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. Ghe Oshawa Cimes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1964---PAGE 6 Wait-And-See Budget _ By Finance Minister It may be unkind to say that Finance Minister Gordon suffered such a painful experience with his first budget, in which he tried to do something, that in his second he decided to do nothing. But that is the impression given by his perfor- mance in the Commons this week. It was a more cautious and less cocky finance minister who faced the House Monday evening. Still, Mr. Gordon' did not have much of a choice. Almost certainly, this had to be either a stand-pat budget or one embodying major changes. With the Royal Commis- sion on Taxation not expected to report until late this year, and with a vitally important series of tariff negotiations to be under- taken this year by subscribers to the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs, Mr. Gordon had sound support for his choice of what might be termed an interim bud- get at this time. Tax relief is needed -- but not on a hasty, patchwork basis. The whole Canadian tax structure is rickety and needs. a thorough over- haul; it needs to be put on a sound foundation of logic and fairness. No finance minister would be able to accomplish the immense job of revision without a great deal of expert help. And that is what the Royal Commission on Taxation was set up to do. Mr. Gordon learned last year that simply fiddling with a budget can have painful consequences. He had to tear his original budget apart -- and almost brought about the fall of the government. As for tariffs, Mr. Gordon poin- ted out: "We must bear in mind the negotiations which are to take place in Geneva later this year . These are expected to result in im- portant reductions in the tariffs of our principal trading partners and consequently in the Canadian tariff also. In these circumstances, it seems advisable to hold for the negotiations a number of useful suggestions for tariff changes which we have received from var- ious sources during the last year." As was pointed out in this news- paper last week, the subtantial re- duction in the size of the predicted deficit is not something over which Mr. Gordon can do much gloating. A large part of the reduction can be attributed to non-recurring items, such as the speed-up in the method of payment of corporate in- come taxes. Mr. Gordon could be justly proud if the reduction were the result of government econom- ies, which are badly needed, but such is not the case. oe Bible As Background A few days ago there were news stories telling of a test conducted in an American high school to de- termine students' knowledge of the most commonly known Biblical stor- jes, names and quotations. The re- sults were rather startling: 79 per cent, for example, could not supply the last word of the expression "Many are called but few are chosen"; 63 per cent did not know the last word in "They shall beat their swords into ploughshares" ; several pupils thought that Sodom and Gomorrah were lovers, that Jezebel was Ahab's donkey, and that the Gospels were written by Mat- thew, Mark, Luther and John. What the news stories did not make clear was that this was more than a simple test of Biblical know- ledge. It started with a teacher of English at the school, Thayer, W. Warshaw, who explained his reason- ing this way: "The Bible is indeed. a religious book, but it is also a part of our secular cultural heritage. A know- Murder And Canadian police chiefs and the RCMP want stricter regulations for the sale, ownership and use of fire- arms, and Justice Minister Favreau says his department is studying the matter. We have not seen the brief the RCMP presented to the justice minister, on behalf of all Canadian police organizations, but there is no doubt that \the police could back their arguments with plenty of solid evidence. Dallas has been in the news prominently since the assassination of President Kennedy. Senator Dodd, who is trying to get the U.S. Congress to tighten the law on interstate shipment of firearms, She Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher Cc, GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) .and the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle (estoblished 1863) is published daily (Sundeys and Statutory holidays excepted Members of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish ars Association. The Canadian Press, Audit Bureou sf Circulation and the Ontario Provincial . Dailies Association.. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use of republication of ali news despatched in the poper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the loco! news published therein. All rights of special des- patches are also reserved. Offices: Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcort Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Srono, Leskard, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Zolumbus, Greenwood, Kinsale, Raglan, Blackstock, Manchester, Pontypoo!. end Newcastle not er 45c per week. By mail (in Province of tor sutside carriers delivery oreas 12.00 per year. Other Provinces and Commonwealth Countries 15.00, U.S.A. foreign 24.00, ledge of the Bible is essential to the pupil's understanding of allusions in literature, in music, and in the fine arts; in news media, in entertain- ment, and in cultured conversation. Is he to study mythology and Shakespeare, but not the Bible? Is it important for him to learn what it means when a man is called an Adonis or a Romeo, yet unimportant for him to be able to tell a Jonah from a Judas?" This led Mr. Warshaw and his colleagues on the staff of the school, to this question: Should the pupils be denied "this part of our cultural background simply because the Bible is controversial or be- cause of the fear some teachers and students might lack judgment in using the Bible as a textbook in the humanities?" The faculty decided that its pu- pils should not be so denied, and "we had evidence to support our belief that students were not in- formed on Biblical backgrounds," They did, indeed. Firearms has pointed out that Dallas has no effective weapon control laws, and had a homicide rate for the first nine months of 1963 which was two and half times higher than that of New York City, where the state law requires registration of hand- guns and permits for the owners. For that period, Dallas had 13.4 homicides per 100,000 population; New York had 5.4; and three other. cities, all with stricter controls than Dallas, had lower rates -- 4.9 in Philadelphia, 5.5 in Detroit, 6 in Los Angeles. FBI Director Hoover noted last year that in 18 states of the Amer- ican union with minimum gun con- trol laws, "65 per cent of the mur- ders were committed with guns." In seven states with stricter controle, "42 per cent of the murders were attributed to firearms ag compared to 58 per cent for the\other 43 states." Canadian' statistics do not seem to be readily available, but we have no doubt that the Mounties and the police chiefs will have dredged them up for the presentation to the jus- tice minister. Bible Thought We ought to obey God than men. --. Acts 5:29. When loyalties or duties conflict, of is rather our true tev ealed, hierarchy values 'OH, REPORT FROM U.K. % MY ACHING Bacon Price War Faces Exporters By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- A bacon price war is looming up in Britain, but it is not a war in which dealers and retailers are fight- ing each other by cutting prices. This is something of quite the opposite nature. British house- wives are going on a buying strike. on account of the sky- rocketing prices of bacon im- ported from Denmark. YOUR HEALTH Dealers are warning the Dan- is. exporters of bacon that they will have to bring down their prices considerably to end the buying strike. Stocks are al- ready piling up in the ware- houses after the longest spell of high prices that the trade has known in recent years The British bacon market, so far as price i. concerned, is at the mercy of. the Danish bacon producers, since, because of the quota concessions made to them by the British government, the Protein Required For Sound Health By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, MD Dear Dr. Molner: Please set- tle a friendly argument in our TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensi- bly) Club. Though we all know that a calorie is a calorie, some of us feel that if taken in protein form it is used up faster and helps us to lose weight. Others say it doesn't matter if you eat, for instance, two boiled eggs at 140 calories or a sweet roll at 140 calories; as long as' your daily intake is 1,000 calories or less you'll lose weight. Does this make any dif- ference?--B. N. The ones who favor foods are right, but wrong reason. Yes, 1,000 calories. are 1,000 calories, and a calorie, in what- ever form, represents the same amount of energy, whether it is used up to keep you warm,-or to support your physical activ- ity, or to be transformed into body fat and stored Whether the calories come from protein. or starch doesn't make any difference from that standpoint. However, the food you eat doesn't always reach your stomach and digestive tract in a form which can be converted instantly into calories. Sugars and starches rapidly reach the blood stream in the form of blood sugar Protein, on the other hand, is converted more slowly by the digestive processes. That's why protein foods satisfy the appe- tite for a somewhat longer time Hence they help a person who is trying to maintain a reducing diet. In passing, let's not forget that amino acids in protein, the basic "building blocks' of the body, are important for sound health. Starchy foods alone will give you calories but will not furnish all the nutrients needed for keeping bone, muscle and othert issues in good conditidn Dear Dr. Moiner: For years I have eaten bran but now can- not due to ulcers. What objec- tions are there to glycerin sup- positories?--G. G. You have two problems, and the treatment for one may be prohibited by the other. That's a common contradiction with which every doctor is familiar. It's one of several reasons why people. shouldn't advise others, "My doctor told me to take so- and-so. Why don't you?" Glycerin suppositories, used judiciously, are fine, But please don't take for graned that you must have something special fOr, your '"'constipation." You may find that neither the bran nor suppositories was really necessary Dear Dr. Molner: Will swim- protein for the ming develop the breasts? I am 35 and not underweight--117 pounds at 5 feet 4--and am very flat-chested. I tried. exercise using weights for a year ata salon, but that didn't help at all--B J I doubt that exercise, in itself, ever does much good in this regard, except as it increases the muscles of the upper chest wall (the pectorals), Exercises such as push-ups and others in- volving the arms can develop this area. You see,t he breast is primarily fatty tissue and is under strong glandular control This varies in different women Adding weight will help but you can't be sure you won't bulge in other areas, too. But posture does make a difference. My ad vice is to swim, add a few pounds--and put a great deal of. emphasis on posture. But: at 35 L guess I'd rely on a padded brassiere,t oo, QUEEN'S PARK DOGS!" Danes dominate the market in this country. Home-produced bacon supplies only a very small percentage of the bacon that is c d in the h holds of Britain. ASK HIGH PRICES The rise in bacon prices start- ed as far back as last August, when the Danes demanded prices ranging from $45 to $48 per hundredweight wholesale for their bacon. This has made the price of best smoked back bacon in London's retail stores soar to between 95 cents and $1.05 per pound It was felt that this would be only a temporary increase, on account of-a shortage of British bacon, but as the high prices continued, the housewives start- ed their voluntary boycott of the Danish product The effect of this buying strike is now being felt. In the last few weeks, sales of Danish bacon in many shops have dropped by at least 20 per cent. Some shop- keepers claim that they have prevented an even worse drop in bacon sales. by selling. top quality bacon at a_ loss, and making it up by charging more for other goods. PRICE RIDICULOUS At time of writing, wholesale quotations for best smoked back bacon at the Smithfield Market in London were around 85 to 90 cents a pound, a figure which dealers claim is _ ridiculous. Shopkeepers charged this whole- sale-price would have to sell to ther customers at around 98 cents to $1.00 a pound to make reasonable profit. "The Danes are holding us to ransom," said Maurice Jinks, a Smithfield wholesaler. "They have a stranglehold on our mar- ket, and they have pushed the prices too high. Prices usually drop after Christmas, but this year the Danes have kept them up because they are getting good prices for pigs on the con- tinent."' Supplies of bacon from British curers are at about the same level as last year, but the Danes are sending to Britain about 400 tons a week less than last year, and are selling pigs to France instead. : Protection Sought For Family Farm BY DON O'HEARN TORONTO--The key question in agriculture today is the fu- ture of the family farm And little hope for its ulti mate survival, or at least pros perity, can be taken from the discussions in the House here this year. This government™ is dedicated to the survival of the family farm "The farm families are the backbone of the rural life of this province', Minister of Agri- culture W. A. Stewart said dur- Ing his estimates But 'he could point to few steps which would add to: the health of the family farm unit And many things which came up fed the conviction that the family unit is on the way out BIG GROWTH The government is trying to keep the small farm alive by increasing farm loans, the en- couragement of marketing schemes, research and othe: steps But at the same time the rea- sons for larger and larger farms are growing stronger and stronger : Take tebacco The Stinson slrong|s MH30 This chemical is for instance report came against the out cheniical used to con- trol suckers and lowers the cost of cultivating the crop. But it has met a great deal of criticism from buyers and the report came out strongly against it, Rather than the chemical, it was suggested, there should be developed a machine which would do the job. And this machine, it was cau- tioned, would be very expen- sive STOP INTEGRATION? Then there is the question of vertical integration, or corpo- rate farming. This isthe cloud that has been -- hanging over the family farm for some time. And it isn't getting lighter. The government and Mr, Stewart still don't admit defeat. They say they don't like it. In fact they say 'Widespread take-over by large companies : would have a_ disastrous effect on the agricultural and food industry of this province." They have committees study- ing it And they may. come up with some. proposals to hold back the trend But . there spec yet much has. been nothing and really not too promise there ever will- "be , OTTAWA REPORT Sees Real Threat To Canadian Unity By PATRICK NICHULSON OTTAWA--Some leading MPs treat "the Quebec Question" as just another huckstering issue, out of which they hope to make a few yards politically. So Ca- nadians in the other nine prov- inces can be excused for be- lieving that the situation is not serious. No more serious than other political footballs, such as the price of tobacco in south- western Ontario; or the preser- vation of an aircraft mainte- nance base in Winnipeg. But behind those politicians' disservice to the cause of Ca- nadian unity lies the fundamen- tal tragedy of the possible break-up of the Canadian Con- federation --a break-up which nadians and Other - Canadians aoncerning the nature of Con- . federation. Its form was. de- > tailed on paper in the British may well render superfluous the costly preparations now. being made to celebrate our 100th birthday on July 1, 1967. We must still hope that Con- federation. can. be saved. But this is, by no means, the fore- gone conclusion which so many Canadians presume. That this misconception is widely held is partly due to lack of under- standing of the depth of the problem. And for this the blame must be apportioned between our mass communications me- dia, which have never reported the problem in full depth, and our political leaders, who have either ignored it or abused it for their own petty and selfish ends. BY-GONE DAYS 30 YEARS AGO March 19, 1934 R. §, Virtue sponsored a hock- 'ey game between the Oshawa Majors and Young Rangers. Proceeds were in aid of the Ki- wais Boys' Camp Fund and also Bill Joyce, an injured player. The teachers of Albert Street Church Sunday Schoo] held a successful St. Patrick's banquet Addresses were given by the new superintendent Frank Stir- tevant and Rev. A. D. Robb of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. Rae Halliday, of Ottawa, took over his duties as new super- intendent of the Oshawa Branch of the Government .Employment Bureau. M. lLuchkovitch, MP for Vagreville, Alberta, Canada's only Ukrainian member of par- Wament, who spoke at a mect- ing here, declared that war in Europe was inevitable. T. B. Mitchell. president of the Chamber of Commerce. an- nounced that there would be a three-day membership drive in the city. Oshawa Sea Scouts staged a fine exhibition of scouting ac- tivities and craft coupled with a musical: program in Christ Church hall under the direction of Scoutmaster Harry Rigg and Assistant Scoutmaster John Perkins, of the Eighth Troop. The Oshawa Collegiate and Vocational Institute held a school fair, the first "at home" of its history. THOMAS ADAMS DISTILLERS LIMITED, TORONTO, William J. Lock was elected president of the Oshawa Branch, Canadian Legion. From the beginning of Sep- tember 1933 to the end of Feb- ruary 1934, 5,868 persons on re- lief' were supplied with cloth- ing by the Women's Welfare League. E. Burns was the outstanding marksman of the Oshawa Rifle Club in the contest for the Tonkin Trophy. Bowmanville Memorial Hospi- tal marked its 21st anniversary. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS March 19, 1964... French explorer Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de LaSalle, first to descend the Mississippi River, was mur- dered 277 years ago today-- in 1687--by his own men when a mutiny broke out in Texas as he was attempt- ing to reach the Missis- sippi's mouth to establish a fort. LaSalle had emigrated to Montreal from France in 1666 and had become a favorite of Frontenac, gov- ernor of French Canada. 1872 -- Sergei Diaghilev, ballet master, was born. 1937--The Canadian House of Commons passed a bill banning Canadian en- listments for the Spanish Civil War. North America Act, the statute of the British Parliament which set up and spelled out the union of the former colonies in North America and hence became the written constitution of the new self-governing nation of Canada. Was the B.N.A. Act an act or a pact? Was it a legl docu- ment whose writ must run liter- lly? Or was it a pact for co- operation and co-habitation be- tween two races in one federal state? As the union was entered into voluntarily by the contracting parties, it is just and reason- able to assume that it was a pact. So it should be capable of modifiction from time to time to meet changing circum- stances, It may be an over- simplification to say this, but so far as I can judge the temper of Quebec, this is the view held commonly and I believe reason- ably in that province. My rea- son prompts me to agree with that Quebec view; but, as my wife is French and my best friend is a French-Canadian, my emotion supports my rea- son without swaying it. So I believe that the other provinces are too stilted if they assume that the B.N.A. Act was an im- mutable definition of a perma- nent relationship. PROVINCIAL RIGHTS There has been great debate for and against Quebec Pre- mier Lesage and his recent as- sertion that Quebec is a state rather than a province. In this he upholds the "pact" theory; in this he continues the long battle by the late great Mau- rice Duplessis for decentralisa- tion of government power. ' Although many Quebeckers-- I believe mistakenly--deplore Canada's present status as "colonialism", the last trace of colonialism, which was abol- ished some years ago, was our judicial right of final appeal to the Imperial Privy Council in London--not to the British, but to the Imperial or Common- wealth Privy Council. That body repeatedly handed down decisions which supported the pact theory, strengthening the hands of provincial govern- ments against our central fed- eral government. ° The dispute between Quebee and the rest of Canada today centres around the maintenance and indeed the enhancement of provincial rights. Quebec wants to be "master in our own house," collecting their own taxes and spending them in what they, not Ottawa, con- sider to be the best interests of the province, controlling their own education, their own med- icine, building their own roads and wharves, and above alJ run- ning their own affairs. NU=74HN Oron A