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The Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 Saturday, April 29, 196] Diagnoses Are Simple But Cures Now Needed The Bank of Canada's Governor James Coyne, who has been quite vocal about Canada's economic problems in recent months, was somewhat more different when he appeared before the Senate manpower committee this week. He was willing to talk in general terms about the problems, and reiterated his belief that only the adoption of new policies by governments at all levels would bring about any substantial re- duction in unemployment, but he re- jected repeated attempts by senators to 'obtain from his detailed proposals for creating jobs. One can understand his reluctance to become specific about policy proposals involving government action. At the same time, he has either said too little or too much. He has rejected such pal- liatives as deficit financing, increase of the money supply and dollar devalu- ation; he has suggested that governments devise means of increasing the flow of domestic savings for Canadian capital investment, lower foreign ownership of Canadian resources, and an attempt by governments to live within their means, These are generalities, largely critical of present and past government policies. But Mr. Coyne heads a Crown agency, and when he goes beyond the strict cone fines of his job, he should be preferred to be specific. Generalities are a dime a dozen these days, but specifics are needed. The fed- eral government has only nibbled at the problem of a stagnant economy, and provincial governments confine most of their efforts to whining about Ottawa and looking for new ways of raising taxes. If the governments got together and took a long, hard look at the tax structure, they would be making a good start towards a solution of the problem. The essence of the problem is the getting of Canadians back to work -- not by frantic make-work projects but by measures that will help shift the economy from low gear into high. It must be obvious even to Ottawa that we now have a chronic state of unem- ployment, and a lot more than a "do it now" campaign is required. In The School Of Life By REV. WARREN G. DICKSON, BA, Centre Street United Church, Oshawa. There are requirements for admission to most schools. There is only one re- quirement for admission to the school of the Christian life. It is repentance, turning away from the old life to enter a new one. Repentance does not mean to be sorry for somehing you have done. It means to change your mind so you will not be acting that way again. The text book in the school of life is the Holy Bible. "Thy Word is a lan- tern unto my feet and a light unto my paths." The Teacher in the School of Life is none other than God himself. "And they shall all be taught of God." (John 6:45). Life is a school opened by the Creator in the Garden of Eden, a school from which none can play. truant. God teaches us through His Word and through experience (as Job learned). When Christ came all the great teach- ings of the past were fulfilled. The disciples had been to a college, the greatest the world has ever known. It was not a form educational insti- tution. You might say the only degree it offered was "Master of Living". But people knew that the students had stu- died under Jesus. In Acts 4:13 we read: "And they took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus". Jesus Invasion Of A couple of years back the Eisen hower administration introduced as part of its "permanent solution of the farm problem" a soil bank scheme under which U.S. farmers voluntarily retire from production a part of their acreage. The plan replaced compulsory acreage controls and American farmers partici- pating in the project are, of course, paid for not producing crops on their land. The soil bank may be solving some American farm problems, but it is producing some new problems for western Canada. Idle land may be ac- ceptable but idle hands and idle ma- chinery are not, so many farmers are invading Canada, and not always to our advantage. The Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher and Generel! Meoncger €. GWYN KINSEY Editor The Oshowe limes comb The Oshawe Times {established 1871) and the itby Gozetts ond Chronicle (estoblished '1863). is published doily (Sundays ond stotutory holidoys excepted). Members ot Canadion Dolly Newspcpers Publishers Association. The Conadion Press, Audit Burecu of Circulation ana the Ontario Provincial - Deities Asso tiation. The Conodion Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of oll ews despotched n the poper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters ond also the local news published therein. All rights of speciol despotches are also eserved . 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Sometimes, alas, what the world sees of us suggest that if we were ever students of His, we certainly failed to graduate. What about the curriculum in Jesus' School of Life? Jesus took life itself as the basis of His teaching. He was a master of words, but He never taught words only. He had no examination, but action. He had no test but character, His report card showed only two grades: "Well Done" or "One thing thou lack- est". The only homework was to live His teaching. The only graduation was to go out and teach others. For the day of final examination in the School of Life, Jesus puts us to the single test: "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these, ye have done it unto Me". We must visit the sick, the sorrowful. We must help the needy. We must comfort the afflicted. Commencement day in the School of Life is when Jesus says to us: "Come up higher with Me." then we rightly say: "He has been promoted to glory." The West A survey made recently by R. R. the Saskatchewan riding of Moose Mountain, Southam, Conservative MP for found that in his constituency alone there are 300 quarter sections, or 48,000 acres, leased or owned by American farmers living in the U.S. On the plus side it can be argued that the American invasion has raised land prices, and that municipalities are collecting taxes for which they are required to deliver few services. But on the minus side is the point that the Americans are commuters who bring in their equipment only long enough to plant and harvest, spend little here and take a lot of money back home. Carried far enough, this commuter invasion could depopulate not only large rural areas but also the towns that exist to serve the farm populations. Also, the invasion tends to large-scale operation and works against preservation of the family farm. The Americans can hardly be blamed for not wanting to waste stheir time, even though they are being paid for it. Presumably they could not continue to receive soil bank subsidies if they rented land south of the border but there is nothing in American law to prevent them from using Uncle Sam's handouts to rent land north of the border, or to move their machinety- back and forth. And whether Canada can do much about it is a question that must be considered. Bible Thought There shall no evil happen to the just. -- Proverbs 12:21. 'Socrates said the same thing. Yet he was poisoned by the state. Jesus died on the cross. But the cross of Jesus and the hemlock of Socrates we see now were not evil in that they accomplished. Ee READY FO VA 2 7 2 covered by purchase R THE BLASTOFF OTTAWA REPORT ' But with the government guar- antee behind the mortgage, this { now is less likely. Mortgage Plan As 'Repair Job' By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--Commenting upon one of the first Throne speeches by the Diefenbaker government, this column likened its program of legislation to the orders given to a building contractor by an incoming tenant. The Liberal party had occupied the office of government a very. long time, and like any longterm tenants, the Liberals had not noticed the progressively worsening cracks in the fabric and peeling of the paint and rotting of the wood- work in the mansion that is Can- ada. / But the Diefenbaker govern ment, coming newly into occu- pation, was quick to notice these many minor faults, and to set about repairing the damage. Yet another example of this needed and worthwhile process of repair and renovation has just been revealed by Hon. David Walker, our able and agreeable minister of public works. Any Canadian wishing to bor- row money to assist him in building a home in which to raise and care for his family has for too long been at the mercy of mercenary sharks. Mr. Walker now is moving to correct that situation, and he deserves the thanks of all Cana- dians. HIGH MORTGAGE COST Successive governments have for very many years endea- vored to assist in the creation of ample and adequate housing for Canadians. Our governments have even gone so far as to guarantee mortgage loans for approved homes; so that these loans, made under the National Housing Act and through the guidance of the state-owned Cen- tral Mortgage and Housing Cor- poration, are in effect govern 'guaranteed National ment bonds with the backing of Canada' to support them. Yet the would-be home-owner has always had a bad deal Today, for example, he has to pay interest at no less than 634 per cent on the money he bor- rows on mortgage, despite hav- ing the backing of the Canadian government. Yet this is in many ways comparable to a Canadian government bond, and these are currently carrying interest at a mere 4.7 per cent. One may well ask, why should the home-builder have to pay over 2 per cent more on his mortgage than the Canadian government pays on savings bonds? There are two explanations which justify this difference in part only. First, a mortgage en- tails some work which must be done regularly and other work which may have to be done in unhappy circumstances, such as collecting monthly payments and handling a foreclosure; these do not apply to a savings bond. This work is worth per- haps 14 per cent yearly. Sec- ond, a mortgage can only be dealt in in the large and non- uniform size of each individual mortgage, running around per- haps $12,267.83 or some simi- larly inconvenient figure. (I am speaking always of government- Housing Act mortgages). But in contrast Canadian government savings bonds can be bought or sold in multiples of $50. REVAMPS OLD IDEAS There is also the intangible factor of the taint associated with mortgages, namely the risk that the paper investment might change from being a dol- lar nest-egg to an unsalable empty house, in a depression. QUEEN'S PARK Just One Answer To Public Doubt By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--Dillinger is dead. But his memory lingers on. Attorney - General Roberts is busy at the wars. The attorney-general is com- batting criticism of administra- tion of justice in a series of speeches. In them he is outlining the or- ganization of justice in the prov- ince today and also the organi- zation of crime And his first speech was full of meaty references. Among them quotes from Dillinger's widow when she took to a mid- way side-show after the gang- ster's death. ("He was a good shot--or do I have to tell you that.") BROCKVILLE CASE In the speeches Mr. Roberts, as he has done frequently on other occasions, will make ex- tensive reference to the police work in cleaning up the famous Brockville bank robberty. Overlooked in this, however, will be the fact that this was principally a case of outstand ing police work on the interna- tional level Although the OPP here par- ticipated (and this writer hasn't anything but good to say about this force) most of the work was done by police forces in Europe and the U.S And the criticism the attor- ney - general is replying to is of conditions in Ontario It is quite all right for him to ridicule the suggestion that the Mafia is trying to take over in Ontario. What the writer, and probably the public, would like to know is why it took so long to close up gambling clubs in Windsor and the Niagara Peninsula. And whether organized gang- sterism is entering Ontario. We know it did get into Mont- real. And there is at least ground for suspicion it is com- ing in here. So far as this observer is con- cerned, he believes that Ontario is still probably relatively free of mass crime. But in view of charges that have been made he would like reassurance. And a reassurance which faces the facts--not one which centres on a successful interna- tional police action. Mr. Roberts may be going to give us this yet His speeches are being de- livered at spaced intervals . . . and also spaced geographically, the first in Belleville, the sec- ond in the north and the third here in Toronto. But until he does do this he can't really complain if the crit- icism continues. And one still has a feeling that eventually we will land up with some form of inquiry. . This is only to answer the public doubt, which Mr. Robe himself, of course, is adding to by paying so much attention to the question. { nothing What in effect Mr. Walker, as the minister in charge of CMHC has done, is to lay the founda- tions for a 'secondary' market in first mortgages. This has to do with "second" ar with this picture have assumed. It is, in effect, more like a stock exchange where purchases and sales are made not in stocks but in mortgages. This particular ship may take two or three years to get well and truly launched. But when it Is, it will have two very worth- while effects. It will consider- ably increase the amount of money available for investment In mortgages. and therefore as* sist would-be home-builders. It will also make possible very much cheaper NHA mortgages, through bringing down the in- terest rate. Hon. David Walker, following the lead set by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker in that earlier Throne speech, has done a pretty job in making good a se- vere flaw in the construction of our Canadian government man- sion. All Canadian home-dwel- lers, and especially building workers and investors too, owe him a real debt of gratitude. BY-GONE DAYS 40 YEARS AGO St. George's Anglican Church .announced plans for a magnifi- cent new church to be erected as a memorial to the members of the congregation who gave their lives in the war of 1914-18. Town Council ordered the Osh- awa Railway to remove its tracks on Metcalfe street lead- ing tq the Pedlar plant, The newly rebuilt Whitby Planing Mill, under the man- agement of the Whitby Brick and Clay Products Co. started production again after being completely destroyed by fire. Thirteen members of the Osh- awa Gun Club were guests of the Balmy Beach Club, Toron- to. Milton Gay captured first prize The construction of concrete sidewalks to the value of $13,336 was approved by the Town Council. James O. Clifford, Ontario County pioneer, passed away at the age of 78. A Toronto bus carrying a To- ronto football team to Oshawa became hopelessly mired in the mud on King street and the party had to return home by train. Building permits {issued for the month of April amounted to $26,140 which included $6,000 for new stores Oshawa Rebekah Lodge No. 8 had as their guests the lodges from Whitby, Bowmanville, Belleville and Trenton to cele- brate ihe occasion of their 40th birthday. Street sprinkling by auto truck was inaugurated in Osh awa with great success. The sprinkler, for years horse drawn, was mounted on a truck and operated by G. R. Alchin for the season. Town Council passed a bylaw to provide for the appointment of a permanent town planning commission Machine s captured by the men of the 116th Battalion from Oshawa and Ontario Coun- ty at the battle of Amiens were awarded to Oshawa and placed in the Armories i John Garbutt, pas- S Church, i to ! and +. H. McBain of Kitchen- er, succeeded him as the new pastor. as eet U.K. OPINION b Selwyn Lloyd's Budget Sparks Hot Controversy | By M. Me NTYRE oD Special London g. Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- The fact that there was something new and startling in the first budget pre- sented to parliament by Selwyn Lloyd has made it stand out as diffferent from the budgets of his predecessors. Never before has any Chancellor of the Ex- chequer asked parliament to give him such supreme author- ity as Selwyn Lloyd has done. The important parts of the budget were not those which made immediate applications of tax changes. They were those which put power in the Chan- cellor's hands to increase or decrease taxes, and even to impose new taxes, at any time when he felt the economy of the country needed such action. That is something without any precedent, and it is on this angle of the budget that the most severe criticism has been forthcoming. The specific authority which adoption of the budget places in the hands of Mr. Selwyn Lloyd is far-reaching. He can, at a time of his own deciding, add up to 10 per cent to the duties on cigarettes, gasoline, and a host of other articles now tax. On the other hand, if the country's economy justified it he could reduce these taxes by a like amount. PAYROLL TAX Mr. Lloyd also has authority to impose an entirely new kind of tax if and when he thinks it is required by the nation's econ- omy. This is called a payroll tax -- a tax on every employee of every employer of labor in the country. This tax is quite common in some of the coun- tries of Europe, but this is its first introduction to the British public. If Mr. Lloyd thinks in- dustry is over - producing and causing a state of inflation, he can, by a stroke of the pen, put this tax into operation, up to a level of 56 cents a week for every employee. If this tax is ever imposed, it will produce a peculiar situ- ation.. The surtax level in in- come has been raised from $5,600 to $14,000, to give an in- centive to industry and busi ness. The payroll tax is intend- ed to place a restraint on indus- try and business. The two things just cannot operate together. REACTIONS TO BUDGET The reactions to the budget are just what might be expect- ed. The Tories, particularly the right wing of the party, are de- lighted with it. The Labor party is furious with it. Its spokesmen are attacking it ve- hemently on its one vulnerable point -- there is nothing in it for the ordinary working man and his family. By" even on this labor is divided. Three labor leaders, George Woodcock, TUC general secretary; William Carron; en- gineers' union leader, and Ted Hill, leader of the boiler- makers' union), have all con- demned it in resounding terms. Two of the elder statesmen of the Labor party, however, have expressed théir warm approval of the raising of the surtax in- come level. They are Sir Thom- as Williamson and Sir Tom O'Brien, both former chairmen of the Trades Union Congress. They. agreed with Mr. Lloyd that there is a strong case in favor of raising the surtax level above $5,600. RELUCTANT PEER Viscount Stansgate, who in- sists on being known as plain Anthony 'Wedgwood Benn, is continuing the fight for his right to renounce the peerage to which he fell heir on his fa- ther's death and to continue as a member of the House of Commons. Parliament voted against any action being taken to enable him to remain as MP for Bristol South-East. So a writ has been issued for a by- election to fill the vacancy caused by his elevation to the peerage. The Labor party has adopted its candidate, and who is he? None other than Vis- count Stangate, under his for- mer name of Anthony Wedg- wood Benn. This nomination is bound to cause all kinds of complications. He knows, and probably every voter knows, that if given a majority of the votes he wil not be able to sit in the House of Commons. In a constituency like Bristol Southeast, where he had, in 1959, 2 majority of close to 6,000, Mr. Benn is quite like- ly to head the poll. And what then? The Conservative candi- PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM "A man can't enjoy anything he can't understand," says a psychologist. Oh no? What a- bout life, women and money? Most people don't seem to be concerned with where the world may be heading. They act as Rd just came along for the ride. "A teen-ager should eat more than an adult does," says a physician. Yes, but shouldn't he limit himself to eating three times as much? An automobile association's list of rules for safe driving with children in the car begins with: "Do not allow any horseplay." But wouldn't it be cruel and in- human treatment to keep chil- dren under anesthesia during the trip? date will ask for a declaration that Mr. Benn was an illegal candidate, and that he himself should be declared elected. These are only a few of the complications likely to arise from Mr. Benn's candidature. And one of the interesting side lights is the announcement by Lord Lambton, a Tory MP, that he will appear on the hustings in the by-election in support of Mr. Benn. ' It is all a mixed-up business, but Mr. Benn is going into it with his eyes open. What he hopes to establish is that his constituents want him to con- tinue to serve them as their MP, and that it is up to parlia- ment to make this possible. MOVE AGAINST APARTHEID With South Africa due to leave the Commonwealth on May 31, the trade union move- ment is gearing itself to launch an allout campaign against apartheid in that country. Any restraint that might have been imposed because of South Africa being a Commonwealth partner has been thrown over- board. Ted Hill, who is power- ful as chairman of the Trade Union Congress, has become honorary president of the anti- apartheid movement, The chief aim of this move- ment is to see that on leaving the Commonwealth, South Africa does not retain the ad- vantages of membership, pare ticularly in the trade and eco- nomic fields. Leaders of the movement claim that if any Commonwealth benefits are per- petuated, the whole point of South African exclusion will be lost. This, says a spokesman, would be an insult to the Com- monwealth prime ministers who to compromise over jy refused South African's racial policies. The Labor campaign this time ' will be more than an attempt to boycott South African goods. It will be definitely a political campaign to prevent South Africa hanging on to privileges which go with Commonwealth membership. The final count in the county council elections in England and Wales is now complete. It shows that the Conservatives gained 261 seats and lost 65, a net gain of 196. Labor lost 247 seats and gained 39, a net loss of 208. The Liberals gained 31 and lost 10 for a net gain of 21. Independerits gained 35 and lost 44, a net loss of 9. For the Con- servatives and Liberals the re- sults were highly encouraging. NEW HEARING HELP Lacon » MAICO Tiny half ounce 6 transistor inconspicuous aid fits se- curely behind either ear, Slips on and off in seconds. -- a - ' MAICO HEARING SERVICE 850 YONGE ST., TORONTO WA 5.2317 Please send booklet on Escort, NAME. oo Svsnavensinns 3 ADDRESS cesssssessssnns $CITY cere PROV, iu OT/MV/4/29/61 ' "Cee emewm- 135 SIMCOE ST. 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