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rT Cle ¢ Newspapers Limited, 57 Simcoe St. S., Oshawa, Ont. Page 4 Wednesday, February 11, 1959 Stage Set For Flooding If Heavy Rain Occurs Warnings are being heard about the possibility of serious floods in southern Ontario, Port Hope's town council has expressed concern and now officials of the Ontario planning department have suggested that river communities be prepared to meet the situation. All the conditions for flooding now exist. Temperatures much below nor- mal have driven frost deep into the ground, Heavier than normal snowfalls have piled up on that frozen surface. Ice lies thick on lakes and rivers. A heavy rain and s quick thaw would send a great volume .f water rushing along the watercourses. The frozen ground would be unable to absorb the moisture, the water running over it as if it were a paved street. The swollen rivers would he clogyed with ice. A slow thaw with little or ro rain would permit a gradual run-off. But this is a matter of chance, and commu- nities that have flooding problems can scarcely leave the present situation to chance. There are some obvious prepar- ations that 'can be made -- the removal of some kinds of equipment from ground that is certain to be flooded, for exam= ple, and measures to keep the water= courses as free from obstruction as pos= sible. Unfortunately, there is a limit to such preparation, and when the possi= ble things have been done a community can only bra~e itself for what may hap- pen. : What the 'lood threat does is to un= derscore the fundamental problem, which is conservation, Tlood control is one aspect of a program of conservation of land and water resources, Flooding occurs even in wilderness areas. It is one of nature's ways of house-cleaning. But it is never as se- vere or sudden as where man has done everything he can to help flooding by removing nature's controls, Programs to restore those coitrols go forward slowly. They should be speeded up - 1 augmented. Don Jackson's Victory With his brilliant victory in the Fen's singles division of the North American figure skating championships, 18-year- old Donald Jackson has brought new honor to Oshawa and richly deserves Oshawa's official -ecognition of his feat, Earlier he won the Canadian title, and later may very well capture the world crown. He is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant figure skaters that Canada has ever produced. Figure skating is one of the most ex- acting of sports requiring not only na- tural ability but enormous. self-discip- line and tireless enthusiasm. Only the skaters who add discipline .and enthu- siasm to their talent reach the top--and Don Jackson has reached that goal. Only a few of those who watch him skate will realize that back of all that School-Time The Stratford youth who decided to quit school (he's in Grade 12) because the board of education did not provide parking space for students' cars has been taking quite a belaboring from various editors around the province. He and his parents have been described in scathing terms and the usual things have been said about the value of edu- cation, the need for discipline, and so on. We have a suspicion that the lack of parking space was only the last of a number of reasons accumulated by the youth to justify his leaving school, and that these reasons were considered valid by his parents. We suspect, too, that the other reasons were just about as substantial as the one concerning the lack of parking space. In other - - seemingly effortless skill and grace are hundreds of hours of hard and difficult work, The triumph of a figure skater is al- ways a revelation of the virtue of dedi- cation. Mind and body have been dis- ciplined for years with the one aim in view -- those few minutes on the ice ' before the critical eyes of judges and other competitors, Like tennis players, golfers and skiers, the skater has no team-mates to share the tension of competition; he goes through the mo- ments of judgment in a great loneliness. If the mind has not been prepared for that solitary test as well as the body, he fails. It is a lesson in preparation that the vost of us could study to our profit. Parking words, the youth considered school a crashing bore and education something to be taken in limited doses. Under the circumstances, he showed good sense in deciding to quit, instead of staying in school to waste his time and the time of teachers, all the while oc- cupying space that could undoubtedly be put to much better use. Our beef is not so much with the youth as with the system that kept him in school long after such attendance was of any use to him or to the com- munity, and kept pushing him on to higher grades in which he was obvious- ly doing little but putting in time. It reveals one of the weaknesses of mass education- -- the confusion that exists between education and mere attendance at an establishment devoted to the bus- iness of education. 2 Style: Firetrap Modern Many structures now being built are "firetrap modern" in design, the U.S. professional magazine Architectural Forum charges. It claims that "mean- ingless" terms such as fire-resistant and fire-retardant have promoted the idea that modern design adequately recog- nizes the hazards of fire. This, the ma- gazine says, is 'dangerous complac- ency," because there is no such thing today as a completely fireproof build- ing. Many architects haye Leen thought- less about fire, the Forum charges, and adds that other parties with equal re- sponsibility for human life are just as thoughtless, inclyding "some of 'the most dedicated members of the school boards, church vestries and industrial enterprises." Fire protection and prevention must come on the drafting bqard, it is claim- eds The article cites the fact that the cost of fire in both human and dollar Fhe Oshawa Simes T. L. WILSON Publisher and General Manager, C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor. 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Buildings thus would still be vul- nerable to fire but would be better de- signed for rapid exit and better equip- ped for early fire detection, Panic is a great danger in fire, and often when there is only the mistaken fear that a fire exists. Panic may not be elimina- ted, but the architect can design to give a sense of security -- for example, if avenues of escape are made as promi- nent as entrances are. To most people, "fire is a terrible bore, like hygiene or the national debt," and the attitude is prevalent "that it will never happer. hére," And then some tragedy occurs to reveal the thought- lessness. Other Editor's Views WE'RE NOT BLAMELESS (Le Nouvelliste, Three Rivers) We have been indignant when Ne- groes of the United States have been denied justice. But Ontario has experi- enced in recent years several cases of racial discrimination, There is present=- ly a racial problem in Pritish Columbia. Let us not judge too severely those who practice racial discrimiration. We our- selves have hitnerto escaped it for want of having to face a case which might hurt our own interests Bible Thought We spend our years a tale that is told.--Psalms 90:9, But we ¢.n so live that the tale will be long remembered Oshawa Times SOVIET ~ HEADING FOR A 00N PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM 'The National Academy of Sci- ences proposes to drill a hole in the bottom of the ocean." --Press report. If they do so, it is hoped they will be careful not to ex- tinguish hell, which is such a de- sirable place for people to consign their enemies. Our prediction some months ago that the medicos would never reach the point of blaming ham- mertoe on emotional tension may prove false, as one of them re- cently blamed tension for corns. 'Animal husbandry investigat- ors disclose that when cattle P* burp they lose 10 per cent of vheir food energy." -- Press re- port. This doubtless explains why nobody has ever seen a cow place Jer calf on her shoulder and burp A California woman told auth- orities she kidnapped a child be- cause she felt she could do a much better job of raising him than his parents were doing. If all people who believed they could excell certain parents in rearing children were to go in for kid- Bapping, few children would be | Don't waste time feeling sorry for the cave man, He didn't have to keep records and pay taxes. The Colorado man who report- ed to authorities that he saw a nude woman driving a car was unable to give any description whatever of the car. The human stomach is an ex- ceedingly tough organ. Many a man has survived having eaten upwards of 750 civic club lunch- eons, A New Yorker who died the other day was undoubtedly an ho GALLUP POLL OF CANADA ardent do-it-yourself.r. Through the medium of a tape recorder he preached his own funeral. Most Canadians Think Wages, Prices Linked By CANADIAN INSTITUEE" OF PUBLIC OPINION The average man and his wife, throughout Canada, holsd- an ov- erwhelming belief that prices cannot be kept wliere they are, if wages are pemitted to rise. As a nation, the ratio is five'to one. Although untutored in econ- omics thé public's consistency in holding to this realization is shown again in the fect that the guess of an 18 per cent increase in the price of food, as reported by the Poll is about the same as the guess at a 16 per cent in- crease in wages over the next five years. Similarly, the U.S. people estimate a 24 per cent in- crease in the price of food, and a 25 per cent increase in wages by 1963. : With economies that match in "DO" YOU THINK THAT PRICES CAN BE KEPT 'es, prices can be kept No, they cannot, Qualified . No Opinion Set against the national aver- age, the West has 81 per cent of its people believing that prices cannot be held if wages increase, while in Quebec the proportion who have this viewpoint drops to 71 per cent. Ontario shows a 79 per cent conviction, Yes, prices can be kept No, they cannot many ways, Canadians see very _ closely to their American neigh- bors on this question. Exactly the same proportion in both coun- tries think that prices can re- main stable while wages increase --14 per cent of the adults. The same question was put to the U.S. public by the Gallup Poll as was used in this country. Results are compared below. The more education a man or woman has, the more general is the belief that wage and price spirals are linked together in an inflationary union. So, among Canadians *-th public school training, or none, 69 per cent WHERE THEY ARE IF WAGES ARE PERMITTED TO RISE?" U.S. Catnada While there is a littJe contrast in points of view among those who are connected with a labor union, and those who are not, the degree is not very great. Here's what happens to attitudes when these two segments of the public are looked at, separately. Non-Labor Union Households 13% 80 Labor Union Households % 7 100% think prices cannot be tied while wages increase. High school edu- cation raises this figure to 82 per cent and University training puts it still higher. World Copyright Reserved OTTAWA REPORT Details Revealed 0f CBC Interview By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- The mounting pile of letters, which readers of this column are writing to me about the CBC, suggests that a dilution of the one-sided viewpoint on cur- rent affairs on the CBC is a topic near and dear to the hearts of many of you. It would be unreasonable for me to make this charge of par- tiality on the part of the CBC without ample evidence to sup- port it. So today I will back up my earlier criticisms by taking you behind the scenes on one of the best-known CBC programs on current affairs. I will tell you se- crets which have never before been made public, and you can form your own opinion. Press Conference had its origin as a radio program. In those days the chairman used to select four or five of his regular 'birds of a feather" and one or two guests, to form the panel of in- quisitors with him. A genuine press conference is intended to enable newspaper men to report the pros and cons on current topics with a well-in- formed background. A Prominent Public Personage makes a state- ment on some subject or set of circumstances; he is asked unre- hearsed questions seeking clarifi- cation or amplification; and he faces further questions on any topic which his audience of news- paper men may consider of inter- est to their readers. But the undisclosed purpose of the CBC program is evidently not that it, should be a genuine press conference. It is frankly a ver- bal bull-fight, in which the chair- man ,acts as toreador, and his panel must play picadors at his command. The P.P.P. of course 1s slated for the role of victim, and the carefully planned climax would see him prostrated on the sand, bleeding to political death from the poisoned lances stabbed into his 2xposed hide. i Phere is occasionally a CBC Press Conference with a reverse twist, in which the P.P.P. is a darling of the CBC boys. Then the object is nol to assassinate but to hoist him onto a prepared pedestal. The chairman used to summon his minions to a secret vrelimin ary planning session. For per- haps two hours, the panellists would be invited by the chairman to suggest possible questions. But somehow they almost always broke up to find their own pet questions vetoed, while they were each supplied by the chairman with two approved and generally loaded questions which they would be permitted to ask. The bull of course was not privy to this preliminary frame- up. Gathered in the studio, the chairman would call out the name of each panelist in turn, Only then would he be allowed to open his mouth, dutifully' to thrust an appreved banderilla.in- to the bull. On one program I was so dis- gusted by this one-sided crueifi- xion of a foreign diplomat, who had unwittingly agreed to be guest bull, that I raised my voice above the chairmans, to inter- ject an umapproved question de- signed to steer the bull away from the plotted embarrassment. It took the picadors 10 minutes to coax him back into the centre of the bullring. Then I loudly threw out another red herring question, He was finally saved by the bell. Later, the intended vic- tim privately thankeq me for "getting me off the hook, as you say in Canada." After thus flagrantly disobey. ing the rules oi that shameful plot, I was of course never again invited by any CBC agent to par- ticipate in Press Confcrence; nor do I expect or hope to be a party lo any similar frame-ups in fu- ture. But three times since the CBC has asked me to 'broadcast a talk, Each time, the CBC has re- fused to meet my condition for a written. undertaking that they would censor neither my topic nor my script. The inference is obvious. Lest you think I am just an an- gry young man finding the grapes sour, let me say that, de- ploring the dangers inkerent in a state broadcasting system (which have partly come to pass here), I am very happy that for several years 1. have been invited to broadcast over 93 private radio stations BYGONE DAYS 25 YEARS AGO Charles M. Mundy was elected vice-president of the Provincial Council of the Boy Scouts Asso- ciation at the annual meeting held in the King Edward Hotel, To- ronto. Eight families went off the city's relief lists to bring the number down to 1044 and 59 sin- gle men, During the previous February there had been 187 families and 200 single men. James Hurst, conductor of the Oshawa Male Voice Choir, an- nounced that the choir would com- pete at the Eisteddfod, in Ham- ilton. Fire Chief W. R. Elliott, in his annual report, stressed the need of new equipment. Burglars invaded the OCVI and Centre street schools during the same night, causing considerable damage. They t some cash and other articles from the of- fice of Principal O'Neill. Miss Mary Andrews, Elgin street, member of the Teen-Age Missionary Auxiliary of ° St. George's Anglican Church, had won the unique distinction of be- ing the first girl in Can- "a to be awarded the badge and chevron of the Women's Auxiliary of the church for missionary nursing. At a meeting of the Oshawa Property Owners, 8. G. Carnell proposed that the city ar for aid from the government in bv"ding a sewage disposal plant. While disposal was greatly needed. the main thought was to create work for the unemployed. The district was in the grip of a cold wave with the tempera- ture at 3° degrees below zero during the night and rising to 24 beloy during the daytime. M. McIntyre Hood wae< ap- pointed d legate to the Dominion Convention of the Canadian Le- gion by the Oshawa Branch. A musical event took place in Simcoe Street Church when Miss Mary McBrady, artist pupil of R, G. Geen, was heard in a brilliant piano and organ recital. Mrs. J. P. Mangan, assisting ar- list, rendered soprano solos. Presbyterian Church cele- Kno tated its ninth anniversary with jv A. 8. Grant, DD, conduct. | snanrial servisres ( A QUEEN'S PARK House Shapes Up For Torrid Fight By DON O'HEARN Special Correspondent to The Oshawa Times TORONTO--This will be .. bad- tempered house before it is through. If before the wind-up it doesn't ireal out into a rash of Kilkenny h=n- Is then one observer doz:n't know when a kettle is starting to In its first weeks the chamber hasn't really erupted but from the increasing heat it." as been throwing off it could blow the lid : ytime. Probably the only reason it hasn't to dat~ © "hat Mr, Speaker -Do™ner has heen cool'. g * Mr. Z-wner loubtedly senses the under - currver'c and he has been applying extra effort to keep order. i He even has used the cold tregtment on Premier Fro: "im- self--by refusing the "remier the floor--and generally has tried to anticipate verbal cross-checking before the check is thrown. But it is a question of how long he, will be able to keep the con- rol. HOUSE RILED The biggest test to date came during CCF Leader Don MacDon- ald's speech on as. The CCF leader wa. in his us- ual pontifical mood. And this time, of course, -he was able to add to it the cloak of the right- eous. For nearly an hour-and - a-half he rubbed in I-told-you-sos about natural gas and repeated his ac- cusations of government deceit of a year ago. Naturally the House was irked, a on occasion became really FOR BETTER HEALTH New Pregnancy Test Accurate, Less Costly HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, MD A quick and reliable answer to the often frustrating question of "Pregnant or not?" has been de- veloped. . The new testing method, re- portedly, is much more accurate -- and less expensive -- than the convention rabbit, mouse and frog tests used for the past quar- ter century. This test is based on a natural hormonal reaction within the body and does not require use of ani- mals. BASIC INGREDIENT Basic ingredient of the new me- thod is progesterone, the ovarian hormone which prepares the lin- ing of the womb to receive and fertilize the egg. Progesterone is combined with other estrogens in small pink tab- lets which are taken four times a day for a total of three days. Within a week or so, you should be able to determine fairly defin- itely whether or not you are preg- nant. NEW METHOD Here is how the new method works. The procedure is founded upon the natural functional cycle of the female. Progesterone, you see, controls the portion of the cycle after ovulation. And a few days after progesterone output stops, menstruation begins. So, when a fertilized ovum is taking root, progesterone will help it. However, when no embryo is present, the delayed menstrual period will be induced in a heal- thy woman if the hormone is given for a few days and is then withdrawn. TWO TO SEVEN DAYS Thus, according to persons who have tested the method, non- pregnant women will begin to menstruate within two to seven days after the last progesterone tablet has been taken. Occasion- ally, it may take up to 10 days. Women who really are preg- nant, of course, will have no men- strual activity. How reliable is this testing me- thod? Dr. Glen E. Hayden of the Uni- versity of Chicago recently re- ported on a study in which 102 women were given 200 milligrams of the hormone each day for four or five days. The test showed that 84 of .them were pregnant and_that the other 38 were not. ACCURATE TEST Passage of time proved the test was 100 per cent accurate. All 64 pregnancies resulted in normal, full term births. The re- maining 38 women, laboratory tests showed, were victims of a common prank of nature, amen- orrhea, an interruption of the strual cycle. Thanks to Mr. Downer a fair degree of control was main- tained. But there were enough break. throughs to indicate that peace would not be with us in all our time. pi Albert Wren, on one occasion, yelled the CCF member down, Speaker or no Speaker. And a boiling mad Clare Maple- doram forced a retraction. ; And this undoubtedly was only. the first act. A large section of the House is. resenting Mr, MacDonald. 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