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'AGE TWO THE CANADIAN STATESMAN. BOWMANVILLE. ONTARIO THURSDAY, SEPT. Sth, 1946, I With which la Incorporatedl The Bowmanville News, The Newcastle Independent, and The Orono News 92 'Years Continuns Service To The Town of Bowmanville and Durham County. Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Member Audit Bureau of Circulations -01 ~Canadian < Weekly Newapapers $2.00 a Year, strictly ln advance. $2.50 a Year i the United States GEO. W. JAMES, Editor. Long House Session Ends As Country in Grip of Strikes Saturday concluded one of the longest ses- sion of the House of Commons since 1910. Members have sat nine mnonths in the last 12 wrestling with problems of reconstruction but the country remains in the grip of strikes wîth production falling all along the line. The ses- sion which commenced in March marked a pro- gressive decline of vigor by the government and a marked increase in effectiveness of the officiai opposition led by Hon. John Bracken. He led a vigorous campaign for economy, for provincial rights, for a fair distribution of the national income in which farmers particularly must be granted an equitable position too long denied. He was ably supported by many followers of outstanding ability. As usual the estimates were delayed tili the closing days, due largely to senseless, intermin- able chatter of private mnembers in minority groups spoutîng political propaganda. At pro- rogation, two billion nine hundred million dol- lars had been voted for the current year. Chief accord came in approval of funds for veterans' rehabilitation. Loans and legisiation bolstered export trade whîch is currently nullified by loss of production through strikes. The suggestion of a parliamentary committee on strikes, eager- ly seized by the Prime Minister, was given ettect without result save to toss the question back where it belongs, on the government. The government was technically defeated 69-41 when its decision to remove the mnilk subsidy was challenged. Farmer members ob- serving the trend permitting increases for in- dustry and labor while the wheat agreement held prices below world levels as farm costs rose and scarcity of farm implements deepened, contributed to resentmnent on the milk subsidy question. Liberal farm mnembers revolted. It is freely predicted that another election may be called immediately a successor is named for Mr. King who has returned from the Paris Peace Conference with no more to report than a hope. The session not only disclosed increas- ed Bracken strength but the fact his following is now the sole anti-leftist hope in this country. Tourist Information Sought By Canadian opinion Research The dlaim is made that Canada's tourist bus- iness is the nation's greatest single source of net cash revenue in the business relationships be- tween Canada and the U.S.A. Before the war it was shown in official statistics that the estimated net revenue from this source was in excess of $200,000,000 in a single year. Recently the Tour- ist Committee of the Canadian Senate brought down recommendations for expânding this U.S. A. patronage in the expectation that it would progressively reach the $600,000,000 level an- nually. During the 1946 season almost every Can- adian became aware of the unprecedented in- flux of U.S.A. cars touring Canadian highways in every province. Government tourist depart- metshaevoedicrasdfund todev+_ Bacon Production Falling * Revision of Policy Urged In the debate on agricultural estimates, Aug. 14th, a demand was made by western members for a change in policy to increase hog produc- tion on t.he prairies for with a rapid decline our long term contract with Britaîn would endanger our export position built up during war and Denmark would gain a further foothold in supplying the British market. It was shown that hog production in Saskatchewan today was only one-sixth of the output in 1944. In 1937 Canada supplîed Britain with 20 percent of her bacon requirements. In 1944, with Denmark out of the picture, Britain took from Canada 85 per cent. of her bacon requirements. By 1948 the Minister of Agriculture hopes these exports will level off between 60 and 65 percent. But the prdIsent outlook is not hopeful. Western farmers advance several reasons why they quit the hog business. One was the subsidy of 10e on oats and 1 5c on barley under which they could market this feed at a profit DIe %atam ffitte01man Estahhished 1854 where and at whatever wage he is assigned. If the people demand certain services from their government, thy must give the govern- ment power'to make those services possible. The government sis not a magic machine that can make something out o! nothing for us. What- ever profit or protection we get from the gov- ernment, we must pay for it in money, work or voluntary surrender o! freedom. To give the present regime its due, it ap- pears to be reducing controls to the minimum in view o! the great increase in social and economic betiefits it has provided since 1939. But a large proportion o! labor, agriculture and the genéral public is stiil arguing that al controls-except those from which they person- ally benefit-should be dropped. This, of course, is completely illogical. We mayv argue that the benefits are improperly dis- tributed, that they cost more than they are worth, that they are mnefficiently administered, but if we want the benefits o! government con- trol in our economy, we must accept the res- trictions that make control possible. But at the present time, too many o! the highly vocal and, unfortunately, influential Can. 'adians who demand ail the benefits of a con- trolled economy, insist that they and the factions they represent should be freed from ail its burdens. without feeding it to hogs. Chie! compliiint was that the government paid freight on feed grain shipped to eastern Canada where farmers fed and marketed hogs and got advantage of a net price higher than in the west since western farmers had to pay freight on hogs and bacon shîpped to seaboard. They argue that if freight is allowed on grain it should be ailowed on western hog marketings. Their complaint seems justifie&. Until they get a better break they worf't feed hogs. They demand a revised policy. Denmark meantime has closed a contract with Britaîn to deliver 92 million pounds o! bacon in 1946. to be increased to 120-200 million pound s by 1948, at a price slightly higher than the Canadian contract. With a short haul Denmark lays down mild cured bacon against the heavy cure needed for the Canadian product. The British have always favored this mild cure and will pay a premium to get it. Hence in these circumstances, a falling off of production in Canada and the Danes edging back with a qual- ity product, our export bacon trade is under a serious threat. We cannot maintain this valu- able, fîrst-line export trade unless western farmers get back to feeding bacon hogs. A Method of Relieving Councils of Responsibility for School Levies The Mayors Conference passed a resolution asking the Department of Education to pay Pro- vincial school grants to the municipal counicils rather than direct to the Boards of Education. To do so would inevitably add to, rather than detract from the friction between these bodies, comments the Orillia Packet and Times; be- sides it is not sound policy to make a civic body charged with heavy responsibilities de- pendent on the goodwill of another body for its finances. What counicils object to is that in the eyes of the taxpayers they are responsible for the tax rate; whereas a large proportion o! it, beyond their control, is due to what they naturally consider the extravagance of the school boards. ,We agree with the Packet and Times when it says, in order that confusion on this score should be removed from the pub- lic mind we have repeatedly suggested that, in dividing tax collections into instalments, a distinction should be made between the money for purposes controlled by the Council from the levies collected to hand to other bodies for expenditure, iheiluding the County Council levy as well as that for schools. We respectfully sug- gest to the Minister o! Municipal Affairs that lie should introduce an amendment to the Municipal Act making the practice general throughout the Province. Dr. Floyd Willoughby Iieadlined In International Conference Featured in the Christian Science Monitor, August 27, world's foremnost international daily newspaper, is the story of the World Conference of the Teaching Profession held at Endicott, N.Y. Convened to study means o! international understanding through world wide teachers' as- sociations, reports and recommendations were heard from outstanding educational authorities. It is becoming recognized that the surest way of developing world accord is to incorporate into basic teaching the fundamental principles of universal justice that peoples of ahl countries can comprehend. The outstanding contribution to the Confer- ence was the submission o! Dr. Floyd Willoughby o! Winnipeg, Chairman o! the committee on in- ternational understanding. His name, in fact, was the only one mentioned in the report. 01 much local înterest it will be recalled that Mr. Willoughby formerly taught at the Base Line schooi, South Darlington, and is now an out- standing school principal in Winnipeg. For years he has taken a prominent part in the sphere of international education. The report o! the Willoughby committee ad- vocated a wider exchange o! teachers and stu- dents among countries of the world with greater attention to a study o! authentic history, art, music, crafts and creative writing, ail of which Lions Club (Continued from Page One) metal research the hotter the en- gine runs the more efficient the engine becomes. New Methods With shortage o! steel during war, car manufacturers turned to cast iron for crankshafts, which said Mr. Rehder, have stood up without a break, even when the same shaft if hit a blow by a sledge would break apart. Mal- leable cast iron, of tensile strength haîf way between iron and steel has come into new use in the search for substitute fit- tings in many lines. And a new method,. "mechanized moulding" is now employed using the dual- furnace principle. This is in use now at the Malleable Iron Plant, Oshawa, where Mr. Rehder spends considerable time in supervision. This new method permits the plant operating today whiie steel shortages exist due to recent strîkes. Instead o! pig iron, this furnace method permits reduc- tion o! scrap iron and there has been no necessity for layoff s. The speaker went on to tell o! the great development of the iighter metals, aluminum and magnes- ium, both o! which can be ex- tracted from elements common in ail countries o! the world. Both will replace steel in many aven- ues of manufacture since both are rust resistant and can be fash- ioned in a manner not possible in the realm o! steel. New Metals Magnesium particularly will come into use in household uten- suls while aluminum will increas- ingly be used in the heavier me- tai field. A magnesium frying pan, crusted with grease and dirt, can be perfectly cleaned by filling with water, which brought to a boil, will instantly remove the de- bris leaving it dlean and shining. It is aiso tops as a heat conductor and is lighter than aluminum. Thus was given a preview o! the future for the housewife. Methods of hardening copper were explained. Using. alloys, copper can now be used as tem- pered chisels and because sparks cannot be struck from it, oil wel drillers find such tools completely safe in sinking wells. Then again the employmnent o! alloys has produced an aluminum that can be used as bearings to replace bronze. The speaker concluded with a brie! review o! how sci- ence, using the spectroscope, has found new avenues o! testing metals. The aim has been to bring metai into new uses' and at the same time to lower costs to the ultimate consumer. The speaker was tlianked by Major Cooper, who before taking up work with the Salvation Army, spent eight years as a workman in mining and steel production. He spoke with authority when he declared the address a remark- able contribution on a subject littie understood among laymen. Visitors Visitors at the club included Wally Evans o! Bowmanville Foundry, Dave Ault, Toronto, and Wilber Todgham, an old Bowman- ville boy, here on a visit from At- lanta, Georgia. Mr. Todgham, a charter member o! the Lions Club, Havana, Cuba, spoke with feeling at being home among friends and !ellow Lions after an absence o! 27 years. He told that the late M. A. James record- ed in The Statesman 65 years ago, a birth notice: Born at a Hunt St. residence, a son, Wilber Todg- ham. The Lions Club, Havana, said Mr. Todgham, was today the lar- gest civic club in the world among ail service clubs and was chartered in 1925. He is now manager, Atlanta Division, Cel- cure Wood Preserving Corpora- tion, 1704 Boulevard N.E., Atlan- ta, and brought greetings from club. His heart is still with Bow- manville as his warm eulogy to his home town was feelingly ex- pressed. Business President Ross Stevens wel- comed the guests and conducted a brief business session which in- cluded arrangements to take part in the coming Red Shield drive and the carnival planned jointly with Rotary and the Legion to raise funds for Memorial Park. Lions committees were asked to present budgets at next meeting for the coming year's work. DO IT «'THROUGH THE CHARTERED BANKS" (Editorial - Halifax Herald) Announcing in Parliament that the Canadian copper - colored "nickels" are being withdrawn from circulation and expressing the belief that "the movement will be completed within the near fu- ture," the Finance Mînister added that "the withdrawal was being carried out through the chartered banks." We see so many statements of that kind-that this and that and the other thing is being done *through the chartered banks'- that we pay littie or no attention to them any more. But we should stop and think about it. There are those in this coun- try, no large number, perhaps, who count that day lost that does not provide them with a chance to criticize "the banks." To hear that kind of talk, you would im- agine that "the banks" do as they please with other people's money and their own . .. that they car- ry on without let or hindrance, making their own laws and regu- lations, and generally amassing fortunes for their executives and directors. The fact is, of course, that bank- ing in thîs Dominion is, hedged about by the most rigid restric- tions and controls-not irjthese times of "control" alone , %ut ai- ways, in season and out of season, in peacewas in war. The banking laws o! Canada are the most ex- acting of ail laws governing Can- adian business activities. Al banking is done under the eye and supervision of government.... And no banking system in the world is sounder from the public viewpoint. The banks of Canada did an immense job in wartime and are doing an immense job in this "transition" period. The fact that the public hears littie about it is an indication of how thoroughly it is being done, without grounds for serious complaint. How much free or near-free service the chartered banks o! Canada give governments and the public we do not know, but it must be vçry extensive, indeed. (Look at the line-ups at the bank wickets each week or month o! people cashing government cheques. It is just one example o! the service the banks are giving the public-without much "per- centage" in it for the banks.) This is not a "defence" of the banks or an "apologia" for them; it is mereiy an attempt to give the banks o! this country some small measure of the credit that is due them. C. H. TUCK Registered Optometrlst 3-day service Speclal Arrangement By appointment: 9.30 to 12 and 2.00 ta 5.00 p.m. DISNEY BLDG., OPP. P.. OFFICE 1516 - RES. 2526 OSHAWA, ONT. UU U U U UM UUZ U MU I UU U IN THE DIM AND DISTANT PAST From 1%e Statesmaz Files FIFTY YEARS AGO TWENTY-FIIVE YEARS AGO August 26, 1896 August 25, 1921 Will Renwick has gone to At- M. J. Smith and J. A. Webster tica, N.Y., where he has secured won a prize in Scotch Doubles in a good situation in a drug store. the bowling contests at Belleville. Albert George Ruebottom has A. N. MeMillan has gone on a returned from South Africa after trip to Bermuda for his health. an absence of 16 years. Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. At Port Bowm anville J. C. Van- Chas. Burgess on the arrival of a stone has ýimproved his cottage daughter. with a coat of paint. S. J. Hall Prof. David Nicholson, choir has bought T. E. Higginbotham 's director and organist of the Meth- summer house. Tugs arle at work odist Church, delivered a fare- deepening the harbour. well message on behaîf of the James Gilfillan, B.A., Science choir to Miss Reta Cole who is Master at B.H.S. is reported to be leaving our midst and heading for i a Gamaliel among the campers Cleveland, Ohio. She was pre- at Washburn Island. sented with a gold pin at the corn Sing D., Chinese laundryman, roast at the lake in her honor. has left for Kingston to start a Miss Gladys Weese has accept- branch establishment, leaving ed a position in Rochester, N.Y. Chung Wong in charge here. M.adMs .H atn M. . A Jaes wasinjredBowmanville, announce the en- when his bicycle struck some gagement of their second daugh- planks at the bottom of a hill ter Helen Rhea to Mr. Harold T. and he was thrown over the han- Cak odn dlebars onto the gravel roa. Had Percy Cowan won several he not protected his face with hîs prizes at Cobourg Horse Show. arm he might have been killed. Miss Helen Henderson has been Miss Roberta Welsh has resuny engaged at Oshawa Public School ed her duties as teacher of music on the teaching staff. at the Metropolitan College, Tor- Miss Hazel Crago, popular otheMseoigmnatne bride-to-be, was honored with a The Mises Dngmn attnd miscellaneous shower by some 65 the Faîl Millinery Opening adf riends. eereted hi e tocarkht. o J. T. Hooper attended the Grand* firert bt arr Nhemiah Lodge Ancient Order of Foresters' manville's frs arer.ehmihat Hamilton. Henry Smith died in Jackson, Courtice: Thos. Ashton expects Mich. Blackstock: David Milne and to have S.S. No. 8 completed for Henry Morrish have returned school opening. - Miss Ethel fro Enlan.-berFraer asBrooks has taken a business frombeengalnd.-Eber Faer has course in Toronto. notbee abe t seakaftr hv- Tyrone: Miss Stinson has re- ing been thrown from his horse. turned to Rockcroft where she Orono: S. B. Dobson and fam- has been teaching school for six ily have left for Niagara Falls, years.-Misses Lola Richards and where they purpose conducting a Velma Staples gave readings at boarding house.-Wm. Hill has the League meeting. sold out hîs butcher business in Toronto, and moved to Manitoba. Hampton: A fire broke out in the home of Joseph Claworthey Neither Rightists nor Leftists but was put out before much da- want what's right. Neither will mage was done. be satisfied with what's lef t. SHEET METAL Gilson Furnaces Asphait Shingles Roofmng - Eavestroughing DAVIS & GRANTI Scugog St. - Bowmanville Phones: Bus. 2842 Res. 26741 M....i k I M I E M M M M I I M M War Mot Ail Over Until End of Year For Salvation Army Toronto, Aug. 8-Not until the end o! this year wil the war be over for The Salvàtion Army, according to Commissioner Ben- jamin Orames, Territorial Com- mander for Canada. While the work for the armed services ended in Canada on June 30, some Salvation Army super- visors will remain in the field overseas at least until September 30. Completion o! administrative work, in connection with the op- eration o! The Salvation Army ANNOUNCEMENT on Tuesdays A Representative of The Singer Sewing Machine Co. will be in Bowmanville ta service ail makes of sewig machies. Expert Workmanship 1Guaranteed If I need of service write or phone before the above days. SINGER SEWING MACHINE CO. Phone 696 - Oshawa 7t z TflERE'6 NO luIF5 ilOR "BU3(TS" ABOUT IT-GOOP * __ ERVICE PREVENT5 _ ANY BRE-AI-POWN5.' Case histories prove it! You avoid the necessity ol :big repair jobs on your car by letting us take care of litti ones as fast as you can drive in! We 'vo got the men and the equipment to do the job right! We specialize in Oiling, Lubrication, Tire and Battery Service. Palmer Motor Sale:. PLYOT - CHRYSLER - FARGO DEAALER PoeCITIBS SERVICE GAS and MOTOR OILS Poe487 - King St.1 1 LI T IS ADE RTS M N F R F T R PEFER )f le B E P.. Mmman t~.O RATION DOOK 6 Issued bet.ween September 9th and l6th Distributimg Centres wiII fnot b. open on ail deys during this p.riod. So -MAKE SURE that you know exactly what deys and* hours the Distributing Centre you intend ta go to wilH b. open. See list of Distributing Centres below. RATiON BOOKS WILL MOT BU MAILED OR DEUVIERED-THEY MUST BE CAU.ED FORt g M M M M M M M M M M M M M e,. M M e M f Th-.mTk Your Ration Book .5 with the Application Cord RD-191 Stii Ataced, Propordy Conspoted and/ Signed, ta a Distributing Contre and Ration Book 6 WiII n. Given You.j ADULTS MUST APPLY APPLYING FOR OTHERS ARMED FORCES FOR CHILOREN AnY respomsblO persafi over 16 may M.mtb.rs of the Amed forces wid Osidren ,,nd.r 16 may êot apply for oppiy for Rao Books for ofher ".m- continu. ta btain "hir Ration Cards dteir Ration Books or Omoe of oshers. bers of Ifh..r fomuly or neighbaojrs, from ther own umits. providmgq above requirements are com- plied with. r - 1 A, j ro, - - rLOCAL DISTRIBUTING. CENTRES Addresses BOWMANVILLE: NEWCÂSTLE: ORONO: HÂKPTTON: COURTICE: BURKETON TYRONZ: ENNISKILLEN: Dates Town Hall - - Sept. il and 12 South Ward School - Sept. il and 12 Commu.nity Hall - - Sept. Il Sept. 12 and 13 Town Hall-- Sept. 10, 12 and 14 Township Hall - Sept. 10, 12 and 14 R. Nichols' Garage - Sept. 10, il and 12 H. Gili 's Store - Sept. 10, 12 and 14' Byam's Store - - Sept. 10, 12 and 13 Slemon's Store - - Sept. 10, 12 and 13 RATION ADMINISTRATI9?N E WARTIME PRICES AND TRA mouva 2.00 to 6.00 p.m. 4.00 to 6.00 p.m. 2.00 to 6.00 p.m. 7.00 to 9.00 p.m. 7.00 to 9.00 p.m. 2.00 to 6.00 p.m. ýDE BOARD Red Shield War Services is ex- peècted to take until December 31. The Salvation Army became the only Canadian Auxiliary Service carrying on Field operat- ions on July 31 when the other organizations turned ov.er their activities. Since hostilities ended, Sal- vation Army members serving either in the armed forces or as supervisors have been trickling back to Canada and The Salvat- ion Army has been steadily in- creasing home front operations that were diminished because of loss of personnel to war activ- ities. The Salvation Army vol- unteered its services before the war started. A major outcome of wartime activitiçs has been that large numbers of ex-servicemen who encountered Salvationists at train- ing centres here and on active service. abroad have turned to Salvation Army representatives for help and guidance, said Com- missioner Ormes. To restore The Army to full- time home operations and carv out long-deferred expansions~ ' facilities and services, the Front Appeal for $2,00,000 o p en across Canada Monday, Sept. 165 Even people who are pkud f where they come from don't seeto think where they are going.,' FAM E .1 i