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UIW S AA S? A ~" A'PI AM lfIMA V'1T.T ~ TflTURSDAY, SEPT. 22nd, 1941 Establlshed 8b4 witb whxch ta incorporated ,Mea Bowmanvill News. The Newcastle tndependeni * ernd 11» Orono News 94 Yeazs' Continuous, Service ta the Town ot Bowman ville and Durham County Authorized cm Seco%d Class Mail. - Ponta 0111e.Department. Ottawa AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Member Audit Bureau a Circulation* Canadian Weekly Newspapers Asaotiation% SUBSCR1PTION RATES $2.50 a Year, strictly in advance $3.00 a Year in the Ujnited States Published by THE JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY Bowmanville, Ontario GEO. W. JAMES. Editoi Ecitor BackHome Again and Almost on the Sheif It is always a nice experience to get back home fromn an extended trip. We have just returned fromn the 3th annual convention of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association held at Jasper Park Lodge, Alberta. Frankly. although we have only missed three conventions in thirty years, it took some urging this year to make the journey for the same ime the House of Çom- mons reassembled at Ottawa and our co-partner, John lames, was due to appear and be sworn in as Durham County's representative. Ail this lef t our son Bill to carry on the responsibility of management wilh a comparatively new re- pertorial staff and the editorial page to be written. So it was with some apprehension that we opened ast weekc's copy of The Statesman. The leadinq editorial was headed with mere question marks. It was the first editorial attempt of the young man who is now the third generation of the lames famiiy to wield the pen from the editors sanctum. And with due modesty and just pride we think Bill bas done a good job with his "homey" phrases which are bis bow in upDhold-*"q the high standard of "Durham County's Crcat Family Journal". It was a stili greater pleasure, since arriv- ing home, to rc-.ve many favorable comments on the editor'a:s, whicb, in essence, reaffirmed the policy of The Statesman in dealing with pub- lic issues. After a rather hectic and protracted peiod over the nast six months, the weight of qetting out The Statesman has fallen more and more upon the shoulders of Bill, due to our co-partner taking on more and more outside interests and responsibilities. So we, personally, are pleased indeed at the public reaction to the issue sa wehh assembled and received wbile both part- ners were absent. More than that, altbougb somewhat belated, the editor in this personal editorial, must pay public and sincere tribute to the loyal staff which railied to the task of getting the pap4r out on time each week in spite of many duf- ficulties. Right down the ine, for years past, we feel that The Statesman has been very fortunate in having one of the most efficient and ca-operative staffs in the newspaper fra- lernity,. And sa, back on theajob again we f eel almost relcgated ta the shelf. In the circum- stances, as we have sought ta portray them, we express not only our comfortable assurance in a job well and truly donc, but also a sincere lbanks to our reoders for their words of appreciation and commendation. A Comrnunity Can Ill Af ford. to Not Af ford Becreation In another column of this issue will be found a very informative and interesting report of the activities of the Bowmanville Community Council and the various programmes carried out by the Becreational Director during the past eight months. In reading this report one cannot the community wbether lhey be one day old, one year old, or one hundred years old. Vcdued EditoriaI Writer Leaves Statesman Staf f everv enterprise when somne valued advocale è1rps utof the pîcture. It may be death or ilinE'ss or charnge of occupation, or the hundred cni cne things that make up humnan existence. So, with mingled feelings. the editor is oblBopd ta announce the resignation of Arthur L. Pcaker, a 1f o long friend and a memaber af t!i- c ditorial staff of The Statesmnan for many SHe served faithfull.y. loyally and un- îFý,- h!y during the war years when five mern- Ic-, cf staff enlisted for active service. is ct Iis timne is Iberefore keenly fel r r personahly, for during my wbole career 1 have neyer bcd at my aide a more capable journaliat or a firmer friend.L Art Baker leaives The Stalesman wh.n Ils subscnlption list stantIs at an ail-lime high and la hlmi I give due credil in attcdýùng the enviable record af being the mont quoted weekiy newa- paper in Canada. In Ibis office are dizplaryed two Cortificates of Menit for top honora won th. past twa yoars in national editorial contens. Many letters on file leslify la tbe accurale news reports witlen by the n who has loft hlm accustomod desk. I was a toam-work ws bath sbared and enjoyed. Outspoken, vigarous, bigbly informed, Art Baker -pulled no punchos wben it came 10 lin- vestigating and roporting maltera of public li- Ierest. On Ibia he t6ok bis stand and on tbis he bas chosen ta sever hia active conneclion with The Statesman. Thia explanation and par- sonai tibule is written with a deep sense of loss ta the edilor. Polio Campaign Needs Your Help to Fight Dreaded Disemse Lest Friday night a meeting waa held ini the Bowmanvilie I.O.O.F. Hall, in an allempî ta set Up a local chapter of the Canadian Found- ation for Poliomyolitis - and Ihere were only sevonteen people who realized how important Ibis was, and attended. Sevonleen people, out ai more than 4,000, wbo are concerned about the grave threat of Polio ta the bealtb of aur nation. We ail know there is, et prosent, no known preventativo for Iis dreed diseaeo and perbapa many people have decided thal, because of Ibis, thero is no point in their putling lhem- selves ouIta attend any meetings concerning il. Perhaps tbey f eel thoy cen do nothing about il personahly. But they are wrong. If the nec- essary funds can be raised, mucb can be done ta aid those afflicted and la aid science in ils searcb for the cause and cure ai Polio. Bowmanville bas beon lucky Ibis year; there bave been few cases bore - sa fer. But. wbo cen say wbo will conîract Ibis disease la- morrow-next week-or even next yer? No- bcdy knows! It stikes swiftly and witb uitIle warning, crippiing and killing young and old alike. Nobody is immune and nabody is abso- lutely safe. The Canadian Foundetion is endeevourlng' ta set up a seies oi local chapters in counlies ail across Canada, ta raise funds for-this cause. There were so few present et tbe lest meeting in this town that they were uneble la do Ibis in Durham aI present. Time is getling short. Local chepters must bave secured sufficient f unds by next January ta put out a fuli-scale effort in ca-ordination wilh the U.S. March ai Dimes. The Faundation hopea ta procure 1 1,110,001 by the end ai nexl Spring, but tbey cannaI do Ibis without the aid ai smaller groups througbouî the country. Energetic men and woinen must step forward if the campeigai is ta be e success. You are not giving anything eway - you are not working for someone else! Il may be you, or your cbildren, who will benefit, in the future, from your efforts NOWI Noted Weekly Editor Mourned At Untimely Passing Wben il was announced et the annuel con- vention ai the Canadien Weekly Newspapens Association in Jasper Park Lodge, Alberta, that Wallen R. Legge had died on Sept. 12th, theý news cast a gloam aover the entire assembly, as tbe famed editor ai the Granby Leader-Mail, Quebec, was known froni coasîta coast in Canada and among the weeklies in the Eastern United States. Walter bad planned ta attend the convention but e prolangod ilîness culmin- ated in bis passing in the Montroal Generai Hospital aI the age ai 58.. Few men worked mare f ailbfully ta reise the standards of weekly journaiism. Ho senved as President ai the Ontario-Quebec Division of the C.W.N.A. and was also the dynamic Presi- dent ai the National C.W.N.A. in 1941-42. AI the ime ai bis passing ho was Chainman ai the important committee on advertising and finance. For a mon in fragile healtb, these exacting responsibilities marked the measure of devotion that Walter held for the weifare of the weeklies. Mass Eqg Production We noticed the following item in the. New- nmarket Ena & Express wbich we lhought might be ai inlenest ta local paultry producors. 'According ta stalislics, hall the *ggs laid in England came inom bons who nover move mono than a f ew inches in Iheir whole livea. Big egg oxecutives with mass production achemea bave the bons confined ta wine cubicles where lboy are fed cantinually. This "battery" systoni of egg laying aves e lot ai labar because as the lien laya the egg, il draps down anta a wire cage, keepa on rolling down a soies ai runways, down, down mbt the coller I suppose, where there is a collection deposit. Easy maney, eggs. Ta the rescue ai thoso viclinis of mass pro- duction rides Sir Thomas Moore, M.P., who boomed forth ýecently that ho was going to tel parliainent ta presthe munister of agricul ture ý 93 1' 1949 But the Bull Grew Faster ta probibil the use ai the bettory system. Wbet's more, he wes supportod by the R.S.P.C.A. (pro- ventian ai cruelty la animais). One poultry editar in reply ta Sir Thomas said that those who think the system is cruel assume that a hen has the same intelligence as a buman being. "That, af course, is silly," ho says. "AlI ae hon wents is ta eat and drink and avoid the pecks af its neiqhbars. This it con do far mare codmlortahly in a batter y." Hon experts used e practical exponiment ai ailowing baîtery bons la go f ree. Tbe'r startling answer was thel nino ouI ai ton refuse ta came oul of their cubicles and 19 eut ai 20 ai Ibase who do, go ight beck in! Il wouid appean Ibat the bons ,pre pretly dumb ciucks. I tbink the whole tbing is economic and politicel. Tbe Englisb bons are victims ai a new socielized stete and an euslenily pragram. Hea- yen knows there are not meny eggs as il is aver tbere and if tho bons stant complaining, where are yau?1 In Russie, bons are sent ta the salI mines if Iheir egg production is too law. In Ameica lbaugh, lhey have raating taoting bons wbo speak In ternis ai marginal Ibis and marginai that and if Iboy cen't gel Ibeir pnice, Ibey won't it's Easy to Generalize But Let's Be More Specific Speaking aven the C.B.C. a iow days ega Mr. Stanley Knowlos, C.C.F., M.P. for Winnipeg North Centre, declered Ibel the present heeitb services ai tbe Dominion Government are only a begi nning and, etthIal, are "wcefully inade- quato.", -H e prapased a greet extension ai cor- vices in bospitalizetian, medical cane and -cick- ness insurence. 1The Winnipeg Free Press lakes up tbe cudgels witb Mn. Knowies by stating: "The Dominion Government is naw spending severai hundroda ai millions per year an social services. The embunt et a rough estimete, is $396 millions whicb is equal la one-bahf ai the personel in- carne tex paidIao the gavernment. Mn. Knowles wauld gneelly increase Ibis expenditure, but did not reier with clanity ta tbe amount of money involved in his proposais. Me was very dlean about the benefits and extremely iaggy about paying for them. Towerd tbe close ai bis broad- caI he-did say thet bis programme would bave ta be peid for. "Il is produced by aur people -eveny bit of it-by the lebon power our work- ers and fermons epply ta our raw mateniais and naturel resources. In my viow, the very firat charge on Ibat wealth sbould be the hep- pinesand well-being ai Ibose who praduce il and I know ai ne botter place ta stent than by Ielling the government ai Ibis country Ibel wo wanl e sufficient portion ai the greet wealtb the people ai Ibis country produce used for a prapor national health programme .. ." etc. etc. Wbet is realiy invoived in Mn. Knowles amry and impersonel roierences ta tbe production ai weaith is e very stif f increaso in taxation. Me rnay nat be eware afiti but Mn. Knowles is taiking about incneasing the incame tex 50 per cent. and abarply reducing the present exemptions. Hia advocacy would be a great deal more IN ONLY PARTIAL AGREEMENT Most Caniadians wîi be la agree- ment with much that was said recently by the Hon. L. B. Pear- son befone the Canadian Institute of Public Afiairs. They will agree with hlm that it is time ta put an end ta the intrusion ai com- munistie minonities la labar dis- putes, that permits a minantiy ta divide the cauncils ai majorities and makes solutions impossible. They wiil agree that we must remove traitons frin positions ai trust, but without enauraging the ".wasting foyers ai distrust" or succumbing la "th1e black magic ai the witch bunt." They will agree that if the State were ta eliminate pnivale enterpnise in foreign trade, there wauid be no impravement in the situation and ne mare security inam complica- tions that might tend toward war. They will agree that the foroiga policy ai the Soviet State is pre- dicated on the ultimate collapse ai the capitallstic oconamy, and is operating ta achieve that end. They will agnee that those whose actions tond ta weakea the ecan- amie stability aif1the Western World betray bath their own in- terests of al free mon. Lastly, they wili agree that ln arguing for a continental pnocess ai ad- justment between ioderai and provincial geverniments, they sug- gest ne retreat from the generai position that the country wilh ho best served by a federai system. Being sa much in agreement, it may 3eem ungeneraus not to accept Mr. Pearsan's views in Mrs. Siemon Speaks At St. Paul's Jr. W.A. Mrs. C. W. Siemon was guest1 speaker at the general meeting af St, Paul's United Church Junior W.A., held&Eriday evening in the Sunday Schoi room. Mer informai- and entertaining account of the trip which she and Dr. She- mon took this summer through Scotland, England, Hoiiand, Bel- gium, France, Switzeriand and Italy provided a most enjoyabie evening for ail the arm-chair traveilers present. The mneeting was in charge af Jane St. Group and the worship service was conducted by the leader, Mrs. George Graham, as- sisted by Mrs. Howard Corden and Mrs. George Mitchell. Mrs. Bob -Evans also assisted at the piano for the singing of the hymn. Mrs. Slemon's informative tai'k followed and Mrs. Graham moved a most appreciative vote of thanks ta Mrs. Siemon and also ta Miss Phyllis Challis for assisting with the meeting. Miss Challis then piayed two delight- fui and beautifuily executed piano numbers. Mrs. Joseph Barton, President, taok charge ai the business part of the meeting and after a num- ber af matons had been brought up for discussion and satisfactoni- ly settled, the evening closed witl-' a social hour and refreshments served by members af Jane Street Group. realistic if ho would ask the people first if tbey wenlta have Ibeir exemptions cul and their taxes increased in order ta pay for the increesed social services ho favors. Editor Urges Canadian Schools Teach Democracy We agree with Ernest J. Little, assistant editon ai the Shawinigan Standard, wben ho says Canadien scbool curicula must be revised ta include instruction in democrecy and inter- national understanding. Ho cbanged Ibat existing schaol programs ion preparing cbildren ta ive in an inîendepend- ont world "are grossly inedequete and roi lect an attitude on the part ai aur educalional euth- arilles Ibat is outmoded and incampatible with roquiromonts ai todey.' Students leaving bigh schaol, ho seid, sbouid knowv et least ail fundamentals ai the Four Free- 'doms, United Nations, UNESCO, causes and ef- lods aif modern wars and "wHlat democrecy bas ta ofier in comparisan witb such other ideologies as Cammunism, Facism, Nazism, Socialism and wbat Sweden calis the 'middle way'." "Nal anly can these maltons ho discussed in classrooms," ho said, "but Ihey cen aiso ho the basic themes for assembly programs, stu- dent body prajecîs and graduation exorcises." "Canadien educators must conclude Ibel aur scbools cannaI stand aloof from centesîs Ibat bode s0 mucb for the good or iii ai mankind," ho said. "Much as lbey value objectively in research and toierence in prosontation, tbey must rocognizo Ibal teacbing bas a duty ta point ouI the values-in a systemn thal exaîts freedoma ai th1e intellect." Let's Have More of This Every day we see in the daily press more and more where labor and management are jointly sitting around the table 10 salve their problems which they are reaizing are to their mutuel interesîs. Only Ibis week we read wbere an A.F.L. union in New York City had opened a new phase in employee-company relations by launcbing an advertising campaign at ils own expense ta promote the company's products. The union represents 2,400 employees of Wana' maker's New York department store. The union bas explained its members realize the employees cannot prosper unless the com- pany prospers îoo. A business wbich loses custom must cut wages and dismiss employees. When sales sbrink it has no alternative. Unions bave come a long way since tbey were first organized. Nowadays many of tbern bhave Ibeir own accounting and efficiency ex- perts and are in as good a position as manage- ment 10 understand the economics of business as they relate ta employment and wages. The progressive unions know thal excessive demands would put the employer out of business, or at any rate reduce his operations. On the other hand, interest in keeping a business prosperous, by greater efficiency and co-operation on the part of labor, is their best guarantee of continued good wages and high emphoyment._______ Iota. There is bawever, implîcit in much of the argument support- ing these attitudes, a conception with which most Canadians wilh nat agree. That is that such agre ment with these positions invoives a continuai expanding ai bureau- cratic contrai. Mn. Pearson ar- gues that: "the best defeace agaînst totalitarianism in any iarm is ta remave the conditions upon which it feeds. As far as the economic life ai the nation is con- cerned., this means, I think, that the goveroment may have ta ac- cept a large measure ai responsi- biiity for direction, and even for central. Indeed, whether it desires it or net, that noie is being forced on the State by insistent and in- creasing demands for services and assistance."~ In this, and in othen connections, Mn. Peanson contends that funther governmeatai intru- sion is inevitable. This continuing emphasis on the necessity for goveroment con- trai; the suggestion that, indirect- ly, it stems from public demands, will harQIly be accepteid se readily, Most people will rememben that the social service pragnam was as much a product ai polifical op- portunism as it was et public de- mand. Most people wilh ho readier la argue against funther gavera- mental interference with their ives aad iberties than wiIi be neady ta accept the sîrange con- ception ýhat the imposition ai totalitanian authority is the best defence against il. Belgians must vote, and thene are more women than men votons. Alaskan tenitory, just apened is attracting USA veterans., Thomas A. Edison wvas dismiss- ed from a job as a young man for sleeping while an duty. The Siaiesman Sold Ai FoIlow¶ng Stores Dyer's Drug Store, New~castle D. G. Walton's, Newcastle Wilson & Brown, Newtonviile T. M. Siemon, Enniskillen P. L. Byam, Tyrone G. A. Barron, Hampton Newton Taylor's, Burketon. Wm. Hackwood, PontýrpooI H. T. Saywell, Blackstock C. B. Tyrrell, Orono W. J. Bagneli, Jury & Loveli J. W. Jewell, W. J. Berry and The Statesman Office. REWAIRD A reward of a $10.00 Brida- Knot merchandise certificate wiil be sent to any persan who wil] write aur company, giving us the name and ad- dress of any jeweiler in their district that does flot have Bridal-Knot diamond rings in stock. PEERLESS JEWELLERY MFRS. Suite 202-203 Yonge Arcade Toronto - Ontario Home of Bridal-Knot Diamonds PAGE TWO Tas WANIWIlln Public and Experts Agree on Most Accident Causes TERECORI> 0F HISTOIT By Joseph Lister Rutledre The somewhat commonly held belief that it is progressive ta be well left-of-centre in our think- ing stems from a rather canfused conviction that cammunismn or socialism offers mare in the way of cooperatian for human better- ment than the freedorn of enter- prise that such thinkers decry. "Let these systems have an equal chance," they say, "and sce which will win out". Sa we cail on the record of history where they have had this equal chance. We miust admt that we did not dis- caver this instance. It was printed in a column in the Manchester, New Hampshire, Morning Union, and reprinted in various places. We merely give it an added cir- culation. The record shows that when the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth tbey set up the first communistic form of government on this continent. Ail resaurces and ail production of these first settiers were çqually shared. It resulted in "but a quarter of a pound of bread a day ta each persan." "It well appeared,"1 wrote Governor Bradford in the year 1623, that "famine must stili ensue the next year aiso if flot in some way prevented." Af ter much debate and general agree- ment the change was decided: "that they should set corne every man for his owne perticuler, and in that regard trust ta themselves ....and sa assigned ta every family a parceil of land." Now here is the parallel record in actuai fact. The communal sys- tem "tried sundrie yearà and that amangst godly and sober men," resuhted in the young men ne- pining 1'that they should spend Iheir time and streingth ta worke for other mens wives and child- ren without recompeinse." The strong men and men of parts finding they had no more in the division "'than he that was weake, and not able ta do a quarter the other couid, thought this was in- justice." Men's wives, 'com- manded ta do a service for other men, deemed it a kind of shaverie". But, with the change, we read that it "had a very good success, for it made ail hands very indus- trious . . . more carne was pianted than other waise could have bene . . . and gave far bet- ter content The women went wih- linghy into the fields and took th eir littie-ones with them ta set corne.," And the resuit? "Instead of fa- mine, now God gave them pientie . And the effect of theor par- ticular (private) planting was welh seene, for ail had, one way and other, pretty well ta bring the year abo'îte, and some of the abler sorte and more industrious had ta spare, and seli ta others, so as any generali wante or fa- mine hath not been amongest them since ta this day." Fascism was iirst deveioped un- der Bonite Mussolini. Angeis are not biologicaily pas- sible. Hal]ey's comet will reappear in 1985. Pictures can be taken of mir- ages. Duning the first year of a child's life he grows more i-apidly than at any other time. Luke, author of a book in the Newv Testament, was a physician. Animais with long legs alsa have long necks in order ta reach their food without bendîng their knees. Average weekly wage ai hour- ly-rated wvorkers employed by ieadiag Canadian manufacturers was' $42.08 at Apnil 1 of this year, a new high figure and $5.06 tper week more than a year pro- vioushy. IN THE PAsTr four years we added more than hall a million telephones and instalhed new equipment in eveny ex- change in Ontaria and Quebec. At the same time we were able ta make substantial imnprov'emenits in service. But it took a lot af maney, aven twa hundred million doliansi Tiiere remains murh ta be donc! Mfany applicants are still waiting for telephone service, andti any mare sub- scribens' present service is nat adequate ta their needs. We jntend ta meet their wçishes, and ta continue making the service clearen, fasten, botter in every way. This will take mare millions for new equipment and buildings. As in the past, this monev must caine fnom the savings of thousands of Caniadians'iwho are willing to invest in the telephane business. THE BELL TELEPHONE@ CO MPANY OF CANADA 3 /o n Guaranteed 3% Trust Certificates ISSUED for any amount .... for a terni of five years .... guarantced both as to principal and interest . . .. Intercst cheques mailed ta reach holders on due date, or, at holder's option, may be allowed to accumulate at compound interest. An ideal invcstrnent for individuala, cern- panies; authorized by law for cemetery boards, executors and other trustees. THE STERLING TRUSTS CORPORATION 372 Bay Street, Toronto 1 38 years ln Business 1 . Unsafe driving habita are the greatest cause of traffic accidents, say two-thirds of the people poli- ed recently by the Department of H-ighways in a survey to find out how much the average, dniveî' knows about avoidiiig accident hazards. Public and expert opinions don't often agree toa cioseiy, but in this instance a group of auto insurance nien, highway and municipal officiais and driver- examiners were polled.o same question: they give exacUý ' the same answer as the cross. section of drivers, Sa the concen- sus appears ta rate the "nut that hoids the wheel" ai, th4e leading villian of traffic tragedles. Which driving habit is consid- ered' least safe? The answer in "excessive speed", say bath ex- perts and t 'he public. This opinion of bath the Ontario Department ai Highways and the National Safety Council, which shoy "speed too fast for road or traffie conditions" as an accident factor mare often than any other report- ed violation. Compared with the two-thirds who say that '"unsafe dniving ha- bits" contribute most ta accidents. just one-quarter ai thasee poiied blame liquar. Less frequent haz- ards mentianed are pedestrian actions, weather and road condi- tions and mechanical condition of cars. Bath groups agree Ibat Satur- day and Sunday are the most like- ly for accidents and put Friday in third place. However accident statistics show that Saturday, Fni- day and Sunday (in that orden) are the worst days ion accidents. And whihc bath drivers and the expert group say that dusk is the time of day when most accidents happen, actuaily statistics show that more accidents occur in broad daylight than at any other time. qwm t--,&wAnirAm sTATrgmAN- iRowmAmvn.Lt. oNTAmo DAieý--W M""O% E 11 rj