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| She Oshawa Times Published by (Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 Kin tt. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher 'Stocks Draw Attention To Anti-Gambling Rule Thousands: of Ontario citizens have, during the past couple of weeks, been able to gamble to their hearts' content, and do it out in _ the open, with no fear of arrest and legal punishment. If they found the wagering at race tracks too tame, they could bet on the mineral possi- bilites of moose pastures in North- ern Ontario. And if they picked the moose pasture, they got a bonus -- the fine patriotic feeling that they were making a financial contribu- tion to the development of Canadian resources. The play given the "penny dread- ful" stocks following the announce- ment of a major copper strike near Timmins casts a revealing light on the gambling situation in this country. The speculators have been engaging in a legal activity; but if they played poker for more than ten-cent stakes or purchased sweep- stakes tickets or made a fifty-cent bet on a horse -- away from the track -- they would be breaking the law. The gambling instinct is deeply embedded in human beings, who have amply demonstrated over a long period that they will gamble no matter what the law says. The result is, of course, that anti-gamb- ling laws as we know them are not only generally ignored, and therfore largely unenforceable, but actually encourage the, growth of organized and syndicate crime. And it is the gambling profits that underwrite criminal ventures into the peddling of narcotics, prostitution. and other activities. / This is the point from which the Ontario government should tackle the problem of organized crime in Ontario. The criminal, organization in this province is sustained by gambling. Divert from the criminals the profit from gambling and you hit their organization at its most vulnerable point. Police authorities admit that for every dollar bet legally in Ontario three to five dollars are bet illegally -- and last year legal betting amounted to more than $100 million. Strengthening the Police Act is fine, but let's take'a look at the anti-gambling laws, too. Dubious Numbers Game Labor Minister MacEachen has made a massive botch of the social insurance number project. It has been botched too badly to be re- medied by apologies. The whole thing should be scrapped and the idea reconsidered. It has been a questionable pro- ject from the start. It was argued that the numbering of Canadians was necessary for the sake of effi- ciency at Ottawa -- for the proper feeding of information to com- puters, and all that sort of thing. Many Canadians were not convinced by that argument, but were willing to go along, reluctantly. The Labor Department let it be known that Canadians would be . liable to prosecution if they did not fill out the applications sent them or delivered to them by employers. Employers feared that if they did not distribute the applications they would be held liable. But then, days later, it was admitted that only those persons already paying unem- ployment insurance premiums were required to fill out the cards; other persons were asked to fill them out, but were under no compulsion to do so. Teachers' groups protested against the filling out of the forms, and their protests led to the revela- ion that many such groups could or would be exempt, and that there 'was no compulsion. The appearance of the forms themselves started another uproar. Why should a citizen be required to telf the government his mother's last name at her birth and his father's first name? For better identification, mumbled the Labor Department officials -- not a con- vincing response. What does "other" mean under the heading "marital status"? Is it the government's business ? ed Mr. MacEachen and his depart- ment have played a dubious num- bers game, in which, innocently or otherwise, they have managed to confuse and irritate the public. They'd better make a fresh start, Redistribution Idea New Democratic whip Stanley Knowles is right in vigorously op- posing what might be called "pat- ronage" in the Pearson govern- ment's otherwise good bill to take politics out of redistribution of Par- liament's seats. The Vancouver Sun asserts, and we agree. He objects to a provision by which the prime minister and leader of the Opposition would each no- minate one of the four members on each of the 10 proposed boundary rectification commissions. The provincial chief justices would be ¢mpowefed to nominate the chairman for each board. And on every board the fourth meniber would be the federal redistribution commissioner -- at present Nelson Castonguay. Mr. Knowles says that giving nomination privileges to the prime She Oshawa Sines T. L. WILSON, Publisher Cc. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times testablished 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle (established 1863) is published daily (Sundays and Statutory holidays excepted). Members of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish- rs Association, The Canodion Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontario, Provincial Dailies Association. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to. the use of republication of all news despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associoted Press or Reuters, and also the tocol news published therein. All rights of special des- catches ore also reserved. Offices: Thomson Building, 425 University + Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q. 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There- fore the proposed arrangement is unfair and will remain so unless or until Canada returns to the two- party system. There's no objection to Mr. Cas- tonguay playing 10 parts by being the fourth man on each of the 10 boards. But the average person would feel better if the chief jus- tices carry the load of making all the other appointments. A Other Editors' Views PUSH BABIES ? (Calgary Albertan) -- A US. firm has produced a set of records designed to keep the modern baby quietly contended, if not permanently asleep, from birth until the age of 18 months, at which point, of course, the TV set can take over. The modern mother is thus left free from the cradle to Grade 1 to cope with her electric polisher, automatic washer and drier and automatic dish-washer -- and even, if she can find the time, to open a few cans on her electric can-opener or beat up some caké mixes in her electric mixer, =, a Narn 111" na? 'HOW ABOUT A BARBECUE, PARTNER ? REPORT FROM U.K. Commission Urges Extended Park Use By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- The British gov- ernment, working through the National Parks Commission, is considering inaugurating some- thing whch has been quite com- mon in the provinces of Canada for many years. There are 10 national parks in Britain, but up to the present nothing has been done to attract holiday- makers to make full use of them. They are there to be seen in the passing, but there is no provision, as there is in so many of the Canadian parks, for people to use them as holi- day areas or colonies, where they can spend a healthful and interesting vacation. This has so far been impos- sible, because before any action can be taken along these lines, the government must have leg- islation passed to make this type of use for the national parks legal. These parks are administered by the National Parks Commission, and their use is strictly limited by law. But Lord Strang, chairman of the commission, in his annual reports, says that it has been discussing with the government the possibility of permissive leg- islation being passed to expand the usefulness of the parks. NO TIME The minister in charge of this phase of government ac- tivity is Sir Keith Joseph, min- ister of housing and local gov- ernment. In his discussion with Lord Strang, he has held out only a slender hope of finding parliamentary time for the nec- essary legislation during the life of the present session, and that means before the general elec- tion. The National Parks Commis- sion is asking to have its powers extended to created holiday colonies in its 10 parks, and it also wants the cash which will be necessary to do it. The viewpoint of the commis- sion is that part of each park should be kept free of intru- sive development or disturb- ance for those who want to en- joy the unspoilt countryside. There are other areas, how- ever, within or just outside the boundaries of the parks which, it feels, should be deliberately developed for the use of other holiday-makers. In these, there could be car parks, caravan and camping sites and other in- expensive holiday accommoda- tion, picnic sites and restau- rants, YOUR HEALTH The Commssion is undertak- ing a survey to decide how best to provide for future needs of this character. It gives warn- ino. however, that positive plan- ning is necessary to provide pub- lic recreation places, This is un- likely to be ac':ieved effective- ly unless there is sopré meas- ure of public ip, trustee- ship or formal handling over of the land to be public. The 10 national parks in Brit- ain range from Snowdonia in Wales to the Dales in York- enire and Dartmoor down in Devon. Together with the desig- nated areas of outstanding beau- ty, they cover an area of more than 7000 square miles. Drug Can Combat Attacks Of Gout By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, MD Dear Dr. Molner: A member of my family has developed gout. We have just learned of it and we are. very worried. We know it's a serious disease. What we would like to know is how fast its progress is, and what can be done, including diet which we understand is very important?--A.B. I think you are overestimating the seriousness of gout. You sound as though it is fatal or totally disabling. Gout is sefious but not that much, as a rule. Gout has been known at least since the day of Hippocrates, the father of medicine. The body sometimes accumu- lates more uric acid than it should. In turn, chalky deposits of sodium urate form. A joint (the joint of the big toe is the commonest place, but others can be affected, too) suddenly becomes excruciatingly tender. This is sheer misery while it lasts. After a while (sometimes a few days, sometimes longer) the pain disappears. But then it comes on again, without warn- ing and the agony is repeated. For several hundred years colchicine has been known as a drug which relieves the pain. Only in the last handful of now have a lot of people going very useful in preventing at- tacks instead of relieving them afterward. So at long last we know have a lot of people going. about their business free of these periodic bouts" with gout. Pid matter of diet is declin- BY-GONE DAYS 20 YEARS AGO April W. A. Wecker was elected president of the Canadian Sec- tion of the Society of Automo- tive Engineers, Oshawa Kiwanis Club. made the first.purchase of a Victory Bond in the Sixth Victory Loan campaign. Frank McCallum was president of the club. A sefies of safety lectures were presented in Oshawa pub- lic schools by P.,B. Latrobe, field secretary of Ontario Safe- ty League. Sgt. Thomas W.. Shepherd of Oshawa, graduated as a wire- less air gunner at Guelph. train- ing centre. Miss A. A. Maxwell, dean of the Ontario Ladies' College for many years, announced she would retire at the end of the current college term. Three local men, J, S. Moon- ey, J. M. Taylor and H. Bal- jentine graduated from RCAF training centres across Canada. 28, 1944 The Oshawa Win-the-War and Community Fund raised $75,000 for the Canadian. Red Cross So- ciety. Lt.-Col. Murray Johnston. ar- rived home after more than three years overseas. He suf- fered a knee injury in Italy and had been convalescing in En- gland for several months. Fight donors qualified for their silver buttons by making their sixth donation at the Osh- awa Blodd Clinic. Thomas Les- ley gave his 12th donation, Rev, William Johnston, DD, was guest preacher atyKing Street United Church onthe oc- casion. of Kiwanis Club's annual "church parade", Scouts of. 3rd Oshawa Troop were awarded service stars at the annual father and son ban- quet. Badges were received by -Bob Tumey, Bill Wilson, Albert Hardsand, John. Smith, Jack Ireland, Ross Gibbs, Don Bryan and Eric Hail. f \ ing in importance. This does not mean that diet is without value, but that it is not as im- portant as in the past. The idea used to be that rich food and drink caused the dis- ease. That now is doubted. It is a disturbance in uric acid met- abolism, the cause of which is not known, It affects 20 men for every woman. Most doctors recommend that patients be at: least moderately careful of their diet: Don't go overboard on rich foods. Avoid foods high in purines: the "or- ganic meats," such as liver, heart, sweetbreads, kidney, tongue; and, generally speak- ing the red meats, such as beef and sausage, plus pork, veni- son, turkey, duck, goose, bacon; also avoid gravies--and meat soups and extracts, as well as lentils, beans, peas, sardines, rabbit, squab. Chicken, lamb, ham, herring, salmon, tuna, whitefish, lobster, crab, are some which are of only moderate purine content. Eggs, cheese, milk, nuts are low in purine, so you have a fair amount of choice in obtain- ing protein. Cereals, vegetables and fruits are either low or mod- enate in purine, My advice for the gout patient fs to let his physician set up a suitable continuing routine of medication to ward off attacks, and bolster this with reasonable diet. If you can't eliminate the higii-purine foods, avoid them when possible or else use them in moderation. NOTE TO MJB: I do not know of any type of arthritis which is bothered by "too much protein." On the contrary, the risk is that many people get too little protein, / / 4 OTTAWA REPORT - Changes Probable In Confederation By PATRICK NICHULSUN OTTAWA--Our Canadian Con- federation is a hazard. Daily' developments make it more possible--as this column suggested many months ago-- that our much-planned centen- nial birthday will not be cele- brated by a Canadian Confed- eration as we know it today. Some voices suggest that ald bec will separate, to form "The Independent Frencif Republic of North America." Less strident and more realis- tic voices speak of a rewritten ~and repatriated -- constitu- tion, which would scotch the aims and acts of the cen- tralizers, and restore and strengthen the powers of provin- cial governments, thus creating a "United States of Canada'"'-- in.a form welcome to Quebec and equally attractive to all provinces. Lest the similarity of our neighbor's name should be mis- leading, we must call to mind the far-sighted and brilliant statesmen of the Old World who QUEEN'S PARK strive to create a "United States of Europe" -- primari! an economic union, might prove the more appropri- ate model for Northernmost America, . Of the many possible sequels to such a a here 'ye most fascinating is the likeli- 'hood of creating distinctive ecul- tural patterns in most of the new Canadian states. This would encourage and be encour- aged by an accelerated immi- gration, whose pattern is a dictable: French _ settlers Quebec, British settlers to ow tario and B.C., eastern Fn-o- peans moving into the Prairies. Thus the U.S.C mig' more color and éatistection than the materialistically con- formist U.S;A. The most certain prediction about Canada's future is that we cannot indefinitely re- underpopulated in the coming decades of world-wide explod- ing population. We are the third largest country in the world, bigger than the U.S. and almost Renewed Support For Wintermeyer BY DON O'HEARN . TORONTO -- Behind the scenes some action seems to be stirring in the Liberal party. One development is that a group in the party has been pressing former leader John Wintermeyer to run in the Windsor - Sandwich by-election . . in the seat made vacant by the death of Maurice Bel- anger, The group has been particu- larly insistent since the police commission report on crime vindicated the former leader. So far Mr. Wintermeyer . has not shown too much interest in their bid, though there 'are in- dications he still may have a political career in mind. TEMPLETON LEADER? Equally interesting is a move to have a Toronto Newspaper- man, Charles Templeton, run for the party leadership. Mr. Templeton has had & colorful career. His appearance on the news- seene is quite recent. Still, a young man, at one time he was a successful evangelist, with an tional reputation. Then he was prominent as & television perfonmer. And he is still active in this- field, as well as being executive editor of the Toronto Star. One can assume that actively behind a Templeton candidacy would be a boss, Beland H. Hon- derich, vice - president of the Star. Mr, Honderich has long had political desires in our provin- cial field. In 1951 he did a lot of the master - minding in the unsuc- cessful campaign when Walter Thomson led the Liberals to the lis ag he was an ardent sup- porter of Walter Harris in 1958 when Mr. Wintermeyer defeated Mr, Harris for the party lead- ership. Whether Mr. Templeton, ® TODAY, IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS April 28, 1964 . A peace treaty re-estab- lishing Japan as an inde- pendent and sovereign na- tion went into effect 12 years ago today--in 1952. President Truman an- nounced an end to the state of war that had existed be- tween the U.S. and Japan. Japan later signed a sep- arate peace treaty with Na- tionalist, but not Commu- nist, China. 1939 -- Hitler rejected a Roosevelt peace appeal and made his first formal -de- mands for Danzig. 1960--South Korean Vice- President Lee Ki-poong, his wife and two sons died in a suicide pact at Seoul. interna- Announce New Healing Substance... Shrinks Piles, Checks Itch Exclusive healing substance proven to shrink hemorrhoids... and repair damaged tissue. A renowned research institute has found a unique healing substance with the ability to shrink hemos many months, This was accomplished with a rhoids painlessly. It relieves itch- ing and discomfort in minutes and speeds up healing of the injured, inflamed tissues. One hemorrhoidal case history after another reported "'very strik- ing improvement." Pain was promptly and gently relieved . . . actual reduction or. retraction (shrinking) took place. Among these case histories were a variety of hemorrhoidal condi- tions. 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However, the government will make a strong effort fo take it back and the fight should be in- teresting. A date for the by - election won't be afinounced until after the session. " AS events have the tfa of the Atlantic asin to be terdependent." =: 5 which, however, early looked Canada. is was riage aped co-operative 1 - sha which the massive U.S.A. : one end would be linked to a massive United States of Eure ope. at the other, Where would we fit with these two big group- ings? Obviously, in ican eyes, inside U.S.A. To preserve our identity--it we want to preserve it--we must fashion not a Kennedy dumbbell but a Pearson trian- gle, of which the United States ---- would form the third side. Of course, under present con- ditions, we would be the small- est of the three sides in popula-. tion and wealth, although the largest in area and : To become comparable in popula- tion, we must attract, not trickle, but a flood of imei. grants; this inevitably would build up our wealth, This is a controversial con- cept. But nobody can applaud our. modern slow growth and Joss of sense of purpose. These logical developments, inspired .by the under-recognized Quebec protest, could provide a new a for the whole of Can- © ada. PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM "It is impossible to be mad at anybody gore ad Says a teacher of dancing. evidently never heard of war '(oe for small emergencies for all emergencies so dependable, you know-you can take it for granted af BUILT, MANAGED AND OWNED BY CANADIANS BELL $ e: