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PAGE TWO TH AND-qSAT1A11OW AVIL.1NARO'rTP WrRTR ltif4 1 - fle %aumbîuan et Established 1854 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER With which La Incorporated The Bowmanville News, The Newcastle Independent, ana The Orono News. 91 Year's Continuous Service To The Town of BowmanvIlle and Durham County. Membel. Audit Bureau et Circulations Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association - SUBSCRIPTION RATES 32.00 a Year, strictly ln advaace. 02.50 a Year ln the United States. GEO. W. JAMES, Editor. THE STATESMAN HONOR ROLL - On Active Service - .Major W. G. James (Wounded ln Action, Back at the Front) Capt. John M. James. W.O. Donald Cameron CSM. George Graham Cpl. A. Living (Killed in Action ln Italy) Boy Scout - Girl Guide Week The middle of February brings with it each year the annual observance of Boy Scout Week. This year the sister organiza- tion, the Girl Guides, is joining in and some 160,000 young Canadians are taking part in the week's activities. Boy Scout-Girl Guide Week is seven days in the year when these youth organizations make a special ef- fort to let the public know just what Scout- ing and Guiding are contributing to the up- 'building of Canada's youth as serving citi- zens of the community. The Boy Scout and Girl Guide Movements stand out in direct contrast to the Nazi youth movement. The Hitler youth is in- oculated with a doctrine of racial superior- ity, of hate, of brutality, and of greed. The Scout-Guide Movement is the antithesis of Naziism. It seeks to inculcate a directly op- posite philosophy. It seeks through its ,world-wide ramifications to breed respect for, and fellowship with all races, all colors, ail ereeds. It seeks to foster a spirit of good- will in contrast to hate. It teaches respect for the physical and mental feelings of al peoples. It teaches the sharing of life's good things with one's neighbor. It las been said that the Founder of the Scout and Guide Movements, Lord Baden- Powell of Gilwell died a broken hearted man in 1941, because Scouting and Guiding had not brought peace to this troubled world. If he did, he never revealed it to his closest associates. Scouting and Guiding aims at a world brotherhood. It could hardly be ex- pected that in little more than a generation it could accomplish what the Christian church has striven for centuries to accom- plish. But like the church it is working to that end. Together with all other agencies and forces of goodwill this purpose will eventu- ally be achieved. During this Boy Scout- Girl Guide Week the public is asked to see Scouting and Guiding in action, to learn more fully its purposes, and in the know- ledge gain-ed to give it the moral support that the Movement deserves. The thousands of young men and women who are todav giving voluntary leadership to Scout and Guide Groups, are rendering a service to Canada. which if not publicly applauded, must give them a tremendous amount of satisfaction. McNaushton Reveals Himself , Unfit for Public Life People are still sorting ou the lessons to be gleaned from the debris of the by-election in Grey North. The first reaction was that an English-speaking, Liberal constituency had rejected the Government's manpower and reinforcement policy embodied in the two-army system. The second reaction was amazement at the utterances of General McNaughton during and after the contest. He alternated between threats and pleadings and finally wound up in defeat with open insult to an intelligent electorate and an ex- tension of the two-army system into a two- war status, a real war abroad and a political battle at home, with indications that the lat- ter was now his chief concern. To set down what so many now recall of what the General said, it may be generally summarized as follows: "You people ought to follow a leader properly chosen or keep your mouths shut." "And Bracken better watch what he says or take the consequen- ces." Meantime, in supreme authority, his effectiveness as a leader and Minister w-as flouted by 6,300 Zombies deserting from the NRMA. His crowning indignity came with bis post-election statement. He immediately phoned Prime Minister King and was lu- spired again ta attack the electors." "J apo- logize ta nobody, congratulate nobody. We bave been right and fair. We don't know the fuli reasons for today's results but you may lie sure they w-ill be enquired into ad guarded agaiust in future." Here w-as bis frank iusult ta flic people. They were wrong and unfair and there iwas something sinister in their verdict that would have ta be looked inta and guarded against. Then lie wvent on ta berate the. Bracken Party as reactionaries and dictators whio would deny ta Canadian youti tlieir right ta lire and brenthte. He concluded with fie wvarning that the first skirmish hîad >een lost lu a battle thiat mîust be joined on the home front and lie and lis leader would be in it ta tie finish aud thecir cause woauld triumph. Canadians wll have ta go a long way back in history ta find tic equal af this tirade against fthe people by a responsible public figure. There are other things that came ta lighit linflic by-election and some conclusions tao be drawn whichi have not escaped political oubservers. Nane of fthe heavy-weighits ai the Cabinet went to Grey North to help Mc- Naughton, although some were absent from Ottawa and appeared at, several points in Ontario during the eontest. They are friends of Ralston who was kicked out to make a place for the General. What this in- fers is pretty well apparent. The conclusion is that MeNaughton is teniperainentally un- suited for public life and there is little doubt lie was -relieved fron overseas command be- cause of that conplex and an overweaning vanity. No people will stand for the kind of insults and dictatorial attitude taken by MeNaughton and it is doubtful whether he appears as a candidate in the general elecs tion. He lias become, in fact, a fallen idol. Dr. Smith Gives LeadershiD In Education forCitizenshiD A pow-erful n·ew voice and an outstanding personality has lately come to Ontario whose influence is already becoming felt in the realm of education in this Province. Dr. Sidney Smith, the Maritimer who went West to h-ead the University of Manitoba made such an outstanding record there that he was the unanimous choice for President of Toronto University on retirement of Dr. Cody. Indeed the influence of Dr. Smifi has been apparent across Canada for many years. Recently, President Smith com- mended the Ontario Educational Association for its wise selection of the theme, "Educa- tion for Better Citizenship" for its 1945 convention. "No topie," he said, "is more important or more significant at this time" and lie weut on ta enlarge upan the tnsk of the democracies in the postwar worlds Expressing the view that securing the peace will present problems even more vex- ed than winning the military victory, Dr. Smith said we have been prone to berate the leaders of democracies during the past two decades and we are now realizing that the people, themselves, did not have a common will to attack and solve.the social, economie and spiritual problems inherent in the as- surance of peace. "Herein," he stresses, "is the task of education." "if the people are not aroused, their leaders, however inspir- ing, will avail but little."""The Canada of tomorrow, or at least the day after tomor- row is noiw being fashioned by theteachers in our schools." Concluding, Dr. Smith warned that after the Axis defeat we have another battle to win, the Battle of Ideas. "Axis teachings had been "education for death " that warped and stultified their youth. In the Battle of Ideas, the democracies must engender in fleir youtf a dynamie to match that fana- ticism for establishment of a world of de- cency and order. To that task Canadian- teachers must give of their best of heart and mind. The primary lesson for both teachder and faugit is tat responsibility and obligations are necessary correlatives of privilege and rights and that freedom and order need not cancel out one another. In a Democracy they are complementary. They must be in balance." There is an obligation for the press of Canada constantly to present to readers these hard-hitting opinions so ably expressed by a great University President, Dr. Sidney Smith. Permanent Power Result If CCF Wins Election The Financial Post, Toronto, gets down to cases concering tthe CCF in a leading edi- torial of its issue of February 10. Comment- ing on the result of the Grey North by-elec- tion it goes on to point out the peril of the two old-ine parties (agreed on fundament- ails) figliting each other and openiug the way for the CCP. And the Post asks, "How is the CCF different from any other politi- cal parti-?" It answers the question: "Other political parties ask to be voted into pow-er only for 5 iears or until defeated in the House; while te CCF asks to be voted into power per- manently. Of course the CCF doesn't say so. At this stage its greatest advantage lies in pretendig it is just like any other party. But the high priests of Socialism all say bluntflthat socialism must bc an al o r niothiug proposition." Harold Lasky wrote: "Parliament would have to be abolished in the socialist state un- less opposition parties agreed never to change or repeal the great socialist plan." G. H. 1). Cole. another socialist prophet, wrote that the Socialist party whenl elected, "Must break and destroy the organization of the rival in order to put it permanently out of action." The Post concludes: "This of course bas been abunîîdantly demonstrated wherever totalitarianism lias been attempted. In Rus- sia, Germany and Italy, opposition to the party in power is treason." Power over man's subsistence amounts to power over his will. Hence ration books will be the socialist state's most powerful means of con- trol. "The CCF's use of the word democracy is sheer camouflage. Its pretense of being "just another party" to which Canadians should give a trial is just old-fashioned treachery of whici the Trojan liorse episode is the most celebrated example. Neither the CCP defeat in Grey North nor of socialist candidates in municipal elections cau iwisely he read as evidence that Canada is clear of the danger of a socialist revolution." Nazi Killers RampDant In Prison CamDs According to press reports Nazi prisoners have executed 2 German prisoners in a Canadian prison camp. In other words the pro-Hitler tribe have expressed tlîeir terror- isn, here in Caiiada, over anti-Hitler prison- ers. Similar killings lave been reported in United States camps. Aong the Veterans' Guard who have hîad charge of Canada's prison camps, it lias been know-n all along that these Nazis are icurably arrogant, unrepentant, callous and contemptuous spawni of the systein under which they were nurtured. Here at Bowmanville have been This Army , *" "That's the second Doodie Bug he's brought ln today" IN THE DIM AND DISTANT PAST Froin Te-Statemman Files FIFTY YEARS AGO son residence on Scugog St. February 13, 1895 Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Morris and family, Edmonton, are visit- Teachers of Darlington Schools ing his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John are: S.S. 1,' Mary Dodds, 2,' Amy H. Morris, Beech Ave., en route to Armour; 3,'Harold Martyn; 4, Ed. make their home in Montreal. Hawkey; 5, D. McDonald; 6, Eva Geo. H. Bickell, while unloading Annis; 7, S. Slemon; 8, J. F. Mc- iron girders at new west King St. Roberts; 9, Edith Fielding; 10, bridge, slipped and broke his leg. Mary Creba; 11, Frank Groat, Thos. Bottreli & Sons sold 30 Katrina Argue; 12, Edith Riggs; o- their prize-winning birds to 13, Archie Reid; 14, R. M. Riggs; MacLean, Kerr & McGinnis,rBran- 15, Chas. McKay; 16, Isaac Snell; don, Man., for the big Manitoba 17, E. Hezzlewood; 18, Ettie Camp- Provincial Show. bell, A. Hancock; 19, Mary Hoar; Tyrone: Tyrone Young People 20, Everett Brown; 21, John presented their drama "The Hobbs. Stolen Will" at Bowmanville Trinity College School, Port Methodist League. Cast includ- Hope, was burned, caused by a ed: John Hills, Maude Hodgson, lamp explosion. Velma Staples, Alex Staples, Haydon: An interesting social Chas. Stinton, Harold Clemens, event occurred at the residence of Irving Clemens, Albert Hills, James Moore when his eldest Lorne McCoy, .Howard Brent, daughter, Mary, was joined in Lance Phare, Everett Virtue, Har- holy wedlock with Eli G. Pascoe, old Skinner, Olive Skinner, prominent agriculturalist of Reoma Phare, Margaret Moore, Solina. Mary Richards. Orono: The Methodist Church aSolina: Elias Ashton is drilling Oron: Te Mthodst hurh awell for Silas Williams... purchased the D.O. & P. Co.torgan Vera Baker is home from Nicholîs whic won the diploma at the Hospital, Peterboro . . . N. E. World's Fair. Wright's family have scarletz Tyrone: Amos Bond, Manitoba, fever.h had his foot badly crushed with Enniskillen: Gertie Oke passed a sledge hammer... W. H. Clem- her exams at Oshawa Business ens is making extensive prepara- College and has secured a posi-à tions for building a barn. tion at the Royal Bank, Bowman-E Two dwellings in the west part ville. . . Mr. and Mrs. Fred Or-J of Bowmanville were burned and chard, Miami,aMan.,areFvisiting the families of Thos. McKnight here. and James Ryan lost all their be- Hampton: One of our oldesti longings. The bouses were owned residents, Mr. M. B. Cryderman,c by Thos. Trewin, shoemaker. died. J Carrie Allen is enjoying Ameri- can life with a school friend at B-27182 Gnr. Allin, H. A., 51st Indianapolis. Bty., lst Cdn. Anti-Tank Regt.,a Can. Med. Forces, C.A.O.: By a TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO recent letter to his mother, Mrs. l February 12, 1920 Florence Allin, Courtice, Gnr. fi Allin wishes to convey sincere S Mr. John Elliott, B.A., London, thanks and appreciation to the is supplying on the High School Rotary Club for chocolate bars F teaching staff for T. M. Henry, and gum sent to him at Christmas L who is ill. and also to the Lions Club for b Harry Alun, Orono, bas sold their thoughtful Christmas re- a bis farm and purcbased the Pear- membrance. 1 fi iarbored for several years, some 600 or 700 of these killers still imbued with the master- race complex. A former Camp Command- ant at' Bowmanville, Col. R. O. Bull, is quot- ed as having said only rceently: "Thiese Gestapo-like political leaders have exercised a rigid control over fellow prison- ers and have thoughlt nothing of stooping to cold-blooded murder. We kirow at least one prisoner whohlias been murdered. In other cases, intimidated prisoners bave taken tlieir own lives." Recentily at the Bowman- ville camp there have been rumors of trouble within the conpound and segregation mea- suîres taken. At this camp fhiese Nazis liave been housed and fed in surroundings con- sidered as good as in any first class hotel. The Government lias leaned over backward in observing the Geneva Convention. Not the slichtest attempt lias been made to re- educate these killers, while the Nazis have subjected our soldier prisoners to their pro- paganda, according to the latest news avail- able. We have in Anerica, probably a quarter million of these Nazi prisoners. We ought to know bv now that they will be sent back to their Reich completely contemptuous of. the "soft democracies" and eager to plan for the "next war." There is the picture and the problem. The only hope of the re- generation of the Hun tribe lies inthe educa- tion of its small children tlat war doesn't pay. But they will immediately come under the sway of these repatriated murderers. Onl- bthrougi two generations of closest Al- lied police supervision can the influence of 'these Hitlerites Ie destroyed. It lias been suggested tia thtese prisoners in America be returied via Murmîansk and Moscow as a neanîs of realistie repatriation. We know sonething of tlem in Bowimnanville, but we believe the Russians know considerably more. Time to Get Ready for A General Election With the Grey North result before them and memory of the snap election of 1940 still fresh, people of Canada may as well get 1 1 | ready for another wartime election. It should be the concern of the press immedi- ately to direct its attention to the prob- able issues that will be raised, not only to create an interest designed to get out the fullest vote possible, but to sumumarize the platforims of the main parties contending for power- This is an obligation to the public which The Statesman proposes to exercise in the fullest nanner possible commensur- ate writh time and space. For it is generally aceepted that the election iow to be called is probably flic most momentous since Con- federation. Already some 400 candidates have been nominated and it is likely 1,000 or more will eventually contest for the 245 seats. At the moment the OCF have 153 nominated, Pro- gressive Conservatives 112, and Liberals 87, with others edging forward to make con- fusion more confounded. Besides the above there are the Labor Progressives, present de- signation of Tim Buck's Communists, the Social Crediters, Bloc Pop, Union Nationale and variôus shades of Independents; in all upward of a dozen "isms" and legitiates, all claiming adherence to democratie concep- tions, yet in the general setup presented, en- dangering the very foundations of democ- racy in this country as happened in France wih its former multitude of quarreling fac- lions. The destruction of the two-party system and the introduction of disaffected groups has been considerably enhanced during ithe regim e of Canada's present Prime Minister. The net result must now be faced by the electorate at large. To get back to national political sanity a supreme duty rests upon the responsible press of the nation to create au informned and stable public opinion. The time is short and the obligation heavy, but a heartening indication that attempts at confusion will largely fail was given in the recent by-election. The people there ap- parently depended on individual thinking. It will require a national sweep of the same character to assure a sane and stable administration at Ottawa for the immediate postwar years. YOU CAN'T STOP JUNIOR NOW THAT HE'S DRINKING GLEN RAE MILK Your children will gain new vitality when you switch to GLEN RAE milk. Its every ingredient is conductive to year 'round health. Our Milk is 100 per cent Pasteurized -w 1 ROTARY CLUB DEPENDENTS SLOW TO CLAIM DEATH GRATUITIES ThenC twenton frto ackle Thus There is general lack of infor- and Typhoid Fever, both tody mation among both soldiers and and yphid F ver bot toay their de nd ts i rgad o virtually conquered. The speaker ependents m regard ta told of a district epidemic of regulations affecting m a n y Typh id c use thr ugb infe ted aspects of tbeir service and ne- met ndcaused through infected habilitation. That the govern- manvilae in 192c2u ence voe ment has failed in disseminating of cleanliness of food and sur- proper advice is shown in the re- roundings was again emphasized port that 10,000 dependents of and incidentally came the idea of men wbo have lost their lives in pasteurization of milk. tis war bave aile Thats oarg The use of vaccine and appli- proportion of total casualties and cation of tbe lessons learned indicates that dependents are un- through discoveries of Pasteur informed in the matter. and Koch and othensiad become Casualties to date, including fixed in public attention. The dead and presumed dead are, demand came for medical officers Army 13,897, Air Force 10,658, to be trained in the study of con- Navy 1,338. Those entitled to re- tagious diseases and the micro- ceive gratuities are those drawing organisms that caused the in- dependents allowances at time of cidence and spread of epidemics. death and those drawing assign- Two decades ago Diphtheria took ed pay. Next of kin who are not 1600 lives in a stngle year in Can- dependent on servicemen at the ada while in 1940 there were but time of death are not eligible for 213. In 1920 Toronto bad 215 gratuities. deaths from this disease and in The above information is given 1940 none at all. The application for local dependents who may not of modern hygiene was thus have so far applied for gratiuties amply proved in prevention of due them. To have the matter tbis scourge. adjusted, those concerned should Introduction of toxoid treat- write to the Minister responsible, ments, the methods of which were Hon. Ian Mackenzie, Parliament explained by the speaker, was Buildings, Ottawa. now almost universally accepted. Today, mothers with children around 6 months ofhage, came willingly forward to have immun- ization by way of toxoid treat- ments performed. Through these the dangers of Whooping Cougb, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Small- pox and other former killers have been virtually conquered. Dr. Slemon referred to the great dis- covery of Dr. Banting through which sufferers from Diabetis have been saved by Insulin. To-R day, scientific research had brought immunity over a whole EM PIRI range of former scourges. In conclusion the speaker ob- served that be had only skirted Kecord of which involved of course the pres- ent national campaign to control or eradicate V.D., the greatest killer of the age. Through the in- troduction of the Sulfandrugs and Souncd growth in Si intravenous employment of the ~ mercuries, great pnogress 15 be- increase Security for ing made but, as the speaker ob- served, that is a whole story in is shown by these no itself. The ,most heartening ad- vancements nrecent times was the our 1944 statement. willingness of people to accept in- creases in public health estimtes which augured well for a new era Insurance in Force - and a new horizon for the people of Canada. Thanks of the members wereTotal Assets - - - eloquently expressed by Fred Hoar who said the address was Capital & Surplus Fur another instance that the Club n e e d not depend on outside Paynients to Policyhoj sources for interesting and in- formed discussions on matters of and Beneficiaries - vital public interest. The desire of members was undoubtedly to New Insurance aid f have Dr. Slemon deal furtherNwnsurane p with the subject at a future date. and revived - - Busines and by-play at the meeting which was sparked by CHARLES P. FELL President Morley Vanstone, in- President cluded presentations by Attehd- - ance Chairman Geo. W. James of perfect attendance pins to Harry -ecurity anc Athin and C. G. Morris, with scores of 2 years and 1 year, re- spectively. In spite of attempted alibis, Jack McKeever and Géorge James were fined for failure to wear their member buttons.Jack N McKeever was also presented with birthday flowers. Winners K I N G S T O of the prizes of the day were Messrs. Strike, Tennant, Garton, Mlorris and Gardiner. The visitor of theday who was accorded a big hand was B. H. Mortlock, Ottawa, Chief of Pub- icity, Boy Scouts of Canada, and 'ormer Associate Editor of The G. F. OSBC Statesman. In honoi of the memory of Past President F. F. Morris who was aid to rest on Wednesday, mem- bers stood for one minute's silence nd bowed in a fitting prayer of- fered by Rev. J. E. Griffith. __________ gp- THE 'CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO TFIURS.. FEBRUARY 15th, 1945 &