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The following are excerpts from a speech delivered býy C. D. Johnston, Chair- xïinan of the Board, U.S. Chamber of Com- -xnerce. As we read it we thought it worthy of reprinting and much better than suggesting New Year's resolutions. Read it and see if it doesn't set you think- ing, on a higher plane: Business and religion are not separate worlds. Business is people, sixty-five mil- ,lion of them in our country alone-they take their religion ta work with them and they frequently take their work ta church with them. Religion will not fulfill its functian by stressing "thou-shalt-nots." True religion is the life we live, not the creed we profess, and some day it will be recognized by quality and quantity and .lot by brand. A character standard is even more important ta a stable world than an inter- niational gold standard. Just as democracy is the most difficult ta maintain of ail political systems-so a program of individual expression of in- dividual convictions is the most demand- ing of ail religiaus systems. But this is the challenge we face. Do we want ta stand by and wait for The editor of the Oshawa Times- Gazette in bis ieading editorial in the Sat- urday issue did some commendable boast- ing about Osbawa Rotary Club wbich was ~onoring the city officiais with an annual civic day luncheon at its meeting on Mon- àay. Up ta that point the editor ran true ta form. But when ho went on ta say: «Oshawa is in the unique position of being the oniy community in Ontario in wbich a service club sets aside its first luncheon of the year ta do honor ta thosoeiected and appointed civic representatives. . - We have flot been able ta find any other Ontario community in which this is done", we take exception ta this statement. Brotber Hood, your eyesigbt must be becoming dimmed or your memory is slip- ping in your aid age, for right in your neighbouring town of Bowmanville aur Rotary Club bas been observing a similar ceremony of honoring aur civic officials lad administrators, dating back at ieast Wbether the ail-Canada natural gas pipeline is a success or failure financially, under the proposed public f inancing o! the 700-mile Nortbern Ontario section, the general public can hardly reap the major benefit. In the first place, thougb the goeon- monts of Ontario and Canada will provide the moneyý on behaîf of the wboie public, comparatively few people will actually be gas users. Then if the proj oct, with gev- ernment aid, is a financial success, the American interests who own majority Advocates 6f freer international trade, Ottawa, seem to prefer economie inter- Including the Federal Government at dependence ta independence. Such views, however high-minded, fail ta take account of degree to which nation- alism stili dominates the thinking of some- new Moses with some modern counterpart of a pillar of cloud and a pillar of fire ta lead us at some yet-ta-be- determined time ta some as-yet-undeterm- ined land af promise-taking the risk of being misled by innumerable false proph- ets before the true Moses appears? We have an alternative! We can pull up our socks, re-read for ourselves the Golden Rule, the Sermon on the Mount, and the Ton Commandments, firm up our inward resolutions and start in ta lead for, ourselves, each in bis awn way, the fuller spiritual life that business and industrial progress, scientific progress, and educational and cultural advances have now made possible. We can continue in aur comfortable lethargy and invite disaster. Or we can embrace the most difficult alternative-spiritual pioneering. Pioneer- ing may be thrilling on occasion, but it also involves many uncomfortable or bitter experiences, mis-steps, tumbles, *blisters, trials and hardships. But through spiritual pioneering, one may gain a sense of fulfilîment, a sense of participation in the creation of a far, far botter world. The future we plan for begins today. Farm Groups Need Better Public Relations The editotr of The Statesman bas occasionaliy been labelled, or accused of, being "an armchair farmer." Sometimes *we take such a comment as a compliment . and other times not s0 complimentary. ýBut whatever the "tag" they wish te pin on him. The Statesman bas aiways endeav- ored ta be the mouth-piece of Durham County farmers in presenting their side of the stary. In other words we try ta do a public relations job in their behaîf, from the grass roots level, wbich is lamentably lacking in Sa many f arrn organizations. Often the daily press is accused o! negiecting ta publicize the farmers' prob- lems in their news and editoriai coiumns. It is not aur intentions te plead the case for the dailies on this subject, for it is our obcervation that most metropolitan an!d provincial dailies are quite happy ta :give generous space ta important agricul- .ural subjects. The trouble, as we see it, is that farmers, as a group, do net appreciate the importance of public relations with the press. There is one exception ta this ciass. Il is the Canadian Holstein Fresian Assoc- lation of Brantford, wbich everlastingiy floods the daiiy and weekiy press with their propaganda on the ieast provocation. When one of their breed makes a record in milk production, top saie's price or a prize winner at a fair or exhibition. Yet we have neyer known this association ta express their thanks, in word or deed, for the columns of free publicity the press bas given them. Such neglected courtesy is a common weakness in human nature which many editors accept in silence, but continue giving the cream of publicity in free puffs, be it about a herd sire or a dam which is a good milker. Our suggestion is that every farm group should have a public relations direc- tor, or publicity secretary, ta keep the public informed on the news and problems o! their particular group. It wili cost money, but it is an investment that wîll pay big dîvidends. If the O.A.C. hasn't a course in public relations it should have one. Pick one of the bright farm lads who shows aptitude for such work, and not a high pressure city youth who wouldn't know a Yorkshire from a Shorthorn. 28 years. How do we know? The writer of this comment is a charter member of the Rotary Club (1924) and during bis tenure of office as Mayor in the years 1929 and 1930 this gesture af goodwili was observed by our Rotary Club. As further proof for the Mater City editor the record shows that the late F. L. Fowke, a former Mayor of Oshawa and an M.P. for South Ontario, was guest speaker at our- civic lunchoon an Pcb. 5, 1930. To keep the record unbroken our Rotary Club is again ceiebrating this important annual civie honor by entertaining the city fathers and their retinue of deputies and otber off iciais on Firiday nligbt when it is expected Hon. Wm. Goodfeleow, Minister of Municipal Affairs, will be the speaker. The oditor o! The Statesman is send- Ing a special invitation ta the editor of the Oshawa Times-Gazette ta be bis fratornal guest an this occasion, se that "Mac" wili see first hand that Bowmanville Rotary Club doesn't take second place te its paternal club in Oshawa. centrai will reap the greatest benefit. If it is net a financiai success, the situation will probably be net unlike past experience of gevernment financing o! railway com- panies - government will be forced into the gas pipeline business and the public wili pay any lossos. The aniy way the Canadian public can really benefit is for gevernment ta stay eut o! the pipeline deal entireiy. Lot the private interests build the lineoen their own. Lot gas users pay for it in their gas bills. peoples and gevernments alike in other ceuntries. Canadian trade policy, tee, appears ta tako ne account of the wide wage gap between this and other countries. Average hourly earnings for industrial workers in Canada, for example, are far bigher than prevailing wage rates in Italy, Japan, France and the United Kingdom. Censequently, goods of comparable quaiity can be produced much more cheapiy in those countrios than in Canada. When foreign goods, protected by the wage gap, enter tho Canadian market, they can dispiaco Canadian-made geods and deprivo Canadian workers o! their jobs.I Equality of opportunity ta trade in world markets is highiy desirable. It resuits in compotition that brings real benef its ta the consumer, wherever ho may be. Unequal compotition, with no tariff protection against the wage gap, however, can be disastrous. It wilI ho interesting ta see what effect the Japanese trade delegation which arrived in Vancouver this week, will have in their desire te flood the Canadian market with thoir cheap labor textiles. Experience is wrhat you get wben you'ro looking for something else. A man owes it te himself ta beconie successful. Once successful, ho owes it ta the Income Ta>x Department. TITE CANADIM~ STATESMAM flOWMAtIVTLLU ~NTAMO TfflIRSDAT. EA1~. lIth. lUS )RIALS ,Unr t/he 8cktor s lTail The Future We Plan Fqr Begins Today 25 YEARS AGO (1931) Rev. J. U. Robins of Trinity Church bore accepted a cail ta Listowel, and the pastor o! Listowel United Churcb, Rev. E. F. Armstrong, took Trinity puipit. Mr. Robins was a char- ter member of Bowmanville Rotary Club. Business o! the late Alan M. Williams, %funeral director and furniture dealer,- was sold ta Arley W. Northcutt o! Bow- manville and Aubrey J. Smith e! Port Hope. According ta a custom o! aver 50 years, Bandmaster Wm. Grant ceiebrated bis birthday tM7th) New Year's Eve by playing selections on bis car- net from the door o! bis home. Writer o! Mapie Grave Re- fiections asked: Can you re- cali when' Wm. Cox and famiiy, Hampton, moved into the big brick bouse in the famous "Evergreen Circie?" And adds that 21 o! these stately trocs went down in a terrible winter blizzard, the circle being for- ever broken. Death o!f11ev. James W. Raa, Tarante, a former pastor o! Orono Presbyterian Churcb, was noted. An Orono iandniark, the steeple on the Centre Street Church, was removed for safe- ty's sake, as it began ta rock in a gaie. Norman Green, Coundilbor in Cartwright Township in 1930, wa selected Reeve ovçr Fred W. Hyland, former Reeve, in a close vote. 49 YEARS AGO (1907) Installation of officers o! Fler- once Nightingale Lodge, I.O.O.F., was foliowed byr an eyster sup- per at the parlers o! the now Noble Grand, Thos. Ted. Vice- Grand. was T. Wesley Cawker; Treas.-Markus Mayer (installod in this office about 65 successive terms according ta the repart); Financiai Sec'y-Harry H. Allun; Roc. Sec'y-John J. Mason. M. A. James and Frank H. Kydd were members o! the installa- tien teams. Editor's Note-By a coinci- denco on Saturday last,' Jan. 7, 1956, Markus Roengk, grand- son o! Markus Mayer, told the editor ho had a gold jewel pro- sented ta bis grand!ather by Florence Nightingale Lodge on April 17, 1901, "in recognition o! 25 yoars' service as Treas- urçr.* Among the weddings which took place on January ist and Day with our daughter, Mr&. Edwin DeGraff and her hus- band. We drove thraugh snow four feet high in the mountain areas. It made us tliink a! the days when we lived in Ontario. I bad almost fargatten how cold snow could be, as we never have snow here in the Valley., My busband joins me in wishing you and yours a very Happy and Prosperous New Year. 380 Lakeshore Raad, Mirnico, Toronto 14 Dear Mr. James, I arn enclosing money order for Statesman for 1956, just couldn't bbe happy without it. Season's greetings to your- self and family and the staff. Very sincerely yours, Edith M. Bray 821 Hammondb*St. North Bay, Ont. Dear Sirs, Please find enclosed$40 money order for aur subscrîp- tian renewal. We look forward ta the paper's arrivai eac1h week and read it thoroughly. We miss the Ed Youngman colum-n but enjoy reading "if". Yours truly, Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Edwards 45 Mimico Avenue, Mimico, Toronto 14. Dear George, Knowing your fondness for garden vegetables, I enclose four leaves of lettuce (The faiding kind) for the hom~e town paper which is read fromn caver ta caver every week., This is the 46th year that 1 have taken The Statesman- eight years in Bowmanville and 38 years here and in 'To- ronto. I do not recognize 95 per cent of the names I sce in the paper but occasionally I corne a cross the names o! some- old- timers like mysel! but sad 'ta say some of them are in the obituary columns. I have just been retired £rom the Civil Service (Unemploy. ment Insurance Commission) and I find it hard ta get used ta having sa much time ta spare. Possibly I may carne back ta Bowmanvilie ta live, 1 have not quite decided yet. But onea thing I do know is when .The Great Architect a! the un- ivers.e makes his final cail the last long ride wili be ta my home tawn. Sincerely, Henry Spencer 4140 Mulberry Lane, Sacramento, California Dear Dr. James: Once again a new year has rolled around and I arn writ- ing ta let you know that I re- ceived your card saying that my aunt, Mrs. Seward Tyler, and my father, Mr. Fred Hock.- in, had renewed a subscription ta The Canadian Statesman in aur name for another year. I would like ta thank them, also yourself, for the year round pleasure we receive each time The Statesman arrives. We do enjoy reading ail the home town news, it seems ta bring us a littlp nearer home. This Christmas, the floods in California brought sorrow and sadness ta numerous families but we, in Sacramento, were very fortunate ta be spared due ta new dams which have been constructed in this area. We have just returned frotn Yreka in northern California where we spent New Yearls In the Dim and Distant Past litn heStateaman lil. 2nd were Winifred Isabel Beitb and Charles P.. Blair; Almyra Haggith and Donald McDonald;, Mabel Luelia Argue and Clar- once E. Thomas. Principal John Elliott o! the High School preached at a Sun- day evenirig service at the Meth-I odist Church and proved a fluentI speaker. A$100 mortgage an the home O! 'Blind Michael" Coilinson was paid off by a group o! kindly citizens. Prize donated by Prof. John Squ air of Tarante University ta a Bowmanville High School student obtaining highest stand- ing in departmental examina- tiens for junior teachers and matriculation was won by Rupert Hamiyn. A note on current topics says that bath French and German armed forces could be considered te include aerîal machines, and further imrvements were look- ed for. Count van Zeppelin's air- sbip made a maximum speed o! 30 miles an heur. OBITUARY MRS. GEORGE A. KNIGHT In failing heaitb tho laat few yoars, Elizabeth Burns, belov- ed wife o! the late Gea. Albert Knight, passed away at the Stathaven Rest Home, Dec. 20th, in her 83rd year. The youngest daughter o! the late Michael and Ann Burns, she was born in Darllngton Town- ship, Juiy lst, 1873, on the Burns homestead naw occupied ly Mrs. Rhea Burns. Mrs. Knight spent the flrst part o! ber marrnîod life in the west, farming at Dauphin, Man. They g ave up !arming a!tor the P.irst World War and carne back ta Bowmanville. Until twa years ago , Mrs. Knight Iived at 21 Concession St. She was a member o! St. Paul's United Church. The funeral was beld from Morris Funeral Chapel. Bow- manville, on Friday, Dec. 23. Rov. Harold Turner condiuctezi the service. Interment was in Bowmanville Cemetery. Mrs. Knlght leaves ta rnaurn bher passing soveral nieces and nephews in and around Baw- manville. Also two nieces, ane in DeKalb, Ill., and ene in Rock! ord, Ill. Pallbearers wero James Abernethy, Gordon Richards, Frank Burns, George Cherring- ton, Howard Foley'and Harry Ham. 7,-,,' It was brought ta my atten- tion lately how scientific we have becorne in the feeding of aur children. Since it was dis- covered quite a few years ago that gne of aur children was allergic ta oranges, we have very rarely had any ini the house with the idea of remov- Ing temptation. Since that time however, none of them has lacked the benefits derived from this lusciaus fruit, since aur scientists now have al their godriess locked inside a few draps, which strangely enough produce no harmful results. However at Christmas, friends and relatives kindly brought us packages a! fruit and in each one were severai round, golden oranges. Our Youngest member wha has no recollection af the hours we spent measuring the exact arnount o! orange juice for ber morning snack, along with other neyer ending chores of boiling, cleaning, squeezing, si!ting, pouring and delivering o! this precise science was the proud recipient af many )! these dehicacies. 'She decided as she does witb many other things, flot ta seek parental ap- praval before embarking an tha digesting o! one a! them. What was aur borror ta find that she bad not the slightest idea of haw ta go about it and had herself decided that they were much over-rated. She found that she could not even swal- low the first mouthful and no wonder-she had started work- ing at the outside and had a mouth!ul <very full) of toug.h oid skin. I wonder what she wouid do wîth a pineappie? PAETWC EDITO ton Baker. - the year, "Well, bless yo' l' pointed heads." On Edward R. Morrow's Program, 'Person to Person' on Frlday, night lie Inter- 'viewed that piano playlng Mdoi, Liberace. One of the questions put to the man of candIelight was, had lie considered gettlng married. To whlch the great one dimpled, dlsplayed his mouthful of Ivories and said lie was looking for- ivard to meeting Princess Margaret, who was pretty and shared many of bis In- terests. Ail 1 iant to add is HUH 1 How 1 hate wearing bats. 1 have nothing against them on other people, as a rule but for myseif I could let ail the Lily Dache's go out of business and neyer shed a tear. The rage at the moment seems to be some- thing to sit on top of the bead Sincerely yours, Mrs. John E. Hopps The foilawlng letter is clip- Iped fram the Port Perry Star o! Jan. 5th and we reprint as many of Mr. Hutcheson's friends in his native tawn of Bowmanville will regret to slearn o! bis accident, but wil] be giad ta know he is home and nTaking satisfactory pragress. Port Perry, Dear Mr. Editor: As you know, I arn out of the bospital and you likely know mare about how I got there than I do, for ail I know Lis that I was walking home from the Anglican Parish Hall after attending the Annual Sunday School Christmnas Tree entertainment and had. reach- ed Ted Jackson's corner and was considering taklng to the road which was bare and dry whiie the sidewalk up the hii loaked very slippery, when the next thing I knew was wben iwaking with a start the next marning 1 found mysel! in a strange bed in a strange room. A nurse looked in just thon, and seeing 1 was awako and bowiidered, came forward and asked me if I knew where I wvas, to which I replled, I cer- tainly did not know where I was nor how I got there, te which she repiied, that I was in the Mernorial Hospital, that I had been brought in the pre- viaus evening by Mr. Brignal in his new Ambulance, uncon- sciaus, having been hit by a boy on a bicycle and knockod in- sensible. He could hardly have knacked me sensible -That was tee much ta expect. Shortiy after this friends be- gan ta arrive with eut flow- ors, potted plants, cake, cook- ies and candy, much ta my embarrassrnent as I had nover been treated this way beforo. I anly hope 1 can remember their names that 1 may thank them personaiiy but in the meantime ailow me tai do si) through the coiumn a! your wideiy read paper. To make a long story short, I may say that it was oight days before Dr. Dymond allowed me te beave and Mr. AI. Allin kindiy motared me home. I wouid like ta say thnt while 1 have always thaught highiy o! aur Memôrial Hospi- tal my experience there im- pressed me with the kindness, ef!iciency, courtesy and service of the staff and nurses and I hope ail your readers will do ail they can ta support this valuable adjunet ta aur com- munity. H. G. 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Broadway is bavlng a field day just now celebrat- Ing Helen Hayes' fltty years on the Amerlemj stage and also Lily Pons' twenty-five years Both et these ladies are perfection lu their chosen fields aMd have endeared tiqnaelvn to millions aIl over thé world. Since the advent et television we now have the privîlege of hAvint thein ln our living roome and enjoying the lncompar*ble thrill of their beauty and majesty and 1 hope grow- Ir lng a lîttle better by the contact. The style of an author should be the image of bis mind, but the choice and commxand of lzînguake is the fruit of e±ér- cise.-Edward Gibbon. The only people who neyer fail are. those who never try -lka Chase. The man wba wakes up find bimself famous bas not been sleeping long-John New- There lsa a father ln this town wlio rather flaunts bis army service ln the face o! bis family. His old- or son plays the trumpet in our school band so if fa- ther bas to get up early lie pleys reveille on the trum- pet whieh immedliately starts the dog to bowling and bnlngs down the wrath of bis entire famlly on his bead or at Ieast It would if lie hadn't left for work just a few moments be- fore bis wif e bits the last stop on ber seramble to crase him forever. No won- der hoclias to throw bis bat ln the door before going in for lunch. Whèn the cast o! 'Porgy and Boss' arrlved in Lenin- grad thousands of p e ople jamrned the station ta welcome them. John McCurry who was the first member o! the cast ta stop of! the train was present- cd with a bouquet, beamed and made the thank You speech of Let's Keep The Record Straight lKeep Our farm-fresh cream always on liand. It costs so littie ... yet adds so much to your family's coffee enjoyment. % and ½ pinta. Glen Rae D a'iry MA 3-5441 Bowmanville'ü Let Private lnterests Build the Pipeline Competing With Japanese Cheap Labor Establishod 1854 with whjcrh in incorprated The. Bowinanvjlle News. The Newcastle !ndepnd.nt and The Orono News lOist Yeaz of Continuous Service to the Town of Bowmanvi))e and Durham County qN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SUESCRIPTON RATES 14.00 a Year, strictly in advance $5.00 a Year in the United States Authout.d u Second Cama Mail Pont OiItoe D.partment. Ottawa Puibl-bd by THE JAMIES PUBLISHING COMIPANY Bowmanville, Ontario GEO. W. JAMES, Eniroz v~- ..~ f I TEE CANADIAN STAIrESMAN. BOWI&ANVM=. ONTARM TRUFMAT. FAIt. 121h, IM bu