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She Oshawa Simes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 Saturday, July 23, 1960 Thoughtless Operators Make Boatin Harbor and beach developments along the Lake Ontario shore from the mouth of the Rouge River to the Bow- manville area will be accompanied by an increase in the use of small boats, particularly powered craft--and the district will record,an increasing number of boating accidents. The mishaps, often tragic, will not be caused by failure of the equipment--the boat and its power plant -- but by the human operators. This is inevitable, because the same fjunatic minority that has bathed our highways in blood is now more and more displaying its madness on the water, . 'The proof can be seen any fine \ summer day on the lakes and rivers of the resort areas. Boats, often over- powered and sometimes towing water- skiers, go roaring through swimming areas. They buzz canoes, rowboats and anchored fishermen, and on occasion they seem to be deliberately trying to capsize those craft. In one way or another they can quickly transform a happy holiday area into a froth of exasperation and resentment. This is all caused by a comparatively . few boat operators, but two or three of Geniuses An After a study of the childhood of 20 men of genius, an American psycho- logist has concluded that in every case the brilliant men as children received a high degree of attention and love from adults, were pretty much isolated from other children outside their families and as a result developed "a marked sense of fantasy." One of his conclusions, as reported in a recent news account, is that since the system of mass public education tends to reduce "all three of these factors to minimum values," it also tends "to suppress the occurrence of genius." It is not the task of public education to foster the exceptionally rare being whom posterity judges to have been a genius. But does it really suppress genius--discourage it, undo it, destroy it? The Baltimore Sun, arguing that it doesn't, "for the simple reason that the only 'genius of which we know is that which has asserted and expressed itself," presents its case thus: The genius that failed, that was never realized, that was suppressed, is some Imports And Most Canadians have noticed that, in what seems to be a period of prosperity, the problem of unemployment doesn't go away. Perhaps the root of the matter, suggested leading industrialist J. Her- bert Smith in a recent speech, is that we are not as prosperous as we think. And perhaps our delusion comes from only a superficial evaluation of the country's Gross National Product, that lump-sum measurement of total produc- tion, which has come to be accepted as the yardstick of economic growth and which is always rising. The GNP's post-war performance seems remarkable. In 1946 it was $12 billion; in 1956, $30.6 billion; in 1959, $34.6 billion. But, noted Mr. Smith, this seeming constant rise in the GNP takes no account of population increase or the decline in the value of the dollar. Translated to constant dollars and stated The Osharon Times 7. L. WILSON, Publisher end General Manager €. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) ond the Whitby Gozette and Chronicle (established 1863), is published daily (Sundays and statutory holidays excepted). bers of Canadi Daily N s Pu Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Asso- ciation. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled fo the use for republication of all news despatched in the poper 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 Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajox Pickering. Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove Hampton, Frenchman's .Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Orono, Leskord, Brou, ham, Burketon, Claremont Columbus, Fairport each, Greenwood, Kinsale, Raglan, Blackstock, Manchester, Cobourg, Port Hope Pontypool ond Newcastle not over 45c per week, By mail (in province of Ontario) outside carriers delivery areas 12.00; elsewhere 15.00 per year. Average Daily Net Paid as of April 30, 1960 16,999 g Dangerous them can be found wherever small craft congregate. That they have not caused more fatal accidents is simply a matter of luck. The RCMP and provincial police strive to keep these idiots under control, but it would obviously take a great many more officers and patrol boats to do a fully effective job -- more men and equipment, probably, than could be afforded for a four-month job. Local police in most resort areas do not seem to be anxious to "discourage" tourists by cracking down on visitors who flout the law. Responsible boat operators could help by reporting offences to police authorities. More severe penalties would also have a salutary effect. The operator of a boat that rockets through a group of swimmers is criminally negligent. It seems logical to us that, along with any other penalty a court might decide to impose, the operator should also lose his boat; auction sales of seized craft could help defray the costs of law enforce- ment. Certainly a person who showed so little regard for the lives of others shoud not be entrusted with a piece of equipment that he cannot operate with good sense. d Schools thing like a contradiction in terms-- for how can we be sure that it was in fact true genius? Fhere is a certain sentimental notion that mute, inglorious Miltons, and Mozarts who didn't know the black keys from the whites, and Einsteins who couldn't do sums, have abounded and been lost to us. But what evidence is there that they ever existed? Somebody has said that everyone is a genius until he attempts really to do something. Probably genius cannot be explained: in terms of vast labor, infinite pairs, or "supreme capacity for taking trouble" any more than it can be explained in any other terms. But the only genius of which the world is aware is the genius that has surmounted all obstacles, overcome lack of education and over-education alike, love and want of love, poverty and wealth, exuberant health and illness, lavish recognition and neglect, under- standing and misunderstanding. In short, if it is genius it breaks through all circumstances and knows no limit save that set by death itself. Production in terms of per capita output, the GNP actually has been falling since 1956. Per capita, in constant 1949 dollars, the GNP increased by 19.3 per cent in the 1946-56 period, then declined by 4 per cent from 1956 to 1959. Also a factor in the delusion, said Mr. Smith, is that rising imports of manufactured goods boost the GNP but add to un- employment. "The distribution services involved in the importation and sale of competi~ tive foreign-made goods contributes to an increased GNP -- but not to em- ployment of Canadian people," he said. "An increasing number of manufac- turers are turning to this distributor role as the only way of keeping their enterprises solvent. Unable to match low-wage . competitive manufacturing costs, they are reducing or eliminating their manufacturing operation and using their distribution and marketing strengths as a source of income, by taking on an import function. The dangerous extent to which this is hap- pening is hot generally recognized but it is the explanation of the current paradox of unemployment in what looks like a period of prosperity. Under present import policies, more and more manufacturers will be forced to distri- bute foreign goods at the expense of domestic manufacture and employ- ment ... "Secondary manufacturing in Canada provides 45.4% of all jobs when taking account of the fact, statistically sup- ported, that jobs in service industries are directly related to those in produc- tive industries, one job in the latter group supporting on job in service. There can be no. growth or prosperity in this country without a growing secondary manufacturing industry. Among the nations of today Canada is unique in placing greater emphasis on the support of agriculture than on in- * dustry" EWS /7Em: SOVIET WORKER COM "CAN'T PET --~ =~ EAT MOON' -------- PLAINS TO PRAVDA 1 HEARD SOME OF 13 pis Mr, AY THINK IT'S MADE OF GREEN CHEESE ( qf - BY SPACE MICE OTTAWA REPORT Capital Attracts Tourist Crowds By PATRICK NICHOLSON Canada's greatest free tourist attraction is drawing record num. bers of Canadian" visitors this year. But there are signs that the widespread publicity highlighting the Canadian . U.S.A. dollar ex- change rate earlier this year has unfortunately discouraged some foreign tourists from our neigh- boring country. This great attraction of course is the city of Ottawa. our na. tional capital. The spectacles and tours are all free in cases where they are provided by the govern- ment. For example, that big draw, the red-coated Canadian Guards in their big black bear ° skin helmets, change the guard each morning on the huge greens- ward in front of the Parliament Building. Admission is free, and cars from all Canadian provinces and many U.S. states are parked six abreast outside the Peace Tower, while thousands of spec- tators enjoy the drilling and marching and the music of two bands. Then there are the evening band concerts: by the Guards band on Mondays and Fridays in front of the Parliament Building, and by the RCMP band on Wed- nesdays outside the Supreme Court Building. Tours of the Parliament Build- ing begin several times an hour, U.K. OPINION Russ Effort To Divide Allies Dismal Failure By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) "Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON--Officially, the Brit- ish government has accepted the assurances given by the United States that the RB-47, reconnais- sance plane shot down by the Russians ia the Barents Sea, was outside Russian territorial wa- ters when this tragic incident occurred. If the Russians had hoped to create a cleavage of opinion between Britain and the U.S. on this point, it has failed dismally. In their notes of reply to the Russian charges, they stand solidly together in de- nouncing the shooting down of this U.S. aircraft as a wanton act of piracy. The House of Commons was unexpectedly docile while this was being discussed. Possibly the opposition leaders saw quite clearly that this whole - affair was ancther gigantic Russian propaganda. effort, and he re- fused io play the game of the Russians by staging a heated de- bate on the 'use of British bases by U.S. operational aircraft. UNDERTONE OF UNEASINESS While these were the officials' reactions to the incident, I have, mm conversations with people in varied walks of life, detected a tone of uneasiness about the pos- sibility that the United States might lead the United Kingdom into a peck of trouble, Certainly, the incident has strengthened the hands of those who demand that toe United States be asked to give up her air bases in Britain, Many Laborites are of this view and some of them have not been slow to express it. Their opinion is that Britain hag not nearly so much to fear a direct break with Russia itself, as it has to fear that the United States might go over the brink with Russia and Crag Britain into a nuclear con- flict. I have been surprised at the number of people who have part in the future of their coun- tries. The lesson of the Congo is one tnat will not be lost on the Brit- ish government, which will cer- tainly not make the mistake made by Belgium in giving the Congolese freedom long before they were capable of governing themselves. BLOW FOR GAITSKELL Hugh Gaitskell has suffered another defeat at the hands of his own party executive, one which would be crushing to a man of less fortitude. The Na- tional Executive has decided to between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. These are so popular that six university students have been enrolled as additional guides to escort these tours. Over 3,000 visitors tour the building on an average weekday: this year's record was hit on the Sunday before Victoria Day, when 8,689 thronged through the Hall of Fame, into the Senate and the Commons chambers, and up the Peace Tower for the breath-tak- ing panoramic view of Ottawa. Then visitors can enjoy driving around the scenic and flower- bordered driveways, can picnic in the lovely nearby Gatineau Park, may visit the Victoria Memorial Museum and the National Gal- lery. All these pleasures, even roaming in the grounds of Gov- ernment House, are free. The only tourist attractions which cost money in the capital city of this free country are the boat ride along the Rideau Canal through the heart of Ottawa ($1.50) and the tour by sight-seeing bus ($2). The department of travel and publicity of the Ontario govern- ment has staged a mammoth campaign in the U.S.A. to attract tourists to Ontario this year. It advertised in 85 daily newspapers published in 28 states, on 39 radio stations, and in 27 magazines, This has certainly brought many visitors to our vacationland prov- ince from the States. But there is also abundant evidence that our neighbors. who long relished a high - priced dollar themselves, and who even today spurn Cana- dian bills and coins in most dis- tricts, resent the present high be: value of the Canadian dollar, WHAT'S IN A NAME? Typical is this letter, from the small community of Flemington, New Jersey: 'Dear Friend, We love to visit Canada, but resent the 6 per cent premium on ex- change. So we are trying our own country this year." Alas, lack of understanding of foreign exchange practice has led to the widespread use of such words as "premium" and "par- ity" in connection with our dollar. It is all in that unhappy choice of names for out units of cur- rency, "'dollar" and "cent". The other neighbor of the USA, Mexico, calls its unit of currency the "Peso." U.S. tourists don't | squawk about "premiums" and | don't try to pass their own coins against the wish of the Mexi. cans. In fact they get a kick out of the Mexican paper money be- cause it looks very different from their own, and makes them real- ize that they are visiting a "for- eign" country. That block to our tourist trade arises only because we call our currency by the same names as those used in the U.S, "I wish our government would change the names of our money, a top Ottawa tourist official told me, PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM "In Los Angeles, Actress Estels ita Rodrequez won a divorce upon testimony that her husband was so stingy he wouldn't let her buy" cold cream, but made her use olive oil.""--News item. Maybe he wanted her to be a slick chick. Recent rises in some food prices have forced many a person to increase the appropriation to his department of the interior. "Clergymen- Propose Berth Control Plan." --Tiiusville (Pa.) Herald. It is hoped the plan in- Sides a rotation system for soft S. "The invincibility of the United States is immense," says Castro's brother. Raul. . Yes, indeed; it might not be possible for even Cuba to lick it, "Childbirth in Russia is a Group Activity." --Headline in the New York Herald Tribune. Some believe this 'togetherness' busi. ness is sometimes carried to ill advised extremes. For not more than four or five times what they would cost at a grocery store, a non-fapmer can raise his own tomatoes. HERE'S WHAT YOU ASKED FOR IN A DELIVERY VAN abandon the Gaitskell plan to water down the nationalization clause of its constitution. In do- ing so, it revoked a decision which it has made in March to make an addition to the disputed ® Low loading hei Golosdig fede Short turvis @ isp Mom POR OF 47 rah clause which would have the ef- fect of denigrating the nationali- zation oolicy Now the party is back where it was, pledged to "common owner- ship of the means of production, distribution and exchange", the policy which was largely respon. sible for its defeat in the elec- tion of last October, The policy which Mr. Gait. skell enunciated at Blackpool, and which was in March accepted by the National Executive, has been scrapped and thrown over- board. For the party leader, this means an ignominious defeat at the hands of those whom he ex- pected to give him support. NEW FOREIGN SECRETARY Now that it is certain that Chancellor of the Exchequer Heathcoat Amory is to resign shortly, it seems to be taken for granted that he will be succeed- ed in that office by Selwyn Lloyd, the foreign secretary. The foreign secretaryship is regarded as the keyoffice in the cabinet under present world conditions, It might wel! lead its new occu- pant to the prime minister's role when Mr, Macmillan passes out of the picture in the course of e. expressed this view to me since tim the RB-47 was shot down. They are ready to accept the official view in this instance, but they are in dead earnest in de- manding that steps must be taken to see that such an inci- dent does not occur again so far &s plants based in Britain are concerned, LESSON OF CONGO United Nations intervention to restore law and order in the Congo has been received with re- lief ana satisfaction by the Brit- ish public. Much as they de- plored the terrorism and slaugh- ter of white people in the Congo, there hag been a strong wave of opinion to the effect that Britain should not become embroiled in it. What is striking is the public reaction to the Congo situation. Some authoritative sources are pointing out that this is a warn- ing to the British government that it must slow down its pace in granting independence and full freedom to its African terri- tories. What has happened in the Congo these commentators point ont, could easily happen in Ken- ya and in other territories which are on the verge of ind For this reason, there is keen speculation as to who will suc ceed Lloyd at the foreign office. Will he he Iain MacLeod, Dun. can Sandys, Harold Brooke or Edward Heath? Or will it be R. A Butler, who, having been pass- od over when Mr, Macmillan be- came prime minister, would not relish seeing some other minister placed in a position to keep him out of the top post a second time? Mr. Butler has been out- standing in controlling the home policies of the government. But he would hardly be content to continue as Home Secretary while one of his rivals for lead- ership steps past him into the foreign office. BY-GONE DAYS 40 YEARS AGO Bradley Brothers started con. struction of a fine new business block at the corner of Athol St. and Simcoe St. S. Ninety-two percent of the school children writing the en. france examinations in Oshawa dence, The Beaverbrook press comes out quite bluntly and says: "The lesson of the Congo is clear. African states cannot be thrown into the responsibility of government without careful prep- aration." I hava been talking to an im- port London business man who . ont some years in Africa, anu who deplores the seeming haste in handing out indepen- dence io the black countries of that continent. He is one who fears that what has happened in the Congo will happen elsewhere, because he is firmly of the opin- ion that if the natives are given control too quickly, they will try w drive the white people out of Africa entirely. There is no grati- tude to the white people for the measure of civilization and better living they have brought to the dark continent. The natives want to savor all the fruits of what the white men have created, and yet to deny the white people any were wl The first Union Sunday 'School picnic in Oshawa, in which six Sunday Schdols joined, was an outstanding success. Twelve passenger sight-seeing buses were being made in Osh awa, The bodies were constructs ed by the Oshawa Brass Foun. dry, Ritson Rd. N., using Olds Truck chassis, made by GMC. Dr. Cameron was in charge of the baby clinic held in the Mis sion Hall in the southeast ward. Miss B. E. Harris, public health nurse, assisted. The Robson Leather Co. erect- ed several employees' houses in the Cedardale area, as well as a fire new two-storey white brick office building. The Great War Veterans' Asso- cation discussed the advisability of erecting a memorial hall. The site chosen as most appropriate waa in the Memorial Park Extra profecti mst @ ruscs dnd corrosion. 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