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he Oshawa Ses Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 Monday, June 19, 1961 Thinks Force s Of Good Making Steady Gains The last 25 years have brought wars, brutal death to more people than all history, the threat of nuclear destruc- tion, a world in revolution, as one news- paper sums it up. Yet Henry Steel Commager, professor of history at Amherst College claims, 'the forces of good have gone steadily forward." Writing in Look magazine, he says that " ... ideas and achievements of the past' quarter century . .. despite their potential for evil, promise to ad- vance man along the road to progress and happiness." Hitler was defeated and did not take over the world, as he seriously threat- ened to do. Colonialism is on its way out. Peoples have a new belief in the dignity of man and refuse to live in degregation. It is uncertain which way many of them will go, or whether they will succeed in going anywhere, but the desire and opportunity for raising the standards of man are there, Nuclear power has been harnessed -- first, unhappily, for destructive purposes, but there are many constructive aspects. A new source of energy has been found. Man is near to finding the way to take water from the sea, desalt it at reason- able cost, make deserts bloom and step up food production in many parts of the world. Man has broadened sea ex- ploration and is on the verge of harvest- ing its animal, vegetable and mineral riches. Man has gone into space, and space knowledge can bring great ad- vances in communications and weather control. Tremendous advances have been made in producing "thinking machines" -- electronic computers that speed calculations and instantaneously provide information. Electronics has brought other tremendous gains. In medicine, gains have been fan tastic. Consider the wonder drugs. Think of DDT and how it has reduced malaria. There have been the yellow fever vaccine and vaccines to wipe out polio, Advances in surgery and anesthe- siology have surpassed anything dream- ed of a half century ago. Life expectancy has increased. Gains have been made in treating mental diseases. Although we teeter on the verge of war, the nations co-operate in many areas through the United Nations, which has helped keep us from war and has worked through its many agencies for mankind's betterment. There has been mounting realization by the "haves" of the world that they have a responsibility for the "have nots". Man is helping his fellow man advance in all areas. Finally there is the great drive for education. As Commanger puts it, "there can be no freedom without enlighten- ment." Education is no longer considered the right of the elite, but the right and need of everyone. Here, perhaps, is the greatest hope of all. So, for all the dangers, for all man's inhumanity to man, we have made great strides, this historian thinks. toward "creating a world of material well-being and enlightenment, of peace and justice." Fears and failures must not cloud realization of the advances, Pressure And Progress There has been a smouldering contro- versy for several months about the effect of immigration on the Canadian economy. It is not primarily a simple pro and con argument about immigra- tion, since it is generally agreed that Canada needs and must have a larger population. The debate is about the extent and nature of immigration. This journal, for instance, has argued that it is not reasonable to import large numbers of unskilled workers when the unskilled workers already here cannot be employed. But weighty evidence has been presented to support the argu- ment that the population must be in- creased, no matter what the nature of the imports. This line of thinking is followed by the British economist Colin Clark. Prof. Clark holds the view that population growth, far from something to be feared, should be welcomed by Western society. In an article printed in the magazine Fortune, he notes that history shows individual freedom has advanced in dynamic societies in which population growth has been deliberately encouraged. The essence of Professor Clark's reasoning is that "pressure of popula- tion" has "proved a beneficial force, stimulating nations into creating a more productive economy, improving their cultural and political patterns, and in many cases moving away from statism and in the direction of the free market." Professor Clark cites another eminent authority, the late Lord Stamp of Britain, who some years ago argued most forcibly that a "planned population" and the "planned economy" go hand-in-hand. So long as population is rising, said Stamp, the product of new inventions and new investments can be readily ab- sorbed. But when populations become stationary or decline, then the effects of new plants and processes in displacing the old will be much more keenly felt. Tone Of Controversy Many Canadians were shocked by the savagery of attacks on CNR Presi- dent Donald Gordon by several mem- bers of Parliament the other day. Mr. Gordon was called everything from an incompetent to a tyrant, and one MP even went so far as to claim that CNR employees had no faith in Mr. Gor- don's abilities. It was refreshing when the head of one of the big railway unions came to Mr. Gordon's defence. The attacks on Mr. Qordon show Gow duck ola deciliter laws los in the tone of public controversy in Can- ada in the last quarter-century, the Peterborough Examiner thinks, and She Osha Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher and General Manager C. GWYN KINSEY Editor Ee Oshowa Times combinii The Oshawa Times (established 1871) ond the itby Gozette ond Chronicle (established 1863), Is published daily (Sundoys end statutory holidoys excepted). Members of Canadian Daily Newspapers Publishers Association. The Canodion Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation end the Ontario Provincial Dailies Asso- ciation. The Conadian Press Is exclusively entitled fo the use for republication ef all ews despotched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and ciso the local news published therein. All rights of special despatches ore also reserved Offices: Thomson Building, 425 University Avenus Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, fort Perry, Prince Albert, le Grove, Hompton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, fyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Orono . Leskard, Brougham Burketon, Claremont, Columbus, Greenwood, Kinsale, Raglan Blackstock. Manchester Pontypool and Newcastle, not over 45¢ per week. By mail (in province of Ontario) outside corriers delivery oreos 12.00; eisewhers 15.00 per veor Circulation for the issue of March 30, 1961 17,363 raises some thoughtful questions. The Examiner's comments follow. "Criticism of Mr. Gordon's policies and methods is quite in order in a par- liamentary debate; attacks on his per- sonal charactor are not. There was a time when any Canadian M.P. would have known that, but those days are gone. We have men in the Commons today who do not know the difference beween criticism and personal abuse. "Why is it so? We lay the blame on mn. fashionable theories of education which have been given a thorough try- out in this country and which are show- ing their fruit in a decline in public good manners and public common sense. One of the tasks of education is training pupils to think, and giving them some basic principles to put their thinking on civilized tracks. One of those basic principles is that the Golden Rule applies in public and private con- troversy; a man in public life must ac- cept criticism, some of which may be severe, but he need not submit to per- sonal attack on grounds of character or belief. This is especially applicable to criticism which a man is debarred from answering; parliamentarians have special privileges which they need in order to do their work, but they are under spe- cial obligations not to abuse those tion on people who are not in the privileges to practise character-assassina- House. "The House of Commons is not a gentleman's club; the rules which apply there are those of decency as it is understood by all moderately well educated people. Why are these rules so often broken today? Is it because our education has failed to make clear the decencies of public behavior and public controversy? J im Wil, \ \l WHEN'S THE BIG ONE GOING OFF? OTTAWA REPORT By-Elections May Show Vote Trend By PATRICK NICHOLSON The cross - Canada election tests scheduled for May 29 are keenly awaited by all political parties here, as a practical test of the accuracy of the public opinion polls, which have sen- sationally begun to point to a Liberal victory in the next gen- eral election. Bye-elections will be held in Kings (P. E. 1), Restigouche- Madawaska (N.B.), Leeds (Ont) and Esquimalt-Saanich (B.C.). This ballotting will give a repre- sentative cross-section of public feeling. The Conservatives won all four of these seats in the record Dief- enbaker triumph just three years ago. Two have been vacated by resignation, and two vacancies were caused by death. Allowing for the normal drop in popularity of the party in power which is always noticed between elections, one would ex- pect the Conservatives to lose those seats previously captured by a small margin. Such lost seats might include Leeds, which was won over the Liberals by a 57-43 per cent split of the poll; and Restigouche, won by a slightly wider split over Liberal and S.C. rivals. Kings was won over a former Liberal victor by a margin even smaller than Leeds. But Esqui- malt was held by its longtime MP, Major General George Pearkes, VC, now lieutenant- governor of B.C., who captured a whopping 67 per cent of the total poll against CCF, Social Credit, Liberal and Communist rivals. Expectation here is that the byelections will see the 1958 form and these predictions turned completely topsy-turvy. Mrs. Macdonald, widow of the former victor of Kings, is given an excellent chance of retaining that seat for the Conservatives. In B.C,, the CCF candidate is given an even better chance of upsetting the Conservatives' 1958 majority of 14,000 votes. It is of interest to note that an analysis of the voting, in the recent pro- vincial election, in the districts which make up the federal con- stituency, indicates a CCF vic- tory. But the competition there is strong. The Conservative vote will suffer from the strength of the Social Credit candidate, an out- NAR OmECT 4 ¢ when he sat here as the MP for an- other constituency through two parliaments. Leeds is in United Empire Loyalist country, and has only defected against the Tories twice in its 17 elections. In 1958, the Tory candidate piled up the largest majority ever seen there. But it is a straw in the wind that recent polls of public opin- jon show the tide running sharply towards the Grits in On- tario. Leeds will prove or dis- prove that trend. Broad Thinking Welfare Need CORNWALL (CP) -- Profes- sor J. S. Morgan of the Uni- i versity of Toronto's school of i social work called upon dele- In the likely event of a Con- servative victory in Restigouche the laurels will go to the retired MP, the Tory maverick Van Horne, who is the real power in this fight. Local politicians see this as the first round in his per- sonal ifght to win the Conserva- tive leadership and the provin- cial premiership in New Bruns- wick. He is certainly giving it all he has got, and that's not peanuts. With the Liberals holding 50 seats and the CCF holding nine, the 202 Conservatives in the House of Commons do not face any threat of having their ma- jority upset by these byelections. In fact, the official party line among the Conservatives is that they will win all four battles. But the vote count will show the direction of the present pe- litical breezes. To hold two seats would be to fulfil all that is realistically expected of them; if they lose more than Esqui- malt and Leeds, then the danger signals will be flying, indicating an insistent need that they cease to believe the ostriches who pro- claim that their decaying politi- cal fences and tattered philo- sophical banners are in fact rosy glories. gates attending the annual On- tario Welfare Officers' Associa- tion conference Monday to broaden their thinking and ap- ply all available tools, includ- ing social insurance in develop ing a sensible social welfare program. Social insurance is insurance covering various physical and financial risks which members of a society may suffer. It is provided by the state on a none profit basis and is usually com. pulsory. Monday's sessions centred around the advantages and dis- advantages of social insurance schemes. Professor Morgan told the more than 200 delegates from all parts of Ontario that social insurance could only ap- ply where large proportions of the population had been exe posed to a particular risk. He said Canada is in the throes of an industrial revolu- tion that brings with it a whole new range of problems. In in. dustrial society loss of cash in. come took away ability to oper ate successfully in society. Social insurance was one way of dealing with this problem, he said. INSIDE YOU Doctor Answers Readers' Queries By BURTON H. FERN, M.D. Dear Doctor: Is it possible to dissolve the fatty substance in the lining of arteries, once they are hardened? Mrs. -C. S. Dear Mrs. S.: Nobody knows how to remove fatty cholesterol or hard calcium from the walls of hardened arteries. Vegetable oil diets and special medicines can reduce the amount of fat- ty cholesterol flowing through your blood-stream. Some day the magic artery softener will be found, but to- day we have to face these cold, hard facts! ° SWELLING OF ELBOWS Dear Doctor: What would cause a fluid-filled swelling the size. of an egg over my right elbow? Should I see a doctor? Mr. V. M. Dear Mr. M.: Leaning and el- bow-bending can trigger a ten- der, egg-sized bursitis on the backs of elhows. Cysts in front may stem from tendons linking bone and muscle. These cysts (ganglions) come and go pain- lessly 'PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM "For better health, stand on your head five minutes when you arise in the morning," ad- vises a physician. When we get up in the morning it's all we can do to stand on our feet- spraddle-legged. Perhaps the main reason peo- ple are greatly worried over worsening international situa- tions in many parts of the world is that it's the only world they have. f After reading the news of the day, many a person is as tense as the E-string on a hill-billy's fiddle. It is hoped the following item will enable hay fever victims to continue to keep a tight grip on their determination not to yield to the temptation to bump them- selves off: "A medico-scientisi predicts that a cure for hay fever will be developed by 1970." "In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning." Carl Sandburg. Those of us who are weak on optimism first risk opening only one eye upon awakening: One of the latest innovations in the educational field is "speed-learning"'. May we hope that in the not too distant future instant learning will be avail- able. There is a deplorable increase in the number of people who have no qualms about being a little crooked in order to make ends meet. "and close work blur, After your doctor unscrame- bles the main ingredient in your egg-sized cyst, he'll know what to do! LEUKEMIA FROM CALCIUM? Dear Doctor: Can too much calcium cause leukemia? Does the red of the eyes show this disease? Mrs. D. I Dear Mrs. I.: While too much calcium may stop up the kid- neys and eventually cause se- vere anemia (pale blood), cal- cium doesn't cause leukemia :cancer of the blood). The. red of the eyes tells mild and moderate from severe = anemia. Almost colorless pink reflects severe anemia -- prac- tically no red blood cells. EYE TROUBLE Dear Doctor: I'm 43 and my vision. is 20-20. . Still, reading while I have no trouble viewing TV. What's wrong? Mrs. Y. R Dear Mrs. R.: That 20-20 re- sult doesn't mean that you're not far-sighted. Almost every- body becomes far-sighted when the eye lenses lose their elastic spring over the years. No lon- er can they thicken for close work. Benjamin Franklin invented double-lens bifocals to solve this problem. And think of all the older subscribers he found for his magazine! SLEEPING OR RELAXING PILLS Dear Doctor: Is it harmful to take sleeping pills or relaxing pills while I'm expecting? Mrs. R. D. Dear Mrs. D.: Ordinary doses are perfectly safe -- and may even help if you're tense and sleepless. Still, no medicine should pass your lips without your doctor's 0K. He can't ease your way to the delivery room if you wander off and take pills he doesn't know about! BY-GONE DAYS 15 YEARS AGO J. L. Beaton, chairman of the Oshawa Board of Education, was elected to the executive of the Urban School Trustees' Association. Work was started on the pro- posed garage and storage building at the rear of the Pub- lic Utilities Building, the $43,261 contract having been awarded to H. M. Brooks of Oshawa. Lt.-Gov. Walter Stewart of the Ontario Quebec - Maritime district, Kiwanis International, paid an official visit to the Osh- awa Club. Three thousand Girl Guides, Brownies, Scouts and Cubs rep- resenting many Ontario dis- tricts, assembled in the arena to welcome the World Chief Guide, Lady Baden-Powell. City Council sold the Williams Piano building to four concerns, Coulter Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Pacific Textiles, Kohen Box Co. Ltd. and The Courier Press for a total of $53,500. The paving project to lay 3,870 feet of surface, between Avenue and King streets, was expected to be completed and the road open to traffic within a month. . T. H. Hall, Oshawa, won three firsts among a total of 277 en- tries at the first Horse Show held by the Aurora Agricultural Society since 1941, Rev. E. A. Justice assumed the duties of curate of St. George's Anglican Church. William Taylor, local dental technician, was elected presi. dent of the Ontario Dental Labor Association. W. Harry James, a highly re- spected citizen of the city and well - known for his active inter- est in community projects, pass- ed away in his 63rd year. Miss Diane Hambly, of Osh- awa, under a four-year contract to the Ice-Capades, has com- pleted a year of travelling with the company. Mayor F. N. McCallum at- tended the convention of the Ca- nadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities in Vancou ver. 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