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She Oshawa Times \ Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L, Wilson, Publisher WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1963 -- PAGE 6 7 'Discrimination Charged In Municipal Taxation It is easy to imagine the hue "gnd ery that would be raised if the income tax burden were not dis- * tributed impartially from the point : of view of occupation. One rate of personal tax for lawyers, another for carpenters, still another for office workers and so on, obviously . would not last for very long. Yet, strange as it may seem, this ; sort of things is exactly what exists in the field of municipal taxation. Further, the system has been in force for almost 60 years. Culprit is the antiquated, muni- cipal business tax which places a variable surcharge -- in addition to normal taxes -- on commercial property depending on the use to which that property is put. The rate on a piece of land used for a supervised car park for example, is 10% in addition to the normal property tax levied. Yet an identical piece of land in the hands of a distiller is charged with an extra levy of 150%. In the same way, the city retail merchant pays 25% extra, Yet where property is used for a wholesale business, the surcharge jumps to 75%. This system of taxation is un- just on two counts, It discriminates between commercial] taxpayers solely on the basis of the type of business they are carrying on. Further, it discriminates against commercial ratepayers as a class, in favor of residential taxpayers who escape the surcharge entirely, Power Play On Coast The suspicion grows that there was more politics than economics in the 1961 exploration of the B.C. Electric Company by the govern- ment of British Columbia, Rate cuts, which it was claimed would be made possible by elimina- tion of corporation taxes paid by the Company, have not yet materialized, The Vancouver School Board is seeking the help of other school boards to obtain cheaper electricity for schools and Mayor Rathie of? Vancouver is personally asking B.C. Hydro -- the government corpora- tion that took over the private com- pany -- to explain how it sets rates for the electricity he uses in his home. In all of this the public in B.C. finds itself at a peculiar disadvan- tage, When buying electricity from the private company, consumers had the protection of the Public Utilities Commission, a non-political board which controlled rates and had the responsibility of protecting the publie from unjustifiably high prices, When the government took over the company it specifically re- moved power rates from the Com- mission's jurisdiction, Now the public has no avenue of appeal, no way of discovering for certain whether power rates are subject to some political considerations rather than being decided by purely econ- omic factors. Investment In Canada The 1963 forecast of "Private and Public Investment in Canada" was recently released by Ottawa. The significance of this survey lies in the fact that it is capital investment, particularly the capital spending by industry for plant and equipment, that mainly generates new jobs, commentator C. J. Harris points out. Evidence on this point has been the existence of chronic unemployment since the drop-off in capital investment after the 1957 record of $8.717 billion. There is reason for optimism in the forecast that in 1963 the capi- tal program will pass the nine bil- lion dollar mark for the first time. The actual estimate is $9.088 bil- lion, an increase of four per cent over last year's total of $8.738 bil- lion, However, the optimism must be qualified by the fact that to- day's dollar does not buy as much as did the 1957 dollar. The 1962 program reached an all-time high, but because of price increases its value in terms of 1957 dollars was $8.113 billion. Also important in connection with the creation of job opportun- * ities has been the change in the type of spending. In 1957, 65 per cent of the program was in the Business Capital Sector and 35 per cent in the Social Capital Sector-- government departments, inatitu- tional services and housing.. The latter is now up to 43 per cent, and the former is only 57 per cent. 'The employment created by the spending of social capital, which goes almost entirely into construc- She Oshawa Tines T. L. WILSON, Publisher C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times be abst F The Oshawa Times {established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette end PS ae {establishes 1863, is published daily « ys and statutory holidays excepted).' Members of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish. @ts Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureeu @f Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Datlies Association. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitied to the use of sepublication ef ail news despatched in the paper credited to it er te The Astociated Press of Reuters, and alse the tocai news published therein. Ali rights of special des- potches are alto reserved. Otfices: Thomton Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES by carriers in Othawe, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Braoklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hamptun, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Tounton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskitien, Orono, Leskard, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Celumbus, Greenwood, Kinsale, Raglan, Blackstock, Monchester, Pontypool ond Newcastle, not over ASe per week! By mail (in Province of Ontario) cutside corriers delivery oreas 12.00 per year, Other is oe A 1 USA, end fersign 24.00, -- tion, tends to be of a temporary character, Business spending, of course, is not at a standstill. It is expected to increase over last year by five per cent, to a total of $5.217 billion, There is some cause for satisfac- tion in the fact that this is the same percentage increase as has been forecast for the United States, However, it may well be that U.S. industry will considerably increase its investment of business capital as the year goes on, particularly for equipment purchases, In the last half of 1961 the Kennedy Adminis- tration introduced new tax depre- ciation schedules which permit busi- ness and self-employed persons to deduct the cost of machinery and equipment from their taxable in- come at a more rapid rate. "By encouraging American business to replace its machinery more rapidly," President Kennedy said at that time, "'we hope to make American products more cost-competitive, to step up our rate of recovery and growth and to provide expanded job opportunities. Business spokes- men who have urged this step estimated that the stimulus to new investment will-be greater -- per- haps as much as four times greater -- than the $1.5 billion made ayail- able," Other Editors' Views A SLIP OF PAPER (Penticton Herald) In this motorized age, one of the most important slips of paper any average citizen possesses is his driver's. licence. With the Damo- clean blade of prompt licence loss hanging over heads, it's not hard to believe that careful re-appraisal of motoring conduct would be made before any motorist succumbed to the temptation of flaunting laws of motoring safety and common-sense, At first thought, this might seem a bit drastic, but as ever, drastic situations need correspondingly drastic remedies. If a significant reduction in motor deaths and in- juries were achieved, then there is no doubt that the end would justify the méans, THE NATIONAL BALLET REPORT FROM U.K. Devon's Ramblers Protest Invasion By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special Ledon (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times DARTMOOR, Devon -- Dart- moor has become famous -- or perhaps notorious would be a better word for it -- because it is the location of the major prison in England for the in- carceration of dangerous crim- inals, Whenever one hears Dart- moor mentioned, or reads some- thing about it in the press, the prison aspect is usually the one™ which is under discussion. But there is much more to Dartmoor than that, In fact, to the general public, the most im- portant aspect of this vast area is its wild beauty. The Dart- moor National Park is a favorite resort for tourists and holiday- makers. It serves another use- YOUR HEALTH ful purpose. It provides one of the large training areas for units of the British Army It is this last-mentioned use of the Dartmoor National Park which has now brought it into the limelight of public discus- sion. The War Department is in the process of enacting bylaws which will provide for the use of live ammunition on the mili- tary firing ranges in the train- ing area. This will mean that the puble will be cut off from some 60 square miles of this favorite haunt of trekkers and hikers. Under the proposed bylaws, the army would have the power to arrest anyone found in this area. The section cf the most qnvolved is -norih' of the boundary of the. villages of Cortisone Doses Judged By Doctor By Joseph G. Molner, M.D. This seems to be worry- worry day, according to my mail. For instance: Dear Doctor: I had some white spots on my arms and they spread to my back. The doctor gave me cortisone pills and the spots finally disap- peared, Now they are starting again. I was told that cortisone is a dangerous drug to keep taking. What harm can it do, if any--MRS, W. L. I'm hard put to,guess what the spots may be, but as for cortisone: certainly, it's a dan- gerous drug. How many drugs can you name that aren't I don't propose to go through a catalog of conditions that can result from too much cortisone, but brittleness of bones is one, and accumulation of fluid in the system is another, However, that isn't the im- portant point. What matters is that such drugs are handled under prescription, te insure that a docior supervises their use, it is his responsibility to see that the amount: given is within -tolerable limits of safety, as well as to know what signs to watch for, to stop a drug if it becomes necessary to do so. If you don't trust your doc- tor, then get one you do trust. Or rather, since I presume you trust your doctor or you wouldn't be going to him, then trust him implicitly, Rely on him to see that you are not harmed by medication. Dear Docior: I read that overuse of hormones causes ac- ' celerated hair growth. I had my thyroid gland re- moved and have been getting thyroid. I also have. been get- ting estrogen and Bi2 shots once a month for menopause symptoms, Could these be caus- ing hair growth on my lip-- MKS, F. G, I refer you to the answer in the letier above, plus one or two other points, Yes, excessive amounts of some hormones may acceler- ate hair growth. Estrogan (a hormone) once a month sounds very conservative, and not ex- cessive at all, The Bi2 is a vitamin, not a hormone, and doesn't enter into the picture. Thyroid is a hormone, but @f & considerably different kind. It does not cause excessive hair growth. The thyroid merely replaces the amount that otherwise would be produced by the now- absent thyroid gland. In short, there's no excess at all--just normal, A moderate increase in hair growth can occur naturally in some women after menopause, but it isn't at all like the growth that can come if truly massive doses of hormones are taken for some unusual condition. - I hope we've laid to rest at least a couple of worries. QUEEN'S PARK Tavistock, Two Bridges and Moretonhampstead and south of Okehampton. The people of the county of Devon are protesting very strongly on this invasion of this treasured section of Dart- moor. Vice-Admiral Sir Guy Sayer, president of the Devon and Cornwall Ramblers' Association, says; "We have nothing against the army as a service. We know that they have got to train their men somewhere. What we do object to is their intention of using live ammunition in an area which is designated as a National Park. It is absolutely scandalous that hikers wishing to escape from the turmoi! of everyday life should be liable to arrest." The usual steps to have a pub- lic inquiry held into the pro- posals of the War Department are being taken. The matter will be on the agenda of the Ram- blers' Association national coun. cil meeting at Sheffield later this month, It will ask for a public inquiry into the proposed use of live ammunition on the ranges at Okehampton. The Dartmoor Preservation Society is also taking up the fight with the War Office, and is contemplating legal action. HISTORY TODAY IN By THE CANADIAN PRESS April 3, 1963... The Pony Express service was launched between St. Joseph, Mo., and Sacra- mento, Calif., 103 years ago today--in 1860. Riders and horses travelled in relays and cut the time from 30 or 40 days by stagecoach to only 14 days. The Pony Ex- press was replaced in Oc- tober, 1861, with the com- pletion of the transcontinen- tal telegraph. The express gained a_ reputation for daring and service in spite of rough riding conditions, weather and attack by In- dians. Education's Needs Puzzle Observers By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--There's a lot of guessing in the dark about ed- ucation in Ontario today-and particularly about the prospects for tomorrow. The whole field of education has been going ahead so tre- mendously-both in the increas- ing number of pupils and in ihe changes in methods and ap- proaches - that the authorities apparently haven't been able to keep up with it. We have had various reports here this session, on the need of university places for the fut- ure, on secondary school teacher 'training etc., but one has a bit of a tongue-in-cheek attitude towards them. For instance estimates on the number of potential students in technological institutes by 1970 vary all the way from seven or eight thousand to more than twenty thousand, The one fact it seems that ean be accepted is that there has been tremendous growth and that this is going to con- tinue, SELLING TRAVEL The benefits of a much more concerted merchandising cam- paign on tourism were pointed out to the travel and publicity committee by the tourist indus- try committee of the Ontario Economic Council, W. H. Cranston, chairman of the committee, pointed out that tourism now represents more than a billion dollars to the province and is probably On- tario's second largest industry. One point which may surprise some people is that cottage owners from the U.S. make the biggest financial contribution to the industry, We perhaps don't think of them as large pureh- asérs but they are. The key point in Mr. Cran- ston's remarks, however, was a very large potential still is to be developed. SEEK CONVENTIONS He mentioned, for instance, conventions, Most of the large centres in the province now do very weil out of conventions. But the smaller towns and the resort areas are doing very lit- tle. Yet an important trend has developed south of the border where conventions ate going to suitable resort areas. With more thought, more or- ganization and a bit more money it is apparent that gov- ermment can do quite a bit more to build up this important business, It is also apparent that Mr. Cranston's committee is going to make a good contribution. Its first main report has yét to be presented. But the sample was tasty, OTTAWA REPORT Politicians Avoid Vote-Killing Facts By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- Are our political doctors afraid to tell Johnny Canuck thé truth about the ser- ious ailments afflicting Can- eda? The get speeches by many prominent politicians in this eléction campaign have either ignored the serious problems now thréatening Canada, or presented them through rose- tinted glasses. But in private conversation many politicians admit that very serious afflictions now menace us, and must be cor- rected, A consensus lists these as including most importantly: 1, Foreign control of our in- ay | and of organized labor. 2. The chronic deficit in our balance of international pay- ments. ' 3. The decline of Canadians' flair for independence and self- elp. 4. Failure to do our share in BY-GONE DAYS 25 YEARS AGD George Salter was honored at a dinner when he was pre- sented with a gift in recogni- tion of 50 years' service as an Oshawa fireman. The occasiov of the dinner was on his re- tirement. The Oshawa Public Utilities Commission announced an all- time high for service with assets of more than $2,000,000. Dr. 8. J. Phillips introduced to the Rotarians and their ladies his former neighbor, Miss Agnes MacPhail, who gave an -- and witty talk to the club. the world trend toward interna- tional togetherness. 5. Political expedience rather than common sense dictates our naticnal priorities. The cure for what ails Can- ada would be abrupt and un- pleasant to you and me, It would éntail the re-think which should have beén imposéd less painfully at war's end. It would bring a sudden end to the Cana- dian fool's paradise of living beyond our national means, free rides on the backs of other na- tions, and chiselling our public treasury. No government has seriously considered implementing the needed. policies; no political pony has advocated their need in any election campaign, The voter would certainly reject such a spoil-sport. More than two years ago, when the Diefenbaker Govern- ment was supported by a record 208 seats in the House of Com- mons, I was the first writer to advocate that Canada should have a coalition government. When Liberal Leader Mike Pearson was enlarging upon Canada's economic woes at a press conference, I suggested to him that these serious prob- lems constituted a national eco- nomic emergency, and that they should be tackled by a "national" all - party coalition government. Mr. Pearson agreed with me that no single political party could afford to take extreme and unpopular measures; but he did not believe that the situa- tion had yet become serious enough to warrant a coalition government. A year later, I reé- peated my question; and as I reported in this column, Mr. Pearson's answer wat the same, but less assured. Last summér, the ¢éléctors, stirring uneasily, reflected their mood by electing a parliament split four ways. This Spring, the electors appear to even more uneasy; talk of coalitions and alliances is in the air, The intuitive sense of self-preserva- tion of the voters may bi us to a multi - coalition th h the back door, to prevént our final and irrevocable economic submersion, ' First, industries and: unions must be rated in the true interests of themsélvés and of Canada, and not be ene to ee interests of a foreign coun- ry. Second, we must stop selling Canada to foreigners and start buying it back, This does not mean that we must stop import- a foreign capital; but,.like the U.S. in its developing years, we should borrow it in the form of repayable bonds, not admit it as the irredeemable controlling equity of industries, + . Third, we must halve the rain- ous trade and tourist deficit with the U.S.; that may mean vacationing in the West Indies . Latin America instead of in lorida, and equipping our homes "with Canadian - made gadgets. We would have to learn the concept that social welfare is réliet for genuine. and una- ie need, not.a sop for laz- ness, ' Fourth, as the world's third richest people, we should rec- ognize our obligation to pull our weight in this troubled world. And lastly, we should recog- nize that our need for hospitals schools, housing and physical fitness generally must take pri- ority over our greed for costly trivialities, ' Nobody would vote for this Nicholson platform of castor oil followed by a healthier tomoer- row; yet what Canada needs most today is such a -whole- --_ purge in our, public af- airs, READERS' VIEWS © During the month of Febru--- ary there were 3,791 pupils en- rolled in Oshawa Publie Schools, the average attend ance for the month being 3,654 or per cent. The enrolment at the OCVI was 1,117 for the same month with the average attendance being 95.9 per cent. Mayor Alex McLeese, speak- ing at the Oshawa Property Owners' Association, a acked the system of buying on the instalment plan. Dr. G, L. Bird was guest speaker at the Whitby Rotary Club. A chain store advertised vea! steak roasts at 15 cents per Pound and rib roasts of beef, 14 cents. Martin Luther Argall, _resi- dent of Oshawa for 38° years, died after a lengthy iliness. Mrs. Gordon D. Conant and Mrs. N. 0. Hipel assisted a: a tea given at Wymilwood when Mrs, Mitchell F. Hepburn. re- ceived with the hostess, Mrs. Michael Dewan. Oshawa citizens were greatly interested in the new McLaugh- lin - Buick ordered by the Duke of Windsor. The special equip- ment added at his request made the car an actual drawing room on wheels. oes South Simcoe School pupils presented a music festival train- ed by Principal J. C. Fetterly and his staff with the assist- ance of Leonard Richer, direc- tor of music in Oshawa schools, Tacal school teachers esti- mated that 35 per cent of the Pupils were saving money through the pennybank plan. PLEA FOR PRAYER Dear Sir: At this very critical time in the history of our country, it would be good if all the people of Canada prayed to Almighty God for His guidance in 'the coming election. If we are to have a minority government, then the very best men, regardless of party, should go to Ottawa. Men are needed who will put the coun- try first above party; men of sound judgment and upright character; men experienced in all sorts of ways, to bring to the government knowledge gain- ed in a wide variety of occupa- tions, and mén who love peo- ple. We need God's choice of men. We should ask Almighty God for the leader of His choice, so that. we, as a nation, are led by a man who is led of God; a na- tion through which God can bless other nations, The Bible says: "If my peo- ple, which are called by My Name, shall humble themselves and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land." Per- haps our troubles have come because we are forgetting God. Let us confess our sim and come to God in repentance and faith. If every person who is stirred by these words will call his or her minister, pastor, rabbi or priest, and let him know how they feel, it will strengthen his hands. May there be a mighty volume of prayer rising across -our whole land. Let us pray, both publicly and privately, at all timés for our Government, Then the men who are elected will be strength- ond Lm: es Meer ee and se URS, CHARLES HAINES Mt, Pleasant TRIP TO RUSSIA Dear Sir: In a letter in the Readers' Views on March 27 Mr. E. Law wondered "how many Canadian Commies own their own homes and cars, how much they have in the bank, and what goes on in their minds when, they .travel from city to city without police permit or visa." te This impressed. me very much. Recently I asked a travel agency how about travel in Rus- sia. I found out you can travel in the Communist countries as an individual, but in Russia, it must be a pre-arranged tour at $35 a day with guide; you. must go where you are told. but.noj where you like, in Ukraine you must follow Intour. ist instructions, : There is this important point: No deviation from the selected itinerary is permitted by the Russian authorities, and there- fore any relatives or friends re- siding in Russia who wish te meet the visitor must travel to the nearest point on the Itiner- ary. It is not permitted for the visitor to leave the tour and proceed to some other places. So you could not go tu 'the vil- lage or town to see your rela tives, Why can't you see your rela tives at their place of living? Yet the Canadian Commies iry to tell us how good it is in Rus- sia. But they don't like '© go there and stay. Canadian bread and butter is beiter. You can visit relatives in Czechoslovakia, Poland; Hun. gary, but not in the Ukraine: Why? 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