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| he Oshawa gms = Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 Wednesday, February 10, 1960 Weakening Of Demerit System Poor As more bad drivers get their licences suspended, it appears that pressure against Ontario's demerit system is mounting. Transport Minister Yaremko, for example, has suggested that the system is hard on people whose jobs depend on their ability to drive. There is an obyious answer: lives are more important than--jgbs; and of Proposal and they are a large majority -- who believe that strict enforcement of the traffic laws is essential if the senseless blood-letting on our streets and high- ways is even to be slowed down. Mr. Yaremko's concern should be not for the traffic offenders but for the careful drivers whose lives are constantly endangered by the stupidity and reck- lessness of the law-breakers. Only 89 of all people, those whose jobs volve__ QOptari's two and a quarter million driving should be conscious of the need for greater traffic safety. Mr. Yaremko would divide the sus- pension period into total and partial divisions all driving; would be prohibited for a time, and then driving would be permitted when it was necessary for wage-earning. He bases his idea on the understanding that many companies will "carry" an employee for,a few weeks, but not for a period of months. The transport minister may endear himself to the law-breakers, but he will earn no cheers from those drivers -- drivers last year accumulated the 12 points necessary for suspension, which means that either only a few of Ontario's motorists are consistent offenders or only a few got caught. In any event, 75 more people died in traffic accidents in Ontario last year than during the previous year--scarcely reassuring evi- dence that the time has come for a softening attitude towards traffic offences. If the Yaremko proposal goes through, it will be a black and ugly mark on the record of the Ontario government. Overkill, Survivability One of these days bureaucrats are going to succeed in their effort to make themselves unintelligible to the layman, or taxpayer, and perhaps even to them- selves. One must assume that this is a conscious effort, rather than a slow, helpless slide into gibberish. It takes a great deal of thought to make up words as dull, vapid and polysyllabic as those being churned out by the tortured grammarians of government. If the bureaucrats were lazy or thoughtless, they would simply use the simple, familiar words in the simple way. It is our belief that the bureaucrats want to be unintelligible, and that it is no accident that they use such words as "finalize" instead of "make" or "comp- lete", and "maximise" and "definitize" instead of "increase" and "define", They do not want to be understood, even by their colleagues. If nobody understands them, naturally nobody can question them, and they can 'go on living in a wonderful world of irresponsibility, splendidly isolated by barriers of jargon. Some cabinet ministers in Canada have tried to stem to the increasing flow of gibberish. Howard Green in the pre- sent government and Lester Pearson in the previous administration have both Trust In The Canadians who have a conscience about these matters must in fairness give considerable thought to Soviet Ambassador Aroutunian's claim of a growing Russian "trust" of the West. The implication of his statement at an Ottawa press conference is that the West in turn must trust Russia. Perhaps we should trust Russia -- at least a little more, the Vancouver Sun suggests. By coincidence, Karl Barth, great Swiss Protestant theologian, chooses this time to lambaste the West for failing to explore more hopefully the possibilities of a settlement with Russia to save the world from the shadow of nuclear annihilation. The 74-year-old Barth is respected in both Protestant and Catholic camps for his spiritual insight. In an article in the Christian Century, he suggests that Fhe Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher and Generel Manager €. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) ana Whitby Gazette ond Chronicle (established 1863), is published daily (Sundays and statutory holidays excepted). Merhbers of Canadian Daily Newspapers Publishers Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureou 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 aro also reserved. Offices Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Yoronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove Hampton, Frenchmon's Bay, Liverpool Taunton, Tyrone, Dunborton, Enniskillen, Orono Leskard, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont Columbus Fairport Beach, Greenwood, Kinsale, Raglan, Blackstock, Manchester, Cobourg, Port Hope Pontypool ond Newcastle not over 45¢ per week. By mail (in province. of Ontario) outside corriers delivery oreas 12.00; elsewhere 15.00 per vear Average Daily Net Paid as of Nov. 30, 1959 16,560 the tried to convince the writers of memos and reports that even bureaucratic prose is meant to be read and understood. But their effort seems to be little more than a delaying action. American reporters in Washington have become increasingly confused by the word-builders in government agen- cies, and particularly by %he military mumbo-jumbo of the Pentagon. In the past few days they have been trying to find exact meanings for "overkill" and "survivability", two words used by an air force commander. Their guess is that "overkill" means the killing of more people than there are, and "survive ability" the capacity to keep some air- planes from being wiped out in a nuc- lear attack. In Pentagon language, "over- kill equals total non-survivability plus." It is possible, of course, that this sort of thing will lead to the development of still another branch of the civil ser- vice -- a division of interpretation. It will be staffed by people who will be specially trained (at great expense) to act as interpreters between the bureau- crats and the taxpayers. We doubt if this will come about, however. We still think that the gibberish-experts simply do not want to be understood by the uninitiated masses. Cold War Western statesmen could have nego- tiated an end to the cold war long ago. He's inclined to blame the Christian churches for the negative attitude dis- played toward Russian peace overtures. He says Christian leaders regard the cold war as a holy war. We'll leave 'this aspect of the argu- ment to the churchmen, except to say - that Barth seems to be right in one thing. He says the fact that communism is evil--and he believes it is--does not justify a position of "total enmity" at the risk of mutual extinction. To weigh Mr. Aroutunian's argu- ments is simple. He claims that Rus- sian "trust" is proved by the decision to cut armed forces one-third. This also proves, he says, that Russia has no aggressive intentions. v Military skeptics have already pointed out that cutting manpower does not decrease Russian striking power. In fact it's argued that the modern Russian forces, armed with nuclear weapons of various sorts, are actually more danger- ous than the mass army of 10 or 12 years ago. Mr. Aroutunian says, however, that nuclear weapons aren't sufficient by themselves for waging aggressive war. In that kind of war you need manpower to occupy the enemy's land. Therefore, if you cut manpower you've demon- strated peaceful aims. It has been said by Western leaders that our nuclear weapons are for re- taliation only -- if the Soviets attack first. But the world gets nowhere toward safety so long as nuclear arms pile up. "Get there fustest with the mostest" is still the best military maxim. One day it may inspire some general to "rataliate first" for there may be no chance to retaliate after an attack. QUEEN'S PARK SAY OVERWEIGHT DRIVERS INVOLVED IN MORE ACCIN®NTS THAN SLIM PEOPLE WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S MY FAULT BECAUSE I'M A FATTY ? x % ty 2 Y J (70 ull y By DON O'HEARN FORONTO -- Debate on trad- the House this winter. » The Opposition, it is under- stood, is getting sent for a do- or-die challenge of some of the rules. One of them is the rule, or at least the 'interpretation' that a subject can not be debated when it is before the courts or under inquiry. TOO FAR The government has been able to skip a lot of trouble over the years through this restriction. Fluoridation Debate May Still Come True ing stamps and fluoridation may sessional activities for a longer still get into the proceedings, of period than ugual this year. The session will run more thas the usual 8 or & weeks. a i It is expected, in fact, to | the full 3% Socks bajween the opening an aster. And this is only a start. Again, a reporter would make wager. "ill ® This is that there will be an- other session this fall, which will adjourn over (Sista w at when the House reco oe the holiday it will go through to a total session of 13 to 14 weeks. ' You will be teading about - O.STTPRMS NCW THOUGHT -- NEW ARGUMENT OTTEWA REPORT - Wasteful Atom Project Error In Judgment By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA The Diefenbaker government has been critical of waste and extravagance by the previous Liberal government; it has been praiseworthily conserv- ative of the payments in exces- sive taxation by its average "Little Man" supporter. But this creditable pattern by the Diefenbaker government ap- pears likely to be sullied by an astonishing error of judgment, Ministers have put the micro- scope to their blind eye, when contemplating the enormous ex- penditure of money which will be spent upon a projected new nu- clear research establishment. The government atomic agency Atomic Energy of Canada Lim- ited, has announced that 11,000 acres of land 60 miles northeast of Winnipeg, near the Whiteshell Forest Reserve, have been se- lected for the site of Canada's second nuclear research station, The first such station was estab- lished at Chalk River, near Ot- 4 { now given us notice Only four ygars ago, the United States urged rapid and excessive developmént of our uranium mines to feed their own voracious atomic bomb program. But in ! their customary "I'm all right, the U.S. have that they will cease buying these huge Jack" manner, ! quantities of Canadian uranium, i because they have found sources , in 1944. Decision on a residential area for the ultimate 2,500 employees and their families will be made shortly by Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation; it will prob- ably be near the Lac du Bonnet vacationland. CANADA GOES AHEAD This development, as was sug- gested in Parliament, is a plum for Manitoba; indeed, as Trade Minister Gordon Churchill said, it is a plum for all Canada For it shows that we are determined to play a leading role in utilizing nuclear power for peaceful pur- poses, and that we intend to spread our scientific facilities wisely across the whole country. But there are special factors which, on grounds of common sense and economy, make non- sense of the government's de- cision to locate this nuclear sta. tion on that Manitoba moose pasture. GALLOP POLL OF CANADA Canadians Show Support CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION Among thirteen nations of the free world, Canada stands sec- ond only to the United States in its belief that the work of the United Nations is of vital impor- tance. Less than one in ten Ca- nadians don't consider it of much significance in world affairs. As reported by the Gallup Poll for the past decade, most Cana- dians have been convinced that the United Nations is a bulwark for world peace. Today's ques- tion, put to a national cross-sec- tion in a dozen other countries as well, by interviewers for the World Gallup Polls asked: "HOW IMPORTANT DO YOU THINK IT IS THAT WE TRY TO MAKE THE UNITED NA- TIONS A SUCCESS--VERY IM- PORTANT, FAIRLY IMPOR- TANT, OR NOT SO IMPOR- TANT?" Canada's reply: Very important Fairly important Not so important No opinion By To show how citizens in the various countries can vary in their points of view on a ques- tion which concerns all of them, here is the line-up proportionate- ly, of the thirteen-nation belief PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM "If you are prejudiced against anybody, . you are not well balanced," says a psychologist. But we derive so much satisfac- tion from being prejudiced against certain people that we don't mind being a bit wobbly. Some people are so cynical they aren't at all impressed by anyone who identifies himself by using all three of his names in full. A grammarian says the word "wish" carries a far weaker connotation than does "want", Yes, indeed -- as in the state- ment: "I wish I could stop smok- ing." "By using appropriate symbols, monkeys can be taught the value of money," says a psychologist If so, they're much smarter than most humans. Paradox: It's identical twins they're together they're apart. tell when when easier to apart than One of the main reasons taxes are so high is that so many peo. ple demand (and get) many things from the government be- sides government, For UN that work of the UN, is very important, Very Work of the U.N. is: Important United States . " 8% 69 67 63 61 Germany Uruguay Austria .. India France avienen World Consensus of Opinion One reason for some of the lower national segments who think the work of the United Na- tions is very important is be- cause in countries such as India, France, Germany and Uruguay there is a high proportion of citi- zens who have no opinion te give. within their own borders, This will cause a severe reduction in the mining of our uranium. TWO-YEAR-OLD GHOST TOWN As the cut-off of U.S. orders progressively throws Canadians out of work, it will make a ghost industry of 'much of our uranium mining. It will especially harm Elliot Lake, in Northern Ontario which, with 94 per cent of Can- ada's proved reserves, holds the largest high-grade uranium ore body known in the world. It will render superfluous many of the new homes, new churches, new stores, new schoolrooms, new roads, new waterpipes and new sewers in the Elliot Lake com- munity, created two years ago for miners and their families. CMHC has already advanced $17,800,000 of public funds as mortgage loans, guaranteed by the government, to build 1,750 homes there. These will be emp- tied as the jobs terminate; no- body will pay the interest and capital due on those mortgages. One worker has already skipped, and CMHC now is foreclosing two other workers who have lost their jobs and cannot make the monthly payments. At a time needed for home mortgages and to build community services in other parts of Canada, Elliot Lake will become a ghost town, and $17,800,000 of the taxpayers money will be largely lost. In these circumstances, to site the planned new research sta- tion near Elliot Lake instead of on a virgin site in Manitoba would be a statesmanlike and conservative marriage of exist. ing facilities with imminent re. quirements. The community is there to house the workers; much of the disused mine plant could provide many of the auxiliary services needed by the research station, such as machine shops, power plants and chemical labor. atories. Mr. Lorne Grey, presi- dent of Atomic Energy Ltd., says that there is no technological reas son why the organic-cooled nu- clear research station should not be built near Elliot Lake. Such a step would save that community, and would free the government from the $20,000,000 cost of cre- ating a new community in Man. itoba's moose pastures. Taxpay- ers may well ask why the Diefen- baker government is embroiling itself in the wasteful and need- less Whiteshell project. FOR BETTER HEALTH Eat Three Meals Daily To Be In Good Health HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.D. You're not a square if you eat three square meals a day. * Good health requires good eat- ing habits, And an adequate breakfast, a balanced lunch and a good dinner constitute good habits. It's easy to understand why, if you will only analyze the word itself--break-fast. Literal- ly it means that you are break- ing a night-long fast which may have been as long as 12 or 14 hours. In these days of TV nibbling, however, it's doubtful that anyone goes without food as long as this. At any rate, your body has been using up calories--some- where between 1200 and 1,500 of them--since your main eve- ning meal. This calorie con- sumption continues even while you are asleep although at a much slower rate. Obviously, your store of fuel supplies is at its lowest point in the morning, You don't heap much fuel on the fire if you merely down a doughnut and a cup of coffee. To begin the day fully-pre. pared, you should have some fruit or. fruit juice, an egg or enriched cereal, buttered toast and milk. Coffee is okay, too, if you don't substitute it for milk. I have a simple answer to the argument many of you will give --you don't have enough time to eat all that. Get up earlier! Businessmen usually are no- toriously poor lunchers. They become emotionally upset by discussing business at the lunch- eon table, they don't order the proper foods and they bolt what they do eat. What would I for lunch? Well, you can vary it, of course, but I personally, prefer a truit or chicken salad, or a sandwich (not both), or perhaps a casserole dish of some kind. A glass of tomato juice or a cup of soup or chwder will begin the luncheon. I end it with a glass of milk--and coffee, if I desire--and a dessert of ice cream or fruit. For the evening meal I recom- mend meat, fish or poultry, a potato, one green and one yellow vegetable, a salad, a slice of bread and butter and a not-too- sweet dessert. Now if you will look back over these meals, you will see that, combined, they contain all the basic food each of us needs each day. JuEsTON AND ANSWER . G.: After taking gelatin to reduce, I began to feel dizzy and listless and I developed high blood pressure and had sugar. Would the gelatin have any- thing to do with these two con- ditions? Answer: Probably not, if tak. en in reasonable amounts. suggest And there has always been the suspicion that it was being ap- plied too severely and too broadly. Your reporter has not done any research on the question. But he would put up a few hekels that if did go into it he would find we are abusing it--and incidentally low- ering the position and authority of parliament. OLDER WORKERS? Conservative member Alan Grossman of Toronto-St. Andrew drew some attention with a bill he brought in dealing with older workers. The legislation would make it an offence to turn down a man for a job because of age. It would be a minor miracle if the bill ever got through the House. But it will nevertheless serve a good purpose. This is that it will get the problem of older workers before the members. To date neither they nor the public at large seem aware of just how big this problem is. To the credit of the department of welfare, it had the foresight to spot it some years ago. And through geriatrics studies and other steps it is one of the few, if not the only, agencies in Can- ada to recognize it. BY-GONE DAYS 27 YEARS AGO Crown Attorney J. A. McGibbon of Ontario County was elected vice - president of the Crown At- torneys' Association of Ontario. He had been assoeiated with community affairs for several years. A representative gathering of citizens attended the funeral of Harry Salter, a well-known resi- dent of the city for many years. Annual report prepared by the superintendent engineer, E. A. Colvin of the Water Works Dept., showed a deficit for 1932 of 60. Oshawa School pupils' credit balance in the Penny Bank of Canada was $10,977.70 at the end of 1932, a slight increase over the balance for the previous year. The newly formed Men's Bro- therhood of King Street United Church held their first banquet. W. L. Pierson presided for the gathering. John A. 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