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A , PAGE TEN THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO THURSDAY. APRIL lSth. 1946 Pre-natal Care for Mothers Among Bills Passing Legislature Designed to aid and improve conditions throughout Ontario, one of the largest volumes of new and amended legislation was dealt with by the 22nd session of the Ontario Legislature recently con- cluded. A total of 176 bills was introduced, 132 being public bills and 44 private measures. Of these- 152 were passed. New Health Measure Included in this large volume of legislation are many measures implementing the Drew govern- ment's progressive policies in the fields of health, education, law enforcement, agriculture, high- ways, welfare, etc. Particularly in health measures, under the dir- ection of Hon. Russell T. Kelley, a'bill was approved providing for free medical examination of all expectant mothers. Under this new departure, expectant moth- ers receive a free medical exam- ination upon making application to a medical practitioner who for- wards a report to the Department of Health. The doctor making the examination is to be paid a $5 fee by the government. Two New Departments Two new departments were set up under legislation introduc- ed by Premier George Drew. These are, first, the Department of Travel and Publicity, headed by Hon. G. Arthur Welsh, and the Department of Reform Institu- tions, headed by Hon. G. H. Dun- bar. Departments dealing dir- ectly with these two problems are new in provincial administration. The Travel and Publicity Depart- ment will direct its work toward aiding the tourist business and publicizing the province. Officials estimate that the forthcoming season will be the largest in years with upwards of 12,000,000 visi- tors expected. The Reform Insti- tutions Department will direct the new five or six institutions to be erected at various points throughout the province under the new policy for handling certain types of inmates. Continue Grants Continuation of educational grants to municipalities, counties and townships to relieve the tax burden on the local taxpayer is provided for in the budget. A re- cord highway construction and improvement program is to be im- plemented with expenditures of $46,000,000 to be made. Complete revision of liquor sales is to be made under the Li- quor License Act, a step designed in the course of temperance. An- other measure introduced by At- torney-General L. E. Blackwell provides for widening of Provin- cial Police work by a new war- proved frequency modulation ra- dio system. This will institute new methods in crime prevention, the new system knitting together the whole police system by per- mitting not only station to car two- way communication but car-to, car communication. Subsidies Continued A new minimum wage for men is to be brought in by regulation, Minister of Labor Charles Daley announced. Subsidies on cheese, hogs, and sugar beets are contin- ued for another year by measures introduced by Minister of Agricul- ture T. L. Kennedy. Another bill from his department sets up the Ontario Food Terminal to be built in' York County for handling of fruit and produce. The Conser- vation Authorities Act provides for such authorities in various parts of the province similar to the Grand River Conservation and Thames River Control commis- sions. Three municipalities with- in a watershed may proceed to create an authority under this measure to control flood condi- tions. Historic Mace The session occupied 25 sitting days. This included nine night sessions, and one morning sitting. At prorogation, the historic mace, symbolizing the King's authority, aril used at the first legislature held in Ontario on Sept. 17, 1792, was taken into the Chamber. This first session was at Newark, now Niagara-on-the-Lake. On April 27, 1813, this mace was seized by U.S. troops when capturing York. It was taken to Washington re- maining there until 1934 when the late President Roosevelt dir- ected its return here. Premier Drew announced it will be encas- ed in glass and placed on exhibi- tion in Parliament Buildings. A select committee was appoint- ed on motion of Premier Drew to study and report on members' in- demnities. MUST HAVE PERMIT TO IMPORT PLANTS Before ordering nursery-stock plants for importation into Can- ada from another country, an application for a permit must be made to the Chief, Plant Protec- tion Division, Dominion Depart- ment of Agriculture, Ottawa. In the application, details must be given as to the number, kind, variety, and value of the plants; the name and address of the im- porter and of the shipper; to what point (other than the ad- dress of the importer) the plants will be shipped, and whether the plants are to be forwarded by parcel post, express, or freight. If no prohibited plants are in- cluded in the application, a num- bered permit will be issued to the applicant without charge. If the parcel is to be sent by parcel post, a special mailing label will be sent with the permit. The im- porter will then send his order, quoting the number on the per- mit, and enclosing labels, if is- sued. When the nearest Customs Office notifies that the shipment has arrived, the permit will be surrendered to the Customs with the other clearance papers. To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very per- fection of manners is not to think about yourself.-Whately This Advertisement is Sponsored by Blueprintingthe Future By Lewis Milligan "In Britain the architects of peace are at work and the pattern of a new society catering to the needs of the people will soon emerge," says the provincial or- ganizer of the C.C.F. in Nova Sco- tia. Commenting on this state- ment, the Halifax Chronicle says: "This is the old pie-in-the-sky ap- proach of ancient socialists. It is airy, vacuous and nonj-prac- tical. It represents the attitude that the way to deal with press- ing public problems is to theorize on them, talk about patterns and a new society, architects of peace and the like." That is just what is wrong with the postwar world; we have too many architects and too few buil- ders and willing workers. It is literally true of the housing situ- ation. Since time began there never were so many plans and planners. It is an age of blue- prints. We must have architects and engineers to design and plan modern structures and machin- ery, but these deal with brick, stone, cement, wood, steel and various kinds of metal, all of which can be moulded or ham- mered into the desired shapes and fitted together according to plan. In this way we can predetermine the "shape of things to come,"- things, but not human beings. Lord Woolton, former British Minister of Food, in an article ap- pearing in The London Sunday Times dealing with the so'cializa- tion program of the Labor Gov- ernment, said: "It is folly to think that men who are good barristers and good talkers necessarily have the experience and mental equip- ment to control our industries. Yet, six months after the war ended, they have the industry of this country bound in fetters and they have announced their inten- tion to create a new series of state monopolies, the magnitude of which would overwhelm the combined capacity of the most ex- perienced and competent busi- ness men this country could pro- duce." From all accounts it would ap- pear that the Labor government was elected on its blue-prints for a new order of things, and that the government and the people alike have discovered that it takes a great deal more than blue- prints even to build new houses, much less than new social orders. "We are getting none of the things we were promised," says the Sun- day Empire News. "We asked for bread and are given vast paper plans for future nationalization. We ask for homes and are bidden to share with one another." The Sunday Chronicle says: "The country is not satisfied. Today's grievances are wider and deeper than those induced by the war weariness that swept the govern- ment into power. The government has not begun to do what it was elected to do; instead, as Lord Woolton has said, it has taken on more than it can do." After all they had gone through in six years of war, the people of Britain can hardly be blamed for listening to the sales-talk of so- ciàlist "real estate" venders with their elaborate blue-prints of a Utopia. The blame rests with your Bank A Wartime Housing Living Room The Living Room of a six-room amount of wall space. The insul- Wartime Housing Limited Home ation used in the construction of as shown above lends itself per- the house ensures that this, as fectly to attractive arrangement of well as ail other rooms in the the tenant's furniture. This main house, will have plenty of heat room of the house has plenty of in winter yet will remain cool in windows as well as a large summer. Faim Federation Presses Govt. For Faim Labor, Better Retuins A royal commission to study the co-ordination of economic returns to agriculture and labor was sug- gested by officers of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture in a brief presented to the Dominion government at Ottawa on March 28. The Federation expressed disapproval of any proposal to subsidize farm labor and asked in- stead an improvement in econo- mic returns which would enable farmers to compete successfully in the labor market. In its brief the Federation re- ferred to the recent appeal by the government to save more food as a means of helping out supplies to be shipped overseas and in its brief stressed the essentials calcu- lated to increase production. The following points were stressed and elaborated at a length which cannot be condensed herein. The main submission was: Canadian farmers would gladly respond to this urgent call for maximum food production, but without a more adequate labor supply and an immediate im- provement in economic returns they will find it quite impossible to produce to capacity. The farm labor situation-with the excep- tion of the highly-mechanized branches of the industry-is wide- ly acknowledged to be more ser- ious now than even during the war years, and is definitely grow- ing worse week by week. More- over, in the past few months the farmer has been faced with grad- ually increasing costs, the most serious of which has been the sharp rise in wages demanded by farm labor. Only bold action to meet the farm labor situation and to assure the farmer higher re- turns to offset higher costs will make it possible for our producers to reach production figures attain- ed in 1945, let alone provide in- creases so desperately needed. Before entering into a detailed discussion of our general recom- mendations, we present for your convenience a summary of these, as follows: Requests That every possible effort be made to improve the extremely critical farm labor shortage. Immediate cancellation of the federal tax of three cents a gallon on gasoline for agricultural pur- poses. Early revision of the Income Tax Act and regulations to elim- inate remaining inequalities in the application of the act to farm- ing operations. An increase of four cents per pound in the floor price for butter, to relate its price more equitably to present prices of other dairy products. Effective action to halt the practice of conditional sales of flour with millfeeds to farmers. Establishment and maintenance of equality for agriculture in a balanced national economy as a fundamental part of the fiscal policy of the nation. Establishment of a permanent national wheat marketing policy to give encouragement and lead- ership to the development of an international wheat agreement, and the working out of price ar- rangements which would prevent the wide fluctuations experienced those who knowingly or unknow- ingly deceived a war-wearied people into the belief that the fu- ture can be determined by a group of political theorists, and that a new order can be built up without pulling the old order down. The very plans for the national- ization of industries were bound to have, to say the least, an arrest- ing effect upon private enterprise. That was what Lord Woolton meant when he said that industry in Britain was "bound in fetters" by the announcement that the go- vernment intended to create a new series of state monopolies. Herbert Morrison, as president of the Board of Trade, must have realized the situation that the blue-prints o! his party had cre- ated when he announced that the governmnent had no intention of socializing ail industries and ap- pealed to private enterprise to go ahead. This appeal to private en- terprise for help is very different from the pre-election appeal to the worked-up prej udice against pri- vate industrialists, who were blamed for nearly ail of the ills that flesh is heir to. There are too many "architects of peace" working on "the pattern of a new society."~ What we need are experienced builders and effi- cient and willing workers for the reconstruction of the old estab- lished society of democracy, which wvas not planned and blue-printed, but which grew naturally. in the past. Establishment of the Canadian wheat board as the sole institu- tion for the marketing of all Can- adian cereal crops. Development of a broad nation- al policy in livestock production and marketing. Federal legislation which will encourage producers to organize and regulate the marketing of their products. Assistance to provincial gov- ernments in programs for the ex- pansion of rural electrification, as part of the federal reconstruction program. Amendments to the Veteran's Land Act and regulations to broa- den the scope of the Act. Provision for some plan of crop insurance to be administered jointly by federal and provincial governments. Extension of the benefits of the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Act to all provinces as part of a na- tional program of soil conserva- tion. Conclusion Of all moments in history, the present is the time when organiz- ed agricultural producers have most to contribute to the shaping of international as well as nation- al policies. We note that as the world becomes more completely one community our welfare be- comes more and more tied up with and dependent upon inter- national relationships and poli- cies. Though not minimizing the importance of the domestic mar- ket, we see clearly that for our dominion a prosperous agricul- ture is impossible of attainment on purely national lines. Third Corrected List of Soldiers Blackstock School The following list represents the third corrected list of service- men and women of Blackstock School who volunteered and served in the late war. In sending in this list the Principal states that there may still be some errors or omissions and asks that readers send in information in this regard. Letters, phone calls, etc. should be directed to Principal R. P. Allin, M.A., Blackstock Contin- uation School. Service List, World War Il Thomas Abbott Albert Abbott Ronald Archer Wm. Breck E. G. Campbell, B.A. Ronald Campbell George Carter Robert Carter Louise Davidson Roger Dorreil Marwood Dickie Frank Emerson Edgar Emerson Sydney Ferguson Grant Ferguson Glenn Gibson Bruce Gibson Ray Graham Merle Hubbard P. Hulburt Neil Johnston Gwelda Johnston Ross Lansing Dean Lansing Neil Lathangue Gilbert Marlow Lawrence Mountjoy Lieut. G. McCutcheon Lieut. H. McCutcheon Norman McCurdy Stanley Rahm Robert Sheffield Robert Smith Alfred Samelils Bruce Scott Donald Scott Ronald TreWVin Beverley Veale Lewis Watson John Werry H. Wilson Killed in Action R. H. Hillgartner, B.A. Roy Carter Leonard Davidson Ralph Emerson Arnold Johnston Ralph VanCamp MORE MILK, LESS COWS In the United States, although milk production on the farms dur- ing 1945 was the highest in the 21 years for which estimates are available, the ' number o! cows on farms showed a sharp decline. The production per cow averaged 4,789 pounds, an increase of 214 pounds on the 1944 figures. Force of habit does its worst when you make a habit o! force. Need for Clothes Greater Than Ever "The need for clothing in Paris is greater than ever-please ask the people at home not to let us down," is the message that Mad- ame George Vanier, wife of Major General George Vanier, D.S.O., the Canadian Ambassador to France, sends back to Canada in support of the National Clothing Collection Cam paign sponsored by the Canadian Allied Relief, which will take place from June 17th to June 29th. Madame Vanier has been busy helping the French poor with gifts of clothing and other things for many months, and she told a correspondent in Paris that some of the scenes in which she has participated have been almost heart-breaking, especially when children have sought for some clothing and none has been avail- able. "If the people at home could only realize how great the need for clothing is in Paris, I am sure they would make every effort to put something aside to help," she said. "The gratitude of those who receive the Canadian clothing is very touching-one boy of' ten who had been unmoved when told there was nothing to replace the rags on his back, broke down and wept when a package of clo- thing was found that fitted him- the first good clothing he had re- ceived in five years." The conditions that exist in France are similar to those under which millions of men, women and children in other war-torn countries are suffering-the big cry is for clothing, to keep them warm, give them self-respect, and encourage them to tackle the su- perhuman task of rehabilitation that confronts them. Comparative Hydro Loads for January The April issue of Hydro News lists the municipal loads in the various Ontario districts. Of interest locally are the figures for the Eastern Ontario Division, 60 cycle. We select from the list the items affecting towns and cities within a compartive area surrounding Bowmanville. The figures are: Bowmanville Port Hope Cobourg Orono Newcastle Millbrook Lindsay Peterboro Oshawa Whitby H.P. 3644 3178 2607 136 296 136 3712 19345 18686 1945 Domestic Cons'm'rs 1234 1455 1443 183 230 182 2289 6702 6765 1054 SHIP MORE CANADIAN HORSES FOR B.W.I. Two French Canadian stallions and one in-foal mare of the same breed each weighing about 1,150 pounds were shipped recently to the Department of Agriculture, Leeward Island, British West In- dies. The animals were bought and shipped by the Production Service, Dominion Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. At the same time there was shipped a grey, coachy-type Percheron stal- lion weighing about 1,600 lbs. for the Agriculture Department, St. Lucia, B.W.I. This is the first Percheron stallion to be shipped to the British West Indies from Canada. Both shipments are to be used for breeding purposes. Canadian horses have a high reputation in the British West In- dies, where in the past 19 years 15 shipments of middleweight hunter-type horses have been sent to Trinidad and Barbadoes for the use of the Government police. No man can afford 'to let him- self go unless he lets go of self. Some people are so busy doing nothing they never have time to do anything. Why Do People Borrow Money? rlý - 166 -j. t i Ten years ago, there were 685,000 Bell telephones in service. Today there are over a million-56 per cent more. E VERY time a new telephone is installed the scope of your service is enlarged. You may not need to call many of the new subscribers, but when you do, they are within reach-and it may be urgent. We have added more than 75,000 telephones since V-E Day. As we bend all our efforts to catch up on delayed orders, the scope of your service will continue to grow-its potential value will increase. In 1946 our outlay for expansion and improve ments will exceed thirty million dollars. We are losing no time. Frank WilIams Manager. You may find yourself in the same position as Joe Green. Anybody may! Personal oans thrdugh your bank make it possible for you to antici- pate future earnings. This is an essential part of its services. Such "oans may be obtained to meet financial needs of many kinds; to lay in ahead a winter's supply of coal, to pay municipal or other taxes in time to earn the discount, to provide for home repairs, to send a boy or girl to college, to consolidate debts-indeed for any sound reason. Bank credit ,runs through all personal life and commercial life. It oper- ates silently and unobtrusively. You take it for granted. That is the way Canadian banking works. - -- -- -- -- For many reasons. To pay medical and hospital bills- consolidate overdue bills - for clothing, travel expense, home furnishings, repairs, fuel, money-making opportunities, assist relatives, automobile expense, taxes, etc. Usually it's better to borrow only when you must. But there are times when it's wise to make a loan -when it's better for all concerned. Household Finance Corporation is Canada's largest and oldest Small Loans Company, with 36 offices in 32 cities. You can arrange a loan from $25 up to $1,000 at any one of these offices and have up to 24 months to repay. We've tried to make it simple and con- venient for you to borrow at Household. You can arrange your loan by telephone if you prefer. Ail you do is name the amount of money you need, and how you want to repay. Usually you can get your cash thesame day you apply. And the cost of your loan will be less at Household than at any other Small Loans Company in your community. We will be more than glad to help you any time we can. HOUSEHOLD FINANCE BACKED BY 68 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE Canada's largest and oldesi Small Loans Company wih 36 offices in 32 cities G. A. V. Spencer, Manager 15 Simcòe St. South (Over Kresge's) OSHAWA, ONT. Phone Oshawa 3601 Hours 9 to 5 or by appointment - Loans made in nearby towns THURSDAY, APRIL 18th, 1946 u