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Fhe Oshavon Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 57 Simcoe St. S., Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 Friday, January 16, 1959 Rights Of The Majority Protected By Minority Testimony given at the hearings of the Committee on Government Organi zation in Ontario continues to demon~ strate why such an inquiry was neces sary, and what a maze of interlockisg ¢ontrols have been estabilshed over provincial life by the various boards, commissions and agencies set up by succeeding legislatures, "This week the Committee chairman, Walter Gordon, sald that ramifications of the activities of the Ontario Municl~ pal Board appear almost frightening to an outsider, The municipal board is Just one agency. When the activities of #ll the others are added, Mr, Gordon oan repeat his statement without any Gunlification The curious aspect of the inquiry is that it did not come as a result of over whelming public demand, Lawyers, chitects, newspaper men and some sim- ilar groups of citizens had for years heen expressing their concern about the growth of appointed agencies in number and power. But most citizens did not appear to be greatly concerned, When Premier Frost proposed the ine quiry, he was listening to the minority rather than the majority and, of course, to his own doubts, A significant statement was made to ° the Committee this 'week by Lorne Cumming, OMb chairman, He was, dis~ cussing capital expenditures by muni- cipalities, He sald there is sometimes great temptation for a municipal coun- ell to start public works when it does not have to provide the money out of the current budget, but "it is usually the OMB that brings up the objections rather than the ratepayers Often not a single ratepayer shows up before the Board to oppose capital expenditures in a municipality It is precisely this lack of interest that made possible the growth of the powers of appointed as opposed to elec ted agencies-- and made necessary the establishment of Mr, Gordon's Commit- tee Zoning Bylaw Discussed Pickering township council will seek legal advice on the provision: of one of the municipality's bylaws--the one that concerns zoning regulations, Coun« cll does not want to destroy the zoning plan or to establish a precedent that might prove embarrassing at a later date, but at the same time, apparently it 'does not want to hinder an embryo industry It would be surprising if there is much wrong with the township's bylaw, Municipal zoning is a field that is seru- tinized carefuly by two provincial gov- ernment departments, municipal af- fairs and planning and development, In all likelihood, the trouble lies not with the bylaw but with the inevitable clash of interest in a developing municipality, It has cropped up In raost other grow- ing communities, and will continue to erop up after Pickering township has resolved its own difficulty, The new Cuban leaders have pledged themselves to rid their country of cor= ruption in government, Fidel Castro has ordered an end to "gambling and the numbers racket' and banned all "subsidies" to publications and their employes, President Urrutia has stated his 'fervent desire that administrative honesty should become the rule of Cu- ban government officials." If Castro succeeds In establishing clean government, it will be something new: for Cuba, The Machado regime was overthrown in 1032 by groups sick of corrupt government, Those who de- feated Batista In 1045 had the same in- spiration, but when Batista seized pow= er again in 1052 he sald he did it to stamp out the corruption of the Prio Socorras government, The revolt has always been against corruption, with the rebels in turn becoming corrupt = for there is no doubt about it, the cor- Bylaws are not meant to put municl« palities straitjackets, Communities can outgrow their the ordinances that governed the hand« in own regulations -- ling of horses were necessary 60 years ago, for example, But be some stability the are changed too often, the result is mu- there must in bylaws; if they nicipal chaos, This applies particularly to such regulations as those governing zoning If the zonng plan should be adhered to, The planning of builders, homeowners and established Irdustries, the work of assessment aus thorities, the stability of real estate values are all involved in the adminis~ tration of the bylaw, These are all fac- tors that must be given serious thought when any change in zoning regulations is proposed is a goo. one, it . ~Castro And Corruption ruption existed and to a degree virtue ally unmatched by any other Latin Am- erican country Batista seems to made a fine art of corruption, He bought the loyalty of army leaders by giving them control of the lottery concessions, American racketeers were imported to run the gambling casinos and vice establish« merits -- for a consideration, Newspa- pers were provided with government "subsidies." Can Castro change such a persistent sccial and political pattern? It is too early to tell, hut the manner of his be- ginning raises some doubts, He has sued the edicty and started the process of enforcement, But he has also approv- ed a campaign -of violent revenge against people who opposed him and blood makes poor nourishment re sponsible government have {8 for Contaminating Planets We are always happy to provide our readers with something new tw worry about, Today's contribution: health on other planets, The subject "as been raised by Eng- land's Prof. A, C. B, Lovell, "We are today faced with opportunities which were inconceivable a few years ago," he declared recently in a BBC talk, "The basic problem in the origin of life concerns the formation and dupli= cation of complex molecules, The samp=- ling of the moon dust, and the planet- ary atmospheres and surfaces might give vital information on the possible existence of these pre-life processes in ---- a-- ---- 1. L WILSON Publianet ang General Manager. C. GWYN KINSEY, Hditer, Ihe Oshawa Times, combining The Oshawe Times (established 1871) and the Whitby Gozette ard Chronicle (established 1863), ia published daily (Sure dave and statutory holidays excepted) " ot C bun Amociation, The Canadian Press. Audit Bureau ef Circulation ona the Ontarie Provincial Dailies Ansociation, The Canadian Press in exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all Aews despatches in the paper cradited te it or te The Associated Press or Reuters, and al loca! news published therein, All rights of derpetches ¢ o'se reserved Otfices 44 King Street West, Terente, Onteriy 440 Cathcart St, Montreal, PQ. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers In Oshawe, Whitby, Alan, Poxering, Bowmanville, Brooklin Port Parry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskilien, ¢ ard. 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The prospect, then, seems to be that man, having done a fairly thorough job of coniaminating his own planet, will go on to contaminate his universe and possibly other universes, Who will be the first man t» contribute the common eccld to ills of Venus? Who will smugs gle the Dutch elm disease to Mars? (We are assured that there are no elms on Mars, but the disease will undoubt« edly find something to feed on.) As if that wasn't enough to worry about, the possibility of contamination could be reversed, What strang: plagues may be brought back to earth fiom outs er space? And that's our good deed for toda Bible Thought They shall ery unty Jehovah because of oppressors, and he will send them a and he will 20 deliver Isaiah 19 saviour, and fend them ae But saviours cannot help men who do not want help. You inust Way and there safety walk the you will find complete KNIGHTS OF T OTTAWA REPORT News Treatment # By CBC Criticized §%: By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--It Is estimated that the feed for that pinko Trojan horse called the Canadian Broad- casting Corporation will amount to nearly $100,000,000 this year. That means that the average Canadian family will pay nearly $25 to keep the beard and beret Boys In the standard to which they have never before been ac customed In return, the average Cana- dian home will be filled with programs which consist partly of what comes naturally from beards and berets, and partly of American programs which our American neighWours are simul taneously enjoying for free The reason always advanced In attempted Justification of our costly and extravagant CBC, is that it fosters Canadian culture by hiring Canadian artists and so on Just how valid 1s this double. talk is now being questioned by many members of the Parlilamen tary Press Gallery here, who have a yardstick to measure the achievements of the CBC In a fleld which Is very familiar to them. That is, the presentation of news NOT IMPARTIAL The treatment of news on the C. B.C. Ix not impartial, It is notably slanted, either in the selection of subjects for talks, or In the cholee of commentators, or in the proportion of time given to various points, personalities and parties The newsmen ment this treatment very small closed eirele, Those outside this circle resent it on grounds that the work should be spread more widely, and more equitably over newsmen of all ranges of opinion, And risking the frirclevant charge of 'sour grapes', these critics also aver that the public Is being second. rated To Canadians, and Indeed to foreigners through the Internas tional Service, the C. B, C. always presents views of Canadian news as seen through the eyes of mem- hers of this"closed circle, writers who, generally speaking, think the same way as the C. B. C. pro ducers A specific case, which espe elally arouses the ire of most of the Press Gallery here, concerns the weekly 'program Press Con- ference, on TV, This is described as "the people who make the news meet the people who write the news'. This is emphasized by such comments as "The Press Gallery experts interview their guest" And there's the rub. For as eritics here so truly point out, the Press Conference panel does not normally consist of "the men who write the news' --not one. Mostly, PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM Sooner or later "fatal" femi nine beauty almost invariably hecomes fatal" to the one who possesses |t hired to imple comprise a nemadtode can times a much as human be scientist, In case reincarnation be true, and you ar done in hy atomic radiation, perhaps vou could arvange to return to earth as a golden nem atode J "The golden withstand many atomic radiation ing SAVS A index of the The people di the enjoy to a reliable enjoyed one New Year's ever he number of in trattic this being proportionate on the degree of According Canadians morriest index Killed rectly whole ment to Nothing Unusual Death Syracuse Standard It wa al for the Utican in Utican's INY Post probably unusu they are magazine writers, exec. utives, editors and commentators, not one of whom writes a news story between January and Dec ember, and none of whom are required by thelr Jobs to keep In close touch with dally news devel opments. There is a very great difference between their work and news reporting for a daily news paper, and failure to take this into account Is reflected in the quality of that program WHERE ARE STARS? Nor are the heavyweights of the reporting field seen on C, B C. programs. Some qualities of stardom are presumably shown by those elected each year by their colleagues to serve as pres. ident of the gallery. Yet when did you last see or hear this year's President, Jimmy McCook, the gallery's best speech writer? Or his predecessor, Vie Mackie, expert on Prairie and interna tional affairs? Or his predeces sor, Harvey Hickey, a star polit leal reporter? Then there Is Art McKenna, the Canadian correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, who knows more about economic and finan cial subjects than anyone else in the gallery. When did the C.B.C last use your money to hire his hrains to Inform you"? Or Chester Bloom, the dean of the gallery expert especially on grain and transportation topies? Or Bob Needham, perhaps the most ex perienced- reporter here on indus try and general news" Or that stalwart from Windsor, Maurice Jefferies" But of course, these 'safe" broadcasters C. B. C, point of view; they have not climbed aboard the pinko Trojan horse. Yet surely by ex cluding such experienced news men, the C. B, C. Is limiting the public to a program average which is Inevitably less than the "'hest procurable' I have every sympathy with the feeling so widely held here QUEEN'S PARK Are not from the HE ROUND TABLE BYGONE DAYS 3 YEARS AGO J. L. Whattam was elected first president of the newly-form. ed Rotary Club in Bowmanville Postmaster Tamblyn an nounced that Cedar Dale would have mail delivery i» the near future The Parks Commission debated the type of grandstand to build In Aleandra Park, since all the tenders for the type specified were higher than the $25,000 voted by the local eitizens The Regimental Band present ed a fine sacred concert at the Regent Theatfe, under the leader. ship of Bandmastr § Trew, Since this was the last concert under his direction, he was honor- ed by the presentation of a gift before his departure for the South District Deputy Grand Master Gordon Bunker of District 17 made an official visit to Port Hope where he installed the newly elected officers Paving operations on Simcoe street north were suspended until Spring George W. McLaughlin paid the freight expenses for the shipping of three buffalo to Lakeview Park Ed Bradley, proprietor of the local rink, favored the building of a new rink with financing from a stock company The Ontario Ladies' College re: opened after the Christmas holi- days during which time it under wont extensive alterations In pre- paration for the forthcoming Juhi lee Celebration of the College that the numbers of those hired by the C. B. C. should be consid. erably widened, The present sys- tem Is a very eloquent illustra- tion of the belief that a monop- oly in the broadcasting field Is an exceedingly dangerous devel. opment, capable of undermining ouy democratic freedoms Better Definition Of Powers Needed By DON O'HEARN Special Correspondent te The Oshawa Times TORONTO--One final point of the Bar Association brief to the Gordon Committee This one deals with one of the main weaknesses of government today As the association expressed it, It is the fallure to "lay down ground rules' for the various boards and commissions which are secondary arms of govern ment BAD POWER The situation doesn't apply everywhere. But it is wide enough to be classed as general What it involves is that the government appoints a hoard or commission and doesn't give It sufficient direction It will appoint a fuel board and, in effect, say "all right, you go ahead and control the natural gas business." In essence and the weakness lies---it is handing over to the hoards the right to legislate, a right which properly only lies with the legislature TWO EXAMPLES The boards are setting policy which properly at the very least should only be set hy the govern ment and certainly should be subject 'do the approval of the Legislature An instance is same fuel hoard A matter of policy, considering this is where the case of the definite the monop public olistic nature of the franchises, Is the amount of territory a com- pany should cover A few years ago the govern ment indicated that in the public interest it wanted to see a num- ber of small companies But it put nothing in tion to provide for this. And as a result the board has had to try and work it out as it went along (which it hasn't been able to do very successfully) A better example perhaps Is the liquor licence board In its legislation the board is given a hroad directive to grant licences. But there is no direc tion as to the basis on which It should grant them There Is nothing a certain population merits so many outlats. Even matters of hours of closing, which are a definite question of policy are left to the discretion of the board ARE ADVISED I'he failings of this should be readily apparent The boards, of course, are directed. But the direction comes in the form of advice from cab inet ministers or the premier in closed sessions And when it comes ta a point of controversy the government is able to duck publie responsibility All it has to do--and it, and other governments do it--is close down eritieism with the state ment that these matters are set tied by an "independent" com mission legisla. to say that REPORT FROM THE U.K. Political Prophets See Spring General Election By M, McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng) Correspondent For The Times LONDON-The political experts of the British press are now con- vinced that Prime Minister Mac. millan will call a general election in May of this year. 1 listened to a group of them discuss the sub- ject and they seemed in general agreement that while the govern. ment's term of office does not expire until 1960, there would be an appeal to the electorate, with May. as the favored month Douglas Clark, political corre- spondent for the Dally Express, came out flat-footed with a de- claration that May has already chosen as the election month by the prime minister, He gives May 14 as the most likely date, it having become almost tradition to have British gener- al elections held on a Thursday, His reasoning as to the specific dete is this, May 7 Is reserved for local elections and so is out of the question, May 21 is the Thursday of the Whitsun holiday weekend and is unlikely, and the holiday would also Interfere with a May 28 date. 80 on that basis, he has picked May 14 as the likely date of going to the polls 1955 PARALLEL It Is recalled that prior to the last general election in 1055, i. A, Butler, then chancellor of the exchequer, presented his bud. get bill on April 19. Its passage was completed on May 4 and the election day was May 26. Some- thing like the same schedule is foreseen hy the political experts for the coming election. In the 1965 budget, Mr. Butler reduced Income taxes by 6d on the pound, and increased deductions and al- lowances for children, The stage Is set for a similar type of bud- get, with tax reductions in the 1069 budget as a forerunner to the election A January barn-storming tour of north-east England by Prime Minister Macmillan with speeches in Darlington, Sunderland, Har- tlepools and Newcastle is looked upon as a pre-election arrange- ment, Six seats in these areas are regarded as marginal, four narrowly held by the Socialists and two by the Tories. Hence the reasoning that this special trip by Mr. Macmillan indicates a decision to go to the people once the budget debate is safely over, The political observers have given up the idea that the date of the election s on the rests of the by-elections which are now, pending, There had been i feeling that the by-elections in Harrow East and in Norfolk would he taken as guinea pigs to test the state of public opinion, and that their results would in. fluence the government In de- ciding on an election date, The view if now held very strongly by the political commentators, that the die for an election has already been cast, regardless of how the vote goes in these and other by-elections to he held with. in the next month or six weeks, PARKING METERS The parking meter system which is low almost universal in Canadian towns and cities, has come to the United Kingdom to stay. Subject of an experimental installation in a limited area in the Mayfair section of London last summer, it has proved so successful that it is to be widely extended by the council of the City of Westminster. And it is expected that the next step will be the adoption of the parking meter system, copled from the North American continent and Germany, by the big provincial cities, whose council have heen watching the Mayfair experiment with keen interest The experiment was launched a few months ago, when the Westminister City" Council in- stalled some 650 meters in an area between Oxford sireet, Park Lane and New Bond street Now, because of its success, it is to be extended to some 11 miles of streets in the city of Westmin. Role Of Senior Public Servants OTTAWA "brains trust service is a mythical body Mitchell Sharp, former top viser to the government And though some ivory tower thinking goes on in Ottawa, the senlor civil servant's touchstone for every idea must be "will it work?" ' Mr. Sharp, former deputy trade minister, recently summed up his recollections of 16 years In the civil service for an informal talk to a small group. He resigned last April to become an executive in private business. His reminis- cences and opinions were pub- lished in two articles in the Ot tawa Journal HOWE "UNIQUE" He describes former trade min ister C.D. Howe as "of course unique." "It was most improbable that we shall see his like in Cana dian polities in our time." Mr. Sharp, who for years was a senor advisér In the finance department, also reminisces about the two finance ministers under whom he served J. L. llsley's only fault, he says, was over-consclientiousness "He spent hours debating dif ficult problems. And after he had made his decision he spent hours debating whether he had made the right decision," Douglas Abbott had traordinarily quick' lawyer's mind, Under questioning on the Commons floor he required only two or three whispered words from a civil servant adviser be. fore rising "to give an answer lasting five minutes." "Of the ministers 1 had the privilege to know, he understood best the political art of the pos sible." METHODS DIFFERED Mr, Sharp tells of the contrast. ing methods of operation of Mr Nsley and Mr. Howe In studying a problem Mr Nisley would call in senior eivil servants and have a free, wide ranging discussion As for Mr. Howe: Iisley, he did not to his civil servants argue in front of him. He simply told them to go away and come back when they had resolved their dif ferences. Yet he was a wonder fully patient listener." Mr. Sharp's recollections deal at length with the role of senior civil servants and their relation ship to politics Public servants don't concern themselves with party polities, he says. But in another sense a min. Ister's senior advisers had to be interested in polities SHOULD GIVE ADVICE "If they are to be any good at all; they should give advice to their ministers on all the im plications of proposals under con- sideration, including political im plications." The ministers must make the decisions and take the conse. quences, But a senior civil serv ant's duty was to give his mini ster the best advice he can "To put it more shortly, the good public servant tries to keep his minister out of trouble." Replying to those who about a brains trust, My says there is no brains that pretends to Know all the answers and there never has been." On many matters -no at tempt was made to present a common view to cabinet mini sters Fo support his point, he refers to the socalled "hidden report of 1057 which contained confidens (CP)The so-called of the federal civil says ad an "Unlike Mr like to listen talk Sharp trust tial views of trade department officials on the year's economic outlook, It was made public early last year and became an issue in the March 31 election "No attempt was made to re- concile completely the differing views on the economic outlook amongst government departments and agencies, To have attempted to do so might have given'a quite unjustified authority to the resulting plece of paper or Save glossed over differences of in terpretation that ministers of finance should he aware of in preparing their budget speeches." BIG INFLUENCE Mr. Sharp says civil servants do not decide government policy. But they have "a profound in. fluence" in its formation Senior civil servants musi as semble and analyse facts for busy cabinet ministers. And they must produce for their ministers well. considered plans of action 'even before ministers have even thought that anything needed to be done." "I remember more occasions ster, subject to the approval of the ministry of transport, That approval, however, Is likely (0 be automatic, because the orig: inal installation was backed by regulations put Ipto- effect by that ministry. One of the traffic experts whe has been studying the sel for the last few months sake th it hak worked successfully far "In West, "motorists have certainly played the game in using the meters, There has heen relatively little cheating. As the motorists have respected the the slot machine the attention of the authorities of Canadian cities. It is aimed specifically to prevent motorists from hogging the metered park. ing vpaces. Here, the motorist cannot park in a space outside hisyoffice and run out every hour 10" put the equivalent of a nickel into the slot DEFINITE TIME LIMIT There is a charge of one shill- ing for two hours, or sixpence for 61 minutes, But at the end of the two-hour period, which is the limit for cheap parking, the motorist has to pay 10 shillings excess for another two hours at the same meter. That is about a dollar and a half. After four hours, no further extension can he granted at any price, It is an offence to park in a metered space for more than that length of time and that brings an imme. diste summons to appear in court The traffic expert said it was significant that there was to be an extensive addition to the ares controlled by parking meters, "The next step," he added, 'will be the adoption of the parking meter system in the large provin- cial cities where the councils will be given every encourage ment to follow London's exam. ple." when civil servants by fruitful Initiatives led the government te adopt lines of policy which would never have occurred to them otherwise, This applies to the present government as well as to its predecessor.' Mr, Sharp says the standard of Ottawa's senior civil service is excellent, but he says that the Civil Service Act does not by its self assure a competent service, "It is essentially a protection against polities in the civil servs fee." There should be somethin more: positive recruitment, wit a civil service career "made (a A Among our young people." ' "It would help if prospective recruits were less inclined to thinké-that senior civil servants have a dull life as well as small pay. The pay is nothing to chee about, but from personal ex: perience 1 can assure you the life is far from dull" . - "Smaller cars which will nok accommodate a large family will | "obably cause a decrease in the birth rate," says a sociologist, Less expensive cars have be. come increasingly popular, but there are some things they will not take priority over FOR BETTER HEALTH New Relief For Various HERMAN N, BUNDESEN, MD Drugs for eliminating wax in the ear, for. healing cases of psoriasis and for relieving the suffering of rheumatoid arthri- tis are among the recent medical advances which 1 would like to discuss In our regular monthly review Millions of persons suffer from the pain, Itching, vertigo and im- paired hearing caused by im- pacted cerumen, or ear wax QUICK RELIEF The new drug Cerumenex, de- veloped specifically for this com mon ear problem, provides "im: mediate and dramatic relief in many cases, according to physi- clans who conducted a study of 106 patients They report that the drug was of value to those treated, It re- sulted in complete removal of wax in 86 per cent of the cases, and partial removal in the re: mainder The drug contains a derivative of triethanolamine polypeptides, Is quick-acting and easy to use UNSIGHTLY BLOTCHES Psoriasis is an especially trou. blesome problem around this time of the year. Caused by the failure of the skin to handle pro- tein properly, it results in un- sightly, scaly blotches A new remedy which combines the drug allantoin with a tar compound in a lotion base has been developed specifically for treatment of psoriasis. It is called Available Complaints Alphosy!l and reportedly is effec. tive in clearing up the condition, A steroid hormone, Triameino- lone, Is a new remedy for use in severe cases of psoriasis and those complicated by arthritis, BIG IMPROVEMENT The antimalarial compounds of Aralen and Plaqueni] are reported to have produced "major im. provement' in a large percents age of rheumatoid arthritis pa- tents During a three-year study doe- tors administered the compounds to 805 patients with rheumatoid arthritis and allied diseases, The physicians report that 28 per cent of the patients given the antimalarials showed major improvement within the first three months, From six months te a year were required for similar improvement in 37 per cent. 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