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Fhe Oshavon Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 4 Saturday, November, 28, 1959 Schools' Productivity Object Of Experiments Concentration on educational experi- mentation seems to be shifting from curricula to school design, at least in the United States. The experimenters are trying to achieve two things: reduction of the costs of school building, and in- crease in productivity of teacher 'and pupil. The first steps in "loosening up schools for a more productive education, accord- ing to Architectural Forum, came with the advent of larger, pleasanter class- rooms and movable furniture. Now sheer size has demanded a breakup of more and more big schools into smaller build- ing units. One of the most striking reports to appear on the reorganization of U.S. schools urge the abandonment of the standard "egg crate" classrooms of 25 to 35 seats. In their place would be large discussion groups of 100 or more stu- dents, small college--like seminars and increased individual study in more private quarters. . Not only are the teaching spaces be- ing radically examined, but the big com- mon spaces of gymnasium, auditorium and cafeteria are being carefully scru- tinized. They are expensive for the amount of time they are in use, accord- ing to Forum, and they are not always appropriate to new educational goals. The big, professionally equipped high school auditorium and stage (more com- mon in the U.S. than in Canada) may be 'the pride of the community," but it often stands idle 90 per cent of the time. One U.S. answer is to make the auditor- ium divisible into smaller everyday teaching spaces easily darkened and ventilated for audio-visual use. Another is to eliminate the big auditorium alto- gether, using 'little theatres" and lecture rooms instead. The school cafeteria seems more likely to remain, Forum says, as long as hot lunches stay in style. However, an increasing number of U.S. elementary schools have found it cheaper and plea- santer to cart food directly to their home- like new classrooms. More and more high schools have begun to break up the big, noisy central cafeteria into different levels or semi-partitioned spaces, where students can eat in smaller informal groups around tables of normal size. Forum concludes its study of the push for productivity with a warning against losing sight of "basic educational and human aims" in a welter of new con- cepts, machines and materials. International Presence Canada has told the United Nations that the future of the UN 'Emergency Force will be in: jeopardy unless mem- bers fulfill their financial obligations. On Oct. 31 of this year a balance of $19, 500,000 was still due on total assess- ments of $55,200,000 for the years 1957 to 1959. Twenty-six countries had paid nothing for 1958, and 50 had paid noth- ing for 1959. The Soviet bloc has paid nothing for the 5350-man force since it was established in 1956 to stand on the border between Egypt and Israel, but as Canadian delgates Arthur Irwin state, "those member states which support the force in principle but have not found it possible to meet their assessments also share in the responsibility." The Emergency Force was created to meet an immediate need, and it has served its purpose well. It is too valu- able to be strangled to death by lack of financial support. The need for some such arm of the UN, however, has exis- ted ever since the international organiza- tion was formed. In the early years of the UN there were proposals for a "police force". These were blocked by the Com- munists. Then after experience in Korea, Viet Nam, Suez and Lebanon, there was reluctant acknowledgement of need at least for what some have described as Pressure On The Canadian Federation of Agricul- ture has told the Federal-Provincial Agricultural Conference that the long- term objective of agriculture in Canada should be the "development of rural communities based upon the main- tenance of the family farm." The CFA statement goes on: "Contrary to what some would have us believe, we do not think that this would require permanent subsidization of inefficiency. We do think that the self-employed individual farmer-owner can continue for the future to be by far the most reprsentative type of farmer." Sociologically, the family farm is a national asset, as long as it is efficiently operated. Economically, however, its fu- YT. L. WILSON, Publisher and General Moneger €. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) ana the Whitby Gazette ond (established is published daily (Sundays and statutory holidays excepted). e s of C di Dail P or Association, The Canodion Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontaric Provincial Dailies Asso- ciation. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news despatc in the paper credited to it or to The Associoted Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein. All rights of special despatches are also reserved. Offices Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, iverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunborton, Enniskillen, 5 Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Columbus ach, Greenwood, Kinsale, Raglan, Blackstock, Manchester, Cobourg, Port Hope, and Newcastle not over 45¢ per week. By mail (in province of Ontario) outside carriers delivery areas 12.00; elsewhere 15.00 per year. Average Daily Net Paid Publisher's Statement as of March 31, 1959 16,260 a UN "presence" in troubled or endan- gered countries. Definition of "presence" is difficult. It could be an Emergency Force, an ob- server corps as in Lebanon, or simply an individual who ranks as a personal representative of the UN Secretary- General, as does Sakari Severi Tuomioja, who has been stationed in Laos for a month by Hammarskjold. There already has been invited representative of the UN in Guinea ,and the Secretary-General may place a representative in Somalia, East Africa, until it gets well established after leaving Italian tutelage. These monitors have predominantly an economic function in the first in- stance, counseling as to most effective use of UN technical aid. But once its experts and money have been used to help a country develop, the UN is going to be interested in seeing that country maintain its political independence. Then the economic adviser would become a political watchdog. He could quietly report to his superiors of UN head- quarters, and at least the moral force of the UN could be put to work. But neither he nor the UN could call on a "police force", because it does not exist. And police are necessary in even the most law-abiding and well-regulated societies. The Farms ture does not look bright. The economic pressures on the small family farm are substantial and increasing, and it is doubtful if government action can divert them without making the farmers per- manent wards of the state. The first pressure on the family farm came from the postwar wave of me- chanization. Then came very rapid ad- vénces in agricultural science, with the development of new methods of treating soils and crops and of animal husbandry or management. More recently there has been another technological change, which commonly takes the form of large spe- cialized enterprises for the production at first of hogs, poultry and eggs and now of beef and dairy products. We are in the early -- and disruptive -- stage of this latest development. Statistics reflect the technological change in agriculture. Productivity on the farms in the postwar period has increased at a faster rate than that of any other industry. While 37 per cent of the farm labor force has been released to other employment, the physical volume of production in recent yars has averaged over 40 per cent higher than the prewar average. The pressures of productivity and financial returns have led to spe- cialization, and this in turn to greater outlays of capital. On the basis of taxa- tion statistics, the number of "active taxable companies" engaged in farming had just about doubled between 1947 and 1957, and will almost certainly have increased further by the end of this year. Corporate farming is firmly established and is a growing factor within the agri- cultural framework. The number of farms has declined steadily, and the total number of people working on those farms has dropped 14 per cent , even since 1955. AS ST 2 ART LAND OF THE MAPLE LEAF ww Ry 0 UNITED KINGDOM OPINION Value Of Police Force Inquiry Now Questioned By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON An independent inquiry into the relationships be- tween the police, the government and the public is to be held in the immediate future. When Rt. Hon. R. A. Butler, Home Secre- tary, announced this in the House of Commons, members on both sides of the house expressed agreement and satisfaction with this step. Second thoughts on the subject, however, are not so unanimously in favor of it One of the London evening newspapers, of the Beaverbrook group -- comes out quite bluntly and says such an inquiry as is proposed by Mr. Butler is all wrong, will waste the time of the men named to conduct it, and will lead nowhere. This news- paper goes on to say: "By and large the British police force is still the best in the world. Although underpaid aid undermanned, the British police are in general honest, ef- ficient and scrupulous in their dealings with the public. Far from bringing information into the open, an inquiry might simply provide a smoke-screen of memoranda, evidence and opinions. While it went on there would be a splendid excuse for inaction. Everything would be re- ferred to the committee -- and nothing would be done." These last two sentences have a familiar ring about them. I can recall reading exactly the same views expressed on more than one occasion when committees were sel up by the federal and provincial governments in Can- ada to investigate matters on which it was desirable to splash some whitewash. PENSIONS FOR MP's Regrettable as was the discus- sion in the House of Commons over the bill to provide the usual pension for the retiring speaker, Lord Dunrossil, it seems to have accomplished something worth while. The whole ¢qntroversy was aroused by his acceptance of the post of governor-general of Australia on the very day when the bill providing for his pension as former speaker came before the House of Commons. While the bill was given second reading by a majority of 155 aiter a heated debate, the dis- cussion stressed the fact that long-serving members of 'Parlia- ment cannot at present look for- ward to receiving any pension on retirement. This criticism has not gone unheeded and the gov- ernment is now giving consider- ation to proposals which will probably be brought forward early in the new year, by which members of Parliament, after leng service, would be eligible to receive a pension of around £1000 ($2700) a year. MACMILLAN AND AFRICA Prime Minister Macmillan is going off again on another tour to one of the troubled areas of the Commonwealth. In a conver- sation with the Earl of Home, Commonwealth Relations Secre- tary, I learned of the plans for the Prime Minister to visit Ghana, Nigeria, Rhodesia and Nyassaland, and the Union of South Africa early in the new year. This is another example of the highly significant type of per- sonal diplomacy which Mr. Mac- millan has found useful in other areas. He is going to Africa at a time of real crisis, at a time when the futures of the Common- wealth countries ard dependen- cies on that continent are hang- ing In the balance. He is going to find out for himself what the leaders of the colored races in Africa are thirking, and to dis- cuss with them the directions in which they should go in the future. This is no small task, but it is an important task at a time when plans for new constitutions for Africa dependencies are in the making. MONEY FOR HOSPITALS When I attended the annual meeting of the British. and Cana- dian Medical Associations in Edinburgh in July, { heard some strong speeches by British doc- tors condemning the niggardly attitude of the government in READERS' VIEWS Leading Issues In Darlington most controversial issues I have followed with interest newspaper reports on these two strongly criticized for intro- ducing such a bylaw. I can agree with part of the zoning by- law but by the same token I also disagree with other parts. In introducing a bylaw .of this nature it is bound to stir up a lot of taxpayers but I deplore the gituation where people on council are in my opinion play- ing politics with this issue. At a Darlington ratepayers' BY-GONE DAYS 40 YEARS AGO Simcoe Street Methodist Church was damaged by fire, loss being estimated at $75,000 Mrs. F. W. Cowan of Oshawa was elected chairman of the ex- ecutive of the Provincial Branch, Red Cross Society. Ontario County's subscription to the 1919 Victory Loan totalled meeting the Deputy Reeve Gar- net B. Richard reported to this meeting that he disagrees with this bylaw and it should have Been considered and studied long- er before being adopted. On checking the records per- sonally I find this same man was the one who made the motion at a council meeting held on Feb. 5, 1959, to forward the zon- ing bylaw 2-111 to the Ontario Municipal Board for its approval. It also should he noted that the only time the Reeve gets a chance to vote is in cases of a tie vote and he is called on to cast a ballot in order to break the tie. On the second issue re the high school. . . . Reperts of Oct. 1, 1959, cover the meeting which was held in Bowmanville Town Hall of eight councillors to de-« cide on this important issue (costing approximately $700,000) . . . The Deputy Reeve G. Rich- ard, who is also the warden of the county, was absent due to attending a Good Roads Conven- tion being held in British Colum- bia. On checking into why we shoud send a representative from the county all the way to British Columbia to attend such a convention. . . . I discovered, lo and behold! We not only sent one delegate but five more to keep him company at the tax- payers' expense. I suggest that the money spent for this jaunt could have supplied a good amount of gravel for some of the roads in the county. Darlington. --NELS WILSON When Dgnting gas appliances, light the match first before turn- ing on the gas, FOR FINE PANELING The warm beauty of California redwood -- the distinctiveness of narrow widths -- are com bined to form a backdrop for gracious living MILL VALLEY LUMBER CO. LTD. 66 RUSSETT AVE. (Simcoe St. N.) Warehouse RA 8-6264 $3,905,000 against an objective of $2,750,000. J. H. Dolan, principal of Osh- awa High School for eight and a half years, resigned to take a pos- ition at the London Collegiate Institute, had A ign was 1 raise $50,000 to rebuild Simcoe Street Church. Its congregation met in Martin's Theatre for church services. Oshawa ratepayers passed a bylaw favoring hydro radials from Toronto by 476 votes to 97, East Whitby, 200 to 90 and Bow- manville 301 to 9, 135 SIMCOE ST. NORTH ® PARTNERS eo HON. J. WALDO MONTEITH MP, FCA. A. BROCK MONTEITH B.Comm., CA. Gordon W. RIEHL, C.A., R.1LA ROBERT F LIGHTFOOT, C.A. GEORGE E. TRETHEWEY, C.A. Monteith, Monteith, Riehl & Co. Chartered Accountants ® LICENCED TRUSTEES Res. Partner G. W. RIEHL -- RA 5-4478 OSHAWA, ONTARIO eo TELEPHONE +o Oshawa RA 5-3527 Whitby MO 8-5731 Ajox 730 Sowmenville ZENITH 457350 providing money for the bulldi of new hospitals. A resolution was passed there asking for an expenditure of £75 million a year for the next 10 years on new hos- pital construction. The government has taken some notice of this agitation. Al- though it has not gone as far as the doctors demanded, it has authorized large sums of money for new hospitals. In the next two financial years, it will set aside £56.5 million for new hos- pitals. Of this amount, £25.5 mil- lion will be provided in the fi- nancial year beginning March 31 next and £31 in the following fiscal year. In the current year, there is a provision for £22 mil- lion With this money, new hospitals will be built in many areas in both England and Scotland where there is a definite shortage of hospital beds. CANADIAN DUO ACCLAIMED A husband and wife team of pianists from Quebec, Renee Morisset and Victor Bouchard, have received great acclaim from the music critics of London in making their first appearance in this country at a recital in Wigmore Hall. They were praised for their very stylish per- formances of music by Poulenc and Debussy. The music critic of the Daily Telegraph had this to say: "Poulenc's sonata is a delight. ful work, grave, gay and abound- ing in catchy tunes to which the pianists brought a light and nimble touch. Debussy's 'Six Epl- graphes Antiques' were given with' clarity and subtlety." This talented couple will be heard in several concerts to be given in London and other Brit- ish cities. OTTAWA REPORT Joys And Paradoxes Of New York Visit By PATRICK NICHOLSON UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.--Our parliamentarian delegates and ob- servers attending the General Assembly here are fully occupied with their work. But some are ac- companied by their wives and they, like the many other Oana- dian visitors evident here, are glimpsing the joys and paradoxes of the most unabashed enjoyment of Mammon the world has ever seen. . The contrast with the ¢ toms and moral values of Canada is often startling. A comfortable three-hour flight by Trans Canada Airlines Vis- count sped me from Ottawa's teetotal airport, where the over- crowded waiting room offered no seat and a tiny counter purveyed coffee, candy and gum, to New York's fabulous Idlewild airport; there the first sight was big glass doors leading into a crowded and elegant oyster and cocktail. bar. This was the immediate rendez- vous of some travellers on the half-empty plane, who had com- plained that. TCA routes in Can- ada are teetotal, a tourist-divert- ing quality which even our rail- roads no longer suffer. COURTEOUS SELF-SERVICE As never before, the lure of high industrial wages has mini mized the availability of personal and domestic service here. But 175,000,000 prosperous citizens yet peck to save themselves the least effort, and their readiness to pay a fancy price for every 'Does-it- itself" gadget offers a matchless market for scientific ingenuity. So while Russian Sputniks streak across the Manhattan sky, the stores are crowded with well- heeled workers buying such ulti- mates in gadgetry as electrically- operated pencil sharpeners. On the sidewalks of New York, the bookstalls are doing a roar- ing trade selling a wide variety of glossy magazines at 50 cents apiece, with such telltale titles as Rogue, Dude, Male, Sir Knight, Playmate. The liberal colored nudes in this new phe ex- smokers. In vivid contrast with these unkempt sidewalks were the well-dressed women and hy- gienized males walking on them. CANADA HOUSE AT HUB On elegant Fifth Avenue, Rockefeller Centre towers in the heart of commercial Gotham. In its midst is an open-air ice rink, where men, women and children were dancing to the soft music, or taking lessons from smartly uniformed instructors, or cutting graceful figures. Many busy passers - by had time to watch this charming spectacle. A non-stop elevator sped me to the top of the skyscraper, up 51 floors in 45 seconds. Among the spires and roof-tops of the magnificent vista, T saw the gleaming white new Canada House nearby. Several Canadian visitors told me that, more attractive to them than the variety in the stores or the succulent restaurants were he live theatrical shows. Sir John Gielgud playing a suave Bene- dick to Margaret Leighton's ceed in quantity, but not in qual- ity, the wares of that old soldiers' favorite La Vie Parisienne, and the newsvendors devoutly hope that the Girlie Book is here to stay. Outside the Third Avenue of- fices of our mission to the UN, the sidewalks are bountifully graced with dead fallen maple leafs, or a reasonable facsimile thereof. This is not an intentional tribute to Canada; it is the con- sequence of higher remuneration for crawling the streets as driver of one of the many nnhire? tavi than for sweeping the s'recis a a municipal employee mone *} fallen leaves, I saw also used dixie cups, paper wrapping, news- papers, empty boxes, a car bumper, two liquor bottles, and the usual mixed garbage of ing Beatrice in Shake speare's Much Ado About Nothing ranked tops with many. My Fair Lady, still young after many years and many changes of cast, enchants enthusiastic audiences. Two for the See-saw, with its cast of two players, was popular. And the gay musicals, La Plume de Ma Tante, and Destry Rides Again, offer something rare to us, but at shocking prices ranging from $3 to $8.65 a seat from the box office, or up to $50 from scalpers. Front page news, arousing in- '==ntion from New Yorkers who to the gyp but 'not the ver was the revelation that over 100 butcher shops were pay- ing up to $60 per month each to municipal officials for permission to cheat housewives weight frauds. » A Report to the People 37,000 people. solutions hospital service. Honorary President--Col. The Oshawa GENERAL HOSPITAL Is Your Own Hospital The Directors of your General Hospital want to take you into their confi- dence. It is your Hospital; you have, over the years, contributed most of the money to build, extend and improve it; yours are the needs it serves. As a result, we of the Hospital Board, feel that direct reports of Hospital activi- ties should be made to you from time to time. This brief message is intended to serve as an introduction to a series of reports that will be prepared and published during the ensuing weeks. You, the public, will be given details about the Hospital's growth, present oper- ations and future needs, and further how your Board and Hospital have attempted to keep pace with your needs. Thirty years ago, for instance, the Hospital Building Account was $158,000 and the Equipment Account a little more than $43,000. The corresponding figures last year were $3,047,066. and $895,099. Thirty years ago there were approximately 90 beds in the Hospital serving a population of about Today, there are 367 beds in the Hospital serving an area population of approximately 100,000. Great credit, theref-re, must be given to those citizens of previous years for their foresight in their efforts to keep pace with this fast-growing community, These figures indicate that growth has its problems as well as its benefits. Your Hospital Board is constantly aware of those problems and must continu- ally look for the best solutions. You should know about them, too, because without your help.and understanding we can't do. much about finding the So, we shall give you weekly reports for the next few weeks. We hope that you will also report to us and let us know your thoughts. Together we can meet the great challenge of providing this Community with the best possible J. o£ Wilson Oshawa General Hospitol R. §. Mel PRESIDENT Viee-Presi Storle, W. A. Wecker, and I. H. Walker; Honorary Secretery--Mrm. T. MH. Everson, President -- T. L. Wilson Vice-President -- EK. G. Storie Treasurer = G. 8, Miles J. A. Morphy, H. P. Schell, A. 6 Pa --'W. A. Holl J. H. Beaton J. G. Brady ¥. K. Creighton, Q.C. S. F. Everson Mrs. H. B. James 5 E Lovell Dr. W. G. McKe Medical Ste President £ Merks, Q.C. ¥. M. Moore K. Ross * _ Swit . D. Thomas, M. H. Washinaton LA J. Wgatten, own of Whith: S$. T. Hopkins, id City Mrs. C. D. Russell, Women' Woman's Hospital!