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6.,-M w PAETWO TUE CANADIAN STATESMAN. BOWMANVILLE, ONTAfLeO Eitablîshed 154 with which is in corporated The BOWYnanville News, The Newcastle Independent and The Orono News 96 Years' Contnuous Service ta the Town af BoWmanville and Durhamn County AN JNDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Me-nber Audit Bureau ID iiiIL\ oftCirculations Canadiain Weekly Newapapers 1 > Association SUBSCRIPTION RATES $2.50 a Year, trictly in advance $3.00 a Year in the United States Publthed by THE JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY Author.z7ed as Sec.d Class mail Post Octhce Dpartment, Ottawa. Bowmanvilie, Ontario GEO. W. JAMES, EDITOR DURHAM BOY BANK PRESIDENT With the promotion af Bvron S. Van- stone ta the presidency of the Bank of Toronto that aid and honored tradition of Durham County Boys climbing ta the top of the ladder af success in their chosen prafesesion has been well maintained. In the broader sense it is juàt another in- stance that Canada is stili the land af opportunity for those who are not afraid of bard work and have high ambitions. Mr. Vanstone was a country lad, barn in the village af T vrone, where his father was a mîller. He attended the public and high schools in Bowrnanville and stepped aut in the business world in his teens as a junior in the Bowmanville branch of the Ontario Bank when the late George McIGîll was manager. In 1906 he joined the Bank of Toronto head office staff in Toronto. In 1911 he became an inspector and in~ 1934 was appointed chief supervisar of Eastern branches. He be- came general manager in 1942, director and vice-president in 1948, and bas naw assumed the presidency ai the bank. Durham Boys have shown a particular liking in the realm af finance for at least four native sons ai Durham became pre- ~sidents ai well known life insurance com- panies and flow we have anc who heads one of aur grawing chartered banks. Is iit any wander we çontinue ta boast that 'Durham County produces the creamn of the ,crop in almost any line yau wish ta namne? THE ATKINSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION In recent weeks publicity has been ýgiven in The Statesman ai lîberal grants ýmade by The Atkînson Charitable Found- ,ation ai Toronto. We consider this local 'bews because the fund, ai over $3,000,000, was established by the will oi a prom- -inent Durham County boy, the late J. S. 'Atkinson, wha was bomo in Newcastle. iThrough bis genius and hard work as yublisher and owner he built up the larg- ,est publishing business in Canada embrac- ing The Toronto Daily Star and The Star ;Weekly, each having the largest circula- lion in its respective class. * In his will Mr. Atkinson specified that ,this huge fortune xvhich he had accumu- jated was ta be used for philanthropic pur- poses in which he particularly specified: êducation, church, hospital and other char- itable arganizations. A groLip ai his busi.- . ness associates are delegated the tremend- l'ous task ai distributing this money along , ;the lines he intimated andi where it would do the most good. When these facts were gi-ven publicitv the trustees ai the Foundation were flood- ed, we have been informed, with thousands of requests for hundreds ai variaus char- itable causes and amounts running fromn hundreds ta thousands ai dollars. It is no secret that the Bowmanville ' lospital Boardi made application ta the 'Faundation for a gcrant toward the new "emarial Haspital rlawv under construc- lion, but so far' this request bas not been COUNTY COUNCIL AN OUTDATED j CIVIC INSTITUTION From the apparent scanty bit of busi- jness reported in the press that was trans- acted last week at the Counties Council session at Cobourg we wonder how the fortv or more Reeves and Deputy Reeves can stmetch the session inta three days. In these modemn times of paved highways, telephones, autos and other conveniences ai communication and fast transportation, the old-fashioned mollycoddling methods ai conducting caunty council business bas become outmoded by several generations. And yet some aid fogies glary in the antiquity ai this hoary aid municipal gav- ernment institution 'by claiming it's a great training school for the politically ambitiaus. From aur experience in county council and aur observations since we have long ago came ta the conclusion it couid well be relegated ta the archives af abliv- ion as the long averdue first step in civie economy and -needless averlapping of government administration. NEW MENTAL HEALTH PLAN TO EMPHASIZE PREVENTION Empbasizing prevention, rather than cure, ai mental juls, Health Minister Dr. MacKinnon Phillips recently announced ,a new provincial mental 'health program, now in the planning stage, and based on a consultant psycbiatrist teamed on the, cammunity level with a nurse, a psychoi- agist and a sociologist ta carry on educa- tional, diagnostic and treatment service. "We ledl that aur first requirement is ta plan ta belp aur citizens avoid the necessity for mental hospital care and treatment and this can be donc within the cammunity," Dr. Phillips said. If suc- cessiul the plan would pay magnificent dividends bath in money and happiness for people ai Ontario, and would be far better than embarking on a costly pro- gram for bigger and more numerous men- tal hospitals. While emphasis in the plan is on pre- vention, Dr. Phillips said the treatment side af the problema will not be overiaoked. Expansion ai facilities for treatment of mentally ilI is proceeding with the apening soon ai a school. for mental defectives at Smiths Falls. New and modemn the bas- pitai xill accommodate 2,400 patients, me- lieving strain on other institutions. Four persans out ai every thousand in Ontario are in mental hospitals, Dr. Phillips said. Five cents of every dollar ai provincial revenue is spent on mental bealth and hospital services and 27 per cent. ai the permanent members ai the public bcalth service are empioyed on this work. DIDN'T RECOGNIZE THE EDITOR kjualiiied in manv wavs either for or ëgainst a specifie prajeet. You vil1 îîndeî-stand aur problem. 1 erhaps, wben I tell vau that aur entire îresources would be exhausted if Nve an- ? wercd onlv the applications presentlv in land for building fund assistance from jiospitals. SPlease do not get the idea that Nve are Snsympathetic ta the problems af the ospitals. We know the great handicans inder which thev are trvi ng ta serve the public. S If witbin vaur argsani zation there is pspecifie need peculiar ta -vaur localitv., ~pîece af research ai lasting valute that ýnay be donc. some item or equipment àvhich is the anly thing keeping the scr- .vices ai a specialist from your patients fhen, without committing ourselves. we Ïhall be glad ta, consider a subisso 41ang that Uine." -In the Dimai Fro m The FIFTY YEARS AGO Dariington Twp. Agricultur, Society favors amalgamation wit. the County Society for exhibitiai purpases. W. J. Bragg was presi dent of the Twp. Society. Richard Moyse was presermte with a Past President's jeweI bý Wellington Lodge. S.O.E. Offi cers were installed by Distric Deputy E. George Hart. A. J. Reynolds, native af Soline was appointed Assessor ai Scar bora Township. W. J. Clarke has sold the Pick ering News ta John Murkar, prin cipal ai the public school in Pick ering. Weddings: Jan. 9, Fred Brima combe, Bowmanville, and Lizzii Spicer. Mount Forest; Jan. 9, Wa] lace Downey, Bowmanville, anc Maggie Cailander, Kemptviihe Jan. 16. Wm. W. Comnish an( Rosa J. Bell, bath af Leskard. Death ai Queen Victoria wa announeed an Jan. 22, 1901, "bi the tolling ai ail the bel]s anc the tawn flag flying at hall mas out ai respect ta aur beloved rul Wm. Rickard, Newcastle; H. H Walker, Part Hope; S. E. Fer gusan. Bethany. and possibly P C. Trebilcock, Bowmanville, ar( candidates for Warden af thE United Counties. Salary af $20( goes with the office. A petitian signed by over loi ratepayers was publishied asking, the followîng men toalalow theii names ta be nominated for towî council for 1901: D. B. Simpson J. B. Mitchell. W. B. Couch, J, C. Vanstone, Thos. Bassett, Arch"E Tait and John Percy. Mt. Vernon-Fred Heattie haý resumed his studies at a collegt in Chicago. Solina-Wedding took placc Wednesday at Wm. Ashton'ý when his daughter Rase \vas unît- ed in marriage with Chas. Blan- chard ai Columbus. An agitation is on foot for the tawn ta buy the privately oxvned electric light plant due ta poor service the custamners are receiv- ing. J. H. Kydd xvas elected Presi. dent af the Horticultural Society. Tyrone-Subject for debate ai Division is, resolved: 'That the ahl-round is mare useful than the specialist.' Hampton - Glad ta report Frank Kerslake making a good recavery from pneurnania in To- ronto Hospital. Orono-Dr. G. H. Carveth is me- covering from diphtheria. Runners-up in C For CWE Editoi SECOND PLACE IWINNER (The Montreal (P.Q.) Monitor) FREEDOM 0F THE PRESS Financial Success Is Aiso Important The editor bad an amusing experience the other day. While walking along King Street be saw anc ai the nurses wbo waited an him when he was a patient in the bospital last summer. He greeted ber with: "Hello Nurse, how are you ta-day?" She looked ciuite surprised that an apparent stranger should speak ta her and for a moment just stared. Then, al ai a sudden shé exclaimed: "Oh, you're Mr. James. I didn't ecognize you at first, for this is the first time I've seen you with yau r ciothes on." Hormors! What an admission ta make on Front St. The editor smiled at, ber expianation, but at the time ai this bni conversation a couple ai ladies were passing bv and evidently were a bit shocked at the me- marks made, for thcy turned around and gave a stoney cold and suspiciaus look that denoted evil thoughts. Al ai which makes spicy conversation aver the tea cups. OBSERVATIONS AND OPINIONS Xisdom is knoxving what ta do; skill is knoxving bow ta do it, and virtue is doing it.-David Starr Jordan. Our so-called sacrifices are petty and obscure ta those faced by the people ai the Mother Country, camments the Ham- ilton Spectatar. In relation ta aur weaith and aur weliare the contributions we are making for demacracy's defence are trivial, and aur imaginar.v ecanamic troubles are scratches. E\,en if aur borders are under a potential physical thrcat for the first time in aur history, we are far irom the front line. We are still privileged, and pri\'ilege calîs for humility. The Chamber ai Commerce is always on the alert ta pramote some pmject that is foi- the good ai its members and the commtinitv at large. A constructive idea that several Chambers are advocating -and lias been operated with cansiderable suc- cess in other places is a series ai sales- training classes for clerks in local stores. A man trained in this wark puts an for- ums and sales demonstrations for several weeks during the winter months. A cierk interested in impraving bis or ber position should welcome such an idea. For some months certain ioud-mouth- ed American politicians along with a few U.S. trade publications have been sniping and squawking about the unfair treatment they daim the American newspapers have been receivîng from the Canadian news- print mîlis in getting their iair suoply ai paper. Wc were, therefore, pleased ta see that Mr. R. M. Fowler, President ai the Canadian Newsprint Association step- ped across the invisible line and addressed a meeting ai New York State Publishers Association in Buffalo lest week. In bis characteristie, able, effective and gentie- manlv manner he asked, among other things, for a "friendly tolerance" fram U.S. publishers and less "il-advised and ill-infoîrmed criticism" from politicians in solving newsprint supply problems. Winstan Churchill, in his Sev-i en Tests ai Freedoni, put this anc first: "Is there a right ta free ex- pression ai opinion and ai ap- position and criticism ai the gov- enment ai the day?" The American Society ai News- paper Editors lists Freedum ai the Press, second, right aiter Responsibility, la its Canons ai Journalism. 0f Freedom ai the Press, it says: "It is a vital r1ight1 ai mankind. It is the uinqutian- able right ta discuss whatevcr is nat explicitly farbidden by lew, inciuding the wisdom 0! any restrictive statute.' Freedom ai the Press also means the right of an editor ta reject as well as ta accept. it daesn't mean, as some paliticiaus wouhd have yau beieve, the right ta compel an editor ta publish opinions ta which he does not sub- scribe. "Freedoni ai the Press" and "free expression ai opinion" are about the same thing. A fre- press enables free expres siaons ai opinion ta be disseminated on al wholesale scale. Instead ai taIk -1 ing ta one man, or ta a h undmed men, or even ta a thousand as, thoc arators in the public square at Athens did, editarial wvritems now telk ta millions evemy da.y. The power ai the press miakes it essen- tial thet it be kept free. Its irec- DR. W. M. RUDELL, D.D.S. dam is as important ta the citi- Office Jury Jubilee Bldg. zen as is his right ta vote. 40 King St. W., Bowmanville Sametimes it is forgotten that Office Hours:- in the maintenance of freedom 9 a.m. ta 6 p.m. daily the business office af a newspao- 9 a.m. ta 12 noan Satumdey em is as important as the editorial Closed Sunday off ice. Office Phone 790 Some editors look upon finan- f House Phone 2827 ciel success with a certain loi ty DR. E. W. SISSON, L.D.S., D.D.S. scarn, as if success meant the I Office in his home selling ai a bithright for a mess 10o Libemtv St. N., Bowmenvilhe af pottage. And some peopile Office Hours:- look upon a paper full af adver- 9 a.m. ta 6 p.m. deily tising with a certain low sus-! 9 a.m. ta 12 noon Wednesdey pician. They would have yau Clased Sunday believe that it is the advertiser Phone 604 and nat the editor who controls palicy, fargetting that ta be reallv R E AL E ST A T E free it is essential that a paper be iinancial successii. It is BOWMANVILLE the paper that is constantlY~ press- REAL ESTATE ed for maney that is most sus- 78 King Street West ceptible ta corruption by poli- Properties Sold, Rented ticians and unscrupulous adve- Managed and Appraised tisers.Members ai the Canadien and Onse a hemstsccstu Ontario Reel Estate Boards j aIl pubishers, William Randoiph J. Shehyn H. G. GUI Hearst, once had a run-in with a Bawmanvilhe 3326 3514 put the scmew on hinm because of syndicate ai pawerfuh San Fmail- AU DIT IN G cisco business men who tried ta his sensational citicism ai mtteni MONTEITH & MONTEITH ile belts on ferry hoats awned1 Chartered Accountants by the svndicate. Instead ai be- 137 King St. E. Oshawa ing "ýinfluenced" he dictated a Mr. Gardon W. Riehl, C.A., memo, in Iheir presence. ta bis, resident partner. fareman instructing hlm ta throw inta the scuttle ahi adver- O P TOM!E TR Y tising the syndicate controlleci. __________________ He added thet no futher adver- KEITH A. BILLETT tising would be eccepted friom env Optometrist ai them. Next day he published 174 King St. W. Bawxnanville full details af the interview inI Phone 3252 a sensatianai front page s tar. Office Hours: 9 a.m. ta 6 p.m. The rotten ie beits were soon re- j Mondas' ta Satumday placec. Evenings by Appointnient Dura Power Mainspring', for ELGIN OWNERS A4vailable for repiaoement in most of M.d. wtc" mul.. Pateat pjadigi MARRIS Jewellery 13 King St. W. Phone 463 BO WMAN VILLE able to pay ail their bills prornptly. Now Donny is healthy again-and so is their bank account Planned saving pays off, when bargains, opportunit les - - ~ Dr emnergencies corne along. SPONSORED DY YOUR BANK erniment without newspapers or obligations. It must never lose h tls a i newspapers without governmenl, sight of its most essential d utx --T~I nd Distant rasi~ ~ should fot hesitate a moment* devotin ta the publie welfare. AiFlo igSoe prefr th later."It must strive unceasingi3 to It is doubtful if the full portent* be thoraugh, accurate and ux.- Statesman Files of these words, uttered by Thom- biased in its reparting and in its Dx er's DruL: Store, Newcastle. __________________________as Jefferson a century and a half editoriais. Above ail it must xiot D. G. Walton's, Newcastle. ago, ivas ever sa clearly brougilt allow itself ta fali vîctim taoaut- S. Brown, Newtonville. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO home as in recent times when side pressures and to temptatiori T. M. Siemon, Enniskilen. 'al F P. Mrris as elctedwe have seen, and stili see, people, ta seek partisan ends ta the det- F.L Im yoe charmn i te ubic cholkept in a state of subjugatipon bv riment of its public obligations. G. A. Barron. Hampton. th cairmn ofthePublc Scoolthe signal process of throttlin'g Newspapers which fulfill the.se Newton Taylar's. Burketon. nr Board. the press. For just as rigid con- . essential obligations ta society are Keith Bradley, Pontypool i- Rev. Dr. D. W. Best has con- trol af the press has been the' worthy ai the great powers vest- H. T. Saywell, Blackstock. sented ta give three lectures onl cornerstone of the Nazi and Fas- ed in them by free people. Those C. B. Trreil. Orona. d astronomny. The slides .used wi]l cist regimes af the recent past, which faîl short of their publice1H. k. Reynolds, Kendal. )y become the property of the High and of the Cammunist dictatar- duties are, ta that extent. break- IW. J. Bagnell, Jury & Lovell, 1- School. ship of the present day, sa free- ing faitjb with the people and J.W. Jewell. W. J. Berry, Elgie ct West Durham Agricultural Sa- dam af the press is one of the providing ammunitioil ta the ad- Harden's Handy Store and The ciety elected Alan Campbell, mast essential bulwarks upon vacates af press control. Statesman Office. a, President, and Chas. H. Mason, which democracy rests. - Secretary. Gardon Chartran is playing What, exactly is meant by the brilian hokeythi seson~ jfamiliar and seemingly overwork- '-Toronto with the Canada Cycle ed p~hrase "freedom ai the z- team mn Merchantile League. press" Rev. W. A. Bunner received a It is in essence a part of the GOVERNMENT OF CANADA acablegram tram his son Kelvin larger freedom suppasedly in- ie announcing his safe arrival in herent in ail men~ ta speak their t, l~ A fAdBlD 1- West Africa where he is an the mindis openly anýd without fear.; 34% uuuISoe wAR LOA BOND id staff af Achimata College. But, since in modern saciety the e; Mrs. F. A. McCiuskey (nee press is the principal diseminat- Due February lst, 1948-52 ýd Lottie Rogers), New York City,. or of the public information that BAIG CL ETR"OL was called here due ta the pass- people must have ta judge the'BAIG C L ETR D'O Y s ing af hermomther, Mrs. Fred actions of their rulers and ta HAVE BEEN DRAWN FOR PAYMENT ýy Rogers, Whitby, formerly ai En- make up their mînds on public ci niskillen. affairs, freedom ai the press js February 1, 1951 t Solina-A. L. Pascoe & Son the crux af this larger freedom. AT $100.50 FOR EACH $100. 1- won first prize of $75 in field crop It follows therefore, that ta competition in oats.-R. J. Smith, the extent that the press is con- Bonds of this issue bearing the coul letter shawn shouid [. attended the Beekeepers' Short trolled not only the newspapersbepsntdfrremtoonFbur1,95 -Course at Guelph. a tethemselves but the people as abo resoon tefree paibl n e wital co1onsa951 ?. . Newcastle-Opening o hwhole are being rabbed af one aofjo s so hratra ossil halcuoso 'e Wiilowdale Rest Homne is an- their basic and most cheriqheci later date attached. These bonds wilI flot eorn ýe nounced.-Master John Rickard righits. That is wvl alI forms aof )O gave a delightful sleighing party media and newspapers in par- interest cifter February 1, « ta members ai S. S. classes af ticular. jealously guard againistBR1 0t Thos. A. Rodgers and Miss Lil- direct or insîdiaus encroachments 9 lian Clemence. whether by governments or anyV r Alex McGregor, member forotegrusoridiua. SWest Durham in Older Boys' Par- I utb ad notn ey i, iament is busy conducting a ta t ereofreth igh for on-l fbond selling campaign ta carr a tinu e ress fre teom i Canada. e - on the C.S.E.T. pragram. as ine UnssitedomSntate n rata In reparting a hockey match b e- a nteUie tts ra ýtween Oshawa and Bowmanvil Britain and other free cauntries, e Iigh Schoals the Oshawa Re-hapety elbencridn former makes this comment about single-handedly by the press it- eDurham County's present Mem- self. The public has been prone J s e fPrimn:"h ota stand aloof and watçh the- Sber ani Parhiamueot:"he gmstproceedings with indifference or, outsandig fatur aithe ameat best, lukewarffi moral support. %vas the sensational net-guarding This attitude, we feel. stenis notf~/ f e JohnnynJames ai rom want. ai lave for îreedomn On teirwooen wddig ~ but xrather from lack ai under- ~~L r Jan. 12, Mr. and Mrs. Aylmer H. standing ai what press.____ doin Beec. Eniskiienwere pre-means in the sense that it effects santed with a lovely rockingthm ned a okaL *chair and other useful gifts. Yet one nee cnlytolok 'Whistling Jim" lisls a few the record af modern tatalitarian ( tmore nick-names af the lads states ta see what happens when cabout town when he was a boy; press freedom is lost. In this 2 Big Push Wilkinson, Porky CQle- way perhaps more than any othe. man, Mud Hamblyn, Kittens Bat- it can be rea]ized that whcoxi ttreli, Punch Burden, Standard newspapers cry out against what 1 Burden. Sully Moyse, Jig Milne, they interpret as threats ta their *Blue Bill Norton. Husky Welsh, rights they are not indulging in Shine Morrîson. Pee Wee Lough- so much ballyhoo but are rising - - i., Dingie Windsor and Doc Par- ta the defense ai rights that are à, -4 ter. as much those ai the people as -. of the newspapers thenselves. Ail free people should, theme- fore. be aware ai the necessity af lOTfpetitton maintaining constant vigilance i ~ not only against direct censorship rial Trophy but against niou ecrah ments as well. In a democracy like Canada the indirect threat Thos wh criicie suces Inis passibly the greatest, for those Thoe wo citciz suces ~ who would throttleth prs the ~ ~ o buieseda ournalism realize full well that the people should remember that Hearst would flot tolerate any avert acts was able to do as he did BE- af censorship, save in great emner- CAUSE HE WAS SUCCESSFUL. gencies. But, under the guise ai Yes, ta be free a paper must protecting the public,ý and em- be independent, and ta be inde- playing deviaus phrases subject pendent it must be a financial ta diffement interpretation, they success. have tried and may yet succeed in achieving their ends unless au'r THIRD PLACE WINNERt vigilance Is constant and aur de- (Shawinigan Falls <P.Q.> termination unshakabie. Standard We must keep fresh in aur FREEOM O TH PRES minds the fact that nominal iree- FREEDM 0FTHE RESS dam or samething akin ta it is "Were it left ta me ta dec'ide nat enaugh. Unless the press is whether we should have a gov- free ta record the news faithiulIv ___________and Comment upon it frank1' aL Business Directory without fear af punishment the plaid off forth Browns ________ Y public safety is nmenaced. ThLe Press itself aiso has heavv L E G A L -- h egbr eebrhWsc On IV. R. STRIKE, K.C.Tenihosrmmbrhwsc on Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Donny was a lèw months ago, and how [Solicitor for Bank af Montreal liiiCH Bowmanville, Ontario LAWRNCE . MAON, .A.guessed What a serious drain his illness had Barrister, Solic'itor, Natary Publicben nth fai' King St. W.. Bawmnanville . i o hefmiypurse. Phone, Office 688 Residence 553I W. F. WARD, B.A. IWslteBon a aei uet Barister, Solicitor, Notary bic Wiee marred.o wnh m eWansulethe THUfflDAY, JANUARY-",-Itel o f