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~-- She Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limite 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1962 -- PAGE 6 Poll Tax Unfair Levy And Should Be Dropped Oshawa city council, over the op- position of Mayor Christine Thomas, Aldermen Gordon Attersley and Walter Branch and city tax collector Clarence Cox, has voted to retain the poll tax. It is not a decision we can applaud. The poll tax is a discriminatory levy; it does not, for example, apply to women, despite the fact that there are now a substantial number of work- ing girls. It is, in many cases, taxation without representation and thus a violation of one of the great prin- ciples of our system of government. It could be argued that it is double taxation; those who are expected to pay it must live somewhere -- at home or in rooms -- and municipal taxes are reflected in what they pay for their accommodation, just as surely as the taxes are reflected in the amounts paid by renters of quart- ers large enough to free them of poll tax. There are other objections, Mr. Cox, an experienced municipal official, says that the tax is unfair, since it is so difficult to collect that he figures he is getting only 75 per cent of those who should pay. Mr. Branch objects to the "gestapo-type methods of col- lection". Finance chairman Bastedo claims the city would lose $13,000 on the basis of last year's revenues if the tax were dropped. But Mayor Thomas points out that only $5000 has been placed in this year's budget in anti- cipation of poll tax receipts. When Mr. Cox suggested to city council back in January that the tax be dropped, he pointed out that the estimated cost of collecting $17,000 in poll tax in 1961 was more than $13,000 -- and that was the cost to his department alone. It is not a fair tax and it is not an effective tax. We hope that when city council reconsiders the matter -- for it is certain to come up again -- this week's decision will be reversed, Fallacy Of Absolutes Some Canadian politicians have recently expressed their dismay at the growth of an extreme right-wing movement in the United States that keeps demanding "total victory" in the cold war. Canadians have every right to be alarmed ; while the develop- ment of right or left wing movements in the U.S. is strictly the business of the Americans, the pursuit of "total victory" could mean disaster for all of us. Canadians, however, are no more dismayed or angered than are mode- rate Americans -- and thank good- ness, the moderates far outnumber the extremists. The darling of the hard-nosed right in the U.S. is Senator Barry Goldwater. A few months ago Senator William Fulbright asked Senator Goldwater just what he meant by the oft-repeated demand that the United States move to attain total victory. This is a fine, resounding phrase and it never fails to please civic club and Republican audiences, Senator Fulbright observed, but what does it mean? Senator Fulbright wanted to know if it meant-victory by means of all-out nuclear war, and if so, when should the U.S. start such a war. If war is not the means to be used to attain total victory, then it must be done by a bold diplomatic stroke so convincing that everyone on the other side im- mediately will see that unanswerable logic of it and accept it. Did Senator Goldwater have any knowledge of such a diplomatic stroke? If so, of course, it was his duty to western civilization to reveal it. The Fulbright questions punctured the Goldwater poppycock. Seator Gold- water had to admit that he did not mean the U.S. should launch a nuclear war, and he knew of no single dip- lomatic stroke which could produce total victory. Following that exchange, Senator Goldwater has been talking less about total victory but more about specific anti-Communist measures. He says, of example, that he would have torn down the Berlin wall during the first days of its building. It is easy to say what one would have done in circumstances that are past. Fortu- nately, there seems little likelihood of the Senator's ever being in a position to make such a decision. U.K.'s Political Mood After the licking the British Con- servatives took in recent by-elections, political observers will be watching with more than usual interest the results of six more U.K. by-elections, all of which will probably be held before the end of April. Our London correspondent, Mc- Intyre Hood, points out that an analysis of the combined figures of the four by-elections already held does not give the government party much encouragement. It shows that the Con- servative vote dropped by 19.1 per cent and the Labor vote fell by 4.8 per cent. The Liberal vote showed an increase of 23.8 per cent, while in- dependent candidates gained fraction- ally. There are two major conclusions to be drawn from these figures, Mr. Hood thinks. First is that the Liberals made their spectacular gains over- She Oshawa Fines T. L. WILSON, Publisher C, GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times {established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle (established 1863), is published daily (Sundays and statutory holidays excepted), Members of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontario Provincia! Dailies. Asso- ciation. 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Second is that the net swing away from the Tories, which would be in Labor's favor at a general election, works out at over seven per cent. This would be enough to put Mr. Gaitskell in power with a_ three- figure majority if it were repeated in every riding. In the six by-elections of the im- mediate future, four are in seats formerly held by Labor members and two formerly held by Conservatives. The first will be at Pontefract, where the result is a foregone conclusion, as the former Labor MP rolled up a majority of 24,310 in a two-party right. The Liberals will not contest this seat, so that all that is unknown about it is the size the Labor majority. ' At Stockton-on-Tees, Derby North and West Lothian, however, there were fairly close contests in 1959. Liberals are entered in all three consti- tuencies. In Middlebrough West the Conservative candidate had a 8710 majority over Labor in 1959 and the Liberal candidate lost his deposit, but the Liberals plan to enter a candidate again, and this contest should do much to reveal the extent of the Liberal revival. The Liberals will probably not run. in West Derbyshire, won handily by the Conservatives in 1959. After what happened in Blackpool and Orpington in recent weeks, it would seem as if, in the present elec- toral mood, even a former majority of 14,000 or 15,000 is no guarantee of another win in by-election in Britain. of Bible Thought Draw nigh unto God...:-- James 4:8. Why do we hesitate? God is near to forgive, to bless, to comfort, to help, to quicken, to deliver, \ Xl \ \\ NEUTRAL YARDSTICK NEEDED -- / Den, (( 2. CO, he ' } Sa | HE? SHRIYL Py % Ase <= Conte, > OTTAWA REPORT by Chubby Power has been planing a counter-attack upon 4 our democratic freedom, The Charges Liberals Change Principles By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--For better or for worse the Liberal party is radi- cally changing the principles which have steered it for 95 years since Confederation. As guided by Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Mackenzie King, our Liberal party was an ortho- dox political machine. It sought to appeal to the voters through popular policies and pleasant personalities. With the normal electoral swings, it thus aimed to change places from time to time with the Conservative party as our federal govern- ment responsible to the voters. But this Laurier concept of "responsible government" was subtly changed as the late C. D. Howe accumulated cabinet authority. A successful busi- nessman, born and raised in the U.S., he was accustomed to quick decision by a board of directors and positive action by a managing director. Thus he was unfamiliar with parliamen- tary checks and balances, and little appreciated the political art of compromise to preserve the rights of minorittes. He in- troduced to Ottawa something of the undemocratic philosophy of statism. This was loudly deplored by the high -- principled Liberal of the old school and former cab- inet minister, Hon (Chubby) Power, at the Liberal conven- tion here in 1948. YOUR HEALTH From the ideology of the CCF," he said, '"'we have lifted the worship of bureaucratic con- trols. This has left Parliament little more than the role of a debating society, controlled from the outside, not by the peo- ple whu ciect its members, but by minor czars and petty dicta- tors," GRAB POWER St. Laurent was less strong and active than King in the of- fice of prime minister; this in- creasing power vacuum at the top enabled the bureaucracy to grab more and more of the de- tailed power of government. These "minor czars and petty dictators', who were usurping the authority of our elected par- liamentarians, met frequently in small groups at lunch and in larger groups in their homes in the evening. Thus Canada was governed around the buffet table rather than around the cabinet council table, and in closed discussion in_ private houses rather than in open de- bate in the House of Commons, But the popular upsurge at the polling booths in 1957 and 1958 rejected this bossocracy. As a result, the more democratic new government took back the reins, and Parliament was re- stored as Canada's supreme authority. Using the cloak of the Liberal party, the philosophy denounced ont Dry During Day But Nights Wet By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, MD Dear Dr. Molner: Why do I retain water all day and then have to get up from three to six times at night? Mrs. E. H. Ordinarily we get rid of about three times as much fluid dur- ing the day as at night. Our whole system works faster by day. Besides, we drain fluid just before we go to bed, and do so again in the morning, and we sleep only about eight hours. And that's how we come out even on intake and outgo, and don't "have to get up at night." But suppose the kidneys don't work quite as efficiently as they once did. This is not uncom- mon as we grow older. Well, the kidneys don't filter fluids as rapidly, and the result is that we have to change somewhat from our lifelong schedule. This delay, in a word, means we "have to get up at night." Sometimes a matter of health is involved; sometimes it's just growing older, with the kidneys losing efficiency. Cystitis (a dis- order of the bladder), or pros- tate trouble in men, or diabetes at any age, which causes exces- sive thirst and hence frequency of voiding, are the commoner health causes. A physical check up to rule these out of the pic- ture is advisable, and it isn't a very complicated or costly sort of examination. So do that first. CONSIDER FACTORS Once these factors are ruled out, consider the others which are involved. The rate and fre- quency of urination depends, be- sides, on the amount of fluids consumed; the diet, which can be "'dry" or of average moist- ness; on the state of our emo- tions, since nervousness causes greater frequency; the temper- ature; the amount of exercise we get; and, as I said before the efficiency of the kidneys If no health problem is in- volved, we should try to get our fluids (whether soup, fruit, veg- etables, or anything else, since virtually everything we eat fs partly water) earlier in the day. Give the slowed kidneys a little more time to catch up. We may, to our own advan- tage, cultivate a habit of drink- ing water, milk, tea, coffee, or whatever, in the morning, or in the first half of the day, and tapering off in the afternoon and evening. Tea, coffee and alcoholic bev- erages of any kind, taken in the evening, not only add fluid but also (because of their chemical nature) increase physical ur- gency to excrete the fluid. So avoid these late in the day or in the evening. It's not easy, I know, to change the habits of a lifetime, But if changing our habits will let us sleep with fewer inter- ruptions, it's worth it. Dear Dr. Molner: I am 54 and weigh 196..My blood pres- sure is on the high side, 190 and 200, and I also have some liver trouble. Does whiskey cause the blood pressure to rise and does it hurt the liver? I really enjoy my liquor but con- sider myself a moderate drinker.. Mr. In-Between. Moderate-schmoderate! Whis- key combined with a liver ail- ment is just asking for more trouble. And the same for that 196 pounds. Note to Mrs. S. G.: "Ptery- gium" means a membranous growth that originates in the cor ner of the eye (usually from the inside), It grows very slowly but may, of course, interfere with vision if it extends across the pupil of the eye. It is seen in older people, usually those who have been considerably ex- posed to wind nd dust. It can be removed surgically if neces- sary. conclave of "liberally - minded Canadians" at Kingston 18 months ago lifted the curtain from the proposals for a highly- regimented economy. Now round. dozen of those former "minor czars and petty dicta- tors", grouped around the Lib- eral leadership, are. seeking to gain governmental power through the ballot box. These are the political shock- troops, not of the old line Liberal party campaigning to change places with the Conserv- ative party as a democratic government, but of a movement dedicated to fundamental changes in the Canadian way of life. Hazen Argue has de- clared that its plans most closely match his own social- istic ideas and ideals; Liberal headquarters has emphasised this trend by declaring that 'the Liberal party is not a doc- trinaire party, either of free en- terprise or of socialism". A .move towards maximum governmental! interference, and its corollary of maximum taxa- tion, may or may not be what Canada needs. We may require, like Russia, more public works and less consumer goods. But this issue now clearly confronts all Canadians, as the Liberals abandon the doctrine of Laurier and King, and proclaim the election issue as being "'free en- terprise" versus what Liberal stalward Chubby Power calls "minor czarism" PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM "The course of true love never runs smooth"--because there are so many angles to it. Tempers lost, like chickens, come home to roost. If half the world doesn't know how the other half lives now, this ignorance is certain- ly not the fault of the news media QUEEN'S PARK Pressures Blamed For Hasty Action By DON 0O'HEARN TORONTO--There is a sore need for deep thought on gov- ernment today. On government, and particularly in government on government. Pressures on government to- day are growing more and more. And more and more, it seems, government is acting in haste-- and it is to be hoped there will be time to repent later. There have been two illustra- tions of this here recently. Both, it happens, concern the attorney - general's branch of government. But they are not peculiar to this field. They rep- resent a general situation. In one of these, plans have BY-GONE DAYS 30 YEARS AGO The Oshawa Kiwanis Club de- cided to continue its boys' sum- mer camp at Kedron, despite serious financial problems. W. M. Clements was elected president and W. Goodwin, sec- retary, of the Sons of Ulster Flute Band for, 1932. The Oshawa Horticultural So- ciety held its annual meeting in Hotel Genosha with A." L. Bouckley presiding. George Baldwin of the Royal Horticul- tural Society, Toronto, gave an illustrated lecture on Home Gardening. W. C. Herring, general sales manager of General Motors of Canada was promoted to the Detroit head office of General Motors Corporation. Spring was ushered in by a heavy snowfall. Traffic was tied up throughout the whole Oshawa area and outlying dis- tricts faced at least several days of snowbound roads. City council and the Board of Education were deadlocked over the Board's 1933 budget. Dr. Reaman, superintendent of Bowmanville Boys' Training School, was the guest speaker at the Albert Street United Church Brotherhood father and son banquet. Mary Street Home and School Association banqueted the school's championship hockey team, with J. C. Fetterly, prin- cipal of the school, presiding. The Preston Cup was present- ed to Frank Young, captain of the team. Goalie Gordon Wil- son thanked the ladies of the club for the medals awarded to each member of the team. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS March 22, 1962... . The federal budget brought down 13 years ago today in 1949 an- nounced an increase in in- come tax exemptions to $1,000 from $750 for single persons and to $2,000 from $1,500 for married persons. 1765--The British parlia- ment passed the Stamp Act. 1939--Hitler's troops en- tered Lithuania and an- nexed {it to the German Reich. TELEPHONE SCHOOL PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. (CP)--Hubert Byletzki, 13, was kept at home for a month with a broken leg but didn't miss any school lessons. A school-to-home intercom service installed by Saskatchewan government tele- phone system allowed him to hear every word from _ his Grade 8 classroom and ask his teacher questions. FOR THIS REGULAR 49 EX-LAX 1.25 AQUA VELVA . POLIDENT 1.33 NIVEA CREME 1.00 VITALIS DEODORANT DRUGS (osHawa) 9 SIMCOE STAN. 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Johns, Brock street east, reported seeing a flock of rare birds on his lawn. The birds were identified as Eve- ning Grosbeaks, a bird which is quite common in the moun- tainous regions of the West, but which very rarely visits this part of Canada. Mrs. E. V. Lander was elect- ed to succeed Mrs. G. A. Wil- liams as president of the Wom- en's Welfare League. been before the house to set up a new category of official ref- erees and arbiters, The second concerns the new police commission which has | been established and appointed, COMMON FAILING And there is one failing com- mon to them both: nobody knows too much about just what they are to be. It is clear enough why they have been set up. In the case of the arbitrators because there is no detached group, except for judges, avail- able in the ever-broadening field of arbitration. With the commission it is be- cause the government hopes to get a better standard of polic- ing (though also you could say it perhaps is because the gov- ernment hopes the public will think it is getting a better stan- dard of policing). But nobody has thought out in any detail their function. In the case of the official arbitrators, what the qualifications shoulé be. In the case of the commis- sion really what it is to do at all except it is to be "boss." CLOSED SHOP? As a number of people have pointed out in the case of the arbitrators this could well mean we could set up another profes- sional group, a closed-shop, of really unprofessional men. In the case of the police com- mission the results could be much worse. For it will largely be making its own job as it goes along. Its influence on the future ad- ministration of justice will be tremendous. And this influence could easily be as bad or as good as the first three mem- bers. 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