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She Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 4 Wednesday, August 3, 1960 Simple Rules Can Cut Number Of Drownings Anyone who reads the daily news- papers with thought must be shocked at the daily list of children and adults who have lost their lives by drowning in the previous 24 hours. Safety officials predicted that more than 12 lives would be lost in Ontario waters over the civic holiday weekend, and they were right. Three year ago, the total was 21. Up to the middle of July there were 183 drownings reported in Ontario for 1960. This is an increase of 35 over the number reported for the same period last year. . A drowning accident represents an unnecessary waste of human life. Prac- tically every drowning could pe avoided by practising the simple Water Safety Rules. The warning is supplemented by some pertinent suggestions for water enthu- siasts. With reference to safe swimming, the bulletin hands out this advice: Don't swim alone. Don't swim at unsupervised swim- ming places. Don't dive Rocks and branches may be hidden. into unknown water. Don't swim after eating. Wait at least two hours. Don't swim when overheated. Cool off gradually first. Don't swim when overtired. Don't swim too far from shore. Swim parallel to the shore. Don't swim until you become ex- hausted, particularly if the water be cold. Don't swim after dark unless thorough- ly familiar with the swimming area, know. it is safe, and are accompanied by a "buddy". Stay close to shore. Don't panic if you should get into difficulties. You must think clearly if you are to do the right thing. Don't "duck" or push bathers into water, Playfulness may cost a life. In regard to boating, these timely suggestions are giwen: Don't go out in a small boat unless you are a swimmer or are wearing a life preserver, Don't overload any boat, large or small. Don't use any boat that is not com- pletely seaworthy. Don't go out in a boat in stormy weather' Don't stand up in a boat or canoe. Learn to handle watercraft. Don't change laces in a small boat. Don't leave the boat if it capsizes. Cling to it until rescued. Don't attempt to swim to shore. Don't shoot rapids. Don't use home-made rafts or logs as boats. Tough On Taxpayers Regardless of the outcome of the conference between provincial premiers and Ottawa, things look rather dim for Canadian taxpayers, who appear to be destined to be taken for another ride no matter who wins the argument on Parlia- ment Hill, the Sarnia Observer believes. Premier Leslie Frost, representing Ontario, demands a 50-50 cut of the personal income and corporation tax yield now collected by Ottawa from the province. This would mean an additional 477,000,007 ~nnually to the province. Premier j.an Lesage of Quebec has decided to bring his province out of its isolation. He will accept all the condi- tional grants heretofore rejected. They total $70,000,000 annually for hospital insurance alone, Besides other grants Mr. Lesage will be satisfied with a modest 25 per cent share of the personal income and corporation cutback. If it goes that way all across the country. Federal authorities estimate that Premier Frost's proposition would deprive the Dominion of around $1,680,000,000 of annual tax increment. Ontario's Mr. Frost, who indicates he has no thought of doing any bargaining with the Dominion, says "we want our rights," which in this case runs into close to half a billion dollars. Should Ontario be unable to collect the half billion Mr. Frost is proposing that Ottawa agree to initiate a constitu- tional amendment enabling the pro- vinces to impose an indirect retail sales tax. Ottawa is certain to oppose such de- mands. With a care for the taxpayers' dollar shown some years ago in regard to Petawawa's horses, the Dominion needs the money. Ontario, remembering the skulduggery over highways not so long ago, requires the cash to cover any other "mistakes". Quebec, where the bridge building and other cheating on the taxpayer cost the Union Nationale the last election, and thievery amount. ing to around a million dollars a year on bridge tolls, Quebec needs the cash as well. Canadian taxpayers 'appear to be ready for another "taking" by their governments, If Ottawa accedes to pro- vincial demands it is going to have to raise around $2 billion to take up the deficit. The federal taxpayer is going to be nicked for that. Should the provinces get their alternative of a- hidden sales tax Ottawa can hold the line, provincial taxpayers will be touched for the $2 billion. ; With the Dominion and the provinces standing on their rights everything will be fine as the taxpayer tries to make his old suit last another year. Worth Of Immigrant What a migrant is worth to the new land he is entering,.is discussed by the Immigration Department of Australia, and the figures given are interesting: Before he begins earning and spend- ing, each adult migrant worker's value, as he walks to his bench, or desk; has been calculated by Australia's Federal Treasurer, Mr. Holt, at $15,000. This is the official cost of feeding, clothing, rearing, and training an Austra- lian-born child up to the working age. Today, every tenth shop-girl in Aus- tralia's shops owes her place behind the counter to the growing demand which migrants are creating -- and helping to fill The Osharon Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher and Gencral Manager €. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times { 1871) and the Whitby Gozette "and established 1863), is published daily ys and statutory holidays exc Members of Canadian Daily Newspapers Publishers . T Conadion Press, Audit Bureau of he Ontario Provincial Dailies Asso- anadian Press is exc ely entitled use for republication of all news despatched in the p r credited to it or to The Associated Press or ters, and also the local news published rights of special despatches are also therein. All reserved Offices Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, e, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont each, Greenwood, Kinsale, ackstock, Manchester, Cobourg, Port Hope i Newcastle not over 45¢ per week ce of Ontario) outside carriers as 12.00; elsewhere 15.00 per year. Average Daily Net Paid as of April 30, 1960 16,999 Ajax Feet that once trod pavements in Britain and Europe are now wearing two and a third million pairs of Austral- ian made shoes and sandals, and this means an extra factory bench in shoe factories to every ten. Inside the shoes, the migrants in a year, wear five and three quarter million pairs of socks and stockings of Austral- ian make. « They need 101,000 cwt. of soap to wash' with, They puff five and a quarter million Ib. of cigarettes, and tobacco. They eat 1.6 million gallons of ice cream. From statistics a migrant and his wife, sup. porting two children, are estimated 'to spend each year, on the average, food drink £444, clothing, drapery £160, furniture and floor coverings £35, TV and electrical appliances £ 62, cosmetics and druggist's goods £ 39. Bank and Immigration officials notice a marked preference among migrants for securing a home, before they buy a car. They say "it's a lovely feeling walking up your own steps". Today one- third of Australian new homes are those of migrants. Immigration and officials say, "Migrant couples have to start from scratch as buyers. The wife doesn't inherit a wash. ing machine from her mother's home, or have things like that passed on." Today in Australia 13 of every 100 babies being born are to migrant parents, Government revenue benefits from taxes they pay, both on their homes, and as individuals. the Bureau of Census and - OTTAWA REPORT Members To Give Views In Columns By PATRICK NICHOLSON A happy experiment of 1959 will be repeated in this space during the coming weeks, when mem- bers of Parliament will write their own impressions of the par- liamentary session now closing. I invited a number of MPs representing constituencies where a Thomson Daily Newspaper cir- culates to write these "guest col- umns"', Among those contributing to this series of "Your own M.P. talks about Ottawa," there will be Conservative MPs who support the cabinet, and even eabinet ministers themselves, as well as Liberal and CCF MPs who have just spent six months disagreeing with the government on almost every day and every topic. 1 assured each member that he (or she) would have "complete freedom of expression" in these guest columns. Neither the sub- ject matter selected, nor the opinions expressed, are in any way attributable to the editors of Thomson Daily Newspapers--nor to the person who normally writes this Ottawa Report! The subjects and the opinions repre- spot the free unfettered thoughts of each individual MP writing tiie guest columns, The MPs to whom I addressed my somewhat burdensome and perhaps--at this late and busy date in the session--my some- what unwelcome invitation, were chosen by me with a view to pro- viding readers with very frank and even controversial views ex- pressed by some of our most ex- perienced or most promising members, I frankly encouraged these temporary columnists to take off the velvet glove and be outspoken. I am sure that some of them will hit hard, perhaps at their parliamentary adversaries, perhaps at the parliamentary practices, perhaps at their daily observer and critic--myself The pieces written in response to my invitation will give readers a unique glimpse into our politi- cal arena, for the contrasts and controversies of our Parliament will be reflected faithfully by this cross-section of politicians elected by various communities served by Thomson Newspapers. What a contrast there is be- tween the many MPs who have so kindly consented to write at my invitation. For example there is Hazen Argue, Prairie wheat farmer and leader of the socialist CCF group in Parliament; an ardent advocate of the state doing for each of us what our grandfathers preferred to do for themselves. At the opposite politi- cal pole to him there is Hon. Davie Fulton, our minister of jus- tice, who is a very able exponent of the Christian democratic atti- tude of the Diefenbaker govern- ment, Even veterans differ: "Doc" McMillan of the CEF 44 years ago, and Douglas Fisher, ar- moured trooper of 16 years ago, two men who contribute greatly to the original thinking in our Parliament. The older, more ex- perienced, Liberal MP from Wel- land, a brilliant and dedicated surgeon, too often and too mod- estly hides his light; the rough CCF diamond from Port Arthur hogs the headlines--for what he says is newsworthy, because his tongue is moulded from high ex- plosive. Reminding of the unprecedent- edly "ethnic" basis of this Par- liament, there is another con- trast: Sarnia's J. W. Murphy, an Old-Canadian who over many years has contributed so much on so many topics to our Parliament, and Fort William's Bert Badanai, who had to learn Canadian de- mocracy, Canadian thinking and even the Canadian tongue--all so different from his childhood am- biance in his native Italy. Yet Bert quickly made himself so much at home in these new cir- cumstances that he enjoyed a long and popular career as mayor before being elected to Parlia- ment, To these, and to the many other kind contributore, I say a very sincere thank you. Their com- ments in these Ottawa Reports are stimulating, informative, and certainly give us all something to think about. BY-GONE DAYS 25 YEARS AGO Capt. Joseph Williams, an old lake sailing vessel captain, died at his home near Pickering in his 86th year. A. L. Bouckley won the Hart Challenge trophy for the finest large garden owned by Hortl- cultural Society member. A. W. (Army) Armstrong won the coveted R. S. McLaughlin trophy for tennis singles cham- pionship, by defeating Harold Hainer. The Oshawa branch of the Ca- nadian Legion held a farewell party. in honor of Past President William J. Jenkins, who was leaving to make his home in England. A provincial government order that all single men had to be struck off the relief lists caused a considerable amount of con- cern in Oshawa, which had been hard hit by the new order. QUEEN'S PARK Frost Maintains Ontario Position By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- There was some question before this conference that Ontario might lose its tra- ditional position as the leader of the provinces. : It didn't. The threat came from Quebec and Premier Lesage. The new French - Canadian leader prior to the meeting made statements which Indicated he might play a dominant role. He particularly stressed that he would be demanding the return of taxing powers. However, when it came to lay- ing down the cards it was Pre- mier Frost who led the way. His bold demands made Mr. Lesage look mild. No matter what the federal re- action may eventually turn out to be, this conference marked the start of a new era. The provinces may not get back their taxing rights. But at least they will have some measure of real independ- ence again. We have known here that Mr. Frost was irked by the depend- ence on Ottawa recently. We did not know, however, just how strong. within him this feel- ing really was. Word here is that Ottawa had no inkling in advance of the ex- tent of his proposals. And they must have come as a shock. It knows now that Ontario's leader is genuinely aroused. And from political considera- tions alone, unless they are com- pletely fogged by success, this should be enough to make the federal leaders start catering to him. There have been some signs that they believe they really won Ontario on their own. Everybody else knows they did not, however. And that they won't win it again without the support of the provincial party. Which should leave our Conser- vative government here in the po~ sition of either getting considera- tion for its demands or dealing with a new Ottawa regime after the next election. As an incidental point on the Ontario "leadership" it was no- ticeable that this time Mr. Frost did not stress Ontario's great pro- duction of wealth from which fed- eral tax revenues come. In both 1957 and 1955 he made much of this point. But this time he played it easy. While it is an argument that impresses the home folks it does not carry too much weight with Ottawa. And of course it breeds resentment among the poorer provinces. They can point out that while Ontario raises much of its wealth by selling to them it does not share the money. The bulk of our purchasing is done in the U.S. FOR BETTER HEALTH Baby's Sleep Depends On Size Of Stomach HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, MD The bigger the baby's stomach, the longer he will sleep. Does this seem like an odd statement? Actually it isn't. Look at it this way: A young baby wants to sleep more than he wants to do any- thing else -- except eat. He doesn't want to ery and keep you awake, no matter what you may think. Generally speaking, he wakes only when he is hungry. And he cries when he wakes because he is hungry. If yon try to rouse an infant when he isn't hungry, chances are you will have a tough time keeping him awake, If he isn't eating, he wants to sleep. It's that simple. Of courses bothered by troubles. But some bables are colic or other we're speaking about the average infant now. And the average baby doesnt have colic or any other serious problems As the baby gets stomach becomes larger. There- fore, it can hold more food. And the baby doesn't have to eat as often. He'll sleep right through that 2 a.m. feeding period and older. his you'll get your first full night's rest in weeks. 1 know from experience. There comes a time, however, when the baby becomes fed up with this very pleasant pattern of living. He no longer is content just to eat and sleep, eat and sleep, although *~r the life of me I can't imagine" what he finds wrong with it. He will wake even though he's not hungry. Moreover, he prob- ably will remain fairly quiet until he becomes hungry. Once he's fed, however, he will go back to sleep. That, of course, pushes a baby off his schedule and can result in no end of trouble QUESTION AND ANSWER J. J D.: What can I do to get relief from a fungus infection of my feet? I have a breaking-out under my toes. Answer: Many preparations are available for the treatment of fungus infection of the feet. Scerupulous cleanliness, dryness of the feet and sterilization of the socks by boiling may also be necessary to prevent constant re- infection. 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