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OPINIONS DAILY, TIMES-CAZETTE EDITORIAL PACE FEATURES THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE OSHAWA i WHITBY THE OSHAWA TIMES (Established 1871) THE WHITBY GAZETTE AND CHRONICLE (Established 1863) MEMBER OF THE CANADIAN PRESS The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news despatches credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters in this paper and also the local news published therein. All rights of republication of special despatches herein are also reserved. The Times-Gazette is a member of the Canadian Daily News- Association, the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association, and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin Port Perry, Ajax or Pickering, 24c per week, $12.00 per year. By 'mail, outside carrier delivery areas, anywhere in Canada and England $7.00 per year, $350 for 6 months, $2.00 for 3 months. U.S. $0.00 per year. Authorized as Second Class Matter, Post Office Dept., Ottawa, Can. Net Paid Cirealation Ayerags Per Issue 7,797 OCTOBER, 1947 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1947 Heavy Accident Toll 'According to figures released by the Industrial Accident Prevention Associations the employers of Ontario reported | 16,072 injuries to persons in October, including 54 fatal cases to the Workmen's Compensation Board. Both the total number of cases reported and the fatal cases reported are the highest for any month so far in 1947. In all, 139,795 accidents were reported this year up to the end of October as compared with 113,640 in the same period a year ago. The total number of accidents reported in the ten months of the year is actually greater than in the whole of last year when the figure was 138,570. Compensation awarded by the Workmen's Compensa- tion Board in October amounted to $1,428,171.62, bringing the total awards for 1947 to $14,232,387.08, which is slightly higher than the amount awarded in the same months of 1946 which was $13,449,109.52, The IA.P.A. monthly letter to industrial executives suggests that having foremen take time to look for and correct accident hazards is good management. The letter suggests in part, "advance thinking means time saved for production, time which otherwise would be lost (1) through a trip by the injured person for first aid (2) through repairs to machinery (3) through the need for making out accident reports and (4) all of the related items after an accident has disrupted production." The letter also recommends that the setting and adjustment of guards are of considerable import- ance, as too often Investigations show that lack of proper adjustment of the guard was the reason for the injury. All too many accidents take place because workers believe they cannot happen to them. Each worker must become accident conscious and exercise care and foresight so that in the operation of machinery they place themselves in the position of anticipating rather than receiving injuries. Worthy of Recognition Residents of the Oshawa area have reason for pride in the appointment of Robert L. Coleman, director of the Com- munity Recreation Association of Oshawa and District, to the position of chairman of the Recreation Directors' Federa- tion of Ontario. Coming to Oshawa with an excellent army record, Mr. Coleman had a fund of ideas which he has put into practice here. As a result the work of the local C.R.A. has expanded by leaps and bounds and today enjoys a warm spot in the heart of practically every youngster in the community. This past summer recreation work was carried on in 17 parks and as a result many who were sceptical are today strong backers of the project. The recreation directors' organization was founded with the idea of stabilizing and integrating the work of recreation throughout the province and to assist those engaged in the field on a full-time basis. It will permit of the exchange of ideas and so make for the provision of the latest develop- ments in recreation. : developing recreation in Oshawa. We are sure the Associa- tion will benefit from his leadership and that in turn Oshawa will have better facilities through the ideas he secures from other members of the federation, Many Should Not Drive Of every 100 persons operating private motdr vehicles on the highways and city streets of Ontario's towns and cities at least six should never get behind the wheel of a car. This is the conclusion reached by representatives of the University of Toronto and the London, Ont., firm of John Labatt Limited, following an exhaustive series of psycho- physical driver tests conducted at the recent Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, and a number of provincial fall fairs within the last two months. Nearly 12,000 men and women 'were tested during the six-week period by members of the Division of Public Safety of the Extension Department of the University of Toronto. Based on the "norms" of the American Automobile Associa- tion, nine per cent graded "A" er exceptional, 21 per cent "B" or above average, 40 per cent "C" or average, 24 per cent "D" or below average and six per cent "E" or so poor that they should not even contemplate driving, yet they are to be found behind the car's steering wheel. Is it any wonder there are so many accidents? These tests, part of a growing safe driving campaign in Ontario, are the same as those first introduced into the province more than two years ago by Prof. Amos E. Neyhart, administrative head of the Ameri- can Institute of Public Safety and staff consultant for the American Automobile Association on road training, as part of a course for the instruction of fleet supervisors, jointly sponsored by the University of Toronto and Labatt's, the 'have been conducted at regular intervals ever since. fo make driving tests more severe. ~ . tt oa ra Ae ALBANS HR The revelations made are amazing and should lead "Halt The Destroy er' --Hutton in The Philadelphia Inquirer By HAROLD DINGMAN Ottawa Correspondent Ottawa, Nov. 13--The pipeline into the Social Credit Party says the party chiefs are in a state of nervous apoplexy caused by the national scandal over the baby-ex- port expose. If he could arrange it--and if he could get away with it--Premier Manning, the Social Credit leader, would like to call a snap election, according to sources Jere. - The politicians are frightened about a judicial investigation now getting underway. The inquiry will concern itself with the export of infants to the United States, as well as the treatment of illegiti- mate babies inside Alberta, Pub- lic opinion forced the government to appoint the judicial commis- sion. Chief Justice Howson, the ex- Liberal Jeader, is chairman of the investigation commission and has ruled that the sessions be held in public, The inquiry has been stal- led along and delayed as long as possible but now is scheduled to open on November 24, That's when the fireworks will begin, The first witness will pe Dr, Charlotte Whitton, who has already conducted one searching probe into conditions of Alberta. 'She reported that Alberta was "one of the sorriest areas of hu- man frailty and suffering." There are strange reports rea- ching Ottawa of children "being moved so fast" that such agencies as the Salvation Army and the Lacombe Home cannot keep track of them or make a record of their movement. Presumably these are children sent out to farm homes by the government and who are requited to do farm laBor in re- turn for their bed and board, There was such an outcry In Alberta against the Welfare De- partment of the government that two other inquiries were also started, One concerns mental hy- giene and the other the financial arrangements for looking after children. This latter investigation is being directed by a deputy minister, which gives some com- fort to the Social Credit leaders. If things in Alberta are as bad as Dr, Whitton says they are, then the administration of the Social Credit Government is headed for catastrophe. Ordinary . govern- ments have a hard time surviving financial or other scandals but no government is likely to stand up to a scandal about the treatment Dr. Whitton's report on the ba- by business was written into a quiet blue book that should have made screaming headlines. Ac- cording to Dr. Whitton the gov- ernment of Alberta encouraged prospective mothers to "sign away" their illegitimate children, and these babies, if satisfactory, would then enter the southbound traffic stream, Here is what she says in one place: "If the girl is surrendering her baby, which is the prevailing : of habieg, and the export of ba- |= Mr. Coleman has proved to be a brilliant leader in [Dies practice, there is a definite incli- nation not to have her see it or nurse it, though several of the hospitals decline to follow such procedures, "The girl is interviewed and signs the surrender very close up- o. the child's birth, generally not later than the 6th day. The pro- cedure followed in Calgary and Edmonton is certainly open to se. rious question for the mother sur- renders to a representative of the Superintendent, authorized as a notary public, thereby transfer- rin~ guardianship without court procedure or outside counsel advice, "Edmonton seems in a marked degree to be the focal point of surrender of babies, due largely to the highly centralized and bu- reaucratically personalized hand- ling of child protection and adop- tion by the Child Welfare Com- mission." This sort of thing has already been widely publicized in Alberta, sg that it will require some extra- ordinary political manoeuvring to restore public confidence, But when the judicial inquiry starts taking evidence in public, with newspaper reporters attending, it is going to be really hot. ® 25 Years Ago Note: Items in yesterday's column actually should have been dated "30 Years Ago" instead of 25. In the final game for the Robert O. Law Cup, F. W, Bull defeated Dr. A. B. 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