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PAGE TWO EDITORIALS Survey Reveals Surface Thinking The opinion research company which operates the Gallup Poil in Canada has recentiy published the resuits of a survey conducted in the City of Hamilton to discover what the people of that commun- Ity think about their jobs and related matters. Some of. the resuits are qulte surprising. For instance, Hamilton has been the foeus of a trades union campaign to make industriai wage rates in Canada equai ta those paid in thé U.S., on similar jobs. The fundamental reason why such a demand can't succeed, of course, is that Canadian producers have a -much smalier market than do American producers and as a result the mass-production advantage of the U.&. manuf acturer ailows a greater productivity per hour of work and a high- er wage rate. The opinion survey turned up the magnificent point that one person in four in that area "has no idea how much greater is the US. population than in Canada's." 'Another surprising resuit concerned the so-caiied "fringe benef its" - that is, the pensions enjoyed by many industrial workers, sickness benef its, hoiidays and To the Waste Basket Few newspaper editors would disagree with Ross Thatcher, the C.C.F. member for Moose Jaw - Lake Centre, in his criticism of the f low of pamphlets and other publications from government print- ing offices, comments The London Free Press. Every Ottawa ministry is shouting for the editorial ear, and the resuitant torrent of printed matter becomes a flood with which few newspapers can cope. Bul- letins, press releases, weekiy, monthiy and yeariy reports pour from the presses of the Queen à Printer to enguif the incoming mail desk. Some are essential. Most are not. But no ministry is going to admit that its functions are less worthy of pub- lication than any other, and none is likeiy to exercise any seif-restraint in an era of five-billion-dollar budgets. The resuit. is that many handouts bearing the Ottawa imprimatur are not even opened. It may be that good material is sometimes overlooked. But there is simply too much chaff for a few kerneis of wheat, and there just isn't time to do the threshing. 'It il probably too much to expect, but the F'ederal Government could do itself and the country a great service by setting up an impartial committee to study de- partmental publications and to eliminate the waste of paper and money engenered byr publicity-hungry ministers. Frobably 75 per cent of the reading matter issued every year from Ottawa could be abolish- ed and no one would be the poorer for it. Demands Mean More Taxes Every week-end we enjoy a perusal pf many weekly newspapers and find out how towns in Ontario such as ours are meeting their various problems. Since the first of the year tax rates have been net in towns and villages in Ontario and the new assessments that are not 80, new in Durham County have been coming into effect. In every case where the new assess- ment has corne into effect the miii rate is down. The newspapers are giving this information and also pointing out that actually more taxes are being paid. The new assessment has oniy had the effect of rnaking the rate of the levy seem more palatabie. Ail forms of government have this illusion to perform ail the time. News- papers are doing a public service when they take the magic away from tax levies. The more public service which we load onto governments the more taxes will be required. There is no magic for supplying government funds but there is a lot of illusion in the way they are collated and it is being used with some effect in provin- cial and federai fields more adeptly than in the municipal field. Work and Worship Did you ever stop to think that work has been, and will ahways remain, the foundation stuff of civilization. Shirt sleeves are a moral necessity. When men become averse to work they enter decline. When the Greek grew fonder of baths and banquets than of his job, his culture wan- ed. Work is the complement of worship. We get to God by doing His will. Near- ness to the Divine brings wilingness to reflect the Divine. Churches and men grow only when they dare to face large tasks! ie 9auîabian :tatesmiur Etablihed 1854 with which is incorporcted rhe Eowmcnvile News, The Newcastle Independont and The. Orona News 100th Year of Continuous Service ta the Town of Bowmanville and Durham County AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Àgw&4 paid vacations and so, on. About orie-half of the public thinks that these benefits corne out of wages, and early the same number think the employers pay for thern. Only one person in f ive had the completely correct answer - that fringe benefits are paid for by the employers' customers, who are the source of ail industrial income. However, on other questions the people of Hamilton scored very good marks. Nine out of ten said that higher wages resulted in higher prices. Hall the people realize that if wages were increas- ed further, local industries would flot be able to compete with imported goods pro- duced by foreign manufacturers. Only one person in ten thought it the course of wisdom to press for higher wages in plants where workers were being laid off. Probabiy the thinking of most Canad- ians is not unlike that of the people of Hamilton. It is easy to see that prices go up when wages go up, that foreign manufacturers are causing unemployment here by taking over the Canadian market. It is flot so easy to see that it is the public that pays the whole cost of industry's wage bill. Too Many Canvassers This is the beginning of the season of the year when canvassers from out of town go to homes and business places soliciting orders for this and that, mostly things that can be bought or ordered right here at home. These fellows take with them any business they can get and pay absolutely nothing to the support of ~h town. In some towns it is unlawful to solicit orders for magazines, advertising and many other things without securing a license. No one wants to build a wal about a town in restraint of legitimate trade but every municipaiity owes its merchants and citîzens protection from the increasing number of peddlers an can- vassers that are descending on us in these days. True Today as It Was Then ."There are persons who constantly clamour; they complain of oppression, speculation and the pernicious influence of accumulated weaith. "They cry out loud against ail banks and corporations and ail means by which smail capitaiists become united in order to produce important and beneficial resuits. They carry on mad hostility against ail establishèd institutions. They would choke the fountain of industry and dry ail streams. "In a country of unbounded liberty, they ciamour against oppression. In a country of perfect equaiity, they wouid move heaven and earth against privilege and monopoly. In a country where property is more evernly dividecj. than any- where else, they rend the air, shouting agrarian doctrines. In a country where wages of labour are high beyond paraliel, they would teach the labourer he is but an oppressed slave. "Sir, what can such men want? What do they mean? They want nothing, sir, but to enjoy the fruits of another man's labour."-Daniel Webster, addressing the U.S. Congress in 1828). G ive-Away in Reverse TE CAMAIAN STATESUM!,_OWMKAVHL£, ONTARIO Weekly Newspaperman of the Year Ciatio n The foliowing citation was presented to Editor Rixon Rafter at the annuai Ontario Weekhy Newspaper Association Convention at London, Ontario, hast week. It was presented by George Ellis, Editor of The Goderich Signal-Star. Aithough biind since a childhood accident, an Ontario weekly editor has estabiished a record of achievement that wiii go down in the annals of news- paperdom in this province. With an intense love for journalism, and a degree from Queen's University, he purchased a weekly newspaper in 1908. After 45 years of devoted service ta his district, he retired at the end of hast year. His record reveals effective editoriai guidance -and this without fear or favor-in issues relating to the welf are of his community. In his time, his politicai forecasting has been uncannily accurate. Born on a fariri, he neyer iost his love of the soul. If there was ever a recurring theme in his news- paper, it was that "as the farmers prosper, sa does the country." He preached on this theme constantly in his editorials and neyer hesitated to speak out when he considered some project to be against the public interest. A touch typist, he produced ail his w editoriai and news copy. His phenomenal memory is common knowiedge to his feliow citizens. On many occasions he wrote a whoie coiumn of news with his mind as the oniy notebook. Neyer once did he miss an edition of his newspaper in 45 years. Rich in the esteem of his feliow townsmen, he is a friend of young anid aid ahike. Popular as a public speaker, he delivers addresses that are master- pieces of Engiish, fiavoured with a keen sense of humour. When asked if he wouid accept the honour proposed for him, his oniy comment was: "I will accept Perhaps the hucksters' most success- it, not oecause it mignts sr' fui contribution ta living in the past few my part, but oniy in the hop decades has been the give-away. The dish- sightiess people an avenue es at the movie-house, a junior ray-disin- them."Fo hsanote1 tegrator in return for a score of box tops, Ontario Division of the Cana an all-expense trip ta Bermuda for guess- Association names with pric ing the sum of two and two correctiy and PAPERMAN 0F THE YE, mentioning the sponsor's product of course. rcnl eie dtro h It has been and continues ta be a great reetyrtrdeio o h game. For ail that the give-away is maiigned and joked about it has served more than its surface purpose of making thousands In "' " ' thrilhingly hopeful and a few luckily I t e ff happy. Like ail advertising it has helped ta create a demand, boost production and,an as a resuit, lower prices. yven in a non- commercial sense it has proved a weapon D s of considerable value. Dream homes and D itant P s modern automobiles, presented as prizes ta From The Statesman Files fortunate subscnibers, have stirred en- thusiasm for many charitable projects and useful civic endeavours. 49 YEARS AGO (1905> isi ci But like ahl effective invention the West Durham and South On- give-away can be used for evil purposes tario Farmers' Institute were Mi as ellas oo ons. n asmîî astrnplanning an excursion ta On- p Cndctyas packas of know. n commueaten-tario Agricultural Co il e ge, ists have cit a ckgoft onath nc omThynareGuelph, ta inspect the Model w ist hae cugh onto he ric. Tey reFarm, crops and livestock. da busily engaged in raffling off expensive Fashion Note - Red pumps Dr watches for 25-cent tickets. Win a fine with fiat silk ribbon bows are bu chronometer for a quarter! a navelty. A convenient recep- It'snotthe ilvr colecion heyaretacle for bair pinsý was a long, c after eite.the slmr one ioln thpafroval-sbaped basket of china. Tc afte eiter.The one woudn' payfor A request was received frmonCo a day's operations of such celis. It is the the Canadian correspondent at Hi names written on the ticket stubs, the tjtica, N.Y., asking for more M names and addresses of innocent hopefuis. particulars about Bowmanvllle's Lu Those names go right on the mailing îist new model post office building sic and veteran pastmaster, Mr. J. for aIl their doubie-taiking red propa- B. Fairbaimn. ganda. Nine neglected cbildren were Make peace with friendiy Russia! removed tram town ta a shelter 1 Downwit Amricn wr-mnges! iseat Toronto. A socicty ta assist inij against capital punishment (for convîcted thwr nhepocinutJ ucbildren was organlzed with P. a spies hike the late Rosenbergs, though C. Trebilcock as preaident, bei perhaps not for convicted murderers like At Town Council meeting the the late Mme. Pitre)! One new front after Property Committee was cm- "B another. Something ta appeai ta every- powered to get a new drap cur- Th~ tain for the Opera House, coat 1 one. A hatred ta share, ta nourish and flot ta excced $25. Those Town thei employ. There is another use for the Fathers would be horrltlcd ta nu names on the list. Shown around te know that a new curtain this fie' athers they invite co-aperation and solidar- year ot 1954 wiil cost several Dr ity from the reluctant ones who hesitate. bundreds ot dollars. tes If ih hebakr i o th supoter' lst Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Horsey J sfBl heuidn'tiTo thetaxi-drvers'be * ceiebrated their 50th wedding hai why shudtTmtetx-rvrb nanniversary. On icarning ot the bel the swim? occasion, Mayor Archie Tait, pre Ask the rioters of East Berlin why net. anld ather town off icials went anc Ask the Czechs and the imprisoned Paies. ini a body ta Magistrate Horsêy's vez office and offered their congra- Ne Ask the 25,000 Korean prisoners who fe tulations. Mr. Harsey was may- Col to escape repatriation ta glorious commun- or in 1886 and 1887 and active 3 ist rule. And, were it possible, ask the in civic and educational mnat- hor masses of the Soviet Union itself. This ters. !4rs. Horsey wua the for- Crm mer Margaret Wilson of Gan- at1 give-awav is slavery. Buy a ticket?-The anogue. tô. Printed Word. Rev. Wm. Rupkin, new min- 1 wany accomplisnment on pe that it might reveal to of opportunity open to praiseworthy reasons, the adian Weekly Newsp aper ide as WEEKLY NEWS- ,AR, Mr. Rixon Rafter, SArthur Enterprise-News. m, Ontario, June 11, 1954. ter at Trinity Congregational riurch, was inducted June 13. A fine historicai article by Ir. J. B. Fairbajrn was re- rinted fromn "The News". Among the June weddings rs that of Miss Mabel A. Tait, Lughter of Henry C. Tait, and W.Jabez H. Elliott, Graven- irst. Line-up for Bowmanville La- rosse Teamn - F. Neads, goal; orm Hughes, point; Otto Mayer, over; Ted Large, Lang, ýa1 inter, defence; Porter, centre; ler, Jimmy Lunney, Clint ,nney, home; Michael, out- le; Smith, inside. 25 YEARS AGO (1929) Big Goodyear Picnic was be- ig held at Presqu'ile Point, une 22. Before leaving town, prize was to be given for est decorated car. That great motion picturei Ben Hur" was at the Royal heatre in a return engagement. Plans were being made at ie Boys' Training School for a >dern campus and athldtic eld with quarter-mile track. rG. E. Reaman was superin- tdent. Annual meeting of West Dur- Rm Women's Institute was ed at Solina, Mrs. John Baker, rsident, presiding. Hampton id Solina celebrated their Sil- !r Jubilees during the year.1 ew president was Mrs. J. R. Doper, Orono. Mfr. F. C. Pethick was anl )nored guest at De Forest rosley radio dealers' banquet the Royal York Hotel, Toron- The death occurrect on June -Lruulck b - 20, 1929, of Norman S. B. James, co-publisher of The Canadian Statesman, coming as a great shock ta bis many friendis In Bowmanville and community'. Newcastle-At an impressive memnorial service in the Com- munity Hall, a portrait was un- veiled of an illustriaus former citizen, Thomas Montague, wbo died the previous year. Hampton - A Memory Day service was planned at the Un- ited Churcb, Hampton, when Rev. Geo. Mason, Bowmanville, was to be the speaker. Courtice - The community was saddened by the death of Mr. Keitb Worden, son of Mr. Frank Worden, following an operation for appendicitis. Blackstock-Mr. H. Mountjoy was presented with a jewel of menit by Grimsby Lodge, No. 106, Sons of England, as a token of appreciation for his faithful services as treasurer for 30 years. NOBODY KNOWS BUT FATHER How many buttons are missing today? Nobody knows but mother. How many , playthings are strewn in her way? Nobody knows but mother. How many thimbles and spools bas she missed? How many hurts on each small, dimpled fists? How many bumps to be cuddled and kissed? Nobody knows but mother. -Old Favorite Scrap Book Verse. What was the price of mother"s spring coat? Nobody knows but father. Who is it gets Dad's financial goat? Nobody knows but father. Is mother, dear, at the movies to-night While poor old Dad gets bis own cold bite And sits alone in the dim twi- ligbt? Nobody knows but father. How mucb is a leg of lamb right now, Or a dozen eggs, or a slîce of cow? Nobody knows but father. Who i5 it suffers from chilly feet Trying in vain ta make both ends meet- Struggling Old H.C.L. ta beat? Nobody knows but father. W. Ross Strike, O.C. Chairman. TmnL4DAY, DUNE17*, nuI * Think iii of none, let charity Know well that men are &Il one brotherhood; Withhold the bitter word, no man assail; Ail men are human, and they often fail To act in kindness as they know they should. -Charles G. Reigner. T ha Toronto Tol.orom 1~ Righi on thel IF FIRE strikes your home, it wiIl be a utagger- Ing blow to you and your poeketbook. Or wlll It? Right now, you can guard yourself agalngt such a knockôut. Ask us for a sensible insurance program a program whlch, no matter how hard disaster strikes, wiII help yau back ente your feet! STUA"û-T B. JAMES Insurance Real Estate Phones: Office 681-. Res. 493 King Street Bowmanville He's changing the nation'a landscp You may sec the resuit of what he is doing in the city's etangi,, skyline - or out where the corn grows tail . .. ini the mushrooming suburbs - or in tbe aew look of Main Street ini a meIlow aid towa. Where many a vacant lot once stood, bc helps fil it witb a fine new school. Where you used ta sec a structure that was an eyesore lyou may now sec a new apartascat bouse, store or other building e playcd a role in providing. Thanks in part to him, many houses risc here and there, or row on raw, in community aftcr comnmunity. New black ribbons of asphait tic town ta town. Somewherc, a new bridge is buit. New industrial plants, tua, are somnetimes the by-praducts of bis helping hand. Perbaps ane of tbem bas providcd you with a job. Who is bel He representa al the millions of litec insurance policyholderr in Canada. And its moncy from their premiums, whicb life insurance campanies invest for them, that makes passible such improvements as these thraugbout the nation. Sa, if you are a life insurance policyholder building sccurity for your family and yourself, yau're alsa helping to build a better Canada! AT YOUR SERVICE!I Atroined Rf. und.r«rite, reprosenting oneO of the more thn 50 Canadian, British ond Unitd States lif. insur- once componies in Canada, will gladly holp y.u plan fer your famaly's ,.curity and yoeu n»n ealuter y.au. Roly ou hirni THE UFE INSURANCE COMPANIES IN CANADA édk la Goocl Citizenshîp ta own Lii. Insurance" L253D George Van Bridger, Manager. TI1C KET S TO EVERYWHERE Air, Rail or Steamship Consuit JURY & LOVELL Bowmanville 15 Kmgt St. W. - Phone 778 5 a.m. Io 7 a.m. SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 19Z4 Electric power will be off for the entire area of the Town of Bowmanville during the above hours. This interruption is necessary Io make repairs and necessary maintenance to sub-staiion feeders. In case of inclemeni weaiher the power interruption will be posiponed until Sunday, June 271h Bowman ville Public Utilities Commission e 1 l L liý- -