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S) - -*~~~~flflta. OtJJ~Jt *OL**, 1001 'T'T~Tm~flAV TTTT ~ 44L lame V3TWO THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO " lq~ow Mhat the Royal Tour is assured :for early October we find the usual -clamor from ambitiaus, junior industriai . centres, claiming priority on the pianned *Itinerary. Mayors are sending teiegrams; -provincial dailies are editoriaiizing; the populace is ail agag. Amidst ail this fevered enthusiasm, -The Canadian Statesman, with accustomed effrontery, alsa puts in a bid. Speaking for the people of Durham County, a gen- uine invitation is extenýded ta Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phiiip ta pause here gfor a matar tour of the countryside and a real rural banquet served by the ladies of -the Women's Institute. It is aur nation that Royalty must be pretty well fed up with the traditional idea of parading through the walied canyons of cities ta be greeted at City Hall with stove pipe bats and stereotyped -words of welcome. Ail this blare and brass and ballyhao doesn't reach down ta the beart of a nation. A day in the country, iningiing with people wha reaiiy caunt, would be the proper antidote for a.mem- arable vîsit. What bas Durham County got ta offer that xvould be of bigh interest ta the future * Queen and ber Consort? Let's look at a bit of it. Tbey wouid be geeted by the *descendants of pianeers wha came here a century aga fromn Devanshire ta Durham in Engiand and wba created here a micro- cosm of the Commonwealth of today, the very epitome of pragress, iayaity, democ- racy and the foundations of today's Canada. From the soil, here in Durham County, right from the farms. sprung the genius that bas rcsulted in thrce of the greatest industries of their kind within the Empire, Massey-Hamris Ca.; Generai Motors of Canada, and Canada Packers Limited. -Born bere were Chester Massey, Sam MeLaughlin and Stanley McLean, whase energies and intelligence went into the :building of these great enterprises. - A motor tour of fifteen miles acrass -Durham County would touch the f arms -~ where tbey were born. A siightly wider circle in this same county wouid touch : the boybood homes of former Lieutenant- -&Govemnor Dr. Herbert Bruce; Admirai William Sims, head of the U.S.A. navy in World War 1; Sir Sam Hughes, Defence Minister Warld War 1; J. E. Atkinson, Zfounder of the Toranto Star; Norman Tii- l ey, great constitutionai lawyer; W. D. ZRabbins, former Mayor of Toronto; Aif. N. Mitchell, Chairman of the Board, Canada SLife Insurance Ca., and a score of other notables in agriculture, industry and edu- cation. This is surely evidence enough that the pulse of the nation stems from the ;countryside whicb stili remains the pro.- Nductive foundation upon which the whoie CANADA SLIDING DOWN THE RAPIDS INTO TOTALITARIANISM Canada is "sliding away from democ- racy into fascism and totalitarianism," Dr. M. M. Coady, directar of the St. Francis Xavier university extension department, told delegates at the annual meeting of National Farm Radia Forum in Amherst, Nova Scotia, recently. "The Canadian people are going down the rapids without aars." To check this drift, Dr. Caady said, the people must gain contrai of the social, ,ecanomic and spirit- ual forces that make up this country. "The Canadian people must get inta the saddle!" "What is the solution ta this problem?" he asked. "We must mobilize the educa- tion of the people. We must give them a ehance ta get the knowledge and the tech- nique ta contrai their own affairs. Once we have done that then ail things are pos- sible; the solution of the Cammunist prablem and ail other social and economic problems. "Farm Radia Forum is the greatest instrument in the warld ta enable us ta do this job. It must help us ta organize the Canadian people for purposeful activity." Dr. Coady felt that the moral outlook of the Canadian people must change if we are ta be saved. "We need something of austerity and severity in aur lives. We need something of the discipline that made the greatness of ancient Greece and Rame. We need ta be puritanical, withaut the ugly features of that philosophy." Strange, isn't it, that apportunity al- ways looks bigger going than coming. Ettabllahed 1854 with whlcb eincororte Tb@ sawmanvtUe News. Th. Newatl. ndep.ndent and The Orono News 96 Years' Continuous Service ta the Town of Bowmanville and Durbamn County AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER UUIAUK ,;UBSCREMTON RATES 32l.50 a Year, etrictly in advanc. S3.50 a Y.ar in the United States PlubUaheby T~HE JAMES PUBLISHIG COMPAN Authorized cm Second Cans Mab l'ont OMMic DepartUnt. Ottawa. Bownianville, ontarlo GEO. W. JAMES, Eat- structure of the Commonwealth rests. Here in Durham County is a miniature of that concept and we are sure this is one place the Princess and Prince would wish to visit. But we've something else ta affer and that is Hospitality with a capital H. Not the sort with tails and white ties, of cav- iare and champagne, but the homey, friendly, down-to-earth talk that goes with a real, soul-satisfying, country banquet, the kind that is commonplace at country church anniversaries. We are sure this too would be a delectable experience for the royal couple. Deep-crusted chicken pie, home grown fresh vegetables and salads, home-made bread, cakes and butter, good old Durham County pumpkin and apple pies topped with genuine Devonshire cream (just about the only place in Canada you can get it), maple syrup from the woods here- abouts and sweet apple cider from the vast orchards at every side which produce the finest apples in the Commonwealth. This is only a sampler of the culinary capabilities of the ladies of the Women 's Instîtute. We believe Royalty would re- vel in it. Iii suggesting that the Women's In- stitutes have a leading part in this "Royal Welcome ta Durham County," we are mindful that Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth are hoth mnembers of this great world-wide orcanization of rural women. So we offer this tentative tour. De- train at Port Hope, motor through the Gan- araska Forest, through the tabacco f arms, the apple orchards and maple bush, calling at Batterwood the country home of Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey, see real people at work in the fields garnering the last fruits of the seasan against a background of green-and-gold maple leaves and then ta the sumptuous banquet in the Massey- donated Community Hall in Newcastle. Entrain at Bowmanville, rested, refreshed and glad of it. Well, we've had aur say in this matter of the Royal Tour. As we say, it is an idea somewhat contrary to that of the Powers-That-Be, but it is an idea worth acting upan if Canada is ta extend ta Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip a rounded view of aur Canadian way of life as well as the opportunity for rural peoples to express their loyalty and cap- acities as subjects and citizens. Our federal member for Durham, John M. James, acting as the representative of ail the people of this county, has gladly consented ta write Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent asking him ta allow the loyal people of Durham County the honor and privilege of being rural hasts ta the Royal party, as suggested in the accompanying editorial. ACCUSES NEWS BROADCASTERS 0F BEING LAZY AND INCOMPETENT -As an inveterate radio fan since aur sickness a year aga, we have often been inclined ta criticize the Sunday news broadcasts which we consider lausy, ta use a crude term. Sunday, abave ail other days in the week when there are no news- papers, is a logical time when radio news- casters should be expected ta show their initiative and real value by bestirring themselves out of their lethargy and delve into the highways and byways of news sources and give the expectant listening audience same original copy that is flot rehashed or abbreviated, as is the case during the week days, fromn the several press services. We are glad ta know we are not alone in aur thinking on this subject. For ta aur surprise and chagrin who do we find biurting out in print with similar critical blasting, but none other than aur favorite news broadcaster and friend, Gardon Sin- clair, Sr., in bis popular and informative radia column in the Toronto Star. We notice Gardon wrote this tirade while an bolidays up in the wilds of beautiful Muskoka. Sa. we wander wbat kind of receptian he received this week f rom bis feliow radia spelîbinders when he returned ta bis mike at CFRB. We venture the guess that Fred Cripps had an extra dose of effervescent Aika-Seitzer on tap for vivaciaus Gardon. Lest you missed -this choice and timely bit of "hammering" here it is verbatim right from Gardon Sinciair's news-bag: "Stuart Keate, recently named publisher of a Victoria newspaper, made the radio analysis an this week's "Critically Speaking" and let fly at news broadcasters as lazy and incompetent. Keate's reasons were that such gabbers were indolently pepared ta read whatever came ta them and had neither train ing,- ability nor energy enough ta dig up a new item af their own. This is sadly true and the floweing of this Indifference and incompetence cornes ta full bloom aon Sundays and public holidays when there are no newspapers to guide the anany- mous staff af central news offices who feed their everlasting clatter into the radio stations. Listen ta news broadcasts of a Sunday and you'll learn that mast of the items are fromn thousands of miles away . .. where it's already Monday or where they publish newspapers bath xnorning and afternoon on Sunday. There are about 250 daily news broadcasts In Toronto alone. Sa far as I know only three of the 250 are spoken by people who have had any training or experience whatsoever in the collection or writing af news. Others are written, but nat spoken, by ex- perienced men; and, ta Kate in Victoria, as to me in Bala, they sound alike." It doesn't make much differemice which side aur bread is buttered, we eat bath 3-iianywaz. DURHAM COIJNTY MAKES BID FOR ROYAL VISIT TWENTY-FIVE VEARS AGO Miss Marion Warder and Miss Marjory Robins received iaterim f irst class certificates at Normal School. W. H. Dustan owing ta ll bealth bas disposed af bis hard- ware business ta his son Thos. A. Dustan. Tyrone Community Hall was r e n ov at ed and moderaized through the generosity ai Mrs. Gea. W. McLaughlin, Oshawa, whose birthplace was la Tyrone. Mm. T. H. Lockhart and daugb- ter Dorothy who have been living in Prince Albert, Sask., for 12 years, and now living la Toronto, called on friends bere in bis na- tive towa. It is reported Hon. Vincent Massey may be Liberal candidate la Durham for the caming fed- eral election. Col. Edwy White, Divisional Commander ai the Salvation Ammy in Dallas, Texas, writes: "It is 41 years since I left my nia- tive tawa of Bowmanville. It was and stili is a tawn af high ideals. Very few were really rich, as far as money was concerned, yet there was a dignity, poise and re- finement above the average com- munity which denoted true sterl- ing character." Local bowling rinks skipped by Jas. McDougall, Luther Nichols. Alex Elliot and J. B. Mitchell lost the Whattam Tropby ta four Oshawa rinks. Dr. Jas. Bingham, New York City, son ai the late Wm. Bing- bam. Enniskillen. is renewing acquaintances la Durham County aiter an absence ai 25 years. Many school reports appeared in this issue. Teachers at that5 time included F.,.T. Grant, Harno-1 ton; Rubv Lancaster, Maple1 Grave; Alice Werry. Providence;. Tena Ferguson. Bethesda; R. J.1 Mdteuok. Solma; Ruby Bragg, YOU CAN BEAT INFLATION SEEING OURSELVES AS A FAMOUS COLUMNIST SEES US A Durham County lady, native of Enniskillen, who bas lived in New York City for baîf a century and bas been a sub- scriber ail these years ta The Statesman, sends us the foilowing clipping f rom a New Yark paper, written by the well known columnist, H. 1. Phillips. She dares us ta 'reprint it in aur editorial column. We cast aur characteristic modesty ta the wind for once and accept this dear lady's challenge, regardiess of the consequences. The article follows: To the Editors and Publisheis'! Twelve - hundred newspaper editors and publishers from ail over the country are wihding up a convention here. Na group af men do mare for less. A pub. lisher is a magnet for camplaints, a setup for kibitzers and an all-year target for inappreciation. He takes one of the mast complicated jobs in the field of public service with nothing guaranteed him ex- cept high blood pressure, an early nervous breakdown and a nanstop supply of sieep- iess nights. A newspaper publisher is a living re- futation of the theomy that head belmets, nase guards and shin guards are required only in football. His life iaurney is a trip through a cancrete mixer billed as a plea- sure cruise. Tbere are a thousand businesses and professions offering greater profit for less effort, fewer warries, better bours and a lower proportion of nigbtmarcs. He is a praducer, a stagé director, a script writer and a backer of the anly show on earth produced with no two pro- ductions alike. If he hears any applause he is lucky. If he gets an Oscar he is a bencficiary of a rare break. He is a fel- iow congenitally indifferent to rough going and neyer so0 happy as when up against a f resb cisis. He could get the same bmuises playing pro hockey, but prefers ta get bis abrasions on a harder schedule. An editor is a public benefactor who does it the bard way. He is a combined crusader, educatar, entertainment genius, recarder of events, referee, judge, sleuth, interpreter, show- man, guide and information bureau wizard. He is the only death-defying aerial acrobat outside the circus wbo insists on womking without a net. He is a lifeg-uard who works under water and likes ta prove he can breathe withaut coming up for air. An editor is a teacher ta whom no- body brings red apples, an information booth director who does not take the usual time off for lunch, a bus driver who nat only takes fares, issues transfers, 'drives the vehicle and answers foolish questions, but furnishes laughs and tears. His job is ta provide a tbmce-ring circus, a public forum, a beaith service and a super-educationai program, stili giving the bail scores and keeping the births, marriages and deatbs up ta the minute. He seldom gets a cheer for conducting a great battie in the public interest, but always can count on being denounced if he bas the age wrong in an obituary. Whatever he daes today is gone witb the wind; what he does tomorrow keeps him tassing ail nîgbt tonîght. H-e is a man who thinks be is baving a respite if the barrel in whîch he goes over the faIls is haited for 20 seconds by hitting a protruding rock. An editar is a guy who has ta amuse and fascinate pop and mom without boring junior or the bired gai. We salute bath the publishers and the editors in soiemn conclave. We hope they enjay themselves, loak bath ways before crossing Manhattan traffic and get good seats ta the bit musicals, And we shall always think they are in the oniy profes- sion wbere bumpers front and rear should be compulsory equipment. Seiah! _ Base Line; Rose Shortt, Long Sault; Alan McKessock, No. 4 Darliagton; Douglas Bartan, ai Union. FIFTY YEARS AGO Miss Jennie McLean and Miss May Vanstone passed their first year's exams la vocal at the To- ronto College af Music, Toronta. Clarence Meatb, Frank Kers- lake, Fred Mitchell and Albert Couch visited the Pan-American in Buffalo. Darlîngton-Erastus Burk and Rd. Goade are home from the N.W.T., gaing as far as Calgary. Mt. Vemnon-C. W. Souch is doing a rushing business la bay forks. Miss Florence Tilley bas been appointed orgaaist af the Metho- dist Church, Miss Ena Trebilcock having resigned ta go ta New York to take a professional course. Freehold electors are called upon tbis week ta vote an two by-laws -The Evaporator By- Law and The Foundry By-Law. The Statesman strongly recom- mends supparting bath. The Durham Rubber Ca. is do- ing a rushing business and sales are expected ta go over $200,000 this year. Rager Cawker. well known butcher, passed away, July 8th in bis 5th year. S. H. Reynolds, drover, ad- vises farmers he is paying 7c lb. for bogs. Dr. S. C. Hillier was elected president ai the Durham Canser- vative Association. The Statesman in an editoriai suggests that the Governent buy the Town Hall Corner for a new post office and custams house, and the towa buy the Alma Cor- ner for aew municipal buildings. Durham O0W Boy& are Planning for the reunion in Bowmaaville an August 5th. Public notice is givea that gran- olithic sldewalks are ta be laid an Scugog St. this summer. Pupils ai Principal R. D. Da- vidson wha passed the entrance exams ta High School iacluded Ethel Brock, Olive Hislop, Kath- leen Meath. Edna King, Hazel Murdoff, Maggie Allia, George James, Reginald Jones. Harry Martyn, E. Y. Janes, Dora Roe- nigk, Arthur Legge. Sauina-H. Gay & Sons have completed a mammoth pig pen for J. W. Brooks. Mrs. Wild: "Mrs. Wilkins bas a very bad habit." Mr. Wild: "What is it, dear?" Mrs. Wild: "She turns around and loks back every tirne we pass in the street." Mr. Wild: "Haw do you know?" T 1CRE T S TO EVERYWHERE Air. Rail or Steamshtp Cansuit 3 UIl IlLOI V EL L Bowmanvillie 15 King St. W. Phone 778 More work and greater savings and inVestment were two of the seven points made in a program drafted by leading financial and business leaders ta combat inflation in a meeting held in Montreal last week. Here are the seven simple rules we can ail practice, if we really want ta beat inflation: i. Buy only when you need ta buy. 2. Support federal credit restrictions. 3. Help produce more gaods by work- ing langer hours if necessary. 4. Hold the line on prices and wages. 5. Fight waste, private and govern- mental. 6. Save in every 'wývay and buy bonds. 7. Support budget-balancing taxes. OBSERVATIONS AND OPINIONS Some people are like blotters - they soak it ail up, but get it backwards. Many a housewife, as she daes the family shopping, asks the question: "Is there some way ta sanforize a dollar to keep it from shrinking? Did you ever notice that when a waman hangs out ber f inery ta air that invariably the next door neighbour starts a bonfîire-provided the wind is in the right direction. Just as one bad apple can spoil a whole barrel, sa ane householder who fails ta keep his lawn and boulevard cut, can make a whole neighborhood seem untidy. The home owners who "say it with flow- ers and well kept gardens" are citizens worthy of community commendation. Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers told a C.I.O. rallv: "More, mare, more" will be aur theme sang.-Is there anyone in this cauntry who thinks he is getting enough dough? More, mare, mare for less, less, less an a grab, grab, grab basis may be the great North American swan sang. In the recent National Spelling Bee held each spring in the U.S. capital at Washington, a 12-year-old Italian lad named Michael Aratingi, of New York, was the runner-up in the nation's top spellers. H-e was eventually f loorcd on the word "cuisinie." In reiatîng his feelings ta his parents at missing the national titie he saîd: "Damn that French cuisine - never liked French cooking, anyhow." Could you blame him? Who says it isn't cheaper ta live out- side the cities? Recent statistics released by the Department af Municipal Affairs point out that in 1949 the per capita tax levy in Ontario's 29 cities averaged $52.35 whereas the same figure for the towns and villages was $34.44 and for people living in the townships, $32.38. However, city taxation is littie higher today than it was nearly 20 years ago on a per capita basis, whereas it is up 50%/é in the to.wnships in the past decade and up 25%o in the towns and villages. If you've warked out a way ta avoid paying income tax, or have helped same- one else ta do the same, think again. The Department of National Revenue is launching its biggest drive in decades ta locate and deal with tax-evaders. The story direct from Ottawa is that profes- sional men are now a special target. Only a few weeks ago the tax ýcollecting sleuths were hot a foot after tax-dodging farmers wl¶o were evading paying income taxes. Word from the department is that prose- cutions will be pushed mare vigorously when evasions are detected, *regardless of whether they be farmer, dactor, lawyer or merchant. Ini Memory 0f The Pioneers (By R.' J. Deacbman) ia the early days af Canadan hiàtory the five Eastern provinces af Canada-Newfoundland was not in the farnily thea-were ane solid forest. Oh. yes. there must hav-e been breaks here and there, for at times. evea in those dayýs, storms tumbled the trees or fires swept bare a small portion of thJs immense area. I was bora la the County af Huron. Even when I arrived on the scene it was a land of mag- nificent forests. On the old farmn back home we had elm, maple (sugar maple) basswood, a few hemlock. beech. birch, cherry and an odd butternut or two, they saught the shaded areas. A creek ran thraugh the farm. We called it a river for creeks look- ed large ta us, especially when they were just a bit taa deep ta wade acrass. On the other side ai the creek there had beea a great forest ai cedar. moastrous trees. I neyer saw them la their full glary. They were burned before I arrived an the scene but the stumps and partly burned trunks gave evi- dence af their size. Whea I re- caîl these trees of the early days I wonder why we have forgottea the men who did the clearing. Surely they were worth remem- beriag, worth hoaouring. They made a great contribution ta aur national life. There is only one way ta pay tribute ta them. In every county in Ontario, perhaps la every township there should be at least one forest memorial ta the pioneers. The cost need not be great. The finest farming land need not be selected for the purpose. Broken land with a stream runaing through it would do very well. Sa too would hilly land. In the course af tim-e there wvould corne the harvest. The land which pro- duced these migehty forests could do it again. Thle crop wotnld bc harvested. It would sioiioly be a case of removing the fuillv nma- tured trees Ieavin!Z tW' on,,r 'qjGUAIANTEED TRUST CERTIFICATES 1. Short Term-5 yeors si 2. 3Y2%/ýo interest payable haif yearly 4 Principal and1 interest unconi ditionally guarantee-1 ,4. Authorized invesîment fo,, Trust Funds 5.No fluctuation in Principal 0. Amounts of $1 00.00 and up May be invested THIE IERLING TRUS,"TS CORPORATION Heaid Office 372 Bay St., Toronto ones to develop later. This would be a Permanent forest, the bar- x'est would be a continuous one. The income froni these forests might be used to dev-elop other forests. In tirne the land best suited for growing trees would be contributing building materjals and earning a revenue for the couinty. These are primary uses of wood. Some day we may have a wood standard of living in which wood provides new pro- ducts for the use of man. Even froma the agricultural standpoint there is a value in this policy. The object would be ta use ail land for the purpose for which it is best fitted. The good land would stili be farmed. Pas- ture land would be used for thÈt purpose. The broken land wouid go back into forests. ThenzQ the gate of each Forest Memd' would be a plaque signifying th4t this is a Memorial Forest. a mem- orial ta the pioneers who, in the earlier days of aur history, clear- ed the land, built their homes and made the Canadian peaple a nation of home loyers. These scattered forest areas ln every caunty would add to the comfort and enjayment of life. Even now in some counties the sprîngs are drying up. The for- est areas would be of increasîng value from year to year. This idea is almost'equally applicable to the West. There the wide open prairie land can be reforested. The objeet is the sarne, ta make the people of each province rich- er and happier because of better surroundings. "If modemn technology replaced outdated methods now in use, if all forest waste were processed, if forests were no longer mined but grown, the world would wit- ness a startling industrial phen- omenon."-From "The Coming Age of Wood" by Egon Glesinger. ."You're charged with throwing your mother-in-law out of the window. Guilty or not guiltv?" 'Guiiltyý, your hionor. 1 did it without thiinking.' "That's no excuse -you might have hit somebodv on the head. In the Dim and Distant Pasi Froni The Statesaa Filet BRANCH OFFICE 69 KING ST. 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