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The Osharoa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 57 Simcoe St. $., Oshawa, Ont. Poge 4 Wednesday, November 26, 1958 Marking A Ballot Only Part Of Voting Process With municipal elections only days away in most placer in Ontario, vigor- ous "get out the vote" campaigns are being conducted to arouse the interest of citizens in their municipal affairs, Judging from past voting records in many of the communities, such cam- paigns are badly needed and deserve the fullest support. They generally have, however, a most unfortunate slogan: "Vote As You. Wish, But Vote". Voting is a pret'y serious business. By casting a ballot, the citizen not only exercises a right, but accepts a res- ponsibility, He is choosing his form of government, deciding how he wants to be represented, giving certain of his fellow citizens considerable power: over his person and his purse, He is also using a right that he did not earn for himself but was won for by him by many brave men over a long period of time. The marking of a ballot, tl.en, is _only the final act in the process of voting. It should, indeed must, be pre=- ceded by a .ecognition of the serious- ness of the final act, and this means that thought must be given to the way the ballot will be marked, When the citizen fails to vote, he repudiates his rights as well as his responsibility as a citizen. He is indi- cating that he does not care how he is governed ,whch m: not matter much as far as he personally is concerned but matters a great deal when his lack of concern may affect the freedom of those who teke their responsibilities more seriously, Just as bad as the uncast vote, however, is the vote cast thoughtlessly, The citizen who goes without prepara= tion to the poliing booth and makes his mark according to some sudden per= sonal whim or prejudice is just as de- linquent as th» one who does not go at all. He has exercised his right to the franchise, but he has neglected the responsibility that goes with it. The re- sult, in terms of government, can be disastrous, Indeed, it can be argued. thzt there is a negative as well as a positive as- pect to every right. If there is a right to vote, there is also a right not to vote. And under circumstances, it is the negative right {hat should be exercised, In Communist countries, for example, great play is made of huge affirmative votes in rigged elections, A mass refusal to vote would throw the riggers into # tizzy. All of which is by way of explan- ation of our dislike for the slogan, "Vote as you like, but vote", A Government's Money Canadians are demanding more and more from their governments in the way of projects that require a great deal of 'money, What constantly seems to be forgotten is that a government has only two ways of obtaining money: from the taxpayers and from the printing presses, The more money that is taken from us in taxes, the less we have to spend for ourselves, The more money that printed, above the new issue necessary for healthy economic growth, the cheaper the money becomes -- in other words, the less its purchasing power, When a government spends more than it can collect in taxes, it must borrow. How much it can borrow, and on what terms, depends on its credit, and its credit depends, as it does in any other business, on its assets and general economic 1th th N= ductivity of its people, the si..ength of its currency, the size of its debt, and so on. All debts must ultimately be paid. If it operates too long on too great a deficit, its borrowing becomes too costly and finally impossible, It then must turn to the printing presses. And what started out as mild inflation bécomes a complete runaway. What is happening in Argentina de- meonstrates the course of events when expenditures seriously outrun the re- venues and borrowing capacity of a is government, Money is being printed at a rate that has put eight billion pesos into circulation in addition to the 52 billion last January. The cost of living in Argentina has gone up by 30 per cent, partly as the result of the cheap- ened currencv and partly as the result of a 60 per cent genera' wage increase decreed when President Frondizi took office May 1 -- and the wage increase was decreed because of the spiralling cost of living which in turn had been fed by the cheap money. At certain times, deficit financing by a government is necessary when a government finds it necessary to spend more than it takes in, The Diefenbaker government found itself in such a po- sition earlier this year. But no govern=- ment can pursue such a course indefin- itely without destroying its credit and its currency. It must sooner or later, if it wishes to keep the country econ- omically sound, either reduce its spend- ing to match its income or increase its income to match its spending. The first course means rejecting demands for this project or that; the second means high- er taxation, Either Canadians must exercise moderation in what they expect their governments to do for them, or they must be prepared to pay much higher taxes -- or they can 'look forward to destruction of their nation's credit and currency. High Cost Of Injury Hospitals, which house so much suffering, also see a lot of cheerfulness. Doctors, nurses and other workers try ta show a pleasant good humor at all times good humor has therapeutic value; and the patient who does not make .an effort to joke and smile when pdssible is an exception, Wards and corridors hum soothing- ly with quiet activity and pleasant voices. But not everywhere. Somc rooms aye quiet all the time, In those rooms are ,the patients with brain injuries, lying motionless in a coma. Many of them are victims of traffic accidents. % Some of them will recove: com- pletely. Others, if they lie in a coma fdr more than a couple of weeks, may get: back their physical strength but suffer loss of memory and other men=- tal impairment, Others will stay in a living death for a year or more before they cease to breathe. A traffic fatality will always get info the newspapers, and sometimes in- to' the headlines, But highway injuries are so commonplace that as a rule they are of interest only to the immediate relatives and friends of the victims, The Oshawa Times T.lL. WILSON, Publisher and General Menager, C.*GWYN KINSEY, Editor. Yhe Oshawa Times, combining The Oshawa Times (esfablished 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and Cheonicle (established 1863), is published daily (Sun- doys and statutory holidays excepted) Members of Canadian Daily Newspapers Publishers Association, The Canadion Press, Audit Bureau of Cirgulation ond the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association. 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AVERAGE DAILY NET PAID . 16166 The statistics of traffic fatalities are a totally inadequate index of the total human suffering caused by selfish and reckless driving. The Ontario Safe- ty League points out that thirty people are injured for every one who dies in traffic -- and sometimes the ones who die at once are the lucky ones. Just a little extr» care and consid- eration from e-ery driver could mean an immeasurable saving to the country in terms of human happiness and econ=- omic well-being. We need that extra care for 52 weeks a year; it will be demanded during Safe Driving Week. Dec. 1 = 7, Other Editor's Views POPE A POLITICAL FIGURE, TOO (From th. Louisville Courier-Journal) Every pope in a sense is a "political" as well as a "religious" figure, It is his part to make political judgments within the limits of moral law and dog- ma. The late Pius XII made this point plain in many words and actions. Com munism itself was to him not the ab- solute and unrelated evil, but rather the product and the heir of materialism, atheism, rationalism and all such trends and loosenings. NEW CASTOR OIL USE (Brantford Expositor) Once upon a time castor oil meant only a nauseous medicine kids were supposed to take with miserable regu- larity, but times change. We see by the papers that London - Transport has started a large-scale test of an improv- ed method of lubricating the rear axle of its big buses. Castor oil is being used instead of the ordinary kind, and Lon- don Transport figures on saving about £120,000 a year as a result. Bible Thought Woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.--Luke 6:24. Material consolation turns to ashes In the end. We take nothing with us but our memories, If we are selfish our material prosperity will condemn - ws. OD Simpeng RE EFFECTIVE? OTTAWA REPORT % Leaks On Reports Causes Suspicion By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--When newspaper, The Star, published extracts from a secret govern- ment report this summer, a bitter altercation broke out in Parlia- ment, and lasted several days. How come, demanded Opposi- tion MPs, that a newspaper had been able to obtain a copy of a report which the Government had repeatedly refused to show to Parliament? In the issue of Friday, Aug. 1, Mark Harrison of the Star's parliamentary staff of reporters quoted several purported and very pertinent extracts from the secret forecast entitled 'Canada's economic - prospects for 1958." This forecast is a general survey of the year's prospects for busin- ess and employment in all parts of Canada, for the confidential guidance of cabinet ministers and senior civil servants, It is compiled each year by economists in the civil service, and is dis- trbuted early in the calendar year to which it relates. Prime Minister John Diefen- baker had previously refused demands by Opposition MPs that this secret document should be made public at once in the House of Commons, He replied that in his view this secret annual report should be preserved as secret during the year to which it re- ferred; but that when that year had elapsed, and the report had been superseded by the forecast relating to the next year, there would be no objection to the re- port being made public. In just this way, he himself had made public in the House of Commons in January of this year the fore- cast relating to last year DISLOYAL LEAK OR NOT? So it came as a shock to find that a newspaper was able to achieve what Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition could not achieve: that by some means undisclosed, a copy of this secret government document had without authoriza- tion made its way presumably from a civil servant to a news- paperman. A few days later, on 6th August, the Toronto Star published an- other story containing further ex- tracts purportedly from this secret government report, per- haps as a result of a further leak. The discussion of the sub- the Toronto ject in the House of Commons was given a shot in the arm by this second instalment. Two months later, The Star demonstrated that these two stories were no mere flashes in the pan. Their reporter Mark Harrison had evidently struck a mother-lode of pay dirt, some- where in the department of trade anc commerce. Yet another story from his typewriter revealed the recom- mendations of two further secret government reports, whose exist- ence up to that time had a well-kept secret in itself. These reports related to the economic practicability of building an oil pipeline from Alberta to Montreal, The popularity of the hard- working Mr, Harrison among some of his colleagues became tinged with the sour green of envy as he pulled these repeated rab- bits from his hat, and at about this time he won recognition through promotion to the post of chief of his newspaper's Ottawa bureau. SUSPECTED DEPARTMENT It is not without significance that these leaks of secret gov- ernment papers all arose within the department of trade and com- merce; or at least all concerned documents issuing from that De- partment, Certain elements in the staff of that department had long been suspected of being op- posed to the political philosophy of the newly-elected Conservative government. These repeated leaks of government secrets from that department tend to confirm these suspicions that disloyalty to the BYGONE 25 YEARS AGO The Oshawa Branch of the Canadian Legion was in second place for cities over 10,000 in the Boosters' Contest, The. "Stalter Y" held a party at the home of Mrs. Manuel, King street east. Miss Grace Me- Tavish, president of the group, was mistress of ceremonies, Rev. Joseph Fletcher, oldest clergyman in tiie Toronto Diocese of the Anglican Church, died at his home in Whitby at the age of 89. Centre Street Home and School acted as hostesses at a banquet to the Junior Softhall team, champions of the Junior League. Herbert L. Pringle, town en- gineer of Whithy, was appointed superintendent of the Whithy Pub- lic Utilities Commission, to suc- ceed the late George W. P. Every. The Oshawa Hospital Board re. ported a deficit of $9714 at the annual meeting, A roller skating rink was plan- ned at 20 Church St, G. E. Mason, proprietor of the building, an- nounced the floor space would Jave an area of over 400 square eet. Sg WORLD GALLUP POLL . 4 03 4 ee a oy U.S. Shows Most Worry About East-West Peace By WORLD GALLUP POLL NEWS SERVICE That Americans are the chief "worriers'" about the possibility of war between the East and West is indicated in a World Gal- Jup Poll just completed in major cities of 13 nations around the globe. The international study asked typical citizens in Athens, Copen- hagen, New Delhi and other key opinion centres this question: ""What do you think is the most important problem facing your country today?" Results showed that concern about keeping the peace centres largely in the United States. In only one other place -- the city of Oslo -- does keeping the peace rank as the No. 1 problem. Even in the Norwegian capital, it does not have the predominance that it does in the U.S. In all of the other opinion centres, as the fol- lowing table shows, national prob- lems are uppermost -- with un- employment No, 1 in Finland, and the cities of Stockholm, Toronto and Vienna. Recent nationwide studies by the Canadian Institute of Public Opinion have shown that for more than a year, un- employment has been the nation's No. 1 problem, as it is in this city Poll currently conducted in To- ronto only. Austria (Vienna): Unemploy- ment. Canada (Toronto): Unemploy- ment. Denmark (Copenhagen): High cost of living. Finland (Nationwide): Unem- ployment. Greece (Athens): Cyprus prob- om, India (New Delhi): Food short- age. Netherlands Qatony ae): Housing shortage. Norway (Oslo): Keeping the peace. - South Africa (Johannesburg): Racial problem. Sweden (Stockholm): Unem- ployment. - U.S.A, (Nationwide): Keeping the peace. West Germany (West Berlin): Reunification of Germany. It should be pointed out, hows ever, that the great majority of persons interviéwed in three major U.S. cities feel that a world war is not likely within the next two years. Here is how replies to this question line up in each of the places in the international study, with the "most important" issue mentioned first, and the "next most important" second: Athens: Cyprus issue; high cost of living, high prices; other eco nomic problems. Copenhagen: High cost of live ing, high prices; other economie problems; keeping peace, cus. toms-Union. Finland (Nationwide sample): Unemployment; high cost of live ing, high prices; other problems. Tob burg: Race relations; high cost of living, high prices; other economic problems, - Netherlands (Nationwide : Perhaps one of the r why keeping the peace is considered the top problém in the U.S. is that the number of Americans who believe a major war is like- ly in the near future is propor- tionately greater than it is in most of the other countries and major cities in the survey. QUEEN'S PARK Echoes Are Heard By Walter Gordon By DON O'HEA ing some of the boards and com Special Cor d The Oshawa Times TORONTO--Walter L. Gordon is a bit under the gun. Through the facts of his life the chairman of the committee on government organization is in a position which could cause him some embarrassment, In private life, of course, Mr, Gordon is head of a very prom- inent firm of management con- sultants And he also was chairman of the committee on Canada's eco- nomic prospects which produced the report which popularly bears his name. The two connections have been getting mixed in with the busin- ess of the public hearings of the committee. Not in any serious way. But in a manner which could cause the chairman to blush from time to time, MAKE REFERENCES: Mr. Gordon's management firm has done considerable work on a sulting basis for. various b h of gover includ- MAC'S MEANDERINGS Verdun Ceremony Moving Service By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London, England, present government is rampant within it Fortunately for the economic welfare of all of us, no serious harm has been done to our jobs or productivity or exports by these leaks, although they have served the presumably intended objective of embarrassing the government, This further aspect of the civil service again reminds us of the electoral facts that there are 60,- 000 heads of families in Greater Ottawa; there are 40,000 civil servants in Greater Ottawa; and the five predominantly urban seats in the Greater Ottawa area all returned Liberals to Parlia- ment--as they have done for thirty years past consistently. FOR BETTER HEALTH Afraid to Take Drugs? Trust Your Physician HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, MD JUST about all of you, I'm sure, are aware of the evils of drug addiction. And no doubt many of you recall stories about how some of our fighting men in World War II became dope addicts be- cause of the drugs they took to ease the pain of their wounds. It is for this reason that many persons -- more than you might imagine -- don't like to take any pain - killing drug stronger than aspirin. The mere mention of the word morphine. makes them shudder. FOLLOW DOCTOR'S ADVICE Now I certainly don't recom- mend that you take any medicine if you don't need it. That's only common sense. On the other hand. if your doctor prescribes some specific drug morphine, for example for you or a mem- ber of your family, follow his advice. That's common sense, too. There are many forms of mor- phine, and the drug is used to - relieve pain in a variety of ail- ments, IN HEART ATTACK Take a coronary thrombosis, a heart. attack, for example. Not only does morphine relieve the pain, but it helps to quiet a heart patient. The latter is highly im- portant because restlessness taxes an already over . strained beart. Morphine relaxes both the mind and the muscles, thus re- ducing the heart's work load. Certainly you trust your doe- tor. If you didn't, you wouldn't have him as your. family physi- cian. Therefore, don't be afraid that a member of your family will become a drug addict sim- ply because your doctor recom. mends a few injections -of mor- phine. HE KNOWS Your doctor is well aware of the dangers of addiction. He won't give any more injections of morphine or any other potent drugs than are absolutely neces- sary. Morphine isn't a pleasaht drug to take anyway, so don't think that a couple of injections will create a craving for it, Generally It causes nausea and frequent vomiting. The vomiting doesn't stop until the drug is eliminated from your.system The type of drug to use in any serious illness is a matter only your doctor can decide. Once he decides, go along with that decision. But don't you be the one who decides. QUESTION AND ANSWER A. W. K.: Is diabetes heredi- tary, and do children outgrow it? Answer: The tendency toward diabetes tends to run in families. In children, it may be a very ser- lous condition and should be treated vigorously. It is seldom "outgrown." Correspondent to The Times PARIS -- Today we have cov. ered a lot of territory, and have been on the tour since the early morning hours, We said good- bye to Prime Minister Diefen- baker as he left for Rome, and are back in Paris waiting for the plane to take us to London. Because of the heavy and tight travelling schedule which had been laid on for today, we were awakned at 4:15 am, by a bat- man bringing a cup of tea to our room, We looked out of the win. dow and saw the barracks lights masked by a thick fog. It did not look like good weather for flying. However, we dressed, had breakfast at 4:45 am. and at 5:15, in an army bus of Ger- man manufacture, set out on a 30-mile drive to the RCAF sta. tion at Gutersioh, from which we were to travel by plane to another RCAF station at Mar- ville, near Metz, in France. COLD JOURNEY It was not a comfortable drive, It was a cold, raw morning, and the hoar frost was lying like a white carpet on the grass. There was no heat in the bus, and be- cause of the thick mist, the driv- er had to remain at low speeds. It took us over an hour and a half to cover the 30 miles in the darkness, but dawn was break- ing when we reached Gutersloh. The fog had lifted a bit' and it was decided to go ahead with our flight; otherwise, a large and important part of the day's pro- gram would have to be cancell- ed. So up into the fog we went, to fly to Marville, about an hour's flight. We flew over heavy cloud all the way, and then came down through the fog on to the air station runway with what seemed to us to be won- derful skill on the part of the pilot. TO HISTORIC VERDUN At Marville, we got into an RCAF bus for the trip to Verdun, that historic French city of the first world war, where Prime Minister Diefenbaker was to take part in the Remembrance Day service, for this was Nov. 11. Verdun was 30 miles away, but most of the way we were driving through the country which saw some of the most bloody fighting of the First World War, the area where, in 1916, the valiant French defenders held the Ger- man army at bay, and lost half a million men in doing so. At Fort Douamont on a hillside off to our left as Verdun, the bones French soldiers rest we approached of 400,000 in a huge ossuary, over which a memorial shrine As we drove alona. we. could see some of the old trench lines of 1916, preserved for posterity. MEMORABLE SERVICE The service at the Verdun Vic- tory Monument, standing high ove the mail street of the city, at the top of a broad flight of 75 steps, was one of the most impressive Remembrance Day services we have ever attended. The main street for blocks was filled with the parade of French, Canadian, American and British troops. There was a Canadian pipeband, from the RCAF and some French military bands. The monument, surrounding the steps is a massive stone tower, with a figure of Victory on top of it. Inside the tower is a beautiful memorial chapel. A group of veterans of the first world war French army, with their colors, stood at the top of the steps in front of the chapel entrance. It was left to Prime Minister Diefenbaker to place the wreath of remembrance in the chapel. It was a huge floral piece, about six feet in height, and was car- ried up to 75 steps by three men of the RCAF. They assisted the prime ministed in carrying it "into the chapel, where the official party, including civie and government officials and dignitaries, stood in silence on this holy place. PERPETUAL TORCH Then came the solem cere. mony of carrying the perpetu. ally lighted torch down the long flight of steps from the chapel, with all the veterans and their flags accompanying it on the slow march. With a bodyguard, the torch was placed in a car, to be driven to Paris, so that it could be carried up to Champs Elysee in a parade of scores of similar torches to be placed un- der the Arc de Triumphe for the rest of the day. Wollowing the bar as it started on its journey was the parade of the troops a colorful spectacle with the uniforms of four couns tries represented. The whole thing had been a solemn cere- mony_ and it touched the hearts of all the Canadians who were there. GODSPEED TO P.M. The ceremany over, there was a quick run back to the air base at Marville, where we arrived in time to see the prime minis. ter enter his C5 plane, to bid him godspeed in the rest of his journey, and then he was off for Rome. Ince again we climbed aboard the Dakota' aircraft carrying the press party, but we headed in the opposite direction, back to Paris, homeward bound for London, our tour with the prime mjnister of at an end. ing before the com. mittee, Also the Gordon report is a k tool these days in making lod casts of potemtial growth, Witnesses before the committee therefore often have to make ref- erence to either his consulting le): employment, New Delhi: Food shortage; un employment, New York City, Chicago, San Francisco: Keep peace; integra- tion of races Oslo: Keeping peace; high cost of living, high prices; other eco- nomic problems, Stockholm: Unemployment; high cost of living, high prices; other economic problems, Toronto: Unemployment; keep- ing peace, Vienna: Unemployment; ing shortage. West Berlin: Reunification; World Copyright Reserved ing shortage; un- hous- keeping peace, One of a series of TILDEN TIPS ON MY BUSINESS TRIPS findings or the economic report, The references have been com- ing up so frequently, however, that Mr. Gordon himself must he wondering how many are really necessary, how many are ore dinary politeness, and how many are bush-league attempts at but- tering-up. Hydro was the first body to appear before the committee and it has been the worst offender to date. . At one stage the Gordon name was being used so often by James S. Ducan one might have thought it was meeting of the program committee of a ladies auxiliary, >. B. 0. chairman W, H, Collings also managed to work in a number of references to the Gordon report in his appearance. In his case, however, one credits the usage to politeness, Rather unusual as it may be around here, he is a person almost entirely free from guile. 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