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| She Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1963----PAGE 6 Health Minister Still Embarrassing Pearson Political observers are wondering how long Prime Minister Pearson can endure the gaffes of his Minis- ter of Health, Miss Judy LaMarsh, Her failing seems to be that she plays the political game of exag- geration just a little too hard. Her big foes are, naturally enough, Conservatives and insur- ance and trust companies. In the Ontario election, she managed to irritate Premier Robarts to the point where he declared he would not deal with her in federal-provin- cial pension discussions -- and made it stick at the recent federal-pro- vincial conference. Some time ago she suggested that Canadian insurance companies in- vested most of their money abroad. It was simply not true. More re- cently, she stated that "insurance and trust companies can go ban= krupt like any other company," as an argument in favor of the gov- ernment pension scheme as opposed to private schemes. What she did not say was that no investor of policy holder has ever lost a single dollar as a result of a Canadian insurance or trust company failing to honor its commitments; and that the government of Canada has made very strict rules for the operation of such companies. She has also angered scientific circles by deriding the collection of babies' teeth for the purpose of measuring the amounts of Stron- tium 90 -- from radioactive fall- out -- stored in the teeth. Mr. Pearson has able colleagues waiting in the wings. One wonders why he retains Miss LaMarsh. New Currency Useful Edward M. Bernstein, a monetary economist and former research director for the International Mone- tary Fund, has suggested that a new currency be created. It would have a fixed value in relation to gold as well as reserve status. Countries would be able to use it as they now use gold or dollars or pounds to settle their international accounts. It is not a new idea, but it has more advantages now than ever -- at a time when the U.S. dollar and the pound sterling are both under pressure as the world's principal reserve currencies. It would also give greater stability to the entire monetary system. A recent study on balance of pay- ments and .related-problems by the The Age Of A passing comment made in the House of Commons raises the ques- tion of whether Canada may not be a lot farther along than we would like to think in the transition from e free and voluntary society to an ege of compulsion. The comment 'was made by the Prime Minister in a report to the House on his recent talks with the provincial premiers about the Canada Pension Plan. "The Prime Minister," reports the press, "said the Federal Government made clear to the provinces that it has no objection in principle to private plans contracting out of the federal scheme, but that if they did it would create almost insur- mountable administrative difficul- ties. For this reason, the Federal Government is proceeding on the Christmas Tree Care Each year, Christmas tree fires cause a disastrous loss of life and property. By following these simple rules set down by the Ontario Fire Marshall's office, the serious hazard created by a dry Christmas tree can be eliminated: Do not bring the tree inside until a day or two before Christmas, and do not keep it inside for more than 10 days. Place the tree as far as possible from any source of heat which will hasten the drying out process. Provide support for the tree so The Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher 2 C. 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SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchmen's 'Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen Orono, Leskard, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Columbus, Greenwood, Kinsale, Raglan, Blackstock, Manchester, Pontypool! and Newcostle not over 45¢ per week, By mail [in Province of Ontario) outside carriers delivery areas 12.00 per year Other Provinces ond: Commonwealth Countries 15.00, USA. and foreign 24.00, Brookings Institution pointed out that under the existing system the United States' payments deficit (more money going out than in) has been the main source of expan- sion in international liquidity--gold, dollars and other credits. If the out- flow of dollars shrinks, as the pres- ent U.S. government is determined it will, then liquidity -- and world trade -- might be adversely affected. The new currency suggestion un- doubtedly is just one of many to be considered. Hopefully, a consensus can emerge that will give the in- ternational monetary mechanism the flexibility it needs to stimulate more world trade as well as greater ability to weather periodic crises, Compulsion basis that its program must leave room for private plans to be adapted to the federal one." This does not sound like the lan- guage of compulsion but there is an ominous suggestion that Ottawa is prepared to force industrial workers now covered by private pension plans -- and more than _ three- quarters of all persons engaged in industry are employed in establish- hents having pension plans -- to switch over to the government- operated program. It is an age of paternalism. If a worker will contribute to the pro- duction of wealth the state will care for his needs, or at least his mini- mum, material needs. And that isn't very far from the classic 'concept of a benevolent slave state, that it will remain standing after a slight impact. Do not place the tree in a location where it can obstruct an exit. Drying out can be retarded by cutting the butt at an oblique angle and immersing it in a container of water, and by keeping the container full of water. Do not use wax candles on the tree. Inspect Christmas tree light cords to ensure that they are not frayed and do not have loose connections, and only use light sets that bear the Canadian Standards Association label. Do not use any highly flammable decorations on the tree. If metallic decorative streamers are used on the tree, it is essential that care be exercised to ensure that they are not in contact with or do not become wedged in the lamp sockets in order to prevent a short circuit through the streamers, Bible Thought Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee, -- Isaiah 26:3. True peace is dependent, upon the internal and eternal rather than the external and temporal. TO HIS DOOR REPORT FROM U.K. Vast Amount Lost By Fare Cheating By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- It is not a sur prising thing to hear, in casual conversations, otherwise per- fectly honest ar? respectable citizens of London boast of how they "ave managed to beat the London Transport @oard, which operates the underground rail- ways, out of its legitimate fares. Many people, it appears, have devised methods of getting away with it, At thesame time, there are far more people being caught at this game of bilking the London Transport than one would be- YOUR HEALTH "bieve. Last year, the transport board reports, 11,340 people were reported as being caught trying to avoid paying their fares on the underground sys- tem, Even the board itself has no real idea of how much moncy it lost-in fares every year from the ones who have found meth- ods of getting away with it, But unofficially, the board places the figure at somewhere between three million and four million dollars. London's underground system, it would appear, is notorious for bringing out a dishonest streak in otherwise perfectly honest Doses Of Iodine Rarely Necessary By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, M.D. Dear Dr. Molner: Does iodine increase or decrease the meta- bolism rate? Does taking one nutritional iodine tablet harm the' body? --Mrs. A. G. B. It may decrease the metabo- lism rate--or it may have no effect. And I don't like the term, 'nutritional iodine tablet," be- cause it implies that a person needs such a tablet. This idea has been implanted by people who should and probably do know better--just as the "diet supplement" propaganda has fooled people into buying pills they don't need, Indiscriminate taking of io- dine can be harmful at. times and it is usually a waste of money. True, the body needs a trace is a trace? It means .00004 per cent of the body's weight, and that works out, if you like arithmetic, to about one one-thousandth of an ounce for an average adult. That's the total amount, not the amount required each day. The body tends to kéep its trace of iodine and loses it slowly--ex- cept, of course, it rather quickly gets rid of iodine in excess of normal needs. LACK IN SOME AREAS In the past we had geogra- phical areas called "goiter belts," and some still exist in various parts of the world. In those areas (as is true around the Great Lake) iodine has gradually been washed out of the soil and carried away by the rivers. Hence food grown there contains little or no iodine. It is the reverse in other areas, particularly where sea- food is abundant. This problem of. "goiter belts" has been effectively solved, both by transportation which permits wider distribution of food grown. in other areas and by adding a tiny amount of potassium iodide to ordinary table salt. Goiter--and a goiter is an overgrown thyroid gland -- no longer is as common as it was before iodized salt was put on the market about 49 years ago. The explanation is that . the thyroid gland needs iodine as & constituent of the thyroid hor- mone which it produces and which exerts strong control over metabolism. When the needed trace of io- dine is lacking, the thyroid gland works overtime and en- larges, trying to compensate for the lack. Hence goiter. (There are, of course, other causes of enlarged thyroid.) In many cases, taking an ex- cess of iodine will neither in- crease or decrease the thyroid activity, since it already has enough iodine. If the thyroid lacks iodine, then taking iodine will reduce the gland's over - activity, and will reduce the metabolism rate, This, in fact, used to be the method of treating such glands. Today, better medica- tions are available. So, in a few words my advice is that you not take iodine tab- lets unless your doctor pre- scribes them and that you not regard them as "nutritional io- dine." Dear Dr. Molner: I read your article on the use of human waste as fertilizer. My question is whether it is safe to grow garden vegetables over. the la- terals leading from our septic tank.--M. E. H. I consider it unsafe--or po- tentially so. It could carry a risk, so between now and the next spring see if you can put the vegetable garden elsewhere. The risk is failure of the septic tank~--which can and does hap- pen -- or clogging of the tile field. Ger BUSINESS ESTABLISHED 1902 BARCLAY & CRAWFORD Members of The Toronto Stock Exchange The | Dealers' A lati of Canade D. R. ARMSTRONG, MANAGER 37 KING STREET EAST, OSHAWA PHONE: 723-3423 and respectable citizens. It re- minds one of the old army game of wartime days when it was never considered stealing to be able to "scrounge'\ something which belonged to the govern- ment, as represented by the army authorities. CHIEFS. WORRIED The practice of trying to beat the underground railway out of its fares, however, is growing at such a rate that the London Transport chiefs are worried at the upward swing in the num- ber of cheaters. They claim that it has increased by over 60 per cent in the last 10 years. The London Transport Board has tried: all sorts of methods to catch the dodq. s' who try to ride without paying their proper fares, and to arrest the growth in this cheating. It has a plan for changing ticket colors, swooping down on _ individual stations periodica'ly. It has a system of following on their travels passengers who are sus- pected of being dodgers, and of tying to take a longer journey than the one for which they 'ave paid their fares. And there @re other schemes about which the public does not know a thing. DILIGENCE AWARDS here is one scheme, for In- stance, under which a ticket col- lector is given a bonus of just over $2 for every 'raud case he reports, regardless of whether or not the case ,oes to court. Under consideration at the moment is a new type of eiec- tronic turnstile which will liter- ally trap the unwary passenger who tries to pass with a "dud"' ticket. Word is getting around the City about one station at which it is: more than usually danger- ous to try to cheat the railway. From bowler hat to bowler hat the word is being whispered, "Be careful with Blackfriars, old boy", and the word is being passed around among office girls, too. There is a good reason for this, for at the barrier at this tube station i the reigning champion at spotting fare- dodgers. So *.r, it is reported, he has caught more than 3,000 of them. And news like. that does get around among the habitual fare-bilkers, A spokesman for the London TN port Board admitted that monetary awards are made to traffic staff 0: all grades for any special action in connection with their work, and spotting fare-dodgers 's one of the ac- tior: for which awards are given. The award is cited as being 'for diligence', but it is not very great, ranging from one dollar to something over two dollars. OTTAWA REPORT Cracks In Claque Of Prairie Tories By PATRICK NICHULSON OTTAWA-- Why is there a leadership crisis within the Con- servative party? How come that some Conservatives consider the leadership of John Diefenbaker to be essential for the future electoral success of their party, while others vehemently believe that he has become an unmiti- gated disaster to their party? The explanation for these ap- parently diametrically opposed views is quite simple. It arises through the delay in communi- cation. Only a small group of ves are able to ob- serve their leader from close at hand; they are those who hold office in the party, or sit in Par- liament; or have reason to be in frequent touch with Parlia- ment Hill. But at the other ex- treme are those Conservatives who live far away, have no con- tacts with this well-informed group, seldom enjoy a frank dis- cussion with their Conservative MP and so have no means of learning what is really hpapen- ing backstage on Parliament Hill. CHANGE PINPOINTED Many Conservatives here con- sider that an abrupt and deci- BY-GONE DAYS 30 YEARS AGO Dec, 12, 1933 The last brick was laid on the new Legion Hall on Centre street, Norval Tonkin made a score of 299 out of a possible 300 at the Oshawa Rifle Club. shoot. W. H. Moore, MP, was the guest speaker at the King Street United Church Men's Brother- hood. His topic was 'The Fu- ture State"'. Fifty men left Oshawa for Al- gonquin Park to work on a gov- ernment project. At the annual parents' night of the 'Seventh Oshawa. Troop, Boy Scouts, District Commis- sioner W. L. Pierson presented the troop with the Oshawa Daily Times' Trophy for having stood first in proficiency on the year's work, Officers elected for the Osh- awa General Hospital Medical Staff were Dr, Hartley Lewis, president; Dr. C..W. Carr, vice- president; Dr. W. S. Millman, secretary; Dr, J. A. Brown and Dr. E, A. McKibbin, executive committee. Roy Lick was elected presi- dent of the Oshawa District Milk Producers' Association. Peter Christie, former MP for Ontario County, died at his home in Manchester at the age of 87. Rev. W. A. Nisbet, new pas- tor of Calvary Baptist Church, was given a welcome by mem- bers of the congregation, ~ Mrs. R. S. McLaughlin, presi- dent of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Oshawa General Hospital, and Miss E. MacWilliams. su- perintendent, made draws for the dolls being raffled for Auxil- iary funds, The Oshawa Public Library reported a total circulation of 17,130 books for November. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Dec. 12, 1963 Italian physicist Gu- glielmo Marconi -- despite the opinion of some mathe- maticians that it couldn't be done--received the first transatlantic wireless signal at St. John's, Nfld., from Cornwall, England 62 years ago today--in 1901. Mar- coni's achievement was the starting point for the devel- | opment of radio communi- cations, broadcasting and navigation services, 1642 -- Dutch navigator Abel Tasman discovered New Zealand, 1951--The St. Lawrence Seaway Authority was @s- t ablished by an act of the Canadian parliament. back, zenith. Shakespeare said it... Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his Wherein he puts alms for oblivion. TROILUS & CRESSIDA Shakespear's Achilles found out the hard way. Yesterday's heroes can be tomorrow's nobodies. Here's another application for that axiom -- the "blue-chip" stocks you own today may.already have passed their No. 3 of a Series Continuous | pp es h is the ons investment. tis our b te a ful al fH Crang ¥ bo task The Toronto Stock Exchange 22 King Street East, Oshawa 725-3591 A. R. Garrett; Manager sive change occurred in John Diefenbaker's qualities as leader last year. Specifically the date can be put somewhere between the general election June 18 and the Cuba crisis late in October. In his early years, John Diefen- baker was admired with the blindness of love by many Ca- nadians who hoped for great achievements by him. Disen- chantment was bound to follow this emotional tide and this was showing before the election, But after Cuba there arose a wide- spread conviction that he no longer had anything but disas- ver to offer his party. This stemmed from h's increasing in- decision; from his hardening ne- glect of Quebec; and because he increasingly appeared to follow political expediency rather than a consistent philosophy, evaluat- ing each issue primarily for its possible attractions on the hust- ings. Only insiders saw this picture, but a growing reluctance to "follow John" was dramatically evidenced by the resignation of some ministers, by the retire- ment of a number of former MPs, and by refusals to vote with the leader in the House of Commons, ., Way out in the distant constit- uencies, however, Mr. Diefen- baker is still regarded as the same great leader that he prom- ised to be seven, six and five _years ago. The message of the recent disenchantment of his supporters here has not yet reached all those more distant parts of- Canada. But when it does, the verdict there is likely to be the same asthe majority seems to have proclaimed it here: Mr. Diefenbaker has , served his country and his party well in years past, but his day is done. Then too the verdict will | be reversed upon some of those + who have openly and courage- ously split with him: they have been dubbed "'traitors," but his- tory will call them patriots whe placed prin¢c'ple before position. THE CRACKS WIDEN This failure of communication, this lack of the spread of the full story of the 1962 change, ac- counts for the discrepancy be- tween the opinion in the Ottawa hub of the Conservative party and the views at its distant edges. _ This places some MPs in a dif- ficult position, They themselves know the facts, but their less-in- formed constituents still hold the pre-1962 view of Diefen- baker. But opinion is changing even in the last stronghold of D'efenbakerism--on the Prair- ies. There are cracks in the claque of Prairie MPs, who have been the rock-ribbed unquestion- ing cheering section behind "our John." One asks why the minis. ters never appealed to them di- rectly, over the head of Alvin Hamilton, during the crisis, An- other says the farmers back home are asking whether it is true that 'Diefenbaker cannot work with men.' That shocks them, Thus while Mr. Diefenbaker and his critics prepare for future skirmishes, the end of the Dief- enbaker era is in sight, The party is bigger than any one man; over 1,300,000 former Con- servative voters, or more than two-thirds, have already left the Diefenbaker leadership; the pro- portion of dissatisfied on Parlia- ment Hill seems much higher. And this is attributable to the change which occurred between June and October last year, I believe. : his favorite shirt is the most colorful gift of all! Dress Shirts for Christmos! Always welcome but this year brighter with stripes and colors os never before. ond he can't hove too mony whites ..« in the new collar styles and old favorites SHIRTS FROM $5.00 © TIES $1.50 OSHAWA SHOPPING CENTRE