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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Published by Times-Gazette Publishers Limited, 57 Simcoe St. South, Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 Wednesday, June 27, 1956 Three Provincial Elections See Governments Same Last week, provincial general elec- tions were held in three of the prov- inces of Canada. New Brunswick, Que- bec and Saskatchewan governments placed their fate in the hands of the electors. In each case, the people gave their governments a resounding vote of confidence, despite the strong cam- paigns conducted by the opposition parties. The surprising thing about all three elections was that there was practically no change in the standing in the par- ties in the legislative assemblies in- volved. In New Brunswick, the Con- servatives made a gain of one seat and the Liberals lost one seat. In Quebec, the Liberals.lost ground rather than making any gains. The Union Nationale party of Premier Maurice Duplessis secured 72 seats as against 68 in the '1952 election. The Liberal representation dropped from 23 to 19, and there is again one independent member. These results show that the Union Nationale is strongly entrenched in the minds of the people of Quebec, and that Duplessis has not lost any of his power as an effective campaigner. This result is a bitter disappointment to the Liberals, who had expected to make substantial gains. And, of course, it does seem strange that while the federal Liberal party can sweep the province of Quebec, the provincial party trails far behind the Union Nationale. In the Saskatchewan election, the CCF government was again returned, but with a reduced majority. Before the election, the standing was 42 CCF and 11 Liberals. In last week's election, 35 CCF members were elected, 13 Liberals and three Social Credit mem- bers, the latter being successful for the first time in a Saskatchewan prov- incial election. So, while the Douglas government has a reduced representa- tion, it still has sufficient of a majority to carry on in power. These three general elections show one thing, and that is the difficulty of turning out an established government, no matter how strong the opposition campaign may be. Drowning Accidents Take Toll A pre-vacation warning was issued to Ontario residents today by Health Minister Mackinnon Phillips as he predicted that perhaps close to 300 people will lose their lives in drowning accidents in the province during the summer holiday season. Dr. Phillips said: "Few people realize that our drown- ing toll in the months of June, July and August is almost on a par with auto- mobile accident fatalities during the same period. Last year, for instance, 295 people were killed on our highways in the three-month period, while at the same time 258 perished in our lakes and rivers through drowning accidents, The greatest danger lies in the 16 to 25 years age group, where, perhaps, some seem to unconsciously take chances or overestimate their powers as swimmers." The Health Minister went on to say that panic is possibly the most im- portant single factor in these holiday water tragedies. He emphasized the im- portance of keeping a '"'cool head" in all such mishaps. Dr. Phillips listed these simple rules for water safety: 1. If you can't swim stay away from deep water and out of canoes! 2. Never go swimming alone! . Never enter the water directly after a meal. Stomach cramps may be caused by swimming too soon after eating. Allow at least one hour after meals before taking that dip! Float on your back if you get a cramp in your leg or foot, and, on reaching shore, rub the affected part vigorously. ABOVE ALL, KEEP CALM! Dreams That Don't Come True A recent release by the Canadian In- stitute of Public Opinion, published on this page under the heading of the "Gallup Poll of Canada", gave some interesting facts as to the holiday habits of the Canadian people. The most striking thing that occurred to us a8 we read it was the fact that while a large percentage of Canadians have dreams of the kind of holidays they would like to have, only a small proportion have their holiday dreams come true. The figures of the poll show that while 28 per cent of the people of Can- ada wish to spend their holidays trav- elling in their own country, only 11 per cent of them will have that kind of a holiday in 1956. On the other hand, 43 per cent have dreams of spending a holiday outside of Canada, but only five per cent are having that dream come true this year. What seems to us to be saddest part of the whole survey is the fact that 31 per cent of the people in- terviewed do not intend to have any holiday at all in 1956. To us, that is Editorial Notes The quickest way for a politician to make himself popular is to demand tax cuts. And the hardest thing after he is elected is to make good on his de- mands. The Daily Times-Gazette T. L. WILSON, Publisuer and General Manager. M. MCINTYRE HOOD, Editor. The Dally Times-Gazette (Oshawa, Whit ] . by), eom- bining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) aad the hii Mh and Chronicle (established 1863), 1s publis ally (Sundays and statu "ex publishe ory holidays ex. Members 6f Canadian Daily Newspa : pers Publishers Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Cir- culation, and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association. 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 alse the local news 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¢ per week By mall (In province of Ontario), outside carrier de Uvery areas, $12.00, Elsewhere $15.00 per year DAILY AVERAGE NET PAID CIRCULATION FOR MAY 14,231 tragic, because we believe that every individual needs his or her holidays to recreate the system after a year of hard work, Still, those folk who dream of the kind of holidays they would like to have, but who rarely attain the goal of their dreams, can still enjoy the dreaming. As Shakespeare wrote in "The Tempest", "We are such stuff as dreams are made on." Yet we are reminded also of another line or two which we might apply to those who seldom attain the reality. It was this couplet," But don't just dream, what- ever you do; get out and work, make your dreams come true." We have much sympathy for those who dream of holidays in faraway, fascinating places, but who never seem able to reach their objective. It took us a great many years to make our holiday dreams come true, and there + are still some 'that are unfulfilled. So keep on dreaming, and while dreaming, work and plan so that some day the happy realization may come. Bits Of Verse THE WAGE SLAVE MUSES The papers and the magazines Are showing lovely summer scenes Of swimmers lying on a beach While overhead the sea birds screech, And husky fishermen in shorts Haul in big fish of many sorts, The Southland beckons with its charms; "Twould welcome us with open arms, Outside today it's cold and snowing, An icy northern wind is blowing. Shall we go south? We greatly doubt it, And yet it's fun to think about it. ROBERT D Other Editors' Views THE OLD WORD (Edmonton Journal) It's curious that after all these improvements in atomic and hydrogen bombs a trouble centre like the Middle East is still referred to bv the old-fashioned term "powder-keg." Bible Thoughts A contrite heart is better than any megh- anical device When they fast Je. 14:12 LITTLE I will not hear their ery. -- RETOUCHING THE PORTRAIT GALLUP POLL OF CANADA Voters Give Slight Support To U.N. Arab-Israeli Patrol By CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION The bitter differences between Israel and her Arab neighbors, which have occupied the front pages of the world's newspapers, off and on, for almost a decade, are apparently unknown to 15 in every 100 adult Canadians This was the first inkeresting fact brought to light when The In- stitute assigned itself the task of assessing Canadien attitudes and sympathies in a series of events which have seemed, at times, w have been dangerously near preci pitating the world into World War III In talking to everyday, rank and file Canadians from coast to coast, Institute reporters first asked: "Have you heard or read about she trouble between Israel and the Arab countries?" In the Province of Quebec, more than one third, (39 per cent) of votes said thew had not heard of the dispute. In other provinces, those in a similar position ranged from a low of 5 per cent in On tario, to 13 per cent in she Mari- time Provinces. Among Canada's women adults, 19 per cent had not OTTAWA REPORT Write To Members Free Of Postage By PATRICK NICHOLSON Special Correspondent to The Times-Gazette OTTAWA--If you think the gov- ernment is doing a good job, write and tell your MP so. Even better, write and tell the prime minister too. But if you think the government is doing a poor job, write and tell your criticism to your MP. Even better, write and tell the prime minister and any other prominent MP so too The Canada Post Office is at your service, free of charge, to enable you to keep in contact with your elected Parliament here in Ottawa. You can mail a letter or package without a postage stamp to any senator or MP here, and the post office will deliver it free of cost. This service matches the franking privilege through which any senator or MP can send mail free of cost to any address in Can- ada. This is the only way, between elections, that we the voters can make our wishes known to Parlia- ment, Isolated suggestions or plaudits or complaints are disre- arded. But a titdal wave of let- ters from many electors, bomb- arding many MPs, causes a real flutter 'of talk and consideration here. And if that tidal wave is suf- ficiently insistent, you can be sure that the "voice of the people" is discussed in the secrecy of party caucus. Then in due course it is reflected upon the floor of the House of Commons. PARLIAMENT HEEDS What you and your friends and neighbors write to your own and to other MPs today is noticed in the form of new policy or new criticism int he House next week or next month George Drew, leader of the Pro- gressive Conservative party, has just appealed directly to you and me to take a more active part in the government of our country Specifically, he hg invited all Canadians to join write-in cam- paign, protesting about the debase- ment of Parliament and demand- ing an immediate general election Mr. Drew suggests that we should all write to our own member, to cabinet minister, and to other prominent MP No doubt in making this sugges- heard or read of the trouble, more than a quarter (27 per cent) compared with 11 per cent of the of the "informed' groups had no males. Nationally this averaged opinion, compared with 18 per cent out to 15 per cent. among the men. Only area to give The 85 per cent nationally who the suggestion majority approval had heard or read of the Arab- was the Maritimes (52 per cent Israeli dispute were then asked: 'good idea"). "It has been suggested that the In all areas, however, weight of United Nations ask its member opinion leans in favor of an in- countries to suprly soldiers for a ternational patrol under the super- police force to patrol the borders vision of United Nations. of Israel. Do yi } But would Canadians be willing good idea, to send Canadian troops to join When the suggestion is phrased such a police force? To find out, in the above words, Canadians give The Institute asked all those who it rather modified support had heard or rezd of the dispute: "INFORMED" GROUP ONLY "If this is done, should Canada Per Cent send troops as part of this police A good idea 44 force?" A poor idea 31 Response indicates that many of Other answer 2 ose who oppose th No opinion 28 ciple involved in -- nevertheless would favor Total knowing of dispute 100 sending sroops if the patrol were The comparatively high "no organized: opinion" vote, which, on most is- "INFORMED" GROUP ONLY sues polled by the Institute runs Per Cent around 10 per cent of the popula- Canada should send troops 46 tion, is indicative also of the fact Canada should NOT 33 that the trouble between Israel and No opinion 2 her zhbors has not penetrated re too » the world of the aver- Total informed 100 age Canadian. Among women, World Copyright Reserved REAPER'S VIEWS Appreciates . Local History The Editor, The Times-Gazette. Sir: I enjoy reading your ar- ticles, on the History of Oshawa, very much. I cut them out and tion Mr. Drew remembered the send them to my mother in Eng- privilege of mailing letters to MPs land. I wonder how the working free of stamp. So there would be people lived in those days, espe- no postal cost to you if you write cially the women. I noted in St. in response to Mr. Drew's plea. George's lovely graveyard that I asked the postmaster at the there were quite a lot of infants parliamentary post office, right buried there in the previous cen- here on the ground floor of the ury, and it must have been very Parliament Building, about this sad for those people. Were there franking privilege. many doctor's in the district Any letter addressed to any sen- then? What kind of houses did the ator or any member of the House poorer people have. We were in- of Commons is carried free of terested to read about E. Cars- charge by the post office, he told well, as we have a small paint- me. The only qualification, he "ing signed E. Carswell, 1002. It is added, is that such letter must be of a man_crossing a lake in a addressed to the receiver at "Par- canoe liament Building, Ottawa, On- Thank you for the interesting ar- tario." ticles. No stamp is needed. Similarly a senator or MP mailing a letter from the Parliament Building to any point in Canada can just init- ial it, Instead of stamping it; and the post office delivers it' free of charge. This privilege is in force from 10 days before the opening of each Parliament until 10 days after the Yours truly, (MRS.) ISABEL SYPEREK July Spending a border. (patrol, 40 anada close of the session. FIRST CLASS ONLY I asked the postmaster if this. free mailing privilege applies to letters only. He informed me that it covers any letter or package sent by first class mail. MPs use this privilege extens- ively, for writing to their constit- uents and for sending them circul- ars or copies of their speeches reprinted from Hansard. Quite an appreciable mail, though smaller than the outward mail, comes in to MPs. Some of these incoming letters are unnecessarily stamped, no doubt by persons who are un- aware that they could send such letters without the expense of stamping them The biggest private mail addres. sed to any private MP comes to John Diefenbaker. Prince Albert's brilliant and persistent member is bombarded by requests and sug- estion ind plaudits from all aver Canada. These are written not only by his own constituents, but ny others who think that John Diefenbake s a more effective person to write to than their own member So, whatever you ( rnment sit vrité your opinion . to the prime minister. to George Drew, to your own MP or to any other MP rominent think down about and And remember, no stamp. By Ottawa: $276,578,000 OTTAWA (CP) -- Forty-one bills, headed by a vote of $276, 578/000 to pay government ac- counts during July, were passed into law with royal assent in the Senate Tuesday night. Only one CCF member -- Thomas Barnett, Comox Alberni-- was among the Commons mem- bers wiv came to the Senate to witness Chief Justice Patrick Ker- win assent to the bills on behalf of Governor-General Massey. But a number of Progressive Conservatives, including Opposi- tion leader Drew, jolned the 40- odd Commons members attend. Ing No CCF members attended the last royal assent ceremony June 12 in which the interim supply bill for June, which they had agreed to under protest, became law. However, a CCF spokesman said then it was not a deliberate boy- cott, Other measures given royal assent Tuesday night included legislation to continue uhtil the end of 1958 'the present level of federal cost-aid subsidies to gold mines and to iron out anomalies to the Veterans Business and Pro- fessional Loans Act, MAC'S MEANDERINGS Broad Outlook On World Affairs f Bs M. McINTYRE HOOD DEEP RIVER -- The opportun- Hy of chatting about far eastern affa irs and the affairs of Indonesia" in particular, with s of the at rubber producer, and ormerly supplied 40 per cent of the rubber sold through the Singa- pore rubber market, we asked Mr. Abdulgani for his views on this an- government of that country, while we were with them in Deep River, was too enticing to be neglected. The most important man in the president's party, after. Dr, Sukarno, was His Eixselieney Rus- lan Abdulgani, minister of foreign affairs in the Indonesian cabinet. As we indicated in a previous ar- ticle, the president could not dis- cuss matters of public policy with us, but the Hon. Mr. Abdul- gani was quite willing to talk, and to answer some rather pertinent questions. We learned that Indonesia, a for- mer Dutch colonial dependency, had been granted its independence and self-government in 1949. It is a country of some 81 million peo- ple, but is divided into some 3000 islands, including Java, Sumatra, the Celebes and other important islands. From the extreme east to d the extreme west of Indonesian territory is almost as far as from Nova Scotia to British Columbia, about 3000 miles. Rubber produc- tion is one of the great industries, about 10 per cent of the population of 81,000,000 being engaged in that industry. RUBBER EMBARGO This fact led us to ask a pointed question. The day before, it had been announced that the British government had lifted the embargo on rubber being shipped from Singapore and Malaya to Commu- nist China. Since Indonesia is a nouncement and what it would mean to his country. He had not heard of the an- nouncement, he said, but he was at once interested and excited. "I think this is a splendid thing -- a sensible attitude and a sound policy to adopt regarding trade with China. Removal of the em- bargo on rubber shipments from Singapore will be of tremendous importance and benefit to Indo- nesia. After all; with 10 per cent of our people employed in the rubber industry, this removal of the em- bargo means much more security and prosperity for that industry. Of course, rubber has been sold to Ceylon, and through that country has been reaching China, because Ceylon is not bound by the em- bargo. Now, we can sell direct through Singapore, as we used to 0." Incidentally. the next day, it was ed by the Ind ia foreign ministry that that country had re- moved the embargo on rubber shipments to China, following the British example. ATTITUDE TO CHINA Mr. Abdulgani had quite definite views regarding the recognition of Communist China and relations to- wards that state. "Indonesia," he said, '"'cannot support any policy which excludes Communist China from the confer- ence tables. We cannot coun- tenance a policy which refused to . Sukarno, I president, willing to talk. That was the subject of education in country. Before the liberation 1949, he said, little attention paid to education, and to higher education, "At the time of liberation in 1949 94 Der seat of the feople of Indo nesia were illiterate -- could net read or write. Today, the percent- age of illiterates has been reduced to 40 per cent. And we are teach- ing English in our schools. "In 1949, there was only one uni- versity of a very limited nature, teaching only law, médicine and engineering. It had only a few hun- dred students. Today, we have in Indonesia five universities, with the full broad curriculum covering all subjects, and with 20,000 stu- dents. This has given a great lift to our standards of education, and at the same time, to our standards of living. We have accomplished a great deal in a very short time since securing our independence, and we expect to make even great- er progress as the years go by." It has been a very interesting ex- perience to meet and talk with these leaders from the other side of the globe, and to realize that they have come to Canada on a mission of friendship, seeking only one thing, the opportunity to carry on the affairs of their own coun- try in their own way, without in- terference from any outside source. And since that is exactly what we desire for ourselves in Canada, it would seem that we have ideals which are very much in common with those of the peo- ple of Indonesia. BYGONE DAYS 25 YEARS AGO The district annual meeting of the South Ontario Women's i tute was held in the Baptist Church, Claremont, with Mrs. A. E. Walker, provincial president of the Federal Women's Institute, Mrs. Wallace and Dr. Tomlinson as speakers. Mrs. W. J. Brown- ridge of Locust Hill was president and Miss I. McClellan of Whitby, secretary. A magnificent stained glass win- dow, representing the thense of Ministry and Service, was install ed in St. George's Anglican Church to commemorate the 21 years of service of the rector, Rev. Canon C. R. DePencier. The first open air concert of the summer season was presented by the Oshawa Citizens Band in Memorial Park The Oshawa Branch of the Cana- dian Legion paid a fraternal visit to the Toronto Legion with about Oshawa members esent. James Aylett, D. . uglas, Harry Gay, J. T. Dalby abd A. Power spoke on behalf of the local branch. Jimmy Reed, Bob Gibble, George Smith and George Walsh entertained. King Street United Church held its regular summer outing at Cream of Barley Camp with Mrs. E. C. Meyers and Mr. and Mrs. Richer present as honored guests. Mrs, Norris, Mrs. Rex Harper, Miss Ruse, Mrs. Marks and Mrs. Needland were in charge. The Oshawa Railway Sports Committee entered a team in the Oshawa City Baseball League and QUEEN'S PARK Liquor Arouses Strange Stories By DON O'HEARN Special Correspondent to The Ti Gazett That the government didn't like the fact the beer ustry had ked through more liberal ad- TORONTO--Strange stories are being written about liquor. The refusal of a licence to Wood- bine race track has the Toronto press all excited. So what do we get? One day there is a story that "rural'"' members are up in arms and are demanding of the govern- ment that there be no more liquor outlets. That story was in a paper which doesn't like liquor. Its source was one member-- not rural. It took quite a bit of interpreta- tion to get that implication from his remarks. But it was done. A x the of government private members in recent years has been in get- ting action out of the liquor li- cence board--in getting it to grant more outlets. 'NO POINT Then there was another paper. It doesn't mind liquor. So it had a long feature to show that no one really went to a race track to drink anyway. So, why bother serving it? BETTER ADVERTISING Then there was another story that the situation between the track and the government centred on liquor advertising. vertising privileges a while back by getting an official's signature while Premier Frost was away. It therefore was tak out its spite against E. P. Taylor, This one also is so much gob- bledy-gook (though the govern- ent could take umbrage at the people put behind their so-called "institutional" advertising. It is so yujimaginative it amounts to an in- sult.) GROCERS CAMPAIGN What is the situation? There is little if any change in the position on liquor here. Government policy is to live and let live--or let alone and be let alone--as much as possible. It doesn't to 'se tion at all, nao ake I%7 Je to. There has been a bit of publie expression recently. Toronto council has made a per- jodie request that there be no new licences and other similar regular protests have been voiced. These stem mainly from the fact that an independent grocers organ- ization has a campaign under way for sale of beer in grocery stores. The campaign has served to ae- tivate the dry element in the prov- ince and it has been busier than usual. But theer has been no indica- tion of any unusual new feeling pro or con. elected the following officers: W. A. Kingsl hon. president: G. B. Walker, hon. vice - presi- dent: J. J. Callaghan, president: H. W. Sheridan, vice-president and Alex Neilson, secretary - treasur- er. Miss Margaret Tamblyn, Miss Edythe Cawker, Harry Hennick, Miss Anne Storie and Miss Ada Kelly, all of Oshawa, received their degrees at the University of Toronto. St. John's Anglican Church, Port Whitby, celebrated its 85th anniversary services with Rev. Dr. R. B. McElheran and Rev. A. C. McCallum as special speak- ers. RETURN GIFT BURNABY, B. C. (CP)--Roy Daly, who took the clapper out of the school bell back in 1927, has presented a complete bell to the Windsor Street school on the occasion of his retirement as teacher. with only one payment month -- in easy instal You can borrow $50 to $5000 without endorsers or bankable security to pay all your bills. This gives you a fresh start poy 17 SIMCOE ST. N. Open Saturdays till 1 p.m. RA 5-6541 Open Friday till 9 p.m. OSHAWA 14 PRINCE ST. Treat the family to a carefree Vacation at the beach -- and a carefree trip there and back. Go by bus. , Wasaga Beach ... 6.90 Midland . . .. Bracebridge Beaverton ..8.95 BUS TERMINAL RA 3-2241