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The Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Poge 6 Tuesday, May 3, 1960 Caretaker, 62, Resigns To Take Up Dr. Wilder Penfield, the eminent Canadian neurologist, has stated in re- cent speeches that the employed person should not look to 65 or 70 as an age of retirement, but as the starting point for centinued activity in a second ca- reer. : This view has been made possible not only by the fact that science has extended man's life span by a consid- erable degree, but by the discovery that a mature brain, kept active and inter- ested in things going on around it will help the mature body to keep from deteriorating into uselessness and frus- trated unhappiness, The Woodstock Sentinel « Review makes this commention noting that T. G. Lewis, custodian and engineer at the Woodstock Collegiate Institute for the past 20 years and employed by the local Board of Education in a similar capa- city at other schools for 39 years, has tendered his resignation at 62, not to re- tire but to be ordained into the min- istry of the Anglican Church: This is not only an act of faith on the part of this man who has been actively interested in the work of the church for as long as he can remember. It is sound, common sense. As he ex- plained ft "it will give me something really worthwhile to do in my remain- ing years." To its credit, the church has seen Ministry fit to take older workers into its min- istry, of which Mr, Lewis is only one. In the case of Mr. Lewis he was even approached by the bishop of the diocese and invited to turn his attention to full- time ministry in the church. But to date not many in industry and business have seen the possibilities that lie in this new approach, nor the problems that will arise by dropping capable men from the payroll at some arbitrarily set age, As James S. Band, deputy minister of the Ontario depart- ment of public welfare put it in the latest annual report of the department: "Positive measures should be adopted to stem this growing wastage of human resources, Possibly we need to consider the development of non-pro- fit industries which might be sponsored by private groups to absorb older work ers. When we have a great many train ed minds with unimpaired skills being left 'to rest and rust' so to speak, who is to say that our nominal free enter= prise system is functioning as it should be?" Mr. Lewis has set an example which we feel will benefit both him and those with whom he will come in cvontact in the future in his new work, In this world of change he has been willing, as few men have, to move with the times. We would wish him every success, Crackdown On Drivers Ontario's department of transport does not intend to have motor vehicle drivers look on the demerit system as something of a joke, Under the demer- it system drivers accumulate points to a total of 12 for traffic law violations, at which time their licences are sus- pended for three months. After ac- cumulating nine points drivers are ask- ed to report for interviews. During the first 11 months of oper- ation 132 motorists accumulated the maximum and lost their licences. But here is an important statistic: 235 motorists had their licences suspended for running up nine points and then ignoring summonses to appear for an interview with transport department officials. These are the motorists who have learned that the department is quite serious about the demerit point system. They might have saved their driving privieges had they been im- pressed in an interview by the threat of suspension that was hanging over them. It is worth pointing out that by the end of February 155,308 drivers had demerits against their licences, and that of this number almost 118,000 had ac- quired the demerit points by exceeding speed limits or failing to obey stop sig- nals. Every municipality' that keeps a check on driving law infractions knows that failing to obey stop signals is one of the most flagrant violations, Through its T-man reports the Sudbury Police Department learned that this was the offence reported in the greatest num- ber by their civilian observers. The transport department's statis- tics also reveal that in the period cover= ed by the report 8,772 drivers lost their licences through criminal negligence, drunk or impaired driving and obtain- ing a licence by misrepresentation. By demerits and through the enforcement of the traffic laws the careless, reckless and discourteous drivers are being re- moved from the highways. It should not be many months before their dis- appearance is reflected in a decrease in traffic accidents, Heavy Tax On Estates The Kingston Whig-Standard has examined the estate tax, a matter which {s not often considered as closely as it might be unless it has an immediate personal application. In the case of women, particularly widows left with young families, there is some room for doubt that the estate tax is being fairly applied. As the Business and Professional Women's Clubs point out in a brief, a wife would normally earn far more during her working lifetime if she worked as a nurse helping to raise other people's children, to say nothing of being an expert cook, housemaid, business assistant, and so on, than most women inherit on the death of hus- bands, the Cornwall Standard-Free- holder points out. The tax experts reply to this by saying that the women employed for pay would be paying income tax all the time. But that does not recognize the problem of a widow, especially if left with, children to educate. In these days when so many relatively young busi- ness men die without having had time to build up more than a modest in- heritance, the estate tax can easily have crushing effects. In Ontario there is a double tax, federal and provincial. It looks as though this particular tax should be on The Osha Times 7. L. WILSON, PubNsher end General Manager €. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The O: established 1871) ana the Whitby Ee omice (established 1863) is published daily (Sundays ond statutory holidays excepted) shawa Times ov and Members of Canadian Daily Newspapers Publishers Association, The Canadion Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontaric Provincial Doilies 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 publi therein. All rights of special despatches are aise reserved. Offices Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Yeronto, Ontario. 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q SUBSCRIPTION RATES ivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax , Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince \ Maple Grove Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunborton, Enhiskillen, Leskard, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Fairport each, Greenwood, Kinsale, kstock, Monchester, Cobourg, Port Hope. Pp: nd Newcastle not over 45c per week, By mail ( province of fOrvtario) outside carriers delivery orp' 12.00: elsewhere 15.00 per vear. Average Daily Net Paid as of March 31, 1960 16,857 Picke Albert, Liver Orono Columbus Raglan, Bi 'ontypool | a more equitable basis so far as modest estates are concerned, at least. The day when ten or even twenty thousand dol- lars was a handsome inheritance has long since passed. The inheritance tax was originally designed, it is generally understood, to discourage or render difficult the founding of great estates and business dynasties which would gradually ac- cumulate a large proportion of the country's wealth. That purpose is no doubt served by the inheritance tax, which 'is extremely high on large es- tates. But is was not, so far as we know, meant to deprive the children of ordin- ary families from the education or start in life their fathers spent their lives trying to build for them. When inherit- ance tax has this effect, even in a few cases, the matter should be re-examined, Other Editor's Views Non-Canadians (Montreal Gazette) There may be exceptions, when some foreign expert may be able to offer a more valuable opinion than could be found anywhere in Canada. But the number of these cases is not many. Their occasional occurrence does not explain or justify the wide, habitual, almost routine use being made of non- Canadians by some enterprises to carry out expert planning and management in this country. With professional training and talents, they should have a far greater opportunity to serve their coun- try's growth and to share more fully in the advantages this growth ought to be offering them. Bible Thought So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God. --Daniel 6:23. The story of Daniel and the lion's den thrills every reader. Most of us admire Daniel for his courageous faith. Many of us would begin to doubt when we see the lions. How can we get the kind of faith that is found in Daniel? We can get it as we believe on God. Our weak faith will become stronger as it is tried. OTTAWA REPORT U.S. Coin Exchange * Used By Racketeers By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--The inferior valua- tion on the US. silver coins passed in Canada has precipit- ated an indignant outburst in Jewspapers on both sides of the But the surprising aspect whole coinage crisis is that no- even tried to pay his % bill in Montreal entirely silver coins, Thus the innocuous trickle of of the yj 5 coinage circulating in Can- ada suddenly during recent a flood, estim- body has yet publicized the true legal and cial p As U.S. silver and copper coltis closely resemble ours, and bear the same popular names, the four per cent exchange differential appeared too small to be ob- served in minor transactions. So as a courtesy to our U.S. visitors --a courtesy which Canadians have never had as widely ex- tended to them in U.S.--we have accepted their coins in ordinary touristic wu Then some smart Alecs got the idea that the four per cent dis- count, while insignificant on a dime, was far from insignificant ~ on a truckload of silver coins. IMPORTS BY THE BUSHEL One employer in the Mari. times, it is reported here, trucked in $1,000 in U.S. coins to meet his payroll each week, thus sav- ing himself $40 per week, free of tax. Get-rich-quick boys in Mont- real and Toronto trucked in sack- loads of that cheap silver coin- WHO IS CHARMING WHOM? ated by one banker here at 40 per cent of all our silver in use. Newspapers have referred to this as "a legal racket." It is a racket but it is not legal. The Canadian law makes this very clear. Our "Currency, Mint and Exchange Fund Act" says that "only a coin that was issued under the authority of the Crown for circulation in Canada shall pass current for the amount in the currency of Canada that appears on the coin as the de- nomination thereof." If anyone in Canada accepts anything but a Canadian coin, he does so willingly. He is legally entitled to refuse payment in any foreign coinage, An interesting commercial pos- sibility has escaped attention, just as the legal position has. If our banks accepted U.S. silver at par, and sold it to the royal Canadian Mint at par, our mint could actually make a profit by a dollar weighs three-quarters of Troy ounce, of metals. But it is still a better buy than a dollar bill, which contains only a fraction of a cent's worth of paper. The U.S. dollar contains 70.6 cents worth of metals. Half-dollars, quarters and dimes contain silver and copper in the same proportions. So the U.S. half-dollar, which is now discounted four cents by our banks, is so much richer than our 50-cent plece that four" - U.S. half-dollars could be melted down and reminted to yield five Canadian half-dollars. GALLUP POLL Criticism Seen Of Divorce Law By CANADIAN INSTITUTE of PUBLIC OPINION Canadian dissatisfaction with the present divorce laws, as charted by the Gallup Poll over many years, reveals a rising tide of unrest, About 20 years ago, most Cana- dians thought that divorce laws were "about right', In contrast, today the largest segment of peo- ple thing that a divorce is not easy enough to get, Almost four in 10 adults think that, as well as adultery, such grounds as deser- tion, cruelty, mental illness and alcoholism should be included. This is the average across the na- tion. As is to be expected far more among those of the Protes- tant faith, think this way, than among Roman Catholics. The same question was put to an adult sample of the Canadian nation for today's report as has been used in several studies over the past decades. "Of course every case is dif- ferent, but generally speaking do you think it is too easy to get a divorce in this country or not easy enough?" Here's a comparison from Can- ada's point of view today, with that of 1943. 1943 TODAY Too easy 17 Not easy enough .. 24 About right No opinion Those men and women, repre- senting 39 per cent of the public, who feel that divorce is not easy ra were asked a second ques- tion: "In most provinces, adultery is the only legal ground for divorce. What other ground, if any, do you think should be legal grounds for divorce?" Other grounds for divorce Cruelty; abuse Desertion Mental illness; insanity Incompatability Non-support Mental cruelty Drunkenness; alcoholism Man in jail, continuously; .criminal tendencies Life imprisonment Miscellaneous Can't say (Some gave more than one ground). World Copyright Reserved FOR BETTER HEALTH Too Much Insulin Can Have Serious Results HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, MD Insulin is a lifesaver for the diabetic. Yet too ph of a good thing can be bad, Many victims of I can get along now simply by taking a daily dose of an oral diabetic agent. However, many others gtill must take frequent injections of insulin. And when too much in- sulin is taken, the result might be what we term insulin reaction. REACTION VARIES This reaction can be minor or, at times, even very severe. When the average person rises in the morning, he normally has about a teaspoonful of sugar in his blood. That is before break- fast, of course. Then, after eating, this sugar content increases somewhat, but it does not get very high. INCREASED SUGAR A diabetic, however, generally has considerably more sugar than this even before eating the first meal of the day. An injec- tion of insulin lowers this sugar level. That's why it is taken. If too much insulin is taken, the sugar level drops too quickly or too much, and an insulin reaction is likely. OTHER CAUSES Not eating enough, or too much produce physical effort, can also produce reactions. Symptoms of insulin reactions are somewhat similar to those that an average person might ex- perience when his lunch is post- poned for a couple of hours. The victim feels faint, light-headed. He trembles, he sweats and, of course, he feels hungry. if the insulin reaction is severe, the diabetic may become irri- table. He may talk thickly or laugh or cry without any reason. He may even stagger as though intoxicated and he may even lose consciousness. EASILY CHECKED Generally, it is easy to halt such reactions. A little carbohy- drate, taken quickly in the form of sugar, will usually alleviate the symptoms within ten minutes or so. Soft drinks, orange juice or candy or crackers should be given to a person suffering a re- action to insulin. That's why I have always urged diabetics to carry several crackers, a few lumps of sugar or a couple of pieces of candy with them at all times., In some. instances, this treat. ment will have to be repeated. And In really severe cases, in- jections of glucose may have to be administered by a doctor. Anyone with diabetes should carry a card listing special in- structions to follow in emer- gencies. QUESTION AND ANSWER F. R.: How contagious is lep- rosy? Answer: Leprosy is the least contagious of the contagious dis- * eases. The chance of picking up the infection by direct contact is slight. Ordinarily, it may require pro- longed contact, BY-GONE DAYS 20 YEARS AGO Twenty-seven families became self-sustaining and were re- moved from the city's relief lists to bring the total down to 441 families or 1900 persons. The strike at Ontario Mallea- ble Co. ended with the employees agreeing to return to work with an increase in pay of seven and one-half per cent. Maurice Hart was elected president of the Oshawa Rotary Club. Three members of the Oshawa Camera Club, who had pictures accepted by the Toronto Camera Club for its annual spring show- ing of prize photographs were N. F. Tonkin, Charles Carscal- len and George Mepstead. Manning Swartz, Oshawa, won the Dominion singles bowling championship with a score of 898. The provincial government cut the OCVI grant by 15 per cent, This meant that the School Board had to cut its budget or run into a deficit. Fire Chief W. Elliott con- demned the abandoned Oshawa Railway car barns on the corner of Simcoe and Athol streets as being fire traps. Royal Canadian Humane Socie- ty honored Reginald B. Smith, employee of the Oshawa Rail- way, for having rescued six- year-old Donald Hayes from drowning in the Oshawa Harbor, x and kittens in the other group's PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM "There are 43 causes of pain in the neck," says a physician, No doubt about 40 of them are connected in some way with cop- ing with this tough world. / "Current millinery reflects the personality of the wearer," says a milliner. If so, quite a few wearers have lopsided personali- ties. "Breathing is the only human activity in this country that isn't taxed," says a columnist. Sh-h-h-h! The Government might hear you, and get ideas, People in populated places and those in the rural sections are kind enough to try to keep each other plentifully supplied with animalg for pets, as each group is continually dumping puppies area. The choosing of "Ben Hur" as the best picture of 1959 is re- mindful of the story of children who named an adouted cat Ben, but later when the cat had kit- tens they changed the name to Ben Her. "A survey shows that it is gen- erally agreed that middle age begins at 45.""--Press Life doesn't begin until 40 after 5 short years, one begins G. A. FLETCHER, Chairman. Those who are five or six between who have not yet enrolled in Kindergarten will be registered now for admission at the beginning of school in September to Kindergarten or Grade 1, accord- ing to age. Birth Certificates must be presented before children will be finally admitted. It these are not presently available they should be obtained immed- iately and submitted to the Principal before June 29th, 1960. OSHAWA PUBLIC SCHOOLS REGISTRATION OF KINDERGARTEN AND GRADE 1 PUPILS Registration of Kindergarten and Grade 1 pupils for September, 1960, will be held in all schools except King Street during the afternoons of May 5th and 6th, from 1.30 to 4.00 p.m. FOR KINDERGARTENS, the Registration will be for children whose 5th birthday is not later than December 31st, 1960. FOR GRADE 1, the Registration will be accepted for children whose 6th birthday is not later than December 31st, 1960. 2nd end December 3Tet, and The Board would appreciate as complete a registration as possible so thet the adjustment of school districts may be completed as early as possible. Board of Education, Oshawa, Ontario W.- GORDON BUNKER, Business Administrator. C. M. ELLIOTT, Supt. of Public Schools falling to pieces, alas! is needed fo provide 220 BEDS SEND ITTO... ALMA STREET, OSHAWA Oshawa General Hospital Attention: Campaign Treasurer