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dhe Oshawa Simes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E.,, Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 Thursday, August 18, 1960 Suspicions Of Teachers About Earnest Amateurs It is understandable that teachers resent the interference of "amateurs" in what might be termed the professional areas of education -- just as newspaper- men resent some of the critical remarks of, say, teachers who know nothing about the production of a newspaper, business- men resent the advice of people who have never attempted to run a business, or labor organizers resent the preach. ing of men who operate on fat budgets, Yet these are all areas in which the uninformed and the misinformed, as well as the well informed, must be heard, because they are not exclusively the property of professional experts, Education, the press, business, labor re- lations -- these are activities that are vitally involved in the present and future of society; whether their experts like it or not, they cannot be divorced from the public interest. The professionals in education have probably suffered more than the others from the meddling of amateurs, Educa- tion is such a fine vague word to most people that it permits even the illiterate to convince themselves that they know exactly what is wrong with the school system. The trouble really starts when such people manage to work their way into home and school associations, school boards and similar organizations where their meddling can go beyond silly but innocent talk. No wonder, then, that teachers become suspicious and resentful, The strength of our school system, however, is a major factor, possibly the biggest single factor, in the strength of our society. It therefore concerns every~ one, the professionals and the amateurs, the informed and the uninformed; and it is a proper matter for discussion and examination, It is somewhat surprising, then, to learn that many Ontario teach~ ers are looking askance at the second Canadian Conference on Education, to be held in 1962, They fear, apparently, that control of education may be as. sumed by "ambitious, eloquent ama. teurs" Happily, however, they do not advocate shunning the conference, The teachers are articulate enough and organized well enough to exert a strong influence on the shape of the Conference, Indeed, if the organizers of the Conference fail to give proper atten. tion to the views of the professionals in education, the 1962 gathering will pro- duce a lot of talk and little else. At the same time, the teachers must realize that there are laymen who can con- tribute much to an informed discussion of various aspects of education. Intelli- gent co-operation between the laymen and the teachers is required to make the conference worthwhilg, W.H. Moore Mourned At a dinner in his honor held in Osh- awa in September of 1945, W. H. Moore was presented with a scroll which des- cribed him as "farmer, business man, economist, writer, statesman and neigh~ bor." That description helps to explain why the death of Mr, Moore this week brought honest sorrow to so many people in so many different walks of life. He was one of those rare human beings who earned the affection as well as the respect of the great and the lowly, the brilliant and the ordinary, the rich and the poor. The bare facts and statistics fail to tell the story of William H. Moore, They reveal only that he had a brilliant mind, that he established an interna- tional reputation as a tariff and banking authority, that he served Ontario riding at Ottawa for 15 years with scrupulous, one might even say truculent, devotion and honesty. But there was a great deal more to the man --- integrity, courage, courtesy and wisdom, He withdrew from Ottawa to his Pickering farm 15 years ago, but there was sought out by all sorts of men who needed his counsel, his superb ability to analyze difficult problems. That his visitors were of vary- ing political creeds revealed that with Labor Party When the new Canadian political party, born of the CCF and the Cana- dian Labor Congress, emerges next year, it will doubtless draw much of its inspira- tion and method from the British Labor party, and will face many of the same problems. It may not have such sharp doctrinal differences as now divide the British party, but the relations between the labor unions and the political organi» gation could well follow the same course. The Labor party has depended heavily on the Trades Union Congress for finan. cial as well as voting support, but re- lations have often been strained, particu- larly between militant union leaders and the more academic members of the The Oshawa Times €. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshowa Times tablished 1871) ond the Whitby Gozette and onicle {established 1863), is published daily (Sundays and statutory holidays excepted). Members of Canadion Daily Newspapers Publishers Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation ond the Ontario Provincial Dailies Asso- ciation. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled fo the use for republication of all news despatched In tha paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein. All rights of speciol despatches are also reserved. Offices Thomson Building. 425 University Avenues, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcat Street, Montreal, P.Q SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax Pickering Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove Hampton, Frenchmon's Bay, Li i, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Drono, Leskard, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont Columbus Fairport each, Greenwood, Kinsale, Raglan, Blackstock, Manchester, Cobourg, Port Hope Pontypool ond Newcostie not over 45¢ per week, By mail (in province of Ontario) outside corriers delivery areas 12.00; elsewhere 15.00 per yeor. Average Daily Net Paid as of April 30, 1960 16,999 the brilliant mind went a spirit that embraced humanity. No better tribute could be made than that delivered by Leonard Brockington at that testimonial dinner 15 years ago. "I asked two of his political opponents what they thought of Mr, Moore," Mr, Brockington said. "One declared that his was the most civilized mind in public life and the other told me he was the best scholar he knew . . . He has always ° been ruggedly independent, sometimes too much so for his own good. If there were more men like Billy Moore there would be less truth in the cynical remark that Guy Fawkes was the only man who entered a legislative hall in the right frame of mind . , . He is also a farmer, who delights in the open air, having a deep and abiding love for the good earth that bore him . . . His heart is young and receptive; his intellectual cur- iosity is unbounded; he is an authority on a vast variety of topics ... I pay tribute to his great willingness to listen or to argue in the give and take of debate; I honor a man who is a lover of books, who draws his wisdom from the treasures of the past . . . You are honoring a man who has deserved well of his community." Support party. Both the members and the unionists, however, are sentitive to charges that the latter exert too much influence on the former, thus limiting viewpoints on some national issues to class considerations; and that there are many "captives" among the 6,280,000 trade unionists who pay the political levy to the party, Prior to 1946, the law provided that trade unionists who wished to pay the political levy had to "contract in" -- that is, they had to sign a document signifying their willingness to pay it. When the Labor party formed the gov ernment after World War II, the law was changed, so that union members who did not wish to pay the levy had to contract out -- they had to notify their union that they would not pay into the Labor party's political funds, The union leaders wanted the change, but it clearly did not please many of their membership. Latest returns from the six biggest unions show that from their combined membership of 4,500,000 last year 354,000 had contracted out, but the last general election indicated that many more had voted for the Con- servatives while paying the Labor levy, Now our London correspondent, Mc- Intyre Hood, reports that there is some Labor-TUC concern about the way in which some of the newest trade unions to be organized are apparently not in- terested in becoming affiliated with the Labor party. Of the last 15 new unions to become affiliated with the Trades Union Congress, only three have seen fit to affiliate with the Labor party. These new unions are mostly composed of scientists, professional men and white collar workers. "mews rem: TO USE ARWED FORCES TO FIGHT FOREST FIRES 7 7707 77% AAPA K722774 Vik 3] ¥ IY LOOKS AS IF AAR WA THE GENERAL LOST ANGTHER BATTLE AND THROW OUT THE RULES OTTAWA REPORT Duty-Free Shops New Retail Idea Patrick Nicholson is on va. cation, His Guest Columnist to- day Is Alfred D. Hales, Con- servative MP for Wellington South, Ontario, Something new has been added to the retail distribution field in Canada, As chairman of the Con- servative caucus committee of Small Business, I first learned of the duty free shop. Business men from the border cities were quite concerned regarding the effect these duty free shops might have on their business. The retailer in Brockville or Gananoque--Windsor or Niagara Falls--who has built up over a riod of many years an excel. ent tourist trade had visions of their business melting away like snow in summertime, I doubt if this will be the case but our committee felt we should give the Duty Free shop a close look -as General Motors once said: "Have an ear to the ground and an eye to the future." Brockville, Ontario -- This famed 1000 Islands area of the upper St. Lawrence River has been selected by a Canadian company, as the setting for the first tourist facilities of their kind In North America -- a $7, 000,000 project, a unique Cana- dian gift shop, an exhibit of the Arctic, service station, bank, and of course the Duty Free Shop, compose the set-up at present, the goods are in transit through the country and as such are ex- empt from Canadian duties and , taxes, (Duty and taxes, of course are paid on all goods displayed ' in the shop itself since these ! goods are removed from bond.) ! This is the key factor in the op- ! eration of the duty - free shop. i The visitor cannot take posses- { sion -of -duty-free- purchases Eventually it will include motor hotels, a luxury hotel, restaur- ants, marinas, swimming pools, a 225 - foot high viewing tower with two high - speed elevators, playgrounds and, finally, upper- bracket summer homes. On June 28th I, along with Hayden Stanton, MP for the rid- ing in which the Hill Island re- sort is located, and Ernie Pas- coe, MP for Moose Jaw Lake Centre, attended the official opening. Site of the development is Hill Island close by the Ivy Lea (Thousand Island) Bridge on the Canadian side of the Inter- national boundry, not far from Alexandria Bay, N.Y.; and about 100 miles north of Syracuse; Brockville the nearest Canadian city lies about 25 miles to the East, John David, president, ex- plained its operation to us as follows: They buy goods abroad, store them in a bonded warehouse in Canada, and post or express them to the home addresses of purchasers living outside Can- ada, The duty-free shop itself is simply a display centre. Samples of all goods offered for sale are displayed in the shop. From this display, the tourist or visitor makes his purchases and pays for his goods. So far as Canada Is concerned QUEEN'S PARK Strange Disparity In Liquor Outlook By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- Another muniel- pality has gone in the liquor busi- ness. The municipal golf elub in Brantford has been given a club licence, Which illustrates the strange disparity there is on the outlook towards booze in this province. At least one other city--Hamil- ton--has its municipal golf courses licensed, But if anyone were to suggest that Metro Toronto should follow suit he would be looked on as a pariah, It would never occur to our local politicians, as to many oth- ers, that whether one takes a drink Is a matter of individual choice. That they are acting as custodians of morals, They can't see beyond the "stigma" of the bar business-- and the votes they think the stig- matizers represent, Incidentally there was one other licence of interest in the most recent bunch given out. One was to the Hungarian Vil- lage here in Toronto. It was reassuring to see this little establishment get beer and wine. Started from scratch, built on imagination and hard work, serv- ing good food at most modest prices, it completely deserved the privilege of a licence. Unfortunately, however, it Is just the type of place that hasn't been getting it, Which is probably why those ugly rumors of political "pay- offs" have kept so much alive. GLOOMY TIMES It could have happened here, In the closing days of the ses- sion at Ottawa the Liberals brought up the question of a pos- sible recession. The prime minister immedi- ately hopped on them. They were "prophets of gloom" he said. And he went on to charge that they wanted a récession. The "prophets of gloom" could have been taken directly from the script of Premier Frost of a few years ago. A Mr, Frost is more delicate lished about these things, however, and if recollection is right, never did go so far as to accuse the oppo- sition of wanting bad times The premier also went further in another direction, He said that if there was con- fidence there would be no reces- sion, And then he gave reasons why there could be confidence, This note was conspicuously missing in the Ottawa reply. Canada since Canadian duties and taxes would then become payable. For the same reason, no resident in sanada can buy these duty-free goods, unless, of course, he pays duties and taxes on them, Present U.S, customs regula. tions permit an American tour. ist to take back with him, or to have shipped to his home, $200 worth of goods free of U.S, duty every 31 days, providing he has been out of the United States for 48 hours or longer when he de- clares his purchases to U.S. cus. toms officials, What has been done is simply, amplify into a large scale opera- tion what many intelligent and business - wise merchants have been doing to build sales to tour- ists. For example, a Canadian dealer in imported watches or china can sell an item to a United States visitor and have it shipped direct from Switzerland or England to the purchaser's home in the U.S., free of Cana- dian duty payments or Canadian sales tax, The item doesn't "'es- cape" duty or taxes; there just aren't any. What kind of goods are avall- able through the duty-free shop? Luxury goods essentially--items like French perfumes, interna- tionally known cameras, Dutch dolls, Irish liners, British wool- ens, diamonds, jade, glassware, chess sets, toys, Swiss watches, and so on, up to about 1,000 sep- arate items altogether. Canadians are presently spend. ing 78 million dollars more in the U.S. on tourist business than the Americans are spending in Can- ada. Statistics show that out of every four dollars an American spends in Canada, three dollars is spent for touring, lodging, food, etc., and one dollar is spent on goods or gifts to take home. Therefore, if we can get more American tourists in Canada, these figures should improve in favor of Canada. Will the duty. free shop be the answer? After hearing Mr, David's -out- line of the Duty Free Shop I am convinced that this is certainly a new approach to retailing, The operation will be followed very closely, not only by the Govern. ment Customs officials, but more particularly by the border city merchants, FOR BETTER HEALTH What Type Of Worker Needs Glasses More ? HERMAN N, BUNDESEN, MD WHO WEARS glasses? A good many of us, it seems, Latest estimates are that about 77,000,000 Americans wear eye- glasses and another 6,500,000 wear contact lenses. CLOSE WORK As has long been suspected, a survey Indicates that persons whose work requires close-up use of the eyes are more likely to wear glasses than are those who can irequently look off into the distance. Garment workers, according to a study of 18,000 industrial em- ployes, are first in the list of visually defective persons re- quiring glasses. HIGH ON LIST Stenographers, housewives, scholars and printers also rank high on the list. As for clerical and administra- tive personnel, about 51 per cent of them wear glasses. Some 50.8 per cent of inspectors, draftsmen and near point assemblers wear 'them, For skilled craftsmen and tech- nical help, the figure drops to 43.2 per cont, LOWER PERCENTAGE Only about one-third (35.4 per cent) of the 'workers on routine production jobs require glasses and, for unskilled labor, the fig- ure is 31.6 per cent, According to the report pub- in a recent edition of Pat- 9 terns of Disease, only about 27.2 per cent of drivers of mobile equipment -- buses, taxis, etc. -- require glasses. And farmers need them least of all. INFORMATION STATICS Now these are statistics, of course, and statistics are general- ly preity boring if they do not interest you. \ But if your occupation is in- cluded in any of these cate gories, these statistics should be of considerable interest. If you don't already wear glasses, they tend to indicate whether you might have to wear them in the future. WOMEN MORE AFFECTED Although you may not think it true, women are generally more likely. to develop vision defects than are men. Industrial accidents are a major source of eye injury. About 1000 eye injuries occur every day throughout the nation's indus. tries, QUESTION AND ANSWER J. D. L: What harm would result if kidn"y stones are not removed? Answer: In addition to the severe attacks of pain, kidney stones may block a kidney, lead- ing to loss of function of the kidney and infection, Indication for removal depends upon their size, location and how much ble they are i listed with the Midland Regi PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM "You can't judge a girl's mor. als by the kind of swim suit she wears," asserts a judge. Of course not. In many a case such evidence would be insufficient and virtually immaterial. A radio technician says he has picked up a hissing sound ema- nating from outer space. If it should be found that our sister planets are giving us the bird, we shouldn't be surprised. BY-GONE DAYS 20 YEARS AGO R, Norman Granger, assistant A five at the home of W. Ed. general sales manager of the gar, 47 Gibbons street, destroyed Pontiac McLaughlin-Buick GMC a 1940 Dodge coupe, a garage, division, General Motors, resign. five or six chickens and a chick- ed fo take an important post with en house. Total loss was esti- the Department of National De- mated at $1,200, fence at Ottawa, The people of Oshawa were A great was seen warned to be on the look-out for in the local court-room, police Mexican five-peso notes, A north station and adjoining rooms and Simcoe street garage proprietor offices. The court has been made told police that one of his men smaller, cleaned, and repainted had been given a five-peso note, throughout, Not examining the bill, he thought it wag $5 Canadian currency. 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