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I -, r->.~ -~ I PAGE TWO ThE CANADIAN STATESMAN ~OWMANVn T.W À?.I'rArnri Estohlished 1854 with which in incorpozatted The Bowmanvill. News, The Newcastle Indp.adont and The Orano News 93 Years' Continuous Service fo the Town ci Bowman ville and Durham County Authorized as Second Clain Mail, Pont Office Department. Ottawa AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Moimher Audit Bureau A L ci Circulations Weekly Newa~papers Associaition t SUESCRIPTION RATES $2.50 a Year, strictly in advanc. $3.00 a year in the, United States publinhed hy THE JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY Bowmanvile, Ontairio GEO. W. JAMES, Editai Newfoundland Votes Union To Becomne Canada's 1lOth Province Eîghty-two years ago, The Statesman, then 12 years aid, kept its readers informed on the steps being taken toward Canadian Confedera- tion. The following yeor on July 1, 1867, the Dominion of Canada came int being under the British North America Act. The door was lef t open for the entry of Newfoundland, Brtains oldest colany. In 1869 the people of New- f oundland rejected union, chose to pursue an isolated independence. Now we reopen the story to înform a new generation of readers that Newfoundland has voted Io enter the door lef t open for the past ten decades. Steps are now being taken which will probably resuit in New- foundland becoming the lth Canadian province. At last the natural union of the Common- wealth iamily in North America oppears about Ia be consummated. Canadian sentiment was well expressed by Prime Minister Kinq' who said the union would be welcomed warmly and sin- cerely with the least possible delay. It is anoth- er happy circumstonce in his great career on the eve af his retirement. Details yet to be con- cluded will no doubt permit formai declaratian of political and economic entry of this tenth' province on July 1, 1949. For Newfoundland it will end the Commission Government brought in l'y bankruptcy in 1933 and should introduce a niew era of prosperity. With the anticipated proclamation, Canada will acquire an increased area of 162,750 square miles which includes the Labrador peninsula. and art. increase of population of 325,000. The total ndtional population will then b. nearly 13 mil- liqn people, spread over an area greater thon thb whole of Europe. Vast new potential wealth will include forests, are, cool, fisheries, ail siib- jett to immense development. Absorption of a national debt of some $63 millions means little in. the great prospects ahead. On the political frônt. the hard-bitten, hard-beaded Newfound- ~1 lciders will have a new experience with the in- troduction af what they will likely regard as "queer" parties in their provincial and federal cdairs. Great National Exhibition 1illed as the 'World's Great Annuol Expos- ition.' but stili known hereabouts os "Toronto Fqir" this great show runs this year f rom Aug. 27, ta Sept. Il. Attention is called to the adver- tisemnent in this issue ai The Stotesman, ta be repeated in coming weeks, which highlights the main attractions in the way ai spectacle and en- tertainment that have been conjured up as background for the central theme, 'Agricultural aind Industrial Canada." Lord and Lady Mountbatten will be here to officiate at the opening. The Welsh Guards Bond, direct tram Brtain, will thrill the throng throughout. The huge new grandsîand will seai lhousands daîly ta wilness continuous platiorm performances including nightly ireworks. Olsen an 'd Johnson, stage and radia f unmakers, head- fne the platform attractions. The great anual marathon swim will again grip spectators along campaign that 1.1 t na doubt on issues amang the electarate, Premier Maurice Duplessis was re- tarned with 82 supporters and 2 favoring Inde- pendents. against 8 lone Liberals. AlI C.C.F. and Social Credit candidates lost their deposits. The four seats formerly held by these latter two hybrid parties went by the boards and severe inroads were mode in arbon Liberail strong- holds. The Habitants swept rural Liberals right off the map. Han. Louis St. Laurent, Federal Minister of External Affairs, favored by Prime Minister King as bis successor, campaigned actively against Duplessis and thus has bast much af bis imagined prestige. Two things stand out as a resaIt ot the voting. ( 1) The Habitant is f ed up with en- croachment af the Ottawa regime in provincial affairs. a policy St. Laurent couldn't repadiate as a federal minister: (2) Overwhelminq senti- ment for the f ree entreprise system, 'properly understood' as Dupbeaas put the case. jean Baptiste hem declared himself for th. broad freedom and individual initiative that character- ized his ancestors. This verdict. cominq alinait immediately before three national conventions, two ai themn called ta select new leaders, will mont certainly affect decisions they must toke. The Quebec trend is unmistakable. We believe the vote ex- presses the latent desires ai the ragged majority clecir ocrais this country. It ought ta clear com- mon thinling which bas been coniused by al three parties campeting for support on the bos cf "leas work for more pay and pampered secar- ity f rom the crodle ta the grave," the sacialist creed. Quebec has moved emphatically ta the Rigbt. Agrarian Canada will take note afiti. We shahl wotch witb great interest the new competitian at the three approaching conventions. We are glad ta ose. ragged Conadianism reosserted in Quebec. Intransigeance in Ranks of Progressive Conservative Party In lat week's Statesman we summed up somne ai the factors contribating ta the retire- ment ai John Bracken irom the national leader- ship af the Progressive Conservative Party. One of aur observations. based apon pretty intimote inside information, was that unanimity at the Winnipeg convention that occlcnmed Mr. Bracken as leader. lef t a bard care of die-hard intransi- geance among somne ai the old party stalwarts. Thot bas been increasingly manifest since the convention. Since we stated aur views we have read Hansord, lune 15, 1948, a pffsage in which gives point ta- aur assertion. In the debote an Electoral Reiorm, the aged Tory wheel-horse, Tommy Church, long-time To- ronto M.P., said ai P.5267: 'I bave been nothing but a Conservative; I do nat cdaim ta b. Pro- gressive becase calling yourself 'Progressive' does not make you progressive. I am true blue." On the tollowing page he continued: "Instead ai a policy ai principle and pragress (iLe. Progres- sive) we have now a policy ai peanuts and par- ty." In the some debate J. R. MacNicol. Toronto, lined up with Mr. Church and caustically re- proved his colleague, Progressive Canservative Art Smith, Calgary. It would oppeor irom the above that aur dlaim ai party dissention is pretty well docu- mented. We bave stated that party fortunes should be based upon a strong infusion ai yoath and a firm stand on the righb and fail encaur- agement ai the iarm vote. With thingsaos they are there in mach vital work ta be done with ho. or club before the convention or there is no bope ai enlisting a strang public opinion under a new leader. The coming convention will b. the lat throw of the dice. This paper believes plain speoking should be the order ai the day. W. strongly sapported John Bracken for iirm reasons repeoted lime and agoin. Our future course will be determined on the uines above declared. Friends and Partners Free competitian among free men creotes mare progress, mare emplayment, more security, a higher standard ai living, and a cioser portner- ship and friendship between management and labor. This, the tbeory ai the private initiative syslem, has become a pretty well accepted foct in Canada, but prowiing around the country are active Communiats and demagogues wha woald bave bancal labor believe that labor's advance- ment depends on tb. strangulation a! manage- ment. Juat who is the reai iriend of labour? la it management? Or is the real iriend the rabble- rouser who denoances managemenb and seeks its destruction? Management and labor are partners in the business of ire. enterprise. Management pro- vides the organizotion o! the venture, aperates il, ensares its future, and endeavoars ta make a profit ta pay for these things. But without the bclp af labor. management con do nobhing. La- bar in essential ta the progress of the free enter- prise systemr and this is where wise labor lead- ership becomes s0 important. If labor leaders declare war an manage- ment and force on upward revisian ai labor cona ta bbe point where management connot meet bbc demanda withoub passing on the added conta ta the consumer, thereby biowing the bubble ai in- flation even higher. nobody gains. Labor lead- jers then demand furtber woge increases and, sooner or lober, business callapses and bath management and labor are crushed in the wr.ck- oge. Con on irresponsible labor leader or a Communist ogitator be calîed a iriend ai labor? Managements prime tank is ta keep the business ianctioning successfully with a reason- able morgin a! profit, which will provide for ex- pansion, good wages, hings ta buy, and even- tuai reduction in the cost ai living. Isn'b lb eb- viaus, then, thot management, leaning no beav- ily on lobor for bhe success o! o mutual venture, in the truc friend af labor? Management and labor in aur econamie system are 1k. bhc head and body o! a buman being. Management certainly does not want ta cut off the body and it would certainîy not b. wise laor leadership that would slcali off the bead. Wise labor leaders do not advocate suicide. Royal Commission on Prices Replaces Party Dominated Enquiry The Porîîomentary Committee set up during the late session ai bbe Houa. af Commons ta enquire mbt the risc in the coat ai living. cnded ils work as expected, by accomplishing nobhing but politicol proaganda for lbe gavernmcnî. Specifically directed by Prime Minister King that it bad no mandate la make recommenda- ions ta the gavernment, the avcrwhclming Lîb- eral majority an thbcocmmitte,, obviously ander backdoor direction ai the Cabinet, finally pre- sented ta the Houa. o neat orray af recommen- dations, no doubt as ai directive for the coming Liberal convention. The net resaIt was o squab- blo in the Houa. and the selup of a Royal Com- mission ta paria. the work anly sketchiîy ap- procbed by tbe Committee. __The ter=ni.s exferenc, foi the Royal Com- Contributing to Juvenile Delinquency Ontario Host To 18,000,000 U.S. Tourisis '~ Visitors ta Ontario during the period April 1. 1947, ta March 31, ....... 1948, surpassed ail previaus re- cords, with more than one million ...... tourist automobiles entering from L-R the United States. This exceed- UJNIONI ed by 100.000 the previaus high OFFICIA, mark of 1946. Eighteen million persans enter- CSU PICKed Ontario from the United States, -~-"~ LWLUSE$#including persans travelling by local bus and on foot. Although 'man\ of these made visits of rela- tivelv short duration, their ex- penditures heiped materially t swvell t.he flow of badly-needed foreign currencv and \vere an im- portant factor in 1the ecanomic 'life of many border communities. A preliminarv estimate of the value of Ontario's tourist indus- .... .... .. .try' in 1947 indicates that the prov- ince derived appîoximately 147 tors, an increase of about 20ml1 lion over the preceding year. ThisI figure does not include revenues Selling Otrot aainssi a big job. The Publicity Branc- of the Department of Travel and Publicity issued approximately one million booklets and pamph- lets in 1947 as "invitation" litera- The,,figures oi Ontario', or ist travc'l are taken from the Re- port of the Minîster of Travel and P1uhlicity for the year ending March 31, 1948, which ks now available. Copies may be securedI mission on Prices state it is free ta pick its own field af investigation so long as it digs into the coat af goods "in camman use.' It remained for a Liberal member ai the Houa., Ladger Dionne, textile industrialist, ta point out the fatility af the Parliamentary Committee and ta suggest a per- tinent directive ta the Royal Commission. Why? be asked not searcb basic causes. He instanced: "Before the war a bricklayer laid 1.000-1.500 bricks a day at 60c per hour. Today the same mon lays 350 bricks a day for $1,50 per bour.' Recent issues af the Ontario Gazette list carrent rates under the Industrail Standards Act: Carpentry. 8-hoar day. 40 hour week. minimum overtime, $2,60 per haur. Lathing. same bours and conditions, $2.80 per hour. Masonry. same hours and conditions, $3,10 per hoar. And s0 il goes. This winter( cooil is ap $5 a tan or mare. About the only things beld ander conîrol with prices determined by the government, are the products ai the f arm. As Mr. Dianne saggests, the Royal Commission bas a pattern readily available ta get at the basic cause ai the rise in living costa. The case ai freight rates follaws along. Granted o 21 per cent increase ta word off banlkraptcy, the railways wvere iorced im- mediately ta tamn it ail over and $60 millions besides ta employees who threatened a national strike. Only One Fear Lef t Productivity *per man-boar--or lack ai pro- ductivity per mnan-hour-is the greatest problem iacing industry. Some may say that working boars are to ew. This would be only a minor problem, and perhaps no problem ot aIl, if the post-war workers in general were os product- ive as were pre-war workers in general. Motor-car speedometers bave gouges ta i-e- qister 100, 110 or 120 miles per heur. Railway trains go foster thon before but sit langer ipi stations. The airplane can travel faster thon soand. In every industry using machinery, new devices enable that moachinery ta produce mare goods and better goods. Mon la learning ta run faster, swim faster, jamp higher ond broader, and skiing on gentle slopes is passe. In the realm of sport and me- creation there is keen competition ta do more, do it aitener and do it better. In the motter of wrk-and work alone - man wants ta do less per hour on o 40-hour week thon h. did per bour on o 48-hour week. 56-hour week, or. ta go back hall-a-century, 60- boar week. It isn't os if the work took mare out ai the worker. either mentolly or physically. Every new machine is designed ta redace fatigue. In- dustry now seldom requires muscle. Most plants even have ingeniaus hoists, trucks and canveyors ta move the staff about. Toay onyane with rea- sonobîy welI-coordinated finger-tips con do any job, including moving maunitains. There con b. nothing but praise for those NO LONGER A SAN('TUARY (St. Louis Post-Dispabch) MWomen hav'e a Ir-gitmate comn- plaint comning. When Attorne *v IGeneral Tay'lor ruled that men <'an have their hair eut in beauty shops, he let down the bars ta what bas long been a sanctuaî-y of the feminine spirit. If there was anv place where a woman could let her hair down. it was the beautY shnp. There, away tram tacîturn mentolks %vith their propensitY for hiding behind the newspapeî-s and repl 'ving ta ques- tions in monos.vllabies, a woman cou Id talk and be talked ta. She COUld inform herseit of what was happening in her dav and age with respect ta scandalous gainga- oShe could gel the tacts tramn the mast reliable and profuse author- ity on these subject.s alive, x'îz., 1 the beauty operatar. ln respanse she coffld confide her own sec- rets ta the guardian of the dr.Ner. secure in the knowledge that they wvouldi be kept in confidence from evervane ex cept the other wamen rwho dropped in. If the head under the next dry- em is lîkely ota urn out ta be a man's, and ail ears at that, it is !going ta take awa 'v the fumn. No privac-'v tram this pr.vîng sex. No confident a1 relationship, a n ' longer. between. the profession and the client. It all cames tram a verv mistakeanation. Equal r ight!z are for wo men. As ever v oId barber shop mug holder knom. they are~ much too good groups of workers wbo care doing their share out of pride ai craltsmanship and ai loyalty. But there are groupa o! younger and sapposedly mare vigorous emplayees whose iailùre ta pro- dace in .the iewer haurs they are sapposed ta- work brings down the average for a plant, addp annecessarily ta costs, and contributes ta the bigh prices af which they are ever prone ta comploin. Fewer hours per worker must be occam- panied by more hours per machine. Machines are constantly becoming more intricate and costly. They must be worked mare bours if in- terest and depreciation and obsolescence and hoase-room are not ta make bhem boa costly an investment. The worker must learn, also, that he must not as. ail bis energy in his recreatian and leove nobing over for his job, and thas be like tb. mon who played 36 hales ai golf every weekend and was always so exhaasted that his wif e bad regalarly ta pash the iown mower. Stil iewer bours are possible, but only if mon learns ta increase his praductivity by get- ting more per hour out of the machine. - Fram The Printed Word) Tax Complaints Called For Harold M. Graves, professor at the Univer- sity ai Wisconsin, recently warned that taxes that 'milk the caws ai private enterprise . . . shouid dravw the lin. at kiiling off lb. animais," That mnakes good sense. Canadians might warn their gavernimenbs that in many lines ai en- deavour the caws ai privote enterprise are in danger of being miiked ta death. In fields where government flot only taxes enterprise but also campetes wibb lb commercially, there is particalar danger af kiiiing industry or ait least cr;ippiing it severely. Perbaps the most obvious example la, in broadcasting. The gavernmenb's CBC bas long beld a tight-fisted monopoly on ail network broadcasting. At the same time, it is supported by public taxabian, and by o sizeable tax which lb impases on independent broadcasters. To complebe its enviable piece ai pie, it engjages in commercial broadcasting and thus compctes viciously with those wha contribute ta il. Now il shows every evidence ai using television in such manner as ta complet. its strangle-bold on private radio. With the advent ai facsimile, it will contrai the press. Thus ail methods of dis- tributing news and information will fail into the hands o! the Crown. Excessive taxation, followed by qoverniment aperotian ai business, will inevîtably change aur whoie f ree enterprise system. Perhaps there are same who would welcome such o change. Most Canadians, bowever, are not eager ta give ap the system which bas created a higher stan- dard ai living for ail ciizens thon bas any ather. Governments should be kept constantly awore ai the -public mood. It is time the toxpayer mode bis comuplaints mare loudly and specificolly. The present-day radia situation would be a good starting point. ~U P.. NMUIDERS 0f 'CANfADA (#UMITED -q4-%ý-qm by writing the Division cf Public The man who does not look up Information. 1wilI look down, and the spirit which does not <tare ta soar is The World Bank is suported by destined ta, grove.-Lord Bea- 36 member coantries. c onsfield. t~(1 Canadian National Ehibftiow, dot. K. R. Marnai, Pr.emin àr w 7 Elweod A. Hughes, G.nerat Manage, T Life bleod fer a nation fiows through Canada's steel arteries-her raiIroads. Thec railway mon of Ontario-and Canada-help supply the EHast with the produce of the West ... und help the West preduce their creps i wh machinery fram the East. Recause they are the Iink between the Hast and West, Canaida', railwaymen ore moulders of "Canadla Unlimited". 'j y BREWING COMPANY LIMITED eACANWS t947 TOfAL 09 RAIL FRE*ff LW<DDANO UMLWJA WAS 217,565,324~ TONS. la 1'. -1 THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE. ONTARIO mrtyttl5c*RAr ATIC-TTQr -Itilq 1049