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The Canadian Statesman, Bowmsnvll, Feb. 16, 190 IDITORIAL. COMMENT Have Pickets A eew weeks ago when the New 'York subway strike starteci, union boss )&Ike* Quili (now deceased) and bis cohorts defled the law and got away Wlth it. 0f course that could only happn inthat "crazy" United States ... M'ever >1 ,our beloved Canada where the ' - are held in great respect. T'i4 -' hat many people thought! Obviously, uniion leaders here are well informed concerning events in the U.S.A. and during the racent Guild stiike at the Oshawa Times they decid- ed to emulate their American cousins. They didn't like a law that enabled The Times management to obtain a court order limiting the number of »piekets so they defied the court order openly and brazenly and even had a measure of support from their Member of the Legislature and from clergymen. And what happened when they threatened to muster thousands of union maembers against police, firemen, the armny or any other enforcement agency? The government backed away from a direct confrontation, allowing the law breakers to g et away with their direct challenge. When that happened the Times management could see they had Where She Prices are going up, up and up and like the weather nobody seems to be able to do anythiïig about it. 110w can it be stopped when every year governments have to raise more money to meet increased expenditures for education, pension plans, welf are sehemnes and their own employees' wage increases? ILast week the sales tax in Ontario went up to five per cent and us sinners who smoke anid drink liquor tool; an extra beating. Serve us right! But, a great many other folks in ail walks of life will have to find some additional money for most of the things they need. We feel especially sorry for those who have retired or are living on fixed incomes that each year are growing less and lesa valuable. The phrase is interesting - common bonesty. It says much about the foun- dation of mutual truist on whîch the everyday lite of Canadians is built. We set out newspapers in a corner box with a pay slot in one aide, and it works. Men and women with expensively acquired skills give us their services first and bill us afterward. Almost any store will extend credit easily and quickly. The~ director of the Accounts Departrnent of a large retail establish.- mept aateopLio4.Qr of deliberate chisellers (perbaps 5 per cent of the clientele) moat people are reasonably good risks. Unhappily, though, dlshonesty fi no I ae s ed ike to think. There aindcations that it is on the Increase. SI"0-ifting for instance. Prior to the Christmas buying spree, merchants expected a heavy wave of pilfering. There waa such a demand for security services frorn firms like Pinkerton's, who keep a watcbful eye on slippery- fingered customers, that one newspaper cornrented, "The private eyes neyer had it sO good." The majorlty of these It won't happen, of course, but s professor at Queen' Uiversity wbo is an acknowledged expert ln transporta- tion economîca la looking for.,a multi- millionaire to back )dim in a bld to buy the Canadian National Railways from. the federal governxnent. "For the first tirne in history," Professor J. L. Mc- Dougaîl told the Canadian Transporta- tion Research Forum, "the CNR bas a first-class executivo cere. The defect is in public ownership, not in manage- ment .. . There is quality there. Given commercial management, it rnigbt be made t to psy out sooner than you think." Under public ownership, Prof essor MeDougaîl argued, there are political pressures that do not barsting the management of an enterprise that is prlvately owned. Also, to cope with competitive forces' a privately-owned enterpriso must move earlier and more strongly than a publicly-owned enter. prise. And, wbile publie ownership 0 0-WiII Travel petty thieves are women *ho pick up little items and tuck them into their clothing. Male dishonesty shows up differ- ently. A repairman offers his customer a discount if he doesn't care about a receipt. Often the former jumps at the bargain; after aIl it's only the govern- ment that loses. Not long ago a psychi- atrist remarked that one of the chief subjeçts discussed at the parties he attendled was how to beat the income People , o w an it in à stealing from an individual not only take 'souvenirs' from hotels, deceive Customns Off icers, and knowingly break the laws; they boast about it. Perhaps the stream of 'giveaways' and-the 'no down paymeiit' techniques of modeIn selling are to blame for this blunting of the edge of integrity, but whatever the cause, individuals should take a sharp look at their own habits. We all have a stake in common honesty. Sooner or later, we are the victims if ft disappears. It is a precious comnio- dity. Let's not lose it. means easy access to public funds, private ownership rnay do more with less money. Between 1949 and 1964 the CNR invested $927,000,000 in new equipment and road facilities, compar-. ed to $342,000,000 for the CPR. But, says Prof essor McDougall, the much beavier capital investment of the CNR bas neither achieved a greater volume of traffic nor produced operating ecan- omies. Professor McDougall would like to make an offer of $50 million in cash as a down paynient, with the balance of the purchase price in debentures. His offer would be for the property, exclu- sive of the CNR's $1,780 million debt. He bas approached tbree investment banking bouses with the proposai, but their only suggestion bas been that he f ind a milionaire for a backer. It is a far-fetched idea, of course, but could it be one way of relieving the public of the publicly-owned railway's beavy, cbronic annual deficits? -Clip Sheet ~be~ambau t~eMau Durhamn County'a Grecat Famly Journal Establshed 112 yearsaguo lna 1854 Aise Incorporating The. Eowrnanvlle N e The. Newcastle' Independent The Oxono News SI.. * * :11 *I ,. v * O. ,èldotâtd -MU.cad Caem ail by lduPoai 011cm ePt.. Ottawa. mmd à« POmtUi 0<p@aage la caab Pzoduced .veryW.dnasday by THE TAN=S PUELISHINOCOMANY LBIMD .P.O. BOX 190 62-a8 Kiag St. W.. BowmanvilaOntarlo JON M. IXMES GEO. W. GRAHAM QEO. P. MORRIS EmoPUsum ADvrii. MAuixAm us aMOL .4cepistio dioRsrop = iqbla mibela la lb.tucqe appeatring o«h"aPooL Paruiuion te » * , s hos , c'W pSadt md l «T Siwbatmoevr. pilmleyby pboagxal6mb o m publctlu 'mua b1, aledtrou thepzm6abr=mdlb pnatur. Ani uauboriasd SUBSCRIMTOtN RATES 8.0a Yom, mtrlctli a dymS $. 6 50 a Ym l the lnI*, s it Afh"TPAlloa ve!pom swM bbu asa t.o voli «meThe oSm a ws.mm acPba dvetbm. WO muMud«a l. adta d btm wuolau m ouaqed by MLb. e ya»rm p. bomuada1 Imm 01S$NÉ aodvetl.usutla nquo.bd we ibWmheodsia greceun'Ipily no" Sa iffu mm Iou. a" mmd bo b«» cnsul » nea' o u. a Mmm *9 bmcà&*adkoa swt.mm M a Umlit boli Ma M oed musa ommboetoIthe oek. au& adfutboum the a pos oOCplSd by &. a Uert bom le »t. * palo omdOS &I ~nugin ansC no protection for their legal rights. They had no alternative but to literaily give up and give in to demands that originaily they wýere nat prepared to accept. In our opinion that can hardly be called collective bargaining, that is "lshotgun" bargaining. But the story doesn't end there. Having once defied the government and the courts, the UAW leadership who to ail intents and purposes were in charge of the sirike, were now prepared to go farther afield. There is a smnall textile strike on in Peterborough and already according to reports, the UAW has wired them, advising that pickets from Oshawa will be sent en masse, if desir- ed, to once more defy a court order limiting the number of pickets. By ckelaving action in Oshawa, the government has only postponed the day when such open defiance of the law must be met head on. After the second or third or fifth time, the decision to meet such a challenge will be just that much more difficuit to make and carry out. Only chaos can resuit if union leaders are allowed to make their own laws and enforce them with mob support. Nobody Knows! All manner of pensioners are also going to feel the pinch. So much so, that their pensions will have to be raîsed to meet the new cost of living. Ar.d that will start another round be- cause the millions involved will onoe more have to corne out of taxes. There's no other place it can be obtained or the governments would certainly have found it by now. There's no stopping this upward trend so long as there are automýtic increases built into wage contracts and automatic increases that follow in the price of the articles the workers make. We might as well anticipate the day when silver coins will be almost a thing of the past and we'll need a wheelbarrow full of them to buy the srnallest item. Il £.efters 13 Elgin Street East, Oshawa, Ontario, February 5th, 1966 Dear John : I have been taking turns- every day on picket line of Oshawa Times strikers. Now we are threatened with jail, up ta life, by Lord Thomson via injunction. Therefore "Longboat" may be, along with thousands of fellow* Oshawa citizens, in durance vile after Tuesday. As my life is well spent, being near 82nd birthday, my jail term will flot be very long. But I honestly believe the 25 TEARS AGO (February 20, 1941) Miss A'udrey El11io0t t, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Len Elliott, was pictured in the social page o! the Globe and Mail last Friday, prior to the "At Home" at Vic- toria College where she is social directress. This func- tion is the chief event in Uic college's social season and was held in Simpsan's Ar- cadian Court. The many !riends o! Rev. Capt. W. F. Banister were pleased ta see him in town, Tuesday and Thursday o! this week. Mrs. Banister and Barbara will soon be moving tb Millbrook. Misses Marjorie and Mad- eleine Jones, Toronto, and Miss Dorothy Jones, Mac- donald Hall, Guelph, spent the weekend with their par- ents, Mayor and Mrs. R. O. Jones. Miss Gertrude Wagar, Uni- versity o! Toronto, spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Wagar. Miss Alice Lee, Toronto, and Mr. Harry Lee, Cobourg, spent the weekend with their mother, Mrs. Selina Lee. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Elliott and Jimmy, Peter- borough, spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. J. Albert Cale. Miss Marian Scott, Uni- versity o! Toronto, spent thc weekend with her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Scott. Miss Gladys Jamieson, RN.. Windsor, has been vlsiting her mother, Mrs. R. O. Jamieson. Mr. Ernest Ward, Univers- ity o! Toronto, vlsited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Ward. Dr. Harold Slcmon, o! Toronto, visited his parents, Dr. and Mrs. C. W. Slcm- on. Weekend guests with Mr. and Mrs. Mo Breulin were Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Fogel, Mrs. Starkman and daugh- tcr Carol, Toronto. Peace now reigna utt he Goodyear plant. Goodyear cmployees. represented bg Maurice Cook and Frani Piper, met Company repre- sentatives E. H. Koken and Secrctary at Qageode Hall, Toronte, Frlday, Feb. 14th. Justice Gillanders, cliairman o! the Conciliation Board, reccived Uic above delegates at Il amn. and the pact was !ormally signed. Ebenezer: Hary Worden and Douglas 0ke were visi- tors i Belleville on Sua da". 'tarkvllle: Mr. M. Sut bua aPostion In VsILwa (570 Sf/e hundreds of thousands of my fellow war veterans will take a dim view of my in- carceration in jail after serv- ing overseas in both First and Second World Wars. tor increase the multimillion- aire's bloated fortune. I also think that if I incur jail along with most 23,000 fellow Oshawa men and wo- men my son Sergeant Rex S. Tooley sacrificed his life in vain. In any case I arn stiffly determined to walk along with the workers as my great aild friend IHonourabie Arthur W. Roebuck did 49 TEARS AGO (Februairy 22. 1917> Mrs. D. Jamieson, Winni- peg, Man., bas been visiting her uncle, Mr. Thos. Bing- ham. Mrs. T. H. Everson, Osha- wa, spent the weekend with Mrs. Jas. Courtice. Bowmanville W o m e n 'sa Institute will meet at the home o! Mrs. J. H. Morris, Beech Ave. The Orono News extends congratulations te Mrs. (Dr.> Neil Colville o! that village ini the announcement o! her obtaining, with honors, the degree o! A.T.C.M., (Associ- ate o! the Toronto Conserva- tory o! Music) at the recent mid-winter examinations. Briagadier-General James Mason, Honorary Treasurer o! the Canadian Bed Cross Society reports receiving $100 fromn Mrs. E. R. Boun- sali, Bowmanvîlle, Treasurer o! the Woman's Patriotic Society. 'Miss Ethel Van Nest con- tributed two vocal solos at an entertainment given by the Girls of the Empire Tea Boom, Port Hope, on Wed- nesday evening, Feb. 14, for comforts for soldiers over- scas. Picton Gazette: The Band o! the 235th Battalon with Director Sergt. C. C. Laugh- er, which has rendered such splendid music during the past week, left for Belle- ville on Saturday. Mrs. John Weeks' address is now 1045 Fourth Street., Coeur D'Alene, Idaho. Her son Guard went te Victoria, B.C., and enlisted. He Isaa Bowmanville boy. Senator Robt. Beith was eleçted Honorary President o! the Hackney Horse So- ciety at the annual meeting ln Toronto. Mr. W. E. Jew- eil was clected a director and a member o! the ex- ecutive committee o! the same society. Mr. W. Roenigk ls home !rorn Sarnia, convalescing after an operatian for ap- pendicitis.- Mrs. Wm. Hepburn, Ked- ron. lu spending a few days wlth her sister, Miss Nèttie Ormlston. Mr. Wm. Richards la re- covering !rom InJuries re- ceived from a horsela kick. Mr'. George Hall, Toronto, spent Sunday wlth hi& moth- er. Mrs. Wm. Hall. Miss Margaret Connors, Toronto, Sundayed at home here. Mr. W. Chala was hi Toronto lut week on bus- leus Llzze Connors wau a rucet vistor to Toronto. when he resigned from Mit- chefl F. Hepburn's Cabinet where he was Attorney Generai, winning thereby mny undying admiration. I met hsm flot long ago when lhe received copy of my book "Laugh - Along witli Loai$boat"'. Incidentally, I write odes every day for themen -and girls I walk wlth on plcket Une. Soon they will, I think, go into new opposition paper coming out where Dean Kelly as reporter will, rut sure, see they get in print. Wishing. you, Mr. James, the best. I arn maybe bloody, but unbowed. I have no fear of Bob Boy Lord Thomson In -even theaitStdO Sincerely yours, Ralph R. Tooley. Dear Mr. James: Now that the festive seas- on has passed, -I wish to commend you for your public spirited assistance in making Christmas an casier postal operation for ail Post Office employees and a hap- pier occasion for our patrons who received their cards and gifts for Christmas Day. There was an exceptional volume of mail this year across Canada and on the whole it was handled quick- cly and efficiently. This would not have been the case if the public werc flot reminded of the necessity for correct addressing, bundling of mail and carly mailing. Your public serv- ice announcements on be- haif of the Post Office in- pressed upon the public the importance of these meas- uires. Our patrons, 1 know, a- preciated and heeded th; timely postal reminders you publicized' for their. benefit during the busy Christmas season. For this service, rendered at a time when commercial advertlsers were most anxious to utilize all news media to full capaclty, 1 arn most appreclati'vc. I heartily thank you. Yours sincerely, J. G. Fultz, District Director of ,Postal Service. February 6, 1966 10 Lambs Lane, Bwmanville, Ont. Dear Sir: Two things: A sincere thank you for your superb efforts in having the States- man available to the public on schedule - in spite o! the strike. Don't know how you do it! Secondly, and, o! course, provided you like the fo>llow- ing verse - and provided you have Uhc time and space for trivia, I have enciosed a nameless verse whlch 1 cern- posed for somne much carlier Valentines. Nothing Intel- lectual. If I could be a honey bee And you a fragrant flower, I'd light mysel! upon your face And kiss you by thc houri If I could be a flake o! snow And you a young fir trce, Ird fail and settlci your arma 'Til sun had melted me! Wcre I a treasured work of art We'd b. a happy pair; Bach timne you came to gaze At me, rd be ferever fair. If 1 could wlnd about your heart As 'round a door growu vine, rd offer you my bloomsa of love- And b. your Valentinel You name i! - but be pole! Yours trul, (una.) Magare OeaL For many years Ive thought how nice it would be to go to Florida for the winter, away from all the frost, snow and icy blasts, but because of the adverse weather reports emnanating from there, the old appetite is losing its keenness. There seems to be two classes who go there; the ones who go, stick it out, and corne back with the terse observa- tion that, it wasn't too bad; and the other group who expect to revel in the sun until Sp ring, but corne home after a few cilly, wet days, and an- nounce that everything was lousy. So I've decided to stay here, and suifer unless we can go away down south, maybe Mexico, where tequilla or* hil? swinging senoritas can warm à felow's blood on a cool evening. By going no- where, we could send the money saved to help the heathen of Lower Slobovia. One of -our acquaintances, John Luffman, a Bowmanville resident, and apprentice "rink-rat", buzzed off to Florida during the f irst week of Jan- uary, and buzzed back during the first week of February. He took pictures of icicles hanging from the branches of grapefruit trees. Some of the ice was caused by the owners spraying the trees, and the chilly air freezing the water, thus providing a layer of insu- lation which would prevent the frost from penetrating and damaging the wood fibre of the trees. One time, John held open a swing- ing door for a Negro to pass through, and was promptly told by another paleface. "we don't do that down here." This callous statement was at variance with the many courtesies usually ex- t'ended others, and gave John a mnild shock to think that, the color of a man's skin should make any difference in his treatment. .John says that, people receiving a two dollar bill down there, tear a cornier off it because a two buck note is supposed to presage bad luck, and by tearing a piece from it, it is slightly less than the whole. Just goes to show how silly some superstitious people can be. According to John, the U.S.A. mint isn't going to print any more two dollar Sugar Yes, I love to visit the. land of -pretend", For oh! it la fun galore, Wlth sand for sugar, and atones* for bread, I'm the moni lu the. grocery store - Thon, with mother's old bat, aud long Hligh-e =e hosclacking over the rm flot any more, lith. Mary Jane ?olumn bills, and as far as I'm concerned , Canada can do likewise - weoSu are iust as easy to handle as a due He told of a town that has no juvenile delinquency; and that thé credit for this pleasant situation get to the curfew law which prevents trav- elling by foot, in the streets, after aà specified evening hour. He was surprised by the good manners of the young folks who, wheh addressing their elders, or strangers, would say "«yes sur," or "f0o, sir." ncte, he lef t tWenty cents changQ in a storé', and. was told by three different t>er- sons to be sure and cail for the raor0yj as the store keeper was anxiouis to refund it. All of the pictures were taken with a Brownie* camera, and were. qu1tq good, especially the one of John beside the Swanee River which is only a couple of miles from the Luffmoii campsite, but the one that deserves exitra mention-is of a very high, unow- covered, wooded hill, taken by John with hlis Brownie, from the insideèf the car, through. the closed windQw., while the vehicle was bowling along. the highway at sixty miles per hour. Without knowing the above detaild, anyone could be forgiven for thinkinzj that the carmr:ra had been resting on something solid, in the open air. Perhaps the misery of snow travel- ling conditions, ice in the water con- tainer and cold weather where balmy breezvas are supposed to blow, did xiot meet with John's approval, but he made the most of his opportunity to observe close-ups of human behavior, besideu recording with a camera, some vagaries of Nature's "off season" antics, and we thank him for sharlng these experlen., ces with us, which 19 in marked con- trast to the usually laconic "Oh, I guess it could have beèn worse."p Another acquaintance, who thinks he's pretty smart, didn't give any -n dication of what it is like in 74orlda except to indicate how clever he * to team up with some one else andU-, travel very cheaply - something that any one can do who >puts penny pinch- ing ahead of enjoyinont. aund By Bill THE BALTIMORIE ORIOLE in last week's column, I mentioned that son Hugli had failed to keep a Saturday rendezvous with Kim and me. H-, was supposed to meet us and come home for a weekend of skiing. When be didn't show up, we didn't worry, thinking he'd become involved else- where. Me was. Tuesday nigbt following, the. Sen- ior Tutor of bis college phoned long- distance. Was Hugh at borne, ill? Nobody in bis residence had seen him since Friday night. He'd missed a test in Psycbology. How would you go about telling your wife that ber first-born is miss- ing? It would have been easler t. in. form ber that 1 had cancer and three months to live. There's notbing more fun, on a nigbt in rnid-winter, than sitting around with your wife wondering whetber your son bas eloped, bas been kidnap- ped, bas become a junkie, is on a drunk, or is lying dead in a ditch. Thus speculating, we took turns. She'd be white with apprehension. I'd bc red witb rage. Then we'd turn red and white, simultaneously, she with anger, I with fear.. And while we were thus engaged, do you know where he was? Wining ànd dining, playing a Steinway grand piano, in a swank apartMent on Park Avenue, New York City. Next night, I phoned bis room- mate. Yep, Mr. Smiley, he'd had a card from Hugh. From Greenwich Village. FIaving a bail. Next stop Baltimore. This threw the whole Ïamily (Kim was in on it too, busting with excite- ment), lut. one of the finest freuzies of rage and relief we've ever enjoyed. Suddenly, I had one of those rare flashes of insight which make people who don't know me think I'm a genius. "Baltimore!" I cried. "Ah-ha! Balti- more!" I reminded the Old Girl that she bas a cousin studying at John Hopkins University, Baltimore. She aaid I was crazy, be wouldn't dare go there, and if he bad, Cousin Pat- would have phoned. I insisted. She called, got Couain Pat and. his wife in j g-time. My wife didn't want to --ound like a complote moron and ask if liugh were there. So Spice Smiley she asked gaily, "Mow is the h (Tbey'd had a baby boy a few mo previously.) Côusm Pat retorted-, Youn, mine?" And the Baltimore Orio be is flow known iu the family lu the net. Almost. lic came on the line. "Hi, IIow are you?" Gay as an oriole. nocent as a novice nun., When * mother was able to talk, she told h for 20 minutes, how she was, and w be was. Finally, Kim and I wrested th telephone from ber, and I spent .45ý.. seekond. lighlm to be home by th' second eln Me was. Large as '11e, .cheerful as a cherub. Durlng the weekend, when he wasll't sleeping, eating or akiing, ho regaled us wîth bis tale. He'd caught the urge to travel late Friday night.,Struck off at 3 ar.,h ski jacket and Jeans. Hthbkd Caught rides witb university studenL, Negro ladies, hilîbilîlea. Arrived New York with 20 cents. Went to coffee-bouse to keep waM. Ordered coffee. Walter said, "Slxty-five~ cents." Hugb said, "I've only 'got 20.» Waiter took lt. Read French novel and~ talked to junkies, students and ausortedi characters ail night. Sold pint of blodlu Times Square~ for $5. Ate. Later pboned gentIeman musician be'd met lu fils summer job on cruise boat, who had foolisbly usald, "Any time you're in New York, look me up." This cbap and bis wife met the ski-jacketed hum lu jeans with warmtb, fed . hlm, enjoyed a musical evenîng together, gave hM sleeping quartera, and sent hlm on bis way wlth $15 cash. Hitch-hiked to Baltimore. Rad pleasant evening with Cousin Pat -and 'pife Stephanle. Immediate plans to bead for Florida and visit with friendo of ours, then meander to New Orleans, where he knows a couple of &*le be met at music camp, but foiled by par- enta' phone cal. Returned home wlth $7.88, cash. Disgusted'witb parents' attitude. Aiter ahi, be'd sent us a card from New York. (We got It the day bel or. he arrived borne.) He's back at uchool, but there's still one thing botherlng us. Kimcan bardly walt to get- started on lier firo I trip. Brown, I'm the. beautiful lad y next door. But the. bout of it ail, you'l uurély agree, Whenjyou've beon ail these people, Wheu you heur mother caling 7011 loudly to tes, You're just "Mary Jane Brownu"s - aged fouir. -MuloA. Ciubgh Î Stops, Common Honesty and Distant Past Fromn the Statesman Files Far-Fetched Idea J~Corner for Lees