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l'ÂGE TWO ~~~~~TifE CANADIAN STATESMÂN. BOWMANVnLLE ONTARTO rTRD.DE.1.05 EDI'I ORIALS iT'S AN OLD ENGLISH CUSTOM AND A GOOD ONE In aur youth we remember reading about an old Cornish custom which rnight well be carried out by many ai us ini this modern age ôf speed, mass production, social security and other new fandangled Ideas which crowd rnany essentiai things into the habit ai pracrastmnating. As we recail it this aid English customn was ta dlean up by the end ai the year all our financial debts and other duties and obligations we had been putting off and enter the New Year with a clean âheet and a free mind. Wonder if we dare tickle this sugges- tion with only about ten days leit bei are Old Father Time ushers in 1954? Anyway, we'Il broach the question: "Are you caught Up with yourself?" Yeu know what we mean. The letters you were going ta write. The mending you have been rneaning ta do. The finan- cial debt you should have paid long ago. The book you simpiy rmust read. The visits yau had planned ta make. The little thoughtiul things you were going ta do others. Oi course, when you find the time vou are going ta finish up ail of these things. But honestly now, how hard have you looked for the time? Aren't you just letting things vou should do accumulate until the task ai clearing them ail up makes the cleaning ai the Augean stables look like a minar accomplishment? Oh, we /knaw what you are going ta say. We have made ail oi those excuses, too. No one has a patent on pracrastin- ation. It is so easy ta do things oi the moment. It is sa easy ta push things aside and feel vei-y virtuous about it et the time. Bùt things undone have a wey ai haunting one. And ai having ta be done just when one leest wants ta do them. And sometimes, suddenly, one iinds that sorne ai the nicest things one had planned ta do, can't be done at ail because the persan one wes going ta do them fr just isn't there ta enjoy thern. There is just one wey ta get caught up with oneseli. Do it as the aid woman got over the stile--one step et a tirne. First draw up a balance with yourseli. List al ai the things you have leit undone. Don't let the length ai the iist discourage yau. You don't have ta do them al et once. Then set aside one hour every day and do some ai them, crassing thern off as they are fiished. You will iind the encouragement ai the work done will help you f ind mare tirne and before you know it you will have iinished al ai the tasks. And, cen you imagine a more delightiul sensation than ta know you have nothing hanging over your head that you ought ta do? Came to think of it, the idea sounds s0 good we have sold ourselves on the idea, and will get busy and clean up aur own list bei are a new year catches up on us. WHAT INSTITUTION DOES SO MUCH FOR SO MANY PEOPLE The follawing edîtoriai, written by Fred H. Gage, editor ai the Wiltan (Me.) Timnes, has received wide applause amang the newspeper iraternity end we are glad ta pass it on ta aur readers for their con- sideration: I arn your newspaper. 1 record the date ai your birth, the noatice ai your'marriage, the chronicle ai your death. I tell the world ai yaur progress. I shame with your iriends yaur downialls. 1 natify friends aof the advencernents you achieve. Your iittle victanies in LAe are part aifrny make-up. During yaur sickness and troubles, 1 acquaint iniends ai your condition that they rnay rally ta yaur support. I spread the word ai worthy carnpaigns that united you cen join in helping others. I arn the conscience ai your public officials. I carry the actions ai their dlelibemetions. I keep you posted on the Christmas, The Season of Goodwill Christmas ini Canada is especially a season ai Goodwill. Emnotionally, we are generally conservative, and feel hesitant in showing what might be considered a sof t sort af sentimentality, but in the Christmas spirit, we do aur best ta express that Goodwill which we feel. Sa we mail Christmas cards ta aour friends, - we give presents ta, those nearest and dearest ta us, -we visit aur relatives, or have them visit us. We decorate aur homes with symbols ta add ta the Christmas spirit, we decorate aur stores ta spread the Christ- mas feeling. Spiritual values must find materlal expression. Goodwill, love, charity and even religion are things af the spirit. Our individual methods of expressing Good- will may be different. To some it will be an affectionate kiss ta others the clasp ai a hand, the sparkle in the eye, the smile on the cheelc, and many times it will ho the hearty greeting "Merry Christmas" in words or print. Santa Claus with hîs jolly. smile. is the personalized symbol of the spirit ai Christmas, the season of Goodwill. How You Can Help the Editor The man or woman who takes the trouble to write a letter ta the editor can help ta make fa newspaper more valuable and serviceable ta its communitv. This WTas indicated by Sydney J. Harris recent- ly in The Chicago Daily News. Mr. Harris says: "A newspaper is tremendousI'y sens- itive ta the needs and reactions of its re"-ders. Editors hutnt down errors af fact as ruthlesslv,, asa housewife goes after art-s in the pantry. No adjective is more d 'ncIn~ta a reporter than ta be called 'inaccurate.' "The public, by far and large is nat aware af its respansibilities. It either Ettabithod 1854 with which is inco prted The Bowmnanville News, The awstle Independent and The Orono News 98 Years' Continuous Service ta the Town oi Bowmeinville and Durham County AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIPTION RATES $400 a Yomu, strictly in advance $500 a Ymr in the United States Puiiah.d h TUE JANM PUBLISHIG COMPANY Authors.d cm Second Caim Maol Poot OMfce D.paxtment. Ottarwa Bawmnanviile, Ontario 080. W.JAMES, EDMroB weys your tex money is spent. I arn the watch-dog ai the public wel- fare. I arouse you ta iight the bad and challenge you ta eulogize the Good. I arn the voice ai Man. I harbar no minorities. 1 sponsor no pettiness. I seek no favor. I ra]ly ta the side ai Righteous. I shame the Immoral and Corrupt. I silencç the agitatars. I shun the bend wagon. I arn the sentinel ai your health. I herald the irnpending, epidernic. I clamor for the cleener way ai hife. I 1arn youm history. I report the events ai your day, your ere, your generetion. I arn the permanent record ai your age. I arn your show window. I tell the buyer ai your goods, youm merchandise, youm services. I keep the consumer close ta youm fashions. 1 arn youm home town newspaper andý arn looked upari as a member ai the iernily.1 meekly accepta or hotly resents what a paper prints-but neyer thinka that editors and publishers are eager to get the re- sponse of readers, ta correct misstate- ments, and ta imprave the quality of the product. "A few dozen cool, intelligent letters an a controversial tapic would seem like a tidal wave ta an editor. "A newspaper goes out into the great void every day, and unless some kind of echo cornes back, an editor cannot be sure he is doing bis job. "In a democratic saciety, the public has a responsibility ta make its wishes feit; it has a right ta treat its local news- paper as an integral part af the commun- ity and ta insist that the facts be straight and the opinions honest." Public Opinion Wonders Why Judging from the comments in the press referring to the strikes in the gold mining industry in the Porcupine and Noranda mining areas, public opinion is becoming more and more pronounced in questioning why the miners went on strike. In this connection The Peterborough Examiner in an editorial makes these com- parisons in wages: "The wage scales af Northern Ontario In the Dim and Distant Past P~reo 1% sth e aem nFil 25 YEARS AGO Correction - Our apologies ta Mrs. Vera Baker Dewell, RXN, Hampton, for the 'mistake in this calumn last wcek. The item said shc was home fram the Knickçrbocker Hotel, New York City, visiting her mather et Saline, when it should have read "Knickerbocker Hospital" where she was night superin- tendent for five years. Rev. Bruce Taylor, principal of Quacn's University, Kingston, was special preacher at the 94th anniversary services af St. Paul's Church Howard Rundle, Brighton, son of Dr. H. C. Rundie, native af Heydon, was elected ta the Old- er Boys' Parliament for East North îmberland. Former Bowmanville boys bit [the spotligbit in Cobourg lest week. H. C. ±ligginbothem was elected president of the Golf Club and W. L. Allen as presi- dent nf the Curling Club. Maple Grave-Ivison Munday had one bond badly burned while lie and his brother were putting gas in the car when the fumes ignited and the car was completed destroyed. Pontypoal - George Jackson, veteran auctioneer of Part Per- ry, had e beart ettacit while conducting James Mitchell's sale. His san Ted continued the sale. Orono-Officers and directors of the Clarkte Agricultural So- ciety with their wives were en- tertained et the home of the president, M. H. Staples when it was decided ta organize a dramn- atic society. It is not inconceiveble that the new leadership for which the world craves may arise fram1 within the Christian church. But this hypothcsis appeers ta pre- suppose a transformation af Christienity, or a revival af its1 primitive spirit, whicb would in itself ep,.aunt toa erevlution.- Edward Hallett Carr.1 What Others Say ",NUTS" SAYS UNION HEAD (Midland Herald) 0f course he would have ta deny it if bis name were used because of the stir it wouid in- evitably cause within- union ranits. Nonetbeless here is what the head of one of the AFL's med- ium sized Canadien unions said ta us a few days ega in refer- ence ta the current outbreak af labor unrest, partiçularly. in northern Ont aria. And his state- ment výas made carnpletcly val- untarily. "Any union which makesaa strike issue of the check-off le crazy. "Millard and bis union are away out an e Iimb in the min- îng industry and they don't know wbat ta do. Charlie Mil- lard is a good friend ai mine and I'd say it ta his face. "Just put yourself in the place oi the man in the picitet line around the mine. Wbat is he thinking? The management bas said tbey will agree ta every other issue but the check-off. Sa what am I walking an this pick- et line for? Sa the union cen have the right ta take part ai my salary away in dues! I'm nuts. "That sort ai thing can't go on for long, and eny union which1 thinks it con is nuts too. "Unions attempt ta get the government ta intercede for them whenever passible, but mn gold mining it doesn't work. And Millard and his boys should have seen that." miners are already the highest paid by JIORRORS! A 50 POSTAGE any Ontario industry, on the average. Sa (Simcoe Reformer) why must the gold miners demand more? Hon. Douglas Abbott has liv- Here are some comparative figures for the ed up ta his reputatian as hav- month ai September. In the "Nickel ing little sympathy for the tax- payer when he announced this Range" area (where nickel, capper, gold week that the Postage rate on and silver are mined) the average weekly first-class letters going outside industrial wage and salary last September the area of the local post office xvas $82.76. The average for the whole ai wauld be hiked next April lst from four to five cents. The edict Ontario was $61.69. Leading Ontario also caîls for a four-cent post- mines, reporting their payrolls for Septem- age rate an letters within the ber, show that campanies in the striking immediate community or gaing2 area paid their miners an average ai to rural routes out of the local1 $76.57a ekThswstescn i- post office.1 wee. Tiswasth seon hih- It is significant that Hon. Mr. - est average weekly wage paid by the min- Abbott is definitely leaving thec ing industry of Ontario. The highest was past ot Finance Minister in thet paid in the Sault region (iran), a weekly St. Laurent Government right1 average wage for September ai $79.55. after he bringa down his 19545 budget, probably next March. The average wage paid by ail Ontario min- His parting 'gift' ta the people ing industries was $69.76. 'When the gold of Canada is quite in confarm- 1 miners are already among the highest paid ity with the callous and cavai-t workers ai the Province, why did they ier manner in which he has strie fo mor mony?"dealt with the taxpayer's mon- stnie fo mar mony?"ies these many years. There wil be few tears shed at his depar- ture corne next spring. Highways iieatLI Toli The neat littie Abbott legacy _________is calculated to wrest some $15,-d The Accident Records Division ai the 000,000 additional from the tax-V OntniaDearten aiHihwas as owpayer's pockets for the govern- t Ontaio epatmen ofHigwayshasnowment treasury. The plan le ta been in continuous operation for 23 years. provide a sizeable surplus after Durîng that time there have been more taking care of increased civil than 15,000 people iatally injured and service salaries and the five-day week which cames into effect 296,000 people non-f atally injured in next'spring. Prospect is that the 486,000 accidents involving 756,000 drivers. post office like so many other The death toli is now equal ta the government - operated projects entire population ai a city the size ai will continue ta operate at a de- ficit, in which case the deficit Woodstock, Welland or Owen Sound. The wiil camne out of the taxpayer comnbined death and injury total equals In any case. the population of the cities ai Hamilton Mr. Abbott will go down as and London together. the great magician who tassed At the present rate this accident away a few postage millions by ..abolishing the stamp tax an experience will be repeated in Ontario in checkts in a pre-election gesture the course ai the next il or 12 years. last spring and who wil get Are you gaing ta help cantribute ta i themn back with a vengeance this terrible death toîl by careless driving. next spring with five-cent post- age. We imagine that his rosy or put into practice the slogan DRIVE calculations may be samewhat CAREFULLY? ýduninished by' the prospect that . 49 YEARS AGO W. .1. Bragg. Fred and Wilbert Hoar and Dr J. S. Somers have returncd fram attending the World',ï Faim at St. Louis, Ma. George Rice has accepted the position of superintendent af the Dohcrty Piano Co., et Clinton. Twa Oshawa young men wha came ta town Sunday remained rather late with their best girls. Whcn they went ta the hotel ta get their horse they were unable ta recognize their horse. How- ever, the hastler took a chance, but the Oshawa liverymnan re- fused the horse and the next day it was sent bacit ta ils own- er in Newtonville. (Who says there wes little fun or excite- ment back in the, horse and buggy days?) Mr. Bowen discovered an In- dien grave on Washburn Island, Laite Scugog. contaïing a birch barit coffin, a siteleton and an Indien knife. F. Chas. Hill of Bawmanville, and Miss Jessie Badenoch, Chi- cago, El., were married in Chi- cago on Nov. 23, 1904. Hon. John Dryden, Brooklin, bas done more for Agriculture in Ontario thon any Minister' 0f Agriculture who preceded him. .Newcastle - Harry Pearce shipped 4 Indien Runner ducks ta Guelph. They average about 10 dozen cggs a season. Darlington - Evelyn-Everson and Edna Van Camp are train- ing the cbildren for their Christ- mas concert. Tyrone-A. L. Pascoe, G. W. A., Saline, reopened aur Sons of Temperance Division Thurs- day evening Clarke Union - Miss Maud Scott, Bowmenville. succeeds Miss Ethel Trebilcacit as teach- er of aur school for 1905. Leskard-Miss Edith Tennant bas gone ta Bowmanvilie ta learn dressmaking. Oror-o--The Beer blacksmithi 'business bas been sold ta Herb. Ridge of Bowmanville. Saline-John Van Nest andj Jas Vice have each purchased new Dominion organs.1 many business offices will start delivering their own mail with- in the community. Four cents a letter can amount to quit. a sizeable sum in a week. Claims Cly. Valualors Should be Resfored (The Municipal World) Before the advent of the coun- ty assessor, about 1944, county councils effected an equaliza- tion of local municipal assess- mente :by examining the local rolîs, and every five years by appointîng valuators to go into each municipality in the county whose duty it. was ta mnake an independent valuation of a cer- tain Percentage of the proper- ties in each, then to compare their valuations with the local assessed values of those pro- perties and report the result ta caunty council. This report then served as a basis for the caunty council's deliberations in deter- mining how the equalization should be worked out. When authority was given ta counties in 1944 to appoint coun- ty assessors, the -provision in the Act relating to valuators was re- pealed and an annual report ta county councl which the coun- ty assessor was ta make was co serve as the basis for that year's deliberations in determining how the county should be equal-1 ized. Unfortunately, the effect of this 1944 amendment was ta leave the counties which did not see fit to appoint a county assessar withaut any specific di-1 rection as ta how they were to effect an annual caunty equal- izatian, apart from an examina- tian of the local ralîs, and in those counties it is doubtful if even a reasanably fair equaliza- tion could possibly have been effected. Probably the purpose back of1 the legislation, which abolished the valuators, was ta urge al counties ta appoint county as- sessors as thé best method of ultimately effecting a proper caunty equalizatian, but uls the present permissive power ta appoint caunty assessors is made mandatory for ail caunties, those -caunties which have no -present intention of appointing one should have restored ta them the specific power ta cm- play qualified valuators to as-a sist them in obtaining the kindi of evidence which a county~ council needs if it le ta effect a proper equalization of the coun-I ty. Siniply examining the localI roils mnay provide little of the information needed ta effect an There's lots of People-this!I ;own wouldn't hold them; who don't know much excepting what's told them.-WiUl Carle- ton. Sf afford Bros. Monumental Works Phono Whitby 552 318 Duadas St. E., Whltby FIMEQUALITY MONUMERNTS AND> MARKERS Precise warkxnanship and careful attention ta detail are your assurance when you choose from the wide selection of imported and domestic Granites and Marbies in stock. ITn thaIe pd;*nt.q n1 conclusion ef the minutes, r.- Pify ihe Guesi Speaker Says Gregory Clark And H1e Should Know 1 had the hcnour of addressing a social club whose meetings over the year are devoted to raising funds for a worthy pur- pose. The meeting was called for 8 o dlock;- and I, like a dope, got there at 5 minutes to. At 20 after 8, though only a few stragglers were stili arriv- ing, and the h1-all was nicely fi- ed, the chairman and the com- mittee were stili hustling back and forth up and down the aisies on what appcared to be urgent business At 25 to 9, the chair- man took the platform with the air of a man who still had a lot of unfinished business on his mind. The meeting was called to or- der. The chairman seized the occasion to ovtlfine the purposes of the club and to thank, in no uncertain terrns, those varoos members of the organization, and he named them, who had contributed so much to the suc- cess of the meetings during the past year. Then he remembered a few more names. At 3 min- utes to 9, with a most business- like attack, he called on the sec- retary tu read. the minutes. The secretary read the minutes, which consisted to a consider- able extent of laudatory com- mendation of ail those who had done so much for the success of' the meetings during the past year, with resolutions ta back them Up. The chairnman himself, at the callected three or four nameS that had flot been included ini the minutes, and warmly recow mended the meeting to end=re him in the suggestion that their names be written into the re- cord. Sa it wcnt. The treasurer wasi asked ta read his report.* It was a little coMplicated, and the treasurer had to sit dawn t a couple of times and do a littSe edding and subtracting. Then the mombership cam- rnittee's repart, then the special committee on the fupd; then a few words from a visiting cler- gyman. Next, the programme committce gave a rousing out- line of next manth's meeting. 1 i j[3 Kng i.W. At last came the entertaia. ment. Alas, na, not me! Net yet. A lady sang. Then a lady and a gentleman sang. Then a yaung boy, with a bright future, so the chairpian said, played the violinL. 1 thintK the boy was the cii. man's nephew. 9k At 3~ minutes past 10, when ail Christians ought ta be abed or within sight of it, I was called on ta c.ddresb a weary, fidgety, sagging audience, about as easy ta pick up and lift as a poached egg in the bare hand. Guest speakers shauld neyer be callecl on later--than 20 min. utes ta 9. And at dinner nmeet. ings, ni-er later than 20 ta 8.- > From Gregory Clark's "Packt. lula ALA LIULà S aAiA Grosvenor Hause, Park Lafte, Londaon. W. I. Dear Mr. James, 1 arn deeply impressed and greatly encoureged by the change- in the United Kingdain since I was here lest, three years ago. In the past fortnight we have been through Surrey in the south, Yorkshire in the nurth, and Shropshire and North Wales in the nopth-webt, and everywhere there are indi- cotions of revival, of a spirit af fresh confidence. There are troubles, of course, especially with a section of labour, but that is not a monopoly of this island! The interest in Canada amazes me. "Anything Canadien starts five-up" as a sportsman express- cd it ta me. The moment is ripe ta stimulate British emigration ta Canada and I am attending a conference an this to-morraw. On this more> anon. My wife joins in special greetings ta -you bath. Should be bacit Dec. 4th. Yours truly Gladstone Murray Hampton, Dec. 14, '3 Dear Editor. Just ta keep the records streight, it was the Knickerbick- er Hospital 1 was in, not the hotel, as mentioned lest week in the Dim and Distant colurnn. The mistake was made by' yaur local correspondent, 25 years ago, but 1 wouid not want the present generation ta think I spent five years et a hotel. "Knickerbocker" is an aid es- tablished New York naine, with a laundry. ice company, cafe, cleaners, hotel, etc. with the samne neme. The hospital 'I Was in was up on l3lst and Convent Ave., while the hotel was way down town, no connection what- ever. Best Christmas wishes ta you and the office, staff. Sincerely, Vera Baker Dewell This Attie, Is Now Occupiedl "' Put every inch of space in your home to work. Turn the attic into a room for your children. lts easy to do with eur quality wallboards and step-by- step directions.- Or you might turn the attic into a guest room for those coming holiday guests. Stop in for a FREE estimate this week. TERMS AS LOW AS $ 18.00 A NONTH-, NOTRING DGWN Dial 2130 Dowiuanville or 3-4661 Oshawa YOUR SATISFACTION IS OUR SUCCESS Oshawa Wood Products Mt. Yard and Mili ai Courtice 1:; For Christmas Gifîs or Enterlainmeni POTTED PLANTS POINSETTIA CYCLAMEN AFRICAN AZALEA MIXED PANS VIOLETS CUT -FLOWERS ROSES SNAPDRAGONS MUMS CARNATIONS Phone 474 Fresh Holly - Misileioe* GIFT CHINA Vases and Planters ini Royal Haeger, Beauceware and Other Lines. English Bon. China Cups and Saucers Dowmanville Flower Shop 4nTfUPMA'T, DEC. 17, Subscription Rate Increase Sharply-increased costs of publication durlng the past two years make necessary an increase in The Statesman's annual subscrlption rate, amount- ingto one dollar a year. We have endeavoured te, hold the line at the present rates for a long time, but the fact is that 1 newsprint, ink and other materials have more than doubled ini cost, while wages, salaries and postal charges have soared. Consequently we have no alternative but to announce the following subscrip- tion rates, effective November 26, 1953: By Mail in Canada - - $4.00 per year By mail to the United States and elsewhere outside Cani- ada (due to extra postage) $5.00 per year Six inonths' subscriptions are one-haîf the above amounts. All presently-unexpired subscriptions ivili be carried until expiration at the previous rates. Single copy rates will be 10 cents per issue froin delivery boys, local seores, and at village stores, effective Thursday, Detember 3rd, 1953. THE JAMES PUBLISHING CO. PAGE TWO