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ftV ~a.= THE CANADIAN STATESMANI EOWMANVILLE. ONTAMO THT3I~SDAY. DEC. lSth,, 1951 Trhe edflor was somewhat amused and supised to learn that the president of the newly organized Darlington Rate- payers' Association, in his exuberance at the mass meeting Friday night, had evid- entily been gazing into the crystal baîl or atthe ouija board and came up with the arnazing accusation that. The Statesman would probably oppose any aggressive action with respect to relieving what is colisidered an unfair tax butrden: And to think that this was the sanie man who veýy courteously took the trouble ta phone the editor a few hours previous ta give Ihijn* an "official invitation," to use his o4h words, to have a reporter at the meeting. He seemed a bit surprised when told a reporter had already been assigned to this important meeting. . It may be a great shock to President Rankine to know that this paper has al- ways been strongly in f avor of a Rate- payers' Association, Chamber of Com- mnerce, Board of Trade or any other organ- ization that will take the trouble to encourage ratepayers to take a greater interest, by becoming properhy informed, about municipal .4ff airs -and thus help and vo te and work intelligently as the oppor- tunities present themselves. Coming right down to the subject of Equalized Assessment the editor, in his characteristic desire to inform his readers oen. this complicated problem, had some- bhing ta do with bringing a government officiai from the Dept. of Municipal Af- fairs, Toronto, bo Bowmanvihle, in August, to speak on the subject "Municipal As- sessment and Taxation." This address was given nearly two columns of space in The Statesman of August 23rd. We sensed that more information wôuld be desirable on this subject, and under date of Aug. 24, 1951, we wrote ta Hon. Geo. H. Dunbar, Minister of Mun- icipal Affairs, and here are a few extracts There has been rumors and rumblings emenating frorn the counties council head- qilarters at Cobourg that the taxpayers' moncy bas not been spent bo the bcst adval¶tage. This wbispering campaign bas now made headlincs in the papers due bo an interview given by Warden George Walton. Here are a few extracts, which if -true, should require an immediate in- vcâigation when the new 1952 council sits ýn January: 1,"A Sanitary Inspector ernpioyed by the Counties Health Unit wborn you, the taxpayers, were paying $2,400 a year plus cai. expenses was seen on variaus occas- oisdispensing gas at bis tourist place wh0en he was supposed bo be looking after ycxur business," said Warden Geo. Walton wlten addressing the ratepayers of New- caëtle folowing bbe municipal nommna- tiots. - "Mr. Walton rcvealed some of bbe jr- regularities that be bad discovcred in bbc county administration during the past year in severai departments. He said there wvpTe irregularities in the county roads department wbicb bad gone on unchecked for a number of years and which werc cosing the taxpayers unnecessary expense and that changes had bo be made even USARLY TO BED" MAY NOT PAY Now that the elections are over for aKother year and your favorite candidates are elected - we hope - let's consider thé business of going to bed at night and getting up again the next morning. This topic is such a common one - something like catching cold - that not too many people have paid any serious attention to -it. 1But now a national fact-finding pol hqý been conducted on the subject and somfe interesting things have corne to light. For instance, did you ever realize that the average person spends something lilce 24 years of his life in bed? The old adage about "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise" seems to have suffered a rude joît, according to the polisters. The upper income groups, it is fôund, stay up later thàn the middle or lower income Canad- nt %anabran 3 m-teonrn Etabllshsd 1854 witb whf ch 1, incorparated fhe 5cwmaflville News, The Newcastle Independestt *and The Oronc ew 96 Yeais Continuous Service go the Town - ofBowmanviile and Durhamn County ANV INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER UDIT UREAU SUBSCRIPTON RATES $3.00 a Year, trlctly in advance j $4.00 a Year in the United States f Puhllaed by kTHE JAMES PUBISHING COMPANY Authorlmed cm Seond Clama Mail Poat OMfce Dparmeflt. Ottawa. Bowm=oeie. Ontario GEO. W. JAMES, Ecrron fromn our letter, in which we compliment- ed his representative for an informative address: "As one who had put in hi years as a member of town counicil and two years as Mayor I amn naturally interested in civic affairs. While listenîng to Mr. Hunter the thought struck me that your Dept. might render a valuable service by compiling a series of articles on Equalized Assessment for use in papers in the counties now in the process of advocating this new feature. ...It has. been my observation that if people are not familiar or ignorant of a new venture, particularly in civic affairs, they appear to be naturalhy against it." The Deputy Minister on Sept. 18, re- plied to our letter in part, as follows: "I amn asking for a conference with the mcm- bers of the Asscssment Branch to discuss the suggestions contained in your letter." No further correspondence has been re- ceived, but since the meeting on Friday xve have again written the Dept. asking for furtber information on this ail im- portant subject for publication in this pape r. l'rom the above facts it would seem botally unf air and uncalled for the remarks President Rankine made about The States- man. The publishers of this paper are heavy taxpayers as owners of reai estate within the Unitcd Counties. We are just as much interested in the new setup of assessment as any resident of Darlington or elsewhcre in Northumberland and Durham. We cxpect bo have more to say on tbis subject next xveck bascd on authentîc information. not hearsay and street corner rumor which cannot be substantiated. It has always been the policy of this paper bo give the people ail the facts and then leave it to their good judgment, the best course to pursue. tbough ib made him unpopular with some people. "In the county clerk's office," said the Wardcn, "Where investigations are con- inuing, a saving to the taxpayers sbouid be realîzed when compheted." He said the auditors bad not been doing their duty in passing many items which were not pro- perly accounted for and that even the bank had been lax in honouring cheques which had not been signcd by tbe Warden. He said there had been 22 such cases dur- ing 1948-49 and '50, and that bbere had been at least two honoured witbout any signature. "Mr. Walton said it had been neces- sary again this year to raise the county tax rate and explained that caunty roads accounted for more than $277,000 of the total budget of some $339,000. The Children's Aid Society cost $29,000 and bbe Counties Home for the Aged required another $31,71C'" Tuesday's Toronto paper announced bbc resignation of bbc Counties Clerk and Treasurer and an emergency meeting of bbe council was held bbc same day. so there may be an immediate investigation into thc counties' business which is long overdue. ians. No doubt some of them are burning the midnight oil counting the day's pro- fits. Farmers, as a class, are the earliest to retire at night. Some 62 per cent of them are in bed by 10:30 p.m., while only 25 per cent of those in the larger cities were in bed then. Gettîng tip in the morning, that very painful process which usually involves waking up first, was studied by the statis- ticians who found that 7 a.m. was the favorite rising hour. Here again the "Early to bed" philosophy was shattered when it was found that while 59 per'cent of the lower income group were up by 7 - only 44 per cent of the upper income people had struggled to consciousness at that ghastly hour. How people wake up is also interest- ing. Over the country some 44 per cent use an alarm c]ock, and use of that fiend- ish device grows in the larger centres. Farmers have other wake-up methods as only 36 per cent of themn are aroused by the clamouring bell. Dogs, cats, the milkman, factory whis- ties and babies are all good "wakers-up- pers." And, to makes the wives feel right- eous, it can be reported that more husbands are wakened by wives than wives by their husbands. The poil did flot go into the question of how many people sleep in pyjamas, nightgowns or the "raw." CANADIAN IIIGHWAY RESEARCH INSTITUTE TO BE ESTABLISHED A national, non-political, non-profit institute to help in the planning and ex- pansion of Canadian highways will be formed by the Canadian Good Roads As- sociation, has been announced by national headquarters of the Association in Ot- tawa. A commîttee will be appointed in the near future to take preliminary steps to establish the Canadian Highway Research Institute. It will ask the support of in- dustry, government and commerce in f in- ancing the Institute. On the board of FJD1TORIALS Darlington's Ratepayers'- Association Up In Arms Over Equaized Assessment To fully realize what women's organ- izations mean to rural churches we would suggest you read Bcthany correspondence in another column. This is just typical of what gocs on in many rural churches in Durham County. Up in Norfolk County, bbc centre of the tobacco growers in Ontario, bbc grow- ers hcid a mass protest meeting hast week ta break away from the Ontario Flu- Curcd Tobacco Marketing Board and form a new organization with the backing of the Canadian Congress of Labor. Those Wbo question Canada'$ ability bo build the St. Lawrencc seaway alone mi ght be comforted with bhc bhought that it couid be entirely compietcd with bbc surplus Finance Minister Abbott bas roll- ed up in tbc last seven months ,comments the Oshawa Times-Gazette. With Christmas gift-giving just arourid the corner we rcad: It is no longer a social handicap for a man ta possess only one shirt. Canadian-made nylon tricot shirts In the Dim and Distant, Past From The Statesman Files TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO W. J. Bragg's mai ority in the recent provincial election is 1402 aver Thos. Chalk. Harry C. Boulter, manager of the Durham Textile Co., died sud- denly in bis 59th year. Those on the program who con- tributed ta a musical evening with Shakespeare in St. Paul's Lecture Room included Mrs. R. J. Gi. Mrs. Munroe Neal, Mrs. D. W. Best, Misses H-elen Yellow- lees, Jean Ramsey and Elizabeth Best; Sam Glanville, Chas. and Wilfred Carruthers, Alec Me- Gregor, Ray Cole and Neil Stew- art, Mrs. C. H. Dudley, accamp- anist. Men are busy haying a railway siding to the new R. M. Hollings- head Co. factory. Band at Taylor's Skating Rink, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday nights. Admission 20c. Burketon - David McKnight and family have moved ta Bow- manvilie. President Gco. Chase and Man- son Comstock attended the inter- city meeting of Buffalo Rotary Club at Hotel Statler. Excavation bas started on the new school building at the Boys' Training School. Orono-H. G. Hacking of the Standard Bank staff has been transferred ta Lefroy, Ont. Newcaste-Miss Marion Bas- kerville intends training for a nurse in Bowmanvilie Hospital. Zion-F. B. Giaspeli made a dlean sweep of neariy ail prizes in Cotswold sheep at the Interna- tional Livestock Exposition at Chicago. Officiai opening of bhe newly paved highway west ai Newton- ville on Dec. 7 completed the pav- ed bighway from Toronta ta Cal- borne. directors wil be representatives of in-~ dustry, educational institutions, govern- ments and other bodies ini Canada inter- .ested in the development of highways and highway transportation. Wrhen establish- ed the Institute will operate independent- ly. The formation of the Institute was reoommended by a group of outstanding experts who investigated the problenis of roads and roads research, Their re- commendations were approved by the membership of the Association at its annual general meeting at Toronto, Nov- ember 3. The Institute will encourage and assist road research and building across Canada and it will serve as a clearing house for technical information. The committee pointed out in a 112-page report that there was a crisis on Canadian roads, that the toîl of highway deaths was spiralling steadily, that highway traffic was strang- ling itself, that construction standards were not uniform or adequate. OBSERVATIONS AND OPINIONS chairman, reported. During the summer, through Junior's own national service fund, assistance amounting to $42,260 was senti abroad. This included $10,000 worth of vitamins, cereals and dried milk for India, $10,126 Too laie then YOU CANNOT rush ta your insurance agent while your home is in flames to ask hlm for more insurance. THE only trne you can get marc insurance is .*.before you have a fire. Ask this agency to check over your policies. Stuart R. James [NSURANCE - REAL ESTATE FIFTY YEARS AGO Robt. Beith, ex-M.P., was the unanimaus choice of the Liberals as candidate for the coming fed- eral bye-election. Darlington Council deccded to lcave the matter of equalized as- sessment ta the County Judge. R. H. Stephens, Enniskillen, has been engaged as teacher af Pick- ering School. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Pollard left this week ta spend the wintcr at Richmond, Virgînia. On the King's birthday, Leon- ard Bottreli was shot accidentally in the leg which was subsequent- ly amputated above the knee. Orono-Chas. Miller. Central Business College, Toronto, was home for the weekend. Enniskillen-C. J. Mountjoy and O. L. Byers received serious injuries whcn a scaffold gave Way. Tyrone.--While coming out of church Sunday morning Mrs. Thos. Woodley fell, fracturing her leg. Courtice-T. H. Bîckle has re- turned fram a trip ta Devonshire, England, bringing his father, Richard Bickle with hlm. Sauina-R. J. McKessock's team won the membership contest with 29 new members. Solina Division ranks third in numbers in the province. Leskard-Miss Iva Billings, late af Conservatory of Music, To- ronto, purpases starting a sing- ing class at Pontypool. Maple Grove-John Snowden killed a seven months old hog that tipped the scales dressed at, 216 lbs. C. M. Cawkcr's display of Christmas beef is again a sight to behiold. Special mention should be given two steers under two years. weghing nearly 1200 lbs., fed by Wm. Werry, Sauina. Little Do Canadians Realize Tremendous Work- Done By Red Cross Disaster Services Toronto. Nov. 26.-Red Cross Disaster Services organizations as- sisted 2,758 victims of 355 dis- asters in the first six months ai 1951, it was reparted at the semi- annuai meeting of the Society's Central Council hcid (Nov. 26-27- 28) this week in Toronta. Maj.-Gen. C. Churchill Mann, national chairman af Disaster Services, told ai twa seriaus fires in Noav Scotia, threc fires and three flood disasters in Quebec and a flash flood in British Col- umbia in which 1,822 persans were assistcd. Other catastro- phes affected a large number of single families. General Mann laid special em- phasis on thc importance ai prep- aration. advance planning and or- ganization in perfecting Disaster Services aperation for bath disast- er planning and civil defence. Mare than 55,000 hospital patients bcncfitted from the fre Blood Transfusion Service in the first balf of the year, Vernon C. Hale, newly-appainted chairman of the national Blood Donor Corn- mittce reported. Clinical Rh tests on the bhood of expectant mathers increascd by 10,000 in comparison with the same period in 1950 and will con- tinue ta increase as the service becomes available ta more and more physicians, the chairman said. The Society has supplicd more than 5,000 botties ai dried plasma ta the Department ai National De- fence In connectian with the Sa- ciety's "Blood for the Armcd For- ces" committment. "Nothing points up more dc!- initely the need for large reserve stocks of plasma than the con- tinuing unsettled international situation," Mr. Hale said. "Plas- ma stores must be adequate for any emergency. This means still larger panels ai blood donors and a further increase in blood dona- tions." Miss Orian Warwick, chairmnan. National Women's Work Commit- tee, told of "cantinued interest in the weliare ai others" in Red Cross sewing groups acrass Can- ada. In the first nine months of the year, 729 cases o! clothing and other supplies, at a cost value o! $136,000 were shîpped over- seas. Canadian Juniors continue ta provide heip for children aver- seas. Dr. J. T. Phair. national 'Phone: Office 681 Res. 493 King Street. Bowmanville for. . . CHRISTMAS Thie is a gift tbat hasts and constant reminder of bbc giver. SPECIAL THIS YEAR "'Tartan Boxes" "Airforce" aild "Royal Stewart" Monsieur Th e Stationery for men Novclty wcavcs in white and coloured J. W. JEWELL '-BIG "20"0 27 King St. W.. Bowmanvtll. PHONE 556 with fused collars and cuffs caii be washed at night and will be dry and ready to Wear the next morning. -No ironing is reqtiired as the wrinkles fail out when the shirt is hung up to dry. No need now to take haif dozen shirts along when you go travelling. At last the Federal Government has adopted an eeonomy drive. How do we know? This week we received a "Special Notice" from Dept. of Labour which reads: "Because of a paper shortage and the need to economize we have nlot sent you a copy of the Annual Report of the Dept. of Labour for 1950 - 51." We hope other de- partments will do likewise, even though it does mean a loss of revenue to the Boy Scouts in their waste paper drives. A few years ago one of the outstand- ing activities among the youths of Dur- ham County in the autumn months was election campaigns to select candidates for the Ontario Older Boys' Parliarnent. It was* a splendid idea to develop boys of late teen age for public office. Wonder why the churches in this county disçon- tinued this movement? This year Durham County is hùnored by having the Older Boys' Parliament meet in Trinity College School at Port Hope, Dec. 26 - 31. Our favorite breakfast table reading (when our wife isn't around!) is the fea- ture column: "Person to Person" in the Globe and Mail, written by that well known writer, Lotta Dempsey. We were therefore disappointed to learn that she is leaving her present post to become editor of Chatelaine, on which magazine she was with before joining the Globe and Mail, yet we must congratulate her on her new position. Miss Dempsey is one of Canada's top-notch newspaperwomen who has the happy faculty of writing on a great variety of subjeots and in a f as- cinating human interest style, all her own, which flot only entertains but informs her large circle of readers. Her series of articles covering the recent Royal Tour, written strictly from a woman' s view- point, were particularly good as many incidents were covered that the ordinary scribe missed. ONLY (7) DAYS LEFT TO ENTER THE BIG M4OITAT NATIONAL FEATURE CONTEST More than $7,5O0OO LRIZES Including 19 Moffat Ranges And Other Valuable Prizes ENTER TODAY FOR PARTICULARS ENQUIRE AT Dowmanville Public Utilities 19 KING ST. W."i I worth of clôthiÏig and ahoesl for children of Gerrnany, ÀAustria, Turkey and Yugoslavia, and $4.-1 540 worth of Christmas parcels for 'English orphans. In addition, provincial divisions of Junior Red Cross sent special shipments of clothing, school sup- plies, health.kits and sports equip- ment costlng $12,729 to nine countries. Other overseas shipments of the Society, in addition to Wom- en's Worlc and Junior Red Cross shipments. amounted ta $201,416. Members of the Canadian Red Cross Corps gave 89,925 hdurg'of volunteer service in the flrst six months, driving 99,986 miles ln the course of their duties for vet- eranu and others in need oi trans- portation. Tine. whose tooth gnaws away everythng else, is powerless against truth.-Thomas Huxley. With finger on her solemn lhp, Night hushed the -shadowy earth And onlv stars and angels saw The littie Saviour's birth.- Margaret Deland.' Warden George Walton Points To Irregularities In County Administration MMUMUM OTHER GRUEN MODELS AS LOW AS $33.75 1 -- -.1 HAV -NWEE M-MMJ TEM CAMADUN STATFaM", BOW?&ANV=ýE. ONTAMO TRUFMAT. DEC. 13th, 1951