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?Ao: TWO TRI CANADIA!~ STATESMAN. EOWMANV!LLE. ONTARTO THTT1~flAV APT~TT. ~ 1o~t %Ije 'mUmun »hiteoma Established 1854 witb which ls incorporated T'he Eow=mv 11. N ws, The lNewcastle Independent atndaThe Orana News 96 Yearrs' Continuous Service-ta the Town of Bowmanvi1Ie and Durham County AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER M.mber Audit Bureatu ofCrculationu Canadian W 7 Weekly Newzpapers a Association StJBSCRIPTION RATES $2.50 a Year, strictly in advance $3,00 a Year ini the United States Puhhjahed by THE JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY Authorized ae Second Clama Mail Pott Off ice Departmont. Ottawa. Bowmatnvîlle, Ontario GEO. W. MAMES, EDITOI WARDEN KNOCKS HEALTH UNIT We were surprised to read in a local paper that Warden George Walton, Reeve of Newcastle, in commenting on the County Health Unit, was accused of say- ing: "He did flot believe the work accom- plished warranted the $32,000 a year that it was costing the counties." We hope the Warden was misquoted in making such a statement, for if he did make such a com- mnent it reflects on himself as an ex-of- ficio member of the Board of Health, as well as the other forty-three members of the Counties Council who are directly respon sible for seeing that taxpayers get their money's worth in this important branch of county administration. It is well known that Northumberland and. Durham Health Unit has been con- sidered by other counties as a model for other units which have been set up in different parts of Ontario. As one of the pioneers in this field of public health ser- vice this paper has time and again com- mented with justifiable pride on the splendid work being done by our health unit. * If you want ta measure the success of *the unit on a cost basis its record is good. The 1950 annual report has flot been re- *ceived yet, but the 1949 report shows the *county's cost per capita to be slightly over 60 cents. When you consider the service the *people receive through the health unit one wonders at the low per capita cost of *operation and administration for a popu- lation of slightly under 60,000 and caver- *ing two counties. We have neyer been accused of advocating the squandering of mnoney for public services, but in this con- nection we feel the staff, as a whole, are not adequately paid considering the climb- ing high cost of living to-day. Maybe you do not realize the various services the health unit contributes to the welfare of the people of these united counities. Here's some of them: immuniza- tion of schooi children, tuberculosis cases reported, communicable diseases, mater- nai, infant and child hygiene, school health supervision, sanitation surveys and inspections, f ood and milk inspections, venereal disease reports, bacteriological analysis of water and milk, baby clinics, etc. We don't profess that the health unit is perfect, but we do contend it renders a valuable service that is well worth the money it costs in promoting man's greatest asset - health. HOSPITALS HAVE THEIR PROBLEMS It has often been said that too many citizens take hospitals for granted - that is, of course, until said citizen becomes iii himself, and then he has a sudden awakening of the importance of a hospital. Did you ex'er wonder wvhat would happen if the members of a 'Hosp;ita;l Board and Evyervbodv thinks that hospitals charge too much for t heir services, including those people who pay as much and more for accommodation at a hotel where they don't * et anything like the same type of care. The hospîtal is a public institution, but it has ta be run as a business. People get annoyed when a hospital doesn't pay *its way, and has ta have help either f rom the taxpayers or from the community generally through a financial appeal. An- other thing that always annoys people about a hospital is the interest it takes in who is going ta pay a patient's account. when ail it ought ta be concerned about *is the patient's health. This seems cold- blooded ta them. Hospitals kinds of them. standing from have their problems; al. They deserve more under. the public than thiey get. _ AN EXCELLENT APPOINTMENT Canada, with the world clamaring for ber newsprint, took a wise step last week ta prepare for a more balanced inter-, national distribution of her huge produc- tion. In a maove unprecedented in peace- time, newsprint and mechanical and chem- ical pulps were declared essential mater- ials. The Defence Production Department was empowered ta bring them under Gov- ernment control. The government made an excellent choice in the appaintment of R. M. Fawler, 45-year-old president of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, as director of a newly-formed dcpartmental branch which will have authority ta regulate and contrai exparts. Mr. Fowler is a native of Peter- borough. He first came inta public prom- inence serving on the Rowell-Sirois Com- mission and in the last war as a deppty ta Donald Gardon, head of the Wart e Prices and Trade Board. The next major step in meeting the appeal for more newsprint fromn such countries as Britain and France will be up ta a 10-nation international pulp and paper committee now being set up in Washing- tan. Canada will be a member of that graup, part of an International M aterials Conference, considering emergency allo- cation of materials ta meet the needs of re- arming democracies. THE PROFIT AND LOSS SYSTEM PRODUCES NO SURE WINNERS Everybady who starts a new business hopes the business will make a profit. This hope is shared by investors, manage- ment and emplayees alike. These people ail have a stake in the venture and they ail share the risk that goes with it. The risk is a real one. One measure of its substance is provided in the 1950 edition of Taxation Statistics, published by the Taxation Division of the Depart- ment of National Revenue. Each year a substantial percentage o! Canadian companies end up in the red. 1948 - the latest year for which figures are available - was no exception. Out of 44,320 taxable companies that filed returns that year, 27,997 reported a profit and 16,323 reported a loss. In other words 37 per cent - or more than one out o! every three campanies - last money on the year's aperations. The ratio for manuf acturers alone was slightly better than average, but there were stili a great many lasers. 0f those reporting, 7,217 announced a profit and 2,589 declared a loss. This means that, for every 100 manufacturing companies, roughly 74 made money and 26 lost money. If further evidence is needed, one bas only ta consider the rising trend of business failures in Canada. A survey made by Dun and Bradstrect o! Canada Ltd., shows that 717 campanies, including 159 manufacturers, went out of business altogether in 1950. This is an increase of 20 -per cent. over the 596 failures recorded in 1949. These figures serve ta emphasize the fact that until somebody invents a suref ire formula for success in business - in other words, a guaranteed way of eliminating the risk factor - the profit-and-loss sys- tem will continue ta involve lasses as well as profits. OBSERVATIONS AND OPINIONS Daylight Saving Time will go into effcct in Bowmanvillc, at midnight on Sat- urday, April 28th, and continue through- out the summer months. In commenting on leisure 'way back in 1773 Samuel Johnson wrote: "Ail in- tellectual improvement arises f rom leisure; ail leisure arises from ncn working for another." Wonder what this aid phil- The Atkinson Charitable Foundation has again donc the practÉcal and com- mendable thing ta further enhance its fine and growinji record of generous dona- tions ta wvorthy causes. The Toronto Star announced Saturday that the Foundation had made a grant of $3,000 ta the Canadian Deaf Scholarship Fund. The grant will be used ta provide a scholarship for anc deaf student froin Ontario ta) be sent ta Gall- audet Coliege. Washington,.D.C., for a 5- year period of studly. This coliege is the worid's only institution of higher lcarning dcsigned cxclusiveiv for the totaiiy dca!. Such a grant will bring newv and greater apportunities for the deaf in this province and should aiso stimulate greater interest in highcr education for the deaf a! which there are 10,000 totally deaf persons in Canada. Like Mother Neyer Used To Makeý In the Dim and Distant Past I From The Statesman Files TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO1 New York City, says: "New York - ers seern ta live as much in a Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Kersiake week as we quiet Canadians do in celebrated their 20th wedding ani- a month." The comment still niversary on Sunday. . stands g9od 50 years later. Miss Edith Peardon attended The South Ward Tabernacle the Young People's Reunion at will be sold by auction next Sat- Sherbourne St. Church, Toronto. urciay. Maple Grove-Stephen Jeffrey Until further notice Tait & Ca. is home after bis* operation in will make chic photos on Wed- Bowmanville Hospital. nesdays and Saturdays only. Solina-Everett Vice was clect- H. J. Knight bas tendered bis ed Captain of the football teamn resignation as leader of the Meth- and Carl Wilbur President of thc odist Church Choir. Club. Manley Cryderman bas resign- Courtice-Our choir was enter- cd as post office assistant. He bas tained at the home of President the reputation of being very oblig- Frank Rundie. ing and courteaus ta the public. A. A. Powers, prai-ineiît Clarke Norman Jennings who bas been Township farmer, bas baught a clerking in Woodstock bas return- 100-acre farmn in Perth County ed ta the West End House. Orono-Ormne Gamsby was in Solina-Sami Shortridge bas Toronto ta bear Will Rogers, the baugbt a new Dominion organ great American humorist.-Wmn. from James Deyman. - - - Frank ERiddell bas purchased J. E. Rich- Shortridge bas graduated from ards' barber business. Winnipeg Business College with Col. Levi E. Taylor native of bonors, taking a silver medal. Hampton, has been appointed At a special occasion at Flor- Field Secretary of the Salvation ence Nightingale Lodge, I.O.O.F., Army for Canada East Territory. Noble Grand Frank C. Kydd pre- Bishop Chas. H. Brent, born in sented Bro. Markus Mayer with a Newcastle, and now Bishop of solid gold Treasurer's Jewel in Western New York, prcacbed ini recognition of bis 25 years' faith- Westminster Abbey on the 225th fui service as treasurer af the anniversary of the Saciety for l1odge. the Propagation of the Gospel in Enniskillen-Samuel Milis, bar- Foreign Parts. ness maker here for aver 40 years W. H. (Hickory) Richards' died April 15. aged 74 years. His team-Wm. Cale, Dave Aldread. son, W. J. Milîs, Supt. ai the Chi- Ed. Osborne, Phil Concilia, Sid cago Polyclinic, attended the fun- and Roy Nicbols-won the Bowl- eral. ing League championship. Newcastle-Wm. Mason bas Wbistling Jim inquires: Who reduced bread ta 4c a loaf. - - - can remember when Rev. W. H. A. W. Pickard was chosen Cap- Baughman, popular pastor of tain of the football team. Disciples Cburch, was drowned Tyrone-Vice Bras., Sauina, are His widow, formerly Miss Butch- building a stone foundation under art, later opened a kindergarten A. H. Brent's barn. in the building now used as the Mt. Vernon-Miss Katrina Ar- fire hall. gue bas returned home after an * * *enjoyable visit in Western cities. FIFY YEARS AGO Orono-Louis Chapple, Ann Arbor University, Mich., has Dr. Mark W. Pascoe, native- of been visiting relatives here. Sauina, writes a letter from Courtice-R. 0. Short and fam- Ottumwa, lowa, telling what the ily bave moved Ia Tory Hill. packing industry means ta that Wm. Cano and 77 others bave city, and recommending one be petitioned Town Council ta water established in Bowmanville. King Street during the summer Editor M. A. James, writing of months. Mr. Goodman was bis visit with bis daugbters in awarded the cantract. Across Canada With The Weeklies Canadiana: A tale af two docs from the Big Eddy district in B.C.: when Frank Gregory's big pure brcd Alsation fell into the Columbia River off the ice, watch- ers saw a mongrel dog belonging ta E. M. Tait make several at- temipts, iinally caught the Alsa- tion bv the collar with bis tccth and dragged him ta safety, thien the two trottcd off side by side ...Orland Magwood, 22, af Han- axer, Ont., %vas "knocked out' when a cu\v kicked a fork lie was handling and it struck him ini the face . .. an unique possession af the Renfred Electric Ca., is a beautiful hand-scrolled retriger- ator, one ai the iirst manufactur- cd in Canada; it bas been in the same family 57 years. used bx' three generations . .. The Picton (Ont.) Gazette reports a Trentonî cat wveiging 17iý2 pourids, and is saking the publie if they know Di a bigger ane. . . . Unique in Can- adian dairying is the plan pro- posed by George Graham of Belleville. wlicreby milk xiii be sold on a cash-and-carrv basig at prices ranging ironi 15 ta 18 cents. . .. At Prince George. B.C., a pay in advance system started at hospital iwhereb.v $25 advance fce is required before patient ad- mitted . . . and at Prince George Womens Jail they were frantic- ally searching for a lost pet cock- er spaniel who is distinguisbed b >, a lack ai upper teeth, accarding ta The Citizen. . . . A Yorkton district farmer nearly "lost bis bcad through booze" according ta the Enterprise. Woolwortii store manager Piifer heard a Slight noise while crossing thte C.P.R. tîacks ini the dark, Iound a farmer lx îng with bis bead and arm acro.ss the track. and the headlight af an oncoming tran showing in the distance. . . . Tow.n Clerk off Zealand;a. Sask.. resign- ed after servirig 40 cansecutive v cars in office. . . . At 40 vears. John Paul. Springhill Junctioui, N.S., marathon runner. is train- ing agaîn for the marathon at the Gaelic Mod in Badeck, whic1h hie won for the third straigbt timc last year. The Hunîtsville (Ont.) Forester thinks this isn't sucb a bad worid: "Perhaps you are green with envv when some of your mare affluent friends return from a world cruise. We have an acquaintance wha w'buld dance with joy if bie could but sec the blue sky over- head. He is totally blind . . . in other parts ai the xvorld therLe are millions actually dying ai starvation, but at the present high price of meat, you can't afiord aven a T-boue steak except an Suiidays. Lufe is tough, isn't it? We xve weren't tbinking ai yau." The Barrie Examiner: People talk about controls because they imagine that this is the way ta hait rising prices. A much better xvay is ta raise the output ai thase things wvhich maney will buy. For maoney. after alI is only a re- ceipt with the dollar sign for our real xvages, which include food, clothiîig, shelter, education, rec- reation and ail the other things- which we regard as essential ta normal living. The Canadian Statesman ai Bawmanville, Ont., secs another summer tîme ai confusion for Canada. mcaning fast time, slow time. "Thara seems little hope af an ' uniformitv throughout the Country~ on daylight saving, though minimum ca-aperatian an the part ai municipalities, pro- vincial and federai autharities could have settled this matter permancntly long aga. That was proven during the war." The Fort Erie Times-Review takes the stanîd that this "Siphon- ing-off 01 purchasing power" bus- inless Cali only be effective ini 50 far as it is a one-way proce:s. -If the Ottawa end off the siphon bas another lerigth that immedi- atelv Pumps the money back into circulation, then the second oper- ation cancels out the first vcrv neatlv. It matters flot who doc., the spending, the man-un-the- Street or government department, the effcct on prices Is the samne" e. *.àgovernmenit ecow~m.ast& are This Cost of Living Business "This Cost ai Living Business" is the title ai a pamphlet issued by the British Labor Party. The' title suggcsts that the authors ai the pamphlet were themselvcs puzzled aver the problemn, and this is furtber implîed inthe preamble wbich states: "'This pamphlet is flot a statement af Labor Party policy. It describes the various aspects ai the cost of living problem and outlines some solutions which have been applied or have been suggested. The aim is ta widen knowledge and ta stimulate discus si on s throughaut the Labor movement."l But while the pamphlet assumes a detached and unprejudiced at- titude toward the problem, and appears ta present the variaus aspects in a frank and factuial manner, the conclusions drawn iroin the facts are flot always logical. For instance, it is stated that between June, 1945 and 1950, retail prices in Britain wvent up about 21 per cent. This increase is admitted ta be "seriaus," but it is painted out that the risc bas been much greater in ather countries. "Over the samne period retail prices in the United States went up by 33 per cent, and in! Canada 38 per cent." But an im- portant fact is amitted. In the United States and Canada price contraIs were discontînued during that pcriad, while tbey were re- tained in full force in Britain. Price cantrols call for subsidies, which must be paid for tbrough taxes by the cansumers. If these subsidies were added ta the con- tralled prices, the rise in the real cost ai living would be far greater than 21 per cent. The cost of subsîdies is said ta amount ta £354.2 million a year, with an additional sum aif £55.3 million spent on "welfarc iaods and sun- dry items." A total ai £409,5 million a year. Ignoring this aspect ai the pro- blem, the pamphlet says: "Food subsidies have proved anc ai the mast effective ways ai reducing the cast af living. Remaving the subsidies would mean, quite simply, that the families ai Britaîn would have ta pay £410 million more for their food." But they haveý already paid that much more in taxes wbich pravide for the subsidies. Dealing with the question, "Wbat efiect' do changes in wages and salaries have on prices and the cost ai living?" the pamphlet states some plain trutbs, as iollows: "About 60 per cent ai the value ai the nation's output is the cost ai wages and salaries. Changes in wages and salaries therefore have a proiound eifect on prices unlcss the . higher wages are matchcd by higber productivity, or are met iromn profits. The price af coal bas gone up, partly because miners' wages are now nearly thrce times pre-war. The price ai home-produccd food bas gone up, partly because farm- workers' wages are almost three times pre-war. The price aif clotbing bas gone up partly be- cause workers in spinning and wcaving milis and clothing fac- ernment bas taken more from tories are earning more than people in taxes than it bas spent double pre-war." on running the country and pro. "But," the pamphlet adds, viding the social services." "these wage advances were over- In other wvords, thq Government due measures of justice ta the bas put a lev'y on -the workers' workers concerned. No reason- wages by direct and indirect taxes able person could wish to sce on the goods they buy, thus re- prices rcduced at the expense of ducing the purchasing value af workers' earnings." That appears wages. In that case, what be- reasonablc enough. But in an- cornes of the former plea that other section of the pamphlet, "No reasonable persan could wish dealing with ways of stopping in: ta sec prices reduccd at the ex- flation. we read: "There are sev- pense of workers' earnings?" By eral ways of doing this. One is ta 'taxing away surplus money," the put a stop ta increases in wages, Government is flot only doing so salaries and profits. Another is "at the expense of workers' earn- ta tax away surplus money. ings," but it is taking back the Labor policy bas been a com- subsidies that were supposed ta bination of the two . .. the Gov- keep down prices. 7~1 Don1't trust your eyes! Look steadily oifthe robbit. Continue opening one ove and closing the other in rapid succession ...and watch the rabbit runi1 Optical illusions prove you can't always trust your eyeB. NV hen it cornes to paint, your eyes cau fool )-ou badly. Any paint looks good whien you first apply it. But how wiil it look ini five years .. . yes, even anc year? C-I.L PAINTS hiave beauty you eali sec, quality you can trust. You can depend on tlhei for the bigli hiding qualities, the endurîng resistance Ia wear and weailuer, which make your paint dollars go farther. ci. 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The Sheppard & Gi Lumber Co. Limited Phone 715 - owmanville 96 Ring St. E. DoN rGABi. le OIO. URATE s YUGTTEBS f not insensitive ta a well-turned phrase. That one about siphon- ing off excess purchasing power ta combat inflation seems ta have captivated them, as tbey seldom make speeches without bringing it in." The Hanover Post: Tbe mid- Victorians have been roundly rldiculed for their prudisb atti- tude toward subject ai sex, bt there were advantagcs ta the re- strictions by which they govern- ed their behaviaur socially. Witb- out reverting ta the more cx- treme and absurd ai these rules a great deal ai grief could be pre- vented by reviving same ai the mare moderate and sensible ai them. An example af anc needing the other: The city ai Sherbrooke, unafficial capital af Quebec's Eastern Townships, is a progres- sive cammunity with a growing population af mare than 53,000. Over 50 per cent ai the city's lab- or force is engaged in the produc- tion of textiles. The Indiari Head (Sask.) News proposes a ncw arganization ta be known as "Coffeebolics An- onymous." TIM CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVMIX. ONTARIO THURSDAY. APRIL 28th. 1951 1 PACFE TWO