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geen She Oshawa Fimes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1964 -- PAGE 6 Celebrate Centenary Without Outside Help Granted that we live today ia the age of the expert, but says Orillia Packet and Times, isn't it asking too much to expect Canadians to call in a specia) firm of promoters to tell them how they should cele- brate their centenary year? Yet Orillia, presumably like other communities across the land, nas been approached by an outfit which styles itself Centennial Celebration Consultants Limited," and which presumably has hitherto devoted its time to selling the Brooklyn Bridge to visiting tourjsts. This parcel of city slickers, which includ- es such unlikely running mates as Pierre Burton and Robert Macau- lay, has suggested that the centen- nial celebrations of this country are far too weighty a matter to be left to the whim of the private citizen or the individual community. Such celebrations, to quote the consult- ants' own brochure, might sink to the level of 'Shreds of bunting", of "noble but empty speeches and a bevy of schoolchildren singing O Canada." Instead of any such amateurish expressions of popular feeling, the consultants suggest thet they be chosen, for a substantial fee, to put on a professional production of some sort. If you're going to have people throwing their hats into the air, you'd best hire professionals who can be depended upon to do this thing properly and in unison, rather than rely upon a bunch of amateurs who are only throwing them up 0e- cause they feel like it. Would it be old-fashioned to sig- gest that people are still capable of doing their own public rejoicing? Would it-be stuffy to suggest that one heartfelt, spontaneous cheer from the throats of honest citizens, one burst of song from a bevy of schoolchildren, is better evidence of our regard for our country's cen- tenary than the most magnificent choral by the Don Cossack chorus, specially hired for the occasion? Would it be reactionary to believe that the simplest proposal, put for- ward and successful carried out by our town council, our parks board, our horticultural society, our school children, or any other volun- tary association of our citizenry, is an infinitely more valuable expres- sion of community feeling than the slickest production which could be confected by Messers. Macaulay, Berton, Dennett, Parkin, Crawley, McClelland and Kay, or of any other promoters hoping to turn a dollar on the nation's birthday? Any community so far gone that it has to hire a troupe of profes- sional celebrants to make its own birthday is surely beyond hope says The Packet and Times. "Like, dead." Shoddy Main Streets According to Maurice Lamon- tagne, secretary of state, most Can- adian cities and towns are drab, poorly planned places, jumbles of murky buildings where people live under the dictatorship of machines. Mr. Lamontagne was speaking to a group of architects and planning experts recently at Stratford. It is hard to deny the truth of his de- scripion, states the Hamilton Spec- tator. On the whole Canadian Main Streets are shoddy, monotonous and empty of spiritual content. Rarely is there anything in them that pleas- es the eye. A picture of one suffices as a picture of any. There is some- thing so deadly and soul-starving about it. We might well wonder why, in this prosperous and growing coun- try, we should be content to live in conditions like this. Mr. Lamon- tagne provides both the answer and the way to correction. Our children, he says, must be educated to create the mental en- vironment in which they can ap- preciate and advance the cultural wonders of the new. society that is developing. This will not be easy, for so much of our thinking is geared to the util+ itarian and the functional. And this is a polite way of saying that the first thought is too often the money--what a thing costs and what it will produce. Perhaps the first step out of this {trough is the realization that a building or anything else, can be profitable and eye-pleasing at the same time. In this matter we need, perhaps more than anything eise, to learn to regard ugliness as a sin, and as a corollary to this, the crea- tion of beauty in our streets and buildings asa sign of success and progress. Until this attitude is widespread, the visions of town-planners_ will seem like edicts which a minority tries to impose on a reluctant ma- jority. When the old and the charm- ing are preserved with the same fierce enthusiasm that is put into the destruction of the ugly eyesore there will be hope for more pleas- ing "Canadian Main Streets. They will cease to be ribbons along which cars race and across which pedes- trians scuttle for their lives. New Name Is Needed Wanted---a name for the Com- monwealth. The Belleville Ontario Intelli- gencer wonders if you have no- ticed that, during the current Com- monwealth conference in London, the word Commonwealth. rarely is accompanied by a preceding ad- jective. The British Empire became the British Commonwealth, but the British Commonwealth is a term which is now out of style. Some Tye Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combinirig The Oshawa Times festoblished 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle (estoblisned (863) is published daily (Sundays and Statutory holidays excepted) . Members of Conadian Daily Newspaper Publish- rs Association. 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Other Provinces and Commonweolth Countries 15.00, JS.A. and foreign 24.00, will argue that the bare 'Common- wealth" 'serves well enough, though this might be disputed by the resi- dents of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the believers in the Co-Operative Commonwealth ad- vocated by the CCF and the resi- dents of the Commonwealth of Aus- tralia, itself a member of the Com- monwealth. Why not "British ?" Here are the facts. When a prime ministers' meeting was held at London in 1946, shortly after the end of the war,,only five coun- tries Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, were represented. Five prime min- isters ruled over 70,000,000 people, in a large measure Anglo-Saxon in descent, mostly Christian in relig- ion and virtually all with a West- ern moral and political outlook. Attending the present Common- wealth conference are the leaders of 18 wholly independent countries, with a total population of over 750,- 000,000, or approximately a quarter of the total population of the world, predominantly Asian or African, with Hindu, Moslems and Buddhists outnumbering the Christ- jans. restore the adjective abi L TU tana | eras b a or = Lie "es. THOSE LAZY, HAZY, CRAZY DAYS OF SUMMER QUEBEC OPINION Candidates Need Help Of All Rural Leaders This is a selection of ed- itorials on current topics, translated from the French- language press of Canada. Trois - Rivieres Le Nouvel-. liste -- The separation of the Liberal political movements by their leaders surprises no one, since it merely ratifies a decision taken several months ago. The Quebec Liberal Fed- eration is sharply distinct from the Liberal Federation of Canada, the leaders of which spend their time think- ing out and implementing the Liberal doctrine on the federal level... . No one should himself by thinking that a militant provincia) Lib- eral will no longer take an interest in federal politics, ... On the contrary it seems that only the leaders: will be openly connected to either one sphere or the other. In prac- tice, the troops themselves will remain the same And those who have dabbled in politics at all will that what counts in an elec- tion is not the presiden: or the vice-president of a poltii- cal federation but rather the country leaders or those in the parishes or the districts. These are the people who hold in their hands the fate of the candidates. Thus, under the new sys- tem, nothing prevents a pro- vincial poll organier from acting in. the same capacity in a federal election. Minister) Guy Favreau. . . now is at the top of the pyra- mid together with Premier Lesage. Both Mr. Favreau (the leader of the federal Lib- erals in Quebec). and Mr. Le- sage might have disagree- ments, but the structures of ever fool the parties remain the same. (July 8) Montreal Le Devoir--(Pre- mier) Jean Lesage and his friends have just given Que- bec a nice example of Liberal' logic. In affirming the autonomy of the provincial Liberal fed- eration, they have acted in line with the demands of a well-known variety of federal- ism. But at the same time they have wanted to play the role of a wily fox. In allowing the local organizations to affiliate with the two (Liberal) par- ties, they have in practice annulled: . . the effect of their first decision... . On the face of it, the com- promise reached in the Que- TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN RESS July 18, 1964... The revolt by troops sup- porting Generalissimo Franco broke out in Mo- rocco 28 years ago today-- in 1936--and heralded the Spanish Civil War. Almost at once, other revolts broke out in Cadiz, Seville, Ma- laga, and Madrid. Three years later, Franco claimed victory after some of the bloodiest fighting in history: , and became the dictator of Spain. 1921--The United Farm- ers of Alberta won the elec- tion in that province. 1932--Canada and the U.S signed a treaty 'aying the groundwork for what even tually became the St, Law- rence Seaway. concede (Justice bec City meeting is a lame one. It reveals the aristocra- tic mentality that still pre- vails among the Liberal lead- ers. They wanted to wipe out any appearance of double al- legiance on the level and they establish for the sake of the top men two dis- tinct structures. But they re- fuse to attack the evil at its roots, that is to say at the local level, in the mental pro- cesses of those they solemnly call the party militants. . Mr. Lesage sooner or later will complete his evolutionary cycle. He likes to change opinion graduaPy. Meantime, the local Liberals will resem- ble those baseball players who belong to two teams at the same time, In order for oth- ers to know what they believe in, these Liberals will have to ask themselves under what playing cap they want to stash their brains. -- Claude Ryan (July 7) Ottawa Le Droit--The Lau- rendeau Dunton Commis- sion, which has been operat- ing for less than a year, has cost us $422,706 up to now, according to information fur- nished by Jack Davis, parlia- mentary assistant to the prime minister, to Progres- sive Conservative member Lloyd Crouse... . Mr. Davis informed. Mr. Crouse that the commission has retained thé services of 36 "research" specialists. If it is left alone, the commission will, by the end of the year, employ 65 researchers on a fulltime basis and 28 part time. Reasonable citizens will nearly all believe, as we do, that this is waste. If John G. Diefenbaker was not likely to use the situation to give free reign to his usual francopho- bia, we wou!d ask him to pro- fest against these enormous and useless expenses. The commission could make recommendations con- forming to/its mandate right leadership © now, or in two or three months at the latest. Every- one already knows (and has known for a long time) that Canada is disunited on the problems being looked into by the commission and its im- probable staff... . Already, anyone can draw conclusions from the inquiry --Canadians must be taught to know one another better; prejudices on both sides must be fought; immigrants must be taught the history of their new country; the British North America Act must be revised so that its wording will be more clear and in the spirit that presided over the deliberations of its authors. Above all, it is necessary for the French-Canadians of the provirice of~Quebec, and else- where, to make themselves respected by enriching them- selves while remaining them- selves and in respecting their mother tongue.--Willie Cheval- fer. (July 10) Sherbrooke La Tribune -- The idea of a permanent in- ternational force under United Nations authority, suggested by Canada, is slowly winning supporters. One of the latest countries to show an interest in such a proposal is none o'her than the Soviet Union. Details of the establish- ment of a UN police force have .not been drawn up but the good sense of the Soviet Union's suggestion that mem- ber countries of the Securi'y Council be kept off the force is obvious... . But this is not. enough. They must not be able, through the veto, to paralyse its operation. Also, these countries, above all the U.S.S.R., must agree to pay their share even when the force does not serve their in- terests directly.--(July 9.) PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM The Russian word for "labor" sounds far more fitting than the English one. It is "Trud". A person will work much harder to get something to put in an empty head than in an empty stomach. BY-GONE DAYS 40 YEARS AGO "July 18, 1924 Rev, R. A. Whattam preacehd his first sermon in his new pas- torate at South Oshawa Method- ist Church (Cedardale United Church). Granolithic sidewalks were laid from Aberdeen to Con- naught streets on Simcoe street north, Mechanic street was opened for traffic after the laying of sewers and paving was com- pleted. Compulsory pasteurization of milk by Oshawa distributors was defeated 9 to 7 in a heated debate by council, The Home and School Council decided to organize a Girl Guide company in Oshawa. Girls, 11 years of age and over, were asked to give their names to Mrs. R. S. McLaughlin. B. J. Rogers, who was a life- jong resident of the district, died at his home in his 86th year. Mayor W. J. Trick, Aldermen H. P. Schell, O. R. Burns, R. D. Preston and City Engineer W C, Smith represented Oshawa at a meeting of Department. of Highways in Toronto. Mrs. Mercer, wife of Com- mandant Mercer of th. Saiva- tion Army, presented the Boys' Band with two silver instru- ments. Bandmaster <A. J. Graves accepted the gifts on be- half of the band. Fire Marshal George F. Lewis was unable to attend a council meeting because of illness. Council members were anxious to have him attend a meeting to stress the need of proper fire protection in the town. D, A. J. Swanson announced that he had secured the serv- ices of Albert J. Parkhill, who had recently graduated from Osgoode Hall, to assist him in his law practice here. D. Manning was elected Exalted Ruler of the newly- organized Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of the Elks Lodge, No, -93. Other officers elected were: Mayor W. J. Trick, Ed McSweeney, Dr. A. W. Harding, J. P. Mangan, D. G. W. Fergu- soa, &. °C. "Young, Dr. SS. ° v: Phillips, C, P,.- Davis, C.-C Murty, W. R. Maxwell, R. § Disney, John Stacey, J. J. Cal- lJaghan and D. J. Brown. EF Ee FP IRD UNITED KINGDOM OPINION bile alata Political Poll Indicates A Close Election Battle By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent To The Oshawa Times LONDON--There were smiles and chuckles around Conserva- tives party headquarters on Smith Square when the Daily Mail published its latest Na- tional Public Opinion poll on the standing of the political parties. It produced the most encourag- ing figures of any simiar poll in the last year or so, and indi- cated that, if its trend con- tinued, the coming general elec- tion would be a very open fight. The Daily Mail poll, which is regarded by many political ob- servers as the most sensitive to changes in public opinion and the most reliable, showed that in the previous two weeks period, the Labor lead over the Conservatives had dropped from 7.9 per cent to 3:5 per cent. This seems like the break- through for which the. Tories have been hopefully looking for many months, and it is of suf- ficint extent to be heartening news at party headquarters. CAUSE OF SWING If this swing should be con- tinued, the contending parties might well be on fairly even terms before the election comes in three months time. Naturally, on looks for some specific rea- son for the sudden decline in Labor party fortunes. And the one factor which is being cited as responsible is the Harold Wilson intervention which caused Spain to break off con- tracts for acquiring British frigate, and also other Spanish orders which have been can- celled since Mr, Wilson attack- ed Spain in the House of Com- mons, / This subject has sunk deeply into the political consciousness of the British public, and the YOUR HEALTH Tories have taken full advan- tage of the issue handed to them on a platter by the Labor lead- er. No amount of trying to ex- plain it away or minimize it will do the Labor party much good now, because the wide publicity given to the Spanish deals has made its mark on public think- ing, and can be blamed for the drastic drop in the Labor over the Tories in the Daily Mail's poll. ~ POLICE COMPENSATION The widows of British police constables who lost their lives in the execution of their duty will receive compertsation in the form of a lump sum of more than $6,000,-in addition to any regular pension to which they would be entitled. Legislation making this effective was pass- ed by the. House of Commons only after Henry Brooke, the Home Secretary, yielded to pressure from. members to widen the scope of the bill he had presented. Mr. Brooke's bill would have confined the pay- ment of this compensation only to widows of constables actually murdered while on duty. This was not good enough for the members of both parties in the House. One after another they supported a demand from the Police Federation that the same gratuity should be paid to the widow of a constable who dies, for example in a car crash, or by falling from a building or suffering some other accident while he is in the pro- cess of making an arrest. After a Labor member criticized the Home Secretary for bringing in "a half-baked proposal', and had received strong support from the Conservatives benches, Mr. Brooke capitulated, and said "I will yield to.the House", and agreed to amend his bill to make it include the widows of Remedy Lacking Stubborn Sores By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, MD Canker sores, cold sores, and fever. blisters are stubborn, an- noying and sometimes lifelong afflictions for which we have no absolute remedy. In_ that way, they're similar to the com- mon cold. With them it's as the doctor is reputed to have said to a patient with a cold, 'If you had pneumonia, I could cure it!" A couple of months ago I wrote all I knew about how to subdue these ornery sores, and I thought you might be inter- ested in the responses. From the state of .Washing- ton: Dear Sir: I am an auto mech- anic and hate people who tell me what is wrong with their cars. I hate even worse to, ad- mit they are right. Now I am putting myself in the amateur's position. In 1943 I was in the air force in Okla- homa and was in the hospital with 23 canker sores, as big as the erasers on pencils. I'd had them all my life and tried everything. They were so bad the doctor gave orders I could have tea any hour of day or night, hop- ing the tannic acid would help. One day he told me he had an idea that smallpox vaccina- tions might help. He started me on a_ series of vaccinations every two weeks. I was dis- charged, and went to work for an airline. The company doctor agreed to continue the series for six months. I; have never had a canker sore since. When my son reached teen- age he started to have canker sores the same as I did. I took him to a doctor, who laughed about the smallpox vaccination, but agreed to give the boy two "extra strong' vaccinations. No more sores for a year. Then they started again, and again the 'aughs but some more vac- cinations and no more sores for a couple of years now, But the doctor still doesn't believe in this series. I'd like the doctor in Okla- homa and the company doctor to know I haven't hag a canker sore since 1944,--B.J.B. 1 don't know why. such vac- 'cinations help, but I've recom- mended them quite a number of times, and sometimes they work. Sometimes they don't. Probably some such sores are due to a virus, others due. to an allergy, perhaps some from ai entirely different cause. Now a letter from Florida: Dear Doctor: A friend had canker sores and noe mouth wash seemed to help, But when he stopped eating chocolates, no more sores.--Mrs. A.B, So this case was an allergy. Vaccination would not have helped. Somebody else might prevent such sores by avoiding toma- toes, strawberries, seafood, or certain other foods, I don't know how to tell one canker 'sore from angther, but perhaps somebody will discover how, and then it will be easier to ascertain the form of treat- ment. For the present, I guess trial and error is the only an- swer. But this is why medicine as "an art and a science."' For some things we can be highly 'scientific, . For others, we have to depend on we identify "art," or instinct, or luck; or dogged patience, to find the right answer. Dear Dr. Molner: What is meant by "nerve root pain"? Is there any treatment?--S.W, Nerve root pain is the result of irritation or pressure on the nerve at its root, that is, the point at which the nerve emerges from the spinal cord between the vertebrae. The pain, however, would not necessafily be felt at the point of pressure. Rather it could be (and often is) felt elsewhere in the area swerved by that nerve. Causes include a ruptured or damaged disc in the spine; arthritis; extreme curvature of the spine. Treatment, therefore, depends on finding the cause. all constables who lost their lives in the course of duty. This is a great victory for the Police Federation. For three years the Police Council has bode considering this subject without reaching an agreement. In the debate, Mr. Brooke said it was wrong to delay action for the widows of murdered police- men any longer. And under the pressure of arguments from MP's' he went even further than he had originally intended. SAFEGUARD TO SHIPPERS Ernest Marples, minister of transport, has given tain's reply to. the atte 'of the United States Federal Maritime Commission to act on its own in regulation British shipping and shippers. He has introduced in the House of Commons a drastic new law which will pro. tect Brtish shipowners and all other trading firms against de- mands from foreign countries to supply confidential information about their trading agreements. The bill is to be rushed through the Commons before the House rises for the summer holidays, Th new bill is designed to protect the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom against at- tempts by any country to regu- late British shipping practices, In effect, it puts into legal form the order given. by Mr. Marples, telling shipowners not to hand over confidential trad- ing documents to the Ameri- cans, as had been demanded by the U.S. Federal Maritime Com- mission. It makes it an offence providing for heavy penalties, for any shipowner or any other person to comply with such an order or demand from a foreign country. Mr. Marples was loudly cheer- ed in the Commons when he said: "It is the duty of the gov- ernment to safeguard the rights of British subjects, including our traders and shipowners, and to ensure that the proper juris- diction of the United Kingdom is not weakened or diminished." CANADA'S FLAG Ministry of works officials re- 'sponsible for placing around Parliament Square the flags of the Commonwealth countries in honor of the Prime Ministers' conference, have to keep right up to date in their knowledge of the rapidly changing Common- wealth. Putting up the flags, they found the Tanganyikan flag was not up to date, because it did not contain the colors of the newly United Zanzibar. A new flag had to be quickly produced by a Whitechapel tailor -- at overtime rates. They also had to produce a new red, green and black striped flag for Malawi, admitted tr Commonwe> 4 at the conference. And in orce? to be prepared for any eventual- ity, they now have in stock a triple Maple Leaf model flag o? Prime Minister Pearson's de- sign, to be ued if, and when that new flag is finally adopted by the Canadian parliament. For the present, the famillar Cana- dian red- ensign is still flying proudly. on its flagpole. YOUR INCOME TAX Medical Expense Deductions Old Medical expenses were first allowed as a deduction in the calculation of taxable income in 1942. At this time provision was made for 'the deduction of amounts in excess of 5 per cent ~ of net income with a limit of $400 for single persons and $600 for married persons, plus $100 for each dependant. In 1944 the floor was reduced from 5 per cent to 4 per. cent and the maximum limits raised to $600 for single persons, $900 for married and $150 for each dependant. In 1948 the deduction changed once more. The maximum limits were raised to $750 for single persons, $1,000 for mar- ried persons and $250 for each dependant; the period for which expenses could be claimed changed from the taxation year to any twelve months ending in the taxation year. Further changes were as fol- lows: (1) 1951 -- certain drugs were included as deductible medical expenses; (2) 1952 -- the maximum de- duction was doubled; (3) 1953 -- the floor was lower- ed from 4 per cent to 3 per cent of net income; (4) 1960 -- the limits were raised to $2,000 and $3,000 re- spectively for single and mar- ried status, and $750 for de- pendants; (5) 1961 -- the ceiling was re- moved entirely. At present medical expenses can be deducted as follows: (i) if paid in the taxation year; - (ii) if paid within a 12 month period ending in the taxation year; (for example, a deduc- tion may be made when filing a 1964 tax return for medical ex- penses paid between July 1, 1963 and June 30, 1964 (provided. of course medical expenses paid in the period July 1 1963 to De- cember 31, 1963 were not claim- ed when filing the 1963 income tax return). (iii) in the event of death of the taxpayer, if paid within a 12 month period commencing in the taxation year OR within a 12 month period ending in the taxation year. It is noted above, that in order to claim a deduction for medi- cal expenses, payment must take place in the period the ex- pense is claimed. It is immater- ial when the expense was in- curred, There is one exception to this rule -- where the ex- pense is paid pursuant to a con- tract of medical insurance -- in this case a deduction may be made if the medical expense be- came payable in the period stated above. (iv) expenses may be claimed in respect of the taxpayer, his wife (or her husband) or a member of his (or her) family; (v) deductions are permiss- ible for medical expenses in: re- spect of other dependants claim- ed on the tax return. Monteith, Rieh OSHAWA SHOPPING CENTRE e@ RESIDENT PARTNERS Burt R. Waters, C.A. Hon. & W. Monteith, F.C.A.; M.P Gordon W. Riehl, C.A., R.1.A. Robert F, Lightfoot, C.A. Chartered Accountants Gordon W. Riehl, C.A., R.1.A, PARTNERS: George E. Trethewey, C.A. Burt R. Waters, C.A. |, Waters & Co. OSHAWA, ONTARIO @ TELEPHONE: Oshawa-Bowmanville 728-7527 Ajax 942-0890 Whitby 668-4131 A. Brock Monteith, B. Comm,, CA.