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. Usiversity Tower Pi ) @ THE DATLY TIMES-GAZETTE, Monday, December 91, 1008 ~ Editorials The Daily Times-Gazeite (Oshawa, Whitby), 87 Simcoe Street d by Times. South, C awa, Civic Industrial Promotion Must Be On Long-Term Basis It is only necessary to read the news- papers to know that a good many of the smaller communities in Ontario are striv- ing to secure a share of new industries at present being established in the province with a pleasing degree of regularity. Chambers of Commerce usually con- stitute the spearhead in these efforts. They have two major tasks to perform. One is to do everything possible to in- terest those who may be preparing to establish a manufacturing enterprise and the other is to convince the people of their own communities that their efforts are worthwhile. What has to be realized is that selling a community as a logical location for in- dustry is usually a long term proposition. Because public bodies and private citizens subscribe funds for the promotion of ine dustrial development is not a guarantee of quick results. On the other hand, any good salesman knows that provided his project is sound and his arguments are marshalled in a convincing way it is only a matter of time before success is won. The great need is not to become discour- aged when results seem slow in coming, for good salesmanship is never lost so long as there. is a continuation of en- deavor. What we are trying to point out is that confidence and enthusiasm are re- quired on the part of those who support the activities of Chambers of Commerce. Towns and cities grow and expand be- cause their citizens believe in their own future. Those who do something about it are the ones who benefit most, Traffic Headaches in Many Places Traffic headaches are worldwide--if that's any consolation to local police authorities. Proof of the grievious state of affairs on the world's streets comes to hand in the booklet, "World's City Traf- fie, 1950-51," pubished in Denmark and compiled by the Copenhagen police. For- ty-nine of the earth's largest cities, in- cluding Montreal and Toronto, submitted figures for the survey. The years 1950 to 1951 brought a sizable increase in the numbers of motor vehicles. In 1949, the mean figure was 117.50 per 1,000 inhabitants; in 1950, it was 121.49 and by 1951 it had risen to 184.04. Detroit, the hub of the motor car industry, had no rival in this field among the cities, posting a figure of 532.81 -- more than one in every two persons, in other words. Toronto finish- ed a surprising third here, trailing Los Angeles but ahead of *San Francisco, Cleveland and Milwaukee. Australian and European cities were far behind. The increase in the number of motor vehicles was accompanied by a disturb- ing rise in the totals killed and injured in traffic accidents. Whereas traffic fatalities averaged 8.62 per 100,000 in- habitants in 1951, they rose to 9.18 in 1952. Attention paid to traffic offences varies a great deal from city to city. Comparing illegal parking offences 'in the world's two largest cities, for example, the survey finds 46,740 such cases in London in 1951 and a corresponding figure for New York of 707,095. The discrepancies in the figures for drunken dtiving were even greater. Police procedure in this matter, the booklet ob- serves judiciously, "differs widely." To take an example: the number of drunken drivers arrested in New York in 1951 amounted to a mere 289 whereas Stock- holm -- only one-tenth of the size -- produced 589: That was too much for the Danish experts. They decided to omit figures on drunken driving from their charts. Changes in Election Act It is intimated that at the next session of the Ontario Legislature, the govern- ment will introduce legislation to amend the Election Act so as to make advance polls available to any voter who knows that he or she ms going to be away from home on the day of election. This sug- gestion has come from a select Legisla- ture committee which has been making a study of the election laws. Doubtless it was promoted by the situation which arose in the federal election of August 10 of this year, when thousands of voters were away from home on their annual holidays, and were thus unable to cast their ballots. Heretofore, the privilege of using an advance poll has been confined almost exclusively to railway workers and com- mercial travellers. Any other citizens called away from home on election day were unable to vote. There is no good reason why this discrimination should continue, so long as the voter is able to make a declaration that he or she is going to be absent from the home munici- pality on the day of voting. While amending the Election Act, Editorial Notes As Santa Claus would say, "If you delay your Christmas shopping, Yule be sorry." Some who claim to be self-made men are merely the result of their wives tak- ing hold of them and making them work. The Daily Times-Gazette TIMES-GAZETTE PUBLISHERS §7 Simcoe Street South, Oshawa The Daily IL ( tby) combining Che Oshawa Times( established 1871) and the Whitby & Chronicl 1863) (s published daily ( and y holidays d ot The Canadian Press, the Canadian Daily Newspapers Association and the Ontario Provincial Dailies and of The also reserved. T. L. WILSON, P and G 1 M. MCINTYRE HOOD, Managing Editor Offices, #4 King Street West, Toronto, Ontario, 3:9 Building. Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby Brooklitn Port Perry, Ajax and Pickering, not over 30c per week. By mail (in Province of Ontario) outside carrier delivery areas $12.00. Elsewhere $15.00 per year. DAILY AVERAGE NET PAID CIRCULATION FOR NOVEMBER 12,583 we believe the government should give some oonsideration to another group of people who, by circumstances beyond their own control, are barred from voting. These are patients who are in hospital on election day, and, bedridden people or invalids unable to leave their homes. By reason of their illness, these people are in effect disfranchised. We believe pro- vision could be made for a polling station in every hospital, so.that those able to walk from their rooms could vote within the hospital precincts, and the deputy- returning officer could be allowed to visit the rooms of all others able to see him, and take their ballots. People ill and bedridden in their own homes could also be allowed to vote by adopting the British method. There, those in that condition can register as shut-ins, and their ballots are mailed to them in advance of the election, and they are allowed to mark them at home and re- turn them by mail to the returning of- it by mail to the returning officer. In the interests of a representative vote on election day, we believe these sug- gestions worthy of consideration. Bit Of Verse FLORIDA CHRISTMAS When winter clutches the window sill Etching the pane with an icy quill, My heart is where the south wind showers Petals beneath December's flowers. Like Yule log smoke, the Spanish moss Drifts below the live oak's gloss. Palm ed, I glimpsed a shepherd band, Hear camels shuffling through the sand. --GERTRUDE METZEROTT JOHNSON. Other Editors' Views FINDING GOOD CANDIDATES FOR COUNCIL (Courtenay, B.C. Free Press) In municipal politics & lethargic public is of- ten spared the trouble of finding candidates when council members decided to seek re-election. To find a person with the desire for public office is comparatively easy. To find a person with the ability to hold public office is usually a little more difficult and to find a person with the time to perform publc duties is perhaps the most difficult of all. ; Bible Thoughts "Unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." 3 (Luke 2:11). "May we not spend Christmas, but keep it." helt ~From the prayers of Peter Marshall, 9 i DAYS 'viLL CHRISTMAS UNEQUAL CONTEST U GETTER GET MW THERE AND PUNCH, SON --« IF YOURE GOING To LICK Him P GALLUP POLL OF BRITAIN Slight Tilt To Labor Seen In British Voting Survey From BRITISH INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION Loyalties of British voters are still, as in the last few elections, closely divided between Labor and Conservative, but in the delicate balance between these two parties, Labor appears today to have the scales slanted a degree or two in its favor. Present voting strength of the two great British parties is of par- ticular significance just now, as the Conservative government faces a rift in its ranks over its Egyptian policy. Today, the Tories hold a 20- vote overall majority in the Com- mons, sufficient to assure govern- ment victory if its members re- main united, but not sufficient to ride out a full-fledged party revolt. Thirty-six Conservatives have re- belled openly over Government proposals to remove British troops Conservative Labor NC Liberal and Others .. As illustrated in the 1951 elee- tion, Labor, because of its con- centration of strength in larger ur- ban communities, needs a larger share of the popular vote to win a majority in the House than do Con- 46 servatives. Incidentally, the same British Institute release shows another close division of opinion in the con- troversial issue of Commercial from the Suez Canal zone. Sorhe of this group have threatened to vote against the Government's military budget early next year unl e MAC'S MUSINGS Suez evacuation plan is dropped. Against this background, the British Institute of Public Opinion, which has correctly forecast the outcome of elections in the past 15 fears with phenomenal accura- cy, reports a close division of opinion when voting-age Britons are asked: "If there were a general elec- tion tomorrow how would you vote?" In the table below, the actual outcome of the October, 1951, elec- tion is pared with popular vote division in December, 1952, and again today. Those who have not made up their minds have been eliminated from these figures to make this comparison meaningful: Election December Today 1051 195% % 85 ° ®0 25 % 4.0 05 25 100% 100% 1009, Television. This question was ask- ed by Institute Joforiers, with the results shown: "Which do you pre- fer for TV programs?' Leave them as fhey are, com- pletely in the hands of the BBC, recent. ; ave commercial stations com- peting with BBC, 48 per cent. Don't know, 6 per cent. Total, 100 per cent. orld Copyright Reserved QUEEN'S PARK 'Discrimination Rearing Its Head By DON O'HEARN Special Correspondent to the . . Times-Gazette TORONTO -- Racial discrimina- tion is a bigger issue than for some time with the incident of the Wil- liam Pitt Hotel in Chatham. There has been condiderable dis- cussion and it will doubtedly con- tinue into the session. From the present attitude of the govern- ment, however, it appears un- likely that any very positive ac- tion will be taken. While there has been concern shown at the alleged situation in Chatham and in the Dresden area the feeling that has been expressed here before, and is being repeated in op Sovernment circles, is. that racial discrimination is a difficult thing to Jogistate against, O.M.B 0 There already has been pressure by the CCF, through new provin- cial leader Donald MacDonald, for immediate action. Mr. MacDonald suggests that the municipal board might be able to exercise powers over the rest- aurant keepers and hotel owners concerned. But the board, in turn, says it has no such powers. (And if it were to assume them there undoubtedly would be a Tigguificent squawk from the municipalities). It looks very much as though READERS VIEWS Plea To Human Beings To Care For Animals The Editor, The Times-Gazette Sir: 1 read your very interest- ing article re 'Cat freezes on pole, etc," on Tuesday, Dec: 15, and can sympathize with Mrs. Luke as I have had the same experience and it is nerve-racking indeed to say the least. Personally I like some animals very much, but must confess cats are not one of them. Nevertheless I think it is about time the authori- ties did something in such emer- gencies. We have a "Humane Society" like other towns and cities for the protection of animals and if one is caught abusing them he must answer to the law and yet because it is "only a cat". it is allowed to suffer the exposure of extreme cold weather for 'hours and hours and nobody cares. M. Editor, is it not a reasonable suggestion that a suitable man be chosen each year for such an occasion? After all the cost would be so insignifi- cant in comparison. To my opinion it is really not a question of a mere cat being in tragic circumstances, but a chal- lenge and responsibility of human beings to eliminate any unneces- The wealth of a country Does not only consist of Money that is piled up In banks or invested In bonds and stocks, and A country is not necessarily Wealthy which has a great Accumulation of money. A country is truly wealthy hen it is a land of Happy homes, owned b; Hard-working people who Receive reasonable reward For their labor, and who evote themselves to the Raising of families of Well-cared for children Who are being educated For future citizenship. Based on that standard There is no country In the world that offers Such fine opportunities For good living in a Land that is wealthy As our own Canada, History has proven that Easily-gained dollars that Are not produced by labor Can be a handicap rather Than an incentive to that Good standard of living Which acts as a spur To greater effort on The part of any people If we are to make th A land truly wealthy In the best sense it will Only be when we give Sufficient emphasis to The Yale Sf hard work n promo contentme and well-being in the " Minds of our people. and not legislation will be the corrective in the situation. HOLLINGER ISSUE There was no doubt about the disappointment here when Holl Hilger mine turned down Labor Minister Daley's proposal for set- tling the 10-week-old strike. Mr. Daley personally didn't hide his feelings in commenting on the company reply looking for a two- year contract. 1 The labor minister thought his proposal was fair to both sides, with the one-year clause counter- ing the union's satisfaction with some conditions. Now he goes back to work again to try and get the parties together. In all the negotiations he has handled, and over the past few years there have been many, there hasn't been in which Mr. Daley has been involved which has turned out so stubborn. He de- served great credit for sticking with it, and getting the parties so far advanced as he has. GRITS MEET The Liberals held their policy meeting last week and it seems everything came out of it but new policy. However, they appointed lots of committees and are starting out once more on one of the new-blood expeditions which have featured their leadership conventions of re- cent years. Perhaps this time they will goN. up with something--but seeing will be believing. CNR Lays Off; Less Business OTTAWA (CP)--Transport Min- ister Chevrier told the Commons sary suffering of dumb animals when and wherever possible. It seems harly believable that people who may claim to be Chris- tian can "Pass the buck' at such a time and feel quite comfortable about the whole affair. Although I may not claim to be as good as the average myself I at least have feeling for those helpless dumb animals that can- not always come to their own res- cue, CHAS. F. FLEMING Oshawa, Dec. 18, 1963. Wi ay a of CNR em- loyees have been laid off in the i few weeks because of reduced traffic. Mr. Chevrier made the statement in. reply to a question by Harry 0. White (PC---Middlesex East). Mr. White asked whether it is true that some 500 employees of the central Ontario region of the CNR have been or are about to be laid off. The minister said he did not know the number of men laid off in the central Ontario area. IN DAYS GONE BY 15 YEARS AGO Harriet Leigh - Mallory was chosen the outstanding girl of the graduating class at the OCVI com. mencement. Leonard Wilson was the outstanding boy. Mrs. Mary Lee of this city attended the 66th wedding anniver- sary of Mr. and Mrs. John Reyn- olds of Lindsay. The couple were married in 1872 and settled in Dur- ham county where they built the first house. Mrs. Lee was Mrs. Reynolds' bridesmaid. Dr. C. F. McGillivray retired from the post of Medical Health Officer of Whitby which he had held for 25 years. Hon. G. D. Conont, Attorney- General, announced the appoint- ment of two Oshawa barristers, T. K. Creighton and J. C. Ander- son, as King's Counsel. The meanest thief stole the Christmas lights from the front of Robert Ruddy's house in Picker- ing. The sympathy of the com- munity was extended to anyone * so lacking in the Christmas spirit. Every family on relief received a basket of groceries from the Christmas Cheer Fund Committee, * along with toys for the children, Fifty-three Oshawa citizens were . nominated for public office in civie positions, 3 for mayor, 34 for alder- men, 4 for P.U.C. and 12 for Board of Education. } 3 A heavy gale following a snow." jlorm did a great deal of damage re. Ce The Oshawa Fire Departm ceived five calls Are re pits hour. One was from a citizen who thought the department men should « flood a school rink." The peak of mail was reached on December 21 when 64,810 pieces of mail were handled in 'the local post office during the day. : Home Destroyed New One Found CHATHAM (CP)--Mr. and Mrs. Irvine Toulouse and their seven children have a new home. While firemen were delayed by icy roads, fire early Friday razed the one-storey frame house Mr. Toulouse had built himself * in nearby Dover township. The family escaped, their underclothes. Friends and neighbors before nightfall donated enough bedding and furniture to allow the family to move into a house belonging to Mrs. Toulouse's parents here. Others supplied food and clothes to replace those lost in the fire. Mr. Toulouse, who said he had no insurance, is a bricklayer. He was laid off work a few days ago. ALMONDS MRS. LOYAL POGUE Correspondent ALMONDS -- T h e Christmas candle light service will be held at Almond Church on Sunday com- commencing at 7.30 p.m. Rev. G. C. R. McQuade, will occupy the pulpit. The choir will assist in song with 'In the Still of the Night" "Bob Roy Peery'; '"'Shine Oh, onderful Star," by "Soechtig" male quartette, "Holy some in and a Night." Mr. and Mrs. R. Lee of Kedron, Frank Lee, Oshawa, and Mr. and Mrs. Malcom McGregor, Oshawa, were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. Hall Mr. and Mrs. Loyal Pogue en- tertained relatives i! tiouas to a Christmas party when a delightful time was enjoyed by all. The Sunday School held its an- nual Christmas party. A lovely din- ner was followed by a short musie- al program. A visit was paid by i Santa with all his gifts. There was a treat for every child of an as- sorted bag of sweets. Christmas carols were sung. + Winter is here at last. It came in with a bang. AID TO CLEANLINESS The leaves of the carica tree in tropical countries are used as a sort of soap in washing, oUMOMN QUALITY TELEVISION The Most Respected Name in Television Parkway Television ot 918 Simcoe St.N. Dial 3-3043 vei MONEY ior b » YOU GAN BORROW AT HFC FOR THESE REASONS Fuel bills, medical bills, emengencies, clothing for the children, : fepairs for car or home, holiday expenses -- and many more! $80 TO $1000 » YOUR OWN SIGNATURE ¢ NO BANKASLE SECURITY REQUIRED ¢ UP TO 24 MONTHS TO REPAY ON THE PLAN YOU SELECT 200 yoor In & OLD FINANCE €. N. Brook, Monoger 179% Simeoe 30. 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