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PAGE TWO THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE. ONTABIO THURSDAY., NOV. 2nd, 1944 Established 1854 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPApE Wlth whlch la Incorporated The flowmanville News, The Newcastle Independent, and The Orono News. 89 Year's Continuons Service To The Town of Dowmanvlne and Durhamn County. Membera Audit Bureau et circulations Weekly NewuPapera Association SUESODIPTOIRATES ss.OO a l'east aicti7 ln advance. 82.50 aVlear la the United State.. GRO. W. JAMES. Editor. THrE STATESMAN HONOR ROLL - On Active Service - Major W. G. James <Wounded ln Action, Back st the Front) Capt. John M. James W.O. Donald Cameron Sorgt. George Graham CpL A. Living (KUIed ln Action lu Itaiy) This Stockvards Nonsense Millions df dollars are being lost by Cana- dian farmers at the present time because of senseless conditions prevailing in the mar- keting of their livestock. Here is the situa- tion as revealed daily at the stockyards and told by the press and over the radio to those who have toîled during ail the war years to produce the first essential for victory nam- ely food. Cattie, sheep, veal and hogs con- tiue to be delivered for processing at Cana- dian packing plants. But there is a bottie- neck at the point of delivery which h&. meant for many weeks a carryover in beef and sheep, particulariy, of thousands of head every day. Why that is so and what is to be doue about it seems to be the con- Cern of nobodY, least of ail the govern- ment. Packers claim it is ail due to lack of help. Meantime, labor unions, seeking to be help- fui, not to the farmers, but to themselves, threaten to strike. And meantime, farmers, remote from the scene are obliged to buy hay at $40 a ton to feed stock milling aroundthe yards and unsheltered. To cap it ail, pneumonia lias broken out and many head are dying at the doors of the plants. When food isc the crying need of the day this senseless, helpless, unmitigated travesty on efficiencyv is permitted to prevail. So far as we are aware, only one move lias been made by the goverument to relieve the situ- ation. That is permission to export sheep and lambs to the U.S.A. But that is only a palliative in one direc- tion. There stili exists an agreement with the U.S.A. to export 200,000 head of cattie annuaily. That was lialted two years ago and a permit system set up. Britain in the meantime agreed to take a hundred million pounds, of Canadian beef for 1944-45. We have provided for ail committments and yet have an unprecedented glut on the domestic market, with the* farmer holding the bag. The U.S.A. is stili under a meat ration and yet our self-imposed restrictions will not per- mit shipment across the border. This sense- less impasse can be broken overniglit by an enlightened policy. Remove the barriers, put Zombies at work, forbid the strike and the thing is done. Farmers won 't stand for inaction much longer. _V Pitv'the Poor Germans Is CÇF ProDaganda Todav The New Commonwealth, officiai organ of the COF, i its issue of October 26, 1944, gives editorial expression to a soft peace for the German people. Outspoken in its de- fence of the Japanese in Canada this ideolo- gical aggregation of pacifists and isolation- ists wouid now differeutiate between "Ger- maus" and " Nazis " and bring " pity " to bear in deaiing with a pitiless people. This is what their paper says: "As the time for makiug peace approaches, demands for ven- geance against the people of Germany are becoming increasiugly loud and bitter, stimulated by the daily stories of atrocities which our newspapers tend to credit to the. German people instead of the Nazi. ' " The waves of bitterness and hatred which war engeuders have made it more difficuit for us to see clearly. " So here again are the voices of appease- in this war. First the spokesmen of the 00F: FPounder Woodsworth, speaking in Parliament: "In the event of war Canada ,ahould remain strictly neutral, regardlcss of who the belligerents may be. The ruling caste of Britain wiiI sacrifice the masses and Canada, too, to their own interests." Coidwell, the present CCF leader: "Can- ada's beet defence is its defencelessncss.. My son, 21 years old, is determined to go jail byefore eulisting, . . . in event of wa Canada 's maximum contribution would1 suppiying foodstuffs and material and uncd no 'circuinstances conscription for overse forces." Winch, GUF leader in B.C. "GCan dians can do more to maintain freedom ar democracy by being alive in Canada than feet underground in Europe." Finally, Ai ixes Macphail: "Our greatest danger is the British- connetion. " There was mor inuch more, but this will acquaint paren with the CCP attitude. Now, briefly, to measure the CCP philo ophy against Nazi and German atrocitig and aggressions let us recount these entirel authenticated instances: Warsaw, Rotte dam, Lidice, Coventry, London, Lubock an the mass shootings in ail their conquerE countries. -The press,' reviled by the CC] lias carried truc stories of these devastatin cruelties. Germaus and Nazis alike, allie in conquering super-man exuberance, chees cd and exulted in these atrocious slauglite iugs. At Lubock alone, over a million mei women and children were gassed to deal] cremated and their ashes used as fertilize: Absolute proof of ail this is today at hand. And now at Aachcu, within Germanyi self, civilian Germans, treated with suprem allied cousideration, bewail their fate, not b decrying Hitler, but bemoaning the mi: takes made which robbed them of worl domination. Uuitediy they cheered t] Hun victories and inhuman cruelties. The exulted when Japs overran. the Pacifi clubbing, murdering and raping. Thes bestial Axis hordes are ail of the sain stripe, fundamental, ini conquering mood Now, beaten to their knees in fair battie, ye treated with extreme, humane consideratior they whine and snîvel and whimper in feign cd renunciation, hoping for a soft peae while planning the next great war. Thati the picture, accurately presented by wor]( leaders and the press of today. The Statesman has been in the forefron of contemporary jouruals in exposing CCI socialist political philosophy. Now, as tht CCP again levels the finger of seoru at news papers for exposîng the truth concerninî Huns in general oui' duty seems clear. W. say this and we say it with an emplias which we hope reaches every bereaved home Let the CCF continue to preach its politica« panaceas at home and let ail who wisi hopefully yet hopelessly, continue to sup. port them, but when they cry and bemoar and snivel in unison with reeauting Axiç beasts to secure a soft peace, it is time foi the press to denounce themn with ail the vehemence at its conîmand. This preseutly indicated stand of the CCI is thoughtless sabotage in its most vicious form; an affront to wise Allied leaders, to a responsible press, to the people as a whole and it falîs with particular and perhaps un- calculated callousness upon the homes froin which have gone forth to die the flower of Canadian manhood. If there remains in the County of Durham a single British Cana- dian who eau stomach and support this lai- est CCP propaganda we should like to hear of him or from him. The press is not yet a speut force. The Statesman ivili continue to lend its voice to sustain a public opinion which demands generations of universal peace based on justice, not on siavering sentiment. Dangers of Hitch Hiking Tu-o local youug girls, age 16-18, were re- cently submitted to a harrowing experi- ence. Hitch-hiking home after a dance they were picked up by two uight-prowlers ini a car which vas followed by two- other "4wolves" in a second car. Assured they would be taken directly home, they were taken to a lonely side-road and subjectedý to a night-long experience they wiil nevex forget. One of the "wolves" iuvolved was taken to court and sentenced to a term in Reformatory. Under a charge of "indecent assault" it ivas unifortunate according- to the code that lie could not be sentenced to more drastie punishment. Bofh girls were of refiued families and of fine character, but as court evidence reveal- cd, were so unsophistieated as to be classed as "just plàin dumb." For this they may be excused because hitch-hiking has become a common practie, widely indulged, since war began. Their youth, streugth and moral courage carried them through their experience uudespoiled, but the stig-ma en- gendered by a public trial lias inspired rumors, even in this allegedly Christian ommuunit, whic-h, ;vlillyunjutiie 11il nection with previous war-time elections. This wvas that the soldier vote does not seem to show any signs of expressing any gencrai military bias tow'ards polities. By and large the soldier in the army votes as lie would if lie ivere ini the old hoine towin. So mudli for the CCP dlaimn to being inter- preter-eleet of youth, or perhaps they were referring to stay-at-home youths. to A WORD ,ar, be ler eas YXIM1OSr~OT Lnd kg- re' ats os- Jes ed- ,ni -ed it-, ,ne ld e cn, se me nbPTTR is- ZMBEBM (lnea WreMao-e ýe Ghis yal Eiset nw e app a 's cceval may pron kolong her re sisanresitli wll fin 1945. c ril h Nwisar xetimewithe we a hehoe for the bet-butprepaxti f rathe orst. andaie ould th 's critmia)ly blitoteeli thE n g we ased ourhewar pines o .s the asumptonethat therwa r alreiady mver. lng * * : itwnety F e Cent of 194C5. al this enir e wee ssn ed i shhp o the latmot eporbted. epar asrmane soldiensCin aug uasb lost in ai l he prevheus 59 mont i f Hiter'asedwarwrpliis S Rheardiese 0f thetrth of th )r cares madve Mjr o fe Sm yth Pr rinoren t poA Csu atins bteeCnainotriosy pri csth austfony mreoth. My los ; asma ivs leny of dt asl c melot n aw he areiusedinthi r f bate ns iwalyo Facea erl ew othe i uni fornn Somares0fmthee Mjwr in n de laond s beelytat they we Saiusrel heme liants.coye ti endail tivs fareabou t o in:a ofearmy. The gruento sh( te y fahe e o athoied it t( d oite pvlecito 1942thai i smaeythe etie harcm avai ofale forevicenhan -for as long as necessary. The Zombie Set-Up Was A e hypocritical farce from the be- ginning. It is worse than a farce now. It has in it the makings of r civil strife in Canada. Every sane person, who faces *what is likely to happen lu Can- ada, should now be bending every effort to head off ail tendencies rwhich make for violence and tur- smou aiter the war is over. Yet, 1instead of doîng that, the govern- tment itself is clinglng to a policy which is not only likely to cause trouble, but absolutely certain to do so. Almost every day there are in- cidents which ought to wake up the day-dreamers in Ottawa. Many of these neyer get in the papers. But one which came to my own notice a few nights ago set me thinking. The place is a hamburger coun- ter-restaurant. The people in it are the usual mixture. Young- sters, war-workers, soldiers. There are a few so-cailed zoot suiters in the crowd - that is, flashily dressed youths with ad- miring girl friends. Somebody neither go forward, sideways, or backwards without some grief. If the war ends, and the zombies are discharged to get the best jobs, the overseas men will lie figlit- ing mad. If the war does not end this faîl it will he impossible to maintain our Canadian di- visions at full strength without making the whole Zombie army subi ect to front-lime service., There is diffiçulty for Canada TO THE WISE See Et. in any course of action or inac- tion. But the niglit thîng to do- even now - is what we should have doue the very first day of the war-that is, make military service universal and compulsory as ln Britain, the U.S., New Zea- land, and the Soviet. 't Bibleograph of pDurham County 'l' From Dr. Albert E. Aluin, Fort e-William, Ont., comes a letter which among othen things, con- n tains a list of books and pam- re phlets which forms a comprehen- àsive bibiography of Durham )n County. Whenever he returns to a "postman's holiday" and roamg the countryside in search of flora and fauna later to be told about in scientific brochures of which lie is !n in the author. He and Dr. L. B. t Williams of Toronto are contem- re porary in their interest in keep- is ing alive an historical summary of their native county. Albert ,e writes: S"I doubt whether many towns -have liad more written about them than has Bowmanville and a its immediate vicinity. To men- )f tion a few which should be given le a -place in y6ur collection, I have f- recently come across references to the following:, -1. G. C. Tremaine's, Map of the -e County of Durham, Upper Cana- Ir da, printed in Toronto in 1861. 2. J. T. Coleman's, History of o the Early Settiement of Bowman- [s ville and Vicinity, 1875. d 3. H. Belden's, Illestrated Hic- .- tonical Atlas of the Counties of oNorthumberland a n d Durham, ýt 1878. 4. J. B. Faîrbairn's, History i and Remmniscences of Boqwman- ville, 1906. 5. John Squair's, The Town- ships of Darlington and Clarke, 1927. e 6. R. Delamey Black's, Charles . Fothergill's Notes on the Natural History ai Eastern Canada, 1816- s1837, in which are many refen- ences to the United Counties. Re- *printed from Transactions of the sRoyal Canadian Institute, Vol. XX, Part 1, 1934. 7. J. H. Elliott's, Elliott's Mils, Hamrpton, 1840-1936, reprinted from The Canadian Statesman, Jan. 7, 14, 21, 1937. Incîdentally I have recently ob- tained reprints of three addresses and papers published subsequent ta Dr. Eiliott's death. Que is an address given by Dr. Clarkson at the unveiling of a plaque ta Dr. Elliotf at the Academy of Medi- cine, Toronto; the second an ap- preciation by Dr. Parfitt, and tac third coutains hic bîbliography of t86 papers written and published between 1898 and 1942. Few realize lie was so prolific a writer on scientîfic articles. There are several recent publi- cations conceruing Durham Coun- ty af great interest partictuanly ta those engaged lu agriculture in Clarke and Hope and are dectined ta concern the welfare of al Canadians. They are cancerned with the erasion on the Wilmot Creek and the Ganaraska Water- shed. Erosion, destruction of forests, and lowered waten levels explain in part mhy the populatian af Clarke and Hope feu frmm ven 12,000 in 1861 to a littie aven' 5,000 in 1941. Sa the fallowing publications should hold particu- lar interest: 1. Wilmot C r eek 'Drainage Unit, a study in farest conserva- tion by R. S. Carman, Ont. For- ectry Branch, Toronto. 2. The Ganaraska Survey, by A. H. Richardson, appearing in The Canadian Geographical Jour- nal, April, 1944. 3. The Ganaraska Watershed, by A. H. Richardson, published 1944 under auspices af Dominion and Province of Ontario. 4. The Glacial Pot Hole Area, Durham County, publiclied by Ri S. Carruan, 1941, a reprint from the Forestry Chronîcle, Sept., 1941. To ahl those interested in the histary of the district, the above list will be of value as authori- tative material and it is suggested it be eut out and saved for future reference. Peace muet have a fighting pur- pose big enaugli to enlist the energies of oun demobilized mil- lions. ATr BAY... but st111 dangerous.. th. Nazi wilI stop et nothing to prevent his own destruction; Our war materials are boing us.d Up fauter than we con conceive. l's aur job ta provide the means for Victoryi Buy. More Victory Bonds Thon Ever Be fore! The Canada Life Assurance Company "if our course is plotted wisely would be entitled to dlaim on operations superintendent, At- and prudently, there is no rao h basis of population or of our anicdiiion, Trans-Canada Air why Canada should not assume a population or of our normal con- Lines, speaking at an air con- place in international aviation cern with worlci affairs," said ference of the Maritime Board of far beyond that to which we Capt. F. I. Young, Moncton, N.B., Trade in Kentviile, N.S. for TOUR OWN and CANALDI' ]FUTURE TEAILRS of PERCE v v 4~ THE CANADIAN STATESNIAN, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO lý THURSDAY., NOV. 2nd, 1944 A'