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Ak PNA i ie She Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1964 -- PAGE 6 Discipline A Reason | For School Drop-Outs The time is near, with examin- ation results soon jo appear, that some high school students who have not done too well start thinking of dropping out. The summer job, with the extra money it provides. is a powerful persuader. By contrast with the familiar disciplines of school, job disciplines do not seem at all irksome. The fact that it is a novelty that makes them appear light. is apt to be overlooked, notes the Hamilton Spectator. A a recent and informal meeting - of high school guidance counsellors, the main topic of conversation was drop-outs. High on the list of reas- ons given for drop-outs was disci- pline. During termina] interviews given by guidance counsellors young people were always asked why they were leaving, or why they wanted to leave. One of the frequent ans- wers was: "I can't stand the dis- cipline." Several years ago when the Royal Canadian Navy was concerned about the number of young men applying for release from the service before _ they had completed their enlist- ment, the Navy organized boards to question each sailor asking for early release. Some eighty per cent Yanks Shun Wave a two-dollar bil] under an average Canadian's nose and he is, as quick to snap it up as a bullfrog espying a gnat, notes the St. John Telegraph-Journal. Try the same thing on an American--and nothing may happen. Not that Americans don't like money; they just don't like $2 bills. Mrs. Kathryn O'Hay Granahan is fighting a losing war in her cam- paign to popularize the U.S. $2 bill. For months the Treasurer of the United States has been traversing the countryside pleading the cause of the unpopular currency unit, but the only action she has seen is a flurry of mail advising her how the $2 might be made popular. Print the bills with the corners cut off, is the novel suggestion of a Sylvania, Pa., man. His solution is based on the superstition that the bill is unlucky and one way to avoid misfortune is to tear off the corn- of the answers were the same as those given by high school drop- outs: discipline. : It seems a pity that these youn, people cannot adjust themselves to discipline. In these days it is not nearly so harsh and unsympathetic as it was only twenty. years ago. There cannot be any sort of society without discipline of one kind or another. It is all around us. The traffic light and the theatre queue are simple examples of obedience to rules that make life simpler. Home routines, however loose and inform- al they may be, are, in their way, formers of discipline. Complete conformity would build a nation of followers with no one to lead. Individualists are needed, but a nation of individualists whose only reason for claiming uniqueness was a dislike of sinfple discipline, would lead to nothing bu anarchy. The best form of discipline is that which is imposed on self, says The Spectator. And the first step is to obey the rules of the society in which we live. An old and now rarely heard maxim runs: ""He who would command must first learn to obey." It is still valid, and there are no short cuts. $2 Bills ers. Thousands of the bills are re- placed by the Treasury annually be- cause of such mutilation. Almost no one in the U.S. is spending $2 bills. The demand is so slight that most banks will not stock more than a token supply of the currency. Before the First World War this denomination of money was fairly common. The treasurer's interest in the deuce is more economic than per- sonal. She figures by replacing 300 million $1 bills with $150 million $2 bills the Treasury could save about $1.5 million a year in printing costs. Printing costs are the same, regardless of denomination. One U.S. commentator observes, "Mrs. Granahan may be a trifle premature in her campaign. Let in- flation take its toll for a few more years and she, or her successor, can promote the $5 bill. Savings in printing costs on that exchange should be phenomenal." Bingo Row In Sudbury warned to call off the night's bingo sessions. If such organizations were prosecuted, Mayor Fabbro went on, it could mean the loss of thousands of dollars each year to charitable Another one of those ridiculous rows over the rights and wrongs of bingo has developed in an Ontario Municipality--this time in Sudbury. It begins to appear that, while our society is capable of perfecting the most complicated piece of electronic equipment, it cannot begin to cope with something as simple as bingo, says the Kingston Whig-Standard. Sudbury's Chief of Police began the latest piece of nonsense by an- nouncing that any club or organ- ization caught sponsoring regular bingo sessions will face charges of operating a common gaming house. This nettled Mayor Joseph Fabbro who expressed amazement at the fact that the chief would "attempt to enforce such legislation." The later, said the mayor, had promised that he wouldn't interfere' with 'Bona fide" groups; a few minutes later a "well-established" club was The Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher C. GWYN KINSEY, 'Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times testablished 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle {established 1863) is published daily {Sundays and Statutory holidoys excepted) Members ot Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish- ers Association. 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Other Provinces ond Commonwealth Countries 15.00, U.S.A. and foreige 24,00, University Street, causes, It seems clear that somebody has been after Sudbury's Chief of Police about bingo games. And, of course, he has a clear duty to enforce the strange law which is supposed to control the popular pastime. It will be noted that his statement empha- sized "regular" games, and therein lies one of the most hotly disputed factors in this whole curious bus- iness. The law permits organiza- tions to conduct bingo games for charitable purposes on an "occas- ional" basis. But nobody seems at all certain what that word is in- tended to convey: Once a month, once a week, or what? Further, it seems ludicrous that a service club, say, which conducts bingo games regularly and uses the proceeds for community or charitable projects must face the risk of prosecution, while the law. permits midway con- cessionaires to conduct as many bingo games a day as they like dur- ing the duration of a so-called agri- cultural exhibition". ; Admittedly the criminal element has reaped a bountiful harvest from certain bingo operations and there has been cheating of other kinds. But surely it wouldn't be too diffi- cult to set up a proper licensing and regulatory system to deal with these iniquities. Such a system, per- haps, wouldn't. be completely im- mune. from the crook and the loop- hole-seeker. But then, what is? CO-OPERATIVE FEDERALISM REPORT FROM U.K. Revision Seen On Railway Plan By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON The extensive program of closures for railway lines and stations all over Brit- ain, under the Dr, Beecning plan to make: the railways prof- YOUR HEALTH itable, is to come in for con- siderable revision before it goes into effect. Many of the branch lines which were scheduled to be closed down are to be re- prieved, and will go on oper- ating. This change of thought on the part of Dr. Beeching has not been inspired by protests Forcing Children To Eat Is Brutal By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, MD Dear Dr. Molner: I know of a mother who insists that her four - year - old son clean his plate. If he doesn't she gets a strap and sits there threaten- ing to spank him until he does. That seems brutal to me. What do you think?--Mrs. M.D. It's not only brutal, it's also senseless. Being hungry is nature's way of telling us that we ought to eat. Not being hungry is na- ture's way of telling us we've had enough. I have no objection whatever to the common (and common- sense) practice in many fami- lies of telling a child to eat his dinner before getting any des- sert A child (and adults, too, for that matter) need a balance of protein, vegetables, calcium foods (milk being the main one) and fruits, especially citrus fruits or tomatoes or juice, to provide "building" materials for the body, plus vitamins, which regulate certain body processes Children don't need sweet stuff, except to provide energy --and if they aren't getting enough energy food, they keep on being hungry. Actually, it doesn't make too much differ- ence, diet-wise, whether they get the energy from starches or from sugar, or from fats Sweet foods wil] kill the ap- petite. So that's a very good reason for having dessert last instead of first. But forcing a child to eat a certain amount of food, when he doesn't feel hungry, is sense- less. If he's hungry, he'll eat. And trying to force him to swallow food he doesn't want or need, boils down to trying to set yourself up as a_ better judge than nature, in deciding how hungry he "ought to be." How, I wonder when I see such bossy mothers, would they like it to have someone set an arbitrary amount of food in front of them, and be forced to eat it with the threat of being whipped if they didn't? TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS duly 17, 1964 .:. The British Royal Family adopted the name Windsar 47 years ago today--in 1917 --and gave up all German titles and the dynastic names -of Saxe - Coburg- Gotha acquired through the marriage of Queen Victoria to Prince Albert. 1938--Pilot'-Douglas Cor- rigan took off from New York for a flight to Cali- fornia. He landed at Dublin in Ireland and earned the name Wrong Way Corrigan 1945 .-- Churchill, Truman and Stalin met at Potsdam, Psychologically, the damage to a child is usually much worse than it is physically. If the child gives in, and eats too much, he gets fat. But if (as most children sen- sibly do) the child just gets an- gry at being forced to do some- thing goofy, like eating when he isn't hungry, he gradually de- velops a resentment against authority. He realizes that au- thority (in the form of his mother) isn't always right. He rebels. How much he reb- els depends on his\ instincts, I suppose. But his rebellion car- ries over into other things. He learns to rebel against any au- thority, He refuses. to do what his teachers tell him to do in school, And he doesn't learn, He refuses to do what his boss, later on, tells him to do. And he gets fired from his job. He won't obey traffic laws, and you know then what happens. No, don't whip a child until he eats what you've set before him. Give. him suitably balanced meals. Let him eat until he's full. If he experiments with fill- ing up with candy or whatever between meals, and then re- fuses to eat his dinner, don't use the whip, Just cut off the between meal snacks. And let nature take its course at din- ner. It will. And nature, having existed for a long, long time, will take care of things. Dear Dr. Molner: My doctor says I have cysts on my ovar- ies. Could this be the reason I can't get pregnant?--Mrs, J.L. Yes, it could be. against these closures, although in a few cases these have been effective, in that they have per- suaded the minister of trans- port to veto the closing of the lines involved. The reason for the change of heart is that, in the last 12 months, new engin- eering methods. and techniques have cut the losses on the lines scheduled for the axe, and in several instances have turned them into profit-making branches. A report from railway board headquarters says that the board's experts are. convinced that many of the 266 passenger services to small stations, due to be discontinued, because they were uneconomic, can now be made to pay their way. BREAK THROUGH A senior official of British Railways made the following statement in this regard: "There has been a tremen- dous breakthrough in this field. Experiments in laying and maintaining railway track by new mechanical methods have resulted in savings of up to 50 per cent." The extension of the 'bus stop" idea for converting small Stations into unstaffed stopping places, with the train guards acting as ticket sellers and col- lectors has also proved to be a financial success. LOSSES ARE CUT Some instances of drastic sav- ings are cited. In the Western Region, on two lines, a former annual loss of $528,000 has been reduced to one of $90,000, In another case, a_ deficit which used to amount to $120,- 000 a year has been converted into a profit of $90,000. Further money-saving ideas are being explored. The Rail- way Board wants the minister of transport, Ernest Marples, to relax regulations*at level cross- ings, and to relieve the railways of much of the responsibility for miles of fencing and for main- tenance of roads over railway bridges. If the minister supports these proposals, it may- well. halt many of the planned closures which involve withdrawal of services from 5,000 out of 18,000 route miles, and the closing down of 2,363 out of 4,500 rail- way. stations, The bulk of these closure measures have still to be put into effect, so that there is every likelihood that there will be reprieves in many cases. FOOTNOTE -- A "bus-8top" experiment involving a group of stations in the Reading area has just been started on a Sundays only basis, with eventual ap- proval from the National Union of Railwaymen. BY-GONE DAYS 35 YEARS AGO July 17, 192% More than 400 persons attend- ed the Branch 43, Canadian Le- gion picnic held at the farm of A.J. Graves, Brooklin. Oshawa churches held a spe- cial day of Thanksgiving for the recovery to health of King George V. The Ontario Regimental Band, under the direction of Band- master Thomas Dempsey, gave a fine concert at Alexandra Park. M. McIntyre Hood was elected to the provincial Executive of the Canadian Legion at the pro- vincial convention held at. St. Thomas. Robert Sterling was. clected chairman of the general com- mittee and H. W. Nicoll was elected organizer of the General Motors sixth annual picnic. Alex ©. Hall, who had just yreviously graduated at Osgoode Hall, announced that he would open a law practice here, Cadet Lieut. Lionel Hind was in charge of a platoon of col- legiate cadets who were in camp at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Lt. Mur- ray Johnston, of the Ontario Regiment, who was attending Infantry School, visited the boys one Sunday. C. HR. Fuller, of Chatham, was appointed business adminis- trator of the Oshawa Board of Education. W. E. N.. Sinclair was guest speaker at the Oshawa Rotary Club, speaking on the subject of "Northern Ontario." Mrs. M. Karch, Centre street, found a chame'eon on a peony bush in front of her home. It was believed- to have escaped from the circus which had been in the city a month previously. Fire Chief W. R. Elliott at- tended the annual meeting of the Dominion Fire Chiefs held at Cobourg. The new "pumper recently purchased by Oshawa was: on display there. OTTAWA REPORT New Stamps Are Designed To Honor Abstract Concepts Patrick Nicholson's guest columnist today is Hon. | John R. Nicholson, | post- master general of Canada and Liberal MP for Vancou- ver Centre. By JOHN R, NICHOLSON, MP , OTTAWA -- The business of being @ columnist is rooted in the communication of ideas, More and more, Canadian post. age stamps are serving this same function and I found this thought very reassuring when my friend, Patrick Nicholson, did me the honor of asking me to contribute to his column. Two of Canada's most recent stamps, and others slated for release in the near future, have been designed primarily to honor abstract and important concepts. The issuance of these' stamps represents a departure from previous practice in Can- ada when special issues usually recalled a particular person or commemorated a specific event. The Peace Stamp, which went on sale April 8 was the first of these stamps, The stamp was originally conceived to com- memorate the 150th anniver- sary of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent on Christmas Eve, 1814, and the resulting century and a half of peace be- tween Canada and the United States. ' After a great deal of thought, it was decided to expand the theme to Peace on Earth, to include all men and .all na- tions. To underscore the uri- versality and timeless appeal of this idea, the Latin inserip- tion Pacem in terris was a sen as the focus of the des/gn, MOST POPULAR This stamp has proven to be the most popular issued by Canada in many years, I have received letters from scores of people to convey their approval of this issue, These letters are still coming in. I find them very heart warming. Similarly, it was an abstract idea which evoked plans for the Unity stamp of May 14. As is READERS' VIEWS CHILDREN'S POOL Dear Sir: I must protest most strongly against Jack Gearin's article of Wednesday re the swimming pool proposed by the Civic Audi- torium Committee. One point, however, on which I do agree is that this city could use more swimming pools for children scattered over the city, This in my opinion, is the obli- gation of our city council who have always been very reluc- tant in providing proper recrea- tion in this city. But let us look at the picture in its proper perspective. We have twenty-seven parks operating in the city for the use of our children, We have, thanks to the goodness of Mr. McLaugh- lin, the: finest Scout Camp in America -- with its swimming pool -- one of the finest Girl Guide Houses, and as far as we know we have the 'only arena in the world built wholly and' solely for children. Now we have the Boys' Club which is doing a wonderful job and fill- ing a great need -- with its swimming pool, but we have no all year round swimming pool where either children or adults can swim. As far as the location is con- cerned I might sav that many families travel to Whitby, Bow- manville and even as far as Peterborough to swim all through the winter, and no mat- ter where you build it, it will still be a long way away from a lot of people viz the Boys' Club and the children's arena. In traveling around the city and meeting hundreds of people that I do I am convinced that there are a lot of: people that feel we need this swimming pool as much as an arena. ROBERT E. WILSON Oshawa EDITOR'S NOTE: Mr. Wilson is a member of the Civic Audi- torium committee,which sup-. ports the proposal for a $300,000 Centennial swimming pool at the Auditorium site, EXPRESS THANKS Dear Sir: By means of your newspaper we'd like to expres¢ our deepest gratitude to an unknown Oshawa couple. is Coming from Emily Provin- cial Park near Omemee_ on Saturday, July 11, about 1.20 P.m., this couple found our 4- year-old daughter running and erying along the busy _high- way. From what we can piece together, this couple drove around, following a four-year- old's sense of direction until they finally located the child's aunt and uncle. Taken complete- ly by surprise neither thought to get the names of these people. We were attending a wedding and had dropped our little girl at a friend's home near the Park where she was expected.: As she went to go into the house she noticed their car was not in the garage and thought no one was home. Panic-stricken, she turned and ran crying for home several miles away. e We'd like to locate the people that found her and thank them personally, We shudder 'to think of the "accident that might have happened" or the type of persons that might have "picked up" our child. We drove around the camp- ing areas in the Park in a vain attempt to find and thank this very kind couple.Except that they live at Oshawa and were camping at Emily Park on Sat- urday we know only that they drove a smalf* white or light colored car that has 'no back seat" according to our little girl. If any of your readers has heard this strange tale and can identify the Good Samaritans "in a small white car with no back seat" we'd appreciate this information. Words can never express the gratitude we feel! We shall al- ways be grateful'to some couple we may never meet fer re- turning our little daughter sake- ly to us! Sincerely, Mr. and Mrs, Deane Wellman, Omemee, Ont. QUEEN'S PARK inevitable with any intangible, the problem of choosing a con- crete, graphic design to convey the idea of national unity was a difficult one. ¥ ; The post office received doz- ens of suggested designs, which were all carefully considered, Most of them referred to the * British-French tradition, Lions, unicorns ond. oo in all man- ner of-combin were pre- Sented-to us. as Many of these sketches were good--very good. Yet we hesi- tated, because we could not rid ourselves .0f the feeling that such symbols expressed dif- ferences and divergency inher- ent in a nation as large and as young as Canada. -- Our purpose, as explicitly stated in the name of the stamp, was to draw attention 'to our unity, to the things which we hold in common, This "we" did not mean oply the: two founding nationalities, but all those who have contri- buted to our country's develop- ment and character. I felt that the three maple leaf motif was the most suitable and so decided on it, FIRST TIME IN HISTORY For the first. time in our. his« tory, Canada will have truly Christmas stamps in 1964. These stamps, of the three and five cent denomination, will be released on Oct. 14, Here again, the post office is basing stamps on ideas rather than on people or events. - The theme fs definitely a Yuletide one, and the opportun- ity is being taken to honor the traditional family and religious character of the Canadian Christmas. This emphasis is due in no small measure to the influence exerted on contemp- orary thought by the Canadian Conference on the Family, sponsored by Governor-General and "{adame Vanier. Illustration presented a prob- lem here also, Traditionally Christmas is as- sociated with scenes from the Middle East, or with Santa Claus. and Christmas trees, Neither of these seemed suited to theme we wished to €x- press. The design selected puts the accent on the family joined together by the spirit of Christ- mas, something cherished by all Canadians, regardless of racial origin or religion. Communicating ideas through the medium of the postage stamp is not as easy, or as routine, as commemorating an occasion or honoring~a person, However, it is more rewarding, and it seems to me to be one more means whereby the post office department can make a useful contribution to society. Stanley Randall Super-salesman BY DON O'HEARN TORONTO--Stanley J. Ran- dall, Ontario's minister of eco- nomics and development, is a super-salesman; But he is not only a_ fast- talker (Though he can hold his own in this league with any- body--ANYBODY! ) He also has a salesman's eye which is always open for new customers, And so we now 'have still an- other 'trade' program under- way in Ontario. Under this scheme the gov- ernment will assist engineering firms to get world-wide 'busi- ness, Some of our major contrac- tors now build big projects throughout the world. u And some of our big firms of engineerinr consultants also do a lot of work in foreign coun- tries--particularly in designing power plants, dams and other works in which they have a lot of experience and know-how. In this Mr. Randall spots a big chance, If our big firms can do busi- ness throughout the world, why not. the smaller ones? Some of these have highly specialized experience which is very sale- able. What is involved, of course, is money. To bid on a foreign engineer- ing contract takes a lot of funds. 2 Time must be spent on the bids, and there is a lot of travel- ling Smaller firms won't take the gamble. So to encourage them Mr, Randall is offering a deal. If a firm wants to bid on a foreign contract the governmegt will gamble along up to 40 per cent. If the company gets the con- tract it pays back the money advanced, If it doesn't it's up the flue. HOME PRODUCTS Not every Tom, Dick and Harry firm will get this help. But an advisory committee has been set up. It will get pro. posals, Once it gives approval the money will be there. And, as the program is designed di- rectly for small firms, the size of the company will not be an obstacle. How does this benefit the province? An engineering contract as such doesn't do much to boost the economy. Essentially, it only means ex- tra income for a number of people, But, if Canadian engineers are designing a> project, they will specify Canadian standards and Canadian products. And this, of course, means more business for our manufac- turers and more employment. Only $20,000 is being put aside initially for this plan. But even if only. one or two companies might click this could be a won- derful investment. THEY DON'T MAKE MANY WHISKIES LIKE THEY MAKE BROWN JUG! 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