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e~ T~ ¶NE CIIAlIANXTArRR~&IvunwÂmt.u~ fN~'UTE EDTTORIALS The Price of Liberty As we read the following editorial in the Virginia Gazette of Williamsburg, Va., the theuglit came to us that prasperity, bumper farm crops and fabulous wealth of a nation brings its full share of responsi- bility and tremendous problems to solve, which at times seems unsurmountable. But you read this editorial and see what your reactions are: Today the United States stands su- preme as the world's richest nation - both as a financial power and as a pro- ducer of food. Despite the fact that more than two billion dollars worth of food stocks have been dispersed in the last 17 monflis, the United States Government stili has the greatest surplus ever known, which is said to be valued at some seven billion dollars. Reports state that this. food supply is stored in bins and warehouses, owned or rented by the Commodity Credif Cor- poration, and in farmers' hands on whieh the CCC lias made commodify lbans under Governmenf price support programs. The American taxpayers pay 700 million dallaîs a day jusfta store the products CCC lias in ifs inventary. Ac- cording ,ta figures released November 3, 1954, the CCC owned nearly haîf a billion dollars worth of dairy products including 377 million pounds of butter, 395 million pounds of cheese and 221 million pounds of dried milk. The Government also owns 743 million bushels of wheat, 487 million bushels of corn, as well as many other items. - Under the riglifful theory thaf it is better ta give. away this vast amount of foodsfuffs - or even sell it at bargain prices - rather than have it spoil in the warehoiÙses, the Government lias evolved a program for ifs disposal. Some special sales are made available in our own country and free donations are made ta welfarç agencies in all stetes. Donations of butter, milk and cheese were made ta the free school lunch programs jn 1954, and 50 million dollars worth of food will be allocated ta this program in 1955. Foreign Operations Administrator Harold E. Stassen lias been given 300 mil- lion dollars worfh of foodstuff s for distri- bution in countries where the need is great and urgent. This will go ta meet famine or other relief requirements in bath Europe and Asia. Famihe and poor ecanomies breed Communisf converf s. America, ih lier greaf surplus of food lias the finest opportunify ever afforded ta help build a stronger and better world. No one need go liungry in America for food is always available for those in need. But in many other countries the food is not available from their own supply. Gaod food can build strong bodies and minds wvhich, in turn, are more likely ta buîld sronr' nations of frcedom-loving people, friendly ta us. The American taxpayer seemingly pays higli for this humanitarian aid. But if is small, indeed, when we consider that no price is tao higli for the liberty which we cherish and enjoy, and which we would desire for all peoples. 'Influence of Weeklies Lauded*byBatik, And Daily Newspa pers We have been cîaiming for a weekly pressa k something new, good many years the powerful but only that It is entering influence the weekly newspa- Upona new era, with adver- pers across Canada have and tisers andtergesshwn ar~e stili exerting for the Up- new appreciation of ite worth." building o! this great and Circulation Boon growing nation. 0f course, we Canada's 963 weekly news- have sometimes been accused aeshvacobndiru of being prejudiced in aur papers have,7,a40,omhine circ- views due to the position we te ation 0f 2,7,140, te aewt have occupied for neariy flftytesa.Smedtibeafe in eeky ouralim.hundred copies every week, yre ars ro os e i while others have a circulation Trs e r nhson ews weoathbi n the thousands. The growth o! se inb hi ewlwng onthesuburbain communities was a sam jo tht lng.boon to weeklles.» It w.as therefore with con- An article wrltten by William siderable pleasure and satis- H. Cranston. publisher of the faction that we read the past Mfidland Free Press Herald, is week in several daily ilewaia- quoted ta showv that the aver- pers and other journals an ac- age paper represented in the colade by the Royal Ba&nk of Canadian Weekly Newspapers Canada Monthly newsletter for Association covers 82 per cent the weekly editors, wlch in-of the homes in its trading area. dividual tbey 'term "the man The newsletter says: "There with the eye-shade and the ink- are few millionaires among the stained fingers." That descrip- 53 publishers who are mem- tion is mil.d campared ta S9ome bers o! the Canadian Weekly names we know editors haveý Newspapers Association, but been calicd! every weekîy newspaper re- In the Canadian Press des- presents a respectable amouint patch intraductory paragraph of capital for the size of its it says: tovn. Something new ha-, been W. Telfer. managing director added to the life o! the weekly of the C.W.N.A., Toronto, is newspaper, so far removed in quoted as writing:. this atom age from its tradi- List Virtues tional aura of the cracker bar- "I somneone asked me to list rel and the pot-bellîed stave. the virtues of the weekly press, The bank's monthly newslet- 1 would give readership the ter says:1 prime position. Any paper if it "Use of weekly newspapers is f0 be influential must flot for advertising has beeîi grox.- only have subscribers-it must ing steadily, flot only amon, have subscribers who read At local merchants but âmong thoroughly. concerns that advertise in ail "My own opinions and those narts of the country. Ti-e--e na- of many readers and publishers tional advertisers are realizing with wbom I have talked, make that the good coverage givcin it appean that the wveekly news- local tradesmen would be iapers have perhaps a better equally good for them. dlaim ta this criterion o! warth "This is flot to say that the than other newrspapers." 49 YEARS AGO (1906) An advertisemeîit appeared on the front page negarding the application o! the Toronto and 'Vonk Radial Company fa the Legislative Assembly for per- mission ta lay a railwey f0 Whitby, Bowmanville and Ca- bourg. The old right - o! - way can still be seen from1 H-ighway No. 2. Sad death of Mrs. Algernon Vice at the age of 21 yenrs was necorded. Shie wes the only deughter o! Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Jackman. .Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier spoke at a Caniadieni Forestny Convention in Ottawal on the importance of reforesta- 1 tion and maintaining a large foresf domain. Death was reconded of Mary Coleman Windatt. mother o! Mrs. Thos. Tod, Bowmanville. Local boys who had god.ne1 ouf West and- returned home for a visit were F. H. Orcherd of Miami, Man., end J. A.I Mountjoy o! Howard, Alta., bath of wham were doing well. Officers of the Victor Hockey Club were elected at a meeting in Dr. Devitf's office. Hon. Preî. [-C. Lehmann; Pres.-Dr. De- ivift; ist vice-.-F. C. Vanstone; 2nd vice-A. Edick; Sec. Treas. -G. Beith; Manager-H e Cready; Maneging Committee - C. Lunney, G. Edick, A. Edick. They had Januarv sales in 1906 too. S. W. Mason & Co., F. A. Haddy, McMurfry's and The Mason Co. were al edver- tising big stock teking sales. Orono - Mr. William Pingie o! Kansas, enjoyed visiting oid friends affer an absence of 30 years. Cartwright Council held ifs firsf meeting of the year with Reeve Geo. McLaughlin and Caunicillors James Byers, Thos. L. Bruce, Gibson Hooey and Robert Jobb teking the oatn of office. Tribute %vas paid by the 0f- ficial Board of the Dominion Methodisf Church. Ottawa, to the late 0. J. Jolliffe, son o! Rev. W. Jolliffe of Bowman- Ville. The deceesed wes Cles- sics Master et Ottawa Coile.-i- ate Institute and active in hîs church. W.M.S. Leaders HoId Annual Meeting At Peterborough The annuel meeting o! the Peterborough Presbyterial Sa- ciety o! the W.M.S. of the Presbytcnîal Cbunch was hcld in Sf. Peul's Çhurch, Peterbor- ough. on January 12fh. The gathcning was anc a! the larg- est with 75 ladies rcgistened tram the area from Bowman- ville ta Campbell!ord, and Co- bourg to Apsley. Tbe delegafes from Sf. An- drew's Church, Bowmanvill,, who affendcd the meeting were 1%-rs. A. G. Scott, Mrs. Howard Gaud, Mns. D. S. Fer- guson, Mrs. WVilfred Kifson and Mrs. L. T. McLeugblin. Mrs. Flore Galbraith, Bowmanvile, wes again eiected historien o! the sociefy. Guest speaker Miss Ruth Welker, Toronto, regional se- cretary for Ontario and Que-i bec, ini an impressive and chai- lcnging address, stressed the point "Our work is only effec- tuai if backed Up by prayen." She askcd thaf the' objectivei pf $67,000 for national missions, 25 YEARS AGO (1930) Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Werny, Hansey St., celebrated their. Golden Wedding annivcrsery when thev were presented wifh e purse a! gald. bouquet o! 50 yeliow roses and a gold wetch for the bride and groom. Mns. Miidred Spry wes in- stelled as the ncw Noble Grand o! Beehive Rcbekah Lodge; Mrs. Jessie Pnitchard as new president o! Ladge Durham, Daughfers o! Engiand. Death o! Mrs. Mary L. Wash- ington, formerly Shenin, was recorded. Mrs. Washington was known fa many femilies as a prectical nurse. Another weil known citizen,I resident o! Hampton, John J. Virfue, pesscd away, fether o! Mrs. C. W. Siemon, Bowmen- ville. Mn. Tommy Ross was recciv- ing praise and mucb comment for the smart redecoretion job et the Rayai Theatre, elso the cquipment for the "faîkies". Expendifunes o! Bowmanville Public Scbool Board for 1929 emaunfed ta $21,273.35 o! which $15,928.00 was feachers' salar- ies. Mr. Leonard Doncaster, To- ronto, !ormerly o! Orono, ieft for a three month sfay in Ger- meny wbere be ves being sent by bis firm ta study mefbods there in prepanaf ion and manu- facture o! printing inks. Bowmanvillc Juniors beet Oshawa Juniors 2-1 in Tayiar's Rink. Mention xvas made of the size and visibilify in Oshawa's nexv arene. *Newcstle-A new nomina- tion meeting hed fa be held since if was found that mecm- bers hed not complied wifh certain regulafions o! the Mun- icipal Acf. A young man recently grad- uafd tamcollege met an eld- erly man 80 years 'o! age. Affer the À.vo discussed many fopics o! the day and were about ready ta depant, the young man seid, "As you are growing quite old. w'ýe may neyer meet again," whereupan the eldenly man, brake in fa exclaim, "Youn. man, I would bave you know that many rnore men die unden the agce af 80 than aven 80V" this year be thaught o! nof in dollars and cents but as men an~d womcn, boys and girls, who are the responsibility o! the W.M.S. "Oniy a minority of aur church bas supporfcd the mis- sianany progrem" seid Miss Walker. 'There neyer bas been enough money ta do our job, or enaugh personnel." She urged a canscienfiaus en- deavaur ta bring other chunch 1members inta the work-"But do not tell tbem ail you have ta oo is corne toae meeting once a month. Tel fhem thene is work ta be donc and thaf time, maney, prayers and sacrificeà. are nccdcd." Miss Welker painted out that the door is open ta fhe church right in Northern Ontario and e van is needed there. She ouf- lined the fine wonk accom- plisbed by fhrec vans wvhich now tour the northeiýn part o! British Columbia and fthe Prai- rie provinces during the sum- mer. 'National missions are helping ta support some who came fa Canada for leadership training and then neturn to their native countnies and she !elt this was elso wcll-spcnt money. Snel said also thaf gifts presented through fthe part immigration work -speak volumes" While in a Hc Harry Spençer Local Interestin( Ward 9, Toronto General Hasp. January 11, 1935. 9Dean George, Meny tbanks for your letter o! Jan. àth received fodey. You ment ioned reminiscences o! the aid home town. Sfrengely, that bas been in my mmnd for a long time. I was born in Toronto but. when anyone asks rme where I came from the an-! swer withaut any besitation is "Bowmanville". It bas been and alweys will be home. Now bere goes for the dimr and distant pasf: How many remember Knepp's Roller boat wblcb went eground in the lake opposite the aid G.T.R. station at Darlingtan and the scores- wha walked up on the Sunday affernoon ta see if? The wreck befween fast freight No. 94 and the wey freiglit on the west bridge on July 1, 1901, whien 19 cars of texpont meet were wrecked and .the butchers of the town fook La trimming? The late Andy McSorley was the fireman on the east baund fast freight. It was bis first and lasftntrp. He jumped from the engine just before the crash and sustained a braken ankie. That ended bis railroading. I think be followed the tinsmith frade with Harry Rice and W. H. Dustan from then on unfîl lhe died. The accident at the wharf Rad crossing when the Knight girls and their cousin were kilied by the International Lim- ited. The saine train bit a car in 1913 killing five people ouf a! six passengers. AIl were from Oshawa. Do you remember when the samne train travelling at a high rate o! speed struck W. J. (Bul- ly) Woods, station agent, wben lie' was ighting the sema- phares? The "j igger" he wes riding was smashed ta pieces and be wes stunned only. At the turn of the century when bicycles became papular, do you remember tbe cinder patch built by the Town Coun- cil from King and Liberty Streets ta the east side beach. At that time summer homes were belng bult on tbe east side. Do you recel wben mny grandfathen, William Winter, had a boat livery where you could nent a boat for the day for 25c. Do you rememiber when Frank "Mugg" Morris wvent ta Bisr'ey and took ail the top prizes, excepf the King's Pnize which be missed by ane paint, and the night be returned and in the midsf of the reception Dr. A. S. Tiliey's bouse ceught an fire? Do you remember the steam- er "Argyle" and the "Enindale" and the rate wer when yau could go ta Toronto and neturn for 30c. Then fhey brought the '"Turbinia" on the job. She went aground at Whitby and they had ta get a special train ta take the pçassengens home as fan east as Newcastle. Do you recaîl when the Dur- hem Rubber Ca., was on King St. just eest o! Ontario St., and the present Goodyear and C. N.R. Sheds and yard were just pasture land? I read Mrs. Herb Todgham's letter witb considerable inter- est. She menfioned the Oliver Mowat, Wmn. Jamieson and the Trade Winds. Another boaf was a neguier celler-"Flora Car- veth". The winter the Mowat, Jamieson, Cerveth and the Sfr. Argyle wintered et the bar- boun. Switching ta basebeli: How is this for a line up o! the Midlend Leegue teami in the eariy 1900's: "Goose"' Osborne and "*Nigger" Crydermen p; "Dusky" Mingcaud c; "Corby" Williams 1sf; "Spud" Wilcox, >spital Bed Does Some g Reminiscing effer gefting a motel room I passed the local cemetery and wvas very much impressed by the neme o! if. If was celled 'Memory Gardens". Dontf you tblnk fh-. t would be a nice name for ours rather tban the coid f..,rmal "Bowmanville Cemetery", wbcre my littIe pal is sleeping and where I expeet fa resf when the timne coas? Widll George, I fhink this let- fter is a long anceand you may be cnamped for space if I con- tinue. 1 bave been here for 10 *weeks and wiil be bere a liff le while longer. I dcveioped ul- cers on bath feet and had ta be operefed an. Thcy amputafed the ]ittlc toe on my left foot and the 4th anc on my righf foot. Thc aperafion was e successý and I arn weîfing for them t. heal. If any of my aid Bownian- ville friends are in the cify et any fime 1 would be glad to sec them. If you arc !rom ouf-o!- town you cen get in whether if is visiting hours or flot. I bave the lest thrce copies o! The Statesman for aur min- ister, Rev. Miltan (Skeet) San- derson who is minister o! North Perkdele United Church of which I am a member. Sincercly youns Harry Spencer Public Library Holds Annual Meeting Jan. 25 are the members of the'Librar will attend this meeting an, take an active part in the elec tion. They are also invited t mrakze suggestions regarding im provements ta the Libraytý the incoming Board whic_ th may eleet. .ýe During the past year the bool card index system was complet ed. A new swinging sign wa erected outside the Town Ha] whîch seems to have guide more people to the Library. ai the membership has Increaseç substantially this year. The, spite of television. An Aberdonian in a fit oi generosity sent out cheques té ail his customers so that the3 might be put in funds ta paN their account. Then in a fi, of remarse he began writing i letter ta his banker stoppýng ai' the cheques, when he woke up stroliing trough thbe vilage ; "I knsw, toachor!" ' LOOK IN THE Yfuow PACESf YEUOW MAES toit »whe,. b biry iii" Before tellîng a story a considerate person will inquire of persans present wliether lielias already fald them tlie story, or if perchance they have heard if elsewliere. He will add that, if sucli is flie case, "Please stop me". If could very well be that the story bas been heard before. Uncter the circum- stances wliaf is the proper reply? Should one stop the narrator? There he is aIl ready to go. No doubt he bas reliearsed the story quietly ta him- self while someone else was tellîng a sfory in which lie was flot interested. The look in his eye shows that lie is keen ta begin. Is if fair to say, "Yes, I have heard the story"? That would rab him of the pleasure of telling if., It may be that there is no particular point ta the story. But if the story is scrapped and another substitufed there is no guadrantee that the Th e Voice At the start of a new ycar, The States- inan wislies ta again empliasize thet if welcomes letters f rom ifs readers on subjecfs of generel interest. Sucli letters are offen very important and are looked upon as "The Voice o! the People." Wc have no objection ta publishing views whicli run contrery ta those o!flice edifor, for lie admits lie is not elways riglit. If mnust be realized, liower, that the editor mnust decide wliat ta print end liow much -always provided, of course, that tlic sense of tlie letter is not changed. From time ta time people send in a leffer intended for publication and append the instruction that we musf not change "the words or flic order." The inference inust only be thaf flie writer consîders lie Edward Gibbon, who wrofe "The De- cline and Faîl of the Roman Empire" in 17î82, listed f iye reasons for the f all of an early civilizafion wvhich, et ane time, em- bodied many of the Christian virtues. Comparing these conditions with those o! present times welI miglit we ponder if v'e will profit by history or must vc acain be forced ta learn flic lard way? Anyway, liere is Gibbon's list: 1. Higlier and higlier taxes ...the WVhat other group in Canada is more generously treated by gavernments, fhrough subsidies, than the farmers? A recent despatch from Ottawa states: Acgricultural price support from 1946- v-hen,-support prices wvere instituted-to March-31 last cost the Canadian taxpayer ?80,163,658. The figure is given in the 1953-54 report of the price support board tabied Iast week in the Commons. Nearly $69.000.000 of the total went ta lt im tallicmt tatrenuaut Etabish.d 1854 with whuch i. incorporated The. Sownanviile N@sm The Newctatle Ind.p.nd.nt and The Orono News lOlst Year of Continuous Service ta the Town of Bowmanvi)le and Durham County AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIPTION RATES $4.00 a Yomr, atictly in advance $5.00 a Year in the. United States Publich.d by THE 1JRMS PUBLISHIG COMPANY Bowmanviile, Ontario Authoelz.d as second Clasa Mail Poot Office D.partg.nt. Ottoaa GEO. W. JAMES, EDiToEt substitute would have a pointt cither. The stary as anc recalîs, may be f airly long. But a substitute could be even langer. Here at least is a stary thaf is known. Is if not better ta accept that than take a chance on a story that is un- known? Affer ail, people wvlo believe in fel- lowshîp with other human beings must expect ta listen ta a goad many stories. Since stories are Iimited in number if is unreasonable ta require that ahl that are told sliould be new. Besides, there is a special cliarm in ald stories just as there is in antique furniture. Sa wliy not let the man go aheed wlfli the s9tory? Thàt will, of course involve felling an untrufli. Those wlio do not like taý tell even a white lie can lessen their sense of guilt bv flot replyirig "no" em- phatically but "I do flot believe so."- Cliristopher Billopp. of the People has a riglit ta dlaim this spece and con- siderat ion. But if is a fact that tlie riglif ta print involves * equelly tlie iglit nofta print. The responsibility for whaf is printed in a newspeper or any periodical rests witli tlic editar, and a correspondent who seeks ta use ifs columns lias privileges but no riglits. Letters must lie brief. They must be signed, alfhough the author may be per- mitted ta use a pen-name, althougli we think enanymous leffers lack sîncerit y by thec writer of sucli letters in most cases. Tliey must not be slanderous or vindictive. Above ehl thcy should state wliat tlie wrifer considers truly ta lie facts for cor- rection, matters ta lie brouglit ta public attention, and constructive in content. spending o! public money for free bread and circuses. 3. The mad craze for pleasure: sparts bccoming each year more exciting and more brutal. 4. The building o! gigantice rmaments wlien the real enemy was within the. li decadence of the people. 5. The decay o! religriaus f aifli; faifli falling into a mere farm, losing toucli witli life and bccoming impotent ta guide flic people. support hog and caffle prices beceuse of flic embargo on shipments of livcstock and livestock produets ta flic United States affer flic outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Saskatchewan in Februery, 1952. Brcatl:do-wn of price support by pro- ducts show: Hogs, $35.734.425; cattie, $33,408,941; epples, $6,106,725; pofafoes, S2.036.175; butter, $1,606,742; skimmed milk, $677.404; dried whitc beans, $194,419; lioney, $177,066, and eggs $65,408. After hearing the freatmenf given a New Canadien and lis famîly, wlia re- cenfly came ta Bawmenville, by anc, of aur citizens, we cannot lielp but thînk some a! aur netive-born Canadiens, who profess ta lic leaders in aur communify, look upon New Canadians as apprapriete game for ruthless exploitation ta satisfy their hunger for flie almighty dollar. Canadian taxpayers sliould enthus- iastically support suggestion of Mr. David L. Tougli, principal o! Tarant o's Forest Hill Collegiafe, fIef higli schools be per- mifted ta suspend or expel students wlio arc flot profiting f romn their attendance, dlaims Thc Fort Erie Letter-Review. Seys Mr. Taugh: "Wc are foolîng ourselves and flic public if we think thaf a secondary school education is a good thing for every- body." Fect, as many teachers reehize. is that Canadien higli schools arc loeded down wifli "students" wlio would be fer better off in somne kînd o! employment. Anticipafing flic argument thaf flicre are flot enougli jobs for them, Mr. Tougli car- rectly remnarks: "If is flot the function of a secondery school ta corral boys and girls justto 0kepl them ouf o! the market." % J 1 ý, i Your Home Too! EVEN if you are careful and watchful of your home, there arc many places where tire can start. CARE helps to prevent tire but Insurance pays for the tire you cannot prevent 1 Insure your home adequate- ly to prevent financlal lor- Consuit g, STUART R, JAMES The fiscal year of the Bow- manvifle Public Library ended on December 31. The full re- port o! the Board for the yeari 1954 is flot yet available, but wlll be read at the annual meet- ing o! the members of the Library which will take place in the reading room on Tues- day, January 25, at 7 p.m. . The members of the Board who will be responsible for look- ing after the affairs of the Library for 1955 will be elected at this meeting. 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