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he Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1961 -- PAGE 6 Municipalities Seeking More Aid From Province The Ontario Association of Mayors and Reeves has asked the provincial government to: pay a 75 per cent sub- sidy on snow removal and assume the cost of building highways through all municipalities; pay the total cost of education; relieve municipalities of all responsibility for public welfare costs; exempt all municipal purchases from the provincial sales tax; support a re- quest to the federal government for an increase in pension for everyone at 65 without a means test; reconsider its method of financing capital costs of hos- pitals to relieve the municipalities of any obligations. It is repeating the obvious to say that the financial position of municipalities has been deteriorating and that too great a burden is being placed on prop- erty owners. It is just as obvious, how- ever, that a simple shifting of respon- sibility from municipality to province is an adequate solution of the problem. The province does not have unlimited means -- the Ontario sales tax was a device to raise extra money to meet increasing demands on the provincial treasury. The province has been demand- ing from Ottawa a "more equitable" share of federal revenue -- and the federal government has been spending more than it has raised through taxes and will, it. seems, operate at a deficit for some little time yet. There are, clearly, no easy solutions, But the approach to solution can only be made through a new approach to taxa- tion at all levels of government. We have never had a reasoned philosophy of taxation. The doctrine has been nothing more than "what will cause the least ruckus," with the result that our tax structure is a crazy, involved patchwork of inequities and "temporary", expe- dients. Some sense could be restored to the system if the various governments got together, with their advisers, and com- petent, imparital tax experts, to review the how and why of taxation, But this is probably too much to hope for con- sidering that governments are not only timid but congenitally jealous' of their precious powers. In the meantime, it should be borne in mind that the agency which accepts financial responsibility will be the agency that will decide how money is te be spent. We may agree that the pro- vincial government should assume all costs of education, to relieve the munici- palities of a huge financial burden and to ensure that the poor municipalities get as high a standard of schooling as their richer neighbors. But if we do, we must recognize that the provincial gov- ernment will also decide where, when and how schools will be built; local school boards will become little more than agencies for handling petty details. Canada Should Pull Out External Affairs Minister Green de- serves support for his opposition to the use of UN troops against so-called seces- sionist forces in the Congo. If the UN troops are committed against one or another of the governments in the Congo, the Canadian contribution should be im- mediately withdrawn. It is not the job of the UN to take sides in domestic squabbles, favoring ore party or faction against another, It's duty in situations such as that in the Congo is simply to attempt to preserve enough order to enable the people there to decide for themselves what they wish to do with their country. This would be so even if there were a clear division between the "good guys" and the "bad guys" in the situation; there is certainly no such division in the Congo, where it Keeping Left Talk of a tunnel under the English channel and the prospect that Britain will soon become a member of the European Common Market has prompted the gov- ernment to study how traffic might be moved from the left hand side of the road to the fight, the Milwaukee Journal notes. It has caused some Englishmen to speculate, too, on how their ancestors began to "keep left" while travelers in most other places did just the opposite. The most intriguing possibility, as reported in the Guardian of Manchester, dates to the time of the highwaymen. To defend themselves, travelers found it wiser to ride so they could draw their swords with the right hand and have their unguarded left flank protected by a hedgerow. A more likely possibility is that wag- _ Hhe Oshawa Times J. L. WILSON, Publisher and General Manager Cc. GWYN KINSEY. Editor The Oshawo Times combining The Oshowa Times {established 187)) ond the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle (established 1863), {ts published daily {Sundays end statutory holidays. excepted). Members of Canadian Daily Newspoper Publishers Association, The Conodian Press, Audit Bureou Circulation ond the Ontario Provincial Doilies Asso- ciation. The Canodion Press ts exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all news despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, ond also the locol news published therein. All rights of special despotches ore also reserved. Offices: Thomson building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto. Ontario: 640 Cothcart Street. Montreal, P.Q, SUBSCRIPTION RATES Deliveréa by carriers In Oshawa, Whitby, Alax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perty, Prince Albert, hag 9 Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, aunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton. Orono, Leskard, Broughom, Burketon, Claremont, Columbus, Greenwood Kinsole Rugion Blockstock, Manchester Pontypool and 'Newcestle, not over 45¢ week. By mail {in Province of Ontario) outside carriers delivery areas 12.00 per year Other Provinces and Commonwealth Countries 15.00. USA and Foreign 24.00, Enniskillen, Circulation for the issue of October 31, 1961 17,783 is difficult even to determine the best of a bad lot. If the central Congo government can- not control its own mutinous troops, let alone put down what it considers rebel- lion against its authority, it can scarcely be considered a valid government. If the UN gets into the position of shedding blood to preserve such a government, it will create a precedent dangerous to its own existence. The only logical use of UN military units as an offensive force in the Congo would be to disarm all the native armies and factions there--which would be a major military operation far beyond the means of the present UN force -- or to punish swiftly and severely such offences against the UN as the murder of UN personnel. Canada should not condone any other use. Or Right oners and coachmen sat on the right side of their vehicles so they could wield their whips without interference from the load behind them. When they met another vehicle, it was normal to pull to the left because this position gave the dtivers a better view of their clearance, On the continent coach teams were usually driven by riders, or postillions, who sat astride the left rear horse, this being the most convenient position for controlling the animals. When they en- countered another vehicle, it was natu- ral for them to pull to the right. There is still another possibility. Eng- lishmen, stubborn and independent, may simply have wanted to be different. Bible Thought The Lord our God broke forth upon us because we did not care for the ark in the way that is ordained.--I, Chron- icles 15:13. To change God's will to suit our own wishes is as wrong as open rebel- lion. God has ordained the proper use for man's mind, body, time, talents, and money, t David said, "Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the cove- nant is under a tent." I. Chronicles 17:1. Our culture is irreverent in that it has not learned to put first things first. Our overfed nation is spiritually starved. Amidst affluence we have the greater values "under a tent." King David said, "Who am I, O Lord God, and what is»my house, that thou hast brought me thus far?" -- I. Chronicles 17:16. : We fit into God's plan only because He can use weak, sinful man to His own glory. None of us has been brought "thus tar" by his own goodness. It is God's mercy. QUEEN'S PARK ' Fear Of Voters , Delaying Factor By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- Will our politic- jans stop running scared? This is a question that has a Ici of point today. We have big problems ahead of us. Bigger and deeper than any we have faced since the thirties. And one would say from here that unless there is a change in the character of our politics the chances of our meeting them aren't good. EVERYBODY HAPPY? It is 1946 since we have had what you might call a "'talk- turkey" government in Ontario. That year cocktail bar legis- lation was brought in, It was legislation the government knew would bitterly displease a sec- tion of the voters. Nevertheless it introduced it. And that was the last piece of "bitter" legislation we have had, at least that this observer can recall. The tenor of our government since then--and certainly this hasn't been confined to Ontario --has been "'everybody-happy". The great end all-important aim has been to please people. The technique has been to consider what should, be done. Then you consider who it will make mad. Then you modify it. This has been practiced so long it has reached the stage where fear of the voters has be- come the all enveloping consid- eration. And this isn't confined to the government. The Liberals and NDP are just as bad if not worse (Though in the case of the NDP it is pretty well just labor, and recently the farmer, that can't be offended.) LESAGE GOOD This, of course, doesn't make for good government, particue larly at points of change--and we certainly are at one now. Change means disturbance of status quo and this. means dis- turbance of people. There can't be progressive change without it. And government that won't disturb people just can't go ahead. Premier Lesage in Quebec is giving us a model today of gov ernment that is not afraid of disturbing--that is substituting courage for fear. Now will we see the same trend here? There are two rays of hope in the Robarts government. The minister of energy and commerce and government, Hon Robert Macaulay and the minister of municipal affairs, Hon. Fred Cass, are two men who don't play politics of fear. Our immediate political future could rest with them. If they are able to influence their asso- ciates--and instill some bravado in them--w* could have a new political pattern. We need it. INSIDE YOU Asthma Can Have es Varied Treatment § , gf By BURTON H. FERN, MD 1. Only allergy shots can cure strawberry-caused asthma. T-- 2. Hot air heaters prevent and cause asthma, T-- F-- 3. Antihistamine medicines cure asthma. T-- F-- 4. Water is an important asth- ma remedy, T-- F-- 5. Cortisone is the perfect asthma cure. T-- F-- 1. False. Asthma erupts when allergy strikes your air pas- sages. Here, allergic chemicals unleash violent histamine. Bron- chial tubes tighten, lining swells and passages fill with gobs of mucous. Allergy shots whip up special antibodies that keep allergic chemicals from penetrating into air passages. If you give up allergy - causing foods -- say, strawberries -- you won't need allergy shots, 2. True. Both cold air and irri- tating dust can trigger asthma. Heaters warm the air but fan dust around the room. WHAT TO DO For house dust allergy -- (1) Remove drapes, rugs, chenille spreads and_ stuffed furniture from the bedroom. (2) Cover feather pillows and stuffed mat- tresses with heavy plastic cov- ers -- check the box springs for stuffing, too. (3) Wipe away dan- gerous dust with daily damp- mopping. (4) Ask your doctor about allergy shots for dust, pollen, molds and danders. 3. False, Antihistamine medi- cines can stave off an asthma attack, but once asthma starts, antihistamines dry mucous, clogging air passages. Even choking spasms can't raise this dry mucous. 4. True. Every breath blows off a little moisture. When asth- ma makes you pant, you pour water into the air like a human vaporizer. Bronchial mucous dries and thickens. REPLACING FLUIDS Water, juices, pop and soups all help replace this lost fluid. Inhale extra moisture, too, That vaporizer not only moistens mucous, but prevents you from drying out. 5. False. Simple prescriptions can usually relieve . bronchial spasm, shrink swollen lining, moisten mucous and relieve asthma. When colds and sore throats trigger wintry asthma, antibiotic germ-killers help, too, Doctors reserve cortisone -- and its powerful relatives -- for severe asthma that can't be brought under control. It's the four-alarm cure! REPORT FROM U.K. Soldiers' Wives Boycott Stores By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special Londen (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times WESTCLIFF, Essex -- War has broken out at three hostels on the coast where soldiers' wives and families are housed while in transit to new postings, either overseas or in the United Kingdom. The war is not. being waged by the soldiers, but by "their wives at these hostels. They have fired the first shots in the preliminary engagement by deciding to boycott the local stores located near the three hostels at Westcliff, near South- end in Essex. The war was launched when 32 residents who live near the hostels said that the army chil- dren were dirty, rude, thieves and vandals. They sent a peti- tion to their district ratepayers' association demanding an inves- tigation into the conduct. of the 100 families living in the West- cliff hostels. The families stay at these hostels -- three former seafront hotels -- while waiting for transportation to join their husbands who have been sent to British army stations in many parts of the world. z | PROTEST MEETING : The submigsion of the resi- dents' petitiotto the ratepay- ers' association aroused the ire of the soldiers' wives. They held a protest meeting, and decided to boycott the neighborhood stores because, they said, local merchants, incited by the resi- dents, were "down on them". They said the local people who had signed the petition were "a lot of snobs"'. One wife, Mrs. Mary Mc- Quade, said: "We are no dif- ferent from anyone else and ask nothing from anybody ex- cépt to be treated like normal decent individuals." Another, Mrs. Betty Gough, who has three children, said: "Our children are not crim- inals, They are too young to do anything wrong deliberately. Like all others, they are mis- chievous and get dirty, but nothe ing has been proved against them. A lot of vandalism in this area has been done by local Teddy boys and visitors." COULD BE COSTLY Edward Tropper, owner of the three hotels which are being used as hostels, said the boycott could cost local shopkeepers up to $300,000 a year. "The children here are clean- er and healthier than any out- side. They have to be. We have a resident nurse, a War Office welfare officer and doctors come here regularly,"' he said, "'Most of the trouble in the neighbor- hood has not been caused by our children, and it has been magnified out of all proportion by many old folk living around ere." BY-GONE DAYS 25 YEARS AGO District 18 Rebekahs held a meeting in the Oddfellow's Hall with the District Deputy Presi- dent, Mrs. Edith Evans presiding. Oshawa General Hospital an- nounced plans for a new wing to be financed from a bequest left by the late. Mrs. Albert Sykes. : Walter Branch was elected president of the Oshawa "City League" Hocky Association for 1936-37 season. Court of Revision granted re- duced assessments in 35 appeals, and confirmed 37 others. S. F. Everson, president of Simcoe Street Brotherhood, pre- sided at the monthly dinner meeting. Harold Swann, head of the Educational Department of Trinidad, was the guest speaker, The Ontario Associated Boards of Trade and Chambers of Com- merce held its 25th annual meeting at the Hotel Genosha. @ (awa SA i [/CIGARETTES TTT flavour KOOL LET A ait BE YOUR REFRESHER