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Zhe Oshawa Gimes Published by Conadion | Poge y Tuesday Jewspopers Limited, 86 K ing August 16, , 08 hawa, Ont, 1960 Minister Blasts Idea Of invasion Of Parks One of the bright spots in the recent of Parl t (and they were few and far between) came when » eouple of government back-benchers said during the debate on the estimates of the Department of Northern Affairs that they favored supervised commercial de- velopment of Canada's nations! parks. The minister, the Hon, Alvin Mamilton, forcefully knocked the idea down ~~ praise be, The incident received little publicity, not nearly as much as it deserved, The development of national and provincial parks is not yet fully rec ognized as a matter of urgent importance, but each year, more people sre coming to rec- ognize the need for the setting aside of areas for public recreation and re- laxation ~ areas where natural beauty is preserved, areas, not cluttered by the garnishness of commercial exploitation, Mr. Hamilton spoke warmly in reply to the back-benchers: "How can a min- ister stand up against the pressure of commercial interests who want to use the parks for mining, forestry and for every honkytonk recreation device known to man unless the people who love these parks are prepared to hand together and support the minister?" He did unfortunately, go into more detail about the "pressure of com. but the impression ons not, mercial interests", gets is that such pressure is constant and strong If it is, the public should know shout it, because it is very much the public's business Some commercial use of park land is possible without endangering the value and public enjoyment of that land, Ene lightened forestry operations, for ex sample, can improve both the value and appearance of wood lands, Controlled harvesting of a stronger, more resistant to disease, and easier travel, But operations should always be fitted into the context of the forest's primary use, which, park, is not to provide a lumber company forest can make it to such na with raw material but to provide citi» zens with physical and spiritual refresh. ment Residents of Southern Ontario know how private and commercial develope ment has limited the accessibility of re. As will time creational areas our population the pressure become more severe, Now is the the public interest is protected grows, to ensure that Editing The Classics Are Canadian school children getting too much coddling in the classroom? Are educational authorities trying to make life so easy in the schools that students will think getting an education is a push. over' One Canadian school trustee, Mrs, Murial Clarke of Scarboro, Manitoba, feels that this is happening all too often, To support her argument, she pointed a while ago to the Grade 3 reader used in the Manitoba schools, Mrs, Clarke's complaint was that the wording of a verse by Robert Louis Stevenson had been deliberately changed, ostensibly to make it more easily understood by a nine-year-old child, The verse as written by Stevenson reads "But my lazy little shadow, Like an arrant sleepy head Had stayed at home behind me, And was fast asleep in bed" The "doctored" version, as IL appears Influence Of In a recent article, Douglas Fisher, CCF member of parliament for Port Arthur, asks the question: "Is it really worth while to be an MP?" Conceding that sparsely - populated, sectionally: divided Canada is at best a tough country to govern, the outspoken Mr, Fisher complains that despite all the talk in the House of Commons, members do not really legislate and only slight advisory or investigative powers possess Compared to others, he charges, Canadians take little interest in parlia- ment, "Whatever the London or Washington," are the focal points of a most lively national interest, Ottawa is more or less & side show to Canadians, British and American legislators have investigative powers which serve to educate them in weaknesses of he says, "they depth on problems, give them a real . bureaucrats and a policy, move counter-check to strong We are barely beginning to this way through the extended use of parliament. ary committees," influnece on The Oshawa Times L. WILSON, Publisher end Generel Manager : GWYN KINSEY, Editar combining The Oshawa and Whitey Gazette Clironicle (est hed 1860 a published (sundays and statutory holidays excepted dian Daily Newspapers Publisher Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of « v and the Ontaria Pravingial Dailies Awe When. The Co ian Press 1s exclusively entities ta the wwe fe blication af all news despatched fn the gited ta it or to The Associated and aba the lacal news published ghts of special despatches are alse Timea and aah Ine Oshawa Tu (astablished |87 veraity Avenues Montreal PQ 8 Ur Street Offices Thomason Building 42 Toronto Ontare #40 Cathet SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carne in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax Pickering Bowmanville roaklin, Port Perry, Prince Alpert. Maple Grove Hampton Frenchman's Bay Livers man, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Boniskilien Orgne, Leskard, Brougham. Burketon, Claremont Calumby Fawport Seach Greenwood Kinsale. Raglan, Blackstock, Manchester, Cobourg, Pert Hope typool and Newaastle nat aver 45 per weel By mail Nn pravines of Ontacia) outside carrie delivery areas 12.00: elsewhere 15.00 oer veer Average Daily Net Paid as of April 30, 1960 16,999 ed in the Grade 3 reader, substituted the word "downright" for "arrant", apparent. ly on the Assumption that no nine-years old school child rant" would know what "ar. meant Tinkering with the classics of English literature, on the assumption that learn- ing should be made easy and no work way to debase the Mrs, Clarke is to be commended for her outspoken involved, 15s one sure coinage of education criticism of tinkering such as is found in the Grade 3 words, far from dampening the enthusis reader, New and strange asm of school children, should arouse their incentive to gain more knowledge, In the best of children's literature, the authors did not underrate the thirst for knowledge and understanding that oce dupies so important a place in the educa- tional Tampering with the verse of Robert Louis Stevenson is one process, sure way to turn out illiterates from Canada's schools, Members The present government in Ottawa, the article notes, has established more committees and they meet more often, But, thinks Mr, Fisher too partisan, and they are too large, too weak in counsel and research; if the committees were given staff, back-benchers would have more to off-session work and adequate do than mutely rubberstamp party deci. sions, In his own three years' experience, the role of a private member has been so frustrating to Mr, Fisher that he has said he intends to go back to teaching next election is called, school after the There is another interesting judgment offered in passing in the Fisher article, "In the past 40 years," he writes, "there has been an amazing growth in the power, duties and special knowledge of the Cabinet and, of the permanent The ministers find have been there for decades. Only a very more dangerous still, administration, , , , their civil servants brave and able minister can stand up to his Civil Service advisers." That is a that has added significance in view of the fact that it comes from a CCF member, although it should be noted that Mr. Fisher has always seemed more inclined to speak his own than his party's mind, However, the more responsibility is shifted from the individual to government, the bigger, more powerful and trenched the "permanent administration" must became, comment more firmly en- Bible Thoughts Whosoever af you will he the chiefs est shall be the servant of all--Mark 10:44 Service to God and to our fellowman 1s the greatest achievement ta which we can attain, A life of service well done is sure to receive its reward A soft but grievous Proverbs 15:1 This 1s not only good strategy in deal- ing with others, but it reflects the spirit God expects from His followers, answer turneth away wrath words stir up anger OTTAWA REPORT Heavy Debt Burden Means More Taxes Patrick Nicholson is on va cation, His Guest Columnist to day is Dr. W. H, McMillan, Liberal M.P. for Welland, On. taro, here 1s eral Government, on which has a on all Canadians than debi agement In the previous two fiscal years our gos ernment Snowe much new money Lo el its large deli cits, This increased interest rates, These high Interest rates deter. mine in large part, the amount of neome and other federal They also sel the pattern price of money to our provinces and municipalities, We must therefore pay more provine cial and municipal taxes, It will, for example, cost more to retire the vearly debenture payments running from 10 to 25 years on sidewalks, sewers, roads, schools, eld or to pay off any new debt like a mortgage Mismanagement of debt not be so bad, If its effects fell only in the year or so in which such mismanagement took place, but it carries forward as a penalty year after year, Money rates are too high for the homes builder, for industry, for the busi ness man and even for the three lavels of government, This causes unemployment GROSS DEBT INCREASED Our gross debt in the last twa fiscal years increased by a little $2,000,000,000. In the same time the carrying charges on our debt, made up mostly of ine ereased interest, have jumped precipitously, Last year they were up $106,000,000, and this year $94,000,000 over last year, This means that the extra aggregate charges for 2 vears is $300,000 + 000. By next year this govern ment will have this aggregate over $508,000,000 since coming into power, This represents well over $100 extra interest for the head of each family in Canada I protested the Victory Loan Conversion of 1968, and main. tained that It would bring higher interest rales for everybody, hut the Minister made light of this and sald that money would be obtained at hetler advantage That conversion aimed to con vert $6,400,000,000 Victory Bonds into two short term and two. long term honds. Over $1,000,000,000 of those same bonds are up again to be dealt with next year. That conversion plus extra Interest counts us over $70,000,000 a year, With so many honds "heing con verted and sold the market has had indigestion ever since, Peos ple who hought the long (erm bonds saw them go down nearly W) per cent and took big losses if they needed to sell them for cash Even the government controlled unemployment insurance fund bought them and took a loss of BY-GONE DAYS 25 YEARS AGO Local Brownie packs and neighs horhood groups of children were Sponsoring bazaars to raise money for the Red Cross Cols luge, a camp for under-privile eged childreu at Lakeview Park, no aspect of the Ved the domestic SCC reater effect man oul taxes for the would were over sentod first Recky I'he Regent Theatre pre a colored movie for the time in Oshawa, entitled Sharp" Oshawa General celebrating its marked by many monies Hospital waa silver jubilee, teas and cere. Rev, Elsworth Toll spoke at the Rotary Club lunch of his vip around the world with his hrothgr and another man at a cost of $i§ for transportation Mussolini was dispatching sands of soldiers to Ethiopia hous J, Ferris David the Ontario School Ratepavers president of Prustees and Association urged that the Adolescent Act be chang fd to compel rural as well as urban children to stay in school until the age of 16 The Boy Seoul uled to he Jamboree sched. held in Washington NC, was cancelled because of the high incidence of infantile paralysis that summer i : TOGETHERNESS QUEEN'S PARK Provincial Rights Issue Developing By DON O HEARN Toronto Probably the great esl national issue over the next year or so will be that of pro vincial rignis Delegates back from the OF tawa conference were emphatic on point The recent meeting sented only a skirmish Premiers Frost and Lesage in troduced the question by thelr sland on 8 return of laying rigs And Lo some into the basic toric rights of a build-up for But gi future conferences, par: ticularly the second one from now, this will be the key ques tion As i is, fention i ports out of mg This can be credited fo the fact that the reports principally were written by members of the Oitawa press gallery And these have an federalist slant The question of centralism ver- sus provincialism is a highly de- batable matter, of course nis repre extent they went issue of the his the provinces as this it did not get the at deserved in news re- the Ottawa meet instinctive income tax would have over five per cent clear on Is investment after income Lax, A corporation would require a bond al par pay- ing over 10 per cent to do as well, he point there is too much churning about of our national debi The LLL about #0 per cent from employers and employees Kver the the Minister was money most hort term. In the fiscal year 1956-59 ere over $,000,000,000 of erted or sold and $2,500,000,000, Also, the bills outstanding which dealt with frequently are point over $2,000 000,000 the short term bonds must he de- tions by »y since conversion loan forced Lo borrow on got itself into by the conversion loan high borrowing, The long al b% per cen, better, have no callable fea up to a tures, the finance minister Is Many of teying his own hands and those of future governments that might unemployment sivable texwise in order to sell, call in these bonds and issue new benefits, That fund now has shout A case in point is the $125,000,000 ones al a lower interest rate when 13 of what it had when this gov. of 3 per cent bonds sold last Bep- possible, The former government ernment took office and is fast tember al $64.65 to mature in 19 bad this feature even in the three approaching the state of jeopard nontl I'he advertised to per cent Victory Bonds--why not in spite of the fact that this gov. return 6.61 per cent hut 8 corpor- have il in honds paying almost ernment has increased contribu. ation paying W per cent twice the interest" neve government con. thi and ne term honds it % hond ear over treasury must be or last many millions of dollars in order to get cash Lo pay Vere around the thousands of people who dos rubber coals and hats every year al Niagars 10 look st the falls from a wei angle stressed i can poe he ENOUER Lo people WryIing 10 pro. mate the tourist industry that the bulk of our visitors come 19 things the province TRIALS ABEAD Hw ne a busy The government will have to men, occupied, as they are, with PVepare for the next fed- writing nations) news daily, a): eval - provincial conference Oct, most invariably automatically % secept the ceptralist case In Pudtry has come up with a he vg 2 : good idea in & proposal that 8 tatio Progressive Conservative made; mine should he built in pesociation, nu meeting that the community an extraordinary importance time as a new president has tourist altraction lo & an mine, which would he built so » » same v suseped the Jala " ' 4 MacKenzie who held the that visitors vould go under post for years ) " f Sona a papi Bu Then in mid-November the fall th session will be getting under- Phat tourists like this sort of way thing is well known to travel ex- And as this is an innovation perts, it will mean extra work by all And thal they like a bit of dis- of those whe have lo prepare comiort with it is illustrated by for i 0 Sey busy fall But the Oitawa newspaper ised! carly November there will annus! meeting of the On As @a the KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS OSHAWA COUNCIL 2671 DECEASED MEMBER ALBERT C. 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