Yet the whole lesson cf histary is that of- fence la the best'defeuce in war; and an even harger truth about l life la that it la cither rising ta its apex of energy, or on Uic THUILRSDAY, AUGUST 18T, 1940 dowwar cuve f te ach. his Locksley Hall. He foresaw There arue, of thes war, and the nations' airy when the inescapable tacts Of a blue, with a ghastly dew rnL.Ig situation make it necessarY ta frm heaven. He frs*sh wait for the, other fellow. to do frondrd of the people pluthen the attacking. Britain isu uc hough the thunder so1rfl." He a position at the moment. But threa lottthen ud that mnoment wvill pass and mayfrea asotath enWud nyo us be "«the. Parliament of Man, the pass more quickly than 8n o Fedieratiofi of the world." have the right ta xet Not tili we begin ta mnarch de- 3 liberately toward that will we get t AT'rACK HOW? anywhere. One cansideration with the most prof ound implications for, every anc of us is that Britaiii cannot take the offensive success- f uily as things now stand lu the world except by depending at ieast as much on revolu.tionarY weapons as anc straightforward attack by orthodox mîlitary forces. No invasion of continental Europe will be possible even in the countries beld in subi ection by the iron bcdl except in SOMe sort of cooperatioli with fricndly elements inside thase countries. What arc thase elements? They can hardly be the aristocrats and plutocrats ,of the right, because it was those' very clements which, in a vain attcmpt ta save their property at the expense of their country, sold their awn fellaw citizeus itot Nazi slavery. And if they are thc other elements, on the extreme lef t, can Britain work out an arrangement with the power whicb tili now bas had the rnost influence with the ef- fective revolutionaries lu ail wes- terni Europe? I imagine that these questions are causing the real leaders in Britain deep concern these days. I have always thought that the real testtag time would corne 5f- ter, and not before, Hitler's at- tempted invasion of the British Isles. For if and when that in- vasion attempt is forestalled, frustrated or beaten, and the world settles back to await a long war thc sarne business interests which favorcd a deal with Ger- many befare hast September are gaing ta say ta themscîves what docs a four year war mean ta us? And whist happens if we win? It was because a small miuority ta France feared victary even more than a defeat that France la wbere she is to-day. SOUTH WIND The government which is ta power in Britain now is an ideai combination. Its dominant eleý ments are cîcar sigbtcd imperial- ists plus sacialist reallats. The im-, perialists knaw quite weUl which way the wind is gotag ta have ta blow ta get their ship safe ta port. Lord Halifax talked about a Europe freed by man's passion for liberty. The phrase was pro- phetic. I notice also that ail the B.B.C. political commentatars are tallcing of the next Frenchi revalu- tion, and sa forth. Tennyson wrate about it ail in CHAMBERLAIN DEà IT The member of the Chamber-. lain family wbo did more then anyane cisc ta set Germany on the insane pathi to world con- qucst, or general disasterl- idâ1 long ago. He was Stewart {r- tan Chamberlain, wbo a * the Germnans so much that he be- came the moat passionate and irrational advocate of German world rule. He gave up bis Bri- tish citizenship, married thc dau- ghter of Richard Wagner, and wrotc "'The Foundations of thc Nineteeiith Century,"p one of tic fcw books Adalf Hitler ever read. This renegate Englishman, even atter the hast war, belicved. in the German right ta rifle. "This Ger- man," he wrote, "for 1500 caýr,,s bas been the only creative rc of aur civilizatioii." After the Great War Chamberlain ent furtber. "It la a dire necessity that the German language and not English shail become the lan- guage of the world. If the Eng- lishi language sbould be victanlous the culture of mankind la doom- Chamnberlain pravcd that ail genius was German. Wbcn Uic facts sccmed ta contradiet the thcory he escape thus:« If a man wcrc a genjus nie must be a Ger- man. Hence, Dante was not reaily an Italian but a German. Tis lunacy has become thc religion of Uic Nazi party. If we wonder how Hitler cen iniduce tens of thous- ands of fine haoking yaung fel- lows ta bdlieve in the siily stuf f let us remember that for seven yearsUiy have heard absolutchy nthg but what Hitler wantcd theni ta hear. And years before hie came ittapower in Germany the same kind of nonsense was beiug handed out ta boys in camp as is now betag handed out ta Nazi papers in tic United States. 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