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He RARE PTET ee ae _--s eesti She Oshawa Zines Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1962 -- PAGE 6 Canada Is Afflicted With Cult Of Chest There are people who can spend hours admiring the exquisite workman- ship of a well-constructed cedar chest; there are others who find themselves enraptured by the romance and beauty of a time-mellowed chest of oak built by the loving hands of a skilled medi- aeval craftsman; still others find no beauty to compare with that of a chest of gleaming silver or precious jewels. Says The Daily Packet and Times, Orillia: "Canadians are different. They, ap- parently, are convinced that nothing can compare with the unadormed masculine chest. Such at least is the impression to be gained during the months of summer heat when shirts vanish from young masculine torsos with magical rapidity and even more senior citizens are apt to display a large acreage of epidermis to the sun. "To the casual eye the chests thus exposed appear to possess no particu- lar traits of outstanding beauty and, indeed, to offer no obvious difference to the chest of Scots, Germans or Chinese. It may be that the initiated are able to detect something special about the Canadian chest. Otherwise there seems no particular excuse for the increasing display of this portion of the anatomy by adult males of the country. "Tf such special traits do exist it would be well for someone to explain just what it is that so distinguishes the Canadian chest and makes its public exhibition so admirable. Unless this is done thousands of members of generations older and more staid will continue to regard such exhibitionism as juvenile, unattractive and unneces- sary ,if not downright obvious. "Tt is only in very recent years that the practice of discarding the shirt at every conceivable opportunity has arisen. It began among manual labor- ers, spread to those in search of the popular sun tan, and now is prevalent among exhibitionists everywhere, so Can Tighten Some people feel that Canada can tighten its belt without getting hurt too badly. Canada has never known austerity in the manner that Britons were forced to tighten their belts during the Second World War and for a number of years following the end of the war. Other European countries also went through reconstruction per- iods in which it was essential that the people be limited to necessities. The Sudbury Star recently made some editorial observations on the subject saying: "Is this a period in which Canada must take a close look at its economy and implement measures to curtail government expenditures? Is it a per- iod in which Canadians must be pre- pared to tighten their belts a notch in order to relieve national economic stresses? "Tf the answer to these questions is in the affirmative we must also be prepared to enter a period of great political courage with bold decisions in regard to the national economy. 'n what fields can substantial savings be effected? "One field would appear to be that of price supports for food products. There seems to be little rhyme or rea- son behind a price support for butter, as one example. Over-production is encouraged ; the publicly-financed mar- ket is waiting to buy all of the sur- She Oshawa Zimes T. L. WILSON, Publisher C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times established 1871) and the itby Gozette ond hronicle (established 1863), is published daily (Sundays and 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 Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein. 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, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Duriborton, Enniskillen, Orono, Leskord, Brougham Burketon, Cloremont, 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 yeor Other Provinces ond Commonwealth Countries 15.00 U.S.A. ane Foreign 24.00, that shirtless young men drive cars, play golf, work and, presumably, eat and sleep stripped to the waist. "Just what those who indulge in the habit consider outstandingly at- tractive about an unclad torso gleam- ing with sweat or sun-tan oil, tanned to various degrees, frequently grim- ed from labor is difficult to decide. It: can scarcely be comfort for, apart from the excessive amount of skin made vulnerable to insect attack, there is the manner in which damp flesh adheres to leather and fabric, the vulnerability of unprotected skin to the searching temperature of chairs and car seats long exposed to the sun, and a variety of other discom- forts. "Nor is there any great aesthetic value in the unclad torso which, with only a few exceptions, is likely to be sunken-chested, angular and bony, shaggy with patches of coarse hair, padded with rolls of fat or pied with patches of peeling skin, in short, any- thing but a thing of beauty and joy forever. At a beach or swimming pool the imperfections of the masculine torso make little impression, for the indiv- idual is lost in the mass. But in an automobile parked on the main street, at the site of a contstruction job, any- where in public places, the sight of the bare male stomach and chest emerging from a pair of Bermuda shorts or dirt encrusted work trousers does nothing at all to improve the appearance of the landscape and is frequently a source of acute embar- rassment to. those who expect a reasonable. observance of the proper- ties. "There is justification for those who admire the cedar chest, the chest of ancient oak, or the chest of silver or jewellery. It is difficult to find a similar justification for the grow- ing Canadian preference for the chest of the human male." Our Belts plus. In some countries the surplus production is destroyed after being purchased from the growers; in others, growers are paid to keep land idle. In Canada, only the method is different. The effect on the expendi- ture of public funds is the same. "Another field that would call for courage and bold decision is that of family allowances. Government ex- penditure for family allowances in the fiscal year April 1, 1960 to March 31, 1961, totalled $506 million -- an in- crease of $15 million over the previous ' year. Should family allowances be dis- continued? Or paid subject to a means test? Are family allowances perform- ing the function for: which they were intended? The purpose, it will be re- called, was to assist parents to pro- vide necessities for their children. Frankly, one of the reasons family allowance cheques were made pay- able to mothers was to prevent the money from falling into the hands of fathers who might be tempted to spend the money in a beer parlor or horse parlor. The evidence is strong that family allowances have lost their meaning-- that the money paid out to each month is regarded as "found" money to be used in ways other than for the wel- fare of the child. Has any govern- ment the courage to bring family al- lowances under review with the object ' of saving millions of dollars annually? The public protest would be loud and clear, but can any $16,000-a-year father conscientiously argue he needs the monthly family allowance cheque? These are only two fields of govern- ment administration that could result in reduced government expenditures, There are many others. If Canada is feeling the pull of economic stress it becomes a matter of necessity that the government explore all possible ,8ources of reduced expenditure. Bible Thought What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts, -- Isaiah 3::15. God has a heart-concern for the poor and the underprivileged. YOUR HEALTH Can Overcome Calcium Fault By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, MD 'Dear Dr.,Molner: What food will counteract an over-amount of calcium and cholestero] in the body?--F.H." There aren't any foods to "counteract" calcium. If, at times, reduction of calcium is necessary, then it is simply a matter of avoiding, or cutting down, the foods which contain a lot of it. But this isn't often necessary; far more frequently the exact opposite is required. Indeed, some people wrongly assume that calcium is a nasty substance that is to be avoided. This is not so. The idea, no doubt, arises be- cause sometimes there are "calcium deposits" in one part of the body or another. "Spots" on the lungs are calcified areas, Creaky joints often have cal- cium deposits. Painful feet are another example -- "spurs" of calcium may form on the heel or elsewhere, and hurt. But none of this occurs be- cause the natient has, or is eat- ing, "too much calcium." Calcium is a vital ingredient in healing a wound or injury. If you cut your finger, calcium gathers there to form the scar tissue. Break a bone, and cal- cium is needed to make it knit. Damage a tendon, and again calcium helps. Infections and REPORT FROM U.K. Increase Power Of Magistrates By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent to The Oshawa Times LONDON -- Men and women magistrates throughout Great Britain are tc carry a larger part of the burden of tackling the proplems of crime, and are to have a new role in that branch of law enforcement. And by the same token, as a result of this,t he work of the high courts anc their judges will be considerably lessened. The pow- ers of punishment of magis- trates have been extended so that many more young crimin- als can be dealt with by them instead of being remitted to a higher court to appear before trial judges. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Kilmuir, has worked out this scheme for extending the pow- ers of magistrates. It is going into effect immediately, with the objective of speeding up the work of the courts in Britain- EXAMPLES OF CHANGE Here are a few examples of the change in procedure which has been ordered by the Lofd Chancellor, Prisoners accused of shop and office breaking, or being out at night with "jem- mies" or similar housebreaking implements in their possession, can now be tried and sentenced by their own local magistrates' courts. Prior to this change, such cases have compulsorily had to be sent for trial to Assize Courts of Quarter Ses- sions. ; An exception to this new rule is the charge of housebreaking, which must still be dealt with by a higher court. This is be- cause in such cases there is a possibi ity of an innocent house- wife being terrorized by a housebreaker TO SAVE POLICE TIME Sacrilege, indecent assault, the use of forged dbcuments, - and concealment of birth can also be dealt with more exten- sively by local magistrates. This. actioh, teken by the Lord Chancellor under an act of Par- liament designed to bring courts into line with modern needs, will free police officers from many time-wasting issues. It will also save the time of judges and juries at higher courts, and give greater scope to lay justices. FEED STATE Monrovia, capital of the Afri- can Negro republic of Liberia, was named after James Mon- roe, U.S. president who died in 1831. \ HIGHER SENTENCES For the 16,000 magistrates af- fected by the new scheme, it will mean that they can im- pose sentences up to. six months for these crimes, just as they can already do for les- ser offences. But if the crime is grave, or the accused person wishes to exercise his right to be tried before a jury, then he can still be committed for trial before a judge. J. F. Madden, secretary of the Magistrates' Association, says: "It is a great tribute to the lay justices that they have been given fresh powers. The pub- lic should benefit because ma- gistrates can deal in their courts with local offences of the types included, and so bring to bear their knowledve of their com- munity. "It will not mean more work for them because in any case they have had to sit taking de- positions in these cases so that they could be remitted to a higher court for trial." chronic irritations also need cal- cium for healing. Some people wonder why they get black and blue too easily -- and many times discover that they lack calcium. Some' minor bump damages a small blood vessel. In ordinary circumstances, it seals and heals quickly. But when calcium is: lacking the process is slow, blood seeps from the vessel into the tissues, and a black and blue spot re- sults, The blame for "calcium de- posits" should go where it be- longs. The injury caused the scar tissue and the calcium de- posits. The calcium was doing a useful and necessary job: Healing. If. the scar, or cal- cium happens to result in a lump that may be painful in certain instances, that is too bad. Sometimes surgery can re- store comfort. But do not make the mistake of starving your system for calcium. Faulty or slow healing would be the re- sult. As to cholesterol--well, some- what the same reasoning ap- plies. There aren't any foods that will 'counteract' exces- sive cholesterol, Rather, eating less. animal fat, and substituting the poly-unsaturated fats (prin- cipally fish oils and vegetable fats that have not been hydro- genated in preparation) may lessen the amount of choles- terol in your system, but this is because of what you don't eat, not because of what you do. "Dear Dr. Molner: Is it wise to have an operation for a pen- dulous abdomen? My doctor thinks I should, but I was talk- ing to a trained nurse and she thought I could reduce it by ex- oor What is your advice? ee When the condition is at the point at which surgery is sug- gested, there's precious little chance of correcting it by ex- ercise. The skin and other tis- sues have become so stretched that it would take years to make much progress by exer- cise. "Dear Dr. Molner: I have a skin rash which is hard to get rid of. Would a blood tonic help? E.S." The old idea of a spring or blood tonic rarely has anything to do with skin rashes. Even if the blood does happen to have any bearing on a particu- lar case, the first thing is to find out what kind of a rash it is. Consult your doctor. He may even want to send you to a skin specialist if it's a particularly stubborn rash. BY-GONE DAYS 20 YEARS AGO Leonard Coulson, of Rouge Hills, succeeded George L. Edmunds as manager of the Oshawa Employment and Claims Office of the Un- employment insurance Com- mission. Hon. Gordon D. Conant, attorney - general of Ontario, was the principal speaker at the Whitby Kinsmen Club Char- ter Night banquet. G. Alex Edmondstone, mayor of Bowmanville, was appointed an investigator for the Oshawa sub-regional offices of the War- time Prices and Trade Board. The contract for the dredg- ing of the Oshawa Harbor was awarded to a Toronto firm for the amount of $8,138. Miss Irene Brayley, of Whit- by, was chosen 'Miss Ajax" to represent Defence Industries, Limited, in the Miss War Worker contest at the Toronto Police Games at Exhibition Park, Toronto. The increased use of bicycles resulting from the restrictions on rubber and gasoline, was re- ported in Oshawa. The police department had issued over 3,000 licence plates as against 2,000 other years. Over 1400 children registered at the four supervised play- grounds, Cedardale, Rotary, Alexandra and Ritson, during their first week of operation. Plans were under way in Osh- awa for the organization of a branch of the Air Cadet League of Canada. Dr. O. G. Mills was chosen chairman and Alex G. Storie, vice-chairman, to head the local committee. Ezra M. Brown of Bowman- ville was elected District Dep- uty Grand Master for Ontario District at the 87th annual com- munication of the Grand Lodge of Canada in the Province of Cntario. City council refused a_re- quest for annexation of a small section of East Whitby Town- ship to the City of Oshawa. A shortage of beef and pork existed in the city. Cecil F. Cannon, formerly of Oshawa, was appointed as as- sistant chief inspector of Pub- lic and Separate Schools in the province. A proposed new public school was planned for Ajax. Wartime Housing Limited offered to build the school and make the large grant. Lancashire Spinners Ask Bars To Cheap Imports By ROD CURRIE MANCHESTER, England (CP)--In Lancashire, they used to say, the spinners and weavers worked until breakfast time for the home market and the rest of the day to supply the world. Those days when Lancashire cotton thread spun around the globe are gone forever, as much part of the past as the old spinning wheel by the cottage hearth,' the forerunner of an industry that grew to a world monopoly. Current ills from which many here feel the industry may never fully recover are 'caused by a series of events since the golden days of the49th century when Lancashire teXiles and thread accounted for nearly half Britain's exports, At the top of the list is the massive flow of cheap textiles from India, Pakistan, Hong Kong and other low-cost labor areas. These have swept away many of Britain's traditional markets and, because of Com- monwealth preferences, m'Mions of yards of imported cloth even find their way into the British market. There are controls on imports from stich countries as Japan but there are no tariffs or effective restrictions on imports from the Commonwealth. For instance, close to 40 per cent of the British demand for cotton cloth now is being met from Asian sources. In the United States and European countries, where there are restrictions, the proportion runs about two to 544 per cent. WANT IMPORTS :CUT As seen from cashire, the ans to emma is de ceptively simple: Cut imports, Canadian Skyline Dented By Team Of By JOE DUPUIS s MONTREAL (CP) -- Their obsession is to change the archi- "tectural face of Canada. Their pet word is "vigor.". Only nine years old, the 60- man Montrea' architectural firm Of Affleck, - Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, Sise such a mouthful. their recep- tionist answers calls by reciting the firm's phoné number -- already has made. monumental dents on the Canadian. skyline. The firm in the last five years has completed $13,723,000 worth of contracts ranging from the $4,300,000 Vancouver Civic Theatre to $700,000 apartment blocks in Oromocto, N.B. Currently, it is engaged in projects worth $106,480,000, from the $80,000,000 Place Ville Marie, a commercial develop- ment in the heart of Montreal, to a $4,000,000 humanities build- ing for McGill University. Seven-time winner of major contracts in competition with Canada's finest architects, its most recent and most highly prized award was the selection of their model for a Confedera- tion Memorial in Charlottetown. ALL ARE BILINGUAL Credit for the firm's lively, Canadian - type of American frontiersmanship rests with the five partners who roam around their fourth-floor office in the downtown Dominion Square Building with eyes flashing, shirt sleeves rolled up and arms waving. The partners are Raymond T. Affleck, 40, Penticton, B.C.; Guy Desbarats, 37, Montreal; Dimitri Dimakopoulos, 33, Athens, Greece; Fred Leben- sold, 45, Warsaw, Poland, and Hazen Sise, 56, Montreal. All speak at least two languages, French and English, and Mr. Lebensold is fluent also in Pol- ish and German. Mr. Affleck -- "my name is first among' the partners be- cause it starts with A"--says: "We take a very strong and rigorous attitude about the qual- ity of work we do. "We go further than just create a model, or a design. We apply ourselves to the develop- ment of the whole area, streets, plazas .. . even the whole countryside."' : He and his partners look upon themselves as architectural pio- neers. "Now don't get us wrong," says Mr, Affleck. We're not torch-bearers, We're only inter- ested in doing what we feel we must do." ONLY A START Mr. Lebensold says the prob- lem is "changing the attitude in Canada toward building rather than the building itself." : "The important thing is to do something outstanding, to do something to help this vigorous attitude take fire across the country. We think we're making a good start. But it's only a start." The firm's big 'break' came in 11955 when its design, con- sidered daring, for the Vancou- ver Civic Theatre, won a nation- wide contest. It now is building four such theatres because of the award. In Charlottetown, their model for a cultural and social centre provided some special prob- lems. Guy Desbarats said the prob- lem was to reconcile "a big idea with a fairly small setting." He said the design, with a central TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS July 17, 1962... Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan, 31-year-old trans- port pilot and airplane: tech- nician, flew his $900 single- engine plane from New York to Dublin 24 years ago today--in 1938. Corrigan cov- ered the 3,150 miles in 28 hours, 13 minutes. On ar- rival in Ireland he said it was all a mistake--he had thought he was flying to California. 1945--Prime Minister Churchill, President Truman and Premier Stalin met at Potsdam, Germany, to draw up Allied policy for the aftermath of the Second World War. 1793 -- Charlotte Corday went to the guillotine for the assassination of French revolutionist Jean Paul Ma- rat. Architects glass-roofed forum : surrounded by a cluster of small buildings, was intended to express the idea of the earliest -Canadian skies, : Mr.. Lebensold said the firm had to create a model around an existing Parliament. building which was a national shrine." (The -idea of a federation of Canadian provinces first took root in a meeting in the Parlia- ment Building's Red Chamber.) "Our model was accepted be- cause. it respected this vener- able, national. shrine." Mr. Dimakopoulos is in charge of the Charlottetown project which starts in the fall and will take about 16 months to com- plete. MET AT MCGILL The partners met at McGill University where they occasion- ally lectured, All had small but thriving practices of their own. They decided to get together because of their joint obsession with the need for architectural reform in Canada. Mr, Affleck graduated from McGill in 1947 and did post- graduate studies at the Federal Technical Institute in. Zurich, Switzerland. He has won three awards for architectural de- Signs, including the Lieutenant- Governor's silver medal. Mr. Desbarats, a 1948 McGill graduate, is also a three-time prize winner who worked four years in Ottawa, was an adviser in experimental laboratory courses at Lake Forest, Ill., and in Virginia, and conducted a study on post - war multiple dwellings in Montreal with a Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation grant. Mr. Dimakopoulos picked up a degree in architecture from McGill in 1955 after graduating from the University of Athens. Mr. Lebensold, educated in Poland and England, practised in Scotland and London, won several awards in Britain, and did design work on military establishments in the Second World War, Mr. Sise studied in Paris and practised in New York, London and Ottawa before joining the firm. The firm's three key associ- ates are A. B. Nichol, 39, New Mills, N.B.; L. P. Sankey, 28, Montreal and J. McMillan, 33, Glasgow, Scotland. forum ~ under oe from Commonwealth coun- es. But for the government the problem is a knotty one. From, the official point of view, it is illogical to pump aid into these underdeveloped countries, to train them to make things economically and efficiently, and then refuse to buy their products, : The Lancastrians' answer is that this, then, is a national responsibility and it is not fair for one industry to shoulder the whole burden. . There is considerable sym- pathy for this argument and a growing feeling that other coun- tries should do more to help the Asian industries. Commented the Financial Times: "The issues are too large for Britain to solve them on her own, since what is needed is not more protectionism by this country but more liberalism by others."" Some move along these lines may come out of the negotia- tons towards an nternational cotton agreement now taking place in Geneva. The mill people, faced with a losing battle, feel confident they still can lick any industry in the world on the basis of quality. For this reason there is a strong segment of public opinion here eager for Britain to enter the Common Market, GOVERNMENT IMPATIENT This, they say, wouid auto- matically limit cheap Common- - wealth imports and put the Lan- cashire industry nose - to - nose with the quality producers on the Continent. Meanwhile, the 'government, which three years ago devised a plan to help the mills, is show- ing signs of impatience with the cotton men on the grounds they are not doing enough to help themselves, Recently 3,700 Lancashire people--executives, mill hands and factory girls in their best walking-out clothes -- went by bus to London for a march on the House of Commons. It was all for naught and a few days later the government announced that the present agreements on cotton imports would stand for another three years at least-- unless Britain enters the Euro- pean Economic Community in the meantime. The idea behind the govern- ment's 23,000,000, fve - year plan was to put the efficient firms on their feet, to let the poor ones go down the drain and generally to cull the indus- try down to a viable size. The frst phase went well, wth many inefficient and outdated firms--just about on the rocks anyway--eager to pick up gov- ernment compensation money to close down. But the second part, re-equipping mills with modern machinery, has stalled. "New equipment costs a lot of money even with government assistance," said one mill owner. 'And, to tell the truth, we just haven't got much con- fidence in the future of the industry." PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM Now it is being said that an atomic war would kill most of the birds, but few insects, and the latter would soon take over the world. 0, lack of Bomb Shelter, where is thy sting? A psychologist says worry kills only fools. If so, it takes it a terribly long time to do so in most cases, which is a great pity. GALLUP POLL Devaluation's Impact Clear And Depressing By The Canadian Institute of Public Opinion (World Copyright Reserved) Impact on the voters of Can- ada's dollar devaluation in the early days of the election cam- paign was clear-cut and de- pressing) A majority in the massive ranks of Labor almost half the total electorate --thought pegging the dollar at 9214 cents would be bad thing for Canada. Only among own- ers, executives and the profes- sions was there even a fairly close ratio between those who thought it a bad thing (43 per cent) and those who felt the result would be good for Can- ada (32 per cent) In the other occupational segments, disap- proval {ar out-ranked approval. On the national average it was at an almost two to one ratio. Interviewers for the Gallup NATIONAL .ceccccccscesces Professional, owners and executives Sales, Clerical and White collar Labor Farmers eeeeeecorcocsoses Poll put two questions to the electorate as part of its pre- election studies. "Do you happen to have heard or read anything about the devaluation of the Canadian dollar -- that>is, peg- ging it at 924% cents?" : Practically everyone knew something of the event, Pct. Yes, have heard ...... 90 No, have not ....sseecees 10 100 Interviewers asked those who had read or heard of the de- valuation, a second question: "On the whole, do you think this will prove a good thing for Canada or not a. good thing?" Columns below compare re- action of the nation as a whole with citizens in the main occu- pational groups. Good Bad Thing Thing 25% 48% Qualified or No Opinion 27% LiGHTES' the 1] IW world a