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| hye Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 57 Simcoe St. S., Oshawa, Ont, Pogo 4 Wednesday, February 25, 1959 Steps Needed To Keep Avro Skills In Canada dt becomes increasingly clear that the Avro Arrow shut-off was badly hand- led both by Jederal authorities and the company, But there will be recrimina~ tions und explanations aplenty by the people not concerned -~ the govern- ment, the opposition, the company and the affected workers, More important at the moment is the future of the Avro establishment / and the thousands of workers dependent upon it, 'Avro might well have a flourishing jet airliner business nov had the former minister of defence production C. D, Howe not ordered the company to drop the civilian project for military work, That decision muld rank as one of the most monumental boners ever contribe uted by a Canedian cabinet minister, but it is possible that it could still be reversed, Crawford Gordon, Avro presi. dent, has listed several possible pro- grams that might be undertaken by his firm, one of them a jet transport proe gram, He described it thus: "Design and development of a jet transport for TCA, other Canadian air- lines and the RCAF, and which would have export possibilities. We have been Compulsory 'According to figures released recente ly by the Alcoholism Research Founda- tion in Ontario, this country in 1056 had 180,990 known alcoholics, or 1,800 per 100,000, It is « rate that exceeded Norway, Finland, Australia, England or Italy, and within Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia, the rates were above the national average. This should be a matter of concern, 'For some time it has become increas- ingly clear that alcoholism is not so much a problem of morals to be dealt with by the law alone, but a disease to be dealt with by trained medical and saclal specialists, Ontario's present high rite of alcoholism may well be traced not only to insufficient education but inadequate methods of treatment. «So we have been most interested in a. proposed new piece of legislation which the Medico-Legal Society of To= ranto has urged the Ontario government to enact, It was submitted to the Attore ney-Genera! of Ontario only after pro= longed study, If enacted, it would make treatment compulsory for alcoholics and drug ad- dicts, To date rehabilitation of alcohol ics, at any rate, is done only on a vole untary basis, but as the Alcoholism Re- search Foundation points out, only a small fraction of the 70,000 alcoholics in led to believe that a replacement for the Viscount is required, This could be undertaken at Malton by the same en= gineering team that produced the Jet liner, the first jet transport in North America ~~ by many years." Other possibilities were mentioned in the statement -- replacement of the RCAF's Orenda Sabres, speeding up of the development and: production of a vertical take-off family of aircraft, ene largement of the design engineering work now being done by Orenda Ene gines in conjunction with Atomic Enere gy of Canada in the. development of commercial nuclear power, participa= tion in a Commonwealth pool for the exploration of space or in the U.S, space program, It is conceivable that more than one of those possibilities could become firm- projects. The trouble is that not one of them would mean early employment of any considerable number of workers, The return to work would necessarily be slow, The big problem in the mean- time is the retention by Canada of the great accumulation of knowledge and skill found in the Avro working force. Treatment Ontario make use of facilities in the spe- cial clinies provided and of other aid such as Alcoholics Anonymous, social workers or the clergy. And in its ree view of the situation, the Foundation says this: "Apart from the little used proce dures for commitment to mental hospi« tals, nothing cen be done, In fact an al- coholic may terrorize his family, but while he is in his own home the police can do nothing tnless some member of the family or other person in the house will lay charges of assault, And even in that case the outcome of conviction will, at present, be no treatment, but fines or imprisonment." So it is significant that the Medico« Legal Society's brief to the attorney- general admits that alcoholism and drug addiction are diseases and should be so treated: that fines or imprison= ment are of little or no help; that treats ment in the early stages is desirable; and effective treat t requires ' term control of th. patient, but nc essarily confinement, The question is one which the Ontar- fo government might well give careful consideration, The figures of a rise in the rate of alcoholism are sufficient warning that the problem should be given immediate and adequate attention. Te Nec Constitutional Changes Proposed amendments of the Austra- lian constitution should be of consider= able interest to Canadians, The central point of the controversy has been the operation of the lederal system--whe- ther the nation should retain that sys tem or should strengthen the central government at the expense of the state governments, While Canadian majority opinion seems suspicious of more cen- tral authority, and the provinces jeal- ously guard the rights given them by the British Nortii America Act, the Aus- tralians apparently favor centralization, The Australian colonies, previously self-governing and independent of each other, united + form the present Com- mpnwealth in 1801, Each colonial legis- lature was supreme in its own domain, subject to the British Parliament. But ne colony could guarantee the position of the nation as a whole in the world cdnmunity, and a federal union, a sort off cross between the Canadian and U.S, systems, was the answer. Recent fed- eral governments have felt that while their international responsibilities have grown, so have the domestic demands for policies that can only be successfully carried out by a strengthened central body. * An all-party 13-man review commit Bhe Osharon Times T. L. WILSON Publisher and General Manager. €. GWYN KINSEY. Editor, + The Oshawa Times, combining The Oshawa Times tablished 1871) and the itby Gazette ond onicle (estat.lished 1863), in published daily (Sune tatutery 3 ot C Dail Association, The Canadian Circulation ane the Ontario Amocigtion, The Canadian Prema ia exclusively ene fitled to the use for republication of all news tched in the paper credited to it or to The lated Press or ters, and also the local news published therein All rights of special despatches are also reserved. " Offices 44 Ki Street Wast, Toronte, Ontarie; @40 Cathcart $t ontreal, PQ. - SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrer in Whitby, Alex, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Taunton tyrone, Butbarten, Sevier Ir eton, emont, ro ge Biot Kinsale, Rags . ter, Cobourg Port Hope, Pontypool and Newcastle not over 40c per week, By mail (in province of Ontario) outside carrier' delivery oreon 12.00: elsewhere 1500 per veor, AVERAGE DAILY NET PAID 16,166 ys and 4 P ess, Audit Bureau of Provincial Dailies tee was formed in 1056 by the Menzies government to study the question of amending the 1901 constitution, Now the committee has reported, and both Prime Minister Menzies and Opposition Leader Brett say they are "agreeably surprised" by the unanimity of the re. port. Mr. Menzies' cabinet has pledged support of states' rights, while the op- position labor party would abandon federation, The committee, however, did not offer any proposals dealing with this fundamental issue, One of the important recommenda- tions of the committee was the abolition of the states' right of veto against a possible new member. Under 'existing constitutional law, new states can be formed only with the consent of the parent state in which they arise. The committee suggests that the matter should be handled by referendum, Queensland has already taken a step in that direction -- and two areas in that state are campaigning for statehood. Abolition of the states' veto would un- doubtedly inspire other regions to seek statehood, and adding to the number of states would scarcely be a move to- wards destruction of the federal system. Other Editor's Views DIPLOMACY IN GRAND MANNER (London Economist) It is as politically impossible for President Nasser to abandon the Port Said claim (for war damage payments by Britain) as it is for Mr. Macmillan to acknowledge it. But the French have another way of doing things. A Franco- Egyptian financial agreement has been signed which satisfied both parties be- cause the main point is kept beautifully vague. The Egyptians say that they are being paid 20 million pounds compensa= tion for war damage, the French say that they have only advanced the mon- ey for economic development. The inci dent is closed. This is a technique that recalls the diplomatic arts of a more flexible age. Bible Thoughts He hath scattered the people that de- light in war.--Psalms 68:30. God has done this again and again, but humanity does not learn, Wolves are exterminated, but sheep multiply. WHAT ELSE CANT THINK OF -- quo wi Ji THERE AIN'T NO SANTA CLAUS OTTAWA REPORT Use Must Justify Costs Of Defence By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA Prime Minister John Diefenbaker possesses the brilliant faculty of colning an ep- {gram to explain the heart of the most complex problem in the minimum of verblage. Thus it was that the conflicting feelings of everyone were re solved Into common sense when, in announcing the end of the seven-year and $400,000,000 pro- gram to develop the Arrow aire craft, our Prime Minister de- clared quite simply that "'de- fence requirements constitute the sole justification for defence pro- curement." And let there be no doubt, there were conflicting feelings. The airman who sces the role of his 'service about to be altered, if not abolished; the engineer who felt pride in Canada's achieve ment in creating that fantastic weapon; the worker whose lob was immediately terminated In the Avro aviation plant; the tax. payer who had already paid out $100 and would have had to pay out twice as much to get 100 Ar- rows into squadron service; the student of warfare who wonders what is to be our front line des fence next year; the politician who knows that the word "Are row" will be juggled on the hust. ings for years to come. All these had deep feelings on this sub. t en there had been the power. ful lobbies operating around the government, urging a continua. tion of the Arrow program. Air Marshal Slemon, the Canadian deputy-chief of the North Amer. jean Air Defence Command, all but laid hig head on the block by delivering two impassioned pleas for the Arrow to a group of news paper men, The Avro Company had plenty to say to urge that its costly but pride - creating baby should not be strangled. The workers' unions demanded that the Arrow should not be scrapped because their members have a right to employmem. The local municipalities, where all the highly paid workers live, also urged continuation of that expen. diture of public money. "REASON" 1S "RIGHT" Nobody troubled to speak up for the taxpayers who would have to foot the bill. True, the cost per Arrow had been cut from an estimated $12,500,000 each to about $7,800,000 each, but the bill would still be huge, And then the prime minister himself spoke up, for every Cana- dian who seeks safety from at. tack for himself and his family, and for every taxpayer who seeks value for his tax dollar, "Defence requirements," he said, 'constitute the sole justification for defence procurement." In other words, he does not intend to tax the public to pay for weap- ons which are of no use, Two years ago, this column de- plored the expenditure of many millions of dollars by our then minister of defence production, Clarance (What's a million?) Howe, on a weapon already oh- solete and whose only role, I said could be that of an exhibit in a war museum, SMUG BUT NOT SAFE Since then, I have actually vis- ited the distant early warning or DEW line of radar stations in our Arctic, 1 am afraid that we have caught that disease which proved so fatal to France in 1940; we have been sitting smug but far from safe behind our inadequate protections with a Maginot Line Complex, Suppose we were fo build not 100 but 1,000 Arrows, bankrupting ourselves in doing so. We might make ourselves reasonably safe against an attack by A - bomb carrying bombers [lying across the Arctic. But there is more than one way to skin a cat, A possible enemy could knock out Dew-line stations to make a gap in our warning system, I can as- sure you that those little stations, many manned by only five men, isolated 50 miles from the near. est help, are sitting ducks along our Arctic coastline, Then there is the nuclear headed rocket which can be launched from submarines. Neither DEW-line nor Arrow is protection against that, And when we have tightened up our naval defences, how are we going to stop 12 insignificant travellers, checking 12 H . bomb loaded pleces of baggage in check-rooms at our 12 most vul- nerable sites? Today we are in a global to tal war. Conventional military de- fences would not provide com- plete or reliable defence. Nor should we kid ourselves that this is only a shooting war that we face; we could lose it on the as. sembly line at the Avro aviation plant, by bankrupting ourselves to build ineffective w BYGONE DAYS 25 YEARS AGO At the meeting of the newly: formed OCVI Home and School Club the following officers were elected: president, Russell D, Humphreys; vice - presidents, Mrs, L. Corrin, A. L. Haverson and Mrs, J, J, Callaghan; record. Ing secretary, Miss G. Moore: corresponding secretary, Mrs, W, Babe; treasurer, Mr, Black. Col, Frank Chappell, president of the Oshawa Boy Scout Associ ation, was chairman at the Boy Scout annual banquet. Chief Com missioner, J, A. Stiles, gave a fine address which covered Scout activities all over the world. Wil. llam Pierson, Reg Terrett and J. H. Rigg, local Scoutmasters, recelved "Medals of Meat" in recognition of years of service. Rev. E. Harston of Toronto, formerly of Oshawa, was the guest speaker at the National Observance meeting of the Kins. men's Club, Twenty-five single unemployed men left for the government work camp in Burleigh Falls, A deputation of the city council and welfare board, headed by Mayor W. E. N. Sinclair asked the Ontario Government for larg. er grants for relief, S. F, Everson was named a di- rector of the Ontario Lawn Tens nis Association at the annual meeting held in Toronto, Rev, Dr, R. L. MacTavish held a special "Mother and Son' serv. ice at King Street Church, Miss Nellie Gilllyn who had been a teacher at St. Gregory's School for the past 15 years died in the OGH following an opera- tion, Henry Harris was appointed General Sales Manager of Gra- ham-Paige Motors of Canada. He was associated for some years at General Motors here, and had made a large circle of friends. Lt.-Col. J. B. McCormack, sec. retary of the Chamber of Com. merce, announced that the Osh. awa Pottery Co. on King street west would be re-organized, E. S. Alger was named vice-president. PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM A total reassessment of the road ahead is urgently needed. The most urgent need would ap- pear to be a rationalization of our weapons industries within the framework of our NATO alliance, so that by standardization and sub-contracting each nation can get weapons and employment at prices it can afford, FOR BETTER HEALTH Many Diabetics Remain Unaware of HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, MD There are about 2.000000 dia- betics in America. Approximately half of these persons know they have diabetes and are under the care of doc: tors. Some of them can manage the disease simply by watching their diets. Others must also take insulin, either by injection or in the newer tablet form. The remaining 1,000,000 per. sons don't know they have dia- es. Who are these people? Could you be one of them? Well, the majority of these '"'un- known' diabetics are women, since diabetes is the only known major cause of death in which the female mortality rate exceeds male mortality . The "unknown" diabetic prob- ably is about 40 or older. Dia- betes, you see, is a major discase among elderly people. The unsuspecting diabetic more Condition often is married. Statistics show that the death rate is higher for single women prior to the age of 45, but it is much greater for married women aiter that, Chances are that this person 'with this so-called "hidden" dis- ease is overweight and might even have a history of diabetes in the family, Some 80 per cent of the diabetics who seek medical treatment are overwoight--many of them considerably overweight. As for heredity, you are more likely to be diabetic if both par- ents had the disease than if only one had it. This unsuspecting diabetic real ly should be aware of his trouble, since: he probably has many symptoms which plainly point to diabetes, or at least to some kind of physical trouble, Chances are he feels tired and generally weak most of the time, and maybe he has a sore, ab- ocess or slow-healing wound. If you borrow a shirt from the type of person who "'will lend yeu the shirt off his back," you'll acquire the use of a highly infer for shirt, "It takes 65 muscles to frown; only 13 to smile," says an ana. tomist, Many people, however, prefer to put on a facial expres. sion the bard way. People rerely follow free ad: vice, and they aren't any too diligent in following advice they seek and pay for, By far the greatest cause of 'that tired feeling" is working. People should avoid work when ever possible . . . in some cases, ha oftener than that. 0.5. GALLUP POLL Most American Women Happy With Their Role By AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION PRINCETON, NJ. -- If you could be born again, would you rather be a man or a woman? That seem frivolous ques- fon was secon atin Y in a pub- o surv apan, con. ducted by the Prime Minister's Office, to determine the status of women in that country. It suggested an issue to the Gallup Poll, How would American men and women answer the question? "How would the views of Japanese Jing 4 Ameria womse on resul iain ugh Josie structure of two ne- ns. In Ja - 8 land where " had women have lower status than men -- three out of five women sald they would prefer to be born again as men, In America, three out of four women sald they would be per fectly happy to start life once more as women, Those women in Japan who preferred to remain women cited as the chief reason that 'a wom- an has no ih, In this , where 9 Bg Keg Poors Migs 4 is too dominant, one of the per cent) would like to be born anew as a man -- chiefly because they would have more freedom as a man, get out more often, and not have the worries of housework and children, When asked why she would prefer to be man, a 42 - year - tominuted H cleaning closets " 'Because the With he would like buildin mented: "I'd love to the Navy and the adventuresome pessimistic outlook on the whole subject was held by a 46- year-old ladies' wear cutter. His comment: "I Just wouldn't want to be born again at all." World Copyright Reserved REPORT FROM THE U.K. Campaign Against Ancient By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Times LONDON - The British minls- try of transport is putting into effect a scheme by which it is hoped to drive antiquated and dilapidated automobiles and ght commercial vehicles off the roads, Starting this year, the test. fog for road-worthiness of all cars and light commercial ve- hicles over 10 years old will be compulsory. Minister of Trans. port, Harold Watkinson, expects that the work of testing will be started about Easter, The main oroblem in makin these tests effective has been tha of lining up a sufficient number of inspectors and inspection points where the 1,500,000 auto. mobiles and 500,000 light come mercial vehicles can be inspect. ed, PROBLEM SOLVED That problem, however, has been solved. Well over 10,000 commercial garages and 20 local authorities have applied for ap- pointment to undertake the neces. sary vehicle tests, The task of in- specting these premises to deter. mine if they can qualify as test. ing points has been 'under way since December: The ministry now employs 240 inspectors, and each of these will have to visit and examine more than 40 appli cants, Before any appointments at in- spection stations can be made, Vehicles the premises and their equipment have to be approved as capable of providing the standard test laid down by the regulations, 21,000 FIRMS AVAILABLE The motor trade registers show that there are 21,000 firms oper. ating motor repair garages in Britain, Most of them, the minis. try reports, are sufficiently well equipped to take on the official vehicle testing with little extra equipment, but special equipment is available which makes the work. faster and the job more economical, In addition to Inspecting prem. {ses and equipment, the min. {stry's Inspectors have allo to examine the mechanics who will undertake the tests, so that their qualifications will be beyond question, - A spokesman for the ministry of transport sald that if it is y, more iners would be employed to speed up the in. spections and get the scheme operating as soon as possible, And when it is in operation, cars and light commercial vehicles over 10 years old which cannot pass the tests to secure a cere tificate of road-worthiness, will be firmly but decisively taken out of circulption in the interest of public safety, Whenever the British eral election comes -- and ow looks as if it will be In" the fall rather than early summer - the Conservative party is ready to go into it with banners flying. The QUEEN'S PARK Misunderstanding Afflicts Members By DOM O'HEARN Special Correspondent te The Oshawa Times TORONTO -- Misunderstanding has Lands and Forests Minister Spooner in trouble, Mr, Spooner this year is spon: sor of a wilderness bill. It is a good bill--designed to give the government authority to reserve Crown Lands for recrea- tion and other purposes. Unhappily for Mr, Spooner one of the incidental purposes is re- search into flora and fauna, By the time reports of the bill reached his home ares in Coch- rane South it looked as though the main purpose of the wilderness areas would be reserve lands for research, Local sportsmen looking at the io) millions of acres of wilderness , surrounding them could see a mental picture of it being set aside for research. And they howled . . . much to the minister's discomfort, LIBERAL TARGET Liberal Leader Wintermeyer also is suffering from misunder- standing -- though In his case there is a suspicion it may be intentional misunderstanding. The other day in education committee, Thomas Graham, the affable Conservative member for York Centre, while discussin teacher supply said 'Of course understand the Liberal leader would have the government as sign all teachers." Mr. Wintermeyer, u course, s proposed no such thing, He has suggested that perhaps new office located at KING ST, WEST CENTRAL MORTGAGE AND HOUSING CORPORATION Change of Location Commencing March 2nd, the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation will be closed and all future business carried on at the SUITE 214E OSHAWA SHOPPING CENTRE 1959, the Ajox Office of OSHAWA, ONT, the government should take over he of teachers' salaries. . But he has stressed that there should be local autonomy. WIDE OPEN In stretching the salary pro. posal into an arbitrary allocation of teachers Mr, Graham was fol- lowing what is either a very sloppy habit or a planned tech. nique of the government benches. Starting with sections of the press, and then with certain Con- servative members, particularly Hon, Robert Macaulay, Mr. Win- termeyer has been pushed off base since early in his career through abuse of his public state. ments. The Liberal leader has a habit over-explaining himself which leaves him wide open 4 isin. rpretation, If a partial ment is lifted out of context with. out the full explanation it can leave quite a wrong impression, In the early days this led to considerable misunderstanding through mis-reporting, quite un- intentional, on the part of news. permen, Pt now one wonders if govern. ment speakers noticing this have not only engaged in intentional partial quotation but have also extended it to exaggeration. pattern of the election campaign already nd the apparent, a party organization lg geared to make the most of it, The Conservative party will go into the election with two slo. gans which they believe will have an overwhelming appeal to the elegtorate. They are 'Peace Abroad" and "Expansion at Home". Both of these battle-cries can receive a considerable ime petus as vote-catcher by the events which are shaping up for the near future, VISIT TO RUSSIA Although the disclaim any thought that polit ical considerations prompted Prime Minister Macmillan's visit to Moscow, there can be no doubt of the effect of his decision on the public mind. It will do the Tory cause a world of good, and may lift it back to leadership in the public opinion polls. While the visit is officially termed only an ixploratory mission, and will not lead to negotiations or agrees ments, Mr, Macmillan will une doubtedly be given credit for tak- ing the initiative and going to Moscow to talk things over with Mr. Khrushchev. Prospects of a summit confer. gr h are other factors which Tory slogan of "Peace Koroad® a real vote-winner, All the forces of the govern. ment are being concentrated on IN COUGH RELIEF GARGLE THEN SUALLOW | nex in Toa. i ter the relief. So here's a new , At the first sign of a cold, gently argle with Pinex at a Shs yout SOUR, ur throa! 4 Ak your druggist for fig PINEX CONCENTRATED or READY-MIX Public Invited ® Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation NOMINATING MEETING! in the UAWA AUDITORIUM BOND ST. EAST, OSHAWA Thursday, Feb. 26 - 8 p.m. Guest Speaker E. B. JOLLIFFE, Q.C. Question Period