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The Oshawa Cimnes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1962 -- PAGE 6 Impartial Body Needed For Riding Revisions Premier Robarts says that a com- mittee of the Ontario Legislature will handle the matter of redistribution of ridings in the province. He would be making a statesmanlike move if he abandoned this old and discredited method and took the necessary steps fot the appointment of an independent and impartial commission to look after the revision of constituency boundaries. The committee method of redistribu- tion has nothing in its favor. The com- mittee inevitably has a majority repre- senting the party in power, and it is too much ever to expect such a majority to act in any manner detrimental to the party; the result is gerrymandering -- perhaps a little, perhaps a lot, but always some sort of gerrymandering. The neanderthals among the Con- servative members of the legislature have already been saying that the boundary revisions should be made to favor the party and Mr. Robarts' res- ponse has been that the revisions will be made in as fair a manner as possible. But by leaving the matter to a com- mittee of the legislature he is making it virtually impossible for the job to be done with strict impartiality. That a redistribution is badly needed goes without saying. There has been a tremendous urban growth since the last redistribution, with the result that now one rural or suburban vote may have the strength of anywhere up to seven urban votes. But will a committee of the legislature make any substantial change in this balance, particularly where a better distribution of urban votes may result in the election of more opponents of the Conservatives? Eliza Doolittle had a classic answer to such a question. Prime Minister Diefenbaker is to introduce legislation at this session of Parliament to set up a commission to handle the redistribution of federal seats, There is no reason why the Premier of Ontario should not follow his example. Deficit In 'Invisibles' Canada's deficit for "invisible" or non- merchandise transactions abroad has just about trebled in a decade. The Bank of Montreal's business review just issued reports that Canada's receipts for non- merchandise transactions were $1.4 bil- lion in 1951, rising to $1.8 billion by 1960, and representing a quarter of the nation's total current account receipts. However, in the same decade, Canadian payments rose by more than $1 billion, to reach $2.8 billion in 1960, or 34 per cent of current international payments, versus 30 per cent ten years earlier. Thus, "with payments increasing more rapidly than receipts, the resulting de- ficit from invisibles nearly trebled during the decade, exceeding $1 billion in both 1959 and 1960." One important contributor to the situ- ation is the cost of travelling, with Cana- dians spending about 50 per cent more for travel abroad than foreigners spend here -- $627 million against $420 mil- lion in 1960. Interest and dividend payments are the largest single deficit item, with $669 million paid out in 1960, against receipts of $178 million, the review says. The decline of the Canadian merchant marine has meant growing dependence on ships of foreign registry, so that Can- ada's payments for freight and shipping have increased substantially. Statistics for the first nine months of 1961 point to continuation of these trends, although the travel deficit may be falling off. "Another noteworthy deve- lopment is that there may have been an export surplus on merchandise account (in 1961) for the first time since 1954 and therefore the total current account deficit will have risen from invisible transactions." Concluding, the review says it does not necessarily follow that the present trend towards a growing deficit will con- tinue. However, it adds, unless there are substantial changes in other accounts, "a very considerable improvement" will be needed in merchandise trade to offset the over-all deficit in "invisibles", Struggle To Save Elms There has been for some years -- concern in the district about the rav- ages of Dutch elm disease. From time to time, efforts have been made to era- dicate or control it with varying suc- cess, Now it is announced that the Uni- versity of Toronto may become the focal point for a counter-attack on Dutch elm disease in the Toronto area. Dis- cussions are proceeding with the heads of parks departments of the 13 Metro municipalities, representatives: from the Ontario government departments direct- ly concerned, the Ontario Hydro-Elec- tric Power Commission, the Metropol- itan Toronto and Region Conservation Authority and the Forest Pathological Laboratory in Maple, Ontario. There is no known cure for a di- seased tree, but it is possible to prolong the life of healthy trees by eliminating sources of infestation. It will take the co-operation of various authorities to a- chieve any noticeable progress. For the past 18 months the city of The Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times festoblished 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle (established 1863), is published daily (Sundays and statutory holidays excepted), Members ot Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers Association, The Canadian' Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Asso- ciation, The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news despatched in the poper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the tocol news published therein. All rights of special despatches ore ciso reserved. Offices: Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa Whitby, Alox, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, Ounoarton, Enniskillen, Orono, Leskard, Brougham, Purketon, Claremont, Columbus, Greenwood, Kinsole, Raclar Blackstock, Manchester, Pontypool ond. Newcastle, not over 45¢ per week. By mail {in Province ot Ontario) outside carriers delivery areas 12.00 per year. Other Provinces and Commonwealth Countries 15.00. Foreign 24.00. Circulation for the issue of November 30, 1961 18,006 Tyrone, U.S.A, and Toronto and the university have been waging an intensive battle with some success. About 10 per cent of the elm trees on the Varsity campus have had to be removed because of the severe infest- ation. Methods of controlling Dutch elm disease --and particularly the bark beetles which spread it -- include the destruction of all hopelessly diseased trees, the pruning of dead and dying branches which might serve as breeding places for the beetles, and in some cases winter spraying with insecticides. The university has announced two new cours- es in its Division of University Extension to help in the fight. Municipalities should be watching the university campaign with keen in- terest. Other Editors' Views FROG LEGS TODAY (Liberation, Paris) We French were nicknamed "frogs" because we loved to eat frog's legs, Before the First World War, the owner of a one-acre frog farm could easily make a fortune. But times change so that now frog raises in the Vendee com- plain that they sell only 44,000 pounds of frogs each year. Most are eaten at the Paris restaurants in Les Halles, above all by North Americans, Britons and Germans. Bible Thought For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. -- Romans 6:23, We earn:sin's wages, but we receive God's priceless gift, if we will take it. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. -- Romans 7:15; This verse expresses the pervesity of human nature, the inability on the hu- man level of keeping our good resolu- tions, 'I'M USING A NEW SECRET FORMULA!' YOUR HEALTH we Joint Thickening Has Many Causes By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, M.D. Dear Dr. Molner: What causes 'thickening of a joint?" Does it usually accompany ar- thritis? And does it incapaci- tate a person? Is there a cure? B.C. A lot of things can cause "thickening of a joint," and in the broad sense, we can say that most of them are "'arthri- tis' of one sort or another. An injury, such as "baseball finger," can cause the thicken- ing of a joint. So can prolonged pressure, as in "housemaid's knee," or "chauffeur's elbow," or "tennis elbow," which all are varied forms of bursitis. There can be "gouty arthritis," which can be overcome if we succeed in keeping the gout un- der control, and that is some- thing that, with care, we do with considerable success these days. There can be thickening of a joint--or a number of joints-- from "rheumatoid arthritis," which is a vicious inflammatory disease, and should have the most carefui treatment from the first moment it 1s discovered. There can be ordinary degen- erative thickening (which we know as "osteoarthritis" or the gradual and un-fearful "creaky hinge" sort of thing) which many of us acquire as we grow older. It deserves moderate care to keep the joints mobile, but it doesn't cali for drastic REPORT FROM U.K. Hotels Dismayed By Airport Bids By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- The Ministry of Aviation has invited the hotels of London to make bids for the use of reception facilities in the new building at the London Airport, but has placed a start- ing price of $5,800 a year on the bidding. The result is that the leading London hotel groups have decided to boycott the in- vitation from this government department, declaring that they are not interested in bidding with this minimum fgure as a starting point. The accommodation for which the hotels were invited to make their bids consists of small cu- bicles with just enough space for a desk, a chair and a tele- phone, But practically all of the hotels to which the ministry of- ficials wrote inviting bids have rejected the invitation. They are just not interested. Some of their officials have had caustic comments to make re- garding the ministry's propo- sals. TERMS RIDICULOUS The Westbury Hotel, one of the big American Knott Hotels group, stated that it is still con- sidering the invitation. But, said a spokesman for this ho- tel, '"'When we heard that the tenders could not be lower than $5,800 a year rental, we were astounded. A spokesman for the Mayfair Hotel, which also controls the Victor and Grosvenor Hotels in Central London, said: "The figure suggested by the airport management for the ac- commodation offered is beyond the ridiculous. It is absolutely fatuous. We 'have no intention whatever of submitting a ten- der for such accommodation on this basis. All that is offered is a small desk." 1 A spokesman for the Savoy Hote] group, which has a three- man team of receptionists. on duty at the airport, was of the same frame of mind, but re- fused any further comment. EIGHT DESKS PLANNED When the new $9,000,000 pas- senger terminal building was designed, provision was made in the plans for eight desks to be used by hotel receptionists. The new building is due to be opened for long distance flights in the early part of this sum- mer. At least one big travel agen- cy, the American Express Company, has refused to rent the accommodation offered in the huge arrival hall of the new building. It said that it would be a highly unprofitable venture at the price which was being asked for it. From the ministry of avia- tion there was come only a thick veil of silence. When asked to comment on the boycott of its invitation by the hotel com- panies, a spokesman: said: 'We never discuss details of private contracts." He added that he was unable to say whether any tenders had been received so far for the desk space offered to the hotels. medical care. The best answer is keeping such joints mobile by being sure to move them, to the maximum degree, every day even if it is paintful to do so in the morning, and to use aspirin or the like as needed to control the soreness. But with that amount of care, daily, the joints are not likely to "freeze" and leave us disabled. SUMMING UP To sum it up: Rheumatoid arthritis is an acute potential threat to our joints. It causes fairly rapid and severe thicken- ing and stiffening of the joints, and requires expert care, im- mediately Gradual degenerative joint stiffening and thickening -- or "osteoarthritis" -- is something that most of us will have, either much or little, and can be kept under satisfactory control by simple measures--if we will do the simple things, such as mov- ing about, every day. Gouty arthritis requires treat- ment for gout. Generally this means certain medication, taken daily. Thickening from a_ physical injury, the "baseball finger' sort of thing, is limited to the one injured joint. In rare cases surgery may, of course, be re- quired. Usually--just live with the stiffness The various forms of bursitis i usually can be eased by treat- ment (withdrawing fluid from the joint, medication, rest, heat etc.) depending on the particu- lar case. "Arthritis" or 'thickening of the joints" aren't one ailment. There are several forms of it. Dear Dr. Molner: My _ hus- band- has emphysema. It is worse in the night and morning. Would a change of climate help? Mrs. G. A. It is risky to recommend cli- mate changes for some dis- eases. If you are in a smog zone, which might account for his trouble at night, a change may be in order -- but first make a test visil to an area that your doctor thinks might be suitable. Dear Dr. Molner: Would one teaspoonful of cod liver oil en- danger a person with a heart condition and ga") bladder trou- ble? I am trying this for arth- ritis, to sofsen the muscles and joints. A. C. I can't see any cause for worry. But neither can I see any reason to expect the stuff to "soften" the muscles or joints. BY-GONE DAYS 20 YEARS AGO Oshawa Employment Service set 'a record for Oshawa and district for the last three months of 1941 in placing 3588 employees in jobs. C. M. Birchard was named chairman of the Kinsmen War Services Committee, and also chairman for the Milk for Brit- ain Fund. City council appointed ex- mayor J. C. Anderson, KC, and S. G. Carnell to fill two vacan- cies on the Town Planning Commission for a term of three years. An Oshawa Electric Railway spokesman announced that three new buses and a new shunter were added to the rail- way to take care of the in- crease in freight haulage, which had increased in 1941 for a record of 640,795 tons, and the number of bus passen- gers, which had jumped to 1,512,459 making an increase of 600,522 passengers handled the previous year. Elmer Dixon was appointed chairman of the Oshawa Parks Board for 1942, succeeding J. H. Beaton who retired after serv- ing for two years. Enrolment in all city public schools and OCVI was 4491 in December, 1941. W. E. N. Sinclair, KC, was re-elected president of the Osh- awa branch of the Red Cross Society for the 27th term. City council appointed a com- mittee of the Wartime Salvage Board to select a suitable site for the erection of a small building for the storage of ma- terials collected in the city as a@ war measure. Welfare relief was at a new low in the city in December, 1941, when 243 individuals were given relief, W. R. Carnwith was elected chairman and Mrs. T. K. Creighton, vice-chairman for 1942. Joseph Banigan, president of the newly organized Pickering Rotary Club, received its Char- ter from the District Governor Dan McQuarrie of Lindsay. The ceremony was largely attended by the district clubs with Ted Bowman of the Whitby Club presiding. The pupils of Oshawa's eight public schools contributed 8140 pounds of old newspapers to the Wartime' Salvage Board within a period of one week. \ ) OTTAWA REPORT Paris Declaration Much Too Cautious By PATRICK NICHOLON PARIS -- Citizen delegates from the nations of the North Atlantic Alliance have been gathered here for what was named "The convention of the one hundred." After two weeks of deliberation, we issued '"The Declaration of Paris," setting out our conviction that 'our survival as free men demands the creation of a true Atlantic community within the next dec- ade." To attain this end, the con- vention vecommended various steps, of which the most signifi- cant would be the creation of a permanent high council of min- isters, and an Atlantic assem- bly. These two new political or- gans would be roughly com- parable to our Federal cabi In this respect, the conven- tion exactly fulfilled the pre- dictions made in this column last month. But in other respects, the Declaration of Paris was disap- pointingly and even inade- quately cautious, unimaginative and inward-looking. The 'one hundred" were gathered in Paris to recom- mend steps to make good the shortcomings of Western states- manship during the post - war years. In this decade and a half, our enemies have succeeded in surpassing the West's achieve- ments in many fields, and to grow faster than us in nearly all. Meanwhile we of the West have been disagreeing at the Council Table and clawing each other to ic death in the and Parliament, but expanded to international scale. market place. | A country with a population READERS' VIEWS Overtime Work For Custodians Dear Sir: There has been some com- ment in recent issues of The Times relating to the Oshawa Board of Education refusing the use of a high school to a religious group for a Sunday service. The custodian of the school in question is quoted as saying he "would only be too happy to work on the Sunday in ques- tion." It is not the policy of the National Union of Public Serv- ice Employees Local 18 to work on Sundays. The custodians of the public and secondary schools of the city are one of the very few groups of workers still required to work 48 hours per week. For the past three months some of these employees have been working 56 hours per week without any pay for the overtime. The City of Oshawa is now of sufficient size to support a civ- ic auditorium capable of hand- Ing conventions and confer- ences of the type that are now causing this controversy. More than a few strangers raise their eyebrows at our lack of an indoor swimming pool, auditorium, the 56-hour week and the infamous trolley tracks. It's been a long time since a horse and buggy were seen down town but it is obvious the drivers are still around. Oshawa D. R. LINDSAY, Bargaining Committee, Local 18, NUPSE. U.S. Trying To Block Continued Gold Drain WASHINGTON (CP) -- The United States is waging a mas- sive battle to preserve its gold stockpile but despite this effort, the drain on gold continues. Of- ficials say there is no assur- ance the leakage can be stopped completely this year. Lowest in 22 years, gold re- serves declined by some $900,- 000,000 during 1961 to a current total of about $16,800,000,000, compared with the peak of $24,- 400,000, in 1949. While acknowledging that some of the loss continues, President Kennedy recently em- phasized that the 1961 decline was sharply below the $1,70,- 000,000 drop in 1960--the last year of the Eisenhower admin- istration. "Confidence in the (U.S.) dol- lar has been restored," he de- clared in his economic report to Congress. But Maurice Stans, Eisen- hower's budget director, coun- ters that the monetary threat remains--a threat bigger than the Berlin crisis. The gold re- serves, he points out, have sunk to the lowest point since 1939. Meanwhile foreign claims against these reserves have climbed to an all-time high. BOTH RIGHT Federal monetary experts maintain that both Kennedy and Stans are correct in their as- sumptions. Restoration of world confidence in the dollar was in- dicated by the rise in foreign holdings of American dollars and short-term liabilities. There had been less inclination by foreigners to convert American dollars into gold. In the first year of the Ken- nedy government, exporters had been exhorted to strive for big- ger sales, Steps had been taken to reduce American military expenditures abroad and to dis- "courage world currency specu- lation through strengthening of international monetary fund de- fences. At the same time, the US. government began building up a small supply of European cur- rencies to help stabilize the dol- lar through foreign exchange operations. Moreover, progress was made in closing the worrisome deficit in American international pay- ments--the gap between the number of dollars going out and the number coming in. Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon estimates the basic pay- ments deficit in 1961 was only about one-third the $1,600,000,- 000 deficit in 1960. NEED EXPORT DRIVE "But improvement basic deficit is not enough," he says. "We must bring it under complete control so that we can look forward to full bal- ance--and to surpluses. .. . "We can accomplish this only BUILDING BOOM LONDON, Ont. (CP) -- Large commercial and apartment pro- jects are slated for construction in the next two or three years in a building boom in the mid- town area. Projects include a 150-apartment building, a motel and seven - storey commercial building. One hotel and a motel now are under construction. in OUr. 5 iberal by enlarging our export surplus and by reducing outpayments when we can do so without cur- tailing activities vitally impor- tant to our nation's future." The problem for the U.S. is that building up of big export surpluses takes time and under the current economic momen- tum, imports are likely to in- crease almost as fast as ex- ports. Monetary experts figure a better operation would be to discourage exports of capital. A lot of American capital is still moving into Europe, especially Common Market countries. Of- ficials said the flow of Ameri- can capital to Canada also has started to rise substantially again, especially in the last few months. One monetary official said that for his part, he would like to see the flow of American capital decline both to Europe and to Canada. President Ken- nedy is urging Congress to ac- cept a proposal to eliminate tax deferral privileges on foreign income, except where this in- come is earned in underdevel- oped countries. as small as ours can today no longer be master of its own destiny; nor even can a country as large as our neighbor. But in unity, the story of the West would be very, very different. We would each enjoy better de- fence at lower cost; higher liy- ing standards for all; aid and information to needy, nations made effective by co - opera- tion; and for each of us the assurance of peace, a job, and prosperity. Thus Canadians among the "one hundred" took a firm stand for thorough exploration of our crises and imaginative proposals to combat them, ra- ther than mere cautious adop- tion of long-overdue half-meas- ures, For example, Canada pro- posed the drafting of a Western declaration of the rights .of man, to offset the wiles of Communist propaganda; we urged resolutions which would recognize the fact that many of our best friends include those now imprisoned behind the Iron Curtain; we wanted not only to recommend steps which would Strengthen the West, but also other steps which would weaken the Communist empire, Above all, we wanted the Declaration of Paris to sound a clarion note in terms which would appeal to, and be comprehensible by, the ordinary man. In these stands, Canada found many like-minded friends, including all the French and Italian delegates, many of the Americans, very prominent Belgian and Dutch and Danish ee none of the Brit- ish. PROPAGANDA FAILURE But in the outcome the school of caution, the grey old men who sought to preserve 19th century patterns, won out in close votes over those who sought safety for our grandchil- dren of the 2ist century. Consequently the Declaration of Paris failed to soar to the heights, failed to achieve the degree of novel interest which would hit the front pages of our newspapers. As Dirk Stikk ge the Secretary-General of NATO deplored informally: "It is very tepid." As the convention broke up, one prominent British delegate commented that the most mem- orable feature of the Paris talks was the unrelenting bat- tle by Canada to attain a much more creative and forward- looking Declaration of Paris. There was nothing surprising in this, since it was Canada that 13 years ago proposed the "'Ca- nadian clause" in the North At- lantic Treaty--which was the birth of the practical concept of Atlantic union. While deploring the pussy- footing caution and the long lead-time in the declaration, the voices of Canada and her friends certainly made it clear that the creation of free-world strength through Atlantic union is no longer a wild fantasy, but a practicable possibility -- sub- ject. only to that wide public acceptance which would inevi- tably follow the wide publica- tion of our imminent crises and of this most acceptable solution thereto. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Jan. 30, 1962... Mohandas Gandhi, 78-year-old Hindu spiritual leader who spearheaded India's campaign for independence, was shot to death in New Delhi on his way to prayer 14 years ago today-- in 1948. His assassin, a 25-year- old Hindu, and a_ conspirator were later hanged. 1868--The Nova Scotia legisla- ture opened its first session. 1933 -- Adolf Hitler was ap- pointed chancellor of Germany. Budget Could Be Warm Federal Election Issue OTTAWA (CP) -- After the first full week of the new par- liamentary session, election challenges have reverberated with such volcanic rumblings that the election campaign it- self may come as an_anti- climax. The issues have been set out fairly clearly, if not violently, and the insults and counter- insults have been rounded into platform shape. The Liberals and the CCF- New Democratic Party group demanded a general election as son as possible. But both asked for a budget-- a "national accounting"--be- fore the Commons ends its ses- sion in, as expected, dissolution for en election. Presentation or non-presenta- tion of a budget could become a primary issue. HOPE FOR DEFICIT The opposition, naturally, would hope in an election year that a budget would show an- other big deficit on top of the four consecutive deficits the Progressive Conservative gov- ernment has had since it took office in June, 1957. The cost of "following John," Leader Pearson said last week, has already cost more than. $3,000,000,000, includ- ing deficits and depletions in the unemployment insurance fund and defence department special account. Hazen Argue, CCF - NDP House leader, said the public should be told how the money for the government's new wel- fare payments will be raised. The Conservatives, naturally, have emphasized the welfare benefits--and they introduced a raft of them last week: More for old age security, more for. old age assistance, blind persons and the disabled, acre- age payments for the Prairie farmer, more for the winter works program. Finance Minister Fleming sidestepped questions about a budget date. But this is the usual practice and doesn't nec- essarily mean the government won't bring down a budget. Prime Minister Diefenbaker last week dwelt on the govern- ment's record and the latest measures which he obviously believes will enhance it. HITS AT LIBERALS His other main tactic was to try to undermine Mr. Pearson's position by maintaining that the opposition leader's party is be- ing run by "bureaucrats" who were advisers to the previous Libe ral government. Among those he named were Walter Gordon, royal commissioner on Canada's economic prospects and Liberal candidate in Tor- onto Davenport; Mitchell Sharpe, former deputy trade minister and Liberal candidate in Toronto Eglinton and C., M. (Bud) Drury, former deputy de- fence minister. Mr. Pearson scored the gov- ernment on economic policy, particularly in regard to the European Common Market; de- fence policy, particularly in re- gard to nuclear weapons, -and Canada's "falling" prestige abroad. Mr. Argue taxed the govern- ment on agricultural policy and on unemployment. None of this was. new on either side of the Commons. But debate was vehement and bitter. ; Personal insults and accusa- tions and counter - accusations including "softness on commu- nism" were prevalent. All indications are that the talk is going to become rougher as the session goes on. -