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- [THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Published by Times-Gazette Publishers Limited, 37 Simcoe St. S., Oshawa, Ont, Page 6 Friday, February 15, 1957 "Russia's Near East Plan Another Propaganda Move The Moscow propaganda machine has again been at work. It has issued what it terms a plan to promote peace and harmony in the Near East. Tied up with it is another general statement on disarmament, the scrapping of nu- clear weapons and the development of trade and cultural excanges, with other nations. It follows a familiar pattern, and is designed to catch the western powers off their guard in the present time of stress and crisis. Some of the Russian proposals are at great variance with Russian per- formance in recent years. One sets forth the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of the Near and Middle East. Russia has never been given to non-interference in the affairs of other countries. Indeed, the whole history of the Soviet Union is one ser fes of successes in winning satellites by interference in their internal af. fairs, " Further, the proposals call for the mutual renunciation of the supply of arms to countries in the Near and Mid. dle East. This does not fit in very well with the large scale provision of arma- ments and materials of war to Egypt, Syria and other countries thers from Russia and its European satellites, Possibly Russia Is satisfied that the flow of Communist arms to these coun- tries has made them well-equipped with such materials. But it is more than likely that the Russians figure that they could not keep pace with any large flow of armaments that might come from the United States to the anti-Communist regimes. Russia also proposes the liquidation of foreign bases and the withdrawal of all foreign troops from the Near This is on a par with NATO he and Middle East. the Russian demands that scrapped in Western Europe, It ia de signed for one purpose, to atrip the Near and Middle East of all bases and forces which stand in the way of Rua. sia taking over these areas It is not surprising that these pro posals were promptly rejected by the United States, The White House view that they were designed to wreck the Eisenhower plan to guard the Near East against Communist aggression Is well founded. It is not likely tha! they will fool the Arab atates. White Cane Week Slogan White Cane Week, an annual period when the blind of Canada tell their sighted countrymen the story of blind- ness, takes on a new meaning this year with the slogan: "Be wise! Take care of your eyes." How important this message can be to those who enjoy the miracle of phy- sical sight will be realized from the re- marks of Miss Joyce Hickling, head of the Prevention of Blindness depart- ment of the Canadian National Insti- tute for the Blind. She says: "Much of the prevention of blindness work done by the C.N.LB. concerns children, We visit their homes and see them at school to offer help and advice In the care and pro- tection of sight. Many children with per- t visual h would have good sight if they had been given the proper med- fecal treatment in the early stages of their development. Conditions like crossed eyes, inflammation and even injuries are often ignored by well meaning people because they do not understand the problem, Many of the more than 1800 Canadians who lost their vision last year could have saved it if "Shey had sought medical attention soon enough. Any Injury or malfunctioning of the eye should be treated as serious ® and the sooner the treatment is obtained, the better." Medical investigation of crossed eyes should be started as soon as the con- dition is discovered, and corrective treatment begun as soon as prescribed. Age one is not too young to begin cor- recting crossed eyes. Failure to have crossed eyes treated can result in the loss of vision in one eye, and will have almost certain severe psychological effects. Some children will outgrow a crossed eye, but it will be useless if not treated before that stage. The Canadian Council of the Blind, an organization of the blind themselves, and The Canadian National Institute for the Blind are to be complimented on their White Cane Week slogan: "Be wise! Take care of your eyes." Taking care of our eyes is perhaps one of the wisest things we can do, and it will help us guard one of the most used senses and preserve it for a lifetime. Those Ontario Surpluses Robert MacAulay, Progressive Con- servative member of the Ontario Leg- islature, is apparently not afraid of getting into the black books of his party. While the Premier of Ontario has year after year proclaimed with pride the fact that his government has produced a handsome financial sur- plus, Mr. MacAulay has had the cour- age to show another side of the picture. In an address at the Woodgreen Com- munity Centre in Toronto, he bluntly declared that "Ontario has not had a true surplus since 1948." Mr. MacAulay is, of course, perfect- ly right when one considers the over- all picture of Ontario's finances. That picture is never emphasized in the an- nual provincial budget statements. In these, emphasis is placed on the rev- enues and expenditures in what is termed the ordinary accounts. What Is overlooked to a large extent that these expenditures by no means con- stitute the whole of Ontario's spending. In fact, it is noteworthy that while the provincial treasurer year by year has emphasized a budgetary surplus, the provincial debt has been growing by leaps and bounds. This is because On- tario is only meeting some 65 per cent The Daily Times-Gazette T. L. WILSON, Publisher aud Getieral Manager, M. McINTYRE HUOD, Editor. The Dally Times-Gazette (Oshawa, Whitby), pining [he Oshawa [imes (established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle (established 1863), W published daily (Sundays and statutory holidays ex- cepted) of C Daily P Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation, and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Associa. tion The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news despatches in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and aiso the iocal 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 300 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 JANUARY 14214 of its annual obligations out of ordin- ary revenue, and has to make up the difference by borrowing and adding to the provincial debt. There does not seem to be any cure for this situation, other than increas- ing taxation to meet all the required expenditures, and that would be high- ly 'unpopular politically. The other method, that of cutting down expend- itures to match the revenues, would be just as unpopular. Mr. MacAulay said: "If our people demand services, they have to be paid for. My only hope is that On- tario's government will have the courage to balance its budget, pay as we go, and tax with she justice expected of men' who are neither so young that they cannot under- stand nor so old that they no longer care." That pious hope, we are afraid, has little chance of being realized in the lifetime of the present generation, re- gardless of the political parties which may be in power, Editorial Notes A news item from Torquay, England tells of ghostly music being heard on a church organ there. Haunting me- lodies, so speak. MAC'S MEDITATIONS Britishers Ask For Pen Friends Ry M. McINTYRE HOOD Interest of British people In Canadas has crop up in a new direction. In the last few days we have recel at our desk three letters, seeking information about Canada, and asking for Canadians to write to those from whom these letters came. Two of them are from Scotland and one from London, England, and they are all in much the same vein, Here for instance, is a letter from a young man in Glasgow: "Dear Sir, 1 am thinking of moving out to Canada and would lke to find out some- thing of the country and people beforehand. Perhaps you would be kind enough to publish my address. Some of your readers might take time off to write to me. "I am a sompatatively young man, 21 last birthday. also from a man in the Ye trict, asking Sjucific. ally for pen friends in Canada, This Is an opportunity for young people in Oshawa to exchange let. rs with this young . He writes: n "Dear Sir 1 am Abxlous to ave some pen friends In Can- ada, and would therefore lad if you could possibly pub- sh my name and address in your lewspapur, "1 am 21 years of age, and my interests are fairly gen: eral. Tanking you in antieipa- tion, yours falthfully, TOM LEONARD 6 Howleshill Avenue, . Glasgow. Scotland. © The third letter came from a JORPAN® TROUBLE 1 OTTAWA REPORT Squeeze On Credit Hampers Housing By PATRICK NICHOLSON Special Correspondent to The Dally Times Gazette OTTAWA Businessmen en. gaged In Canada's largest indus- try face bankruptcy; unemploy- ment will strike at the one-tenth of the country's labor force em- ployed through this industry; and resulting soaring costs will leave tens of thousands of families un- able to afford the homes need. These are some of the "depres- slon-in-boomtime' forecasts being made here about the home-build- ing industry. They are being made by politicians who, far from want- ing to make political capital out of the misfortune after it has been precipitated by the government, are trying to avert that misfort- une before it falls by urging the government to change its policy. The government's tight money licy is causing a sharp slash- ack in home-building this year. The government's first attempt to ease this slightly--by increasing the interest rate on National Hous- ing Act mortgages to 6 per cent-- bas actually worsened the situa- on. Vancouver's CCFer Erhart Reg- fer and Oshawa's Conservative Mike Starr are among the many members of Parliament who have for several days past been firing a barrage of questions at cabinet ministers on this subject. Mr. Regier tells me that he fears that fulilment of the gov- ernment policy will precipitate a severe housing shortage in Van- couver this year, which by next, spring will have forced rents to levels beyond the means of the average worker. This pattern could also hit each one of our fast-growing cities. THE PRESS WARNS Newspapers in all parts of Can- ada reflect the alarm experienced by these politicians. "With thousands of immigrants being brought to Canada, the housing situation is one of the most crucial problems facing the country," declares the Welland Tribune. Housing ' cut-backs caused by federal government policies are leading to an expected series of bankruptcies, writes John de Wolf business editor of the Vancouver Herald. Over 300 families of Scottish immigrant miners are expected to arrive in Timmins this year, re- ports the Timmns Press. But as even the big builders in this na- tional capital report their inability they THE HAR Ww [9 : ages this year, will smaller Tim- mins be able to house such an influx under present conditions? The cause of this 1957 slump in home-building is charged to be the government's restriction of the supply of money. This has forced the banks right out of the mort- gage lending business, and has seriously reduced the participa- tion of the life insurance com- panies, which are the only other big source of NHA mortgages. 'wo years ago, 65,500 new homes were granted these low- interest - rate government-insured mortgages. Last year the figure was slashed to 44,000. In this year, it will be reduced to a fraction of that total. Without these mort- gages would-be buyers are being orced to pay up to 7% per cent for first mortgages, and 17 per cent for second mortgages today. WHAT HARRIS SAID A survey of four leading home- builders in this capital shows that they completed 800 homes with NHA mortgages last year. They planned to raise that total to 1,000 this year--of which 400 have already been applied for by home- needing families." Yet together they can obtain no more than 200 mortgages this year. In a recent television intérview, Finance Minister Walter Harris waved aside any suggestion of a mortgage crisis holding up home- building. He declared that the banks are still lending money on NHA mortgages. In making this statement, Mr Harris showed a lack of the earthy contact with the country's affairs which other MPs such .as Regier and Starr and many others have shown in Parliament. No doubt Mr, Harris did not intend to mislead the public, let alone to tell a deliberate lie. Perhaps he just does not know the strength of his own policies. But I am told that he need go no further than the local head offices of the banks in his adopted home-town of Ot- tawa, and he will find that the truth is the reverse of his state- ment. To remove the constriction which his policies have put on our home-building industry, Mr Harris need only make credit available to the banks, earmarked specific- ally for mortgage loans, Without some such step, he is forcing the home-builders to bear the main load of his credit restrictions, which fall less heavily--as Mr, Howe has said--on every other to get that many NHA mort- major industry. FOR BETTER HEALTH Medical Diary Helpful In Doctor's Diagnosis HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, MD DIARIES make interesting reading. And sometimes they can be extremely valuable to a physi- cian when he is seeking the cause Other Editors' Views WANT A LOCOMOTIVE? (Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph) If anyone would like to buy a steam loco- motive the CNR has some for sale in New- foundland. The only difficulty is that the pur- chaser in Canada would have to build his own line to run it on, as the Newfoundland line is of a narrower gauge than in the rest of Can- ada. The locomotives have been replaced by times. It won't be long before all of the old iron horses are headed for the scrap heap. ally obtain from a youngster. It may be very helpful of a particular illness. If your child has migraine headaches, for example, it might be a good idea to keep a diary about him. It doesn't have to be the colorful we might find in the diary of a high school teenager, an account of all his headaches. USUAL INFORMATION day-by-day report but keep Jot down a description of the symptoms and how long the at- tack lasts. Note also any factors which might precipitate the at- diesels, which may be taken as a sign of the tack This is information which usu- is difficult for a doctor to in prescribing treatment. Bible Thoughts He has done this In this generation, God dis- likes pride and arrogance, He likes justice and humility, He hath put down the mighty from thelr seats, and exalted them of Luke 1:52 low degree, Generally, though, about the best way of relieving childhood attacks of migraine is by the simple use of acetylsalicylic acid. Sounds like pretty potent stuff, ddesn't it? Actually, you've prob- ably got a lot of it in your home this very minute. Acetylsalicylie acid is a fancy name for plain aspirin Aspirin should be fn the attack. If the ¢ iven. early d already has started vomiting, you can get suppositories containing acetyl- salicylic acid. In severe cases, your doctor might also recommend rectal suppositories of a combination of caffein and ergotamine tartrate. If the youngster has any trouble with his eyes, ears, nose or throat, these, of course, should be corrected. PARENTAL PRESSURE There's something else you parents can do, too. If your child has migraine headaches you may be exerting too much parental pressure on him. Frequently, thig «is the case. Don't be too demand- ing in his school work. And don't, above all, insist that he carry on a full schedule of activities such as music lessons and the like outside of school if he suffers from migraine. After all, a child can do only so'much. QUESTION AND ANSWER M. S.: What can be done to year were Miss Maud Annis. Mrs, decrease or remove a double A. E, Gooderham, Mrs. J. . : BANKABLE SECURITY chin? Willis, Mrs. T. King, Mrs. H. thirty persons present, Mrs, A.J. 17 SIMCOE ST. N Answer: A general loss in Thompson, Mrs. J. E. Water- Stalter was the instigator of this yy weight might be helpful. If the house and Miss C. Thompson YY" and opened her home for RA £-6541 weight is normal, plastic sur- the first meeting and was such gery might he necessary to over- The second meeting of the an efficient president for ten OPEN FRIDAY TILL 9 P.M. come the condition. As a general YWCTU was held at the home of vears, it was moved and heartily SATURDAY TILL 1 P.M, rule, massage is not of much Miss Grace Lander and President carried that this new organization value, Mrs. R. Virtue presided over the be called "The Stalter Y", BILL LOCHHEAD young woman at Clapton, on the 11 Harefield Drive, outskirts of London. England, Scotstoun, is Mrs, Dorothy Bloom, 5 Birch. Glasgow, 4, ington House, Down's Park Road, Scotland, Clapton, London ES, England, The other letter from Scotland Mrs. Bloom writes to say that QUEEN'S PARK House Debates Are More Lively n DON O'HEARN Spee al Correspondent lo The TORONTO Dally Times Gazette this year, and a witty one It's a lively house Whenever CCF Leader MacDon. Frost that if he was going to impose his own corporation tax he should also take over personal in ald 15 on his feel there Ix certain Somme lax and stop "erying to Ot. y y wa assurance of some heckling A nice ideal. if 'workable 'M The voung leader can take eare of himself pretty well by now though and It has heen noticeable that the government is listening And ideal for all levels of gov- ernment, but one any of us is hardly likely to see MAC'S MUSINGS Our government financing is ia such a tangle that it is not to be expected that anyone will emerge to him with respect Hin particular personal target is Nev. DO. M. Kerr, the PC from Dovercourt who over the years White Cane Week In Canada Nringa sharply to the Attention of our people The plight of those who Ave sightless and who Have to face their lives With a great handicap Which ean be understood Only by those people who Are afflicted by it. Yet those of us who Have our normal vision Oiten make the mistake Of treating blind people As objects of sympathy, Of maudlin compassion, And try to treat them As if they were helpless And had to be guided In every movement. That is exactly what The blind people resent Because they want to Be treated like normal Human individuals, who While lacking sight, Still retain their other Faculties unimpaired. Blind people resent The idea that they must Be regarded as helpless And given assistance In everything they do, Because all they want Is the opportunity to Show that they are Self-reliant and able To look after themselves. If we want to help The best way to do it Is simply to ignore the Fact that they are blind And treat them as if They were in possession Of all their faculties And help them to earn A living in employment Fitted to their skills. with the courage to really tackle has been one of the government's mont ardent kibltzers When Mr, Kerr gave with one of his Interjections the other day Mr MacDonald shut him up quickly "Keep quiet vou pip-sqeak back- bencher,"" he sald. "Your re- marks aren't worthy of a second. rate high school debate,' Liberal Leader Farquhar Oliver, fn turn, has been getting in his whacks at Mr. MacDonald, When the CCF'er interrupted one of Mr. Oliver's speeches, the Lideral leader turned to him and sald: "The trouble with you is you have a one-track mind." The responsibility really belongs to Ottawa, of course, THAT 50 PER CENT The old question of 50 per cent ald to municipal education also got its usual airing. and this time with a new twist--or at least it seems new, though the govern. ment agrees that it isn't. Mr, Frost said that the PC promise in its famous 22 point program of 1943 was that it would pay half the cost of education "at that time." This of course, makes quite a difference. The impression of everyone has always been that it would pay Then after a pause he added: "And it is narrow gauge. hay the cost in 1943 and the fu- OLD STUFF . Aside from this raillery there was nothing very distinctive about the leaders cortributions in the throne speech debate. The two opposition leaders made solid attacks on the government but there was nothing particularly new about them. It was pretty well the same story of hospital insurance, muniec- pal 'aid and tax pacts being chewed over again. TAX TANGLE Mr. Oliver took somewhat of a new approach when he told Mr. N.B. To Get Beaverbrook Paintings LONDON (CP)--Canadian pub- lisher Lord Beaverbrook is com- piling a massive collection of paintings for presentation to the province of New Brunswick. Teacher Shortage Seen Acute ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) -- An acute teacher shortage reaching into the isolated regions of New- foundland is the big problem fac- ing his department, says Educa- tion Minister Dr. Fred Rowe. Of the 3,275 teachers in New- foundland, 630 are untrained and another 1150 only partially trained. Twenty - five classrooms are closed for lack of teachers. Dr. Rowe says the scarcity can be blamed on a decrease in the province's death rate, lower mi- gration to the Canadian mainland, the centralization of population, a buoyant economy which makes other professions "more attrac- tive" and the unwillingness of young teachers to go the hundreds of tiny coastal fishing villages BYGONE DAYS The collection, when completed, will be housed in a new art gal- lery which Lord (Beaverbrook is having built in Fredericton. As where the shortage is most felt. The school population is increas- ing by 5000 each year, which means that 600 new teachers 35 YEARS AGO A meeting was held in G.W.V.A, Hall of all men who were interested in ganization and for the purpose of electing new officers. Those nam- ed to office were Comrades Fraz- returned well as paintings, there will be prints, books, sculpture and other works of art. The paintings include four works by Cornelius Krieghoff, the 19th- century Canadian artist whose pic- tures have enjoyed a vogue in the last few years. The Krieghoffs, should be recruited annually. But of 1,407 Newfoundland students matriculating 'last year, only 552 were eligible for teacher-training courses at Memorial University in St. John's. "The problem is of concern to all major interests in the com- the reor- mostly pur- er, Stewart, Witterick, Hubble, chased in the last few months, in- munity," says Dr. Rowe. "It is Beavis, Graves, Lundy, Colvin clyde Portrait of a Notary, A one that cannot be solved over a and Fudger. Family in. a Sleigh, A Squaw and short period of time but requires At a meeting of the directors of the Oshawa Golf Club, the fol- Return from the Hunt, They were purchased for sums ranging up to 1,000 guineas. The most recent ac- long term planning, "Attempts to deal with the teacher shortage routinely and in lowing were elected as members of the ladies executive for the year 1922: Mrs. F. W. Bull, Mrs. H. T. Carswell, Mrs. F. W. Cow- quisition, Return from the Hunt, shows two figures, presumably In- dians or trappers, struggling with a birch bark canoe at the edge of a piecemeal manner have been inadequate." He says higher wages would un- an, Mrs. W. R. Geikie, Mrs. R. Henderson, Mrs. Morphy, Mitchell, Mrs. McDowell doubtedly help the situation but a lake, with a rugged cliff tower- would not solve it. Memorial Uni- Mrs. ing sharply above them. versity can only turn out half the and ber of teachers needed in any Mrs. R. 8. McLaughlin, The Oshawa Business Men ad- ministered a sound defeat to Knights of Pythias in the Oshawa Indoor Baseball League. Messrs. Bouckley, Rae, Ormiston, Sheri- dan, Edger, Chisholm, Winfield, Keiso, Dobson and Clarke played for the Business men, and Messrs. McCabe, Northey, Hele, Stalter, Stewart, Muckler, Coop- er, R. Northey, McGraw and Dystock played for the Knights. A great many people in Osh- awa and vicinity had fun during Dollar Days, sponsored by Osh- awa Stores, when a mysterious Miss Dollar of The Reformer had a thrilling few hours eluding her pursuers. Miss Dollar turned out to be Mrs. E. L. Petley and her capturer was Little Hazel Bint, Rev. C. R. dePencier, M.A, hegan 'his 13th year as rector of St. George's Church and his 12 years had seen wonderful expan- sion in his church. one year. North Role § Emphasized GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. (CP) Importance of the north's role in the western petroleum industry is being emphasized these days by reports of unprecedented activity in the Peace River region. Fifteen new wildcat oil well lo- cations have been completed in the north; five gas wells and one oil well have been completed since the search got under way in earnest with the first cold spells about Christmas time. The oil well was drawing the in- terest of many, being Union Oil of California's third success in the area east of Peace River town in northwestern Alberta. It is rated about equal the Discovery well, which flowed 792 barrels a day on initial tests. In the B.C. block, three large gas wells have been completed. LOANS ARE EASY T0 GET AT SUPERIOR FINANCE EXAMPLE OF LOANS Ranked as important by Al- You Monthly The annual meeting of the Vie- berta oilmen 1s the play in the Receive Payments torian Order of Nurses of Whitby Red Earth area where discover- | =-- | z was held and Miss Baines, dis- les have been chalked up in the | _ $506.94 | $22.00 a trict nurse, presented the past Rl, ormation, t is | $1,526.72 || $60.00 A 4 J 8 new wildcat wells | ~- -- en pes eit LW. Sakon ind 8, Kg, of, new Wie welt | gy sunon | ganas | katchewan diagonally across Al- berta to the Northwest Territories will test the granite wash. There meeting and a musical program was given bv Miss Nickolson and $50 - $3,000 E. King. Officers elected for the are 15 wildcats staked in all. WITHOUT ENDORSERS OR bds DAYIRE & viaht do near and much like to acaul ber of pen friends so Natural Spots To Be Saved | 5 i | : LONDON (Reuters)---The 1, ori ie BRT reser natural beauty spot rom the encroachments of In dustry, The national parks comm appointed in 1949, twelfth of England are termed national parks, larg areas of natural beauty which the commission thinks should be pre served in the national interest. There is no question of buyin the land. The commissioner'" function is to control developmen and prevent it from spoiling the natural amenities. The nation park areas often contain farm villages, quarries, waterworks a even factories. There's nothing Yimied' about this train but te name. The hours slip bY like magle In the smooth, sprung comfort of om 'name' trains well of the finest on the Continent. 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