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Fhe Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E.; Oshawa, Ont. Poge 8 Tuesday, Merch 1, 1960 Pedestrian Behavior Also Requires Study When he tabled the 1959 traffic acci- dent statistics for Ontario in the Legis- {ature not long ago, the minister of trans- port, Hon. John Yaremko, made specific reference to "the importance of improv- ing driving and pedestrian habits if we sre to eurb the rising accident toll." Note the mention of the pedestrian. Jt was made not only in the portion quoted, but at other points in the ad- dress. There are other indications, too, that would seem to show more attention is coming to be given to the pedestrian #s a traffic hazard than has hitherto been the case. That this may be a salient factor that may lead to the reduction of traffic acci- dents and injuries is indicated in an article by Sidney Katz in a recent issue of the Imperial Oil Review. Aptly entitled: "Are you walking your- gelf to death?" it points out that 13,000 Canadian pedestrians were killed or in- jured last year and "in most cases it was their own fault." "The prevailing myth about the 'blameless' pedestrian," says Mr. Katz, "has misled our efforts to promote pedes- trian safety. We have been concentrating on the behavior of motorists when, in fact, our main educational efforts should be expended on the non-motorists. Too many pedestrians are ignorant or care- Jess of traffic regulations; too many are unaware of the motorists' problems and limitations in handling vehicles." Some data already collected by the National Safety Council shows that the age factor is important, with the very old and the very young the most fre- quent pedestrian victims of traffic acci- dents. It has been found that this stems largely from the fact that the young are impulsive and lack judgment; the old frequently cannot react quickly enough to danger. Another factor found to contribute to the pedestrian traffic hazard is that so often those afoot are wearing dark clothing. As a result, the accident rate jumps sharply after dark. While light elothing or the use of a lamp by a pedes- trian helps to reduce the hazard, it is interesting to note that the development of clothing made from "reflectorized yarn" may hold a key to greater safety in the future. Normal looking in day- light, it can, after dark, be picked up by a motor vehicle's headlights hundreds of feet away. The greatest factor, of course, is the personal one. We are not surprised to note that pedestrians who are most fre- quently involved in accidents are those who do not drive cars. These are the people who are not familiar with the other side of the picture ---- the one seen from behind the driver's wheel. So just as driver education is import- ant, pedestrian education is equally im- portant. In that connection, we think the plan of the Royal Automobile Club of Canada to invite all communities of 10,000 or more people in a nation-wide drive to cut pedestrian traffic tolls, is commendable. Check On Gyp Artists The experience of a Wallaceburg woman who, partly through fraud and partly through outright robbery, was bilked out of $469 by three Sarnia gyp artists should serve to underline the warnings against having any dealings whatever with these itinerant predators. In this case, the trio apparently posed as buiding inspectors for a Sarnia firm, and collected a $379 eheque in pay- ment for a half-finished eavetrough job. On a return visit a further $90 disap- peared. The news stories describe the unnamed victim as an elderly widow. Widows, semi-invalids, old people living alone, seem to be preferred vie- tims of such gyp artists. As the town building inspector, Ernest Kellett, has pointed out, there is mo such thing as a building inspector who does repair work. Furthermore, any building inspector should be asked to show conclusive identification. We might add that the wisest course is for the person canvassed to notify the police, to have necessary work done by reputable local tradespeople, and to pay out no money whatever till any really necessary work is satisfactorily completed. Most of the "repair jobs"a recom- mended by these fake building inspec- tors are totally unnecessary; and even where necessary the work eculd be done better and more cheaply by trades- people known to the householder. "Before you invest, investigate" is a good motto. And another desirable motto 1s, "Glib strangers are not to be trusted." Independence In Trade An unorthodox view of Canada's trade relations is taken by the Van- eouver Sun. The West Coast newspaper presents its case thus: Having announced it will adopt a "Canadian" policy in international poli- tics, Canada's government should do the same in international trade. Ottawa should take the lead in elim- inating trade barriers. It's prepared, if need be, to vote against its allies on political questions. By the same token, it should take a bold and independent stand against any sort of restrictions on exports and imports. This may be easier to do in political affairs than in trade affairs. We might annoy our friends if we voted against them in the disarmament conference, for example. But for their own interest they'd still stick with us in trouble. Trade can be quite different. The alleged "meeting of minds" that took The Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher and Genersl Menoger €. GWYN KINSEY, Editer The Oshawa Times combining The Oshowe Times (established 1871) ana the Whitby Gozette and onicle (established 1863), is published daily (Sundays end statutory holidays excepted). bers of C Deity PL Association, The Canodion Press, Audit Bureou of Circulation and the Ontaric Provincial Dailies Asso- ciation. The Caonadion Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news tched in the paper credited to it or te The Associated Press or Reuters, and alse the local news published therein. All rights of soecial despatches are also reserved. Offices Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, PQ SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by cotriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove Hampton, Frenchmon's Bay, Liverpool. Taunton, Tyrone, Dunborten, Enniskillen Orono Leskard, Broughom, Burketon, Claremont Columbus Fairport ch, Greenwood, Kinsale, Raglan, Blackstock, Manchester, Cobourg, Port Hope ond Nowcomtla not Over 45: per Wook By mail (in province of Ontario) outside carriers delivery areos 12.00; elsewhere 15.00 per yeor Average Daily Net Paid as of Nov. 30, 1959 16,560 place in Washington last week between Canada and the U.S. showed this. Principally the conference was held to decide what advice North America will give the two rival West European trading blocs. That was easy. The Europeans will be told not to be nasty to North American traders. When it came to discussing griev- ances between the U.S. and Canada the going was tougher. Each side is good at complaining about the other's tariffs and subsidies and quotas. Neither is so good, however, at seeing its own faults. The Europeans won't be fooled. Canada's government might consider the advice of western farmer organiza- tions, now bombarding it with advice on how to trade. To begin with, the Interprovincial Farm Union Council says, take up the free trade offer made by Britain two years ago. But this would now entail joining up with the free trade area formed by Britain and the Scandinavians. It might embroil Canada in the free trade area's quarrel with the European eommon market dominated by France and Germany. But Canada might be instrumental in breaking the deadlock between the two blocs if it announced willingness to join a wider free trade arrangement. If this is considered too daring, government leaders might give thought to the farmers' demand that they "take the initiative in expanding trading ar- rangements with European and Asian countries and in particular with . .. the British Commonwealth." The farmers fear that Canada will continue to drift into "a satellite posi- tion" with respect te the United States. We'll get deeper and deeper into debt with our huge neighbor, both in trade and investment. The Conservatives seemed fully aware of this when they fought their two federal elections. Time seems to have dulled their danger sense. Sony Bl THE UPHILL RUN QUEEN'S PARK CCF Takes Practical Liquor Policy Stand By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- The CCF has stolen a march, And it could be a big one. The party has taken steps to- wards a positive liquor policy. And though to date it has only an "interim" program -- it still has to be studied further and adopted--it is making sense. It is dealing in specifice. And it is the first party that has dared to do so since 1946. FOOD COMPULSORY One of its recommendations is that beer parlors be reformed. It says now they are "drab and dreary with the entire emphasis on drinking." To change this it recommends: More pleasant surroundings, and compulsory serving of food and non-alcoholic drinks. This is in line with New York state legislation which requires all liquor establishments to also serve meals. OPPOSITION MERCENARY Any readers of some standing will know how one writer stands on this. It is many years since the pre- posal was first mentioned here. And anyone who sincerely op- poses it just doesn't know the practicalities of heavy drinking. There is mercenary opposition from the restaurants, who fear loss of business. And ditto from the bar owners, who sell more liquor and keep down overhead without food. But a drinking man with food in his stomach is a better person than one without. The party also supports liquor advertising. Again it takes a practical stand To all intents and purposes we have it now anyway through tele- vision and U.S. publications, it says. It does submit a qualification that advertisers.should pay dol- lar for dollar into a special alco- holism fund. But this window dressing aside, the party is the first to have any real courage on this question. It deserves credit. And it is a pleasure to be able to say so PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM Aren't people who watch birds without securing their permission a bit rude? Despite the rosy prediction by the optimists with reference to increased production in 1960, we believe that from the standpoint of producing as much as every- body wants, there will be a shortage in 1960 and in all suc- ceeding years The average person considers it's a poor rule that works both ways. if one of the ways is to his disadvantage. Nature evens things up. A crow can't sing, but he's got more sense, 17 times more, than the mocking-bird. REPORT FROM UK. Lord's Day Group Becomes Active By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON Britain's Lord's Day Observance Society has sud- denly become active, and has di- rected its' guns against a Show Business football team, made up of famous stage and television stars, which has been playing Sunday games in different parts of the country in aid of recog- nized charities. The axe fell on the Show Business team when it played a game in Manchester in aid of the Spastics Fund. In- cluded in the team were such well-known enfertainment world figures as Bernard Bresslaw, FOR BETTER HEALTH Methods Of Applying Artificial Respiration HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, MD "ARTIFICIAL respiration." Now what kind of a picture does this bring to your mind? Most of you, I'm sure, will automatically think of someone swinging back and forth rhyth- mically over a swimmer who has just been dragged from the water onto some beach. OTHER EMERGENCIES Artificial respiration, however, can be used in many other emer- gencies. In fact it can be applied in any case in which breathing stops, including elettric shock, carbon monoxide poisoning and even drug poisoning. Few of you, I dare say, can determine quickly whether breathing has stopped because of an accident or a disease when you come upon an emer- gency case. It's generally best to take no chances--begin artificial respiration right away. BEST METHOD And. the best method of apply- ing it is by the mouth-to-mouth or mouth-to-nose method. Since emergency ventilation may be needed at any time, summer or winter, I think a few instruc- tions about the prescribed method are in order. Before you begin, quickly re- move any visible foreign matter that may be in the vietim's mouth. Then tilt back the victim's head so that his chin is point ing upward. Pull or push the jaw into a jutting-out position. This moves the base of tongue away from the back of the throat and helps clear an open passageway from the mouth to the lungs. Open your mouth wide and place it tightly over the . vic- tim's mouth. At the same time, close his nostrils either by pinch- ing them together or by placing your cheek over the victim's nose. / 1f you are working over an infant or small child, place your mouth over both the child's mouth and nose to make as leak- proof a seal as is possible. Then blow info the victim's mouth, Remove your mouth, turn your head to the side and listen for a return rush of air. This indi- cates an exchange of air and shows you are performing the operation correctly. If the victim is an adult, blow vigorously at the rate of ahout 12 breaths a minute. If it is a child, use relatively shallow breaths, appropriate for his size, at the rate of some 20 a minuet. QUESTION AND ANSWER E. M:: Is Manilian virus a tropical disease and is it catch. ing? Answer: Manilia is not a virus but a yeast-like organism which is very mildly contagious unders special circumstances. The Sunday Times Changes Presses LONDON (CP)--Canadian pub- lisher Roy Thomson will turn out The Sunday Times from his own printing plant in London next year. The London edition of the na- tional newspaper, which Thom- son acquired from Viscount Kemsley last year, now is printed on the presses of The Daily Tele graph. Its northern edition is the turned out by a former Kemsley plant in Manchester. The weekly trade publication World's Press News, says the change is prompted by Thomson's plans to expand the size of The Sunday Times from 40 to 48 nages. New equipment will be in- stalled in another former Kems- ley plant acquired by Thomson in London to handle the larger pub- lication. Tommy Steele, Pete Murasy, Ane thony Newley, Roy Castle and Mike and Bernie Winters. Charged in court with a breach of a 180-year-old Sunday Obser- vance Law, the team was fined £10 and the owner of the stadium in which the game was played OTTAWA REPORT As an example . he immense i value to the newspapers, and the these Information Divisions Carry Excess Weight By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- Finance Minister Donald Fleming recently dis closed his estimates of govern- ment spending during the coming fiscal year. A grimly significant factor in these estimates is the disclosure of the impossibility of pruning the cost of the civil serv- jce; worse, the revelation that even in a year of iron-bound economy, when every effort has been directed to keeping govern- ment costs "down, it has proved possible to restrain the civil service empire from ag- grandising itself. Thi 3 ivkod d following day. said: formation divisions has been es- timated at some $15,000,000 per year. This is a large sum for the government to spend upon telling the taxpayers what a good job it is doing. When the Liberals governed this country, year after year the House of Commons heard t Conservative stalwarts criticising not this apparently needlessly high cost. Such MP's as B.C.'s Davie Fulton, Toronto's John Hamilton, party leader George Drew, and jally the new Liberal leader is recently p out how the Conservative party, when in Opposition, had repeat: edly criticized the Liberal gov- ernment for its extravagance in maintaining a huge and costly public service. Each department of govern- ment has its own "information division', whose function is to prepare statements about the ac- tivities of its department for re- lease to the newspapers and broadcasting stations. Some in- formation divisions also perform other functions: for instance, the department of fisheries issues a pamphlet of receipes for fish dishes to encourage the Canadian housewife to use more fish. The total cost of all these in- BY-GONE DAYS 20 YEARS AGO Oshawa had nine per cent of its population on relief during 1939. Knox Presbyterian Church cele- brated its 15th anniversary. Elmer Dixon was elected presi- dent of the Ontario Golf Associa- tion at the 17th annual convention held in the Royal York Hotel. Toronto. Henry Howard was honored by his fellow GMC employees on the occasion of his completion of 48 years service with the company. Donald A. Wilson was elected chairman of the Whitby Board of Education. Oshawa tax rate was struck at 30% mills, a reduction of ome mill from the 1939 rate. King St. United Church YPU presented a minstrel show to cap- acity crowds for a three-night engagement. W. R. Geikie, president of Ped- lar, announced that the company's factory would immediately be converted to war work to take care of a large government order. Rev. G. O. Falls, senior chap- lain of military district 2, was the guest speaker at the Oshawa Kiwanis Club. Shirley Vickers was crowned Queen of the Kinsmen Carnival at the Oshawa Arena. An announcement was made by Whitby town council of a tax sale of all properties with taxes -more than three years in ar- rears. eloquently condemned the size and cost of these "information di- visions." This column has previously re- ferred to one of the largest of these publicity machines, namely that in the department of agri- culture. Despite the proclaimed criticisms and good intentions of the Conservatives, and despite the undisputed fact that the new minister of agriculture, Hon. Douglas Harkness, is one of the best administrators in the Dief- enbaker cabinet, this division ex- panded by 10 per cent in the first year of Tory rule. Next year's estimates forshadow a further 5 per cent growth in its size. tiirilling civil disclosures, of eased on the is what it "A 'Resources 'omorrow' Conference Advi = T < and private agencielinvited as leading authorities on. able the resources and related golds to assist in planning for conference." Note that this nowncement came after the meeting, sal lasted four hours; and nothing of the discuss! p clusions of that meeting." wonderful news story! Wnational essentially treat any than 24 hours old as dead," That was the product of a &. vision with 13 editors and foe mation officers, an increase of § per cent, planned for next year, I have a lot of sympathy for some semior civil servants whe feel that they merit a salary Se Tn money ming some of the present exo staff rather than by raising ow taxes. 4 YELLOW PAGES BusLeriy FIRST BANKING ON MODERN LINES WAS ESTABLISHED IN VENICE BETWEEN 1270 AND 1318 A.D. PALMSTRUCK, FOUNDER OF BANK OF SWEDEN, 1S CREDITED WITH ISSUING FIRST EUROPEAN BANK NOTE IN 1658 , ALTHOUGH CHINESE ISSUED, / PAPER NOTES //7 300 YEARS DID YOU KNOW CHEQUES "INVENTED IN ENGLAND ABOUT 1781, NOW HANDLE 10 TIMES MORE BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS THAN ALL CANADIAN'REAL MONEY COMBINED ? was fined £15, The complaint was laid by the Manchester Branch of the Lord's Day Observance So- ciety. Although for the past two of three years the Show Bi team: Las been playing charity matches on Sunday, this is the first time a prosecution has re- sulted. WILL STILL PLAY In spite of this prosecution and fine, the Show Business football ers say they will continue their charity matches. Its manager, Pat Sherlock, said after the con- viction: "We intend to ignore the Lord's Day Observance Society as usual. They have been after us before, but Manchester is the first place in which action has been taken on its complaint. We will be playing next Sunday in Norwich." Reply of the Lord's Day Ob- servance Society, through its sec- retary: "Mr, Sherlock's behavior is un-British and lawless. I can promise them more trouble, and they can be assured they will be watched in future," RADIO SETS BANNED Another case of this ancient Lord's Day Act being invoked, and one which has aroused con- siderable protest, has arisen in a hospital at Inverness, Scotland. There the use of radio and tele- vision sets for the entertainment of patients on Sunday has been banned. The ban has been im- posed following a protest made by the synod of the Free Pres- byterian Church. The Synod pro- tested to the Northern Regional Hospitals Board that there had been complaints about noise in the hospital on Sundays, and that observance of the Lord's Day was being disturbed by radio and tele- vision sets being operated on that day. Rev. Robert Sinclair, clerk of the synod, commented: "Our main ground for com- plaint was religious. The noise question came second to that." DAME FLORA PROTESTS Protests have come from the patients in the hospital. One of them is Dame Flora MacLeod of MacLeod, recovering from an in- jury suffered in a motor acci- dent. A former vice-chairman of the Hospital Board, she has made a strong protest against the ban, "in the interest of my fellow-patients." "If "Dame Flora has made a protest," says Col. Victor D. Gordon, medical superintendent f the hospital, "it will be con- idered by the board." The use of radio and television sets on Sunday has been custom- ary in this 412-bed hospital since it was opened 18 months ago. Now they are being kept com. pletely silent on Sundays. It's time our performers upset dear old grandmother Morley Callaghan--writer, televi- sion performer andstage --calls today's entertainers artistic slobs. Do these friendly people with the expensive smiles feel too much contempt for us all? Do you want more passion and fire on your TV screen? Then read about the big upset we've started in ment, boldly presented in this week's Star Weekly. Get the BIG stories...read the personality entertain- fully told and Star Weekly. HAVE YOUR CHILDREN GOT HIDDEN TALENTS? A famous educator and author presents an easy 10-question check list that will help give you an accurate and heart-warming picture of what your child is really like. MALAK--CANADA'S SHUTTERING SALESMAN This Syrian immigrant with the famous brother took his first professional photo- graph with a box camera--now he is the most widely distributed Canadian photog- rapher in history. He was once jailed eight times in one week. His story is color- illustrated in this week's STAR WEEKLY