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| f i | | THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE "Published by Times-Gazette Publishers Limited, 57 Simcoe St. S. Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 Tuesday, December 17, 1957 . _RCMP Report Links Liquor : ne The reports issued by the headquar- . "ters of the Royal Canadian Mounted police are noted for their factual exac- wwhitude. They are not given to flights of fancy. Statements are documented with positive facts. For this reason, a report by the RCMP, emphasizing the connection between drinking and driv- ihg in traffic accidents is worth heed- ifig. In this report, the RCMP headquar- ters says that a survey shows that drinking is a factor in at least 25 per. It goes further, and contends that an estimat- cent of all traffic fatalities. ed 80 per cent of all traffic accidents prohably involve a drinking driver. This report should be studied by the attorney-general of every province in _ Canada. It should stimulate them to With High Accident Toll issue instructions to the police to con- centrate their efforts on the curbing of drinking drivers. In Ontario, one newspaper suggests, this can be accomplished by a tight check outside beverage rooms, particu- larly at closing time, to take special note, of any inebriated persons who climb behind the-wheelsof a motor ve- hicle. So far as Oshawa is concerned, the record of our police force in checking on drinking drivers, especially at the Christmas anfl New Year seasons, is an excellent one. Their efforts must be supported, however, by the tighten- ing of the law and the provision of stiffer penalties for drivers who have been drinking to excess. Plea To End Nuclear Tests It has become common tactics for Russian leaders to issue propaganda messages on the eve of important con- «ferences of the free powers of the "Western world. Thus it is not surpris- "Mg to find Premier Bulganin, a few <sdays before the top level NATO con- = ference, tossing out a strong piece of propaganda material, Prefnier Bulganin's message was SH seu direct to the NATO powers. ~~1t. was intended for their consumption, biit it was sent to Premier Nehru of India. In the message, Premier Bul- ganin said; -- : "The Soviet government is ready to «ol- emly announce that it will make no nu- slear explosions as of Jan. 1, 1958, pro- vided the U.S. and Britain, who have these weapons announce their agreement to halt their tests from the same date." As a piece of propaganda directed at the NATO partners, Bulganin's message is a futile gesture. It will require much more than a simple statement of purpose to place an ef- fective ban on nuclear weapon tests. He knows there must be specific safe- guards, and a satisfactory inspection system. He knows only too well that the western powers will not accept his proposal without these. They told Russia so in plain language. What then, is behind Mr. Bulganin's message ? It is simply a propaganda move in the hope that it will win sup- port of some of the NATO partners, so that they might put pressure on Britain and the U.S. to accept it. And of that there is not the slightest possibility until Russia accepts safe- guards which will make the ban effect- ive. Abolishing Closure Rule "= Prime Mipister Diefenbaker is de- $ermined that the rights and the dig- nity of Parliament will not in future be subjected to the spectacles which "ocourred in the House of Commons the hectic pipeline debate of . As he promised during the elec- _tion campaign, he has introduced a bill "by which the rule of closure in the ' House of Commons will be repealed. While the rule of closure has on Some dccasions been a useful tool for breaking a protracted and deliberate 'Hlibuster, it does lend itself to abuse by an autocratic government. That was what happened in the pipeline debate, when the efforts of the opposition to discuss a measure of tremendous im- portance were frustrated by the appli- cation of closure through the use of an overwhelming majority. Hditorial Notes The philisopher who said "All things eae to an end" never listened to radio ~80AD Operas. An astronomer declares there is no- thing of value in the moon, what about the wide open spaces for parking ? + The 1958 model cars are visions. of eomfort, efficiency and loveliness. All Wwe need now is something to bring down their cost. ~The sputniks are truthfully "out of this world" but what will happen if they deeide to return to it? = The provident man who saved something for a snowy day will be well prepared for Christmas shopping. The Daily Times-Gazette i. L. WILSON, Publisher and General Manager. we. GWYN KINSEY, Editor, Sl). McINTYRE HOOD, Editor (Editorial Page). he Daily Times-Gazette (Oshawa, Whitby), com- Bitung The Oshawa Times (establisked 1871) and the Wimtby Gazette and Chronicle (established 1863), is published daily (Sundays. and stotutory holidays ex- cepted). members of Canadian Daily Newspapers Publishers Assbciation. The Conadion Press, Audit Bureau of Cirtulation and the Ontario Provincial Bailies 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 aisd the local news published 'herein. All rights of special despatches are also reserved. Offices: 44 King Street West, Ontario; 640 Cathcart St., Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Dhiivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince A Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchmons Bay, fyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Newcastle not over 30c per week. Toronto, I, ounton, 5 Loskard ond «mail (in province of Ontario) outside corrier rg areas, 12 00. Elsewhere 15.00 per veor ©" AVERAGE DAILY NET PAID . _CIRCULATION AS AT NOV. 30. © 15,295 Mr. Diefenbaker has gone the whole way in his bill, providing for the com- plete abolition of the closure rule. There are, of course, other forms of procedure which can be used to break up a filibuster. Since the pipeline debate was a major issue in the election of last June, and was one of the factors which con- tributed to the defeat of the Liberal government, Mr. Diefenbaker may well consider that he has a definite man- date to do away with closure in the House. We do not anticipate that it will be too strenuously opposed by the opposition parties, particularly as the CCF and Social Credit 'members in 1956 suffered just as much from the closure as did the party now in power. Certainly it will not become an issue that might force an early election. Other Editor's Views DIGGING DEEPER (Kingston Whig-Standard) Political description seems to be getting lower and lower. First, it used to be said that a great orator could sway the hearts of the people. During the recent campaign, John Dief- enbaker was said to have fired the grass roots. A commentator said that President Eisenhower was getting down to political bedrock. Some- one will doubtles have to dig down to primitive hell-fire if this goes on. DUCK-LIKE For a person who is having to do as much homework as he is, Dr. Sidney Smith looks strangely relaxed in the pictures we have seen of him from the United Nations. Maybe he is like the proverbial duck; calm and un- ruffled on top but paddling like the very devil underneath. A MATTER FOR HOUDINI A (Minneapolis Tribune) ~Noting" the great interest his 2-year-old daughter had in watching television, a Minne- apolis father asked her: "Would you like to be on television?" "No," answered with a startled, shake of her head. "Why not? o "How would I get out of that little box?" she shy COON-SKIN COATS (Kingston Whig-Standard) The newest craze in the United States is coon-skin coats, the older the better. We have no doubt that when you wear them you are said to be having a real moth ball. SHEEP SLEEP (Brantford Expositor) There is a legend or superstition in some places that sheep do not sleep. The myth has been dispelled by Dr. Joan Munro of the de- partment of agriculture in the University of Aberdeen, who has produced photographs to prove that sheep yawn, snooze sleep and snore, juct like most other animals, Following a logical line of deduction the woolly quadru- peds probably dream as well, though this Dr. Munro has neglected to mention. =: ad a ~~ ~ offs Mg < < ds oll CIspy 7é 7 ) Lilly ANOTHER GAME FOR THE RUSSIANS OTTAWA REPORT "* NATO Needs Some New Leadership By PATRICK NICHOLSON Special Correspondent to e Daily Times-Gazette OTTAWA--Prime Minister John Diefenbaker has been urged to give a iead for peace at the West- ern summit meeting being held in Paris this week. The way is open for Canada to emerge as the moral leader of the 15 North At- lantic allies. The head of the government of each of these allies has been in- vited to attend this meeting; as well as Mr. Diefenbaker, there will be Britain's Prime Minister Macmillan, President Eisenhower of the United States, West Ger- many's Chancellor Adenauer, and many other leaders. This will be the most glittering array of political brass ever seen in modern , excelling even the historic Versailles Peace Conference of 1919 in the number of national leaders present. COULD BE FLOP This most glittering array may very easily also become the most shattering flop in modern history, There is a serious prospect of the meeting becoming the requiem of the North Atlantic community. The reasons which have led to this near-collapse of the shield of the western world are many. One could point to the steady cam- paign of attrition waged by Rus- sia, who has been trying to break up this NATO alliance ever since it was formed on Canada's sug- gestion 8% years ago. One must also blame in part the economic beggar-my-neighbourliness of the United States. The smug self- sufficiency of the big powers, es- pecially the U.S. and Britain, has effectively blocked full co-opera- tion between the NATO allies. But above all one must point the accusing finger straight and unwaveringly at the short-sighted failure of all Western statesmen to appreciate the significance of hasis 1 mum defence against the Soviet menace, have tried to get by on the basis of being part-time allies in the military field, and whole- time enemies bickering like an alley gang of Kilkenny cats in the economic field. And, as Sputnik reminds us, whole . time rivals wasting their brains and mater- MAC'S MEDITATIONS Bulganin Writes To Diefenbaker By M. McINTYRE HOOD Premier Bulganin of uRssia has written a letter to Prime Minister Diefenbaker, It is not the kind of letter that can be lightly dismissed as propaganda. It is the kind of letter which, as Dr. Sidney Smith, Canada's min- ister for external affairs, said a week or so ago, should not be dismissed with a curt "No.". Therewere two parts to Bul- ganin's letter. The first was somewhat similar to letters sent to other NATO countries at the same time. It made the same plea for the abandonment of t 1 Dr. Sidney Smith when, before the external affairs committee of the House of Commums, he ex- pressed an intense desire to re- duce tensions between the west and the Soviet Union. Particular. ly did Bulganin take hold of Mr. Smith's statement that "Canada's views would not be identical 'iwth some of the attitudes we have found in other countries which belong to NATO--a com- plete denial as soon as a pro- posal is put forward." This statement by Dr. Smith, in effect, was in line with some- thing which we suggested in this | recently, that there was ests Pp and the stock-ipling of such weapons in uEropean countries. CANADA AS TARGET It gave Canada a Icear warning that the use of this country as a base for the launching of atomic missiles would bring about swift and terrible retaliation. Of that fact, of course, every- one is aware. Canada knows only too well that in the event of war developing between Russia and the United States, this country would become a target for nu- clear attack over the Arctic cir- cle. We cannot expect anything els so long as United States forces use Canadian bases for their activities directed against Russia. IN DIFFERENT VEIN The second part of the letter, however, is in a different vein. Moscow has been quick to seize upon the opening given to it by room for a new approach to the problem of closer and more friendly relationships with Rus- sia. It is our opinion that the future peace of the world does not de- pend so much on the accumula- tion 'by both sides of equal quan- tities of deadly destructive wea- pons, but upon building up un- derstanding, trust and good faith between the two opposing ideo- logies. That coincides with the statements of Dr. Smith. BULGANIN REACTION Dr. Smith's views have been duly noted in Russia, and have brought a favorable reaction from Bulganin. He goes even further than Dr. Smil ts that the si geographic and climatic condi- tions between Canada and the Soviet Union create favorable conditions with a wide extension of all-round ties between these BYGONE DAYS two countries. This part of Bul ganin's letter is worth quoting. as follows: "We are convinced that both parties would benefit from the development of normal trade, without artifically imposed re strictions whatsoever. This un doubtedly would be contributive to establishing relations of trus! and goodwill between the Soviet Union and Canada." ; This, of cour.e, is a dig at the restriction of trade with Soviel Russia by the agreement be tween the western powers not tc supply Russia, or China, witt any materials of strategic mili tary value. Then Bulganin goe: on: INVITES TRADE MISSION "To the same extent we stanc co-operation between the USSH and Canada in' the field of sci ence and technology, culture anc arl, education and health, for wider sports contacts, There fore we met with understanding the recent statement by Dr Smith ing intenti of Canada to extend ties and con tacts with the Soviet Union. Ir particular we are Piephred te receive in the Soviet Union reciprocal visit of the Camadian to Canada in accordance with the trade mission at a time suitable wish expressed in Dr. Smith's statement." ' This ter is subtle -- and deadly. has gone much fur ther in its interpretation of Dr. Smith's views than the minister for external affairs had any in. tention of going. It shows a com: ete lack of understanding of the act that while Canada .is pre pared to go a long way towards helping to lessen world tensions and the cold war, Canada is not in Boing to sell its allies against Russian aggression down the river for a Soviet mess of vot- tage. CONTRARY TO FACTS Bulganin says in his letter, "It is well known that the Soviet Union has never threatened and does not threaten the security of other states." is entirely con- 20 YEARS AGO Reginald G. Geen, local pian- ist; accompanied by Adolph Wan- troff, baritone, of Toronto, made a concert tour in Northern On- conian Club in Toronto. She was accompanied at the piano by Gordon Hallett. Twenty-four officers and staff bers of Victoria Lodge No. tario, under the i of the Canadian Concert Association. H. M. Black, local and district manager of the Bell Telephone , addressed the Whitby fals in mutual tition, in the scientific field, BANKRUPT OF BRAINS NATO, as Canada's Nobel prize- man Mike Pearson long ago told the world, pointed the way to an economic and hence perhaps to a litical commonwealth of the At: antic nations. This may seem far-fetched. he added, but in this atom age no lesser vision would be adequate. How right he was. Lions Club, giving an educational talk on the new dial system in- stalled in Whitby. Charles Sanderson, chief librar- fan of the City of Toronto, was the guest speaker at the Univer- sity Alumni gathering in the Genosha Hotel. . Mona Lyona Hunt Mangan, so- prano, of Oshawa, gave a lovely musical program at the Heli- 55 travelled to Hamilton where they were the guests of Pioneer Lodge, No. 6. Miss Nora Quigley, of Picker- ing, a pupil of Whitby High School and attending University of Toronto, had been awarded the second prize in the Carter Schol- arship which was open to all high school students in Ontario an- nually. At the annual meeting of the Oshawa Branch of the Co-opera- tive Commonwealth Federation, F. M. Dafoe was elected as the club's president for the coming year. That trary to the history of the deal ings of Soviet Russia and the Communist ideology with the rest of the world, Hungary can an. swer it effectively, Communist intervention in the offairs of other nations, Communist efforts to win over other countries by in- filtration into their affairs, and the still - existent dream of world domination, are at the root of the whole snarled mess in which the world finds itself today. Let Russia forswear these ac- tivities and doctrines, and give evidence, by actions that she means what says, will find the rest of Is based on a desire them up and make them the Communist dictatorship. Yet the day-by-day administra- tion of NATO, and the year-by- year planning, was allowed to fall NATO. to allow full 0 its importance, and to treat it as the most important factor of their national affairs. Britain, the U.S., Germany, France and Canada are the especial villains in this regard. 1 TOLD YOU 80 Todays the lon, of NATO can smile as they velopments, and murmur with no satisfaction: "I told you so." Today even the U.S. admits that it is not strong enough to stand alone in the modern com- petitive world: it must have close allies. Today even insular Britain admits that she cannot hold her- self aloof from close co-operation and alliance with her neighbors. And today every NATO ally at last agrees that the burdensome cost of defence demands the max- imum prosperity attainable by the maximum international trade by each ally. Yet for 8% years, these NATO allies, gathered round the confer- ence table to prepare their maxi- -time advocates a ra 'wan de- of national into the hands of men who have no such vision. NATO was taken over by the civil servants, apart from four or five days in each year when a few cabinet ministers from all the allied countries gath- ered to give superficial approval to *'situation papers" prepared for ert by their civil servants. ers will have laid before-it the usual hogwash, and besides :a final i this or "declaration of Paris,' con- taining the usual platitudes, which was prepared by American civil servants before the econfer- ence opened. It is against this background that Prime Minister Diefenbaker was urged, by a group of very prominent Canadians, to seize the leadership of NATO, to ignore the frail and frightened leaders from other nations, and to con- vert this "requiem" into a topi- cally appropriate "carol" herald- ing a new birth of the concept of "peace on earth, and goodwill te THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA 30th November, 1957 QUEEN'S PARK Rushing To Mail Bigger Cheques By DON O'HEARN Special Correspondent to The Daily Times-Gazette TORONTO--A delayed hand for the department of welfare. Hon. Louis Cecile's department is making a beyond-the-call-of- duty effort to make sure that every pensioner on the provin- cial rolls gets a boosted cheque by Christmas. The department staff has been working hard on the mammoth task of converting the pay ma- chines to cover the $9 increase for the more than 40,000 pen- sioners involved and is confident it is going to make the grade. Nice work. Oth er provinces aren't doing as well. MUNICIPAL MATTERS There are a couple of things stirring for municipal affairs which should have some interest at this winter's session. One of them is a request from Toronto for legislation allowing it to bill a third of the tax impost before striking its new rate. The request would seem to have a lot of merit. Now that they are so tied down to provincial grants, councils can't do much about striking the rate until they know what the grants are. And it is usually nearly spring before these are known. Anything that would help them in getting at their. collections early should be helpful, The second matter is more con- troversial It is the question of extending the municipal vote to all res- idents present. A year ago Toronto voted in favor of the broader franchise. Now london has followed suit They will be pressing for gen- KILL WOLF NEAR CITY GLANWORTH, Ont. (CP)--A 50-pound wolf was hunted down and killed Monday in the bush of Westminster Township by a group of 30 farmer€ and Glan- worth businessmen. The wolf, rare in the area, about 12 miles south of London, was tracked for three days after it had killed a sheep, instead of taxpayers as at- ASSETS MAC'S MUSINGS The Russian hockey team Which toured Canada has Now departed, and we are Able to assess the value Of its visit, not merely From a hockey standpoint, But also as a venture Of international goodwill, The outstanding feature Of this tour has been The friendly spirit shown By players on both sides, By the thousands of Spectators, and by the Splendid hospitality Extended to the visitors From the Soviet Union. If there is any lesson ned from this, is that people, Generally speaking, are The same the world over, And given to chance to Mingle with each other In the pursuit of their Common interests, there Is every likelihood that Friendships would develop. eral legislation to give them authority to make the change. And while the government won't exactly be on the spot, for the legislation would only be permis- sive, there could be considerable controversy. SAW-OFF? It is hard to see legislation to extend the vote defeated in this house. Our members depend on non- taxpayers to put them in. It would be the brave represent- ative who would publicly deny them the municipal vote. But there still are a lot of peo- ple who think it isn't fair for any- body except s property owner to vote on municipal matters. It is property that pays and therefore it should say. Against this. of course, is the fact that a large part of munici- pal revenues today come from provincial grants for which every- one pays. ' A saw - off that might please everybody would be to extend ref- erendum requirements so that major expenditures had to be ap- To Surely it (1954) LIABILITIES Deposits Other liabilities Perhaps it is fair to say That if the leaders of The Russian nation would Make a real effort to Understand that the Western powers want to Be friendly and live in Peace, as their hockey Players have been shown Progress might be made Towards understanding. Capital paid up Rest Account proved by the ratepayers. EQUIPPED WITH METAL WHEELS, these scales. are designed for the general weighing of all types of merchandise, and are the most popular and adoptable portable platform scale made. Heavy gauge sheet steel platform covers, Capacities 500; 1000 Ibs. Available through any of F-M's 16 branches across Canada. 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