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QUEEN'S PARK Attorney-General || THE DAILY TIMESGAZETTE Published by Times-Gazette Publishers Limited, 57 Simcoe St. S,, Oshawa, Ont. Poge 4 Public Accounts Body Thursday, Octéber 16, 1958 ited in' both some administri ae (which it was felt was nn - Must Continue In Open Alan Macnaughton, Liberal MP for t Royal, distinguished himself as I of the Commons public ae- eolints committee during the recent . The committee's inquiry inte th§" building of the new Printing Bur- eatf in Hull was widely publicized as a gesult of some rather sensational evi- d given during the heérings. As ehajrman, Mr, Macnaughton was in a jeularly difficult position, because fe of the Conservatives 'who forméd a Majority on the committee, séémed dedfrmined to force disclosures that would be damaging to the Liberal par- ty while Liberal members were just as determined to protect their party's reputation. But Mr. Macnaughton, des- pite' the pressure on him, acted with fairness and moderation, The hearings ended, and Mr, Mae- naughton went to Britain to study the of the United Kingdom's parlia- mentary public accounts committee. Now he is back, and proposes to send an. informal report of his findings te Prithe Minister Diefenbaker, with a recommendation - that the Canadian committee follow the British practice of vholding hearings in camera--behind clgsed doors, away from the glare of licity. losed sessions, Mr. says, would mean that party polities colld never enter into the delibera- tiofs of the committee, While the Brit- committee meetings were closed to the press and the general public, per- jodical reports on its findings were madfie public. The UK. committee "also publishes its evidence, but it deletes th questions and answers which it s are not in the public interest and ar¢ better left secret" Macnaughton The British may be happy about such secrecy, In any case, that is their business, But i would be a grave mis- take for the Canadian eommitiee to de its business behind closed doors. Secre- cy would destroy the purpose for which the Canadian committee was es- tablished--an examination of govérne mental spending that would assure not only the Commons but the whole nat- ion that there was no financial skull- duggery in the use of the public's money. There is 166 much sécréty in govéra- ment now, even allowing for the faét that a certain amount éf a govern ment's business must be éonfidential, But the way a department éf govérne ment spends public funds is not éonfi- dential; the only pessible exception could be in detail affecting the nation's military security, and in all els¢e the "closed door" policy is bad. The people who 'pay the taxes buy the right to know how their money has been spent. Periodic, ¢ensored reports are not near- ly enough; they can only breed rumor, argument and suspicion, Mr. Maenaughton is mistaken if he thinks party politics would be remov- ed from the committee's deliberations behind closed doors. Politicians do not shed their loyalties and ambitions se ersily. How would the periodic, cengor- ed reports be prepared? What would happen, of course, would be deliberate "leaks" to the press by members not satisfied to wait for the periodic reports, These leaks would be slanted to suit the member's party loy- alty or ambition. The public would get at the worst a deliberately distorted and at the best a second hand and possibly garbled account of what was going on. Breath Test For Drivers Saskatchewan's law requiring sus- pected drunken drivers to undergo a breath test or face suspension of their driiving permits has been upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada. The le- gi on authorizes the provincial high- traffic board to suspend a driv- er's permit up to 90 days if the driver, when suspected of drunkenness, re- fusps to give a sample of his breath for . After a hearing, the board can nitely suspend the permt if satis- that the driver was under the in- @nce of liquor at the time of his re- ful to take the test. The breath test involves a device which a suspect blows, This sam- of breath is subjected to chemical anglysis to indicate the amount, if any, of 1 consumed. e Supreme Court was concerned enly with the validity of the legislation. % found that any evidence taken under the! Saskatchewan law as a resulet of a brepth test can be introduced in evi- dence at a trial for drunken or impair- ed driving under the Criminal Code. Wifat the Supreme Court did not do -- end was not asked to do -- was to make any finding on the amount of alcohol required to show drunkenness. That question still ix open to argument. . The Saskatchewan law would seem to be justified as a means of obtaining evi- dence of the extent of a driver's con- sumption of some intoxicating drink. The breath test is one method, the blood test is another. That some such means is needed must be obvious. All too often in police eourts it is a question of a police officer's opinon against the driver's pious insistence that he had "only a couple of heers." It is just as obvious that the drink- ing driver is a major traffic menace, and that police do not have stern en- ough laws to back them up in their- efforts to ~urb the menace. There seems to be a eurious reluctance om the part of our legislative bodies to make the law as tough as possible on drinking drivers. We believe that scientific tests te collect evidence from drink-ana-drive suspects should be compulsory through- out the country. We believe, too, that the penalties for drunken or impaired drivng should be much more severe. Education in traffic safety is all very well, but all too often it is little more than preaching to the converted, Some- thing harsher is needed for those who are receptive te erthodox education. Drain On Jobless Fund The drain on the unemployment in- surance fund in recent months has re- duged its reserve below the safe level, accprding to the Unemployment Insur- anée Advisory Committee. In their re- port tabled recently in the Commons, \ committee members suggested that e government step up its contribu- tiod to the fund from the present 20 per] cent to 50 per cent. Employer and employe contributions are supposed now to provide 80 per cent of the fund's revenues. The Welland Tribune has this per- tinént comment to make on the com- mittee's proposal: "4t is unfortunate that the Unem- plofment Insurance Advisory Commit- tee" didn't set a figure en what its members regard as "safe" so far as the level of the fund's reserves are con- pa Ld . > The Daily Times-Gazette YT. & WILSON, Publisher and General Manager. €. GWYN KINSEY, Editor. THe Daily Times-Gazette (Oshawa, Whitby), com- Bini The Oshawa Times (established 1871) and the Whifby Gazette and Chronicle (established 1863), is publ daily (Sundays and statutory holideys ex- cepted). of C Daily PL The Canadian Press, Audit Bureou of and the Ontario Provincial Dailies The Conadian Press is exclusively en- to the use for republication of all news despatches in the paper credited te it or to The Assotioted Press or Reuters, ond also the local news published therein. All rights of special despatches are §iso reserved. ofc 44 King Street West, Toronto, Ontarie; 640 Lotheart St, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Jivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pcikering, Bowmanville, Brooklin Port Perry, Prince Al apie Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, aunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Coluthbus, Fi Beach, Greenwood, Kinsale, Roge jon, Beanie Manchester, , Port Hope, and Ni not over 40c per week, jail (in province of Ontario) outside corriers' livery arees, 12.00; elsewhere 15.00 per yeer. AVERAGE DAILY NET PAID CIRCULATION AS AT APR. 30 16,166 Abew, is Orens, L cerned. The absence of even an esti- mate on this arucial matter detracts from the report's recommendations and leaves the impression that the commit tee made a rather superficial investiga- tion of the matter, "Ne less unfortunate is it that the committee didn't examine mere closely into the causes of the fund's depletion, These causes are by née means exclu- silvely eonfined to unemployment. Ra- ther," the fund's dwindling reserves may be explained by the steady whittl- ing away of insurance principles so far as unemployment = benefits are con- cerned. "Unemployment insurance was nev- er intended to be a substitute for earn- od wages. It was never intended to meet payments on cars and television sets. It was never intended to make it possible for people to look upon nnem- ployment insurance as the equivalent of holidays with pay. "Yet the steady "liberalization" eof benefits and the extension of the peri- ods of time over which such payments may be drawn, has tended to sidestep the insurance principles which must govern if the Unemployment Insurance Fund is to be financially sound. "The Unemployment Insurance Ad- visory Committee would have been more constructive had it probed inte tl ese matters instead of suggesting that the tax burden be made heavier by increasing contributions to the fund from the public treasury." Bible Thought He is despised and rejected of men. ~--Istiah 53:3, Many hundreds of years before Christ was born the prophet foretold the kind of reception humanity would give Him, He is no longer despised, but many do ignore Him. That amounts in the end to rejection, MAC'S MEANDERI dr, EMPIRE LOO" NGS Paris Contrasts In Entertainment By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London, England Correspondent to The Times-Gazette PARIS, France -- Tourists who visit Paris naturally gravitate for entertainment to the many night clubs which are to be found in the city, places like the Moulin Rouge, the Bal Tabourin, the Lido Club, and the Folies Ber- geres, which is not a night club but a theatre. Last night we went to a night club, but not one of those usually seen by tourists. It was one of the places with an almost exclusively French ciien- tele, the Club Suzy Solidor, named after the famous hostess, to Parisians, who not only owns and operates the club, but is its headline attraction as an enter- tainer. GALLERY OF PORTRAITS We went there with a dinner party as guests of Anne Ouilem, the noted artist whom we men- tioned in a previous article. One of the things she particularly wanted us to see was the display, which covers the walls and ceil- ings, of 189 portraits of Suzy Solidor, ali of them painted by a different artist. The last one to be hung, the 189th, was the work of Anne Ouilem, and in her char- acteristic bold style she had con- tributed a lifelike portrait of the famous Suzy. Because of the heavy eating we had done on the previous night, when both Bess and 1 rather overdid it at Mere Catherine's restaurant, we had asked that only a light meal be served, but it was exquisite and wholly satis- fying. The 109 portraits were intrigu- ing. They seemed to cover the whole career of Suzy Solidor, whe since 1932 has been the owner and operator of her own night club. It was formerly located near the Opera House, but in 1954 she moved to a new club on a side street off the fashionabie Champs Elysees. Many of the paintings were obviously made in her younger years. Some of them were nudes, but only a few. But they represented a great variety in the techniques of the artists who had painted them. The entertainment was light, bright, and vivacious. There were no dancing girls, no displays of the strip - tease art, such as are common in the tourist type night clubs. It was mostly singing and the reciting of poems. Suzy Soli- dor herself, with a very deep con- tralto voice, sang some sentimen- tal songs. She recited poems of the same type, one of them a little risque. What shone through was her great personality, that of an artist of long experience. One felt that it was a privilege to hear her. : There were other singers, male and female, one of them a vivaci- ous comedienne who had the erowd of people in the club lusti- "ly singing well-known French songs, including that Canadian favorite, "Alouette." The visit to Suzy Solidor was a rich experience, because of the warmth of the atmosphere, the PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM An obese woman tells us she doesn't believe walking will take off weight, as she feels heavier after taking a walk. To size up a man fairly well, add what his mother thinks of him to his mother-in-law's opin- fon of him, and divide by two. Necessity certainly wasn't the mother of the recent invention of a "mechanical brain" machine that tells men from women. "U.S. Navy scientists stated they can produce clouds for 18 cents each." -- Press report. When they made that statement do you suppose they were eirrus? delightful food, the excellent en- teriainment, and above all, the enjoyable company of the mem- bers of our dinner party of French people. THE FOLIES BERGERES On our previous visits te Paris, we had never visited the Folies Bergeres. Today we had that pleasure, and we sat through a magnificent spectacie which last- ed for three and a half hours. The Folies Bergeres has to be accepted for what it is, a show dedicated to the glorification of the beauty of French woman- hood, but it is much more than that. Its program has variety, comedy, and, above all, marvel- lous danci both classical and This is wny Aftornéy-General Roberts, normally as tender as a doting grandfathér about public feélingsy made a very strong statement the other day about Metropolitan Toronto. ARROGANT METRO Cas an eye diréetly at the Metro éhairman, old Tory Fred ardinér, and at Magistrate C.D. ick, ¢hairman of thé police com- mission, Mr. Robe) when it came to c law én- forcement highway safety was more important than municipal revenue. i This was his peremptory dis- missal of the latest in & series of arrogant attitudes on the part of Metro, In this case it was a double- barrelled one. First concerning the new policy of personal serv- ice in highway traffic offences put in practice last spring, and secondly objecting to the new uni- form traffic ticket. To the observer, at least, both men got what was coming to them. Mr. Bick made his pitch by asking that legislation requiring personal service be changed. His reason: that the number of in Metro had dropped BYGONE DA 30 YEARS AGO H. C. Leckey was elected vice-president of the General Motors Rugby Football Club. W. M. McKay was appointed news éditor of the Oshawa Daily Times to succeed H. J. Davis who accepted a position with the London Freé Press. Excavation was started for a new storage garage on the north- east corner of King and Mary streets which was being built by Mercury Service Lid. at a cost of $90,000. Ernie Parsons was elected of the Oshawa Inter- mediate Hockey Club te fill the vacancy of Jack Nott. Dr. D. R. Cameron was elected president of the Club, The T. Eaton Co. was awarded the contract for furnishing the new Genosha Hotel. modern. It was as a spectacle that the show appealed most to us. The stage settings were fantastic in their glamor. The costumes were truly magnificent, especially in a scene representing the court of the old Emperor Franz Joseph The Chirstian Church was ad- mitted as a member of the Uni- ted Church of Canada, under the name .of Centre Street United Church. W. C. Richardson was appoint- ed manager of the Winter Gar s. \ of Austria. One particularly good den bit of the show was an enactment of part of Hugo's "Notre Dame de Paris", with splendid acting of the parts of Quasimodo and Esmeraida, and a most impres- sive stage setting. In spite of the nudity which characterized the show, there was nothing about it that could be termed offensive. It was artistic to the highest degree. The Williams Plano Co. was forced to adopt the system of overtime work to keep up with the demand for radios which it was maunfacturing. Rev. A. C. Reeves, pastor of Knox Presbyterian Church, was elected president of the Oshawa Ministerial Association. OTTAWA REPORT Eye Operations Of Bucket Shops By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- The operators of "bucket shops" and similar ped- lars of fraudulent stocks and shares have got Canadian mining such a bad name that honest prospectors now find it hard to raise capital. It is essential to our national ty that our bountiful re- sources should be developed. It is essential to our national inde- pendence that these resources should be financed predominantly by Canadian capital. There are ample small savings in Canada to do this, but this money has been frightened away from our stock exchanges by the widely publicized but minority crooked promotions. Further, this money has never been educated out of the misguided "safety first" mentality which covers in bonds and savings deposits. Thre is a colossal job of na- tional education to be done, to demonstrate how every Johnny Canuck with his lunch pail can benefit from our free enterprise system, so that he can lick infla- tion and enjoy capital apprecia- tion by investing in Canadian equity shares. RAT POISON NEEDED But first, an even bigger job must be done to exterminate the rats of our money market who fleece widows, children and Johnny Canuck by their bucket shop promotoins. The sensible and patriotic mag- azine subscribers who '"'read Ca- nadian" were given a fine tip off to those swindlers by Maclean's Magazine, which last March 15 published an illuminating article by Eric Hutton entitled They'll Swindle You by Telephone. This described the activities of the boiler room sharks who use bat- teries of telephones to contact suckers on carefully prepared lists, high-pressuring them into the purchase of 'sure thing" -- mining stocks. Against this background, it is not surprising to hear that in government circles here close and careful study is being given to the suggestion of creating a National Securities Commission, aimed at eliminating thie fleeing of the uninformed investor, and at removing the black eye givea to Canada stocks in the eyes of so many foreign investors. In 1931, the Ontario govern. ment set up a Securities Commis. sion under the Security Fr 'il. ent Practices Act, y | George Drew as the first a missioner. Bucket shops wei os» pecially active ai that time, cash g in on mally u trying to recoup losses just s ian Jy the stock market crash. As a result of Mr. Drew's out- standingly successful purge, many prominent stock sal were invited to pass a sojourn in Kingston Penitentiary, as well as others less prominent but equally dangerous, after judicial convie- tion of those damaging practices. The establishment of a National Securities Commission raises the question of provincial jurisdic. tion. But ly this ccnld be met in exactly the same way as was found possible in Jetting up a Federal Combines gating Commission. The purpose of this proposed commission would be to prevent the defrauding of investors, but not to prevent unforseeable loss. I would not expect our govern ment to make the same mistake ° as Washington, where the Securi- ties Exchange Act in effect pro- vides for government endorse ment of stocks, which savors te the uninformed of the impossible guarantee by the government. - The first step by our proposed commission would be to ban the use of the telephone to solicit in- vestments, except by recognizpd members of approved stock ex- changes. This would force the bucket shop operators away from the unrecorded verbal misrépre- sentations, and compel them to use mail solicitation, in which any misreprésentations are come mitted to paper and form incon- trovertible evidence upon which prosecutions can be based. The details of our proposed National Securities Commission remain to be worked out. The idea is certainly one which de serves to be implemented by Parliament and would recéive wholehearted support from all nalitisa) partice by 18,000 since the law had been in force. 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