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he Osharon Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Poge 4 Monday, October 5, 1959 Confusion Still Reigns In Civil Defence Plans A federal-provincial ' conference on elvil defence has been going on in Ot- twa. It was veiled in . Every so often Defence Minister Pearkes would poke his head through the veil and deign to give reporters a few scraps of information about what was going on, Last Thursday, for example, Mr, Pearkes was good enough to let the public know that the conference had agreed to concentrate on a policy of providing fallout shelters without scrapping plans for evacuation in the event of nuclear attack. It was not considered realistic at present to plan for complete evacuation of cities in the limited time that would be given by a warning of attack, he said. The conference was working to- wards a policy of limited voluntary evacuation where possible and provis- fon of shelter against radioactive fall- out. And that is that. Thus a great big secret is being made of civil defence, of something that is designed to protect the civil population. Civil defence could just as well be eall- ed public defence -- but the public, ap- parently, must know nothing about it, Last March the federal government announced a new civil defence policy. Primary responsibility was given to the army, Details were pretty vague, and the federal-provincial conference was arranged to make them less vague. The secrecy surrounding the conference was probably compounded of bureaucrat confusion and the military mania for secrecy--a mania that stems from an unconscious fear that the public will find out about military mismanagement, Even the fragments of information tossed out from the conference, how- ever, were revealing. They indicated that the so-called new policy on civil defence was not nearly substantial ene ough to be called a policy. Thus another reason for secrecy is indicated: the de- fence department wished to avoid the embarrassment of a public revelation of its failure in the matter of civil de- fence. One does not have to be a military expert to understand the futility of evacuation plans that would send two million people streaming over a few roads northward from the Hamilton- Toronto-Oshawa area, and have them clear of the danger area in three or four hours. This was to take place without adequate warning systems, adequate policing, and with no prepare ation for the reception of the refugees. Now, apparently, there is to be some sort of voluntary evacuation plus a shelter system, Confusion still reigns. More Years--For What? Half the girls now being born in On- tario will live to the age of 77, half the boys to the age of 72. This is what Dr. A. H. Sellers, director of the Ontario health department's medical statistics division, told the annual meeting of the Ontario Health Association. The progress of medical science has steadily advanced life expectancy, as control is gained over diseases that not so long ago were considered fatal, Unfortunately, society has failed to keep up with medicine. Politicians, em- ployers and people in general still put arbitarary and out-of-date limits on ages for both hiring and retirement, Dr. Sellers went on to tell the Health Association that as a result of longer life expectancy there are more older people who need hospital treatment; 28 per cent of patients admitted to On- tario hospitals are over 65 years of age. Obviously, this means that health authorities must take this into account. But the responsibility does not belong to health authorities alone. How many of the older people are ill because they feel themselves neglected, or are bored with life because they have "nothing to do," or have a feeling of uselessness because they have been forced into re- tirement despite their good mental and physical health? Society may well be pushing many of the older people into hospitals by its archaic conception of old age. The National Employment Service has issued a booklet, which is a plea to employers not to consider anyone over 35 years of age as too old for a job and anyone over 65 as a dead weight to be removed from the job. At 35 most men are just moving into their most productive years as reliable workers; and at 65 many men have years of good, happy work ahead of them. But one has only to read the "help wanted" advertisements in this or any other newspaper to get some idea of how widespread is the prejudice against the over-35's. A man's capacity to work and to learn does not stop at 35 or 65 or any other arbitrary number. of years. It can stop at 17 or at 71. The need of men and women for a recognized place in society does not decline with age; pro- bably it grows. But society does not seem able to grasp such simple con- cepts-- and meanwhile the medical sci- entists keep on extending life and ine creasing the need for a more enlight- ened attitude towards age. Prevention Of Fires At a luncheon last week, Col R. 8. McLaughlin recalled how fires were fought in Oshawa at the turn of the century. The apparatus for fire protec- tion was primitive; water was pumped from wells, and when the wells ran dry, the fire fighters were helpless. Now the city has modern equipment and a highly-trained, efficient force of fire fighters. But all too often, public attitudes towards fire prevention are still primitive. We still regard the dan- gers of fire too lightly, and fire fight- ters must still risk their lives to battle the results of someone's carelessness. This is Fire Prevention Week, so de- signated by royal proclamation. The need for some period in the year when an assessment of the fire menace can be made is implicit in the grim statis- tics: 86,563 reported fires, 529 lives lost and $116 million in property consumed by flames in Canada during 1958. In the last ten years Canadian fires have taken 5355 lives and seriously injured more than 16,000 men, women and chil- "dren, The direct property loss in fires dur- ing the past decade has cost Canada more than one billion dollars -- or en- ough money to build two Seaways. This @he Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher and Generel Menoge €. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa fimes ig Pb Oshawa Times $ 1871) ond the i Gazette ond ened, 1863), is a daily holidays excepted). established end statutory of Cor Deity Ni Publ Association, The Canadion Press, Audit Bureau eof Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Asso- ciation. The Conadion Press is exclusively entitled fo the use for blication of all news Di in the paper credited to Hy to The Avcioted Press or Reuters, and oiso local news publishes therein. All rights of special despatches are aie reserved. ices 44 Ki Street West Toronto, Ontaries Pye, Stroat, Montreal. PQ. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshowa Whitby, Azem, or Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Columbus, Raglon, Blackstock, Manchester Cobourg, Port Hope ind Newcastle not over 45¢c per week. By mail (in province of Onterio) outside carriers delivery arecs 12.00: elsewhere 15.00 per yeor. ' Average Daily Net Paid Publisher's Statement us of March 31, 1959 16,260 Pontypool o amount does not include the indirect loss to the economy or the loss in for- est fires. Analysis of the causes of the fires indicate that 90 per cent were caused by human carelessness and neglect of the simple rules of fire safety and com- mon sense. Per capita Canada's fire loss is still one of the worst in the world. An inter- national summary made in 1952 by the Organization for European Economic Co-operation showed this country ahead of a dozen others. Our rate per head of population then was $5.86. Now it is $6.75, More figures can be quoted to fllus- trate the appalling human and economie waste, and the tragedy of human care- lessness, in 'fires in Canada. The men who have had to fight these fires be- lieve that new generations can be taught to be more careful. That is one of the reasons for Fire Prevention Week, which also should remind older genera- tions of the bitter cost of their care- lessness. Bible Thought See that ye walk circumspectly, not a fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.--Ephe- sians 5:15, 16. Happy is the man who spends his time in benefiting his fellows. Time flies. We must be about our Father's business. Now it is high time to awake out of sleep.--Romans 13:11. Sin, vice and crime are rampant everywhere. God's people must be alert to counteract evil with good. Verily, verily, I say unto you. That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice, and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.--John 16:20. We are riot promised exemption from the common sorrows of life, but if we are in God's will we have His comfort- ing assurance that He will not leave use or forsake us. As for me and my house we will serve the Lord. --Joshua 24:15. God's way is the only way for a man t live, mR NOW WE LAOS DOWN TO SLEZ? QUEENS PARK 'Bright Young Men' Surround Premier By DON O'HEARN q TORONTO -- The day of the Fhe trouble with the: "assistant" "bright young men" started some system is mushrooms time ago in the rest of the world. vey . ot 2 isto It is just now n to Assistants, in the civil service make itself felt ig hing at least, invariably breed assist- "Bright young men" of course, ants to the assistants. : are chaps with more than aver- This mean the assistants must age ability, 'talk things over wih the assis- They get their label because ant assistants, come "confer- hat sizes are u even there bigger than the ability, ences." And as no important de- PREMIER'S CADETS cision can be made without the y there have to be A group of them mow have PM's RAILWAY TIME TABLE CHANGES Oct. 25th, 1959 squatters rights in the primes, 'meefihgs" which he attends bud minister's office, And these days around here we Informption Some time ago when the work are lousy with "meetings." from load got heavy Premier Frost' Important victims of this sys- gels started putting on departmental tém are cabinet ministers, officers and assistants, A Lindsay garbage collegtor There now is a little group of has an easier time seeing | the 0 < them, the "Lindsay cadets" 'P "than some of his cab. (some having been recruited from inet. And this naturally means 4 - the premier's home town), eynsiderablé Jristration. . i fai 3 IRON CURTAIN? ie cual Joim Vike Wa 3 CANADIAN | CANADIAN Old timers look 8n this devel opment with § questioning eye. One reason for Mr. Frost's popularity and success is that in his earlier davs he, seemed able to get along without this type of erutch. George Drew had gone in for it. He was surrounded by a staff, particularly his secretary, the late Jim Cassidy, who threw up a barrier around him. And as is well known this did Mr. Drew no good with the publie, He was commonly accused of operating behind an "iron cur. tain." Mr. Frost, of course, is too good a politician to make the , Drew mistake. He will still see the public. But ous policy matter on his hands. EJS d[® NATIONAL 1t had to be decided at the throne. FACTORIES FOR RENT 2,400 - 3,200 SQ. FT. New self-contained factories for rent; Offices to suit; Truck level shipping; two-year lease; Ample parking. AJAX INDUSTRIAL ESTATE SLOUGH ESTATES CANADA LIMITED Royal Benk Bldg, Toronto | -- EM 3-9033 ° - he doesn't have time to see a lot of other people that he should, OTTAWA REPORT Leaders Engaged In Pitcher's Duel « By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--It's a pitcher's duel, to borrow the topical baseball ver- nacular and apply it to our politi- cal scene. September is normally a very quiet month in Ottawa, when the summer heat is petering out me- teorologically and politically, and neither the erisping weather nor the returning cabinet ministers put the full pep back into gov- ernment. But this year we had a very active month, with campaign pitches here and all across the country, om byelection battle fields and on fields where the electoral battle seems to be three years away. We saw Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, a real Marco Polo of a statesman, exploring and re- discovering Canada from the Gaspe to Kitimat, by car, by train and often from 2% miles up in the air .At every halt, he greeted 10 old acquaintances by name, shook a hundred hands, and used a thousand words to pitch the government story with his unfailing skill. Opposition Leader Lester *Mike" Pearson, back refreshed by a holiday in Europe, put across the Liberal pitch in 15 speeches in 10 days, to audiences as far separated in time and political space as the Lester Pearson High school in New Westminster and the party faithful in the Russell byelection here in Ottawa. VARIETY THE HARD GOAL That's quite a chore, delivering not the same speech every time of course, but partisan pep talks to the converted at Liberal ral- lies and conventions, electioneer- ing punches in two hbvelections, and the statesman line to women's Canadian clubs and newspaper editors. Mike Pearson's audiences, on his 8,000-mile jaunts, may well ask: Who is his speech-writer? It's Mike. And the audiences laughi: at his pish sallies may well ask: Who is his gag- writer? Again, it's Mike, This liberal laugh - provoking cynicism is something we haven't seen before in the Honorable Les- ter B. Pearson in public. Maybe Mike the baseball-player used to talk it up to the umpire; surely Mike the diplomat talked h down to the ambassadors. But this new Mike, the har-hitting politician is something new. QUIPPED TO DEATH Of the Conservative farm pol- fey, Mr. Pearson jibes: Their electoral pigs are coming home to roost. Of the PCs' failure to explain BY-GONE DAYS 16 YEARS AGO Rev. D. B. Langford, rector of St. John's Church, Port Whitby, found time along with his heavy pastoral duties to keep up a large correspondence with Whit. by soldiers overseas. At the annual convention of the Eastern Ontario Municipal Electric Association, W. R. Strike of Bowmanville, was elec- ted president, while Wililam Bod- dy of Oshawa was elected vice- president. H. W. Gregory, vice-president of Seiberling Rubber Co., des- cribed the characteristics of synthetic tires to members of the Oshawa Rotary Club at their luncheon meeting. Rally Day and promotion ser- vices were observed In a num ber of the Sund Schools in the city. tS Oshawa Junior Red Cross in the various schools, organized a plan to make and fill 50 comfort bags for Marine Hospital pat- fents in Newfoundland. During the Fourth = Victory Loan, employees in 32 Ontario County firms subscribed for more than their $1,600,000 ob roid through the payroll save their monetary policy, he sneers: Their lips are as tight as their money. Of the PCs' defence policy, he says: They talk about guided missiles, but give us unguided muddles, One of the cabinet's activities, he complains: They show us mare miles traveled and more speeches made than any cabinet in our history. One of his favorite butts 1s the defence department and its two "equal" ministers, "They had ne defence policy with one minister, but now they have improved on fhat, they have got two minis. 8." And how will Parliament. know which of the two equal defence ministers is to answer for his de- partment? "I suppose we should address our English questions to Sevigny, and our French ques- tions to Pearkes," he suggests. That dour Scots-blooded prime minister Mackenzie King taught us to take our politics with plod- ding seriousness. We in Ottawa have not enjoyed good belly laughs in politics for many years, except when some of Toronto's former MPs showed unconscious humor, and I mean unconscious. But with the new Liberal leader developing a new oratorical wit, we can indeed thank heaven for the Irish tongue in him. How increasing life span affec your Life Insurance Thanks to advances in medical knowledge, in hygiene and in living conditions, Canadians today can look forward to a longer life. 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