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- | gt ve Los Ebb ode we a be She Oshawa Cimes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited é 86. King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher : FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1962 -- PAGE 6 Conscience Calls For 'More Than Moon-Shot " President Kennedy said this week that the "United States conscience" requires it to lead the world's drive into space, because peace and security hang in the balance. This would be understandable if he had not gone on to demand a "bold and daring and un- flinhing" effort to land a man on the moon. There is a great deal that man can learn about earth only from space, but he can learn this through infor- mation recorded by the machines he sends into space. This has been ex- ® plained by scientists and can be under- aT STE TEN stood by laymen. But the pressing urgency of putting a human being «on the moon has not been adequately explained, And it is the moon-shot that is swallowing an enormous amount of American money and the time and energy of American brains at a period when other, perhaps more mundane but far more urgent prob- lems, are crying out for solution. We think the world would be much more grateful if the United States devoted the energy and money it is squandering on the moon-shot to, say, the problem of-a cheap method of getting fresh water from the salt sea. Many scientists, in and out of the United States, view the moon-shot effort with a great deal of doubt. Just the other day Sir John Cockcroft, the great British physicist, deplored the cost of the space race, and com- mented: "When we remember the state- ment of Paul Hoffman, director of the United Nations Special Fund, that a contribution of $2,000 million a year to underdeveloped countries was re- quired to increase the per capita in- come of these countries by 24 per cent in a decade, we must sadly conclude that the world's priorities have gone sadly wrong." The estimated cost of the U.S. moon shot is $40,000 million, Penalty For Shirking Ten Municipalities have supported the Kitchener proposal that welfare legislation be amended to provide jail terms for "shirkers"--a shirker being defined as an employable man with dependents on welfare, who has refused work or quits a reasonable job or is fired for laziness; the shirker 'could be summoned and jailed for con- tempt of court if he ignored a magis- trate's order to take available work. The proposal poses some interesting questions. If a man has a right to work, does he not also have a right not to work? How is a magistrate to decide whether a man is unwilling or unable to work? Is laziness simply a dislike for work or is it the result of some physical or mental deficiency? ~And what employer would hire a man labelled as a shirker? These questions must at least be considered before the proposal can be taken seriously. But there are other questions -- the Kitchener proposal attempts to answer them -- whic deserve equal attention. Should the working people be asked to shoulder the responsibilities of the man who refuses to work? Should the state, which depends for its existence on the collective effort of its people, pick up the tab for the shiftless? After all, the state has no money of its own; it can only take from its people. Should people be penalized for working and paid for dodging work? The welfare bill has reached the point where handouts to shirkers can- not be tolerated. But we doubt if the Kitchener proposal solves the problem of the shirker. Some other way must be found to make the shirker face his responsibilities. Hard Core Of Jobless The unemployment figures for August, released this week, are en- couraging but should not give rise to any complacency. The unemployed in August represented 4.1 per cent of 'the labor force, lowest in more than two years fer that month, but that percentage represents 280,000 men and women, most of whom honestly "wanted to work. Of the total unemployed, 191,000 had been looking for work for three months or less; an estimatéd 31,000 had been job-hunting for between four and six months; and 58,000 had "been in jobless ranks for upwards "of six months. It is that last figure gthat is the most discouraging. "It will contain many who are virtu- "ally unemployable because of age or "some disability. But it is likely that it is made up largely-of unskilled and "poorly educated men and women whose chances of finding a decent job grow progressively worse as the' re- quirements for employment grow more demanding -- and that is the inescapable trend. These people must be considered the hard core of the employment problem, the most diffi- cult to handle because lack of educa- tion makes training or retraining so much tougher. ; Yet this is a problem which must be solved, unless we are to take the cynical and wasteful attitude that we must put a certain percentage of our manpower on a permanent handout basis. Comment on the figures must necessarily be speculative in the absence of comparative figures show- ing job opportunities, There were 280,000 people looking for jobs in August. But how many jobs were there that, for one reason or another, could not be filled? That information is needed for a proper understanding of the employment situation." Blood For Parking © The Oshawa and District Labor Council is investigating the possi- bilities of payment of parking tickets by. blood donations to the Red Cross. It is an ingenious idea, and appar- ently it has been tried, successfully, in several communities in the United States. The Oshawa Times T. L, WILSON, Publisher C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times lished 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and icle (established 1863), is published daily = and gpreetd holidays excepted). bers of i ft Pp. ian Daily f Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Asso- ian. Canadian Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all news despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein. All rights, of special despotches are also feserved. Offices: Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Albert, pees Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Orono, Leskord, Brougham Burketon, Claremont, |, Kinsale, Raglan, Blackstock, Pontypool and Newcastle, not over 45¢€ per week, By mail (in Province of Ontario) outtide cortiers delivery areas 12.00 per yeor Other Provinces end wealth Countries 15.00 Vv. Ajax, Prince There is one objection, but it could be termed an academic one. It is that donations of blood should be con- sidered a duty and not a penalty. On the other hand, it is every one's duty to obey the laws of organized society and to accept the responsibilities of citizenship, but we still have police- men, tax investigators and such to ensure that the laws are obeyed and to. punish those who disobey. Parking meters were intended to be a means of assisting the flow of traffic and preventing the use of curb space by long-time parkers in busy business sections. It sometimes appears that they are now regarded by many municipal officials more as revenue-producers than as a device for traffic control. In other words, the meters are all too often nothing more or less than a taxing agency. Under those circumstances, many municipal officials would be reluctant to have blood substituted for money. But what could be more appropriate than the trading of a little blood for A. one fextra parking time downtown? S/MPKINS "WELL! NOW You KNOW IT WAS LOADED" 4 THE EDUCATION OF REAL YOUR HEALTH gor Ps Maga | Early Prevention Of Artery Trouble By Joseph G. Molner, M.D. Dear Dr. Molner: I have ath- erosclerosis, Please tell me if there is a special diet for this. A firm that sells health foods claims I can prolong my life by using its products. What is your advice on such foods? And what effect does atherosclerosis have on the arteries?--MRS. M.C, Everybody who column sooner or later will have atherosclerosis, just as everybody will lose the limber- ness of youth, and acquire a reads this few wrinkles, and notice that the hair gets grayer if not thin- ner. So what? The longer we live, the older we grow, It may be--indeed it is prob- able--that diet has some effect on atherosclerosis, but so do other things, such as age, her- edity, and exercise. Dr. Paul. Dudley White doesn't ride his bicycle, and talk about it, just for fun. He knows that steady exercise throughout life has its effect on keeping the arteries in better condition. REPORT FROM U.K. Ocean's Erosion Threatens Homes By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times HERNE BAY, Kent --Down along the Kent coast there are thousands of owners of homes fronting on the North Sea who are filled with anxiety, They can foresee the day~ when the encroaching of the ocean, and tne erosion along the coast line will send their homes tumbling into the waves. And to add to their anxiety is the knowledge that to construct effective sea defences to hold back the en- croaching waters would prob- ably. cost them more than the actual value of their homes. Plans have been developed for a sea defence plan to save some 60 homes at Herne Bay from being engulfed by the sea as it eats into the coast line. The cost of this plan is estimated at $1,800,000. And the great ques- tion which is agitating the minds of the property-owners is just this "Who pays for the sea de- emi tx protect our homes?" LENGTHY DISPUTE This question of who will pay for the sea defences has been the subject of a long drawn-out dispute between the coast towns and villages and the government auhorities at Whitehall, the local authorities adopted a pol- icy 'of assessing the cost of such schemes against the individual property - owners whose homes were being threatened by the sea. Now the ministry of hous- ing and local government has ruled that these charges cannot be assessed against the sea-edge householders. The local authorities are now worried: The minister of hous- ing and local government, Sir _Keith Joseph, announcing the end of charges against property owners following protests after another Herne Bay sea defence scheme, gave no hint that the government would increase its - grants to the local authorities for this purpose. GRANTS SCALED DOWN Under the present laws and regulations, the minister has power to make grants up to 90 per cent of the cost of sea de- fence works. But 'there have been no cases of that percentage being reached in practice. Rare- ly has the grant given been more than 60 per cent of the cost. In Kent, the balance left after the government grant is received is shared between the local municipal council and the Kent County council.. This means, of course, that every taxpayer has to bear a share of the cost, even those living many miles away [rom the sea. Since the disastrous east coast floods of 1953, millions of pounds have been spent on sea de- fences. The local authorities, so far, have completely failed to persuade successive govern- ments that they should carry a larger share of the financial burden of these works. COSTS CAN BE HIGH Some of the costs of sea de- fences are high. A sea wall now being built at Birchington is costing $168 a foot. Herne Bay has already spent about $1,350,- 000, Whitstable $1,200,000. Mil- lions have been spent at Broad- stairs, Dover, Folkestone and Deal and by the Kent. River Board. Millions more must be spent before the Kent coast line is safe from the sea. Engineers declare that unless the new Herne Bay scheme is approved more houses are doomed to fall into the sea. As many as 60 homes are in that class. So far as the government is concerned, the local author- ities have to accept the amount fixed by the minister. He de- cides the amount of the grant for each scheme. And there is no appeal against his decision. The two things we can con- trol, diet and exercise, have lit- tle if any effect in. correcting atherosclerosis after it has de- veloped. They are preventives, not cures. I don't mean radical or rigid diet. I don't mean violent exer- cise. If people would get in the habit, as young adults, of doing an hour's brisk walking, or the equivalent, every day, that would be sufficient. Some days it could be bowling, swimming, gardening, bicycling or what- ever suits your taste. For diet, nothing tricky. Just a balanced one that keeps your weight steady and normal. That in itself probably is sufficient since it will automatically keep your intake of fat at a suitable level. But some deliberate re- struction of animal fat and the substitution of vegetable or fish oils may be wise. On this side of the Atlantic we have a ten. dency to eat quite a lot of fat because it is plentiful. As for the ballyhooed '"'health foods," I don't see any evidence to indicate that they are better than a perfectly normal, bal- anced diet. They are fads, ex- travagantly urged by salesmen and promoters. As to what '"'effect athero- sclerosis has on the arteries," essentially it simply means ac- cumulation of fatty material on and in the lining of the arteries. This both stiffens or 'thardens" them, and gradually makes the inner diameter smaller, leaving less space to carry blood, just as lime or rust deposits in wa- ter pipes cut down the flow. There is, therefore, a general decrease in the efficiency of cir- culation, sometimes to a degree that blood pressure increases significantly, as Nature tries to overcome the partially clogged arteries, There is in addition an increased risk of clots blocking an artery somewhere, either in the heart muscle (a heart at- tack) or in the brain (a stroke). The answer to atherosclerosis is in prevention, and the earlier we start the better. Dear Dr. Molner: If a two- year-old child has a cataract in one eye, about the size of a pa- per match head, not inflamed and hardly noticeable, would you advise letting it alone to see if it will go away? Or should it be removed now?-- te I would not expect it to "go away. Cataracts don't. I would leave it entirely up to the eye specialist to decide whether it should be removed now or la- ter. BY-GONE DAYS 35 YEARS AGO Rev. Liwellyn C. Fletcher, son of Rev. Dr. and Mrs. W. P. Fletcher, left for mission field work in Japan. The Ontario Regiment, under Lt--Col. Frank Chappell, held a ceremonial parade and troop- ing of the colors at Port Perry. "Building permits for 1927 to date reached a record total of $3,282,425 for the city. Proposals were made at .a Town Planning Commission's meeting for organizing a_ six- member Public Service Com- mtission to combine the func- tions of the Parks-Commission, Town Planning Commission and the Cemetery Board. Enrolment of 3,052 in Oshawa Public Schools was the largest in the city's history to dale. Ex-Mayor John Stacey an- nounced he would be. a candi- date for mayor in the 1928 civic election. Fittings Limited purchased 40 lots on Drew street with a view to expansion of its plant. Cotswold sheep, owned by W. Glaspell and Son of Oshawa, were adjudged the best at New York State Fair, having won many awards. Oshawa's 1927 population had reached the 20,000 mark. An- other 4,000 resided in close-in suburbs, The population for 1926 was 17,381, St. Andrew's United Church $60,000 Sunday Sahoo! addition and redecoration of the church auditorium were nearing com- pletion. A proposal was made by Dr. T.,E: Kaiser, MP, that Oshawa citizens erect a memorial to the Scotch poet Robert Burns: ' An. eight-room extension was planned for Ritson Road School. The Regent Theatre was crowded for a weekend festi- val of music given by the Earls- court Salvation Army Band of London, England. A group of citizens requested the city council petition for the opening of a liquor store in Oshawa. Over $400 worth of goods were stolen from the Dominion Store at Port Perry.,in a Sun- day night robbery. ') OTTAWA REPORT SOE ay eg Ps GANG NY Whips Important In New Commons By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--The importance sf party whins in the House of Commons has been quite sensa- tionally revived by the present situation where a minority gov- ernment holds office: this in turn has again touched off broad discussion of votinz in the House, When Parliament meets later this month, several as- pects of these topies wil! claim the daily interest of most MPs, In our 24th Parliament, which "met first in May, 1953, the gov- ernment volinzg strength was 207, heavily outweighing the combined opposition vote of 49 Liberals plus eighi 'CCF 'mem- bers. The 265th member of the House of Commons was of course the Speaker, who only votes to break a tie. Thus the party whips on both sides had little inceatiye to per- form their main task, which is to "whip in" the max:mum strength of their party for any vote--since the opposition could not expect to outvote he gov- ernmen, CLOSE VOTES LIKELY In this month's new Parlia- ment, however, the voting strength of the Conservative government will be only 115, while the 100 Liberals, 30- Social Crediters and 19 NDP members could overthrow the government by combining to vote. solidly against it on any major vote. READERS' VIEWS Report On Soviet Visit Questioned By Tourist Dear Sir: I have just returned after a five-week tour of Russia and the Ukraine so I was not only interested but rather amazed at the description Mrs, Evalyne Branch gave to the Rotary Club about her. trip to Russia as reported in The Times of September 11, The weather in the Leningrad- Moscow-Minsk area was cer- tainly cold, damp and miser- able during Mrs. Branch's visit. This is probably the source of her depression. ~ If one can look beyond the fact that women do road re- pairs and other like jobs overlook some backward lava- tories -- that the people gener- ally don't seem interested in theatres, circuses and sport fa- cilities, their_magnificent trans- portation system, ness of the people and the friendli- their obvious enjoyment of life. Certainly in the Soviet Union there is enough of the old and enough of the new that one can easily bring back a report slant- ed in either direction. One of the surprising things about my trip was the number of tourists from Canada, U.S.A. and England visiting the Soviet Union. I believe an exchange of tourists to be the best way of promoting peace and _ under- Standing in the world today even if some do _ become LLOYD PEEL depressed. Oshawa clothes style and that their stan- dard of living (meaning mate- rial possessions) is lower than ours, a tour of the Soviet Union is an exciting and interesting PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM experience. Perhaps if a Russian read Mrs. 'Branch's' remarks he would be most hurt about her saying there was lack of flowers. Maybe Mrs. Branch forgot to take into account that Moscow and Leningrad are quite far north and that July is early for most flowers. The Russians love flowers very much. In the parade of tens of thousands welcoming the cosmo- nauts, every fifth person or so had a bouquet of flowers. The most striking thing about their cities is their many parks filled with flowers. There is also little mystery about their missing children. They were at summer camps, one of which we visited and if she could have shared the ex- perience and seen the love and care they received, she would have not beén so depressed. I am _ surprised why Mrs. Branch didn't mention their TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Sept, 14, 1962... The Gregorian calendar was officially adopted by the British Empire and its colonies in America 210 years ago today--in 1752. The calendar, adopted by Pope Gregory III in 1582, had suppressed 10 days in the ancient Julian calendar to bring the civil year in line with the solar year. To keep the relationship, the new calendar provided that the practise of adding a day to February be omitted from all centenary years except those multiples of 400. 1535--Jacques Cartier, on his second voyage, explored the St, Lawrence River as far as Stadacona, site of the present city of Quebec. 1959 -- A Russian space rocket struck the surface of the moon. tries. and other textiles Another great trouble with the world is that it's becoming in- creasingly cluttered up with people. "Driving a car is a privilege, not a right," says a lawyer. Few privileges are so widely and fla- grantly abused. This will keep the busy. It also poses the definition of a "major" vote, and the vexed question of party solidarity on votes. A tradition was intro- . duced into our Parliament, by the late W. L. Mackenzie King according to many observers, whereby every. vote inthe House is regarded »« » vote of confidence in the ability of the ministry to carry on (he govern- ment of Canada. From this it automatically follows that the government must strive to win every vote; and hence that every MP must at all times vote in support of the leader of his party. i Such rigid party discipline is admirable and essentia! to the smooth working of party poli- tics, in the opinion of some pol- iticians, who argue that no party could govern without it. Others believe that such slavish submission to the leadership of a party chieftain sometimes forces the individual MP to vote in a manner inimical to hs con- stituents' interests, and merely reduces him to.the status of a performing seal--as the opposi- tion parties repeatedly de- scribed the Liberal followers of Prime Minister St. Laurent. Mr. H. Badanai, the Liberal MP. for Fort William. has otfen discussed with me his own vig- orous intellectual objections to such block voting on minor is- sues. SOME VOTES TRIVIAL : The solution seems~ obvious, and is experienced frequently in the British Parliament), Except on a vote concerning a measure of major importance Ao govern- ment policy, such as the Throne Speech or the Budget, or on a specific motion of censure of the government, MPs should be free to vote in accordance with their conscience and the inter- ests of their constituents; and a defeat on such a lesser vote would not be accepted as an over-all lack of confidence, For major votes in the British Par- liament, the party whips send out a summons underlined three times. Such a "three line whip" is a strict command to be pres- ent and to vote with the leader. Thus some opinion considers that Mackenzie King, if it were he, did Canada a disservice by instituting this invariable "party solidarity" on all votes. With the close balance in the new Parliament, we will likely see a return to the system of "'nairing'"' -- whereby Conserv- ative and Liberal MPs in pairs will agree that one will not vote if the other is compelled to be absent. But MPs will probably not forget that accidents can happen, and an unintentionally broken pair caused the defeat of a government here three decades ago. QUEEN'S PARK Experienced Men On First Mission By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- Ontario's first sales mission in the Trade Cru- sade. now is overseas. The mission is not typical of future ones. Most of the men on it are representing compan- ies which are already doing business overseas. Future trips will see more men who are trying to break into the market for the first time. ALL ENTERPRISING Among those on this first trip are George Rickwood, president of Hastings Machine Tools of Niagara Falls, an- enthusiastic extrovert who hopes to increase his company's sales. of optical machinery in Europe. J. E, MacLean of Galt is ex- port. manager of Dobbie Indus- R. M. Hodgson is president and general manager of Cana- dian Motor Lamp of Windsor. The men these companies rep- resent. all have in common that they are enterprising. Mr. Rickwood's company not only is selling extensively in Europe now, it also has a branch in the U.S. which is us- ing Canadian materials exclu- sively. Dobbie Industries is a com- bine of several companies and is a front runner'in the textile field. It actually is selling towels in the U.K. GALLUP POLL Teen-Agers For Lack Of (World Copyright Reserved) By THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION Teen-agers lose out heavily before the bar of public opinion on the matter of their behavior. With the total adult population as a jury, less than half believe they are as well mannered as preceding generations. About six times as many adults claim that they are worse as think they are better. Older:Canadians are the most critical, but the margin of dif- ference is not very great be- tween their view-point and those ¢ of men and women just recently -y out of their teens. Interviewers for the Gallup Teen-agers are: Better WOTSE secscicsccccsces The same Undecided ..ccsesescccece seen enw eee ereneeeee While are inclined to be a little more kindly in their attitudes towards Criticized Manners Poli put this question fo adults in inces, in a carefully selected sample of the population: homes throughout the prov- "Do you think the behavior of teen-agers today is better than it used to be, or do you think it is worse?" Teenagers are: Better behaved Worse About the same Undecided those in their twenties oday's youth -- a check on yiew-points in the different age groups shows a good deal of similarity in attitudes. 21-29 30-39 40-49 50 and Years Years Years Over 8% 6%. 8S ee 40 40 36 46 45 47 52 41 7 7 4 7 "b% 100% 100% 100% and Europe. A few years ago it would have been -said this couldn't be done. BUILD SALES These men and most of the others on this trip are already fairly well established in the European market through agents or licencees. They are going over to see how sales can be improved, and in some cases to see if it might be worthwhile to set up their own sales organizations or to manufacture at home. They were two reasons why the first mission had the char. acter it did. One was that the department of economics and development was anxious to get the program started and the more enterpris- ing manufacturers 'were natur- ally the first to volunteer. The second was that as the mission would be blazing a trail it was felt it would be a good idea to haye men with experi- ence on it. A SUCCESS These trade missions are only one small part of the Trade Crusade that the government has underway. . But they also are one of its most promising features. The fact that they have heen launched. so expeditiously is re- assuring that they will produce results. And the efficient and forceful manner with which this aspect has been handled speaks well for the success\ of the whole crusade. . Canada Life Appointment Ss 5 M. K. LIGHT The Canada Life Assurance Company announces that Keith Light has been appointed District Manager of its East Central Ontario Mortgage Branch with headquarters in Toronto. Prior to this appoint- ment Mr, Yin was an Assistant Manager of the Quebec Mort- gage Brach in Montreal. He succeeds JRussel R. Lief who has retired after nearly forty years of service with the Company.