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The Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E.,, Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 Thursday, March 17, 1960 Payment Of Prisoners Could Be Constructive Reforms Minister Wardrope has revealed that the Ontario government is considering paying prisoners for their work in jail. The money would be turned over for the support of prisoners' families, This could be a constructive step in the improvement of the penal system. There are hardships imposed on the dependents of men sent to prison. The convict himself, when released, finds himself with very little money, if any, to support himself until he can find a job -- and finding a job is difficult for a man just out of jail. All too often, he commits a criminal act to obtain the money he lacks. And back he goes to jail as a repeater, a "hardened criminal", The offender thus finds that, while the law says that he has pgid his debt to society by serving his jail term, society is not satisfied and continues to exact payment. There is still another factor situation, payment of prisoners for constructive work. The principle of restitution has almost been forgotten. What of the con- victed criminal's responsibility to his in the to strengthen the case for Love Above the mental and physical develop- The greatest factor in healthy ment of a child is love single the wise love that can punish as well as praise, but always gives the child the secure know- ledge that it is wanted and cherished. That is what seems to have been forgotten by the New Jersey Child Wel- fare Board, which is fighting the adop- tion of a child, described as a "near- genius", by an "ordinary" couple, a sheet- metal worker and his wife. The officious stupidity of the Board is, unfortunately, just another example of the state of mind that afflicts members of agencies with authority to meddle with human relations. The New Jersey child. a four-year-old girl, has lived with her foster-parents since she was a baby, and they now want to adopt her. They have two other children. The father earns nearly $7000 a year at his trade, and is confident he will be able to send all three children to college, Of the girl, he says, "We want too many of the her because we love her and she loves us." The Board admits that the home is a good one and the parents of good character. But it suggests that the foster- "near-morons", that they parents are the evidence mainly on are regular victim? Why should not a thief be ex- pected to pay back the money he stole, or the assailant pay for the medical bills and lost earnings of his victim? Damages can be obtained through the civil courts, but rarely is a convict in a position to pay damages. The Vancouver Sun commented on the subject of restitution, after the at- torney-general of British Columbia called for a more imaginative approach to the philosophy of crime and punishment. The Sun argued: "The retribution exacted by society is meaningless to the grandmother whose teeth were knocked out. She's in no way compensated by her attacker's payment of his 'debt to society'. His punishment makes no personal amends to her... We believe the line between criminal and civil law may be too finely drawn in today's society . It's possible that some sentencing system could be worked out, by which the personal responsibility of a criminal to his victim would be re- cognized. The sentence could provide not only for reform and retribution but also for restitution, without recourse to civil suit." . Intellect watchers of TV -- a practice that would make them no different from most of the other parents in the United States and Canada. It rates the. little girl as a "near-genius" on the strength of an in- telligence test rating of 138 -- by the measure of that particular test, just twelve points below what is claimed to be the level of genius. Intelligence tests that are not cone ducted in several ways, in conjunction with consideration of other factors, are suspect; indeed, they can be notoriously inaccurate. But even if the girl were in fact a genius and the parents dull people, there would still be no justification in separating them. Genius is the magnifi. cent accident of birth, and most men and women who have justly earned the title of genius have been born to very And people of high often ordinary parents. intellectual capacity make very indifferent parents Adoption should not be a matter of intelligence tests, Love in a good home is by far the most important require- ment Yesterday, under pressure of public the New Jersey Board grud- gingly changed its position. But it obviously would not have done so with out a justified public outcry. opinion, Other Deadly Weapons In Britain, the army is testing a nerve gas on volunteers, In the United information has leaked make it clear that frightening States, enough out to . progress has been made in weapons for chemical warfare. Reports on the British tests are vague, but it is known that gases have been developed which can paralyze the entire Reporting from Washington to Maclean's, Cana- dian newsman Knowlton Nash suggests that the H-bomb may already be obsolete "as the result of hush-hush developments in chemical and biological welfare, In his report, nervous systems of victims. based on congressional evi- - dence and interviews with retired army leaders, Nash says that the United States now has many of these terrifying new weapons far past thedevelopment stage he Osama Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher ond Genersl Menage €. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times established 1871) ana the Whitby Gozetts and Chronicle (established 1863) is published daily (Sundays end statutory holidays excepted). s of Canadian Daily Newspapers Publishers , The Canadian Press, Audit Burecu of ' and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Asso- ation. The Canadian Press is exciusively entitled to the use for republication of oll news despatched in the io " or to The Associated Press or a news published there All rights of special despatches are also eservec Offices Toronto Thoms University Avenue, ont ario, OT640. Coton 2 Uni Montreal, P.Q SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshowao, Whitby, Alex Bowm Brooklin, Port Perry, Prin Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, r D 1 i ver 45 per week, 0) outside corriers 5.00 per year. Average Daily Net Paid as of Nov. 30, 1959 and is stockpiling them in huge quan- tities, Canada is also making such weapons, in research quantities, and is testing them in Alberta, but we are bound by a 1925 treaty not to initiate the use of The United States is not a party to this treaty, Nash says that gas or germs In any war, eight ounces of one toxic substance developed by the U.S. would be theoretically capable of killing every human being on earth. A single ounce of another substance would be enough to infect 28 billion people with a virulent fever. Some of these reports may be exag- gerated. But there is no doubt that work on chemical and biological weapons has gone quietly on, to a point where use of the weapons could be at least as des- tructive as that of the much more highly publicized nuclear weapons. Enough is known for us to realize that limitation of nuclear weapons alone would be no guarantee of world peace, and that even without them a war could be fought that could wipe out whole civilizations -- perhaps humanity itself, The limitation of nuclear weapons is only a first step; there can be no assu- rance of a future for humanity without a limitation and finally elimination of all weapons of war. Bible Thought Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank.--Daniel 1:8. Even in a strange land where custom dictated, Daniel had the courage to de- termine what was best for him. His determination enabled him to stand for what he believed, regardless of what others did. VID VY; HOSTILITY ETERNAL TRIANGLES OTTAWA REPORT mq lONg as we are always asking the Used At Budget Time Bv PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA Budget time is coming round again, and our fi nance minister Hon Donald Fleming, has subjected to pers asions and arguments and petitions by Il the pressure groups who 1} sh some of the nation's ta rden off their own shoulders--and onto someone else's These are mostly businessmen. Some plan to conceal their im- minent increase in price from the public, if possible by making it coincide with a reduction in the tax on their product. Others hope QUEEN'S PARK been to gain a passing advantage in the public market vis-a-vis some competitor for the public spend- ng It is hard to understand why such false dreams are nursed by intelligent men; and one must presume the bosses of big cor- porations are intelligent men, be- cause they are all paid much more for their services than we the mug public pay top workers, namely cabinet minis- ters I say their dreams are false, because surely there is only one way taxes can move, SO government to do more for us. | THE NURSING STATE We, the mug public, ask the government to pay our hospital bills for us, and save up our pen- sions for us, and give us six bucks a month for baby, and save some of our wages against the winter season when we will want to draw on that nest egg. But if we ask the government to do these things, to do more and more for us, can we intelli- gently expect our taxes not to go up? In fact it ccsts more, and is less efficieptly done, than if we tailor-made our own pI fam- ily welfare plan: for ourselves Nevertheless, these men seek- ing tax reductions come along to see our fi ce minister, clutch- ing their bulging little brief case in one hand, and their long. winded letter in the other Just recently the National As- ociation of Tobacco Distributors made their pitch for lower tax on cigarets and other products of the tobacco grown by our 5,000 vate Fi tobacco farmers New Driving Rule Near School Buses By DON O'HEARN TORONTO School children are given more protection in the Highways Traffic Act amend ments School buses to a full stop at railway ings And motor vehicles approach- ing buses that are stopped will have to 'slow down and drive with caution." The government wouldn't go whole hog on this second ques- tion The demand was that approach- ing vehicles come to a full stop, as is required in many jurisdic- tions across the border. (And as now is required here when ap- poaching from the rear). The apparent thought behind the government attitude is that a full stop provision would mean a traffic hazard There is an argument that as school busses travel mainly on side roads, compulsory stops should not impose much of an obstacle However the provision in the Act may work out--providing mo- torists do drive with "caution." BAD FLUID A "sleeper" in the act would bring brake fluid under regula- tion. This didn't come about just be- cause somebody had an idea it would be a good thing to control brake fluid. It was brought on by a danger- ous situation In the United States they have had standards for brake fluid. A big bateh of it did not meet the requirements, will have to come Cross- Daily Express Man Editorial Adviser. LONDON (CP)--Arthur Chris- tlansen, editor of The Daily Ex- press for 22 years before he re- tired in 1957 because of ill health, has been appointed editorial ad- viser of Associated TeleVision Limited. The firm is the largest of Britain's commercial television contracting companies. Thief-Proof Lacks Will Never Exist DARTMOUTH, NS. (CP)-- There is no such thing as a thief- proof lock, and probably never will be, says master locksmith Thomas Dormandy. The only protection a lock gives is the time required to open it, and the maximum is three min utes to the skiiled lock-picker Mr. Dormandy, 53, learned his craft in St. John's, Nfld., 35 years ago. He says he is retiring tem- porarily to write a manual on the trade. He recalls meeting the late rry Houdini on two occasions id says the escape artist used many of the locksmith's tricks. And it was dumped into On- tario. The fluid a big hazard So controls are being hurriedly applied LONG HAUL There are long and exhausting days ahead. Any hopes of an early closing of the session have gone It is now taken for granted it will last until Easter. The House is lively, but it is slow Opposition members have so many questions to ask and so much argument to present that estimates, for one thing, are taking at least twice as long as usual to get through The attorney-general's depart- ment, for instance, usually takes up an hour or two This year they took up two af- terndon sittings of more than three hours each If you happen to see your local member from now on you might give him a pep pill. He will probably need it READERS' VIEWS of course, presents "According to tobacco industry estimates," they said, "smokers will contribute $378,000,000 to the federal treasury in the present fiscal year." Well, that is a lot of money, But I would sooner see the tax collected on cigarets than, say, on drugs. Personally, as readers of this column will be gware, I think all these 'hidden' taxes are dishonest; they just enable the government to soak the pub- lic, and get away without the public being able to figure out how much they do pay in taxes, ABILITY TO PAY On the other hand, it can be argued that those who can afford to buy luxuries can also afford to pay taxes. Maybe that cigaret tax is better than the equivalent of levying an additional income tax of $22 on every man, woman and child in Canada. This brief then continues: "This year an increase in fed- eral taxes was followed by an increase in the basic price from 33 to 36 cents for a package of cigarets in Ontario." HOW COME? When Mr. his budget last year, he said that he had to increase the tax on tobacco and spirits. "Taking effect tomorrow, the excise tax on cigarets will be increased by $1 per 1,000. This is equivalent to two cents per packet'of 20 cig- _arets." Auto Industry Import Threat Dear Sir: 1 notice in Saturday's Times that George Burt and Cliff Pil- key are still arguing about old matters. It is too bad they do not take a look at the train- luads of European-made automo. biles which are streaming into this country. These cars made by low-priced labor--someone said 70c. per hour--are the real threat to the autoworkers We never were threatened by the U.S.-made smaller cars. A tariff wall of 17%% duty pro- tects us against them. But where i= our protection against dump- ing of British, French 'and -Ger- man cars? Instead of protecting us against them our government is busy bartering wheat for them Is this protecting us from un- employment? Someone has cal- culated that it takes 88 days of work to produce an automobile from the iron ore to the delivery point. Every time we import an European car this labor is lost to Canada. And there is a lot more labor in making the car than there is in the equal value of wheat I understand that cars come into Canada duty-free from England. That was all right when we used to be able to send cars over there. But we can't do that any more. How about a dumping duty to bring the labor cost up from 70c per hour to $2.10? That would fix things up Or how about a sales tax and excise tax exactly the same for an European car as for one built in Canada? Would that not be fair? It just is not fair the way it is. The future of Oshawa and the Canadian automobile industry is going to suffer badly if this de- luge of cheap-labor-built foreign cars is allowed to continue. Sure- ly it is a proper function of our labor umions and our govern- ment to protect us from impend- ing disaster: Oshawa CAR ASSEMBLER THANKS Dear Sir: I would like very much to ex- press my thanks to the Oshawa Times for your kind considera- tion and co-operation towards me in my efforts as publicity chair- man of Oshawa and District As- sociation for Retarded Children 1 would especially like to ex press through you, my thanks, and the thanks of our Associa- tion, to Mr, Joe Serge, of your staff, for his -willingness to keep appointments for pictures and publicity, even though it some- times meant sacrificing his own leigwe time. RS. A. HOLSSWORTH PW Fleming introduced BY-GONE DAYS 36 YEARS AGO Mrs. Frank Robson was elected first president of the newly formed Cedardale Home and School Association. Among the permits issued for the building for the month of February was one for a proposed new grandstand in exandra Park at a cost of $25,000 and is- sued to W. J. Holland, contrac- tor. Mrs. Bradley was elected first president of the newly formed YMCA Ladies' Auxiliary. Other officers elected were: Mrs. Don. ald Hall and Mrs. F, E. Hare, vice-presidents, Mrs, Miller, sec- retary and Miss D. McLaughlin, treasurer. C. M. Anderson advertised in the Ontario Reformer that ten. ders would be accepted for the proposed Oshawa Curling Rink. D. F. Johnson was elected president of thé newly formed Retail Merchants' Association. Other officers elected were J. S. Kyle and W. A. Dewland, vice presidents; W. H. Scilly, treas- urer and P. A, Canning, treasu- urer. For a special edition of The On- tario Reformer which marked the birth of the city of Oshawa, March 8, 1924, a number of prominent people wrote special articles, 'Industry and Transpor- tation" was written by George McLaughlin; 'Reminiscences of the Old Town", by Dr. T. E. Kai. ser: a history of Oshawa's civie government was set down by G. D Conant; 'School and School Prob- s" was dealt with by Oliver Hezzlewood and a history entitled 'Village 1854 - 1877, Town 1877 - 1924" was written by J. W. Bors. berry With Oshawa advancing cityhood, ganize a Mothers' into it was necessary to or- local branch of the Allowance Commission. PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM "For millions of years the earth was molten and devoid of water." -- Science note. Long time no sea "Some of the most bizarre hats ever worn by women were worn during the flapper era of ex- tremely short skirts," says a milliner. We remember that era clearly, but don't remember if women wore hats then or not. Personal rights are being tak- en from men all over. In Italy a man was arrested for shaving a woman's head to keep her hair from falling in the soup -- not. withstanding that it was his wife and his soup. If automotive engineers are so all-fired smart, why haven't they designed a windshield wiper that won't squeak and squeal? Revised: Those who live by the atom bomb may perish by the radioactivity, A truck owned by the Williams Piano Co, was the first to break the road through to Toronto after a week of snow-blocked highways. Driver of the truck was George Shemilt. Hockey teams from the Chris tian Church and King Street Me- thodist Church played 40 minutes overtime with no score in the CLOSING MARCH 17th fo 21st Sunday School League. Good Morning Friends:- In this day and oge of modern scientific ad- vancements, more than anyone, a doctor, must keep abreast of new de- velopments in his field, or he soon falls behind. In order to keep on giv- ing you the best in scientific progressive Chiropractic care, we are shutting down the office on Thursday, March 17th to Monday, March 21st inclusive, We are flying down to Fort Worth, Texas, to at- tend a Chiropractic edu- cational seminar. Here we expect to be informed, re-charged, ond refresh- od, returning, eager to serve you better. Unfortunately, many peo- electricity. The nerve energy body (heart, lungs, stomach nerves start in the brain, shocks, Accidents, falls of place jars circuits and pathology gradually noticed years later, everything else. cases we can not help, ple do not know of Chiropractic health care as It Is developed today. Modern scientific Chiropractic searches for, and corrects the cause of disease that originates in the spinal nerves. The principle of Chiropractic is very simple and easily under- stood, The human brain acts as a dynamo, generating nerve every single part of your body travel inside the spinal bones and come out of the spine through openings between the bones. often knock a spinal bone out This mis-glignment pinches the nerve ond short. the flow of nerve electricity. Malfunction of the affected part takes place end symptons result, for Chiropractic care may be the exoet answer to your health problem, So if you have been suffering from a condition that has failed to respond to other methods, you would be wise to investigate Chiropractic, care may be the exact answer to your health problem. Most of our patients come to us after having tried Our preliminary consultation is designed to eliminate those Sincerely, Ronald W. Bilsky Ronald W. BILSKY D.C. CHIROPRACTIC OFFICE 100 KING ST. EAST By Appointment RA 8-5156 Health Is a Natural Condition is absolutely necessary to run This nerve appliance in your legs, arms, spine, etc.). The sometimes the effects are starts a new trend of fashion colours Once again @ fashion trend! He has touched the magic warmth of café and 00 Café Espresso max Factor Max Factor has ser his pink and red lipsticks with come up with fashion's newest flavoup Colows! E5025. 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