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ye Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Poge 4 Saturday, December 12, 1959 Higher Taxes As Means To Provide 'Good Life' Canadians hear many demands for cuts in taxes, but not often does one get a forthright argument in favor of higher taxes. Such an argument was made the other day by, Prof, F. A. Knox, director of the Institute of Economic Research at Queen's University. Prof. Knox suggested that to achieve the higher productivity and lower costs essential to export sales there would Have to be in Canada more state spend- ing on such items as scientific research for industry, development of atomic power, and public transportation. He went on: : "An even more important reason for a continued high tax bill in this country is the need for more public good even at the expense if necessary 8f a reduced production of private consumer goods. This need appears mainly in the fields of education, health and the social ser- vices Most Canadians live well above the poverty line. They use the results of rising productivity to shorten hours of labor and fill their leisure with a growing multiplicity and variety of Civil Service We have been criticized by Mr. Tom Edwards, vice-president of the Oshawa and District Labor Council, for what he claims is our failure to comment on the civil service campaign for higher wages. He thought we should argue either for or against the civil servants. The criticism was superficial, and had more thought been given to the matter, we believe it would not have been made. Our opinion of the civil service has been stated more than once in these columns. Dn September 4 of this year, for example, in an editorial urging that the federal government proceed with an investiga- tion into the efficiency of the civil service, we had this to say: "There is no doubt that the civil ser- vice can be and should be pruned. A healthy pruning job would enable the consumer gadgets which surely make a Aiminishing contribution to the good life for the individual and are, many of them, of an appalling triviality from the point of view of national well-being" He condemned inefficiency in the spending of public money, and "we should insist that oufmoded activities of government be abandoned. But it should be insisted also that government expend its spending on many forms of public goods and services which it seems to me not only directly improve our pro- ductive effhiency but increase the chances of living the 'good life' as a Canadian." There are two important points, how- ever, on which the professor did not expand but which lie at the heart of his argument. Who is to decide what "the good life" is for all Capadians? And at what point does the law of diminishing returns begin to operate when taxes on productivity are increased and "a reduced production of consumer goods" is enforced? An elaboration by the professor would be interesting Argument government to economize and at the same time improve some of the salary scales within the service." That paragraph makes our position quite clear. We believe: that there are too many people on the federal govern- ment's payroll; that some salary scales in the civil service should be raised. This opinion has been given not once but several times. Let us do it again in as simple terms as possible: a blanket raise for all civil servants is not justified, because it would be unfair to the tax- payers who should expect to get value for their money and it would benefit the drones as well as the workers in the civil service; a raise for some classes of civil servants is justified by the nature of their work.and by the need for a first- class service. Courts, Papers And News The daily newspaper's life depends upon as fair and as accurate a presenta. tion of local, national and international news as possible. It has a duty to so assemble that news in a manner which will be as embrasive of all items of in- terest as space and time will permit. In the normal day to day production of a newspaper many decisions are re- quired of the editors, On the one hand, they are beseiged by those who wish to pubfeize some cause, commercial or other wise in which they are ifitensely interested. On the other, there are those who strive almost desperately to keep legitimate news out of print. In between the two are the normal considerations of assessing news values and picture values so that the public may be kept informed. One of the fallacies entertained by the public is that either through coercion, demand, threats or bribes, certéin matters can be kept out of print. Most of these arise from our magistrate's courts where those accused of infractions of the law have been called upon to appear. It is unfortunate if a person gets snag- ged in the meshes of the law for driving while intoxicated or while impaired by alcohol or some other reason. But the public has a right to know that the police and the courts are alert and fair, just as they have a right to know of the contin- uing war against thieving, violence and the other errors of mankind. @he Oshawa Times ot Conadion Daily Newspapers Publishers The Canadion Fress, Audit Bureau of and the Ontario Provincia! 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The King's Highway is a Safe Way, it is a way accessible to the humble, and it is a restricted Way, wide enough only to accommodate the pure in heart Other Editor's Views "STAID STUDENTS" (Minneapolis Tribune) Cornell University has made a study of its disciplinary problems for the last six years and concluded that college stu- dents aren't so bad after all. Campus rules seem to be broken about 25 times per 1,000 students in an average year. Most of the cases involving men are the result of traffic violation or stu- dent "pranks." The women, who gener- ally have a better record, havé been called before boards most often for failing to return to their dor- mitories on time, but these cales have judiciary not been numerous If the Cornell figures are typical. most college students orderly and lawabiding lot are really a rather A "Walter "UNITED KINGDOM OPINION WHAT A COURSE! Socialists' Postmortem Loesn't Settle Anything By M. McNTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON jo 'tem on the pos ed. When the This is i Y abo sembled fo re de no fur If Hugh Gaitskell hoped the party on a new ceurse by his speech at the confergnée, he fail- ed dismally. To have members of his own pa interru his speech with ies of "rubbish" and "nonsense" was not the kind ence an) part) eader That is what hap- In fact his speech brought denunciations from the floor of the conference, and speeches of men like Michael "oot and Frank Cousins showed arly that the left wing of the sons for their general When they left, they ther ahead to set « exper wou'd enjoy. pened. to him tion, such as Mrs Barbara C » had espoused in her opening address BEVAN MASTERLY Aneurin Bevan was left to wind up the conference. The left 1 z- ers hoped for a clear verdict from him in favor of nationaliza- tion. They were disappointed. But he did, with all the oratorical fire of a fiery Welshman, arouse the conference to its only en- thusiasm of the two days by his plea for party unity. His theme was "lI agree with Barbara. I agree with Hugh. I agree with myself." But he did not spell out the subjects hich he was in eement wi m. He skated ac tly around the burning qu tion of nationalization, substitut- ing for it the phrase "planned economy" mething he believed r for NOW he question is, where ne Socialist party ge from pointed out there was no need to ru-h into new policies. There will not be another election for at least four rs, and any- thing can happen in that time PHILLIPS ANGRY 4 'h MR. M unionists appeal asks i€ sts who do r party politi 3 ( t of pay- ing the union's political levy to ty. The law provides that y trade union member must a political levy unless he 1 out of not suppo eve pay signs a form contracting payment The Conservatives say there are at least three million trade unionists who vote Tory. It points out that by paying the political levy, they give support to a party to which re opposed. There. fore it is these three mil lion to sign ti orm contracting out of paying money to the Labor party CYNICAL AND HYPOCRITICAL Mr. Morgan describes this ap- peal as *'cynical and hypocritic- al". He says: "To object to the coppers con- tributed by members to the polit- ical fund of their own union in a year when big business has spent millions on Tory propaganda shows an amazing lack of confi- dence in their recent success, and a real fear of the future . The exploitation of the taxpayers and consumers for political pur- poses, is all right so long as the money is devoted to supporting the Tory Party." In the last year the Labor y received 209,549 in union MOTOR EXPANSION On top of the anmouncement that the Ford Motor Car Com- pany is to spend £50 million on plant expansion in the United , Kingdom, comes further news of recurrent of hope! een the intellectu the hard-boiled £ But Mr. Gaitskell OTTAWA REPORT and ists y pansion pr extensions in the motor industry. The British Motor Corporation announces that it plans to spend million on a three-year ex- m. It aims on ex- panding its manufacturing facil ities to bring production up to the group's target of one million veh. icles a year. This program, says its chair man, will mean new sites and buildings, and a fresh approach to the problems of production and automation. , Locations for the new buildings have not yet been decided, but, differing from the Ford Com- pany, the BMC has given a def- inite pledge that at least part of its new facilities will be estab- lished in Scotland. This has caused keen expectations that Scotland will be the scene of large-scale automobile industry development, Pressure is being applied to the Ford Motor Com- pany to spend part of its £50 mil- lion expansion fund on a Scottish plant, and the Vauxhall Company is also "taking a look at Scot- land" in connection with its plans for the future. TAILPIECE x Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor who is playing leading roles in the Covent Garden opera season, has reached the heights in his profession in this country. In the recent Covent Garden production of "Carmen", in the part of Don Jose, he won flattering notices in the London press. One critic says of him: "The outstanding impersona- tion of the evening came from Jon Vickers as Don Jose. Mr. Vickers has always had a strong, masterful voice, but now he has developed the wide range of tone which enabled him to convince as both the turbulent and tender lover." Another of the music critics, commenting -that credit for the opera's success largely went to two of the men, said: "One was Canadian tenor, Don Jose, whose heroic voice and ex- pressive artistry made the luck less soldier Don Jose a power- fully vivid character. He linger- ed a bit too sentimentally over his show-piece Flower Song, but recovered from a nasty accident- al tumble in the same scene to achieve a superbly exciting sequel." i § ¥ Liberal Council Meet if With Familiar Faces By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--Last week the Lib erals made the big news in Ot tawa. Some 250 elecled delegates from all parts of Canada gath- ered here for the annual meet- ing of the party's advisory coun- cil. This businesslike gathering of soberly determined party workers was keynoted as "the emergence from the post-election period into a pre-election sit- uation." This was the theme in the opening address, del red by the president of the Na al Liberal Federation, Bruce Mat- thews Prominent among his audience were many faces previously well known here. In fact the seats in the Convention Hall could al- most have been filled by former Liberal MPs wl in 1957 and 1§ Honored b form was the d Lib eral leader in chewan Ross Thatcher, In the body of the hall were many who once called Ottawa their second home, like Ch am's Blake Huffman, Que- bec's Charlie Cannon, Resthern's Tucker, and former fi nance sinister Walter Harri Most of the present 76 Liberal senat a 49 Libe MPs were ncluding Fort Wil 7' Badana Lam ) ator Sydney Smi and that ie pla na re and Ne suffered defeat that great campaigner and future leader Pau! Marfin, Canada's first woman senator, Hon. Cair- ine Wilson, sat knitting, antly heeding the prep i the guillotine for the Tory heads. PIPES HONOR? Lit 1 leader Lester Pearson himself was piped to the plat- form to the strains of the March of the 42nd Highlanders, played by Pipe-Major Doug Stevenson, of Ottawa's Cameron High- landers, who had temporarily quit his office desk to wear his militia uniform for the occasion. The ' Conservative government came in for some heavy erit- icism from the partisan speakers at this all-Liberal meet vs argued liamentary nt com- Liberal Op iti nee on any one for a geeat length of time . . the hand of poTitical expediency was constantly ev- ident." Chairman MP for Levis effective Pe arson his role Bourget, the Maurice Que the pert praised ness of Hon or, his r as p. dur of ( government years visionary ~ a tribute which © eals obviously pleased Mrs. Pearson, sitting humbly in the back row of the hall. ATTACK TORY HUCKSTER When Mr. Pearson came to the rostrum, he at once pitched into his favourite theme, ecrit- icising 'the huckstering tech- niques emanating from the Con- servative party office here" and blasting "the slick effort to mar- ket a person and a party" as "an exercise in misrepresenta- tion dishonesty, "In fact," he continued, *'if - these hucksters were selling goods, they could be proceded against under 'the law against false and misleading advertising; if they were peddling stock, thev would be prosecuted for gr s misrepresentation. But I pr r to think of this Conser: e propaganda as merely ¢ ae comics--and 1 believe there s a law against those too no .' Ridicule is a speak-'s most effective weapon, and ', Pear- son is repeated'y us.ng this against the still-electioneering ef- forts being made to woo the voters who, the hucksters forget, caste their ballots nearly two years ago. Further, as another speaker declared, Canadians. re- sent any attempt to "sell" us anything As this working group of Lib- went smoothly through their well - organized annual stock-taking, it seemed to me that, for the first time in\ 29 months, they have got tails up ysician Saves the Life of n Fatally Shot" Headline.~ In no other field of human: en: deavor Is more progress being made than in medical sci "p 1 © BY-GONEDAYS 4 YEARS AGO . A severe windstorm blew the roof off the grandstand at Alex- andra Park, disrupted electric wires and damaged many barns in the district, Four Oshawa high school stu- dents were stricken with small- pox, and only children who had been vaccinated were allowed to attend school. ' Parks Foundry had to cloge down because of lack of coal. Oshawa General Hospital an. nounced plans for building a new maternity wing. Citizens were invited to attend an exhibition of art work of the Oshawa public school pupils to be held in King St. School. George Bateman of Deseronto, with 25 years experience in band work, replaced the late Sgt. Len Crawford, bandmaster of the South Oshawa band. Over 400 names were signed to a petition against vaccination being made compulsory in Osh- awa. Col. J. E. Farewell, an ex-pu- pil of Whitby High School and an ex-chairman of the board, presented some valuable books to the school from his extensive library. / Mrs. J. 0. Clifford, Mrs. David' Moore and Mrs. E. W. Taplin, three sisters who were born in the vicinity of Oshawa and mem- bers of the well-known Drew family had all celebrated golden wedding anniversaries. IL, G. Drew, solicitor, was a brother. Oshawa branch of the Canadian Legion, voted 89 to 5 in favor of the organization entering politics. Percy Matthews was elected "president of the branch for 1920. New Deal For Quebec Universities QUEBEC (CP) -- Quebec uni- versities are due for a new deal in their relations with the pro- vincial government. The Quebec administration Thursday announced regular op- erating grants to the universities seven times greater than those they have been receiving until now. Legislation now up for discus Sion in the Legislative Assembly opens the way for the wuniversi- ties to embark on long - range capital expansion programs un- der a system providing provin- cial government guarantee of bonded loan issues for new build. ings amd equipment. Provincial budget estimates, tabled in the Legislative Assem- bly Thursday show universities will receive $8,059,000 during the coming fiscal year compared with $1,119,708 this year. by a few hours the announce- ment by Prime Minister Diefen- baker that he will ask Parlia- ment at the next session to pass legislation making it possible for provinces interested to collect an additional one per cent of corpor- ation profits. Out of this revenue--about $9,- 000,000 annually for Quebec -- a province could pay directly to its universities an amount equal lo, the federal grants whch Quebec institutions have turned down. The Quebec budget forecast a record level of income and spend- ing without any changes in the taxation level. i Finance Minister John Bour- que forecast an over-all surplus of $499,900 for 1960-61. Last February he forecast a deficit of $7,043,500 for the 1959-80 fiscal year, ending March 31, 1960, but he revised that figure . Thursday to an over-all surplus of $539,900. AUTHORS WANTED BYN.Y. PUBLISHER News of the grants preceded 135 SIMCOE ST. NORTH ® LICENCED ¢ PARTNERS eo HON. J. WALDO MONTEITH MP, FCA. A. BROCK MONTEITH B.Comm., C.A. Gordon W. RIEHL, CA, R.LA. ROBERT F LIGHTFOOT, C.A. GEORGE E. TRETHEWEY, C.A. Res. Partner 6. W. RIEHL Monteith, Monteith, Richl & Co. Chartered Accountants OSHAWA, ONTARIO TRUSTEES o ® TELEPHONE » Oshawa RA 5.3527 Whitby MO 8-573) Ajox 730 Bowmenville ZENITH 45750 - RA 5-4478 A Report to the People care of the sick, attitudes and convictions. to go into the complexities There pital, to the Board of Directors hospital by each of the stitution hospital, such as Gynecology, Radiology, perience and training the hospital py hospital matters of policy ticipating in medical care the public. Through 'the dent directly to the level of President -- T, problems, are not easy to regiment. for treatment within the hospital may do so the "Credentials Committees individuals ability in order to be sure t staff member shall be sofe for the patient's care The Executive of the Medical Staff-is made up of a President, a Vice-President ond ted from the total membership of the active Stoff of the Each individual doctor usually works his way up through the various executive positions for one or two years in each, until eventuclly he reaches the tenure of duty os President of the Medical Staff, then may tion to the Board of Directors of the hospital, which is a lay body, to appoint the out-going President as the 'Chief of Staff". _ There are regular monthly meetings of the Medical Advisory Board of the Medical Staff in which all matters pertaining to medical care, treatment within the hospital are discussed ond recommendations are forwarded t6 the Board through the Superintendent of ; There is liaison with the Board of Directors of the hospital through the president and vice-president of the Medical Staff who sit as ex-officio members on the Board of end their meetings in order to clarify ond protect the ning to hospital operation . Secretary-Treasurer who are el hospital by democratic vote, top and, having finished his be destined for recommenda Directors of the hospital staff and ott - Interests of oll medical aspects pertai The Medical Advisory Board consists of the Executive of the Medical Staff and the heads of every department functioning within the hospital. These department heads ore usually the certified individuals in each of their respéctive departments such as Medicine, The senior radiologist and pathologist forward to ¢ general meeting the functions of these departments, Chief of Staff, thére is liaison with. the ac Vice-President -- E. G. Storie We, of the hospital organization but essentially, the medical staff functions as follows: is an overall selected by his confreres and who is recommended to the Boord of Directors of the Hospital as the supervisor of all professional care given to patients in the hos- He is responsible to the Executive Committee, Chief of Staff who Is of the hospital and to the Administrator for the general clinical organization of the hospital and for supervision of medical, surgical ond obstetrical care given to all patients within the departments within the in- The Chief of Staff is chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee which, in substance, Is made up of the President, Vice-President and Secretary of the Medical Stoff who also are elected by democratic vote, and the heads of each department functioning in the Surgery, Pathology, Medical Advisory Board has a representative of the Department of General Practice, this department consists of physicians who do not limit their practice to ony special field of medicine or surgery. Every member of the Department of General Practice may have en appointment to other more specialized departments in the hospital in accordance with his ability, ex- Any member of the hospital staff who wishes to enlorge his privileges by making application to @ Committee called In this application he lists his training in that new field ond his abilities, usually with recommendations from some more senior member who has supervised some of the specialized type of work which the individual wishes to perform. It is the duty of the Credentials Committee to assess the application on the basis of the hat the scope of work requested by the individual * Medicine, Obstetrics ond ond so on. The of g of YOUR DOCTOR and the HOSPITAL Of course everybody understands that the function of the doctor in the hospital is to take I think very few people are aware of the tremendous orgonizotion ond administration required in the hospital in order to see thot the calibre of the work cone stontly performed in the hospital is comparable to that of similor-sized hospitals ond comparable population. Doctors, being as they are, ¢ highly educated, harassed group of i iduals who constantly carry @ weight of responsibility of other people's health ond Of necessity they have developed strong individual It is comforting ond reassuring to know, however, that doctors on hospital staffs discuss, evolve and, by democratic processes, vote certain regulotions end restrictions te govern themselves as a body on hospital staffs. in the Oshawa Hospital, abide by. and work under a set of regulations which are province-wide in their appli- cation and which opply to medium to large-size hospitals, It would not be possible in this short article DR. McKAY Chief of Staff Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ear, Nose and Throat, and Eye specialty and so on. olso ajtend, representing their departments in the The - Medical Advisory Board discusses problems and attempts to reach resolutions which will Improve, the standard of medical care and incredse safety to patients ond oll th regard to the function of the Medical Staff as & whole are brought the whole Medical Staff, i.e.: all active members par- in the hospital which is held quarterly. All matters regarding policy and the control of the doctors functioning within the hospital are 'decided by a genera! vote ot the general Staff meeting. In summary, the Medical Staff has a firm voice, in fact, the final voice in all matters of patient care in the he pital and oll activities of active staff members are governed by a decision of a majority of fellow active-staff members to ensure that the highest possible standard of medical and surgical care is maintained" in the interests of heads of Departments and heads of Committees, the Executive Staff of the hospital is constantly in touch with the problems various departments. These department heads make decisions to facilitate and improve Through the executive of the Medical Staff and the ministration of the hospital through the Superinten- of Directors controlling the hospital in your community, Oshawa General Hospital Honorary President--Col, R. § McLoughlin; Honorary Vice-Prasidents--J. A. Morphy, H. P. Schell, A. { 8 Storle, W. A. Wecker, and E. H. Walker; Honorary Secretary--Mr, T. MH. Eversom. 4 the Board L. Wilson Beaton Brady Creighton, Q.C. Everson H. B. James H. G. K. F. rs. E Lovell J J. T. S. M s. Br Or Medico! Ste A. P. Fulton, . Vice-President Medical Staff W. Heber Down, County Onteric W. G. McKay, President X ond difficulties arising in the Treasurer -- G. B. Miles Secretary and Administrator ~ W. A. Holland . Marks, Q.C T. M. Moore K. Ross H. M. Smith T. D. Thomas, M.L.A H. Washington J Wootten, Town of Whithy $. T. Hopkins, City of Oshawa Mrs. C. D. Russell, Women's Hospitel Auxiliary