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-- She Oshawa simes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1962-- PAGE 6 Protests Show Concern Of Ontario's Teachers' The recent outcry of Ontario Col- lege of Education students at Kings- ton against their program of teacher- training is another in a long series of outbursts against the OCE and stodgy insistence on unimaginative methodology. It is significant that the sharpest criticism of teacher-training has come from teachers themselves, while the system has been most warmly defen- ded by those involved in the adminis- trative side of education. There is likely to be more rather than less criticism. Paul Merkley, of the Uni- versity of Toronto's department of history, has made this observation: "We can expect more protests of the Kingston sort, not because the quality of teachers is declining, but because it is markedly improving. This began when the postwar baby boom got to the high schools, and the keep- ers of the kingdom were forced to provide summer courses. Hundreds of persons who knew enough of OCE's reputation to stay away from the "wasted year" were prepared to chew their lips through two summer cours- es. The concern of teachers about the method and matter of teacher- training is warmly encouraging. The purposes and accomplishments of school systems are being probed and challenged as never before; the physi- cal demands on education, in the way of facilities, are enormous, but they are not greater than the intellectual demands. The school systems face the challenge of a society that impera- tively demands more skills, more dis- ciplined thinking -- and the challenge cannot be met by systems that stifle the enthusiasm and dull the imagina- tion of the teachers. We hope the teachers keep chall- enging and needling the "methodolo- gists". Our system needs the yeast of challenge and criticism. Population Problems Some shocking figures were released last week by the Bureau of Statistics at Ottawa. A Bureau re- port said the natural increase in Can- ada's population during the 12 months ending June 1 was "about 335,000", but the estimated total gain in popu- lation was 332,000, or 3,000 less than the natural increase. A DBS official said that total im- migration in the 12 months to June 1 was about 70,000, while total emigra- tion neared 72,000 or 73,000. He said latest estimates are that some 45,- 000 Canadians moved to the United States, another 12,000 went to Britain by boat and 15,000 left: for other countries. The estimates do not 'in- clude those who went to Britain by air; those figures are not available. It is safe to say that a high pro- portion, probably a majority, of the 45,000 who emigrated to the United States had special skills or training, just as it is safe to say that a high proportion of the 70,000 who immi- grated had no~special skills. Some weeks ago. the Economics and Re- search Branch of the federal Depart- ment of Labor had this to say: "Looking at the outflow of Can- adian professionals to the U.S., there is no denying that this movement con- stitutes a severe loss of Canadian talent and ability. The loss of a Can- adian professional is not necessarily offset by the gain of a qualified pro- fessional from Europe or elsewhere since we are losing a worker who is acclimatized to this country and who is familiar with Canadian industrial techniques and ways of doing things". At that time the Financial Post commented: "Clearly Canada has neit- her the educational facilities nor the reservoir, of talent to do this for leng and hope to survive with distinction ... There is, in a free society, only one way to keep Canadians at home and to attract talented outsiders. It is this. Get this country back on the rails to rapid growth. That is the big- gest challenge before this country -- : and very much the business of all the politicians, whatever their party pol- ities". Preserving The Image If you were a lawyer in British Columbia, you could steal from a client and be disbarred by the pro- vincial law society without having your misdeeds publicized. Your case might go before the courts, but you would appear only as "Lawyer A" or 'Lawyer B". You would enjoy this protection not afforded to lesser mor- tals because you had been a member of that tight little union, a law socie- ty. "Vancouver courts upheld a rul- ing of the Law Society of British Col- umbia that one of their members should be disbarred because he had been proven a thief. But the people of British Columbia will never know the man's name because the lawyers got permission of the courts to re- fer to him simply as 'Lawyer A". One judge even expressed the opinion that news media could be held in contempt of court if they used the lawyer's name -- an opinion that we doubt would be sustained by a superior court. Professional societies have a childish habit of doing this sort of thing. "We'll look after our own", they say, "We'll do our own policing." She Oshawa Simes T. L. WILSON, Publisher C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and hronicle (established 1863), is published daily (Sundays ond statutory holidays excepted) Members of Cana: Daily Pul Association. The Canadian Press, Audit Bureou of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Doilies Asso~ ciation, The Canadian Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of ali news despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, ond also the local news published therein. All rights of special despotches ore 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, Frenchmon's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunborton Enniskillen, Orono, Leskord, Broughom Burketon, Claremont, Colurnbus, Greenwood, Kirisale, Raglon Blackstock, Manchester Pontypool and Newcostle, not over 45¢ per week. By mail (im Province of Ontario) outride carriers delivery areas 12.00 per year Other Provinces ond Commonwecith Countries 15. USA. ang Foreign 24.00, ed The result of such secrecy usually is damaging to the public interest. The public has'a right to know all about thieves, be they ditch diggers, doc- tors, lint pickers or lawyers. The prac- tice of law confers no immunity on a lawyer. Indeed, it could be argued that the penalties for breaking the law should be heavier when the offender is one versed in the law and under oath to use it in the interests of justice. In the long run, of course, the folly of such secrecy is apparent. The Vancouver newspapers ran the stories about "Lawyer A", and all their rea- ders immediately began speculating about his identity, and all the city's lawyers became suspect. The Law So- ciety's purpose may have been tv pro- tect the "image" of the legal profes- sion, but it's stupid course of action had exactly the opposite effect. Other Editors' Views BRUSSELS TALK (Brandon Sun) It can... be said that on the out- come of the Brussels negotiations, which are deceptively undramatic, depends to a greater degree than most people here realize, the future course of mankind's. destiny. For should the Brussels attempt to lay the foundation for an effective unifi- cation of Western Europe fail, the close co-operation of the Atlantic core of Western civilization, indispensable, for stemming the tide of Communist aggressiveness, will remain an un- attainable dream. Bible Thought The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night. -- II. Peter 3:10. Sooner or later there will be a Final Judgment in which men must give an account of their deeds to God. Where will we stand in the Judgment? GIVE A MAN A HORSE HE CAN RIDE REPORT FROM U.K. Protiteering Seen On Council Houses By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times CHINGFORD, Essex -- Charges of flagrant profiteering by former 'council house tenants who bought their homes from the town council and are now re-selling them at huge profits threaten to bring to an end the system of allowing such tenants to buy the houses fey are occupying The Chingford council has been operating a_tenant-pur- chaser scheme which makes . it possible for sitting council ten- ants to bu ytheir homes at nom- inal prices, and to reccive a 100 per cent advance from the coun- cil in order to buy the houses in yhid) they are living. The one stipulation is that they cannot se] these houses within five years of the time of purchase, but at the end of that period are free to do so. HUGE PROFITS Some of the profits made on these houses at the expiry of the five-year period have been astronomical. In ome case, a house was sold to a tenant in 1957 for $3,600. The tenant has just sold it for $10,425. Other cases have been revealed in which the former tenants have made profits of $5,100 to $5,400 on the homes they bought from the council. The facts concerning t hese sales have been presented to the town council by the town clerk, Clive Dennis, in a confi- dential report. The ,"'profiteer- ing" by one-time tenants has in- spired a new Socialist attack on the Ratepayers' As jon ma- rity in the council, and its licy of selling council houses at low prices. A Labor demand that the house sales be stopped entirely was rejected by the council. SALES DEFERRED As a result of the town clerk's report on the large profits made by 15 former tenants who have re-sold their houses after the five year no-sale. per'cd had ex- pired, however, the council has deferred consideration of a new batch of applications to buy from present council tenants. Meanwhile, the town clerk is seeking information the minister of housing and local government. He is asking if the present no-sale period of five years can be extended to a longer period, and is also seek- ing general information on coun- cil house sales in other munici- palities. LAND BOUGHT CHEAPLY Mrs. Joyce L. Jacobs, a So- cialist councillor, has accused the council of selling the free. hold of land which it acquired cheaply after the war, by com- pulsory purchase. "That is the land on which the property we have been sell- ing is built,' she charged the council, "What can we do to re- place it? We have been s'cadily getting nid of these valuable im- vestments which we made after, the war, and replacing them by providing homes at astronomical rents." Council leader Alderman C. P. W. Poulter has assured the council that the whole question of house sales is to be reviewed by the finance committee. He reported that omly 143 of the council's 1,380 houses in the community had been sold to tenants. QUEEN'S PARK Pressure To Test Drugs On Ottawa By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--A wrong impres- sion may have been left here yesterday. The province does have SOME control over the sale of drugs. Through the Pharmacy Act it sets out schedules of drugs which must be sold by pre- scription, and further conditions of sale. This, however, could have had no application in the thalido- mide case. It had been approved by Ot- tawa and was a prescription drug. The approval was the nub of the matter. Ontario's efforts to get stronger control therefore may centre on pressure on Ottawa. Undoubtedly there will be at least a demand in the legisla- ture next session that the fed- eral government should do its own testing of new drugs. (It must have been startling to many to discover that there is no such testing now--that ap. proval is given on the basis of missions. Though here some in- ternational agency, rather than a national body, would seem to be called for.) In practical terms it is 'diffi- cult to see where very much can be done by the province alone. TIGHTEN UP There will be house-cleaning here, of course Much more attention wil] be paid to the control legislation we do have in the future. There has not been aggressive administration of this. The schedules in the Phar- macy Act haven't been changed in four years, for example. But the basic job will remain Ottawa's. URANIUM PACT Just what could Ottawa do? This is the reaction here on the government side to the U.K. uranium agreement. The opposition, of course, will be more critical. Nobody can say they are really happy about the agree- ment. It is much lower than the original terms. But it will keep Elliot Lake and the other uranium commu- nities at least breathing for a while. And in the meantime there can be hope, no matter how small, that other developments will bring about a new life for the uranium towns, Much as industry is criticizing the new pact there is the basic fact ment was on the spot. When the original conditions were laid down there was a scarcity of uranium in the world. Now it is available. If the, U.K, didn't want to buy what could we do but stress that there was a moral obliga- tion? In these days when morals aren't too high among nations, as elsewhere, perhaps we were lucky to get any agreement at all. that the federal govern- BY-GONE DAYS 25 YEARS AGG A total of 8,485 books were borrowed from the Oshawa Pub- lic Library during the month of July Ralph Schofield and J. Stuart won the "A"' Class title by tak- ing two out of. three races at the Oshawa Yachr Club. Several Oshawa delegates at- tended the first annual conven- tion of the Brotherhood of Ukrainian Youth of Eastern Canada in Toronto. Dr. R. E. Cox opened an of- fice for the practice of general dentistry in. Oshawa. Rotary handed Kiwanis their second successive defeat to take the 1937 Juvenile Baseball Championship. Jack McKay, RR 2, Whitby, was the winner of a Ford coach drawn for at the Whitby Street Fair. Oshawa stood first among the smaller cities of Canada in the number of loans placed under the Home Improvement Plan. Up to the end of June 150 bank loans worth $36,762 were nego- tiated by Oshawa citizens. D. J. Brown, local. jeweller, remodelled his store property on Simcoe street south, dividing it into two stores, The Ontario Regiment's train- ing at Niagara camp was dif- ferent from former years, when the attention was given to ma- chine-gun and revolver practice and anti-gas work. Smashing a window at the local CNR station, three rob- bers held up Eccles Joynt, night operator, at the point of a gun and escaped with about $55 in cash. A community excursion was planned across Lake Ontario on steamer "Ontario No. 1" for a grand picnic at Niagara Falls. Mayor John Stacey was among the party to make the trip: The revenue from dog licences reached a new high of $4,000 in Oshawa. Approximately 1,250 tags were issued including 15 kennel licences. A prized trophy was won by Jim McClelland, vice - commo- dore of the Oshawa Yacht Club, who matched his skill against prominent Ontario sailors in competition through the prov- TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Aug. 8, 1962... The drive that broke the back of German resistance in the First World War was launched 44 years ago to- day--in 1918 -- at Amiens, France, by Marshal Foch's armies. Canadians played a leading role in the Battle of Amiens, described by Ger- man Gen. Ludendorff as the blackest day of the war for the Kaiser's armies. 1863 -- Angus McAskill, known as the Cape Breton giant, died at St. Anne, N.S. He was said to have been seven - foot - nine and 400 pounds. 1815--Napoleon sailed for St. Helena to begin his exile. STONE HUNTERS Beachcombers along the Ore- gon coast seek carnelian, sage- nite and other agate stones which can be made into semi- precious stones. OTTAWA REPORT Erosion Of French ~ Revealed By Census By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--The increase of the minority racial groups within our population is gradually eroding the French - Canadian language. This conclusion announces it- self inescapably from the fig- ures just released by the census division of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics here, covering the languages spoken by Canadians. The census take last year re- vealed that the number of Ca- nadians whose mother tongue is neither English nor French had increased substantially since the 1951 census. On that earlier date, 1,659,770 Canadians claimed as their mother tongue neither of our two official lan- guages. Ukrainian was the lan- guage of the largest group, closely followed by German. But this latest census, taken last year, showed that 2,454,562 Canadians claimed a mother tongue other than English or French. This increase repre- sented a slight growth from 11.7 to 13.4 per cent of the popula- tion. KNOW OFFICIAL LANGUAGE Of our two official tongues, English is spoken by 67.2 per cent of Canadians, French by 19.0 per cent, and both these languages. by 12.2 per cent. That leaves 13 Canadians in every 1,000 who speak neither English nor French. These figures reflect a slight swing away from use of the French language, as proportion- ately fewer Canadians can speak French alone or French and English; but a slightly larger proportion can speak English only, of our two official languages. Familiarity with both our of- ficial languages is substantially higher in Quebec than in any other province. One Quebecker in every four in bilingual; and this is three times the propor- tion attained by Ontario. Twelve per cent of Quebeckers can speak English but not Students Beat High Car Rate By WALTER HAYES HALIFAX (CP)--Students in -four Nova Scotia high schools have found a way to beat high insurance rates for teen-age drivers. They have passed spe- cial driver education courses. Numbering more than 250 dur- ing the last five years, the stu- dents qualify for a 10-per-cent reduction in insurance rates be- cause of the favorable highway safety record set by graduates of the course. Lawrence M. Delbridge, man- ager of the Nova Scotia High- ways Safety Council, describes the record as "'amazing.' "There has yet to be a report- able accident involving a stu- dent who has completed the course." The program got off to a slow start in Digby in 1958 and con- tinued as a pilot course for two years before it was discon- tinued. Mr. Delbridge said the reason was that the school board feared the course might affect normal studies. A year later the course was tried by high schools in Truro and Kentville where it proved successful. During the school year just past Springhill and Brookfield high schools adopted the program. This fall another six schools are expected to join. LEARN THEORY ; The course consists of 16 hours of classroom study of highway regulations, safety rules and theory. The students get 10 hours of practical driving. "The instructors work on the principle that anyone can drive a car but not everybody has the proper driving attitude," said Mr. Delbridge. "By the time the students finish the course any inclination they had toward cow- boy antics has been displaced by pride in their ability." The six-week course is op- tional and is conducted after student to pay instructors. All cars are equipped with seat belts. The instructors are teachers who have taken a rigid training course, This summer 23 Nova Scotia high school teachers are attending the training course for Maritime teachers at the Uni- versity of New Brunswick, Fred- ericton. : PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM All work and no play makes Jack -- most of which the per- son who made it spends in later years trying to regain his health which he lost by working too hard. "Legs are an important part of the. female figuye,"' says a beauty exper, Ygerindeed And two.plus two is'four, and water runs downhil] every chance it gets. . Many a persor' refuses to ac- cept any fact or evidence that doesn't fit the pattern of his prejudices, A man told the court he beat his wife because she didn up- braid him for coming home drunk. A man weuld much rath- er argue with his wife than with his conscience. French; the overspil! of French- Canadians into New Brunswick is reflected by the still compar- atively low percentage of 62 there who speak English but not French. in our other prov- inces, the percentage who thus speak English. only, of our two official languages, ranges from 89 in Ontario to 98 in Newfound- land. Prince Edward Island boasts the lowest provincial total of citizens who can speak neither French or English, namely 176; Ontario predictably boasts the largest--nearly 100,000. But it is Manitoba which has the largest percentage in this cate- gory, with 2 in every 100 Mani- tobans speaking neither of our official languages. ALL OUR LANGUAGES Metropolitan Montreal con- tains more bilingual Canadians than any other city; while Met- tropoliton Toronto contains more residents who can speak neither English nor French than any other city or county in Canada. The "true - blue' county of Carleton, Ontario offers a curi- osity. The electoral constituency of Carleton, which almost coin- cides with the county, is known 'as Canada's most Cosservative seat, and has never failed to send a Conservative M.P. to Parliament. Yet it rates highest in Canada in the Tower of Babe} stakes, excluding our two huge cities. Carleton boasts more English - French bilingualism even than Quebec City; it houses more people who can speak neither language than Sudbury or Thunder Bay--but is narrowly nosed out in this re- spect by Kenora. _ Purists might comment that Statistics such as these take no account of linguistic skill. Mr. John A. Dunn of Westmeath, Ont., recently wrote me an in- teresting letter along this line, in which he complained justifi- ably that "listening to our TV and radio, one finds that their English language is below ordi- nary standards in pronuncia- tion." At least. the CBC might be expected to strive to main- tain correct and consistent pro- nunciation; many would agree with Mr. Dunn that it fails. Some might even go so far as a prominent Quebecker who re- cently confided to me his find- ings that, whereas the French spoken in his province is fre- quently terrible--"joual", it has been called, the English spoken in Ontario is just as often just as terrible in grammar, vocabu- lary and accent. FREAK STORM Ontario forestry officials say a rare hail storm in the Gerald- ton district peppered trees with shotgun-like holes and indenta- tions. YOUR HEALTH Stones In Kidney And Gall Bladder By Joseph G, Molner, MD "Dear Dr. Molner: What causes gall and kidney stones? --H.H.' They aren't the same thing and don't necessarily occur in the same individual, although a person may be unlucky enough to have both. "Stones'"' of one kind or an- other can form in any gland which secretes fluid through a duct. But the gall bladder (or its duct) and the kidney (or the' ureter or bladder) are the places where' stones are most often found. Taking them sep- arately: Gall Stones: The gall bladder is a resrvoir for bile, that use- ful fluid manufactured by the liver and used for digesting food. Bile contains many things: bile salts, pigments, cholesterol, calcium salts and lesser items, and like any liquid in which a good deal of material is dis- solved, it is easy for the ingre- dients to begin to crystalize. Just as rain snow or hail can form around invisibly small particles of dust in the atmos- phere, crystals can form in the gall bladder--and then grow. Sluggish action of the gall biad- der, changes in the complicated chemistry, or infection all are likely contributing causes. The "stones'" can vary from sand - like particles (called "gravel") to quite substantial size. The material varies, how- ever..Some. contain mixtures of bile acids and calcium salts; some may be pure cholesterol. Oddly, cholesterol stones do not form in animals; lime stones do not form in humans-- or rarely do. There is investi- gation aimed at discovering some way to dissolve stones, but without pracitcal success so far. Some animal bile dissolves human gall stones in laboratory test tubes, but there is no prac- tical way of introducing this into a human gall bladder. So we wait, study and hope. Kidney stones: These form in much the same way, encour- aged by impaired drainage, in- fection or changes in the urine. Here, however, the materials are different: Uric acid, oxal- ates, cystine, phosphates and the like are present. While there doesn't seem to be much we can do to prevent gall stones, there are usfeul measures in the case of kidney stones: prompt treatment of any infection; surgical or other correction of any interference with proper drainage. Keeping the urine dilute is wise because crystals then form less easily. But back to gall stones. They occur about four times as often in woman as in man, and preg- nancy undoubtedly has some- thing to do with this. Likewise the stones are more likely to appear, or at any rate to make themselves known, as we get on in life. "Dear Dr. Molner: My heart beats fast then skips. Is this dangerous?. I smoke a lot and drink a lot of coffee. Could this have anything to do with it?-- Mrs. G.L.T." You put your own finger on two of the commonest causes of such irregular heart beats, It's not "dangerous" in ordin- ary circumstances, but it's a warning that you'll be better off to reduce the smoking and coffee. "Dear Dr. Molner: Does grapefruit create an acid in the system that aggravates arthri- tis?--Mrs, F.C." Absolutely not. You can eat any of the citrus 'fruits, and while they are "'acid" when be- ing eaten, they have an alkali residue after being digested. In fact, there isn't any food that harms ordinary arthritis, so long as you eat a well-balanced diet. Gouty arthritis may be aggravated by certain purine foods. take pleasure Announcement A. E. LePage Ltd. 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