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The Clinton News Record, 1943-08-26, Page 6PAGE 6 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD PREMIER GEORGE DREW AND ISIS NINE CABINET MINISTERS Cut through Couzitesy of Toronto ing, from left to right are Hon. Dr. Minister of Highways and Public grower, Minister of Lands and For - R, P. Vivian, Port Hone physan Warks; ks; Hon. G. H. Challies, Morris -jests, and Minister of Game and Fish - burg business executive, Minister cries. Flanking Premier Drew are at without portfolio and vice-chairman I Ieft, Hon. T. L. Kennedy, Dixie far - of the Ontario Hydro Commission;t mer, Minister of Asgrieulture, and, Hon. G. H. Dunbar, Ottawa Business !right Hon. Leslie M. Frost, Lindsay College head, Provincial Secretary an lawyer, Provincial Treasurer and Min - Minister. of Municipal Affairs; Hon. taster of Mines. W. G. Thompson, BIenheim soy -bean Eveniug Telegram. Premier George Drew is shown a- bove surrounded by his nine cabinet ministers at their first cabinet meet- ing last Wednesday in the Cabinet Conncil room in the Parliament Build- ings, at Queen's Park, Toronto, Stand - who is Minister of Health and Public Welfare; Hon. Charles Daley, St. Catharines, mayor and retail grocer, Minister of Labor; Hon. Leslie E. Blackwell, Toronto lawyer, :Attorney- General; Hon. G. H. Doucett, Carleton Place, insurance executive and farmer, New Cabinet of Only .Ten Men Following his announced policy economy in the provincial governor Premier George Drew has selected cabinet of only 10 men including him- self as 'compared with the 14 -man Hepburn administration. Rearranging the cabinet positions to make this re. duction possible the Premier himself has taken the portfolio of Education along with his other duties. The office of Minister of Game and Fisheries, formerly administered, by the provincial secretary, goes with Lands and Forests; Municipal Affairs formerly combined with Welfare, goes to Labor, and the portfolio of Mines, formerly a separate post, is under the Trcasurae, Publi4 Welfare remains under the Health Department. Mr, Drew also abolishes the post of Liquor Board chairman as a cabinet portfolio..A speaker for the legislature is yet to be appointed. of municipalities which perform the i nt i great service to them. Studies will be a made of mines in other countries. "The mining industry in Ontario is in an extremely serious situation." the Premier Said, "Since the war more than half the nines have closed down. Unless steps are taken we may have many ghost towns in the north," Mr, Drew forecast a regrouping or departments after study is made on "the broad question of administra- tion and organization." The Premier reiterated his state- ment there will be no "wholesale dis- inissals"from the civil service as arose when the Hepburn government took office in 1934, but examination is like- ly of various offices, and when chan- ges are shade they will he made in a different manner than under the Lib- eral administration. The Premier has announced his in. tention to appoint special committees to make surveys of the legislative needs of agriculture, labor, education, and the mining industry, As Minister of Education, Mr, Drew is expected to personally direct hit program to .reduce municipal school taxation by 50 per cent Social security and rehabilitation will also receive at tention; Mr. Drew declaring this pro- blem's solution is "long overdue." A. committee will study the admin ietration of the mines, Mr. Drew has announced, "with the purpose of mak. ing adjustments in keeping with the great changes that have taken place in the mining industry in the past few years, "The first step is to seek adjust- ment of the present system of taxa -1 tion on :nines and for this reason the portfolio has been placed temporarily, under the treasurer,,, he continued. Under present arrangements, the Dominion collects the heaviest taxes from the mines without regard to V�- FIGItT ON! Fight on, fight on for Canada A dying soldier said, And lying back, on foreign soil A. brave young man was dead. Fight on, fight on -for Canada Hold high the torch, and fight, For everything that we hold dear For honor, truth, and right. Fight on, fight on, for Canada We must wage total war, If we do less than they who died Arewe worth dying for? Their sacrifice is not hi vain They leave for us a task, That we be worth:dying for Is allthey ask. ., On the great Cenotaph on high Their names, there one by one, Perhaps:, ls, tr simple line beneath, "Their duty nobly done." Wm. M. Buckingham, Luck,:ow 8th Army Engineers Finish German Tanks One of the most important and dangerous jobs carried out by Brit- ish Royal Engineers is thnt of com- pleting the destruction of enemy tanks knocked out in action. This is ofJI of course done to foil enemy at-! tempts at recovery, Picture Shows: Two 8th Arany Sap- pers making .a dash for it after plac- ing an explosive aharge 10 a knocked out 'German tank west of Medinine, Tunisia, Business at Work en Post -War Reconstruction . • A spirit of optimism about p war Canada prevails among the • iness men of this country from Atl tic to Pacific. Such is the ans to a survey by The Canadian Chamber of Commerce, which has been sub- mitted to the Spacial Committee on Economic Re-establishment and Soc.' ial Security of the Senate, and the Special Committee on Reconstrue and Re-Eastablishment of the Ho of Commons, News of this • was Teased today through P. A. McParl Chairman of the Executive, The C adian Chamber of Commerce. ost- will be during that period." bus- What will happen in manufaetur- an- in is interesting. gA survey s e in- i Y wen dreated that in the year immediately preceding the war, the manufactur- ing industry employed about 650,000, or about one-sixth of those gainfully occupied in Canada. The number employed in manfaeturing in 1943 tion is, the Canadian Manufacturers As - use sociation, at least 1,250,000, which re- appears to be almost one quarter of ano all Canadians ghinfully1 employed, an- including those in the armed forces. This ocean to ocean report was carefully prepared by the Canadian Chamber. It undertook to take a poll of Canadian business men, to see what they really felt about post-war business conditions. Boards of Trade, Chambers of Commerce, re- construction committees, trade ass- ociations and private firma all co- operated in the survey, What the Head Office of The Canadian Cham- ber of Commerce got in Montreal Canadian business men's opinions about the years ahead, and what is going to happen to both employer and employee - as far as they could see - in those years. Four interesting findings are re- vealed: (A) There is a desire to pian d finitely for the appropriate reinstat meat of :ex -service men and women. (B) The probable engagement of new employees one year after war is considered by] mosit companies as difficult to forecast without knowledge of the government policy, particularly in regard to the availability of essen- tial material, taxation and controls, (0) Al) companies surveyed ex- press Pr at he determination to give eon, sideration to the engagement of the physically handieapped. (D) In factories •other than those established for the solo purpose of making munitions, no long-term ser- ious problem is anticipated in the change over from war to peace -tune. plant. In some eases, peace -time machinery is in storage and can be rapidly assembled in the production line always provided raw materials are available,' Then the Chamber asked respons- ible bodies about the future, What did the Dominion of Canada seem to promise them in the years after the war? Representative bodies,. represe, tative people were approached, all a- cross Canada. Explaining the Cham- ber says that. "The individual •businesses ap- proached were chosen from the vari- ous .phases of our economy and while the survey is by no means ail -in- elusive, it may be considered repre- sentative of menufacitusjing, trade and commerce, and finance." The response revealed"a keen in- terest in the post-war situation, and and an appreciation of the needs of immediate. ,planning", the Canadian Chamber stated, • 'Then added: - "But there is a re luetance to forecast the post-war silp nation by reason of an inability to foresee a national prospective of th.. Canadian market because of lack of knowledge oawhat government policy province. The Chamber sets forth its conclu- sions, after surveying all the reports as follows: 1: Our prime purpose in planning for the post-war period must be,' to- gether with o-gether'with our Allies, to re-create a world market. Only by the exchange of Canadian goods for the goods •of other countries can our export in dustries, and, in turn, our importing trades, make their 'maximum contri- bution to post war employment, 2. Practical considerations must de- termine the respective spheres of government and business in the Can- adian economy, A co-operative ap- proach on the part of both, toward a large restoration of freedom far business is necessary, if business is to play its indispensible part in pro- moting post-war prosperity, with its consequent maximum employment. 3. In the face of present uneer tainties, business alone may not be able + to provide maximum employ- ment in the immediate post-war per iod. Government in consultation with business, therefore should prepare plans for the short term stabilization of emploment used in the first phase of : pearle, erdpenditures on public works, conservationand town plann- ing schemes and on measures to stim- ulate the re -housing of the people. Government should also lay plans- for the long term stabilization of employ- ment through the maintenance, at a constant rate, of private investment in capital equipment and through the operation of public finance and mon- etary policies conceived to this end. 4. Measures should be planned for the betterment of Canadian agricul- ture involving outlets for agricultur- al products in export markets and through their new . and wider use in industry, in addition to the more ef- fective use of the Iand and a rise in. the standard of living of the farmer himself. The prosperity of the farm- er i with his hr s resultant demand for manufactured goods wiII contribute largely to maximum employment. 5. An overall examination of the Canadian tariff ,and. of Canada's tax- ation structure should be undertaken to permit the finding and removing of anomalies which would otherwise hinder Canadian business in reaching its objective of maximum post-war employment. 6. Long term government plans The Association /either indicate man should be designed to raise the hu - that it is notincludinnandar probable that the man- standards of Canadian citizens ufacturing industry will be able to g the provision of security maintain the present high level of against the still unavoidable mis- employment unless the tremendous wartime expansion of Canada's for- eign trade can .be maintained. With- in certain qualifications, it is further claimed that an balance, it is probable that employment in manufacturing will be much greater than it was in pre-war years. In general, the companies included in the survey anticipate few problems in the change -over from wartime to peacetime conditions and it is not believed that the cessation of hostil- ities will materially affect the Iabour situation, i.o., excluding those plants which have been built especially for war production and mainly operated e- as crown companies. e - "Wartime expansion of plant may, in feat, create new employment." The same report mentions that some of the bigger companies are forming post-war eimanti,ttees; while others have Special departments devoted to post-war planning. In its submission to the parlia- mentary comlmititees, the : Chamber re � fors to the fact that at the annual meetings' in 1940, 1941. and 1942, "the Chamber's membership recognized the problem of reconstruction that will• arise at the conelusidn of the war and resolved to play its part: in plan- ning in advance for that period." A special committee of the Chamber Waal appointed ;to study posi,- i1r• problems, and this committee has' been functioning since 1941. As to the building industry, optim- ism provails• there. ` Not only do they foresee housing schemes here in Canada, but building abroad will be needed in thousands, and it is hoped that Europoean countries will want to use Canadian building materials, Agriculture implement makers see good domestic markets, but want also favourable trade agreements for the export markets. .:Stool industries do not profess to anticipate the future. The mining companies say they can get right back to work. Coal pro- ducers want markets ensured them. Automobile men can quickly go back to work after the artnistics. The transportation industry picture is not elear,but the future of hydro electric development calls for "a modification of the Excess Profits Tax so that adequate reserves- can be -accumulated for a post-war, con- struction program". The Brief then contains the obser- vations of various Board and Re- eoiratruetion Committees pr vi chanes of life. The development of better relations between manage- ment and workers and the adoption of a national labour code to govern the relations between management and organized labour will make for a happy and contented body of employ. ees in this Dominion. Royal assent has been granted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth for ad- option by the Canadian Women's Army Corps of "Queen Elizabeth" as its regimental pipe march. The pipe and military bands of the corps are now on a coast to coast tour. TI-IURS:, AU -0. 26; 1943 - Tear Brutish V.C. Is Prisoner Shortly after the announcement of paign. Mrs. Le Tocq, Patourel's sir.. ter received a letter from her brow ther saying he was in a Naples mill, tart' hospital and that his wounds were improving. She could not under- stand the announcement of the post.. humour award. Picture Shaws—Capt (Temporary. Major) Herbert Wallace Le Pctourell V.C., who comes from Guernsey. the posthumous award of the Victoria Cross to Capt. (Temporary Major) Herbert Wallace' Le Patourel,, 26, of the Hampshire Regiment; the War office stated that it had now been ascertained that he is a prisoner in Italy, Patourel was awarded the V.C. for conspicuous gallantry in the Te- bourba area on Dec. 8, 1942 and is the first V.C. of the Tunisian cam - GYPSY SMITH DIES led and poor, Gypsy Simon Smith, an interna- tionally noted evangelist, died at St. Joseph's Hospital, London on Thurs- day. He was a travelling horse deal- er before turning to the pulpit where for forty years he has dedicated him- self, to the preaching of the gospel, He was born 70 years age of gyp- sy parents in a covered wagon in the midst of Epping Forest in England. Ile cane to Canada 30 years ago and since 1919.has resided at London On- tario. Gypsy Smith held services in the Lueknow United Church during the Pastorate of Rev. Colin Todd, — Luelarow Sentinel. DIAMONDS AT OUR DOOR I heard a story once —it stayed with me— About a Persian peasant, tired of days Lived in a comomn rut of tending vines. Who left his home to search for dia- mond rains. He travelled far and wide; the long years passed, But all in vain; and so he turned at last. To rest him in his native heath once more, And spend bis last days there, wear - The vines were chocked with tares. and broken down. And so he negds must dig up weed: and stone. Then, as he turned the spade, to his. surprise-- Lo, sparkling diamands flashed be. fore his eyes. So, oft, with us. For happiness we seek In strange diversions, and but rarely'. speak Of closest things which bring joy from above. Of simple kindness, rewarded faith, and love, —'Frederic Weyman, CONTRAST A Flying Fortress reels above the. clouds And crippled, spins and takes its final lunge; Another, torn and battered by the foe, Makes in a sheet of flames its ghastly plunge. In this heroic raid brave flyers die, No squawks or protests nark the bitter fray . Yet in a plant bank home the workers' quit To make demands on working time and pay! ---111 Phillips in the New York Sun, ilAircrew Needed Now for tmmedlce. !raining as NAVIGATORS BOMBERS AIR GUNNERS WIRELESS OPERATORS (AIR GUNNERS) be f o .. nae t tthe tit:4W$ MAYBE you're making bombs or tanks or plane parts or ships—but the real job, the big job today is delivering the stuff right into the heart of enemy country. No job is ,more essential today than sweeping enemy planes from the skies; than blasting half -made U-boats back into scrap metal. If you're a fit, young Canadian eager to do your bit, there's a place for you in aircrew. There are fast training planes andskilled 'instruc- tors waiting to help you get wings and get into the fight more quickly than ever before. . And the specialized training you get today as a member of an R.C.A.B. Aircrew will help you take your place in the skyways of tomorrow. Make up your mind to get into the fight now. See your nearest R.C.A.F. :Recruiting Centre today. ff yon are physically ht, mentally alert, over I71h and not yet 73, you aro eligible for aircrew training. You do not require a'hligh School Education, You can be in uniform at once/ tiecrolting ;Centres are located In the principal cities of Canada. Mobile recruiting units visit smaller centres regularly.