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$ A \ . THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Published by Times-Gozette Publishers Limited, 57 Simcoe St. South, Oshawa, Ont, Page 6 Friday, January 27, 1956 Hon. JW. Foote Gives Reply ToD.C.MacDonald Charges There are always two sides to every story. Not long ago, in this column, we made reference to a strong attack made by D. C. MacDonald, Ontario CCF leader, on the administration of certain reform institutions. In parti- cular, he made some strong charges regarding the manner in which the Girls' Training School at Galt was be- ing administered. At the time our previous editorial was published, no official answer of any kind had been made to the serious charges of Mr. MacDonald. We sug- gested that they be made the subject of an inquiry by some body independ- ent of politics, so that the air could be cleared. Since then, however, Hon. J. W. Foote, minister of reform institutions has replied to Mr. MacDonald in straightforward terms. His version of the incidents which led to the CCF leader's attack is, of course, quite dif- ferent to that of Mr. MacDonald. For instance, Mr. Foote explains that the 13-year old girl alleged to have been kept in solitary confinement at Galt for 12 days was an incorrigible who had escaped several times and was unmanag2able. She was locked up at night and at other periods when vio- lently rebellious, but otherwise had the same privileges as other girls, Ev- entually, on recommendation of the ad- visory board, she was transferred to the Marcer Reformatory, where train- ing better suited to her needs was available. That is Mr. Foote's sfatement, and it has to be balanced against the charges made by Mr. MacDonald. It is, perhaps, unfortunate that the lat- ter did not carry his complaints to Mr. Foote in the first place, so that they could have been cleared up, without all the publicity that was given to them. Political leaders, however, do not work that way when they see what seems like an opportunity to discredit their opponents. Mr. Foote's explana- tions have cleared the air for the pres- ent. We imagine, however, that more will be heard on .the subject when the Ontario legislature is in session, Could Mean Control Of Press While the exact terms of the Quebec Government's bill for control of the production and distribution of news-~ print manufactured in that province are still uncertain, it is obvious that legislation of this kind could interfere seriously with the freedom of the press in that province. True, the news- paper publishers of Quebec appreciate the fact that this legislation is sup- posed to protect them from unwar- ranted increases in the price of news- print. Probably they would rather leave that situation as it is than have it changed to one which would leave them at the mercy of any government so far as their supply of newsprint is concerned. At the International Congress of Editors in Nice, France, in 1953, we recall, we heard several editors from European and South American news- papers, iteii now coniroi oi ihe supply of newsprint by the government was usel as a method of censorship. If newspapers printed material which the government considered unfriendly, their supplies of newsprint were either curtailed or cut off for a certain per- iod of time. We do not suggest that something of this kind is likely to happen in Que- bec or anywhere else in Canada. We do not th'nk any government in this country would dare to invoke such a method of censorship. But the point is that the proposed Quebec law, as we unerstand it, would give the govern- ment power to do so, by giving it control of the distribution of newsprint to indi- vidual newspapers. For that reason, we regard Premier Duplessis' legislation to control the newsprint companies as a type of le- gislation for which there is no place in a free, democratic country which prizes ine freedom of iis press. Another Tempest In A Teapot A great deal of fuss has been made in the House of Commons and in other quarters because, last June, Canada accepted from Egypt an order for 15 Harvard trainer aeroplanes. They were reconditioned planes that had been in use in the Second World War. An aura of mystery was built up around the whole transaction because of uncer- tainty regarding what was being sent to Egypt. The whole episode, in our opinion, is very much of a tempest in a teapot. It was made such, of course by the re- cent increased tension in the Middle East, and the sale of $80 millon of ar- maments of a modern type by Czecho- slovakia. There can be no comparison between the $80 million deal with Czechoslovakia, and the sale by Cana- da of 15 out-of-date training planes of practically no value for combat pur- poses. And at the time this sale was Other Editors Views IN THE OLDEN DAYS (Ridgetown Dominion) In the old horse and buggy days we did not buy a new style buggy before the old one was worn out, and they did not cost hundreds where they cost thousands today. The money upkeep was not so great, either, and Ottawa did not soak us 30 per cent tax on the hay-fuel we fed into the engine either. As we remember it, people did not: buy a new stream.-lined horse every couple of years and yet they seemed to be quite happy. The Daily Times-Gazette T. L. WILSON, P and made, the situation in the Middle East was much less tense than it is today. After all, what has happened is nothing new in international dealings. There can be no criticism of the gov- ernment's deal with Egypt, because it was a perfectly normal trading trans- action such as goes on continually be- tween friendly nations. There can be no suggestion that Egypt is an enemy nation. There can be no charge that the Canad an government violated any law or precept, international or other- wise, in selling surplus equipment to Egypt at the time the deal was made. Had Egypt not purchased a large sup- ply of armaments from Czechoslovak- ia some months later, probably noth- ing would ever have been heard of the little Harvard transaction. So it seéms to us like a waste of time and effort to make a major political issue out of an ordinary item of trade between two friendly countries, Bits Of Verse NEW HOME ~ APPLEBOUGH ACRES Their years of toil and saving Have at jast made a dream come true; This is the home they longed for, Here on this street so new; This is the hour of moving; Tonight when 'the day has flown They will gather around the table In a home they may call their own. Walk softly over the threshold As the morning sunlight fails On the bright and shining newness Of the roofs and floors and walls; Pause for a moment quietly, M. McINTYRE HOOD, Editor The Daily Times-Gazette (Oshawa, Whitby), com bining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle (established 1863), is daily (Sund. and ex. cepted.) M of Canadian Dally Association, The Canadian Press, Audit culation, and the Ontario Pr Dail The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news despatches in the paper credit ed to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also Cir Bureau of lies A the local mews published therein. All rights of special despatches are also reserved. Offices: 44 King Street West, Toronto, Ontario; 229 University Tower Building, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin Port Perry, Ajax, and Pickering, not over 30¢c per week. By mall (in province of Ontario). outside carrier de Mvery areas, §12.00, Elsewhers $15.00 par year, Sending a prayer above, That this be a house of kindness, That this be a home of love. ROBERT D. LITTLE Bible Thoughts Trust in the Lord and do good, so shalt thou dwell in the land and verily thou shalt be fed. ~Ps. 37:8. This faith has worked all right for nearly three thousand years. It will work for our day too. Just To TELL VS To Expect ViSiTors OH WHAT Do we po ON A DEwW DEwW DEWEY OTTAWA REPORT Costs Of Health Plans Compared By PAT NICHOLSON Special Correspondent To The Times-Gazett collected and benefits paid out in cash to suffers, who can thus h their own medical advisers? OTTAWA--Canada today spends Or $756,000,000 a year to cure its med- ical ailments. The bills range from $305,000,000 for hospital services, the $25,000,600 for such personal health treat. ments as massage and steam baths. Other items are $242,000,00( in payments to doctors and den. tists: $159,000,000 for drugs; $15, 000 for miscellaneous health services; and $10,000,000 for pri- vate duty nursing. i 8A msteiana whic 8 t insist on including in our national health bill. For example --and I give these figures in mil- lions of dollars--84 for the various nostrums and preparations we buy ai drug siwics, as aistingt from prescribed drugs or cosmetics; 29 for the cost of administering ac- cidents and sickness insurances; 38 for funeral and burial expenses; and 19 for cemeteries. Compared to these figures, com- piled for the latest available com- plete year, our minister of Health and Welfare, Hon. Paul Martin, estimated to me that a comprehen- sive national health plan tor the whole country would today cost be- tween $750,000,000 and $800,000,000. Mr. Martin's figures of course do not include the fringe items listed above. In other words, the total bill for a nationwide plan would be about the same as under our present hit- and-miss plan. And that means hit the pocket and miss the needy. Yet under a national plan, the humanitarian facilities would be available to everyone in Canada, regardless of his means to pay for them, This paradoxical miracle would be made possibly by the cheaper administration and ration- alized methods. NO STATE MEDICINE One prime question raises itself in everyone's mind, especially the minds of those opposed to any form of what such critics call "state medicine." This is whether a national plan would remove the individual's privilege of choosing his own doctor and dentist. On the back of this particular coin is the question of those practitioners, whether they would retain the right to reject any patient. Will a Canadian health plan be like a nationwide Blue Cross plan, under which regular premiums are will a national plan simply provide for civil service clerks to allocate such and such a doctor to nurture all the families in such and such a street, just as letter- carriers and garbage - collectors are allocated. It is this latter type of medical plan which was recently rejected $0 overwhelmingly in two districts of Saskatchewan, where public opinion was sampled. Organized opposition to the proposal came most Soticeably from the Sesto, eral of whom were | the similar of state med. icine in Britain. So numerous were critics, that the Assiniboia and Re- gina districts voted by better than four to one against the proposed Thols Aan. This vote is not regarded as public rejection of a national health insurance plan: It was re- jection of dragooning m edica practitioners into the civil service. Or, as the doctors themselves ex- press it, rejection of a scheme which would place a ceiling upon their incomes while removing the ceiling from their hours of work. Health is a field of responsib- ility of provincial governments. Each province will therefore de- cide for itself the shape of the plan within its own borders. The federal government is concerned only with the supply of money to assist each province's plan---pro- vided only that Ottawa feels con- vinced that some form of health plan is desired by a majority of Canadians and will be so admin- istered by the provinces that it will benefit all equally. This federal financial aid might, in the case of hospitalization, amount to about 50 per cent of cost. Each province would provide its own balance, by taxes or more likely through premium collections. Estimates of this cost very widely, but a good guess is that Ontario, -our largest province, could provide this service at a further cost of $39 per family per year. This figure would be the target aimed at by other prov- inces, and it provides a satisfac- tory basis upon which we can com- pare the estimated cost of an over- all health plan, in contrast to ex- isting medical plans provided by profit-earning insurance compan- ies or mutual non-profit cal groups. FOR BETTER HEALTH Dangerous Eye Disease Strikes Over-40 Group By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, GLAUCOMA, a most dangerol eye disease, usually can be haited bv early treatment. There are about 320,000 blind persons in this country. Of this number, one out of every eight is a victim of glaucoma. And once sight is destroyed by glaucoma, it is gone for good. INCREASED PRESSURE With glaucoma, increased fluid pressure building up inside the eve slowly damages the nerves. Side vision usually goes first since the pressure strikes the fibres in the retina before damaging the retinal nerves which control the central vision. Primarily, glaucoma is a dis- e.se of the middle - aged and the elderly. It is most apt to strike you if you are over 40 How can you profect yourself tron. this dease? The best way is to have your eyes examined thor. oughly at least once every two years if you are 40 or older. CLOUDY VISION While acute glaucoma usually * strikes suddenly with sharp pain MD around the eyes and cloudy vis- Equal the sion, the slowly creeping chronic type is much more common. Chronic glaucoma often produces some of the following symptoms: Frequent changes of glasses: loss of side vision, blurred or fo,'gy vision; inability to adjust the eyes to darkened rooms such as theatres," rainbow - colored rings around lights. Let me emphasize that these symptoms do not necessarily raean you have glaucoma. Maybe the trouble is much less serious. But you should have a complete ove examination as quickly as possible. t i WARNING SIGNALS Don't wait until some of these ptoms develop for that eye check. Glaucoma does not always give warning signals. Drugs or an operation can usu- ally reduce the eyeball pressure. Eve drops, if your doctor pre- scribes them, probably will have Labor Chiefs Welcome Lift In UIC Curb OTTAWA (CP) -- Labor chiefs today welcomed federal govern. ment loosening of unemployment insurance restrictions that have temporarily cut ofi thousands from jobless benefit payments. President Claude Jodoin of the Trades and Labor Congress and resident A.R. Mosher of the Cana- aian Congress of Labor expressed pleasure after Labor Minister Gregg told the Commons that the insurance regulations ate to be interpreted more broadly. Officials said the effect of Mr. Gregg"s announcement on a com- plex point is that between 30,000 and 33,000 workers will get more than $3,000,000 in retroactive insur. ance benefits from Te 4 were temporarily the last three months of 1955. "We're happy about this change which was asked by our congress" Mr. Jodoin said. 'When last year's mn i mand cn 10 whe Oy inci Insurance Act were passed by Par- ilament it was certainly not the intent of Parliament to diminish coverage." TOOK NARROW VIEW Mr. Gregg conceded in the Com- mons that the commisSion had taken a "narrow" view of part of a 1955 legislative rewriting of the insurance act with the result that some jobless workers had been dis- qualified from collecting insurance benefits in October, November and December of last year. MAC'S MUSINGS What visions of beauty that May adorn our gardens Several months from now Are conjured up by the Arrival of seed catalogues Ceming thick and fast. Looking over their pages Stirs the imagination And starts the gardener Making plans for what He plans to produce, Although he can never hope To grow such vegetables And flowers as are shown In glorious colors in the Pages of the catalogues. Yet these catalogues are A satisfying tonic To the jaded mind when They arrive to brighten The murky gloom of The winter days, and help To make us forget the Stow, the ice and cold As we scan the pages with Their wonderful pictures, Seed catalogues are also A challenge to us Vho receive them to Co to work and plan The kind Want to of garden we have in summer, The flowers and vegetabies We intend to grow this year. We may not be able to Siedticts shown On these glowing pages But we can at least Find enjoyment in the Effort to do so and At the same time benefit Physically and mentally. ~ and you may have to limit tele- vision and movie going. If you are a glaucoma victim, dor't use belladonna, even if pre- suribed by your physician, with- out first checking with your occulist. ge QUESTION AND ANSWER Mrs. G. P.: My baby had a high temperature and colvulsions about four months ago. What is the best way to bring down a fever in order to prevent recur- rence of convulsions? Answer: Of course, you should call a doctor immediately when tke baby has a very high tem- perature. However, sponging the baby to be used for the remainder of with half alcohol and half water your life, Even after an operation or drug tres*=+-~t, you're going to have to ae motional . upsets might .ucrease the fluid pressure and giving him an enema of cool tap water and small amounts of aspirin will help bring down the they temperature until the arrival of the doctor. MAC'S MEDITATIONS Our Immigrants | Need Friendship road. He In another column of this page, In his life history. He has reached not long ago, we had something to that that he had looked say about the government's plans at, wonderingly, on a map, and for assisting more immigrants to dreamed of with awe--and with come to Canada from Britain and bright hope. The end of his lon Europe. We felt these plans for 02d, however, as the beginnin of giving financial help were a Dew one. He is in a strange fand excellent, and would a larg- among strangers. He now has to er flow of people from overseas. his destiny in a land Then we began about Which he knows . If what would happen to them when anyone in the world needed they arrive in this country, and friends and kindness, it is sought to find a new way of life Dewly arrived immigrant. for themselves in a strange land, OUr Own experience as an for some a land with a strange Brant, over 40 years ago, we language and for all a land with that the touch of one kindly new and strange ways and cus- ¢an change the whole course toms. | 5 we 2 Same Io the conclu- life. sion wi e respon- back over sibility of the government to Reip the Shans time when we oe in these people Fuancially to come ada as a teenage We here, it is the responsibility of all recall months of heartbreak of us to help them become firmly homesickness. Our problem established as Canadian citizens not one of finding work. That after they have arrived here. easy in those days. It was on We should all have tremendous findin new as: sympathy for the problems of the sociations to compensate for thi immigrants seeking to become es- loss of those we had left behin tablished in Canada. After all, with in Scotland. We recall with som: the exception of the Indians, all of thing of bitterness the time us who live in this country are spent in our first year in Canada either immigrants from other on an Ontario, farm. It was hard lands, or are direct descendants grinding work from dawn to dusk, of fore fathers who have been im- and even later. The end of the day migrants. That is something we found us too tired to think of any: cannot escape, no matter how thing but bed. Then, after we left many generations have passed the farm, we met a friend, for since our ancestors came to Can- whom we went to work. That man ada, and no matter from what land changed the whole course of life they came. for us. He seemed to see in us CONSIDER THE NEWCOMER something that could be develop- So let us consider the newcomer ed. He made continuance of educa- to our shores. He is an emigrant tion possible. He started our feet from the land of his fathers, He on the way to college. Because of has reached the end of a long his friendship, his help and Chris- By M. MCINTYRE HOOD stands at a turning point LH] HH s5ie 2 g = HA $3558 88 35} FH eH : i 352 LH g : ¥ 2 I | i 4 i 8 is : E ! a 5 Jc ge Ut LE REET as worthwhile . citizens i need nore than else, plain, personal friendship that make them feel at home. much of it have you to give? fie BYGONE, QUEENS PARE DAYS 35 YEARS AGO Oshawa Presbyterian Church presented a purse of money and an address to Thomas Hawkes in honor of his 11 years service as Sunday School superintendent and active worker in the school for 23 years. The Times-G School Section No. 10, Park , TORONTO -- Some s Road, was closed because of small. in southern Ontario are getting pox, on orders of Dr. F. J. Run. excited about local municipalities dle, MOH, Conlin's School, which tm ing hunting 4s airea een closed, was iu- ho migated and ready to re-open. They take the attitude that game dy pe i# in the public domain and that The hospital auxiliary reported a Only the province should have successful year. Over $3,000 was Power of licence and control. raised and 'a large electric range , Along with this comes a report installed in the hospital. The auxi- from Gloucester township near Ot- liry also installed an electric '@Wa. Farmers there are just as grate in the nurses' home. excited as the hunters. Seems 10 cattle have been shot over the past A Senlor Epworth League was Year by "hunters". organized in the South Oshawa Methodist Church with Miss C. bounds and eight men chased a Earvey as president: Miss P. Wil- Geer on a farm, the irritated farm- sun as secretary and L. Trick as ©F shot two of the dogs. (Seems his treasurer. wits anq children use to take a walk on Sunday -- afraid of being mistaken » By DON O'HEARN Special Correspondent To azette P Manager Burns, of Whitby for Arena, arranged a special train to , The hunters in Bowmanville in order that the in- f0 shoot the farmer if they caught termediate hockey fans could fol- kim off his home grounds. low their favorite team. Perhaps the answer is for the townships to have a special licence Two recounts and one spoiled for fails . and farmer's wives. e ballots highlighted the election of TOO G officers for the Boys' Club Cabin. J. S. P. Armstrong, Ontario's et at the YMCA. F. Pafsons and agent-general in London, has been Paul Irwin were tied for the presi- in town for one of his periodic re- dent's chair and after two recounts Ports to the government. another election was y. Jim has one handicap. He is so Licence Ideas Excite Hunters handsome - - matinee idol type-- that Tay Yeople can't believe he does a Job. However he does. who has been to London knows how handy Ontario House is to the traveller. It has been responsible for con- tect work which has resulted in numbers of British industries, as well as firms from the Continent, se in Ontario. Incidentally, the province's Lon- don heddaquatiers doesn't draw any class distinctions. Alec MacLeod, when he was the LPP member for Bellwoods, was the first one to bring this to our When one hunting party of four attention. Alec during his term as a mem- ber here was travelling to London for some reason or other. As a matter of routine he called in at Oe A cordially. by was a bottle of whisky in isky was hard to come by those days. And the next evening he had dinner with the agent-gen- aL Be ep s wasn't a gesture for the future. For not even in far off London did anyone expect the Commu- nists to ever come to power ig Ontario. The infant mortality rate was high in Oshawa in 1920, when 80 babies, under one year died. , Oshawa's newest industy, Cana- dian Watchman Press, located on the grounds of Oshawa Missionary College was in operation. QUEBEC (CP) -- The Quebec Edward Mundy, president of The legislative assembl has Reformer Printing and Publishing zpproved the principle of govern- Co. Ltd., died. * rent leginiation to Sone) he pro. duction, distribution and sale ol ne Jeautitul rouge tablet in me newsprint in Quebec province. The eren of Whitby Methodist Tabernacle "orc." os ot to 21. The Liberal opposition, claiming 2a 9 imonds Church was unvefled yp,o jogislation contains the germ Concerned On voted as a block against the mea- sure. The assembly's single inde- pendent member voted with the government. Effect of the measure, when adopted by both Houses of Que: 24 t a 6 bec's legislature, will be to freeze he goes of newsprint at the Sent. 1, 1955 level un arc! , . " TO R ONTO (CP) -- Premier Newsprint manufacturers also will I rost sf Ontario said be required to supply monthly to e A greatly concerned" about a]l newspapers the volume of news- reports that the federal govern. print delivered during November, ment plans a graduated scale of 1955--peak month last year. assistance to provinces under a na- Later the provincial cabinet will tional health insurance scheme. 1 og ae rd ne federal Bove ment Is re- yhose task it will be to fix news. percentage payments to provinces, Lriot SUPPLY quotas for each news: geared to the Batioual average per paner on lhe' basis of ,cireuiation capita cost of hospital care diagnostic treatment, wi "What this means is that the DISAGREES WITH METHODS Liberal Leader Georges La- Quebec Approves Newsprint Curbs ralme said he agreed substantially with Mr. Duplessis' views about preference for Quebec in the use of the province's natural resources Lrt disagreed with the govern- mg mas . 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