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dhe Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King 5t. E, Oshawa, Ont, Page 6 Fridey, September 9, 1960 Effective Disarmament Safer Than Neutrality During the past year there have been repeated suggestions that Canada re- nounce its military alliances and adopt a policy of neutrality, It is a pleasant thought, this shed. ding of commitments and responsibility, It would mean an end to squabbles about such things as the Bomarc and nuclear warheads, and to the heavy spending on defence, The federal government could put a large part-of the $1.6 billion it spends on defence to more construc- tive use -- by giving more to the provinces, for example, or applying it to the national debt or even reducing its tax take, Neutrality would not ily mean unilateral disarmament by Canada, but it would undoubtedly mean a sharp reduction in defence ex- peditures, It's a pleasant thought, 80 is a day- dream about sunny beaches and warm water during a January blizzard, The difference is that the January daydream is a lot closer to reality, since only the passage of a few months will bring summer weather, But there is no limit on the cold war, which goes on and on, And unfortunately we cannot move Canada to 8 more remote and less strategic place on the planet, Canada is committed to the cold war by geography, apart from any other considerations, Little Switzerland could stay neutral through two great wars (although the Nazis serously considered attacking it at one time) but Belgium could not, Belgium lay on the flank of en aggressive Germany; to the attacker it was not a neutral nation but a means of getting around fixed defences, Canada is small in population only, The Cana dian land mass touches three oceans, spans a continent and covers the greater part of a sub-continent, Like Belgium, it lies between two bristling great powers, And like Belgium, in the event of a war between those powers, it would be ine volved whether it wanted to or not, The answer to neutrality was given a few days ago by Turkey, Khrushchev sent a note to Cemal Gursel, the Turkish head of state, urging on him a policy of neutrality, Gursel rejected the Russian proposition, He said he was all in favor of better relations between Ankara and Moscow, but "liquidation or at least reduction of military expenditures can be made possible not by neutrality but by the establishment of universal dis. armament with effective mechanism," an control High Cost Of Office If a speculative news report is correct, some friends of Defence Minister Pearkes are raising a $200,000 fund to enable him to succeed Frank Ross as Lieu- tenant-Governor of - British Columbia, Gen, Pearkes would make a very good Lieutenant-Governor, because he is a 'man of great dignity and courtesy = undoubtedly a much better Lieutenant. Governor than Minister of National Defence. But only men of considerable means can afford to take that job and handle it with the flourish that is ex- pected, The pay is only $9000 a year with an expense allowance of $12,000, for a total that does not come close to paying the expenses of the office, It is reported that Lieutenant-Gov. ernor Ross has spent a half million dollars of his own money on the require. ments of the office during his term, and a great deal more than that on refurbish. ing Government House after a fire, Mr, Pearkes, who has spent most of his life in the service of his country, does not have that kind of money, The matter of the Lieutenant-Gov- ernor's expenses raises some interesting questions, If this is a necessary part of our system of government, should not the pay be enough to enable the office holder to do his job in the proper way? Should only rich men be considered for the post, no matter many of modest means might be fit and proper candidates? The basie question, of course, con. cerns the job itself, whethe? or not it is necessary, If it is, then the primary qualification should not be the size of a man's bankroll, The Lieutenant-Governor sentative of the Crown, with duties and relations in respect to the provincial government that the Governor-General has in respect to the federal government, The latter functions for the Queen of Canada when she is not in the country, The provinces are jealous of their autonomous institutions, but would the parliamentary tradition and the auto. nomy break down if there were no Lieutenant - Governor? We doubt it, Many holders of the office have been wholly undistinguished men, capable only of paying the bills, Except for a bit of pageantry they would never have been missed, ! how men more is a repre- Ignorance About Boats Four men were rescued from Lake Erie this week after spending two nights adrift in a small outboard motorboat, The coast guard said the four left Cleve- land for Cedar Point, Ohio, en route to Erieau, Ont, at a time storm warnings were out for the lake, They had enough gasoline for three and a half hours, in. sufficient to power their 15-foot craft on the trip they planned, and they ran out of fuel, They had no compass, no charts and no flares, and miscalculated the drift of their boat, That sort of incident is uncommon, The past few years has seen a continuing boom in the use of small craft on lakes and rivers, but all too often the boat operator: do not bother to learn anything about the requirements of boat handling, There is no excuse for such ignorance, Power squadrons, for example, conduct The Osha Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher and General Manager €. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combini (established 1871) and the hitby Gazette and Chronicle (established 1863), is published daily (Sundays and statutory holidays excepted), Members of Canadian Daily Newspapers Publishers Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Assos giation, The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein. All rights of special despatches are also reserved. 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By mail (in fiovince of Ontario) outside carriers delivery areas 12.00; elsewhere 15.00 per year, Average Daily Net Paid as of April 30, 1960 16,999 regular winter courses in such subjects of chart reading, compass use and water safety, Locally, the courses are handled by instructors of the power squadrons at Oshawa and Ajax, Many boat owners will claim that they do not need instruction, because they operate their craft only on coms paratively small bodies of water, where shorelines are never out of sight; they do not need charts and compasses for such use, They could not be more wrong, There is a great deal more to operating a small boat than simply pressing a button, pulling a cord or handling a tiller, And one has only to watch the misbehavior of boat owners at a popular resort during a sunny summer weekend to realize how extensive is the need for instruction, Part of the trouble is un. doubtedly plain discourtesy by operators who know better, but more, we believe, is the result of stupidity and ignorance, Traffic on the more popular and ac- cessible lakes and rivers is reaching the point where licensing of operators is necessary, A boat can be as deadly a vehicle as an automobile, and a similar licensing system should be in effect -- particularly when the traffic jams on the water are getting worse, Other Editor's Views High Speed Missiles (W. L. Clark, in Windsor Star) A hard shot hockey puck travels faster than a hard-thrown baseball, Pitchers like Bob Feller and Walter Johnson could throw a baseball at 98.6 miles per hour, Hockey players like Gordie Howe, Jean Beliveau, Bobby Hull and Andy Bathgate shoot a puck at 100 miles per hour, . No wonder Jacques Plante wants to wear a mask when he is fending off shots by the stars A pS i ft bp REPORT FROM UK. "C'MON IN -- THE WATER'S FINE' Theatre Counters Damaging Cri By M, McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng,) Correspondent to The Oshawa Times LONDON London's Strand Theatre on Aldwych has adopred a unique method of overcoming the damaging reports of the critics who reported on the first night of the fairy-tale musical show, "The Princess", For eight performances of this new. play every seat in the theatre has heen given away free, There are 1300 seats In the house, so that over 10,000 people have had the privil- ege of seeing the show for nothing, Those who had already bought and paid for their tickets for these eight shows have had their money refunded This Is not merely a generous QUEEN'S PARK Fluoridated Milk Wins Advocates By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- It looks more and more as though those wanting flu- oridated water may end up with fluoridated milk The government's committee of inquiry, now a year and a half old, is going to carry on a while longer to look into the milk angle It decided to do this on its own If it hadn't, Premier Frost would have directed it to The milk alternative looks like political manna from heaven to the premier NO SHELTERS Don't expect this government to do too much to help you build a basement shelter To date the public has shown a great disinterest in building shelters Confidentially, its attitude Is shared by the more reserved ele ment here Attorney - General Roberts has announced he is going to build a shelter in his backyard But Mr. Roberts is a gadgeteer He might buy Brooklyn bridge if a new type of can opener was pari of the deal, The government itself has built a model shelter down at the cor ner of the park. But its main use to date has been as a background for protest groups tics managmeent and those financing the production, It is a direct chal lenge to the. dramatic critics of the London Newspapers, SHOW WAS PANNED On the day after the premiere of the play, the critics panned it unmercifully, The Daily Tele graph eritie, A, V, Coton, wrote about it It' is a well-meant effort to tell an old story in a new way, The libretto lacks dramatic shap and action, verbiage and music are worked out in painsiaking system of parody, paraphrase and pastiche, The dancing is an assembly of bits and pleces hav ing no unified style, 1 lost count of the deceased composers to They stand in front of it plunk- ing guitars and singing Ban the Bomb When C. Northeote Parkinson was here he told about the first days of the last war in Briatin, He said that gas masks had been issued to everybody, They were designed as tection against mustard gas T'his gas was by then obsolete, And besides the masks didn't pro. tect against it anyway Except for dedicated do-gooders this would seem to reflect the public attitude toward shelters, Most people here are skeptical too THOSE POLITICIANS Which reminds that an Ottawa member has proposed the govern ment should build a million shel ters He thought this could be a bel ter investment than planes I'he man is the member for St Boniface pro They might give him a de- served honor and change the name of that riding to Sitting Duck Those people politicians ean't right But it might be better if they were, who say think are many not BY-GONE DAYS 35 YEARS AGO A. Blackburn, city treasur- er and member of the Ontario Municipal Association executive, attended the 27th annual conven. tion in Toronto, P Oshawa's total fire loss for the first six months of 1925 amounted to $19,273. Much of the loss was accounted for at the fire in Welsh's store, damage in which amounted to $15,000 The Oshawa Fair executive purchased a large lent, 30 feet by 100 feet, to take care of the ladies' vest room A party of from Oshawa, Miller, Bert five trapshooters Ross Flintoff, T, Robinson, Walker Rowden and G. Cox, were the prize-winners in a three-day trapshooting tournament at Otta- wa The new Oakland models were on display in the GM showroom on Richmond St. Entively new body lines, the harmonic engine balancer and oil cleaner were among the improvements, The South Ontario County Plow Ing Match was to be held at ( L. Mackey's farm, Brooklin, with & membership reaching the 200 mark Radio inspectors visited Osh. awa to investigate complaints of interference on their sets, due to someone using a spark coil An estimate 1200 school teach ers were unerhployed in the prov. ince A and B Companies, under the eommand of Maj. F, Chappell, returned from the Uxbridge camp, PARAGRAPHICAL' WISDOM It seems to be the consensus that "This is the best of all pos. sible worlds"; if true, the other planets aren't worth visiting. Ontario Regiment "Reading maketh a full man." Bacon, Bui if the. reader isn't careful, all he'll be full of is propaganda There is a little humor in law books, as, for example, that the pedestrian has the vight of way over vehicles, and that the hus. band is the head of the house If an empty head were as de manding that its owner fill it as I+ an empty stomach, the aver age person would know about 2% times as much as he knows now whom at various times I raised my metaphorical hat," Faced with a slump In sales of seats after the eriticisms had appeared, the hackers of the show decided they would open the doors to the public and leave them to judge the quality of the entertainment for themselves, They announced that for eight performances there would he no admission charge, Anyone could secure a ticket merely by writing for it and enclosing a stamped addressed envelope, On the first day, over 5000 re- quests for tickets were received, The chorus girls of the company were pressed into service open- ing the letters and sending out the tickets, The theatre was filled for these eight nights, and the result was what the producers an: ticipated, There were enthusias- tie audiences, Inside the pro. grams were questionnaires on which those attending were invit. ed to express their opinions of the show, The results of the poll were entirély favorable to the pro. duction, and the management proudly displays them on bills boards outside the theatre. It pro. vided the kind of advertising that money could not buy, STUNT JUSTIFIED Ted Kneeland, ihe producers director of * The Princess" feels that his free-seat stunt has been fully justified In announcing it, he sald; "We are sure that audiences will like. the play, and we hope that our 10,000 visitors occupying free seats will spread their good opinion of it around hy word of mouth, After the eight free per- formances, we will study the questionnaires and decide on the future according to them," As a result of this experiment, it looks as if the play will enjoy a musical run, in spife of the erities READERS' VIEWS Voters Assured Arena Designed For Children Pear Bir; I read an article in your paper Or vs Was a sure way to sefe- requisite for success is last week to do with a propossl to allow minor hockey to be play- ed in the Children's Arens this coming sesson, I cannot help being consider- #bly interested in this subject, because of a particular instance leading up to the building of this arena, A few years ago, when the building of the arenas was by all that was holy that a vole guard the interest of our e¢hil dren, and no one, but no one, would set fool on that ice but children, and that there would be 8 bylaw to back it up. Well now, I must smile, I seems as i there is a hole to be pierced in the armour some. where, after these few years, but I cannot see where, The article talked of, this subject was on the agenda of a Citizen's Fo- rum being held at OCCI, spon. sored by the Jay Cee's, Questions were invited by the public in at- tendance or listening by radio, Remembering what difficulties youngsters had in attempting to play hockey in the arena used prior to that time, due fo the domination of OHA and Mercan- tile Leagues, the writer asked the following question; "How long would it be before the children were pushed to one side and the arena dominated by mercantile class hockey or minor league in- terests?" * This question was pounced on by fledgling and sea- soned civie political aspirants alike, and parents were assured OTTAWA REPORT Cabinet Prepares New Job Policy By PATRICK NICHOLSON After three years of hope vainly pinned to patchwork palliatives, the Diefenbaker government is al most ready to unveil a new na- tional policy for full employment, A committee of the cabinet has for many: weeks been studying the problems which bedevil Can- ada's economy, Its findings and recommendations will form the basis for legislative action on a broad front by an early session of Parliament, The prime minister is believed to have decided long ago to sum- mon Parliament htis fall and he openly hinted at this before the close of the recently ended seve). month parliamentary marathon, A favorite opening date in specu- lation is the Thursday after Thanksgiving, in October, which our former prime minister Mac. kenzie King would have spiritedly avoided because it is the 13th day of the month, MORE WORK SOONER Under the experimental rules of procedure to be tested in the com. ing session, Parliament will be able to readjust its program so that an earlier start can be made on eommittee work and legisla tion, In the 9% weeks hefore the likely 3%-week Christmas recess, considerable progress could be made on bills aimed at improv. ing our economic situation, These steps will not only show that this is a government of ac- tion, ready to put into effect all valid measures intended to hene- fit Canada and ready to empha- size our national independence from the U.S, dollar sign; they will also create a climate of opis mism which will remove the re. straint now felt by business to- wards new projects which could create many jobs, Further, against the back- ground of this new euphoria cre- ated in the public mind, the Diefenbaker government would an he ready (o call an election Trade Problems, Dollar Major Friction Causes RY CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION Trade problems and the value of the dollar rank as major causes of friction between Can. ada and her powerful and dynas mie neighbor, the States, This belief rises to its highest point, among farmers and business ex. ecutives, Increasing sensitivity. to rela- tionships between the two nations among the rank and file enables almost six in ten Canadians to name one or more major causes of frietion, Next to problems of trade and exchange rates for the dollar, the public lists U.S, control of Cans adian Industry and '"domineers they could net think of any basis mg" attitudes towards a smaller for friction, or that there was country, Business executives are none of importance Value of the dollar, .vvrsrssvsvenssrssnnannsne 18% Unequal trade TIT 12 Tariff; duties A 4 20% U.S. DOMINATION U.S. controls too many companies in Canada; handles too much of our business; has too much power over our economies 8 U.S, trying to run Canada; too domineering Ll} U.S has too much to say about our defence plans 4 Canada is too dependent on US: caters too much to them 22% OTHERS Lack of understanding or co-operation; poli» ties; foreign policy; recent events; bad newspaper publicity, ete 5 12 There are no serious causes of frietion.,...., 3 Can't name any wae 8 14% (Some named more than one) Looking deeper to see how men and women in different eceupas tional groups are conerened with Friction caused by trade problems Friction caused by US. control in Canada No cause of friction Can't name any World Copyright particularly concerned with these problems, In reporting reactions of the Canadian people to a number of controversial issues concerned with the States, Gallop Poll inter. viewers first put key questions to a scientific sample of the nation as a whole, For today's report they asked "WHAT ARE THE WOULD YOU SAY MAJOR CAUSES OF FRICTION BETWEEN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES?" Most of the causes for friction, as the table below reveals, have to do with trade matters and with U.S, influence and control in Canada. A very large segment, however, 41 per cent sald that these problems, the columns be: low compare attitudes between business - executives, labor and farmers, Business and te many pros and cons for and against both factions, but if a bylaw exists, and 1 have been assured that there is, then there is no argu ment at all, The present admin. istration of the children's arena when dad and mother could go 0 the arena on 8 Friday or Sate urday evening with their children and enjoy a family evening of skating, Now | see by the article thal this Is being discussed, What shout the lads in minor hockey? Unfortunately, | ha ai answer for that one, cannot teel Loo for a ity group where the pri 41H fs 33 ity to cleave someone centre with a hockey stick, cannot he stopped any other or the use of hips to put through the boards and out of Hon, and then get & pat on back trom the coach for a well done, | feel Mr, Wilson and his group are correct, the major. ity 'must be considered over the chosen Jew, My boys and counts less hundreds of others will never enter the arena of the gladiators of today, but they will have had a lot of fun under the direction of a neighborhood association where these men do emphasize sport hip, believe it or not, HH 8% should be highly ded for the gigantic job they have per. formed over the years, As far as 1 can ascertain, the children have been as happy as larks with the program established for their benefit, and the parents at large should be exceedingly grateful, and 1 think they are, (although a bit shy at saying so.) I have only ome eriticism to make if it ean be called such, There has not been, up until now, enough time or any time next year, If considered politically advisable, In other words, Tory Leader John Diefenbaker is clearing the decks for action, so that after Parliament's work is finished hy late spring, there can be an elec: tion if necessary, but not neces. sarily an election, ECONOMISTS WARNINGS The five-year term of this Par- liament ends in March 1963, Tra. dition would point to an election being called in the late summer o fall of 1962, Many political pun. dits would recommend that course on the twin grounds that the public had its bellyful of elec- tions with two long and intensive campaigns in 1957 and 1958 and that our economic climate might be expected to be better in 1962 than next year and hence more favorable to the electioneering prospects of the party in office, On the other hand, many econ- omists predict a steady increase in unemployment over the next two years; political strategists who believe this forecast suggest that John Diefenbaker, like a smart poker player, should cut his losses and face up to a di- minution of his parliamenatry majority next year, rather than suffer its complete obliteration the following year, There is polities] astuteness as well as electoral preparedness in summoning a headline-winning session of Parliament in October, which would reassemble Jan, 9 That would steal a lot of the limelight from "the assembly of liberally + minded eggheads" at Queen's University in September and also from Vieho rally of lib erally « minded Canadians" planned to meet in Ottawa--by no chance--January 9, Can the Conservatives come up with an effective economic pro- gram? Of course it is not the gov- ernment's Job to create jobs, It only employs people in the civil service, in the armed services and in the Crown corporations; every Job which It creates ,in those fields imposes a heavier burden on the taxpayers, namely on all Canadians and is hus a black mark against: the govern: CD Mr, Wilson and his executive are to be congratulgted for their stand, and lel us hope that they succeed, 1, for one, have no de. sire to vise at four in the morn. mg, or wait until midnight to take lads to a game of shinny, all be- cause someone is sorry thet there 8 no other time available, We experienced that ence before, A foot in the door now is a sure sign of an open invitation later, I hope they keep it closed, Oshawa E. DAVIES DISCRIMINATION ALLEGED ear Bir: We, the undersigned, would like to bring to the attention of your department the fact that for some time discrimination against us has heen evident by the Book and Bible House of the Ontario and Quebec Conference of the 7th Day Adventist Church, We have implicit and sincere confidence in and teach the liter. ature written by Mrs, E, G, White, In fact, we cannot carry on our work properly without having the writings of Mrs, E, G, White available to us be. cause we use it just like the Bis ble along with the Bible and re. fer to the 100,000 pages from -her pen as the 67th Book, The 7th Day Adventists denom. ination holds the copyrights on all copies from this 100,000-page manuscript, Since the office of the Book and Bible House is pers Elstently refusing to sell us this literature, our efforts in city res. cue mission work is very seri. ously hampered, We believe that this situation .can and must be corrected, Toronto J, T, MILTON SMITH Christened Village After Vacation MOUNT PEARL, Nfld, (Cp) Mrs, Ruth Morris gets hopping mad when anyone says she lives in Mount Pearl, The greying housewife and her husband, the late Roland G, Morris, Ne wf oundland's last fulltime sallmaker, hewed the community out of the wildere ness barely a stone's throw from §f, John's, They named it Glendale, after the California city where they once spent a happy holiday, "I christened this town, 1 ploneered it, I live In it," she sald, her ordinarily soft voice rising to a loud, angered whis. - or, ""We.bult a summer home here in 1028 and later a pore manent home, here In the wile derness and bushland when no. body else was around," But when the area developed Into a town, authorities changed the name to Mount Pearl, FALSE TEETH That Loosen Need Not Embarrass Many wearers of false teeth have or J tb ment, But it is the government's Job to create an economic climate in which private enterprise can attain prosperity and which will enable our economy to march ahead the Diefenbaker cabinet e; to unvell, which their plate dropped, sll bled at just the wrong live in fear of this h full em. 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