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* '*4f ~ 4 r TEtMSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1940 THE CANADIAN STATESM~N, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO PAGE THREE it, d- k- te to id ie ar r- n. ic id ie ri THE RUSSIAN RIDDLE Tbe world wiil have some ink- lng, before this gets into print o! what the latest meeting cl Molotof! with the German lead- ers means., A look at the larger back. ground of Russo-Germa relra- t.jais wilU give us a more accurate = biUMr. A. couple of vears aga i«flén I was telling my listeners on lecture tours, that there would b., an ~arringement between Rus- sia anermany, t bey used ta lo me with amazement and csldriable skepticism. Yet the arrangement came. This year when I forecast a decided disar- rangement within the next year or two I noticed the samneamaze- mient and the same skepticism. Yet ln my opinion the samhe basic factors wvhich drew Russia and Gerniany together in the past 16 months, will tbrow tbem apart in the next like period. I know thit this sounds fantas- tic when al indications are that aýother '&irse-trade bas just been arrangec betwcen thc horse tbleves lif Moscow and Berlin. ]But more powerful factors in the long run will have their effect. INTEREUSTS COUNT Wbat counts in the long run ir relatlonshlps between nations is thé basic interest of those na- tions. In long range perspective the lntercsts o! Germany and Russia are coffiplcmnentary and flot conflicting. Each bas what the other needs and lacks. Russia has "Lebensraum" to a greater cx- tent than any other country in the world. She has almost every kind o! material and metal which she requires, witb the exception of nickel, of wbicb there are plen- tiful deposits just over the border in Finland. She bas a vast vita] population, but the Russians whc are wonderful d r ea m ers of dreams, are not gaod technicians or good executives. The Germaris lack almost cv- erythlng that ]Russia bas and have almot evryting hatRussia lack. Tey re robblythe best argaizes i th wold.Indeed, if they bave a weakncss it is that they get ticd up in their own tangles of -organization. They have no raw material worth speaklng about, insufficient food for tlieir own people., It la for these reasons that un- der all regimes the eyes of Ger- man leaders have Elways turned eastward. During the asat days of the Czar's empire it wqs truc that q ive utastier bread.. f re e f rom holes, doughy spots, Sour teste" MASS lu CANAOpi 1 , German influence was every- whcre in Russia. But what was cqually truc was that the saine arnount o! Genman influence would have been there under any other kind of gayernmcnt. It was a matter of geograpby, not ideolo- gy. For twa paramount reasons dloser rclationships between Ger- many and Russia have been mi- plicit in Uic whole Communist movement. It was Karl Marx, à German Jcw, who. was the pro- phet and propagandist a! Comn- muniai itaclf. It was Engels, rich German manufacturer, who financcd Marx. Russian coi- munists always- hid out i Ger- many. German communists al- ways outnumbercd Russian coim- muniats - even ta the days when Hitler wcnt ito 'power in Ger- many. When communists talk o! cx- tending Uic warld revolution, they Uink above cIsc o! extending it ta include Germany. Evcny neason o! history, geography and ecanamics suggcsts eventual syn- thesis between Gcrmany and Rus- sia. GANGSTERS' MANOEUVRE Thus we bave a government in Russia purauing a policy which is n almost like a religion, one of the is fundamental tenets of Which is 1to extend its sway ta Germany. ,Tbus also we have in Germany d a government o! a somewhat di!- dferent stripe, wbich is cqually ýdetermi.ned to extend its own Ipower over what la now the So- viet Union. How can this be donc? n There are, only tbrce ways ywhich I can sec in wbich a syn- hthesis betwecn Gcrmany and Rus- nsia might be e!fected. One wou¶ld be that the Nazis would -become completcly supreme and succeed tin making Russia their "Ifirst 0dominion." Another would be that the Communists would cx- tend their revolution to the ob- jective for which they bave stead- *ily planncd and worked since e1917. The third way would be a that neither should entirely suc- * cecd but that Soiiet Communlsm 1should become more like National tSocialism and National Socialiam rshould become more like Soviet YCommunismn. Aa a matter o! fact tremendous strides have already been made in thec last-named direction. On March 10, 1939, Stalin made one o! thc moat important speeches in modern times although it was falmost entirelv averlooked by the tpoliticians and press of thc west- mern world. Ini it 'he clcarly in- vited Germany ta make Uic bar- gain which was completed a f ew manths later just prior to thfr war. But in it also he deliberately and formally repudiated one' of Uic basic doctrines of Kari Marx. He said «1that alter the exploiting classes bave been suppressed, Uic State caniiot withcr away as Kari Marx expected. It wâs absurd to' think that Marx could bavefore- seen ncarly a century Uic pre- sent international situation." There are similar tendencies in Germany. Hitler bas made it abundantly clear that what he la opposed to la flot Uic economnica o! Communism but what he cails Jewisb-Bolshevism. BETTING ON STALIN The broad lined of the gang- sters' agreement between Molo- tof! and Hitler as announced by the Nazi press propagandlats, are probably correct. That la, Russia will probably get Persia if she can take-it, and British India if Hitler wins thc war. Germany wiil get Iraq, Pales- tine, and everytbing west o! thc Russian aphere - also provided she cen take. it. In the words o! the current popular song, "It's nice work if you can get it, and you can get it if you try." I do not for a moment believe that Russia believes she can get any- thing more than Persia. What she la doing in effect is ta agrec ta share the loot with Hitler if he wins more o! Uic world. A far more compelling reason In my mind for the present Rus- sian-German bargain la that Sta-1 lin is extremcly anxious ta get1 Hitler further ta extend himself so that he (Stalin) might; be in a better position for Uic final showdown. In anc sense, gangster Stalin la compeiled ta "'go along" with Hitler for a little while yet for thc best o! ail gangster reasons that it would be too dangerous for hlm to attempt -ta do other- *Ise. Stretching ail the way fromn the Baltlc in the north ta the Black Sea i the south are Ger- man armies rated ta be Uic mobt powerful offensive force ever created by man. No doubt there RPPLES FREUH FR M. CANAOW'5WORLD FAMOUIGREHARDS Um ii..bg, 1oay apple. are ripe end dollclout - good eatlng pmanerous quantlty from your fruit market TO-DAY. lnou la z7~e~U 100 A .00DGOFOR YOU See Et By Capt. Elmore Philpott "'LEST WE FORGET» During the past week, "Armids- tice Wcek," the radio and press and pulpit have given much time and space ta events and conditions grawing out o! Uic Great War o! 1914-1918. Mass' meetings have been hcld at cenotapbs. Platoons, Field Ambulance Companles, etc., have fîlleti concert balla'and churches and chairs have led Uic masses in Kipling's famous -Re- cessional Hynin "Lard God of. Hasts, be with us yet, lest we for- get, lest *~e forget."1 The verses were suggested, to thc mind o! Uic ýauthon >y the Naval Rcview and Military Pro- cessions cannectcd with Uiec cdc- bration o! Uic Diamond J'ubilcee o! Qucen Victoria, in 1897. A mer- velous dlaplay o! Britain's power an land and sea had been display- cd before Uic world, thUicSouth African war had closed in tri- umph, and the nising tide o! Im- perialisi was at Uic floadgate. In a moment o! seriaus rcflec- tion, Kipling wrotc these worda, and then flung theni inta , thc wastc basket. HMs watchful wi!e rescued theni, so Uic stary says, and sent theni ta the London Times. The wanld owes Mrs. Kip- ling a debt o! gratitude for saving this poci whicb has became not anly an anthci for Peace Socie- tics, but a tonic for truc patriat- !Sm. The stirring music set'to Kipling's hyn lai Stainer's "Mag- dalen" and wanderfully !its Uic words with dignity and bcauty. God a! aur fathers, known o! aid, Lord of aur fer-flung battle-line Bencath whose awful hand we 1hold Dominion aven palm and pine- Lard God o! bosts, be with us yct, Lest wc forget-lest wc forget!1 The tumult and the shauting dies; The captains and Uic kinga de- »part: StiR stands Thine ancient sacri-j fice, An humble and a contrite heant. Lard God o! hasts, be with us yet, Lest we !orgt-iest we forget! Fer-called, aur navies nicît away; On dune and headland sinka Uic fire:1 La, ail aur pomp o! ycsterday Is anc with Nliftvch and Tyrel Judgc a! the nations, spare us yct,i Lest we fonget-lest wc farget! If, drunk with sight a! power, wc baose Wit totngues that have not Thee in awe, Such boastings as the Gentiles use, Or lesser breeda witbout thet Iaw-1 Lord God o! hasts, be with us yet,c Lest we forget-lcst wc farget! i For heathen hcart that puta ber trust In reeking tube and iran shard, AUl valiant dust that builds on duat,r And guarding, caîls not Thcc ta guard, For frantic boast and foolish word- j rby îcrcy an Thy people, Lord!d Amen.j R. Kipling, 1865-1936 t WORTH REMEMRERING One day a rich but mlscriy mane came ta bla Rabbi. The Rabbi p ced bu ta a windaw. "Look out & thene," he said, "and tell me what n rau sec." "People," answcncd the t] *lch ian. Then the Rabbi lede iii ta a mirran. "Wbat da yau il cee naw?" be asked. "I sec my- p seif," answcrcd the man. Then 'V the Rabbi sald, "There la glass In t] the windaw and thene is glass in c the mirnor. But Uic glass a! the 4 niàrror is covered with a llttlc t] Silver, and no sooner is a little c ilver added than you cesse ta sec ithers and sec oniy yourseif."1 O.0. PROMOTED are those in Germany who would like ta sec Hitler dlean up on Russia with one super Blitzkreig. Stalin might have other 'ideas about the outcome of such an in- vasion but he would be less cun- ning than he has long since prov- cd hlmself to be if he were to invite such an attack. The most amusing thing about the gangster, relatioiiship betwcen Hitler and Stalin is that cach un- derstands the other thoroughly. Each understands that he wiil be double-crossed by the other if, as, and when, it pays the other to do so. If, therefore, Stalin somehow or other, facilitates the passage o! German troops into Asia Minor, Hitler wiil be aware that one of the reasons why Stalin does sa is to get the Nazis in a position where he can knife them In the back at will. Hitler, no doubt, has other plans. I am placing my bet in this great gaUic o! double double- cross on Stalin. I think that Com- munism is inherently a far strong- er thing than Naziism, and that as time goes on the tendency will be for Hitler's gangsters to bor- row more and more of the Soviet system and Communist ideology if only to hold together the coun- tries which they h ave conquered. But in the more immediate sense I would also bet on Stalin. He bas had far more experience in the gangster business than bas Hitler. He, himself, bas robbed banks, stolen horses, and com- mitted every sort of crime, but al- ways in the interesis o! the party. Hitler, on the other hand,' has always got other people to carry out bis dirty work for him. Evcntuaily this process runs out. Meanwhilc, whether it is the Gerimans who come or the Rus- sians who come, or the Germans and Russians who come together, we have-to bang on ta bath sides of the Suez Canal for the very life of the British Empire. SINGERS AND THEIR SONGS Wrlten specially for The Statesman by well known Durham boy, Fred R. Foley, 123 Lake St., St. Catharines, ont. -Western Boom Wbcn Uic western boom gat under way, Uic boomaters iCal- gary took up Uic question o! gas for Uic city and added. their en- thusiasi ta that o! Uic real pion- cer drillera such as Uicelierons and Dingman, wbo had pcrslatcd in their belief that "1there was ail in thcî, ther hbus." These early drillera and pramoters had car- ried on for ycars spendig their own moncy and trying ta attract capital. In pre-wan days Uic Dingian well was bnought in and then camnienccd an ena, a! mad specu- lation. Calgary was overrun with wlld-cattcrs and speculatars and salesmen until Uic Public gat "fcd up" and cantractcd thcir li- vestmcnts. Twa things mainly dc! cated develapient at Uiat tume. Firat the neal estate boom burat and bard tumes set in dur- ig 1913 and 1914. Then Uic war broke out. Sa Uic cerly promisig prospect in tat field lay dormant. 4ter Uic war UicOÙ Intereats entcred the picture and Uic Roy- alite well waa brought;i as a "gusher." Frai that ie on Uic field, knawn as Turner Valley, was assuncd and Uic general pub- lic graduaily became *awarc Uiat thene wceeail resaurces in Can- ada autside Uic amall arca at Petrolia. Develapient during Uic Twcn- tics and Thirties has been graduai but sure. WiId-catters have been cantrollcd and saber idustnial interests and far-sceig men have bnought in scores a! producing werlls. Ta-day, the cyes o! Uic world turn toward .Alberta and speculate upon Its pasaibilities for warld suppîy wben other fields recede. .Huge Reserves Explorations and actual drill- ings have praved beyond ail daubt that there la ail ail aver Ailberta and even away up ita tic North West Territonles. There are aisa goad prospecta in Saskat- chewan. A wdll bas long since bcen drillcd Bt Fart Narman and cappcd because a! lack a! trans- portation. Then there are Uic ter sands at Fort McMurray, away îorth a! Edmonton. Experts dlaim bhis la Uic greatest prospect even explorcd in the wanld. But agai4 ita developient depends upan process and transportation. At WTainwright, est a! Edmonton, there la a producing field a! hcavyi oiI. But at Turner Valey, about 40 miles southwcst o! Calgary, la the great Canadian fild a! the day.' During recent yers Uic Turner Valley field bas came ito auch 1 1 wtnjny n Vbb. I rInThe Editor's MailI BEVERAGE ROOMS AND WAR INDUSTRIIES Dear Mr. Editor,- 1. A front street merchant was cornmenting the other day on an editorial in a Toronto paper which stressed the danger of locating beverage rooms close to an ex- plosive plant. He was struck by the fact that Bowmanville lacks both beverage rooms and war in- dustries. Surely in this time of national stress, he argued, the fact that this community is a dry town should influence manufac- turers to locate here. The idea is worth toying with. To some it would seem that if we can't have a beverage room the next best bet is a war industry. More serious minded folk think it would be a good sellîng point for the Chamber o! Commerce to stress. No one can deny that sobriety is conducive to greater cfficiency in industry. Wby, then, should not a manufacturer planning to open a plant take this important factor into consideration. Bow- manville is dry and likely to stay dry. We feel that it is a better town by virtue of its sobriety. Very, very little crime is comn- mitted here and practically none by the citizens of the municipali- ty. The crirainal code recognizest that liquor and public works do( not mix well. It empowers the Dominion government to declare a dry area in the neighborhoodz of such works. Surely it is not hardship for people employed in1 dm Look Ahead! Chlstmas wUI soon be here. o glft for the car la always practical AUTO TIRES GUARANTERD r, ________________________________p Wagcs Pald As Turner Valley developed, towns grcw Up within Uic field Itself until there arc 6 or 8 sep- arate communities. But paved noada have not kept pace. Tbey have been toa busy ta bothen about that, sa wae betide any tenderfoot who gocs astray in rainy weather. Wonk in the val- lcy goies on night andi. day, in three shifts o! 8 hours cach, which gives some idea o! Uic importance o! Uic field. The crude oil gaca by pipe-line ta the refincries at Calgary and plans are under way ta pipe the producita Winnipeg and Vancouver. Wells take fnomn 4 to 8 months ta drill, ta depths ranging !rom- 6000 ta 8000 feet and even more. Wages range fnom 55c to $1.00 an hour and drillera' wagcs range from $11.00 ta $13.00 per day. The money-makens are the crude wells yielding the beavier ail. But there arc Naphtha gusiiens (wct gas wells) yielding a product so ligbt that it can be used in tractors in its unre!ined state. Field plants have been enectcd ta "wash" out the gas which is then piped ta towns in an ever widen- ing circle and sanie visualize the tume when all the Prairies will bei supplicd. Valley Towns To do justice in any description1 o! Uic ail resources o! Uic Westi and particularly o! Turner Valley would require an article o! book- lcngth. In thla brie! summary, only a bare outline is given for Uic informatian a! thase wha may have licard somcthing about thet developient. As the war goca on we shail hear much marc about1 it, particularly when Uic gavcrn-1 ment steps in and limita private1 gasoline consumption.E Thii suimmen the members o! Uic Canadian Wcekly Newspapers1 Lt.-CoI. J. Clifford Gamey, M.M. In military Orders o! the Day, dating Monday, Nov. 1 lth, 1940, Major J. C. Gamcy, M.M., Officer Commanding lat Battalion Mid- land Regiment, was promoted ta the rank o! Lieutenant-Colonel. This distinction is well meritcd because Private Gamcey in the last war won the Military Medal and was promated ta commisasion- cd rank and bctween worîd wars bas cantinucti constantly ta in- terest hinisel! in military matters in thla dlatrict. Meantimne he has serveti as Postmaster at Orono where now Mrs. Ganiey carnies on during bis active service. Major Gamey was on duty in England frai March ta October of this year. Citizens gencrally and ail ranka are pleascd at this meritcd promotion. THE OIL INDUSTRY f0Fi TURNER VALLEY Until camparatively r c c c n t tumes, ail production in Canada was associated li the minds o! most Canadians with the area anound Petrolia, Ontario. That field, howçver, has largely been depletcd and Uic refincries o! thé district'now depcnd upon imports, mostly from Uic U.S.A. Petrolia cameita Uic picture in Uic days o! coal ail lampa and thc heydcy o! John D. Rocke- feller. Fortunately when it de- clined, Uic dey a! electricity was at hand. .Cantemporary with Uic Petro- lia field, explorations were under way south o! Calgary, Alberta. But the publie kncw littlc o! this. Pioneera noticed oul seepages along Uic creeka o! Southern AI- bèrta and back in Uic 80's and 901s crude and labariaus drillinga recovercd a little ail. Soie set- tiers even contrivcd home made equipient that convcrtcd the gas scepages for beating and lighting. Enthusiasi wancd and little more was donc until around thc pcriad from 1910 ta 1914. Towns had grown up and Calgary had became a city. Medicine Hat had long sice sunk weils that vere supplyig gas for lightlng and for industrigl purposes. The flow was 50 profqse at Uic "Hat" that Uic street lights burncd night and day. It was too expensive ta hire a ian ta put Uiem out and re- light thern. FulC o n dertan agrnd an beufuth ougbt reaiet ceive It.Jubne Itittos ~w4~-~ a wealth o! production that the Association at their convention Alberta government bas set up a at Calgary were entcrtained anc "Conservation Board" ta limit aftcrnoon ta tea at Turner Valley. and control the output. A re- Mrs. Geo. W. James, who was at serve bas been built up ta meet the convention, was anc o! a party war requirements. The daily ai-ini a car driven by Bill Heron lowable in production was, until whosc late father was anc o! the rcccntly, set at 28000 barrels. For pioncer ail drillers. Mr. Heron years tic flow of natural gas was made aur trip moat interesting by sa pralific that it was burned at poînting out sanie o! the centres Its source and the flames could be o! intereat in Turner Valley scen for miles. For 25 ycars or known as Poverty Flats, Snob more Uic cities o! Calgary and Hill, Wblakcy fow Society Edmonton and most adjacent Heights, Little Chia a, nd 50 towns were supplicd by pipe-line forth. They have 15 schools in Uic and gas took the place o! coal in neighborhood with the higbest furnaces and cook-stoves. Thcy paid teachers in the province. atml are and tbis is somcthing o! There is also a hospital with an anOmaly whcn they are adjac- eight beda. Wc werc thriiled witb cnt ta anc o! the world's greatest aur drive and entertaiment, as coal fields. There are no ashes Turner Valley puts one ini iiind ta siUt in these lucky towns and o! the pictures anc secs at the citica. picture shows o! the wild and Mrs. Eanl Cunningham. WINTER CAR ACCESSORIES FOG LIGHT -67 Sealed Beam ---------------------------- ---- ---- 6 7 AUTO HEATER 9 f Be warm ------------ ..-----.--upwards from 1. 5 Quick Starting ----------------- .upwards from 60 ANTI-FREEZE Super Pyro ---------------gallon 1.65 PRESTONE3 No evaporation ---------- ---- -----------gallon 3.45 BUMPER GUARDS 25 Priced at -- - -------------- ---------------- --2 5 IMPERIAL OIL.3 Sealed in cans .- - ---------- --------------- 3 MEATER SWI[TCH.6 Priced at--------------------------~--- upwards from.6 HEAD LIGHT RELAYS 20 For brighter Iights ------- - ----------------- 2 0 Gartouls S ervice Station THE CANADIAN STATESMeN, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO PAGE THREE vital war work ta be deprived -o! an opportunity ta frequent bey- crage roonis. The drynesa o! this town might well be advcrtised as an inducement for peaceable, hard-working folk ta came bere and live. Haping you will pass these thougbta on ta your widc circle a! readers. A Town Booster. GUIDE NEWS Lieut. Casbaurn taught thc First Company the work neces- sary ta obtain their Child Nurse Badge. The Rose Patrol carncd a perfect score in the cantcst i the Inter-Patrol campetitian. T he Daffodil Patrol la still aheàd witb the bighest total o! points. Lieut. Casbourn taak charge a! Uic games.1 Correction - In the last Guide account Mrs. W. W. Cunningham took charge a! the marching, not