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The Oshawa Cimes -- Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher PRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1963 -- PAGE 6 Better Testing System Required In There is clearly something wrong with the Grade XIII examination system. The Ontario Department of Education is making some revi- sions, designed more to speed the results than to change the "univer- sity entrance" concept. The secon- dary school teachers are unhappy with both the examination pattern and the arbitrary entrance require- ments of the universities; they point out, quite rightly, that the univer- sities are denying entrance to thou- sands of able young people who could profit from higher education --the restriction being the result of the failure of universities to ex- pand to meet a predicted increased demand for higher 'education. The universities use the Grade XIII examinations as the instru- ment of restriction, by setting an arbitrary level of 60 per cent or better. This is a statement of the obvious, of course; at present the universities do not have a better instrument. But one is needed and must be found. We do not have the figures for 1962 as yet, but in the previous year 30,489 Grade XIII candidates wrote a total of 171,520 papers; 10,695 qualified for a provincial honor graduation diploma with eight Grade XIII or more subects, including English literature and composition; only 5,- 648 obtained nine subjects, as de" manded by most of the universities, but of these, the number who got the 60-plus per cent is still un- revealed. If one considered the sta- tistics alone, one would be forced to the conclusion that there was not much young academic talent in the province. But the statistics are not reliable, because the Grade XIII is not a reliable indicator of ability. Teachers suggest fewer essay- type examinations, more multiple choice tests -- a tricky proposal, since badly prepared multiple choice tests can do much harm, and the tests do not reveal a student's ability to express his knowledge or his ideas. But there are drawbacks to the essay type of test. Prepara- tion for written examinations means knowing how to put down in the right way and at the requisite speed the sort of information, or evidence of practice in certain forms of in- tellectual manipulation, for which the examiners, themselves closely controlled in order to achieve fair- ness, are looking. Thus the examiner makes students after his own image. There is a problem here for the educators, and we hope they. get at it more vigorously in 1963. Companies Selling Out Despite all that has been heard recently on the subject of foreign ownership of Canadian industry, very little has been said about this crucial question; why do so many Canadian companies sell out to foreign buyers? After several months of investi- gating what it called "'the trial sell- out of Canadian companies," the Financial Post of Toronto offered an opinion on this point. The paper, it should be added, found that over the past 12 years at least 240 Cana- dian companies have been bought by foreign money. "Our tax laws," stated the' Post, "have been contrived with marvel- lous efficiency to stimulate sell- outs, particularly of the family- controlled business, and often this means the only buyer, and usually the richest buyer, is a foreign con- cern. The foreign buyers come here with no menace in their minds. Buying a good thing at a good price is their unchallengeable pur- pose. Having a Canadian branch helps them consolidate a market position, helps' spread overhead, puts the parent company into a growth position. So for both buy- ers and sellers the Great Sell-out has made economic sense. "Certainly, Canadian development has been enormously speeded by the great capital inflow and in some or many of the sell-out cases it will be argued that the Canadian firm under its new control benefited in various ways from the resources of its new parent. But even the foreign buyers of Canadian enter- prises will permit Canadians to wonder about the other than solely economic implications of this for- eign tidal wave of Canadian com- pany takeovers." High taxes on estates, on com-: pany: earnings and on personal in- comes. all combine to stimulate sell- The Oshawa Times TY. L. WILSON, Publisher C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times (estoblished 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle (established 1863) .is published. daily (Sundays and statutory holidays excepted). Members of Canadion Daily Newspoper Publish- ers Association. 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Succession duties produce relatively little revenue for the gov- ernment -- an annual average of $80 million over the past five years --but they are like a Damoclean sword hanging above the head of many a businessman Many com- panies are sold. simply because the steeply-graduated tax rates on in- dividual and company earnings bar the saving of enough money to provide for death duties. In other cases, companies are sold because they have been built by earnings poured back into the business, and selling out is the only way to make a fair deal with the tax collector. And aside from the tax laws, the anti-combines legislation -- by out- lawing co-operation and favoring many small firms rather than fewer large ones -- likely has promoted some sell-outs. Briefly Noted One reason there's so much juvenile delinquency is that many parents are raising their children by remote control. Can anybody explain strange fascination a newly-paved street has for street digger-uppers? A highly sympathetic person said, "I feel certain the world is going to the dogs, and I feel sorry for the dogs." i As the brain is 90 per cent water, the saying, "He hasn't enough brains to rattle," should be revised to, "He hasn't enough brains to slosh." Although a man doesn't know much about a woman, he knows a great deal more than he can do anything about. A person's curiosity invariably triumphs over his experiece when he receives a notice of a postage- due letter. It may. be that many a person drives fast because he doesn't know where he's going and he is in.a hurry to satisfy his curiosity. Bible Thought The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. -- James 5:16. Prayer, when it comes from a heart in touch with God, can achieve more than the wisdom and ingenu- ity of men. Seuctentinceetedetenamet reat et. Tree Farming Requires Big Change In Thinking By ARCH MacKENZIE OTTAWA (CP)--Tree farm. ing can go a long way toward easing the continuing disloca- tion of Canadian agriculture, the Senate land use committee has been told. But there are some vital changes to be made first--in taxation, public thinking and the actual growing and proces- sing of trees. Canada is slow to realize that trees--like wheat, hay, eggs or beef--are a legitimate farm crop, says the Canadian Tree Farmers Association, formed in 1959 to spread the word. The Scandinavian countries . and Britain are billed as coun- '| KNEW THEYD GET BACK TO ME" REPORT FROM U.K. Villagers Oppose Marine Drill Hall By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent to The Oshawa Times LONDON -- "We don't want the U.S. Marines." That is the slogan which has been adopted by the residents of St. John's Wood district of Lon- don, who call themselves "the villagers", who are opposing an Admiralty plan United States to set up a Marine Corps base in their midst. These "vil- | lagers" recall the days when their section of London was a quiet backwater of life, and they fear their peace and quiet- ness may be disturbed. The plan is to allow the U.S. Marines to use a drill hall just off St. John's Wood High Street as a recreation centre and dor- mitory. The residents of the sur- rounding area want none of it. They have signed protest peti- tions objecting to the move, and have sent them to the London County Council and the Maryle- bone borough council. And they have asked their member of parliament, Sir Wavell Wake- field, to raise the issue at par- liamentary level in the House of Commons. NOT APPROPRIATE People who live near the drill hall which it is proposed to turn over to the U.S. Marines claim that the 'quiet village" of St. John's Wood is not an appro- priate place for the iocation of an American Service base. They fear they will: be constantly YOUR HEALTH Hunger Controls Children's Eating By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, M.D. Dear Dr. Molner: Are the eating patterns or mannerisms of youngsters inherited? Our three-year-old son shows active interest in everything except eating. When my wife and I dis- cussed this with other parents, some of them said emphatically that he had inherited this be- havior from relative X. Your opinion will be appreciated. --D.G.C. Parents can't do much to in- fluence a child's interest in food --and maybe that's just as well, Whatever you do, you don't stand much chance of solving the problem except to raise fur- ther rebellion and your own blood pressure. Most children eat because they are hungry. For the first two years their growth is rapid. Then as the initial spurt sub- sides, they jus' don't need as much food. Children know this instinctively, but it's hard for parents to recognize it. At about the age of six or thereabouts another spurt of growth begins. We're all fami- liar with the later pre-adoles- cent and adolescent youngsters who become bottomless pits. It's natural. So the first explanation for the child who doesn't eat is that he isn't hungry. The other com- mon reasons are family dis- cord; putting so much pressure on the child to eat that he au- tomatically turns stubborn about it; illness; or poor eating habits, which includes -between- meals snacks, especially candy and sweets. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Jan. 4, 1963... Toronto streetcar and bus operators went on strike over a wage dispute 11 years ago today--in 1952, causing 18 days of streets jammed with cars and thou- sands of hitchhikers. The TTC. reported a net finan- cial loss when the strike ended Jan, 22, of $760,000. The 4,768 operators de- manded a 15 cent rise but received a five - cent in- crease, backdated to Oct. 1. Suspension of wages during the dispute was $1,102,000. 1908 -- Ed Hanlan, who held the. world rowing championship for 10 years, died at Toronto. 1956--The ferry Bluenose made her maiden trip from Yarmouth, N.S., to Bar Harbor, Maine. SET SHIP RECORD ROTTERDAM (AP) -- The port of Rotterdam received its 25,000th ocean-going vessel of 1962 in mid-December to estab- lish a record. The totai for 1961 was 24.553. Eating habits are not inher- ited. They are copied. The re- luctant child shouldn't be coaxed, threatened or bribed. He'll eat when he is hungry enough. See that meals are balanced, and that mealtime is harmon. -- No family arguments, no warlare over "eat your Car- rots." Be sure to set a good example, simply by eating what is served, without any fussing about "I don't like this" or "I can't eat that." The child may not eat all that is set before him. He may just pick at his dinner if he isn't hungry. But at least he will au- tomatically fall into proper eat- ing habits, because that is what he will see. As to the amount, he'll eat more when a growing spurt is in progress. So get ready for the day when the grocery bill will soar, and you'll have to add wholesome snacks besides when the youngs- ter reaches the stage of "al- Ways hungry." Note to Mrs. J.A.: There are about as many "favorite reme- dies to overcome thinning hair as for getting rid of warts, and the medical adage still holds true: The more remedies being urged, the less liklihood that any will work. Once a really good remedy comes along, the myriads of nostrums will quickly vanish. Aside from treating skin infections (if pres- ent) and maintaining good gen- eral health, I don't know of any way to combat thinning hair. troubled by noise from the cen- tre when dances and other func- tions are held. The hall was formerly occu- ee by the County of London eomanry, a Territorial regi- ment, but none of the soldiers had living quarters there. A tenant at Culworth House, a block of apartments next door to the drill hall, said: "We had a certain amount of trouble when the army was there, but we had the satisfac- tion of knowing that they vere there on only one or two occa- sions a week. If the Marines move in, we can expect to hear juke boxes blaring on most nights of the week, Our bed- room windows are only a few feet away from the hall. It would be' horrible." AREA DETERIORATING Bernard Marsden, of St. John's Wood Terrace, who is taking an active part in organ- iing the opposition to the scheme to open up the drill hall to the U.S. Marines, said: "When I moved here seven years ago, St. John's Wood was almost a secluded village. But I am afraid it is gradually de- teriorating. This latest develop- ment is the last straw. We shall have cars coming and going at all hours of the day and night." The objectors have already won the sympathy of Maryle- bone Council's planning commit- tee. It declares that the pro- posal would cause noise and in- creaséd activity in the area, and would be detrimental to the amenities of surrounding resi- dential properties. The commit- tee is also opposed to permis- sion being granted for 50 Mar- ines to live at the hall. Now over to the United States Navy. A spokesman for it said: "The matter is still at the discussion stage. We would like to have the hall for our Marines who perform guard duties in London, but nothing has been decided." If "the villagers" have their way, nothing ever will be. BY-GONE DAYS 35 YEARS AGO -- All committees of the city council reported surpluses in their operations for 1927. Over $2500 was raised for the 1927 Christmas Cheer Fund in Oshawa. Ald. Ernie Marks Sr., an- nounced that he had purchased the New Martin Theatre and that it would be enlarged and renovated. H. S. Smith, A. F. Annis and A. E, Garbutt were elected to the Board of Education for 1928 by acclamation. During 1927, domestic build- ing in the city reached a total Of $2,313,450. The city had a_ successful sports year capturing one cham- pionship during the year. The City Football Club of the Toron- to and District Soccer League rt the trophy for the first ime. The Oshawa Masonic Order purchased the J. E. Hinkson property at the corner of Cen- tre and Metcalfe streets as a site for a new Masonic Temple. Wesley R. Elliott of Brantford Fire Department was appoint- ed Chief of the Oshawa Fire Department to take over his du- ties on January 3, 1928. The office staff of General Motors of Canada moved into the new head office building on William street east. Customs returns for Oshawa during December 1927 was $522,- 677, showing an increase of oo over the same month of The Ukrainian Presbyterian Church announced plans for the construction: of a new church building. New Chevrolet car models for 1928, showing radical changes in design, were introduced at a sales staff convention here. Plans were announced for the building of a new three-storey hotel on Bond street, north of the Regent Theatre. George T. Morris, A. R. Al- loway and George C. Alchin were elected aldermen by acclama- tion for the Northwest Ward. tries where much can be learned. This whole concept of tree farming fits neatly into federal government thinking in the last few years, evident in the Agri- cultural Rehabilitation and De- - velopment Act. Alternate use of low-productivity land for better results--say trees or recreation rather than food production--is one phase. But this point seems to stick in the public mind: How does a tree farmer make money when it takes 60 years from to the harvest of a sawlog? CAN FIGHT EROSION "Wheat and wood are Can- ada's two most important crops," says the tree farmers' brief. It holds that the private tree lots can provide lower-cost pulp and lumber than the vast areas of government land that now supply the imajority. Assess Role In Politics Of Television Debates By GERRY McNEIL QUEBEC (CP)--Political ex- perts studying the effects of Canada's first televised debate between two political leaders feel such debates can play an important role in future election campaigns. For one thing, says political scientist Leon Dion, two or three such debates spaced throughout a campaign would give the voting public a good picture of both the party lead- ers and their platforms. Equally important, the Laval University professor suggests, is that it would relieve leaders of the need to campaign in every hamlet. TV could also shorten the campaigns. Prof. Dion feels the energy a political leader now burns in campaigning through a province the size of Quebec--or across the whole country in federal elections--could be better saved for drawing up legislation and administering affairs of state. The TV debates have recog- nized drawing power. Even night watchmen in Quebec rented television sets to see Premier Jean Lesage and Union Nationale leader Daniel Johnson debate on the CBC's French- language network Nov. 11. SAYS SEAT SAVED Impact of the three television debates between John F. Ken- nedy and Richard Nixon in the 1960 U.S. presidential election is well known. In Quebec, several cabinet ministers . attribute their re- election to Premier Lesage's TV showing. Bona Arsenault, game and fisheries minister, is one. Mr. Arsenault, a skilled cam- paigner, says rumor and in- ternal troubles in his. riding organization probably would have resulted in his defeat if the election had been held earlier than Nov. 14. From the date--Sept. 19-- when the election was an- nounced, he fought a door-to- door campaign in Matapedia constituency, but believes the TV debate swung enough votes to give him a majority of 257. He had a majority of 1,730 votes in the 1960 elections, Says Professor Dion: "I feel that Mr. Lesage was better on TV than either Ken- nedy or Nixon." He says political parties now waste much of their television time with what amount to five- minute commercials. "They should not give the im- pression they are selling soap," the political scientist says. More TV time should be spent on debates, or lengthier talks by party leaders, than on blurbs by backbenchers. Because of their brevity, the five-minute spots have a hard-sell atmos- phere that makes the politician sound like a hair-rinse sales- man, he declared. EASY TO GO WRONG However, there is another side to the debates that still causes political organizers here to shudder when they recall the Nov. 11 affair. "Too much depends on a triv- ial. detail, a moment of bad luck," says one organizer, "That's why I think these de- bates are unfair." His. point is that thousands of votes could be lost by a mo- mentary lapse on the part of one of the principals. The de- bate format--much the same in the Kennedy . Nixon, Lesage- Johnson debates -- seems to -- character and person- ality. tables, by destruction of tree 7 ' low of rural populations to the cities can be checked, rural dwellers a chance to keep their hand in f. since labor requirements in tree com. piled by United Na agen. cies are misleading, Canada will be hard pressed in 20 years to meet demand in world markets for wood and paper products and raw materials. SAYS TAX UNFAIR But first, a lot of have to be made, says the tree. farmers' brief. : "Private forestry requires more long-range confidenee in government co-operation and © the economic future than any other form of private enter- prise." Policies that exist today must take account of the long. term nature of tree . j Hence, says the association, Canadian tax structures bear unfairly on the tree farmer-- something like the fact that boxing champions must pay in be fell swoop for their earn- igs. ¥ When a tree is harvested at maturity, it represents years of property tax on which income tax, inheritance tax and other forms then are added. The result is that farmers are encouraged to cash in on whole. sale cuts rather than nursing stands to maturity by the pro- ceeds from thinnings or pulp, which can be spaced out. The association has urged an inquiry by a commission. OTTAWA REPORT Canada's Big Hope In Atlantic Union By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA Canada has rounded the corner of the new year with all the signposts point- ing towards continuing prosper- ity. Johnny Canuck and his wife are enjoying more of the good things of life than ever before, while an unprecedentedly large labor force of their fellow-Cana- dians is working at jobs at peak wages. As a special bonus we may shortly hear the good news of the two largest individual trade = ever negotiated by Can- ada, But the longterm dangers of our foreign trade pattern re- main uncorrected. And specific- ally we still have Britain's in- tended entry into the European Common Market hanging over our head like a sword of Da- mocles, threatening to disrupt our traditional markets in Brit- ain by the ending of the Com- monwealth. Tariff Preferences. The superficial critics have grossly underrated the very pos- itive role which Canada has played in this Common Market situation. Those critics reiterate that Canada has been petty, carping, selfish and unconstruc- tive in opposing Britain's pro- posal to join the Common Mar- ket. They cite as examples the adverse stand taken by Trade Minister Hees and Finance Min- ister Fleming at the Common- wealth conference at Ghana in 1961, and the alternative sugges- tion of free world free 'rade advanced by Prime Minister Diefenbaker at the Common- wealth conference in London last September. QUEEN'S PARK More Excitement In Election Year By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--The present year will be a more exciting one po- litically than 1962. First of all, of course, it is an election year. It has to be as- sumed that Premier Robarts will go to the country sometine in 1963. And this means that there will be the tension and excitement of the time of the "big game'"' un- til it is over. But though it will dominate, there are other matters of pub- lic interest and some promised good fights on the calendar. TWO CONVENTIONS Early winter gets off to a good start with conventions scheduled for both the Progressive Con- servatives and the Liberals. When the House resumes--ex- pected to be late January--it should not be the monotonous affair it was at the fall sittings. And both at it, and in the months following, whenever the election comes, there are im- portant and controversial mat- ters to engage attention. MANY ISSUES There is, first of all, medicare. When the government presents its promised program there will be a certain battle over it. There is the Roach report on crime. There is most of the major legislation still to come: Portable. pensions legislation has been promised, but has yet to be. presented. The same applied to the bill to establish the promised $10,- 000,000 park-land purchase pro- gram. There may be minimum wage legislation. Premier Robarts has said he has a solution he thinks is satis- factory on the separate school question. What is it? What does the government in- tend to do on housing? Will it bring in a loan fund? What can Agricluture do about the problem of the dairy indus- Will labor bri-g in any new approach to the problems in in- dustrial relations? Will municipal affairs take the major step of revising the As- sessment Act? Does the government have some special election bait up its sleeve? ; There are many more such is- sues and questions to ensure that 1962 shou'd be both an in- teresting and important year. But those superficial critics would do well to study the pic- ture a little more deeply, or else to cast aside their opportunism. For reasoned second thought is now swinging fast round to the Canadian position. Britain's Prime Minister Har- old Macmillan is fighting for his political life. Bedevilled by by- election defeats, imperilled by opinion polls, and netteld at Nassau, his repute at home and abroad has sunk to the murkiest © depths. Worse, all three living British ex-prime ministers have _ issued the gravest warnings and adopted the strongest opposition to Macmillan's target of taking Britain into the European polit- ~ ical union. Now an even st r opinion- moulding' voice has been added | to those of Canada, Eden and Attlee and Churchill, Lord Boothby, the leading TV zom- mentator on current affairs in Britain and one of the founders of the 'European Union" move- ment, has now publicly con- demned Macmillan's policy, : warning of the dangers to Brit ain of joining the European po litical union, and drawing atten: tion to Britain's destiny to be come "'the linch-pin of an Atlan- tic. Union." These voices criticising Mac- millan are not "little England- ers" or pretty nineteenth-cen- tury nationalists; they are peo- ple who have the broader vision to sense the greater prosperity and authority to be found in a more glorious broader suprana- tional union. a, VISION SHARED e Hees and Fi in Ghana and Dictenbaker int Lon- don, these voices are urging a broader union which would in- clude Canada, U.S., and other Western or free nations, "TI would far rather that Brit- ain formed part of an Atlantie than a European community," said ex-prime minister Attlee. "Would any of us feel any anxieties if we were moving to- wards a federation across the Atlantic, including Canada and the U.S.? Not one of us!" de- clared ex-prime minister Zden. "T venture to suggest that we should now break off the nego- tiations for entry into the Com- mon Market, and await... an Atlantic Union, strong enough to negotiate an agreement with the Soviet Union that might pre- vent the exterminaion of man- kind," said Lord Boothby. The past posture of the Con- servative government here, and these comments directly involv- ing Canada but spoken by prom- inent Britons, all suggest that the most important issue in our federal affairs today is this urge for an Atlantic Union, needing only the spark-plug to initiate action. Canada could constitute itself that spark-plug. Action would solve our longterm trade and sovereignty problems. How odd that this topic has never is been mentioned by any MP our "futile twenty-fifth' Par- liament! » alti di lated Gutta ea The dependable VAN source of cash Gia 4 © 4 © g (LOANS UP TO $3,000.00 OR MORE) z NIAGARA FINANCE COMPANY LIMITED ¢ O® ° 00000000 NF 63-9 $00000000000000000008