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The Oshawa Sines Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. « Page 4 Monday, November 23, 1959 Ghost Writer For Ike Attacks His Policies : A strong indictment of the foreign ' policy of the Eisenhower comes from . a man who twice actively helped elected Eisenhower to the presidency. He is . Emmet John Hughes, who was a top \ speech writer for the U.S. president in the 1952 and 1956 campaigns, and served as White House adviser on foreign policy in 1953. Now he has written a book, "America the Vincible," in which he charges that the Eisenhower foreign policy has been timid and vacil- lating, and lacks creative purpose. Here are some of his opinions: "We have practised a diplomacy that, in its avoidance of negotiations, has come to seem not significantly different from a religion that elects to honor its holy days by closing the doors of the church." "Our instinct was to assign every grave challenge to a committee. . . There is no record, anywhere at any time, of a great nation, in great peril, being saved by decision of a committee." "The loss of India to Communist rule is unthinkable without the loss, soon to follow, of all southeast Asia. Yet Ame- rican economic policy towards India has bordered on the frivolous." Finding The Finding the customer has to be re- cognized as a key to the succeess of any business, and wheat is no exception argues 'a thoughtful editorial in The Leader-Post of Regina. The paper, ques- tioning whether the Canadian Wheat Board can be classed as a successful operation, points out that in the years between the two World Wars Canada's wheat exports annually averaged about 250,000,000 bushels and last year's ex- port sale of 290,000,000 bushels was only slightly higher. "Many persons," says the editorial, "tend to the belief that one of the diffi- culties faced by the board is the lack of world demand for wheat. This mis- taken notion was exploded by Mr. Stan- ley Jones, president of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange, in his recent annual report. Mr. Jones noted that world trade in wheat had almost doubled in the years since the last war, from 650,000,000 bushels between the wars to 1,220,000, 000 in 1958-59. Yet, Canada enjoyed 40 per cent of the world trade between the wars, compared with 23.7 per cent last year. "Ardent supporters of the Canadian Wheat Board would hasten to say that US. giveaways and wheat barter deals had kept Canada from maintaining her share of the world market. That this is Iron Curtain | The East German Communists have lifted their ban on the word "lady", ex- plaining that they have purged it of its capitalist significance. The Dresden newspaper Saechsische Zeitung says that the word used to apply to "idlers who : were supported by their husbands and : felt superior to working women." But now in a Utopia of workers and peasants, . "lady" has lost its "infamous meaning." This sounds "to us like nonsense, . although we know nothing about the history of the word in the German language," the Louisville Courier-Journal The Oshawa Simes T. L. WILSON, Publisher end Generel Meneger €. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) ana the Whitby Gozette and Chronicle (established 1863), is published daily (Sundays and statutory holidays excepted). of C Deily Ni Association, The Canadion Press, Audit Bureou of Circulation and the Ontaric Provincial Dailies Asso- clation. The C Press is lusively entitled to the use fer 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 of special despatches are also reserved. + _ Offices Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q. 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This could scarcely be described as original American thinking, since similar suggestions had already come from Can- ada and the United Kingdom. He declares that the Dulles policies of "liberation" and "massive retaliation" were phony, and that Dulles was. "pro- foundly wrong in many of his most in- sistent judgments" -- a conclusion with which most of the allies of the U.S. will agree. It is a controversial book, but contro- versies about foreign policy do more good than bad unless they bring about the very state of indecision about which Mr. Hughes complains. The U.S. is near- ing a presidential election, and the Hughes book is well calculated to add to the heat of the campaign. Customer far from true is indicated by statistics which show that 500,000,000 bushels of last year's world wheat trade was out- side of Canadian and U.S. exports . . . "An interesting, and perhaps signifi- cant, facet of the situation is that the interests which are loudest in their praise of the Wheat Board for its alleged orderly marketing achivements are those which profit substantially from pay- ments for storing the surplus wheat. Were Canada to' reduce its surplus sharply, their profits would be cut just as sharply. "As was to be expected, Mr. Jones contends that maintenance of the open market would have enabled Canada to sell more wheat and dispose of her sur- pluses. Private grain merchants -- pro- tected by the hedging facilities provided by an organized commodity exchange-- aggressively would have explored the 'pocket of demand' represented by the portion of the world wheat market out- side of that now served by Canadian and U.S. exports." The Winnipeg Grain Exchange was closed in 1943 because a midleman could make a profit out of wheat. But to make a profit that middleman had to get out and sell. No successful industry would ever argue that a good salesman is not worthy of his hire. Ladies comments. In our language most of us have come to distinguish ladies -- as well as gentlemen--by superior qualities having nothing to do with wealth or class, But a true lady in this sense could have no possible objection to being called a woman, and might even prefer this to "lady" because of "lady's" ancient over- tones of snobbishness or phony gentility. The question arose in East Germany because somebody, noticed that what was "women's underwear" on sale in the stores is now marked "ladies' under- wear". The reason is almost certainly not that given by the Dresden news- paper. The reason must simply be that the garments sell better under the latter name. In other words, East German women prefer to be called ladies, or at any rate prefer to wear ladies' under wear, Under capitalism, our stores generally advertise women's wear of all kinds. A psychiatrist might theorize that this in- dicates the capitalist women are more, serene, more self-assured and more sen- sible than their Communist sisters 'in East Germany. But the Communist women have prevailed, occasioning Saechsische Zeitung's laborious explana- tion. Our dictionary notes that "lady" is often used in courtesy to any woman, especially in reference to one present. In East Germany it is apparently used especially in reference to one 'present at the underwear counter. Although we think them misled, we congratulate the good ladies of Dresden for helping to purge a pretty good word of any "infamous meaning", OTTAWA REPORT Scottish Television Lesson To Hucksters By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- We certainly do mot have it so good on television as the Scots do in the Old Coun- ry I- have just been reading the latest issue of Scotland's TV Guide, a 24-page tabloid - size weekly paper, selling for five cents, describing each day's pro- gram on Scottish TV, and also publishing stories and photo- graphs pertinent to the programs or the artists performing in them, With four full columns devoted to the program for 'each day, such detail enables the would-be viewer to learn not just the brief name of the program at any hour, but its nature, who is appearing in it, and even a brief description of the plot of the drama or the topic of the talk, as the case may be. For example, even an episode of that popular children's pro- gram, Lassie was given 15 lines of synopsis. One program described wou'd interest many Canadian TV fans. A 30-minute documentary pro- gram called Searchlight turns its beam onto The Price of a Pretty Face. The TV Guide says: "The women of Britain spend more than $140,000,000 a year on their faces. Is it worih it? Searchlight goes into the beauty parlors, the cosmetic factories--and the psv- chiatrist's office--to find out. In- terviews by Eiaine Grand." CANADIAN STARS A separate picture - feature shows our own well-known star, Elaine Grand, preparing her in- terviews for this program, in beauty parlors and stores and even in®a hairdressing salon which specializes in taking the curl out of hair. Another item of interest to Canadians would be This Won- derful World, a regular program presented by Dr. John Grierson, a former head of our National Film Board. There is a strong Canadian element on the staff of the Scot- tish television station. But this is not surprising, for it is operated at by the C: born proprietor Roy Thomson. The most' surprising aspect of the programs aired by Scottish Television is the low U.S. con- tent, There are a few of the same U.S. series as we see, but plenty of English films and English TV series of a wholesome nature, and a liberal interlarding of Scottish nationalism in music, drama and talks. The depictions of gangsters in costume, whitewashed as West. erns, are at a minimum. While those debauched young punks, who whine indistinguishable words against a background of music, are so seldom seen that Scottish viewers, the lucky peo- ple, probably think that "rock and roll" describes an ocean voyage. There are quiz programs, such as Double Your Money, with prizes of $3, $6, $12, $24 and $48, That satisfies the intellect with- out demoralizing the soul. POPULAR WITH AUDIENCE This station, which is Scotland's only private TV oytlet, is far more popular than the adver- tisement-less programs offered by the state owned British Broad- casting Corporation stations. Ae- cording to the audience rating survey when I visited Scotland recently, Scottish TV was out- drawing the BBC by the ratio of 92 to 8. Evidently the Scots, a sensible race unimpressed by our phony modern values, take their enter- tainment as they like it, and re- fuse to be corrupted by the violence and hucksterism peddled to viewers in the USA. Somewhere in Scottish TV there is a lesson for us, We hear a lot of often heated dizcussion about having 55 per cent Canadian cone tent on our TV. Would it not be more appropriate to settle for 55 per cent of decent family enter- tainment, regardless of its origin, which is not aimed at turning our children into juvenile delinquents? QUEEN'S PARK Allocation Of Work Patronage-Tainted By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- There is some ex- citement about political "patron. age" in the highways department. A story that broke in cloak-and- dagger fashion out of the Civil Service Association annual meet- ing started it. Reporters attended a supposedly *'closed" meeting. They heard there a lot of complaint that work- men on road gangs had to be approved by local members. Highways' personnel head, J. Pogue, reportedly agreed this practice was followed. Further, he said he didn't like it. The result was headlines. SOME BALANCE Your reporter does not share the alarm--at least not to the de- gree of some. In the first place, as readers know, he is not convinced that all patronage should be outlawed. A certain amount of it can add to the health of politics. And, secondly, in the current case there are certain balancing circumstances. CASUAL WORK One of these is that Highways has followed the system with all members. Opposition members have been included along with those from government-held ridings. At least that is the claim of senior mem- bers of the government. Again, all of the workmen in- volved presumably are "casuals" day-workers taken on at the busy seasons. And there would have to be "patronage" somewhere in this type of work. Somebody must be given the power of appointment. If it weren't the local member it would probably be the super- intendent or foreman of the job. It is not the type of work for which you would hold examina- tions. STRONG "POLITICIAN" Against this, however, the writer would suspect there prob- ably has been more of a politi cal taint than necessary in the highways department, Hon, Fred Cass comes from Eastern Ontario, where they are inclined to still play politics old- time pork-barrel style. He would tend .to be sympa- thetic to those members who felt nobody but a Tory should get gove ernment work under a Tory gov ernment, Certain wiser heads in the gov. ernment have not liked the sys- tem all along. They have felt, in fact, that political .repercussions could be so strong it would be better to have the allocation of work ene tirely out of government hands. FOR BETTER HEALTH Here's A Way To Test Your Physical Fitness HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, MD How physically fit are you? . Not completely, I'm afraid, if you are like the majority of adult Americans. Oh, you probably can get around the golf course all right and maybe you are in good enough shape to walk to the com- muter station every morning. But are you really fit? The better your physical con- dition, of course, the better your health will be. SERIES OF TESTS Here is a simple series which tests the minimum fitness of your trunk muscies. It is called the Kraus-Weber tests. If you can perform all, or at least most of these tests satisfactorily, you are in fairly good -- or even bet- ter -- shape. Moreover, it means that you are less likely to have a low back pain than persons who cannot perform these simple tests. PULL YOURSELF UP (1) Lie on your back on the floor and piace your hands be- hind your neck. Then, try to pull up into a sitting position. (2) Lie on your back again. Place your hands behind your neck as before, but this time keep 'your feet on the floor and raise your knees. Then try to pull up as befpre, RAISE HEELS (3) Once again lie back. With your your neck and you knees straight, raise your heels 10 inches from the floor and hold them there for 10 seconds (4) This time lie face down with a pillow under your abdo- on your hands behind men. Place your hands behind your neck and try to raise your head, shouldesr and chest off the floor and keep them there for 10 seconds. You might need someone to hold down your buttocks and legs. RAISE LEGS (5) Again place a pillow under your abdomen but put your hands under your head. Then, keeping your knees straight, try to raise your legs off the floor. This time you probably will have to have someone hold down the upper portion of your body. TOUCH FLOOR (6) Stand with your feet to- gether for this one.*Bend forward slowly and try to touch the floor with your fingertips. Don't bend your knees. And it doesn't count if you try to bounce down to the floor. If you can keep your fingers on the floor for a total of three seconds, you pass. If you can't do this last one, don't worry too much about it. You have plenty of company. While most of the youngsters can do this bending test with ease, relatively few of us adults can. QUESTION AND ANSWER O.P.S.: What causes adhesions of the bowels and is there any cure? ANSWER: Adhesions of the bowels are produced when the covering of the bowel becomes inflamed and attaches itself to surrounding organs. This may be caused by infection or by "the irritation of a previous operation. If symptoms are cuased, it may be necessary to operate and separate the adhesions. 4 BY-GONE DAYS 55 YEARS AGO Cedardale residents presented a petition to East Whitby council asking for a drainage system. A spectacular concert with 200 Oshawa and district children tak- ing pan, was held in the music hall. Whitby citizens claimed a 50 per cent improvement in their electric lighting since the town took over the plant. G. W. McLaughlin was elected president of the Oshawa Curling Club, F. E. Hare, vice-president and J. N. LeRoy, secretary. A meeting of interested eiti- zens decided to hold a Christmas Fair on Dec. 23. The Thistle Lacrosse Club held a banquet to mark the closing of the 1904 season. Board and room was being offered in Oshawa at a rate of $3.00 a week. Final count of votes in the fed- eral election gave Peter Christie, Conservative, 2544; illiam Ross, Liberal, 2439. L. N. Swinyard, local agent of the Grand Trunk Railway, re- signed to become Bell Telephone Co. manager for the district. Apple growers reported a very poor season for the export of apples, A proposal for a coal gas com- pany to serve Oshawa was placed before the town council. Thomas Hawkes took the affirmative and W. E. N. Sinclair the negative in a debate on the advisability of church union. Police Chief Pengelly issued a warning to Oshawa hotelkeepers on the amount of drunkenness being permitted on their premises. George G. Farwell offered to give away 300 bushels of apples to any pérsons who would carry them away. PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM One phobia that many people have is ponophobia -- fear of overworking. - Cold weather causes an im- provement in the appearance of a man, in that the more of his anatomy that's covered, the bet- ter he looks. "An alligator will positively not eat a human being," says a zoologist. Maybe not, but if he gets the chance he will make a human being rather uncomfort- able by chewing on him. Here's a copy of a published poem (?) by a beatnik, a poem you may wish to put in your scrapbook if you are way out, gone and losing your marbles: "Can I ever stop thunder?" . . . Can I read in the park? . . . Can I sit on the moon? . , . Can b £4 The person who didn't do or say anything foolish yesterday probably did and said very lit- tle. There are indications that ih the not distant future the ulti- mate consumer may be on his ultimate leg. Time was when we could have licked the rest of the world and probably Mars and Venus on what we're spending now in wag- ing peace. It is reoprted that wire-tapping is widespread. As was often done race? Dinosaurs have been on gural party lines some 50 tinct for many centuries, years ago, people may soon be they aren't having any worries answering the phone by saying, troubles. "Hello, Everybody." 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