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She Osharon Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 Wednesday, June 7, 1961 Justice Minister Casts Doubt On Bill Of Rights Is the Canadian Bill of Rights an effective piece of legislation? Apparently not, in the opinion of Justice Minister Fulton. Mr. Fulton was questioned about the application of the Bill of Rights in the case of Valerie Smith, a young Calgary woman who claimed she was fired from her jobs, because she spoke favorably of Castros actions and policies following a visit to Cuba. Mr. Fulton told ques- tioners that Miss Smith could seek redress in the courts, but he also ex- pressed the hope that the provinces would pass their own bills of rights so "that "the whole field of rights and free- doms in Canada would be covered." We do no know any more about the Valerie Smith case than has been car- ried in the news dispatches. But the charge that she was fired because of her talk about Castro has not, to our knowledge, been denied, and there would seem to be plenty of reason for the justice minister to act, at least to investigate the case, because of the clear indication that there has been a violation of the freedom of speech guaranteed specifically by the Bill of Rights -- legislation fathered by Mr Fulton's leader, Prime Minister Diefen- baker. What makes the situation more puzz- ling is Mr. Fulton's hope that the pro. vinces would pass similar rights legisla- tion. The obvious implication is that Mr. Fulten does not think that the federal Bill is effective without such supplementary legislation. But the intent of the Bill is quite firmly embedded in the British North America Act, which does not go into the detail of Mr, Diefenbaker's measure but which pro- vides enough substance for clear-cut decisions by the Supreme Court of Cane ade -- decisions made by the court in several cases, among them the Alberta Press Act and the Quebec Padlock Law. If Mr. Fulton is right, then it possible for one province to have less freedom than another, despite the ornate phrases of the Bill of Rights, a measure passed by Canada's Parliament. We do not think Mr. Fulton is right. We think he is dodging. is Neglect Of Sir John We asked several people yesterday it there was any particular historical significance to the date June 6. The replies were almost equally divided be- tween "don't know," the liberation of Rome by the Allies in 1944 (wrong), and the Allied landing in Normandy on D-Day, 1944 (right). But not one person knew or remembered that June 6, 1961, marked the 70th anniversary of the death of Sir John A. MacDonald. We'd be willing to wager, too, that not one student in ten in our secondary schools and universities could give the date of the Old Chieftain's death, or even give a fair summary of his career. Who can blame the young people for their ignorance when their elders have failed to inform them? It is not their fault that Sir John has been shamefully neglected by his countrymen. Yet there has been no Canadian who better de- served the title of "Father of Modern "Canada" or one who did more to shape this young country. Of all our prime ministers, possibly only Laurier could match his stature -- and the great Laurier, too, has been neglected. We trust that the young Canadians will learn to cherish their history despite the lamentable failure of their elders. A good starting point would be the life and times of Sir John. No great amount of research is needed -- there is an excellent two-volume biography written by Donald Creighton of the University of Toronto. MacDonald's life deserves study not simply because he happened to be the first prime minister of the Dominion of Canada. That could have been just a political accident. But it was not an accident, any more than the policies that shaped the young country during the first decades of its life were the result of whimsy, expediency or crystal- gazing. MacDonald had a vision of an independent Canada, with transportation and commerce flowing from sea to sea, and he made that vision a reality. He deserves much better than the vague respect or outright ignorance of Cana- dians today. Stiffer Driver Testing Anyon now who desires to get a licence to drive a motor car must have an eye test. In fact a vision test is re- quired before a beginner's permit is issued. This is something long overdue. In too many cases motorists involved in accidents tell the courts they didn't see some particular sign. What was the reason? Were they star gazing or did they become involved in an accident be- ,cause of poor vision? ° : Prospective car drivers are getting a bargain even though the Department of Transport has increased the rate for the first examination for an operator's or chauffeurs licence from $1 to $3. The service that is being rendered is not likely to be covered by the fees now being collected. In days gone by, the test required of all prospective car drivers was simple, and no doubt allowed many to sit behind the wheel of the car fully licenced, although they had little knowl- edge of traffic regulations and signs. Tye Osharoa Simes 7. L. WILSON, Publisher and Geners! Manager €. GWYN KINSEY Editor The Oshawa Times combini The Oshawa Times (established 1871) and the itby Gozette ond Chronicle (established 1863), is published daily (Sundays ond statutory holidays excepted). 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By mail (in fiovince of ario) outside carriers delivery creas 12.00; elsewhers 15. yeor Circulation for the issue of March 30, 1961 17,363 Now the written examination on the rules of the road and sign recognition is simple for a beginner's permit, but a stiffer written test and road test come up before an operator's or chauffeur's licence is granted. Ontario for a long time has been fighting an uphill battle for traffic safety. Under the new regulations there is hope that the applicant who cannot see properly will not be able to get behind the wheel of a car until the defect has been corrected, if that is possible, and that all must have a good know- ledge of traffic regulations before being allowed to legally drive a car. The tests will make certain that permits are not issued to those who cannot read the English language. Permits have been issued to such people in the past. So it is no wonder that they appeared in court as a result of an accident when they just drove along "blindly". Ontarios highways are being made safer by the new regulations. The courts, however, must continue and step-up their drive against violators of traffic regulations -- especially the habitual offenders. Suspension of driving licences, we feel, is more effective than light fines. If the accused hasnt the money, he usually has kind-hearted relatives or friends who come to the rescue and then he is off again endangering other people's lives. Other Editor's Views THE WORLD SHARED (New York Herald-Tribune) Americans can derive proper satis- faction (now that Comdr. Shepard has returned alive and well) from the open- ness with which the flight was con- ducted. If, unhappily, the whole world shared the buildup for what was bound to be an anticlimax, at least the world could also share the very real drama of the Mercury capsule's adventures, end knew that here would be no con cealment of success or failure. mews rem: FEW INDIANS SEEK FULL CITIZENSHIP WANT TO BE A CITIZEN OF MY COUNTRY ? QUEEN'S PARK Amateurs Blamed For Leeds Loss By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- Local Conserva- tives are taking a lesson in poli- tics from the federal Leeds by- election They lost the seat, of course. And they put the blame on "amateurs" in the party ranks. The local organization, they claim, has a 'stuffy' section, which feels it is more import- ant to be polite than to win. And it put up a candidate it felt deserved the nomination but who couldn't take the seat. It was significant that this happened in a federal vote. To date at least, there has been better control over candi- dates by the provincial organiza- tion. Which is one reason why the government has never lost a by- election in 18 years in office. CHECK DESERTERS A new type of "morality squad" is taking to the road in Ontario. It is a 10-person team which will investigate desertions and track down deserting husbands. The point behind this new squad is not all better family relations or protection for de- pendents. There also is a bit of dollar- saving involved. It costs the provincial and municipal governments better than $4,000,000 a year now to maintain families that have been deserted by husbands. A special investigation was made of 48 cases. And it was found that only 16 were strictly on the up and up. Six of the women investigated werc being supported by com- mon-law husbands, three others knew where their husbands were but wouldn't join them and four others were holding down full time jobs. In the other cases there were various grounds for the wives not being entitled to the aid they had been reseiving. FIND THEM The first target of the work will be to try and get families reunited. But if this fails steps will be INSIDE YOU Doctor Answers Readers' Queries By BURTON H. FERN, MD DEAR DOCTOR: For four or five months my intestines have been stopping up for three days and flowing like water on the fourth. Could this be cancer? Mrs. S. H. Dear Mrs. H.: Any sudden change in bowel habits might mean cancer. Your intestines have to be proved innocent. This policy worries a lot of heal- thy people, but it also saves many a possible cancer victim. See your doctor at once. Only he can lighten your cancer wor- ries! "BRAIN WAVES" GONE? Dear Doctor: I remember hav- ing brain waves, but I don't seer to have them any more. What's happened? I feel quite confused! mrs. Ms: C. Dear Mrs. C.: You can stop worrying! No one feels brain waves. They're tiny electrical currents that can be measured only with a special supersensi- tive machine. Perhaps you mean brain storms. Most minds calm with age! LONG-LASTING AILMENT Dear Doctor: Two months ago I came down with infectious ver). I feel cured, but my lymph nodes (glands) are still swollen. Is this serious? Mrs. K. R. Dear Mrs. R.: Swollen glands may bulge for weeks or months after you've recovered. A swol- len spleen an enormous "lymph node" in the upper left corner of the abdomen -- can cause trouble. Ask your doctor when he ex- amines you. That completely- cured idea can go up in smoke if smoldering infectious mono- nucleosis suddenly flares up up again! SOFTENING TOE NAILS Dear Doctor: How can I soft- en my toe nails to make them easy to cut? Mrs. P. B. Dear Mrs. B.: Warm 'water works well. A 10 or 15-minute soak should do fine. A bot bath relaxes you, softens nails and steadies nerves before the trim. Clean 'under each nail with an orangewood stick. Then trim . straight across, flush with the end of the toe, to avoid ingrown trouble CAUSE OF SHINGLES 'taken to make the husband pay support. Developments in recent years in reciprocal legislation, ete. have meant that effective steps rar ho taken against deserting husbands. That is if they can be found, which isn't always too easy. OTTAWA REPORT Finest Intellect In Dief Cabinet By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--Thousands of words have flowed over his lips since that cold December day, only 4% years ago, when Brit- ish Columbia's own Davie Ful- ton challenged John Diefenbaker for the leadership of the Con- servative party. But those words, unlike water flowing downstream to the sea, have not been lost. Dammed be- hind some personal wall of de- termination, they have gently but surely accumulated into a powerhouse of country - wide goodwill and respect for their speaker. True, Edmund Davie Fulton had only travelled 40 years from his birth at Kamloops when he made that first attempt to be acclaimed national leader of a great political party. Today he is barely past his 45th birthday; he must pause for another 14 years before he can say that he is at the age at which our only living ex-prime minister, Louis St. Laurent, first entered the federal cabinet. With such a start, he did not need to worry that John Diefen- baker outdrew him by nearly seven votes to one in that lead- ership election: he has Time on his side. GIVEN HIGH RATING Davie Fulton without question possesses the finest intellect in the cabinet today. For pure men- tal training and intellectual stat- ure, he has no equal. His win- ning of a Rhodes scholarship is some measure of this, but in that he is not alone in the cabinet. In certain specialized fields, even in his chosen profession of the law, he is held by many to be excelled by certain of his colleagues -- John Diefenbaker and David Walker, for example, both of whom are substantially older--yet Mr. Fulton is today attorney-general of Canada by virtue of his appointment as minister of justice. In that portfolio, he might have tended to disappear some- what from view. It is an un- eventful although prestige ap- pointment. Yet he has managed to introduce a new public inter- est into the national image of that department. For example, he has introduced a number of humanitarian reforms into our system of treating wrong-doers sentenced to prison terms. He is, ex-officio, the minister in charge of the RCMP. In this role, he has had pleasant and unpleasant duty to per orm gain- ing the most headlines, perhaps, by his action in refusing to send RCMP reinforcements to New- foundland, when requested to do so by Liberal Premier Joey Smallwood who sought their aid in the labor dispute in that province. More congenial, no doubt, was his recent tour of isolated RCMP posts in our east- ern Arctic, when he travelled by plane accompanied by Com- missioner C. W. Harvison. SPEECHES BUILD HIM Mr. Fulton gains stature as a parliamentarian through his in- creasing skill in the field of pro- cedure, where he is the Con- servatives' main pillar. But despite these great suc- cesses, his long service in the department of justice does little justic to the long-term ambi- tions which he must, and under- standably, cherish. Perhaps his golden opportun- ity lay in competing, some years ago, for the provincial leadership in B.C., where he could have tried for the fame of lion-killer against the entrenched Social Credit premier, Hon. W. A, C. Bennett. But he chose to remain 'rowed, he does not ture, showing that he can wit, derision, learning, common- ": sense, far-sightedness and toric to uplift and persuade audience, In his own words, partly want to havoc, but he likes to let loose the occasional dog of political war, especially when iscussing his opponents, the Liberals, their platform, stripping it plank by dubious plank, and rusty red nail by rusty red nail, BY-GONE DAYS 25 YEARS AGO Col. T. R. Caldwell was elect- ed president of the Oshawa Supervised Playgrounds Asso- ciation. The Bay of Quinte Conference of the United Church held its annual sessions in St. Andrew's Uni'ed Church. Mrs. John Booth, of Oshawa, was named president of the On. tario and Durham Counties Temperance Union at the 41st annual convention held in King St. United Church. Rev. Gordon Maxwell, son of Rev. F. J. Maxwell of Oshawa, was received into the Ministry of the United Church at a spee- ial ordination service. Hon. Ian Mackenzie, Minister of National Defence, was guest speaker at the annual Officers' mess dinner of the Ontario Reg- iment. The Oshawa General Hospital graduation exercises for the 1936 School of Nursing Class was held with Norman Sommerville, KC, of Toronto, head of the Ca- nadian Red Cross, as guest speaker. Nurses from Oshawa and district were Mary Bickle, Brooklin; Ruth Richardson, Whitby; Mary Fletcher and Mazo Anderson of Oshawa. ing can be assessed. INSTRUCTIONS trip. Citizens of Oshawa HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT OSHAWA'S TRAFFIC PROBLEM? Starting Today (June 6th) the traffic department of the City of Oshawa will mail out to every householder in the City a questionnaire (A Sample which is shown below) which it is hoped every householder will fill out and mail or return to Oshawa City Hall as soon as possible. YOU CAN HELP SOLVE OSHAWA'S TRAFFIC PROBLEM by recording your various trips as noted on the questionnaire which you will 'receive in the Mail starting today. The co-operation of everyone is asked in completing these forms as soon as possible so that better improvements in traffic and Park- CITY OF NOTE! DO NOT complete the form shown here in this advertisement BUT ONLY THE ONE YOU WILL RECEIVE IN'THE MAIL OSHAWA You are requested to answer the following questions, which will assist in planning better traffic routes in the City. Please complete this form and return to the City Hall. 1. Please report all trips made by all members of this home (over 12 years) during the hours of 3:00 P.M. and 6:00 P.M. on a normal day. (Do not use Wednesday, Saturday or Sunday.) . A trip is the one way journey between two points (returning is a second trip.) . Show all walking trips longer than four blocks. . Please indicate the following for each trip by a » mark. Method of travel (car, bus, walking) Time of leaving Purpose of trip (to or from work, shopping, recreation, or other.) . Please show a street address, name of public, building, industry and department for each end of each 6. If you require advice in completing this report, please phone RA. 5-1153. City of Oshawe EXAMPLE 1. From To 10 Eim Street 45 Main Street Leaving Time 3:30 Car Driver -- [7] Passenger [] Work Car Passenger [] Walking [7] Shopping [] Recreation [7] 3 Other 0 Dear Doctor: What shingles? Do they appear on only one part of the body? Can you get it more than once? Mrs. H. S. Dear Mr. S.: The shingles virus infects nerves. Along each branch of the infected nerve, painful blisters break out and overlap each other like shingles. The virus can strike anywhere, but it rarely attacks two dis- tant areas. The immunity after one at- tack should wall you off from future shingles. PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM Inanimate things seem to be perverse, but not nearly so much so as are. animate things, particularly a creature that walks on two legs and wears clothes. "A monkey is easily bored," says an animal trainer. This is another item in support of the theory of .evolution. ""A woman expecting her fifth child in a month," -- From a news story in the St. Louis (Mo.) Globe Democrat. What with the world faced with a population explosion, it is fer- vently hoped this item doesn't mean nature is beginning to evolve ever-bearing women. Some of the criticism of par- ents for allowing their chil- dren to become flabby physical- ly isn't warranted. For exam- ple, many parents are making their children walk as much as four or even five blocks to school. Address .... TRIP REPORT Day of Week ....ootcannccsncncnee Number of Vehicles At This Address Number of Persons in Household Cars .. Trip No. Leaving Time Indicate Method of Travel and Purpose by Mark in Space Provided For Each Trip . From To Car 1 Driver -- [7] Car Passenger [] Bus 3 Passenger y Walking [7] Work Shopping Recreation Other Car 1 Driver -- [] Car Passenger [] Bus 3 Passenger [] 4 Walking [J Z Work Shopping Recreation Other Car 1 Driver -- [] Car 2 Passenger [] Bus 3 Passenger [] 4 Walking [J] Work Shopping Recreation Other Car 1 Driver -- [] Car 2 Passenger [] Bus 3 Passenger [] 4 Walking [J Work Shopping Recreation Other Car 1 Driver -- [] Car 2 Passenger [] Bus 3 Passenger [] 4 Walking [J Work Shopping Recreation Other Car 1 Driver -- [] Car 2 Passenger [] Bus 3 Passenger [] 4 Walking [J] Work Shopping Recreation Other Car 1 Driver -- [] Car Passenger [] Bus 3 Passenger [] 4 Walking [J Work Shopping Recreation Other Car 1 Driver -- [] Car Passenger [] Bus 3 Passenger [] 4 Walking [J Work Shopping Recreation OeeN|{JeON|Oe Ne N|de] N|[Je]N|Oe Ne] OOOO OOOO OOOO 00 00 Other t Please seal and mail. It is not{ necessary to sign your name. Thank you.