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The Oshavon Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 57 Simcoe St. S., Oshawa, Ont. 'age 4 Monday, February 16, 1959 Ceilings Of Effort For Canadians, Communists Canadians put ceilings on the amount of effort they are willing to contribute to life, and these ceilings get lower each decade, in the opinion of Dr. Mur= ray Ross, vice-president of the Univer sity of Toronto. The effect on univer= sity students, he said, was that they unconsciously set a limit on the number of hours they would devote to study. The lowering o! the ceilings could cause the roof to fall in on us, Dr. Ross thought, and went on to comment: In the Soviet Luion and China the whole pressure of the culture is to be as productive as possible, to do more than is expected of one, to do as much as one can to push forward the great national effort, The devotion of Soviet and Chinese youth to Communist dog- ma is as terrifying to witness as that of the young Nazis two decades ago. Compared to them, dur youth are vague and uncertain ~-- and perhaps rightly so, for we believe that a young person should be exposed to many ideas and that only after exploration and thought should he find cr develop his beliefs and conclusions." For the sake of argument, let us ac- cept Dr. Ross' opinion that the Canad- fan "ceilings of effort" are being low- ered, At the same time, we must recog= nize that each decade since the indus- trial revolution has seen a drop in the amount of effort reqhired by 'an in- creasing number of people to earn a better living. The gverage person today can enioy a much higher standard of living with the expenditure of much less effort than could a similar person fifty years ago Such materiulistic progress could not help but influence the attitude of large numbers of people towards work, its meaning and its purpose, We can edi- torialize and m ralize as much as we like about the dignity of work, yet to all but a dedicated minority it is noth- ing more or less than an unavoidable way of acquiring the means to provide the necessities of life, plus as many luxuries as possible: It has always been 80 in a civilization which provided the means for filling wants as well as needs, A sociological study of the Commue nist students might reveal that their reported dedication and great output of effort derive from a conscious or une conscious understanding of the need for effort in their societies, a recognition of the fact that material benefits accrue only from productivity, And this line of thought could lead us to an entirely new approach to East-West relations, If the drive of the young Communists derives laregly a higher standard of living, when ob- viously we should do everything we can to help them attain the higher stand ards. It is possible that the young Russian, who would like to own a home, a car, a boat and all the other things the bloated capitalists worship, realizes that he can only own them if he battles his way into the upper echelons of the Commu- nist party or. ifehe helps his country achieve the goai of productivity already reached by the capi.alists. The easier it becomes for him to obtain the things he wants, the less effort will be requir- ed -- and if he is at all like his western prototype, as described by Dr. Ross, the less dedicated he will become. In other words, it might be possible to change the face of Communism by helping the Communists to reach a state of plenty instead of trying to hinder them. It would be a sort of subversion by commodity, ; It's an interesting theory -- with one great big objection. It would be disturb= ing to find out tha* what the young Rus- sian wanted. wasn't just a home and a car but the world itself, Pill-Taking Canadians It is reassuring to learn that the de- partment of national health and welfare is taking another sharp look at the sale of so-called tranquillizing pills in Can- ada. A three-man committee headed by Dr. C. A. Morrell, chief of the de- partment's food and drug division, has been investigating the matter and is expected to recommend at a meeting later this month that many of the tran- quillizers now available for general sale be placed on the prescription list, There are 25 kinds of tranquillizer pills now on the market (at last count) and only seven require a doctor's pre- scription, Thu remainder may be pur= chased freely by anyone, a situation that has caused doctors to express their concern. Excessive use of many of these drugs can have very serious results on both the physical and mental condition of the user. Damage to several organs Is possible, and in extreme cases we understand, the pills can cause severe depression and even bring about suici- dal tendencies, Figures on the amounts of the drugs consumed by Canadians are not avail- able, but the general belief seems to be that one American in seven was re- gularly'taking tranquillizers. Total con- sumption in the U.S. that year amount- ed to 1250 billion pills -- or 300 tons-- and 36 million prescriptions were writ- ten for tranquillizers, The study of tranquillizers could well be expanded into a full-scale examina- tion of the effect of indiscriminate and unprescibed pill-taking on the health of the nation. People are taking pills at night to put them to sleep, and more pills in the morning to get them awake. They take pills to relax them during and after work, and pills to pep them up again during and after work. In- stead of taking proper medical advice, they listen to quacks and hucksters and spend good money trying to dope them- selves.into good health, swallowing all sorts of add nostrums in hopes of cur- ing everything from over-weight to halitosis. It has reached the point where one can scarcely turn on a radio or a television set without being subjected to the highly personal inquiries 'about one's tired blood, precious liver bile or various physical functions Sports-minded persons want the gov= ernment to spend money on the per- suading of Canadians to take more set- ting-up exercises. We think it could be better spent out what is happening to Canadians as a result of their getting-down exercises finding Dollar Return On Moose Some people seem to regard Ontario's wildlife as an expensive luxury rather than as a natural resource, Thy do not understand why public. money should be spent to preserve 'he province's sup= ply of game, They have a glimmering of the meaning in dollars and cents of good fishing, but their vision ends there. What these people do not realize is that wildlife is as much a natural re- source as timber and minerals. At the moment, for example, aircraft of the Ontario Department of Lands and For- ests | are ranging over thousands of square miles of provincial forests as @he Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON Publisher ond General Manager. 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Huntes were asked last year to provide exact figures on the cost of their expeditions, On the basis of these returns, it is estimated that $2,824,079 changed hands as a result of the moose season, The estimate of moose killed was 5,943 On. this basis, each moose taken by a hunter was worth about $475. The pro= vince derived a direct revenue of $364.- 883 frem sale of licences. The hunt pro- vided income also to those directly concerned with it--outfitters, guides, charter air services, etc.--and indirect- lv to people selling food. refreshments, sporting goods, gasoline and clothing. By far the greater part of the money was spent in Ontario: of the 19.262 hunters 1957. there were only 1.893 non-residents That is what just one species means to Ontario, and that is why the depart- ment's pilots are out now. counting moose. Final results of the survey will not be known for several weeks. but a rough estimate places the moose popu- lation at around 80,000. At an estima- ted $475 per moose, that's $38 million Bible Thought the men Israel the city, knit mar Judges 20:11 Such unity does not add, but rather multiplies strength, All against of were gathered together as one 1 from their hunger for' TRIGGER HAPPY READERS' VIEWS Classroom Exit Method Dear Sir: I feel 1 must tell you a sad in- cident that occurred at one of the public schools in Europe. That particular school had its door swung into the classroom, as re. commended by the "Oshawa Fire Department for the Adelaide Mc- Laughlin public school. When the fire broke out, the children pan- icked and got out of the teach- er's control. Everyone raced to- wards the door and tried to open it by pushing instead of pulling. The result was, as you can imag- ine, a tragedy. The corridors may not be as narrow as they were in that par- ticular school, but it is still safer to push a door open as children escape better through a narrow corridor, than a closed door, which could not be opened even from the outside, if there are some 30-odd youngsters pushing it from behind 1 hope the responsible members of the Fire Department do. think it over, before they start to build a deathtrap for our children Port Hope MARI NAAGEL. (Editor's Note: Other mishaps have occurred because a door opening out on a corridor helped to block the passage, or could not be opened because of the pres- sure of bodies in the corridor or some other obstruciion that could not be removed by those in side the room.) CCF Described As Effective Opposition HAMILTON (CP) -- Ontario CCF leader Donald MacDonald said Saturday the vital question facing Ontario voters is which party would provide the effective opposition in the next legislature. Mr. MacDonald spoke to sev- eral hundred union delegates at a labor education conference spon. sored by the Ontario Federation of Labor "With corruption now reaching into the highest levels of the Bell Telephone May Issue Stock OTTAWA (CP) The" Bell Telephone Co. of Canada has an- nounced it has applied to the board of transport commissioners for approval to issue capital stock not exceeding 2.625.000 shares. Price, terms and conditions of the issue require the hoard's ap proval. The application is to he considered at a board hearing here March 3 The company said that as of Dec. 31 it had 18,183,958 shares of stock outstanding The stock made in June, 1957, when sl \re holders were offered rights to buy stock at $34 a share on the basis of o1e share for each seven held This issue raised £75,435 831 of additiosal capital last offering was 3 Israeli Girls Jailed 5 Years GAZA, Egypt (Reuters) --Throe Israeli girls Sunday were con victed of illegal entry by a United Arab Republic military court and sentenced to five years in prison The girls, arrested Jan. 20 for allegedly crossing into Egvpt's Gaza strip from Israel with a Canadian soldier attached to the United Nations Emergency Force also were fined £500 each Israeli authorities said at the time of the arrests that the girls had police records as prostitutes. Queried FARM PROBLEM Dear Sir: Can someone enlighten me? 1 listen to farm broadcasts every day, and 1 am not a farmer, | also rcad the farm papers. But no matter what I read or hear, it's the same old story, "Farm- ers' income going down, can't sell wheat, can't sell apples, must have subsidies for this and that" : Yet we have to pay good prices to get good eating and cooking apples, and to cap it all 1 went into a local feed store a few days ago and asked if No. 1 western hard wheat could be ob- tained. I was told, "I cannot sell you No. 1, 2 or 3, but I can sell you No. 4 grade. I wish I could buy the better grades, as I have a lot of customers who ask for it The reason is that they (the Wheat Board). will not sell 1, 2 or 3 grades to feed stores." Now I ask you, why? We are living in a country with millions of bushels in the near rotting stare and we cannot buy the grain, only the 4th grade. What if other manufacturers said the same'? They would soon go broke It seems that farmers are quite satisfied to let middlemen take the profit, and we have to pay twice as much as the farmer gets. INQUIRER Oshawa present government, the time has come for all thinking people to consider the imminent provin ial election very carefully," he aid The Conservatives have been n power for 16 years. During that time, first the Liberals pro- vided the opposition, then the CCF, then the Liberals again But the Liberal Party is the party of big business--let there be no mistake about that "1 have said in the House, and I repeat here, several large cor porations are financing the Lib- erals."" BYGONE DAYS 15 YEARS AGO Mrs. Murray Johnston was re. elected president of the Women's Auxiliary of the Ontario (Tank) Regiment. Other officers elected were: vice-presidents, Mrs, W. R. Branch and Mrs. Ewart Mo- Laughlin; secretary, Mrs. R. D. Humphreys; and treasurer, Mrs. R. Huestis. An original oil painting, en- titled "Land's End", by Geoffrey Sykes, talented portrait and land- scape painter, was donated to the General Motors War Veterans' Social Club for the purpose of holding a raffle to raise funds for charity. T. R. McEwen, public school in- spector, reported 91 per cent or a total of 3358 pupils attended the schools in December. There had been considerable illness among the children, he said. Roger Conant, son of D. Conant, qual- lieutenant, at 2nd Lt Mr. and Mrs. G ified 2s a first Camp Borden An objective of $100.000 was adopted by the Oshawa Win-The- War Committee Fund Committee. Harvey R. Farrow, chief en. gineer at the OGH, was the 21.- (00th donor at the local Blood Donor Clinie, since its inception. Dr. T. W. G. McKav, Medical Officer of Health, ontlined a oro. posed plan for medical, dental, nursing and hospital care for the city. Two former members of 1943 OFA Senior hockey chamnion Oshawa Generals, who received their RCAF "Winas"' were "Wally" Wilson and Norman Me- Atee of Whithy was chairman of the food industry war savings drive for .Oshawa and district for the sale of war savings stamps In the stores W. H. Curtis A sleet and ice storm caused many motor mishaps as streets and roads were covered with ice. G. B. Whitefield was elected chairman of the Whitby board of education for the ensuing year and H. H Goode was re-appoint. ed to the library board FOR BETTER HEALTH 'Heart Attacks Strike Regardless of Position HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, MD Don't think that harried busi- ness executives are the only per- sons who suffer heart attacks I'l grant that vou probably hear and read about more exec- utives, professional men and poli- ticians suffering heart attacks than you 1o about machinists and shop foremen This doesn't mean, however, that coronary thrombosis other forms «f heart disease don't strike persons of lesser public note IN PUBLIC EYE You are more apt to hear about the illness of a businessman be- canse he figures more prominent- ly in the news As a matter of fact, bartenders and appear to have omf more than their pro- portional share of heart attacks And this fact 'brings up an Interesting point we. think of hard physical labor as a contributing ause of heart trouble. While bar- tenders and barhers must snend long "hours on their feet. their work is not physically strenuous. On the other hand, vou might expect farm workers to have a hieh rate of heart trouble Yet. despite the obvigns physi cal strain of their work. these persons, as a groan, probablv are about as fre~ of heart trouble as van' can get As a group. Ne p plenty of hare w But, again they are not as subject to heart attacks as are white persons All of which would seem to in harbers what Generall also have dicate pretty clearly that heart trouble strikes, the fellow who works at a lathe or a work bench or stands behind a bar just about as often and as hard as it does the businessman who is worried more about his taxes and his competitors' products than any- thing else. However, there are a couple of additional points to be consider. and ed We know that stout persons are more likely to suffer heart trouble than are persons of nor- mal! weight or those who are underweight. We know also that the older a person gets the more suscentible he becomes to heart attacks Coronary thrombosis, for ex. ample, strikes more persons he- tween the ages of 45 and 70 than anv other age group And since it generally takes quite a few years for a man to become an executive. a political leader, a professional man or a businessman, and since these persons generally add a few ex tra pounds along the wav, they are fairly good candidates for heart attacks. No one, however, is immune. QUESTION AND ANSWER N.N.: What are the symp toms of fungus in the blood stream? Answer: Fungus infections usu allv attack the skin hut may also gel into the blood stream. A fun gus infection of the blood stream may cause pus and decaved tis. sue which may, in turn, produce ulcers and abscesses. OTTAWA REPORT Figures Indicate City Productivity By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- I wonder whether it was intuition or a touch of civie Jide which prompted Mr. J. W, urphy, the long-time Conserva. tive MP for Lambton-West to ask that interesting question = which showed up his home town of Sarnia as Canada's No, 1 manu. fagturing centre? This is the simple-looking ques- tion which my good friend asked dead-pan: "In the manufacturing industry which twenty cities in Canada have the highest manufacturing value in dollars per employe? And what is the manufacturing value, or productivity in dollars per employe for each said city?" The Hon, Gordon Churchill, minister of trade and commerce, gave the answer that showed Sarnia to be the top-ranking city in this respect. The productivity per employe in Sarnia is $21,999 for the year 1956. That is very nearly double the productivity achieved by each employe in the second - ranking city, Beauharnois, Que., where the productivity is an average of $11,671. Moose Jaw was only just nosed out of second place, for the average Moose - Javian worker Tasked up a productivity of $11,- THE ALSO-RANS Port Arthur ranked seventh, with an average productivity of $9,287 per worker. The all-Canada average, for all workers in manufacturing indus- tries, was $6,941. This productiv- ity is the average "improvement" put into the raw materials by each factory worker during the year under review. It is arrived at by taking the total factory sell ing price of all goods manufac. tured in the community under study: by. deducting from that total the total cost at plant of the materials used; by further de- ducting the cost of fuel and elec- tricity used in those plants; and then dividing the figure by the number of employes, including supervisory and office staff and production workers, This resultant figure, which Mr. Churchill calls "value added per employe," is of course very largely conditioned by the amount of machinery and other manufac- turing aids provided in each plant to boost the value Which each em- ploye is able to add. The huge but nevertheless very commend- able average obtained at Sarnia is in large measure accounted for by the very costly equipment pro. vided in the petro-chemical in- dustry there. The city with the 19th highest "value added per employe," ace cording to Trade Minister Churchs ill's answer in the House of Com- mons, is Kingsten. Its figure is $7.177. Now I was so Interested by these figures that 1 obtained a copy of the review of The Manu- facturing Industries of Canada in 1956, which is prepared by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics; then I sharpened my pencil and my wits and did some figuring. I was glad to find that in fact Prince Albert outranks Kingston, with an average productivity per factory worker of $7,248. The reason for the omission of my favorite city of northern Sask- atchewan must have been that its statistics are based upon less than 1,000 workers. The figure I came up with was based on the results of 796 employes in 33 es- tablishments in Prince Albert, 1 mentioned that the all-Canada average In 1956 was $6,941, This figure will put into perspective the achievements of workers in certain other cities, not rated among Canada's Top 20, which I have calculated myself: Chatham" $6,569; Guelph $6,218; Galt $5,358; Woodstock $5,445; Welland $6,125, Quebec City attained $5,830. In British Columbia, Nanaimo reported $6,956; Kelowna $5,605: Penticton around $5000; and Kamloops $5,677. One of the more interesting Canadian figures might have been that relating to our motoropolis, Oshawa, But statistics are with- held to avoid disclosure of in- dividual companies' operations in all cases where one or two es. tablishments account for very nearly all the total selling value of factory shipments. For this reason, Oshawa's figures have not been revealed by the Domin- fon Bureau of Statistics, PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM As there are various degrees' of love, surely you can love eremy to some extent -- at feast love him enough not to murder Note to traffic policemen ! think they've heard every hii sible excuse for speeding: In: Duluth a teen-ager apprehended' for speeding sald he was rushing o she library with an overdue "No clue has been found in the case of a typewriter that was stolen and later abandoned in a cemetery." --From a news story. 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