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judgment, and that opment has been wll teited, and not Jou wanting, - Tad i « £ For his own sake, we are g that Bo) has Syn re But of this we can be oe able to give up & little of the load of citizen- H war, or much desired ship; but we owe him muchy hat he has done, exercise all the courage | hoge who know his valbk, join: heartily in-- re Sapable, More than "Thank you, Bob," ah = : ra ctr? ap Laat TR Ss Tad ) _ PATTERNS FOR WAR OR PEACE The Financial Post If the war continues throughout 1944 Canadian business executives generally expect little change in present economic trends, according to first-hand reports and forecasts published in this issue. If, on the other hand, the war {s won, then there woild be an entirely different story, except for © those industries which have a war output iden- tieal or similar to that of peacetime On the basis that the war will not be over this + year; most industrialists expect that present peak "employment will continue, = Any slack provided ~ by the tapering off of war contracts, itis antici- pated, will be taken up with resumption of pro- duction of civilian goods. ~ In connection with the latter two difficulties ave seen though Neither are stressed to a very large . extent. 3 These. are, scarcity of raw materials and the reconciling of higher war wages with frozen con- sumer. prices, In other words the general 'expectation is that - Canadian consumers in 1944 are going to get ~ more goods of a durable nature, that is stoves, cooking utensils, farm implements, hardware, ete. These goods, 'however, will undoubtedly continue. strictly of practical design, with no trimmings, and they will only satisfy probably a small part of the demand.' . Businessmen and' execntives .of financial ne stitutions, in contrast to industrials, seem to be more worried, With no or low official labour priorities, many continue to have difficulty in se- 'curing necessary." manpower and expect this Rat Aly, and go on doing the trouble to continue, Staffs have been depleted ings, excusing. ourselves with--"Oh" "and there are constant headaches with green = { hands. : ow what the New Year will bring * rrect thing to send them where they je of practical service, If those suggestions from lip to lip, and through a hundred minds reach the power that can use them, gine how garbled eh eels will be. time much more foubarndidid > t will be Just as well to take 1944 day gd day . wale NevER MIND. THE NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS Catal ving the good things you are going to in 1044, turning over new-leaves, and resolv- ng! to bréak: bad habits' frequently becomes not - much more than an annual ceremony. The trouble : Sind when we find that we have the same old persons to deal with--ourselves,--and that life goes on about us in pretty much the same manner. Ni BW interests are the 'best cure for bad habits. .who is busy. doing. something useful or operly 'entertaining, seldom 'gets into mischief, erally accomplishes. mething' worth In addition to labour problems, retailers and * wholesalers face the question of keeping shelves - "_Alléd with goods. In that battle they were only moderately succescful fn 1943 'and expect to be <i leds '50 "in 1944. Reserves have been seriously depleted 'and from now. on it seems to be pretty 'much of a hand-to-mouth proposition. This par- ticularly applies to textiles, hardware and all im- _ ports and, to a growing extent, to food.. ~"- + With one or two notable exceptions, the great __» majority anticipate that peace will usher in an, era of great activity. This particularly applies to Of the successor we Shad those industries supplying consumer goods and to the meantime, we welsomo "the various branches of construction. Huge de- ands for. clothing, household: equipment, - hous- ing, 'automobiles, radios, refrigerators, railway and highwa Joraine is. foreseen, as well as fm- Soom e WAT, ports In these flelds £5 and food, if a can spare them, x hat fonble in converting to paceing produc- duction fs believed possible. ~~ t heavy industries expect some time will be 'needed. for conversion, but not the many months predicted in. certain quarters. A ese heavy. industries have long nversion and, with the gradual peace production very. promptly,' the foregoing, however, applies to: v 'like 'aircraft, chemicals, ete., except where there . a of thon i neve Tan! jin Holy and an: very ty Beted Ating the Jasklop of Port Perry Flier Is Awarded Distinguished Flying Cross Flying Officer Forges J. Beare, son of Mrs, Hiram Fitchett of Port Perry, who Is serving with the R.A. F, in the Middle. East, has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. . + F/0 Beare 'was employed in Osh- awa for two years prior to his 'en- listment in November 1941, He was on the office staff of General Motors of Canada Limited and made his home at 48 Oshawa Blvd. He has one sister, Mrs, Donald Holden, 114 Lauder Rd, Oshawa and two brothers, F/O Bruce Beare, with the R.C.A.F,, stationed at Claresholm, Alta.,, and Sgnm. Clarence Beare, R. C.C.S.,, with the Canadian Army Overseas, F/0 Burgess Beare enlisted in the R.C.A.F. and later transferred to the RAF. EL CTIONS OSHAWA Local interest centered about the municipal elec- tions in Oshawa, particularly in the contest between R. D. Humphreys and Gordon Davig, tle latter rep- "resenting labor, The line-up is: Davis won by a majority of 911. Mayor--A. Gordon Davis Councillors--Messrs. Bathe, Harman, Coleman, Haxton, McCallum, Dafoe, Brown, Perry, Brooks, UXBRIDGE Two women have been elected to this Council, Mayor, A, G. Tipper; Reeve, Ray Ferguson. Councillors--Mrs. E. Spofford, C. B. Willis, G. "Starr, R. Gray, Mrs. Georgina Leask, R. G, Harris, W. C.. a Pollard, fl / f WHITBY: Mayor, F. m Rowe; Reeve, R. M. Deverell. Deputy-Reeve--J. H, Ormiston Councillors--R. McNee, William Davidson, Jos- eph Shields, Ted Brant, Andrew Muir, Warren Mowat. CARTWRIGHT - Reeve--Norman Green. Councillors - Roy Fer- guson, Norman Taylor, Laverne Devitt, Oscar Mc- Quade. ONT. COUNTY COUNCIL Town of Whitby, R. M. Deverell, reeve; J. H. Ormiston, deputy-reeve. Township of Whitby, Oscar Dow- ney, reeve. Township of East Whitby, Norman Down, reeve; Arthur E. Grass, de- puty-reeve, S Village of Port Perry, W. M. Lot. cher, reeve, Township of Reach, Thomas Har- ding, reeve; Josepls Wilson, deputy- reeve. 'Township of Pickering, William Reesor, reeve; Blake Annis, deputy- reeve. Township of Brock, Stanley Miller, reeve; Alex. .E, Thompson, deputy- | reeve, Township of Seugog, Russell Hood, reeve, Uxbridge Township, Edgar John- ston, reeve; Ray Ferguson, deputy- reeve, Township of Thorah, Fred Clayton, reeve. Village: of Beaverton, Dr. J. C. De- vine, reeve, Village of Cannington, James Blan- chard, reeve, Township of Mara, Harper. New- man, reeve; Patrick Duffy, deputy- reeve, Township of Rama, Geo. W. Jam- ieson, reeve, : The four new members of the Coun- ty Council who will take their seats for, the first time are Arthur-Grass of "East Whitby, Ray Ferguson of Uxbridge' Township, Patrick Duffy of Mara and Geo. W. Jamieson, Rama. a Letter to 'T hose on Active Service pod To the Home Folks Away from Home. Judging from the pictures in the' daily papers and other publications, you folk in the armed forces did not suffer from lack of Christmas cheer, Indeed, it looked as though you had increased your capacity for such en- joyment, We did pretty well here, too. Of course, turkeys and geese and chick- ens' all cost money, A ten pound turkey takes most of a five dollar hill, Oranges were small and sold by the pound, They are better now. "There are no dates, -- Currants and raisins are scarce, If you buy fruit cake, you will likely find gum drops taking the place of maraschino cherries, The Canadian apple. crop was good, and so was the price, owing to the scarcity of other fruit. Nuts are not plentiful, and are of poor quality. Salmon is to be put on the market here again, but it is to be rationed in the same way] as meat, From time to time we have heard rumors that tea and coffee ave to come off the ration list, but it turns out to be nothing but rumor. Merchants are sizing up their cus- 'tomers in the matter of canned goods, Fly 'by day buyers aye apt to learn that they cannot get all the scarce articles just by entering the store dnd demanding them. It's' a real case of "kissing goes by favors." Regular customers can secure canned goods in reasonable quantities, Casual shop- pers, bent on taking advantage by go- ing from store to store, do not receive much encouragement. Early closing is common in most-of the towns in this district. Port Perry is still very generous-in- this respect: It was a great day for the service stations when the law compelled them to close at seven o'clock in the even- ing, and all day Sunday closed. For the first time in years the operators of these stations have had a chance to get a decent rest. And now they can go to church on Sunday--if they wish to go. You see the shoe is on the other foot nowadays in this buying game, The merchant doesn't have to beg you to buy his geods. Sometimes you are lucky. And he is lucky to have the goods to sell. Merchants must keep their ears and eyes open if they wish to keep their shelves full. Speaking of housekeepers, plenty of them who used to have quarter pints of cream delivered, now carry any- thing they can lug. It is really intér- esting to see some women passing our windows carrying full shopping bags, and a couple or more little folk each carrying a share of the morning's pur- chases. It i8 quite the proper thing now to get one of those big paper bags and fill it as full as you can, How we can display our wealth by this type of full dinner pail, . Gasoline is scarce and is becoming poorer in quality. But that does not stop our people from travelling, You never saw ue crowds as haunt the railway stations and bus terminals, At Union Station, Toronto, the crowd was so great that a woman, who lost one of her shoes, dare not stoop to pick it up for fear of being trampled, and children had to be carried shoul- der high, Why, even the old "Nip-and-Tuck" could be made to pay these days, be- cause it wouldn't be allowed to dawdle along up the grade at High Point nor arrive in Whitby to catch a train that reached the city just in time to do a wee bit of shopping and then hustle down to the station to catch the train that was to take you home again via Whitby and the "Nip-and-Tuck". Those were the good old days? May- be? You see, it's this way. The owner of a perfectly good limousine or a Model T may not be owner of a full © gas ration book, or he may be short * a tire for some reason or another. (One of the reasons fs nighttime acquisitiveness). People like that-just can't help themeslves, If they have' to travel, they have to go by bus or train, Like it? No. But what can they do abdut it? When they reach the city they are in much the same pickle, If they have not friends who live near the street car line, the walk- ing is goad, and plenty of it. If you are lucky and have the money, you may be able to hire a taxi. But taxi drivers may be quite uppish. - They can afford to pick and choose, There are plenty of customers. The weather? All that can bd de- sired for this time of year. Almost no snow, and very little ice, which is very lucky; for George- Stevens has not been able to get his supply of "ice creepers" for old and other folk who find walking on ice a- gymnastic per- formance more exciting than pleasing. The fuel situation is getting along --with_ struggle, Hardwood that used to sel $8 and $10 a cord, now costs" $18. . Coal is coal whentit isn't © something, else, The mine o srators a must be getting rid of much t , they could not, put on the market in' the: days when coal | was plentiful, and. strikers were few. That is. about the end of oup 'Yooal "News Roundup." Cheerlo. Yours truly, The Editor, Scugog, Continued hope they will be comfortable in their new home; - p Mr. C."Samells and Mrs. R. Brown, Mr. and Mrs, M. McL#ten, visited Mr. and Mrs. W. Jackson on Monday. Mr, and Mrs. Frtik Real and little sons, Donald, Billie and Bobbie, of Blackwater, enjoyed New Years with "Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hope and family, Mr. and Mrs. C. Graliam and family, and Mrs. J. A. Sweetman, A pleasant - surprise gredted Cecil and Raymond Fralick when they ar- . rived at the barn on Christmas morn- ing, on entering the stable they found red twin calves standing beside their white mother. Thid lovely weather will surely shorten the winter, even though we do_get snow soon. ; We are pleased to report. two do- nations, $25 toward the new church, and $56 for the Red Cross. A good beginning for the new year, The dance held on Friday night, a | compliment from the reeve and eoun- cillors, was well attended and enjoyed, | by all, Birthday greetings to Mr. Walter: mells for January 1st, Eddie Pren- years on Jan. 2nd, also to. \which may be A Card from New Zealand We were pleased to vecelve a Greet- ing Card from "Bill" Cawker during the holiday season. The card was' dated Nov. 8th, and contained the fol-- : lowing note: Dear Mr, Farmer,--I wish to thank "he vou very much for sending me the Port Peyry- Star, which I receive fair-- = ly regularly, and it certainly is of great interest to me. "Like a letter ; from home." I am getting along very well 'here in N.Z.; but there is certainly: no place like. homie. for 'me, 1 hope, before long, to write you a letter that you may find of some use and until then I say "Thanks yery much", © -- Bill Cawker. Ration ER used Effective Thur sday. January 6th Meat--30 to 33 inc Butter--42 10. 15)