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She Oshawa Times | Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L, Wilson, Publisher SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1963 -- PAGE 6 Community Conscience Involved In Accidents Chairman C. O. Bick of the Metro Toronto Board of Police Commis- sioners talked about the traffic safety problem at the recent meet- ing of the Ontario Motor League, and what he said bears repeating. It should be repeated and repeated until the sense of it sinks through to the community. Here is a portion of his speech: "Misconceptions on the part of the public as to the magnitude, im- portance and solutions to highway traffic safety are what we have to attack. We must make the com- munity realize that amongst the 15-20-year-old age group, for example, two our of every five deaths are the result of motor vehicle accidents, while only one in 18 results from cancer, the very name of which strikes terror in the minds of almost everyone. "Sympathy, understanding and financial support from the public is readily forthcoming for campaigns to assist in cutting down multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, polio and a host of crippling diseases, but the biggest crippler is looked on as a statistic by too many people... "Old cemeteries are full of grave- stones marking the death at an age when life had hardly begun of many, many children. The threat of diphtheria, smallpox and many of the epidemic diseases causing the death of children a century or two ago has been met. And in a similar fashion the acceptance of death and the crippling of adults and children in traffic accidents must be met. For this appalling national catas- trophe needs the participation of all levels of community life." If we are frank, we must admit that traffic safety is something a lot of people talk about but few do anything about. Most of us prefer to ignore one of the biggest killers of our time, or we transfer our guilt to bad roads and high horse- power. But billions of dollars are being spent on superbly engineered roads, and accident statistics show that low-horsepower cars have more accidents per miles driven, parti- operation until cularly at nights, than do the cars with greater horsepower. We cannot dodge the conclusion that it is our own attitudes that are to blame for this shameful situation. What to do about it? "Although I am convinced, as were the researchers, that human behavior is the most important aspect of the traffic safety prob- lem," said, Magistrate Bick, "and the area in which there is the greatest opportunity for a reduc- tion in accidents, I frankly admit there does not seem to be any simple cure." If there were a simple cure, it would have been applied long ago. Indeed, the condition is probably beyond cure, because of the human elements involved. But the condi- tion can be eased, if the community is willing to put as much effort into the improvement of traffic safety as it is willing to put into campaigns for and against various other things. It is fairly easy to get doctors to sit on committees to promote cancer or heart or diabetes research ; doctors across Canada right now are preparing to launch a big cam- paign against cigarette smoking, a suspected cause of lung cancer. Would they respond as enthusiasti- cally to a community crusade against a condition which kills and cripples more people each year than lung cancer does? Would the lawyers respond? The butchers, the bakers, the candle- stick makers? It is difficult to avoid the con- clusion that there must be a general united attack. Crackdowns by police and exhortations by press, pulpit and similar agencies of themselves are not enough. For example, for all the massive safety efforts expended in Metro Toronto last December, it had the poorest record of any month of the year, with more than a thousand persons injured in over three thousand accidents. It seems clear that traffic safety can be little more than a holding the community conscience is aroused. But the con- science sleeps. Extension Of Punning One of these days the Tom Swifty game may move into Canada from the United States. According to the National Observer of Washington, it is all the rage there, and is spreading out from the capital. The object of the game is to parody the language that typified the Tom Swift series of boys' books. You take a typical Tom Swift quota- tion, or make one up yourself, then follow it with an adverb or descip- tive phrase that gives it a humorous twist. For example: "You have the charm of Venus," Tom murmured disarmingly; "I've turned over a new leaf," said Tom rakishly; "Is that program fixed?" asked Tom quizzically; "I just lost a game of Russian roulette," said Tom absent-mindedly. According to the National Obser- ver, the game started in Minneapolis about 10 years ago, and for quite a while was a sort of regional pastime. More recently it began to spread -- to Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco, where businessmen play it over She Oshawa Times T. &, WILSON, Publisher , C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshowa Times combining The Oshawa Times established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette ond {Sicnicie {established 1863) is published daily oe Stotutory eee orn wag Daily @rs Association. The Canodian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontario Provincia! Dallies Association. 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It has no particular significance, of course, except that it may tend to improve a person's verbal dex- terity. Still, it would be interesting to track down these diversions to their origin. In this case one can imagine a nostalgic conversation about the Tom Swift books being interrupted by a TV commercial, inspiring a remark such as: "Our group had 32 per cent more cavi- ties," said Tom with a crestfallen air. The Tom Swifty derives from the pun, and therefore may be sneered at by people who do not have the wit to play with words. The pun may not be mightier than the sword, but it can pin a foible or a prejudite with delicate precision. Other Editors' Views GOOD OLD "COMMA" vienry Morgan, in the Saturday Review) The comma is used to separate faith, hope, and what begins at home. And by bad writers to keep their foolish, boring, misleading, noxious, aimless nonsensical, vex- ing, adjectives away from their nouns. Without the comma it would be difficult to keep track of the naughts in the federal deficit. Bunched together -- 000,000,000 -- it's easier for congress to tell when they have to raise the debt limit. Bible Thought As many as I love I rebuke and chasten. -- Revelation 3:19. Even the seeming harshness of God is an expression of His loving concern, : & ASTER Tens LITTLE ERISIS IS OVER np, Os OTTAWA REPORT STANDING ROOM ONT Fulton May Still Yearn For Ottawa By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--Davie Fulton has left this field of federal politics, and has returned to his native British Columbia to lead the Conservative party in the pro- vincial field. He has left Ottawa after a stay of 17 years. But he took a return ticket--mentally. Edmund Davie Fulton, just back from the war, took his seat in Parliament for the first time in our first post - war session, in September, 1945. The 29 - year - old major of the Seaforth Highlanders had won Kamloops from the Liberals by the narrow margin of 177 votes. Before the war, Davie had won .a Rhodes scholarship to. England's Oxford University. This genuine hallmark of great intellectual capability won him growing repute among the handful of Conservative MPs in his salad days; later it made him a stand - out among the many cerebral virgins included in the Diefenbaker cabinet. STEADY RISE Fulton built Kamloops into ea Conservative citadel, giving him progressively larger major- ities. He built himself into a challenger for the leadership. of his party, and bravely aimed for that position shortly after his 40th birthday. But the New Frontier accent on youth .n leadership had not yet swept North America, and he ran oniy third, behind his older parliamentary rivals J. Diefen- baker and D. Fleming. Nevertheless, six months later he drew a very flattering consolation prize. His conqueror become prime minister, and appointed the young Kamloops lawyer to the prestige - laden portfolio of minister of justice. From that point, Fulton GALLUP POLL ceased to climb. He suffered his quota of unhappy experiences in camera, like all his cabinet colleagues. Indeed his outstand- ing ability brought him into more trouble than some others, because it would not permit him to "be seen but not heard" as a member of cabinet. The young army veteran on the gov- ernment, front bench; but the parliamentary baby with the shock of red hair and a promis- ing future had become a heav- ily built and lantern-jawed min- isterial pundit without much future backoning. For he had initiated a private poll, to ascertain his prospects of winning the next leadership convention. His enquiries shat- teringly revealed that he could not beat George Hees. "If you can't buck the line, try an end run." That is a good adage on the football field; Ful- ton determined to try it on the political gridiron. Siren songs had wooed him for several years from B.C., where the provincial castle of his party lay in rubble. He finally responded. To his sunprise and pleasure, he was able to an- nounce in cabinet his retirement from the federal scene, because his somewhat stiff conditions had unexpectedly been met by the B.C. Tories: Reportedly, a five-year contract as provincial leader at $20,000 per year, plus generous travel and entertain- ment allowances, plus a home, rent free. FUTURE BRIGHTENS The money had been sub- scribed privately by party sup- porters, and was in the bank. The signatures were on the agreement. Fulton was the new leader in the provincial field of B.C.'s smallest party. Then suddenly the. line ahead in Ottawa seemed to crumble, perhaps eliminating the need for that end run through B.C. Was the federal leadership com- ing close to his grasp, and sooner than expected, through unforeseen developments in Ot- tawa? To tantalize Fulton further, a swing through B.C. showed him clearly that he could not expect to lead his party into better than third place in the next provincial election. The greener grass on the other side of the fence proved not so green. So when Davie Fulton left Ottawa this week, the man who had arrived 17 years earlier as a young major left as "The Honorable'--and mentally took a return ticket. BY-GONE DAYS 40 YEARS AGO Oshawa Railways requested town council to aid in extend- ing the street car lines from Alma street to Ross' Corners. Oshawa ranked third in the Province and seventh in the Dominion for customs receipts with a figure of $5,563,787 for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1923. A. C. Cameron, fire chief, an- nounced that "clean-up week" would be the first week in May. Main Liberal Strength In White-Co BY THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION {World Copyright Reserved) The Conservative party got stronger support from Canadian farmers than from any other population group analyzed by the Institute. Moreover, had the voting been confined to Ca- nadians in the lower income groups, the party of John Diefenbaker would have won hands down. That the Conservative party no longer fits into its tradition- al role of the party of the high- er income, or the business and professional community, is dra- matically shown in an analysis Professional, Executive, Self employed ...coccccecsee Sales, Clerical and other White Collar .....+esv» Labor Farmers llar Group of its election findings by The Institute. Actually, the Liberal party obtained a higher share of the upper income vote than it did of either middle or lower. On the basis of occupation, its greatest strength was in the so- called "white-collar" group in- cluding sales, and clerical people. Both Social Credit and the New Democratic Party got their strongest support, on an occupational basis, from labor, including union and non-union. The vote of occupation and by income groups is shown in the following two tables, Occupa- tion is based on the occupation of the head of the household. By Occupation Conserys, Liberals NDP Socred 9% 21% 12 9 17 16 8 10 12 9 (Figures in above table add to 100% across) Conservative Liberal .... NDP Socred In both tables, percentages shown exclude vote for other seececvcccseceee Sewer eeeesscecseseses By Income Groups Upper Middle Lower 34 31 37 46 42 30 9 15 13 11 12 20 "100% 100%» 100% parties who obtained less than 1 per cent of the national vote at the April 8 election. Mrs. E. F. Dearborn cele- brated her 84th birthday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. G. Storie. Building permits valued up to $89,740 were issued for April. Elections were being held for the Boys' City Council. Eight who were nominated for the office of mayor were Mich- ael Halpern, Sam Jackson, Arthur Petre, Cyril Schofield, Louis Trick, William Luke, Fred Riding and Eldon Stacey. Town council called for tend- ers for the proposed new 16- room school] to be built on Centre street. The cost of. the building was estimated -- at $175,000, E. F. Moss was engaged for the second consecutive year as .professional of the Oshawa Golf Club. Members of Oshawa Sons of England Lodges observed St. George's Day by attending a joint service with the Whitby Lodge 'in All Saints' Anglican Church, Whitby. Deputy Reeve F. L. Mason expressed the opinion that if a high pressure street flusher was used to clean the streets, the paving bricks at the Four Cor- ners would -wash into the sewers. Sunbeam Chapter No. 73, Order of the Eastern Star, ob- served the third anniversary. In charge of the successful event were Worthy Matron Cor- rin, Worthy Patron Shelley, Lola Hoskin, Mrs. 0. M. Alger, -- Whitelaw and Ivan aw. . Some idea of the housing shortage in Oshawa could be gained from the fact that over 100 applications for housing loans were received by the Housing Commission. Sixteen of the 20 houses built by the Commission had been sold. wVwwrvwvvvTvvwvs VACUUM CLEANERS AND POLISHERS REPAIRED--REBUILT Vacuum Hose for Sale! WARNER WILLIAMS {SERVICE CENTRE 17-B BOND E.--125-3531 UNITED KINGDOM OPINION Planned Railway Strike Opposed By Labor Party By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- With the threat of a three-day railway strike as a protest against the Beeching railway closure proposals, the British public are not happy over the prospect of their trans- portation system being tied up for that period. London will be especially hard hit if the strike material- izes, as it will include the under- ground railway system which carries some two million work- ers from the suburbs to their places of employment daily. Chaos is a mild word to use for the situation which will de- velop in the event of this strike going on. There is one main hope of having the strike called off. The _ try Labor Party and the railway unions do not see eye to eye on the need for it, or on its effect- iveness in accomplishing any- thing useful. It will not have the slightest effect on the re- sults which will accrue from Dr, Beeching's report. But it will alienate from the unions, and also from the Labor party a very large body of sympathy and public support. FEAR CONSEQUENCES That is the paramount reason why the political Labor party is dead against the railway unions going on strike. Past ex- perience has shown it con- clusively that large-scale strikes which accomplish nothing but cause widespread inconvenience to the public turn tens of thou- sands of voters against Labor. That happened in the case of the seven-week bus strike in London in 1958, Labor never re- covered from the public anti- pathy caused by that strike, and it played an important part in the Labor defeat at the polls in 1959. So Harold Wilson, leader of YOUR HEALTH the Labor party, and the gen- eral council of the Trades Union Congress, are using all the pres- sure they can bring to bear to persuade the railwaymen to. give up the idea of the strike, because they fear the political consequences which it may have on the present favorable posi- tion of the Labor party. PROBE INTO RATES Threatened with a Conserva- tive back-bench revolt on the heavy increases on municipal rates (taxes) because of the re- valuation of property all over England and Wales, Sir Keith Joseph, minister of housing and local government, has quietened the rebels by giving an under- taking that he will set up an in- quiry into the rates situation which has brought howls of pro- test from all parts of the coun- It had been expected that when . property assessments were increased, on an average across the country, by two and a half times, there would be a corresponding decrease in the rate of taxes per pound, so that people would pay approximately the same amount. It has not worked out that way. Increased expenditures by hundreds of municipal councils have resulted in substantially higher taxes in the great ma- jority of cases. This not only brought attacks from the Labor opposition in parliament, but also from a large body of Con- servatives, and it was to pacify them that Sir 'Keith Joseph ordered the inquiry. The inquiry, however, will be rather limited in scope. It will investigate the impact of the new rate revaluations on in- dividual sections of the com- munity and report on the extent of hardship which has been caused by the large tax in- creases. But it is not likely to bring any relief to the hard- pressed ratepayers this year. Its work is not likely to be com- Rinse Can Remove Excess Ear Wax By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, M.D. Dear Dr. Molner: Wax accu- mulates in my ears' and I find it necessary to have them cleaned by a doctor every four to six months. Is there a simple method by which I can prevent or reduce this accumulation of wax, or re- move it myself?7--H. B. T. Some people form ear wax more plentifully than others. I take it for granted that you have assurance that your ears otherwise are in good condition. That is, the wax isn't a conse- quence of anything abnormal. My suggestion, with that qual- ification, is to irrigate the ears, perhaps every two weeks or so, with a solution of one teaspoon- ful of baking soda to a glass of warm water to soften, dislodge and wash out the wax as it forms. Use a small rubber sy- ringe. Another good solution is a mixture of one-third hydrogen peroxide to two-thirds water. This simple rinsing usually does the trick. However, do not, under any circumstances, use toothpicks, hairpins or other such things to try to dig out the wax. There's too much danger of damaging the ear. Also keep in mind that wax is there for a purpose: To pro- tect the ears. Only when too much forms is there good rea- son for removing it. A rinse every couple of weeks will take care of any excess in most cases. Dear Dr. Molner: My friend has a bump almost the size of an egg on her side. She said the doctor told her it was a fatty tumor and as long as it did not bother her, to leave it alone. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS April 27, 1963... A force of 1,800 Ameri- cans landed at York--now Toronto--150 years ago to- day--in 1813--and the heav- ily outnumbered British garrison withdrew to King- ston, Ont. The Americans demolished part of York and sacked it. In reprisal for this and the burning and sacking of Newark, near Niagara, the British raided Buffalo and Washington, setting fire to the towns and burning the White House. 1942--A national _plebis- cite voted in favor of con- scription in Canada. 1791--Samuel Morse, in- ventor of the telegraph, was born. « I have read hat a lump of any size should be removed, and when it begins to bother you, it is too late. Who is right?-- MRS. J. P Your friend's doctor is right. In the course of a lifetime some of us acquire a variety of lumps, bumps, knobs, warts, etc. Some lumps are cancerous, and should be removed as soon as possible, If, with cancer, you wait for the lump to become painful or bothersome, it often is too late. The cancer has spread beyond any chance of removing all of it. But with harmless growths-- and a fatty tumor. is such -- there's no point in doing any- thing unless it is big enough to be disfiguring or a nuisance. (Fatty tumors have no tendency to become cancerous.) Dear Dr. Molner: My son, 47, just found out he has a hernia of long standing and that it could 'kick up" at any time. It was discovered by a doctor on his examination for a "'sit- down" job. We don't have .the money for an operation. Would a truss benefit?--MRS. .K F. Hernias, or ruptures, almost always develop gradually. When they are found, there is just one universal rule: They don't get better. They can only get worse, or remain the same. I sometimes approve of trusse for elderly people with hernias that aren't too severe. But at any age of active life-- such as 47--it is wise to have the hernia repaired surgically rather than risk the chance that it may become "strangulated"' and result in an agonizing and dangerous emergency. Your son might well discuss the case with the doctor who ex- amined him, to see whether a truss will suffice until he can have an operation. After dis- cussing the problem, including cost factors, you may be able to arrange for funds by a loan or by partial payments. CLEANING pleted until well into the fall of the year. PRIVATE BUS LINES Because of the refusal of the London bus workers to co-oper- ate with the London Transport Board in operating one-man buses and larger size buses on some of the outlying routes, some of the services in these outer areas may be handed over to private enterprise. This has been disclosed by the Board. The operation of these more economical buses was pi by the Transport Board in order to cut losses. The buses have been purchased, but the crews refuse to operate them on the terms proposed by the Board. They want to be recompensed by receiving in higher wages 50 per cent of the savings achieved by the operation of these Gases. The London Transport Board has announced: "We have told the Transport and General Workers' Union that if an agreement cannot be reached we will have to look into the question of either cut- ing down the unprofitable single-decker services, offering them to private firms or with- drawing them." The only agreement which exists at present on the one- man operation of single-decker buses is in the country districts. No precedent, however, would be created if London Transport allows private operators to step in on the controversial routes. Several firms elready run serv- ices on a small scale in some of the fringe localities, GOOD PROSPECTS AHEAD Multi-million-pound opportun- ities for British industry are re- Ported to be opening up all over the world. This is the industrial concensus after the failure of the Brussels Common Market talks. Deals now in prospect with Canada, Russia and China, could, it is believed, keep. the factories of Britain humming for years and bring about sub- stantial increases in export fig- ures, Considerable importance is at- tached to the coming to Britain of some 600 Carfadian business men to talk business with Brit- ish industries. This marathon trade mission, coming in four separate parties, is interested in buying any'hing from pottery to carpets and machinery. The first party of 260 has flown into London from St. John, New Brunswick, and it will be fol- lowed by three parties from other parts of Canada. These missions will be inter- ested not only in buying. 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