HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1955-03-03, Page 23Jijt60bertril, gPtottal-tar
HURON COUNTY'S FOREMOST WEEKLY
Established 1848. ln its 108th year of publication. •
Published. by Signal -Star Publishing Limited
Subscription Rates—Canada and Great Britain, $3.00 a year: to United
States, $4.00. Strictly in advance.
Advertising Itates on request Telephone 71.
Authorized as second-elass mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa.
Out -of -Town Representative: C.W.N.A. 420 Temple Bldg., Bay and Richmond Sts., Toronto.
Member Of Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. Member of Ontario Weekly Newspapers
Association, Member of Audit Bureau, of Circulations. Weekly Circulation of over 3,200
GEO. L. ELLIS, Editor &Id Publisher.
THURSDAY, MARCH 3rd, 1955
THE COMMUNISTS IN CHINA
Maniacal upon Mr. Bezeau's letter in another
column)
Yollo not know just what "lie" it is that
b. Henan imagines has penetrated into our
impreasionaLle mind and settled there. (lug"
friend Ia not explieit as to this. Is it that the
Russians Reds are a cruel, barbarous and
godless lot? Ile can hardly deny that. Is it
that •between them the Itimian Reds and their
fellow travellr, the Chinese °Reds, have
forced upon the
:a.nese people 11 gOVer11111ellt
which is foreign to the Chinose character,
Or does he object to our statement that„ "so
far as we know," the majority of Chinese do
mot want the government that has been foreed
upon .them?
As to the last our statement IVOS qualified
by the _phrase 80 far as we know." Friend.
Remit does not know either, for the-mas
of Chinese have had no opportunity to register
their -opinion. 1)00$ hc' 1•01it"Vt.' all that the
Reds Say ab011t how they have "liberated''
the people of China! Possibly they have done
eo in the Red Russian manner: put the peas•
ants on the land ;Id told them \v ha t to do
With it, or clae—the Communist. plan of en-
slavement. •
We have long- admired the Chitfese Ivork-
era, their industry, their patience and, good
nature, and we happen to have jitst read
nCW book by Pearl Buck which has deepened
s.nd strengthened this adinirat ion. Pearl
Buck, as niany readers know; spent the •stirst
forty years of her life almost entirely in
Mina. She was the d 0h111t0i. of missionary
parents who devoted their 11 dill t to
Mina •their daughter W3:4 bronght up among
the eommon.pople there. was given a Chinese
eduotion, and as she greW up her interests
were almost solely with the people anion.r
whom she Ivorked, so that she- ws almost
• .Chineaa herself. Since her retirement •to the
United Otates she has 'written several hooks
%fling 0.her 1.xperiences in those forty years.
and having kept in touch with events in
China she is a foremost autheirity on things
pertiiningto that country.
.• To put it mildly, she does not admire the
Commuitiats.
Et • is charaeteristic of the Chinese people
sot to.•offer undue resistance to a new govern-
ment. atfirwhen the Manchus took over the
alatFltry ..and .ordered the wearing of the queue
M a sign of subjection the peeple submitted
plkilosophically and waited for a turn of af-
fairs. .As it happened. 'Mrs. Buck was in
China when this turn came and the Chinese
got rid of the 11.1anchus and of the queues
which they had worn for generations.
This was Sun Yat-sen's opportunity. Ile
was (teetered the first 'President of the Repub-
lic a China and 'set about to organize a demo-
cratic government. His health failed, how-
ever, and he died before he had accomplished
his Purpose.
Chiang KaiShek,, ar110 inherited SnYat-
sen's plans and his difficulties, was at first
flanked by Communist Russian advisers, both
politieal and inilitary," but before long he
separated himself from them beeause of "the
increasing arroganee of the Russian Com-
munists." It was part of the Communist
campaign to expel the foreigners (excepting
evidently the Russians). but Chiang deelared
himself friendly to the West and invited
foreigners to return.
Mrs. Buck „herself narrowly eseaped
treatment or deatlitt the hands of the Com-
munists,- These had been jOined by bandits
and brigirrids, and in their eampaign t 0 lid
tile e01111try of. the "white devils" they killed
Many. Mr. Butik and her family 'eseaped
through the help of faithful Chi,nose friends,
who yoneealed them until the arrival of
gunboats. •
The .ationalists (Chiang's Party) suceeed-
ed in expelling the Communists and Mrs. Buck
returned to Nanking.
Mrs. Pniek tells of• the diffieulties
Chiang Kai-shk had to meet in dealing vith
the invading Japanese, the Communists and
the old Chinese war lords who strove to hold
control in their variOns distrits. "Chiang
was right,- says Buek.."in believing that
Communism was the basic enemy to the Chinese
way of life. but what he did not understand
was that by ignoring the terrifying ,..rrowth of
Japanese domination Ile WIlS alienating his
own people. Nvho did not yet gauge the dangers
of Communism.', •
The- Communists came - back and with
Rassian arms and equipment drove Chiang out
of the country and to Formosa; where he 110W
is.
To cut short a long ory, tlm,rommunist
government Qf China rests upon force. and
the, Nationalist forces under Chiang have as
mueh right to fight baek as the Reds have to
retain their hold. fn giving protection to the
Nationalists in Formosa the United States
has no imperialist design but simply is trying
to block the spread of Communism, which in
the opinion of this writer is a laudable aim.
ABOUT TAXATION
We quote frotn The Rural Scene:
"Taxes could never have readied the
height they are in Canada today .had it not
Lem for the system of indirect taxation which
enables the Government to •tak everything we
boy or sell, coueealingthe taxes in,the prices of
the pods so that the people dOn2tknow they
are being taxed.
11 every tax were payable direetly to
Ike Government that levies it, 'the:e would be
far more rsist:1 1100 tO the continnous increases,
ind the politivians would tind, it politieally
leas profitable to urge the spending of the
public's money.
Only the Dominion Covernment has
power to levy indirect taxes in Canada but
ithe Provinces %%imld like to have it also and
aome of them are mAng ttesperate ctrorts to
met it. '
1tider no eirentustanees should any pro.
tinee be Allow el to hove this Power. British
North America Act wisely withheld it from
them. 11i, t ax agreements it \\eon the Do-
' minion and the, Provinees are more deviees to
lefeat the purp,:es of thy? ior they con:
template' letting the Provinces share in these
easily, collected taxes."
With most of this we agree, but the Do
minion-Provincil tax agreements had a more
praiseworthy object than is stated. It was to
give assistance to those poorer Provinces
whieh had difficulty in raising sufficient rev-
enue. However, ''Rural aeetle" is quite right
in warning against any amendment -4d the
BN.A. Act which would enable the Provinces
to raise money by sales tax. In faet, these
eolUmns have repeatedly advocated the aboli-
tion of Ibis. tax, which falls inequitably "upon
the taxpayers. If it were abolished. and the
revenue raised instead by income tax, the
people would know what they were paving.
and lvith the gradedineome fax those in the
lower grades would be better off.
The Provinees have power to levy income
44.4
THE GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR
'• • '
,, ••• . • . ,
•,•‘‘ n',,i-N-.
...
, ,, ' , ` ‘,,,,\ 1::*'•`‘'N'
.,,, ‘ ,s,. s:,,,, •,,,L\ \\ :
'• : , ,..,,,'\‘‘,V7. ),...
l',..\ .1'. ..."*‘\ •••''' e•
7 ' • * .. \ ' -<" \ • • ',, -S.\,,;
-. '-
S:1;,
t,•,.. ••
te
- i ..,..i. .
..S-„,--: •
''41
THAT'S OUR 6011 !
letter to the Editorl
CHINA AND THE COMMUNISTS,:
Editor, The Signal -Star.
Sir, — My good friend, E. D.
Snyder of Moose Jaw, needs to
help from me;but in your reply to
his letter there are a couple of
statements that I believe should be
challenged.
You say: -But, though •themis-
treatment of China' over a long
period is a s.haineful chapter of
istory, it remained for the Rus-
sian Communists to write a still
darker Story by poisoning many of
Lthe 'Chinese people with their
cruel, barbarous, Godless propa-
ganda and joining with their con-
verts in forcing upon the country
a government which is foreign to
the Chinese' character and which,
so fag as we know, the majority
of Chinese do not want."
Suchstatements as the abeve
have been made hundreds of times
in various forms without any
evidence being offered to support
them. They are products of the
U.S. multi-million dollar Propa;
ganda Bureau. -It was Hitler who
said: "If you want your lie to stick
make it big enough, and tell it.
often enough then all the peole,
• including yourself, will believe it."
The truth is that when Chiang
Kai-shek marched his army through
• China he took' from the . people
what they had. When the• People's
Republic of China (so-ealled Com-
munist Government of China)
marched through China after
Chiang the common people had
the land restored to them.. This
continued until' Chiang and his
army • were driven to the • sea.
That is idly the niajority of
Chinese 'do •not want Chiang,. but
prefer the present government
which may not be good. but it is.
the best they haveever known.
You close your editorial note
with the statement that President
Eisenhower "is tobe eredited with
an attempt to halt the Communists
in their pursuit of their dream cif
• world conquest.'
If you mean Russian world con-.
quest. in a political sense, what
have you to say about the United
States with her warships on every
sea and her air bases in almost
every- country, of the world? 'What
have you tosay about Yugoslavia
quitting the. Soviet Union 'without
a military struggle? .
We have missionaries preaching
• the Christian religion,n far coon:
tric, but that does not mean that.
we have any thought of , political
ta:- but they dislike .to use this power and
•-
prefer to have the Ottawa Oovernment do the -
colleetitg and hand over' a large share of the
proceeds tothe Provinces:. Thus the Provinces
escape bin ealled to aceornit by the txpay-
ers for the heavy tax bills and the responsibil-
ity is placed Ottawa.
EDITORIAL NOTES
.Pratice at la,t has a Prelllier 1) suoceed
Kendes-Franee.. Ile is M. Faure, who is 'a id
to be somewhat more conSZerV 31 IVO 111011- his
predeemsor. It remains to be Seen how long
be will remain in favor with the tiekle National
Assembly.
Reports of the: dislstrona floods itt Aus-
tralia perplex the Saltford sage. who has
Thought, of , that Country as dry and arid.
Why don't they dig a hole -in .the desert and
Jet the water run into it.- he wants to know.
"Then they might have trees And
things vhere
'• there is- itOtV just San.."
• • •
According to official proclamation, the-
, Queen's birthday thissear will be celebrated
gra ilttenday, the 23rd of Mn-. This comes
•.pretir nett'. to an amalgamation a tfie old
31114h of Nay and recognition of the reigning
levereigi7Ntfage reat birthday- of etinrse
April 211d. • •
• „
DON'T NEED fIAPlift GUARANTEES
.
sopinion 41,444 true' 'guardian
-16"144i;Yril#POiP).41
b7 Jun', nett are
at diftkd-evin
skliterities—
these rights will generally be maintained from
generation to generation—s they. have been. for
the most part, in the countries -of the British Com-
monwealth. But when the' public is indifferent,
governments and officials can whittle away their
freedoms without difficulty. no matter how "ftrinly
they may seem to be secured by the national
constitzition.•
This. is something which advocates Of a Canadian
bill of rights. to be incorporated in the British North
America Act.' nevet seem to understand. They
would be better employed in educating the Cana-
dianLpeople to understand and appieciate, more
than they do, their present heritage of freedozn than
in devisingpaper guarantees, wtfieh in an ernergimeY
usually turn out to have the strength of paper.
• • ft tik • •
••••••••1•••••
Down Mernory's
Lane
• 45. Years Ago
W. E. Kell) sold his jewelry
business to Walter H., Harrison.
A joint committee of Town Coun-
cil and ,the Board of Trade decided
to recommend to the Government
that the section of breakwater slat-
ed to be built should be at the
southwest of the entrant -6 to the
harbor.
• Goderich was eliminated from
OHA Intermediate playoffs by Lon-
don after a hectic series. The
locals had . tied up a two -game
total -goal series 9-9. and .a sudden
death game played . in Stratford
was won by London by a 5-2 score.
• • 25 Years Ago
Improvements were being made
at the town hydro sub -station and
pumping plant. Cement protec-
tions had been built around the
. bottom Of the transformers to re-
tain the oil andthe walls and Boors
were painted.
,,• "Bualding Skyward" was the sub-
ject on which Rev. Gordon Butt,
pastor of Victoria Street' United
Church, 'spoke to members of the
Goderith Boy Scouts who attended
o special service at the church.
Mayor MacEwan, Councillors
• Humber and Moser and Town
Clerk -Treasurer L L Knox were in
Toronto attending the Good Roads
convention. •
Members of the Chathain Board
of Education tendered- a compli-
mentary banquet •to the retiring
president; Vietcir Lauriston, a
Goderich old boy.
S Years Ago
Local Conservatives planned for
campaign organization at a meet-
ing held at MacKay Hall. F. R.
' •
conquest of those countriea. Nor
does it mean that Russia dreams of
a political conquest of the world
naerey because there Are a few
Cernmunists in Canada. Frankly
speaking, we have more to fear
from Communist union leaders at
Inime than from anything abroad.
C: MORTIMER BEZEKIJ.
12 Ellen Street East, •
Kitchener, Feb. 21, 1955.
Darrow was elected president -of
the • association. Other officers
named were: W. H. Blackstone, and
Mrs. F.'-MurneY, vice-presidents;
.T. Cuthbertson, secretary; Harold
Taylor, treasurer. An effort was
being made to have Syl Apps,
hockey star who was the Consery
ative candidate at Brantford, ad-
dress a meeting at Goderich.
Provincial and county snow-
ploWs werecalled into action after
a week -end • snostorm. Seven
inches of snow had fallen in Gode-
rich. .North and south roads, par-
ticularly the Blue Water and No.
4 Ilighvray, were badly °drifted in
spots. •
'The story of. Hiawatha told in
pantomime featured a program
presented by the Boys' Missionary
Club of Knox 'Presbyterian Church.
10 Years Ago
doderich Lions Club held a
"'Hydro Night" meeting w.hen G. C.
...Parker,' of 'Toronto, district engin
eer for the Hydro -Electric Power
Commission a Ontario, was guest
speaker. Local hydro commission-
ers and J. B. Kelly, manager of the
Goderich Public Utilities Commis-
sion, were guests.
Systematic destruction a a num-
ber of stripped unairworthy air-
craft was tinderway at Sky Har-
bor, the work beingdone by RCAF
personnel under the supervision of
an official of the War Assets Cor-
poration, Montreal.
PlefAlt GERMINATION TESTL. ...
Germination tesbs at home are
the practical and common sense
answer, to farmers who question
whether their seed is going to.
germinate properly after they sow
• it. This is particulanly the ease
• with seed retained from last year's
harvest, the germination of which
may be"'41cart:-...-For the coramon
crop, beim gertninatiorx tests
be made successfully on a sample
which will 'mot nearly rep -resent
.
theTheentirusaTot.uapraotice is to use loot
seed counts, in duplieate, or more.
The average of the separate tests
is then used in determining the
• percentage of. germination.
• . Olean blotting pape, 'absorb
cotton, paper towels, ar cloth m a-•
be used to hold the seed: Place
100 seeds on the materane/eeted
and cover with the Same kind of
material. Place on a large dinner
plate and cover with another One.
Sand may also be used for testing
seeds of cereals, corn, peas and
beans.
Seeds should not be anowed to
rest in water. The material shbuld
be soaked in water and the free
water allowed to drain off before
from 65 to 85 degrees F. is suit-
athb.
theseedsare planted.
Uniform temperature ranging
•
Sprouts should not ..be removed
and counted before they are large
enough to determine if they are
healthy andappear capableof de..
veloping into useful plants. Clovers
arid other legumes in particular
should be examined carefully for
broken and abnormal sprouts' that
start growth but are incapable of
continuing to grow into plants.
Thousands of Canadian -women
knit and sew for the Canadian
Red Cross. Your contributions to
the Canadian Red Cross provide
the necessary materials to carry
on this important service for the
less fortunate at home and abroad.
• YOU AItE INVITED TO ATTEND THE
HURON LIBERAL ASSOC,'IATION,
(As Constituted for Provincial Purposes)
Annual Meeting
HENSALL TOWN HALL
THURSDAY, MARCH 10
. at 8.30 p.m.
Special Speaker:
ROBERT McCUBBrN,
Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Agriculture
Wilfred Gregory, QC.
President, the Ontario Liberal
Association.
Frank Harber
President, the'Western Ontario
(North) Liberal Association.
and others.
Officers will - be elected and other 'important business
transacted.
IVAN KALBFLEISCH W. G. COCHRANE ROY LAMONT
President. Secretary. Treasurer.
"GOD SAVE THE QUEEN"
••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••0•••••••••••••1
•••
1
• LEGION HAL
.
Saturday, March 5
JACKPOT of $A7.00 for full house in 57 calls.
If not won on Saturday, vilue of jackpot and also
number of calls will be raised each week until it
_is won...
•I
The young bride complained bitterly to her
mother about her husband's drinking habits.
"II you knew he -drank." pointed out" her
Mother, "arhy:,did yoitrn,airy him?"
"But. mather...1 diantkaow: he drank.." sobbeill
on4,ilrghtAleNcaitie home sober."
.0
A man appeared at a newspaper o to' place
an ad oftering.$300 for the return of his wife",.s.pet
cat!.
I:ifurpilce for a int"'
commented.
got' for this , me," the MU snapped. 1
drowned: IL"
• 1: .GAIEES $1.00
,.$10 .CASH PRZE
SPECIALS---ghAre the Wealth
JACKPOT- WILL* PLAIXD FOR t TratE8
Sickpot 25d or for41.00 • ,•
• Smilax wait 'earth 26c
42..
Doots,004.074•511.111.
iftgame starts at 8,30 p.m.
' • ' r „ I ,'. ... •
•••
•
•
•
•
P1,AYTEX SUPERFOAM PILLOWS
MARCH SPECIAL FIRST QUALITY
RE. pRfeE -•SALE PRICE
Regular height - $6.95 each 5.49 each
Extra plump - - $8.50 each 6.95 'each
King size — $9.50 each 7.95 each
•'NON - ALLERGENIC and NIILDEW - PROOF
SAVE as much as $3 on a pair. SAVE,
Tat , RTILlitE
—SPECIAL FOR LIMITED TIME ONLY—
•
• PHONE 76
-1
•
Nemmoimmomieseesweeseeeeeseseeeeeeeeesseseeeseee.••••••••••