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ye he Ostaton Times ' 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1962, -- PAGE 6 Government's Business Methods Old-Fashioned The massive first report of the Glassco Royal Commission on Gov- ernment Organization covers so many aspects of government operation in such detail and offers so many far- reaching solutions to administrative problems that. it will take a lot of digesting. And there are four more reports to come. But certain impres- sions emerge from the first scanning. The picture of government that emerges is not a pretty one, but not one that should shock anyone who has watched the undisciplined growth of government, particularly in the past couple of decades. The govern- ment has become the nation's great- est single employer, biggest land- owner, chief tenant and heaviest con- sumer, but it still operates on a set of practices that were only just ade- quate forty years. ago. The commission was set up two years ago to recommend changes which would "best promote effi- ciency, economy and improved service in the dispatch of public business." It has done its job well, but one can only wonder whether its recommen- dations, some of them drastic, will get any substantial endorsation from this or a succeeding government. This is only the -first of five reports to be made by the commission, and the extent and tone of the first make it evident that the commission would do away with quite a number of Ottawa's sacred cows -- and it will take a courageous government to do the butchering. One of the touchiest subjects ex- plored by the commission is the em- ployment of civil servants, particu- larly the procedures followed in hiring and promoting. Increased bilingu- alism among the key administrators in the civil service is reeommended-- with one commissioner charging out- right discrimination against French- speaking Canadians. Mr. Regier Gets Out Prime Minister Diefenbaker has taken the sensible course in calling an early byelection in Burnaby- Coquitlam, the Burnaby riding where the elected NDP. member, Erhart Regier, wants to make way for his party leader, T. C. Douglas. The by- election will be held on Monday, Oct. 22. The big stumbling block to the calling of the byelection, of course, was the matter of the resignation of Mr. Regier. It seemed for a while that Mr. Regier might be the most reluctant member of Parliament in Canadian political history. His first letter resignation was returned to him by Chief Electoral Nelson Cas- tonguay, and his second was bounced from objection to objection until the cabinet finally decided to accept it this week. Mr. Diefenbaker said that although there were "grave doubts" that an MP could resign before Parliament met and before a Speaker was elected, it had been decided to accept the resignation: "We have determined that there being no precedent and without creating one for the future the second resignation is to be ac- cepted." As we pointed out earlier in these columns, there was a valid reason for the rejection of the first resignation; there were electoral regulations that had to be followed, affecting time limits for legal objections to the con- duct of the election. But there was only legalistic quibbling about the second resignation, and it is good that the matter has now been cleared. The calling of the byelection will turn spotlight of public attention on the second attempt of Mr. Douglas to gain a Commons seat, but he must be reckoned a prohibitive favor in Burnaby-Coquitlam, where Mr. Regier hes piled up handsome majorities, .here was one suggestion that the other parties back on candidate in an effort to beat Mr. Douglas again, but party officials have frowned on it. The Liberals and Social Credit have already said they will contest the riding, and this week Mr. Diefen- baker, when asked about the joint candidate idea, said, "The kind of candidates I want to see elected are Conservative candidates." Troubles With Noise The Ontario transport department quite properly has decided not to approve two municipal bylaws that dealt with control of noise by motor vehicles. The bylaws were passed by the city of Toronto and the Metro Toronto council; their purpose was to set an upper limit of noise which any motor vehicle could make and pro- posed the use of sound-level meters to check passing vehicles. The intent of the bylaws was ad- mirable, but unfortunately they could not be enforced. Two years ago, a committee headed by Prof. L. V. Henderson, of the University of Tor- onto's physics department, was asked to determine whether a definition of unnecessary motor vehicle noise could be found in terms of measurement. made with the aid of a sound-level meter. The committee's answer, after long study, was "No", and five major 'reasons were given. The committee's answer verified the findings of other investigations of noise made by motor vehicles. At least one State of the U.S.A. and She Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher C. 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By mail (in Province of Gntario) outside rriers delivery areas 12.00 per year rovinces pcb Pir Bev Countries 15.00 USA, Foreign 24.00, Burketon, Claremont, ang several cities which have attempted to define excessive noise more pre- cisely have either had their legislation declared unconstitutional or have voluntarily abandoned it as imprac- ticable of enforcement. The Inter- national Organization for Standard- ization, which has members from 45 countries, has studied the problem for. years without reaching agreement on an effective way to measure motor vehicle noise. All this should not persuade us that nothing can be done to improve our present regulation of . vehicle noise. Transport Minister Rowntree strikes a reassuring note when he says: "The Department of Transport has no intention of holding up legis- lation which will reduce annoying noises caused by motor vehicles .. . We will continue our studies of the problem and closely watch various research projects now in progress in the hope there will be found a satis- factory method of measuring : the severity of annoying sounds and as- signing them to their positions on @ numerical scale." Bible Thought And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him. -- Isaiah 11:1, 2. The Messiah is to be of royal an- cestry but grow up in humility, as a "tender plant." It was God's Spirit which should abide upon Him, and give Him "favor with God and man." In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and Assyria, even a bless- ing in the midst of the land. -- Isaiah 19:24. When nations accept the rule of Jehovah they will have peace, THE IDEA STARTS WITH 'U' WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING Property Given Greater Value Than Human Life SARNIA OBSERVER: One of the judicial mysteries to the lay- mans mind is the different values placed upon different things when justice is dispensed by the courts. It sometimes appears that property ranks highest in the list of sacred things, and life one of the less important: Magistrates will throw a father into a cell because he steals a loaf of bread to feed a family too large for his abil- ities and financial status to sup- port. newspaper from a sstand will cost the capturéd culprit anywhere from $25 to $50 or jail if he cannot pay a fine. Murder, premeditated or the result of criminal carelessness, can be waved off with a slight slap on the wrist and a friendly admonition to go and sin no more. Last month a 19-year-old De- troit boy struck and killed a 37- year-old man when his car struck him on the street. He added further to his accident by running away without bother- ing to offer a helping hand to his victim. When apprehended he admit- ted striking the pedestrian and then running away. For killing the man and callously leaving him on the street he was order- ed to stop driving and pay around $1,000 expenses for med- ical and funeral expenses of his victim. He was also freed and put on five years probation. We are not aware of all the facts, but the chances are that the parents paid the thousand and the boy went back into circula- tion. Last month the youngster. ap- peared in court again .No lives were involved. He was charged, convicted and sentenced to 30 days in the Detroit House of Correction for stealing auto parts. The lad who was set free for killing a man, went into cus- tody for stealing. At the completion of his 30- day sentence he appeared in De- troit Traffic Court again. This time he was charged with fail- ing to carry out terms of his probation and sentenced to from three to five years in Jackson Prison. Punishment for killing a man on the street and then running away did not cost the lad one minute of freedom aside from the time between apprehension and trial, For stealing some auto, parts he was incarcerated for 30 days: Violation of proba- tion put him behind bars for whatever number of years a three-to-five-year term means in TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Sept, 8, 1962... United States Senator Huey Long was fatally wounded by Dr. Carl Austin Weiss, son of one of his po- litical enemies, in the Louisi- ana State House at Baton Rouge 27 years ago today-- in 1935. Long, then at the height of his political power and 42 years old, died two days later. Weiss was slain immediately after the at- tack on Long by the Sena- tor's bodyguards. 1664 --The Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, now New York City, surrendered. to the British. 1760 --Governor Vaud- reuil, the last governor of French Canada, formally capitulated to the British at Quebec. Stealing an_ eight-cent- Michigan when the parole board gets through with its deduc- tions. All this may be according to legalistic Hoyle. But it does seem funny to many of us un- learned and unwise in the law. WELLAND TRIBUNE: .[te- spite all warnings and urgent pleas for cautious handling of vehicles over the Labor Day holiday weekend, the toll of dead and injured reads like a battlefront casualty report. In Ontario in particular, the jlocales for loss of life, maiming and property damage point clearly to the fact that by-ways are just as dangerous as high- ways. Near Welland the frightening total of 17 casualties was listed in a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Cambridge and Moyer Roads, deep in a rural area. Six young persons died, four from one family, in another two- vehicle crash on a concession road near London, Ont. Ten persons were hurt in a one-car smash on a county road in Middlesex. Driver of the car in this instance reported that he lost control of the vehicle through being study by wasp. Still . . . ten persons in one car. Rural roads'may be quieter and are not as heavily travelled as the main highways. But dead- ly peril exists just as much on the country routes as on the heaviest-travelled arteries when due care and control is not exercised. CORNWALL STANDARD. FREEHOLDER: Mr. Robert J. Rankin, president of the St. Lawrence Seaway Authority, has said something which should have been said some time ago. In an address at the Canadian National Exhibition, Mr. Rankin Suggested that seaway critics should hold their fire, or sus- pend judgment, until the giant inland waterway has a few gaa years of operation behind The seaway was constructed to provide more economical transportation between the At- lantic and the heart of North America. This goal is being achieved, even though the finan- cial returns to date have not measured up to those originally estimated by the waterway's planners. One 'of the responsibilities of the Seaway Authority is to keep tolls at the lowest possible level. This objective has been assisted by the suspension of tolls on the Welland canal and if the amor- tization period is extended, no serious financial results should follow. CHICAGO TRIBUNE: The passenger in a plane which ran into a violent storm -n¢ seemed in imminent danger was terror stricken, He happened to be sitting next to a clergyman. "Sir," he implored, "I'm 'afraid this plane is doomed. Can't you do something to save us?" "My son," replied his seat- mate calmly, "there is little I can do in this situation, I am in sales, not management." NEW YORK TIMES: -We thought even science- fiction had lost its power to astound now that reality has rushed so far ahead of imagination in sci- entific achievement. But we are glad to learn that preparations for flights to the moon and tele- vision programs beamed from outer space have taken none of the fascination out of the "miracles" performed by magi- cians who can saw a woman. in half or push a dozen arrows through her head without dis- turbing a button or an earring, much less drawing a drop of blood. In Colon, Mich., where the magicians are holding their annual convention, small boys are watching the sidewalk per- formances with all the awe they might have shown in Tom Sawyer's day. TRANSIT STUDY MONTREAL (CP) -- Public works director Lucien L'Allier and planning director Claude Robillard went to Chicago to study that city's transit system for ideas'on Montreal's subway project, now in the initial build- ing stage. BY-GONE DAYS 40 YEARS AGO R. S. McLaughlin donated to the Oshawa Curling Club a site for a new curling rink on Bond street. The Oshawa Board of Educa- tion secured the use of St. George's Hall to. accomodate the overflow of pupils from the public schools. The staff of the Pedlar People Limited and their families en- joyed a picnic at Corbett's Point. Steeplejack O. MacDougall at- tracted much attention while painting the 155-foot high water tower of General Motors of Can- ada, Limited. Town council passed a bylaw authorizing the establishment of a municipal fuel yard. ( Miss D. Jones won the ladies' golf competition and the Cowan trophy at the local Golf Club. Coal dealers reported while Oshawa was well supplied with soft coal and hard wood there would be no hard coal available until the first of the year. Hard wood was quoted at $18 a cord. .Elderberries sold at 10 cents a box, eggs 35 cents a dozen and butter 45 cents a pound on the local market- Plans for paving Front street, Albany street and First avenue were approved by the town council, Charles M. Mundy and A. R. Alloway were tendered a testi- monial banquet by their co- workers on their retiring from the direction of the business of the Reformer Printing and Pub- lishing Company, Limited. The new proprietors, J. C. Ross and J. Ewart McKay were also guests. A bale of clothing for the Presbyterian Mission School at Round Lake, Manitoba, was sent by the Women's Missionary So- ciety of Oshawa Presbyterian Church, In the local stores granulated sugar. was quoted at 12g pounds for $1 or $7.50 per 'bag. A -new classroom opened at St. Gregory's School to accom- modate the 35 new members, making the total 240 for the school, ; _ UNITED KINGDOM OPINION Chairman Of Coal Board Backs Move To Euromart By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London etd For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- Lord Robens, for- mer Labor cabinet minister, and now chairman of the Na. tional Coal Board, has left no doubt as to where he stands with reference to Britain join- ing the European Common Mar- ket. Speaking to a press con- ference at Rossington, York- shire he said that although Britain's entry into the Common Market would be painful, if she did not go in there would be a generation 20 years hence who would curse those who lost the opportunity. His long-term view is one which has not been very often expressed in Common Market discussions. Lord Robens was speaking en- tirely from the viewpoint of the coal industry in expressing his views. He said that Britain was allowed to sell only 400,000 tons of coal a year to Germany. The United States quota was five million tons. Lord Robens said: "It does not matter how cheap our coal is, we cannot sell more. But if. we are in the Common Market there will be no quota, and we can sell to the extent that the Germans want to buy. If the quota were lifted, we could double and treble our sales, What I have said about Germany applies to Belg:um and other' Common' Market countries. Britain last year ex- ported five million tons of coal to the whole of Europe, but this could be increased to 10 million tons in two years if she joined the Common market." SLAMS OPPOSITION Lord Robens had some strong comments to make regarding those who opposed Britain en- tering the Common Market. Those against it, he commented, were those whose futures lay behind them. They were allies of the Communist party. Russia would be against Britain joining for obvious reasons. "I do not believe any indus- trial country like Britain, which depends for its existence on selling goods abroad, could af- ford to remain out of the enor- mous economic blocs that now control the world," continued Lord Robens. 'Russia and her satellites are one huge common market. America is another. In Europe there is a com- mon market. There is no place ment than appears on the sur face. The plea has already been made by the secretary of state for Scotland that no line be' closed because it is money when it serves the for a country of 50 million g people, however good they may be, in the face of that economic competition." 2 In these remarks, Lord Robens shows that he is entirely in sympathy with the govern- ment's views on this highly con- troversial subject. HOT RECEPTION Dr. Richard Beeching, chair. man of the British Transport Commission, has had a warm reception from the disgruntled railway workers of Scotland. Up in that country on an official visit, he has been greeted with jeers, demonstrations of protest by 600 railwaymen, and was even kicked When he arrived at Edinburgh. The kicker, how- ever, was not a railwayman, but was described as being "somewhat under the weather'. The protest demonstrations were against the closing of rail- way lines and workshops in Scotland. At the railwey's Scot- tish Region headquarters in Glasgow, Dr. Beeching met a 12.man deputation from the rail- way unions. In spite their strong protests, he-left"them in no doubt as to what was going to happen to the railways. He tal told them: "The railways have got to be commercialized -- they must pay." He left the delegation, repre- senting Scotland's 57,000 railway workers in no doubt that he will continue his plans to axe un. economic lines and services. POLITICAL DECISION There was one possible loop- hole which he left, however. He said to the union leaders: "It is a political decision. The government may step in and not close down the lines." There was more in that state- YOUR HEALTH Radiation Count respect that govern- ment intervention might halt Dr. Beeching's plans to close down way closures in Scotland might be ous, ; Baie ® trig time since 1954, the S| uropedn Airways showed a loss in its operations last year. The loss amounted to BEA, who is retiring next year, showed that there is a line between the situation of railways and that of licly-owned airline. The loss has been caused almost entirely by the maintenance of uneconomic services to isolated areas of the country, services maintained for "social reasons". The Scottish Highlands and Islands services produced a loss of $1,600,000. Services in the Irish Sea area caused a loss of $1,500,000. Other domestic services within the British Isles more than account. ed a4 the rest of the loss sus- ined. Lord Douglas takes very much the same line as Dr. Beeching. He said: "The time is coming when we will have to ask the government for a subsidy to keep the so- called 'social services' going. They do not pay their way." The BEA's international serv- ices showed a profit of $3,600,- 000 a year. But Lord Douglas said there are sti too many airline seats chasing too few passengers. And with the domestic services losing $5,400,- 000, the BEA has had its worst- year ever from a_ financial standpoint. BOOM IN PAY Despite the pay policy of the + government, the first six months of this year was a boom period for pay increases. This is dis- | closed in a report issued by the } ministry of labor. Between Jan- For X-Ray Lower By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, MD Repeatedly I receive letters from people saying: "I had x- rays last year and now the doc- tor thinks I should have them again. Do you think this amount of radiation will hurt me?" I've been saying: "no" stead- ily. I continue to do so. But to further alleviate worry, I call attention to a report by Dr. Richard H. Chamberlain, representing the American Col- lege of Radiology, to the Atomic Energy Commission. Earlier estimates of the amount of radiation being ab- sorbed from medical x-ray have been much too high, he said. The estimates had run as high as 150 one-thousandth of a '"'rad" --a "rad" being a technical measurement for absorption by tissues. Between 25 and 50 one-thous- andth, he reported, is much more likely to be the correct figure. . To make a comparison that is understandable, 150 one-thous- andth are about the amount ab- sorbed each year from natural background radiation--the radi- ation to which mankind has been exposed for countless gen- erations. Dr. Chamberlain's estimates were aimed primarily at the amount of radiation affecting the reproductive organs, this area being considered to be the most critical, as concerns radi- ation. The faint risk of these 25 to 50 one-thousandth of a rad is far outweighed by the bene- fits, in his opinion, and the rest of the body is unlikely to suffer any health damage at all. It must also be pointed out that in general younger people (to whom the reproductive risk if any is important) get very little exposure to x-ray. Mostly it is for diagnostic x-rays which are brief. It is usually the older person, to whom possible reproductive harm is of little if any signifi- cance, who is exposed to the vastly heavier x-ray used for treatment of disease. There's another important fact. The amount of x-ray expo- sure needed to make a picture is steadily declining. Machines are better' shielded now. There is very little exposure except that required to leave an image on the photographic film. More sensitive film is being used, and in some cases other methods of image-intensification are possible. The net result is that less x-ray is needed. Dr. Hanson Blatz estimated that ex- posure to x-rays for medical purpose has been reduced 25 per cent in three years in New York. My advice, therefore, is not to worry at all about whatever X-rays are needed for medical purposes. If you insist on worry- ing about something, then worry about what would happen if mankind ever permittee a nu- clear war. That's really worth worrying about and the exposure would be billions of times as great as all the med- ical x-rays for the next million years. Dear Dr. Molner: Has it been proved that one race is more susceptible to radiation than an- other?--M.S. No. Dear Dr .Molner: My '2%- year-old daughter loves chewing gum and prefers it to any candy. Is it harmful? She swal- lows it as soor. as she chews it She has. about three small pieces a day--equal to one stick. Regular gum, not bubble gum. --MRS. D. W. Swallowing it won't hurt her. T call your attention, however, to dentists who point out that gum has sugar in it, and continued presence of sugar, even in small quantities, contributes to tooth decay in some people at least. The greatest danger is inhaling the gum, causing it to lodge in the lung. For this reason I think it dangerous to give chewing ~ to toddlers or young chil- ren. uary and July, 10,205,000 work- ers received pay increases worth $10,550,000. Last year, in the same period, 7,050 workers received pay increases giving them an extra $8,100,000. The average earnings for all worke ers were $47.00 compared with $35.00 a week in 1956, an in- crease of 33 per cent. Newspapers and periodical printers were Britain's highest industrial wage earners, with an average of $64 a week. Auto- mobile workers came next with just under $60 a week and then cement workers with $56 a week. Agricultural workers were at the bottom with an average of $83 a week. CHIEF WALKS, TOO MONTREAL (CP) -- The 17- storey Canadian National Rail- ways building in the heart of Montreal was emptied in 10 minutes of 3,400 employees dur- ing a fire drill, Among those who walked down 17 flights was president Donald Gordon. GALLUP POLL Influence Of Religion Declining, 'y THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION (World Copyright Reserved) The largest segment of Cana- dians with an opinion on the matter, believes that religion as a whole is losing its influence in Canadian life. This holds true among Protestants as well as Roman Catholics and those of Losi: other faiths. Americans are far more likely to believe that re- ligion is gaining ground ee in- ig and women in this ry. To check on attitudes in the nation as a whole, repoYters for the Gallup Poll asked a ques- tion which has also been put to American citizens: Religion is: Increasing influence .......+. TAN kn bak iiviincipexincs About the same TO CONOR Sssscccdesscnsascsecs : Thus, on the whole, attitudes among Protestants and Roman Catholics are almost identical on the question. Men and women of other faiths are rather more Many Think "At the present time do you think religion as a whole is ine creasing its influence on Canae dian' life or losing its influence? Columns below compare reac- tions in both countries. U-S. Canada Pct. Pet. Religion is: Increasing influence 45 25 sing 31 37 About the same 17 27 No opinion 7 ll 100 100 This is one of the few ques- tions on religious matters, as re- ported by the Gallup Poll, on which men and women of all faiths have much the same opinion. Roman Protestant Catholic Other 24% 26% 30% 37 36 31 28 28 22 ll 10 7 100% 100% 100% optimistic, with more of them, proportionately, saying the churchs influence is growing, and less of them claiming it is losing ground. 135 SIMCOE ST. NORTH @ RESIDENT PARTNERS Gordon W. Riehl, C.A., R.LA. Burt R. 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