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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 18 Aug 1955, p. 2

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°_ PACER TwO ‘s widely spread throughout the country and the primary industry alone provides direct einployment for over 75,000 of raw cotton has moved up, new lines have been introâ€" luced. TEXTILE OUTLOOK ° Skies are a shade brighter or the Canadian textile inâ€" .ustry. There is still plenty ;f trouble, but the situation s better than it was, better erhaps than at any time in he last four trying years, reâ€" orts The Financial Post. Employment â€" has _ stopped copping, â€" even â€" inched _ up ~ghtly in â€"recent months. rices are a little firmer. Voâ€" ume has risen, consumption How far some of these bawdy joints are pre.â€" pared to go in the way of "entertainment" is hard to say, but police making a real effort should have no trouble finding out. While it takes all kinds of people to make up this world, we gained the impression that even some who prefer their entertainment on the bawdy side, had bitten off more than they could chew. A little of this stuff goes a long way. Personally we think our informant must have been in a mellow mood at the time of his decription. Most of the bigger "resorts" no more deserve the name than does a bowling alley. They could on the other hand quite truthfully claim they resorted to anything to pry money from the section of the public silly enougn to spend their time there. Having been told that some of the commercial summer resorts within a hundred miles of Waterloo were more "dives" than resorts, we spent last weekâ€" end looking a few of them over. Of course if you stop and remember that most of these little men who are trying to push you around because they have a government position, coul2_not hold a decent job in competative business, tnen you will understand why they play with two sets of rules. One for them, and one for you. If by any chance you do have occassion to do business with the government, check the difference in the length of time needed by them for the same thing they expect you to do over night. Profits, however, are still ‘ow and far between and forâ€" ign competition is as tough ‘s ever. Ever try to collect money from the present government? If youâ€" haven‘t, you should try at least once just for the major frustration complex you will develop. While Canadians are fortunate in that they do have a few government officials which understand private business ; the majority of them could not lead a horse to a glue factory and do so intelligently. From earliest times the texâ€" ile industry has been an imâ€" ortant one for Canada. It Of course if the shoe should be on the other foot and you should owe them money, there will bel no doubt in your mind that you must pay immediateâ€" iy or they‘ll probably have the Royal Mounted police‘ »ollect it for them. | Just why the Canadian people are so sheep like n their attitude towards the dictatorial attitude of zovernment, is hard to understand. A féw letters to their representative and the men now lording it over the public would be in the past tense. EDITORTIA L The Waterloo Chronicle, Watetloo Connty‘s oldest English newspaper, devoted to the inâ€" terests of the fiz of Waterleo and Waterloo County, is at 16 m Kast Waterloo, every 'munz‘y The is a member of the Canad Weekly Newspapers Association and of the Onurioâ€"auebec Newsâ€" Ottawa. THE WATERLOO CHRONICLE 1 J. H. SMITH, Managing Editor and Publisher. BAWDY â€"RESORTS JUST TRY IT as second class mail, P.O. Dept., W. J. Blum, band director, exâ€" pressed regret that fulfilment| of ‘ invitations on such short / notice is impossible, largely | due to band acceptance of other offers. A telephone inâ€" | vitation from Humphrey Doâ€"| naghue, official of the Geneva Appleknockers, a star band in the U.S. galaxy to appear at Ithaca, N.Y., had to be reâ€" fused, the seventh such inâ€" vitation within the past two Preston‘s famous Scout House band, Canadian junior champions, as a result of their recent exhibition at Batavia, N.Y., has received a ‘flood‘ of invitations from American sources seeking their services. Scout House Band Obliged To Refuse Many â€"Invitations â€" _â€" THE WATERLOO (Ontario) CHRONICLE ‘Thursday, August 18, 1955 â€" > | _ It is bad newspaper business | to attack friendly governments | without accurate knowledge. It is bad newspaper business § to urge objectively with reâ€" | gard to Communists and show unreasoning bias against antiâ€" Communists. It is only just to consider the feetings of a naâ€" tion that has been attacked once and lives in dread of anâ€" other attack. This should not need to be said â€"Felegram, _ The free Koreans are in a perious position. They know that the Communists tried to | enslave them and are preparâ€" “ing to try themâ€"John Foster : Dulles has said that the enemy ‘ is building up his military strength in North Korea, ‘"in open violation of the armisâ€" tice terms." They know that the Uâ€"N command has reportâ€" ‘ed 50 violations of the agreeâ€" ; ment. They suspect that the Poles and Czechs on the comâ€" mission are spying, for the purpose of aiding renewed agâ€" gression. They fear they may be deserted by the West, as | so many other loyal allies were ! deserted. It is little wonder gthat they boil over, spontanâ€" | eously or otherwise. It is little | wonder that Dr. Rhee makes | statements which are disliked ‘ by those who wish to court the friendship of his foes. Of these papers, one was the most ardent Canadian champâ€" ion of Soviet Russia before, during and after the war. The other, which suggested on July 28 that western papers should try friendliness toward Russia for a change, and should be objective in comment about the Soviet Union, omits no opâ€" portunity to vent its venom on Syngman Rhse and Chiang Kaiâ€"shek, the two Asian leadâ€" ers who have fought against Communism. Without waiting to ascertain â€" the truth, two Toronto papers blame Syngman Rhee for the demonstrations against â€" the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission in South Korea.‘ Both say the defmonstrations can‘t be "spontaneous," though | it is easy to imagine that war} veterans, exasperated by t,hex belief that the Communist members of the commission are spying, and by the knowâ€" | ledge that the armistice agree-! ment is being violated, would try to take the law into their own hands. That happens in | countries more happily situaâ€"| ted than South Korea. ‘ PERIL FOR FREE KOREANS Other Editors Say . . . _ The conversations â€" of ° the _U.S. and Red China at Geneva ‘are now concerned with the return of civilians to their own country. In China, 40 ‘ American civilians are detainâ€" led, 25 of them in jail. In the IU.S.,'there is a large number of Chinese, all of whom are ‘free.to leave if they wish. ‘Peiping demands that a neuâ€" | tral â€" India â€" be allowed to ‘ question these men, as the ‘ prisoners of war were quesâ€" lt,ioned in Korea. So far the 'U.S. has refused to permit the !intervention of a third party. This is a regular Communâ€" ist â€" practice with _ captives. Some time ago Marshal Tito declared that the Sovict had ‘"some monstrous method" of obtaining confessions. The meâ€" thods of the Chinese Comâ€" munists are now known. It will be remembered that U.S. airâ€" men were forced by torture to "confess‘"‘ that they dropped germâ€"laden insects on the snow in Manchuria. It is the governâ€" ment which orders this inhuâ€" man treatmenrnt of human beâ€" ings that is demanding a seat in the United Natéom. â€" Teleâ€" That the Chinese Communâ€" ists will stick at nothing to gain their ends has been shown again by the disclosures of the 11 airmen recently released. One of these was forced to stand for 30 hours with his feet and hands tightly bound till he was screaming and deâ€" lirious. While he was standing thus he was struck in the face, spat upon, kicked, and beaten on the back and head with sticks. This is only one examâ€" ple of the methods used to extort "cenfessions." All but one of the prisoners "confessâ€" ed"" that they were on a spyâ€" ing mission over China when their aircraft was shot down in North Korea. Senator â€" Knowland â€" holds that Peiping wants to get ‘a "blackmail" list of the Chinese in the U.S., in order to compel the.ir return by threatening their frierds in China. Toronto Chinese have had experience of this method of blackmail, though in their case the deâ€" mand was for money. It is an old Communist trick. RED CHINA‘S METHODS JOF MANY ‘HINGS ‘ _ Your conscience may apoil your appetite but the food in ithe Kitchener lockâ€"vup won‘t | Fresh country ham _ and .gzgs, . hot . weather‘ salads, ;temptmg pies are â€" on the ; menu if you should suddenly }find yourself a guest of the )“municipal hotel." This is a far cry from the | halfâ€"heated meals served in city or town jails not so long ago. _ Printing equipment today is . so costly that weekly newsâ€" : paper$ are having â€" trouble . showing a profit. Yet the xI-‘edeml Government sees fit, 1“ such a‘time, to construct ; the biggest and fanciest printâ€" ling shop in the nation. About 95% of the pamphilets it will print might well be allowed to | zo outâ€"ofâ€"print. The balance _ ~ | could be printed by private printers at a fraction of the cost. Readers would never ; guess that they came from {‘print shops not graced with , $150,000 landscaping! PRISONERS _ HAVE CHOICE OF MEALS '_ In bolder type on ‘fancier . paper we‘ll get such pamphâ€" i:ts as *The Germination of Cottonseed,‘ ‘The Pointed ‘ Skins‘ ‘The Lump Fish, ‘The | diagoms of Canada‘, ‘Discipâ€" ‘sling; How can I correct my child‘s Habits?‘ ‘Sports and ‘Athlatics in Other Countries,‘ | and thousands more. The Caâ€" | nadian Government Publicaâ€" j tions Catalogue, back in 1953 was a thick volume of 578 kpages. When the big new plant |\ gots going, only the good Lord !knows how thick it will beâ€" | come. And many new magaâ€" | zines does the government plan : to put on the newsstands? "Today we feed the prisoner at regular breakfast, dinner and supper hours," Staffâ€"Serâ€" geant James Lautenslager said. "A man can have just about what he wants, except steaks or chicken or something like that." Then a "guest‘" could expect a few poorly buttered pieces of toast which could be washâ€" ced down by a jug of bitter tea. The whole cost ran less than 20 cents. watch the way this country is being propagandized by goverâ€" nment First radie, thern TV became _ government instruâ€" ments to ‘educate‘ the people. Soon scores of newsmen startâ€" ed to receive large fees from Over in Hull, handy to the politicians, the government bought property for their new National _ Printing â€" Bureau. They paid $564,991 for the property and another $150,â€" 000 to landscape it. The new building has cost another $13,â€" 035,009 on top of that, and they still have to buy printing equipment. What do you think us taxpayers will get out of all this? Let me tell you. enlisted to comment ‘impartâ€" i@lly‘ on national affairs â€" under the auspices of a goverâ€" nment agency. And now the Federal government has gone into print in & big and costly way. â€" GOVERNMENT PRINTING It is positively amazing to

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