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2 LAR RR IEEE SE "PE OEE "narreesesirinectennpe teeta" Siento aati poet in eee ye eee She Oshawa Zines Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 Ki t. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1963--PAGE 6 Twelve-Month Operation Of Universities Urged The Canadian Universities Fede- ration has predicted that Canadian college enrolment will more than double in the next seven years -- from 150,000 students to 312,000 in 1970-71. University building pro- grams, planned or under way, are not sufficient to accommodate any- thing approaching that number. Yet costly university and college facilities lie idle five months out of the year, with perhaps a few weeks of summer schools and occasional conventions. during the "holiday" period. There has been a traditional re- sistance to extension of the univer- sity year, but the practical require- ments of the present situation are enough to force a revision of tradi- tional thinking. A timely research study just re- leased by the Canadian Foundation for Educational Development re- ports on the relatively new concept of 12-month operation of universi- ties. It notes that in the United States, 38 colleges and universities of all sizes and categories are already operating the year round, while a further 85 are actively con- sidering changing to the same system. The study notes that the 12-, month system does not mean that the staff must teach all year, though many volunteer to do so because it gives them a one-third increase in salary. It does not mean that all, students must study all year, though many do so, because it enables them to earn their degree one year earlier than under the regular system. It does mean more room for more students, an increas- ing number taking graduate work, greater' economy of operation and better use of plant and grounds. There are problems: Acceptance of the idea by faculty and students; procurement of additional staff to teach the increased number of stu- dents (a problem which has to be faced in any event); the economic effect on some students (lessened by the steadily increasing number of scholarships and bursaries) ; in- corporation of summer schools into the new system. The problems do not appear to be as great as the advantages of the 12-month system. The long summer holiday originated ina rural econ- omy when the students were re- quired to return to farms for the harvest months. It is outdated in this era of rapid _ technological growth and change -- and of ever ore expensive educational facili- ties, Secondary School Year Any discussion of a proposal for better use of university facilities, such as that outlined above, must inevitably come around to the uestion of secondary school facili- ties and the length of the school year. Most high school students will be out of classes for the summer by the middle of June -- in spite of the fact that officially the On- tario school year does not end until June 28. The classrooms, the laboratories, the auditoriums, the machines will then be idle, for the most part, until next September. Is such a long layoff necessary, either for the well-being of the students or the teachers? The school facilities are expen- sive, and when they stand idle they are not "earning"; they are doing nothing to pay their way. Examination schedules in Grades 12 and 13 provide a reasonable ex- planation for the shortened school year. Both university officials and the students want the matricula- tion results earlier. The universities must plan for the incoming stu- dents; the young people who have Foreign Aid There will be an unusual con- ference in Ottawa next month, the first of its kind in Canada. The meeting will bear the unwieldy title of the National Committee on Canada's Participation in Social Development Abroad. Its purpose, in brief, will be to attempt to find out what foreign aid is being sup- plied by Canadians and whether the job might be done better. The Ottawa meeting is mainly sponsored 'by the newly-formed Overseas Institute, which is backed by a $60,000 grant from the Ford She Oshavon Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) and the Whitby Gozette ond Chronicle (established 1863) is published daily (Sundays end statutory holidays excepted). Members of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish- ers Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association. 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By mail (in Province of Ontario) outside corriers every areas 12.00 per year, Other P Countries 15.00, USA. end foreign 24,00, written their exams need a little time to decide what they will do, on the basis of the results -- go back to high school, look for a job, seek admittance to another univer- sity if the original university appli- cation is rejected. It takes time to mark exam papers -- and more than 225,000 papers must be marked in Ontario. Criticism of delays in previous years' results led the Ontario education department to move up Grade 13 exam dates this year. The need for earlier results does not apply to the lower grades, however. Yet all grades are being pegged to the Grade 13 schedule, it seems. The Toronto Star snorted: "By a sort of osmosis over the years, earlier examination schedules have been permitted in lower grades. Classroom teachers don't object. They get the last three weeks in June to mark papers, write reports, tidy their desks, and get off to a cottage. -- or seize a few days of holiday before starting summer school. The educational and economic sense of this early closing of secondary schools must be ser- iously questioned." Examined Foundation. One part of its work will be to try to collect details of the aid being offered: by 73 volun- tary agencies -- churches, service clubs, professional associations and on, These groups help the hungry, the sick, the homeless. They send abroad farm tools, cloth- ing, reading and writing materials. They sponsor immigrants and pro- vide scholarships. They have Wis- patched at least a thousand Cana- dians abroad on overseas aid pro- grams. All told, they dispense many millions of dollars a year. The Ottawa conference will be no attempt to subordinate the pri- vate agencies to a single direction. Rather, its aim is to report on the extent of private and public aid being offered by Canadians, and from that base to offer opinions for the future. At the very least, the conference should cast some light on the criticism that Cana- dians have not honored their foreign aid obligations. sO Bible Thought We, accofding to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteous- ness, -- II. Peter 3:13. God has planned a maginificent future for those who trust Him, NCE ST BERT ey oe REPORT FROM U.K. Higher Death Toll From Lung Cancer 8y M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent to ..-The Oshawa Times LONDON --In spite of an ac- tive and well-planned campaign against the dangers of heavy cigarette smoking, deaths from lung cancer in 'England and Wales last year showed a con- siderable increase. The report for 1962, just issued by the Re- gistrar-General, shows that 23,-. 779 people died from that dis- ease during the year in Eng- land and Wales. This is an in- crease of well above 1000 over YOUR HEALTH the number recorded previous year, Commenting on the increase shown in the report, doctors claim that they are not surpris- ed that the information which has been made public on the risks of smoking has not been immediately responsible for any drop in the number of deaths from lung cancer. It is pointed out that the disease takes some time to develop, and that it is quite probably that the situation may become even worse be- for th propaganda campaign brings about a reduction. for the Husband's Upsets Attention-Getter By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, M.D, Dear Dr. Molner: My hus. band, who is 40, has been under treatment for some months and with the-use of drugs his blood pressure has come down to safe limits. ' 'He tolerates no noise from the children and considers anything I do or say that he doesn't agree with to be a deliberate attempt on my part to disturb him. I cannot discuss anything with him for fear of putting him to bed for days. He claims it is the result of his high blood pressure that he gets upset so easily, It seems to m he causes it by letting everything bother him. I almost believe he would be better off living alone.--R.B.L, Youmhusband, I'm afraid, has things rather backwards. High blood pressure doesn't make him explode temperamen- tally. It's the other way round His tensions contribute to the blood pressure. I can't agree that he would 'be better off living alone. He would probably stew and fret worse than ever--but wouldn't have anyone else upon whom to vent his wrath. If he really believes what he says, he should be set straight for hig own good, not to men- tion yours and the children's. You should talk to his doctor. It isn't normal for a man to take to his bed because of a dif- ference of opinion. Rather, this action has the earmarks of a tantrum to get his own way. How long has this trait been apparent? I certainly would doubt that it appeared suddenly TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS May 24, 1963 .. . It was one of the darkest days in British naval history 22 years ago today--in 1941 --when the German battle- ship . Bismarck sank the Royal Navy's battle-cruiser Hood off Greenland. The Hood took 1,418 men to their death, Three days later Bis- march was sunk, having been hit by eight or nine torpedos launched by Flees Air Arm planes and Royal Navy destroyers. 1881 The excursion steamboat Victoria sank in the Thames near London, Ont., with loss of 200 lives. 1932 -- A bill was passed establishing a national broadcasting system for Canada, in the last few months. And if it did, that had better be inves- tigated, too, His doctor may suggest psy- chiatric help. Your husband may not be what we think of as mentally ill but he doesn't sound emotionally well, either. He needs to learn the knack of accepting life placidly and sensibly, Someone who dis- agrees with him isn't commit- ting a crime. If he'll learn to be tolerant, learn to take things calmly, he'll be happier' and it will also be a lot easier to treat his high blood pressure. There are plenty of people with high blood pressure who are pleasant to live with, and I hope he.decides to become one of them. He can. If he wants to, that is. QUEEN'S PARK According to doctors and edu- cation directors who have been engaged in propaganda on the dangers - of heavy cigarette smoking, they have found it hard ts make any sustained and appreciable impression on the minds of either adults or children, The campaign, in fact, has been very slow in gathering momentum. Some doctors are blaming the ministry of health for not giving more active lead- ership in it. They are, however, praising very highly a new film which has just been released for dis- tribution by the health minis- try. Entitled 'Smoking and You", it is intended for show- ing to children and young peo- ple. There is also general accept- ance of a new issue of anti- smoking posters now bein made available to local health authorities. Lord Newton, par- liamntary secretary to the min- istry of health, has opened an exhibition of posters submitted in, a competition held by the Central Council for Health Edu- cation and The Family Doctor, the Britsh Medcal Assocaton's magazine. OPENING CLINICS Increasing numbers of doctors are acceptng heavy cigarette smoking as a cause of lung cancer. Some have opened clin- ics to help smokers wishing te drop the habit. They empha. size, however, that in order to succeed, people must have strong will power and a real determination to stop the habit. Of 54-735 male dealths from cancer last year, 20,279, or 37 per cent, were diagnosed as being due to lung cancer, The death rate from this form of cancer increased to 895 per mil- lion of population from 781 dur- ing: the previous year. Women did not take up heavy cigarette smoking until long after men, and this is reflected in the statistics for female deaths from cancer. Out of 46,- 864 women who died from can- cer, only 3500, or just over seven per cent, were ascribed to lung cancer. The death rate was 146 as against 141 in 1961, Some Professors Good At Politics By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- Yes, professors can do a job in politics. One of our well-know scholars has given the writer a rap on the knuckles. And a deserved one. He feels that a recent piece. rgarding professors in politics was not fair. And®he is right. It was not fair. It was a lazy piece of writing. s There have been, of course, many '"'professors" who have made valuable contributions to our Canadian political life. MacKenzie King was Norman Rogers another. Then are a number of profes- sors in the present federal gov- ernment, Prime Minister Pearson, of course, served a spell as a uni- versity teacher. And a number of his colleagues were profes- sors or lecturers. This does not take back the whole point about professors in politics. In.a general sense I think that professors are not suited to the political world. And the reason for this would seem to be that they lack prac- ticality. They do not have that sense of realism which is so es- sential to a political career and to the administration of public affairs The man in the university life lives with ideals." one. As a scholar he looks to the goal of perfection and develops plans and programs which lead towards this goal, But in the world of politics perfection is a very, very dis- tant goal. The politician and the gov. ernment really can only govern according to the wishes of the people. They can't advance be- yond what the people will agree to. So when the politicians plans he may look to the goal of per- fection, but in his actual poll. cies and programs he must limit himself to what he knows or feels the people will agree with. The university professor sel- dom can, hold his thinking down to these limits. And of course if he has been living the shel- tered university life he does not have much practical knowledge of just what the public will and will not stand for. The professor has an inval. uable function politically. We must have perfectionist thinkers to lead our thought. But for the most part their thinking and their temperaments do not lend themselves to politics. It is worth noting that Mr, King, Mr. Pearson and practic. ally all the ex-professors in Ca- nadian politics spent consider- able time in other fields--get- ting a grasp of the people be- fore they had political success, . on foreign capital, *& OTTAWA REPORT Imports From U.S. -- Staggering Burden By PATRICK NICHOLSON Are we tough traders with our best friends? We find serious cause for grave soul-searching in the re- cently tabulated details of our 'export and import trade with os foreign countries during First, there was an unwel- come reversal in our earlier re- duction of our adverse balance in trade in cr True, this was a comparatively small $79,- 000,000 last year, but it had edged up from a mere $14,000,- 000 in the previous year. We have such a huge adverse bal- ance of international payments in non-trade items, due chiefly to our high interest payments that we should achieve a substantial favorable balance in trade to establish our true economic via- bility as a nation. But it is in the direction of our exports and imports that the most serious cause for dis- quiet lies. Our total foreign trade last year rose to an impressive and record $12,500,000,000. That was higher than the previous year by $913,000,000, or eight per cent. * Of thattotal, no less than $7,907,000,000 or 64 per cent was with our big neighbor. That total is very satisfactory; but less satisfactory is the ex- cess of our lavish imports from the United States totalling $4,- 300,000,000, over our sales of $3,608,000,000 to that country. We can ill afford to overspend our earnings in the U.S. so drastically, forcing the import- ation of capital--which means increased economic subservi- ence--to meet the bill. Our -sales to our second-best customer, Britain, are on a much smaller scale. We ex- ported to Britain goods worth $909,000,000, almost exactly one quarter of our sales to the U.S. yet we bought much less from Britain, only to the value of $563,000,000 or about one eighth of our imports from the U.S. This big favorable balance on our trade with Britain contrib- uted substantially to her trad- BY-GONE DAYS 35 YEARS AGO The Board of Education was considering the addition of a vocational department at the Oshawa Collegiate, and an ex- tension to Ritson Road public school. The Oshawa Checker Club won from Port Hope 30-12 in a tournament held at Welsh's Parlors. C. R. Melntosh was elected first Worshipful Master of the newly formed Temple Masonic Lodge. There were 30 charter members. Holy Trinity Anglican Church formed a Young People's Club with Harry Amey as president. The Board of Education en- gaged R. C. Swerdfeger, H, A. McKenzie, Miss Gertrude Moore and Miss Mildred Edmondson to the Oshawa Col- legiate teaching staff. The choir of Simcoe Street United Church, under the direc- tion of J. H. Renwick, organist and choimraster, persented an old time concert feature in cele- bration of the 60th church anni- versary. A total of 104 permits repré- senting an estimated expendi- ture of $379,880 was issued by the engineer's department for building in the city. R. Stevens and J, Leonard of Oshawa won their boxing bouts in the 147-pound class in the Olympic trials in Toronto. The city of Oshawa purchased a new motor street flusher, pumper and oiler container. The Oshawa Music Study Club closed the season with a fine concert presented by Clifford McCormick, pianist, assisted by Norman Moffatt, violinist, Mrs. Leo Gray, soprano, and the Ladies' Double Octette of Osh- awa. Construction work was ok ceeding rapidly on the exten- sion of the apartment block owned by A. S. McLeese on Sim- coe street north, The project was to cost $110,000. Rev. C. W. DeMille, pastor of King Street United Church and Rey. R. A. Whattam, of Albert Street United Church, marked the 25th anniversary of their ordination into the ministry. ~ the U.S. ing embarrassment, which was the root cause of her aim to join - the European Common Market and relinquish the imperial preferential tariff system -- to our disadvantage. Japan is our third best cus- tomer. But here again we have failed to help our own interests by matching our purchases from that country more closely to our sales to her. She could afford to buy immensely more from us, if we gave her the wherewithal by buying more from her and less from, say, Then come West Germany, Communist China, Australia, the Netherlands, Italy, Norway, Belgium and France, in that or- der, as our next best custom- ers, , Communist China had ba iously bought only insigniiena quantities of our exports, but in 1962 made those huge pur- chases of our wheat. In the case of France, our exports and our imports were in close balance, But in every other case we had substantial favorable balances, whereas if we had bought more of their imports, we would have en- abled them to be even better customers for our exports, This situation is a powerful argu- ment for a "buy less from the U.S." drive in Canada, to slash our excess of imports from the _ United States. , AMPLE OIL UNUSED Our third largest import bill is with a country to whom we sell comparative peanuts -- Venezuela. Why do we buy so much from that small South American country which _ is such a poor market for our goods? Indeed that is a puzzling question. We buy shrimps, we buy drugs and we buy cocoa butter and other things from Venezuela, But of our purchases worth $224,000,000, no less than a staggering $223,000,000 was accounted for last year by our purchases of oil! Talk about selling coals to Newcastle, or refrigerators to the Eskimos! We have oil run- ning out of our ears in Canada. Why then--and this is a good question--do we pay out our scarce foreign exchange and sacrifice employment and prof- its in Canadian oilfields, in or- der to buy Venezuelan oil? This foolishness is part of the price we pay for not being masters in our own house, for . permitting the big international companies to operate our own resources in the interests of een a rather than of Can- ada, A, E. Johnson 0.0, OPTOMETRIST 723-2721 14% KING £. "% es Where do wonderful rums come from > They're blended by CAPTAIN MORGAN from the largest stocks of rum in the. world, 4 great brands Captain Morgan GOLD LABEL WHITE LABEL BLACK LABEL 4 CAPTAIN MORGAN RUM DISTILLERS LIMITED SUPPLIERS TO THE ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY