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Let's Stop Talking- And Do Something "It we lose our forest cover you can say goodbye to huntin“ and tuhing," according to J, L. Van Camp, General Manager of the Canadian Forestry Assoctation, ln commenting on Forest Conserva- tion Week, which is being observed May 19 to 26 across Canada, Mr, Van Camp says 'turther that "Forest Conservation Week is being held to remind all people that forests are the very founda- tion of Canada's health, wealth and happiness" No one Will dispute Mr. Van Camp's statement that forests are essential. Not only that our fishing and shooting may remain, but also that many of our industries will stay in operation. Unfortunately. while the forests are classified as belonging to the Canadian public, they have been used and abused by the Cana- dian government until there is little of them left where the public have very much to say, Mr. Van Camp says that 90% of the fares dim public. It is more likely that about 10% The rest is monopolized by lumber and pulp muny of them American, "um, v. ..._... ........_...i For the most part what remains of our Canadian'torests, stands in mute testimony to the wasteful butchery of the pulp and lumber interests. These same interests have been given concessions by the Canadian government with absolutely no thought or care for the future of our Canadian forests. It sumcient pressure is not brought to bear in the very near future to force the government to rescind many of these holdings, then Canadians can say goodbye to their vast forests. There are still miles and miles of second growth, underbrush and slash left in Canada, but of what use is it. The butchering of Canadian forests by vested interests with the sanction of the Cana- dian government is one of the most shameful atrocities of the last generation. dian government " one of the most shameful atrocities of the last - CH MN NEWSPAPERS UNDEtURAB1 E IN CANADA _ eneration. ' . ‘ " " " a _ I 1 (London Free Press) ': Announcement was made this week of the purchase of The Season on Moose?- . {Oshawa Times-Gazette by the Times-Gazette Publishers, Ltd., , lsubsidiary of the Thomson Co., Ltd., of which Roy H. Thomson is . _ ipresident and general manager. With the purchase of The Times- lt has only been since 1968 that Canadian "e't we"? protected . Gazette the Thomson interests now own 13 daily papers m Canada from thehunters. Prior to that time they were being killed off at l and two weeklies. ' about tWice the pace they were reproducing and some secrioes of In Ontario the Thomson Co., Ltd., owns.or controls The Chatham the country where these fine game animals were once plentiful, are Daily News, The Sarnia Observer, The Galt Reporter, The Guelph now completely shot out. - _ _ 1 Mercury. The Woodstock Sentinel Review, The Welland Tribune, The _ - - - _- nu n ,,i A..u_ii_ rmc..a.s....'.i. The situation was ridiculous in the extreme, for at least tour out of the five moose being taken were exported across the Ameri- can border and were shot by American hunters. You can't blame the Americans for shooting these animals. Had the shoe been on the other foot and they had had a quantity of game that Canadian hunters wanted to secure, then the probabilities are that Canadians would have been shooting and exporting American moose The Department was supposed to have men in the field at all times to keep an eye on what was happening to our wildlife. The Tourist Association. of course, did everything possible to bring all the hunters here they could get. It was money in their pockets and the moose didn't cost them anything. Killing of these fine game animals finally came to such a state that the Department had to do something about the matter. There was a lot of pressure being put on them by various Conservation Clubs. The number of these clubs finally made themselves heard and the Department in 1948 ordered a closed season. Now Harold Scott, minister of the Department of Lands and Forests is considering opening the season on moose again. There are two good points in his intentions. One is that the season is to apply only to the part of the country north of the northernmost transcontinental railway. The other is that the season will be open to residents only. Actually while we feel the minister is probably acting in good faith, there is little or no reason why the moose season should be opened anywhere until such time as these animals shows a definite and safe increase. If the season is opening in only one locality the bootlegging of moose meat will become commonplace. In the north there are few game wardens and the few there are doing little in the way of discouraging illegal shooting or fishing. Now that the moose season is closed. let's leave it that way until the increase of these animals warrant an open season. (Guest Editorial) In a few days Canadians from coast to coast will be "painting up and Eleanlng up". Lawns will be brought to life and hedges trimmed. Vegetables gardens will be planted in neat rows and Bower beds readied for their annual outburst of multi-colored glory. Contributing to all this renewed beauty IS the hidden hand of the chemist. He is the man who developed paints capable of with- standing the ravages of the elements for longer periods of time; who discovered new synthetic pigments which have given palms a wider range of breath-taking colors: who placed the nylon-bristled brush in the hand of the painter. The chemist too IS nature's ally m providmg us with that emerald spread of lawns and the well-kept garden, His laboratory has result- ed in improved chemical fertilizers and contributed to our knowledge of how they work and how to use them to best advantage. The seeds we plant can be given chemical treatment to control the fungous diseases that would destroy them chds and Insect pests which can ellmmato beauty from any landscape are no longer a problem since the introductum of a host of chvmmal herbicuies and insect:- tides. Rarely heralded as a pubhr hero, the (hemlst continues .to work amidst his test tubes and flasks, findmg satisfaction m he; efforts to bring mun homug. mm the Info of Man Perhaps he feels sufficiently rewardvd m the fart that, being of Mankind, he too has the oppor- tunity of mhbhng at the {rum of hu awn achtevemrnt FEM Editorial Comment Beauty and the Chemist " s 90% of the forests belong to the Cana- y that about 10% actually still belongs. lumber and pulp and paper interests-- lOther Editors Say (From Industry) In a recent column, Mr Dewitt Mackenzie, of the.Associated Press, wrote: "Every once in a while I get out my map of North America and study it with fascination There is our U S, which enjoys a large measure of world leadership, She is rich and powerful. "Then to the north is our sister nation, even greater territorial” than the U.S. Canadian resources already disclosed are tremendous, and we know that there are other vast treasures to be uncovered. "In due course Canada may have a population as big as, or bigger than ours. Maybe the leadership will pass to her---who knows." " These reflections, coming from an American news analyst. caused no raised eyebrows Had the author been a Canadian . . . but, well. everybody knows Canadians don't talk that way. Canadians have always been quicker to achieve than to recognize Canadian achieve- ments. A modest matter-of-tactress about our resources and resourcefulness is one of our national characteristics. But modesty, like any other Virtue. can be overdone, especially when it is combined with a lack of imagination. It would probably be a good thing if a few more Canadians could tInd the same fascina- tion as Mr Mackenzie in poring over a map of North America. WIT-m W%F-..q--"""Rr""'"-- ---"'"ee"-- 7-7, - SEWa1TrG/tiiTid'iVii'i%i'i"iririyiii -Miagu'Ba.t.uetto9t,Aarit_rahe. n: . ml hour will: on the occasion et It. ”It. -rutre-tAtrresee.'..ttto ‘ From the standpoint of economy there may be advantages in ~chain papers. but the disadvantages as far as the public is concerned ‘are many and important. The danger will be that if this trend [continues there will be agitation for legislation to prevent news- (paper chains. The CBC already refuses to allow the' extension of 5 radio stations under one ownership. I Government interference with the press has proven dangerous in any country where it has been tried. It could easily result in a, {threat to freedom of the press. Such freedom is vital to our demo- icratic institutions. If newspapers, however, are to have rights they [must also appreciate they have responsibilities. , aHgthaM8hm8rtlrhee6"qor'""-'"5"""'rt' 'iGVuiiTavuttorseiFuuust-tetrt* In Ontario the Thomson Co., Ltd., owns.or controls The Chatham Daily News, The Sarnia Observer, The Galt Reporter, The Guelph Mercury. The Woodstock Sentinel Review, The Welland Tribune, The Timmins Press, The Kirkland Lake News, The Port Arthur Chronicle and now The Oshawa Times-Gazette. The company also owns two dailies in Saskatchewan. The Moose Jaw Times and The Prince Albert Herald. It also publishes The Quebec Chronicle Telegraph in Quebec City I A few years back. you‘ll re- lmember that there was quite a rash of applications for river val- ( ley surveys. If the surveys would ite made. there were a abundance l0! promises to fulfill the recom- mendations the surveys brought to light What's the prcturr' now? A lot of surveys have been com- pleted. and all the requrremrnts have been detailed (And remem- ber that a terriflc amount of work (went into the surveys. too-and la great deal of money was spnnt ‘m administration and other mp ‘pensesl Wnlh one or two Pxo'r"p- lions, we're unaware of any of these nrojocls Pven hung started let alnnr carrwd In arty drgrer of onmplotmn And meantlmr thp rrlrntieu work of ornwm and destruction ‘cnnlmm-s Natures proper hal ants» fights a constant insmg hat tle ttgatnct lho unnatural furrm of waste and desolation Thrn thr time comes when the condition; which infhrenred the Ol'l'lnll mt roll unless you at least give it a l findings are useless and more or nudge. Something has to startvthe taxpayers' money has gone momentum, even though it's at with the vanishing topsoil. . . tiny shove. We think this fairly} Even as we write these words, aptly describes the condition of the headlines are full of tales of the conservation picture today',\destruction and waste-how this Were it not for some of the so- e or that river has flooded with the called "'dreamers", we're afraidrspring waters, has ruined person- that much of the practical workial property and laid waste the of the past would still remain um l neighboring farmlands. All the done. Somebody has to make a l time, th eproper solution is locked move. . . up in some river valley authority But even though we've accom- file, while those responsible bliss- plished a lot in the past tertully await some windfall whi years. here and in the other pro- will enable them to get und vmces and states, there's still a way! Of course, these windfa s terriftc job to be done. The only do happen - about once every way you can properly assess what thousand years-and if we wait has been accomplished is to com- _ till the year two thousand am pare conditions today against:fifty-something there won't be those of ten, fifteen. twenty-five anything left to conserve anyway and fifty years ago. T _ Of course, As far as we can see at this pain , the more we look at it, the more, what we need is some authori we realize that we have to work _ with the vision and the power t hard even to maintain our present l give the whole works the nece - position! Which results in the ul- :sary push to get it Into oper‘. “main anal being obscured in the ‘ hon o k But even though we've accom- plished a lot in the past few years. here and in the other pro- vinces and states, there's still a terriftc iob to be done. The only way you can properly assess what has been accomplished is to com- pare conditions today against those of ten, fifteen. twenty-tive and fifty years ago. _ . Of course, the more we look at it, the more we realize that we have to work hard even to maintain our present position! Which results in the ul- timate goal being obscured in the maze o things that must be done in order to merely remain sta- tionary! There's so much that re- mains to be accomplished that it's sometimes overpowering. . You Iaow, even, a ban wgn'x A ne, 0V ERDON E MODES'I‘Y other Virtue. can be overdone, especiélly a lack of imagination. It would probably Jre Canadians could tInd the same tascida, 'oring over a map of North America. TEI‘WATIILQQ' tegetet vey no longer exist-the early findings are useless and more of the taxpayers' money has gone with the vanishing topsoil. . . We spent a week at the end of March taking In the London Sportsmen's Show, an annual " farr sponsored by the Thames Boat Club, This Is one live, hust- ling group of sportsmen-which goes to show you what can be done by a group of fellows with Imagination and a little desire, . Larry Bowman and Rex Nielsen worked day and nsght---rtot only during the show, but for weeks prevmus to the event And so did many of the members of the Wel- iingion Fish and Game Protective Associattort. like Gordon Rum- mmg and Ted Shaw _ There was plenty of Interest for thr keen fisherman Tom Mour- ant, who had hs eqmpmenl over by our boom. demonstrated some wondrrful fry-tyung He had somc beauf5tui examples of Inns Which should .ho guarantpr‘d to tempt any trout nu matter how wary' Mn quirn Brertt'nstein, of the Helm Tackb Company, Windsor, deservrs a lot of cred“ for the “luv.“ of the fty and bait casting tournamrnt There was a he mentions amount of Interest dls- played m this feature. whieh inn a. Ila-h1- nl tfr drew 6ne crowds every evening. Am! Winners were declared in the tin- whe als which were run on Saturday ago, night. Spencer Fielding won the cent bait-casting prize, and (by some ed f remarkable mischartcel Lotus try-. PI 1y won the fty-enating. Beautiful trophies were presented to the winners by Larry Bowman, on behalf of the Thames Boat Club. e o . Harold Croney of John Inglis a I (makers of Shakespeare tackle in to 1 Canada) demonstrated every " Ble ternoon and evening. He pet- Ma formed some of the finest casting ‘OU‘ we've ever seen. Amongchls pu- I lat1 pils was little Lonnie heldmg'SFO of London. a lad of IO or so. Afterl m! only two days of practice, he wom IS the earliest irompetition. _ . So, tori, ta) you fellows who wr think it's dim- tht cult - let's see Wu by you get busy pe with your rods CL;"""" re: and reels! If!" KEEP FARM CENSUS SCHEDULES UNTIL _ ENUMERAXOR CALLS In common with the rest of the 730,000 farmers of Canada, the farmers of this district during the last two or three weeks have re- ceived through the mails copies of the agricultural questionnaire that is being used in the 1951 Census of Canada. If there are any whom it has not reached, they may obtain a copy at their nearest post oftice. The farm schedule was sent out by the Dominion Bureau of Sta.. tistics in advance in order to en- able farmers to prepare their an- swers to the questions at their convenience and thus save time when the census enumerator calls some time in June. An accom- partying letter asked the farmers to complete the schedule so ff as they could and have it on and in readiness for the visit by the enumerator. They were particu- larly requested not to mail it to the Bureau of Statistics. In spite of this request, several thousand farmers from all parts g: Canada have completed their hedules and sent them to Otta- all the weekly newspapers of Canada asking them to remind their farm readers to keep the schedule until the census taker arrives to complete the details and to pick it up. Forms that are mailed to Ottawa will just-be. mailed back to the sender, since they require completion on the spot by the enumerator to ensure complete census coverage. wa. In consequence, the Bureau has sent out ir. special request tq Hawkesville Home 8ms, lil Occupants Escape High winds fanned the blaze which looked for some time " it it might spread to adjacent buil- dings. However fire departments from St. Clements and other nearby centres managed to keep it under control. Firefighters were forced to pump water used in extinguish- ing the blaze from a stream some 1500 feet away. HAWKESVILLE, __ The old home-belonging to Methias Mar- tin, located on KR. 3, Hawkes- ville, was gutted by a fire on Monday night. The ten occupants of the dwel- ling escaped injury in the blaze. and were sheltered in the homes of neighbors for the night. The ttre is believed to have been caused by a chimney in a frame section of the dwelling. The following is a list of new books recently added to the libra- ry: "The Caine Mutiny" tr. Her- man Wonk. "Fort Everglades" by Frank Slaughter. "New York 22" by Ilka Chase. "Each Man's Son" by Hugh Macbennan. "The Innocent Eve" by Robert Nathan - "Proud New Flags" by Von Wyck Mason. "Portrait of Isabelle" by Eliza- beth Corbett. "offbcer and Gentleman" by J Delves-Broughton "The Grotto" by Ethel Vance, "The lrnnmasler" by Anne Powers "The Grand Portage" by Wal- ter O'Meara, "Ram on tho Wind" by Walter Madam “Nightrunnors of Bengal" by John Masters "The Golden Exile" by Inw- n~nce Rchoonover "'ihi/islanders" by Joseph Aus ander. " - Weekly Book Review The Spur" hy Ardyth Kennel (By Chronicle Stall Writer) 9!”)!!914 As supplied by the Waterloo Public Library By MAUREEN WILLIAMS, Librarian Fiction - . _ _ Headline in the Granby II:- (Que) Leader - Mail: "Scottish r Ala Jokes Heard at Kiwanis Ladies In to Night T . big news. . r The Sunday an... (RC) leader reports the Nth wedding anniversary of Mr. and [Mrs P, Sinclair. Cresent Beach i _ Hrs. Walter Reaume, Librarian at >venin3. Amherstburt. Ont., was surprised the tin- when a boo ' borrowed 16 years Iturday ago, was returned; costing 16 you the cents originally it had accumulat- iy some ed fines of $403). _ An Edmon- urstru- ton family mourns; G. A. Roesli eautitul told police someone had thrown to the their 2-month Irish setter pup nan. on into a burning garbage can, _ . Atl " Club. Kamloops, BC. the Jaycees had‘ n Inglis a great, burning cross atop a hill, Ickle in to remind people of the Red Cross very " Blood-Donor clinic coming up on le per- May 14-18. _ . They can't figure it casting out at Corner Brook, Newfound- his puwland, where Faour's jewellery :heidmgistore window was smashed m at (y. iirclrh.ittr,t.to, but nothing was taken; it he won is suggested a drunk may have . So, I'l fallen through. . . A calf was born with no eyes at Cherry Hill, NS., the mother Ayr-cow being owned WV by Keith Conrad, and the calf is perfectly normal otherwise, . . A '""" resolution to prohibit smoking in ithe MacKenzie school was passed - [ by the Dauphin-Ochre school area board after a report was received ‘of a near fire being discovered. . Canada“: The than Raver, tAits) The: [man the heart ot the attic country aetes the tan- mu: “was" reached m cattle ales, referred to the aucuon sale held at the was Bovdus ot Bitch: when. one Item. T cows and , calves sold tor an 1l'ITlff of W.” per pair, cow und ca t, declaring it is good news for peo- ple with cattle, grim news for those who“ favorite meat Is beet . . . At Wine (Ont) council and citizens are arguing the ques- tion o.'. abglphuxg " " Harms. . Since the Canadian budget was presented the big question before the people, mulled over by many a hot stove league, has been increase of taxes, price con- trol. Here are a tew opinions, culled from the weekly journals of Canada, all ot whom seem to have strong ideas on the subject: . The Vernon (8.0) News thinks there must be on the one hand a strong measure of re- straint by all buyers, public and private, and on the other a drive for greater efficiency and produc- tivity: "Even these indispensable factors, inflation will be curbed by sound economic correctives. It is utter illusion to imagine that control will do the job." . The provincial retail tax pro-; posed on sales is unfair to little people everywhere, urges the Huntingdon (Que. ) Gleaner, while the Dauphin (Marr) Herald and Press declares that "hidden taxes" are contrary in every re- spect to the democratic right of the public to know and where their governments raise tax mo- nies. . . The Bridgewater (N.S.) Bulletin is "agin" the tax on washing machines and suggests probably Mr. Abbot's mother never slaved over tub with the old-fashioned wash board. . . The Lacombe (Alta.) Globe holds that while raises are inevitable, it is regretable much oi the increase is coming from the hidden field and holds "that as long as the general public blindly accepts this under- handed government method of taxation. it will continue." . Another slant on the prob-1 lem: "Sales tax, imposed by thei Dominion government at thei manufacturer's level, at least is subject to some exemptions, and its influence on retail prices is more or less equalized through- out the country. Proposed turn- over tax on retail sales would hit the prices of necessaries, now ex- empted from the Dominion tax, and each province might have a different idea of how much it would be proper or possible ta to exact. Tax would upset retail .price structure every where. Tax is advocated (by politicians only) in the sacred name of social wel- fare. It is high time that govern- ments realized that social wel- fare, when carried too far, be. comes the same thing as social disaster. . Government economists all know quite well, a writer says, that the present tax system is highly inflationary and gravely discourages saving. Yet, here we go with the same tax system and with nothing at all to counter its inflationary effect." - _ . The Cowichan Leader (B.CO takes a different tack, offering one solution that it agrees no Canadian Government is likely to adopt; namely the cessation of family allowance cheques and the allocation of Chat money to pen- sioners. "The principle of the "High Hills Calling" by Anne Miller Downes, Non-Fiction "Return to Paradise" by James A, Michener. "Color in Home Decoration" by Etta Brown "War in Korea" by Marguerite Higgins, _ _ .. . "Philip, Duke of Edinburgh" hy John Downshire, slaughter in Provence" by Winnifred Fortescue "A King's Story" hy Duke of Windsor. "The Far Side of Paradise" by Arthur Mizener, "The Pennsylvania Dutch" by Fredric Klee: "Manitoba Roundabout" by Lyn Harrington. ',','ftihot'g, Constable" by Ham than owlett "Mennonite Community Cook boot" by Mary}: Shnyaltgr - “How to-Help Your Child In School", hy Mary and Lawrenco Frank. _ "Radio Television and FAN [tomes Handbook" hy F l. Brrt tin "Fundamentals of [madman by W L Mcppugal A U _ "Compute Bodk of Homo Re pun" when.“ R. M. Maefarlane Ed. A. Heit W. M. o. Lochead welfare state, of subsidizing in- fants. while old people who have rendered years of service to their country are allowed to subsist on a budget reduced by progressive inflati9n, is hereby challenged;. Branch Ofttce: Ili) King St. W., Kitchener, Ont. - 'Phone 4-4713 Clifford N. Hall, Branch Manager . "Sales tax increase directly increases prices, and, most un- fortunately, in such a way that great mass of the Canadian peo- ple who do not think, and certain- ly do not believe that they pay taxes to the Dominion Govern- ment, will imagine that these Chateau Frontenac Chef in New York: (“hut Ernest Schmid of the Chateau Frontenac Hotel at Our-her City calves a delicate man from a MO-pound block of ice at the Cham- hard Restaurant in New York. He proaidul ovcr the kitchens thoro for one week. Mhiluting his rulinnry art in an intornm tional gourmet festival to commemorate the 2.0tmth anniv " sary of the founding of Paris. The TILyoarwlrl rhrf was 'diii in Switzerland and has been at the Chateau, “horn his repu- tation has become internationally fnmmm among opicur_ for the past three yearn. However, my wife and I thought we'd never get round to a methodical savings plan. When the Mutual Life representative called, we found he understood our money problems better than anybody we've ever talked to. Representatives: - C Maefarlane L. George Arthur L. Heit A. Heit Arthur L. Breithaupt Albert J. Augustine W. o. Lochead J. D. M. Fisher William R. Smith Eric N. Sharpe Out-of-Town Representatives: l. O. Hawke, Galt, Ont. Burton S. W. Hill, Gait, Ont. M. Milne Todd, Galt, Ont. Earl Katzenmeier, New Hamburg , We've always been methodical about spending. We've stuck to a detailed budget. But, you know how it is these days. There are so many things you feel you want to spend your money on. ML May li, 1.951 price increases, come from some mysterious exploitation by capi- tal, or labor, or some othef wicked persons." On publications, films, broad- casting and advertising the ted. eral government spent $624,420 in 1938-39; in 1950-51 n will spend about $6,826,301. About 90 per cent of New- foundlanders live in the island's coastal area. " REGULAR SA VINGS in my budget “Now I’ve put