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hye Osharon Simes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 4 Monday, December 21, 1959 Russ Cut Down Jamming Of American Broadcasts The United States is speiding $17,- 570,000 this year on its Voice of Ameri- ca broadcasts to the Communist bloc. It is estimated that the Soviet Union spends $100 million a year to operate 1500 jammers from 300 sites in Eastern Europe, in order to interfere with the reception of the Voice broadcasts. Since Khrushchey's visit to the Uni- ted States, about 60 per cent of the Voice programs are not jammed by the Russians. Before his visit, only about ten per cent of the broadcasts got thrbugh. Not surprisingly, the Russians have been much more concerned about the broadcasts than the Americans have been interested in what the Voice was trying to do. Even congressional investi- gating committees have given-little time to the Voice. What does it do? Every day 7% hours of programs in Russian are transmitted to the Seviet Union. Seven hours of broadcasts are sent out in Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Lat- vian, Estonian, Armenian, and Georg- ian. The program consists of five 30- minute broadcasts given three times, making a total of 7% hours. As many as 16 different frequencies are used to overcome Soviet jammers, As they usu- ally do not jam each frequency at the same time, a Moscow listener has the opportunity to hear the program on at least one wave length. Every 30-minute broadcast includes 15 minutes of United States and for- eign news, a five-minute commentary and a 10-minute feature , . . Little mu- sic is used because jamming is more successful against the sound of music than the human voice. The Voice's policy is to try to select material that will appeal to educated, informed Russians and to average citi- zens too. The programs are prepared under general guidance of the State Department, and the choice is dictated both by an effort to inform Russians about worldwide news events as well as significant aspects of American life, Feature programs discuss and explain American home life, our system of edu- cation, medical developments, scientific progress, social security benefits, avia- tion, etc. Foreign policy commentators include reports on the international conference on peaceful uses of atomic energy, the foreign loan program for underdeveloped countries, ete. . . . Voice officials are puzzled by Soviet jamming policy. Evidently the Russians allow enough to be heard to substanti- .ate their claim of a freer policy but not so much to suggest that all restrictions have been lifted. Although evidence of the extent of listening to the Russian language pro- grams is naturally hard to acquire, it is believed that, before the recent lifting of jamming, there was a daily audience of about a million and a half and that approximately two million Soviet citi zens hear some broadcasts in Russian at least once a week. In fact, the Voice receives about a dozen letters a year postmarked in the Soviet Union, al=- though most letters are mailed outside of Russia. Control In Government Robert J. Tedford, warden of Kent county told an audience in Chatham, that control of municipal government is being lost. He said that each year pro- vincial control grows greater. The Kent warden is probably right in his appraisal of the shift in control but why should: the inference be that the province is grabbing so much con- trol? Is it not a fact that much of the administration at municipal level has been bound up in the kind of red tape the municipalities themselves have asked for? It has been 4d continuing habit of mu- nicipal councils, whether they be rural or urban, to appeal to Queen's Park for legislation lifting this burden or that responsibility from local control. We have sought and obtained grants for roads, education, hospitals, parks and social services. We feel that by use of these grants we could ease the load up- on the property taxpayer and in the meantime accomplish more in the mat- ter of road construction and mainten- ance and the building and operation of schools. The unconditional grants, bas- ed upon per capita population, have given many municipalities fire-fighting equipment they would not otherwise have had. The municipalities, however, can hardly expect the provinaal govern- ment to hand out grants wholesale, without some say as to how the money shall be used. There must be standards in education. There must be rules to follow with respect to roads and streets. There must be uniformity in law en=- forcement and health. For instance, the laxity with which some municipalities dealt with local assessments brought about sweeping changes so there could be some pattern for equality. If enough municipalities petition the provincial government for some legisla , tion which, they feel, will ease the bur- den upon the taxpayers, the province usually is accommodating. What is good for the petitioning municipalities, how= ever, becomes the law for the whole province and laws have to be adminis= tered, There is agreement we are get- ting far too many boards, commissions and other, bodies with authority but these things are all the out-cropping of our own demands. There are foo many of us who think that all we have to do to achieve some goal is to go to Queen's Park and lay down the law to the ap- propriate cabinet minister. Socialism's Dilemma With the German and British Social- ist parties moving toward the abandon- ment of nationalization as a main party purpose, it may be said that the long run this panacea has enjoyed is at an end, Hugh Gaitskell, of the British La- bor party, gave a pretty good hint in the address with which he stirred the party conference examining the rea- sons for Labor's latest in three straight defeats. "There seems no doubt," said Mr. Gaitskell, "that the nationalization is= sue cost labor votes. Present nationaliz- ed industries, such as railways and coal mines, were not popular with the pub- fe..." Now one reason the nationalized coal mines and railways are not popular with the British public is easy to see. They are not efficient enough, the Bal- timore Sun asserts. The Sun's argu- ment: But industrial productivity is, if any- thing, more necessary in a socialized The Osha Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher end General Manager €. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) ona the Whitby Gazette ond Chronicle (established 1863). is published daily (Sundays and statutory holidays excepted) Members ot Canadian Daily Newspapers Publishers Association, The Caonadion Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontaric Provincial Dailies Asso- ciation. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein. All rights of special despatches are also reserved, Offices Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajox Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove Hampton, Frenchman's EBay, Livi Taunton, Tyrone, Dunborton, Enniskillen, Or: Leskard, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Columbus Fairport leach, Greenwood, Kinsale, Raglan, Blackstock, Manchester, Cobourg, Port Hope Pontypool ond Newcastle not over 45c per week. By mail (in province of Ontario) outside carriers delivery areas 12.00; elsewhere 15.00 per vear. Average Daily Net Paid as of Nov. 30, 1959 16,560 state than in any other. The reason is the expansive welfare programs which probably ranked even nationalization in the priority tables of the old-time Socialists. Economically welfare means a massive increase in the consumption of living-standard commodities. Such consumption is impossible without equally massive expansion in produc- tion. A Socialist who wants to consume more but produce less thus finds him- self pretty soon in serious trouble. It is not that socialism itself leads necessar- ily to productivity failures. In Soviet Russia a total nationalization of the means of production works better and better. But it involves a labor discip- line more savage than that of the sav- agest old-time capitalists. The Socialists thus find themselves in a kind of ratcheting progress from one compulsion to another, once they have adopted the premise of expanded consumption, To * consume more they must produce more, To produce more they must tighten up managerial disci- pline. They can tighten it all the way in a total socialism like Russia's. But they note that the total discipline of the totél socialism is just another name for tyranmy. At this point they recall the neglected wisdom of check-and-balance. They turn back to a mixed private and public ownership to get discipline with- out tyranny. Other Editor's Views BATTLE OF BOOKS (Quebec Chronicle-Herald) Britain is going to subsidize publish- ers to enable them to print cheap edi- tions for export to other countries at a very low price. In the next year, it is hoped that more than 2,000,000 low- priced books will be on the market in foreign countries. For the most part, these will be scien- tific and technical books, and text books. And if this seems like madness, it is not without much method. SOME OF THE HEAVIEST DRINKING IN THE WORLD { "A AFTER THREE DECADES ONTARIO nA Become Trt scene of BY-GONE DAYS 15 YEARS AGO A new education method was to be inaugurated in city schools. Lawrence T. Savery, assisting principal of North.8imcoe School, was to assist in preparation of a visual educationprogram and act as projectionist. Mayor A. Gordon Davis an- nounced that he would not be a candidate for the mayoralty in 1945, due to the demands of his business. Dr. R. Cox was elected presi- dent of the Kinsmen Club for the ensuing year. Hamilton Thistles rink captured the new Col. R. S. McLaughlin trophy, premier award, in the first annual 5-day bonspiel to be aged by the Oshawa Curling ub. A bylaw was passed providing for the widening of Rosedale av- enue, between Jarvis and Division streets to a 66-foot street. A pipe band was being formed in the city to consist of 12 pipers and six to eight drummers under the control of General Motors War Veterans' Association. Old fashioned costumes mingl- ed with modern dress at the Gay Nineties Ball arranged by the Victoria Club in aid of the Milk for Britain Fund. itt Ro WHO THINK OF TOMORROW PRACTICE MODERATION TODAY or DISTILLERS SINCE 1857 if Che House of Seagram - NOT AN ENVIABLE REPUTATION REPORT FROM U.K. Railroads Propose Traffic Aid Plans By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- Just at the time when the Minister of Transport, the London Transport Executive and the motoring public are at their wits' end about what to do to solve London's traffic and parking problems, British Rail ways officials have come along with plans which will make a big difference to the situation. During the recent weeks of the Christmas shopping rush, police have been driven frantic trying to cope with the traffic situation. The creation of a large non-park- ing area in central and west end London has been of some help, but many hundreds of motorists have ignored the ban and have had the mortifying experience of having their cars towed away to a car pound, to be retrieved later on payment of three pounds. The temporary expedient: however, has proved helpful enough that there is some possibility of mak- ing it permanent. AMBITIOUS SCHEME The British Railways scheme, however, is very much of a per- manent nature. Briefly, it aims at putting the railways stations underground, building large office blocks over them, with huge car parks occupying all the space at the rear. Negotiations with the London County Council for plan- ning sanction for the scheme have been started. The first and pilot scheme in- volves the rebuilding of the. Can- non Street Station. Behind the main office block which will be built over the station prover, there will be a car park, built over the railway lines, with aec- commodation for 525 cars. These car spaces would be rented and the rates predicted for their use are two shillings for un tq three hours and seven shillings (rough- ly one dollar) for a whole day The office space created in the new block above the station would be turned over for rental to a property development company. AT OTHER STATIONS The Southern Region of British Railways has similar ideas for the approaches to two other im- portant London railway stations. These are Victoria Station and London Bridge Station, The plans for these envisage the building of car parks, with a capacity of 1,000 cars at each of these sta- tions, over the railway tracks A similar scheme, which would be far-reaching in its effects, is planned for the Streatham Hill Station. PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM It is hoped that if and when man conquers space, he can find and move to a less expensive place of abode. Coming and going, Christmas will make everybody happy, in- cluding those disgruntled souls who will be glad when it's over. Warning to the obese: A small portion of rattlesnake meat con. tains 200 calories, FOR BETTER HEALTH Crippling Ill Strikes Young And HERMAN N. BUNDESEN. MD BOTH YOUNG and old are vie- tims of what is often called the nation's Number One crippler-- rheumatic disease. Yet most of those afflicted with rheumatoid arthritis are stricken between the ages of 35 and 40. Obviously, the disease is a problem for everyone, no mat- ter what the age may be. DISABLES VICTIMS Right now approximately ten million American men and wom. en over the age of 14 are suffer- ing from the disease. Some of them, about 200,000, are com- pletely disabled. An additional 4,700,000 are disabled at least part of the time There are some 30 different forms of rheumatic disease, ranging from rheumatoid arthri- tis through rheumatic heart dis- ease, osteo - arthritis and gout. WORST CRIPPLER The worst of these cripplers is rheumatoid arthritis. Its cause is unknown and it is an insidious, systemic, progressive disease. An estimated two per cent of the victims -- about 127,000 -- are children under the age of 2. For some reason, twice as many girls as boys are victims, STRIKES YOUNG CHILDREN When a child is stricken, it usually occurs before he reaches the age of three. In most chil dren, especially those under the age of eight, the disease usually involves the larger joints, parti- cularly the knee. Old Alike eously believe that rheumatic arthritis rarely affects children, the disease often has been wrong- ly diagnosed as rheumatic fever by them. Like rheumatic fever. rheuma- tic arthritis in children usually follows a respiratory infection by the hemolytic streptoccus. GOOD CHANCES While the course of the dis- ease varies, naturally, the chances are good that most chile dren will recover from the ef- fects within two years. For some youngsters, however, the disease wili continue to re- main active for 20 years or even more. However, average duration of the disease is about five and a half years. FOR BEST RESULTS Hospitalization usually is ree- ommended since prolonged bed rest combined with adequate physical therapy produces the best results. The use of gold salts appears to be of some bene- fit in certain cases. If the disease does not quiet down 'within the first three years, the chances of complete recovery aren't very good. QUESTION AND ANSWER Mrs. E. W. 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