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She Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L..Wilson, Publisher TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1964 -- PAGE 6 Ask Aid For Those Who Assist Oshawa has had some grim re- minders of late that assaults upon police officers are becoming too common, so much so that Crown Attorney Bruce Affleck has warn- ed one and all that he will ask for stiffer sentences in such cases in | future. In an age when such assaults are increasing. also in other parts of the country, it is encouraging to see that someone has stood up in public and proposed a municipal fund to compensate civilians injured while assisting police officers. At least Alderman Joseph Mc- Laren of Hamilton has-made such a suggest -- he will formally make his proposal at the next .meeting of the legislation and reception committee in Hamilton. ' All of this has prompted the Hamilton Spectator to comment éditorially on the subject as fol- lows: "There should be no time-wast- ing homilies on this subject at either the committee stage or dur- ing the council session. The sugges- tion should be recognized for what tit is, and adopted. "What Alderman McLaren pro- 'poses is a commonsense plan. In 'New York City, in Toronto, and, 'only recently, in Hamilton, apa- -thetic crowds have been witnesses -to scenes of brutality. The pholoso- phy of public reluctance to help has centred around 'not wanting to be- come involved. "In many instances, it is con- ceivable involvement could mean dnjury. Thus, a citizen may ask, why take a chance -- and be left with a hospital bill as a reward? "The establishment of a fund such as Alderman McLaren pro- The Police poses will not change basic 'publie attitude to this ugly subject. Peoplé will still be beaten in publie while others watch. Policemen will still be maimed -- and killed -- as they endeavor to restore law and order while indifferent citizens look on. It would take far more than a compensation fund to instil the spirit of responsible citizenship in- to those who duck it. "But the fund would do one thing: It would reward duty and bravery in a just manner, instead of making those who assist the law pay a price which the timorous dr over-cautious escape. "Obviously, involvement is a personal matter. It would be dan- gerously foolish for elderly citizens and those with a health risk to hurl themselves into a fray against un- ruly thugs battling an officer of the law. "But where an act of courage is little more than an act of good citi- zenship, a person should not have to ask himself: "Who will pay the bill if I get hurt?" © "Alderman McLaren's proposal provides the answer to that ques- tion. "This is purely local legislation for protection of the injured. It should, logically, lead to a nation- wide review of the financial respon- sibility of the thug who does the maiming. "An amendment to the Criminal Code, under which a criminal is made to pay retribution for the in- juries he causes, would be a deterr- ent as well as a punishment. "Such legislation on a national level would be as commendable as that which is now proposed at a local level in Hamilton." Ingenuity In Taxes Canadian governments are sup- posed to display unrivaled ingenu- ity in the forms and variety of their tax assessments, and to be milking us for all they are worth. What Ottawa misses, the provincial treasurers grab in the way of sales taxes, liquor taxes and what-not; and if anything slips through their hands, i is claimed by the munici- pal authorities. That's what we've been led to believe, mistakenly, it now seems, says the Chalottetown Guardian, Our tax men themselves take a modest pride in doing as thorough a job on us as their counterparts have done in any country, ancient or modern. It will be a shock to them to learn that they have only scratch- ed the surface, if credence is to be given to a news item we came ac- ross the other day. The item is about a tax levied in a place called Dolcedo, in Italy, For 500 years any outsider who mar- ried a girl from Dolcedo has had to pay a tax--a "spaudo," the local people call it. For years the tax was five Genoese ducats. But in late years the tax has been illegal under Italian law, so local officials have reduced it to a single lira and made it voluntary." Only one man has refused to pay --a Tuscan whom the community penalized by pounding kettle drums outside his room all night to prevent him from sleeping. The "'spaudo" is really a double tax, for in addition to the sum paid to the community the suitor is expected to hand over money to the town's bachelors so they can ease their sorrow at losing a local beauty with drink and food. That's the story; and it just goes to show that like sin, taxes are ubiquitous, and can assume as many forms as old Satan himself. Watch Small Children - Constant vigilance is a necessity where small children are playing around the water. The "one min- ute" of inattention is often enough ~ If the stories by parents could be published in one child safety book- let the 'water section" would read something like this: -"I just turned my head for a ++ The Oshawa Sines T. L. WILSON, Publisher C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor eThe Oshowa Times combining The Oshawa Times festablished 187!) and the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle {established 1863) 1s published dailp {Sundays and Statutory holidays excepted) Members ot Conadian Daily Newspaper Publish ets Association. 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Other Provinces ond Commonwealth Countries 15.00, USA. and foreign 24.00, minute and when I looked back he had walked out 'into deep water up to his neck." "He has absolutely no fear of water. When he was little more than two years old he would jump off the end of any dock into the water. Of course, he was always crazy about his bath." "So, there he was sitting on a board. And an older kid was push- ing him out into the deep water," "She was sitting on a rock and suddenly slipped off. If I hadn't been there to grab her right away I don't know what might have hap- pened." It is the duty and responsibility of parents: to supervise their' small children around the water, says The Sudbury Star. It is not some- thing to be 'shucked off" on stran- gers or young brothers and sisters or babysitters. Protection of the very young is a parental] responsi- bility that parents should be pre- pared to accept even though it may sometimes be tiresome or monoton- ous. The parent who "has no time" for the children is no parent at all. YOUR HEALTH Ear Infections Fully Diagnosed By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, MD Dear Dr. Molner: My sister is having considerable trouble with her ears. She has to go about twice a week to have them opened. Otherwise she cannot hear. After these treat- ments there is draining of con- siderable fluid and pus and she is relieved but only for a short time. Could you explain why this cannot be finally cured?--BMS I should judge this to be an infection of the middle ear and, probably, of the mastoid pro- cess which is a honeycomb-like area in the bone back of the ear. In such infections, an incision in the eardrum allows drainage and relieves pressure, but the incision closes and. has to be reopened. Furthermore, as the infection establishes itself in the myriad of small places in the mastoid, there is no effective way to apply antibiotics that will freely reach all of the little pockets of infection. The infection becomes chronic, and sometimes radical surgical procedures are the only means of halting it--that is by removing the affected "honeycomb" area of the mas- toid. You may remember that 30 or 40 years ago it was not too uncommon to see people with rather massive scarred places behind an ear from such mas- toid operations. Today improved surgical techniques do not leave such scars. Further, many of these mastoid infections are nipped in the bud by the use of antibiot- ies. If this is not successful, then surgery sometimes has to be the answer. The same day the foregoing letter arrived, there was this note from another person: Dear Doctor: It took about six months of daily wetting my ear with an eye dropper, ap- plying medicine hourly, to get rid of a fungus infection in my ear. But it was worth it. And thanks to my doctor who told me to keep at it.--S.B. Britain Preparing For General Vote LONDON (CP)--As befits the "bettingest'" nation in the world, Britain's sporting blood is beginning to trickle into the political domain. With the general election set for the fall--a likely date is Oct. 15--the urge for a political flutter is being sublimated in all sorts of subtle ways. Apart from simple bets on the two big parties, Conservatives and Labor, it is possible to place your money on either party at varying odds, depend- ing on the size of majority you think they may obtain. Thus, a recent list from one of Britain's biggest book- makers, issued to its tens of thousands of clients, offered 16 to 1 against Labor winning by a majority of one to 10 in the 630-seat Commons. It offers even shorter odds against the chances of Labor majorities ranging from 11 to 70 seats, You can get 10 to 1 against a Labor majority of 71 to 80; 25 to 1 against an 81-90 edge; 50 to 1 against 91-100, and the same price for more than 100 When it comes to a Conserva- tive victory, the odds are 7 to 1 against a Tory majority of 1-10 or 11-20, rising to 8 to 1 for 21-30 and 13 to 1 in the 31-30 class. The prices get really juicy for a majority of 7180, reaching the 100-to-1 mark; and you can get 500 to 1 if the Con- servatives win by anything over $1 seats. LIBERALS ARE LONGSHOTS Of course, the real longshot bettors--or punters as they "call them here--don't need to worry about majorities, In the event of a victory by Jo Grimond's Liberal party, you would win 50,000 to 1, even if they just scraped home. The simple odds -against a Labor triumph are 2 to 7 and against the' Conservatives 5 to 2. Organized betting on British politics is a comparatively re< cent development. In a country credited with an annual turn- over of more than £1,000,000,000 on horseracing betting alone, the emphasis is still on horses and dogs. But there was lively betting last fall when the Conservative party engaged in some heavy soul-searching as a prelude to choosing a successor to Prime Minister Macmillan. Sev- eral bookmaking firms carried daily lists of odds on the con- tenders, including Quintin Hogg, R. A. Butler and Reginald Maudling. The winner, of course, turned out to be Sir Alec Dougias- Home, then the Earl of Home. He was a "dark horse," quoted in some lists at 20 to 1, Here we have a different type of infection, otitise xterna, or infection of the ear canal out- side the eardrum. In this case, too, the infect- ing agent evidently is different, a fungus, whereas the other more likely was bacterial. Yet even in this case, where the infected area is more ac- cessible, it can still be a con- dition which will yield only to persistent treatment over a-con- siderable time. We must face the facts: Ear infection can be extremely stubborn. But we musin't give up. Our ears are too valuable to us, Dear Dr. Molner: Will having a cat in the house cause a per- son with asthma to be any worse off? Or stuffed teddy bears or Easter bunnies?--WC Yes, if the person happens to be allergic to animal danders, or to dust or fabric in the stuffed animals, Dear Dr. Molner: How ac- curate are mobile X-ray units? I just received my card back that it was all satisfactory, but I have terrific pains in my chest. One doctor said it was poor posture and another said I had an inward goitre, and later. another said I didn't, I just had a fat neck. Who am I to believe?--J.M. The mobile X-rays are very accurate -- for what they are supposed to do. Whether you have a goiter, or some other trouble, can be de- termined by thorough examin- ation. However, I'm afraid you may have been demanding only snap judgments or opinions. I would choose one doctor and have him do a thorough job, instead of worrying over con- flicting "quickie" guesses, Dear Dr. Molner: I had a Caesarean with my first child. Is it possible for me to have other children normally?--B.A. Perhaps, perhaps not. Your obstetrician is the only one who can predict this for you, and maybe he can't. If your bone structure fs of a certain type, you can expect all future births to be Caesarean, too. But if some unusual but temporary condition was the reason for the first Caesarean, then subse- poy deliveries may be nor- mal. BY-GONE DAYS 20 YEARS AGO July 14, 1944 The lith (Reserve) Army Tank Regiment, under the com- mand of Lt.-Col. R. B. Smith, returned from camp at Niagara- on-the-Lake. after one of the most successful camps in the history of the unit. A. L. W. Smith, who gave a report on the Board of Educa- tion Supervised Playgrounds for the week ending July 8, stated that registrations totalled 1,178. Of these, 689 were at Rotary Park and 489 at Ritson. School. District farmers were promis- ed aid at a meeting called by Ald. Frank N: MacCallum, coun- cil farm commando representa- tive. Present at the discussions were Reeve Norman Down, of East Whitby Township; A. E. Grass, deputy-reeve and Clerk Paul G. Purves and -others. It was decided to open a farm commando office with Frank L. Mason named as head of the project. Dr. D. R. Fletcher, superinten- dent of the Ontario Hospital at Whitby, delivered an instructive address on the subject "Alco- holics Anonymous"' at the lunch- eon meeting of the Oshawa Ro- tary Club. Alex Russell, personnel super- visor of the DIL plant at Ajax, was installed as president of the Pickering Rotary Club for the 1944-45 Rotary year. He succeed- ed Charles Sterritt. Ivan Lee, Carnegie avenue, graduated as an air navigator in Winnipeg. His brother, Jack, was with the RCAF in Trenton. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Brad- ley of Whitby celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Prior to moving to Whitby over 40 years previously, they resided in the Orono district. The annual garden party held by the Holy Cross Parish was an outstanding success, Those at the head of the committee were Leo Karnath, president; Mrs. G. Blatter, secretary and George. Finley, treasurer. Robert Henderson, well-known member of the Oshawa Golf Club, exhibited a golf ball over 40 years old to fellow golfers. T. H. Everson, King street east, received congratulations from his many friends on the occasion of his birthday. OTTAWA REPORT MPs Are Not : usua announced a + list of essential pre-holiday leg- | islation. This was cut down to Earning Salary By PATRICK NICHULSON OTTAWA -- Parliament's snail-pace legislation under the Pearson government long ago became a national scandal and an international joke. Cana- dians may well ask with be- wilderment what exactly our $18,000 per year Jlegisiators think they are doing, for they certainly are not performing the work for which they volun- teered and for which they are paid. The House of Commons is ineptly led from 'the Liberal benches, and it is unduly ob- structed by the leader of the Conservative Opposition and his few hatchet men. We can com- pare the situation with late 1962, when the roles of those two parties were reversed; but then the obstruction was much more flagrant and universal thar. it is today. GRITS WANT ELECTION? The explanation of the pres- ent situation, I believe, lies in the wish of Liberal strategists to call yet another election this fall, But they know thai this vould be so unjustified, and so unpopular in the country that they are trying to make it ap- pear that the Conservative Op- Position is forcing an election. QUEEN'S PARK The Liberals will find it im- possible to make this lie. stick, since it is well known and very obvious here that the over- whelming majority of Tory MPs, as well as the smaller parties, consider another elec- tion neither. necessary nor de- sirable. The Pearson government is now frankly making no at- tempt to get urgent legislation passed by Parliament--this is the farcical climax of its vaun "60 days of decision" and its subsequent 390 days of dancing. Dancing? Mike Pearson and his partners are dancing what Ottawa's mayor, Charlotte Whit- ton, so expressively calls the Ottawa three - step: One step forward, one shuffle wooflingly sideways, one retreat shame- facedly backwards. Look at the damning record. On Friday, May 15, Mr. Pear- son tolq the House of Commons that there were 37 important measures he wanted Parlia- ment to process before the sum- mer holidays. In this list, he did not mention the flag at all. But only two days later he launched "'Mike's Maple" at the Winnipeg convention of the Ca- nadian Legion. June 3, Mr. Pearson per- Cass Is Upheld In Press Dispute BY DON O'HEARN TORONTO--There's an article on Bill 99 in the current issue of Maclean's magazine which leaves former Attorney-General Fred Cass in an unfairly bad light. The article gives the impres- sion that Mr. Cass did not get along with reporters, one might suspect to the point of bitter- ness. In one reference it says flatly "The press gallery did not love him." To some extent this is true. There were some, perhaps a number, of reporters in the gal- Irey who "did not love" thefor- mer attorney-general. But this was much more through their own frustration rather than through a failing of Mr. Cass. It happened that this year saw a large number of report- ers inexperienced in politics at the legislature -- large even for this gallery which is often used by the Toronto papers as a training ground for larger fields. TWO WEAKNESSES Such men generally suffer from two weaknesses in com- TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS July 14, 1964... A mob of angry peas- ants and French workers stormed and captured the notorious Bastille Prison in Paris.175 years ago today-- in 1789. The event was of epoch - making importance, not only for France, but for the Western world, for it set in motion those reve olutionary forces -- democ- racy, nationalism, socialism --which have changed the face of Europe and are not yet spent. 1853 -- The world's first major exposition opened at the Crystal Palace, London, England. : 1933--By his own decree, Hitler declared the Nazi Party the only legal party in Germany. THE GALLUP POLL They do not have the back- ground to readily grasp the meaning or significance of many matters. And this, in turn, intensifies the natural turn of any news- paper man to be a bit of a head-line hound. They become constant hunters for sensation- alism. Crime makes sensationalism and so the attorney-general is the most frequent target in this hunt. And, as his department was very active, Mr. Cass was under constant pressure from the press. At times he may have been short with some men, as the article charges. And with others he may not have taken the call every time they phoned him. But this should be taken into consideration: If he had attempted to really explain his position on many of the matters on which he was questioned it would have meant giving a short course on a point of law and its relevance to our traditions and principles--per- haps several times a day. QUITE PROPER He took the assumption, which was quite proper, if not practical, that a reporter as- signed to cover him by a re- sponsible newspaper would have the necessary knowledge to in- telligently handle his subject. This being the case he was under constant harassment, and the reporters concerned were under constant frustration. Personally I found Mr. Cass one of the best men to deal with in an entire 20 years of experience. In fact, probably the best. His so - called "shortness," was a joy. From another per- spective it was '"'preciseness" and he coula give you a quick answer to the poirit where an- other man would stumble and never come out frankly, and say what the situation really was. He was always accessible, even beyond reason if you con- sidered the load he was carry- ing. And though he didn't waste your time or his, you found out what you wanted, if you knew what that was. Canadians Divided On Cigaret Ads By CANADIAN INSTITUTE of PUBLIC OPINION - (World copyright reserved) . Canadians are about split down the middle on whether or not all advertising for cigar- ettes should be suppressed. Forty-four per cent say such advertising should not be al- lowed; 49 per cent say it should be allowed. More men (54 per cent) than women (44 per cent) are against the supression of cigarette ad- vertising. Among those who smoke 39 per cent feel cigarette advertis- ing should be banned and 55 per cent do not feel this way. Non-smokers are more evenly divided -- 48 per cent would suppress cigarette advertising and 43 per cent would not. When Gallup Poll interview- ers asked this same question in Britain, it was established that nearly five in 10 were against cigarette advertising and four in 10 were not. With news that the United States Government has warned cigarette manufacturers that all packages and advertising must have- warnings of danger to health, the Canadian Gallup Poll checked on basic attitudes to- wards the advertising of cig- arettes. The question: "Do you agree or disagree with the suggestion that all ad- vertising for cigarettes should be suppressed?"' Total Men Women Agree 44% «= 42% 46% Disagree 49 54 44 No opinion 7 4 10 100% 100% 100%, Cigarette Non-Cigarette Smokers Smokers Agree 39% 48% Disagree 55 43 No opinion 6 9 100% 100% Correction: For the record. it is noted that, in the Political Report of June 17, party stand- ing as reported for last April was in error. Correct figures, as published in our release of April Ist, should have been: Conser- vatives, 35 per vent, Liberal, 41 per cent; NDP, 13 per cent; Socred and Other, 11 per cent. 18 items, but the flag sud- denly been introduced with high priority. Then on June 26, Can- ada's leader leq us into another FIRST Omitted from Mike's maple- burred list was such urgent business as the redistribution of constituencies, without another election would be a mockery; and legislation to halt the destruction of our mag- azine industry, amendments to the National Housing Act, farm credit, crop nce, .mini- mum wage legislation and the Railway Act. and certain other urgent bills, all of which con- cern the employment ang wel- fare of Canadians. Obviously a flag won't pro. vide a single new job or im- prove any Canadian's welfare; and it is too late to reunify Canada without more concrete steps. But the flag certainly is, in the Liberals' view, a honey of an issue on which to precipitate an election; why, it should put every French - Canadian seat securely in the Liberal bag! This is a brutally critical ex- planation of the absurdities go- ing on on Parliament Hill; it presumes that the Liberal stra- tegists are selfish, partisan, un- patriotic opportunists. I hope I am wrong. But if we are heading into a 1964 elec- tion, I can think of no other explanation which so accurately fits the unbelievable harm to Canada which is being per- petrated in the House of Com- mons. Banana-Split Salads You can adapt this ice cream parlor favorite for summer salad lunching by putting scoops of cottage cheese on banana "splits" in lettuce cups. Sauce them with fresh fruits of your choice... sugared, in a syrup, or slightly mashed and mixed with a little mayonnaise. Garnish with sprigs of mint. Pretty as a picture, and high in good quality protein, courtesy of the cottage cheese! 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