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Ohe Ostawe Times. Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L, Wilson, Publisher FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1963 ---- PAGE 6 Police Often Victims Of Poor Legislation Chairman C. O. Bick of the Metro Toronto police commission, posed an uncomfortable question for legis- lators when he asked, "If the mere act of betting is a crime in one place, why should it not be a crime in the other?" The question followed his obser- vation that it is "absurd that a citi- zen can bet legally at a race track but be charged as a found-in for doing the same thing in a private residence." And the remark was part of a larger indictment by Mr. Bick 'of unenforceable laws that can bring the general body of law into disrepute. The former magistrate pointed out that there could be no respect for a law which makes bingo illegal in a public hall but legal when run by commercial operators at the Canadian Exhibition. There will be general agreement with his statement that "many laws which now exist should be abolished, for they are archaic and an ana- chronism in our present society." There will be less agreement with his solution to the betting paradox: To permit the operator of off-track betting parlors under government supervision, The trouble with our betting and liquor laws is that they attempt to force a moral code on some people but not on others, or they attempt to change an evil into a virtue whether it's taxable. The result is that they are either unforceable or wildly discriminatory. In either case they are bad laws, because they are either scorned or disregarded, There is a very strong argument to be made in support of the belief that bad laws weaken the whole structure of law enforcement. When police attempt to enforce laws that are unjust or derided, they become the targets of abuse; they, and not the legislators, become the symbols of a mutton-headed system, when in fact they are just as much vic- tims as the people they arrest, A Case Of Collusion We have been asked by the Unem- ployment Insurance Commission to publicize a "case history of collu- sion", and we are happy to do so. A supermarket found evidence of . thievery by three employees, who were fired. The company took no further action, because of its public relations policy. The three clerks lodged claims for unemployment in- surance benefits, stating they had lost their jobs because of "breach of company regulations." The reason given for the loss of their jobs was so vague that the insurance officer was suspicious, and questioning confirmed the sus- picion. The employer was asked to give his version of the incident and duly returned the separation form, merely noting that the three had been released because of "breach of company regulations" -- a state- ment that could mean anything. Letters were exchanged, but it took a personal call by an enforcement officer to extract from the employer the fact that the three had been accused of theft. He refused, how- ever, to confirm this in writing, and the insurance officer had finally to accept the company's evasion, and the three got their benefits. The Commission notes points: There is a "not-uncommon belief that swindling the government is not in the same scale of wrong- doing as other types of dishonesty. But, as far as unemployment insur- ance is concerned, the fallacy here is that it isn't government money. By far greatest source is individual contributions of workers and em- ployers... "A second point is a purely ethical one. In the foregoing case history, the employer was in collu- sion with his ex-workers in only an incidental way . . . But surely, it must be everyone's responsibility to make wrong-doing as profitless as possible. "Finally, there is the matter of permitting a sound social insurance plan to be used in ways that will ultimately bring it into public con- tempt." these Battle Against Killer We tend to take the rewards of research for granted. Perhaps we can afford to be complacent about such benefits as fast transporta- tion, convenient shopping and the other conveniences and comforts produced by industrial and.commer- ' cial research. But we cannot afford to be complacent about medical research aimed at control of the heart diseases which are this na- tion's number one killer. Health authorities agree that more progress in controlling the heart and blood vessel diseases has been made in the past 30 years than in the preceding centuries. These are some of the advances that Heart Foundation research, aided by mil- lions of Heart Fund dollars, helped to make: ' Rheumatic fever, forerunner of rheumatic heart disease, can now be prevented; most victims of heart attacks survive, and of those who do, 'most are able to go back to She Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher Cc. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times soraning The Oshawo Tires (established 1871) and the itby Gazette ono Chronicle Ph poe conga ees is vormeey daily Sundays statutory idays excepted). ' Members of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish- ers Association. The lian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies The C Press is tusivety oS as pases coded te hes te Te rc or Seemed jated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein, All rights of special des- patches are also reserved. ices:" Thomson Build 425 University nomen Toronto, Ontario; Not Cathcort Street, Montreal, P.Q. : SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered corriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajox, Pickering, Be Bons ile, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Hampton, Frenchman's , Por 1 and Newcastle, not over 45c per week By mail (in Province of Ontario) corriers delivery areas 12.00 per year + Qieer $.00, USA. end foreign 24,00. work; strokes are no longer hope- less; high blood pressure can be lowered through new drugs and surgery; the development of the heart-lung machine makes possible life-saving surgery inside the heart to correct in-born defects; surgeons can repair damaged heart valves and replace damaged arteries; diagnostic tools have been greatly improved. Despite such advances, however, we have a long way to go before the battle against heart disease is won. We have not yet discovered, for example, the underlying cause of hardening of the arteries and high blood pressure, which account for 90 per cent of all heart disease. The causes must be discovered before heart attacks and strokes can be prevented, The goal can be reached during the lifetime of many of us if re- search is continued and expanded, according to heart authorities. Real progress may depend on our gifts to the Canadian Heart Fund. Other Editors' Views NOVA SCOTIA FARMS (Halifax Chronicle-Herald) It is an old story that Nova 'Scotia imports food products to the extent of more than thirty million dollars annually. But this situation, together with the fact that total agricultural production in the pro- vince has been barely maintained since 1935 (despite a thirty per cent increase in population), is the best indicator that Nova Scotia agriculture has not: only failed to keep pace with other sectors of the economy, but, in a sense, has ac- tually declined. y <6 ° Pandey Wes. THE INDIRECT APPROACH REPORT FROM U.K. Storm Emergency Payment Debated Special London (Eng.) Correspondent to The Oshawa Times LONDON -- As fierce snow blizzards continued to rage around Britain, with below temperatures which have lasted longer than in any other period on record, live- stock isolated on the moors and hillsides were being kept alive by the Royal Air Force using helicopters to drop fodder to feed the animals. Now be- fore the operation has been completed -- because at the time of writing the snowstorms still rage--the question is be- ing asked: "Who is going to pay for Operation Haydrop?"' Official circles, and the farm- ers as well, are wondering just who should pay for the services of the Royal Air Force when the are called out in such an emer- gency to drop hay for farm- ers whose livestock is endan- gered for want of food, Nobody can give the answer as yet, but the air crews who are doing the job and an Air Ministry spokesman: have instructions to inform the farmers that they may be asked to meet some, if not all of the bill of expense. At least one farmer was told by an RAF station in Scotland that they would not come to his assistance unless he provided an assurance that he would pay the t cost, The Air Force spokesman YOUR HEALTH Extra Antibiotics Shouldn't Be Kept By JOSEPH G, MOLNER, M.D. Dear Dr. Molner: My brother and his family always save any antibiotics left over from a pre- scription and take them for the next infection that comes along. Today he feels a sty forming on his eye and is going to take two pills left over from a boil on his arm, I told him antiobiotics that are left over should be de- stroyed, and that they should be taken only on perscription for an illness, and then in the exact amounts, He thinks I am talking non- sense. Am I? I could save money this way, too, if it isn't dangerous.--H.H. All left-over medicine should be disposed of except of course the usual staples that we keep around the house anyway. I haven't an objection in the world to saving money, I'm all for it. But there are at least a couple 'of good reasons, and sometimes more, for not hang- ing onto odds and ends of med- cine, As to antibiotics, why did he have two pills left over? He might--I repeat '"'might"-- have the sty now because he didn't take quite enough of the antibiotics when he had the boil. The two things 'usually come from similar germs, sometimes even identical ones, He may have taken enough antibiotics to stop the boil, but not quite enough to drive off the disorganized remnants of the germs. Antibiotics, we know from sad experience, should not be used in too small amounts. Why? Be- TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Feb. 1, 1963... The United Arab Repub- lic was formed by the un- ion cf Egypt and Syria five years ago today--in 1958, President Nasser of Egypt and President Kuwatly of Syria proclaimed the union under one head of state, with a common legislature and flag and a unified army. The alliance was broken Sept, 26-28, 1961, when Syria resumed its independence. 1859 -- Composer Victor Herbert was born in _Ire- land, 1904--The Dominion Rail- way Commission was estab- shed cause unless the germ under at: tack is totally routed, there is a chance that a few microbes will mutate, or become resistant to that particular drug. This is why we have had so much trouble with the staphylococcus infec- tions (including sties and boils). Some medications lose po- tency when left standing, and that's why (although we may not hear much about it gener- ally) the really fine pharmaceu- tical companies pay a_ great deal of .attention to what. is known as "shelf life." Different ailments, and differ- ent infections often need differ- eat drugs, and this applies to the antibiotics, too. Guessing that one infection is like another isn't very sensible. So, if: medicine is left over, and you insist on saving it, con- sult your doctor before you use it up. Many times it may be all right. You may save 50 cents or even a dollar, However, it's safer to dump it summed up the question of payment by describing the pro- cedure followed in the case of this station. He said: "When the farmer telephones the police, which is usually the first step, they inform the Northern Rescue Centre at Pit- reavie, Fife, and it is the con- troller there who decides the extent of the emergency and what action to take." So far as it is possible to find at the moment, all the drops have been arranged between the farmer and the RAF, but the spokesman said that when the emergency is over all con- cerned -- and this might in- clude some other official bodies or organization -- would decide how much the cost would be. "Tt cannot be assumed," he said, '"'that all these actions will be treated as useful exercises for the crews, either in Eng- land or Scotland," The severity of the snow- storms and the freezing weather obviously caught some farmers quite unprepared for the emer- gency, They may have had sup- plies of hay on their farms, but labor problems and the sudden arrival of huge snowdrifts made it impossible to get the hay to the sheep on the hills, Hence the call for Operation Haydrop. Others, however, were pre- pared and were able to meet the emergency, One farmer in the border area of Scotland said: "We expect this kind of wea- ther in our area when the wind is in the east and there is snow in it, and we are all ready for it. I have hay on the tops of the hills all the year round, and have tracked tractors ready. It is an occupational hazard which farmers have met for years," Another farmer, who has some of the most extensive hill sheep farms on the borders, said: "IT have hay sheds on every sheep grazing areas and the sheep in these areas may range from 60 ewes and 15 hogs to 200 ewes and 60 hogs, We may not need the hay for several years, but it és there, It is good for maybe two years and then we bring it down to the cattle, On some hills we have been feeding hay for some time, but there are other hills bare of snow and the sheep do their own grazing." From this it would seem that the farmers who will have to worry about paying for Opera- tion Haydrop are those who were caught unprepared, BY-GONE DAYS 35 YEARS AGO Oshawa Ukrainian Commu. nity planned a technica]. school on Bloor east at an estimated cost of $8000, J, P. Mangan, local barrister, was elected president of the Ontario County Bar Association, A Kinsmen Club was organ. ized in Oshawa with the fol- lowing elected officers: Dr. Lou Hubbell, president; Dr. Harold Trick, vice - president and Frank Evans, secretary. Church of England bought Dr. Shirley's property at the cor. ner of Masson and Hillcroft streets for the erection of a new parish. Rev. R. B. Patterson of Uxbridge was appointed its rector. Led by Doc. Rowden and backchecking star, Bus Whit- ton, Oshawa Shamrocks down- ed Peterborough 6-3 for the third successive game. Rev. Francis L. Farewell, BA, principal and governor of Whitby Ladies' College, died in Whitby after a brief illness January building figures in Oshawa reached a $47,450, The total surpassed records for cor- fonpending months in 1923-24-25. George W. McLaughlin was elected chairman of the Board aad Commissioners for 1928, Bowmanville Trinity Church Young People's League paid a visit to Oshawa King Stre et Church League. The address was given by their president, W. R. Strike, Plans were made for a civic deputation to go to Ottawa o discuss improvement of the Oshawa _ harbor. Six candidates were intiated into the Daughters of England Lodge, conducted by Worthy President Sister F, Fall. Lyman C. Smith, for many years principal of Oshawa High School, died suddenly, A, S. McLeese expansion of his aparment houses on Simcoe north that would invoive approximately $100,000 . announced Beaton's and Maple Leaf Dairy merged into a new com- pany under the name of Bea. ton's Dairy Products Limited. County Council increased the Oshawa Fair grant to $500, G5 SPOR ONES: Trade Partners Ponder Post-Brussels Action LONDON (CP)--The suspen- sion of negotiations for British membership in the European Economic Community is a mat ter of personal concern to six other European countries, | They, along with Britain, are members of the European Free Trade Association, And they have been waiting quietly in the wings watching the Common Market talks, Mali Language Gets Alphabet From Syracuse SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- Bambara, an African language in search of an alphabet, has found its ABCs thousnds of miles from home -- on the campus of Syracuse University, As a result, nations of the new republic of Mali, where Bambara is the major tongue, soon may be able to write ma- ma as well as talk to mama in their native language. Ma ma is one expression that loses nothing in translation, It means mother, of course, French has been the official language in Mali, a former French colony in West Africa, Until the adaptation here of the Roman alphabet to Bam. bara sounds, there was no writ- ten version of the language in general use Some missionaries, however, had devised a form of written Bambara in translating the Bible into the native lan- guage. The ba ba (father) of the first officially sponsored version of written Bambara is Robert S. Laubach, a linguistic expert at the Syracuse University School of Journalism. Laubach, with the aid of five educationists from. Mali, de- vised a 28-letter system, includ- ing an accented "E" and "0," a primer and illustrated charts to aid in teaching the written language, The charts, similar to those used in elementary schools to teach children to read, are de- signed according to the formula that one picture is worth one word, rather than one thousand, Each picture, Laubach said, is intended to give the learner "a visual association between the sound, which he knows, and the unfamiliar letters." The learner is introduced to the letter "M,"' for instance, by a picture of a mother holding an infant, A subsequent illustra. tion superimposes the letter "M" over a silhouette of the mother image. This is followed by the word ma ma, The objects used in the illus. trations, in many cases, resem- ble the letters they introduce, The letter "D" in lower case, for example, resembles a native hoe called ada ba, A second lesson book is being developed to build upon the "kalang folo" (first lesson). Although Mali 'is rich in folk. lore and poetry, Laubach said, the second reader would con. tain simple sentences that em- phasize the practical and fac- tual rather than literature, The stress will be on such things as history of the new republic and child care and nutrition, Mali, a nation of 4,000,000 in. habitants, gained independence June 20, 1960. Formerly the French Sudan, Mali occupies a strategic position among emerg- ing nations of Africa, where words have become weapons as well as tools, Among its neigh. bors are Algeria, on the north, ne and Senegal, on the west, All seven EFTA countries had made applications to the Com. mon Market, Denmark and Nor- way wanted to go in with Brit. ain as full members, The neu- trals, Sweden, Switzerland and . Austria, sought associate mem. bership, Portugal had not speci- fied what form of membership it wanted. British policy, often reiterated in the House of Commons, was that the EFTA countries would merge with the Common Mar. ket as one unit, If that had hap- pened, then presumably the as- sociation would have agreed to dissolve itself, A foreign office spokesman here emphasized that each EFTA country had agreed to be responsible for its own negoti- ations with the Common Mar. et, "But much is contingent on Britain's application succeed. ing," the spokesman said a few days before the collapse of ne- gotiations in Brussels, "If the Brussels door is slammed in our face I think it highly unlikely our EFTA partners would con. tinue negotiations with the six on their own," And now that talks have been suspended, Britain's six EFTA partners will have to reassess their position, They're faced with the question of whether to stick with Britain in the hopes that Common Market negotia- tions will eventually be re. opened, abandon hope and con- centrate on strengthening their own association, or choose to apply for admission on their own, One factor that may influence their thinking is that some Com. mon Market experts weren't sure they wanted the Outer Seven--as the EFTA is known-- to come in, "We're having enough trouble getting the six to work to- gether," said one, "If the na- tions of the European Free eT Trade Association join it will be administrative chaos." This view was not shared by. . everyone in the Common Mar- ket civil service, Some expe- rienced Euromarts thought an. enlarged community would en. courage the bureaucratic "mill" in Brussels to churn faster, noring some of the more issues now causing delays. "After all the United States 'of America grew from 18 col. onies to 50 states without taxing its strength," said an agricul. . tural counsellor. 'Surely the six are strong enough to -their membership without. fale tering." The European Free Trade As- sociation was established at Stockholm in 1960, mainly as a British . inspired alternative to the six after the collapse of protracted negotiations for a general free trade area in Eu. rope, In 1961, Greenland signed the Stockholm Convention and Fin. land later became an associate under roughly similar economic terms'but steering clear of any political implications, SPEED TARIFF CUTS Tariff reductions marily concern industrial g heme icals, steel, textiles, ships, agris cultural machinery and vehi. cles. Britain spends about £450,000,000 a year in EFT. countries and earns slightly less with her exports to them. The few agricultural agree- ments are all of a bilateral; nature between individual coun. } tries, The most important is treaty on dairy products be- tween Britain and Denmark, Under the original conven. tion, basic import duties were to be reduced to 50 per cent by 1965 and abolished completely by 1970, At the ninth council meeting in Oslo last October it was decided to accelerate re- ductions by scaling down to 50 per cent before April. A communique issued aftet the Oslo meeting said the prin. ciples of the free trade area were "working well in practice and giving satisfaction both to governments and traders in their countries." OTTAWA REPORT Royal Commission Spending Boosted By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- The deep-probing scrutiny of the work of our burgeoned and burdensome bu- reaucracy was by far the most costly royal commission of re- cent years, The greater part of the near $3,000,000 cost of that Glassco commission fell into the fiscal year ended Jast March 31. Six other royal commissions were operating during that year too, so the total bill for such studies came to $2,850,958 in that year, according to the ac- counts just submitted to parlia- ment, This was about four times the cost of similar commissions in the previous year, and soven times the cost in the year be- fore that, the twelve months ended March 31, 1960, These costs are put into true perspective by the estimate that economies. arising from recom- mendations in the Glassco re- port could save the taxpayer many millions of dollars every year, That huge economy could rise to $62,000,000 a year before it would amount to even one per cent of present government spending. And even the seem- ingly high cost of those commis: sions last year still totalled less than one-third of one per cent of the bill which we the taxpayers met for the wages alone of the big army of bureaucrats staff- ing government departments. QUEEN'S PARK Significant Stand Taken By Liberals By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--The two-day Lib- erat policy rally held here in Toronto was probably the most significant political development in Ontario in 20 years. It will take this some time to be proven true--and to seep through to the public, And it certainly isn't given this im. portance today, immediately following the conference, But the importance is there. RADICAL PROGRAM Aside from the fact that the Liberal party finally has a pos- itive and specific platform-- which, in itself, is of consider. able consequence--the policies adopted at this meeting almost inevitably will start government in the province off in new di- rections, In almost every field that it touches--and it covers practic. ally the whole spectrum of pro- vincial affairs--the policy rec. ommends new and adventurous steps. In toto you could class it as "radical." OVER-RIDES INHIBITIONS The most striking feature of the program is that it over. rides. traditional straw - men which have inhibited the think. ing of our orthodox parties, Tt firmly walks into the fields of two historically sacrosanct fields of free enterprise--money lending and insurance for in. stance, It would lend money directly --through the Ontario Savings Office -- for residential mort- gages and a number of other pruposes, And it firmly bars private in. surance carriers from its medi. care program, And these are only the most graphic of the ground-breaking steps in the program, SINCE "43 To the writer it is the most significant development in our provincial political scene since George Drew's 22-point program of 1943, It is the first time since then that there has been a deep and broad study of basic problems and positions with fresh thought given to them, (Yes, the CCF and NDP have come out with things from time to time, But they have not had the scope of the Liberal pro- gram, nor the weight of a ma- jer party behind them). The Liberals may or may not get to power with this program But whether it does or not it is bound to markedly affect our political futures, STOP Ansus-Gravoon COMPANY CARPET 282 King W. 728-9381 FOR BROADLOOM, DRAPES, TILE, PAINT AND WALLPAPER To ask how much royal com> missions cost, and if the tax- payer receives value for that price, is like asking "How much does a drug cost, and does it cure illness?" The Diefenbaker government has appointed 13 royal . sions in the past 5% years, and 10 have now finished their work, Their costs range from some $2,820,000 for the Glassco com- mission, down to a mere $6,505 for the Curtis commission which examined these curity implica- tions of a certain employee of the Canadian Broadcasting Cor- poration, The former could and probably will save taxpayers a great deal of tax money over the years to come: The latter involved the safety of Canada, whose worth cannot be ceas- ured in dollars and cents. Looking back a decade, no less than 22 royal commissions were appointed in the five years ended in 1054, considerably more than in the first five years of the Diefenbaker government. Yet even those who were cabi- net ministers in that earlier pe- riod now chide the present cabi- net for instituting "government by royal commission." SKILLED ADVICE HIRED The argument in favor of a study by commission is that it enables facts to be found and recommendations to be made by those who are experts in the field concerned or in related fields. Thus skilled inquiries and advice are made available to the government, Further, the commissioners can devote all their time for as long as neces- sary to study the problems re- ferred to them, In contrast, cabinet ministers would have to and in their departments and in their constituencies, Two recent commissions will shortly see some of their find- ings incorporated in new bills laid before Parliament. These are the commissions which studied railroad problems and imported magazines. Two earlier Diefenbaker com- missions have proved to be good bargains for Canadians, The Borden commission on energy policies cost $414,557, and the Bladen commission on the motor vehicles industries cost. only $57,841, Both these inquir- ies have 'already led to govern- ment policies which have greatly benefitted the Canadian industries concerned. ADULT EVENING CLASSES Oshewe Board of Education such topics Nee and end posture. FIRST CLASS ON WEDNESDAY, FEB. 6, AT 7:30 P.M. Classes are under preparation in Merchandising and Retail Sales won Uae Pesan the school McLaughlin Collegiate - Vocational Institute Chairman ' 4. R. BACKUS, CA, Business Administrator