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THE DAILY TIMES.GAZETTE[-- Published by Times-Gazette Publishérs Limited, 57 Simcoe St. 5., Oshawa, Ont, Page 4 Monday, June 2, 1958 'Some Suspicion Required As Safeguard Of Liberty People in a democracy must always be suspicious of attempts by govern< ment at any level to increase its pow= er. This means being suspicious most of the time, because it is in the nature of governments to try to increase their power. The greater the authority, the easier the difficult job of governing becomes. The Ontario Government has set up a commission to study the encroach- ments on the preserves of individual freedom by boards and agencies crea. ated by the Province. The establish ment of this inquiry is a tribute to Premier Frost's political integrity. It did not come in response to any great public demand; comparatively few voices were raised against the steadily increasing authority of appointed bod- ies. And this is. significant: the power of the provincial agencies has grown so quietly that it has scarcely been notic- ed, In such fashion is liberty lost--for want of a little suspicion. "Big" government has flourished since World War II. In an emergency such as war, citizens give up some of their freedom in order to strengthen the central authority's. power' to meet the demands of crisis. If the emergen« cy lasts long enough, the loss: of free- dom tends to become fixed: more peo- ple forget, a new organization mes along' that does not know what it"has lost, and 'government itself finds it easier to remain a master than return to being a servant. In this fashion the democratic prine ciple of a state existing to benefit the individual is" gradually twisted to the authoritarian concept of the individe ual existing for "the state, The change is hurried when = representatives of government can persuade the people that they face constant danger from enemies within and without, Just a few days ago, the Subcommit- : tee on Internal Security of the United States Senate produced a report ade vising the U.S. Congress to provide by law for the "proper punishment of acts performed during a time of cold war which, if a state of hot war exist- ed, would be treasonable, i This appears sensible enough at first glance. There is such a thing aka cold war going on, and its maneouvres can get to be pretty sticky at times. But the recommendation needs more than a passing glance, It is typical of the sort of law that ctits deep into the body of individual liberty without hurting too much, If Congress should accept the sub- committee's advice, these things would necessarily follow: the foreign policy of the U.S, administration would be= come official doctrine, and anyone cri« ticizing it could be considered as giv ing aid and comfort to the enemy; "the enemy" would be any country ine curring the displeasure of the Admin istration: no correspondent could falk to officials of the "enemy" government without running the risk of arrest. In short, the American public's right to know would be virtually destroyed. From this, it would be an easy step to restrictions on discussion of domestic affairs. Good Drama But Poor Sense It was a dramatic offer . made last week by the Rev, Gordon Weir, the United Church minister at Alton. Pro- testing against nuclear tests, he declar- ed, "We Christians should go where the bombs are falling and summon en- ough people to stand under them, I will be glad to go myself and take my family." We congratulate him on his courage and, presumably, that of his family. He would not get anywhere close to an exploding bomb, of course, but doubt- clear weapons are at the moment the world's best detérrent to war. One side cannot abandon that deterrent without the other doing the same. Russia made a big fuss-about aban- doning nuclear tests -- after compete ing a long series of them, Russia does not seem nearly so anxious to reach an international agreement to ban the tests, President Eisenhower has named a place and date for a meeting to work out ways of policing a ban, and has ap- / TREASURE ISLAND UK. Public Backs Consumer - - Organizations LONDON (CP)--British watch- dog comumer organizations, less . than two years old, report the public is eagerly behind them. The Consumer Advispry Coun- cil of the British Standards Insti- tution has 30,000 members and the Associationgor Consumer Re- search 58,000 members. . Theorganizations differ slightly in that the council is gov ernment - sponsored and negoti- ates with manufacturers, while the independently - supported as- sociation leads straight from the shoulder with more outspoken criticisms. Both test goods and publish the results in quarterly magazines circulated to their membership. z Sr Besdies their testing programs, both organizations plan to inves- tigate merchandising methods. High on the association's list are the growing practice of giveaway promotion schemes and the effect of advertising costs on the selling price of goods. Although consumer -research organizations the world over ex- change bulletin,s there is no reg- ular exchange of information. What Might Have Been In History (Montreal Gazette) Some of the most intriguing chapters in history are the rec- ords of what "might have been". A number of them appear in"Her- bert Hoover's new book, "The Or- deal of Woodrow Wilson". In this OTTAWA REPORT . Brazil Embassy Cost Questioned By PATRICK NICHOLSON The Daily Times-Gazette Special Correspondent to OTTAWA---Brazil is actively creating ¢ new national capital. This city, to be named Brasilia, is being carved out of virgin lands in the state of Goias, 600 miles 'northwest of Rio de Jan- eira. It has just been announced that the bustling and over- crowded seaport-capital of Rio (population 2,600,000) will be abandoned by the government two years hence. This means that all the government's satellite was raised twice elsewhere; both 'Lyceum Art Club the following book Hoover recounts Wilson's hattles and eventual compro- mises on the First World War peace .treaty, in order that his plan for a League of Nations might come into being. One of the compromises Hoover details is that on the mandates under which various possessions of Germany, Turkey and Russia were officially put under the pro- tection of the League, and At the annlial meeting of the Sharia states" placed aver BYGONE DAY 15 YEARS AGO Thomas M. Dustan, of Bow- manville, was ordained into the ministry of the Church of Eng- land at St, James' Cathedral, in Toronto. times our diplomatic extrava- officers were elected: president, SMALL .GUARDIAN gance was criticized by former officials of our Rio embassy, whos services had just been dis- pensed with. One of these, Mr. Paul Morin, was invited to resign from our diplomatic service, after he had protested against the "extrava- gance" and the "'unreality in the financial operations" at our Rio embassy. He later described ex- amples of this extravagance to a Catholic club in Ottawa, and his startling disclosures were re- ported in the newspapers. Miss May-Dillon; vice-presidents, Mrs. B. A. Brown and Mrs. R L. Gray; recording secretary, Mrs. R, Wallace; corresponding secretary, Mrs. W. King; treasurer, Mrs. A. Armstrong. Wilson's idea was that these guardian states should be small states. He was won over to the idea that small states could not properly administer them, so they should be administered the major Allies, Hoover's analysis of this change in that under it Britain, France, Japan, South Africa, Aus- f tralia and New Zealand in fact Tiber ol the Royal Canadian acquired new territory; this was an imperialist process whatever E. 8. Byers, of Oshawa, was it was called, he feels, and Wil- appointed manager of the Ontario 00 Was death on imperialism, Stanley J. Harris, of Oshawa, received his BC degree at Queen's Umlversity. He was Last Underground Coal Mine Now Under Water ESTEVAN, Sask. (CP) -- The Jast underground coal mine in southeastern S ask at chewan Is about to disappear under the ris- ing waters of nearby Long Creek Reservoir The Old Bridge mine is the last of 37 diggings along the Souris River valley and its Long Creek tributary. Giant strip - mining machines: now have 'taken over from 2,000 men who once worked in 37 underground pits in the area. The Old Bridge mine, a small cperation in which coal was mined with pick, shovel and dy- namite was the last of the under- ground collieries when it closed in December. rm Now, the entrance is almost covered by the rising waters of Long Creek, behind ine Saskats chewan Power Commission's dam, The Old Bridge mine, which produced 100 tons daily at peak nroduction, was operated for 14 yearg by veteran miner Ed Tajc. When it ciosed, only five miners worked the mine and output had dropped to 30 tons a day. The coal was sold in Estevan for $5 a ton, Tajc glung to old methods of mining used in 1927 when he came. to Canada from Czecho- Future Island At Long Point EDMONTON (CP) -- Hundreds of summer cottages built on Long Point, on Lake Erie's shore near Simcoe, Ont., will day be on slovakia, The only major change was in the blasting agent used. Black powder was the miner's friend and when this could no longer be obtained stick dynamite was used. The decline of the underground mines bégan in 1931 whem-one company began strip mining southeast of Estevan. - Now, giant electrically-powered shovels and draglines strip the overburden from the seams gouge out bites of coal ranging from five to 35 cubic yards. Easier Trade = With Russian Bloc Foreseen LNDON (Reuters) -- Almost one-third of Western strategic re- strictions on trade with the Com- munist bloc are expected to be eliminated shortly, authoritative sources say. The Consultative Group Co- operation Committee. administ- ered from NATO headquarters in Paris, will complete a review of the present embargoes next month. This is the first time that the 15 - country committee has re- viewed the list of controlled goods since 1954. It was dictated by evidence of Soviet scientific. and industrial -advances. #» The committee consists of gov- ernment representatives from the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Norway, Japan, Den- mark, Belgium, the Netherlands, an island. Ontario' geographer Harold A. Wood said Friday night that in about 100 years the action of waves will have cut a channel through the sandy isthmus sepa- rating the main resort area from the mainland. Long Point extends 25 miles into Lake Erie near Simcoe, and has become a popular resort area, . Action' of the waves on the point's sandy" shores was out. lined in a paper by Mr. Wood, associate geography professor at McMastef* University to the Cana- dian Association of Geographers. Since the beginning of the 19th century, Long Point has through a complete cycle of sev- erance from the mainland and subsequent reunion. Direct to BY BUS Luxembourg, Italy, Greece, West Germany, Portugal and Turkey. TOUGHEST LIST FIRST Thus far, COCOM is believed to have examined only one of the three lists of goods subject to its control: That of totally banned items. The other two lists, of goods subject -to quota restric tions and of those whose export is under general "statistical" sue pervision, have not. been re viewed. The committee's view, the sources said, is that tackling the most stringent list first will have automatic repercussions on the other two lists, where some of the same items figure. i --P RS organisms including the Cana- dian Embassy, must also be transferred to Brasilia. This forced transfer of our em- bassy from Rio recalls one of the more stinking of the parliament ary fish, which were hurriedly disposed of in recent years. That was, the circumstances surround- . § Wilson did not see it this way. The other official, M. F. de Steel Products Co. Ritson road was fully confident of the basic Matos, was a Brazilian who had north. E. G. H. Moore, of To- iH been employed for 10 years at Tonto, was named secretary. difference between a League man- our embassy, and had in fact re- treasurer, Sate any an impenalisl anuexa. nded for gently. Dees recomme North Oshawa Home and : that he accepted the proposal . ood - work. Promotion on ie Flo suddenly School Association appointed a that the United States should also decided that he was unsatisfact- Public health nurse, Mrs. Jim accept a mandatory responsibil ory, and his "voluntary" resig- Young, of Oshawa, for the school, ty. . pointed the American representatives. He has advised Moscow and expressed the hope that it, too, will name techni cal experts so that "we can get scienti- fic, not political, conclusions." Russia is coy about such a meeting. But this is by all odds the closest ap- less he did not think of that. The offer, however, was more dra- matic than reasonable. Even if it were 8 i ted, all he would prove would be : the efficiency of a nuclear weapon as a killer and his own willingness to be killed. The former has been amply de- [EVERY SATURDAY - and Mon. June 30th, Tues. July Ist. June 2nd to July 12th" monstrated and the latter can be as- sumed: A more sersible, but less dramatic approach is open to Mr, Weir and peo- ple who think as he does. That is to help create a body of public. opinion, here and in other countries, strong en- ough to push statesmen faster along the road to agreement on disarmament. As another United Church minister sbserved, in Yesponse to Mr. Weir, nu- proach yet made to a cessation of tests, and it is in this direction that hope lies. Mr. Weir does not need to be a latter~ day martyr. We doubt if his proposed self-sacrifice would make any impres- sion at all on the Russians, But he can resign himself to the more humdrum task of helping to create the climate of opinion in which the flowering of a workable nuclear disarmament plan must become inevitable. Softening Estates Tax Bill Changes in the Estates Tax Bill are recommended in a brief submitted to Finanace Minister Fleming by the Ca- nadian Chamber of Commerce. The Bill is designed to replace the Domin- ion Succession Duty Act. Among the general recommendations is one that would exempt pension and death benefits from death taxes. Such a tax is socially undesirable and the need for revenue in these fields is ade- quately covered by income taxation, the brief argues. In effect, this means that employers and individuals should be encouraged, rather than discoura- ged, to provide for widows and depend- ents, Hardship can result from the double impact of death and income taxes, Another recommendation is that the Bill provide the option of an alterna- tive valuation date, The present inflex- ible system of setting value unalterab- ly at the date of death can also mean hardship. When the estate is made up largely of real property or securities, it is virtually impossible to realize as- sets immediately for payment of death duties. The capital of an estate, it is argued, should not be confiscated when The Daily Times-Gazette T. L. WILSON, Publisher ana General Mancaer. C. GWYN KINSEY Editor, = The Daily limes-Gazetts (Oshawa, Whitby), com- bining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette ano. 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AVERAGE DAILY NET PAID CIRCULATION AS AT APR. 30 16,166 economic conditions bring about a les- sening in values before assets can be cashed. The brief reasonably suggests a method premitting valuation at the date of death or one year later, The brief suggests that a marital ex- emption provision be adopted. This would give recognition to the contrie bution a wife makes as a partner in the creation of an estate. Another sugges- tion is that the minimum deductible exemption for estates be increased from $30,000, as provided in the Es- tates Bill, to $50,000, and that basic exemption of $60,000 with an extra $10,000 for each child be granted in all cases where the deceased is survived by husband or wife, . Other recommendations of a more technical nature are made. But the gen= eral effect would be to ease greatly the conditions of taxation on estates following death. ji In most respects the suggestions are reasonable. Any sort of taxation that imposes hardship on even 'a tiny frac tion of the population should not be tolerated. At the same time, the Fin- ance Minister and his colleagues must be careful in amending the Estates Bill, They must avoid any possibility of giving another small fraction of the population a preferred position. Editorial Notes | Travel on the Madrid subway 'costs one cent for three and a half miles. Toronto had better send Lamport over to find out how they do it, Other Editor's Views . OIL IN EUROPE (St. Thomas Times-Journal) It is not generally realized that there is oil in" Europe. Drilling is constantly going on, and has progressed rapidly since the end of the war, Estimates are that European production of ail will be about 15000000 tons by 'the next year,» Great accumulations of oil and natural gas have been found in Austria, France, Germany, Italy and The Netherlands, ing the expenditure of an unbe- lievable half-million dollars of the taxpayers' money, just to buy and furnish temporary living quarters for our ambassador in the condemned capital, Rio WATCH-DOG FLEMING Two years ago, this huge ex- penditure was dug up at the par- liamentary. committee on external affairs by a MP Donald Fleming, who has since been appointed finance min- ister. As a good 'watch-dog, pro- tecting the . taxpayers' money, Mr. Fleming set his teeth around this bone, and worried it to good effect. During the previous year, he discovered our embassy in Brazil had cost us $443,949, including capital expenditures and part of the cost of furnishing this new home; this was more than any other embassy, even those in London and Washington, had cost the Canadian taxpayers. Yet Brazil is not particularly significant to us. As a trade customer, she ranks 16th in im- portance, buying merely one- hundredth of the value of Cana- dian products bought by the United States. Her population of 58,000,000 citizens buys from us goods worth 50 cents per Brazil- ian per year. Canadian spend an average of $1.65 each per year on Brazilian goods, mostly coffee sufficient to supply every cup consumed outside Ontario and Quebec. So Brazil, while ranking ahead of the central American banana republica, scarcely seems to rate this high diplomatic cost. While Mr. Fleming was press- ing for explanations, this topic then Opposition . nation was enforced: not the first time, complained de Matos, that a man suffered for being loyal and speaking the truth. He wrote to the auditor-general of Canada, pointing out some of the "un- realities" and "extravagances' which were costing the Canadian taxpayer dear. TRUE OR FALSE? What action did -the auditor. general take when he read his atomic-blast of a. letter dated Oct 18, 1955? Did- he ignore it, suspecting it was the letter of a crank? Or if he did examine its charges, what did he- learn, for example, about the alleged falsif- ication of the dollar-cruzeiro ex. change rate, which resulted in about $30,000 of the taxpayers' money disappearing in the course of the purchase of that Portu- guese-style palace for our am- bassador to live in? Another question might be whether action was taken about the payment of excessive rent when, before the purchase of that palace, our ambassador was lodged in a home rented. for him, at the taxpayers' expense, at a mere $2,400 a month, said to be the highest rental ever paid in Rio. Now, with that half million dollar bill behind me, for a house in a capital which our diplomats had been warned would soon be abandoned, we the taxpayers can tighten our belts, and pre- pare to swallow a similar bill for a new ambassador's home in the new capital of Brasilia. Or is our. new government more realistic about our false-front diplomatic expenses? QUEEN'S PARK Question Raised 'By Gas Inquiry By DON O'HEARN Special Correspondent to The Dally Times-Gazeite TORONTO--Will it be made public? Observers are asking this about the report of the inquiry hy the Ontario Securities Commission into the Northern Ontario Natural Gas promotion, When he announced that the in- quiry was being undertaken Pre- mier frost told reporters there would be a full report to the . public, Attorney-General Roberts how- ever, is hedging. The report is made to him in the first instance, and he says . that when he receives it he will decide how much of it will be released FROST RELEASE SEEN * Justifying the attorney - gen- eral's stand issthe fact that often criminal charges are laid -out of OSC inquiries and therefore as a io ha 4 matter of routine they are public documents. Only when court proceedings are undertaken are portions of them divulged for the benefit of the court. In the present case, however, it would seem wise on the part of the government to let the pub- lic have the findings fully pub- licized--and the writer, at least, would give odds that Mr. Frost will see that they are. The public is not too well satis- fied as it is with the type of in- quiry being undertaken. There are still many people, not ' including important sections of the pgess, who feel there should have heen a royal commission investigation. If on top of this the report is partially suppressed there would be a great public. haw! ELECTION QUESTIO} One has the feeling that eventually Mr. Frost will go to the country on the gas question. NEW STATES Under it, he told the Democrat- fe National Committee in Jang ary, 1919, the U.S. would tak charge of Armenia, Constantin. eple and the Dardenells, Armenia was one of more than a score of new, independent states which de- clared their freedom at the end of the war. In the end a stroke incapacitat- ed Wilson almost entirely for seven months, during which Ams Among the graduates at the On- erican decisions were bejng taken. tario Veterinary College, at Congress rejected both the Peace Guelph, who received .their de. Treaty and the League which grees was D. C. Christie, of Port Wilson had so earnestly support- Perry. . - ed, - FOR BETTER HEALTH Three New Drugs Make Headlines In Medicine HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, MD Three medicines which give promise of making life a 'lot safer and much more comfort. able are among the recent de- velopments which I would like to discuss today in our regular monthly review of medical ad. vances. " Midicel is a new sulfa com- pound which reportedly has a therapeutic advantage over the older sulfonamides. Midicel is the trade name for sulfamethoxypy- ridazine, It's reported that this A new scholarship for the OCVI was given by Mrs. 8. B. Trick, to be known as the Trick Memorial Scholarship. Wallace A. McMillan, former OCVI teacher, purchased the his- toric Leask 250-acre farm, north- east of Greenbank. The property had been in the family for over 120 years and was operated by three generations. usually widely-used tranquiliz- ers. Trade name for this drug is Trilafon. It belongs to the.same family as the broadly used chlorpro- mazine tranquilizers, but it is re. ported to be from five to ten times more potent. It also re- quires smaller doses and pro- duces fewer side effects. It is available by prescription only. NEW DRUG FOR COUGHS A medicine named Thorexin is a new product for symtomatic treatment of coughs. drug is particularly effective in treating persons with urinary tract infections. - HAS MANY USES Evidence thus far indicates that it is effective also in treat- ing respiratory infections, lung abscesses and bacterial dysen. tery. And it can be used as a prophylactic against ' recurrence of rheumatic fever. . A big advantage is that small- er doses are required than with other sulfonamides. It is avail able only through a doctor's pre. scription. . POWERFUL NEW DRUG Perphenazine is a powerful new drug which may replace the In a way it is- an ideal issue for him, His great public strength is his personal integrity, and an elec- tion fought on gas would inevit- ably wind up centring on his personal honor. > . Weaknesses in his ad ra- Sniel It does not contain codeine, one of the most common cough sup- pressants. Instead, it contains dextromethorphan hydrobrom ide and a combination of expe torant and demulcent agents. Unlike codeine, investigators say dextromethorphan hydrobro- mide is non-narcotic. And they re- port it does not have the gasto- intestinal side effects usually as- sociated with opiates such as codeine. It will be- available soon for over-the-counter sale. ° QUESTION AND ANSWER H. B.: | have a ring of whitish . material on each eyeball agpund the pupil. Is this due to hardehing of the arteries? Answer: The ring you speak about is probably due to a fat deposit within the eye. This has not been proven to be due to hard- » ening of the arteries except in a few cases. \ Better consult your doctor. tion would be largely overlooked for the main question, In the light of this anything that looked like suppression could be very damaging, and the pre- mier, good politican that he is, would be well aware of this, This, of course, would depend on there being nothing very de- structive in the report itself. And while there are the usual rumors of further "sensations' nothing too much is really looked for in it. CIVIL SERVANT RETIRES TORONTO (CP) -- Charles J. Foster, a dne-time member of the Ontario legislature press gallery where he represented the Mail and Empire, retired Friday as chairman of the Ontario civil service commission after 32 vears of government service. He had been chief arbitrator be- tween" the Ontario government and its employees for almost 26 years. LEAVE OSHAWA BUS TERMINAL 18 Prince St. 11:30 A.M. (Whitby 11.40 A.M.) 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