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Bhe Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 57 Simcoe $t, §,, Oshawa, Ont, Poge 4 Wednesdoy, December 31, 1958 Greetings, Resolutions And New Year Prospects This is the tilne when it is customary 0 make resolutions, wish everyones a happy. new year and foreses grest things in the future, To all our readers, then, go our wishes for a happy new year, And we hops that in theses columns in 1050 they will find something to Interest, stimulate, plesse and occasionally anger them, " New year's resolutions are another matter, We're wispicious of them, since they are made at a time of the year when days are short, nights are long, the weather is bad, the trout season is months away and the earth's vitality is ot its lowest, Under those circumstances # person is liable to resolve almost any~ thing short of suggesting a out in pay to help fight inflation, Resolutions are fine ~ for other people, of stronger wills and greater courage, Thus, while svolding our own reso- lutions, we gladly suggest some that other people may find useful, Mr, Khrushchev, for example, could resolve to put himself in orbit; Mr, Dulles, to look for and find some shreds of moral virtue in governments outside the Uni» ted States; Mr, Diefenbaker, to settle down to the nation's business in Ottawa for a while; Mr, Fleming, to get his col leagues to spend a lot less so that we could find as little more for our own budgets, And so it could go on, but none of these people will accept our sugges tions and we'll let the matter drop, As for the future, how ean it miss being a future full of grest things? Even if mankind uses its terrible new toys to destroy itself, it would be g trie mendous event, But the Almighty gave man & mind and a conscience, and we have unfaltering faith in the power of these gifts, Historically, human beings have been on this earth only a short time, The species is in its infancy, As we grow, we begin to discover the marvellous things that the Almighty has put into us, into our world, our universe and all erestion, We have up till now discovers ed only a few of these marvels, We shall go on and on, constantly finding new horizons in a never-ending voyage of discovery, There's no question about it, There will be great and glorious events in 1080---and 1060 and all the years to fols low, Education Fight Urged Ontario needs a good controversial fight on educational philosophy and teachers should lead it, That is the op- inion of James W, Singleton, president of the Ontario Teachers' Federation, as expressed to the Federation's annual meeting last week "An open and frank discussion of our basic purposes and aims. would be a healthful experience both for teachers and the public," he sald, "We are great ly influenced hy three totally different types of education from outside this country, The end result, no matter what our efforts, is certain to be synthetie, lacking the virtue of consistency," Strong traces of the European system existed here with its 'emphasis on aca demic excellence and its ideas of edu~ cation as a privilege, he noted, In addi~ tion, Canada has been influenced hy certain United States ideas with a tre~ mendous concern for social manners, individual differences and the value of immediate experience, and "now we are faced with the Russian emphasis on sei~ ence and mathematies," We agree with Mr, Singleton that a good controversy is necessary "to elari» fy our own thinking and evolve our own thesis on what we are trying to ace complish," At the same time we recall the furlous reaction of teachers and federation officials to any pointed eris ticilsm of their practices =~ and prac tices are derived from a doctrine or philosophy, When Dr, Hilda Neatby published her book "So Little For The Mind," for example, she was savagely attacked by teachers from coast to coast, She was also defended by some teachers, hut as we recall they were a minority, ; Still, Dr, Neathy started a controversy and it was good for education In Canada, There is no doubt that it helped to elaris ty thinking about the matter and meth ods of lower education, What Industry Means Progressive cities are always interest od in factors which contribute to their development, What no doubt will become # basie study for Chambers of Commerce and others Interested In industrial ex pansion {s a booklet just published by the Canadian National Rallways, It Is entitled "What Increased Manufacturs ing Employment Means to Community Growth," The information was prepared by the rellways' economies and development branches and is based on conditions ex feting in nine communities in central Canada, It examines the increase in manufacturing employment which oe surred between 1041 and 1051 and res views its effect on the economic life of the communities concerned, The study shows graphically what 100 additional manufacturing employes oan mean to thelr community, Some of the possible effects are: an increase of 437 In population; 117 more non-manus= facturing workers; 66 more school chile dren; 181 more households; 187 more vehicle registrations; 303 more tele phones; three more retail establish ments and an annual Increase of nears ly one million dollars worth of retail sales, Although as is pointed out in the study, the communities cannot be con sidered as nationally representative, it can be assumed that similar trends, while varying in magnitude, would be applicable to most communities in Cans ada The booklet includes comprehensive tables showing how figures and eonclu- slons were arrived at and also lists the eriteria upon which the study was bas- ed, It is available, upon request, from the Public Relations Department of the Canadian National Rallways, 360 Me» Gill Street, Montreal Snowmen Hardy Priests? The "Abominable Snow Man" of the Himalayas keeps bobbing up with al- most monotonous frequency, But there is variety in the explanations of what he is = a strange bear, an apelike crea ture, a hoax, or whatever, the Sudbury Star comments, The newest comes from a German missionary who says that nine years ago in the Chinese province of Ching» hal he saw one of these creatures and photographed him at close range, They The Osha Times T. Lo WILION, Publisher and General. Manager, € GWYN KINSEY, Rditer, The Oshawa Times, sombining The Oshawa Times tablished Tort) and the Whithy Gazette ard hranicle (satablished 1883), Wn published daily (Sure ye and statutery holidays excepted), Members of Canadian Daily Newspapers Publishers pmociation, The Canadian Press Audit Bureau of Wweulation and the Ontarie Pravingial Dailies Aumociation, The Canadian Press in exclusively ene tied. to the use for republication of all naws patches in the pet credited ta 1 or ta The sociated Prams of Reuters, and also the logal news published therein, All rights ot special despatehes Oe also reveived Oftiems 44 Ki Street West, Toronte, Ontariey $40 Catheart 81, Montreal, PQ, SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrion In Oshawa, Whitby, Alex Peikering, Bowmanville, Breakin Port Parry, Prince bert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay Ivarpoal Taumten, Tyrone. Dunbarton Enniakilion, ron, Lekard Brougham, Burketen, Claremont, Columbia, Faupert Beach, Greenwood, Kinsale Rag in, Blackatosk Manghester Cobourg, Port Hapa entyponl and Newcastle not over 40s per week y Mail tin pravings of Ontaria) outside carriers! delivery areas 12.000 elsewhere 15.00 per year AVERAGE DAILY. NET PAID 16,166 are, says he, native priests who as an act of plety live outdoors in this rigors ous climate without clothing, (It was 20 degrees below zero when he took the photograph.) Says the Star; Improbable? Improbably, For anthropologists helleve that prim. itive men first irvented clothing not for protection against the weather or indeed for reasons of modesty, Cloths ing, they say, grew out of adornment, When Europeans found the Yagans of Terra del Fuego, these aborigines had neither invented clothing nor copled that of thelr neighbors, They put out in small eanoes to fish and hunt the tem= pestuous waters about Cape Horn, whipped hy frigid, almest continuous gales, "clothed" in a coating of grease and wood ashes and huddled in the lee of shields of untanned hides, Yet they had survived for untold centuries, The Himalayan peoples, it could be, invented the fur coat, Perhaps these as» cetics among them know they are sims ply dispensing with "adornment," Bible Thoughts He hath sent me to bind up the brok- en hearted, to proclaim liberty to the and the opening of the prison to them that Isaiah 6111, We can help substantially in that task even are probably people } v and sl today Possibly, Impossible? captives are bound here todd more ave labor camps there were before, Faith and prayer help, toe, than evel J] OQ S/MPKING BEWARE OF THIS FELLOW OTTAWA REPORT Personal Opinion And Its Reaction By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA ~ As this Is New Year's Eve, may I wish a happy, healthy and prosperous 1950 to all of you, and especially to the many kind readers who have written me such welcome letiers during the past year This column day by day is essentially a column of personal opinion, my personal opinion, un guided and unprompted by the editor of any one of the many dally newspapers jn which it is published; no doubt every editoy and every reader sometime or other disagrees violently with this opinion, Indeed, readers write to tell me so, And (his this healthy variation in opinion is the right of each of us under our democratic system of govern ment, and is the foundation which gives it strength, fairness and respect for the rights of every minority, But by far the greatest num her of readers wrote to express their welcomed agreement or gratefully received thanks upon my report on the national scene as 1 see It from Parliament Hill Many readers wrote to send me or information, Most of these welcome letters have no doubt been recognized, as they later left thelr imprint on this column, hy thelr writers, My thanks and best wishes to them all, TO PAST AND PRESENT My greetings and hest wishes for the New Year to the many parliamentarians, elected to rep resent constituencies where this eolumn Is published, both those who were swept in on the Diefen baker tide and those who were swept out, as well of course as those who have consistently won the support of their electors Among the newcomers, | es pectally wish success In 1050 to those who are likely to shine Quebec City's Jacques Flynn, PE. L's Heath Macquarrie, Port Arthur's Douglas Fisher, Okana gan's David Pagh Among those who appeared from Ottawa, 1 think especially of that fine Liberal representative, Chatham's Blake Huffman, who I hear fs workin like a heaver to strengthen his fences hefore the next general election, And In Saskatchewan, one must feel regret that In Assinibola one of two outstand ing parliamentarians had to fall I refer of course to the OCP leader Hazen Argue and the CCF leaver Ross Thatcher Then there are those who have been In Parliament before, dur ing and since the recent sweep Notable among those, as repro senting the high merit of those of our fellow-citizens who faith fully discharge the essential par Hamentary work as private mem hers, are those who do not savour the daily prominence of news paper headlines and television cameras. The poet Milton wrote "They also serve, who only stand and walt." One could paraphrase that truly to say of parliamentar fans that Indeed they also serve thelr country well, who only sit and work, And of no MP could this more truly he said today than of Sarnla's JW, (Murph) Murphy, and of Welland's Dr, W. H, (Doe) MeMillan GOOD LUCK FOR US Finally there is that hand of Conservatives, who fought dog gedly through all those vears of public rejection, when they wore outnumbered three and four to one hy thelr Liberal opponents in our House of Commons, and wha now. are at the receiving end when some unpleasant old chick ens Are coming home to roost The MP for Prince Albert, long the Golden Voiee of the Praivie Is home among us again, wear Ing a glittering new laurel wreath whose highest points are named Albert Hall, Edinburgh, Hann have dis NEW PHASE FOR BRONTE RRONTY Ont CPi Rronte probably the shortest-lived mun leipality in the history of Ontario, has virtually ended its existence Incorporated Aug. 1, 1831, the village will cease to exist as a carparate mu wlity at "mid night tonight terms of an Ontay hoard order, it hecon to Trafalgar Township when dey Liv municipal annexed New Delhi, Colombe and Aus tralia after his most outstanding successes on his most successful goodwill tour of western Europe and the Commonwealth, Prime Minister John Diefenhaker needs all our good wishes for strength and success, In what will be the toughest, grindingest year of his Ife; In which he must make some of the most vital decisions ever taken in Ottawa, and from which our future path will lead either uphill or down, The former mayor of Oshawa, Hon, Mike Starr, deserves and needs our wishes for success in his thankless task of trying to keep Canadians at work, when wage demands and lost export markets and higher prices are all tending to force more out of thelr Johs, Kamloops' favorite son, Jus tice Minister Davie Fulton, will no doubt do his customary com petent Job In Parliament, and deserves a departmental post where his outstanding qualities would he more apparent and per haps more useful than at present, Angus MacLean deserves our good wishes in his battle against the varied sethacks which so fre: quently checker the oareers of our fishermen And as a final little New Year wish for Canada: May the elty fathers of Ottawa be granted per: ception that a sewage disposal un-system whieh was good enough for the redsking 400 years alo 1s not good enough for the growing national capital of this great country May 1050 bring each of you all the things you would wish yours self FOR BETTER HEALTH mtr ------ BYGONE DAYS "5S YEARS Joseph J, Flavelle was elected by acclamation as president of the Westmount Ratepayers' Asso Iw, D, 6 Tiolg wes honored by his medied] colleagues at » banquet to mark his b8 years of practice in Oshawa, Mr, and Mrs, William Ander: aon, Albert St, celehraied thelr Both wedding anniversary, The 1984 McLaughlin Buicks were on display for the first time on December 28 Mrs, A, G, Broomfield was elec: ted president of the Bt, Andrew's W.A, for a fifth term, Rev. A. D, Robb presided over the election of officers Five prominent m.n were nom- inated for marr for the elvie elections, 47 persons were nomin. ated for eity counetl, 11 for hoard of education and 15 for PUC, Four mayorality candidates with drew (0 give acclamation to May- or W, KE, Binclalr Council passed a bylaw for de hentures to the amount of $66. 000 to pay for the city's share of the cost of the subway under the ONR, Wamer L, Brown, looal busi nessman for over 80 years, died after a lengthy iliness, J, C, Anderson, B, A, Lovell and Dr, B, A, Brown were re: elected hy acclamation to the hoard of education, J, Samuel Babe and J, B, Hutcheson were also elected hy acclamation to the PUC, Local Boy Scouts and firemen delivered the last of the repaired toys to bring Joy to children of families on relief Looking Backward Shows Medical Gains HERMAN N; BUNDESEN, MD Diphthetria, malaria, cholera, phus, smallpox, yellow fever and relapsing fever, the plague you don't hear much about these diseases any move As the year comes to an end, I think this Is a good time to take a look backward to see just what medicine has accomplished, and another look ahead to see what lies in store for us, DRAMATIC INROADS "In the last ten years alone, we have made dramatle inroads on many diseases which used to ter rify our grandfathers Smallpox, for example, elaima fewer and fewer vietims, The an. nual average for the entive world dropped from 168,000 cases In the 1045-40 period to 178,000 In the 1060-54 period, Yellow fever has dropped about 80 per cent, Cholera is now a serious probs lem only In India and Pakistan, And, even there, Improvements ave significant, Throughout the world, fewer women are dying In ehlldhirth, We are saving more hables, too, Chicago, 1 am proud to say, has an outstanding record in this re. sheet Malaria, once an ungovernable manster, 1s rapidly being eradis cated, and we ave making impor tant steps tn this direction, Up to HMA some 300,000,000 persons he- viethms of malaria. each youl About 5,000,000 of them died. Gradually, more and more persons are hecoming protected aiainst this disease and coms plete protection, in the Americas, at least, 1s expected within a few years came + NEW VACCINES Phe Salk vaccine has enabled ws to look polio in the face with out flinching, New live-virus vac. eines give promise of offering even more protection against this once dreaded evippley Although tuberoulosis still ig the greatest killer of all infeotious and pavasitie diseases, it kills fewer and fewer persons each New drugs are under study oven now to determine whether they used effectively in LH LI Diphtheria throughout the ber of cases per your oan he Hm i5 Wm full vegre aon world, The num year la lem than half what It was Just 10 years ago, Whooping cough Is In retreat all aver the world, and the num» her of deaths from pneumonia has dropped substantially since enieiltin and other antiblotios ecame avallable, That's what we have accom: plished to date, What lies ahead? I'l tell you next year - In my next column, QUESTION AND ANSWER ALK: My husband has an al most constant pain In his right Ider an GALLUP POLL OF CANADA Most Canadians Think More People Get Drunk By CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION Ask Capadions whether they many wil three times as "wy "Yes," as "No," Nationally, sl gust Jour In en adults believe 4 # fact thet more people nowi- days are drinking (eo much, while » slightly smaller propor: tion think the situation is Just the same as It was Len years go, The Gallup Poll has recorded the fact that, proportionstely, a smaller segment of the popula tion is using slcohol, regularly or occasionally, then did so two Jeary ago, fn 1056, The report, wever, does not show whether those who do enjoy liquor, sre drinking more of it, as sales fig ures would suggest, Both in the States, and in Canada, the trend, per capita, seems to be turning downward, To find out what men and women thought of the situation in thelr own community, Inter: viewers for the Gallup Poll asked #8 cross-section of people in eities, farms, villages, and towns, this question; "Do you think there is more drunkenness or less Arunkenness in this community then thers was ten years ago?" Yes, more ,,, No, less | 1% In Ms last report, the Gallup Poll revealed thet, today, seven in ten Canadians in thelr twenties use sleohol, occasionally or regu larly, as compared to & propor: tion of six in ten who did se ig ig ha h interests ing 0 see view on any incronse in drunkenness among this young group, ss com. iby lhe oder, and mayhe wiser generation, Canadians In their twenties are, naturally, in clined to give no opinion as many of them could not hazard a com: parison with the situation in thelr arly teens, Jovever while Ko in five are in this group, who do express & point of view are less likely to say that drunk. enness 1s on the decrease, than older men and women, as the fol lowing table shows, MAC'S MEANDERINGS Edinburgh Closed City On Holiday By M, MeINTYRE HOOD Special London, England Correspondent to The Oshawa Times EDINBURGH the chief holiday of the of the religious aspect of the fes tival In to Christmas at all, for quite a few days, Next week we will find out whether nearly 80 years ago, Christmas Day found Edin burgh, In this year of 1068, al most a closed city, In spite of we ventured down to Princes street this forenoon, We went hecguse we had to go, to the rain, secure rallway tickets and re serve (rain seats for our trip to Aberdeen tomorrow, Princes street was Just as still and quiet as If It were a Bunday, All of the stores were closed, There were very few people to be seen on the streets, The buses were run Bing almost DY. i Ohristmas ha ust as mueh of a holiday eotland as It does down In Eng land, The only place where we found any sign of normal business ae tivity was In the office and plant of the Beolsman and the Evening Dispateh, This morning the Beotss Metro Toronto Plan Favored By Professor AUCKLAND, N.Z, (OP) » of has returned memher eounell, from control, Travelling under Carnegie and Aritish council grants, Cumbers land visited 80 eltles in elght countries, He met many elty au. thorities and university experts, In cities throughout the West. land sald on universally ern world, Cum hls return, It was arm hetween the the knee, and his hands go numb, What could be his trouble? Answer: The pain In your hus: band's right arm may be due to neuritis, rheumatic disease of the muscles or ligaments ohanges in the bone, An X-ray and a doctor's exam: ination often help In reaching a diagnosis, Acting Mayor Will Ask For Less Liquor TORONTO (CP) Acting Mayor Joan Newman says she will ask City Clerk Edgar Norris to oon sider reducing the mmmber of times alcohol 1s provided at advie lunches and receptions Mrs, Newman told a youth eon: ference on alooh ol Monday that she had seen more soolal drinks Ing during her last four years in public offiee than in all her previ ous experience, Mes, Newman sald Tuesday she undegstood that whether or not Hauor was provided at clvie oo: caslons was at the discretion of the city clerk. She suggested in an interview that there might he some occasions on whieh liguer could be out eut without causing disappointment ar offence, "I recognize that | am in a minority around elty hall," said Controller Newman, an abstainer, "and 1 do not wish to force my views on ather people. 1 also rec ognize that a oily like Toronto is expected to entertain and provide alcohol sometimes, 1 eertainly do not think the oity | swasteful in Ita entertaining." or d {sed that the most funda: mental deep-seated problem was to find new forms of local govs ernment better sulted to this age of unprecedented urban growth, Amalgamation of small loeal bodies was now seldom resorted to, Loeal officials and represent atives found themselves unable or unwilling to put aside paroch. fal considerations. Citizens often were more ready to co-operate than local politiolans Effort Instead tended to eons ecentrate on fading systems of federated local government that would affectively and Sfficlently that separate those functions were ohviously eity = wide from those that were essentially looal in scope, The answer seemed to he some form of two-tier government pro viding formetrvopolitan (op county = reglonal) administration of highways, publie transport and transit, planning, urban renewal, sewerage, water, metropolitan res serves and vecreational and ouls tural amenities, other lesser functions of local government The few recent developments of this kind appeared to be wholly suecessful, Cumberland said: He had seen Toronto shortly before It adopted the two - tler system and, on his latest visit, he had heen impressed with the progress the elty was making, It had heen able to barrow huge sums In New York, This was something that the local bodies wider the fragmented sys tem could never have done The "Metra" government of To nto, and the Dade "County" government of Miami had re cently heen reviewed hy hath ex perts and citizens, and pro nounced sound and acceptable, Cumberland added, Seotland Is gradually being won over to the full observance of Christmas as festive season, IL was not so when | was #8 hoy in this eountry, At that time, except for the celebration churches and Sunday schools, little attention was pald The Beols waited until the following week for their annual observance of Hogmanay and New Year's Day, and the celebrations used to last the coming In of the New Year Is welcomed here as iL used to be It seemed as now become in » have no paper to publish then, I Prov fessor K, B. Cumberland, an au. thority on elty government and a the Auckland elty A world four convinced of the vip. tues of the Toronto system of alongside local district responsibility for the man was published as usual, When 1 went into the editorial rooms to meet some old friends, and went down into the compos. ing room, everything was going on as on A normal day as the staff brought out the successive editions of the Evening Dispateh, Down in England, on Christmas Day, no newspapers were being published, nor will there be any tomorrow, on Boxing Day, But In Beotland, newspapers were pub. lishing as usual, but there will be no editions brought out on New Year's Day, They, at least have not departed from the oid customs, NOTHING GOING ON The assistant editor of the Dis pateh, Bobby Leishman, whose daughter had visited us In Oshe awa shout a year ago when she was In Toronto as an exchange school teacher, was not happy about this Christmas day publi- cation, It was much more diffi eult, he sald, to get out a paper on this day than on any other, "There is nothing going on," he sald, "Everything Is closed up tight In the eity, It Is like seratehs ing the bottom of the barrel te et out 's decent hewsbaper 10- ay. If It were not for th Jog and all the aceldents It prod it would have heen a rather dull Raver today, Next week, on New ear's Day, we would have plen: ty of material because there will he so much doing, but we w think we should reverse the situs ation, close up on Christmas Day and publish a paper on New Year's Day," Coming from a rabid Beet, ll friend, Mrs, T, Fairbrother, REPORT FROM THE UX. h the same, many Canadians feel that "problem in one in ten have had this exper ence, 9, Not sure 1 reer RRRRRRRLS pa 10 The seals. in this matter slides downward slightly from the twen. ties where 13 per cent say "Yes", through the decades io | whe are or more, where 10 per cont say they've had to cope with this rhe. orld Copyright Reserved that almost seemed like a Mit of sacrilege, The Waverley station seemed alle # different place from what it did when ve arrived from Lon don last night, There was hardly # person in sight, Only one ticket wicket was in operation of the dozen or more In the booking office, There was no one In the reservation office, In place of the usual queues, Folks had either. #rrived at thelr destinations be. fore Christmas Day dawned, or were staying strictly at home to enjoy a Christmas dinner, t home with the folks, the day has been brightened by the giving and receiving of Christinag gifts, which again Is quite differs ent from what It was in our hoy. hood days, There were no Christe mas gifts then, but a week later, there were the Hogmanay gifts which were Just as thrilling and exciting as Christmas gifts are today, We can recall an old rhyme wi.ich we used to ehant on Hogmanay occasion, and which we are sure many of our Beotr tish friends In Oshawa will alse recall, It went something like this: "Rise gudewile, and shake our feather athers, nna think that we're a' beg. [TUR We're only balrnies come flo fad Rise up and gie's oor nogmanay. Whether the ehildren of toda in Beotland still use the tradi tional old rhyme, we do not know, Perhaps next week we will find out, But now we must go and see and listen to The Queen on tele vision making her Christmas hroadeast, as many of our friend in Oshawa will be doing » exactly the same moment, And at its close, by an arrangement with at least one old Oshawa As resident of the Oshawa Hortlouls ural Boclety, we will he drinks Ing # toast to her and to all our old friends In Oshawa hoping that at least rome of them will he thinking of us on this great day, Year Of Change To British Way By M, MOINTYRE ROOD fipecial Correspondent For The Times LONDON == As the year 1088 draws to a close, and people everywhere look forward to what the new will yt to the world, # t fit to take a re trospect view of the year that is now passing inte history, From a personal standpoint, i has been for me, a noteworthy \ 18 108 Moat a or war of ie, A transition from the life I knew In Canada, and my many asso: clations there, to what seems like a different world over here in the United Kingdom, That transition has been far more drastio in ite tmpact than we ex. pected it would be, in spite of the fact that I had over a period of years made several visita to Britain, Since I arrived here in May, 1 have gradually been absorbed into the Rritish way of life, | have become acoustomed to thinking in terms of British events, British personalities and British problems, It has heen a fascinating process, tempered b the vagaries of the English oll. mate, and the remoteness of the average Englishman in our own station of life, Rut we are becom. Ing accustomed to fog and damp nes, and we are slowly hut sure ly winning theough the traditional English veserve, and acquiring new and interesting fri BRITAIN WINNING THROUGH In the months since we came over here, we have watehed the aplendid battle waged by Rritain to win Ha economic struggle, The economic aftermath of the ills fated Sues venture was still ap parent in the early part of 1988 The strict controls on investment and on spending, were still in ef: feet, In the last six months of 1958, practically all of these have been removed, and this has brought about a splendid econo mio recovery, In a rather re markable way, Britain has man: aged to stave off the effects of the recession which halted prog ress in the United States amd Canada, and has gone aliead rath o than backward during that trys ing period There 1s some concern in the soury over unemployment, Hut the latest figures show that the unemployment figure Is only 84 per cent of the country's working force, How happy either the United States or Canada would be with an unemployment figure down at that low level, But it 1s indicative of the British loyment that unemployment of 8.4 per cent is causing concern, POLITICAL CHANGES One of the chief movements which we have noted with inter est In 1080 has been the cha In the political pleture, At Whe beginning of 1068, the Labor Pars ty was the ascendancy, and support of the Conservative #overament at a low ebb, Here, , there has been a remarks able change, The swing came as @ result of the able handling of the Middle East ovisis, the C rs situation, and the domestle economic problems by the Maos millan government, Since the middle of the year, every publio opinion poll has shown Cons servatives ahead of the Socialists hy a considerable margin, The witlon is completely reversed 0 What it was at the beginning of 1068, and the Conservatives are looking forward to a general election some time in 1089 with optimistic Hopes of another vies tory, COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS The year has brought the vark ous countries within the Come monwealth and Empire closer tos gether, largely through the inis tative of Canada's Prime Minis. ter, John Diefenbaker, and the holding of the Montreal confers ence, In this country there is a much grea'er awareness of the importance of Commonwealth trade and co-operation than ever before, and this Is one of the best avnguries there is for the fu. ture of relations between Canada and the rest of the Commons wealth As the year closes and a new year dawns, I look forward to the opportunities which le ahead for serving the veaders of this newspaper from London, And to All of them, warmly and sinceres ly, T extend my most cordial Wishes for a happy and prosper om New Year,