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She Oshawa Cimes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1962,--- PAGE 6 Municipal Amendment Could Bring Injustice An amendment to the Municipal Act now being studied by a select 'committee of the Ontario Legislature would disqualify from public office any person who is "a director, man- ager, secretary, treasurer, secretary- treasurer or agent or has a controling interest" in any incorporated comp- any having dealings with a munici- pality. The purpose seems honest enough, as an attempt to resolve the old, thorny problem of conflict of interest in public office, But it is a particularly clumsy attempt. It is, in fact, a denial of civil rights, and is clearly based on the unwarranted assumption that all persons in positions of business re- sponsibility are dishonest. If the principle of the amendment were extended to its logical end, there would be mighty few people available for public office. Everybody con- nected with real estate and building would be barred, because they might profit from knowledge of land trans- fers, development, zoning changes and so on, Lawyers would be barred because they might become involved in municipal legal business. Chartered accountants would be obvious sus- pects. One could go on and on. The right to run for office is:as basic in our system as the right to vote, and it is as dangerous to tamper with the one as with the other. Be- sides, no one has yet succeeded in legislating sin and greed out of exist- ence. -An alert electorate is the best watchdog of public interest -- an electorate that insists on municipal affairs being conducted at open meet- ings and not behind closed doors. Councillors who do not disqualify themselves from voting when a con- flict of interest is suggested can be punished. The alert electorate can see to that. Get Rid Of The Sons The Sons of Freedom Doukho- bors have never been a joke to the people of British Columbia, but until fairly recently they have not meant much more to the rest of Canada than a subject for amusing conver- sation and broad humor. Now, how- ever, the people outside British Col- umbia are beginning to realize what the residents of interior B.C. in par- ticular have known all along: The Sons, far from being funny charac- ters with a yen for arson and nudity, are dangerous fanatics who constant- ly endanger not only their own pro- perty and lives but the lives and pro- perty of hundreds of innocent men, women and children who have done nothing to harm the Douks. They have destroyed railway tracks and power lines, planted bombs in freight cars, elevators and ferries. Many of them have gone to jail -- and their wives promptly be- gan disrobing and setting fire to their houses in protest against the prison sentences. They tried to de- grade a political meeting by taking off their clothes and parading their gross flesh. For 63 years federal and provin- cial authorities have treated the Sons with great consideration. The reaction of the Sons has been abuse for kindness, violence for justice. Now it's time to get tough with them, really tough. Jailed Sons are on a hunger strike. Well, if they want to starve them- selves to death, let them. They refuse to do the chores necessary in prison, then let them starve in their own filth. In the meantime, a search should be made for a remote, secure area to which the-Sons can be transported, bag and baggage, and left to their own devices. Possibly an island in the Queen Charlottes would serve. It would be an area in which they could burn and blow up things to their hearts' content, without endangering the lives and livelihood of others, Basic rations could be provided from time to time, if that were necessary. But let's put them in isolation, as we would other dangerously deranged persons. Economic Union Again President N. R. Crump recently expressed the belief that economic integration of Canada with the United States is inevitable. The idea is cer- tainly not a new one, but significantly it has not aroused the howls of pro- tests that followed earlier suggestions that Canadian - American economic union might be a good thing. Canada's adverse balance of payments, caused largely by our trade and financial dealings with the United States, and our precarious position on a world of growing trade blocs, have imposed a measure of caution even on extreme economic nationalists. A more modest proposal than Mr. Crump's comes from C. R. Widman, prominent Canadian lumber whole- saler, who has suggested a Canadian- American customs union -in forest products. But even Mr. Widman's idea reveals that in an economic union of any sort, more than economics is in- volved, For example, Canada has de- valued and pegged the dollar; and the Americans have restrictions on coastal shipping -- cargoes originat- ing in a US. port have to be carried in U.S. ships for delivery to another The Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawo Times {estoblished 1871} and the Whitby Gazette and Chronicie (established 1863), is published daily (Sundays and statutory holidays excepted) Members of Canadian Daily Newspoper 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 aiso the local news published therein. All rights of speciol despatches 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, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton; Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Orono, Leskerd, Brougham Burketon, Claremont, Columbus, Greenwood, Kinsole, Raglan. Blackstock, Manchester. Pontypool and Newcastle, not over 45¢ per week. By mail (in Province of Ontario) outride corriers delivery areas 12.00 per yeor Other Provinces ond Commonwealth Countries 15.00 U.S.A, ane Foreign 24.00, U.S. port. Thus regional as well as national politics are involved. Britain has discovered that mem- bership in the European Common Market must involve a certain degree of political union with Western Europe. It is difficult to see how any substantial economic integration be- tween Canada and the United States could be achieved without the building of an enormous pull towards some measure of political integration as well. Perhaps Canada's political insti- tutions are strong enough to with- stand that pull. But in any case, the proposals for integration have enough sense in them to warrant careful, rational and not emotional appraisal. Other Editors' Views CLEANEST INDUSTRY (Windsor Star) There is one industry which has no chimneys belching forth soot and grime. That is the tourist industry. The only nasty exhalations are those of the automobiles cluttering our highways or of the boats on our lakes and rivers. Fortunately the fresh breezes of the countryside soon blow these away. The phrase "chimneyless industry" as applied to tourism has come to us via Mexico, a country where this industry is an integral and most im- portant part of the economy. Tourism certainly ranks among the cleanest of all industries. Bible Thought Though it tarry, wait for it. -- Hab- akkuk 2:3. Have patience. Patience is not in- difference. Patience may denote great faith in God. If-we wait on Him, He will, in His own good time, do what is best for us. we Keep "TRYING TO MEET HIM HALFWAY THE MAN WHO CAN HIT A FLY IN SPACE YOUR HEALTH Answer To Weight 4 the ner at night, Some at lunch take liquid plus low - calorie _ roughage such as a lot of celery or raw cabbage. « In Balariced Diet By Joseph G. Molner, MD "Dear Dr. Molner: I would like to tell you of my exper- ience--it may be helpful to some of your readers. I have been a 'fatty' all my life, but I recently went to the doctor be- cause I felt plain tired and de- pressed. He gave me a balanced diet to follow. On 1,700 calories a day I have lost 35 pounds (I was over 200) and it feels as though I am eating more than I ever have in my life. Best of all, I like eating thus, without all the starches as before. Mrs. B." We usually believe that some- thing less than 1,700 calories is necessary for marked weight reduction, but Mrs, B. probably is rather active--and the proof is in what the scales say. She had, in the past, she said, skipped meals day after day, hoping to lose weight. She failed All she did was stop gaining. For her (and for a good many others), switching to a balanced diet can make a world of dif- ference, Meat, vegetables, fruit, cereals, dairy products give what you need for strength and vigor. The starchy foods, which are so tasty and go down so fast when you eat them (white flour products, spaghetti, pastry of all kinds, the not-so-innocent sandwiches, candy, pies, pudd- ings, etc.) pack on a surprising number of pounds. Don't sell the plain old bal- anced diet short until you have really tried it! 'Dear Doctor: Do you con- sider the liquid diets for weight control safe? If so, how many meals a day should they replace?" Yes, most of these liquid diets are safe. They have enough pro- tein, vitamins have been added, and starch and fats are low in quantity. As a matter of fact the orig- inal purpose of these liquids was to give invalids some extra nourishment that could be eaten easily even if the appetite was poor or chewing.and swallowing difficult. Now flavors have been added, and packaging is in convenient form so by reading the label you know how much to eat. (Don't make the mistake, there- fore, of eating these liquid diets in addition to a regular reduc- ing diet. Take it instead!) You can eat all three meals a day in this liquid form, but that gets pretty tiresome. Many people eat 300 calories at each of one or two meals, then have a chewy (but high-protein) dine PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM "The average person isn't what he seems to be," says a psychologist. Well, we should hope not! Why does many a girl load herself down with high-power- ed come-hither perfume, and then get huffy if a man makes a mild pass at her? "Even if you travelled at the speed of light, 186,000 miles a second, it would take you more than three years to visit the nearest star," says an astrono- mer. And after all that time, expense and troubles, you prob- ably wouldn't enjoy your visit. Watching television a lot. isn't nearly so harmful to the eyes as to that which is located behind the eyes. BY-GONE DAYS 30 YEARS AGO Rev. Dr. R. L. McTavish arrived in Oshawa from Saska- toon to take over the pastorate of King Street United Church. Mrs. H. Howlett, Ritson road north, won the two outstanding trophies for the best vegetable and flower gardens at the an- nual show of the Oshawa Horti- cultural Society. J. E. Bennett and Mike Bouckley were also awarded trophies. William Gifford won the club championship at the Downsview Gof Course. Jack Mine won the senior championship medal for the track and field sports at the Legion Boys' camp, while G. Vermoen won the junior cham- pionship. A large audience attended the performance of the comedy "The New Broom" on the opening night of the Chautau- qua season. reunion of the which Dr. The annual Henry family of F. L. Henry was elected a vice-president of the family association, drew guests from many parts of Canada and the United States. Stanley Carkeek, of Oshawa, won the grand prize of a Pon- tiac car at the Whitby Street Fair. W. E. Perrin, treasurer of the Seventh-Day Adventist con- ference, and his. wife and fam. ily, received many gifts on leav- ing Oshawa to serve at Winni- peg headquarters. J, S. Collacutt donated a new trophy to the Gshawa Yacht Club to be known as the Com. modore's Cup. City council received details of a scheme to settle families of Oshawa unemployed men on farms in Northern Ontario. Laying of pavement was started on Highway No. 12 be- tween Sunderland and Beaver- ton. Warehouses at Oshawa _har- bor were jammed with goods and a demand was made for the extension of facilities there. A marked decrease was shown in communicable dis- eases. during July, which was best in the city for any month in 1932. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Aug. 9, 1962 . . The Webster - Ashburton Treaty, fixing the boundary between Canada and the states of Maine and Massa- chusetts, was signed 120 years ago today--in 1842. The pact settled a border dispute that at times had threatened to explode into war. 1796 -- Admiral Ne'son captured the Mediterranean Is!and of Elba for Britain. 1929--Wal] Street suffered a $6,000,000,000 loss ina wave of stock selling. There's nothing magic about these liquid diets. The same re- sults would be obtained by stick- ing a well-balanced ordinary diet of 900 or 1,000 calories a day. But there's more 'glam- or" in the liquid type, and it's easy to manage. One advantage of the ordin- ary balanced diet is, as Mrs. B. found out, that it helps you ac- quire a new "pattern of eating' so you stay reduced after hav- ing shed your excess pounds. "Dear Dr. Molner: I would appreciate information on cir- cumcision.--B.M." I think every young. male should be circumcised, the sooner the better, preferably before leaving the maternity hospital. In adults, the operation is painful and a nuisance, and usually is not done unless there is urgent need. OTTAWA REPORT Deformity Caused "n Fixed Phases By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--The almost world- wide tragedy of infants de- formed by the drug thalidomide has focussed attention on an old medical mystery. Malformation is often medi- cally inexplicable, but it occurs regularly at rare intervals-- perhaps once in 100,000 births, a medical authority. here tells me. The average doctor might perhaps note only one such case in his entire career; but by gathering facts from many dottors, specialists in embryo- logy have been able to deduce certain facts. For example, if a mother contracts German measles in the first three months of preg- nancy, the virus may dsmage her unborn child. And it is in this period, whilst the cells of the embryo are developing into the fetus, that such risk is greatest. The various parts of the body are formed at certain fixed phases; thus a malign in- fluence occurring at the same phase of pregnancy in different women will generally cause the same type of malformation. MANY COUNTRIES SUFFER The most widely reported ef- fect of thalidomide has been a deformity which doctors call phocomelia, derived from the Greek words '"'phoke" meaning a seal, and "melos" meaning limbs. In this condition, the QUEEN'S PARK Ontario Ponders Control Of Drugs By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- Do you wonder how a drug such as thalidomide --the baby-deformer--can have been so easily sold in Ontario? Or how cynogas, a simple and deadly killer, can be bought by anyone over the counter? If you do you have plenty of company. Many people today are won" dering how dangerous drugs and chemicals can circulate freely. But don't look here--as so many are doing. Look towards Ottawa -- for now. NEW CONTROL Two incidents promised that there may be radical changes in our control of drugs in On- tario. And in them the province would take a much stronger hand. One is the thalidomide de- formities. In this case the province had no responsibility, or control at all, Most of our health officials wouldn't have known thalido- mide existed, unless they had read about it somewhere. In the case of cynogas there is a very limited control. This powder for killing pests was used in two separate sui- cides in the London area. It is under provincial control to this extent. The Pesticides Act says that nobody can use it unless he has a licence, But there isn't any act to say that nobody can buy it- And it is freely sold over-the-counter in seed and drug stores. NEED BETTER CONTROL For some time now the over- all situation regarding federal control of drugs etc. has not been too satisfactory to our authorities here. It has found that Ottawa is slow to act. In the case of tranquillizers, for instance, we felt strongly they should be under prescrip- tion. Yet despite strong pressures it took some years before Ot- tawa would require this. From there, however, the question is what can be done. The point of whether consti- tutionally the province e has power to take over control of drugs would be controversial. But beyond that in practical terfas there is the question, could it? If it were to enter food and drug control there first. of all would have to be a huge new organization. But beyond that again could it be really any more effective in keeping dangerous drugs off the market than Ottawa has been? The question is being inten. sively studied. We want more control. But we aren't too sure we can take it. hands and feet are similar te seal flippers, being attached to the body with no, or very re duced, limbs. This is believed to have been caused because the limbs are formed during the sixth to eighth week of preg- nancy, which also happens to be the period when an expectant mother suffers most from morn- ing sickness; and it was to re- lieve such sickness that some doctors prescribed thalidomide. But this is by no means the only malformity being reported among the estimated 8,000 cases already noted in Britain, U.S.A., West Germany, Holland, Japan, Brazil and elsewhere as well as in Canada. It was greeted as a wonder drug when first created eight years ago in Germany by the Gruenenthal Chemical Com- pany. It was rigorously tested on animals, and found to be most effective and entirely safe for its purpose as a tranquilli- zer. It met the requirements of our own Food and Drug Act. It had the great advantages over other sedatives, such as the bar- biturates, that it put insomniacs to sleep quickly, left them with clear heads the next morning, and offered no risk as a killer if used to excess. It enjoyed widespread popu- larity in many countries under various names, often sold freely over the counter; but in Canada it could only be bought on a doctor's prescription. An_ inevitable development was that doctors, familiar with its effectiveness as an evening sedative for man, woman and child, prescribed iit as a tran- quillizer for pregnant women suffering from morning sick- ness. WARNINGS FROM EUROPE The first doubt was cast upon this drug by a report from a German pediatrician. last No- vember; Dr. W. Lenz of Ham- burg linked it with an increase in malformed babies. Our gov- ernment acted at once, and all 19,000 doctors in Canada were advised not to prescribe it for women who are or might be come pregnant. Three months later Dr. A. L. Speirs gave what was accepted as final proof: He wrote in the British medical magazine The Lancet, describing his study of 10 Scottish mothers who had given birth to malformed ba- bies. Nine of them had taken Distavel, as the drug is named in Britain. Within a week of the Speirs report, medical authori-- ties in the federal government here gave orders for the drug to be withdrawn from sale in Canada. It is believed in medical cir cles here that Canada is already well past the peak of this trag- edy, and that after four to six weeks hence, no further de- formities in newborn babies will be attributable to thalide mide. 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