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rs TI WIT, Sal IR The Oshawn Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Puge 4 Tuesday, October 13, 1959 Election Trend Worry For U.K's Socialists . Political "experts" were confounded by the thumping victory of the Conser- yatives over the Socialists in last week's British general election. It was suppos- ed to be a nip-and-tuck race between the two big parties, with the renascent Liberals gaining on both, The Liberals did gain, at the expense of Labor, but fell far short of the balance-of-power position that some pundits thought they could occupy. The pollsters had a ready-made "out." Their figures showed a very large per- centage of voters who had not made up their minds. Obviously, according to the opinion samplers, the uncertain voters suddenly decided to support the Conser- vative candidates, We doubt if there was any such last- minute rush to the Conservative cause. It seems more likely that the voters had al- ready made up their minds but for one reason or another were keeping quiet about it. Nothing happened in the cou- ple of days before the election to sway them one way or another. The obvious conclusion to be drawn from the election result, of course, is that more British voters were content with the way Prime Minister Macmillan and his colleagues have been handling things than were unhappy about it. British prosperity, tax cuts, easier credit, the government's handling of foreign affairs and domestic legislation thus got general approval That approval meant that the voters generally were not disturbed by Social= ist harping on such things as the Jas- per scandal, alleged mismaragement of colonial affairs, the summit situation and unemployment in certain indus- tries. More significant, perhaps, is the way Growth Of P Premier Leslie Frost spore with pride last week about Ontario's growth since 1945. The occasion was the "pass- ing of another milestone." Ontario's population passed the six million mark. In 14 years, the province's population has increased by two million, or 50 per cent. Early postwar projections of On- tario's population, based on past trends had calculated a total of only 4% mil- lion by this time. Mr. Frost's pride was understand- able. He has headed the government for the greater part of the postwar per- jod, and he has given the province a sound administration that has encour- aged growth. At th€ same time, it would have been a bumbling govern- ment indeed that could have managed to slow up or stop the growth. More than any province in Canada, Ontario has favorable factors for growth, bas- ed on geography and natural resources. How favorable those factors are is fndicated by the statistics. While On- Building The Defence Minister Pearkes says that the building of bomb shelters is much more realistic than any arrangement for sudden mass evacuation of cities. This is hardly profound wisdom. It simply gives official recognition to what many people, including civil de- fence workers, had been saying all along. But the same kind of vagueness clouds the bomb shelter suggestion as covered previous civil dcfence "poli- cies." It is all very well to propose that bomb shelters be built. But how and where are they to be built, and by whom? It would be absurd to expect Canad- fans to build their own shelters in their own backyards or basements, using their own money. They will gamble that the need for such shelters will not arise, or that they will have time to build when the need does arise. It would be difficult to convince them that the need exists now. And we don't blame them. To i Times 7. L. WILSON, ©. GWYN KINSEY, I The Oshawa ablished icle BLL end statutory holidays excepted! ot C Daily oA i Association, The Conadion Press, Audit Bureou of Circulation ond the Ontario Provincial Dailies Asso- ciation. The Canodior Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters and also the local news published therein. All rights special despatches cre ako reserved. Offices 44 King Street west Toronto, Ontaries 640 Catheort Street. Montreol PQ. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Pier carriers in Oshowa Whitby, Ales, Pickering, arene Brooklin. Port Perry, Princes Albert ig Glave Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Cunbarton, Ennisicllen, Oreno Fheiy "Brougham Burkeion. emont, Columbus, Fairport Beach Greenwooo, Kinsale, Raglan Blackstock, Manchester Cobourg. Port Hope and Newcostle not over 45¢ per week. po mail (in province, of Ontorio) outside carriers delivery creos 12.00; elsewhere 1500 per ear. Average Daily Net Paid Publisher's Statement as of March 31, 1959 16,260 votes were cast by these who disape proved of the Macmillan government. The Socialists lost three per cent of the dissident vote, and the Liberals gained three per cent. This is still not enough of a shift for anyone to con- clude that the Liberals are replacing Labor as the big party opposed to Con- servatism, but it does continue a trend indicated in the previous election. It must also increase discussion of the role of a Socialist party in the modern welfare state. Has it any reason for ex- istence in a state in which citizens are already taxed to the hilt to pay for the social welfare benefits they sought a couple of decades ago? Like Canadians and Americans, the British have been moving more and more away from the political extremes of left and right, The middle of the road is becoming pretty crowded. There does not seem to be any room there for an old-fash- joned Socialist party. It will be inter- esting to see how the Labor party pro- ceeds to make room, which it must do if it hopes to increase its supporters among the "middle men." What has happened is that economic conditions since World War II have enormously increased the middle class es in the United Kingdom, as in the other English-speaking nations, The tax structure has worked against the accumulation of huge fortunes, while the wage structure has greatly reduce ed the numbers in the so-called lower classes. People in this enlarged middle class, while retaining their instinctive distrust of "big business," have too big an equity in the status quo to approve of radical reforms or violent changes. They support Big Daddy, who looks a bit like Santa Claus but doesn't go rushing into wild adventures, opulation tario's population has been increasing at 3.2 per cent a year during the past six years, the rate for the rest of Canada has been 2.5 per cent. About 60 per cent of this growth has been natural increase, the result of rising birth rates and declining death rates. The other 40 per cent has come from migration. One tario has taken the lion's share of ime migration to Canada--and it has also attracted Canadians from other prov= fnces at the rate of 10,000 a year. Possibly the most significant factor in the population growth has been the birthrate. There are now about 1.9 mil- lion children under 15 years of age out of a total Ontario population of six mil= lion. This means a continuing demand for such capital investments as schools. It also means a greatly expanded market for all sorts of goods, from food to foot= balls. It is the best kind of market and one that deserves the greatest encour- agement, Shelters We don't know how much an ade- quate family shelter, built to withstand a nuclear blast, would cost, but we doubt if it would be less than a thous- and dollars. In Ottawa, a thousand dol- lars may not be very much, but in Osh=- awa, or Whitby or any other commu- nity in Canada, it is a respectable sum indeed. It is too great a sum to be used on a project that may be not only un- necessary but 'inadequate. There is more than the mere matter of cost, however, To put the onus on the individual is distinctly unfair. There are many Canadians who cannot afford to build a house, let alone a bomb shelter to go with it. Presumably these people would not get protection against a nuclear blast simply because they could not afford it. Defence Minister Pearkes may have been thinking about the building of . public shelters, along the lines of those in the embattled cities of World War 11. Public shelters are the responsibili- tins of governments, municipal, provine cial or federal, or working in concert. If a psogram of bomb shelters is consi- dered necessary, this is the logical way of handling it. But nobody seems to know just what kind of program is envisaged. The whole matter of civil defence is mudd- led with a lot of foolish secrecy--which, in turn, may simply cover a lack of con- structive thinking. ; Bible Thoughts For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that who- scever believeth in him should not per- ish; but have everlasting life. -- John 3:16, It is God's purpose that everybody should have life and have it in ever- increasing abundance, For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.--II Corinthians 4:17. Some trials are forced upon us, some we make for ourselves. Some are real. Some are imaginary. But we can make ¢ 'them proof of God's love. ns, "THE WESTERN LOVERS AND CULTURE RATE AITKEN WANTS 2,000 ARMCHAIR CRITICS "Jo GUIDE THE CBC IN SELECTING PROGRAMS HATERS / -- AND THERE ARE A LOT OF US WHO AREN'T, ASKING "700 MucH / ARMCHAIR CRITICISM OTTAWA REPORT 8 Bank Of Canada Role Entirely Independent | By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- It may surprise many Canadians to learn that in 1934 our Parliament ordained that the prime function of the Bank of Canada should be to regulate money and credit in the best interests of the economic life of our country, and to use monetary policy to level out fluc- tuations in employment and prices. Surely, many readers will pro- test, it is the responsibility of the federal government to mitigate the swings of the economic pen- dulum, to give us the 'optimum steady prosperity in place of the alternation of boom and bust? Surely the supreme authority in policies tending to maximize jobs must be the federal government? Some functions of the Bank may be anachronistic today. What seemed to our Parliament to be appropriate in 1934 may be un- wise in today's conditions of closer control of the national economy in every country. NEW TIMES--NEW IDEAS Should the bank act as an in- dependent monetary master, free to overate as it sees fit? Or would it serve Canada better as an extension of the Department of Finance, aiding the implemen- tation of the economic policies of the government? More up to date than those de- liberations of Parliament at quar. ter of a century ago is the report on The Working of the Monetary System, published last month by the Radcliffe committee in Brit- ain. That report reflects two years of study by some of Brite ain's leading economists, indus- trialists and union leaders, un- der the chairmanship of a dis- tinguished judge. Although deal- ing with conditions in Britain, it is of substantial significance to us, because our parliamentary and monetary systems stem from the British mode. by ministers of the Crown re- sponsible to Parliament." Mone- tary policy, asserts the commit. tee, is part of the country's eco- nomic policy as a whole, and must be planned as such. CHANGES INDICATED In other words, the governor of a central bank should serve as a specialist advisér to his minister of finance. But under the present system in Ottawa, the governor is entirely independent and mone- tary policy of the central bank is not co-ordinated by the govern- ment, How different from that ideal. as outlined by the Radcliffe Re- port, and as long envied by many bankers and by politicians of all parties here, has been the lack of harmonious co-operation between our governments and the bank over the past five years. Many Liberals deplore what they regard as the damaging and unnecessary tight money policy imposed by the bank in 1955. Yet Bank Governor Coyne, refusing to recognize anything less than "tighter" money as being tight, last year asserted in his annual report that "there has never been a tight money policy in Canada in the past 23 years." Finance Min- ister Donald Fleming immedi. ately rebuked him for his defini. tion of tight money, which "dif- fers from the meaning commonly attached to the expression by the public." Mr, Fleming added that "the government fully subscribes to a sound money policy, and in keeping with that view has sought deliberately to bring about an easing of the tight money condi- tion." Transport Minister George Hees went further, accusing the gov- ernor of political partisanship in last year's general election. He was reported as saying that the governor's report was "a belated attempt to help the Liberal rty." The Radcliffe committee does party not envisage the central bank as an 'independent monetary rudder for the ship of state. On the con- trary, it insists that 'the policies pursued by the central bank must be from first to last in harmony with those avowed and defended Maybe the time has come for a serious review of the status of the Bank of Canada, For, in a democracy, the ultimate sanction of a government should be the vote of the people, not the de- cision of one appointed official, . FOR BETTER HEALTH Everyone Should Know These First- HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, MD 1 don't expect all of you to be first-aid experts. It would be wonderful if you 'were, but I know this can't be expected. However, those of you who -are parents should at least know | what you can do to help an in- jured or ill child until the doc- tor arrives, SOME TIPS I've given you countless first- aid suggestions in the past. I doubt that you remember much of what I told you. So now I would like to list a few really practical suggestions that any of you can follow, I suggest you clip them and paste them in your medicine cabinet Where they will be readily avail- able. CALL DOCTOR FIRST In any emergency, call your doctor immediately. Then, while you are waiting for his arrival, follew these instructions: CONVULSIONS -- Place the child on a bed. Turn his head to one side, Insert a roll of gauze between his teeth. HK he has a fever, sponge his body with alcohol or cool water. FRACTURES or HEAD IN. JURIES - Simply keep the child quiet, FOREIGN BODIES -- In the Throat: Turn the child upside Rid Rules down, Slap his back if he is choking. In the Eye: Bathe the eye with a mixture of one teaspoon- ful of baking soda in a glass of warm water, If the eye is injured with a pointed object, cover the eye with a clean cloth. In the Nose or Ear: Do not attempt to remove the object. SMALL CUTS~--Wash with soap and water and cover with clean gauze. If it is bleeding, cover with a clean cloth or a bandage. INSECT BITES -- Apply cold compresses and then calamine lotion. For tick bites apply .vase- line or oil, For animal or human bites, check with your doctor before doing anything. MINOR BURNS -- Check with your doctor before applying any ointment. SERIOUS BURNS -- Wrap the child in a clean sheet. Take him to the nearest hospital. POISONING -- Take the child to the nearest hospital imme- diately if he has swallowed kero- sene or lye. For any other type of poison- ing, make the. child vomit by placing your finger down his throat, Give him plenty of milk, Be sure to save a sample of the poison to show to your doc- ® Mhere are additional first-aid} BY-GONE DAYS 22 YEARS AGO Bowra Electric and Hardware opened its new store on Simcoe street north. General Motors announced the reopening of its Regina plant with the following personnel W. Joe Lamb, plant manager; George O. Hill, Harry Trew, Allan H. Forbes, W. G. Buchanan, J. Cameron Cox, T. T. Logan, Harold Reid, Harvey Moyer and Kenneth Cole, as supervisors and foremen of various departments. Ritson Rd. School held its an- nual . "Open House" and "Field Day." Mrz T. Crawford, presi dent of the Home and Schodl Association and Mrs. R. Steele, vice-president, received guests. A frejght car loaded with vege- tables and canned goods, donated by the people of this community, left for Estevan, Sask. WCTU held a three-day diamond jubilee convention in St. Andrew', Church. . chosen by Premier Hepburn. Hon, Gordon D. Conant of Oshawa was the new Attorney-General. Congregation of St. Andrew's Church celebrated the 104th anni. versary of the founding of the Shure by Rev. Robert H Thorn- on. The 38th annual convention of South Ontario Teachers Institute opened in Whitby town hall. An enlightening address on the 'New Public and Separate School Course of Studies" was given by Dr. Thornton Mustard, B. Paed., of the Dept. of Education, Prizes were awarded to win- pers of the Junior Farmers' Seed Fair at a banquet at which mem- bers of the Rotary were hosts. George D. Astley, Rotary presi- dent, presided. Oshawa Salvation Army Band visited Toronto in connection with the 55th Annual Congress. procedures you can follow in each case. But, for simplicity and efficiency, I think this list fills the pill. / QUESTION AND ANSWER Mrs. M. G.: What is a fistula and should it be removed? What could happen. if # is uot removed Answer: A fistula is an ab. normal draining infected tract. If you are referring to a rectal fistula, this is usually due to in- fection and should be cleaned up by a relatively minor operation. a A raf ps gp pe QUEEN'S PARK Government Scramble To Get New Money By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- The govérnment, as expected, is wringing the sponge, : In this first year of a new term every drop of revenue that can be wrung is being extracted. Fees for licences, permits and incidental taxes such as gallon- age tax are being boosted wher- ever possible. Everything from dumb-waiters to banquet permits is being hit. From a straight $2 banquet Jimits have now gone to $5 to If you have will now pay licence it. A SCRAMBLE The government is scrambling fo get in all the new money it can. And no source is being over- Jooked. . How much it will be able to raise can't be said. Labor department fees and boosts alone will bring in $150, 000 more. And new liquor charges, of Soutss, will top this by a great eal. All in all, however, the sum will be comparativelv minor com- pared to total revenues. And in reaction there will be a wave of protest. But between now and the .ext election they will calm down. At least that the politicians de- on. When you have to do something that hurts you do it in the first year after an election. Then you spend the next few years applying butter to the buyn. WHO CONTROLS? One burn that may kick back is in the liquor fee changes. The most drastic of them ap- plied to military messes. Instead of a mere $25 a year licence fee these now are being charged 10 per cent of their gross sales. In some cases this can mean a very large chunk of money. Large enough that colonels all over the province already are popping their crowns and pips. A major battle could develop. Provincial control over military messes is questionable. They are federal property, and in principle are subject only to federal control. dumb-waiter you instead of $3 to Friend! kept them in der our diction to rarely Bf No doubt you've heard that phrase be- fore . . . said by a proud young handy-man. Well as silly as it might sound you will find that this ROX paint can make the dif- ference in your basement. Where before you had simply the bare coment walls and floor, this masonry paint can cover the cement and give your basement ¢ much lighter, more comfortable effect. 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