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The Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1962 -- PAGE 6 Province To Promote Tougher Export Drive With characteristic vigor, Ont- ario Economics Minister Macaulay this week took a swipe at "junketing" business men and outlined a plan to promote Ontario exports and reduce the province's dependnce on imports. He said the Ontario government will assist a sales mission to England and Europe in the fall -- "it will consist of sales managers and order takers from industries here that we think can carry out a successful mission." That is the approach that will, mean more business -- and more jobs -- for Ontario and Canada. Whin- ing about trade shifts and competit- ion gets us no where. As J. N. Hy- land, sales manager of British Columbia Packers and chairman of the foreign trade bureau of the Van- couver Board of Trade recently told the Canadian Association of Purchas- ing Agents, "Perhaps the time has come when we should demonstrate our maturity and a willingness to meet the competitive reality of the market place." Except that there is no "per- haps" about it. European trade developments seem to have terrified some of our politicians. But those trade develop- ments are realities and we must learn to live with them. Fortunately, many of our best businessmen are accept- ing the challenge. Indeed, Eric Kier- ans, president of the Montreal and Canadian Stock Exchanges told the powerful Federation of British Indus- tries the other day that the common market will, within five to eight years, be happy to have Canada as an as- sociate member, because it will need what Canada can provide, and because the free world must move steadily towards greater and freer multi-lat- eral trading. Refrigerator Bylaw ) Oshawa city_council did well to. _a-bylaw requiring that unused refrigerators be made safe by the re- moval of doors or locking devices. An estimated 100,000 refriger- ators are discarded each year in Can- ada. Many are left lying around sum- mer camps, yards, porches, basements, garages and dumps without any safety precautions being taken. Child- ren find them, play in them, and die. The Oshawa bylaw may be dif- ficult to enforce. The purpose of it is prevention rather than punishment -- to save the lives of children rather than punish the parents after the lives have been lost. The existence of the bylaw, and the publicity given it, may well do much to achieve that purpose. In addition, while the police can scarcely make house -to- house checks, many service workers make regular visits to homes to read meters and. make or check various installa- tions, and they could warn house- holders when they notice unused and dangerous refrigerators. Would the bylaw be invoked a- gainst the parents or guardians of a victim? We don't know, but we think it should be. What might seem to be cruel in one case could prove merciful in fact by helping to prevent further deaths, Violence In Disputes There have been more incidents of violence and vandalism in both the dispute between trucking firms and the Teamster's union and the dispute between the Seafarers' union on the one hand and the Canadian Maritime Union and the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen on the other. Such: violence is never justified, and tough police and government action must be taken to stop it. We have heard and read many charges, counter-charges and protest- ations of innocence about the troub- les on the highways and in the lake ports. But it is significant that in- Dollar's Ups The Canadian dollar, which pro- vided the liveliest issue in the recent election campaign, has had its share of ups and downs since it was estab- lished as the official currenency of the united provinces of Canada on January 1, 1858. Its value at that time was fixed at $4.866 of the Brit- ish pound. For the first 11 years of Con- federation, the U.S. dollar was at a discount in terms of Canadian funds -- in 1868 the discount amounted to . 31 per cent. The Canadian dollar weakened after the First World War, dropping to 82 cents in New York in 1921. It fluctuated, generally at a discount of five to 10 cents until the Second She Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and hronicle (established 1863) is published daily {Sundays and statutory holidays excepted), Members of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies 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 published therein. reserved. Offices: Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Tounton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Orono, Leskard, Brougham , Burketon, Claremont, Columbus, Greenwood, Kinsale, Raglan, Blackstock, Manchester. Pontypool and Newcastle, not over 45c¢ per week. By mail (in Province of Ontario) outside corriers delivery areas 12.00 per year Other Provinces ond Coffmonwealth Countries 15.00 U.S.A, Foreign 24.00, All rights of special despatches cre also stances of violence seem to occur regularly when the Teamsters and Seafarers are involved in disputes with employers or other unions. If these unions do, in fact, harbor a hard core of goons and hoodlums, they should act to purge their ranks; vio- lence only serves to blacken the repu- tation of both the union itself and organized labor in general. Thoughtful union leaders have worked hard to establish for organ- ized labor a reputation for respon- sibility. It is a shame to have. their work tarnished by an irresponsible minority. And Downs World War, when the government de- cided to control foreign exchange and fixed buying and selling rates of $1.10°to $1.11 for U.S. dollars. In July, 1946, the dollar was restored to par and remained there until de- valued to' the $1.10 rate again in September, 1949, following Britnin's 30 per cent devaluation of: the pound. A year later, however, the "official rate" was withdrawn and the dollar was free to find its own level. Heavy U.S. investment in Canada and the boom of the Frantic Fifties pushed it up, and it stayed up until last summer, Other Editors' Views NOT QUALIFIED (Cleveland Plain Dealer) In England, a thief broke into a bank where he not only couldn't find the money but also couldn't find his way out again, finally calling the police to come and get him. As the vocational advisers say, a man really has to try some jobs before he knows whether or not he is qualified. Bible Thought for they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to:es- tablish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteeusness of God. -- Romans 10:3, The tragedy of self-righteousness is contentment without a realization af our great need. KEEPING UP WITH THE KENNEDYS UNITED KINGDOM OPINION Britain Cracking Down On Traffic Offenders By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- Britain's new Road Traffic Act, when it comes into force, will make things tougher than ever for motorists who are found guilty of repeat- ing certain offences. Ernest Marples, minister of transport, and John Hay, parliamentary secretary to the ministry, de- fending the new bill during its passage through the House of Commons, laid special stress on its provisions which make it mandatory for the courts to withdraw an offender's licence for a minimum of one year in certain serious cases, unless these are "special circum- stances", If there are three con- victions within three years for a range of offences, there must be disqualification for six months. Under this provision, three convictions for speeding could lead to suspension of a driver's licence. So also, could three con- victions for leaving a vehicle in a dangerous position, for going the wrong way on one-way streets or for not observing the regulations on street play- grounds. NOT SEVERE ENOUGH John Hay, reinforcing Mr. Marples' arguments, said in parliament that the courts have failed ni recent yaers to exer- cise their powers to disqualify drivers to the extent the minis- try had hoped they would. He quoted figures which he said were remarkable relating to dis- quailfications. Of 64,546 convictions for care- less driving, only 4,234, or six and a half per cent, were dis- qualified. Only 37 per cent of those convicted of driving while uninsured were disqualified. For dangerous driving, 524% per cent were disqualified. Mr. Marples said the with- drawal of driving licences was the most powerful sanction he could impose on offenders. "And I propose to use it," he added. "Fines and imprison- ment are out of date. It is my job to do my level best, if I possibly can, to see there is justice given to those who are killed and there are large num- bers of them." Opposition members put for- ward amendments seeking to leave more discretion to the courts. But Mr. Marples. was adamant in rejecting these, and they were withdrawn. SCHOOL PROBLEMS The extent of Britain's future educational problems is reflect- ed in the first part of a statistic- TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS June 23, 1962... Jakob Malik, chief Soviet delegate at the United Na- tions, proposed negotiations for a cease-fire in the Kor- ean War 11 years ago today --in 1951. @he suggestion was greeted with skepticism by the West but negotia- tions were undertaken and the fighting was halted on July 27, 1953. 1959 -- The Queen pre- sented colors to the Royal 22nd Regiment at Quebec City. 1868 Christopher La- tham Sholes patented the first practical typewriter. al survey issued by the ministry of education. By the year 1980, the survey estimates, the num- ber of pupils in English and Welsh schools will increase by 1,667,000. Last year the enrol- ment of pupils was 6,962,000. If the present trends continue, by 1980 it will be 8,629,000. This represents a rise of 24 per cent over the 1961 figure. Between 1951 and 1961, however, the increase was 21 per cent. One of the main reasons for the increase is the fact that chil- dren are staying on at school longer than in previous years. For instance, in grammar schools alone the percentage staying on after 16 were 69 per cent in 1961 compared with 56 per cent five years previously. This forecast poses two prob- lems which are causing con- cern to educational authorities. First is that of providing suf- ficient new school accommoda- tion to take care of the new pupils, and secondly is the prob- lem of having enough teachers to staff the classrooms when they are provided. And with con- ditions in the teaching profes- sion the subject of considerable controversy at the present time, there are grave possibilities of a shortage of teachers growing year by year. NOT DEBT COLLECTORS Finance companies have. been given a decided shock by a County Court judge at Swin- down, in Wiltshire. When two cases were brought before Judge Thomas Elder-Jones, in whch finance companies were asked to collect debts owing for the instalment purchase of a car in on ecase and a caravan in an- other, he gave a pointed warn- ing of his attitude when he said: "These infernal finance com- panies seem to use me and every county court judge in the country as their hand-maidens to collect their debts from some Tom, Dick or Harry who is not worth tuppence."" The judgments given bore out these words. In one case, Judge Elder- Jones ordered a car buyer to wipe off his debt of just over $1,060 at the rate of 30 cents a month. This means that it will take 297 years to wipe off the total debt. In the other case, an unem- ployed man who owed over $450 on a caravan was told he could pay it off at 36 cents a month, which would take 167 years. These judgments have caused ; finance companies to do some serious thinking. An official of one firm which finances thou- sands. of instalment purchases on cars each year, said: "These judgments will have to be considered by all finance houses, It is a very serious ma ter from our point of view." READER'S VIEWS Minority Rule Views Debated Dear Sir: I disagree with your view that the general election produced an 'intolerable situation": There is an intolerable situation when one party elects so many mem- bers that it can steamroller the opposition. When that happens, the party in power becomes ar- rogant, the cabinet ministers think they are beyond question- ing, and the nation's business suffers. That is what happened in the last Parliament, when the Tories had more than 200 seats. Now Prime Minister Diefen- baker must treat Parliament with full respect. He must pre- pare legislation with the great- est of care and give full atten- tion to other viewpoints and criticisms. This, in my opinion, is a good situation, not an in- tolerable one. It comes much closer to being true democracy. A. G. JACKSON Whitby WEAK GOVERNMENT Dear Sir: As you rightly state, the elec- tics has made an intolerable situation. A. minority govern- ment must proceed so cautious- ly that it cannot provide the strong leadership that we need. Mr. Diefenbaker has referrea to the success of Mackenzie King as head of a minority gov- ernment in the 1920s. The situ- ation then was far different from what it is today. The Pro- gressives were a third party, but they were. really radical Lib- erals, and acted like a ginger group. The situation now is tha? there are four parties, one on the right, one on the left, one just right of centre and one just left of centre. Even Mackenzie King would have had trouble Making sense of such a mix- ure. Whatever the Social Credit ap- proves, the Liberals and New Democrats will attack. What- ever the Liberals approve, the Social Credit and many Con- servatives will-attack. Whatever the New Democrats approve, most Conservatives, some Lib- erals and all the Social Credit will attack. In between are the Conservatives. Mr. Diefenbaker will be in an impossible position, unless the parties follow an _ unwritten agreement to keep Parliament going for a while, until . the parties are in shape for another election. What that means is that Mr. Diefenbaker will be heading a caretaker govern- ment. CONCERNED Bowmanville DEVALUATION Dear Sir: Now that the election is over I suppose it is safe for one to comment without being branded a prophet of "Gloom and Doom"'. A few days before election day I had occasion to go to the bank to get an American ten dollar bill, For thjs bill I paid the bank $10.96 in Canadian money. What a change in a few years! I do not think the aver- age Canadian realizes the finan- cial mess this country is in. Let him go to his bank and buy some American money. It will tell him plenty. Furthermore no magic touch by any party at Ottawa is going to get the economy rolling again overnight. It wifl be a long hard struggle for whoever takes over. Perhaps we would have been better off had we listened to Mr. Coyne's advice at. the time of his' squabble with the Government. R. H. LOCKWOOD Oshawa WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING Pre-Sentence Reports Considered Mandatory ! GUELPH MERCURY: As we read of court trials across On- tario, we see that more and more magistrates and judges are requesting pre-sentence re- ports before passing judgment on those they have found guilty. We feel that, this is impor- tant. Many things 'could have happened to the accused, which in the end, caused him or her to commit a crime for which they have been convicted. There are others who are con- firmed criminals, and have served much of their life inside prison walls. So something of the accused's + -kground should be known to 1.2 magistrate or judge, be- fore he can hand out a_ sen- tence which will benefit the accused and society. At a two-week seminar held at Queen's University, about 30 persons from across Canada, bought together by the Law Faculty of the University, dis- cussed the question of pre- sentence reports and recom- mended that this now become part of our administration of law. Prof. Llewyllen Edwards, Dalhousie University law pro- fessor, told the gathering that there should be legislative ac- tion requiring pre-sentence re- ports, and that careful regard should be given to these re- ports before a man is sen- tenced. 2 It should all lead to the bet- ter administration of justice in this province if the recommen- dation of this seminar, the first of its kind ever held in.Can- ada, is adopted soon by the Ontario Legislature. FINANCIAL POST: If the elected officials in a large num- ber of Canadian municipalities could have their way, they would be paid very much more for the public services which they perform. Agitation for higher salaries is growing, it seems, and the biggest agitators, of course, are the elected officials them- selves, But to win their case, the mayors and councillors will have to dispel the widespread suspicion that, with very few exceptions, the elected people ph: are grossly over-paid for what they do. They are, of course, some people of high purpose and ac- complishment who take _muni- cipal office at substantial loss to their private affairs. But for the great majority who are elected to office, there seem to be quite specific bene- fits in municipal office holding -- even if no more than adver- tising for one's law practice or plumbing firm. What is far more important than more salary for the elect- ed people, is getting really good salaries for the senior admin. istrative officials, who, in most cases, are people chiefly to be thanked for what good work does get done by municipal governments. In this permanent adminis- tration are the men and women who so often manage to keep the outdated and cumbersome machinery of municipal govern- ment going--and who, to a very important de gree, determine whether or not the citizen gets good value for his, tax dollar. Civic jobs must be made attractive to administrators of real competence, efficiency and integrity. Salary increases for elected municipal officials should be vigorously resisted. ST. THOMAS TIMES-JOUR- NAL: A St. Thomas lady and her husband were vacationing in Muskoka a year or two ago and happened to come upon a church. It was a Sunday and she thought she would: like to attend the service. There could be no question about her husband going in, but she was not wearing a hat and wonder- ed if she might be admitted: They presented themselves at the door, marched past the offi- BY-GONE DAYS 40 YEARS AGO George W. McLaughlin made a gift-of the Union Cemetery to the town of Oshawa, also a a fund of $500 towards its up- keep. H. P. Bull was appointed gen- eral manager of the Williams Piano Company. St. George's Anglican Church launched a campaign to raise $90,000 for the new church. Rev. A. M. Irwin, pastor of King Street Church, was elected a delegate from the Bay of Quinte Conference to the Gen- eral Conference of the Methodist Church. Oshawa tady golfers: won a match from Orillia at the Osh- awa Golf Club by a score of 7 to 4 Dr. Grant L. Bird, who grad- uated from the Faculty of Med- icine, University of. Toronto, established a practice at Vhitby. At the annual exercises of sishop Bethune College, Jean Murray was awarded the Form V_ scholarship and Margaret Lumbers the Form IV scholar- ship. Other special prizes in- cluded Elizabeth Hedley, Flor- pets Hewitt and Neda Chaly- is The Ontario County Regiment- al Band presented its weekly band concert, under the direc- tion of Bandmaster Gale, at Alexandra Park. Eleven service badges were presented by Mrs. Adjutant A. J: Graves to members of the Life Saving Guards of the Sal- vation Army, during a demon- stration, under the leadership of Guard Leader, Miss E. Martin. George Hyland, born in Osh- awa in 1833, died at the age of 89, Rt. Wor. Bro. P. H. Punshon presided at the installation of the following officers of Lebanon Lodge, AF and AM, 139: Wor. Master, Bro. F. Bennett; Senior Warden, H B James; Junior Warden, Frank Proctor; Chaplain, Wor. Bro. S. J. Babe and secretary, Wor. Bro. H. A. Saunders. Oshawa Rotary Club an- nounced it would carry on a camp for local boys on the lake- shore, six miles east of the town with A. W. Harrold, boys' work secretary of the YMCA, in charge. . General Williams, provincial police commissioner, visited Oshawa while on a tour of the province. cer welcoming people in. They were shown to seats, and after the service everybody was as affable as could be. Nobody said to the lady: Bolg must 80, back and get a at."" In many churches, a hatless woman would have been chal- lenged. It is tradition that a woman wear a hat, or at least cover her head in church. The Presbyterian Record notes that the season of informal wear is begun, and in the vacation dis- trict many churches will have a sign "Come As You Are, But Come." The pastors do not want peo- ple to stay away because the womenfolk have not attired themselves in their Sunday best from head to foot. In fact they do not have any Sunday best with them. Insistence on a woman wearing a hat is a cus- tom that is dying out among vacationers at any rate. NEW YORK TIMES: Behold the bumblebee, that big, im- probable black and gold in- sect that shouldn't be able to fly but does, that could be a model of industry but isn't, and that is neither meek nor mild though Englishmen call it the humblebee. It is a hummer and bumbler, noisy as a locust, colorful as a butterfly. an? as much a part of the sunny June day as a. pasture rose or a wild strawberry. The bumblebee is an expo- nent of the easy life and an example of moderation in most matters. Like most bees, it has social instincts, but not to ex- cess; its communities are mere villages, so to speak. Not lik- ing to waste energy, 'it often ness in field mouse dens in or near clover fields. Bumblebees tolerate man, up to a point, but they refuse to be domesticated. They eat when hungry, rest when tired, and are neither thieves nor kill- ers. They even sleep at night-- which is more than can be said for some insects -- often sweetly couched in an aster blossom or a zinnia. They aren't as improvident as grass- hoppers, but they don't work themselves to death in six weeks, either, as honeybees do. Man could do worse than pone der the bumblebees, especially on a sunny June afternoon. HAMILTON SPECTATOR: A gasoline station owner not far from here got into quite an argument with an American tourist over the weekend and finally refused point-blank to allow him any exchange on his U.S. money. Quite naturally, the tourist drove away in a huff, while the gasoline station r =>" no doubt rubbed his hands in Scrooge-like glee. It seems to us that one of the reasons for pegging the Cana- dian dollar's value at 92% cents was to bring more American tourists to this country during the summer months. After ali, any American worthy of a profit-conscious reputation is go- ing to come running like a bird dog to a country which sevs that his dollar is worth 1074 cents in purchasing power. And it follows, of course, that dis- enchantment will set in if an equally profit-conscious Cana- dian informs him that he doesn't value the U.S. dollar at more than 100 cents. Such an attitude on the part of a Canadian can only be re- ferred to as cheating. It is also a distinctly umneighborly atti- tude. each day. serving you. PLEASE! ... Pay Him Promptly! ..» He's on YOUR PAYROLL Newspaper's YOUR CARRIER is an enterprising young man in business to serve you and the many other customers -- on his newspaper route, quickly and dependably HE BUYS his papers from us at the wholesale rate and sells them to you at retail. The difference in price pays him for AND BECAUSE he works for you in this way, he looks to you for payment each collection day. Thus, he is on your "payroll", not ours, and appreciates being paid promptly -- so that he can pay his own paper bill and enjoy the full profit he has earned! She Oshawa Cines