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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE [mrs Published by Times-Gazette Publishers Limited, 57 Simcoe St. S,, Oshawa, Ont. Page 4 Tuesday, June 10, 1958 Tax Conference Needed To Review Old Policies Pressure continues to build up on the senior levels of ,overnment to come to the assistance of municipal taxpayers, The Montreal Star takes note of the situation by saying: "Muriicipalities everywhere' have gone about as far as they should go in tie field of real estate taxation, the principal source of locul government income since Confederation. A great many other sources have beer. explored, some of them remaining as a fixture in our way of life, But in all the study~ ing that has been done over the years, only one positive finding recurs: there 'raust be an adjustmeni- of provincial- municipal relations 'in implementa- tion of the theory of parallel interest. "In many fields of local-pruvincial responsibility it is practically impossible to draw a ling Ad demarcation, Schools, for instance, are not local, What we call city streets, in many instances, are actually extensions of the highway system. Yet, by and large, they must be paid for out of the local tax dollar, 80 cents of which is provided by real estate assessments." The tender spot in the festering sore of tax relations is what properly con= stitutes a charge against real estate taxpayers. Education is a national asset; city streets are indeed, for the most part, in the category of extene sions to existing highwayu. Social ser vices and welfare are a questionable charge against real estate taxation, So it goes. A Domiaion-provincial- municipal conference on tax relations and responsibilities could open the way for revision and modernization of taxation policies, Leniency Versus Safety The attorney-general's department at Queen's Park has, shown increasing concern with traffic safety in the past two years. Yet there are doubts that the department is spending enough time in reviewing the disposition of traffic cases in the magistrates' courts in the province, In Sudbury an impaired driver was fined $25 and costs and his licence sus- pended for one year. He hit one car which in turn hit another car, Another impaired driver was fined $100 and his licence suspended for six months. A speeding driver travelling 60 miles an hour in a 30-mile zone forced a woman pushing a baby carriage from the side of the road when he passed at high speed. He was fined $30 and costs. It was his second speeding conviction, We frequently hear voices from Queen's Park which speak of "tough" traffic laws and enforcement. Can the attorney-general's department built a feputation for "toughness" if it fails to appeal too leninent cases that come before the magistrates? Is the attorney- general's definition of "toughness" in traffic law enforcement echoed by the magistrates? There is much evidence that points to a lack of consistency in the penalties imposed by the magistrates, Mandatory penalties might provide the toughness and consistency that is now lacking. A mandatory penalty of $100 and costs for excessive speed -- such as 60 miles an hour in a 30-mile zone -- plus a licence suspension, could be a starting point, For impaired drivers also, a man- datory "tough" penalty such as a seven-day jail term. Let the law enforcement agencies face the gravity of highway slaughter and property damage. The offending driver must be removed from the high- ways or financially penalized to the extent that it will hurt, Traffic safety talk is just a waste of breath if the courts tap the offenders lightly on the wrists, or show inconsistency in the imposition of penalties. Shrinking Space In The Air With steadily increasing air travel, making the airways safe is vitally im- portant. The extent of the problem for the sgir-minded United States is underlined by a report on air safety recently issued by the Civil Aeronautics Board, "Every day," the report stated, 4200,000 or more persons fly safely through the air space near the Unit~d States," but at the same time it charac- terized this air space as "a diminish- ing national resource." With each year's normal gain in the number of flying operations the con- gestion in normal flight levels, say be- Jow 25,000 feet, increases, Last year airport traffic control towers handled 40,000 aircraft operations, and by 1960 this number is expected to approach 60,000, Consequently there has been a real urgency behind the action of President Eisenhower, in consultation with con- gressional leaders and air officials,™in Understanding When President Heuss of West Ger- many spoke to both Houses of the Can- adian Parliament, he referred to two world wars, and added: "Out of battle emerged the understanding that it would be better to live with one another, Yes! For one another!" We trust that in these words he is not looking to the future. Perhaps the past disputes with Germany are finish- ed, and from these battles we have achieved understanding. Must we look ' to a future war with Russia to reach 4 similar understanding? At present, that's the way it now ap- pears, It would seem that the only way the communist and free world powers will agree will be after a show of military strength that will prove one or other the stronger. We are not trying to fill the role of 'the foreteller, We point sin.ply to the facts as they come to light. For the past dozen 'years, both communist and free world powers have been rejecting The Daily Times-Gazette T. L. WILSON, Publisher and General Mancaer. C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor. . 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Dunbarton Enniskillen, Orono Lesk~rd and Newcastle not over 40c per week, By moil (in province of Ontario) outside carrier ! delivery areos, 1200. Elsewhere 15.00 per year. AVERAGE DAILY NET PAID CIRCULATION AS AT APR. 30 16,166 Toronto. Ontaries announcing five new air safety rules to be put into effect as promptly as pos- sible, These have to do particularly with avoiding collisions between mili- tary and commercial or other civilian aircraft--a need highlighted by several collisions and inany 'near misses", The rules themselves illustrate the great complexity of the problem, They require military jet flights using the designated airways to go on instrument flight rules: require jet pilot students entering airways to do so on con- trolled flight plans; require military je. planes to avoid "airport areas when descending below 25,000 feet: and re- quire practice flights to be carried out away from airways. These are all reasonable regulations, They will throw much additional res- ponsibility and message traffic on the existing yontrol systems. They em- phasize the need for adequate, even ample, financing for positive air traffic control systems, Without War any reasonable method of achieving an understanding. Having exhausted everything else, will they resort to war? Among mature nations, war should be unnecessary, even as a last resort. We recognize that differences of opinion are unavoidable, and these may lead to conflict. But if we are mature, we must confine our conflict to words, and words that point toward reason, The immature approacii is only too evident, and it is not right to lay the entire blame to our opponents in the present international dispute. The West must share in the responsibility fur failure to achieve a basis of understand- ing. Happily, there still is time to reason, to argue, and more important, to strive to understand the viewpoint of the other, If we make the most of this op- portunity, we ean look back a few years hence, and say for all nations: "Out of battle has emerged the understand- ing that it is better to live with one another." : Other Editor's Views SEAT OF WORRY (Peterborough Examiner) The Chatham News links headaches with the doctor's dictum that pain hits. in the weakest point. This has nothing to do with the fact that political can- didates are always worrying about their seats. Editorial Notes With rising prices in a falling econ- omy, the average Canadian has much the same feeling as an aviator trying to soar in a parachute, Cigarette sales in Britain average 52 per capita each week. In the.United States it is 55 per capita, so with the difference in costs, the British spend a lot more on their smokes than do the cans, A LONG WAY ToWARD DISSoLviNG "THE TENSIONS OF THIS PooR OLD WORLD * ------ PRESIDENT EISENHOWER NEE fa we NIXON GOING AROUND THe SOUTH AMERICAN COURSE 0 'ME ar eR HAZARD AND KHRUSHEHEY AIMING Ze For The SUMMIT IF THEY ALL PLAYED GOLF QUEEN'S PARK Liberals Can Now Have Their Fun By DON O'HEARN Special Correspondent fo The Daily Times-Gazette TORONTO: When it comes to bedfellows, politics sure can mix things up. For years the Conservatives here got a lot of glee out of the unhappy state of the Liberals across the floor on federal-pro- vincial relations. The little group in our house squirmed as their close but dis- tant relatives at Ottawa embar- rassed them by summarily treat- ing Mr. Frost's demands. FROST COUSINS? Now the little group promises to have some fun of its own. Their now very friendly cous- ins at Ottawa evidently are go- ing to make & major issue of the federal-provincial question. In the first stages of the ses- sion their major attack has been at the reluctance of the govern- ment to convene a conference. And it is hard to see how Mr. Frost can avoid embarrassment. To date his Ottawa cousins-- cousins? or step-children?--have been acting as though he didn't rank around their house. They don't seem to have been feeling for him at all. It was surprising to see the other day that a judge was to be sent a -summons after being caught in a speed trap. Your writer had the idea that speed traps weren't with us any more since the uniform traffic ticket had come in force. It was a mistaken impression that the need for personal serv. ice did away with the practical- ity of "traps." HARD CASE However, Attorney - General Roberts has cleared things up. Police can still have traps if they want to, he says. However, it is up to them to get a convic- tion. If they mall a summons to an owner of a car and he says he wasn't driving it they can't make a case stick. LOOK OUT The OPP isn't using traps, Mr. Roberts reports. The radar units it is using, and adding to, it doesn't consider traps. They are in plain sight, he says, and can't be considered a "trap." ' A neat definition which, one would say, largely depends on which way one is looking. MAC'S MEANDERINGS House-Hunting Is Serious Problem By M. McINTYRE HOOD (London Correspondent of The Times-Gazetie) LONDON--It has taken some time to become settled down in this capital of the British Com- monwealth sufficiently to under- take the task of letting the folks back home in Oshawa know something of what has been hap- pening since we left the Motor City. But now, within the walls of the home we had dreamed of in a rural village in the south of England, we feel the urge to tell something of our experiences and first impressions. The voyage across the Atlantic on the Empress of Britain we can dismiss briefly. It was about the most unpleasant ocean crossing we have ever made, and we have made many. The sail down the St, Lawrence was delightful. The ship was the acme of comfort and. conveni- ence. It looked like being an en- joyable trip. Unfortunately, even before we had passed Cape Race on the eastern tip of Newfound- land we were into rough seas, and were being plagued by what the ship's log termed a "'com- fused swell", THREE BAD DAYS This lasted for three days, during most of which we stayed in our cabin suffering all the dis- trip comforts of a tough bout of sea sickness, That lasted until we saw the coast of Ireland on the star- board how, and even the Firth of Clyde was choppy as we Sail- ed up to Greenock in a pouring rain. It was late afternoon when we left the ship, cleared cus- toms in about one minute flat, with a solicitious CPR official in cloce attendance to look after all our baggage, send the heavy pieces direct to London, and see us safetly on the train for Edin- burgh, where we were in an hour or so enjoying a reunion with our relatives there, We spent three days in Edin- burgh, one of which was a busy day of work in the office of our associated newspaper, "The Scotsman." But we had enough time, in spite of cold, raw weath- er, to see some of the old his- toric places, and to enjoy the glory of the fiowers in the Prin. ces Street Gardens, where great masses of wallflower in many colors were in full bloom along its sloping banks, SPEEDY TRAIN We traveiled down to London on "The Talisman', a fast train which covered the 390-mile trip at an average of 70 miles an hour. Our arrival in London eoin- cided with the coming of the Whitsuntide holiday weekend, so after one day in our new office on Fleet street, getting acquaint ed with the staff and the opera- tions there, we had three days free. HOUSE HUNTING 80 off we went to Richmond, to OTTAWA REPORT German Preaches ~ Common Market By PATRICK NICHOLSON trading partners would welcome Special Correspondent fo either or both of their North The Dally Times-Gazette * American NATO allies into the most signifi. common market. The Americans Yo 588 more... OTTAWA -- The cant figure visiting: Canada last week in thé German president's party was the foreign "minister, , von Brentano. This dapper 53-year-old diplo- mat was a successful lawyer; 13 by their heart, who believe--and 1 quote his own words--that "We must do away with outmoded notions of sovereignty." The small nation-states of Eu- rope constitute economic units which are too small, and cannot survive in that form in the pres. ent world trading situation, he believes. One of the leading ad- vocates of the creation of the European Common Market, he told me: "We hope to make out of these six divided national economies, one unified economic area comprising a market of 140,000,000 people." The Common Market will abol- ish trade barriers within its boundaries before 1973. By that time, Dr. von Brentano foresees, those nations and also any oth ers which wish to join the party will have gone far towards achieving political unity to match their e fe unity. find the flats totally inadequat to our needs, and the rents ridi- culously exorbitant. Then we called it a day. 3 QUEST ENDED On Sunday we continued our search, We went out on the un- derground to see a house at Sud- bury Town, but it was not what we wantad, Then we again took the tube to Stanmore, at the end of the Bakerloo tube line, and a lovely Middlesex village. There our uest for a hos ended. found just iL ud of place we wanted. Then we again took built only four years ago, and quite modern in appointments, Its kitchen was large and well- equipped, including even a wash- ing machine. It was completely furnished, And, best of all, it had a beautiful enclosed garden at the back, filled with some lovely rose bushes, rhododen- drons, laburnam trees, delphi- niums and many other types of perennials. In front there was an- other lovely garden, with some huge bushes of peonies. The rent was well within our reach, so we at once made a deal for a year's lease, and our quest was over. I was able to send a message to Edinburgh to let Bess know I had found the kind of house we "had dreamed of having, and tell- ing her to come down to get set- tled in it. IDEAL LOCATION Stanmore is a village in the borough of Harrow, Middlesex. We have already found that it has some delightful country lanes for walking, open commons and woods within five minutes of the house, and also an excellent shopping district at the foot of the hill which we had to climb to reach the house. The under. ground railways runs right from Charing Cross to Stanmore. The bus strike makes it necessary to walk 15 minutes to the house from the tube station, but when that is over, # will mean a threé-minute bus ride, and then a run of 35 minutes to Fleet eres}: For London, that is close y. So now we are settled in our new home at 5 Old Forge Close, Stanmore, Middlesex, Even the name seems Intriguing. And with this problem solved -- and we have been told a dozen times that we were fortunate in finding a home so quickly -- we are ready to enjoy our life and work in England. .r REDS IN ARCTIC OSLO (AP)--Norwegian guards report increased Russian activity near the Arctic frontier between Norway and the Soviet Union. A spokesman said guards at Nyrud have sighted a large Russian camp close to the border and to Many trucks and planes, includ- er an hour's ru took us to Brighton, off we went, by bus, to Saltdean, That took another half-hour, Then we had a bit of walk to the house we wanted to see. It was in a delightful location, overlook- ing the sea, and in many ways it was a fine house. But we learned at once that we must not expect a modern kitchen, such as we had in Oshawa, We figured that it would take us about two hours to reach our office every morning, from Salt- dean, and two hours to go back in the evening, so we counted out that location. We stopped off at Hayward's Heath on .the way back to Lon. don. We saw some real estate agents, but drew a complete blank. We went along to Lind- field, a village in which we had been billeted for some time back in the army days of 1941 and 1942, with the same result. So we returned to London still hunt- ing for a place to live. An advertisement of flats at Richmond then caught our eye, ing jet fighters. . There is already a 'European Parliament', set up to adminis- , ter the Coal and Steel Pool and "Euratom," as well as the Com- mon Market. What is already very significant, Dr. von Bren- tano told me, is that delegates to that Parliament sit, not in na- tional blocks, but grouped ace cording to their party affiliation, across national lines, NO NEED FOR FEAR Canada feels some apprehen- sion that the creation of the Common Market will adversely affect our trade with its constit~ uent members, Dr. van Bren- tano senses. But this is unjusti fied, he said. To begin with, the Common Market is not removing trade barriers between its mem- bers, with the intention of setting up similar barriers again around the whole; its aim is to create an atmosphere of freer trade throughout the world. "Under no circumstances will the brave new concept of the common market revert to the previous wrong ideas of autarchy and self-sufficiency," the foreign minister told me. "The six nas tions are not making the com. mon market an exclusive club; it is not directed against any other nations; rather, it is directed for the people of every nation, who will enjoy better living standards through the rationalisation of production which it will create and encourage." CANADA COULD JOIN In reply to my specific ques- tion, he said Germany has not invited Canada to join the com- mon market. 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