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REPORT FROM U.K. Wives Can't Use PM's Meeting Marked: By Doukhobor'Strip*- Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1962 -- PAGE 6 Some Prices Must Rise 'When Dollar Devalued Prime. Minister Diefenbaker has made a curious threat. He warned Canadian industry last week against taking advantage of dollar devalua- tion by increasing prices to consum- ers. He was quoted as saying in Magog: "I don't want any group or corporation in this country to take advantage of this situation. I serve notice here and now that if, in the next few days, this kind of thing is going on there will be action effective as it is drastic." It may very well be that some greedy people have used and plan to use the devaluation of the dollar as an excuse to squeeze a little more out of the consumer. These people we always have with us; housewives know, for example, how quickly citrus fruit prices can rise in some stores after little more than a rumor of frost in Florida. It is inter- esting, too, that Mr. Diefenbaker's blast came quickly after announce- ments by some oil companies that they were being forced to boost gas prices because of devaluation -- an explanation that may puzzle motor- ists in those parts of Canada that get oil from Alberta. On the other hand, Mr. Diefen- baker can hardly expect "groups and corporations" to absorb the eight or nine per cent difference in import costs resulting from devaluation. In many cases, their profit per centage on the sales dollar is less, sometimes considerably less, than the margin be- tween the Canadian and U.S. dollars. If they do not pass at least part of the difference along to the consus mer, they lose money; and they lose money only so long before going out of business. In other words, Mr. Dief- enbaker may be setting business an impossible task. A devalued dollar has certain positive, often beneficial results. It encourages exports and discourages imports, thereby tending to improve the nation's foreign exchange re- serves position -- and Canada's posi- tion was deteriorating rapidly. But it discourages imports by making them more costly. We cannot eat our cake and have it too. More Of Joey's Antics There is only one Joey Small- wood -- for which we should all be truly thankful. He first aroused the interest and sympathy of Canadians when he led the campaign to persuade Newfound- landers to vote in favor of joining Canada as the tenth province. He re- tained that interest but lost much of the sympathy by his antics after lead- ing his Liberal party to power in the new province. His ability to charm the voters of the island has kept him in power, but it also seems to have persuaded him tht Newfoundland is his own private preserve. Labor organizers were among the first Canadians to get some idea of Mr. Smallwood's feudal approach to government, Using a sheepish legis- lature as his club, he bludgeoned them unmercifully, in a manner that must have aroused admiring envy in that master of the bludgeon, Maurice Duplessis. The Conservatives, too, quickly learned about Joey after they took over in Ottawa. They could have given him the moon, and he still would have found something wrong with it. Joey, they discovered, thinks Canada owes Newfoundland a Liberal living. Last week they learned just how far Joey can go when he thinks some- one is trying to poach on his insular political preserve. He had the gall to forbid a service club to have a cabi- net minister as a speaker -- and this just a few minutes before the speech was to be made. The officers of the service club did as he wanted -- they knew he wasn't kidding, and they knew that if they defied him they would suffer. That's how Joey is -- lord of the island manor. We need more color; more excite- ment in our politics. But this is ridi- culous. Attack On Poisons Ontario pharmacists deserve public commendation for their action in forming a committee of "Trustees for the Control of Accidental Poison- ings." The committee was formed fol- lowing a plea to the Ontario Pharma- cists' Association convention in Wind- sor last week by Dr. Henri Breault, medical director of the Windsor poi- son control eentre. Said Dr. Breault: "We can no longer shirk our duty and our responsibility to our child- ren. The screw-type caps and snap-on caps on today's bottles are obsolete. They haven't changed a bit in years. They're just as unsafe, just as dan- gerous as the old corks we used to use -- certainly no improvement -- just fancier and costlier." Then he labelled current packag- ing of pharmaceutical substances as a menace. He suggested that funds for the committee's operations could be raised by voluntary contribution of two dollars a year from each of the 4,500 pharmacists and 8,500 physi- cians in Ontario. To provide initial funds for the work of the trustees, She Oshawa Times T, L. WILSON, Publisher C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times 'established 1871) and the itby Gazette ond hronicle (established 1863), is published daily (Sundays ond statutory holidays excepted). Members of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Asso- ciation. The Canadion Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of ali news despatched In the poper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published pont All rights of special despatches are also reserved. Offices: Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q, SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, We oi Grove, ,. Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, 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 carriers delivery areas 12.00 per year. Other Provinces or Commonwealth Countries 15.00 U.S.A. . and Foreign 24.00. cheques for $600 and $1,000 were presented to the committee chairman on behalf of the Essex County Medi- cal Society and A. O. Lawrence, newly elected president of the OPA. The establishment of poison con- trol centres was a substantial ad- vance in the struggle against acci- dental poisonings, and the formation of the trustees' control committee can mean another successful attack on the problem. Mothers of small children in particular will welcome the plan; small children, the innocently inquisitive toddlers and crawlers make up the great majority of the victims 'of accidental poisonings. Dr. Breault has given a practical lead for the trustees to follow in pointing to the need for safer packaging and bottling. With this good start, the pharmacists and physicians can be expected to wage a successful campaign against the killer poisons. Other Editors' Views NEED WILL TO PEACE (Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph) The great need of humanity today is not the accumulation of armaments or new means of warfare. What is required is the will to peace, and if this can become general, then we many be sure that the question of disarma- ment will solve itself automatically. Thus the big task facing any nation or individual desiring to avoid the tragedy of war is to see that the will to peace has adequate expression. Bible Thought Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling ...""--Hebrews 8:1, As Christ became a partaker of hu- manity, so believers become partakers of heaven! pM eme otic 'ona? * IT ISN'T ONLY THE DOUKHOBORS OTTAWA REPORT Cost Of Pearson Promises Queried By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA --Seventy-five spe- cific promises were listed by Liberal leader Lester Pearson at the launching of his election campaign, In addition, Mr. Pearson has scattered im- promptu' promises of local ap- peal along his campaign trail, such as promising a deep-water port to a small inland Quebec community, and promising an $8,000,000 coliseum to the city of Vancouver. The sum total of these prom- ises could make election day look like Christmas day to any gullible voter. But could Canada afford these extravagances? It would seem like all fools' day when we were faced with the bill, which has been estimated at a 50 per cent boost in our personal income tax. It was Mr. Pearson's prede- cessor as leader of the Liberal Party, Right Hon. Louis St. Laurent, who asserted that "election promises are like a cream puff, there is nothing in cit: them." If a Liberal government should be formed again, tax- payers will hope that Uncle Louie is right; certainly the record of election promises un- filled by the Liberals in the past show that he is right. PEARSON'S HANDICAP So Mr. Pearson set out to stamp Canada with: this alba- tross round his neck. It is not surprising that his speeches 4 across the country have tended to ignore these costly prom- ises. Instead, he has criticized the Progressive Conservative record, and addressed a "me, too" plea to the electors, say- ing "anything the Conserva- tives could do, we could do bet- ter." The Liberal record therefore deserves a close study. First, Mr. Pearson claims that the Conservatives cannot cure unemployment, yet asserts that he would create "full em- ployment." The record shows that, during the past four years, over 500,000 new jobs for Cana- dians have been created under Conseryative policies. This is much better than the Liberal achievement in the four post- war boom years; it is nearly twice as great as the number of new jobs created under the Liberals during the four year Korean war boom. Next, Mr. Pearson criticizes the Conservative budget defi- S. Over the past five years these have totalled less than the av- erage deficit readily shouldered in any one of the four wartime years. They were caused by greatly increased federal grants to the provinces, and through them to the municipalities. Had these grants been kept down to the starvation level of the for- mer Liberal government, there would not have been a budget deficit in any one of the past four years--but every Canadian would have paid higher provin- cial and municipal taxes. * LIBERALS WERE AFRAID These increases in provincial grants totalled $853,000,000 last | year, and more than doubled the Liberal grants of $689,000,- 000 in 1956. The budget deficit last year was $791,000,000. Mr. Pearson criticizes the budget deficit; would he slash back the grants to the prov- inces to enable him to balance the budget? Or would he, as his promises indicate, actually in- crease the budget deficit? Then Mr. Pearson criticizes the pegging of our dollar at an exchange value of 9244 cents in U.S. currency. He forgets that the Liberal cabinet, in which he was a member, pegged it at 90 cents. And last year he urged that its value should be re- duced. Today he does not say that he would peg it at 100 cents, but he says he would "re- Paraplegics' Cars : By M. McINTYRE HOOD For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- In certain cases, the ministry of health provides specially - equipped automo- biles for war veterans with specific disabilities. About 30 of these cases are living with their wives and families at the Lyme Green Paraplegic Settle- near been sent to the Ministry of Health, one of these 30 war invalids is in grave danger of having his special automobile taken away from him. The letter, sent anonymously, accused the wives of these inva- lids of "'gadding about" in their husbands' government - sup- plied cars. SWIFT ACTION The ministry of health was not slow to take action in re- sponse to this letter. One of the wives said: "Now the ministry of health says that if it catches a wife in the car when her husband is not there, it will make an example of her and take the car away." Some of the wives at the Lyme Green Settlement, it ap- pears, were using the cars to go shopping and to take their children to school. Under the threat of dispossession, the min- istry has ordered that these practices stop. The reaction of the wives of the paraplegics has also been swift. One of them said: "We are planning to continue using the cars for things we consider necessary and blow the ministry. We shall rely on the weight of public opinion to stop the ministry carrying out its threats.' Another, Mrs. Margaret Vick- ers, said: "The officials said a wife could use the car in an emer- gency -- like going to the drug store for a prescription if her husband was ill. But it is de- grading for a man who has lost his ability to walk through fighting for his country to be given a car and then told that his wife cannot use it." The occupants of the Lyme PACIFIC ISLE Largest of the Solomon Is- lands in the south Pacific, Bou- gainville covers almost 4,000 square miles with population of store the dollar" -- a prospect 50,000 which horrifies our export and tourist industries, _ While the Liberal attacks on the Conservative record are thus very cream-puffish, voters should recall that in 1957 the Liberal government feared the coming recession, of which it had been warned in the "hidden report." And it neither wanted to face nor knew how to com- bat the coming unemployment. As Hon. Paul Martin, a minis- ter in the defeated Liberal cab- inet, told me after the 1957 election: "In view of the severe eco- nomic problems facing Canada, it may be just as well for us that some other party will have to govern through these difficult times." YOUR HEALTH Ills That Start In Gall Bladder By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, M.D. Dear Dr. Molner: Just what is a diseased gall bladder?-- M. H. The liver produces about a pint of bile a day, which is used for digestion. Some of this flows directly to the small intestine. The rest is stored and concen- trated in the gall bladder, When needed it flows into the "'com- mon bile duct," which also car- ries bile direct from the liver. Like any other organ, the gall bladder may become infected. With acute infection, there will be fever; the gall bladder may subside into a chronic state which will make the wall thicken. There's also the problem of crystals or gall stones -- bile salts or cholesterol crystals form and are the basis for the stones. There may be a single stone or several, or a sand - like sediment known as "gravel." When these particles try to es- cape through the small bile ducts, the ensuing colicky pain can be severe. 1 If only the outlet of thé gall bladder is blocked, there will be pain but no jaundice; if the "common duct" is obstructed, bile no longer can escape from the liver, and it backs up into the system causing the yellow- ness or jaundice. Gravel ur stones may be loose in the gall bladder or may stick to the mucus lining which, in turn, may develop polyps. Can- cer of the gall bladder is a pos- sibility. An acute infection, with pus formation, is referred to as em- pyema of the gall bladder. Various symptoms are possi- ble: Either sharp pain or vague discomfort in the upper abdo- men, centrally or to the right of center. There may be indi- gestion, gassiness, belching. Pain may be referred or transmitted to the back, in the area of the right shoulder blade, and even to the tip of the shoulder. It's not always easy to dis- tinguish these symptoms from those of peptic ulcer, and X-ray becomes important, although with different techniques. Drinking a barium mixture out- lines the stomach and duode- num in seeking an ulcer; for gall bladder the patient swal- lows a dye (in tablet form) the night before X-raying. Gall bladder cases require careful treatment. I won't gen- eralize because it varies greatly. Some cases are best handled by diet and medica- tion; others must have surgery. And no, there isn't anything that will dissolve gall stones. Dear Dr. Molner: At what , age should a child change from a pediatrician to another doc- tor?--MRS. H. Fourteen years or there- abouts, but there's no fixed age. Many children are cared for by general practitioners, and there is no need to change as they reach adulthood. When a youngster gets into the teens, he's likely to be a bit self - conscious about going to a "child doctor." Likewise the pediatrician him- self is usually happy to see the shift to another physician, since by the age of 14 or 15 the "'ail- ments of childhood" taper off. NOTE TO "KITTY": This blackening, peeling, soreness and brittleness of the nails and skin around them does not re- semble any known side effect from thyroid medication; it DOES sound like a fungus in- fection of some sort. Report it to your doctor without further delay. If he suggests seeing a skin specialist, then do so. The sooner treated, the sooner re lieved. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS June 11, 1962... Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden introduced the mil- itary Service Act in the Commons 45 years ago to- day--in 1917--and touched off a bitter debate in which Sir Wilfrid Laurier, leader of the Opposition, opposed compulsory military serv- ice. The act became law Aug. 29 and led to conscrip- tion of 75,000 men for First World War service, al- though only 47,500 of these went overseas, 1727 -- George I died and was succeeded to the Brit- ish throne by his only son, George II, 1943 -- The Italian - held Mediterranean island of Pantelleria surrendered to the Allies in the Second World War. \ ANCIENT OFFICE The position of coroner, to in- vestigate deaths of unnatural causes, was established in Eng- land in the 12th century. QUEEN'S PARK Bad Luck Still Dogs Phil Kelly By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--The life of Philip Kelly has been. one of misad- venture. His great -- and highly successful -- misadventure, of course, was his love affair wits gas stocks when he was minis- ter of mines. However, apparently this was "only part of an over-all pattern. Mr. Kelly, who once seriously envisioned himself as a poten- tial national PC leader, now is basing his hopes for further political glory on the Social Credit party, of which he is On- tario leader. And once again fate has dealt him one of its curious blows. Now Mr. Kelly can't get a seat, if he ever did have a chance of getting a seat, and very few think he ever did have a chance. For on nomination day Mr. Kelly proudly and ambitiously filed his nomination papers only to find they were out of order. This might not only happen to him, but it is one of those things which do happen to him--con- tinually. NO LUCK One suspects that not much more success will attend Mr. Kelly's party in its federal elec- tion endeavors in Ontario. This time the party appar ently has a chance of getting a serious foot-hold in Quebec. At least that is the report. And in turn some people are seeing from it some chance in Ontario. This is something the experi- enced observer can't go along with. Social Credit has tried too hard in Ontario and been built up in the public mind too much in the past to be taken seri- ously. It is strictly a case of the proof is in the pudding. If the party ever does have BY-GONE DAYS 15 YEARS AGO Eber Snowden, newest mem- ber of the Oshawa Dairy's 25. year-club, was presented with a suitably engraved silver tray by President George Hart, at the company's annual dinner. Jack B. Cooke was named president-elect of the Oshawa Kinsmen Club for 1947-48 to -- President Herbert Rob- on. W. J. H. Richardson of Whit- by was presented with a 50- year jewel in recognition of 50 years' membership in the Composite Lodge. Mayor F. N. McCallum pre- sided over one of the sessions at the annual conference of the Association of Ontario Mayors and Reeves in Ottawa. The Junior Catholic Women's League were guests of the On- tario County Flying Club at the Airport for breakfast and were taken on flights by George Hur- ran. H. P. Schell was re-elected president of the Children's Aid Society for Oshawa and district at its annual meeting. A. W. Armstrong was elected vice- president. The Oshawa Rotary Club pre- sented a cheque for $2300 to Bert L. Baulch, secretary of the Ontario Society for Crippled Children. Rev. William P. Brown, the oldest minister of the United Church of Canada, celebrated his 100th birthjy at his home in Port Perry. The 7th Oshawa Boy Scout Troop was host to members of the Rochester Troop. Thomas Hopkins, president of the local NOTICE WEED CONTROL ACT wit! NOTICE is hereby given to all property owners and occu; accordance with the WEED CONTROL ACT, ONTARIO, thet weeds growing on their lands within the City of be kept under control during the growing season. Allowing weeds to grow and mature is an offence under this act. The City Weed Inspector is empowered to take the neces- sary action against any offenders. Weeds may be controlled by such means as 'a ae cultivating, cut- 1 such os 2-4-D, ting or by spraying Ragweed "| the principal cause of hay fever and requires peciol en : 5 The co-operation of citizens is earnestly requested. W. R. Branch, Chairman, Board of Works, City of Oshawe. Boy Scouts Association, Com- missioner H. Rigg, Alton Dunk, scoutmaster of the 7th Troop, C. Collard, Ed Alker and Leonard Knight greeted the visitors. The highlight of the Oshawa Lawn Bowling Club's 1947 of- ficial opening was the pre- sentation made by Dr. Stanley Phillips of a chess set to vet- eran bowler T. P. Johns, who retired after performing the du- ties of club treasurer for 15 suc- cessive years. Mr. Johns join- ed the Oshawa Club in 1911, when the greens were situated on the northwest corner of Richmond and Simcoe streets. Strong winds caused a sudden rise of luke water to flood cot- tages at the Oshawa harbor are any success then it will have some public importance. But pending that it must be taken pretty well as a freak. --_ SUCCESS? rom this vantage point one would say the NDP. also prob- ably' won't have much success in Ontario in the federal vote. The party may hold its own in the north--where its representa- tives seem to be exceptional. But there has been no indica. tion its campaign is catching on except possibly in the isolated riding in the south. There were strong when Tommy Douglas took over the leadership, but he has gen- erally left the impression he has stepped up out of his class. SCIENCE ~ Vital Flow In Atlantic Topics this week: Gulf Stream lore, a chirping ra- diation detector and obsta- cles met by booster rockets. OCEANIC HIGHWAY The Gulf Stream is an oce- anic superhighway, the "most influential river in the ocean," says Dr. Donald J. Zinn, University of Rhode is- land zoologist. Each summer and early fall, it carries dozens of spe- cies of tropical fish northward from, the areas of Florida and Brazil into protected har- bors of Rhode Island Sound and the Woods Hole, Mass., region. They die when the temperature falls. Each year, millions of American and European eels, in larval stage, travel up from their common birthplace in the Sargasso Sea south- west of Bermuda. Carried northwest by the stream, young American eels veer northeast with the Gulf Stream and by the time they reach the young adult stage ---two years after the Euro- pean eels do -- they are off the coast of Europe. Although both types share the Gulf Stream highway, no American eel has ever been recognized in Europe, and no European eel has been re- corded in North America, Dr, Zinn writes in The Biologist magazine. WINS $60,000 RACE CHAINTILLY, France (AP F. Dupre's La Sega won Sun- day's $60,000 Prix de Diane, a 2,100-metre race for three-year- old fillies. La Sega, timed in 2:13.6, finished three lengths ahead of Salinas. Ouananiche was third. HEAD FOR THE SIGHTS... THE LAKES... THE FUN Know Ontario 'better... it's all yours! ONTARIO TRAVEL LITERATURE Mail to: Ontario Travel, AT02 Parliament Bidgs., Toronto, Ontarie RAME. @lesse prinQ f