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The Oshavon Tunes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 Thursday, June 29, 1961 Man-Made Law Agencies Not To Efficient Our law enforcement agencies are, too efficient. They waste a lot of time. Also, they make a good many mistakes. But man-made statutes are reinforced by natural laws, where punishment is quite likely to be immediate, and the penalties can be much greater. Drivers are aware that the courts sometimes -- if rarely -- impose stiff sentences for disregard of traffic laws. However, the penalty for ignoring natural laws when driving a motor vehicle, the Ontario Safety League warns, is usually far greater, and quite often immediate. Natural law says you must have friction to control your car. Friction between your tires and the road surface; and friction when you apply your brakes. Natural law warns you that inertia-- the force that wants to keep you moving in the same direction -- is always fighting to overcome the restraining in- fluence of friction. Particularly when rounding a curve. If inertia wins the fight, on a curve being taken at speed, the car immediately spins off the road. man-made we regret to confess, not Momentum is another law to respect. It keeps you going even though your engine power has been cut off, unless and until the friction of brakes and tires brings your car to a halt. Watch that you don't allow your momentum to build up beyond the point where it can be controlled. The law of gravity is another factor working against a driver's ability to control his car, particularly when going down a steep hill. Once you are on a down grade, your mastery over your car has been diminished. We know that the penalties imposed on drivers for ignoring natural laws, are administered by impact. The greater the impact, the greater the damages. Force of impact varies with speed, weight and other factors. If speed is doubled, force of impact is quadruple. Triple your speed, and you'll hit nine times harder. Nobody can "get away with" viola- tions of the laws of nature. Nature doesn't issue tickets, or summonses. Law breaking is "tried" and punished instan- taneously. Financial loss, physical and mental injuries, bitter remorse, and death are all in the scale of penalties. Swimming Safe For All With summer here, and the holiday season opening, it is timely to recall that, year after year, summer vacations have spelled tragedy for many families along the Great Lakes, Next to the highways, the lake, river or swimming pool is the most lethal vacation hazard. Swimming is fun and should be en- joyed. Safety is of utmost importance, however, and the All Canada Insurance Federation, recommends these rules for saving lives: Learn how to swim and teach the children to swim. Do not swim alone. Unless accompanied by a boat, do not swim far from shore. Swim parallel to the shore if you wish to try for dis- tance. Non-swimmers should not float into deep water on inner tubes or other inflated articles. If the float begins to leak the swimmer is in difficulty. Do not dive into unfamiliar waters and do not swim beneath diving boards. Wait for at least an hour after meals before swimming. Beware of undertows in rough water. Do not swim during lightning storms. A Blow For Democracy A stubborn Briton has struck a blow for democracy and the rights of the in- dividual, according to a report from Lon- don. It all had to do with a pair of post office weigh scales that were not pro- perly balanced. Egerton Ball used his scales to weigh a package for his wife. He stuck on the appropriate stamp, but when his wife took it to a post office, the postmistress said after weighing it: "Sorry dear, you need three pennies more." What's more she insisted the post office scales were always right. Mr. Ball then checked his scales with five other shoppers and found they all. tallied. An appeal to the local weights and measure officials was of no avail -- they could do nothing because the scales were "the property of the Crown." The determined Briton then appealed to Postmaster General Reginald Bevins. After a lengthy investigation by postal authorities, Mr, Ball received from the Postmaster General a threepenny stamp and an apology for the error. Further- more it was announced that a scheme for local inspection of scales was being extended to the whole country. So it was that on a question of fact and a matter of principle, Egerton Ball stood his ground against the government. After The Surface Jobs In the affluent society, the workers total earnings become less important which they be spent. The United Kingdom is pres- ently enjoying a higher measure of affluency than for many past years. tian me jeisure time in can What is happening is illustrated by the decision of the United Kingdom National Coal Board, to put proposals designed to stop the drift from mines to surface jobs and into other forms of industry. Traditionally there are three shifts in mining; the day shift, that starts at 6 hye Oshavon Times T. L WILSON, Publi C. GWYN KINSEY, --y The Oshowa Times combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) and the itby Gazette ond Chronicle (established 1863), is published daily (Sundays = statutory holidays excepted). it C Dall s Publishers Association. ne Conadian Press, Audit Bureou of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Asso- ciation. The Conodian Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all ews despatched in the paper credited to ®t or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein. All rights of special despatches are also rose! Offices: Thomson Bullding, 425 University Avenue Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, PQ. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers In Whitby, Alox, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, fort Perry, Prince Albert. Maple Grove, Hompton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone. Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Oreno . Leskard Brougham Burketon, Claremont, Columbus, Greenwood, Kinsale, Raglan Blackstock, Manchester Pontypool and Newcastle, not over 45¢ per week. By mail (in provinces of Ontario) outside carriers delivery oreas 12.00; elsewhere 15.00 per year Circulation for the issue of March 30, 1961 17,363 a.m. the back shift that starts at 2 am. and the night shift at 10 p.m. The tasks performed on each shift are different, The night shift cuts the coal, the day shift clears it out and the back shift does the maintenance and preparation work. Sometimes a miner works his en- tire lifetime on the same shift, for the reason that he is an expert on his parti- cular type of work. The increased mechanization of the mines has made it easier to interchange to But effect that younger men desire a job on the surface. Money is no longer than main men from one shift another. mechanization has also had the desire. The miners are out for the better and more convenient social life, because wives want their men to work on the 8 to 6 jobs on the surface. Miners carne ing thirty pound a week in the mines, are leaving to take a day-time job in the factory. They get lower wages, but have a more normal home life, and the wives are doing the pressurizing. Other Editor's Views PROTECT BRAND X (London Free Press) Brand X, the product which is never quite as good as the one being advertised, is to disappear from British comme:cial television. Advertisers . may claim that but they can't say it washes whiter than another their product washes "whiter," product, even Brand X. It is a striking British the they defend backing even example of the underdog when Brand X. CHICKENS TOO SOON READER'S VIEWS Who Can Say Case Fatal? Dear Sir: It is always inter- esting to note how different con- clusions can be drawn from a survey. The editorial of June 20, "Doctors and Patients" illus. trates this. When such a survey reveals that nine doctors out of ten do not tell a patient with advanced apparently incurable disease that death is probable; the doc- tor has then assumed unware ranted and unjustified responsi- bility such as to cast him in the role of a deity. May I ask by what divine directive is the phy- sician given the guidance to de- cide who is and who is not cur- able -- who will live and who will die? When it is asked that doctors do just this -- which is demanded by the editorial con- clusion -- it is then that the doctor has usurped what alone is in the hands of the Creator and the criticism fully justified. Based on experience, knowl- edge and supported by as sound opinions as obtainable, a patient may appear to be incurable but it does not follow that in any one case inexplicable reversal may not take place and health restored. Sufficient are the cases where a hopeless outlook has been given only to be proved wrong. Recovery has taken place in diseases that de- fies reasonable explanation. It is this aspect that rather makes man humble and doctors too are men. In the survey quoted whether the doctor is directly asked by the patient is a most pertinent point. If asked directly the phy- sician should give an honest opinion and support it with con- sultation if the outcome appears pessimistic: this is a far dif. ferent situation from directly and straightforwardly coming out and telling a patient that his case is s_hopeless. Only God id side ae tn man' < life span on earth. Every phy- sician when confronted with such a situation advises an im- mediate family member of the gravity of the illness such that appropriate steps can be taken to allow for a fatal outcome. The doctor never has and, I trust, never will be "a skilled mechanic' treating his patients "like half-witted children". At times, it might appear that the skilled mechanic might be far more adept in dealing with me- chanical problems but when as- INSIDE YOU sisting his fellow man the doctor only too well realizes that life and death involve far more than skilled technology. It is para- doxical that one of the most re- peated criticisms of medicine to- day is that "loss of understand- ing" yet how would a human relationship ever be possible if the physician is to be solely a skilled mechanic this new definition in the editorials open to some very serious question and argues against itself. Has the physician the right ever to extinguish the hope of recovery that burns in every breast. That hope must surely be extinguished like a tramped on match when the fatal result be given. Even were the doctor infallible, would the physician be rendering a service to his ap- parently incurable patients by snuffing out reasoned faith, hope, aspiration? Still worse is the possibility of incalculable mental anguish suffered for naught should recovery take place. Admittedly material problems may be left un- resolved when the immediate family fail to appreciate the gravity of the case but like- wise rapid finalization of out- standing problems prompted by impending death may not be satisfactorily solved and when recovery takes place in such a situation the problems might be greater than ever. Before the British courts today is the suit filed by a patient who, having been told of his apparently fatal illness because of his diversified business responsibilities, sold out and prepared for death -- the diagnosis was wrong and to- day this man seeks legal adjust- ment for losses sustained under the curtain of death. To pluck out and crush the will to survive is a moral issue that one cannot lightly dismiss. How often does one hear that donth ensued even in recover. able disease where the patient "has no will to live" -- "'he died of a broken heart" -- 'he had nothing to fight for" It is hoped that the human body and spirit never come to be regarded as simply quality machinery to be worked on by skilled mechanics -- for that is crass materialism in its crudest form Respectfully, B. DOHERTY, MD, 118 Simcoe St. N. Oshawa. Mind Slumbers But Body Awake MD guided By BURTON H. FERN, AN UNLIT flashlight Bill through the darkness! He wasn't blind he was sleeping! Now, asleep, he could slip out of his conscience and do in that TV set which had been grating on his nerves for days Like other sleepwalkers, Bill needed the flashlight to make everything seem real. He was dreaming --- and acting out his dream. When you sleep, you rest both mind and body. The sleepwalker's mind slumbers, but his body wakes and walks. You've probably had just the opposite experience while you were dozing off or just waking up. You knew you were awake, but you couldn't move! Your mind was awake, while your body slept. EMOTIONAL CAUSE Nervous anxiety forces the sleepwalker from his bed. Deep in slumber, he can satisfy angled nerves and do things he wouldn't dream of when awake. On the brightest day, most sleepwalkers stumble and trip fn their self - made darkness. Scrapes, bruises and stubbed toes reward each sleepy-time stroll. The sleepwalker wanders in a hypnotic-like trance. He neith- er hears nor sees, although he may carry on a conversation. He may. solve impossible prob- lems or write churchly sermons for Sunday service -- neither of which he could have done awake! He remembers every- thing, but only as a dream. MAJORITY YOUNG Sleepwalking plagues mainly teen-agers and young adults. When 'a psychiatrist helps the sleepwalker relax, he generally loosens up enough to stay in bed all night Don't be afraid of waking a sleepwalker. You won't harm him unless he's teetering deli- cately on the third floor banis. BY-GONE DAYS 30 YEARS AGO Tenders were called for con- struction of the new office building of the Pub Commission. The new Ukrainian Presbyter- fan Church on Simcoe street south was formally dedicated by Rev. Dr. Nelson Banks of Ham- ilton. Over 1000 people attended the annual IOOF Decoration serve ices at the Union Cemetery. M. McBride of Port Hope was the winner of a Chevrolet car drawn for at the Rotary Fair. A total of 1112 unemployed registered at the local Unem- ployment Office. Delegates from the Women's Auxiliaries of many churches in the deanery attended the 12th annual meeting of the East York Women's Auxiliary Dean- ery held here. Mrs. T. A. Hind of Port Perry, was re-elected Deanery Officer. Ontario Shore Gas Co. of Osh- awa made an offer of $325,000 for an Eastern plant. A beautiful oil painting was presented to the OCVI by Mrs. FF. W. Cowan. Mrs. L. V. Disney, Oshawa, who held the position of Warden of the Rebekah Assembly for Ontario in 1930, was elected vice-president of the Assembly, at the annual convention. The total enrolment at the city's eight schools for the month of May was 3388. With an average of 97 per cent, King Street Public School had the highest attendance record for all the. city's schools during that month, Members of the Second Osh- awa Troop made a presentation to their Scoutmaster, W. Sutton, who was leaving the city for Ottawa. ter. You don't want him to wake up, look down and fall! Of course, if you can get him back to bed without awakening, he won't have to twist and turn to fall asleep all over again. Talented sleepwalkers some- times actually lead two differ- ent lives -- one awake, one asleep. That magic potion that changed Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde could well have been ordi- nary sleeping pills! EXPORT PLAIN LoL of | Sf =1 3 {od "CIGARETTES OTTAWA REPORT Coyne Meeting Extra Stormy By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA~--The stormiest com- mittee meeting which I have ever seen on Parliament Hill was sparked on budget day by J. E. Coyne, the controversial governor of the Bank of Canada --without his knowledge or his presence. The banking and commerce committee of the Commons was summoned to meet at 9:30 a.m. to examine a bill to incorporate 'the General Mortgage Service Corporation of Canada, a $10,- 000,000 private company in- tended to help fill the national need for a secondary market in house mortgages. The preliminary jockeying for position apparently began 15 hours earlier, when Hon. Paul Martin was noticed *'table-hop- ping" in the Parliamentary res- taurant, speaking to many Lib- eral MPs and journalists. An unusual and awe-inspiring spectacle was presented in the committee room at the ap- pointed meeting hour. Usually the rows of chairs are empty and the chairman discusses pro- cedure with the clerk, while a handful of members drift in gos- siping. Instead, a phalanx of Liberals was in its seats, headed by ex-ministers Paul Martin and Jack Pickersgill. Conservative chairman C. A. Cathers called the meeting to order, and announced the first and in fact the only item of business. Paul at once rose and proposed that, first, the com- mittee should call Mr. Coyne be- fore it, as a witness to be ques- tioned about the annual report of the Bank of Canada. The few Tories present at once sensed, and loudly protested, the politi- cal manoeuvre to divert head- lines on budget day by stirring up the Coyne controversy. The chairman then quoted Dr. Be auchesne's procedural "Bible". This ordains that "a committee can only consider those matters which have been committed to it by the House." He ruled Paul's motion out of order; Paul at once appealed the chair's ruling, thus calling for a vote to uphold or quash it. Thus it became crystal-clear why the Liberals were punctual in force, outnumbering the Tor- ies in the two-minute-old meet- ing, and why the press had been tipped off to attend. The Liber- Sls canion the appeal by 8 votes to "1 must congratulate the Lib- erals," shouted a smarting Pory. "I have never before seen so many Liberals at a commit- tee." Paul then proposed that the committee should at once sum- mon Mr. Coyne by telephone. This warmed up the already disorderly proceedings into un- controllable bedlam. A long wrangle about rules ensued. Generally two, but often more, i MPs were on their feet at the 1 same time, The chairman needed not a gavel but a gatling gun to maintain order. When the Tories protested that the Liberals were ignoring the rules of procedure, Pick retorted that they "should have been here during the pipeline debate to learn the facts of life." More quotable quips and unparliamentary dispraise was heard in a few hours than in the previous many weeks. Finally at 2:30 p.m. the com- mittee--hby then deserted by the - big guns who had come for an- other purpose -- completed its routine work, which should have been finished by 10:30 a.m. At 2:45 p.m., a civil servant, who had been present waiting to give evidence concerning the mort- gage company, collapsed and died of a heart attack. This was possibly brought on,:in the opin- ion of a doctor, by the stress and excitement. Messrs. Martin and Pickers. gill got the headlines, although perhaps not in the form they sought. 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