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The Oshavon Tones Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 Wednesday, April 20, 1960 Outburst By Detroiter Display Of Ignorance It is difficult to understand what prompted the Detroit Times to publish a front-page editorial damning Canada for the premium on its currency. Some irritation over the charge on U.S. silver eoins is understandable, but only un- reasoning bad temper could have pro- duced such a blast as this: "We have endured their discounting our currency for a long time. Their new trick of knocking two cents off American quarters and four cents off American half dollars smacks not, only of cupidity but also usury. It carries an arrogant implication that our money is second-class money . . . While they are in that frame of mind, it might be smart not to burden Canada with our presence. The Detroiter writer is either supre- mely ignored or forgetful. Canada does US. Canada would be very happy if there not discount currency; indeed, were no discount, because it tends to increase our imports and penalize our exports. The discount is the result of the demand for Canadian dollars in the world money market. Canada has tried, from time to time, to ease that demand for the express purpose of lessening the discount. As for the suggestion that "it might be smart not to burden Canada with our presence," it would be a good trade if at the same time, Canadians stayed at home. As Ontario Travel Minister Cathcart pointed out, people like the Detroiter. "Should reflect a little more on the fact we are putting $100,000,000 their pockets in more tourist dollars in each year than they are putting ours." This sort of back-fence bickering is, of course, petty and futile. We shall continue to welcome U.S. tourists, and we should make honest efforts to avoid needling them with minor nuisances. At the same time, such outcries as the one by the Detroit paper will serve a useful purpose if it helps to make Cana- dians realize that if they spent their tourist dollars at home, loss of U.S. tourist business would scarcely be felt -- or better still, that more Canadian dollars added to the U.S. business would create a tourist boom that would be felt throughout the Canadian economy. Ignoring The Obvious Human beings: can, be pretty per- verse. They have a curious habit, for example, of getting into a dither over remote dangers and ignoring the ones close at hand. They have made the rattlesnake a symbol of swift, deadly attack but the rattlesnake kills fewer people than do stinging insects. In fact, the honey bee alone claims almost as many victims in North Ame- rica as does the dreaded rattler. THe greatest dangers that face us in daily life are the obvious ones that we ignore. We are more likely to die pre- maturely from a slip on a banana skin on the sidewalk than from the bullet of gunman. All rabid animals, venomous reptiles and insects combined do not match the threat of the common eold. The Ontario Safety League argues that the main danger on the highway does not come from the recognizably hazardous drivers -- the drunks, the deranged, the speed demons. Statistics show that 15 per cent of traffic acci- dents are atttributed to one per cent of the drivers -- the hard core of thorough- ly dangerous "repeater" drivers who Should be removed from the roads when they are positively indentified. Four per cent of drivers have no accidents at all. So the very bad and very good drivers, comprising five per cent of the total, account for 15 per cent of all accidents, leaving the other 95 per eent of "average" drivers responsible for 85 per cent of the accidents. The point of this statistical argument is that the overwhelming balance of danger on the roads comes from the ordinary, average driver, the man who ean handle a car competently and does so most of the' time -- the man who sometimes gives a little less than his best to the job driving, because he has an inner conviction' that, even if he is a little careless at times, an accident could never possibly happen to him. It is this driver who brings about more than a thousand deaths every year in Ontario traffic. Apart from statistics, however, it is clear that the daily toll of death and injury on our streets and roads does not excite us nearly so much as the deaths of a few people under more unusual eircumstances. Once again we ignore the obvious to c®ncentrate on the more re- mote. If we really became about the traffic toll, our horror would shake the heavens. concerned Battle Against Cancer Last year more than 22,000 Canadians died of cancer. Each year the death rate slowly but steadily increases. The Canadian Cancer Society strives to fight the disease through research, education end assistance to cancer patients. The National Cancer Institute of Canada conducts a research program that is making important contributions to the world-wide attack on the disease. The Cancer Society's programs of education and assistance are well known locally through the service of volunteers and the efforts of such organizations as the Ontario County branch of the So- ciety and Oshawa Kiwanians. But des- pite continued education and improved treatment methods cancer continues to take a tragic toll. Important gains are being made by researchers, but more research is necessary. The great victory over cancer is still to be won. ; The Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher and General Manager C. 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) Members of Canadian Daily Newspapers Publishers Association, The Canadian Fress, 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 reservec Offices Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue Toronto, Ontario. 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert taple Grove Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool! 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People still die of lung cancer, but the chances of survival have been greatly improved, particularly when early diagnosis is possible. Dr. R. M. Taylor, president of the Canadian Cancer So- ciety, said recently: "Until new treat- ments for cancer are developed it ap- pears that we can expect a gradual in- executive vice- crease in the toll from cancer each year. The education program of the Canadian Cancer Society is assisting in the control of cancer of certain accessible sites . . . by encouraging more and more people to quickly take advantage of the im- proved treatment facilities now avail- able. However, the basic problem still remains to find an overall means of prevention of cancer, For this reason the Society is allotting more and more of its funds to the cancer research program of the National Cancer Insti- tute of Canada." The Institute depends on the Society for 80 per cent of its funds--and the Society depends upon the public for all of its funds. Bible Thought That men may --Proverbs 1:2. cure and know wisdom and instruction , . . Wisdom is superior to mere knowl- edge, for it has learned to give expres- sion of knowledge in conduct, \ SUT CRRA h -- ®, L\ = -- 0 : UTTAWA REPORT me cans, who are lined up on the ra. cial question against the 1,000,- . 000 English-Africans and the 10,- . 000,000 African-Africans making OTTAWA Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, a great hu- manitarian with a strong belief in equality of rights for every race, has steered a course of statesmanlike wisdom in recent parliamentary discussion of the racial problems of South Africa. Not being an ex-colonial power, not being a nation with a pub- licized segregation problem within its borders, Canada can speak to white brother and col- ored brother with equal warmth. But disaster could follow speaking with heat to either white or colored brother at the moment: the Commonwealth is in delicate equipoise. Thus while events in South Africa were at boiling point, it was imprudent of the Opposition to request an op- portunity for oyr House of Com- mons to express its views on the policy of apartheid, and equally prudent of the prime minister to temporize. NOT OUR WAY OF LIFE Surely few Canadians sympa- thize witk the Dutch - Africans. There was widespread indigna- tion when a Canadian newspaper- man was arrested by them, There was dismay when over 250 unarmed Africans were mur- Diefenbaker Prudent In S. African Policy Apartheid, pronounced "apart- hate," means "separateness." As a 12-year-old policy of the Dutch-Africans formi the Na- tionalist party of South Africa, it aims at racial segregation, un- der which each racial group is encouraged to develop separately on the basis of its own culture and tradition. This is not quite the same as the separateness practised between Quebec and other sections of Canada, nor the same as the segregation and dif- ferentiation instituted between the oldest Canadians and all "new" Canadians;* because there is social fluidity in Canada. whereas the distinction is rigid and immutable in South Africa. RACE BARS IN U.S.A. The segregation situation in the southern U.S. we rationalize in another manner. We get less worked up about the desirability of white and colored men sitting side-by-side at a lunch counter in Alabama than in South Africa, perhaps because we know that a Jackie Robinson can play base- ball for the Los Angeles Dodgers with white team-mates, whereas his brother could not join whit PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES -- REPORT FROM UK. Delays In Raising School Age Limit By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- The Minister of Kducation has accepted the recommendations of the Crowther Councii report on education, to the effect that the school leaving age should be raised from 15, the present level, to 16. But although the Minister, Sir David Eccles, has accepted this in prin- ciple, and is quite in favor of FOR BETTER HEALTH having children more in school, it may be an- other 10 years, or at the very earliest, six years before this can be put into effect. This was the sum and substance of a statement made by the Minister in the House of Commons. There are several problems which have to be overcome be- fore the leaving age can be raised spend a year An Important Moment That You Can't Recall HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, MD What was the most important moment of your life? I can answer this for everyone of you and I don't see how you can dispute my reply. CAN'T REMEMBER IT It was a moment you can't re- member but everything you have done and ever will do stems from that unheralded, unknown moment when you were created. Let me tell you about it. It was the split second, the in- stant that the male germ was fused with the ovum and you began to grow into a human being. ALMOST INVISIBLE Any time you get that you are a pretty person, a big shot, just remem- ber that you were almost too small to be seen when you start- ed out. The original egg cell is a min- ute thing, so tiny that even sci- entists can barely see it After a month of growth you were still less than half an inch long, Yet even then you had a beating heart that was already circulating blood. ORGANS DEVELOPING Most of the organs of your body had begun to develop by that time. Your brain was tak- ing form. too. At your head end, you had a big hole with a bar beneath -it. The hole eventually would de- velop into: your mouth and the bar would become your lower PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM "Pure food and find that some lipsticks may cause disease." -- Press report, Any lipstick may cause disease; indeed, they often cause heart trouble to thinking important drug experts It is suggested that the firs] pcrson sent to the moon be woman, It is understood that this idea has the unqualified and en, thusiastic approval of the man in the moon. "I had a spell of Asian Flu," says Old Sorehead, "and it was exactly the same thing I had 50 years ago that the doctors called grippe then." "An experimenter extinguished a candle flame by playing high notes on a violin." - Magazine filler. It may turn out that for, lo, these many years Nero has been unjustly censured "For safety"s sake, hold your nose when you jump into deep waler," advises a swimming in- structor, For greater safety's sake, be sure you can swim Many of those on reducing diets are fairly good at counting cal- ories, but when they add them up, they make many errors which show up later on the scales jaw. Two tiny pits were where your nose would be. Bulges on the side of your head were the only indication that you would ever have eyes. There was some tissue on the side of your head which would become ears, but at this time there was no protrusion at all By the end of the second four- week period your internal organs were well started and your muscles and bones were formed. It was during this time, also, that your nose and upper lip de- veloped. HOW JAWS GREW The upper jaw developed from tissue growing forward from the mouth angles and the lower jaw formed from that bar which was present a month earlier. You were beginning to look a little more human by this time. But you still weren't much to see. You were still less than one inch long And that, my friends, is how all of you began. QUESTIONS AND ANSWER Mrs. A. M. P.: 1 am sixty years old and would like to know what causes me to perspire so profusely, My clothing becomes wet and I think it is because of this, that I catch cold very easily. - Please advise me. Answer: This may be a normal phenomenon. It may also be due to overactive thyroid, overweight, nervousness or some general con- dition, Have your doctor eheck you over, : to sixteen. One of the major problems is the over-crowding of school buildings. A sufficient number of new schools must be built to take care of the addi- tional pupils to be accommodat- ed. At the moment, there is a four - year program of school building, to cost something like £80 million, Even that may not provide sufficient space for the additional pupils. RELUCTANT PUPILS The Minister said that special teachers would have to be train- ed to handle the reluctant, un- academic 13-year-olds who will have to stay a year longer in school. This is another long-term project, and i. is estimated that it will not be completed until the late 1960's. . The problem of teachers is the major one. To provide for the additional year at school, 18,000 more teachers will be required. The first job as the number of teachers increases, however, is to cut down the size of classes to not more than 35 pupils per class. Subject to the new teacher re- cruitment plans being successful, Sir David Eccles is confident that by 1970 the teaching situation will make it possible to raise the leaving age without too much overloading of classes. Sir David also looks with some concern at the figures for future school enrolment. The school population for which provision will have to be made will be much larger than had been cai- cuwaled. This means that by the beginning of the: 1970's, the an- nual school budget of £700 mil- lion for England and Wales will be doubled and will rise to be- tween £1400 and £1500 million. PUBLIC OPINION There is one other factor which the Minister of Education con- siders important. Public opinion, he says, must be educated to support the move. Then he add- ed "The nearer girls get to mar- riage, and the more boys feel themselves as good as grown-ups, the less some of them respond to compulsion. But there has been a quiet revolution in the classroom. Staying on at school has suddenly become the fashion. It started with able children from respon- sible homes, and their example has had widespread effect in per- suading children to stay on at school for more secondary educa- tion." This is one subject on which there is no political division. If anything the Labor opposition is even keener than the government to have the school leaving age raised to 16, and they want the' change to come much sooner than the government anticipates. GALLUP POLL Opinion Given On TV Selling BY CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION Two in three Canadians think that TV commercials in many instances use untruthful argu- ments. As the nation sits watch- ing its TV shows, about one 'in Tour believes that "most" of the commercials do this. Studies in Canada and the U.S. show that impact of TV com- mercials on the viewers is almost exactly the same in both count- ries. Because so many of the shows and the commercials are similar in this country and south of the border, the Canadian Gal- lup Poll checked to see how the public felt about TV commercials to compare with a U.S. study published last December, Results show that the two na- tions react the same, not only in the general attitudes towards TV commercials, but in the degree to which people think untruth- fulness exists. First question put to a cross- section of the adult population in both countries was this: "HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT TELEVISION COMMERCIALS-- DO YOU THINK THEY USE UN- TRUTHFUL ARGUMENTS OR NOT?" CANADA 67% 20 13 Yes, do No, do not No opinion 100% Interviewers put a second ques- tion to those men and women who said that they thought some TV commercials were untruthful: "DO YOU THINK THIS I8 TRUE OF MOST TELEVISION COMMERCIALS, SOME OF THEM, OR ONLY A FEW?" Here's the way Canadians and their American cousins divide in naming the degree to which com- mercials are untrue. Columns in- clude those said that none used untruthful arguments, in reply te the first question. Most are Some are Few are None are No opinion 100% 100% Results of the American study were reported by the Canadian Gallup Poll last December. The Canadian = study has just been completed. World Copyright Reserved shot in the back--by their police. But despite their feelings on these occasions, our politicians "close ranks" with the villian when similar violence was at- temped against him. BY-GONE DAYS 26 YEARS AGO Mrs, Elizabeth Shales, Osh. awa"s oldest resident, died at the homc of her daughter, Mrs. E. VanLuven, Ontario St., in her 102nd year Lyceum Women's Art Associa- tion held an exhibition of paint- ings by local artists in the Le- gion Hall. The exhibition was opened by Hon. W. C. Martin, Minister of Public Welfare. Farmers in the area their ploughing and found land in good shape. began the Rev. D. Parry Jones presided over a meeting of Knox Presby- terian Church members when its congregation voted to go ahead with the erection of their church. Mrs. T. R. Caldwell was elect- ed president of the Women's Wel- fare League. She succeeded Mrs. E. V. Landes who had done splendid work during the two pre- vious years E. A. Fobert of Kingston, as. sumed his «quties as the new manager of Eaton's Groceteria, Simcoe St. N. Tlie amount of money deposited in the bank to the credit of the schuoi children of the city was $12,588.46, an increase of nearly $500 over the previous year. John A, Thompson, member of the Oshawa Postal staff for 22 years, superannuated. Lt.-Col. R. B. Smith, officer in Command of the Ontario Regi- ment, reported a creditable turn- out of all ranks for the first spring training. The Lyric Singers of Oshawa under the direction of Reginald G. Geen, presented a concert in Port Perry United Church. The artists were, Miss Marion Ross, ATCM. the vocal soloist and Miss Mary McBrady, -ATCM, piano soloist. The pupils of Miss Edith Me- Tavish's kindergarten class en- tertamned their mothers at an afternoon concert and tea. rica on the cricket field. Thus John Diefenbaker, boy from the Saskatchewan homestead, the crusader from Prince Albert, spoke for all of us. "I do not have to state what my personal feelings are in this regard," he told Parliament. "For they have been stated and restated in the past. If I were not sitting where I am (as the Leader of the Canadian Parlia- ment), with the responsibilities that are mine, 1 would express myself somewhat differently." John Diefenbaker, like nearly all Canadians, clearly does not the side with the unregenerate 75 per cent of the 2,000,000 Dutch-Afri- up the population of our sister * nation in the Commonwealth. 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