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The Oshovon Simes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 Wednesday, December 30, 1959 More Expensive To Talk About Hockey Roughness In the National Hockey League game in Toronto last Saturday, the referee sent two players to the penalty box for spearing. It is not often that that parti- cular penalty is assessed twice in one NHL game. What made it particularly interesting on Saturday, however, was the earlier fining by the league presi- dent, Clarence Campbell, of Andy Bath- gate, New York Rangers' brilliant for- ward, for lending his name to an article denouncing brutal play and specifically mentioning spearing, Campbell fined Bathgate $500 for what was termed an action "detrimen- tal" to hockey. But has Campbell also instructed his referees to be more alert for spearing offences? The Toronto game may indicate as much--and if it means there will be less spearing, Bath- gate probably figures his $500 was well spent. The incident is another revelation of the curious thinking of the bosses of big-time professional hockey, as trans- lated into action by the man they ins- talled as president of the National Hockey League. A player can spear another, and take the chance of severely injuring him, and be given only a minor penalty of two minutes; if he speared with what appeared to be deliberate in- tent to injure, he might be suspended for the game and be fined $100. But if he publicly says what every hockey player and every hockey fan knows, that spearing and similar offerices are not only dangerous but are too frequent ly overlooked, then he is fined $500. As one sports writer pointed outjin, National Hockey League literary assault is far more serious than physical assault. It is not detrimental to the game, apparently, for players to slash and hack at each other. It is only detrimen- tal when a player publicly objects to the hacking and slashing. In other words, Mr. Campbell is quite happy about hoodlum tactics on ice -- or at least that is the only assumption possible after his action in the Bathgate case. This latest flurry follows last season's playoff incident which led to the resig- nation of Red Storey as a referee, after public criticism by Campbell. We sug- gest 'that Mr. Campbell has been much more of a detriment than Andy Bath- gate, and should fine himself--or better still, resign. Inequality Of Sentence Two recent news stories from Van- couver courts appear to raise what the Privy Council once called "the peren- nial topic of inequality of sentences," the Vancouver Sun comments. In one a fuel company was fined $25. It had been caught selling short-weight eoal. In the other a man was fined $200. He had been caught using slugs in a pay telephone. Both pleaded guilty. Notwithstanding the differences in the charges--the fuel company was prose- cuted under a city bylaw, the slug- dropped under the Criminal Code -- here, surely, was inequality. Nor was it mitigated by the fact that the sentences were passed in different courts, by different magistrates, The Privy Council discussed the "perennial topic" of inequality in a 1936° judgment re-affirming the right of public and press to criticize the public adminis- tration of justice. Their Lordships commented, "It is very seldom the observer has the means of ascertaining all the circumstances which weigh with an experienced judge in awarding sentence." Considering all the stances, we still feel the fuel company's penalty was inequitably light. It was the fifth such company caught and charged with selling short - weight coal in the city in the past four months. All pleaded guilty. All were fined $20 to $25. Availability There could be-a quiet easing of the tight-money situation during 1960. A hint of this was given by G. Arnold Hart, president of the Bank of Mont- real, in a speech to shareholders earlier this month. Mr. Hart set out the "current facts of life in Canadian banking." He noted that in 12 months to the end of October, 1958, the central bank permitted an increase of about $1600 million, or 14 per cent, in the Canadian money supply She Oshavon Times 7. L. WILSON, Publisher and General Manager €. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa limes co g The Oshawa established 1871) cna Whitby Gozette d Chronicle (established is published daily (Sundays and statutory holidays excepted) Members of Canadion Daily Newspapers Publishers Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontaric Provincial Dailies Asso- ciation. The Canadian 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 of special despatches are also reserved Offices Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Pickering, Bowmanville, Albert, Maple Grove Liverpool Taunton, Orono - Leskard Columbus r visible circum- Times , Enniskillen, Claremont, Kinsale, Port Hope per week. Ontario) de carriers elsewhere 15.00 per year Average Daily Net Paid as of Nov. 30, 1959 16,560 rovince of delivery areas 12.00 One of the circumstances which the court may not have considered is an economic one. In today's gas and oil- burning society, coal is used mainly by families that can afford to be short-changed. And surely fleecing them is at least as great a crime as bilking the phone company of a few nickels. In an each the city's fuel inspector had painstakingly gathered the evidence, least sometimes on complaints, others on spot checks. Sacks of coal sold as 100 pounds each were found to weigh as little as 89 and 91 pounds. The fault wasn't entirely with the magistrates. The fuel bylaw, passed in July to make such prosecutions possible, provides a maximum penalty of only $100, or two months. One of the magis- trates said in court he thought the penalty unrealistic. Other bylaw cases in the past year have seen a rooming house operator fined $75 for not having enough bathe ropms; fined $50 for violating the smoke bylaw; a truck owner $100 for failing to go through the motor sting station. Other thefts? A woman was fined for stealing a roast of beef, another same for filching a pound of coffee Our systems boasts equal and exact justice to all men, from the humblest to the highest. It's unfortunate there are still cases which give credibility to the old cry, "There's one law for the rich and another for the poor." Of Money --"a far greater degree of monetary expansion than could be justified as a stimulus to business recovery." The ex- pansion came not from a greater de- mand for bank loans but largely from an increase in the federal government's funded debt, which was taken up by the banks because the investing public at that time was interested in govern- ment bonds, a manufacturer 535 the After October of last year, the central bank operated to keep the money supply stable. Business made a sharp recovery, which meant a greatly increased de- mand for loans, large and small. Mr. Hart said: "The banks have responded to this need by increasing their Canadian: loans of all kinds, including mortgages under the National Housing Act, by some $1300 million, or 22 per cent, in the twelve months ending October 31, 1959." Inevitably, the demand for loans put pressure on the supply of money. With the Bank of Canada refusing the boost that supply, the banks sold the govern- ment securities they had acquired during the preceding year, mostly at a loss. Then, in Mr. Hart's words, "there comes a time when the dictates of ordinary prudent banking policy will not permit any further disinvestment in government securities. It clearly follows that when this point is reached a well run bank has no alternative but to make an effort to check further significant additions to its loan portfolio." And that is the point at which money gets tight. .and pork THE -OLD SWEAT GALLUP POLL OF CANADA Prices And Russ Power Seen Increased In 1960 By CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION With very little argument on the other side, a whopping seven in ten Canadians agree that the New Year holds rising prices for the goods and services people want Almost as wide-spread is the conviction that 1960 will see Rus- sian power increasing throughout the world. Six in ten men and women believe this will happen. Only about a quarter as many think it will decline Less than a majority have con- fidence that 1960 will be a year fairly free of serious international disputes. A larger segment think there will be much international discord, or expect things to re- main as they have been Closest debate lies in the mat- ter of employment, While a larger proportion is pessimistic and expects increasing unemploy- ment, a solid segment thinks 1960 will prove to be a good year for Jobs. To get at this national pre-view a cross - section of men and women in all walks of life looked ahead into the New Year in terms of their own opinions, to average out a national point of view for the Gallup Poll's crystal ball. Interviewers gave men and women a series of alternatives asking: "Which of these do you think is more likely to be true of 19607" Tables below show clearly where national hopes and fears lie for several all-important pos- sibilities. Prices Pct. A year of rising prices 70 A year of falling prices 12 Same as has been ......, 15 Can't say 'eennes 3 Employment A year of full employment 31 A year of rising VaeIEploye ment Same as has been Can't say "ee Peace A peaceful vear, more or less free of serious inter- national disputes A troubled year with much international discord y Same as has been C an't say Russia A year when Russia will increase her power in the world A year when Russia's pow- er will decline Same as has been Can't say .. . OTTAWA REPORT Europe Trade Groups May Injure Canada By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- It has been sug- gested here and in Washington that the new tariff-free trading groups in western Europe have protectionist objectives. But the Europeans themselves have declared that they do not intend to raise tariffs against ex- ports from other parts of the western world, including us. That is apparently true. Our trade with west Europe will not be handicapped by any new tar- iff wall. But nevertheless, through the mutyal elimination of tariffs and of other barriers to trade, the European partners will inci- dentally render the trading posi- tion of outsiders less competitive. This could be very damaging to Canada because two-thirds of our exports, other than those sold to the U.S.A, are now purchased by nations included in "the Six" or "the Seven." WILL DAMAGE CANADA Those two new mass markets in Europe will encourage the adaptation and enlargement of their factories to modern semi. automatic production methods. Their unit cost of manufacturing will be reduced. Their lower prices will not merely pyramid onto the elimination of tariffs in- side west Europe to cut our ex- porté to that area; they will also enable many European products to hurdle our own tariff barriers, and so cut into our domestic market. Those two trade groupings are already competing successfully with Canada for U.S. industrial capital. U.S. corporations estab- lished branch plants here only partly to sell to*our small mar- ket; many were more interested in Canada as a back door into the big Empire preferential mar- ket. Now they find the even richer European markets more attractive, so they are building PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM "To be well dressed a man needs 14 suits," says a style magazine. On this basis, many a man is only slightly more than 7 per cent well dressed "Peter Townsend says that when Princess Margaret decided not to marry him, he travelled 57,000 miles to forget, but it didn't work." -- Press Report. It seems that while travel broadens the mind, it doesn't flatten the memory. "In the field of politics, the very best men we have are none too good," says an editor. How sad!! "I have ambition to die rich," said Old Sorehead, "but I would certainly like to try liv- ing rich for a while," no branch plants there. If we do nothing to change our present trade policy, we may find ourselves doomed to increasing isolation on our high-cost plateau. And'as we increasingly lose our attractiveness for direct invest- ment fi the U.S.A., we will be forced to turb our present trad- ing deficit with that country. It would be beneficial thus to halt the annual increase in the mortgage on our national future; but the resultant curtailment of our present unearned standard of living would be painful, Europe is largely an industrial processing area, deficient in most of the raw materials needed by her busy factories and dense pop- ulation, Our mines, woods and farms make us natural economic partners with Europe's factories, CAN WE STAND ALONE? But as we are not a member of the European trading areas, our raw materials now face favored competition by Europe's associ- ated térritories. For example, North Africa contains undevel- oped deposits of many minerals which western Europe now buys from us. These will be developed under the Common Market pro- gram; hence Europe will reduce, or cease, her purchases of such minerals from us. There is also the likelihood that Russia's threatened export drive will damage Canada first and' most, unless we have assured markets, The industrious and skilled Ger- mans are equipped with the most modern industrial equipment in the world, as replacement for that destroyed in the war. Even 50, when they had to face the problems of the switch to mass production, they decided that a home market based on their pop- ulation of about 50,000,000 con. sumers is too small to support a modern industrial economy, and could not give its citizens the ma- terial plenty at low cost which automation and mass production offers. So Germany determined to merge herself into a larger trad. ing group. It seems improbable that Can- ada, with 17,000,000 consumers, can achieve what Germany could not. 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Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON Britain's grocers and importers of meat products, recalling the great contribution which Canada made to the bacon and pork supplies of the United Kingdom during the years of the second world war, have taken up the cudgels on behalf of Canada's bacon industry. They are putting pressure on the government to lift the ban on imports of bacon from the dominion. They are putting forward the argument, once used by Canada but without success, that it is an injustice that the Empire country which supplied Britain with all its Bacon and pork products dur- ing the war should now be kept 'out while its traditional market is slipping into the hands of pro- ducers in European countries. FEELING IN CANADA There has long been a feeling "in Canada that the hog producers of the dominion were let down very badly after the war ended, when the British bacon market for imports was ruthlessly taken away from Canada and handed over to Denmark and Holland. During the war years, in re. sponse to an appeal from Britain, whose European supplies were entirely cut off, Canada built up a large bacon hog industry. Pro- ducers concentrated not only on quantity to meet the needs of the British public, but also on qual- ity, so as to produce the high grade type of bacon the people of Britain demanded. Government premiums on Grade A and Bl hogs contributed to this improve- ment in quality, while at the same time maintaining quantity- production. In the peak year of 1944, Canada exported to the United Kingdom something like 750 million pounds of bacon and pork products At the close of the war, this market, which had been financed by Canada's grants-in-aid during the war, disappeared abruptly. The British government did not have sufficient dollars to con- tinue to buy Canadian hog prod- ucts, and the market was opened up again to European countries. REMOVE RESTRICTIONS What has stirred up the inter- est of British grocers and im. porters in a revival of the trade in Canadian bacon is the recent removal of restrictions on im- ports from dollar countries. The restrictions on dollar spending for beef, mutton and offals were discarded, but those on bacon and pork were not. According to an official source, the Canadian government has in storage about 70 million pounds of pork and bacon, and has asked in vain for the han to be lifted. Home pro- duction of bacon has dropped to a very marked degree and im- ports from the continent are in- creasing. Grocers fear that un- less alternative supplies, such as those from Canada, are secured, the prices of bacon and ham will soar to high levels before Christ- mas. Reginald Edwards, chairman of the Association of Multiple Grocers, with 12,000 shops, is leading the move to have restric- tions on Canadian bacon re moved. He says "We cannot see any justifica- tion for the continued ban - on Canadian bacon. The Canadians, who used to be one of our main suppliers have been treated very shabbily," Canadian trade interests here in London are in full agreement with this statement. BY-GONE DAYS 26 YEARS AGO Announcement was made that the deputation from Oshawa to the . Minister of Highways was successful when 50 married men on relief were employed to widen Highway 2 from Oshawa to To- ronto, They were paid 30 cents an hour for a 48-hour week. Reeve Everett Warne and dep- uty-reeve Lyman Gifford were returned to office by acclamation in East Whitby. Touching the lowest point with- in the memory of even the oldest citizen of this community, the temperature in Oshawa dropped to 34 degrees below zero. Twenty-four Oshawa men were home for Christmas from the em- ployment camp at Burleigh Falls. They reported conditions there would improve after the recrea- tion hall, in this process of being built, was completed. Christmas Cheer Fund commit- tee reported a total of 792 fami- lies in the city were given Christmas cheer By observing cars on the city streets, it was noted that only about one out of three cars had the 1927 license plates on. The old markers expired on Dec. 31. FOR BETTER HEALTH Four New Drugs Help Variety Of Ailments HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, MD Our regular monthly review of medicine today deals with a new drug to help prevent morn- ing sickness in pregnancies, a constipation corrective, a soluble aspirin and a new drug to com- bat rheumatic fever The drug to help prevent morn- ing sickness in pregnancies is also reportedly effective in pre- venting and treating other forms of nausea and vomiting FEW SIDE EFFECTS Laboratory and clinical re- searchers report it has few or no tranquilizing or sedative side effects. According to scientists who de- veloped the drug, it prevents nausea and vomiting by depress- ing or reducing the responsive- ness of certain nerve centers in the brain. These centers must be stimulated in order for nausea or vomiting to occur The drug is available only through a doctor's prescription CONSTIPATION CORRECTIVE The constipation corrective is reported to effectively and dramatically reduce the inci- dence of high and excessive straining by constipated indi- viduals. Thus it helps such per- sons to avoid the Valsalva man- euver, which we discussed in de- tail a while back. The Valsalva maneuver is an automatic cycle of extreme var- iations in peripheral blood pres- sure and blood flow. It could lead to sudden death. One of the major drawbacks of aspirin is the fact that it sometimes causes gastric upset and irritation. 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