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hye Oshavon Sones Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 ' Friday, September 22, 1961 Criminals Should Pay For Injuries Inflicted During the past decade, Ontario has mude considerable progress in enlight- ened treatment of criminals, Somewhat slower has been the federal authority, but particularly in the past couple of vears Justice Minister Fulton has ini- tiated a series of long-needed reforms. This is all to the good. Experience has shown that there is a great deal more than simple punishment required for a solution to the problem of crime, and the more informed thinking that is done about the problem, the more informed action that is taken, the closer we move towards an acceptable and reasonable solution. In all this thinking and acting on the problem of the criminal, however, very little thought has been given to the victims of the criminal -- the terrorized child, the storekeeper with a bullet in nim, the householder with a cracked skull. The criminal pays his debt to society by giving up certain rights and privileges, but in doing so he does not pay his debt to the persons he has injured. The British government has for more than two years been considering the idea of compensation to innocent victims of criminal action, but it has made no decision. Meanwhile a private insurance company in the UK. has stepped in with a plan for citizens to insure them- selves against injury by criminals. The insurance should not be necessary; the criminal himself should be the one to pay for the injury he inflicts. It might be argued that the criminal could pay little out of his meagre earn- ings while in prison, and the debt would make his rehabilitation that much more difficult. One would be forced to agree --under present conditions. But why should not all men and women in jail get better compensation for any honest work they do there? If they were, they could pay towards their keep, and a proportion of their earnings could be put into a fund, out of which payments would be made to the victims hood- lumism. Costly Air Proposals The world's major airlines have only just completed their costly switch from propeller craft to jets. The change meant a huge new capital investment not only in aircraft but in expanded air- fields and new facilities. Now comes a threat of still more heavy expense, for iircraft that would not give the traveller any more comfort or safety but simply cut his travelling time on long trips-- inc then only in the air, because there is no satisfactory solution in sight to the problem of time lost in getting to and from airfields. The threat is found in a 330-page report by a panel of American special- ists, who deliberated on what should be U.S. goals in aviation. The gist of the report is that the U.S. position in aviation is in serious jeopardy and that, among other things, a quick start should be made on the development of a 2000- mile-an-hour airliner and the building of five big metropolitan airports that could handle such craft. The U.S. government would have to foot the tremendous costs of developing a super-airliner that could fly from New York to London in less than two hours. There is considerable doubt that such a plane could be operated commercially without heavy government subsidy. The vast new airports would be built at public expense, and land costs would force their building much farther from metropolitan downtown areas than exist- ing airports. The report suggests that helicopters could be used to transport passengers to and from the distant airports -- but such service at the big- gest and busiest airports, in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, has never been able to get along without heavy government subsidy. Commercially, then, there is nothing in favor of the development of this super-airliner. But U.S. military people think it would be splendid to have civilian craft available that could trans- port troops to Europe in a couple of hours. What the U.S. does, of course, is its own business, But it should not panic such airlines as TCA and CPA into absurd expense. Let them first solve the problem of time consumed on the ground by air travellers. Six Inches From Death "I missed him by six inches" is the remark of a railroad engineer about the driver of a bus loaded with pas- sengers, The driver stopped at a rail- road crossing, protected by wig-wags that were operating and then crossed in front of the train going 70 miles an hour. How many railroad engineers can tell the same story? Funny thing about it, if the approaching train is proceeding slowly, say at 30 miles an hour, the "drivers-in-a-hurry" won't wait. Yet a 5,000 ton train doing 30 miles an hour car: demolish a car, truck or bus and I-#ll all the people in them, just as effec- tively as a train going 60 or 70 miles an hour. Clarence Butler, CPR spareboard en- gineer running out of Ottawa, says: "Speeds don't have a darn thing to do with level crossing accidents." The slow- ef the train the more people will try to beat it over the crossing. Tle Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher and General Manager C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshowa Times combining The Oshawa Times ejtoblished 1871) ond the Whitby Gazettes ond Chronicle (established 1863), is published daily (Syndavs and statutory holidays excepted). Members of Dail Pi Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureou of lation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Asso- . The Canadian Press is exclusively entitied ne Press or Reuters, ond also the local news published there n All rights of special despatches are alse reserved, Dffices: Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Taronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers In Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pifkering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hompton, Frenchman's Bay, iverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton Enniskillen, Io Leskord, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Columbus, Greenwood, Kinsale, Ruglan Blackstock, Manchester Pontypool and Newcastie not over 45¢ er week. By mail (in Province of tario) outside arriers' delivery areas 12.00 per year, Other Provinces and Commonwealth Countries 15.00, S.A. and Fareign 24.00, Circulation for the issue of March 30, 1961 17,363 "Frankly I would like to see a law requiring all motor vehicles to come to a complete stop at all level crossings at all times," says Mr, Butler. His remark followed the suggestion of an Ottawa Alderman that the speed of trains within the city of Ottawa should be reduced. He apparently imagines that it is the trains that cause the acci- dents, and yet there are more trains that are rammed by motor vehicles than there are motor vehicles struck by trains at level crossings. Those who try conclusions with trains at level crossings, almost always get off second best. Take a 100 to 120 car freight train, the total weight of which is 5,000 tons and better. It is from % to % of a mile long and it is travelling at from 60 to 70 miles an hour. It cannot be stopped in much under its own length. Yet the drivers of many motor vehicles appear to believe that the locomotive engineer if he sees the car on the crossing can stop the train and avoid the accident. It is a harrowing life the railroad engineer lives, every time he sits with his hand on the throttle and hurtles over level crossings towards which he sees motor vehicles approaching, All he can do is sound the whistle, ring the bell and mutter a prayer that the fool driver will not try to cross ahead of him. Other Editor's Views ESCAPE HATCH / (London Times) Chivalry has no place in the harsh cote which examiners have adopted as their own. At least, it had no place until the other day, when students at King's College found that the last question in their geometry paper read as follows: "State and prove any two theorems of projective geometry that have not been included in the first nine questions. "This question," the examiner added, "is intended for those who have reviewed all the wrong things." REPORT FROM U.K. Cold War Doesn't Affect Exchanges By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON--While on the mili- tary and political sides British relations with Soviet Russia are in a critical state, the same is not true with respect to cultural affairs. Almost coincident with Mr. Khrushchev's resumption of the testing of nuclear weapons and his blasts against the west- ern countries, the Russians have signed a new agreement for the interchange of leading musicians, singers and dancers with Britain, to extend over the next three years. This new agreement was nego- tiated in Moscow, with Mrs. Firtseva, the Russian minister QUEEN'S PARK Strong Worker, Tough Battler By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--Donald MacDon- ald has announced he will be running for the leadership of the New Democratic party. This certainly doesn't rank as one of the great surprises of the year. The only startling announce- ment Mr. MacDonald could make would be that he wouldn't be running. It would take more than salt and pepper to make that one digestible. The announcement gives us an opportunity to say a few good words about Mr. MacDonald, however. He perhaps would not believe this, but a good many of us here would not be happy if he did not run. Actually, we like the man and think it would be a loss if he were to disappear from our poli- tical scene. A FIGHTER You have to give him one great credit--he is a fighter. When he contested his leader- ship convention in 1953, he was practically unknown outside in- ner CCF circles. He won that convention on one thing--he put up a fighting dispiay. And ever since there has been no question about this one capa- city--he will fight, tooth, nail, and sledgehammer if necessary. He is a prodigious worker. The time and effort he has al- ways put into his job have been amazing. When he is not blasting scan- dals he has a warm personality. He can be both charming and warm. And he is dedicated. Is he ever dedicated! There are those of us who don't agree with the CCF--or New Democrats. This is principally because it is a ciass party, and we don't believe in class parties in our system. We still recognize why they have grown--and that to dan ex- tent it is good they exist. They grew because proper room wasn't made in the old parties for the voices they rep- resent. There was no room for Mr. MacDonald etc., just as there wasn't room for the brilliant A. A. MacLeod, who ended up in the Labor Progressive ranks. Yet their voice was necessary for progress in our society. INSIDE YOU Abdomen Muscles Act Like Corset By BURTON H. FERN, MD WHAT SHOULD you do if your baby's navel protrudes? Does this mean a rupture? Not necessarily! The bulge may be only a "skin navel." Normal skin navels sometimes protrude more than an inch. The bulge contains extra skin which grew out around the um- bilical cord. The cord withers, but not this extra skin. Gradually Baby "grows into" his navel. By the time he's ready to smoke, you can't tell whether he was born with a regular or king-size belly but- ton. Hernias (ruptures) can also protrude at the navel. The in- ner lining of the abdomen tends to bulge like an elastic-balloon. But heavy abdominal muscles work like a natural corset to hold it in. BEGINNING OF HERNIA The abdominal lining can still bulge through any weak spot in this muscular corset. And so begins a hernia. Babies' navels are natural weak spots. Before birth, large blood , vessels have to pass through gaps in abdominal muscles at the navel. Also, many babies start life with natural corsets a few sizes too small. Their abdominal muscies can't reach all the way around in front, leaving a gap down the middle. 3 Small hernias usually. go away by themselves. Some doc- tors strap them with adhesive tape, but no one really knows whether strapping helps. NOTHING TO IT Don't believe that old tale about taping a quarter over the navel, At the belly button, a quarter isn't worth two cents. Doctors don't pack quarters over gaping cuts. They bring the edges together! A simple operation can cure stubborn hernias that won't go away. Like any good tailor, the surgeon merely sews up the gap in the corset. You're not alone if your baby's bulging. belly button bothers you. One Air Force hospital ran into so many naval worries that they considered starting a special clinic. But who ever heard of an Air Force Navel Clinic? for culture, acting for the So- viet Union. She said she was confident that these cultural ex- changes would not only continue but would expand. Acting for Britain, with the full approval of the foreign of- fice, was Victor Hochhauser, the London impressario who was born in Czechoslovakia. He gave some details of the agreement which has been made on his re- turn to London from Moscow. GREAT ARTISTS COMING BYGONE DAYS 35 YEARS AGO Rev. Father E. Venini of Oshawa left to take up a mis- sion post in Chuchow, China. Fire Chief A. C. Cameron completed the installation of a uniform fire alarm system in Oshawa schools. L. W. Petley was appointed general secretary and Albert Ingham boys' work director of the Oshawa YMCA. The old metal water reser- voir on the property of the city bowling grounds, Simcoe street north, was demolished. City Engineer Chester Smith, G. D. Conant, chairman of the board of waterworks commissioners, and other city officials were present during the lowering of the huge recepticle. A rink composed of W. Goold and A. Fisher won the Sinclair trophy and first prize at the an- nual Fall tournament of the Oshawa Lawn Bowling Club. A huge crowd attended the South Ontario Fair at Oshawa on its opening day. Oshawa entered a team in the junior series of the Ontario Rug- by Football Union. Allan Keetch, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Keetch, Gladstone Ave., was selected as the out- standing baby at Oshawa Fair. Mrs. C. M. Mundy was elect- ed the new president of the Oshawa Music Study Club. Oshawa reverted to standard time after daylight saving time had been in operation since the middle of May. A recital was held by the choir of Whitby United Church under the direction of Arthur Lynde in connection with the 50th Jubilee celebration. Rev. John Lindsay of St. An- drew's Presbyterian Church, Whitby, exchanged pulpits with Rev. A. C. Reeves of Knox Presbyterian Church, Oshawa, at 'an anniversary service. Preparations were being made by Fire Chief A. C. Cameron for the observance of Fire Pre- vention Week in the schools. As a result of the agr t, which covers 25 foolscap pages, the 1962 Edinburgh and Bath Festivals, Covent Garden and other London theatres will see many of Russia's outstanding artists. For instance, Mr. Hochhauser was assured that the 120 dancers and musicians of the Ukrainian Dance Company would present a four-week season in London during the coming month. He also said that on behalf of the Earl of Harewood, artistic direc- tor of the Edinburgh Festival, he had signed some of the finest artists in the Russian mu- sical world for the 1962 Festival there. These would include Rostropo- vich, the 'cellist; David Ois- trakh, the violinist; the Borodin String Quartette and Shostako- vich, the famous composer and conductor. PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM It is rare these days that a pundit turns out a think piece without using the words "pos- ture" and "image." Communist justice: "Holdin East Germans prisoner behin the iron curtain without charges, indictments, trials or sentences. In the good old days (sigh) we could choose whether or not to follow the advice, "Live dangerously!" Along with predictions that the human race may soon be anni- hilated, demographers report that before long there will be no blondes. O, Annihilation, where is thy sting? OTTAWA REPORT Market Offers Splendid Vision PATRICK NICHOLSON The Common Market, which augurs so ill to Canada on the outside, promises to bring a full measure of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to hundreds of millions in European coun- tries which for centuries have been condemned to want, war and misery. - In its simplest form, a com- mon market is no more than a geographically extended mar- ket. But the European Common Market also includes the dream of the planners, who first envis- aged and now are implementing this blueprint for a better com- munity. The official name of the Com- mon Market is the European Economic Community, and this is more descriptive. For "com. munity" pictures the planned and highly organized common economic order now being cre- ated. Strangely enough, this multi- million-life idea has been sold in Europe with less drive and imagination thatn a 10-cent bot- tle of pop is sold in North America. There are no disciples preaching to the multitude; the dreamers talk in dry phrases about their plans. PLANNED ENTERPRISE Thus Fritz Hellwig, a promi- nent director of the Common Market institution, refers to "the principle of free competi- tion, common long-term market planning and co-ordinated eco- nomic policies on such matters as the business cycle, currency, transport, international trade, taxation, social security charges energy and agriculture." Sir David Eccles, former Brit- ish Trade Minister, more colour- fully asserts that a broader "At- lantic Economic Merger" is es- sential "if efficient slavery in the Sino-Soviet Empire is not to defeat inefficient freedom in the Free World." The Treaty of Rome tells more specifically how the Com- mon Market hopes to benefit the citizens of the member nations, if we read between the lines. Perhaps the single most sig- nificant project is the creation of the European Social Fund, to finance the training, resettle- ment and temporary compensa- tion of workers displaced by the changed conditions. CHEAPEST AND BEST It is commonsense that, within a free market where subsidies are planned, consumers would buy the cheapest and best prod- uct suiting their needs, even if made in another area. This would destroy any artificial in- dustry. Thus non - competitive textile mills might be forced to close; but they would be re-equipped to produce a line in which their district had natural advantages, say plastic furniture. Most of the displaced textile workers would be retrained to work plastics; some might pre- fer to move, even far away, per- haps to work in a perfume plant or a fruit cannery. The cost of retraining and re- settlement would be covered by the Social Fund; and at the end of the operation, the spectre of unemployment would have been removed from the minds of the workers. BETTER LIFE Women will get equal pay with men for the same work. So- cial security measures will be harmonized throughout the Com- mon Market, and all social se- curity benefits will be cumula- tive, and 'may be drawn any- where, thus removing the bar- rier to mobility of workers. Persons and capital will have freedom of movement. Special attention will be paid to work- ing conditions, industrial safety and hygiene, vocational training, trade union laws and collective bargaining. : These steps will sharply cut living costs within the commu- nity, and will slash defence costs to permit lower taxes or more state welfare. The pooling of research and know-how will bring more efficient industrial processes, more advanced med- ical care, pleasanter living ac- commodation and better living conditions. The fear of unem- ployment in business recessions will largely disappear. This paradise of the dream- ers, they hope, will create a cli- mate in which communism will lose whatever appeal it had for Europe's "huddled masses yearning to breathe free." And Easy Fashions / [) Swealers | Jackets Shirts Classic Cardigan or pullover Sweaters . . Botany and Kid Mohair double crew neckline Emerald, green, beige, magenta. SS ML Pullover 6.98 Cardigan 7.98 Tailored Shirt. .. Easy care drip dry cotton... in harvest colors... long, or short roll up sleeves. Rust, 'emerald, green. Sizes 10 to 18 2.98 and 3.98. 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