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She Oshavon Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 Wednesday, December 23, 1959 Two Weeks Poor Test Of Ability To Survive A report from Pleasanton, Calf, last week told about an experiment in under- ground living to escape nuclear fallout. Ninety-six men from the U.S. Navy lived for two weeks in a 1200 square foot quonset hut 20 feet below the earth's surface. The men lived on peanut butter bars, standard army rations and a special diet developed by the U.S. department of agriculture. Each man lost from three to five pounds in weight, and all agreed that they could have spent two more weeks in the hut if it had been necessary. The only outside contacts were a two- way radio operated by Dr. Wolmer Strope, chief of the U.S. Navy radiology laboratory's military evaluation division, who underwent the test, and a closed television circuit by which psychologists on the outside kept the men under sur- veilance. Auxiliary power brought in air through baffled ventilators, and an aux- Marx Takes Poor old Karl Marx. The Communists still pay him to service; they call them- selves Marxists as devoutly as ever. But their interpretations of his doctrine must have him revolving madly in his grave. Consider, for example, what Voprosy Ekonomiki, official journal of the Soviet Institute of Economics, did to him re- cently in an article dealing with "the principle of the personal incentive." The article says: The many years of experience in the organization of social labor under Socialism have shown that equalitarianism is incompatible with the interests of the development of Soc- ialism production ... In order to crete the abundance of products, the principle of personal material incentives to all personal . . . is of major significance . . It is necessary to give industrial and in- stitutional management the right to raise the salaries of persons showing maxi- iliary generator supplied electricity, The tone of the Pleasanton report suggested that this was a difficult test. We suggest that it was too easy. If we in North America have reached the point where we find it difficult to ed and fed, then we are ready for the scrap heap--we are neurotic nobodies, with no intellectual "or spiritual re- sources to sustain us, The report said that "to pass the time, the men conducted a roud-the-clock dice game, bridge tournament and whist tournament. Some played suffle board." Apparently no one thought of reading; there was no mention of books in the subterranean hideout. And yet what worthier and more satisfying use of "spare" time is there than reading? The test would seem to be more a revelation of lack of inner resources than a demonstration of survival ability. A Beating mum initiative, capacity and conscient- iousness . . . At the same time it is nec- essary to improve the system of bonuses to managerial, engineering, technical and office personnel." That comment could have been writ- ten by a capitalist of the old school. It will be noted that the purpose of incentives is not to improve the lot of the individual but to speed " the devel- opment of Socialist production." Let's not kid ourselves, however. The Russ- ians have found that the incentives are necessary, Marx or no Marx. They also use their labor unions simply as instru- ments to bring about speed-ups in their factories--speed-ups that would not be tolerated by organized labor in the free world. But they are producing, and in- creasing production, to the point where they can begin to challenge the indust- rial power of the West. Just Gathering News Some very odd things "have come out of the committee meetings of the United Nations and certainly one of the oddest should "gather" news but not "seek" it, observer C. J. Harris notes. This definition is in a draft convention on freedom of information that has just received a majority vote in committee. For more than ten years UN. groups have been working on this press code. The item referred to, the first of nine- teen articles in the proposed convention, is only one yet approved in committee, and the committee has suspended work for this year. The idea that a reporter should not probe for news beneath the surface is enough to turn any Canadian editor's hair white over night. But in many parts of today's world the press is regarded as little more than a government informa- tion office. Article One of the U.N. press code was proposed by Ethiopia, India, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia and Vene- Invitation To The Ontario Safety League quotes from the Journal of American Insurance that more than two-thirds of all cars stolen are taken by school-age youngs- ters. Auto thefts have increased more than 70% since 1950. Authorities who deal closely with juvenile auto thefts blame much of it on the casual attitude of the car-owning The Oshawa Times ¥. L. WILSON, Publisher and General Manager €. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times {established 1871) ana t Whitby Gazette and Chronicle (established 1863). is published daily (Sundays and statutory holidays excepted) Members of Canadian Daily Newspapers Publishers Association, The Canadian Press, t Bureau of Circulation and the Ontaric Provincial Dailies Asso- ciation. The Conadion Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and olso the locol news published therein. All rights of special des spatches are also reserved. is that newspaper reporters 9, 425 Un Street, Montreal, versity Avenue, Offices Thomson Bu PQ. Toronto, Ontorio, 640 Cathcort SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whit Pickering, Bowmanville, Br Albert, Maples Grove H. Liverpool Tounton, Tyrol Orono Leskord, Brou ghar, Columbus Fairport Beach, Raglan, Blackstock 'Manche er, Col re Portypool and Newcastle over 45c per wee By mail (in province of ario) outside carriers delivery greas 12.00; elsewhere 15.00 per vear. Average Daily Net Paid as of Nov. 30, 1959 16,560 zuela. It had the solid backing of the Soviet group, where "probing" reporters are looked on as spies, or at least trouble- makers. The recent evpulsion by Po- land of the New York Times man, A. M. Rosenthal, is a timely example. As the government of that country naively ex- plained Mr. Rosenthal was booted. out not for writing untruths but simply for reporting too many truths. His fault was that he did not gather news, sought it out. Our own freedom of the press is long established. As in all English-speaking countries it had its roots in the repeal of Britain's Licensing Act in 1695, a law that had kept all printing and pub- lisihng under government control, though it was another century and a half before those roots had produced a full growth. It is not clear that this back- ground was ever mentioned in the U.N. debate on freedom of information. It might well have been, if only to remind ourselves that this is a plant that con- stantly needs tending. Theft public. It is almost invariably the un- locked cars that get stolen--many of them with the keys left hanging in the ignition. Normal parking precautions can offer little effective defence against the de- termined, professional auto thief. But a large proportion of "illegal removed cars are taken by juveniles who delude themselves that it is not really stealing to drive away in a car that has been left open, whereas they would hesitate to break into a locked car. Most stolen cars are recovered. They are abandoned at the end of the "joy ride" -- or when the gas runs out. Often they are unharmed, and the owners suffer nothing worse than an- xiety and inconvenience. But too often they are rec8vered after damage and bloodshed, resulting from incompetent, reckless or panic driving. Surveys have shown that car thefts drop by as much as two-thirds after strict enforcement of key-removal laws. The Ontario Safety League asks all drivers to help protect the public--as well as their own property -- three he al- simple rules to remember: Park in a frequented, well lighted place, a car left in a dark alley is much more likely to be broken into. Lock the ignition and remove the keys. Shut all windows (pay particular attention to the windows) and lock all doors. "no-draft" mews /rem : BOTANISTS SEE FOOD QUALITIES FROM FIRST SPINAGH, AND NOW ™S) \ 21ST CENTURY MUSCLE BUILDER GALLUP POLL OF CANADA Percentage Of Reading Public Still Declining By CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION While many thousands of books are being wrapped for the Christ- mas Tree this week, the hard fact is that, proportionately, a far smaller segment of the popu- lation reads a book in a typical week than did so fifteen years ago. The downward trend is shown clearly in the columns be- low. Back in 1945, for example, 40 per cent of the adult population were reading a book in a single week. Today's report shows that only 27 per cent had done so in a comparable period. As in all studied designed to measure changing trends in Ca- nadian behavior or attitudes, in- terviewers for the Gallup Poll put the same question to a cross- section of the adult population as in previous years. "ARE YOU READING ANY BOOK NOW OR HAVE YOU READ ANY IN THE PAST WEEK?" 1945 40% 60 1953 31% 69 Today 26% 74 Yes No 100% 100% 100% Those men and women who said they were reading a book, or had done so in the past week, were asked whether it was fic- tion or non-fiction. Comparison with five years ago shows that the trend towards non-fiction is increasing rapidly. 1933 Reading fiction 19% Reading non-fiction 10 Don't know 1 Today 11% 16 OTTAWA REPORT Economic Alliance Vision Of Future Bh PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- Ten years ago, Canada proposed that the North Atlantic alliance should be a part- nership for prosperity as well as for defence. Our foreign minister, Hon. L. B. Pearson, predicted that this alliance was "the foun- dation on which may be built an economic commonwealth and per- haps even a political common. wealth, of the, western world." "No vision less than this will do," he asserted. Our European Allies got that vision But their hopes were dashed by the refusal of the two North American members of the alli- ance, Canada and U.S.A. to make any move to implement this eco- nomic partnership, although it was included in the treaty which they had solemnly signed. Nevertheless, inspired by such in's Winston Churchill and encouraged by such planners as France's Jean Mon- net, many of our European Allies decided to move ahead without us laggards. They began the en- thusiastic planning of a brave new trading world, which would see all their workers enjoying shorter hours, their pay exerting greater purchasing power, gadgets taking the drugery out of their wives' home-making, and an occupied garage standing beside every home. SYMBOL OF UNITY Certain continental nations wanted to go the whole "Pearson" hog, and aim for political federa- tion in a "United States of Eur- ope." Their need for the resultant economic strength coincided for- tunately with their psychological readiness to accept limitation of their national sovereignty. Even those historical enemies, France and Germany, are prepared to forget their tragic centuries of bloodshed and move ahead to- gether under the new Union flag with six silver stars on a blue ground. Other of our Allies were willing to make only the lescer step--to a partial "economic common- wealth"; notably Britain, whose leaders considered that their membership in a federal union would be incompatible with her place in the Commonwealth. Rather than join the European Common Market, with its aim of federal union, Britain wants to be a member of a larger free trade area which 'would include the U.S.E. as well as other western nations, and which, while elimin- ating internal tariffs, would still permit each member to set its own tariffs vis-a-vis the outside world Thus a split arose. France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Bel- gium and Luxembourg formed themselves into the European Economic Community, or com- mon market, which is headed towards federal union. Britain feared that her immense and im- partant foreign trade would be crippled by exclusion from that big market. So she assembled the looser-knit European free trade area, known as The Outer Seven, consisting of herself, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Por- tugal and Switzerland. SIX, SEVEN SHOULD LINK "The Seven" lacks the conven- ience, which is enjoyed by "the Six", of being one contiguous land mass; and with a total population of 90,000,000, it calls siiort of the advantageous mass market of 165,000,000 consumers in The Six. Canada and the U.S. fear that a trade war will develop between these two groupings. Britain how- ever insists that she formed the Outer Seven merely to increase her bargaining power to bring the Six into a larger free trade area. If this is so, says North America sceptically, it would cause an even more disastrous trade war between our continent and Eur- ope. In either case, the NATO alliance would be effectively dis- rupted--which has for 10 years been Russia's chief Cold War aim. Significantly, the Seven, unlike the Six, includes nations outside NATO. A merger of these two groups would thus expand Mr. Pearson's dreamed-of "economic commonwealth" beyond the NATO alliance. This would bar the benefits of pooled defence pro- duction. But it would have a perhaps compensating advantage, in build- ing a free trade area on a base other than NATO. For this alli- ance, having failed for 10 years to implement the Canadian pro- posal for co-operation in non-mili- tary fields, is now regarded dis- tastefully by the rest of the world as being merely a military alli- ance, Atlantic Anthology Fine Book A fine collection of fiction, non- fiction and poetry from Canada's four Atlantic provinces is con- tained in a new book edited. by Will R. Bird and called "Atlantic Anthology" (McClelland and Stew- ard Ltd.). This is a vivid and compelling picture of the people, the way they live, their dreams, hopes, aspirations and disappoint- * ments. The task of selection has not been easy because many. great writers come from that area, in- cluding the following: Ernest Buckler, Bliss Carman, T. C Haliburton, Joseph Howe, Lescar- bot, M. Montgomery, Hugh McLennan, Archibald Mac- Mecham, E, J. Pratt, Thomas H. Raddall and Charles D. Roberts. The Atlantic provinces are the beginning of Canada, the first part of this hemisphere known ta Europeans, They are the oldest battlegrounds of our Dominion They are the first places named Those who were reading 30% 28% (Some were reading both) In the week under survey this year, 27 per cent of Canadian women were reading a book, or had done so, compared to 25 per cent among men. However those who think that men might be more interested than women in non-fiction are wrong. The same proportion of women who read, are reading non-fiction as men; only difference is that more wo- men enjoy fiction. Men Women Fiction 9% 14% Non-fiction 16 16 Don't know 1 1 Those who are reading 26% (Some are reading both) BY-GONE DAYS 25 YEARS AGO Katherine Bryce and Stanley Best were named outstanding girl and boy at the OCVI com- mencement. Rev. A. D. Robb spoke briefly at the annual Christmas concert held at St. Andrew's United Church. James C. Young was the master of ceremonies. % 31 The Welfare Board engaged unemployed men to assist oy Works Dept. men on removal of snow following a storm which paralyzed traffic for several hours. Members of the Canadian Le- gion voted to finish the auditor- ium of the Legion Hall, using voluntary labor. It was decided that the hall could be used by the community as well as the Legion, Order of the Eastern Star en- tertained the children from the Children's Shelter at a Christmas party held in Engel"s Hall. Cyril Johnston was the enter. tainer at the Rotary Club Christ- mas party for erippled children. W. H. Moore, MP, was made King's Counsel by the Ontario Government. J Thoms was elected presi- dent the Ontario Regimental Fae for the forthcoming Year, y was band P In order that they might en- joy some of the spirit of Christ- mas, over 1100 roasts of beef and puddings were distributed to all familes on relief. PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM What to give the person "who has everything"? Never a second thought, Overheard: "I'll walk off some of this fat now; my son just se- cured a driver's licence." Poor Percy Chump is gone from hence. His gun was cocked when he climbed a fence. in the annals of this country: Newfoundland-- bolt, rock-ribbed, inveterate battler of the Atlantic; Nova Scotia -- sprawling, ocean- scalloped, rich in legend; Prince Edward Island -- sheltered, fer. tile, bathed with warm currents; New Brunswick -- Loyalist-born and river - proud, neighbor of Maine. There are such classics as "Letters Patens From King Henry VIII to John Cabot" -- 'Gilbert's Voyage to Newfound- land" by Edward Hale -- "The Settling of Port Royal" by Sam- uel de Champlain -- "The Order of Good Cheer" by Marc Lescar- bot There is fine description, vivid imagery, pathos, tragedy and humor all interwoven into the tapestry of a picture that is as richly varied as the people and the country it represents. This is a book to be treasured by natives of the four Atlantic provinces and also by all Can- adians who wonld have a better knowledge of the literature of this colorful and historic area. REPORT FROM U.K. with. Lord Hope said he would 'look into that, but added, 'This Winning Struggle Against Starlings By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- The Ministry of Works has been able to announce a successful result to its battle to rid the buildings around Tra- falgar Square, Whitehall,. the Strand and Northumberland Place of the hordes of starlings which have been making their habitat in that section of central London. Ever since I came over to Eng- land, I have noted the nightly ca- cophony of sound emanating from the throats of what seemed like millions of starlings perched on the facades of the high buildings in that area. I have seen and heard swarms of starlings in var- ious cities in Canada and the United States, but nothing to equal the infestation which had become an intolerable nuisance to Londoners and visitors. Announcement that the battle against the starling was being won came in an in is being so successful that I doubt whether anybody can think of anything better. The repellent has been devel oped by a manufacturing firm from a secret formula. It is ap- plied as thin film on wood, stone and other surfaces on which birds roost. Experiments were begun at Trafalgar Square about two years ago. Since then a single coating has been found effective for 12 to 15 months according to the of soot and dust In the the House of Commons, which in. dicates the high level at which the starling nuisance has gained attention. The Minister of Works, Lord John Hope, in reply to a member's question, said that ex- periments with a bird repellent compound on the buildings around Trafalgar Square to keep them clear of roosting starlings had been so encouraging that he pro- posed to continue with its use. HELP NOT NEEDED Sir Anthony Hurd suggested that the minister might get advice from the United States, where the same problem was being dealt FOR BETTER HEALTH First Aid Measures For Everyday Cuts HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, MD No matter how often you bathe or wash your hands, your skin is never entirely free of germs. Thus, even the smallest cut or scratch -- anything that breaks the skin -- should be treated. But let's be practical. You can't go running to a doctor with every little scratch you or the kids get. A serious wound, natur- ally, needs prompt and expert attention, Minor ones generally can be treated at home. EASILY CONTAMINATED Everyone, I'm sure, realizes that you shouldn't touch a wound unless that is the onlv way to halt bleeding. But few of you, I dare say, realize that coughing, sneez- ing, even breathing into a wound might contaminate it. Droplets . sprayed from your mouth while talking might do the same thing. SOME TIPS Even a tiny wound can be in- fected in such a manner. So let me give you a few practical tips about treating everyday cuts and scratches. Oviously, mercurochrome or be applied to the use iodine, make latively new le or mild two per cent solution, Stronger tine- ture of iodine might be a little too harsh for general first aid use, Don't odine which has been on the shell of your medicine cabinet for a long time. The al- cohol the solution contains evap- orates and thus iodine tends to become stronger with age. Once you have painted the wound, cover it with a sterile gauze compress. You ean pur- chase individual compresses, safely sealed in little packages, at any drug store. Every home should have some of them on hand for emergencies. SUBSTITUTE BANDAGE If you don't have a sterile ban- dage available, you can scorch a piece of cloth with a hot iron. The cloth should be clean and un- starched. Remember that a dressing is sterile only as long as you don't touch the portion that is to cover the injury. an antiseptic such as odine should vound. If you sure it is a re- use It doesn't do much good to ap- ply antiseptic to a deep wound such as is caused by a nail, ice pick or scissors. The germs in this type of wound are lodged deeply and can't be destroyed by an antiseptic painted across the surface. These injuries should be treat- ed by a doctor. QUESTION AND ANSWER Mrs. S.: What causes palpita- tion of the heart? Answer: Palpitation of the heart may be due to many causes and are not always attributable to an impaired or damaged heart. Occasionally, palpitation may be caused by nervousness. Wisiosphere. ing on the Ci ini Jack Fymn, man- ager of the manufacturing firm, said "Our product is equally ef fective for clearing out pigeons and sparrows. We do nots ever, recommend its use on fruit trees in case it damages the branches. Birds are broken of their roosting habits because they do not like their feet coming in contact with the stuff. It is odor- less, but it has a sticky feeling." The repellent costs about 88 shillings a gallon and covers about the same surface as an equivalent quantity of paint. While the Ministry of Works had received supplies for this large scale experiment, the material is Jt vet Leinig offered to the publi . for domestic purposes, The unanswered question, how- Where Trafalgar Square?" I am waiting for reports that they have simply transferred their noisome activ- ities to another part of London. Rugs! Rugs! Rugs! While They Last SIZES FROM 9x10te 12x 15 Any color. Any size. 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