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Ss, srt ee - The Oshawa Snes Published by Canadian Newspopers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Poge é Monday, June 27, 1960 U.S. Worrying About Purposes And Ideals A popular topic in the United States these days is "national purpose". It is never clearly defined, but it is talked and written about by all sorts of people, from presidential hopefuls and college professors to eolumnists and writers of letters to editors. Canadians, with an economy and social structure akin to the Americans, might well pay heed. It seems to have started with doubts about the quality of American leader- ship, inspired by diplomatic and propa- ganda setbacks. There followed the realization that in a democracy quality of leadership reflects quality of citizen- ship. At this point, the inquiry seems to wander imlssly through a bog of platitudes. Even such a distinguished poet and critic as Archibald MacLeish can ask his compatriots whether much of today's "way of life" does not fall far short of the "genuine American ideal"; and a popular picture magazine is questioning some of the outstanding thinkers in the U.S. on what each Ame- rican can do "to recover the national purpose." Phrases like "genuine Ame- rican ideal" and "national purpose" do not lend, themselves to clear thinking, and the ideas generated by the self- examination may not warm the minds of many readers and listeners, but the eritical process once started ¢an have surprising results. Nations are made up of individuals and rarely has any mass of individuals been inspired by a "national purpose". It has been pulled or pushed or wheed- ied by a leader or a ruling group along a course which may have appeared to be one of purpose or "manifest destiny", Rarely too has a nation had a "genuine ideal", except that representing the sum of each individual's desire for material comforts and benefits. The wagon trains did not roll west because their drivers were imbued with a desire to foster the greatness of the United States but be- cause they wanted free land, a new chance to "get ahead"; they were ins- pired by selfishness sather than pa- triotism. The desire for material gain has been the driving force in modern civilization. After needs are met, wants take their place, and the more wants are satisfied the stronger the realization grows that things alone eannot bring contentment #0 ereatures born with minds and souls. Dr. Robert Goheen, president of Princeton University, complained the other day that "Americans are seem- ingly paralyzed in self-indulgence... Near and far the cheap and tawdry are glorified over achivements of solid worth. Opiates of half thruths are seized in preference to realities of act and need. An Elvis Presley receives adulation, acclaim, and rewards while Nobel Prize almost unnoticed." He mentioned an advertisement which read, "There's nothing like a new car to en- rich your family life," and asked: "Noth ing indeed? Not love? Not education? Not good music? Not religious belief? Nothing indeed! What kind of people do they think we are?" Another univer- sity speaker noted that mass-production the opportunities which were once accorded only the privileged few, but "this vast potential improvement for many has not winners pass civilization has offered "masses" brought the millennium some supposed it would . . . More people have learned to read but many of them still read silly things." The fact that some people read silly things, of course, is no argument against teaching people to read. The net, gain of literacy is still tremendous; indeed, without it, a nation could not possibly reach the high economic standard of living which could support a charge of gross self-indulgence, and its "national purpose" would be little more than a frantic struggle to stay one jump ahead of starvation. The crux of that the United States has come closer than any nation in history to the old dream of shared wealth, and the closer the matter is it 'eomes, the greater grows the challenge to its cultural leaders and "opinion makers", Canada is moving into the same area, and will face the same challenge. Some commentators are directing their appeals to the individual -- one recently wrote, . "it that the search begins." is at the individual level for national purpose Perhaps so. But the great advances in history have not been made by masses or eommittees; they have been made by lonely men, daring men of vision and determination, whose thoughts and deeds have been beacons for others to follow. And so it will be if North American civilization is to material spiritual richness. move forward from richness to intellectual and Death Of A River Another dismal chapter is being written in the shoddy history of the Don River, once a spawning ground for salmon and now just an open sewer. Toronto harbor nothing more to do with the river. commissioners want Most of the summer will be needed to clear Toronto harbor of the floating debris which has entered it from the Don, according to the harbor eommis- sion's general manager. At the mouth of the river, Keating Channel presents a constant silting problem. Ayeport from Toronto says that the harbor commis- sioners, heartily sick of the river and channel as sources of pollution and of eomplaints from tenants who cannot use their docks because of silting, have announced plans to close the area as navigable water. Here is a classic example of what greed and thoughtlessness can do to a priceless natural resource. The Don has died in a century A hundred years ago the firstfaint warning of misuse were being given -- the salmon were Fhe Oshawa Times T.°L. WILSON, Publisher end Generel Menager €. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and Chronic (established 1863), is published daily (Sundays and statutory holidays excepted). 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By mail (in province of Ontario) outside carriers delivery areas 12.00: elsewhere 15.00 per yeor. Average Daily Net Paid as of April 30, 1960 16,999 finding it less attractive for spawning Once it was bordered by industry and housing, the deterioration was rapid. Now the Metro conservation authority has an ambitious and costly reclamation project, but it is estimated that results cannot be expected for ten years. Even that estimate is optimistic, because the damage to the river is still going on. Bulldozers are still ripping away at the slopes on the Don watershed. The little tributary ravines are still being despoiled. The concrete and asphalt skin continues to spread over the ground. The results can only be flash floods and the transport of hundreds of tons of silt down the river and into Toronto bay. Had the river been protected from the first, Toronto would now have: a superb recreational facility, of priceless benefit to the citizens; an enlarged asset in property values; and an area of navi- gable' water needed for traffic as the city grows in importance as a port. It is an object lesson for the rest of the country. Bible Thoughts I know that, whatsgever God doeth, it shall be for ever ... men should fear before him.--Ecclesiastes 3:14. God is sovereign. Nothing can thwart His purpose nor destroy His master plan. Reverent surrender to His will spells freedom and security. Be not thy spirit to be angry.--Ecclesiastes 7:9. hasty in For anger, if it is selfish, harms the angry person. And when it explodes into angry words and actions, it can cause regrettable damage to others. But the fruit of the spirit is self-control. Two are better than one.--Ecclesi- astes 4:9. An understanding friend, a faithful life! But even without them, none needs be alone. mate--how these can' enrich That second one can be Christ -- Friend of friends. the QUEEN'S PARK Liquor Adverti BICYCLE BUILT FOR TWO sing Code Well Received By DON O'HEARN Toronto Everybody is quite happy here about the reaction to the new liquor advertising code. There has been very little com- plaint. And what there has been has been from extremists. . Also, both .the advertisers and publishers appear to be reason- ably well satisfied Liquor Commissioner 'W H Collings, MPP has completed meetings with the brewers and distillers, the advertising agen- cies and the publishers And he .says there probably will be some minor amendments to the code as originally pre- sented but nothing major Even the magazine publishers who have been officially publish- ing out of Quebec and have had practically no restriction are re- poried to be quite willing to go along. What is not known, of course, is how much of a big stick Mr. Coiiings had to wield. He had one in the form of the power to delist any products whose advertising did not con form. From attitude, however one would gather he did not have to really make use of it. IRON DOOR The bogey of closed meetings has cropped np again. Leslie Rowniree's commiitee of drugs held a meeting behind the iron door te "organize." REPORT FROM U.K. his Mr. Rowntree says "it was an "executive meeting." One of the brightest around here should better. A select ally is the bly itself. And you just don't ecutive meetings' of lature, The "executive" WHO KNOWS? Clerk of the House Rod Lewis backs Mr. Rowntree by claiming that the public is only permitted in the Legislature on sufferance. It can be cleared out at any time, he says On technical grounds you can argue this until doom's day. But common sense says that no mat- ter which side of the coin turns up in the argument in theory it is absolutely wrong to hold closed meetings of elected pub- lic representatives. The matter of precedent along is sufficient proof of this. Prac tically every decision the House or a committee arrives at sets a precedent Some years from now precedent probably will be basis of other decisions The most important point any decision is why it taken : And how can anyone in the fu ture know this when it has been taken behind closed doors. men he know commitiee tradition same. as the assem "ox Legis- hold the is the cabinet, that the of was Widows Assisted By Ancient Will By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON Five widows in the borough of Reading, in Berkshire. are comfortably settled in a row of bright modern bungalows on a delightful street, because of the provisions of the will of a man who died there over 300 years ago. And there they can stay for the rest of their lives, provided they do not get married again. For this privilege and all the eomforts and conveniences they enjoy, they pay the nominal rent of five shillings (about 70 cents) a week The man to whom they are in debited for this great stroke of good fortune was John Webb, a wealthy property owner of Read ing. In his will, which bears the date of November, 1653, he found- ed a widows' charity trust, TERMS OF WILL Mr. Webb, in this will, placed a large house on Broad Street, Reading, in the care of a group of trustees. The trustees were given explicit instructions to use the rents they received to help "four poor widows of the parish, and to keep the almshouses in which they lived in a good slate of repair" In 1887 the almshouses were sold for £800. This money was at that time divided among all the widows in the parish of St. Lawrence in Reading who would have qualified to live in them and who might have become ben- eficiaries under Mr. Webb's will PROPERTY SOLD Widows continued to draw ben efits from the rents of the origin al property until 1951. In that vear, the property on Broad Street, which now provides of- fices for a firm of solicitors, was sold for £20,000, The money was at that time invested Now half of the capital has been spent in the building of the five attractive little bungalows on Berkeley Street in Reading. There the first tenants are enjoy- ing, at a ridiculously low cost, comfort they have never before known, and all of them are widows. \ Rev. P. D. B. Miller is chair- man of the Reading Municipal Church Charities which adminis ters the trust. He explains the situation thus: BY-GONE DAYS 15 YEARS AGO J. A. Morphy was elected presi- dent of Oshawa General Hospital. He succeeded T. K. Creighton, KC, who had served as president for nine years, Oshawa public school pupils purchased war saving certificates and stamps during 1944 to the value of $20,772, and also gather- ed 128,275 pounds of salvage for the Red Cross. Miss E. Holmes, principal and Mrs. Frank Turney, president of the Home and School Association, King Street School, welcomed the many guests al open house. Thornton's Corners Community Fund for overseas boxes, under the chairmanship of Mrs. T. Shepphard with Mrs. E, Pipher as secretary and Mrs. P. Lofi- house, treasurer, reported $239 was expended on boxes, Edouard Bartlett, son of Mr. and Mrs, F. E. Bartlett, Brock street east, was appointed super. visor of music in Timmins Col- legiate. The first annual Brownie Fair was held at Guide Headquarters. Mrs. J. N. Kinder, Oshawa, was organizer of the display. Five district RCAF members who were included 'in King George VI's honor list were: Air Vice Marshal G. R. Howsam; Wing Commander John B. Spar- ling; Ft.-Lt. Alfred W. Barton; Cpl. Donald Wragg and squadron leader C. M, Cawker R. T. Wilson, assistant super- visor of Ontario Malleable Irom Co., plant here was elected vice- chairman for the local section of Industrial Accident Prevention Association, ---- "We must stick to the terms of Mr. Webb's will. And that stipu- lates that only widows can be beneficiaries under it. If any of the ladies decided to get mare ried again, she would be expects ed to find another home." But the five occupants of the bungalows are enjoying their new found comfort so much that there is little likelihood of any of them re-marrying. FOR BETTER HEALTH Quick Steps To Take If Attacked HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, MD Here are a few tips about ticks If you're going to spend much time in the woods this summer, a few precautions against these pests are probably in order. This is especially true if there is Rocky Mountain spotted fever in the area SPREAD BY TICKS This disease is found in many sections of the country and is spread by ticks. Field mice, rab- bits and other small wild animals keep the disease alive and. it is from them that ticks spread the infection If you know you will spend a lot of time in tick-infested areas, I suggest that you be vaccinated for Rocky Mountain spotted fever WEAR THICK CLOTHING However, if vou will mérely be vacationing there, you might es- cape the disease by wearing heavy tick - proof clothing and shoes But suppose you are by ticks anyway? What you do? Well, remove as possible, but your bare hands HOW TO REMOVE You can remove them by touch ing them with the lighted end of a cigaret or the head of a. fresh- ly-blown-out match. Or, if you have the equipment, grasp each tick with a pair of forceps or tweezers and twist the head and mouth free Then cover each with tincture of iodine or some other attacked should them as quickly don't do it with ound By Ticks good antiseptic. Be particularly careful not to crush the insects or you might spill some of the infectious contents into the wound CAN BE TREATED Through the use of antibiotics, «we can usually effectively treat Rocky Mountain spotted fever and other rickettsial diseases. Incubation period of the fever ranges from three to ten days. Shortly before the onset; of the disease, you will feel generally ill, be chilly and lose your appe- tite PAINFUL SYMPTOMS With the onset, you will have pains in the muscles, back, bones and joints, It will be particularly noticeable. in the muscles of the calf and lumbar regions and in the larger joints, There will be headaches and dry coughing, too. Usually there is a rapid vise in temperature, maybe as high as 105 degrees. On the third dav of the fever, a rash appears, ine high temperature remains through the second week and then re- turns to normal before the end of the week QUESTION AND ANSWER D. L.: 1 have extremely blood pressure. Would it be harmful for me to drink alcoholic beverages? Answer: If there are no symp- toms from the low blood pressure and one is normal in other re- spects, as a rule there is no harm in consuming a limited amount of alcoholic beverages. However, this is a matter for your doctor to decide. low OTTAWA REPORT NATO World Plan Still A Pipe Dream By PATRICK NICHOLSON An ironic juxtaposition of Par- liamentary Business has vividly shown how disastrous has been the smooth-tongue but idle-hand statesmanship of our Western leaders since the war. Last Friday, Paul-Henri Spaak the secretary - general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- tion, visited our House of Com- mons. There he heard Prime Minister Diefenbaker assert that "Canadians are strongly and un- alterably dedicated to the princi- ples of NATO." which 'stands as a bulwark against the spread of Sovietism." Then Opposition Leader Mike Pearson spoke his tribute to that Belgian statesman, -who has risen to become the Wsetern world's most powerful civil serv- ant. Had Mike not heeded the draft to political service in his own homeland, he himself would undoubtedly today be filling Spaak's. position, and enjoying the tax - free $50,000 per year, plus free furnished house in Paris' beautiful Bois de Boulogne, and looking forward to the $35,000 per year pension, said to be the reward for serv- ing in that oneréus NATO post. HOPES DEFERRED It was with sincerity that Mike said of Spaak: 'Indeed, no man has made a greater contribution to that measure of European un- ity which has been reached." But the bitterness of disappoint- ment tinged his voice when he added "and no man has done more to extend the diffusion of European unity across the Atlan- tic." That bitterness was heartfelt because such diffusion is, of course and alas, still no more than the pipe-dream of an unful- filled crusade, A number of idealists have striven for that cause ever - since Canada pro- posed it 11 years ago. But those who might have implemented that pipe - dream have merely paid lip service by trite, mean- ingless and unsupported words such as those of the Prime Min- ister quoted above. Mr. Diefenbaker has strongly supported the concept of Atlan- PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM The typical TV comedian spends more time sharpening his scissors than his wit. Overheard: "I was married by a Justice of the Peace, and I haven't had any justice or peace since." "Kissing doesn't raise the blood pressure appreciably," says a physician. He deserves sympathy. tic unity as an individual; Mr. Pearson has even longer and even 'more strongly done the same. Yet neither the former whilst our prime minister, nor the latter whilst our foreign minister, has ever taken a firm public stand bringing us one inch closer to the hope that NATO may develop into "an economic and perhaps even a political commonwealth of the Western world, than which 'noth- ing less will do in this age," as Mike Pearson said--not recently, but ten years ago. THEN CAME THE IRONY Following those hollow puffs for NATO by our two big party leaders, then came the overt ad- mission that NATO is today but a flimsy bulwark against So- vietism. Prime Minister John Diefenbaker presented to the House of Commons a govern- ment pamphlet describing a build = it - yourself basement shelter, and recommending that every Canadian father should build one *'as a practical and reasonable means" of insuring one's family against the risk of radioactive fall - out. that would arise should a war occur." These amateur - built shelters would of course offer no protec- fion against nuclear blast. Cana- dians may well ponder whether this 'do-it-yourself plan for par- tial national survival does not proclaim the final bankruptcy "of western statesmanship in the past 15 years, and signpost the urgent need for vision and home-' work in an 'entirely new ap- proach to world affairs. To those old enough to think back 22 years, the Diefenbaker exhortation to create one's own family cave, for shelter against death. rained from the skies, has a familiar echo. In 1938, just be- fore the Munich appeasement bought us "peace in our time," ° the architect of that fragile hope Prime Minister Chamberlain, urged his fellow-Britons to dig themselves shelter trenches in every backyard. If we had had leadership te Atlantic unity, instead of mere apple - polishing of that idea, might we not now be secure from the unthinkable prospect conjured up by the $300 family basement-mausoleums? -. a When they are troubled by backache, that tired out feeling or disturbed rest, many, many women turn to Dodd's Kidney Pills. These conditions can be caused by excess acids and wastes in the system and Dodd's Kite Pills stimulate the kidneys and aid their normal action of removing these excess acids and wastes. Then life seems brighter, housework lighter! Why don't Dodd' [J p, you, too, try s? THEY'RE SO GOOD TASTING THE 51% CANADIAN OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP FOR THE SEAGRAM GOLD CUP and *27,000 prize money WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, AT THE THROUGH SATURDAY, JULY 9 ST. 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