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fre Osha Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 Friday, May 20, 1960 Disaster That's Ignored By Citizens Of Canada Two hundred people met in Van- couver recently to consider a disaster. It was the annual general meeting of the Canadian Highway Safety Council. The disaster under discussion was Canada's traffic toll in 1959: more than 3200 dead, 80,000 injured and a mountain of twisted metal and splintered glass from 240,000 accidents. "Disaster" is one of those words that becomes debased from much use. To many of us it is just something that describes an arresting, though distress- ing, item in the newspaper. An earth- quake that destroys a town in Africa, miners entombed in Germany, an air crash in South America, a flaming school in Chicago -- "disaster" so often is something remote, something that does not affect us personally for which we feel no personal responsibility. The disaster on the roads is close enough to home, but even here it seems to make little impression on the Canadian consciousness. We are aware of it, but somehow we do not appear to feel it. Familiarity has bred indiffer- ence, according to F. H. Ellis, general manager of the Ontario Safety League. Let's go back in history for a mo- ment, to get some standard for com- parison, for measurement of the enor- IODE's Fine Members of the IODE will be hold- ing their annual tag day in Oshawa tomorrow, to raise funds for the wides- pread service work that is carried on in the community, the province and the nation by this patriotic organization with its 984 chapters and 32,000 mem- bers across Canada. The IODE record is a sparkling one. The chapters raise and disburse about a million dollars annually, the money being spent on projects that range from education to citizenship. In the field of education, for example, the IODE spends a quarter of a million dollars yearly on assistance to 2177 Canadian schools, on 1168 scholarships, bursaries and grants, on 11 schools "adopted" in the West Indies, and on special seg community work, an item that if§elf absorbs $53,000. The IODE war memorial is linked to education. The organization disburses $44,000 a year from First and Second War 'Memorial Funds to provide 13 pverseas postgraduate scholarships of $2000 each and 30 Canadian university bursaries of $1600 for children of Cana- dian war veterans. In Canada, the IODE spends $400,000 mity of the continuing disaster that we accept so calmly. June, 1960, marks the 20th anniver- sary of the first serious air raid on Britain. In the late summer and fall of 1940 the full force of the German air blitz was concentrated on London -- a huge, vulnerable target that could not be missed. For 90 consecutive days the German bombers were over London, ceaselessly, from dusk to dawn. The city suffered terribly, but even on the worst raids of the war the death toll did not exceed 1400. Now let's compare that with Cana- dian deaths in traffic. Here we kill 3200 people in a year with mishandled auto- mobiles, whereas the German Luftwaffe, at that time the most destructive mili- tary striking force ever put together, never killed more than 1400 with its greatest bombing effort, even though it was operating against a wide-open target, one of the heaviest concentration of people in the world. True, the Luftwaffe took only one night to kill 1400 people with bombs, as against the five months it takes Cana- dians to drive 1400 to death. But the Germans were trying to destroy, while the Canadians responsible for the high- way slaughter are presumably trying to escape death. Record annually on welfare, in addition to the thousands of hours of voluntary com- munity service given by members. It also aids overseas countries, shipping $100,000 worth of relief supplies to Europe, Africa, Korea and the West Indies. In addition, chapters undertake the sponsorship of destitute and refugee children. The IODE seeks to maintain and sustain good Commonwealth relations by awarding postgraduate scholarships and providing medical training and hos- pital maintenance in Ghana, India, Pakistan and the British West Indies. One of the IODE's citizenship pro- jects is the extension of welcome to im- migrants, It helps to arrange English and citizenship classes, presents natu- ralization greeting cards to new citizens and assist with Commonwealth and citi- zenship ceremonies. It has a special Eskimo project, the erection of a $20, 000 community hall at Frobisher Bay. That is just a bare outline of some of the activities pursued by the IODE. The annual tag day provides some of the financial means to enable this splendid organization to continue its fine work. Society's 300 Years In July several hundred leading scien- tists from 50 nations will meet in Lon- don to celebrate the tercentenary of the Royal Society. Founded in 1960, the year of the restoration of King Charles II, remembered more for merriment than as a patron of science, the Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge -- as it was named in the Royal charter -- was born in an age when, as now, scientific enquiry was probing into new fields. Over three centuries the discoveries of such men of science as Sir Isaac Newton, Sir Humphrey Davy, Michael Faraday, Charles Darwin, Lord Lister, Sir J. J. Thomson and Lord Ruther- ford -- all Fellows of the Royal Society --have made vast changes in man's She Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher and General Manager €. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa [limes combining The Oshawa Times ished 1871) ana the Whitby Gozette ond cle (est hed 1863), is published daily (Sundays and statutory holidays excepted). Members of Canadian Daily Newspapers Publishers 55¢ on, The Canadion Press, Audit Bureau of on and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Asso- . The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled se for republication of all news despatched poper '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 Avenua, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.O. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajox Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albe Maple. G Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liver Taunton, Tyrone, Dunborton, Enniskillen, Oron. 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The society has always been independent of State control but its advice on scientific matters has fre- quently been sought by the British gov- ernment, Its Fellowship consists of approxima- tely 600 eminent scientists and 60 foreign members. Admission of the former is restricted to 25 a year and the latter to four a year. Occasionally a leading non-scientist is granted a fellowship. The society maintains a library of 145,000 books, all of a pure- ly scientific nature. The Royal Society is responsible for the administration of a number of government grants and of many research funds and special funds derived from various sources, In connection with the tercentenary program some special broadcasts are planned by the BBC. On one of them, made with the co-operation of the Ca- nadian Broadcasting Corporation at the Montreal Neurological Institute, Dr. Wilder Penfield will talk about his fundamental work on the human brain. Dr. Penfield, who recently announced his retirement as head of the Neuro- logical Institute, is also an author and published his first novel, No Other Gods, in 1954. A new book, The Torch, is slated for fall publication, OC STS EXPENSIVE GARBAGE CAN OTTAWA REPORT » conduct of the U.S. reporters em- Canadian Editions Unfair Competition By PATRICK NICHOLSON The 1960 budget debate has come and gone, without any ac- tion being taken to protect C nadian culture in its most wide- spread form: The written word. The Liberal -government faced up to the invasion of our maga- zine field by U.S. treasure-hunt- ers. It essayed steps to halt the inflow of cut rate foreign com- petition which was, and still is, threatening the very existence of Canadian magazines. The Liberals' weapon for this purpose was a tax on advertis- ing by Canadian companies in so- called ian editions" of foreign azines. It was a praiseworth pt, but neither an apt nor effective step, and the Diefenbaker government wisely repealed that tax. CHEAP COMPETITION But the Diefenbaker govern. ment, which rode to its unprece- dented power largely on the pop- ular appeal of 'its promise to strengthen and succor Canadian nationalism, has failed to substi- tute any other protection even as effective as the weak which it discarded. Four more U.S. magazines have now launched 'Canadian editions," which together sell 750,000 copies each month. Beaten by this cheap imported competi- tion, three more nation-wide Ca- nadian magazines are expected to cease publication this year. These U.S. invaders, masquer- ading behind the Maple Leaf, are far from being Canadian in con- tent or aim. They are strictly commercial mill-end runs, whose literary content is mostly paid for by the sale of the major run in U.S.A. Hence they can profit- ably be dumped on the Canadian market at prices which undercut 3" any possible Can: tion. I use this word from the textile industry ad- visedly, because the analagy is an apt one, and because our gov- ernments have time and again moved to protect our textil workers against such unfair for- eign competition, while failing to protect our far more culturally valuable workers against similar literary dumping, The example of this invasion which most disturbs Canadians is a weekly U.S. news magazine. A typical issue of this consists of the equivalent of 3 pag of about Canadian affair of U.S. affairs and ge est reprinted from pe U.S. edition, and 52 pages of ac vertising, paid for by Canadian industry and hence lost to Ca- nadian periodicals. At the quoted advert and news-stand prices is azine costs Canadians some $5,000,000 in advertising and $2,500,000 in purchase price each year, added on top of our already excessive trade imbalance with ian competi- g borrowed is mag shield yg NOT FOR CANADIANS Objection to this weekly cen- tres round the fact that more than 90 per cent of its text is written neither by Canadians nor for Canadian reading. Yet, al- though edited and printed in U.S., and mailed to Canadian sub- scribers under freight paid to the U.S. post office, it is described as a "Canadian Edition", And it takes out of Canada, revenue which could otherwise be paid to Canadian printers, to Canadian writers, and indeed to every Canadian taxpayer through the post office. Around Parliament Hill, the QUEEN'S PARK Department Explains Powers By Statutes By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- There apparently has been a lot of misunderstand- ing regarding the department of al affairs and control of municipalities. And your correspondent has been one of the guilty ones. Immediately following the North York report the press, in- cluding this minute section of it, yelled for blood. It demanded that the depart- ment of municipal affairs should take over the affairs of the town- snip. CAN'T DO Now it appears it couldn't do this if it wanted to. Some days after the report-- and after newspapers had been yelling for his scalp--Hon. W. K. Warrender explained the depart- ment's position. It had no authority to unseat councils or councillors, he said, and neither could it take over the municipal government. It had not authority either through its own legislation or by order-in-council. ALL NEWS This must have been news to 99 per cent of the people in the province, The writer has been here 17 years. He had never heard of it be- fore. He has known that the usual procedure--and one very rarely if ever, used in his time--was for an elector to 'take court action if a councilman must be un- seated. But always, he has understood, there was the power of the prov- ince if it wanted to use it. POWERS LIMITED No sucn thing, however. According to Mr. Warrender by statute the province has only one power. This to take vision of a municip. it can only do this in the case of an improvement district /ér super- or of a municipality which is in default on its bonds. It is regrettable--and perhaps this is a case of sour grapes-- that Mr. Warrender did not make his explanation before he did. But nevertheless this is the case. NO NEED? And, much argument as there may be in favor of it, there would seem to be little prospect of change. The view of officials here is that local autonomy must be re- spected. They do not want the extreme power of unseating, and can not see where it would ever be neces- sary Being candid, the writer' has given this a bit of thought and can't think up a case either.. In the present York Township instance the electors will be act- ing. And it is hard to envision a situation where a council would 80 so far that it would have to be brought to an abrupt stop by the department stepping in. PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM "An English vegetarian plans to walk from San Francisco to New York to support claim that an exclusive vegetable diet gives a person more _ health and strength than a diet that includes meat." Press report. She might as well save her tootsies. Several years ago, a meat eater Dushed a wheelbarrow across the S. Fifty years from now, many of those who are now teen agers will be boring their grandchildren with wild tales about the tough winter of 1959-1960 Learn something today and for- get it tomorrow: "Your foot is ap- proximately as long as your ulna." ployed by this magazine has on occasions aroused resentment and disgust. Journalists here are not impressed by its ill-informed opinions and inaccuracies on Ca- nadian matters from time to time. Among Canadians generally there is regret that Canadian readers should be exposed to a foreign publication, whose policy understandably, to glorify its country, while belittling a and our Commonwealth There is regret here that budget has come and gone, with out any action to protect Cana- dian magazines against the dumping of these mill-end runs, or any steps to insist that these "Canadian editions' should, like the output of any Canadian broadcasting station, consist of at lea 55 per cent "Canadian content." BY-GONE DAYS 37 YEARS AGO Mrs. A. J. Stalter, president of the Oshawa WCTU and Mrs. T. Witterick were appointed as dele- gates to attend the world conven tion in Edinburgh. At a Rotary luncheon Dr. T. E. Kaiser gave a very interesting address on Banking. He reveal- ed himself as a student of finance and discussed the function of the bank in the community. A boys' municipal council, com- plete with mayor, reeve and councillors, was sworn in by Ma- gistrate A. F. Hind. The group was organized by Alfred W, Har- rold, boys' secretary of local YMCA. Following the remarks which complimented the boys on the speedy and efficient man. ner in which they dealt their business, Mayor Arthur Petre and Reeve Charles Johnson gave brief addresses. Olive Gale, Rita Booth and Betty Wilson attended the district convention at Brougham as re- presentatives of King Street Me thodist Church. Due to the large number of dogs in the town, an extension of time was granted by the Police Dept., to all dog owners to procure the necessary tags by May 18. When the terrible fire swept over Northern Ontario in the fall of 1922, Oshawa Red Cross So- ciety assisted by maintaining a § nurse and emergency hospital at Haileybury. F. H. Richardson, well-known Pickering citizen, was nominated to contest the South Ontario Rid- ing in the forthcoming provincial election, Doubling up the school hours at King Street School was necessary when the Centre Street School was in the process of being torn down, King Street pupils gathered at 8 o'clock in the morning and closed at 12:30 in order to ac- commodate the Centre Street pupils in the afternoon, World Oil Production Increased GENEVA (Reuters) -- World production of crude oil increased from about 686,000,000 tons to nearly 977,000,000 tons a year dur- ing the five years between 1954 and the end of 1959, says a report issued here by the International Labor Organization, The increase was not consistent and, in fact, between 1956 and 1958, production diminished, due partly to the Suez crisis and to varying demands. The biggest rise in any one year was in 1955, when produc- tion rose by 84,000,000 tons--more than 12 per cent above the 1954 figure. This increase compared with the average annual rate of increase of approximately 5% per cent in the last 30 years and 7% per cent in the last 10 years. SUEZ A FACTOR The report said the Suez crisis considerably reduced production in Iraq because of damage to the pipeline to the Mediterranean and had the effect of checking con- sumption in Europe. But, at the same time, this caused a sharp increase in pro- duction in the United States in 1956 and in Venezuela in 1956 and 1957, in an attempt to meet the STUDENT EXCHANGE KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) -- Ten students from high schools here will exchange places with 10 from schools in the United States, under arrangements made by a service club, demands of a Europe short of Middle East supplies. In 1959, production rose in nearly all large oil .' producing countries due to rising demand and the economic recovery after the 1957-58 economic recession. Production of the United States last year--some 346,500,000 tons-- represented more than one-third of total world production. The next largest producers were Venezuela, 147,000,000 tons, and the Soviet Union, 129,000,000. Ca= nadian production was about 25, 200,000 tons. desirable. HOUSEKEEPER -- CHIEF COOK -- ance of grounds. ences, etc. HILLSDALE MANOR HOME FOR AGED REQUIRED FOR AUGUST Ist, 1960 NURSING SUPERVISOR -- Geriatrics training and supervisory experience Experience in Homes or related field necessary. Experience in Homes or related field necessary. MAINTENANCE MAN -- For all-round work, repairs, cleaning, mainten- Benefits include--accumulated sick leave, Ontario Hospital Blue Cross/P.S.1., group insurance, pension Applications will be received until 5:00 p.m., Tues- day May 31st, 1960, Please give all information regarding experience, age, martial status, refer- Anyone having previously applied for these posi- tions is required to renew their applications. D. FLEMING Personnel Officer City Hall, Oshawe SATURDAY, May 21- IS RESCREENING DAY he 9 to last © pi or corode «°° C.p.\. Fiber- not rust, str 1279 SIMCOE ST. at MILLWORK & BUILDING SUPPLIES Screening ime. It WV! grt stains, ne . or the regular Pricy comes re-screene urself. SORRY, NO PICK-UP OR DELIVERY WITH THIS MONEY SAVING OFFER MILLWORK & BUILDING SUPPLIES LIMITED NORTH RA 8-6291 WITH EVERY PURCHASE OF NURSERY STOCK DURING THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND Including -- Trees - Shrubs - Vines - Fruit Trees - Rose Bushes Friday, May 20 vntil 9 o'clock at Night SATURDAY, SUNDAY, [IONDAY (MAY 23) 9 a.m.-6 p.m. BROOKDALE-KINGSWAY NURSERIES AT THE BOWMANVILLE CLOVERLEAF ON No. 401 HIGHWAY