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'I'U ('AN¶..ANAPA' F'1A. TOWMANVMLLM, ONTARIO tLaGETWO - EDITrORIALS Let's Stand Up and Be Counted On the Question of Selling Beer and Liquor in Bowmanville One ai the most important issues ai- fecting the future welf are ai Bowrnanville *will be the result ai the vote on July 16 when the citizens wil have the appor- tunity ta express their opinions by ballot ta retain the Local Option By-Law which has been in aperatian in this town for 43 years, or ta establish a liquor store and also a beer warehouse in Bowmanville. In last week's issue ai The Statesman, we went into considerable detail un ne- viewing the local history which led up ta the vote in 1909 which brought Local Option into being here and banned the local sale ai iquar and beer. Older citizens will have had their maemonies refreshed by reading that article, as many incidents were recalled which, ta many, have long since been fargotten. With the younger generatian who are not familian with the "good aid days," as they are aiten referred ta, we are sure they wiil be amazed un finding startling conditions back ,in those hanse and buggy days which they wouid look upan today as unbelievable, even f an- tastic. Vivid Recollections The present editor af The Statesman is old enough ta remember some ai the conditions refenred ta un that article. He has vivid recollectians, too, ai the Local Option vote in 1909. It was the iirst vote lie ever cast aiter reaching that important mnilestone un manhood ai being 21 years ai age. We will relate a personal incident which taok place on election day back in Jan. 4, 1909. We happened ta be in the bank that marning and a merchant, some- what alder than the youthful editon, ap- praached me with this salutation: "You're nat gaing ta be damix fool enough ta vote for Local Option today are you?" "I sure arn," 1 replied, "It's for feilows like you - (cailing him by name) who don't real- ize the evils ai iquar that I'm vating ion Local Option." Nat many years later that same man's once thriving business went into bankruptcy - and it was attribut- able to "too much liquor." A lot ai water bas gone under Van- stone's bridge in the intervening years when it bas been proven time and again that liquar and business cannat be mixed successfully, any mare than liquan and gasoline can be mixed today without dis- astrous results. "Control" a Misnomcr Today they glibly or blatantly refer to the sale ai iquor and beer, which they are again trying ta set up here, as "Gov- ernxnent Control." If there ever was a Mlsnomen in this instance that word 8cotrl"tops the list for deceiving the itiocent or Ignorant public. The beer barons and the liquôr distillers know this, for they are naturally interested in estab- lishing retail outlets ini Bowrnanville to seil more (nat less) ai their products. Sa Gavernment Contral really bas the direct opposite meaning ironi which it implies. It may be likened ta the use ai "Canadian Peace Congress" when advocated by a former minister of the gospel who now gaes about cloaked un the ganb and gab oi a Cornmunist, whose ideaiogy is any- thing but Chistian or peace loving. Let's get away from observations and theory and be more realistic an this liquor OUR CANADIAN WAY 0F LIFE Canadians are convinced that their way afillue is superior ta that ai others. But a way ai life cannot continue success- fully so long as iA is a mere intellectual conviction; it needs ta be deeply felt, and deeply believed. It is false and misleading ta present aur way ai lufe as something charming and popular and easy. Civilization stands for samething quite apart fram telephones and washing mach- ines and electnic lights. It is a matter ai imponderable, ai delight in things of the mind, ai love ai beauty, ai honour, ai grace and ai things ai the spirit. Ours is not a perfect way ai lufe, but it is an the whole better than that ai the past and it has a farward-looking pattern. It provides for more peaple than any previaus period health rather than sick- ness, a meal when they are hungry, rest when they are tired, shelter from the weather, leisure ta contemplate, sympathy and love and fulfilment of purpase. The greatest f ailure in our way af ie would be ta consider it as something Etablish.d 1854 vith vhich la incorporatod Thé, Bovmanvilo Novs, The. Nwcaste Indépmndant and Te. Orano Nevs 97 Years'Contiiiuous Service to the Town of Bowmanville and Durhamn County ANV INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER UDIT URIAU IRCUL SUMRRPTON RATES' $3.00 ci Yomr, trictly In advacc 84.00 a Yomr in the Unted States Publisbed by TEJAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY ALuthcSiied cmsSnd aum ail PoeOtalé eDepaztmenl.Ottava. Bowmanville. Ontarlo GEO. W.JAMES, EDrn question. One ai the strongest arguments used an merchants ta inveigie them into voting for a liquor store is the parrot-like repetition and shop-wonn statement: "A liquar store helps business." Whase busi- ness does it help? One doesn't need ta be an economist ta know that if you spend around $3.50 for a bottie ai whisky, or $4.00 for a case ai beer each week, you have that much less money ta, buy food, clothing and other necessities for the family. By that simple example we are bound ta admit it does help business - the liquor and beer business - but not the local merchants' business. Insult to Rural People Oh, you say, the liquor store draws business ta town. What an insuit ta the intelligence and character ai the people in the adjoining rural communities! In the vote ai 1945 several societies in Dar- lington, ai their own accord, inserted advertisements in this paper urging the electons ta support Local Option as they didn't want a liquor store un Bowmanville where they and their families do their shopping. Liquor bas been a prablem through- out the centuries and probably always will be. The outstanding argument in apposing liquor bas been fnom a moral standpoint concerned with right and wrong conduct or duty ta one 's neighbor. In old-fashioned language, ta be "aur brother's keeper." There is plenty ai opportunity and need ta practise this spirit today in a gay, frivolous, irrespon- sible age ai speed which, in too many cases, only brings us ta aur senses when it is too late and ends in disaster. We will probably be accused by some ai being an old-fashioned fossil and anti- quated in aur views. But with all the modern tendencies and changes in customs and habits in which the editor through the. years bas had some rough and per- sonal expeniences, which we wauld hes- itate ta put in print, we are stubborn enough ta feel that we haven't really changed aur views an the liquar question since aur departed business friend, 43 years ago, called us: "a damix fool." Dare to Do Your Duty It will be noted throughaut this edi- tonial that we haven't told you haw you should vote on July 16. That's up ta yau. An editor is supposed ta be a leader af thought and a moulder ai public opinion. We have endeavored ta f uhiil those duties un this instance. We don't even ask you ta agree with us, for we learned from past experiellce that an editor is some- times wrang. Editorials are the personal opinions ai the editor, and are written in the hope that they may stir up readers ta do a iittle thinking on their own and act accordingly. There's a quotatian by Abraham Lincoln that bas stood the editor well on many occasions when an important decis- ion bas ta be made - when you have ta resant to that invisible secret counsellor known as yaur conscience. Maybe it will be helpful ta you, too, un caming ta a right decision on July 16: "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us dare ta do aur duty as, we understand it." -Abraham Lincoln. complete. At this stage on aur road, in- finite vistas stretch before us. If we have lost it, we must regain the sense ai stand- ing on the threshold af a new historical dispensation. We see infinite fields of knowledge yet ta be explored, possibilities yet untouched arising from aur wondraus inventions, and the opportunity ta put all this knowledge and ahl these technological discoveries ta work together for enlarge- ment af aur way oa ife. Looking backward, we can picture the birth ai the world, the coming of man, the growth of civilization. Looking at today, we sense the value ai human free- dam, the achievements of science and art, the profusion of material things ta make people happy. Looking ta the future, we hear a music swelling from innumerable vaices, music which is not a dirge but a sang ai life abounding and triumphant. EDUCATING FOR EASY LIVING Mayor Charlotte Whitton of Ottawa made some statements recently regarding the training af the youth of Canada which will bear repeating. She said, ". . . the great sm in a ur day against youth is that we have been educating for an easy liv- ing." She charged that this was one rea- son why aur democratic government was declining and disintegrating. One writer points out that ". . . de- mocracy was faunded on the belief that if men worked hard enough and thought hard enough, they cauld attain ever-rising standards af culture, ai education, ai free- dam and happiness for the individual. Neyer was it pretended that those stan- dards could rise automatically. Neyer was it suggested that anything cauld be oh- tained without physical toil and and men- tal struggle. "But now, through false teaching and preaching, we have a generation that takes past progress for granted, and regards future progress as its right. Food, hous- ing, health, education - and ail the nec- essities ai life, and not a few of the lux- unies - are guaranteed. They do flot have ta be earned, but merely demanded." Oh, land of aur f athers... FARM INCOME TAX RETURIÇS A recent decision of the appeal board af the federal income tax division has made it clear that farmers -who wish ta take advtange of the four-year averaging system which was put into. effect some years ago, must file an incarne tax return for each year af their operations. The averaging system, which was brought into effect after co-operative ef- fort between the incarne tax division and the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, recognizes the difficulty which farmers may meet in paying income tax in a year in which crop failure may have lef t them without income resaurces to meet the tax. The systema permits the averaging of in- came at the end of each five-year period and applying the average ta the actual incarne of each year of the period in making final payment for the faurth year ai the period. THE NEW FRANKENSTEIN "Television," says CBC TV chief Mavor Moore, "is by itself neither de- praved nor divine: it depends on the use we make of it." From this premise Mr. Moore draws the conclusion that such consîderations led the Royal Commission on the Arts, Letters and Sciences ta re- commend that "television be introduced into Canada by the CBC, as a public trust." The phrase 'public trust,' as conceived by Mr. Moore, can therefore mean a func- tian which can only properly- be dis- charged by an agency of government such as the CBC. By the same token it might be argued that the universities, the press, the Red Feather organizations and a hast ai other private agencies which hitherto have regarded themselves as dîscharging a public trust in the exercise of their respective functions, ought forthwith ta be taken over by Ottawa. Otherwise, If the logic of Mr. Moore's reasoning is ad- hered ta, they may not be presumed ta be trustworthy. In view of the fact that television is destined ta becomeone ai the most patent educational devices ' ever invented, it would seem dangerous rather than other- wise ta accept with complacency the notion that it ought therefore ta be under education, as the Fathers of Confederation were careful ta point out, is in this country a matter rather for the exclusive jurisdiction of the several provinces. QUESTIONS STILL UNANSWERED James Endicott, a former Christian minister, bas assurned the nole ai apologist for Chinese Communisrn. He shows not the slightest reluctance un making wild and unproven statements and glorifies Mao Tse-tung and bis Peking Govennment. We would like to hear the Endicott ex- planation ai a number ai Chinese actions. How daes Endicott justify the con- fiscation ai appnaxîmately 2,750 news- papers and the forcing ai the rernaining 253 ta fully support the Chinese goven- ment? How does he justify the confiscation ai hundreds ai thousands ai books? How does he justify the kiliing, im- prisaning or hounding out ai China the thousands ai Christian clergy? How does he justiiy the policy ai the Communist govennment which commences teaching Cornmunism un kindenganten and requines children ta inform on and de- nounce their parents? .How does he justify the liquidation ai iandlords? How does he justify the mass trials and Distant Past From The. Statesman Files TIVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO About 25 citizens tram Bow- manville attended Warden M. J. Ellitts excursion to Rochester, N.Y. Dr. B. J. Hazelwood addressed the Ontario Health Officers As- sociation meeting in Toronto on "Practical Health Unit for an Ontario Town." Glover's Bus will be teatured in the Confederation Jubilee Cel- ebration parade at Toronto on July lst. Maitland Gould passed his 2nd year in Honor Classics at Toronto University,. being 3rd in his class. Large audience was present at Trinity United Church when the new pipe organ was ofticially opened with a grand recital. Who can remember the year when Dr. W. E. Tilley built the first summer cottage at Port Bow- manville on the east side o! the pier? Mr. J. H. H. Jury represented the Bowmanville Rotary Club at the International Convention held at Ostend. Belgium. H. was ac- companied by his daughter, Mrs. C. W. New, Toronto. Courtice-Carrie Courtice has gone ta Chicago where she will be superintendent o! a hospital where her sister, Aima Courtice, ia night supervisor. Lake Shore, Clarke-Congrat- ulations ta Allan Martin on at- taining his B. A. degree at Toron- ta University. FORTY-NINE YEARS AGO The Statesman boasts on its front page that it has installed an automatic tolding machine which folds, pastes and trims the news- papers. This does away with the arduous and slow process of folding the papers by hand. Rev. T. J. Edmuson, B.A., New- castle, was elected president o! the Bay o! Quinte Conference.1 and executions carnied out for the pur- pose of weakening any opposition ta Chinese Communisrn? How daes he justify China's yaung dommunists who move around in the larger centres at mass trials chanting irom loudspeakers: "Kili' them, kill them ahl!"? ENJOYS FEELING MISERABLE Mr. Bertrand Russell, in a tele- vision interview on his 8th birthday, made an interesting observation about Kari Marx: "Marx was flot inspired by kindly feelings. He pretended that he ;vanted the happiness, of the pro- letariat ' What he really wanted wvas the unhappiness of the bour- geosie."1 This may be applied ta Socialists gen- erally. They do flot want to make the so-called masses happy. They want to make the middle and upper classes miser- able. Hatred, flot love, is nearly always their dominant motive. OBSERVATIONS AND OPINIONS The chief trouble with sôcialism -is that it runs out of rich people sa quickly. Then there is noa one left to soak except the poor. And that usually spelis the demise of socialism. Pessimism in our Itime is infinitely more respectable than optimism; the man who foresees peace, prosperity and a de- cline in juvenile delinquency is a negligent and vacuous fellow. The man who fore- sees 'catastrophe has a gif t of insight which insures that he Will become a radio com- mentator, an editor of "Time", or go to Congress.-John K. Galbraith. Dominion Stores, Ltd,, in its annual report, set an example that other Can- adian companies might follow. By simple mathematics, it showed that during 1951, the company's income tax load came to $824 for each employee. Report shows that Dominion Stores sold $100 million worth of food last year. Its net earnings were $1.8 million. Its Incarne taxes were $2 million. It has been our experience in dealing with farmers during the past haif century that as a class they are good risks and don't require a sponsor to vouch for their honesty and integrity. This statement is verified when it was reporte.d from Ot- tawa last week that the federal gavern- ment has loaned Canada's farmers a total of $255,000,000 for farrn improvement dur- ing the last seven years and ail it has. lost on the real is a mere $26,000 - just about one-hundredth of 1 per cent. Reading the splendid Midland Free Press each week gives one the impression that Midland is a model town in every respect. But that high opinion was some- what battened as we read un a recent issue that there is sa much devilment going an aiter dark in that papulan Georgian Bay resont rendezvous they're considering setting up a curfew by-law ta get teen-agers home by 1 a.m. With Sa much juvenile delinquency running rampant and out ai contrai. it would ap- pear at this distance the padlock law is long overdue and should have been started at the other end ai 'the household by suspending the adult midnlght bridge clubs and holding an intensive short course in good old-fashioned parental dis- cipline. Imagine us kids, when in aur teens, staying out till aften 1 o'clock! Prepostenous! Jas. A. Osbarne, wha was ap- pointed President o! the Western Canada Press Association, is a Durham County Boy, being a native o! Tyrone district. Town Council are far tram unanimous as ta the location of the new tawn hall. Fred J. Mitchell a! the Ontario Banik staff. is spending his vaca- tion in Lindsay. Levi Morris has been requested to ill the vacancy on Town Coun- cil due ta resignatian of Chas. Doncaster. Solina-Mrs. W. L. Law gave an address at aur Women's Insti- tute on "How ta Make Summer Hausekeeping Easy." A mustard spraying demonstra- tion was held Saturday by F. W. Broderick o! the O.A.C., Guelph, in A. E. Bellman's orchard. Newcastle-Fern Perrin met with a serious accident when the big land roller passed over his body, injuring his spine. Tyrone-Miss Nellie Pattinson, Town, has been engaged as prin- cipal of aur Public School. Haydon-The Sherlock Concert Ca. will be the big attraction at aur Dominion Day anniversary. Capt. W. C. Frank is advertis- ing for volunteers ta go ta militia camp at Barriefield with the 46th Durham Regt. Rev J. H. Turnbull and Wm. Quick are quite elated over the fine catch of speckled trout they secured last week in a nat too 'distant creek. Moral For Mea The sultan kept uis harem three miles tram where he lived. Every day he sent a manservant ta bring a wife ta the palace. The sultan lived ta be 83 but the servant died when he was 30. The moral o! this story is: It's flot the wamen that will kill you, but the running 1atter thema. THURSDAY, Jtffl 19, 1952 Haif Canada's Lumber Production Goes Io Markets of the Worl Canada rank a m on g the world's leading lumber producers but it does not. as many people assume, take tirst position in this field nor in timber resources. When contrasted with the United States' 38 billion FBM annual pro- duction, Canada's six billion FBM seems rather modest. As an exporter, however, Can- ada does occupy a dominant pos- ition. About one-haîf of her total lumber production (or about three billion FBM a year) tinds its way inta the markets o! the world. The United States, on the other hand, even with six times the Canadian production, is a net lumber-importing country and turns ta Canada as one o! its major sources of supply. This does not mean that the United States does net expert lumber. On the contrary, U. S. lumber, particularly tramn the West Coast, competes strongly with Canadian West Coast lumber in most o! the world markets. Canada, on the other hand, sends much o! her West Coast produc- tion ta compete with the native product in the variaus U. S. domestic markets. 0f equal in- terest in the Canadian and U. S. lumber trade is the U. S. depend- ence on Canadian spruce and aur dependence on U. S. hardwoods and some of the western pines. Canada's position in the expert market is an interesting one. To keep aur lumber industry healthy, we must seIl nearly haîf aur pro- duction in foreigix countries. But only a tew expert markets can absorb any substantial quantity. In actual tact, it narrows down ta two-the United States and the United Kingdom. Smaller quantities--equivalent in total volume ta about 15 per cent o! aur experts-go ta some 70 oth- er countries. Australia and South Africa tank tirst among these, but such.unusual destinations as Fiji, Malaya. Hong Kong, Arabia, and Iceland are net neglected by Canadian shippers. However, ail the export markets, large ar small. are highly campetitive anid, require active sales efforts. Between them, the Unitedý States and the United Kingdom, take 85 per cent of Canadian lumber exparts. Except for the extreme East Coast and the West Coast, the industry must rmarket a large part of its exportable sur- plus ini the United States. Even' the East and west coastal areas, with their alternative overseas'f autiets,' participate in the U. S. market. Fluctuations lix demand fram, year ta year lin this U. S. mnarket are rather drastic. lIn 1949, Can- ada exported ta the Unted States about 1.5 billion FBM; in1 1950, this rose ta three biloi FBM, and in 1951 went dowiW again to 2.1 billion FBM. Fortun. ately, this ebb and flow in U.S. demand during -the past few years has coinclded wlth high and low tides in United Klngdoni buying. At the moment, the year 1952 looks like a repeat performance of 1951. Bath East and West Coast shippers have sizable con. tracts for the United Kingdom and Ireland. Housing starts and general construction in the United States appear to be close ta last year's. Shipment of lumber from, Canada to the United States are in step with this tempo and the pattern of lumber exporta wiIl probably be repeated. Joe: "Why was Pharaoh's daughter lîke a broker?" Moe: "Because she got a little prophet fram. the rushes on the banks." He: 11 thought yau said you were going ta tell yaur father oný me if I kissed you." She: "Do you caîl that a kiss?" The people's safety in the law of God.-James Otis. 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'The two main sources ai inflation are high government taxation and wage rates which are not related ta man-hour production. Unless production and wages are held in balance, and unless at tsane ie re non-defence government expenditures are held in thec a ur dollar is bound ta lose more buying power. Published as a Public Service by The STEEL COMPANY 0F CANADA, Limnited Plants at HAMILTON - BRANTFORD - SWANSEA - GANANOQUE - MONTREAL 1 a 1