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Final arrangements were com- pleted for the annual observance in Oshawa of Fire Prevention UNITED KINGDOM OPINION BY-GONE DAYS fre @shavon Somes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Oni. Page 6 Saturday, September 30, 1961 No Need To Await Era Of Perplexed Parent' The next decade may become known as the "era of the perplexed parent" if the present trend to the "new look" in high school mathematics continues, - according to Dr. Floyd G. Robinson, research director of the Canadian Teachers' Federation. He gives views in an article published in the CIL magazine, Oval. Within the past few years, he says, university mathematicians and high school teachers have taken a long look at the traditional secondary school mathematics courses and have emerged with two disturbing conclusions: the content of the present curriculum is so far behind the times that it predates Newton's discovery of the calculus in 1666; and it deprives the student of an opportunity to acquaint himself with such "modern" topics as symbolic logic, non-Euclidean geometry, the theory of probability, and statistics, all of which are important forces in shaping the course of modern science and civiliza- tion. We do not doubt that it would be Mild Effects Children are not much different whether thy lie inside or outside the range of television, say researchers from Stanford University. Three research expects sampled chil- dren from several centres in the western part of the United States, and spread their research into Canada where the British Columbia towns of Quesnel and ' Langley were chosen. In the Canadian towns, about 550 children in grades one, six and ten were studied over the course of a month. Langley, within reach of television, showed children in the earlier grades with a vocabularly rating about a year ahead of TV-barren Quesnel. By the time the sixth grade was reached this difference had disappeared. In Quesnel, children knew more about public affairs and the fine arts. This was balanced, if you would call it that, by a larger reading of comic books and a greater attendance at the movies. Wilbur Schramm editor of the preli- minary report believed that "TV makes no difference in the importance of books, and actually seems to contribute to the felt importance of newspapers. On the other hand, it cuts radio's apparent im- portance in two, and almost completely both possible and profitable to clear the deadwood from traditional curricula and promote the understanding of the logical structure of mathematics instead of rote learning. But Dr. Robinson does not have to' wait for the next decade to produce the "era of the perplexed parent." We're in. such an era now The parents are perplexed not by sub- ject matter but by the curious selection of texts used in the teaching of that matter. Is there so much progress being made in the teaching of, say, a foreign lan- guage that a new text is required each year? We doubt it, but it happens. Why does one school reject a textbook that another finds satisfactory -- which school is right? Why would a school decide to use a textbook that apparently is out of print, with the result that senior students do not have a text at all for several weeks? These are only a few of the questions that perplex parents, whe are beginning to wonder if texts are produced for the sake of students or of the publishing houses. Of TV eliminates movies and comic books as 'most missed' experiences." He suggests TV is replacing the kinds of satisfactions the child would otherwise have found chiefly in radio, movies and comics. Television does have an influence on young viewers in the opinion of Mr. Schramm. But he is not fully in accord with those who believe it makes children more aggressive or helps them discharge aggressiveness. In his opinion, children will watch the kind and amount of tele- vision best fitted to their own inner drives. The governing factor is not the television program but the personality of the child. Granted that TV does not harm chile dren, Mr. Schramm is not too sure doing much to help them. He believes the best kind of programs for children could inspire them to higher levels of achievement. With the emphasis on en- tertainment the medium does not appear to be much interested in uplift. But this is not the matter for the in. dustry alone. It is a parental respone sibility to condition the young minds to appreciate the headier fare. Without this guidance the young ones would probably go back to their comic books rather than be uplifted by that the TV industry had to offer. v Good Days For Autos Canada's automobile dealers and the giant industry that supplies them are in- creasingly confident about better days ahead, the Financial Post reports. "Your market is 440,000 new pas- senger car sales average per year for the next five years." This cheering prediction comes from e respected U.S. dealer and author, Martin H. Bury of Philadelphia, who has made a study of the Canadian and U.S. auto market. He was speaking at the sessions of the Federation of Auto- mobile Dealer Associations of Canada in Montreal last week. Only in one year -- 1960 -- have that many passenger cars been sold here. Average car sales at that level would mean new prosperity for the dealers, vehicle and parts manufactur. ers and more business for producers of She Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher and General Manager C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle (established 1863), is published daily (Sundays ond statutory holidays excepted). Members ot Canadian Daily Newspoper Publishers Association, The Conadion Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation ond the Ontario Provincial Doilies Asso. ciation, The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news despatched The in the paper credited to-it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein. All rights of special despoiches ore olso reserved. Offices: Thomson building, 425 University Avenue, 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, Hompton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton Enniskillen, , Leskord, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Columbus, Greenwood. Kinsale, Ruglon Blackstock, Manchester Pontypool and Newcastle not over 45¢ per week. By mail (in Province of Ontario) outside carriers' delivery areas 12.00 per year. Other Provinces end Commonwealth Countries 1500. USA. and Foreign 24.00. Circulation for the issue of March 30, 1961 17,363 steel, aluminum, rubber, textiles, glass and other materials and components. What makes Bury's prediction of particular note is the fact that his opti- mistic figures confirm those privately developed by Canadian manufacturers. This growing buoyancy about auto in- dustry prospects isamportant to all Cana- dians for this very good reason: Sales of new cars in Canada provide one in seven working Canadians, directly or indirectly, with jobs and pay cheques. Other Editor's Views COMMUNIST FOOD PROBLEM (Milwaukee Journal) Premier Khrushchev promises his people free bread within 20 years. This must interest the East Germans, whose main problem at the moment is to get enough bread. They're short on all types of food. For 40 years in the Soviet Union and 15 years in eastern Europe the Com- muniste have struggled to increase food supplies. Yet in most areas pre-World War II levels of production have not been regained. Much of the trouble has been poor planning and poor distribu tion. Thus the system that promise plenty produces scarcity. Bible Thought Be not weary in well doing. -- IL Thessalonians 3:13. What unguessed glory would come to God and men if everyone who does well would keep on doing welll The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from an- other.--Genesis 31:49. Though we cannot always be with our friends and loved ones, it is our high privilege to be able to pray for them. German Election Could Change Market Approach By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- All that I have indicated in recent articles about the hard bargaining which lies ahead of the United Kingdom in seeking to enter the European Common Market is amply borne out in the latest statement made by Professor Walter Hallstein, president of the Common Mar- ket Commission, which is its policy-making and administra. tive body. In a speech just made in Strasbourg, he gave warning that grave and complex difficul- ties have been raised by Brit. ain's application to join the market. Prof. Hallstein is determined to insist that Britain pays the maximum political price for joining. He said it wa: now up to Britain to state in concrete form how she proposes to solve such problems as her future re- lations with the Commonwealth and British and Commonwealth agriculture. Britain, he empha- sized, is expected to give the same undertakings if she joined as were given by the six coun- tries when they created the Com- mon Market, He confirmed what I wrote in a recent article, that the negotiations woald be pro- longed and difficult, MAY BE REPLACED Professor Hallste'n, who is a German, holds a position of great power and authority in the European Economic Community. There is, however, a hint that the result of the West German election may affect his position and standing. Prof. Erhard has emerged as the most likely suc- cessor to Chancellor Adenauer, and it is no secret that Erhard is not in sympathy with the im- placable views held by Hall- stein. If Erhard should become Chancellor, it is believed that he will oppose Prof. Hallstein being continued in office as pres- ident of the Common Market Chancellor, it is believed that to be much more favorably dis- posed towards Britain's entry into the Common Market on spe- cial terms than is Hallstein. So a change in the German chan- cellorship may have a direct bearing on the success or other- wise of Britain's applicatioa, and the conditions Britain will seek to bring out of the nego- tiations. IGNORE WAGE PAUSE The Ford Motor Company of the United Kingdom seems like- ly to be the first large industrial concern to ignore the govern- ment's pause in the increasing of wages. At a meeting with the leaders of 22 unions involved in the Ford plants, an offer of in- creased wages to ihe workers was tabled by the company. The offer was made to its 43,000 em- ployees as a reward for three months without a wild-cat strike. At the last meeting between company executives and the unions in June, the company said that it would give sym- pathetic consideration to the claim for higher wages if there was tangible evidence that there would be fewer labor disputes. Because oi the much better rec- ord of absence of strikes since then, the company feels that it is committed to ah increase in wages. Since the wage pause policy was not announced by the government until late July, Ford's can quite legitimately claim that the commitment for more pay was made before that date, and would therefore not be subject to the wage pause policy. Ford's decision wiii complicate the position of other engineering employers, who are to have wage claims presented to them in the near future. TEACHERS' STRIKE Britain's educational system is due for a period of demoraliza- tion as the result of strikes ordered by the National Union of Teachers and the National Association of Schoolmasters. In a one-day strike by the latter body, in the London area, 2,000 schoolmasters did not turn up in their classrooms, over 350 schools had to be closed and 60,000 children either stayed away or were sent home. The National Union of Teache ers is planning strikes on a much wider scale and of much longer duration. It has proposed that teachers go on strike offie cially, but continue {c reach the children in other premises than OTTAWA REPORT Broader Vision Of Co-Operation PATRICK NICHOLSON The Conservative Government and the Liberal Opposition agree upon today's urgency for the Western nations to stand shoul- der to shoulder in the defence of freedom. But Parliamentary tempers flared as never before in this resumed session, when Prime Minister Diefenbaker and Liberal Leader Pearson dis- agreed as to which shoulder should be braced against which. Specifically, Lester Pearson questioned the right of Canada's Ministers to indulge in public criticism of Britain's plans to join the European Common Market. Our government should be more concerned in discussing and negotiating possibilities for expanding our own trade, rather than in slamming the door, Mr. Pearson believes. "What is required," he told me, 'is less whining and preaching to the British, and more constructive efforts to co- operate with them in the inte- rests of ensuring a satisfactory form of Canadian association with the new and enlarged eco- nomic community, so that it may in time become an Atlantic Economic Community." PEARSON'S VISION Mr. Pearson, more than any other Canadian statesman in the past 12 years, has caught the vision of international together- ness. In the modern world, shrunk by faster communication and cheaper transportation, a small self-sufficient state might conceivably be able to continue existence as a backward cab- bage--if nature had placed it in a geographic backwater. But, as France and Italy and West Germany and now even Britain have discovered, in the maelstrom of today's power pol-. itics and automated overproduc- tion, even a major power re- quires full international co-oper- ation to keep pace with the huge monolithic giants. More than 10 years ago, Mr. Pearson was a convinced dis- ciple of the doctrine that the na- tions sited around the North At- lantic Ocean must pool much of their sovereignty to be able to compete with the quickly achieved and instantly obeyed decisions of a dictatorship. We have pooled our sovereignty in military matters with our 14 al- lies in NATO. That treaty also signposted similar pooling in non - military fields, such as trade and culture. "Our North Atlantic Alliance," declared Mr. Pearson, speaking on St. George's Day 1950, "may provide the foundation for a great co - operative economic ccmmonwealth. You may say that this is unrealistic nonsense; but I suggest that in this jet- propelled atomic age, no plan less than this would be ade- quate, no vision less than this will do." Mr. Pearson still speaks the same way today; but many less people are now inclined to term that "'unrealistic nonsense" WORDS, NOT DEEDS Mr. Pearson did nothing effec. tive to have his vision imple- mented by the Liberal govern. ment, of which he was a mem- ber for seven years after he made that statement. For this, he owes Canadians an explana- tion. Yet his argument is increas- ingly accepted, that a better fue ture for Canadians, for the free world and for mankind lies ine side the larger - than - national grouping of a western economic and political commonwealth. Only last month the U.S. Con- gress heard a representative urge that a free world common market, developing viable free world political institutions, would be the best possible answer to Khrushchev's challenge of com- petitive co-existence. Thus there is logic in Mr. Pearson's contention that Can: ada should at least explore the conditions upon which Canada might become associated with the Common Market, rather than whine because our friends do the same. The statesmanlike vision of a commonwealth of the free world is not only more attractive to- day; it Is more urgently a pos- sible solution to our problems in the economic, cultural and so- cial fields, just as it has proved itself to be in the military field. This principle is emphasized by the name of the European group, the European Economic Community, stressing the last word. That group is frankly aimed at the broader target of forming a United States of Fu- rope, as a step towards the cre- Shion of a United States of Atlan. ica, PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM "If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again" And if you haven't succeeded "after three trials, you've struck out, so try something else. "The typical American has a much higher standard of living than that of the average citizen of any other country," says a columnist. Most of them wish they could afford it. Learning to #8 successful gardener consists mainly in learning to outwit - Mother Nature. Americans may be wasting a lot of time and money in pre- paring to go to the moon, as the Russian: will probably beat them there and pass immigra- tion laws that would exclude their entry to the moon. the schools, on a voluntary basis, and without reference to educational authorities. This procedure would not be recog- nized by the ministry of educa- tion, but Sir Ronald Gould, gen- eral secretary of the National Union o' Teachers, has asked its members to suscribe to it. There is littie unanimity among the teachers on this plan and much opposition to a pro- posal that all teachers contribute five per cent of their salaries to a strike fund. The situation 's therefore, still confused. The only thing certain is that on October 24 there will be a gen- eral one-day strike ol all teach- ers on the day when parliament re-assembles. FEWER UNIONS Ernest Marples, minister of transport, has come back from a tour of European shipyards with a big idea in his mind. He wants to have immediate talks with the minister of Labor, John Hare, on the possibility of re- ducing the number of unions in British shipyards. Mr. Marples put his plan forward with the following remarks: "The harmony of management and men in continental ship- yards has to be seen to be be- 40 YEARS AGO The financial drive for the YMCA reached its objective of $15,000. Oshawa's first big main storm sewer was completed at a cost of $74,000. Paul Purves was appointed clerk of East Whitby township in succession to his father, Wil- liam Purves, who held the post for 41 years. lieved. There has been no strike in Dutch shipyards since 1945. The same goes for Sweden, and for Germany since she started building ships in 1950. In all these cases, a single union rep. resents the men. There is a com- plete flexibility of labor and a drgree of trust not very highly developed in this conutry. "While they have a single union," said Mr. Marples, "we have at least 20 with no f{lexibil- ity, and this places us under a grievous handicap." It was because of this handi- cap, he added, that British ship- yards lost business because they could not give guarantees of de- livery dates. Mr. Marples is to put his plan before the minister of labor. But when it gets down to the union leaders he will find he has a tiger by the tail. The last thing they want to see is an amalga- mation of all unions in the ship- yard industry into one big union, Board of Education awarded a contract to W. J. Trick Co., to erect two portable schools to cost $3,500 each. The Oshawa Railway Co. re- moved its tracks and trolley poles from Mill street. The Oshawa Baseball Club, 1921 champions of the Central Ontario League, was tendered a banquet in Welsh's Parlors. H. W. Elliott, Inspector of the Children's Aid Society of Ontario County, was appoin-ed to repre- sent the provincial povernment at the Public Weifare Confer- ence in Montreal. Mary V. Nowlan won the first prize in the children's essay con- test conducted by the Ontario Safety League. Week. The jurisdiction of Police Magistrate Major A. F. Hind, Oshawa, was extended to East Whitby. C. M. Mundy attended the executive committee meeting of the Hunters' Game and Fish Protective Association in To- ronto. General Motors Corporation announced that it -- use Oshawa as a base for all export usiness, except Cadill: and GM trucks. Be an The excavation work on the new one-storey industry, Feld. spar Glass Co., was completed. A spell of heavy rains delay- ed construction of the new bridge on King street west. 135 SIMCOE ST. NORTH ® RESIDENT PARTNERS Gordon W. Riehl, CA, RIA Burt R. Waten, CA. Hon. J. W. Monteith, ».C.A. MP Gordon W. Riehl, C.A., R.1* Robert W. Lightfoot, C.A. Monteith, Monteith, Riehl & Co. Chartered Accountants PARTNERS; OSHAWA, ONTARIO » TELEPHONE: Oshawe RA 5.3527 Ajox WH Bowmanville ZEnith 4-375 A Brock Montel, 5. Comme George E. Trethewey, CA. Burt R. Waters, C.A. - Live Better Electrically SIGN OF THE TIMES! 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