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dhe Oshawa Ses Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Poge 6 Thursday, May 26, 1960 Khrushchev Could Be Diverting Russ Peeves A possible reason for Nikita Khrush- chev's savage attacks on the United States and his scuttling of the summit conference could be an apparent deterio- ration of economic conditions in the Soviet Union, and a resultant increase in public restlessness. He may be trying to draw Russian attention away from troubles at home. Pravda, the Communist party's organ, recently has been openly critical about lags in capital investment and capital unwisely invested. Experienced foreign observers in Moscow suggest that this is one of several indications that, des- pite official claims of rapidly growing industrial output, the Soviet economy has some weak spots. Shortages of durable consumer goods --refrigerators, television sets, furniture --are acknowledged thoroughout the Communist press. Not admitted, but known to exist, are shortages of the more basic commodities; in Moscow, best supplied city in the country, there were periods last winter when even milk was unvailable. The discontent over the shortages of goods, combined with dissatisfaction over pay cuts and higher work norms, had produced serious labor unrest, and even strikes. The party head in the state of Kazakh- stan, in western Asia and about one- third the size of Canada, has confirmed that late last year there was a major strike at the construction site of a giant iron and steel plant. There are reliable if unconfirmed reports of a major strike early this year in Kamerovo, the major West Siberian industrial centre. The union publication Trud has cautiously reported "serious grievances" of coal miners, oil workers and workers in ma- chinery, food and fishing enterprises. A general complaint is that in the preparations for the scheduled shorten- ing of the standard work week from forty-six to forty-two hours, higher pro- duction norms are being imposed. An- other major complaint concerns inequa- lities in wages and salaries, but here the criticism comes from foreman and plant managers who must take pay cuts of from one-third to two-fifths of their earnings. Also involved in the levelling- out are Soviet artists; noted musicians, who often received thousands of dollars for a concert, now are said to be paid well under $500 per performance. The basic cause of all this discontent is that the people work hard, but in return receive few of the amenities of life, because a relatively small group of economic planners decide how money will be invested in industry, and in the production and distribution of goods. Their errors are irrevocable. In the capitalistic countries, hundreds of thou- sands of individuals decide how capital will be invested. If one makes an error, someone else leaps forward to serve the consumer. Diagnosis: More Trees Ed Youngman, caretaker of the Dur- ham Forest, recalls that prior to 1947 "only the venturesome, ornery, des- perate or uniformed tried to drive a motor vehicle past the junction of the roads marked on Dunham county maps as Glamorgan, because of the dry, shift- ing sand at this corner, which allowed no traction." When a motorist became stuck, the only solution was a nearby farmer and his team of horse (for a fee, naturally). Then as the activities of the newly formed Ganaraska Authority got more and more publicity, sightseers became more numerous. As sightseers battled the Glamorgan sand, the demands for road improvement rose from a murmur to an angry roar. Municipal officials admitted their responsibility but regretted their inability to do much about the situation. The sand blew on to the road from private property. The county forest caretaker of the Department of Lands and Forests, how- ever, had his own ideas. He talked to the owner of the farm which produced most of the drifting sand and got his permission for some planting; he secured locust, jack pine, willow, Scotch pine, and poplar, and with the aid of interest- ed conservationists, planted a few acres where they would do the most good. "The.results have been so gratifying that there have been no reports of motorists being stuck since 1950," Mr, Youngman says. "The reasons for using these species were two-fold -- very few people would be tempted to 'pinch' such low-grade trees and all five types are well suited to blow-sand environment and are fast growing." Besides improving the road, the plan- tation stopped wind erosion, enhanced the appearance of the landscape and continues to act as an example to pass- ers-by of what can be accomplished with a little initiative, effort and a few trees. We offer this as a vignette of what is meant by good conservation practice --and the sort of thing which needs to be greatly extended to rectify the errors which have been made in land manage- ment in the past. Critics Of Affluence There is an idea abroad -- echoed recently by some speakers on a panel discussion about free enterprise televised by the CBC -- that we in the western nations are headed for destruction be- cause we are prosperous but don't know how to properly use our wealth. The argument carriers on that the individual wastes his money and that to achieve the ideal society the state must take away more of it and spend it on public purposes. Taking exception to this theory that our affluence is killing us is an article in London Sunday Times by George Schwartz. "One disadvantage of an afflu- ent society," he says, "is that its very The Osha Times Y. L. WILSON, Publisher and General Manager €. GWYN KINSEY, Editer The Oshawa [limes combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) ana the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle (established (863) is published daily (Sundays end statutory holidays excepted) Members of Canadian Dany Newspapers Publishers Association, The Canadion 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 poper 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 Bullding, 425 University Avenus Toronto. 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, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool Taunton Tyrone Dunborton, Enniskillen, Orono. Leskard, Broughom Burketon, Claremont Columbus Fairport Beach Greenwood, Kinsale, Raglan, Blackstock Manchester Cobourg, Port Hope Pontypool and Newcastle no! over 45¢ per week. By mail (in province of Ontario) outside. corriers delivery areas 12.00: elsewhere 15.00 per yeor. Average Daily Net Paid as of April 30, 1960 16,999 affluence supports a host of critics who draw on its resources for the purpose of denouncing it. I note that the Harvard professor who popularized the term Affluent Society in a derisive fashion acknowledged that a Guggenheim fellow- ship facilitated a visit to Switzerland where he tried out his first ideas on the university students in Geneva. He was able to elaborate them at the California Institute of Technology at the expense of the Haynes Foundation and 'the chap- ter on poverty towards the end draws heavily on research financed by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation'. Good going, professor. First class all the way, 1 presume, and room with bath every- where . . . "We are getting a spate of books and articles from the United States suggest- ing that the whole nation, apart from the authors, is wallowing in mate- rialism . . . The paradoxical outcome of the bogus material success is a spread- ing and growing sense of frustration . .. "Against all this I beg to report progress. For the first time, I won't say in all history but in modern record- ed history, the burden of animal toil has been lifted from whole nations. Is it not a cause for satisfaction that in America, this country and, alas, too few other countries, one is not afflicted by the sight of men and women, even chil- dren, laboring to the limits of physical endurance? Affluence has brought it about that in the advanced countries man does not earn his bread in the sweat of his face, Call it a gadget civili- zation if you like, but the women aren't turned into hags before 40. It is indig- ence, not affluence, that harnesses a woman to a plough" DEADEYE DICK OTTAWA REPORT Canadian Airports 77% Dorval, whereas previously at Ot- National Disgrace By PATRICK NICHOLSON This wonderful North American continent, so proud of its way of life and technical advancement, has plenty to learn from the Old World about gracious living and sa'esmanship in our most modern field. This is the summer of the ad- vent of jet air travel, when freed currencies coupled with air- liner speed are making two-way trans-Atlantic tourism a very real possibility for hundreds of thou- sands of North American and European holiday-makers. But this is also the summer of discontent for airlines serving Canada, because of our wholly inadequate airports. Their backwardness, squalor, t and Ys posed by the unimaginativeness and narrow - mindedness of our bureaucracy, have made our air- ports an international disgrace ard ridicule, although costing our taxpayers extravagant excess. POOR SHOP WINDOWS Uplands Airport, serving this national capital, is not even in the Pee-Wee league of capital air- ports. Dorvai Airport, at Mont- real, is our main international shop-window, our welcome to the thrilled but often tired travel. ier from the Old World or the New. Its comforts and facilities are so inhospitable: that, even if Chief Poking Fire were present in person, it would be a slander on the living standards of the Iroquois. lu contrast to the shop win- dows of other nations, such as Eire's Shannon Airport, Paris' Oily, Milan's Malpensa, Scot- land's Prestwick and Britain's London Airport, Dorval makes Canadians hang their heads in shume. But in fairness it must be aumitted that Dorval is superior to our Uplands or Gander or Goose Bay. while in Vancouver ard Calgary we have municipally operated airports which are im- provements upon our government run Eastern terminals. The charge against our East- ern terminals is that they lack service and comfort for the pas- senger, and give very poor pub- licity for Canada. Commonly in Europe, interna- tioral airports have duty - free shops, well stocked with quality local produce offered to the de- parting traveller at attractive untaxed prices. Irish linens and tweeds at Shannon, Scotch whisky at Glas- gow, ladies' silk scarves at Nice, leather goud< at Milan, perfume at Paris, are typical examples; all sell at airports at about half the local price or one-third the Canadian price. CANADIAN VISION In contrast, cigar stores at Canadian airports offer only sou- venirs, often made in Japan, such as miniature totem poles, ash- trays, and dolls dressed as Moun- ties. But never a duty-free shop p'ugging typical Canadian prod- ucts. Liquor-by-the-glass and a com- fortable chair are the greatest lacks felt by the air traveller who gets boggea down in Canada. I was recently delayed at London arrport, whilst travelling on the French line. Seated in a comfort- able armchair in an elegant lounge, 1 was offered a 'wide choice of hot or warming bever- ages. As 1 watched airliners from the four corners of the world arrive and leave at the rate of about one per minute, my con- sumption of free champagne was about 1-6 gallon per hour. Ten hours earlier, I had been held up ot Dorval. There the airline could only utilize the facilities made available by our federal govern- ment, which operates Dorval. I was handed a paper token, worth a dime, in exchange for which I could obtain a cup of coffee at a self-service counter in a shack where the small windows are too high to permit a view of the air- port. But I could sit down at ¥ housed tawa's Uplands Airport I had keen one of the 78 waiting pas- sengers for whom the 23 seats proved inadequate. Montreal's overseas airport is in a wartime wooden shack. Nearby stands incomplete a new building, estimated to be costing the taxpayers thrice the estimated - $10,000,000. It is per- haps three years overdue on com- pletion. I counted 13 workmen on that huge project, eight watching &eroplanes, four talking and one trendling a barrow. The project is said locally to stink of graft and incompetence. To our visit- ors, it just stinks. BY-GONE DAYS REPORT FROM U.K. a More Pay Sought Bi ats By Farm Workers of the fire depart. By M. MCINTYRE HOOD - Special London (Eng.) ment was appointed to the posi- tion of life guard. we Were bitterly disappointed. : 4 aif Eis trict of Rotary International in Niagara Falls. The Board of Education, ed by the chairman, Alex W. Bell, attended the church serv-- ice in St. George's Anglican ural We Union are Fe ee rk 5 Ve ror 4 ot * sions in working hours. A year Those appointed to a commit- ago, they made a wage claim, tee to be in charge of An award was made by the Agri- tions for the Music Festival for cultural Wages Board. But every Oshawa Schools included A. W, one of the 51 county branches of Bell, Ross McKinnon and Dr. the union have protested against F. J. Donevan, members of the this award. They say it falls far Board; C. F. Cannon, IPS; C. short of what they need to give H. R. Fuller, business adminis- them equality with other lines of trator and L. Richer, director of industry. Tyee is the sefionls, "INCREASE WAS SMALL The city weigh scales which _ Last year's increase was small, had been situated in front of the It gave the United Kingdom's police station. were moved to 400,000 farm workers only four west of the police garage. shillings a week more pay, bring- ing their minimum wage up fo Gordon D. Conant donated 300 £8 ($21.60) a week. The working young trees to the cily for the week was at that time reduced purpose of beautification in the from 47 to 45 hours--the first Cedardale area. such reduction in 10 years. en 3 J ~ General Motors senior lacrosse a oa he Sa Roki it Vien. team, which won the Dominion pofore it 30 resolutions from championship in 1920, began pranches more pay. training for the 1930 schedule. Most of them called for a mini The sx boys winning top aw- DU, Weeks wage of from nie ards in a contest among sent in resolutions asking for a Times carriers were: Cecil further oo ous out 8 th Snroule, Bill Clark, Walter Alex- id ander, William Hall, Aage Jo- "Orking week. hansen and Voitto Lehti. DISSATISFACTION Harold Collison, general secre- MARITIME MODELS lary of the union, says: CAIRO (Reuters)--A new mari- There is deep dissatisfaction time museum has been created in everywhere about the last wage the ancient fortress of Abou Kir, award. We had asked for 10 with models of naval and mer- shillings a week increase and a chant craft from ancient eras and v/ork reduction of three hours a models of modern naval craft in week, We thought we had the Lhe Service of the United Arab best chance in years of getting epublic. PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM "The eating of bugs in raw vegetables, salads, etc., is no cause for worry," says a physi- cian. He would probably feel differently if he were a bug. "The sun is an old star and the time is approaching when it will cease to emit light and heat," says an astronomer, Please don't worry about this. The sun will Youth provid ffictent light and heat for you as long as you will need it. A Jivajcian says that married have fewer headaches than single ones. Maybe they do, but they doubtless have more pains in the neck. "Man probably made his first tool 500,000 years ago," says an anthropologist. It was douhtless prior to that that he made his first weapon, College students in various areas who seem to be trying to take the world over should exer- cise patience and wait until grad- sation, Wits He baccalaureate speaker wi nd it to them on a a substantial improvement and silver platter, GAME 11 OF THE NEW SENSATIONAL LOBLAWS _¢& HOW TO PLAY THE GAME Each week, this ad will have of 30 Brand Name Products and each will have a number beside it. MATCH these numbers with the numbers on your 'Target' Card. Circle the matching numbers in pencil. i you have circled the number in the Centre of the Target, or all 5 numbers within any one of the circles, you are a winner. You MUST MARK ALL OF THE NUMBERS WITHIN ANY ONE CIRCLE TO BE A WINNER. To receive your prize, print your name and address and the store on back of Card and mail to address indicated. Hf you don't have a winner, erase your circles on the Card. Ht is playable on next week's ad. Numbers on your Card cannot be carried over from one ad fo another. Play one ad at a time. We reserve the right to correct any typographical or other errors which might appear in any published matter in connection with this game, and reject cards not ugh legitimate channels. "Target" Cards are given away freely at all Loblaw Stores. No hase is FOR BETTER HEALTH Pay Prompt Attention To Any Eye Trouble HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, MD IN THE past I have written quite a bit about eye trouble in children and how to detect it. Now 1 think it's about time I duscussed the matter of eye trouble in adults. Any frequent or constant irrita- tion of the eye should be investi- gated. If only a part of the eye is irritated, it might mean that a fereign particle, a speck of dirt, perhaps, is causing the trouble. WHAT TO DO When you suspect that this is the case, I suggest that you pull the eyelid down over the eye. This induces tears which might be enough to wash the offender from the eye. 1f it doesn't, try pouring a little lukewarm tap water into the eye. These are the simple methods that you car attempt yourself, SEE YOUR DOCTOR If they don't solve the prob- lem. I suggest you contact your dector or eye specialist. It is a simple trick for an expert to re- move a foreign body from the eye. It won't take long and it won't cost you much. So don't worry about that part of it. The important thing is to have it taken care of promptly and adequately. All of you should interpret any disturbance of the eye's clear- ance as a danger signal, and one which calls for prompt attention. « The eye may become blood- shot. Perhaps a steamy, clouded look may occur, along with such symptoms as a scratchy, irritat- ed feeling, blurred vision, un- usual sensitivity to light and an abnormal flow of tears. Some types of conjunctivitis may be caused by irritation. Conjunctivitis is an inflamma- tion of the membrance covering the front surface of the eye. Again, the trouble may be helped by washing the eye with lukewarm water, or a solution or boric acid every hour. If you don': get relief quickly with these methods, see your doctor, INFECTION MAY RESULT Chronic irritation usually - pro- duces redness of the edges of | the eyelids and probably indi- cates an infection. This requires the services of a professional. Your eyes are likely to grow red when vou are tired. This is not unusual when it happens oc- casionally. However, if it occurs mere and more frequently, it might mean you have visual errors that are causing abnormal fatigue. QUESTION AND ANSWER L. M. Z.. Can the constant use of mineral oils as a laxative be harmfu. to a child? Could it eventually cause can- cer? 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