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PAGE TWO THE CANADAN STA'rR JDN RCbWiaTtTVTT '------- . ~**1=fl, UJ.Z1TARI Established 1854 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER With which is Incorporated The Bowmanvilie News, The Newcastle Independent, and The Orono News. 86 Year's Continuons Service To The Town of Bowmanviiie and Durham County. Member <~ Audit Bureau o f Circulations diLI Canadian \~IUF Weekiy Newspaperse Association Ciass A Weeklies of Canada SUBSCRIPTION RATES $2.00 a Year, strictly in advance. $2.50 a Year in the United States. GEO. W. JAMES, Editor. Cabinet Crisis Hol. 1P. J. Ji. Cardin, senior miember of the Cabinet anid an M.P. since 1911, lias handed bis resigliation to Prime Minister King. Other Quebec Ministers may follow suit. A Liberal caucus lias not founîd a way out of the tast (levelopiiig crisis Nvliielî fol- lowvs the plebiseite vote. The Statesnian xent all-ont for a *výes" vote but deplored the political clicanery tliat preceded Pl imos- sible situation wvhieli w-es met inilhe weak- est sort of fashioîî b a goverumeut liav- Iîlgaal overwhelmiiîg majority. Now the thuîîg is douie anîd the Quebee decision is ilo longer ini doubt. Stîpernumeraries indicate their desire to leave a sinkiiig sliip. Things look bad indeed. It is reported tlîat IMr. King is up agaiust two problenus; to save wlhat lie cau from the wreck iii the iilterests of the party. and find tivo Freîih-C'anadians to repair his Cabinet raîîks. The Prime Minister protest- ed to Mr. Cardinî that ini introduciîîg an amendnient iniplementing the majorityv de- mand iii the plebiscite, -tlîere wvas no change of policy nor any new policy iin the measure,' but Mr. Cardin revolted at the hait. Ominous indeed is the trend when tw-vo Quebec members demaiîded a "division"' on the first reading. The opinion is tendered that if 'Mr. King caun mlix- is following from Quebec bY anl appeal to personal and party loyaltv the crisis niay pass. But that is uiot 'enotngh. Caniadians are comnîiitted so deeply iin this war and hiave teînporized so long nider his cautions lead- ershli that nom,, at this moment. there is but one tlîing for hiin to do to repair lie evils arising from a political promise which true Oanadians have latel * repudiated. The Prime Minister oughit to go personally into and throughi the province of Quebec without de- lay, taking his courage and honestv bv the hand and make a cleaîi breast of thie whole miserable business to Mr. and Mrs. Jean Baptiste and ask for their loyaltv and sup- port iii this last ditch crisis. That is his duty rather than try for a safe majority aînog a divîded party and a disaffected bouse. That. w-e believe, is the only way to attempt salvation of national unity. -V Why The Prisoners Escape At Iîiternimemt Camp No. 30, which is thte designation of the former Boys Training Sehool turned over last September by Prem- ier Hepburni to Prime Minister King to house Hun officer prisoûiers of w-ar w-ho de- înanded better living quarters, there has been soîne sort of uproar every month. It has been the habit of some of these Huns, w-ho are, on the average, youths of 20-30, former daring devils of air-force and sub- marinies. to play hide-and-seek with out- numbered and harassed guards w-heu tak- ing roil-caîl, and even to escape in pairs from tinie to time. The thiîîg became ai- *most a fortnightlv occurrence and newspap- ers took up the cry- and larliament discuss- ed it, but neyer has there been a break of serious proportions. How-ever, these escapes are causing loss of tirne and unnecessarY burdens on guards and police alike and heavy public expense and Boards of enquîry, and senseless red tape and foolish hiuslî-liish %vith lnich sec- reer. The whole setup w4s mnonsense iin the first place. Not only were these lîîxîîious cluarters too good for these mnarauders but the safeguards were inîprôv-ised iin the first place and even toda3- are far froîn adequate. The complaint of The Statesman is tîis: that iîad moileY beeti spent ini the first in- stance to put up impre.-nal)le barriers, the constanit expense of chase and recapture munity and in the life of the nation wliei the test of cîtîzenship anid patriotisiiî cones into focîîs and cuts squarly aer-toss the pi-e- tensionis of the pretentiomus anîd laves t() public view for publie acclaim fliat nodest element in the population whieli mt al timies. without fuss or ostentation, amswers the cal and rallies to the cause. This editorial is ini- spired with a clearcut view in this very' b- cality -of exampîles of thc two eleuemts of societY anmd their eactions iii tîis inost ser- ons crusîs in tîme life of tîis country-. On tîhe one baud w-e paY tribuute to one of l)îrin's outstamîdiig c itizeuis, Mr. Roy- W. Nicîmols of Coiurtice wlmo lias giveli 44 used cars as scrapi-o for tîme Red Cross. TIe story ap- pears elsewhlere ini this issue. Neyer iii ail lus ears in businmess eau w- e ecail w'lmeuiMr. Nicliols said ".No" to auîy patriotie or p)ub- lic appeal. On thc otlier liaud, and an unidercurrent of protest is gyatlerinog about it, there ai-e tliose wlmo have tons of serapiron useless to theiseives, who will ieitier dontate or sell it for any cause. be it Red Cross. Victory, Freedoni, Canada ou tîhe Empire. No namnes are mntiomîed but scores who mead this will note and mark the contrast. Why a situa- tion of this kind exists iii these times is a im*istcrv tîat lias yet to be explained. Na- tioiîally' today ve are faced with a very serions situation foilowing the plebiscîte. Should auîy sort of upheaval ensue it is prob- able tîmat sporadie revumîsiQu will break out in mauîy places at any -evidence of indif- feureuce, such as thîs useless hoarding, and meîîedia i measures taken. It niay also be noted that Mr. Nichols las lost miime of lus staff since war broke out: six have enlisted for active service and tîrce have goiie to munitions plants. His donation W~aS reduccd to cash by a wrecking crew and check givemi to the Bowmanvilie Sal- vage Committee for the Red Cross ti7hieh is juist comnmnncing a local drive this week to aise $9.000. Quietly, as is lis manner, the gift wvas made and le won't thank us for this attemnpt at public thanks but we deeîn it essential if omly for the puirpose of pre- senting a coutrast ini citiz'enshîip and patriot. is u. -V Hon. James G. Gardiner "'He caine, lie saw, and le conquered" ina- w'ell lie said of Hou. IJ. G. Gardiner vhmo spoke here before the Mcii's Canadian Club oui Ladies' Night. An abridged re- port of lus speech apl)ears in his issue and ive singgest that it be read with close at.- tention because it reveals a range of kuîow- ledge and a vividmuess of conception w'hich Itlrows an eutirely- new ligît upon the ca- pacities of this federal minister who pî-ob- ably more than aîîy otîmer member of the present Cabinet, lias -exclanged inost blows on the subjeet of w'artîme policies. It w'as lis fimst visit to Bowmnanviile and le vas accom-ded marked respect. Most people recal liow le met the hosts at Lonîdon, single hamided, and they welcomed a closeup view of a noted fighiter. Aw'a- back before thc faîl of France, The Statesman adopted an editorial policy in regard to agriculture which sougît a long range solution for local wartime needs. In- deed we wvent further aficld and took in the nationmal scelle witl severe criticismns of the preseuit Mînister 's "haphazard policies.' We listened to lis speech the other- even- in- with absorbing attention and measured 1 lis explanations against what w'e lad forum- envy printed, and strange to say, we can fi'nd little to retract. Neyer, let us confess, have we, leard more easoned and reason- able explantions of a government 's course, 1 yet in many particulars we remain uncon- vinced. For instance, it will take a lot of ex- plaining wvhy over 11,000 acres ini this dis- trict lave been forced ont of production for lack of help w-hile feed grain is brougît s fronu thc w'est to snpply thc deficiency. But w-e are not here concerncd witl citicisms-. The editor las upon several oc- casions met Hlon. Mm. Gardiner in Ottawa 1 and w~as pleased to meet and lear him in "tIe famous County of Durham" a district t that las contributed a score or more of not- ables who have made their mark lu tIc life of the nation. We were, as his whole au- t dience was, profoundly impressed with lis i picture and vision of the w'ar and we must confess our opinion that tIc portfolio of Agriculture is in miglity capable lands now s tîmat Donald Gordon is czar of prioe control. c - V The School Inspector t Unlike the trepidations that assailed us 4 in mour youthi when the School' Inspector 2 wvalked ini tle sehool room, we seem to find 7 todax- a keen interest and deligît w'heu w'ef conie across one today. Or it miay be that & tlîe present puliei scimool inspector of this district lias a w~ay- witl lim tIat captures t our faniex. At thc R.otary Club) on Friday, ci menibers leard am i ispiring address fronuD lispector T. R. McEwen, spokeuî quietlv but P with the force that comnes from one entirely familiar with lis ta-k anîd lis subjeet. An w Mu-. 1MeEw'eii, bunt "e lave seum, for isauc, aw st Maple Gi-ove scluoul. thue direct evidene ve of thue îîew' systeun, %vlieu- eveji thîe nost Jc -ba-kw'ard "pupil (-auie ouît to tic foot- for liglits on tic staige at a sclîool coîîcemt witl du( peufeet confidence and coutrol. We hiope me that al] Inspetors are imnbued and enthused Mn witli their jobs as is Mm. McE%'cuî. l Cartoon-Courtesy of Chambers Halifax Herald s, i. ~~-nmmmmm. .. M eUrrnmsrnrnmn. IN THE DIM AND DISTANT PAST From Thme Statesman Files FIFTY YEARS AGO ideal. It was a delight and in- spiration to ministers to see the From The Canadian Statesman, churches fiiled. May 11, 1892 Bowmanville Dramatjc Society wiIl present, May 24th-25th, the Hampton: Master John Wil- screaming farce, "Mrs. Temple's liams lad part of lis hand shot Telegram." Seats 25c, war tax 2c. off in a gun accident. . .: Thos. Mrs. Hannah Jackson has word Elliott injured his hand loading ber husbanae2,wskle boss. gardene. He rotsi h at Vimy. Pte. Fred H. Green, bossgarene herabots. formerly on the farm of W. H. Maple Grove: Girls and boys Pearce, Newcastle, las been bad- did a good housecleaning job at ly wounded. the school and planted maple Mr. and Mrs. Robert Richards, trees in the yard. Town, celebrated their Golden Solina: W. A. Tom advertises Wedding; with Miss Mary Lee "I've a first class painter and and Master Harold Gi making wagon maker and can do super- the presentation before a large ior work in reasonable time at circle lif relatives. moderate ternis. . .. Alf. Hogarth Page 2: Sermon, "Zacchaeus" lost a valuable driver.. .. Division Eeymnshlgi a will march from Sons' Hall to eràmnsh'lgvea church fo hear Rev. R. McCul- aconto42?e).~ 114o lough preach a temperance ser-192)sPhpodn mon. ~~~Advt: Wo o d' hsod K e d 1:Rev.Geo Pukiscures palpitation of the heart, Bowmale reed hGe.Pre sn mental worry and failing mem- day.... Isaac Stark has returned or.$1ab,6fo$,anwrt from the North West. . . . Wm . Little caught a trout in Smith's In Australia they give returned creek, 19 inches and 33/ lbs. soldiers 18 acres of land, 8 for Tyrne:Preentevey dy i fruit and oranges, the rest for the onth aest chool:M. Weic tillage, a 5 room house and $2 500 th. Ryan ChBat oA. Gadier' ,to get hlm on his feet. Canada I. Ra. Lahun, C. GModser E please copy. L.innerM. ami, . MCle Es Maple Grove: Miss Frances J.kinghrM; . BaH..n, eacer Cryderman, Solina, is visiting 1er Oshawa: Messrs. Fowke, Rob- cousindMrs.L CHowd oey nd son and Whiting are on a to twMm. andrs. eHo ampFoney and montîs' tour across the continent. tocidens. Hmtn i ... Shaw Bros. have bought thetos grocery business of Wm. Jewell. Solina: Chas. Shortridge's home ..Richard Pascoe las bought th looks better after painting. .. Pte. McGaw farm, East Whitby. Tom Atkinson is renewing friend- Enfild:Dr.L. . Hgarh lshsips hereabouts.... Russel Rey- benisitingDrieL.NsHegre.h. Mmnolds, Farmer's nairy, was home. and Mrs. Jno. -Bray visited at Locals: 235th Batt. las arrived Solina and Bowmanville. safely in England. . . . Mr. and Oron: BuceBel la cagîtMrs. John Fisher, Toronto, at twoolsBruce BeDr.HayCahaletheir daughter's, Mrs. (Dr.) R. W. is omefo Mont..Dr ana. . . - JnoClarke. . . . Miss Marjorie King aisone randMonanis..croppi bas graduated in Houselold Sci- 3,500on acrethsarn, . . T. Eh- ence, Toronto University. . . . T. son0 adr.stutt yare delegT.e atH. verson, Oshawa, las sold lis son nd . Suttare eleate atSimcoe St. Block at $15,000O.... Oshawa. Aileen Hazlewood and Mary Mc- Darlington Assessment 1892 : Clellan received honorable men- Acres, 68,181; value of real es- tion in Art in the May number tate, $2,557,140; average value of The School, Toronto. Miss Mc- per acre, resident, $37.65; persons Clellan's was selected among the assessed, 1438; total population frttnt eilsrtdi h 4466; cattle 2920; sheep 3649; hogs firtnt. eilsrtdi h 2796; horses 2918; dogs 434; wood- ppr land 2724 acres; swamp and waste The Editor Talks: "W'hat, utter '960 acres; orchards 1082 acres; folly it would be, what a ridicu- fail wheat 136 acres. I. L. Brown, lbus spectacle the head men of assessor. the allies would present shouid Editorial page: A two col. "List they be inveigled into any pro- of Friends" who are paid up since posai of peace emanating from a lhe Feb. lists, contains the naines German stili engaged in the dia- of 286 of the old aristocracy of bolical work of murder, rapine )arlington. The majorlty have and ruin in France and on the passed on. Only a few remain. high seas." (reechoed for 1942-3). License inspector should find_________________ where the boys got the liquor _______________ Sunday; several got drunk with- out leaving town. Lewis Jollow las completed a fie lawn and tennis court for oc ofTeP pl Jno. McCiellan, Port Darlington. Tom Creeper went overseas vîth 60 fat cattie shîpped by RE ROAD TO WEST SIDE Williams & Hall.BEC High School notes: Officers ofBAC Literary Society: President...Alf. To Mr. James, Editor: N'. Mitchell; Vice Pres.-Miss Et- ta James; Sec'y.-Miss L o t t i e A few weeks ago 1 saw in your Locklart; Treas.-M. C. L. Pas- paper an article about the road to ce; Critic-Herb. Foley; Corres- the West Side Beach. Being inter- pondents-F. W. Werry, M 1 ested in the beach and knowing Scott and C.,E. Brown; Executive its qualifications I have wondered -J. A. Mountjoy, Miss Jolliffe, if anything las been done and Miss K. Argue, W. A. White, W. often wondered why the town las J.Ich and Miss Maggie Tait; Ex- not taken more interest in its wel- 'resident-J. H. Elliott.. fare and expansion. Married: May 4t1, Elizabeth It surely is an ideal place for Tane Byers and Wm. Sanderson, a holiday and there is no better :oth of Cartwright. place in Ontario for children to spend the summer with its dlean sand and safe sandy beach. Ail it needs is a free and easy passage TWENTY-FIVE VEARS AGO there and a little boosting to, put F'ro Th Caadia Sttesanit fîrst place on the map. MrmTh anad17, 1917 ma Why doesn't the Harbour Com- May_1,_191 pany, Mr. Pawson, Windy Cove, The Oshawa Vindicator las Beach Association, Chamber of îaned and. he ew wnesCommerce and the town council ýhne and . Davisnewoght to get together with the town solici- ake it go if they can get Osh- tmadcaeI oafnsee va merdhants to embrace ad- though it took $500 or $1000 for ,rtising as they do in Orillia.- legal fees. It would be well worth M. the price considering the amount A local committee las been paid out to the watchmen and in- :rmed to try to stiraulate pro- surance company each year. Or iction in gardens and lelp far- better stili surely the town council iers in busy periods. Those wuuo and the town solicitor could do ave vacant plots please notify thîs alone. No doubt the others rs. Editl V. Scobell. would lelp with the expenses. Mother's Day weather was Toronto Observer TFI PRICE CONTROL DOESN'T HURT GROCERY SALES Since December 1, 1941, Cana- dian business and labor lave been operating under a complete sys- tem. of price control. No one- laborer, manufacturer, whoiesal- er, or retailer-may charge more for services or materials than the top price dharged during the four- week period back in October. "But these wartîme prîce controls really laven't imposed any spec- ial difficulty on anyone," reports Clay'toh S. Moyer, Canadian re. taim, in the current Rotarian magazine. Delivery services lave been curtailed; but the time las not yet come wlen customers must carry ýtheir purchases, Mm. Moyer, who - operates tîree grocery stores ini Brantford, writes, adding, "ýIf gasoline and tire rationing can- cels the use of the delivery truck, the hay-burning old gray mare will deliver the goods. l'Il be a surpmised Canadian if there is any Protest when customers have to carry home their purdlases." No one knew in advance what period was to be chosen as the "test period" for fixing prices, and October was closen because it was before the law was passed, and no artificial inflation lad set in. Wages, thougl fixed to a ceil- ing, are tied to a "bonus" which fluctmates with the cost-of-living index. Since the price-fixing law weut into effect, the cost of living las actually fallen sligltly, Groc- er Moyer las found. When protests come to the Can- adian Wamtime Prices and Trade Board because of mises in costs ofj impomted materials, the effort is not to adjust prices upward, but to point ont economies in produc- tion and distribution costs, reports Mm. Moyer. He forsees tlat even after the wam "we shaîl have real service and less ornament .... Mauy of the mules and regulations forced by the war are sound witl- inL themselves. Standardization of sizes Of tins and packages, less elabomate metlods of selling, lab- elling, and packaging> are among the things overdue in the food in- dustmy . . . There will be fewem soap opemas,' but larger cakes of soap. Food packages will possess less, entertainment value, bunt more vitamins."1 Auto, Truck Tires Under Rigid Control Ottawa, May 14. - Retreaded and used tires, used tubes, and retreading services, as well as new tires and new tubes, are now under rigid control, according to an announcement by Hon. C. D. Howe, Minister of Munitions and Supphy. Effective May 15, the new order is designed to conserve Canada's mubber supplies for war purposes, to prevent loarding, and to keep essential vehicles, including: fam trucks and implements, in opera- tion as long as possible. The order tigîtens the previous control over new tires and new tubes. It sets up, tlree classes of NATIONAL WAR LABOUR BOARD COST 0F LIVING BONUS The Dominion Bureau of Statistics has found that the cost of living index number for April 1, 1942, of 115.9 [adjusted. index 115] has flot risen by one whole point or more over the index number for October 1, 1941, of 115.5 [adjusted index 114.61j. Accordingly, the National War Labour Board, pursuant to the provisions of Sec- tion 12 of Order in Council P. C. 8253, determines and announces, for the period May 15, 1942, to August 15, 1942, subject to the right of employers or employees to apply to a War Labour Board for authori- zation of payment of such an amount of cost of living bonus as a Board may determine to be "fair and reasonable," under the provisions of the Order, that: (a) Thor.a&hall b. no change in the. amount or percentage of cost of living bonus.. presentiy being paid; (b) An employer who ha. flot been paying coat of living bonus.. may flot begin to pay auch bonuse.. By Order of the National War Labour Board. HUMPHREY MITCHELL Minister of Labour and Chaira Ottawa, Canada. May 12, 1942 eligible vehicles, "A", "B", and "C", on a sliding scale gauged ac- cording to the usefulness of the vehic'le to a country at war, and it mules out the 1,000,000 or more motorists who are no longer able to buy even a used tube. Wlen a dealer has two or more orders for a similar tire or tube, and le cannot fili botl orders, he must give preference to the ownem of a vehicle in a bigler class. Owners of vehicles in Class "A" are permitted to buy new tires, new tubes, retreaded tires, me- treading services, used tires or used tubes. In this dlass are sudh vehicles as cars used by physi- cians, cars belonging to clergy- men who serve two or more con- gregations more than thriee miles apart, cars used by clergymen in sparsely settled districts, trucks for ro-ad -epai rs, trucks for carry- ing farm products and foods, fire figîters' vehicles, police vehicles, and farm tractors and harvester combines. other than automobiles THE RED CROSS NEEDS~ *9,OOOOQO NOW!I lb It is only through the Canadian Red Cross Society that anybody i Canada can send food paroels to any Canadian, British, Australian or New Zealand prisoner-of-war anywhere. This is but one of the great tasks of the Canadian Red Cross; great tasks require great effort and much money. More than 40,000 prisoners-of-war food parcels are sent overseas by the Red Cross every week. This number must be more than doubled to ineet the actual need. More than a million sucli paroels have already been sent to prisoners-of-war. It ail costa nioney. The Canadian Red Cross Society lias not campaigned nationally for funds since October, 1940. It now asks urgently for $9,000,000 i the only.national campaign for war servioe funds to be authorized by the Govern- ment this year. Every dollar contributed by you la wisely dealt with and economically adminis- tered. Ail Red Cross accounts are subject to scrutiny by the Auditor-General The Canadien Red Cross has given enormous assistance to the injured and homelesa in bombed areas in Britaimi At Coventry and Hull, in devastated L:ondon, Plymouth, Bristol and Liverpool, the Canadian Red Cross was tlere. Millions of articles of clothig shoes, blankets and otler comforts lave bee1n distributed. Thousands of chlldren In Britain lave been made orplans b y the war. The Canadian Red Cross las fed and clothed many of these homelesa ones and found tîem sheiter. The Canadien Red Cross Society maintains Enquiry Bureas through which familles iu Canada obtain information regarding missing relatives. Thirough these Bureaus, prsonersof-warr missing civilians are Iocated. The work is carried on in co-opera- tion with the International Red Cross atL.ý Geneva, Switzerland.J 7 The Canadian Red Cross las supplied 3ý mobile kitchen units for Britain's fire fghters. These units are equipped to go into bombed FOR INFORMATION (JALL: TOWN-C. D. SEARLE, PHONE 402. RURAL-T. M. CHANT, HAMPTON PHONE 2520, CÀANADIAIN RED CROSS el ----~..Irulo TAR FOR WAR SERV*ICE FUNDS THURSDAY. MAY 14 Làw 1 ý 22 1 1 THURSDAY, MAY 14. THE CANADIAN STATESMAN. BOWMAIVVTT.TV nmTl&prn *which tires and tubes are es,,,,- tial. Owners of vehicles in Cîass ' are perrnitted to buy retread.d tires, retreading services, Used tires and used tubes. In this dlas are rural mail carriers, passenger cars or trailers used princîpa lly , for the transportation of produce - and supplies to and from hiS farm by a person whose principal oc- cupation is farming, and who owns no truck, and others. Owners of vehicles in Class"" may purchase only tised tires a*n used tubes. Included in this C~ are vehicles used princi"ly ~ the course of their dutieJrthe following: Farm or food products inspectors, dentists or optome. trists who serve more than one community, scrap buyers, sherif fs or other law enforcement officer, servicemen wlo repair farm ma- chinery, rural school teachers, rural undertakers, and newsPaper reporters. Also covered in tis class are horsedrawn vehicles and farm implements for the opera- ià-M à