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et artis le The Osha Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 57 Simcoe St. S., Oshawa, Ont. Poge 4 Friday, March 13, 1959 Transferring For Trouble Sir Roy Welensky, prime minister of the Rhodesian Federation, links Russia with the current disturbances in Nyasa- land. Plans for formenting unrest in the British protectorate were laid at the All- African People's Conference in Ghana last December, he believes, and these plans were strongly influenced by a "strong team" from the Soviet Union that attended the conference. It is quite possible that Sir Roy is cor- rect in his belief, It would be strange in- deed if the Communists did not take ad- vantage of the chance to stir up unrest in Africa, But the fact the prime minis- ter ignores is that the conditions for trouble existed long before the Russians arrived in Ghana, The Communists have simply stepped into a situation ready- made for them, There is bound to be trouble, sooner or later, in any country or group of countries in which 220 million people of one color are very largely governed or ordered about by five million people of another color, Some of the 220 million blacks and browns in Africa have gained independence, but most of them have little or no say in the way they are gov The Blame In Africa erned. It would be strange indeed if' these millions did not become infected by the spread of nationalistic feeling in the rest of Africa and Asia. That is the problem the whites in* Af- frica must solve: the rise to equality of the native population. The rise may be delayed, but it cannot be stopped. Soon- er or later the question will be not how the natives can be kept "in their place" but how the whites can retain some in- fluence as a minority. The whites have the opportunity to protect their position by wisdom instead of by force, The young independent states are demonstrating that they lack the skills of government that they cannot successfully operate as independent states without considerable help from more experienced nations. The most advanced politically have extremely shaky economies, the less advanced are more prosperous. It is in the working out of political progress with economic ad- vancement that the best hope lies for a non-violent adjustment in Africa, Communists may complicate the Afri. can adjustment, but only if the white po- liticians refuse to face the fundamental - causes and cures of African unrest. School Boards Squeezed Some school boards are being squeez- ed because other school boards have panicked, That seems to be the situa- tion as the boards try to fill the gaps in their teaching :taffs for the next school year. Despite the assurances of Education Minister Dunlop that Ontario has en- ough teachers, it is painfully evident that the school boards are operating in a sellers' market. There may be enough bodies to fill the teaching vacancies, but there are not enough qualified teachers. One has only to look at the advertisements by the boards in virtu- ally every community in the province to # realize what is happening. The boards are competing with each other and using dollars as bait. The meeting of the Oshawa board of education this week was a revelation of the effect of this competition. Oshawa public schools will need 55 to 60 teach- ers to fill staff requirements this com- ing fall. The secondary schools will also need teachers And the Oshawa salary scales are now from $300 to $600 be- Jow those of many other Ontario muni= cipalities -- some of them smaller than Oshawa, The Fear Of An open nerve was touched by Au- ditor-General Watson Sellar this week at a meeting of the Commons public ac- counts committee, He was talking about weakness in central control over the "colossal" amount of public property scattered across the country. An effort was being made by various government departments to make a full and up-to- date inventory of what equipment they held, but the situation was "far from satisfactory," he said. Then Harold Winch (CCF, Vancouver East), asked how committee members could best help in increasing parliamentary con- trol over the public purse. "By publicity," Mr, Sellar replied. "Every civil servant lives in fear of this committee. Your most effective weapon is publicity." Mr. Sellar knows better than we do how civil servants regard the activities of the public accounts committee, But we do know, having been connected with newspapers for some time, that publicity is the thing most dreaded by those who have to answer to the public for inefficiency, stupidity or careless- ness in the handling of public business. That is why those who fear publicity 80 to extraordinary lepgips to prevent the public from learning of their inade- quacies. They do this by making it as difficult as they can for the public's She Osha Times T. L. WILSON. Publisher and General Manager. C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor. The Oshawa Times, combininy (established 1871) and the The Oshawa Times tby Gazette and Chronicle (estatlished 1863), is published doily (Sun days and statutory holidays excepted). bers of C Q Dai Publishers Association, The Conadion Press, Audit Bureou of Circulation @no the Ontario Provincial Dailies The Cohodien Press is exclusively en- the use for republication of all news despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published - therein All rights of special despatches are also reserved. Offices 44 King Street West, 640 Catheart St., Montreal, PQ. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by corriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajex, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchmon's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Orono, Leskard, 8: , Burketon, Claremont, Columbus, Fairport Beach, Greenwood, Kinsale, Rag lan, Blackstock Manchester, Cobourg, Port Hope, Pontypool and Newcastle not over 40c¢ per week. By mail (in province oft Ontario) outside carriers delivery areas 12.00; elsewhere 15.00 per yeor. AVERAGE DAILY NET PAID 16,306 Toronto, Onterie; The Oshawa board could reach ne conclusion, after a discussion that laste ed until after midnight. Details of pro- vincial government assistance to edu- cation are still to be announced, and these could have a substantial effect on the board's budget plans. It seems like- ly that the grants will be increased. But they will not lessen the competition for teachers. It is difficult to see how Oshawa, or any other community in a similar position, can obtain competent, qualified replacements and additions for its schoo. staffs without narrowing the gap between its scales and those advertised by other boards. The alter- native is for Oshawa to take second ra- ters, the leavings of other schools -- which would mean a lowering of the high standard now existing in the city's school system. Some of the salaries being offered, particularly at the public school level, to untried and -ot fully qualified teach- ers -- or rather, prospective teachers-- cannot be justified, But the competition is on, with the Metropolitan Toronto board leading the way. It is becoming an_Alice-in-Wonderland situation, with the boards having to run faster and faster simply to stay in the same place, Publicity agents -- news .aper men, members of Parliament and the like--to obtain in- formation. Curiously, they often have nothing to fear; their work is satisface tory and their decisions sound. But they fear the idea of publicity. They dread the possibility that someone, somewhere, will find something to criticize -- and if no one knows what is going on, of course, there can be no trouble, Mr, Sellar clearly realizes this aspect of the fear of publicity. Wher. Frank McGee (PC, York-Scarborough) sug- gested that Mr, Sellar's use of the word "fear" (in the remark quoted above) was too strong, the auditor-general re- plied, "You're under-rating your signi- ficance, Civil servants dread adverse publicity, whether that publicity is really adveise or not" The phrase "public officials" could replace "civil servants," and the observation would still apply. Other Editor's Views JUNIOR FIREMEN (Saint John Telegraph-Journal) A fire-prevention idea which is hear. tily commended by the provincial fire marshal is the organizing of "union firemen" in the schoo.s of every come munity---at least two to each school. These boys, sporisored by the local fire department, do a responsible job of checking up regularly on potential hazards in the schools. Not only that, but they help to de- velop fire-safety consciousness gener- ally in their city or town. Bible Thought And thou say in thine heart, My power and might and mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.--Deuteronomy 8:17. Man does not go far without the help of civilized society and the treasures of civilization built by others, and God's rain and sunshine and soil and miner- als. The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the grounds. -- Genesis 4:10. The stones do cry out against sin, even our\own inemories may make life intolerable in time and eternity. It is better to'keep a clean slate, or make right what we have done wrong, he eh Hh Wh a CO A CU Ce RE Immigration Gone | By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- "We must populate or perish." That blunt assertion was made by John Diefenbaker two years ago, when he was leader of the Opposition in our Parliament. He explained that Canada must in- crease its population through im- migration, if we are to hold--let alone to develop and benefit from--our natural wealth. In 1957, a year dominated in immigration policy largely by the former Liberal government, 282. 164 immigrants came to Canada. "That was by far the largest total achieved in nearly half a century. Even a total of 200,000 had not been attained in any previous year since 1913, when a record 400.279 immigrants entered Can- ada, In 1958, the first year when Mr. Diefenbaker had the power to implement his belief, he set- tled for perishing. Immigration was slashed by more than half, to a mere 124,851 settlers, about three times our normal yearly Joss by emigration. Last year we admitted less than one immigrant for each 100 old Canadians. In contrast, of every 100 residents celebrating Christ- mas in Canada in 1913, five had arrived since the previous Christ- mas, THE DAYS OF GUTS The years before the outhreak of the First World War were our Golden Decade of Immigration. "The men in sheepskin coats" constituted the most colorful ele- ment in that courageous flood which settled our empty prairies, building their own sod shacks and seeking no welfare aid from the state. Between 1901 and 1911, the population of Saskatchewan and Alberta was more than quin- tupled, and nobody let out the gutless squawk that a -hard- working immigrant had put him out of his job. In those days; the aim of Cana- dians was to have our empty spaces filled, and the aim of im- migrants was, as now, to work hard to make good. Canada ben- efitted. But today, many people want to slam our immigration door, despite the assertion by economists that immigration raises consumption and creates more jobs than new workers; and despite the discovery by Australia that a young country can comfortably absorb an im- migrant flow equal to four per cent of its population each year. During an interesting debate on immigration last week, many many MPs protested against some aspect of our slammed door policy. One glaring example was the report of the steady rise in the length of the waiting list of would-be immigrants from Italy. That country supplied more im- migrants than any other last year; the first time any country other than Britain or the U.S, has achieved that place of honor, Yet the present Italian waiting list will take two years and three months to be admitted at pres- ent rates. WE MUST CHOOSE World population has doubled in the past century and will double again in the next 40 years. This immense increase is exert. ing pressure for the full utiliza- tion of all empty but habitable land areas, especially agricul tural land where food can be pro- duced. John Diefenbaker was cor- rect when he said, two years ago, that we must populate or perish; today as prime minister, he has the obligation to initiate policies which will save Canada from per- ishing. Against this background, a timely and far-sighted plea for an agricultural revival, especially for immigrants, was made in Parliament by Hubert Badanai, Liberal MP from Fort William and himself an immigrant from Italy. He referred to the small dairy farmers and truck farmers in his Lakehead district, operating what by prairie standards are small FOR BETTER HEALTH "Candy" Medicine Can Lead Tot to Tragedy HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.D. Never tell your children that any medicine is candy. While it might help you in ad- ministering medicine on one or two occasions, it can easily lead to a great deal of trouble, possi- bly tragedy. : CLOSE SHAVE Every year about 100,000 American children come awfully close to dying because they took overdoses of aspirin, And the vast majority of these cases of aspirin poisoning can be attrib- uled to the use of the flavored children's variety. Of course, these colored and coated aspirin tablets have a definite value. I don't think there is any question that kids take them more readily than they would unflavored aspirin. It's when the youngsters get to thinking of these aspirin tablets as candy that trouble arises. WHO'S TO BLAME? You can't blame a child for wanting to eat candy. So, who is to blame if he climbs up to the medicine cabinet and steals a bottle of those pretty colored "candies?" The answer is plain--you are. Fortunately, , quick action by parents and doctors saves most victims of aspirin poisoning. Still, several hundred tots are killed each year by overdoses. In fact, aspirin poisoning is blamed for one out cf every eight idental deaths chil- dren in this country, Ng In Illinois alone, we had more than 150 cases of aspirin poison- ing among children under the age of five last year, Those of you who are parents owe it to your children--and to yourselves--to take every pre- caution possible, For one thing, let the young- s'er know it is aspirin and not candy that he is taking; Stress the fact that he takes it only when he does not feel well. LOCK UP MEDICINE Keep aspirin and all types of medicine locked safely in a cabi- net or drawer. There is no such thing as placing something out of a child's reach unless it is under lock and key. No child under the age of five should ever be given more than 14 grains of aspirin every four hours. Even this should be ad- ministered only upon the advice of a physician. If your youngster does take an overdose, call your doctor and make the child vomit immediate. ly to empty stomach. QUESTION AND ANSWER Mrs, H. A.: 1 am a woman of 50 and have been tinting my hair for 20 years. My hair is getting thinner and the back of my head is nearly bald. What can 1 do? Answer: It is possible that the hair tints you have been using may be injuring your hair. On the other hand, its gradual loss may be a perfectly natural occur- rence. Very little can be done to restore Joo hair. You might con- sult a ist. pieces of land, yet making their living wholly under those difficult conditions. Such farmers, he rightly urged, need the tempor- ary help of loans to acquire ma- chinery and stock in that and in similar areas where the terrain is more rugged and the climate less kindly than elsewhere. "An important aspect of the small farm," Mr, Badana} argued "is that a farm is a good place to bring up a large family. A Jot of people are entering Canada as immigrants, so let us start a number of small farms where there is plenty of room and fresh air, which is an ideal environ- ment in which to raise children, whose worth to Canada tran- scends any consideration of small assistance in the way of a loan." That plea by Mr. Badanai was aimed to help existing small farmers, and to point the way for land - hungry immigrants, who with such aid would help to pop- ulate the empty stretches of our 10 provinces as well as those promised 11th and 12th prov- inces. It is true; it is urgent; must populate, or perish. we BYGONE DAYS MACS MEANDERINGS Free-Load Events Become Tiresome 35 YEARS AGO W. J. Stevenson was a visitor to The Reformer office and he stated that printing presses had been made in Oshawa at one time, "The Joseph Hall Works" manufactured small presses and god them throughout the coun Earl H. Davidson, Oshawa, a of Scout organizations 'in Eastern Canada, was apdisisd as Field Scout, In charge of the organization ion with headquarters in me the church had been Po used by the children. Local Cadet igh No. 275 was Tegra under the direction of H. E. Green.. A construction program of 2000 feet of new sewers was under way in Cedar Dale under the di rection of town engineer Smith. Mrs. Phillip Harper, 43 Col- borne sireet east, celebrated her 90th birthday. J. 8. McMullen, pastor of South Oshawa Methodist Church, left the ministry after 42 years of service and retired to live In Barrie. Rev. A. M, Irwin accepted an invitation from the board of King St. Church to remain as pastor for the sixth year. Whistles blew, bells rung and a 25-gun salute was fired at noon on March 8 to mark Oshawa's advancement from a town to a city, G. L. Galley, secretary of the op YMCA, announced that a Ladies' Auxillary was being organized. Owen D. Friend was the chief of police and Fred E. Hare the city clerk in 1924. D. F. Johnson was elected president of the newly-formed Retail Merchants' Association. Other officers elected were: vice-presidents, J. S. Kyle and W. A. Dewland; secretary, W. R, Scilly; treasurer, Perey A. Can- ning. > Do you have several! credit cards that will be honored almost anywhere for almost anything -- or are you virtually a nobody? "Hospital Wing's First Baby Born." -- Headline in the Holly- wood (Calif.) Citizen-News. It is assumed the hospital has two wings. "A 97-year-old man killed him- self, after writing a note saying life wasn't worth living."" -- News item. It took him a long time to find this out. Many a person never really worried much until his physician told him to take it easy and by all means to avoid worrying. QUEEN'S PARK Variety Of Views About Democracy By DON O"HEARN Special Correspondent to The Oshawa Times TORONTO -- What is democ- racy? This today is quite a mixed-up question on which there is a wide variety of opinion. It is a common practice to take a common expression such as "majority rules" and from it form a whole base of principles. There is no more unanimity in legislature than there is with the general public. This was well illustrated in the debate on fluoridation, There were statements during the debate which went a long way towards clarifying the positions of the various parties. MAJORITY RULE? The government, though clari- fying it somewhat, had an essen- tial position that a majority could not express its will on a minority except in a case of public pro- tection or safety. And along with this it felt there should be a high authority to pro- tect the community from rash action. The opposition parties were equally clearly against this. The Liberals moved that the Owen Sound bill should be ap- proved because the local people had voted in favor of fluoridating. The CCF backed the motion to the extent of indignation that there should not be complete lo- cal autonomy. A large number of people have said that a person who freezes to death suffers no pain or anxi- ety, but not one of them had ever frozen to death. What impels hospital nurses to wake patients so early in the morning? Are with curiosity as to whether or not any of them died during the night? "Summer millinery will be sen- sible," says a style magazine. If so, many women will go bare- headed. "It will cost the first man to go to the moon $15 million says a rocketician. That figures about $66 a mile, a highly exorbitant price, particularly considering the uninteresting scenery en route, "Breakfast should be eaten in silence," says a psychologist. Well, yes, but not necessarily in heavy silence. As in the case of the person who doesn't believe in ghosts but is afraid of them, many men don't believe in woman's intul- tion. they consumed Liberal Ross Whicher expressed what was presumably an official viewpoint when he noted that there should be some easing in our traditional standards. GOVERNMENT RIGHT? This last question is one of the great difficulties in weighing the elements in democracy today. There probably is some flexibil- ity needed or called for. ' But the observer, speaking as impartially as he can, must re- port that on the background of events at this seat of government in recent years he must agree with the government's viewpoint. It is based prineipally on pro- tection. And this has more ap- peal in the current case than flexibility. | The proponents of the latter have not shown any 'great cau- tion in their thinking. Caution nor foresight. While the government has--at least in one observer's exper- fence. There is a feeling of more con- fidence in It as a trustee of our political strengths. By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special ity by a nondescript gathering of men and women. I recognized some other motion picture per- sonalities in the crowd. They were keeping the waiters at the bar and the waitresses circulat. ing around the room with trays loaded with whi-keyv, busy sup- plying their needs for liquid re- freshments, None of them seem- ed to be the slightest bit inter- ested in meeting or having a few words with the two sans who were listed as the guests of hon- cnet More was in one corner of the room, where he had been coralled by three men whom we recognized as motion picture company executives. No one else had a chance of getting near him, and he did not seem in the least bit concerned about meet- ing any of the press and other people who had been invited to the reception in his honor. PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM The sucker is treated worse than the devil. The devil is often given his due, but the sucker is never given an even break. "Man Commits Suicide on Honeymoon." -- Headline, That was rather a Pow + way to begin married life, "Tired Wife has Hubby for Lunch." -- Headline in the Pitts- burgh (Pa.) Sun-Telegraph. Eat- ing is an excellent remedy for fatigue, and if hubby was what made her tired, she should have felt doubly rested after the sump- tuous meal. Si, that point to early s; Nive maaan a degen. toime A hint to girls: Many a woman is an old maid because she over- did it in playing hard to get. hanld : Lauren Bacall made 2 lag ar, Meanwhile, in the larger recep- tion the drinking went on . The party broke up into little groups much more interest- ed in each other than they were great majority of those present made no attempt whatsoever to even meet them, or even to have a look at them at a dis- tance.. It is our guess that when the party broke up, most of those present had not shaken hands or exchanged a word with the guests of honor. Apparently they were not interested in that as- pect of the reception. THE MAIN PURPOSE These receptions are held, os- tensibly, in the hope of securing some publicity in the form of ar- ticles and pictures about the new film and its stars. The drinks were intended to loosen up the typewriter fingers of the film critics. It reminded me rather forcibly of a little rhyme once used by Norman Isaacs, manag- ing editor of the Louisville, Ken- tucky, Times, to illustrate the tactics of those who offer hospi- tality to the press in the hope of securing free publicity. It ran like this: "There was a young lady' of Kent Who said that she knew what it meant, When men asked her to dine, Gave her cocktails and wine, She knew what it meant -- but she went." That sums up to me the feel. ings of most of those who attend these movie star receptions, but as for me--never again. One more observation. The pub- licity organization of the Rank Company had placed on a table a pile of manuscripts dealing with the new film and the stars taking part in it. When we left the party, the pile of manu. scripts was still there--undisturb- ed. Nobody present was in the slightest degree interested en- ough to carry one away. BACKACHE May fay be Warning Backache is often caused by lazy Ah ea a ntat e system, Thon, Daehn: dis- Wd tr tricot nd os. - ade oe a ; ay soon follow, Thats ime to 's Kidney Pills, Dodd's the doers to normal The off - one - dress constitutes ancther bit of evidence that a woman can't make up her mind, action. Then you oct Better ates Bear verk oy better. Get Dodd's Ki now. 59 bo fogi by l Why take a@ chance -- in payment of mail order purchases, send Post Office money orders. Simple to procure at your Post Office or from your rural mail carrier. Post Office money orders cost little, and for additional protection you get a receipt at time of purchase. Post Office C.0.D. may suit your mail order purchasing requirements better = you pay the post office or your rural mail carrier the amount of your bill plus @ nominal charge for handling. USE COST OFFICE MONEY ORDERS v. POST OFFICE C.0.D.- Bur DONT SEND CACH BY MAIL! REVISION OF TELEGRAPH RATES IN CANADA and other expenses. TELEGRAPHS CANADIAN NATIONAL Canadian National Telegraphs and Canadian Pacific Communications have applied to the Board of Transport Commissioners for Canada for authority to increase telegraph rates within Canada by 10¢ per ten-word full-rate message, with increases of 1¢ per extra word and proportionate increases for day-letters and night-letters. These revised rates are made necessary by increased wages The Board of Transport Commissioners has directed that a scale of the proposed rates be made available for public inspection at all Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Telegraph offices. These scales are now available for perusal. The Board has set Tuesday, April 21, 1959 as the date for the formal hearing of the applicatian of the Telegraph Companies and has directed that the public be notified by means of this advertisement that representations in respect of the new rates shall be forwarded to the Secretary of the Board of Transport Commissioners for Canada, Ottawa, Ontario not later than Monday, April 13, 1959. : CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT