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ESR osteo. te ee et $i orm NP ORDS Deen. Oe ee aS i et ned She Oshawa Sines T. L, Wilson, Publisher MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1963 -- PAGE 6 Voting Means Thought In Addition To Action Between now and election day, April 8, there will be frequent ap- peals to citizens to "vote as you wish, but vote". It will be said, and rightly so, that freedom is like a muscle -- if it is not used and ex- ercised, it wastes away. The failure of citizens to exercise the franchise can lead to atrophy of the right to that franchise. There is a great deal more to an election than the simple mechanical act of marking a ballot, however. The man who deliberately stays away from the polling booth because he wants to register a protest is doing a silly thing, because he is destroying his best method of regis- tering a protest. But he is not much more silly than the person who marks a ballot blindly, who backs a candidate because of looks or be- cause a father or a husband always votes for a particular party or for some similar ludicrous reason. The muscles of the mind as well as of the arm and fingers must be exercised if the muscle of freedom is to remain healthy. The Commu- nist states have a ceremony of bal- lot-marking which is technically an election, and their 'citizens parade to the polling booths, But the cere- mony is a mechanical one, requiring no thought; indeed, any indication of independent thought would be rigorously suppressed. They go through the motions, but they have no freedom. The importance of the ballot is not so much that it calls for a mark as that it calls for a deliberate, thoughtful and free choice between candidates. To make that choice in a thoughtful way the citizen must form an opinion about the policies and records of the candidates, and to form that opinion he must make some effort to acquaint himself with the policies and records. Voters who do not make such an effort can scarcely complain about the con- duct of candidates and parties after election. In Pursuit Of Truth Francis Bacon started his essay on truth by noting that Pontius Pilate asked "what is truth?" and did not wait for an answer. It's an apt reference today, with politicians making quite a to-do about truth as they pursue their election cam- paigns. The Liberals have their truth squad pursuing Prime Minister Dief- enbaker, ostensibly to check on what the Conservative leader says and then to "correct" those state- ments they claim to be inaccurate, On his part Mr. Diefenbaker, who has been drawing capacity crowds and more, jubilantly proclaims that "they don't build halls large enough to meet the needs of the people try- ing to get the truth." The Social Credit spokesmen, thinking perhaps of Bacon's essay, have asked what verities the "truth squad" is seeking, Liberal or Con- servative truth? It's not a simple question by any measure. If a man refers to '500,- 000 unemployed" when the precise figure may be 510,000 or 480,000, is he guilty of uttering an untruth? Or is he simply using an approxi- mate figure which can be easily re- membered- And in any case, what validity has the figure issued by the Bureau of Statistics, since it is based on a sampling and we lack a precise definition of "unemployed person"? But this sort of thing-is just niggling. Statistics can be used to prove almost anything. What voters are more concerned about, we think, are firm details of programs, in- stead of vague promises. What is to be done, &t the moment, is far more important than what has been done, because to little of importance' was done by the recent Parliament. Another Traffic Study In presenting his department's annual estimates to the Ontario Legislature, Transport Minister Auld says that a major project of the deparment, in co-operation with other provincial departments, muni- cipalities and transport bodies, is the new Metropolitan Toronto and Region Transportation Study. The study, which is aimed at "finding an over-all solution to traf- fic problems", will include' an area bordered, roughly, by Oshawa, Bar- rie, Guelph and Hamilton. Tentative date for completion is 1965. The study, Mr. Auld said, "is not simply a matter of how a person travels to and from work. It involves where he lives, where he works, his per- sonal preferences in these matters, the general economy and the ser- vices, policies and procedures of the municipalities involved, the sociol- ogical implications of commuting, the costs of various types of trans- portation, the future direction of the economy and many other fac- tors." . . . The implications of the study are She Oshana Fines T, L, WILSON, Publisher C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle (established 1863) is published daily ¢ ys and statutory holidays excepted). s of C ily Newspaper Publish- ers Association. The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau et Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dallies Association. The Conadian Press is exciusively entitied to the use of republication of all news itched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local ews published therein. All rights of special des- patches ore also reserved. Offices: Thomson Buildi Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmonville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hamptun, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, sDunbarton, Enniskillen, a wd, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Columbus, Greenwood, Kinsale, Raglan, Blackstock, Manchester, Pontypool and Newcastle, not over 45c per week. By mail (in Province of Ontario) Gutside carriers delivery arecs 12.00 00 per yeor. Other P & ' 18. U.S.A. end foreign 24.00, By 425 -- University ng 640 Cothcort Street, enormous. While it seems to be di- rected more to the problems spawn- ed by the Metro Toronto area itself, it could obviously have a profound influence on the urban complex growing between Bowmanville and Ajax, and on the city of Oshawa as an entity. While there is no suggestion that the study would concern itself in any way with the interior traffic problems of Oshawa, it will un- doubtedly give a lot of gttention to inter-city flow, and 'bein turn will have a clear and deffnite bearing on the flow inside the city. This provides further reason for caution on the part of Oshawa offi- cials in their approach' tq. the Damas-Smith proposals for a 20- year traffic program for the city. If another east-west superhighway is contemplated, for example, it will pass within a reasonable distance of the present northern boundaries of the city, perhaps even brush them; and in doing so it would inevitably affect traffic in Oshawa. Other Editors' Views NOT HIS STYLE (Halifax Chronicle-Herald) One of the most incongrous photographs we have seen recently was the one of the Hon. Davie Fulton attired in ten-gallon hat and kerchief, and strumming a guitar while he serenaded delegates to the Conservative annual meeting at Ottawa. A Rhodes scholar, the immacula- tely-groomed Mr. Fulton has long been known as one of the intellec- tuals of Canadian politics. Professor of an incisive, logical mind and rare precision of speech, he is scarcely noted for the sort of levity that distinguishes, say, the Hon. George Hees, « THERE'S MORE TO COME, ALICE REPORT FROM U.K. Croydon's Workers Mostly Commuters By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Cc ndent For The Oshaw: Times CROYDON, London -- Under a big new _ re-development scheme at Croydon, in which skyscraper blocks of offices, with stores on the ground floor will be erected, it is ex- rected that the borough will eventually have a daily influx of 30,000 extra office workers coming into it. But the prospect is not a very pleasing one to many of the residents of the town, nor even to its store- keepers. The complaint of the s'ore- keepers is that '-se 30,000 extra office workers w"l not Produce very much in the way of extra trade for their shops. These newcomers, they believe, will commute to Croydon, earn their wages there, and then go off to the other districts here they will have their homes and spent their money in 'hem. There is good reasoning be- hind this complaint. It is this. While there will be thousands cf new jobs for workers in the Croydon office blocks, there are no homes available in the bor- ough in which they can live. So they will have 'o be commuters from other residential districts, LIKE MANHATTAN Members of the Croydon Chamber of Commerce say: "Croydon each day gets to look more like Manhattan, but, while these giant office blocks @re rearing their Americanized heads into the sky, comparative- READERS' VIEWS WHO'S WHO Dear Sir: The more I read about the election the more confused I become. Liberal leader Pearson says he cam find no fundamental dif- ference between many of his own policies and those of the NDP The NDP are being advertis- ed by the Communist Party as the ONLY party to support. Social Credit like "funny money"'! Liberals prefer comic: color- ing books! Conservatives can't agree on anything! It's time the two old parties took a good look at themselves before they drag the country down with a series of useless wasteful elections, such as France had after the war, Ob- viously, neither of the old par- ties is giving the people what they want or there wouldn't be so many splinter parties. The best thing that could hap- pen for the country is that both Pearson and Diefenbaker drop out and give us some new blood. They are both so obsess- ed with the lust for power they are dragging their parties down with them, If we have another minority government atfer the election, foreign investment, trade, even Canadian indus- iry will diminish and cause an- other severe dollar crisis. Re- gardless of who gets in power the Taxpayer is gong to pay the tune. We've had enough. INDEPENDENT. Oshawa. RETARDED CHILDREN Dear Sir: If parents are blessed with a normal child, they know that his or her education will be pro- vided by the public purse. If the parcnts, however, are un- fortunate enough to have a palsied gr mentally retarded child, ths child will not even be allowed to go to public school. Their only hope is that a voluntary agency or associa- tion has a school and a place for their child. The parents of an ordinary child can rest assured that if the youngster is ailing, he can be well cared for in any hos- pital under a government in- surance plan, without extra cost to them; but the parents of the retarded or palsied child, who is in most cases perma- nently handicapped, can. usual- , ly send him nowhere. All this adds up to govern- ment shirking of what is es- sentially a public responsibility. It is estimated that about five out of each 100 children in On- tario are handicapped to a seri- ous der-ee, Improvement is on the way, t but seemingly half - measured and inadequate. There is a sta- tute being proposed that will provide grants (for the first time) to help associations build community care centres for these unfortunate children. But the grant, as proposed, will cover much less than half the cost. The rest will still have to be obtained from charity -- service clubs, United Appeal, etc. -- or 'paid for by the par- ents. The fees, in such a centre in Toronto now, are upwards from $75 monthly. How many parents can afford this continual expense? How can we let them? This is no way for a supposed- ly enlightened society to go about rehabilitating and educat- ing any children. These young- sters have as much right to any opportunity and schooling paid for by taxes, as do others! The government's approach to the whole problem is still short- sighted and tight-fisted. It can't be allowed to wash its hands of the matter by leaving it to vol- untary agencies, financed by charity. The public with its purse, should be totally respon- sible. 'Austerity'? should not begin here. : STEVE MELNICHUK Oshawa BOOKS SOUGHT Dear Sir: As Canadian wives of teach- ers sent out here by our Cana- dian External Aid Office, we are living in Kano Province in Northern Nigeria, The elementary schools in this province are desperately in need of reading material. Any book, text book, magazine or dictionary, suitable for ele- mentary school aged children would be most welcome for these schools have virtually poring in supplementary read. g. Knowing the number of books available for Canadian chil- dren, we feel there are many books no longer needed which parents would be pleased to contribute, These books could be tied, labelled and sent as "printed matter only,"' which is the cheapest postage rate, to: Books from Canada, PMB 3129, Kano, Northern Nigeria. The Kano Native Authorky has agreed to help us with the distribution of the books. Each book will be marked, on arrival, as a gift from Canada, The Nigerian children and we would deeply appreciate your interest, cooperation and help in publicizing this appeal. MARGARET GRAHAM, ROSE HUTCHENS Wudil Teacher Training College, Wudil via Kano, Northern Nigeria. ly few house and apartment blocks are being built in the borough. Thousands of new workers are being brought into Croydon, but there is no living accommodation for them here, They come into the town every morning and then leave it again in the late afternoon." J. H. Withall, president of the Chamber of Commerce, says: "To have 30,000 extra workers in the town does not mean 30,- 000 extra customers for our shops. Very few of them can find homes in Croydon, so, at the most, these people have little more than an hour each day in which 'o do shopping here, And that is mostly in the lunch-hour when a trader .. an's to shut his shop while he has his own lunch, or at night when the shop-keepers are preparing to close for the day." BY-GONE DAYS 15 YEARS AGO Formation of a co-operative was discussed at the annual meeting of the Ontario and Dur- ham Berry Growers' Associa- tion, Michael Boychyn, of Whit- by, was elected to head the or- ganization during its second year of operations. Announcement was made of the sale of the jewelry business established by D. J. Brown in 1900, to T. W. Dobbie, who had been associated with him fo: more than 32 years. : S. T. Hopkins, secretary - or- ganizer of the Oshawa Com- munity, Chest, outlined the or- ganization's work to the Whitby Chamber of Commerce at its meeting. Mrs. Andrew Miller, native of' Pickering Township, celebrated her 104th birthday. Breakfast flights from Oshawa and Toronto were greeted at Hamilton's civic airport. A ratepayers association was formed by the residents of the Westmount district. George L. Roberts was elect- ed president and Rev. H. F, Davidson, secretary, of the Community Recreation Associa- tion for the 1948-49 season, Past President George Fletcher was elected program committee chairman and Everett Lovell, finance. * Woodhall Mines Limited bought property in Whitby to establish the first barite re- fining plant in Canada. Harmony Welfare Association held its first successful com- munity night in the school audi- torium, W. Powers was presi- dent of the association. Lloyd Prince, Oshawa taxi driver, was forced by a pas- Senger to drive to the Brampton district, where he was slugged and robbed. He received hospi- tal treatment there. ' More than. 125 guests attended the 26th anniversary of West- mount Home and School Asso- ciation, Among those present were R, A. Hutcheson, A. A, Archibald, Reeve T, Thomas, Deputy-Reeve W. Noble, Harold Pascoe, school principal, and presidents from the Home and School Associations. 4 ° . oo, 4 2 Sg c @ OTTAWA REPORT | Fiction And Fact In Election Drama By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--"How to sell politi. cal propaganda without appar- ently trying." That is the prob. em which is teasing the Ot. tawa "backroom generals" of ail the parties in this election campaign, > They want variety from. the threadbare and unimaginative harangue, delivered by a sin. gle politician, no matter how high, who bores his audience while fixing his stare just above the TV camera, where the tele- prompter offers him someone else's words to read, "The Leader" chatting '"'in- formally' with local candidates has been tried. These round- table talks are too often stilted and cold, The Liberals are the most adventurous explorers into this new field. In the last elec. tion, Hon, L. B, Pearson was shown discussing Liberalism with a well-known actor, Mavor Moore, Last weck severai men- on-the-street were interviewed on the Mike Pearson Hour-and they were not surprisingly all for Mr. Pearson, When does fiction take over from fact? When is a broad. cast rigged? This problem in honesty has been energetically tackled by the ever-watchful Board of Broadcast Governors which, among its many duties, is the umpire over electronic election battles, ' Thus the question is asked: TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS March 18, 1962... President Eisenhower signed legislation adding Hawaii to the Union as the 50th state four years ago today--in 1959, Five days earlier both the United States Senate and House of Representative voted the 6,424 - square mile island into the Union, Hawaii had sought statehood for half a century, It is the first over- seas and the second. non contiguous U.S, state, 1848 -- Insurrection broke out in the city of Berlin, 1844 -- Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky - Korsakov was born. GALLUP POLL Was Mavor Moore a typical Canadian expressing his own views? Or was he just an actor performing the paid role of reading his employer's script? And were those men-in-the- street speaking their own minds, or comabedy else's words? Mr. Carlyle Allison, ex-news- paper editor who is vice chair- man of the Board of Broadcast Governors, has some vivid sus- picions, "The board does not approve of character actors being used_ to impersonate members of the > public supposedly picked at random," he told me in his of. fice here. There is a chance of this being done in political broadcasts, but it would be minimized, he believes, if the people interviewed were asked to give their name and ad. dress. So this week every ra- dio and TV. station will re- ceive orders from the BBG to this effect, . The CBC ran a radio pro- gram last week, interviewing Ottawans on Confederation Square, and very interesting it was, One wondered whether the revealing comments would have been as frank if they had been asked to give their names and addresses, "The voters don't care, they YOUR HEALTH Pernicious Anemia Controlled By B12 By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, MD Dear Dr. Molner: I am a 27- year-old mother and 1 have per- nicious anemia, The doctor says ' there is'no cure, only treatment which *onsists of Vitamin B12 every two or three weeks, I feel a lot better but I lose energy easily. Is there any way I can fight this problem without having "'shots" the rest of my life?--Mrs. K.V, which consists of Vitamin B12 every two or three weeks is the standard treatment for perni- cious anemia. Period In Parliament Cost Douglas Support By The CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION During the last Parliament, Tommy Douglas lost consider- ably more public favor than he gained, His heaviest drop has been in the West where 35% of the voters say their opinion of him has gone down -- about twice as many as say it has gone up. Ontario splits closely on the two attitudes. In the Eastern provinces twice as many are critical as are com- plimentary. ssCANADA ..ccccesscerevescces Maritimes and Quebec ..+e» Ontario a Prairies and B.C. Those who said their opinion has changed one way or the other were asked to explain what had caused a switch in He was defeated in'his own ridin As one of a series assessing impact of party leaders on the ayerage man and woman, the Gallup Poll assigned its corps of interviewers to put this ques- tion to a national sample of the public: "THINKING ABOUT TOMMY DOUGLAS, LEADER OF THE NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY, WOULD YOU SAY YOUR OPINION OF HIM. HAS GONE UP OR DOWN IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS?" Columns below compare re- actions from East to West. Gone Gone The No Up Down Same Opinion 14% 22% 42% 22% 8 16 40 36 18 17 46 19 18 35 39 8 attitude. Opinion of Tommy Douglas | has gone down for 22% of the voters because: g 15% Don't like his policies; he has no definite policies; don't like his s tand on nuclear arms 14 He's too dictatorial; don't like him; not sincere 12 He would make a poor leader; not stable; not experi- ' enced enough Due to Medicare; he brought Medicare to Saskatchewan 9 Didn't like his method of gettin ginto Parliament; he got in through the back door; somebody had to stand aside From what I've heard-or read, public opinion of him isn't so good Don't like his speeches; talks too much Too tied up with unions; with Labor Too Communistic; too socialistic Other reasons Can't say why (Some gave more than one reason) Ie eae 7 n 107% Opinion of Tommy Douglas has gone up for 14% of the voters because: He has the soundest policies; better promises He is a good, honest, sincere, dedicated man 15% at Know more about him now; hear and read more about "4 him; has more vy -- oor He is doing a good job; working He has definite views and opinions and sticks to them 9 Carried himself well; Jost ergy ang. be ge Be another 9 He is a ve ood speaker; like his 5 Due to Medicare; he brought Medicare to Saskatchewan A He would make a good leader; he's a good speaker 7 He wants to help the common, working man 6 He's against nuclear arms; is the only leader to take ' a definite stand on defense Can't say why (Some gave more than one reason) $9999090O000000000000008 > The dependable x source of cash QAM) (LOANS UP TO $3,000.00 OR MORE). 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Fairness and honesty in tics is an admirable ambition by the BBG, But it raises the interesting question: Does the man with that familiar TV face really mean what he says in the advertising plug about those cigarettes? Or is he too merely an actor paid to express + a written by someone else i You might feel much better about things if you knew the hise tory of the disease and its treat ment, Within my lifetime (and very litfle more than yours) this dis- ease has ed from one which was usually quickly fatal to one which can be kept under . control with great sureness. Then came the discovery that large quantities of liver would control: pernicious anemia, This was a godsend. Patients, otherwise marked for porn were delighted to eat a of liver a day--and live, It was assumed that there must be something in liver which accomplished this, but years were required to find out. After liver came liver ex- tracts, and from them finally Vitamin B 12 which, it turns controlling out, is the secret of pernicious anemia. Having one injection every two weeks is far simpler, you must agree, than forcing youre self to eat a pound 'a liver every day. '% So instead of rebelling against the shots, reflect on how.much luckier you are than patients who had the same disease only a few decades ago. There is no way to fight per- nicious anemia except with those substantial doses of B12. Dear Dr. Molner: I wake up at night with throat so dry I can hardly breathe. What causes this and what can I do? --JOHN E. First, sir, I'd guess that you sleep with your mouth open, but don't realize it. Maybe a simple chin strap will help. Second, how dry is your house? Do you have humidifier tanks or eva- poration pans? They would help overcome the dryness. Dear Dr. Molner: It is mon for a young man of 23 to have to urinate every 30 or @ minutes? I have been that way for four months, ever since [° accepted a small beer in @ sleezy bar. . Does holding in the urine grenghen the bladder? --W. This problem is decidedly not common at your age. and I sus- pect either a urinary tract in- fection or diabetes (either dias betes mellitus, meaning excess Sugar, or diabetes insipidus, a considerably different ailment which does not involve sugar.) I doubt that the small beer, drunk in any kind of a bar, had anything to do with it, That's probably coincidence. I sug- gest that you have a urinalysis, plus whatever further tests may then be indicated, to find out what is wrong. Sometimes a bladder, if un- dersized, may. be stretched by deliberately trying to hold in ps sg as long as possible, it applies only to individuals. 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