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y | tye Oshavon Times Published by Conadion Newspapers Limited, 86 King 5. E., Oshows, Onf, Poge 6 Tuesdoy, larsry i7, 196) Police Deserve Support In Efforts For Safety Angry Toronto motorists ere still writing letters to editors complaining shout the roadblocks set up during the Christmas New Year's period by Metro police in an effort to weed out impeired end drunken drivers, One correspondent even went so far as to cherge thet the action of police in stopping end question- ing motorists smounted to arrest, Our sympathies sre sll with the police, who have a tremendously difficult job to do ss they strive to keep motorists from killing themselves and others, and who are constantly hampered by people who seem to think thet the slaughter on the highways is & natural condition of modern life, ¥ armed criminals roamed the high- ways and streets, the public would wel- come the sight of police roadblocks as evidence that steps were being taken to protect public safety and to catch the law-breskers, Yet a man whose mental and physical abilities are impaired by sleohol or drugs becomes & dangerous criminal the moment he steps into a car and sets it in motion, Few murders ere committed by armed robbers, but scores of lives are taken each yesr in Canada by drivers whe invariably had "only & couple of beers" This strange 1 tment of poli efforts to reduce the traffic toll is & major factor in keeping the toll high, What en outcry there is when police use un~ marked cars for checks on motorists The attitude seems to be that the breaks ing of traffic lew is not an offence unless it is witnessed by a policeman in uniform in a clearly marked police car, It is true thet the best form of lew enforcement is prevention, and thet the sight of #8 marked police car on a highs way has a sobering effect on drivers, But the sudden caution lasts only for a few miles, It is impossible to station police cars on every few blocks of city streets and every few miles of highway, The drivers who disobey traffic laws should realize that they can be checked without obvious warning, end then they may follow the rules for more than short distances, Echoes From The Past Some time ago we quoted the reasons given by the historian Gibbon for the fall of the Roman Empire, and suggested thet they might well be worth thinking about today, Now a correspondent has directed our sttention to extracts from Thucydides' account of the Peloppone- sian War and the downfall of Athens, Here is what Thucydides wrote: "Words changed their ordinary mean- ing and were construed in new senses, Reckless daring passed for courage, far- sighted hesitation was the excuse of a coward, moderation was the pretext of the unmanly, the power to see all sides of question was the complete inability tomct,,, "The seal of mutual good faith was complicity in erime and not the divine law. vy "Villainy was sooner called clever than simplicity good , , , "The cause of these evils was love of power due to ambition and greed ,,, "The leaders of both sides used spe- elous phrases championing a moderate aristocracy or political equality for the masses, They professed to study publie interests but made them their prize , , . "Religion meant nothing, but the use of fair phrases to achieve a criminal end was respected , , , "Simplicity was ridiculed and disap- peared , , , "There was no promise binding, ne oath that inspired awe , "Their enemies despised them, and thought it needless to effect by violence what they could achieve by their brains, and so they were taken off their guard and destroyed," At another time we have quoted the critical view taken by an ancient Egypt» ian of the failings of the youth of his day, The echoes come strongly from the past, and if there is nothing more than this to be learned from them, they are still worth listening toi Man has made tremendous progress in science and technology during the comparatively brief space of time that he has heen a thinking being, but in his understanding of himself and his society, and his con. trol of both, he moves at something less than the speed of thought, Science Interpretation During the last few years, much has been written and said about the need for scientists to have a better understanding of the humanities, During a recent visit to New York, the distinguished British scientists and novelist, Bir Charles P, Snow reversed the theme, and argued that humanists are largely illiterate in modern science, Beience and the hu. manities are alienated, he said, at a time when science has penetrated into areas of knowledge with which the spokesmen for the humanities ought to be familiar, He added that scientists know more about the humanities than the humanists know about science, It is undoubtedly true that although comparatively few humanists may know anything about the second law of thermo~ dynamics, scientists as a whole know at least something about Shakespeare and Beethoven, Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times points out, however, that there is a practical reason for this, The Phe Oshawa Times VL WILION, Publisher and General Manager € GWYN KINSEY, Editar ™e Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times blished 1871) and the Tonite Gazeta and tele (established 1843), Is published dally { ve and statutory holidays excepted) Members of Canadian Dally Newspapers Publishers Awneciation, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Cirsulation and the Ontaria Provincial Dailies Anse siation, The Canadian Press ls exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all wwe despatched In the paper credited to It or to The Associated Prams or Reuters, and alia the local news published therein. 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By mall (in proving of Ontario) outside carriers delivery areas 12.00, shwwhers 1500 pm Vea, Average Daily Net Paid as of April 30, 1960 16.999 humanities are more accessible, The vocas bulary of the humanities is 8 working part of the language of mankind because it is rooted in individual experience, But the vocabulary of science is formidable, It deals in abstractions that are outside the experience of most people, and is often gibberish to the layman, The second law of thermo-dynamics, which deals with the relation between heat and energy, can be easily memorized, but unless it is one's vocation to use it as a premise for scientific work, it is less meaningful than any of the cliches of every-day language -- "wisdom is better than rubies," "love makes the world go round," and se on, Mr, Atkinson refers to the flat and bloodless style of scientific writing, There is no life phrases such as "value con. fliets," "life patterns" "space pay» off," "mass media" and "the promoters spokesman", which he takes from a scien» tific institution's report on a "Summary of Proposed Studies on the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities on Human Affairs" If humanists are to interpret the universe, which is their ultimate function, Atkinson argues that science will have to provide interpreters who can address the humanists as Eddington, Jeans and Dampier did two or three decades ago, and as Darwin and Wallace, both ex» cellent writers, did in the 19th century, Other Editor's Views CHEWING ROBOT (Detroit Free Press) That automated post office in Provis dence, RI, has developed a tie, In the process of sorting the mails, it chews up about 30 to 40 letters a day, The postal people have to fish out the scraps; send a mimeographed form explaining what happened, This machine, then, is only hall perfected, It must either learn to send the form automatically, or be more selec tive and only chew up bills and junk snail G REPORT FROM U.K, Warfare Between Lines, Passengers By M, McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON = Airline passen- gers who hook seats on several planes for one journey and then fail to cancle the reservations which they do not intend to use, nave forced the airline com panies operating out of London Airport to take drastic counter: measures, Concerned because of lanes leaving with empty seats Jones | of multiple bookings made by individuals who are not sure which flight they will be able to catch, the airlines have resorted to hooking more passengers than they can actu: ally accommodate on their air. eraft This situation was brought to light in 8 number of letters to the editor published in the Daily Telegraph. The counter - meas: ures put into effect by some air: lines, particularly the HRritish European Airways, has resulted in passengers with valid tick: ets, bought well in advance, he. ing told at the airport that there was no room for them on the lanes for which they were ooked, A report has just been Issued of a statement made Bt a re- cent meeting of the Inter: National Air Transport Associ ation, dealing with this subject, The statement was made by A. H, Millward, chief executive of BEA, He said that the air: lines were pursuing a deliberate policy of over - hooking of pas sengers to protect themselves, There was no effective penalty or deposit system, he pointed out, that would prevent people from not showing up or from booking several passages, The result was that in many instances an airline ticket was no longer a valid document, He hoped that in the very near fu ture some means would he de: vised to preserve the sanctity of the ticket and of a reserva: tion on an airline, PASSENGER PENALTY The only penalty imposed at present Is when a passenger falls to arrive for a flight and falls to cancel his booking be. fore the time he is due to re. port for the flight, The penalty is then 24 per cent of the one: way fare, This penalty, however, has had no effect on passengers, who, to INSIDE YOU Lack Of Protein Causes Bleeding By BURTON H, FERN, MD How wrong can you get? Hemophilia literally means to love blood, yet the hemophilia sufferer hates the sight of his blood, because the smallest cut or scrape may start him bleed: ing to death, That's why heme: philia victims are called 'bleeders, Although many people think hemophilia attacks only blue: bloods, most victims are com: moners, some are even green horns and an occasional bleeder shows up here in town, But mod: ern cold-blooded treatment ean keep all these victims in the pink, BUILDING STRONG CLOTS Blood clots which stop bleed. ing are made according to rigid specifications, To build strong, healthy clots you need at lease a dozen essential ingred. lents and a deficiency of any one leads to sluggish clotting, And, of course, sluggish clotting leads to lively bleeding The hemophilia sufferer bleeds because his body lacks one of the essential blood-clot. ting ingredients -- a special pros tein called antihemophilic globu lin or "AHG", Although doctors call several different deficien- cles hemophilia, true hemo: philia always means an AHG deficiency, MAJORITY MALE Most hemophiliae bleeders are male; female bleeders are harder to find than Rikinis in Boston, Hemophilia is inherit ed, When males inherit the trait they're born bleeders; females merely carry the trait to pass on But strangely enough, the male bleeder can't pass the trait on to his sons: males have to in herit the trait from their mos thers, Even though hemophilia is in herited, it usually doesn't cause any trouble until the baby starts to walk, Then, every fall scrape and tumble means fresh, large bruises for the toddler, and evervday outs may land Mm in the hospital, Hemo- philia is one condition baby won't grow out of: the bleeding problem will plague him year after year, He bleeds Inside as well as out» side and so hemorrhages may damage his lungs and kidneys or other organs, Bleeding into joints == especially the knees, hips and elbows -- can become an everyday affair when normal wear and tear sets off large, painful hemorrhages, Narcotics soothe this agony, but eventually the joint can he erippled and the patient addicted, NORMAL LIVES In spite of all this, most hemo- philia sufferers today live nore mal lives, Of course they take care to aveid injury whenever possible == just like everybody else, They know that ice packs and pressure bandages can hans dle most cuts and bruises and that the doctor can paint spe cial clot-forming chemicals on their more serious wounds (Stitches are out because each new stitch will start more bleed: ng.) To cure hemophilia, the miss Ing AHG has to be replaced, DOESN'T CURE Hut this treatment doesn't really cure, The injected AHG rapidly spoils and after the transfusion the bleeding ten. dency S00Rn returns, Doctors sometimes have to give the frox en plasma transfusions for three, four or even five days to stop bad bleeding. And so You and Yours can seo that the hemophilia problem won't be really solved until medical bloodhounds sniff out a true cure PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM "What is your prime objective for the New Year?" asks a psy chologist, To live through it it is more blessed to give than to receive = but receiving isn't at all bad, | airlines resorted to make sure of a seal on a par. ticular flight, or on any oné of several flights scheduled for the same day, book two or three seats, sometimes in different names, and cancel all but one pethaps only one hour or twe efore take-off time, It was be: cause of this that some of the the prae- tice of over hooking, some times with unfortunate results for the prospective passengers left behind, In extenuation, BEA reports that it has at present over 7000 bookings for the Channel Is- lands for next summer, Many of these will not be fulfilled, but the airline is naturally concerns ed that the holiday season should not arrive with the num- ber of cancellations exceeding the subsequent bookings, dent for a second term, William 8, Roberts wes 8p yori pointed vice-president eral manager of General ¥ hour of Canada to succeed Harry J, cept & position at Canada's war production pre- gram, " Wesley R, Ellioit was installed #s president and 18 new mem- bers were initisied into Branch 43, Canadian Legion at the in- staliation ceremony of officers and members, at the Legion an, Work was proceeding on the bridge reross the Oshawa Creek north of Bloor $t, on the new Toronto-Oshawa four-lane high way, Contracts had been let on bridges at Pickering #nd the Rouge River, A campaign was launched in Oshawa and district to promote the sale of War Saving Stamps and Certificates, J, B, Beaton of Oshawa, William Davidson of Whithy end R, J. Harper of Port Perry, were named chair: men of the Committee, More than 100 applications were received for the Royal Canadian Navy while the re: eruiting office was in operation here, The 28 recruits that were signed up were skilled crafts men, Mrs. L, L, Fowler was elected president and Mrs, H, Canning, vice-president, of the choir of Al- bart Street Church for 1941, J. H, Beaton, honorary presi- dent, officially turned on the new floodlights at Oshawa Ski "lub, Charles Eadie, member of the Oshawa Life Underwriters' As sociation, was re-elected presi: 43 hours, one contestant, shortly followed by # second, had to he taken to tal, where they were reported to have "gone into convulsions" The eontest was then ealled off by the store: keeper, who thus conserved his first prize (a $260 TV), and his second prize (a $120 Hi-Fi), and his third prize (a $5 transistor radio), But he gave each of the still - rocking competitors a con. solation prize of $50, A medical report on the two hospitalized men who had gone unrewarded off thelr rockers sald "they sre not injured--just confused," WHO 18 HONORABLE? Quebec's new minister of lands and forests, in Premier Jean Lesage's Liberal govern ment of that province, wishes to be ealled "Honorable," In fact, he has instructed his staff to return to their sender marked unknown," any mail addressed ot him which omits this title, This remarkable step by Mr, Bona Arsensult, T mean Honor: able Bona Arsenault, followed upon Premier Lesage's public request that his ministers should shed this title, Hence the silly situation that while the remier asks to be called Mis. er Lesage, his subordinate de- mands the title 'Honorable Did Bona pull 8 boner? That sounds too much like "Horri- ble," and that goes ill wiht "Boney Arsenal," which was his pickname when he was an MP here, Or was that when he was 8 Conservative in politics? No, ke But anyhow, 8s we sey In tawan, he is 100 late to ask # special name, Here we ready knew him by & vivid and very private one, which bowd- lerizes his own name, Any mall addressed to that would cer: tainly be returned marked "un. known," That old chestnut about Of tawa"s supernumerary girls has come to the surface again, There are seven women Lo eve ery man in Oltawas, according to the old saying. But our coldly efficient bureau of statistics de- nies it: 94 men to 100 women, i says, and this is roughly the na~ tional average and heiter than Quebec City's 92:100 ratio, In the most nubile age group, be- tween 25 and 34 years old, un. married men ouloumbered un wed girls 6-5, This is sll a lie, assert girls in the civil service, Or, if it Is true, the men hide themselves and don't want dates, Now the civil service is having difficulty in recruiting young women from elsewhere; they are afraid of "manless" tawa, but the slur is not true, The men are here; can the girls get them? 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