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-- She Os Hawa Cimes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1963----PAGE 6 Death Of A 'Vagrant Should Shock Society There are few blacker spots in the Canadian penal structure than the Don Jail in Toronto. Authorities are reluctant to accept responsibility for it. It is ancient, decrepit, wholly inadequate for its purpose, and badly run. It was in the news again.a few days ago, when a coroner's jury re- commended a study of medical facilities at the jail. Here are the facts brought at the inquest: Rene Gallant, 27, a carnival worker, was suffering from a mas- sive brain tumor when found wan- dering in a park Oct. 17. He was charged with vagrancy. The magis- trate remanded him for a week for a psychiatric examination because he stared absently at the celling in court. His condition worsened while at Don Jail and 13 days later he was carried to a patrol wagon which took him to the Ontario Hospital for the mentally ill. Jail physician William H. Hills said Gallant was Still Losing The most recent by-elections in Britain demonstrated that the Con- servative "renewal" touted by Prime Minister Douglas-Home is nothing but wishful There isn't any swing back to the Con- thinking. just servative party, and only a miracu- lous revival of Tory fortunes will prevent Labor from sweeping into office in next year's general election, There is not the smallest shred of evidence that such a revival is in.the making. the The government did not lose the St. Marylebone and Sudbury-Wood- bridge seats, which' have hitherto been solidly Conservative. But the reductions in the Tory majorities were substantial and gave clear in- dication of the sort of beating that Conservative candidates can expect in the less traditionally Tory ridings. Political observers in Britain find many reasons for the Conservative decline: It has been too long'in office and has suffered the inevitable supposed to be moved by ambu- lance, but he did not supervise the move. Patrol wagon driver Cons- table William Davis said he had protested that the man should ride in an ambulance, but said a guard told him: "He's been putting on an act all week." Gallant died the following day of severe hemorrhag- ing. Thus died a young man--perhaps not missed, perhaps not mourned, perhaps not a person who would have made any worthwhile con- tribution to any community or society, but still a human being. We hear a great deal about all the welfare protection now provided for and we may feel' pretty smug about our blessings and bene- fits. But the imperfections of our society are grossly revealed by the manner of this man's dying -- a man who, sick unto death, is jailed as a vagrant, pushed around as a leadswinger, and dies for want of attention. Ground decay, it has lost the energy of the earlier Macmillan days,.it has be- come uncertain of its direction and it has been bedevilled by scandal. One of the more perceptive pundits noted that it is no longer: able to provide an alternative to the Labor program, except on the issue of the nuclear detergent -- and many people in Britain fee] that Sir Alec Douglas-Home has. made.a stand 'on this not so much out of conviction as out of a desperate desire to manu- facture an issue of which his party can take a definitely different stand from the Labor position. The British voter, in other words, is being asked to decide which of two groups he thinks the more capable of acting with vigor and imag on similar domestic policies -- and he is quite clearly indicating that his choice will be the party headed by Harold Wilson. nation There is a lesson in this for Cana- dian parties. Ideas, not wordy vic- tories scored in Commons. debate, are needed by the nation today. Variations On A Theme The variations in the world Com- munist spectrum produce fascinat- ing permutations and combinations, the Christian Science Monitor ob- serves Poland, which has moved as far awe from S i away ism as any country in the Soviet bloc, might be expect- ed to.be in the van of those wanting to bring (and Stalinist) Communists to, book. Yet I Communist Party leader Wladyslaw Gomulka depends pro- € se Polish for his survival on permissiveness within the international Communist movement, he has been insistent in 1 representations to Chairman Khrushchev that a truce be nego- tiated:between Moscow and Peking. Even more involved is the posi- tion of Romanian Communist Party leader' Gheorghe. Gheorghiu-Dej, He is set on ining his position of personal mainté power at home and on getting for his country the greatest possible economic independence within the Soviet bloc. (The Ro- The Oshawa Tine SUBSCRIPTION RATES ng, Bowmanville creas -}2 per yea ond onwealtnh Countries d Com 15.00, U.S.A. and foreign 24,00, manian Communists do not want to sacrifice their country's indus- trialization to the over-all needs of the bloc.) Paradoxically at Mr. Gheorghiu-Dej has resisted nearly home, all suggestions that.he should fol- low some other Eastern European countries and open windows to let in a little freer air. To do so -- he probably feels -- might result in the buffeting of his personal position; and to that extent he is a Stalinist. But to give himself some leverage in dealing with Moscow, particularly within the Communist Council for Mutual Economic, Aid, Mr. Gheorghiu-Dej finds it opportune both ends against the middle. Thus he flirted with Peking and refused to join in the to play has Kremlin's criticism of the Chinese Communists. But at the same time, he has just visited President Tito of 'Yugoslavia particular brand of communism is anathema to Mao Tse-tung, What we are witnessing, the Monitor points out, is the continued growth of national communism within the world Com- munist movement. whose Other Editors' Views SHORT LIFE (Financial Post) of white an men who are now 50 y ears The life Ameri of age wo expectancy ud-be 1.4 years. greater if none of them.smoked, Dr. Theodor Abelin of Harvard of Public Health declared last week. the School Such an increase in life expec- he said, would be compar- the 40 from all the hat achieved last advances of ne D2, ~~ L-PROVINCIAL HOUSECLEANING QUEEN'S PARK No Scandal Seen In Judge's Switch By DON. O'HEARN TORONTO -- No, there isn't any :"s lal," in - tion of the chairman tario Police has, since the re a Commissic been 3ruce J oing back to been a - fiery nee for some having be talk that there 4 story in the switch. But hardly s0 Judge ] e of He makes YOUR HEALTH Macdon on absence i nen more 1 has been consi ably money as a judge th police commission chait The department of doesn't want to extend his any longer And that's the | for him to return t job in the county SOME TROUBLI Judge Macc been smooth From the start ver been precisely ¢ @ the 1 of himself an com- his court ion were orig made to counter on the nal appointments partly for political some of the governmen a ressure Relief From Pain By Bunion Surgery By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, MD. Dear Dr. Molner: | just arrived home { the hospit after a bunionectomy fect A your item back, I decided to e the sur With. arthritis, my deformed toes and bunions were extra painful. This note is to thank you for the relief I And I lead to many people w I don't, of course bunions require sur there are a lot of bu is in world Whether or not to quires goed judgment minor bunion, :¢ ting and measures \ fort and }_ from worsening There are.-other. cases in which the postponement. of sur- gery or refyising to have it done is nothing but vo ac- cepting endless tort That 'lump' at the joint of the toe won't go away. There may be (and bably is) some callous which can be removed, or will subside naturally, when pressure is But most of the "lump" is the joint of the toe, forced out of position and often made extremely ten- om ital on both encou i aging some time ally er JR, hope your let wiil the .relief of great th bunions say that all for shoe-fit- other discom- condition reful some ate relieved der because of burs developed In such a Case surgery only sound answer, a sooner it is performed; sooner the misery end One way to know when sur- is advisable is to muddle with make-shift "reme- ads and the like, until decide that you can't put up with them any longer Another way is to let an ex- pert examine the painful foot or and have whether case Ww opera- tion. Either. podiatrists or ortho- pedic surgeons experts on bunions Dear Dr. Molner: What is a Bartholin cyst? Should it be re- moved? Could it be cancerous? --MRS. SD The Bartholin the vagina. If one or closed, it becomes It is not cancerou should be removed Dear Dr. Molner: bination of baking soda and salt all right to clean the teeth?-- MMM Yes Note. to Mrs. SHH and others: Conception ce rd- less of whe both parties are ir : alcoholism may interfere along dies,' you fin feet, him tel your s are are in plugged BY-GONE DAYS 20 YEARS AGO 10, Dec, Thirteen City Treasurer Peter at the City Tax 2. Seventy-fi mained unsold lots were Maj. Bernard H son of J. B. Hight was given the second in command of the Canadian Equipment A Unit eld, Ost i appointment of First embly Harold R. Balson of Hampton was the 19,000th blood donor since opening of the Qsh- seventh awa inic. | his donation was here Judge D 0 County B Colemar of presi at the and General Ses- ons in .Whitby Br. S§. J pointed to the Chamber Commerce Board of Directors as successor to.C,'E..McTavish, who was moving to Toronto Phillips W rew operty. an K street to be transformed into a funeral home. east 1943 Ald. John Stacey, active mem- ber of the council for many years, and former mayor, an- nounced that he would not. be a candidate for. re-election. Senator E. D. Smith of Win- ona, and father of Mrs. Gordon D. Conant of Oshaws el brated his 90th bi family dinner party At the luncheon' meeting of the Oshawa Kiwanis Club Frank McCallum was elected president for 1944 while Morley W and Ted Johnson re Ist and' 2nd vice Ty E ated as a new of the club. wa ut General Motors plant here de- veloped a potent weapon | for winter warfare known. as the "snowmobile Members of the Oshava at yurn Squadron Air- Cadets fo tour. of the School h conducted by Ft -Lt Air. Cadet " Liaison which wa Cawker, Officer. over administration of justice. And the commission had to more or less fumble its way along In the process it did step on some toes Judge Macdonald made some public statements on policy which caused some embarrass ment to some people here One of these was a firm de- claration that smaller police forces would have' to be done away with. It is agreed here that this has to be done eventually. But poli- tical considerations mean it should be. done gradually. And the chairman gave the impres- sion it should be' done right away, as he probably felt it should But. generally spedking rela- tions between the commissi and the government were ay ently quite good. And there strong personal respect Judge Macdonald. NOT POLICY There now will be a complete review of the functions of the commissior It will continue to be in charge of police training, wide-scale in- ation, of appeals by police of improper treatment and other matters which are: largely oper- ational. And probably one day it also be in-charge of a re- organization which will do away with smaller forces But it won't speak on. policy That will be handled by the government. for ----REPORT FROM UK. 'Move Southward' Plea To Jobless By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- 'Move to the south' is the theme of an ap- peal being made to unemploy- ed men in the depressed north- eastern areas of England, where unemployment figures are three times those of the national aver- age. This appeal is being fol- lowed up by very practical steps aimed at drawing the workless away from these areas to places where they can have assurance of regular employ- ment, One of the signs of this is seen in the fact that recruiting teams from the Genera! Motors subsidiary, Vauxhall Motors, of Luton, in Bedfordshire, are now touring the depressed areas of the northeast seeking workers for their plant from among the unemployed up there. Among the towns visited are Sunder- land and Middlesbrough. NEED 400 MORE MEN he Vauxhall Company is en- joying a huge demand for the cars produced in its factory at Luton. Export orders for one of the new models, the Viva, now exceed 30 million dollars. The firm urgently needs 400 extra workers, in addition to replace- ments for the normal caused by resignations retirements Luton's industries, which a year ago were suffering from a bit of a slump, have now re- covered fully from that condi- tion, and they have been ab- sorbing the unemployed in the town in such numbers that there are just not enough suit- able people left in Luton to meet the requirements of Vaux- hall. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Dec. 10, 1963... An-amendment to the Su- preme Court of Canada Act received royal assent 14 years ago today--in 1949. It gave final authority in judicial matters to the Su- preme Court of Canada and ended appeals to the Privy Council in London except for those begun before amendment became "he Supreme Court appeals in certain cases frome provincial courts and froni the Exchequer Court. It also gives advisory opin- ions to the federal govern- men! 1898--The Treaty of Paris was Signed, ending the Spanish-American War and ceding Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines to the U:S 1951--The firs the rtially elected council of the Northwest Territories opened at Yellowknife. hears The Vauxhall recruiting drive in the northeast is being car- ried .on with the full co-opera- tion of the Ministry of Labor. Already, about 100 pegple have left the northern towns and taken jobs in the plant at Luton. Many of these are receiving lodging allowances under the ministry's resettlement trans- fer scheme, which also makes allowances for the expenses of removal. One thing which is hamper- ing the quest of Vauxhall for more workers is the shortage of accommodation, especially for married men with families to be housed. Many unemploy- ed men who were quite willing to go south have had second thoughts. about moving when they heard reports, from some who had already gone, that both lodgings and houses were hard to procure in Luton, and that they were extremely expensive in comparison with the costs of accommodation in the northern areas, Vauxhall decided to stage its recruiting drive in the north: east. only after it had taken a careful look at the 500 men whose names are still on the register of unemployed in Luton They had taken all the local men who were found suitable for work in their plants. 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