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She Oshawa Sines Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited " 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T..L, Wilson, Publisher THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1962 -- PAGE 6 Answers Are Required. To Defence Questions Government spokesmen have been hastening to deny reports that Canada's allies are becoming critical of Canada's defence effort. Our allies may be polite. But the Cana- dian taxpayers have no reason to be polite; they are paying for de- fence. And they are not getting enough for their money. In 1944 Canada's war effort was at its peak. There were more than a million men and women in uni- form. The RCAF has 48 squadrons overseas and 43 at home. The Navy had more than 400 operational vessels, including two cruisers. The Army had five divisions and a tank brigade in action, with all the necessary support, supply and auxi- liary forces. And to look after the needs of this impressive force, the department of national defence and the department of munitions and supply 'had between them 33,652 civilian employees. Today we have a total military establishment of just over 120,000 personnel. The RCAF has 12 fighter Squadrons overseas, in the process of being equipped with up-to-date aircraft, and five fighter squadrons and four anti-submarine squadrons at home. The Navy has 62 opera- tional vessels, including one old aircraft. carrier and three suo- marines -- two of which are on loan. The Army has one brigade overseas and three at home, plus a scattering of troops on duty with the UN. And to look after this puny establishment, there are now more than 53,000 civil servants. At a time when Canadian forces were fighting on land, on the sea and in the air against the Nazis and the Japanese, it took one civil ser- vant to look after the needs of 30 men and women in uniform. Now it takes one civil servant to look after the needs of little more than two people in uniform. The defence budget has remained fairly stable since 1958 -- but so has equipment. Spending on equip- ment has dropped by about six per cent of the total; spending on de- fence research has dropped by nears ly 50 per cent; spending on person- nel has increased by four per cent. What do we have? Not much in the way of defence, but a great army of civilian "administrators", Without Newspapers Strikes have halted publication of newspapers in Cleveland and New York. The effect on the readers in those cities was. apparent the first day the presses were silent. Available. copies of out-of-town newspapers. were quickly sold out, and often resold at black-market prices. Thousands drive to other communities to pick up newspapers. Civic agencies are going to the ex- pense of running off mimeographed sheets in an attempt to let at least a portion of the population know what is happening in the way of administration. These agencies, along with business, service and other organizations, and the in- dividual readers, are re-learning an old lesson: There is no substitute for the newspaper in the dissemina- tion of news in a civilized com- munity. But a newspaper does much more than satisfy the hunger for news. It serves as the community's mar- ket-place. And now the "sellers in the market-place" in the two cities are assessing the losses resulting from the interruption of this aspect of the newspaper's service. Sales are down in both New York and Cleve- land, in some cases by more than 50 per cent -- at the busiest time of the year for sales. Some shows may close because of dwindling audiences. Merchant after merchant has tried to bolster sagging sales by greater use of broadcasting, but has had to cut back because, as one of them said "Radio and TV advertising can be useful adjunct but it cannot substitute for news- paper advertising." This only confirms what has been shown in survey after survey: The community relies. most heavily on its newspaper to generate com- merce, to stimulate trade. Here are some of the facts for Canada: At every age, from the teens to the octogenarians, 71 per cent of the readers cover a newspaper thoroughly. Each of them picks up the newspaper 2.4 times on an average during the day. On an average weekday, the news- paper reaches 86 per cent of all homes in Canada, 80 per cent of all adults, 72 per cent of all teon- agers, and saturates every signi- ficant consumer market. Depart- ment stores spend 87 per cent of their advertising dollars in news- papers: Supermarkets spend 85 per cent of their advertising dollars in newspapers. Drug stores spend 73 per cent of their advertising dollars in newspapers. The rest of the budget is shared by all other media combined -- by radio, television, outdoor billboards, magazines, di- rect mail and so on. Warning: Do Not Mix If the average Canadian citizen were to read "deadly combination -- do not mix" on containers of liquids, we have no doubt he would heed the warning and would maintain the two potential trouble-makers at a safe distance apart. Unfortunately, says R. W. Trol- lope, president of Dominion Auto- mobile Association in his annual holiday message to club members, a like wariness does not exist when the chemicals involved are gasoline (in an automobile fuel tank) and alcohol in the driver's blood stream), She Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times 871) and the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle (established 1863), is published daily {Sundays and stetutory holidays excepted). bers of C Daily N Publish- ers Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Byreau of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dollies Association, The Canadian Press is exclusively entitied to the use of republication of ali news despatched in the poper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the locol news published therein. All rights of special des- potches cre also reserved. Offices: Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Onterio; 640 Cothcort Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajo, Pickering, Bowmonville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Mople Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Tounton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Orono, Leskard, 6 , Burketon, Claremont, Columbus, Greenwood, Kinsale, Ragion, Blackstock, Manchester, Pontypool and Newcastle, not over 45¢ week. By mai! (in Province of Ontario) outside carriers delivery areas 12.00 per year. Other ond Commonwealth Countries 15,00, One of the greatest human fal- lacies is the belief of too many motorists that while driving with more than one alcoholic drink "under the. belt" is. unwise and dangerous for the "other fellow", they can retain their alertness and reflexes in top condition even with three or four of the same brew. Mr. Trollope, quoting from re- cords maintained over the years by his association, points out that even one bottle of beer will appreciably lower co-ordination while, at the same time installing a false sense of: alertness in the mind of its host. The human being driving a motor vehicle is in complete charge of a lethal machine, which can in seconds inflict death and destruction on his fellow man. Any agent which, even in the smallest degree, alters the required reaction time in driving decisions, should be treated with the same respect as a bottle of nitro- glycerin. Normal winter driving conditions present higher than average hazards. Holiday motor traffic further adds to the risk. The pru- dent motorist will not multiply the danger again by his. joint manipu- lation of those potentially lethal agents, gasoline and alcohol during the holiday season, WINTER ON . aN REPORT FROM U.K. Plan Construction In Kent Marshland By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent to The Oshawa Times LONDON The growing scarcity of land for the building of homes in the Kent areas within easy reach of London, to take care of the overspill of peo- ple from the crowded city, is causing some unusual methods of development of any possible housing area. One of the propo- sals which is now before the London County Council's hous- ing committee is a plan to util- ize 500 acres of the Kent marshes, around Erith, as a site for homes. These homes will be factory-made pre-fabri- cations,.and will be raised on platforms 12 feet above the ground, 'Three estates at Erith are proposed, with shops and VUEEN'S PARK Too Much Pressure For Fluoridation By DON O'HEARN TORONTO --Fluoridation is now running years behind. In the recent municipal elec- tions a large section of the province expressed its feelings on adding fluorid to water supplies. Metro Toronto (though not the city itself) and Windsor voted for it. With minor exceptions the rest of the province (Hamilton, Ot- tawa, London, St. Catharines) voted it down. So what have the pro - com- pulsory - fluoridationists accom- plished They have given fluoride for children a major set-back. There are means of providing fluoride which don't require compulsion. There are tablets -- and now there is a painting process for which striking results are claimed. A few years ago the govern- ment here was in a mood where it would have provided finan- cial support for one of these alternatives. (Not a great amount of money is involved.) Today it is doubtful if it would be inclined to act on an alter- native. The question has grown to be too emotional and heated. It will tend to leave it alone entirely unless forced into some action As so often happens the im- patient people who could not wait to find a better means than force to get their goal have nearly lost the whole game. BRAVE MINISTER Hon, Irwin Haskett, minister of reform institutions, has cour- age. Mr. Haskett, during passage of his estimates, went through one of the roughest grillings this house has seen in a long time. The opposition landed on him. It had the scope. For a number of reasons, some known and some un- known, reform institutions has not been able to get a really good rehabilitation program rolling. Custody and punishment still dominate large sections of its work. And NDP and Liberal speak- ers castigated Mr. Haskett with this failing. Eventually it went so far that even the opposition members respected the minister for his courage. The fact is, of course, that this particular minister is not suited for his job. (And also replaced a man who was, Hon, George Wardrope.) ° Mr, Haskett is meticulous man. He might make a good provincial secre- tary, but who seems to be lost in.the rough and tumble depart- ment he is heading. BY-GONE DAYS 30 YEARS AGO Hon, W. G. Martin, Ontario minister of public welfare, gave a masterly address on brother- liness to Lebanon Lodge, AF and AM. . Letters from Northern On- tario to Mayor Thomas Hawkes showed that the Oshawa fami- lies there had settled down comfortably. Rev, Paul B. Gelatt, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, resign- ed to take up missionary work for the Canadian Sunday School Mission. Models of 1933 .McLaughlin- Buicks equipped with many new features were displayed in Oshawa for the first time. Morley R. Jacobi, director, and H. Hall, treasurer, of the welfare fund campaign, were tendered the sincere thanks of the Oshawa Public Welfaré Board at its meeting. Mrs. William Tonkin, Mc- Millan drive, won a Chevrolet car offered as a grand prize in the welfare fund campaign. A colorful display of folk dancing, music and singing by a company of Ukrainian enter- tainers delighted a_ capacity audience in the auditorium of the Oshawa Collegiate and Vo- cational Institute: At the annual meeting of the Penny Bank of Ontario, J. C. Anderson, member of the Osh- awa Board of Education, was re-elected a member of the board of directors. New automobile licence plates for 1933 were yellow with black numerals. Ontario 1933 was spelled out in full and was placed across the top of the plate. A Civic Improvement League, to secure a sirong city council to deal with Oshawa's economic situation, was organized with George Hart as. president and E. A. Lovell and F. W. Bors- berry as vice-presidents. The temperature in Oshawa went down to four degrees be- low zero. schools, to accommodate 25,000 people, The land on which these homes and other amenities will be built is owned by the Londoa County Council. But the Erith council, which has already taken part in preliminary dis- cussions with the London and Kent county councils, insists on the building of the house o7 raised platforms as a flood pre- vention measure, because this is a marsh area. The new honies will be veritably houses on stilts. In spite of the nature of the ground, tall blocks of apart- ments are proposed. These will range from four-storey blocks to 31-storey towers overlooking the river between Abbey Wood and Belvedere stations. \ This proposal is not entirely in the nature of an untried ex- periment. Already a number of other houses have been built on raised platforms near the river. These are both council houses and privately - owned homes. But the project of building blocks of apartments 31 storeys high on platforms over marsh land is one which is likely to present some ticklish engineering problems. Up to the present, no proper estimate of the cost of the proj- ect has been made. It would, however, run into several mil- lions of dollars. Even if the LCC accepts the proposals being plac- ed before it by its housing com- mittee, the plans would still have to be approved by the Erita council and by the Kent county council, which is the planaing authority for the area. One of the problems will be the effect on the rail services, which are already strained to the maximum, This is likely to be dove-tailed with Erith's own plans for expansion. Local in- dustry, it is suggested, might absorb some of the new com- munity which is to be created OTTAWA REPORT Season's Wishes Helped By Facts By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--There is a healthy ring of confidence in the voices of Canada's business leaders, as they offer each other the tradi- tional wish for "A prosperous New Year". The statistics.now pouring off our electronic brains show that this wish of a year ago has been amply fulfilled, as 1962 shapes up in retrospect as being Canada's most prosperous year ever, And the trend sug- gests that this forward impetus will carry us upwards in the coming and prosperous new year. The business indicators pre- pared regularly by our sedulous statisticians here are issued day by day in the bulletin of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. These serried ranks of figures and columns of percentages look as dry as dust to you and me; but they trill out a merry tune just now to our business tycoons. And they reflect cash in the pocket and a belly well- filled for every Canadian. LUMBER MEANS HOMES Look for example at the statistics of Canada's wholesale trade. Sales in the first nine months of this year were an impressive 9.2 per cent higher than in the same period of 1961. The break - down of that 'otal into the 18 different trade cate- gories shows that 16 of them achieved advances, ranging from 1.7 per cent increase in hardware sales to 10.3 per cent in lumber. There was an insig- nificant reduction in the sales of meat and dairy products, and an understandable drop of 5.8 per cent in sales of coal as more homes switch to auto- mated oil heating. That big increase in the lum- ber classification, which also YOUR HEALTH Cyst And Tumor Quite Different By JOSEPH G, MOLNER, MD Dear Dr. Molner: I had a vaginal cyst removed and am concerned about it. Will it re- turn, and what caused it? Can cancer develop? What is the difference between a cyst and a tumor?--CONCERNED We get so wrapped up these days in the new "wonders of science' that we don't have time to discuss some of the older items of knowledge that aren't somysterious, How many people DO know the dif- ference between a cyst and a tumor? The body is equipped with thousands of glands--a few big ones such as the thyroid, ova- rian, pituitary, adrenal and others, and a vast number of tiny ones, particularly in the skin and mucous surfaces. The purpose of these glands is to produce more material or another, As an example, take the sebaceous, or oily, glands of the skin. When a gland be- comes clogged, it keeps on pro- ducing but its material can't get out. As material accumu- lates, the gland becomes stretch- ed, like a balloon blown up too far, and a lump forms. Puncturing or lancing doesn't solve the problem, because the duct, or outlet, is usually so small that you can't simply pry it open. When you lance it, you make a new hole, and release the accumulated stuff inside, but the new hole heals over. And the pressure builds up again. MUST REMOVE That's why we have long known that this is no cure for a cyst, or clogged gland. The only permanent solution is to remove the whole gland. Vaginal cysts are very com- mon. Unless they are painful or otherwise cause trouble, the best rule is to let them alone, They rarely become cancerous. It is possibl for a cyst, like any other tissue in the body, to become cancerous, but there's no reason to expect it to do so, any more than we expect an ingrown toenail, or a broken leg, or a cut finger, or an ab- cessed tooth to turn into cancer. So "Concerned" should quit be- ing worried about a cyst that has been removed. Unlike a cyst, a tumor is a growth. The most familiar form is a wart, Cells in some form of tissue begin to multiply faster than is necessary to replace cells that are dying off--which goes on constantly. Fatty tumors in the skin, which may grow to considerable size, are a common example. Tumors can occur just about anywhere, unlike cysts which occur only in glands or other enclosed places which become clogged and gradually fill up. A cancer is a special kind of tumor--a malignant one. Plain tumors are benign, meaning that they just grow. Malignant tumors, instead of merely add- ing too many normal cells, grow by creating voracious ab- normal cells which, in time, gradually spread to other places and start new cancers. GALLUP POLL includes construction materials and supplies, looks more vivid and means more to us when we see that it reflects an increase | in home building, with starts on the construction of new dwell- ings in October soaring 17.4 per cent above last year, while completitions in that month was 19.8 per cent up, and for the whole year to date runs 10,8 per cent above last year, * Average weekly wages in manufacturing industries was $77.55 in September, up from ' $75.00 a year earlier, And many more Canadians were at work earning these higher wages. Statistics of our labor force are always approached from the negative angle, by listing the number of men and womén unemployed and seeking work. Last month, fewer wére un- employed than in the previous November; but what is more significant is that there wére 115,000 more jobs than oné yéar earlier, Thus 6,270,000 © Cana- dians were at work, drawing these higher wages. STORE SALES RISE The statistics may sound re- mote; but an immediaté régult of more people at work and drawing higher wages is that retail sales boomed. Chain store sales in October were 6.6 per cent higher than a year ago. The merry tinkle of the busier cash registers also reflects our increased money supply, for banks and loan companies are now much more generous and money is much less tight than twelve months ago. Even \that weekly newspaper of "big business", the Toronto Financial Post, reflects our prosperity. "Now is the season to be jolly; the dividends sing a@ merry song," carols its front page headline. "Steel order pads tell happy story," and "Housing gets more zip too," and 'Another good year for many companies in 1963," it proclaims. "The Financial Post has never been very friendly to this government, but now it reads almost like a Conservative party propaganda sheet," one cabinet minister commented to me. And especially, it hands the grand accolade to 'Trade Min- ister Hees' imaginative drive to boost exports", under the head- line "'Where the payoff is really big." Hon. Gorge Hees'. export drive, the paper says, "has done more than any other to create a respected name for Canada abroad, and to initiate Canadians into the profitable: ways of international sellirg." Belief In Disarmament Up Sharply In 6 Years Vv THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE of PUBLIC PINION During 'the past six years there has been a marked in- crease in optimism among Ca- nadians in the realm of world disarmament. In an earlier study the Poll found that more than half the adult population was sceptical about -the hope of disarmament only _ one- fourth believed it could be made to work. Today disagreement has narrowed, with about four in 10 Canadians on each side of the argument. Cynicism has dropped while optimism has al- most doubled -- from 22 per cent in 1956, to 41 per cent today. The same question was put to a national sample of Canadians for both studies: "There have been discussions about all nations reducing their armaments, Of course every- body hopes that it would, but do you think such an agreement would work or not?" Here's how Canadians have strengthened their belief in World disarmament: Would disarmament really work? 1956 Today Would work 22 41 Would not 52 45 Qualified 6 8 No opinion 2 «6 100% 100% Men tend to be a little more confident than women that the world's dream of disarmament could be made to work, but on the whole the sexes look at the question in much the same way. Would disarmament really work? 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