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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Published by Times-Gazette Publishers Limited, 57 Simcoe St. South, Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 Wednesday, January 25, 1956 Scotland's National Poet Common Folk's Spokesman The St. Andrew's Club of Oshawa, on Saturday, will be holding their annual dinner in honor of Robert Burns, the national poet of Scotland, the anniver- sary of whose birth occurs today. Al- though he lived a short and tumultu- , ous life, Burns has brought romance and happiness to millions of his fellow- countrymen through his homey, down- to-earth writings. Burns, considered the greatest of Scotland's poets, and often described as the poor man's laureate, was born in a humble cottage in Ayrshire, Scot- land, on January 25, 1759, His father, a poverty ridden farmer, bequeathed to him a legacy of hard work and a strug- gle with unproductive soil. While this may have warped the body of the poet, it did not warp his soul and mind. From these, he poured out his glorious songs, his passionate pleas for man's hu- manity to man. Through these outpour- ings of his tortured spirit, he became one of the great figures of world litera- ture. He picked up the rudiments of edu- Self-Government Another example. of "how. the British government is leading its colonial ter- ritories towards self-government is seen in announcement of the forma- tion of a British Caribbean Federation. Included in this will be Jamaica and its dependencies, the Leeward Islands, the Windward Islands, Barbados, Trin- idad and Tobago. All of these are to be federated, with one federal parliament in very much the same way as the Ca- nadian Confederation was brought into being. For the first time, these terri- tories will have an all-inclusive parlia- ment made up, so far as the House of Representatives is concerned, of 45 elected members. There will be an ap- - pointed Senate of 19 members, with a . Governor-General, giving the Carib- "bean Federation a government some- ' what similar to that of Canada. The purpose in creating the British '. Cavihhean Federation is to give self- | government to a number of small is- land units, in themselves too small to cation from his father and mother and from unpaid tutors. As he wandered from one fruitless farm to another, he wrote "this kind of life is the cheerless gloom of a hermit and the unceasing toil of a galley slave." Yet through all his hardship and mis- ery, the soul of Burns was poured out in his hundreds of poems. Snatches of verse came to him as he walked behind the plow, or pored over old books of songs in his cold room at night. He was inspired to launch his barbs at intoler- - ance, hypocrisy, greed and inhumanity. He was the spokesman of the common people of all ages. It is because of this, because he wrote the songs and fought the battles of the common folk of the Scotland in which he lived that his memory is revered and honored each year as the anniver- sary of his birth comes around, And people of other races and nations the world over will join with the Scots in saluting the memory of this great poet who will be honored at Saturday night's banquet in Oshawa. To Colonies justify a separate government. It also will make possible a concerted ap- proach to regional problems which are common to the various units in the Federation, With their new status, the Caribbean territories will be able, when required, to speak in world as- semblies with one loud, clear and au- thoritative voice. This is all in keeping with the tra- ditional British policy of leading its colonies and dependencies along to the status of self-governing nations. It provides a complete answer to Russian charges of British imperialism keep- ing colonial peoples under subjection. Within recent years, there has been an acceleration of this process of granting political independence to col- onial territories. Some have termed this the liquidation of the British Em- pire. Rather does it strengthen the Commonwealth by having it made up more and more of self-governing na- tions which: of their own volition de- cide they want to belong to it. Selling Off Wheat Surplus We believe there is a great deal of merit in a. proposal made by Senator John I. Haig for getting rid of the huge wheat surplus held in Canada. Pointing to the fact that the country's elevators were full of wheat graded No. 8 and No. 4 from the 1954 crop, saleable for only stock-feeding pur- poses, he proposed this should be sold at the best price it would bring, to make room in the elevators for higher- grade wheat from the 1955 crop. Since the farmers receive no payment for their wheat until it is delivered to elevators, there is added merit to this suggestion. . Senator Haig's idea is that Canad- ian livestock feeders be given the first chance of buying this low-grade wheat "at low prices. What was left should be sold to any country that would take it, at whatever price it would bring. He would not even object to it being sold to Communist Poland. * Other Editors Views PEDESTRIAN HAS RESPONSIBILITIES : (Ottawa Journal) In a Montreal court a woman struck and i» jured by an automobile lost a suit for dam- . ages because when part way across the street * she had changed her mind and direction and stepped in front of the car. The operator of a motor vehicle must exercise every possible precaution, but the pedestrian too has respon- sibilities. The Daily Times-Gazette T. L. WILSON, Publi and M. MCINTYRE HOOD, Editor The Daily Times-Gazette (Oshawa, Whitby), com. Bining The Oshawa Times (established TD and the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle (established 1863), is daily (Su and = cepted.) Canad N of Di P Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Cir- » and the Ontario Provincial Dailies local news published therein. All rights of special tches are also reserved. Offices: 44 King West, Toronto, Ontario; 2389 versity Tower Building, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklia Port Perry, Ajax, and Pickering, not over 3c per week. By mall (in province of Ontario), outside carrier de livery areas, $12.00, Elsewhere $15.00 per year. CERTIFI INARRNSS LAIR VLRTRIAREN TRAY Since this proposal does not apply to Canada's high-grade wheat, which commands the top price on the world's markets, it might provide a solution to an important part of Canada's sur- plus wheat problem. In fact anything which would move the wheat out of the elevators into Canadian or world markets, even at a reduced price, would be good business. It would pro- vide western wheat growers with ready cash by clearing the wheat off their farms without sacrificing the prices secured for the best grades of wheat. It would, at the same time, pro- vide Eastern livestock men with feed grain at a price which would increase their prospects of operating at a pro- it So from the standpoint of both East- ern and Western Canada, we are in- clined to favor something along the lines suggested by Senator Haig. Bits Of Verse THE SONG-HUNTER When 28 2 child I thought to catch a bird with salt upon its tail and hold wild music in my hands, bright feathers flew away -- the red, the black and gold. My stumbling haste at fault, I shook the very land with grief, but was not taught my lesson. To this day I try to capture song with salty words and bold. But beauty is not caught by this to eager child whose hands may never touch her warm heart small and wild, FRANCES FROST Bible Thoughts God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace unto the humble.--James 4:6. - No chemist ever made a new discovery by starting out with the idea that he knew it all THE SKIPPER IS SLIGHTLY ANNOYED WHOS GOING 70 wALK WHAT PLANK 2! GALLUP POLL OF CANADA Canadians Are Not Sold On Early Arms Reduction By CANADIAN INSTITUTE of PUBLIC OPINION Canadians, as a nation, take a pretty dim view of universal arms reduction. A majority of them say bluntly that they don't think any agreement of this kind among the nations of the world would work. Less than one in four think the plan could be successful. The re- mainder give qualified answers, saddled with "ifs" and "buts", or have no opinion at all. "If every- body did it, say men and women, who don't give a clear-cut "Yes" or 'No' to the question, "If the plan is policed," "If all nations were tolerant of each other." Among the people of the Atlan- tic provinces, pessimism is wide- ead, only 15 per cent of them general disarmament would work. In British Columbia live the greatest proportion of optimists on thc matler, for 27 por cont beliave it could be done effectively. This question was put to a sample of Canadian adults by interviewers for the Canadian Institute of Pub- lic Opinion, ringing doorbells ir homes across the country. "There have been discussions about all nations reducing their armaments. Of course everybody hopes it would, but do you think such an agreement would work or not? Back of the figures in the fol- lowing table, lies the clear picture of a general "thumbs-down" reac- tion across the provinces. Atti- Would Work 22% 15 22 NATIONAL Martimes Quebec Ontario 21 Prairies and BC 27 Those men and women who do not think general disarmament would work give such comments as these: "We've been caught before, un. prepared for war," 'Being prepared is half the battle." "There will always be one na- tion to carry on war." "All nations are not worthy." "Any reduction of armaments would only delay war until they were built up again." trust- Would Work 18% 2 27 Prog. Cons. Liberals C.C.F. and Others tudes in Quebec province are af fected by the fact that over four in ten do not have an opinion, In Ontario the people are three to one against the feasibility ot the idea. Would Not Qualified Don't Work Know % 20% 52% 16 61 32 42 60 12 57 10 While men and women think much the same as the national total, no less than one-quarter of the women of Canada say they can't give an opinion; as compar- ed to only 14 per cent among the nation's men who have none. Progressive-Conservative adher- énts are least reassured of the Success of such a nian: CCF, and other more radical groups, are more likely to think it would work as this table shows. Would Not | Qualified Work 54% 7% 51 7 19 56 6 11 World Copyright Reserved No Opinion 21% QUEEN'S PARK Making Studies Of Sex Crimes By DON O'HEARN Special' Correspondent To The .Times-Gazette TORONTO: Sex crimes have everyone here greatly disturbed. The rash of what Attorney-Gen- eral Roberts calls "dastardly" at- tacks has caused as much concern to the government as it had to the public generally. And unfortunately it is just as in- capable of doing anything really effective about them. STUDY CASES The law officers, at Mr. Robert's direct order, are reviewing all sex cases. And where sentence is ap- parently light they are ordering appeals. ne typical instance was in Erin- dale where a magistrate imposed a fine only for three charges of carnal knowledge. This is being studied. Another was the Backshell case in St. Catharines where an appeal was ordered on an Indecent as- sault charge when only a fine and probation were imposed. NO ANSWER But this doesn't provide any remedy to the sex problem gener- ally, and the law officers are the first to admit it. Neither does increased policing. And beyond these they Haven't solu- tions to offer. i Out of the current unrest it seems most likely increased penalties for sex offences will result. However this is out of provincial Jurisdiction. It would require am- endments to the Criminal Code. And these, in turn, probably will be dependent on the findings of the McRuer commission, which is mak- ing an inquiry into the question now. CAN'T DISCOVER Officials here aren't hopeful that even the McRuer commission will be able to produce anything very helpful. ex criminals by their nature are difficult to balk. Unless confirmed deviates they operate so secretively and sporadically that they have no criminal records or known crim- inal tendencies. And all the laws that one may put on the books won't change this type of operation. APPEAL. MORE One good resulting from the crime wave is that the attorney- general's department has a new disposition to intervene and order apneals. For some time it has been dis- inclined to step in and give orders to crown attorneys on appeals--or least that has been the impression. However, the trend is now in the other direction, and this, in turn, could mean better law enforce- ment in the province. MAC'S MUSINGS There are those who feel That because the sessions Of its General Assembly Produce few positive results, And its accomplishments Seem practically nil, the United Nations Organization Is falling apart and is Becoming an ineffective body It may be true that there Seems to be a great deal Of useless and ineffective Talking, and plenty of Controversy at meetings Of the UNO Assembly But that by no means Tells the whole story of What the UNO is doing For the world of today. The General Assembly is Only & sounding-board Through which nations Express their ideas, and While that lends itself To propaganda speeches It clears the air and tells Where the nations stand. The real work of the United Nations is not Found in the debates of General Assembly, but In the work being done By its many agencies Scattered around the world, To help people raise Their standard of living. To have better health and Educational conditions. There is so much work Of tremendous value to Humanity being done Through the UNO that It is a mistake to think It 1s a useless body Because of the squabhleg In the General Assembly. READERS' VIEWS In Honor Of Robert Burns The Editor, The Times-Gazette Sir,--No doubt, with thousands of others, your mind will be dwell- ing on the. omnipotent one's bithday which wlil be here on January 25., May your competent pen pro- duce an editorial on this event that will be long remembered. It may be of interest to many to learn that a Burns' Club is at pres. ent being formed at Lochee, Dune dee, Scotland. This proves there is no end to the almost idolatrous worship bestowed on this great man. I enclose three verses of my own rustic composition which may be appropriate for this memorable occasion. ROBERT BURNS' BIRTHDAY January winds blow cold and drear, Burns' birthday will soon be here; To some 'tis but another day, While others by his graveside pray. To those who will his memory hold Who eat their haggis and rhymes unfold; Take this advice from a brother cot, Let his wonderful muse ne'er be forgot. May all your hearts be true that night, To 25 hose star still shines so ght; The greatest prophet to appear Since Christ left this mundane sphere. JAMES MYLES January 20, 1956. MAC'S MEDITATIONS In Appreciation Of Robert Burns By M. McNTYRE HOOD Tonight the world over, Scots, wherever they may be are gather- ed around the festive board in worshipful celebration at the shrine of their t national t, Robert' Burns. 'afthough here De Maen, on for local convenience, the St. An- drew's Society is holding its an- nual Burns' dinner this coming Sa- turday eve , the toast of the ening, at all of these celebra- tions, is the same, "To the Immor- al memory of Robbie Burns. There must have been a spark of genius in whoever coined that Tumbings which mama The $s Wi Fromeh Revolution ate Pein heard. The doctrines of demoer: Squality and human liberty were the Amer- d in which Burns lived was in a state of despair. Its resources had been reduced by neglect and misuse, invasion from without and le within, of peace and hrase for the central theme of a of urns' celebration. As we scan the wayward but brilliant career of the t, we realize that while was mortal in him may have been weak, that which has become immortal in him was strong, true, sincere and destined to live for- ever. As we follow the story of his life, we marvel that he was able to rise as he did above mis- fortune dardship and misery, and scale the he of fouls 10 be immortalized by his fellow-country- men. * BORN TO STORMY WORLD Robert Burns' short span of life was Rearly sii lived during the reign of g George 3. In one of his poems he wrote of his birth In this way: -- "Qor monarch"s hinmost year but ane, Was five and 20 days begun, 'Twas then a blast o' Janwar win Blew hansel in on Robin." So it was in 1759, in the midst of a raging storm that tore the roof from his birthplace cottage, that his life began on January 25, a life which ended all too soon when he died on June 21, 1796, at the age of 37. It was not only at the little Ayrs- hire cottage that storms raged when Burns came into the world. The wars which made Canada a rutal tion. The poverty of the land had dsepened to destitution, morals were at a low ebb, a ances of young couples on stool of admonition in church for certain unfortunate occurrences out of wedlock were common occurrences. Intolerance was rife in places, both ma- terial and ne lectual, and church leadership an ching were stern and Snhending. POVERY HIS LOT nto world of hard toil, e moral standards, intolerance ir hardship, came Robert Burns. Po- verty was his lot from childhood, Tossed from pillar to post, makin; little out of the publication of his masterly poems, life was a con- stant struggle, a constant strain of and introspection, of struggle against harsh circumstan- ces. From his circumstances, al though they brought him to an early grave, he drew his inspira- on, That circumstances have often Warped and destroyed men of gen- ius is a sad fact of human history. That the man of genius does not merely defy circumstances, but draws from them the nourishment his genius demands for its flower- Ing. is of all facts the most magi- cal and consoling. Burns' spine had been bent by excessive labor and St Eh Ey H g fF B g 2 g g : 2 ; i ie g g and immo) g His genius took the ordinary things of life, clothed them with ad nade th splendor of gems. He found his him in. the Toes 'ne he Hor hs elds as he ed, in the bar-rooms of Tarbolton. Among convivial fellows, in the humble homes of his friends, and his quiet country walks at even- tide. The simplicity and beauty his language make the simplest of My as ese things to make Burns live ine ine hearts and minds of Scottish folk wher- ever they may be, and make them, on January 25, rise in a reverent toast to "The Immortal Memory." OTTAWA REPORT Seek Progress On Health Plan By PATRICK NICHOLSON Special Corr dent To take advantage of the opportunity to study our own and other gov- The Times-Gazette OTTAWA: The foundations of a nation-wide health plan may be laid in Ottawa this week. Medical officials of the Dominion and pro- vincial governments have gathered here for the first exploratory con- ference. '""We hope to make progress to- wards this objective," Hon. Paul Martin, our minister of health cautiously predicted to me before the meéting convened. '"'Our talks may not be conclusive. But we will BYGONE DAYS 25 YEARS AGO Wilmer Griffin, eight years old, of Enniskillen, was ed in a sleigh riding accident when the sleigh on which he was riding went out of control. T. K. Creighton, Oshawa, was elected president of South Ontario Bar Association succeeding A. F. Annis, Oshawa. A new dairy was being econ- structed on King street and known as Pure Milk Co. with J. R. Scott Patchett, Port as J Credit, was owner of the building. There were 390 men employed on relief work in the city engi- neer"s report. Work was started on an eight-inch main en Gibbs street. This main would 1,200 feet, 6 inches in length and would take about three weeks to lay: Calvi Baptist Church, Centre Bl gp opened and dedicated. R. B. Wilkins prepared the plans nd was in charge of the erection of the building. Rev. Paul Gelatt as the pastor. Ontario Regimental Band pre- sented its first Sunday night con- cert, with Captain E. Pearson as chairman. The Holden quartette, accompanied by Mrs. Holden at the piano, assisted in the pro- gram, Carnegie Motor Sales, Port Perry, and 15 cars were destroyed by fire. Oshawa Fire Department was called to help but the town brigade had the fire under con- trol when the Oshawa contingent arrived and prevented the fire spreading to adjoining properties, J. Millar was elected president; D. McCormack, vice - president; S. Elliot, secretary; and W. Dunn, treasurer of Oshawa Nationals Football Club at the annual meet- ing. 17 SIMCOE ST. N. 700 MANY BILLS? You can borrow $50 to $5000 without endorsers or bankable security to pay all your bills. This gives you a fresh start with only one payment a month -- in easy instalments. SUPERIOR Open Saturdays till 1 p.m. Open Wednesday till 9 p.m. Examples of Loans You Monthly Receive __s100 97 "$300 | $23.35 _$51068 | $27.00 "$1000 | $4470 TT$1500 | $67.05 "$2000 | $89.40 Larger Amounts and many FINANCE RA 5-6541 perhaps meet again after studying the pr bl and pr 1s." Our health minister has long dreamed of fulfilling the Liberal party's 47-year-old promise to pro- vide a national health plan, It is It a project dear to his warm heart. To launch it would suitably cap his nine 'years in charge of our health department. i best dians in three steps," he told me, as we sat talk- ing in his photograph-lined office in Parliament. "First'should come free di tic and rediological services; next should come a hos- pital insurance plan." The ultimate but perhaps far- distant third step planned by our health - minded minister would be the provision of what I call The Three D's; dotcors, dentists and drugs. BY MAJORITY WILL The launching of a comprehensive Canada-wide plan depends, says Mr. Martin, upon the participation of a majority of the provinces com- rising a majority of the people. British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Newfoundland may be regarded as sure joiners; Ontario almost equally sure. Even the col- laboration of our smallest province, Prince Edward Island, would be enough to constitute the necessary majority. So that P.E.L. or the other have not provinces would not hold back, thro! fear that they could not afford to keep up with the Ontario and B.C. joinges; a cost-sharing scheme is likely to be offered by the federal government. Its form- ula would bear down on each prov- ince only in proportion to its abil- ity to pay. Of course a national health plan, like any other welfare service in- troduced by any government, ult- imately has to be paid for by all tax-payers. No matter how the bill may be sugared, that means you. Facts, figures and medical services needed by Cana- dians are being obtained, and pai for, already. To supply these under a streamlined and non-profit-mak- ing national plan, administered by overnments, would certainly re. uce costs. And this reduction should offset the additional cost of providing those medical services needed by Canadians unable to pay for them at present, In other words, the total cost of medical care should be no more than at present, and the services supplied should be better, for the average ¢ Canadian under a nation- le plan. ts' needs in this field, and wid WHAT TYPE PLAN 'Public health is the responsibil } of each Frovincial government. e form of the health plan would therefore depend upon their wishes. might provide pald medical services for the sick, as in Brit- ain; more likely, it might provide insurance payments in cash in case 91 illness. { And the dividuals con- ul might R: by mo um, of by annual payment, or periodic _con- cealed payments indirect taxes. Among the welter of arguments for and against this plan, there seems to be an incontrovertible majority wisn for some i oi contributory insurance plan. The number of voluntary pants in similar existing projects points to this conclusion. The first step is the most im- portant, Mr. Martin believes--most important towards the ultimate goal of a comprehensive plan avail- able to every Can: and most important towards the desirable goal of the best possible health standards for all Canadians. This step would be the provision of diagnostic and radiological serv- ices. A general diagnosis today may require as many as 200 dif- ferent tests and checks. No priv- ate doctor can afford the Sautp. ment necessary for this. But it could and should be provided in community medical centres, says Mr. Martin And it apears likely that this service, costing a total of $45,000,000 a year, may be pro- vided--free of cost to the individ- ual--by the federal and provincial governments ' RALPH S. JONES THOMAS H. 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