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Fhe Oshawa Snes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont, Page 6 Teusdoy, September 20, 1960 Education Lack Delays Canada's Development One of the facts of economic life in North America is that per capita pro- ductivity and income are higher in the United States than in Canada, There are obvious reasons for this situation-- the much larger domestic market in the U.S, permitting mass production and distribution, and the concentration in Canada on the production of raw materials, which does not create the jobs and wages that go with secondary in- dustry. But a third reason has been given, one which should be pondered by all Canadians. It is this: we haven't enough trained minds and hands to im- prove ourselves, Dr. 8S. H. Deeks, executive director of the Industrial Foundation on Education, is the authority for facts that indicate our failure to fit ourselves for development. Of the Canadian force, 6.2 per cent people; in the U.S, the proportion is 18.6 per cent. In Canada, 16.3 per cent of the labour force are skilled persons; in the U.S, the proportion is 32.9 per cent. In the two categories we place less than one-quarter of our labour force, the United States more than one-half, Nor is Dr, Deeks optimisti¢ of the fut. wre. "Our present and proposed level of educational performance," he said, "is in- adequate to satisfy the demands a world of growing complexity is thrusting upon us, The performance of our education sets the pattern of characteristics our labour force develops. The degree to greater labor are professional which this force consists of skilled and professional categories determines our capability to be competitive and make progress." Whether we lack will or lack appreci- ation of the value of education, there is no question of our failure in "educational performance," From what statistics are available on enrolment by grade in our public school system it can be estimated that the number entering high school this year is not much more than half of those who began their schooling in 1952; the number entering third year of high school will be less than a third of the total that started in Grade One in 1950; the number entering fifth year of high school, university entrance grade, is less than five per cent of the total that started in Grade One in 1948, Of course, there are other reasons why The US. has been a steady drain on our pool of highly qualified people, though fortunately im- migration nearly made up the deficit through the period of our great post- war expansion. Also, the emphasis in our economy on primary industry has limited the demand and opportunity for Canadians in the pro- we lack trained brains. economic fessional and skilled categories. But how much of the lack can be paid to parents and children who have come to believe this country can provide them with the best possible life even if they don't work for it? Best In Communication We did not need any reassurance on the subject, but the federal govern- ment's Restrictive Trade Practices Com- mission has confirmed the pre-eminent place of newspapers in mass communi. cation and the forming of public opinion, After an investigation of a newspaper situation in British, Columbia, the Com- mission noted that sections of the public were reached by magazines of opinion and by the spoken word but the public generally was reached by the mass media: the press, radio and television. Then the Commission said: "Among these channels of communi- cation the press remains the prime medium of communication for the pur- pose of assisting in the formulation of public opinion, "For this purpose radio and television are less effective because of the im- permanence of their messages, the re- stricted numbers of channels available and the limitations of the periods dur- ing which information can be conveyed. "A newspaper report can provide more details of events and a fuller account of the context in which they have occurred. Advantages Seat belts in cars cost money--which is one superficially good reason why people do not go for them. Belts also take a second or two to buckle into position -- and many people believe their time too precious to squander in this way. So, by and large, seat belts are not put in very many cars; and those that are installed, are often left unused. However, the Ontario Safety League suggests the public should look a little beyond these two objections to belts, to e if some of the benefits might not outweigh the disadvantages. Here Seat belts offer about 60 per cent re- The Oshawa Times is the oustanding advantage. The wa T estol Chron (Sundays Me: Assoc Circul ciation to the in the paper Press or tery | thereir reserved Offices Toront mbining The the Whitt 1863), mes « and shed The Canadian Press and the Ontario Provin adion Press is exclu cation of all news patched to it or to The Associated also the local news published of special despatches are also entitled Th Ontar mson By 640 C 425 University Avenue, Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES livered by carriers in Oshawe Whitby, Bowmar +P Columbus Manchester, per week. By mail arriers delivery areos year, Average Daily Net Paid os of April 30, 1960 16,999 and Newcastle n {in province of Onta 12.00; elsewhere ver 45¢ tside 15.00 per It is adaptable to the consideration of the reader who stops to absorb and think. The newspaper can be laid down and picked up again for further exam- ination or the re-checking of some part. "The pace of radio and television, on the other hand, is beyond the control of the audience and the fleeting sound and sight must be followed as they are broadcast. When the program, of what. ever kind, comes to an end, vivid im. pressions may remain, but the detailed information and the sequence of argu- ment are hard to recall , , . "As far ahead as we can see, the public will be heavily dependent on the press as the principal of communica- tion." This is a verdict from an impartial jury. As we observed above, newspapers themselves welcome the praise but do not need to be reassured about their importance to society, The Commission's verdict, however, goes beyound news- papers. It is, in effect, a reaffirmation of the importance of the written word ----an importance that is being down- graded by some chronic experimenters in education. Of Belts duction in the risk of injury arising from a car accident. In a study made by Cornell University, it was found that in cars without seatbelts involved in an accident, 75.5 per cent of the occupants were injured. In cars where belts were In use at the time of the accident, 29.9 per cent were injured. Applying these percentages to Ontario traffic accident figures suggests that, if seat belts were In universal use, tens of thousands of personal injuries: a year would be avoided in the province. That's a lot of injuries and the subject deserves much consideration, The League unreservedly recommends the use of seat belts in cars. They could save any person who reads these words from death, or painful and disfiguring injuries. But seat belts are no antidote for carelessness, nor can their use alone prevent traffic tragedy, Belts and other comparable safety devices help tremend- ously to reduce the severity of accidents, but they do not prevent accidents. The finest safety device will always be a good driver. Bible Thought The just shall live by faith.--Gala- tians 3:11. To live by faith is to say "there are no unknowns, for God knows and He has it all planned." There is no sounder basis for successful living Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free. Galatians 5:1. Christian liberty is never license, but rather joyful obedience to God out of le,» for Christ. . trie hootchy 'ANY TIME YOU'RE READY, ST QUEEN'S PARK Premier Bolsters Tax Deal Position By DON O'HEARN TORONTO---In opening the new York University here in Toronto, Premier Frost gave some quite remarkable figures Fifteen years ago university en- rolment in the province was about 13,000 students This year it will be 31,000. By the end of the 1960s it will be 65,000 And by 1980 it than 120,000 WHICH FIRST? Mr. Frost used these and other figures to further bolster his ar- gument with Ottawa for a return of taxing fields. It was the province and the municipalities, principally the province, which would have to will be more put up the necessary money, he noted And he ment "I can assure you that the task of obtaining this money is of vital importance," he said. "Operating in a sphere in which there are many competing de mands and needs, I have learned the necessity of putting first things first -- of acting on an made one key state- assessment of the things we have to do first and financing them After that we can have a look at the things we would like to do and carry them out if we have the money." First things first! INSIDE YOU No Easy Method To Reduce Weight EVEN THOUGH foreign ecur- rency isn't legal tender around your neighborhood, many of your friends and neighbors hope to exchange dollars for pounds. Be- cause extra weight is mortgaging their future, they're searching for the magic pill, powder or potion that can melt away ugly pounds without dieting These short figures usually turn out dead ends, Body fai is the piggy bank in which you store golden calories. You slip calorie-rich foods into the bank through an oral open- ing; whenever you need extra energy, you take calories from the bank. A hoggish appetite can keep your fat little piggy bank full. To empty the bank and lose weight, you have to put in less or take out more, Exercise and muscle-building machines take out extra calories but usually not as fast as you put them in. A 45- minute three-mile walk uses up fewer calories than you swallow when you take a minute off to gulp down a small chocolate bar, Reducing depends on calorie cutting and dreary days of diet ing. You yearn for every rich, luscious dish which you can't have, You'd give a million dol- lars to end all this fat frustra- tion -- and you do! Americans spend fat sums trying to thin down, You pay money to use all sorts of massage machinery which is supposed to take it off, build it up or make it firm. As a rule, mas- sage without dieting won't take off weight; it simply redistributes the wealth inside the piggy bank. What you lose in one place shows up in another You buy reducing pills, reduc- ing candies, even reducing cig- areties. You empty your pocket- books trying to empty your pigg banks. Do these reducing mir. acles work? When your stomach's empty, it wiggles and rolls, making you feel hungry. Expanding pills which swell and fill the stomach are supposed to stop this gas- cootchy; contract- ing pills are supposed to shrink the stomach into thinking that it's full. These drugs may extermi- nate your hunger, but they don't kill your appetite, Appetite is controlled by an appetite - thermostat or appestat located in the brain. This appe- stat turns your appetite on and off like an automatic furnace. When your appestat registers full, you lose your appetite Strangely enough, sweet grape Juice, calorie-laden bread and rich candies may help you cut calories, because fresh sugar in the blood stream turns down your appestat, Soon after gulping down grape juice, bread or can- dy, appetite usually fades away. Mothers have known this for years. Almost any day you can hear varning Junior, "Dani't eat candy! It'll spoil your appigite." cuts to shapely to be them The appestat"s sugar sensitiv. ity also explains why reducing diets are loaded with protein, The body slowly changes protein into sugar, Hours after you eat protein, fresh sugar is still en- tering the blood stream, giving your appestat that full feeling. Drugs can also turn down the appestat, Most of these appetite- appeasers belong to the drug family called amphetamines. You may know them by such names as Dexedrine of Benzedrine, although they are also sold under hundreds of other trade names. For a few hours after you take amphetamine, appetite evapo- rates while fat melts, Now auto- mation has come to appetite appeasement; REPORT FROM UK. . GEORGE' There is the key to the most unhappy aspect of the present "grant" system. What Ottawa considers "first" may not really be in the overall first interest of the people at all, When there must be priorities in spending--as there must--are payments to western wheat grow- ers more important than pay- ments to education? Does defence preparation, with its huge spending, have to rank so far above education? To date the provinces in the presentations have not weighed the value of federal spending in the various fields, They have only 'put forward their own urgent needs for more power, But so long as the federal gov- ernment is eccupying fields which partly belong to them it would seem quite fitting they should take some measure of the rela- tive value of the things for which this money is being spent, Essentially this is the back- bone of the differences between the two jurisdictions over money, And for clarity it well might be debated. repeat-action tablet can hold off hunger for a whole day. Amphetamines help but you still need will power. Because other factors help control the appestat, reducing pills don't always reduce your appetite -- and when you stop them, you may be hungrier yet, Amphetamines are sold only on prescription. But ampheta- mine - like phenylpropanolamine can be sold to anyone and is the main ingredient in many widely advertised reducing pills, Recent surveys show that phe- nylpropanolamine won't take an inch off your waist or an ounce off your weight unless you diet also, Other off-beat drugs are sup- posed .to thin you down by speeding up metabolism, numb- ing your taste buds or dehydrat- ing your body, You can't lose your piggy bank that easily, Dieting, the path of most resist ance, remains the only direct route to weight loss. If YOU and YOURS think that drugs can replace diets, then, one streamlined you are fat -- between the ears! Professors Rejected Oversupply Theory By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- In 1957, the Wil. link Committee which reported on Britain's National Health Service, foresaw an oversupply of doctors in the foreseeable fu- ture, and recommended that re- cruitment for the profession be reduced. In an article in the Lancet, one which has attracted considerable interest, two Bir- mingham University professors challenge this finding, They "are Prof, Francois Lafitte and Prof, John Squire, In their article, they claim that there is an urg- ent need for more medical stu- dents to avert a crisis in the supply of doctors about 1965. Specifically, they say: "Unless there is immediate ac- tion, something like a crisis in the supply of doctors may em- erge around 1965, by which time it will be much harder to deal with the situation. These two professors say that the number of students should be Increased from the present in- take of 12,000 a year to 15,000 They also advocate that a fresh and searching inquiry should be instituted now to determine the number of doctors likely to be required in the next decade in all branches of the profession The 1957 Willink Committee, which suggested cuts in recruit ment, has recommepded that the situation be re-examined in 1967. It had based its recommenda. tion as to the number of doctors required on an estimate of an increase in population of four and a half per cent over 16 years. The trends since 1955, however, point to an increase of eight per eent by 1970, which would be 13 years from the date of the Wil. link report. The Willink Commit- tee had suggested a 10 per cent reduction in the intake of medi- cal students, According to the Birmingham professors, this Suge gested cut had been falsified by the march of events, Another premise of the 1957 report is also challenged by the professors. It has expressed the belief that the number of doctors leaving Britain for other coun- tries would fall substantially be. tween 1957 and 1967, This theory has also been exploded, because of changed world conditions. The professors say: "The needs of underdeveloped countries are such that there is a powerful case for enlarging British medical schools to take in more Commonwealth under- graduates and post-graduates, and for maintaining or increas. ing exports of British teachers and practitioners." They estimate that Britain will require 2087 doctors annually from 1960 to 1965 and 1916 an- nually from 1965 to 1970. In addi- tion, 415 more hospital doctors would be required each year in the first period dnd 255 a year in the second period, These fig- ures are at least 20 per cent higher than the estimates of the Willink Committee It is very doubtful if the in- creased number of students they have suggested could be accom- modated without establishing one or two new medical schools in provincial universities. Unless the medical schools in these cen- tres are expanded to a substan tial extent, the capacity of the remaining centres is likely to fall short of the requiremeris of the OTTAWA REPORT Canada's Dismal Olympic Showing By PATRICK NICHOLSON "Canada is a nation of weak- lings," sneered one of our leading daily newspapers, hitting at the tender spot of our national health which is being anxiously watched here. Do our farmers produce sub standard food? Our housewives cook unnourishing meals? Our doctors give inept advice? Is the huge tax expenditure on our na- tional health plan being misspent? These questions are posed by our rating as 26th among the na- tional teams of athletes which competed in the Olympic Games just concluded at Rome. "Our athletes failed dismally" and "a national and international dis- grace" snarled our press in its criticisms. Yet our athletes filled the exact position for which we have so often praised ourselves in the dip- lomatic field, namely a middle power, With Norway, Austria and Pakistan, we emerged as an ath- letic middle power among the 52 competing nations who scored team points, For the record, there was a 53rd country, represented by a one-man team who com- plained bitterly because he was not awakened in time to compete in his event. OUTSHONE BY PYGMIES Our small population is not a valid excuse for what was a sadly disappointing showing. Canada won one solitary medal, the sil- ver medal for second place gain by the University of British Columbia's eight-oar rowing crew, BY-GONE DAYS 15 YEARS AGO The official opening of the Osh- awa Airport was carried out by A. D. MacLean, Controller of Civil Aviation. A. G. Storie, presi- dent of the Ontario County Fly. ing Club, was master of cere- monies for the occasion, and S. R. Bernardo, vice-president of Royal Canadian Flying Clubs Association, officiated. Vehicles of all kinds were used for house-to-house canvass for the National Clothing Collection Drive. City council authorized the Board of Works to call for tenders for the construction of two and one-half miles of sewer in various sections of the city, About 425 building lots would be available under the project. Willis R. McLaughlin was the first student to make a solo flight at the Oshawa Flying Club, Dr. 8. R. Laycock, president of the Canadian Federation of Home and School, addressed the Region- al Conference of Home and School Associations, held in St, An. drew's United Church. The fourth case of poliomyelitis was reported in Oshawa. Oshawa fire-fighters were call- ed to combat a fire in the top storey of the Hogg and Lytle grain elevator at the corner of Church and Richmond streets. In contrast, Australia, with a pop- ulation of less than 10,000,000, won 23 medals for capturing first, sec- Larry Snyder, chief coach of the U.S. Olympic ahtletes, attrib- uted the record-breaking perform- ances to the more robust health created by the ampler nourish- ment now ev here evident. The supplementary foodstuffs are building stronger muscles and bigger men. "We used to buy ath- letic shoes size six, but we haven't bought anything smaller than size eight for years," he re- calls, If improved living standards build better bodies, how come that our almost unexcelled living standard is not building stronger ond or third places, eight first-place gold medals. Our Olympic team together won 16 points for showing in the first six places in any event. New Zealand, wi pop ion is one- eighth of ours, won twice as many points; Finland, whose population is one-third ours, won three times as many points; Sweden, with half our population, won four times as many points; Australia won 10 times our point total. That was a poor snowing for the nation which boasts the sec- ond highest standard of living the world has ever known, It under- lines the criticism recently mode by the Duke of Edinburgh, that we suffer from "sub-health." This is substantiated by our physical record: two children out of three suffering from some physical dis- ability, and one potential recruit out of three unable fo meet the health requirements of our armed services, Yet hte world as a whole Is today breeding and raising finer human specimens than have ever been known before, as the whole- sale smashing of athletic records at the Olympic Games shows. Canadians? We waste more food than Asians eat, on a per head basis, Dr. Brock Chisholm* re- cently told parliamentarians here; our youth is not overweight, life insurance actuaries here tell me; we can afford as many automo- biles as there are families in Can- ada; we consumed a record and staggering 10 gallons of carbon- ated beverages per head in the first seven months of this year, according to our bureau of sta~ tistics. Surely then we can afford the facilities needed to create prime national health? Or did the Olym- pic Games shed a sly sidelight on Canada's great national tragedy: that we spend too much on passe ing comforts and too little on dur- able assets? That imported labor. saving gadgets are driving out native Canadian guts? The health of our ponulation i our greatest asset, when it declines, so will oi na.ional prouuctivity, our ability to hold our own in the economic Olympic Games. That is why our national health is closely watched by Otatwa and by all our governments, YELLOW PAGES BULLETIN SUBMERGED REAL ESTATE CREATES PROBLEM ACCORDING TO HERODOTUS, SURVEYING WAS INVENTED' BY EARLY EGYPTIAN PRIESTS TO SETTLE PROPERTY DISPUTES AFTER NILE FLOODS WASHED AWAY SURVEYING Li age] HAS BECOME SO EXACT TODAY | .Z=e-| THAT SURVEYORS, LISTED PAGES YELLOW, IN 1852, SURVEYORS USED A THEODOLITE TO CALCULATE MT.EVEREST AS 29,160¥FEET HIGH, LATER NAMED A THEODOLITE AFTER IT. ¥TODAY'S CALCULATION: 29,141 FEET. 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