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i | 8 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Friday, July 10, 1053 Editorials - by Times-Gasette F [yy The Bally Times-Gasette (Oshawa, Whitby), 57 Simcoe Street South, Oshaws, Ontario ' Diffusion Of Ownership Of Industries Healthy 'Britain," The ' Gazette (4 Canada afd the United States are two countries in-the world in which Secialism has made comparatively little headway. Most other countries have powerful politi- cal groups which incline to the left, and which, in many cases, have taken over the government. In Canada, except in Saskats chewan, where a Socialist government is in power, socialism has not made nearly as much -progress as it has elsewhere, while in the United States it forms a very insignificant political group. One of the reasons for this is brought out very sharply in a booklet published by General Motors, entitled "Information Handbook", in which revealing figures are given of the ever-expanding distribution of ownership in this great enterprise. Be- cause of this very fact, an ever-growing number of people have a personal financial interest in the welfare of large businesses, and therefore are not very much inclined to favor socialist ideas. For instance, the booklet shows that in the first quarter of the present year, reneral Motors stock was dwned by 488,- 827 holders of common and preferred shares. Of these, 459,210 were owners of common shares, and close to 30,000 were holders of the preferred shares. Both of these figures were all-time high records. Ownership of General Motors has in- creased by 55,900 owners since 1950. Ninety-two per cent of the owners of the common and preferred shares are individe uals, but no one individual holds as much as 1% per cent of the common shares. - These people are shareholders in this and other large companies because they hope to earn a profit on their investment. They are firm believers in the profit motive in industry; and in the power of private enterprise to make their invest- ments worthwhile. And for people such as these, there can be no inducement to em- brace a Socialist ideology. Sending Food Behind Iron Curtain Local 195 of the United Automobile Workers (CIO), of Windsor, has come up with an interesting suggestion, perhaps more interesting than practicable. It has asked the government of Canada to make the surplus food which has been piled up in this country available to the hungry people in countries dominated by Russia, behind the iron curtain. There is a great similarity between that proposal and that which has been made in the United States, to the effect that the "have" nations should show a greater readiness to share what they possess with the '"have-not" countries. : On the face of it, there is a great deal of merit in this proposal. It would relieve the sufferings of millions of people who have to go short of food every day of their lives. It would, at the same time, serve as powerful propaganda material for the western democracies. It would be a real eye-opener to people living behind the Iron Curtain to find that the western powers had food to spare to give to them in, order to relieve their misery. So that there are two good purposes to be served by carrying out the proposal. The catch in the plan, of course, is whether or not Russia would permit the sending of gifts of food to its satellite countries, and, in addition to that, the question of whether these gifts would reach the people for whom they are in- tended, or would be taken by the Russians for their own use. It is quite possible that Russia would not hesitate to appropriate the supplies for her own people, rather than allow them to he distributed to the people of puppet nations. For these reasons, it id not likely that the proposal will be adopted, but it is in- teresting because it shows that organized workers in this country are thinking of the plight of workers in less fortunate lands. and are anxious to find ways to help them. Capitulation to Bevanism Nationalization galore, restored social welfare schemes, increased government eontrols, still steeper taxes on "the rich," new participation in privately-owned in- dustries and a "get-tough" economic policy towards the United States, are the keynotes of the British Labor Party's latest manifesto, entitldd "Challenge to Currency controls would be stiffened, import curbs expanded, and de- liberate economic discrimination against the United States, and, by the same token, other hard currency countries such as Canada, would be encouraged. "Challenge to Britain" indicates that Editorial Notes The CPR has placed orders for $38,000,000 for the most modern, pas- senger equipment. That does not show any lack of confidence in the future of rail travel. Fifty years ago there was no parking problem. And likewise no long lists of traffic fatalities every weekend. So there are some ways' in which the passing of time has now brought improvement. It only seems the other day that we started writing "1953," and half the year is gone already. The Daily Times-Gazette (OSHAWA, WHITBY) Dally Times-Gazette (Oshawa, Whitby) combining Oshawa Times (established 1871) and the Whithy & Chuonicle (established 1863) is published daily y h D. Member of The Canadian Press, the Canadian Dail Newspapers Association, the Ontario Provincial Dailies ped Sociation and the Audit B of C The Canadi Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news despatches in the paper credited to it or to The Associated 88 or Reuters, and also the local news Published therein. All rights of special despatches are also Servi T. L. WILSON, Publisher and General Manager M. 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The only conclusion that ean be drawn from this vitriolic 18,000 word diatribe is that the more moderate elements in the British Labor party have decided to capi tulate to Bevanism, Other Editors' Views GOVERNMENT CONTROL (Fort Willlam Times-Journal) Evidently the Government of India has no qualms about régulating industry of the country. The Minister of Commerce and Industry has just announced that seven foreign automobile companies must elose down their assembly plants within three years and concentrate on maintenance and servicing. According to the Miister, the decision is aimed at developing the local automobile industry on a scientific basis. What a row there would be in Canada if a similar order were directed at manufacturing concerns from other countries which are now operating here. 7 A -Bit of Verse BOYS ON A HILLSIDE There they were, but no one spoke While time slipped by like drifted smoke, Three brown boys on a lazy hill, Watching the yellow sunlight spill In leopard freckles on the ground; Three brown boys and a lanky hound Why should this puzzling silence be? Silence in boys is history! I didn't know but my surmise Was that the creek had lulled their eyes ° And stilled their words, for they were wet The way that sleek and brown seals get. Their frames were loose, thelr arms were back, And all their happy muscles slack, And that is why I think I heard Music in silence--but no word. --ANOBEL ARMOUR Bible Thought "We will give ourselves continually to prayer." (Acts 6 4) "Prayer takes the very highest energy of which the human is capable."--John Coleridge. A 'Canadian provinces. [2] UNCHARTED REEF OTTAWA REPORT MAC'S MUSINGS There is something about National Health Plan Inevitable By PATRICK NICHOLSON Special Correspondent for The Times-Gazette OTTAWA -- One Canadian in every seven will spend an average of nine days"in hospital during the next twelve months. An un- ascertainable fraction of the others will also be sick, but will not enter hospital because they cannot af- ford 'the cost. It is the inhumanity of a means test against good health in the world's second richest country which has brought widespread de- mand for a national health scheme. No such means test bars the benefits of social security measures s uch as septuagenar- ian' pensions and babies' bon- uses. No such means test with- holds assistance from victims of calamities such as foot and mouth disease. So there is very little opposition to the principle of a national health scheme. Discus- sion centres round only When? and What? In 1948 the government launched a five-year plan to build up Can- ada's medical facilities to the level where they would be ade- quate to meet the expanded de- mands under a national health plan. Prime architect of Better Health for Canadians is our kindly health minister, Paul Martin, whose am- bition it is to see that children have the best possible treatment in serious ailments such as struck men down. Two months ago he, announced that the five-year plan had exceeded its target of ,000 new hospital beds, and at the same time he launched a second five-year plan with a 26 per cent increase in federal grants to assist the expansion of health facilities throughout Canada. HEALTH PLAN PREMATURE In every province, special com- missions have recent assessed their medical needs. Nova Scotia bluntly . reported that "the require- ments for group health services have not been nearly met in any Greater ex- penditures would be required for at least 10 years before the com- munity health services would be remotely close to the minimum required for the introduction of a national health insurance plan." This warning was endorsed that fall by Prime Minister St. Laurent, who said: "I don't feel that the government has the right to give Canadi contractual rights to hospital * treatment until there is sufficient accommodation to ful- fill that obligation." There is' some disagreement as to the number of beds which would fulfill this obligation. Today Can- ada has nearly 175,000 hospital beds, or 12 for each 1,000 Can- adians, Britain launched her health plan with less than 10 beds for each 1,000 persons on doc- tors' panels. But approximately half Canada's hospital beds are occupied by patients who are mentally sick, says Mr. Martin, and these are normally long-term patients. HEALTH PLAN COST Estimates of the cost of a na- tional health 'plan. for Canada range from $450,000,000 a year to nearly half as much again. But last year individual Canadians spent an estimated $6004000,000 on medical care. On balance, the extra cost to the taxpayer would only be his share of doctoring those unfortunates unable to pay for their own treatment. "There certainly can be no de- fence in Canada in our time for any conditions that make it dif- ficult or impossible for anyone to receive adequate medical care, simply because of inability to pay for it,' says Mr. Martin. Thinking in government and medical circles here is that the inevitable Canadian health plan plan should be in effect a gov- ernment sponsored universal health insurance. Each indivi- dual would pay in a fixed sum monthly, and draw out costs on a fixed scale covering surgical and medical care and hospitaliza- tion in a general ward. The pa- tient would be free to select his own doctor; the doctor would be free to refuse any patient. Indi- viduals who could not afford the monthly premium to this group insurance would be protected by the government's disbursement of the taxpayers' money. Wealthier individuals who desired treatment ahove general ward standard would pay the balance themselves. This would mot be the undesir- able state medicine; it would be national group insurance. Comet's Monopoly Brings In By FRASER WIGHTON HATFIELD, England (Reuters) - Britain's latest challenger for the world's airline business, the Comet II, will soon be rolling off the production lines here. . The new jetliner is. faster than. her 490-mile-an-hour predecessor, Comet I, now in regular service on international air routes. She is also slightly bigger and can travel farther without refuelling. First of a fleet ordered by Brit- ish Overseas Airways Corpora- tion, the aircraft is expected to fly in August. Six more are in an advanced stage of construction at the De Havilland plant here. Production lines have also been laid down at Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Chester, England. Extensive trials have been ear- ried out on a prototype of the Comet II, which is powered by four Rolls-Royce Avon turbines. A British Canberra bomber powered by two similar engines recently crossed the Atlantic in three hours, 25 minutes. Taking shape alongside the Comet 1I is the prototype of a still faster and much bigger trans- port, the Comet III, which has won Britain her first U.8. order for jet airliners. Three of these 58-to-86-seat air- craft have been commissioned by Pan. American Airways, which has an option for more Britain has a monopoly so far as maker of jet transport types is Orders regular service on international routes. Apart from about 50 Comets either built or under con- struction, there are orders for 80 propeller-jet Vickers Viscounts, 47- seat planes which fly at over 300 miles an hour. Comets are covering 100,000 miles a week on BOAC routes, to Pakistan, India, Ceylon, South Africa, Burma, Singapore and Japan. They are being operated also by Union Aeromaritime d also by Union Aeromaritime de Transport de France, Air France, and the RCAF. ' Customers for the Comet II in- clude Panair do Brazil, Common- wealth Pacific Airlines, the Japan Airline, Canadian Pacific Airlines, Venezuelan Air Lines and other operators. The Bristol Airplane Company now is completing the first produc- tion model of its 95-seat propeller- jet Britannia, which will be cap- able of flying the Atlantic from London to New York at 360 to 380 miles an hour. Three further big jetliners are in prospect. One is the huge Avro '""Atlantic,"" a pure-jet transport based on the Avro delta wing bomber, which is already flying. This is expected to have a cruising speed of between 550 and 600 miles an hour. The others are the proposed Vickers V. C. 7 jetliner and De Havilland's expected successor to Gomet HI. A camping holiday for Boys and girls that is Different from any other Kind of holiday and Gives them an experience In friendship and in Getting along with others That cannot be as well Acquired in any other Type of holiday. How true this is can Be seen by anyone who Takes the trouble to Make a visit to the Kiwanis Camp at Kedrom, Where over 70 Oshawa Girls have been in camp For the last two weeks, And where for the next Month there will be Parties of local boys Enjoying a camp outing. At the Kiwanis Camp the Girls have learmed how To work and play togethes And to appreciate the Viewpoint of each other, Because they are living In a community that is Closely-knit and made up Of girls like themselves, Whom they may not have Known before going to camp, But.who will be new Friends from now on. There is an experience Of wholesome discipline, AYiministered in a kindly And friendly way by the Director and counsellors That will make its mark n the receptive minds of The young people there. So in many ways that Camping experience will Provide not only a happy And healthy holiday, but Will give a training That . will stand these Campers in good stead In the years to come. Farmers Burn Hay In Fields ST. THOMAS (CP)--Some of the worst harvest weather for hay in years is spoiling considerable quantities of the expected bumper crop and has resulted in Elgin farmers burning it in their fields. A. V. Langton, agriculture rep- resentative here, says he has seen two district farmers burning hay in the" last two days' and has heard reports of other hay burn- ings. . : "This is wrong and wasteful," Mr. Langton said Thursday. NHA Terms Favor Defence Plant Workers WINDSOR, Ont. (CP)--Control- ler W. Ernest Atkinson Thursday urged the city seek to have sev- eral Windsor manufacturing indus tries here designated as defence plants so employees would be eli- gible for lower terms in the pur- chase of Natienal Housing Act homes. He said several industries in Sarnia have been granted such designation. - Under terms of the act, Mr. At- kinson said, employees of defence plants can purchase NHA homes for $1,000 down instead of the usual $2,000 down payment. The suggestion was sent to city solicitor James Watson for study. HEAVY TRAFFIC TOLL LONDON (Reuters) -- The Brit- ish highway commission reported Thursday that 213,343 men, women and children have been killed in auto accidents in Britain since 1896. First known victim was killed Aug. 17, 1896 when struck down by a car driven at four miles an IN DAYS GONE BY 35 YEARS AGO A spirit of unity was displayed when the Simcoe Street Methodist Church and the St. Andrew's Pres- byterian Church held a union pic- nic at Corbetts' Point. The Chevrolets defeated the Mc- Laughlins 5-2 to take first place in the Oshawa-Whitby softball league. Mrs. F. W. Cowan, president of the Red Cross Society, announced the shipment of 300 pillow cases and 150 pairs of sox te Europe. R. P. Harman of Uxbridge, suc4 ceeded in capturing one of six Whooping Cranes and had it moun- ted. The bird was considered a rarity. Canvassers, under the direction of Col. Williams and Amelius Jar- vis enrolled into the Navy League, the highest number In the British Empire. The Oshawa Gun Club held its final shoot of the season with the following results out of 25 shots: S. Brooks 23, R. Gay 23, F. Wor. den 21, C. Worden 19, E. McLaugh in 19 and M. Gay 18. The filtration plant at the lake was 'inder construction and an- nouncement was made that it would be in operation by August Fred Pearce, a music pupil of M. McBrady - passed his ele- mentary music examinations held at the University of Toronto. All of the teachers in the Clare- mont Public and Continuation Schools. resigned to enter the arm- ed services. QUEEN'S PARK Canada Even With U.S.0n Truck Levy By DON O'HEARN Special Correspondent for The Times-Gazette TORONTO- The Ohio legislature has been considering a special tax on trucks to compensate for the wear and tear they impose on the highways. Illinois put on a similar levy a few years ago in the regime of Adlai Stevenson. Sounds like a good idea, partic- ularly when bouncing in a pot-hole past one of these modern-day mon- sters of the road . . . or being bounced into a pot-hole by one of them. ' It's not so good, however, on in- vestigation. Seems our truck levies are on a par with those in the Stat are on a par with those in the Sta- tes and the rest of Canada. In addi- tion we impose a weight restriction which in effect is an additional tax. And our gasoline tax is about double that of most states. COBALT START In the official weekly road bul- letin, of all places, we get this an- ecdote on the founding of Cobalt, now celebrating its 50th anniver- sary: Back in 1903, so the story goes, Fred Larose a blacksmith working for the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway, now the Ontario Northland Railway, heaved his hammer at a fox, which in some way aroused his displeasure. He missed the fox, but "hit a vein of Silver and started the town of Co- "Actually J. H. MCKinley and Ernest Darragh made the first find in the district a month before la- -a claim. This rose broke the record for the ham- mer-throw; but these men simply picked up some ore while blasting was being done for the old T. AND N.O.: had it analyzed; and staked prosaic and ex- tremely unorthodox (from a liter- ary point of view, at least) way of discovering a mine was considered scarcely cricket, and so quite nat urally, to Larose went the kudos." Credit for this colorful description goes to C. M. Freeman the vet- eran newspaperman who gets a credit mark for injecting a bit of imagination even into staid govern- ment bulletins. RAFFLE ANSWER Alberta happened 'on a happy solution to the raffle problem. This irksome subject isn't a cause of concern any more in the west- ern province. It found an answer --give them enough rope to hang themselves. A few years ago there was a plague of raffles for cars and other prizes throughout the province. Some of them were for legitimate charities, others for questionable aims. Faced with the old question of whether to enforce the law and stop all raffles or to try and weed out the more objectionable ones the authorities decided in favor of no enforcement at all. The result was that there were so many raffles they became a glut People got so plaRued with tickets they stopped ' buying. today very few organizations want to take the risk of a possible loss and there are practically no raffles. Mixed Reception For Tornado Plan TORONTO (CP) -- The Ontario gover t said Wednesday it will help victims of last May's tornado in southwestern Ontario by contrib- uting 50 per cent of any money pry tan by municipal ils. Premier Frost made the an- nouncement after a cabinet meet- ing and said the councils have un- til Aug. 1 to vote on donations to those who suffered in the twister. The provincial government will also notify the federal government that the province considers tor- nadoes constitute an extraordinary disaster and thereby make them eligible to federal grants to dis- aster areas, Mr. Frost said. He said the assistance given by the highways department and other government agencies will 'not be computed in the 50 per cent that the government will contribute. This assistance, the premier esti- mated, cost about $50,000 to date, Mr. Frost's announcement re- ceived mixed reception from mu- nicipal officials. Mayor William C. Nelson of Sar- nia commented: 'Wonderful news and we are very grateful." He said he had discussed storm damage with then acting. Premier George Doucett in Sompany With other officials of Western tario municipalities and the premier's announcement "indicates the prove ince has. given us sympathetic con- sideration." Warden T. F. Pellow of Oxford county, on the other hand, said: "I haven't had a chance to study, the report yet, but it sound rathef disappointing." "'Oxford county raised about $35, 000 through public subscription, which, on the face of it, would not be increased through provinc- ial help." Ontario Sends On Pipeline To Alberta TORONTO (CP)--Premier Frost said Wednesday he favors an all- Canadian natural gas pipeline to carry gas from Alberta's oil fields to Ontario. The premier made public a brief his government has presented to the Alberta conservation board which is holding hearings on ex- port of surplus natural gas from Alberta. a Stating that the pipeline project was comparable with the St. Law- rence seaway, Mr. Frost said there is nothing which would influence the development of .Canada more than the natural development of oil and natural gas for Canadian markets. . The Alberta oil fields now had Brief 4) come to supply 40 to 30 per cent of Ontario's gasoline needs. Mr, Frost said he favors the route north of Lake Superior because the supply of natural gas would aid growth of power-hungry Northern Ontario. Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie and possibly Steep Rock were po- tential markets as other existing centres. Current estimates of the cost of the all-Canadian route are set at $315,000,000. The 'in bond" route south of Lake Superior through the United States would cost about $20,000,000 less. Premier Frost said he saw the gas as a possible alter- native to hydro power for many industries. Lottery Alleged TORONTO (CP) -- The attorney- general's department Thursday asked Toronte police to lay a charge against the Variety Club based on a lottery held during a Maple Leaf Stadium benefit night to aid the club's Variety Village for Crippled Children. The Toronto Baseball Club has twice been charged with holding a lottery, but this is thé first time in the current campaign that ac- tion has been taken against a non- profit and charitable organization. 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