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he Oshawa & Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Poge 6 Friday, June 17, 1960 Premiers Only Worried About Share Of Take Towards the end of next month the premiers of the provinces will be gath- ering in Ottawa for the Dominion-pro- vincial fiscal conference, and all of them. will be asking for a bigger chunk m the tax-sharing deal with the federal government. Premier Frost of Ontario will be demanding that biggest' ehunk for his province, which supplies the Ottawa government with a great deal more than it gets back under present arrangements. ! The premiers and Sie fiom author- ities will be squabling offer the division of the tax dollar. It's doubtless if they What is needed is a thorough study of both the why ef taxation and its end results. What is the reasoning be- __hind the graduation of income tax, for example? What decides the exemption of one man and the taxation of arother? What are the effects of taxation on corporate and individual effort? Statis- tical measurement should be possible, and it would reveal how much of taxa- tion is the result of whim and opinion and how much 'of reasoned, sound calcu- lation. It is taken too much for granted that a government must have money in ever- will 'spend much time disc g the rights and wrongs of taxation. Yet what is needed at least as much as a reassess- ment of the tax-share deal is a thorough examination of the whole doctrine of taxation. As matters stand now, there is no doctrine. The tax structure, like little \ Eva, has just "growed". Governments \ traditionally have sought new ways to raise money and have selected those ways which were politically safe rather _ than economically sound. The catchword has been "ability to pay", but in prac- tice this more often turns out to be pay- ment by those most easily reached by the tax eollector. ' increasing quantities, True, the demands upon it are ever increasing, but this is in large measure the result of the open invitation by governments to the public to ask for more, and of the careful cul- tivation of the myth that a government can provide "for free" what would cost the individual taxpayer hard cash. Some frank talk is needed about the effect of 'the total burden taxation upon the development of Canada. Nearly a third of the nation's gross national product is now absorbed by taxes, and this could well be a major contributing factor to the persistence of unemploy- ment and the slowing rate of industrial developments. Cost Of Winning Seat The Commons elections committee hap submitted a list of 50 recommenda- tions to the government to assist it in drafting amendments to the Canada Elections Act. Few of these have much to do with the costs to eandidates of election campaigns. Controlled use of radio and television was suggested by Jack Pickersgill, who would have the public treasury pay for a eerfain amount of 'broadeast time to be used by candi- dates whose parties received at least 20 per cent of the popular vote at the previous election, with "nuisance or frivolous candidates" having to "pay for their own fun." - Cadidates submit accounts of election expenses, and the amounts spent to gain election vary wildly across the eountry. Some are small fortunes, and in fact a candidate ean spend a limitless amount of money. As elections get closer in the United States, some observers in that country are wondering if the day is not rapidly approaching when only rich men or can- didates financed by rich men can hope to seek the presidential nomination and then campaign for the presidency. The same situation does not apply im Can- ada, where the prime minister must fight for a seat in the same way as a private member, but the situation in the US. is worth watching. "Practically nobody the modest voluntary reports of spending here on behalf of Senators Kennedy and Humphrey, the Milwaukee Journal commented about the primary contest nm Wisconsin. Stated "fina]" totals were about $100,000 for Kennedy and $58,- 000 for Humphrey. Later, a Journal reporter got spokesmen to admit that the actual Kennedy figure exceeded $150,000 and the true Humphrey total "might have been" as much as $165,000. Kennedy himself admits that his bills, by his own reckoning, will hit $700,000 nation-wide by the time the Democrat convention is held July 11. One bill to regulate presidential eam- paign spending would impose "realistic limits" of about $6 million per aspirant for nomination and $12 million per nominated slate! There are demands im the US. for stricter, broader laws requiring candi- dates to disclose the amount of their eampaign spending and the sources of their funds, The Commons could give the same subject some thought. believed What Pasternak Said The recent death of Boris Pasternak, the Russian author who won but was not permitted to accept the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature, was ignoted by the press and radio in Moscow. In the Krem- lin's official view, apparently, Pasternak was unimportant, alive or dead. It was in the brief thaw after Stalin's death that Pasternak submitted the manuscript of his prize-winning novel, Doctor Zhivago, to the Russian state publishing house. At that time he was permitted to send a copy to an Italian publisher. When the thaw ended and Moscow decided to suppress the book as being too independent in its comment on communist dictatorship, the Italian house published it anyway. But if the Russian press refused to acknowledge Pasternak's death, the obi- hye Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher and Genera) Manoger €. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times eombining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) and the Whitby Gozette ond Chronicle (established 1863), is published daily (Sundays end statutory holidays excepted) Members of Canadian Daily Newspapers Publishers Association, The Conadian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontaric Provincial Dailies Asso- ciation. 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By mail (in province of Ontario) outside corfiers delivery areos 12.00: elsewhere 15.00 per veor Average Daily Net Paid as of April 30, 1960 16,999 tuaries in the foreign press revealed a significant, untold story about commu- nism's treatment of the artist-intellectual who refused also to be a conformist. It was reported by Gustav Svensson, an Associated Press correspondent fluent in Russian who interviewed Pasternak shortly after Pravda had published a letter over his name declining the Nobel award. It was a part of the interview that could not be printed while Paster- nak was alive. ™ =, The author asked the AP man to tell the Swedish Academy that he still claimed the Nobel Prize although he could. not go to Sweden to receive it, and that despite statements made in his name he had never athe award. And this was Pasternak's reply to the question whether he had been harmed by the storm in the Western press: "I owe my life to these interna- tional protests. Once Doctor Zhivago wag published abroad, I had it coming to me. But I had to write that book and I had to publish it where it could be published. I put all T had of strength and ability as a writer into the book, and there is nothing 1 would change. The Nobel prize was of tremendous help. To me it meant the support of the world. This saved me from the worst. They could no longer treat me the way they would have wanted to. They could not get rid of me." Nor are "they" likely to be rid of him now, obituary or none. Bible Thought Who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?--Daniel 3:15. Men seem to think they have all the power needed. They fail to recognize that God is not limited as man is. Our God must be big enough to overcome all evil, or He is not God. LONG RANGE DUEL OTTAWA REPORT ¥ Azellus Denis was camping out Audience Casual As Pearson Talks By PATRICK NICHOLSON Our federal cabinet was hard at work. Health Minister Monteith and Justice Minister Fulton were in conference together; then Davie signed some letters, while Monty first read a newspaper and later went to confer with Defence Pro- duction Minister O'Hurley. Defence Minister Pearkes was signing his mail. Associate De- fence Minister Sevigny went to consult his Quebec colleague, Act- ing State Secretary Balcer, Trade Minister Churchill stud- ied some trade figures supplied by the bureau of statistics. Mines Minister Comtois caught up with the news in a French- language newspaper. Fisheries Minister MacLean gazed into space deep in thought. Citizenship Minister Fairclough read her mail. Spare wheel min- ister Browne kept pace with New- foundland events in a newspaper. BUSY MORNING This was all very worthy toil by the hard-working ministers in our federal cabinet; and it was just what one would expect them to be doing between 11:15 and 11:30 on the morning of a work- ing day. Except that this day happened to be the first on which the House of Commons length- ened its hours of session by meet- ing at 11 a.m., and these minis- ters were sitting in the debating chamber. At that mom e nt, Opposition Leader Mike Pearson was on his feet, discussing foreign policy and defence and Bomarcs and associ- aled topics, of interest to our cabinet, to our Parliament, and indeed to our voters. Prime Minister Diefenbaker, Foreign Minister Green, Finance Minister Fleming and Works Min- ister Walker were listening to Mr. Pearson's words--whether or not they considered them to be of wisdom. Few back-bench MPs were. Of the CCF MPs 4 of 8 2343 absent; 33 of the 48 Liberals were absent; 124 of the 206 Conserva- tives were absent. Among those noticeably present was Calgary's Art Smith, stand- ing at the back of the Chamber puffing Calgary's largest pipe, which belched billowing smoke over Quinto Martini and other un- happy back-row MPs despite the rule against smoking in the cham- ber. PICNIC TIME HERE On the Liberal side, one MP had caught the summer bug for impromptu lunches, and brought his picnic into the chamber. Pos- ta] critic, humorist-and old-stager comfortably in a chair at the back of the chamber, enjoying a nice drink of hot coffee. Some 30 visiting Australians, members of a delegation seeking to expand trade with us, watched from the diplomatic gallery. So did Russian Ambassador Ama- sasp Aroutunian. Also visiting Parliament's public galleries were some 200 Canadian voters and Canadian schoolchildren, "I'll bet those school-kids are impressed by this spectacle," © ted one onlooker. It really is not surprising that Parliament - lover John Diefen- baker has advocated removing those inappropriate work - desks out of our parliamentary debat- ing chamber. And it is past time BY-GONE DAYS 35 YEARS AGO Rev. R. T. C. Dwelly, curate of St. George's Anglican Church, moved fo St. Alban's Cathedral, Toronto. R. Seeley, secretary of the On. tario Regi Band, d that the band would begin its weekly Friday night concerts, "Whitby town council increased the tax rate to 36 mills, Dr. T. W. G. McKay was re- elected president of the Oshawa YMCA. Provincial inspector D. R. Ballingall announced that a branch of the Humane Society would be established im Oshawa. Fifty-one edntists from various cities in the province entered the annual Dental Association's tour- nament which was held on the local golf course. The Oshawa dentists who entered were Drs, ¥ L. Henry and R. B. Adams. Local oil dealers were retail ing gasoline at 35 and 33 cents ver gallon with tax included. Alex. Browne, school trustee for many years, was elected to the board of education to fill the vacancy created by the resigna- tion of Dr. D R. Cameron. Many guests attended the offi- cial opening of the plant hospital at Pedlar People Ltd. Mrs. Gladys M. Johnston, Reg. N., was in charge of the hospital. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Cowan arrived home from an extended trip to Honolulu, Japan and China. FOR BETTER HEALTH Sate Driver Proper Use HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, MD Motorists should develop a "space" habit, too. Next-fime you (are driving along a toll road or highway, no- tice how most of the cars are Jraveling in little groups. With all hat roadway around them, there is plenty of room for the cars to string out. Yet they usually bunch together. PLENTY OF ROOM Animal packs have found that there is safety in numbers. But that doesn't apply to the motor- ist. Give yourself plenty of room to stop and plenty of room to see. Statistics tell us that most ac- cidents are caused by poor tim- ing -- drivers don't do the right thing at the right time And er- rors in timing usually result from poor seeing habits, SEE WITH MIND While you may look with your eyes, you see with your mind. Your central vision is actually only a small cone which gradual- ly gets wider as the distance be- tween the eyes and the object in sight increases, For example, when you look 100 feet ahead of you, this cen- tral vision takes in only what is within a narrow span five feet wide, At 300 feet this cone of vision widens to about 16 feet. This doesn't mean that you see sothing outside this narrow path. Develops Ot Vision Of course you do, but you see it with fringe," or side vision. It is this side vision that usual- ly spots approaching objects such as a car off to one side or a pe- destrian crossing the road. It serves as a magnet for your cen- tral vision and promptly focuses your attention on the object of main interest. PO TWO THINGS You should depend upon your lower fringe vision for steering and keep your central vision shifting consiantly. Don't glue your eyes so thoroughly to the~ road just ahead that you miss changes in the general (traffic pattern. At least every two seconds shift your eyesight. Look right, left, up and down, and don't forget to keep glancing in that rear view mirror. ; Your eyes can help keep you out of a lot of trouble if you only will give them the chance QUESTION AND ANSWER S. N.: Is a heart murmur ser- ious, and will it affect my hav- ing children? Answer: Whether or not a heart murmur is serious depends upon its type and cause and the severity with which it impedes the normal functioning of the heart. A physician is best able to de- termine the extent of your dis- ability due te the murmur. a AS FUNNY AS A BARREL OF MONKEYS . . » SEE THE SIDE SPLITTING ANTICS OF THE "KNOCKABOUTS" ON THE CENTRE MALL OF THE OSHAWA SHOPPING CENTRE ALL DAY SATURDAY 9:30 A.M. to 6 P.M. 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