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UNITED KINGDOM OPINION West German Military Power Bothers British PRESIDENT DE GAULLE AND QUEEN ELIZABETH PLEDGED FRANCE AND BRITAIN TO FACE THE FUTURE ARM-IN-ARM ~The Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. 1960 Page 6 Saturday, May 7, Punishment Big Issue In Chessman Argument The execution of Caryl Chessman let loose a flood of argument and denuncia- tion. There has been an emotional free- for-all, unrestrained by reason. Senti- mentality obscured the facts and the fundamental issues. The issues were Chessman's guilt and the punishment for serious offences. The length of time he spent in Death Row should not have been an issue at all, or the legal system which permitted such a time of waiting. It was he, after all, who employed the legal devices to delay execution -- a natural enough procedure, when one's life is at stake, but still his choice; and there is some- thing to be said for a system that pro- vides a condemned criminal many ways of delaying execution of with so judgment. Either Chessman was guilty or was not. He proclaimed his innocence to the last, but he had been guilty by a properly constituted court of law -- found guilty, not of murder, but depraved sexual assault. In 12 years he and his lawyers failed to produce evi- dence to reverse the decision of the court. The issue, then, is the fundamental one of crime and punishment -- and it was dodged by most of those out- side the United States who screamed he of (and indeed, were often blatantly pre- sumptious about it) that a great injus- tice was being done. If Chessman had been condemned to death in most of those countries -- in Canada, for in- stance -- he would not have had twelve years in which to try to save himself, because he would have been executed in a matter of weeks or months. Here, his sentence might have been commuted to life imprisonment. The question the critics should have confined themselves to was the one concerning the punish- ment for murder and other major crimes. In other words, would the execution of Chessman deter others from committing similar capital offences? If that question is to be answered on the evidence and not on emotional or religious belief, the answer must be no. Crime statistics from the 40 countries and nine states of the U.S.A. that have abolished capital punishment would in- dicate that the death penalty is unim- portant as a deterrent to crime, but it may be a deterrent to accepted jus- tice--the possibility of a death penalty can sway juries, and perhaps some judges. Chessman himself recognized the issue That left a posthumous free for a more civilized form of punish- is why he ment Springtime Foodstuff When spring greens sprout, gourmets take to woods and fields to gather the ingredients for salad. The recipe may call for curly dock Jeaves, dandelion greens, rosettes from shepherd's purse, watercress, and wood sorrel leaves. Oil-and-vinegar dressing and perhaps a bit of wild onion comp- lete what connoisseurs consider a treat for the most epicurean taste. Many other edible plants grow wild in North America, the National Geo- graphic Society says. Even such com- mon garden nuisances as purslane, chick- and pigweed are enjoyed weed, by many when cooked. Pigweed suffers from an unsavory name and usually is scorned as food. As an experiment, a botanist once gave large quantities of his neighbors, identifying it as special type of familiar pot-herb. They all returned for more of that delicious "spinach." pigweed to Carrion flower got its unfortunate name from its pollinizer, the carrion fly. The delicately flavored young shoots the plant asparagus. Cattails are versatile Fresh young spikes taste like a cross between of resemble delicacies string beans and asparagus. The roots ean be put into ground into a highly nutritious meal Even the abundant yellow pollen makes a palatable flour. The tubers of arrowhead, grows swampy areas, are excellent potata substitutes. The starchy roots are smooth and not too mealy. salads, cooked, or which in A able variety of drinks also are avail- made the cassina shrub, is slightly stimulating be- in the woods. Cassina tea, from dried powdered leaves of caffeine. The pinkish-red fruits of smooth sumac yield a cold drink lemonade cause the leaves contain refreshing similar to Iroquois Indians chewed the plup, buds of thirst quencher. The tree's fruit, ground with round the linden as a its honey-rich flowers, makes an accep- table substitute for chocolate. All In- dians ate a great many wild foods, in- cluding 278 known kinds of berries and berrylike fruits. They beat red service- berries into a sweet paste, then pressed it into 10 to 15-pound loaves Many tribes at the young shoots of ferns, especially the common brake or bracken. Wild-food experts still consider the choice treat unrolled fronds of ostrich fern a when served on toast with a cream sauce. Authorities warn, how- ever, that many poisonous plants have delicately cut leaves that may be mis- taken for the ferns. Novices are advised to learn harmless varieties of ferns and other edible plants, and warned not to experiment with. unknown kinds. For the knowledgeable food gatherer, might consist mushrooms, cooked chilled bread made of seeds of an early summer menu of sauteed inky young eattail spikes, cat- brier sprouts, lilies spread with oil of hickory marmalade of squaw huckle- berry, a cup of cassina tea, and candied COW nuts or wild ginger Point System For Snobs We read of acts of racial discrimina- tion in Canadian cites, especially when it comes to housing and jobs. We can only wonder how far afield these news stories travel the is among those in foreign countries. and what reaction The Milwaukee Journal is wondering what some people will say when they read of a point system to judge pros- dhe Oshawa Times TL. WILSON, Publisher and General Manage: €. GWYN KINSEY, Editer The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times established. 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle (established 1863) is published daily (Sundays and statutory holidays excepted) Members of Canadian Daily Newspapers Publishers Association, The Canadian Press, Audit reau 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 soeciol despatches are also reserved Offices Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue Toronto, Ontario. 640 Cathcort Street. 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A spokesman for the group that a point system is used to judge prospective home owners before they are allowed to buy. Points are allotted on the basis of nationality, race, religion, 'general standing' (econ- omic and social) and other factors. To be acceptable, at least 50 points must be amassed by the applicant. But that's for the kind of person that the group considers 'white American.' admitted "If the applicant is a Pole he needs 55 points. If he's a southern European he needs 65. And if he's a Jew he needs 85. No Negroes or orientals need apply, no matter how many points they might They aren't wanted, refinec S | score no matter they how { an educated may be 'Here's le bit of propa ganda for those abroad whe contend-- a4 ready and with some justification--that there's United up much discrimination Moscow better one." too in the State couldn't. dream a Zp we NEWS REPORT GALLUP POLL ARM IN ARM State Lotterv Idea Approved CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION For at eight iurge majority of Canadian voters wanted some Canadian equivalent of the famed Irish Sweepstake By least years, 4 if proceeds were used for educa tional or health purposes Whether or not Canadians ar guilty of immorality in favoring a government lottery, they can- not be accused of inconsisteney The table below shows the find ings of Gallup Polls in 1952 and again currently, when national cross sections of voting-age Ca- nadians were asked this ques tion "WOULD YOU FAVOR OR OP- POSE THE GOVERNMENT OF THIS PROVINCE RUNNING BIG SWEEPSTAKES OR LOT TERIES TO HELP PAY FOR EDUCATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH?" Reasons for favoring sweeps It- will keep all that mone It's for a good purpose Many would get an education It would cut taxes Reasons for opposing I'm against gambling It would soon become a used dishonestly There are better education of agains! A wide variety other rea cons for fered by In a recent and were of volers to a Pro favoring speech vincial Legislature, OTTAWA REPORT August 1952 Teday 68% 21 1 T0% 21 9 ravor Oppose Undecided 100° 100° dea of a government lot- is most acceptable in Que- bec: least acceptable in weslern Canada. This was also true in 1952 Here are the majorities javoring lotteries in three geo- graphic areas of Canada Percent Favoring Lotteries I'he tery Quebed Ontario Prairies & B.( 8 Asked why they were in favor of, or opposed to, government lotteries, Canadians gave these main reasons (Percentages shown are percentages of those favoring or opposing.) takes vy at hom helps the poor, ele. .... health care religious reasons racket: money would be ways of paying for health and Government sweepstakes, a member estimated that as much as $90 millions is spent on. sweep takes tickets in Canada every vear World Copyright Reserved Canadians Deplore TV Hucksterism By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA --Are you among the high percentage of Canadians who, according to the pollsters dislike or disbelieve advertising on television? The successful trial of pay-as- vou-look television in a Toronto suburb, coupled with evidence of growing public impatience with commercial inserts, is reflected in broadcasting circles here in a painful reappraisal of TV adver tising Canadians who travel overseas or who are impelled by their oc- cupation to become temporary residents of European .countries, are bringing back to 'Ottawa vivid new concepts of how graci- ous one's life really can be. And those concepts exclude much of the hocus-pocus which Madison Avenue hucksters repeatedly tell us is essential if we wish to be "gracious", "sociable" or "ad mired." TV ADS RESENTED The public reaction against ad vertising is tending here lo focus on TV, and criticises undesirable trends created by American hucksters, especially the indeli- cacy and obtrusiveness of adver tising For examples, critics of adver tising inserted -into the middle of TV programs point to the prefer able system in some European countries, where only short mercials are permitted, and they are shown between complete grams Hucksterism's indelicac cem to be resented by many Cana dian: and is frankly ridiculed by those who have: been cated by travel. Typical advertisement in a U.S. publica fion proclaiming 'only our new ladies' shaver gives the two dif ferent cutting the different | pro sophisti- was an actions needed for having 'problem 0 of ' un n lad haver come Wuisite gold-trimmed in an ex velvet even ing wear bag, perfect for evening Some of us are old enough to remember when woman was crit- icised for putting on lipstick in public. What would the hucksters wish inflicted on us in public with razors packed in evening bags? Hucksterism, as spawned on New York's Madison Avenue, will pull no punches in its drive to make a fast buck. ECONOMIC RISK TO ALL "Advertising sells people things they do not need," is a common criticism. While many MPs re- peatedly deplore commercial dis- honesty--Timmins' Murdo Mar- tin is a memorable example of this--they tend to regard the economic consequences of the hard sell as less damaging than easy credit €CF Leader Hazen Argue, for example, is becoming hetter known in Parliament for his attacks on hidden financing charges than for his advocacy on hehalf of the wheat farmer. It would be kinder to say that hucksterism strives, not to sell us things we don't need, but "top of the line" models with Juxury trimmings which are, more than we can afford PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM can't gossip You believe what the town tells you, but you can rather easily imagine that it night well be true Women have about discontinued the use of pressure cookers. It is rare now that a man comes home and finds his wife sc~ttered all over the kitchen Man Finds Dollar in Can of ean Headline That's almost unusual as finding pork in a can of pork and beans BY-GONE DAYS 55 YEARS AGO I'he property committee of the town council recommended that a franchise be given to the Cen. tral Ontario Power Co. for sup- plying electricity to Oshawa Felt Brothers were again ap- pointed agents for the SS Argyle, which was preparing for its sum- mer excursions Councillors James and Gibson asked permission (0 have a fence put around the town dump- ing grounds, to prevent people from dumping rubbish indiscrim- nately. The Whithy council passed a motion to allow a bonus of $20,- 000 for a sugar factory which wanted to locate there. Farmers in the district were asked to grow sugar beets for the factory. Salaries for the month of April amounted to $367 paid to the high school teachers and $448 to the public school teachers of Osh- awa. Miss Baird, of the High School staff, tendered her resignation to the Board of Education. It was accepted, Complaints were made lo coun- cil because the town clock did not chime. The mayor announced that the clock needed an over- hauling. By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- Announced to a public already concerned about proposals fo 'establish German missile training bases in Scot land, the plans for West Ger- many to join with Britain and France in producing military air- planes and missiles has added to the misgivings in this country about increasing West Germany's . military power. The announce- ment was made in a joint com- munique issued after falks be- tween the British and West Ger- man defence ministers in Han- over There are two projects in which this partnership for development will he effective. One of the de- velopments is a vertical take-off jet aircraft for the NATO forces The other is the production of electronic equipment for the air defence of Europe. According to the communique, British, French and German experts will meet in the near future to draw up plans to give effect to these decisions One sentence uftered by Dun- can Sandys, British defence min- ister, in Hanover, has added to British uneasiness over giving too much military power to Ger- many. He said "Once you have gone into partnership on the principle you have given away all your secrets and might as well do the whole job together." Mr. Sandys has already been under heavy opposition fire in connection with the abandonment of the Bluestreak missile. He will certainly be faced with. another barrage of criticism over this lat- ¢st move in co-operation with West Germany COMMUNISTS BLASTED William Carron, outspoken and bitterly anti - Communist presi dent of the million member amal- gamated Engineering Union, at a meeting of the union's national committee, touched off a big row when he blasted the activities of Communist trade unionists. He lashed out boldly at the activities of the Communist shop stewards aimed at disrupting Britain's key industries In his presidential address, Mr Carron outlawed unauthorized joint gatherings of engineering shop stewards. He denounced carefully - plotted work stoppages spurred on by Communists, an exposed their plans for concen- trating on certain vital sections of production. He accused the Communists of trying to gain control of the unions through shop stewards in the factories. He condemned their attempts to destroy the integrity and author ity of the executive committees of the unions (hey had failed to capture. He gave this warning: "If the trade unions surrender their autonomy and authority te the composite bodies of stew- ards, which may take their in- structions from the Communist controlled Engineer and Allied Trades National Council of Shop Stewards, there could be no other outcome than chaos and indus- trial anarchy." There was bitter opposition to a proposal that the president's address should be put on record in the official conference report, but it was nevertheless adopted { MAY RESUME CONTROLS Cabinet ministers are discuss ing the possibilities of having to impose tighter restrictions on credit in an effort to keep the economic boom under control. One of the directions in which there may be a move is toward re-imposing some 'measure . of control in instalment buying. This method of financing pur- chases has been growing by leaps and bounds since the con- trols were removed over a year ago . Those who disagree with the proposal to re-impose instalment buying controls point to the fact that while it has increased tre- mendously in Britain, it has not reached anything like the same level as in the United States and Canada. Af the present time, in- stalment purchase debt in Brit ain is £15 per head of population. This compares with £75 per head in the United States and £58 per head in Canada, and is on exact- ly the same level as the £15 per head instalment purchase debt in West Germany. DEBATE SHORTENED There was a deliberate policy behind the Labor party's decision to limit the defence debate on Bluestreak in the House of Com- mons to three and one half hours, instead of the normal practice of a six-hour debate. The deliberate purpose behind that decision was to limit the opporiu- nities for their own back-bench- ers to express their views, which were known to be quite different from official party policy. The Labor party strategic fig- ure that by the time Harold Wat kinson and Duncan Sandys had spoken for the government, and George Brown and Harold Wil- son for the opposition, there would be very little time left in which back-benchers could at- tack the policies of both the gov- ernment and their own leaders. SILENCING REBELS It is conceded that the Labor leaders were much less concern. ed about what Mr. Sandys or Mr. Watkinson might have to say than about what might be said by two of their own members, Richard Crossman and Em- manuel Shinwell, the former So- cialist defence minister. The Eve- ing Standard sums up comment on this matter as follows "To limit the debate on Blue- streak to three and a half hours is a demonstration of irrespon- sibility. For in trying to silence their own rebels, the opposition leadership is in effect muting the voice of the House of Commons as a whole." British medical men are hap pier about their arrangements for National Health Service than they have been since its institu. tion, The government has indi~ cated its readiness to grant in- creases of five pounds a week to 22,000 family doctors registered under the scheme. Increases ranging even higher are to be given to 20,000 physicians, sur geons and dentists working in hospitals. On top of this, some of the increases will be dated back to March, 1957, which will give the general practitioners an additional windfall averaging nearly £500, "Togetherness' In Man. Schools WINNIPEG (CP) -- Together ness is becoming a problem in Winnipeg secondary schools, 8 high school principal says. R.J. Cochrane of Kelvin High School told a meeting of the Man- itoba Home and School Associa- tions that students have been getting together with their friends and arranging to take the same courses so they won't be separated. And to make matters worse, he added, some parents telephoned schools to complain when their children w er e separated from friends by being placed in differ. ent classes. "Part of a child's education is in meeting new friends and adap- ting to new situations," he said, adding that parents should pay more attention to their children's Your Hearing Loss with HEARING GLASSES © Newest Designs or ® Use Present NAICO HEARING SERVICE 850 YONGE ST. TORONTO WA 4.2317 OT/MV/B/7/60 Chartered 135 SIMCOE ST. NORTH eo PARTNERS eo B.Comm, CA. A. BROCK MONTEITH Monteith, Monteith, Richl & Co. @ LICENSED TRUSTEES o HON. J. WALDO MONTEITH MP, FCA. Gordon W. RIEHL, C.A,, R.LA. ROBERT F. LIGHTFOOT, C.A. GEORGE E. TRETHEWEY, C.A. Res. Partner G. W. 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