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The Oshawa Times ~Publisied by Canadian Newspapers Limited eS King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario a jg le Wilson, Publisher MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1964 -- PAGE 6 Tax Structure Inquiry May Mean Power Shift The bland tone of the official communique issued at the end of last week's federal-provincial con- ference could not hide the fact that Canada has moved appreciably closer to the critical moment of constitutional decision. It may well be that 1967 will mark not only the hundredth birthday of the "old" Canada but also the birth of a new Canada with a_ federal-provincial structure appreciably different from the one that now exists. Important changes are probable even if Quebec moderates its. de- mands. All the provinces want a bigger share of tax revenues, of course, but while the poorer pro- vinces do not want to abandon the tax-sharing principle by which they take back more than they turn in to Ottawa, the richer provinces, under the more urgent pressures of, swift development, are more insis- tent on the need for "new solutions" to "our fiscal problems". The new solutions could change the shape of Confederation just as surely as could the course which has been charted by the Quebec government, by diverting revenues from the central authority to the provinces. Ontario's Premier Robarts is quite right when he says that the tax structure committee to be es- tablished as a result of the con- ference will be of "very great signi- ficance indeed". A drastic revision of the tax structure has long been needed, It was in, recognition of this need that the Royal Commis- sion on Taxation was set up -- and curiously, no quiry was made in the announce- ment of the federal-provincial committee. But no matter how it is split up, there is only so much money in the pot; and there is strong evidence that municipal, pro= vincial and federal governments to- gether are already taking too much out of the pot. If the provinces get more, the federal government must get less -- and taxing power tends to attract other power. It is possible, then, that will shift from Ottawa to the pro- making Canada a_ loose instead of a_ strong power vinces, federation Confederation. Canada's Brain Drain According to figures given to the House of Commons, 1,583 doctors, engineers, scientists and university teachers left Canada for the United States in the year ended last June The figures were taken from reports of the United States im- migration service, because Canadian authorities do not keep track of the people who leave this country. Canada will miss those doctors, engineers, scientists and university teachers, but they were only a small part. of the exodus of highly trained people to the United States. In terms of quantity, emigration last year nearly equalled Canada's intake of 93,000 immigrants. Natural in- crease, the excess of births over deaths, amounted to 322,000, but' the estimated population growth was only 335,000, indicating that about 80,000 persons emigrated from Canada. Most of these, no doubt, went to the United States. Among them, in addition to the four fessional categories mentioned above, there would have been many skilled workers, business executives, pro- nurses, architects, lawyers, accoun- tants and others with spec ial gifts or training. Canadians cross the border for many reasons. Climate attracts some. Others go to study and may return. Some seek better facilities in a particular field. But for most it is simply a matter of money. The per capita output of wealth in the U.S. is about 30 per cent higher than in Canada; the average factory wage is about 30 per cent higher and salaries are in the same pro- portion. The disparity is mainly due to the larger population. and the consequent larger consumer market. The lesson for Canada seems obvious: This country needs a much larger population to generate and support a higher standard of living. To put it another way, the country needs a higher rate of population increase -- much higher than can be obtained from natural increase and cautious immigration. And the people already here need more en- and one form more couragement to stay; encouragement would equitable tax rates. of be For Future Recreation This year National Wildlife Week, now being observed, is being given new meaning by the Canadian Wild- life Federation. and its member organizations. This formed federation of provincial sportsmen's groups and representatives of na- tional organizations, has. provided the the Week. It is: "Canadians need out- door récreation; act now to provide for the future." Three-quarters of all Canadi ans now live in urban areas. They have more money and more leisure than ever before, and they are more mobile. It is only that they have beén 'turning in ever-increas- ing numbers to the outdoors for recreation -- and they finding how much of the outdoors is posted, polluted or crowded. We have been slow to realize She Osharoa Times C, GWYN. KINSEY, awa Times combining ished 187 and the Wh established 1863 s newly conserwation theme for natural been have that despatched in the paper c Associated Press or Reute news published therein, A! patches are also reserved. Offices: rights of speciat des- Thomsor niversity Street, SUBSCRIPTION RATES De Pickeririg, Bowmanville, Brook t rr Fs vered by carriers Oshaw Albert, Maple Grove, Hamptor Tyroné, D eor, Other untries §15.0 rs delivery areas 12 ond Commonwealth Co Us 'SA. oa foreign 24,00, not just that our standard of living is an affair of the pocket book, material things alone do not consti- tute wealth. We are slow to realize that an adequate standard of living is also- an affair of the spirit and the intellect, and depends on a harmony with and an understand- ing of the natural world about us. Every time we abuse and despoil that world, we are abusing and de- spoiling our standard of living. In the past we have slashed and burned forests to lay bare land that of could never support sound agricul- . ture; are still draining wet- lands to grow more produce to add we to our stockpiled surpluses; we have air and our water to be polluted; we have cried gress" as beauty spots and fertile soil vanished the urban sprawl. And this is still going on, we are spending more and more money in efforts to correct the allowed our "nro- under while mistakes of the past. necessary, but surely we should be wise enough now to stop making the mistakes which our children and children's children will to repair. And that. is the National Wildlife Week the Wildlife diture is have purpose of and the campaign of Federation, Bible Thought an. two walk together Amos. 3:3. God in Better get | except he agreed? the with it if 0 oul? SOU "Differences am. settied nov k with Him, f you would wa mention of this in- . That. expen- ibe ROUNDUP TIME, SOUTH OF TEXAS REPORT FROM U.K. Police Force Eyes Soccer Cast-Offs By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- The chiefs of Scotland Yard apparently feel that professional footballers would make 'excellent police- men, and are conducting a cam- paign to induce as many as pos- sible of them to join the Metro- politan Police Force. This step has been taken because of the knowledge that at the end of the present season .many of the clubs, and practically all of YOUR HEALTH those in the lower divisions of the English League, will be re- ducing their playing staffs. be- cause of financial stringency. It has been estimated that as many as 1,000-professional foot- bali players will not be signed on again for next season, and will have to find other avenues of earling a livelihood To these cast-off football play- ers, Scotland Yard is offering a joint football and police career in' the Metropolitan -- Police Force Assistant Commissioner J. L. Patient Can Help Liver Regenerate By Joseph G. MOLNER, MD Dear Dr. Molner: Two years ago I had hepatitis, and even with the best of care if left me with a chronic liver condition Is there. any drug which will help? What about diet? Is rest important? I am 50.--DP Perhaps putting hepatitis into correct perspective will make you less gloomy than you seem to be Hepatitis is inflammation of the liver. In the last few years we have heard a good deal about it because much of it has been traced to virus However, there are other causes: arsenic, hydrocar- bons and a variety of poisons; syphilis; ameba. All are inflam- mation of the liver and hence are "hepatitis." In short, the liver is damaged, sometimes more and sometimes less While the organ has remark- able powers of regenerating it- self, even after rather severe damage, this takes time Unlike a good many other ill- nesses, once the infection has been conquered, you may return to normal quite readily. This is not so with the liver, because it is complex and there is no way to give it a complete rest. Thus the healing and regenera- tion has to progress while this important organ keeps right on working There will do this for succeed best just that you do nothing to interfere wih Nature's slow progress Diet should be balanced--pro- tein, carbohydrate, and a mod- erate amount of fat. Vitamin B complex often is used, too Al¢cohol must. be avoided After all, it is a poison, and the liver shouldn't be required to contend with it. -- Rest is. important in tive stage of hepatitis; years, your regular (about eight hours for' us) js al! you require It's easier for me to tell you to be patient than it is for you to be so. There are certain liver tests that can be done every six months or so, which will reveal whether the condition static or improving, and, quité aside from the medical importance of this information, 'it is some- times comforting to a patient to know that he really IS improv- ing even though the procedure seems terribly. slow Dear Dr. Molner:. Are positories 'at all harmful? they better than the daily of . Jaxatives? RS.. WW are much plenty of is no magic drug which you. Rather, you by seeing to it the ac- after two amount most of sup- Are use safer Hence ene effective weferable 10. laxalives. o1 ma Any ill effect (there may be none, remember) would give you warning by tal irritation, bleeding Dear Dr. Molner: | have been a fairly heavy smoker since I was i4. I am now 33, I have read so much about cancer that i would like to know what my chances are of avoiding it if I stop now.--AF They will be a lot better if you stop now. You will have a much better chance of avoiding heart or lung troubles, too Dear Dr, Molner: Our eighth grade class would like to know if it is true that eating the apple core 'could cause appendicitis? --ROOM 31 (47 SIGNATURES), No, it won't cause appendici- tis. A seed, if it happened ,to lodge in the appendix, could cause irritation but even this is very unusual. So go ahead and give teacher an apple, And have one yourself, NOTE TO AE: indication that tranquilizers cause cataracts, There can side effects, but they are tem- porary; if trouble develops, stop or reduce the tranquilizers GALLUP POLL means of rec- discharge, or No, there is no be Waldron of Scotland Yard has sent out a letter to more than 200 professional football clubs in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, suggesting that re- leased players consider the ad- vantages of joining the force. This is part of a recruiting drive now in progress, not only in London, but in other localities, to secure more recruits. A spe- cial film: "I am a Policeman" is being distributed for showing, and the opportunities in Lon- don's police force are being ad- vertised both in the press and on television. In his letter addressed special- ly to football players, Assistant Commissioner Waldron -- says that the Metropolitan Police are members of the , Metropolitan Football League, and have for- mer professional footballers playing for them. The letter ex- plains that a police career might attract former club players "if only because of the opportunity to continue in good class soc- cer' Such clubs as Arsenal, Totten- ham and West. Ham have strong teams in the Metropolitan League, he says, and Charlton Athletic and Oxford United have their reserve' sides in that league "Apart from. football, how- ever, his letter goes on, "'the Metropolitan Police 6ffers suit- able men an interesting and sé cure job with good pay and al- lowances. Constables at the top rate earn more than $3,000 a year." QUALIFICATIONS There is one intriguing feature about the letter. It gives the name and address of Inspector D. Aldridge, secretary of the Metropolitan P o lice Football Club, of which Assistant Com- missioner Waldron is chairman, and says the secretary would be pleased to give any football players. who might. be prospec- tive recruits information about the club The general qualifications for the Metropolitan Police Force are stated in simple terms, Re- cruits. should be British, aged between 19 and 30 years of age, not less than five feet, eight inches tall and, of reasonable education. If this campaign should pro- duce the desired' results, hte Metropolitan Police might well look forward to having quite a strong football team in the Met- ropolitan League. Few Changes: Observed Tn Political By THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION (World Copyright Reserved) Votes of confidence in the minority Liberal Government may come and go in the Fed- eral House--but political moods of the voter remain fairly static. Party standings today are at about the half-way mark be- tween the 1962 and the 1963 elec- tions. In summary, Conserva- tives today are at a lower point than in the '62 election, but have gained slightly since last April's election, Liberals; on the other hand, are up from their actual Actual Vote 1962 Actual Vote 1963 election . January TODAY election .... Regionally Party strengths continue to of political loyalties. Quebec Ontario The West Attitude vote in "62 but one point down from last year. One in four voters is undecided, Liberals hold a big lead in Quebec, and are 11 per cent ahead of Conservatives in On- tario. The West remains loyal to. John Diefenbaker. Interviewers for the Gallup Poll asked: "If a Federal election were held today which party's candi- date do you think you would favor?" The table below compares ac- tual Party vote in the last two elections, with Party standings reported by the Poll last Janu- ary, and the situation today Soe-Cred And Other 12%, Libs. NDP 37% = =--14% Cons. 37%, - 33 42 13 12 35 42 13 10 5 41 13 11 show a wide variance Soe-Cred Libs And Other joer " 10 Cons 18° ] 40 30 13 OTTAWA REPORT Parliament Hits Its Lowest Level By PATRICK NICHULSON OTTAWA--The day was offi- cially 'Good Friday." But Fri- day, March 27, 1964 was far from "good" on Parliament Hill, when our House of Com- mons was thrown into a gutter of wrangles and red herrings, and dragged our Senate down with it. Let the official record speak for itself: Lucien Lamoureux, the dep- uty Speaker, declared at the 6 p.m. closing time 'on Maundy Thursday: 'In the absence of any order of the House, if we adjourn at this point, then of course according to the rules of the House we will resume to- morrow at 11 o'clock." Hon. Guy Favreau (Liberal House leader): 'Mr. Speaker, in order to avoid having to sit on Good Friday, I suggest that the House give unanimous con- sent to adjourning until Monday, March 30, at 2.30 p.m." Terry Nugent (Progressive Conservative MP for Edmon- ton-Strathcona): "Refused." Mr. Lamoureux: "Since there is obviously not unanimous con- sent, this House stands ad- journed until tomorrow (Good Friday) morning at 11 o'clock."' Acdordingly, the House had to meet on Good Friday morn- ing, unanimous consent not to meet having been refused. But at that meeting, the senior Lib- eral cabinet minister present immediately proposed adjourn- ment. To this the House agreed, and at 11.07 a.m. the House adjourned until 2.30 p.m. on Monday, March 30 -- after a pointless sitting which involved the speaking of just 52 words on the record. SECRET SENATE The Senate had been sum- moned to meet at 11.30 a.m. on Good Friday, and about two dozen of the 102 seats were oc- PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM people appear to be good losers and others are poor actors. Some It's inadvisable for a person to shoot for a high goal if his ammunition is weak. » Another reason for staying out of debt is that it's so hard to work for money you've already spent. : behave them- times, regardless of the circumstances," says a woman writer. That's one big trouble with women -- they're unreasonable. "Men should selves at all cupied. Behind closed doors, as is customary, the senators shared in prayers. Then they held an unusually long "closed door" debate in private over what action they should take in public. The government leader, Senator Connolly, spoke; he was followed by Senator Cho- quette for the Conservatives, and by Liberal senators Nor- man Lambert and Jean-Fran- cois Poiliot. While this seem- ingly undemocratic "secret ses- sion" continued, the public was kept waiting outside for 27 min- utes--then did not have time to take seats in the public galleries before the brief ritual of imme- diate adjournment closed down that pointless Good Friday ses- sion of the Senate, too. Harold Winch, NDP veteran of 31 years service in the B.C. legislature and in the Commons said to me that Parliament "sank to the lowest level of childishness I have ever seen." Mr. Diefenbaker issued a QUEEN'S PARK statement which, In tortured syntax, suggested that the real cause of this childishness was the government's desire "'to through Parliament #2400000 in estimates within _few hours, thereby denying ae Me examination." Qon- 'veniently, he overlooked the historical fact that, when (he was prime minister, on t 10, 1960, a even higher sum estimates was rushed Parliament; with adequate ex- amination denied presumably, on that session's closing day. Hon. Judy LaMarsh quipped that Mr. D, in his last year as PM, had spent 11-12ths of the entire year's estimates (say, something over $5,500,000,000 without normal parliamentary examination. It is undesirable and it is wrong that such huge spending estimates should be rushed. through with only cursory study, but as loose legislative ends, they traditionally are. What was so infantile about Parliament's 'Bad Friday" was that the pointless obstruction by the Tories dragged the whole parliamentary machine into a needless Good Friday sitting, whose only achievement was te postpone busines' until the fol- lowing Monday--as had been re- fused by the Tories on the Previous evening. Reaction To Bill Show Of Strength BY DON O'HEARN TORONTO--When' the history books are written, March 23, 1964, witl go down as one of Ontario's remarkable days. It saw the resignation of the attorney - general under highly dramatic circumstances. Above all, of course--and this is the fact history will most re- cord--it saw a public so thor- oughly aroused over a potential abuse of civil liberty that a strong new blow was struck for the principles of our English common law society. Further, it saw the role of the opposition restored to a position of some strength in our society. And finally, it demonstrated once again that on imatters of great concem our press can be united and functioning in its over - riding responsibility of final watch-dog of the public in- terest. MUCH CREDIT Nearly everybody emerges from this chapter in our politi- cal life with credit The initial credit goes to the press, which first publicized this offensive legislation. But then the two opposition parties earn great marks for the firm fight they put up against the Police Act amend- ments. They showed not only determination but also unusual debating strength. BY-GONE DAYS 15 YEARS AGO April 6, 1949 Kinsmen Memorial Sta- dium, on the flats just north of the Oshawa Arena was near- ing completion. Up to the pre- time, the Kinsmen raised of over $42,642 for the The sent a total project. Quin, director or recre- ation, announced that a teen- age club was formed at the CRA building A. G Stewart R. Alger was re- elected president of the Greater Oshawa Community Chest for 1949 Incidents in the life of Percy Punshon, well noted Oshawa citizen, were recalled by A. L. Bouckley for the members of the Lions Club at their bi- monthly meeting. Building permits to the value of $87,225 were issued from the City Engineer's Department in March. A juvenile admitted to Fire Chief W. R. Elliott that he was responsible for a series of false alarms that had plagued the fire department during a period of three days. Mrs. Clark Slack was honored at the 25th anniversary banquet of Victow Lodge when she was presented wi er past mistress jewel. 'Dusty' Blair was voted as the "most popular player" of the 1948-49 edition of the Osh- awa Generals. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN April 6, 1964... Commodore Robert EF. Peary of the United States reached the North Pole on his sixth attempt 55 years ago today--in 1909, He was accompanied on the last stage of his successful jour- ney by his aide, Matthew Henson, and four Eskimos, one of. whom drowned dur- ing their return. He first announced his intention to try for the pole in 1898 1917 -- The U:S. declared on Germany 1942 The Ist Canadian Army was formed in Brit+ ain PRESS O.N. Dingman was elected pre- sident and Jack Murdoch secre- tary of the North West Com- munity Association. Fellow employees at the Osh- awa Post Office presented Wilfred Samells, retiring letter carrier, with a car radio, in recognition of his 21 years' service. Diane Barnes, Katharine Pol- son, Marilyn Webster, Dianne Hurst, and Sandra Hardie won the public speaking medal con- test in Simcoe Street United Church, sponsored by the Wom- en's Christian Temperance Union, And finally, Premier Robarts emerges not without credit. ROBARTS' DIGNITY Many of Mr. Robarts' sup- porters were firmly against the objectionable Section 14 of tha act. But they were willing to go along with him on the pro- cedural questions which were before the main house. With his great majority he could have battled the act through the house and then re- moved it down to committee, | with much less potential politis / cal danger. But he had the courage, and the dignity, to give way in the main house and to recognize what most certainly will be generally regarded as a defeat. While doing this he did res: cue something--the assurance that the men who had propose¢ and drafted the offending ac would appear before the com mittee and justify their actions Through this he will at leas) get before the public the reason ing which prompted the govern ment to propose the bill. SLIPPED THROUGH? This has not been publicly acknowledged, but it seems al- most certain that the bill slip) ped through cabinet without any real appreciation of what it involved. This was sloppy, and the ad ministration probably - will suf- fer for it. But also, there probably is a guarantee that much more care will be taken in the future, It is hard to believe that an objectionable section such as ' this could immediately be } picked up by newspaper report- | ers and yet get through a group of men experienced in the for- mulation of law. Yet it did so--which would re- fiect that our initiation of law has become very sloppy. And having been burned, the government will correct this. A. E. 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