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The Oshoron Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 4 Monday, A August 24, 1959 Cabinet Strgnhgthened By New Appointments Prime Minister Diefenbaker has set about the job of patching his cabinet, something that should have been done months ago. Now for the first time since the death of Sidney ada has a full-time external affairs minister; Howard Green does not have to divide his time between foreign pol- iey and public works, and has been giv- en a promising assistant in the person of Oxford'sw Wallace Nesbitt; Defence Minister, Pearkes badly needed help, and he splits his duties with an associ~ ate minister, the young and energetic Pierre Sevigny. The ambitious David Walker had worked assiduously to make himself a cabinet candidate, and he has been rewarded with the public works portfolio and he will un~- doubtedly continue to work just hard now to improve his position in the cabinet, There can be some question whether Canada needs two ministers of nation- al defence. The Liberals thought so, and obviousi) But there is much informed opinion to s#g- gest that: better than the appointment of two ministers to look after a bewil- dering department would be the paring of the department to a point where it could be handled by one minister. The as the Lonservaiives. 0 ac Smith, Can-" Diefenbaker government, however, does not seem to have clarified its thinking about defence to the point where such a decision could even be contemplated. Of immediate concern was the hand- ling of the defence portfolio as it ex- ists. Gen. Pearkes is a very gallant gen. tleman -- and that word is used in its fullest and best sense. But he took over the defence department at a time when radical new ideas and concepts of de- fence-were beginning to replace the old, and it seems clear that he could not catch up. His statements in and out of Parliament revealed the degree of his bewilderment and: imcertainty. Mr. Sevigny may help in the catching-up process, Mr. Sevigny's appointment is parti- cularly interesting. The Conservatives have lacked a "strong man" in Quebec, one who can lead and control the party organization in that province with au- thority, Mr. Diefenbaker may well be ping that Mr. Sevigny turns out to be that man. Mr. Diefenbaker gthened his cabinet and put some youth into it, and this should enable the government to proceed with more firmness and de- cision, has stren Queen's Park Silence The location of a new railway line from the vicinity of Ajax through Pick- ering township to a ter Metro- politan Toronto has vigorously criticized by property rs along the proposed route. There have been meet- ings between representatives of the property iicipal councils and the Canadian National Railways. Now it seems the matter must go to Ottawa for adjud ion Meanwhile, Ontario government partments that would appear to have a direct interest in the controversy have been conspicuously One wonders why, particularly when they be so vociferous on other municipal . ques- tions. The location of the line will have a direct effect on both land values and zoning plans of municipalities through which it runs. Any major transport link exerts a powerful influ- ence on the way that the surrounding area develops. In its immediate vicinity it tends to lower residential values and fncrease industrial values! it may force abandonment of some long-term pro- jects (parks and playgrounds, for ex- ample) and inspire other projects. In brief, its direct and indirect influence nus in been owne owners, mur de~ silent can railway life of a community be exaggerated. The Ontario departments of pal and 'planning 'and ment were designed to help and municipalities with their financial, ad- ministrative, planning and problems. Indeed, there deal that a municipality can out having to refer another to one or both of those depart ments. But 'the Queen's Park ties have kept strictly clear way controversy, despite the effects of the location of the line on ti future development of the munic Bory - ties through which the line will pas According to their strict terms of ref- erence, they may consider that their advice can be given only on and that they have no direct power ov- er an organization that responsi to federal authority -- and the must have agreed, because apparently it did not bother to inform the Ontario government of its plans. Even so, the argument should be settled at Queen's Park and not Ottawa, where much less intimate knowledge exists of the prob- lems of the Ontario municipalities con- cerned in the dispute, » or the ly munici- affairs develop- guide land use at some autnor the 1 request 1s Ringers At Festival The Communists will probably keep their Moscow-organized "World Youth" festivals fnside the iron curtair from now on. This year for the first time they'staged the festival outside the Soviet empire, in Vienna, and it was an unhappy experience for them. Despite their guards and thugs, they failed to control the proceedings as efficiently as they are able to do when they can su- pervise every word and action of the "delegates." From the start Vienna reluctant to play host, but government's conception of lity imposed by post-war agreements permitted no refusal. Then the principal youth organizations of many countries declined to participate, many of them, countries where the Communists' sow- ing might have been expected to pro- duce a richer harvest India, Ghana, Peru, Chile, the Philippines, Pakistan, South Africa and the United Arab Re- public. About but even Soviet bloc was openly the Austrian the neutra- 17,000 delegates though most were the Festival's main seemed be concentrated them thoroughly sheltered west influence. Delegates from Iron Cur- tain countries, colsely guarded in tent cities and carefully shepherded by bus to and from the daily meetings, must CACTI "TI Fhe Oshawa Simes T. L. WILSON, Publisher and General Monogw €. GWYN KINSEY. Editor The Oshawa (established Chr onicle Sundays end statu tory holidays exce Members ot Coradian Daily Newspapers Publishers Association, The Conedicn Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontorio Provincial Dailies Asso ciation Press is exclusively en to the use ation pt @ n the pog d to it or to The Assoc ted Press or Rew ory and aisc the local news publisheo therein. All rights of special despatches 'ore also reserved Offices 44 640 Cathcart SUBSCRIPTION RATES turned up from the activity to on keeping from er The Oshawo Times Whitby Gazette and daily mes combining the 863 shed news d Street West oronte, Ontario; Montreal PQ L King treet e Grov Taunton Leskard, Bro Columbus, Fairport Raglan, Blackstock, M. athaste Pontypool and Newcostle not over By mail (in province of Ontario] delivery oreas 12.00: elsewhere Average Daily Net Paid Publisher's Statement as of March 31, 1959 16.260 ghom Beach have felt that they There were a crowd, particularly They flew enna pulling streamers said "Re member Hungary" and "Remember T bet." Popular singer Ella Fitzgersz brought in as a counter-attractior 0 fellow-traveller Paul Robesor Anti- communist literature was slipped un- der dinner plates until acid tossed into the ocal publish house where the tracts were being ed. A young American scientist a party-line seminar on a factual presentation of peaceful had never left Hiome few ringer n the the Ameri- planes Vv among cans light over Vi- tt = Id wa an bomb was print spoiled the atom Ww the U.S gram for ergy. The festival's press coverage was, to say the least, confusing. Western new men were barred, with a reporter and a magazine bodily tossed out of the West German TV ly beaten even though he outside the official grounds local press, only the Communist daily carried a word about the fe More 20 of the Austrian decided beforehand that whatever they might report the be twisted to Communist propaganda purposes, they would totally ignore the festival -- a policy seriously questioned by many western believers in the obli- gations of a free press but one that furiated and frightened the festival's Communist organizers. The mechanics of providing enough secret police to function as the con- ducting officers in the delegates' buses must have beea discouraging enough; but even more disturbing would have been the sight of Western visitors free to . move about entirely on their own. Other Editor's Views AMERICAN DIPLOMATS (Milwaukee Journal) In Paskistan, cars of American matic personne! carry licences with the "CD" on them~---the svmbol for "corps diplomatigue." A Pakistani, bitter over the high liv- ing standards of Americans, told us in Karachi that "CD" to him meant "car dealer." He contended that Americans brought cars into the country under special li- cence and then sold them upon leaving at more than they had paid for them at home, It wasn't a widespread practicé and top officials frowned on it, but it did happen. 1ses of atomic wire-se photographer meetings; a rvice cameraman was Dad- was working Of the party tival than pape nce on affair would in- diplo letters world-wide ANOTHER QUEEN'S PARK Using Common Sense May Lead To Error TORONTO Observing the for a movie in compliance ed the warn- advertisement was the Matinee 2:30 te below it "Children's turaay PAR TY LIQUOR en there was the magistrate we good advice to a man in to a rying liquor his car part) You should trunk," he said question i in your there you have put "Then would be no that were drinking it." Of course the magistrate didn't realize it is illegal to carry liquor in a trunk also, He was using common sense, Our liquor laws don't, WATCH COMPASS At one time or another find practically arcund here For instance, here is a tip from Lands and Forests on find- ing your way out of the bush if you don't have a compass Point the hour hand of the sun, it says you can anything out your vay ween this and 12 I be wk is due BY-GONE DAYS 15 YEARS AGO was driving a the way to the swarm of pouring from a factory at wg time frightened them ympeded behind the fac- 1 the rear end of the in number, crashing lid of a covered well south. Fred. Ciemen herd of cattle on pen shipping when a even ough the electrical storm to occur in Oshawa and district for time resulted in several 'ses being killed and buildings being dam- lightning struck the e of Centre St. Christian Church, * cracked the bell and splintered timbers om which it ded The yome cattle and h f lds and The the was suspe av "Tramp" Regiment expected on at the Eaton seelirdm gave ldog named to the 34th cot It wae see act fined $1 and for being drunk in charge y horse and vehicle. Two men were fined $1 and costs for auto speeding and another was fined $1 and costs for allowing fowl to run at large One man was A gang 'of Ttalians and Austri- vho were working on the Grand Trunk Railway had an argument over some fireworks, Some knives were brought inte play and cuts were inflicted, re- quiring everal stitches. The town constable had to be called to quell the disturbance an ans Running away married Oshawa couple parked the ir horse and buggy in front of licence burean. While they in getting a leence, the ered down the street uple- came -out and worse was gone. the hus: ficured the horse its own home, so they got married. took a train on their honeymoon forgetting about fhe horse fo get a voung o-be Id find CHIPMUNK INVASION HUNTINGDON, Que. (CP)- When chipmunks began invading his garden fo eat flower bulbs, a Huntingdon resident set out spe cial wire traps. He caught several animals alive and freed them in 'a forest. What if the sun isn't out? Well at least it should be cool. FARM ACCIDENTS The first interim report of the farm accident survey committee has been released. It shows that the kitchen is one of the most dangerous places on a farm In three months there were 100 accidents and five fatalities in Ontario farm kitchens as against 193 accidents and one death in stables. Does this mean an angry house- wife is nearly as dangerous as an angry bull? SOUND IDEA Finally, in these days of fluori- dation talk the fraud pulled by George Dunbar comes to mind. At the height of the argument in the House last winter the for- mer cabinet minister rose in his seat and brought the house to a stop. An anti-fluoridationist, he de- clared "nonsense, 75 years apd still going strong." Then he opened his mouth and loudly clacked his teeth The idea was sound, even if the teeth weren't. As his close friends knew George has a full set of china C clippers PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM "Thousands of persons dis- appear each year because they are not wanted," says a statis- tician. And thousands of others disappear because they are wanted Overheard: "I'd certainlyy hate to know that guy well enough tc like him." (One is reminded of the person who said, "I'm glad 1 don't like Onions, because if J liked them I'd eat them, and I can't stand them.) If President Eisenhower's pop- ularity proves to. be as much greater than Nixon's in Russia and Poland as it is in the U.S.A, the Russians will come within an inch of loving him to death and he had better steer entirelr clear of Poland "After questioning two pick pocket suspects for half an how without eliciting anv response, Tokyo nvolice discovered they were both deaf and dumb."-- News item. Tt is assumed that the police weren't deaf. Many believe that Khrush- chev"s visiting the U.S.A. will cause him to correct many er- roneous ideas he has concerning it. Maybe so, as "seeing is be- lieving."" And maybe not, as "There's none so blind as he who will not see." Added to the list of those from Ww hom will be chosen the mean- FOR BETTER HEALTH Allergy From Pollen Complicated Subject HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, MD LET ME tell flowers and the wind and pollen 1 don't want to make your sneezing and wheezing any worse, but perhaps you pollen allergy victims would like to know what you really are up against FORMIDABLE FOE Pollen is a pretty foe. . Most of you who suffer from hay fever and asthma undoubted- ly would like to see all pollen vanish from the air. True, it would alleviate your suffering, but it would also disrupt the fundamental plans of nature VITALLY NECESSARY Pollen, you see, is vitally nec essary to produce many of our flowering plants. The particles of pollen are the male elements of these plants. While some flowers contain both male and female reproduc- tive organs and can fertilize themselves, others do not. Self- fertilization is either very diffi cult or impossible. POLLEN'S JOB Nature relies upon insects such as bees or upon the wind for cross - -pollination. This is the job of the pollen particles. It is up to them 'to fertilize plant eggs to produce seeds and thus a new generation of plants. By relying upon the wind, na- ture takes a tremendous chance. A grain of pollen, to be success- ful, 'must land on a flower stig- ma of its own species. This is the only place that it can per form its function Since the stigma may be no larger than a pinhead, the odds against this method of ecross- pollination are fantastic Nature compensates for this by releasing -- much to the an- noyance of allergy victims vast amounts of pollen It is estimated that for each particle of corn pollen that per- forms its cross-pollination func- function successfully, some 25,000 grains are released When you see all those stalks of corn and multiply each grein vou about the bees -- and the formidable by 25.000 you get some idea of the astronomical amount of pol- len that is loosed into the air each year by this one type of plant alone Then, don't forget, there is the ragweed plant -- especially troublesome for hay fever and asthma suffers. There are tim- othy, elm, oak, cedar, poplar, walpnt and countless other plants. All produce pollen. And you may be allergic to. any one or many of them. QUESTION AND ANSWER Mr. T. B. D.: Can you suggest a means of correcting a drop foot and weak hamstring mus- cles which resulted from a stroke? Answer: Drop foot and weak hamsiring muscles resulting irom a stroke may be helped by active and passive exercises, massage and physiotherapy. Oc- casionally a surgical operation to stabilize the ankle joint may be necessary You should consult your doc- tor, who will direct the proper course of treatment in your case. OTTAWA REPORT Election Expenses Staggering Amount By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- The 1958 genera election was the most costly election ever charged up to Cana- dian taxpayers. With a few bills still to be paid, the chief electoral officer has already disbursed $9,448,992 for that election. This compares with a cost of $7,164,576 for the 1957 election. These costs cover the actus) machinery of recording the popu- vote, such as enumerating the ectors, printing voters' lists and ballot papers, and conducting the poll. Payments by individual can- didates--for the hire of meeting halls, for printing and posiage. for travel and publicity--and the much more substantial payments out of party funds under the same headings, were not included in the total cost as listed by the chief electoral officer. These cam- paign expenses are not fully dis- closed, but they probably totalled more than the direct cost to the taxpayer in the 1957 election, when John Diefenbaker won his first victory. The total was proh- ably lower in the less free-spend- ing 1958 election . Thanks to some of the losing candidates, a small but interest ing drawback came to the tax- payers in each election, through the forfeiture of candidates' dn- posits. PARTIES FILL TREASURY Every candidate must deposit $200 when his nomination is ac- cepted. If he wins the election, or if he obtains half as many votes as the successful candidate, his deposit is refunded; otherwise it is. forfeited, and handed over to the national treasury. The pue- pose of this, a purpose which is not always fulfilled, is to dis courage flippant candidacies. In 1957, no less than 343 candi- dates failed to get at least haif the number of votes polled by the winner in their constituency; Bund in 1958 the number of those who forfeited their deposits rose to 373. The accounts of the chief elec toral officer, Nelson Castonguay, show two exceptional expenses in 1957. The small electorate of 15,- est man of the year is the Phoe- nix, Arizona, man who has a slot machine in his home with which he secures the allowances of his step-children who can't = resist playing it. 491 in the Newtoundland riding of Grand Falls-White Bay-Labrador racked up a staggering $44,500 for services and expenses of the returning officer, which was more than 10 times the cross Capada average. This high cost was necessitated by the returning officer having to travel around huge, sparsely- seitled Labrador. For this pur pose, and to distribute and col- lect ballot boxes, ships had to be chartered and a plane was hired for four weeks Thus democracy comes expen sive in Labrador. The average vote polled in that riding cost the taxpayers $4.65, compared to the cost in the typical riding of Osh- awa of 86 cents per vote. The returning officer is paid at the rate of 4'%2 cents for every name on the voters' lst in an urban constituency. It is reckoned that the average such riding con- tains 40,000 voters, thus the job is worth about $1,800, it was ex- plained to me by the very help- ful and well-informed accountant in the elec office here, E. Robitaille, The returning officer in a rural riding is paid at the rate of $9 per polling station. Boih urban and rural ROs are ali paid for their preliminary duties before polling day at the rate of $1 per polling station, plus another dollar per station for supervising enumerators, and another dollar rai station for storing ballot an; TROUBLE IN TORONTO The other large bill came from the returning officer in the Tor onto riding of St. Pauls, repre sented by Comamons Speaker Roly Michener. This big item, of $49,- 083, contained the inflationary factor of the cost of a royal com mission appointed to examine charges that the voters' lists had been padded in that riding, and the legal expenses associated with subsequent trials. Enumeration expenses rose he. tween 1957 and 1958 owing to a higher scale of payments for this work, In urban ridings, two enu- Doli di are appointed in each pol vision, nominated by the winner and second candidate bs' the preceding election, or by their parties. They are each paid » basic fee of $25, plus 10 sell for each name bed voters' lists. In rural ing there is only one enumerator; he is also paid the basic $25, plus 11 cents per name, plus $15 for one day's work pevising his lists The bills for our elections may seem high--running about' $1.50 for each vote recorded--but that money is all paid out directly to Canadians all over Canada, for goods or services rendered. These short-lived election time jobs no doubt constitute a welcome little something extra to the many workers employed. Now Many Wear FALSE TEETH With Little Worry Ee Bi laugh or sneeze without (ear nf insecure false teeth dropph ait ping or wobbling FASTETH nlds plates firmer ahd more com- i This pleasant powder has no ummy, goney, pasty taste or feeling sn't cause nausea. It's alkaline {non-acld) Checks "plate odor" (denture breath) Get FASTEETH s4 ter. SAVE MONEY AT THE C.N.E. Clip the Toronto Star Thrill coupon every day from The Daily Star. The whole family can save money on C.N.E. Grandstand matinee tickets. 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