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The Osho Sines Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 Saturday, June 17, 1961 Gap In Parks Program Needs More Attention Lands and Forests Minister Spooner was unnecessarily touchy when the Ontario Conservation Council's brief was presented this week to the Legisla- ture's select committee on organization of government. His is one of the best- run departments in the Ontario govern- ment; he has been an energetic and often far-sighted minister, and he has been assisted by probably the most de- dicated group of employees in govern- ment service, from the deputy minister down to the newest ranger. But no minister is all-wise and no department perfect. What the Conservation Council's brief pointed out was simply that a dangerous gap existed in the province's parks program. Three-quarters of the people in On- tario live in the six counties comf\giging the Golden Horseshoe that swings around from Oshawa to the Niagara Peninsula. It has a superb lake and river frontage, but each year there is less shoreline open to public enjoyment. The region is badly served by recreational areas, suffering a paucity of park land. The Conservation Council estimates the shortage to be about 42,000 acres -- and the estimate is backed by other im- partial authorities. In his time as minister, Mr. Spooner has directed a huge expansion of pro- vincial park facilities. These have been badly needed, but very few of them are within the area of densest population-- or even fairly close, for that matter, Parks are not simply for weekends and vacations; there should be green spots readily available for an afternoon's or evening's enjoyment by people who spend most of their lives in the din and polluted air of cities and big towns. In the not-so-distant future, one huge metropolitan complex will sprawl from Oshawa to Port Colborne. Will this complex be nothing but mass of steel, concrete and asphalt? The decisions made now will provide the answer. What is needed is something along the lines of the plan suggested by the Quetico Foundation -- research leading to a comprehensive parks plan, and consolidation of responsibility for parks that will make that plan effective. Practising Neutralism Cuba's Foreign Minister Raul Roa is once again seeking to get the Neutral Club to meet Havana. It doesn't seem likely that he will succeed. His approach (Havana is "the center of resistance to United States imperialism") is not one calculated to please the older members of that pur- posely amorphous club, who insist on at least a better appearance of impar- tiality than that, the Christian Science Monitor observes. Dr. Roa's view of neutralism is strongly pro-Soviet. It is not the least neutral. Obviously he and Premier Castro are either unaware of, or ob- livious to, the experience of the older neutrals in dealing with Moscow. The United Arab Republic is cur- rently a case in point. A fairly bitter war of invective is being carried on be- tween Moscow and Cairo over Moscow's demands that the UAR. Government ease its ban on local Communists. Cairo has previously had reason to distrust Britain, France, and the United States East. But this has not for long lulled --and therefore to seek aid from the the Nasser regime into being neutral in a pro-Soviet way. Far from it. Nor has India hesitated to crack down on local Communists and talk sharply to Moscow and Peking on occasion. Nor has Burma, or Iraq. Even Yugoslavia, itself Communist- bred, would provide an object lesson for erstwhile "neutrals" inclined to be pro- Soviet and anti-Western. At times it seems that many of the extremely varied "neutrals" are biased Eastward. But experience with Moscow, even at a distance, appears to be teach- ing these sometimes understandably West-shy nations the importance of being really neutral. Mr. Khrushchev has lately shown his awareness of this change. His repeated demands for new veto powers over possible neutral majorities in interna- tional affairs indicate as much. He says that no nation can be reliably neutral today, meaning reliably anti-Western -- a strange twist on the old Dulles doctrine now abandoned in Washington. Building Of Highways Five provinces would like to see a Dominion-Provincial conference to es- tablish a national highways construc- tion program, but Ottawa doesn't seem too anxious to talk it over until the Trans-Canada Highway is completed. Nearly all of the provinces are spend- ing vast sums of money on new high- ways. In fact, two provinces -- Ontario and Quebec -- will spend more than the Federal Government on road-build- ing this year. Ottawa will invest $112.5 million dollars in roads, compared with $278 million in Ontario and $153 mil- lion, in Quebec. The total provincial spending will amount to $738.5 million, while the municipalities will spend another $450 million. Gordon E. Taylor, Highways Minister ave quid a conference on national highways has not been called during the past two years. In his opinion national highways are just as essential as were the transcon- She Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher and Genera! Menoger C. GWYN KINSEY. Editor washer huky 1D 5 The Osh Times combini The Oshawa Times (established 1871) and the itby Gozette and Chronicle (established 1863), is published daily end statutory holidays excepted). ot Ca Daily Publishers Associgtion. The Conodian Press, Audit Bureou of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Asso- ciation. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of ell ews 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. Offices: Thomson Building, 425 University Avenues Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by corriers In Oshawa, Whitby, Ajox, Pickering, Bowmanville. Brooklin, |ort Perry, Prince Albert Maple Grove, Hompton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Orono Leskord, Brougham Burketon, Claremont, Columbus, Greenwood, Kinsale, Raglan Blackstock, Manchester Pontypool and Newcast per week. By mail lin carriers delivery areas yeor Circulation for the issue of March 30, 1961 17,363 not over 45¢ province of Ontario) outside 2.00: elsewhere 15.00 per tinental railways, and until our Federal Government takes a realistic look at the problem and accepts a major respon- sibility in their construction, we will always lag behind our neighbors south of the border. In fact, five of the provincial high way ministers have all written in the current issue of Civic Administration, national municipal magazine, calling for a Dominion-Provincial conference to establish a national highways construc- tion program. The Saskatchewan Minister of High- ways, C. G. Gillis, has been pressing the Federal Government for some finan cial assistance ever since the province's portion of the Trans-Canada Highway was completed in 1957. He quite point- ediy "teiis"UllaWa "tnat with the Federal Government collecting customs, taxes and sales taxes on automobiles which in a year amount to more than $260 million, it should 'be contributing this money to help the provices build better highways. In calling for early action on a con- ference, James Purdie, editor of the magazine, gives two reasons why a na- tional highway construction program is necessary. He is certain it would help create an environment of economic optimism, encourage invest- ment and create jobs by getting Cana- dian savings out of the banks. He also points out that the road-building in- dustry has construction capability twice as great as the available work. This means that money spent on new pro- jects would go directly to jobs, not into new equipment. Bible Thought A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.--Proverbs 15:1. Here is a troublesome spot for many people. But the victorious persons in this respect will truly find peace of mind and soul ARMY SURPLUS U.K. OPINION Macmillan Keeps Quiet About JFK's Discussion By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng. Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- The British pub- lic had to be satisfied with re- ports from Washington and Mos- cow on what transpired at the meeting in Vienna between Pres- ident Kennedy and Mr. Khrush- chev. Whatever President Ken- nedy told Prime Minister Mac- millan about their Vienna talks remains a dark secret to the British people. Mr. Macmillan has told the House of Commons that he could not reveal what was said in a private discussion with the president of the United States, and the opposition had to be satisfied with that. There is, however, a deep feel- ing of disappointment apparent in the comments on what Presi- dent Kennedy revealed in his Washington broadcast on his re- turn home after visiting Paris, Vienna and London. The gen- eral feeling expressed is that the cold war will continue, with sporadic attempts on the part of the Soviet leader to gain points wherever he can, without con- ceding a single thing. The lack of any indication of progress to- wards relaxing the tensions on the future of Berlin, on disarm- ament and abandonment of nu- clear tests has brought an at- titude of grim resignation to a troubled future. WESTERN SOLIDARITY On only one point is there any degree of unanimity in the com- ment. That is in relation to the determination of Britain, the United States and France to achieve even closer solidarity of the Western alliance in the face of the unwillingness of Mr. Khrushchev to make any move which would lead to more har- monious relations between the East and the West. There can be no mistaking the hardening of the British mind against giv- ing way to Soviet pressures, which, it is fully expected, will be felt in several directions be- fore the year is over. TEACHERS MAY STRIKE Having rejected the offer of higher salaries made by the Burnham Committee, the Nation- al Union of Teachers at its an- nual conference in Margate, opening on June 17, is likely to be faced with demands from its members for strike action to se- cure a better deal. There are already some indications that a national one-day strike will be called when the schools reopen after the summer vacation. Plans are also being discussed for a series of guerilla strikes on a regional basis in the hope of securing reconsideration of the committee's report. Sir Ronald Gould, general sec- retary of the National Union of Teachers, and a powerful fig- ure in its affairs, is hopeful that a better settlement can be se- cured without a strike. But at the moment, it is fairly certain that the large majority of the delegates at the Margate con- ference, representing 244,000 school teachers, will oppose the settlement now offered, and will favor strike action as a lever to secure better terms. On the other hand, the Assoc- iation of Education Committees has come out bluntly against any further increases over those contained in the committee's re- port. Since this Association, as well as the NUT, has to ratify the settlement, there is every indication of a complete dead- lock. COMMON MARKET MOVES Two significant moves, one Conservative and the other So- cialist, have been made in the keen discussion of whether Brit- ain should or should not enter the European Common Market. Urged on by the farmers of their country, Kent's 16 mem- bers of parliament, all Conserva- tives, are being called upon to oppose any move by the govern- ment to join the Common Mar- ket. These farmers are among the staunchest Tory Party sup- porters in the country, but they will fight their own party to the bitter end to keep out of the European Association. This places Kent's MP's in a diffi- cult position, especially as they include the prime minister, the lord privy seal and a junior minister, Miss Pat Hornsby- Smith, as the support of these farmers is what keeps the party in complete control in Kent. On the Labor side, that party is going to be called upon by some of its own members, to make a firm decision one way or the other on the subject. A resolution demanding that the government refuse to enter the Common Market is on the agen- da for the annual conference of the powerful Confederation -of Engineering and Shipping Unions. This has been brought up for the specific purpose of securing a Labor party commit- ment on the subject at its an nual conference in October. In- deed, it may well be that the subject of the Common market will supplant that of defence pol- icy as the hottest issue to come before this year's conference. And here, again, the party is split down the middle, with many 'in favor of joining and just as many opposed. LAND-HUNGRY BRITAIN Henry Brooke, minister of housing, has issued instructions to planning experts all over the country to make an urgent in- vestigation into Britain's land- hunger problem. All the lead- ing planning authorities in the main crowded industrial areas and around London are being consulted. They have Geen ask- ed to find out what supply of housing land is left in their areas, and what the demand is likely to be for more building space. Labor MP's are advocating tougher controls over land prices, which are sky-rocketing in many areas. This land crisis is bound to become a major political crisis for the govern- ment. The Socialists plan to make a priority issue of it in their forthcoming home policy statement. Preparing for this attack, Mr. Brooke plans to make a full assessment of the problem in the next few months. He has no intention, at present, of en- forcing any measures of price control such as are being de- manded by the Socialists. gi. Jaf LLL TOU a Research Probes ~ Mongoloid Causes By BURTON H. FERN, M.D. WHAT IS mongolism? Is it inherited? Long ago, when Mongolia meant the Orient, doctors tag- ged certain slanty-eyed retard- ed children "mongoloid"'. This mongolism strikes all races -- East and West, North and South. During that first expectant month when organs and tissues begin to bud, development skips certain vital steps. Many or- gans suffer from this skip. The head is flattened, front and back. Beneath a small, saddle-like nose, an undersized mouth pushes the normal tongue until it sticks out. Short arms are tipped with stubby hands and small, curved- in little fingers. A wide space separates first and second toes. With lax muscles and loose lig- aments, most mongoloids seem double-jointed. Hernias easily pop through. Just about every cold turns into an earache. Loose. ligaments or stubby hands don't make you a mon- goloid. Mongolism isn't painted with one stroke, several charac- teristics have to fill out the picture. Internal organs also miss vital development. Many mon- goloid children bear the added burden of abnormal hearts. After years without progress, doctors recently made the first break-through in mongolism. Every baby inherits 23 pairs of threads, which blueprint all future growth. Doctors can sep- arate and identify each pair of threads. Most mongoloids inherit an extra thread -- belonging to one specific pair. Others receive an abnormal thread in this pair. STILL A MYSTERY But these threads hardly be- gin to unravel the tangled mys- tery of mongolism. They don't explain (1) why older mothers bear most mongoloid children while Dad's age doesn't seem to matter (2) why mongolism almost never strikes the same family twice (3) why young mothers with mongoloid chil- dren often go on to have sev- eral normal babies. Research has broken ground. Already doctors are digging deeper and deeper into the problem. And they're dtermined to solve the mongolism mystery. J Y-GONE DAYS 40 YEARS AGO The Ontaric Regiment Band presented its first band concert of the season at the new band stand in Alexandra Park. Ontario County made a grant of $2,000 to the Oshawa General Hospital. The County Council passed a resolution asking that the road from Whitby to Lindsay be designated as a provincial high- way. » The total proceeds from the local branch of the Red Cross campaign, exclusive of schools which formed a Junior Red Cross, was in the neighborhood of $1,900. Board of Education decided to build a 10-room school on Centre street The 101st annual convention of the Whitby - Lindsay Association of Baptist Churches opened 'in Oshawa Baptist Church with delegates representing 26 churches of the district. Reeve Blow, in communica. tion with Hon. William Smith, MP, for South Ontario riding, was assured that a grant for repairs to the wharves at Whit- by Harbor was listed on the government's supplementary es- timates for the expenditure of $13,500. QUEEN'S PARK a Premier's Action Hits Committees By DON O'HEARN TORONTO --Premier Frost has stepped into a labor dispute once again. He personally entered into the strike of construction workers here in Toronto. And apparently he may reach some settlement of an old problem--that of work- ers on jobs which really don't last long enough for successful labor relations. In taking this action Mr. Frost has made committees of the legislature look bad. For a select committee on labor met a year ago and came up with no solution. And now a royal commission is to try and come up with an answer. good chance this will be a con- fusing business. Word out of the treasury de- partment is not reassuring. Within a matter of a few weeks the thousands of store- keepers who will be collecting the tax should have their in- structions and explanations. Apparently there is disagree- ment even on how these should be given. There are those who feel a squad of accountants should be sent out through the province to explain the procedures. If these accountants act as most of ours do here--explana- tion-wise--this should result in a grand mess. Actually in our treasury de- partment we have a little king- dom of accountants -- and as with all "kingdoms" that grow in government the influence is not good. ROOM SERVICE? John Yanover of Belleville, past - presidert of the Ontarie Hotel Association and one of the really responsible men in that organization, has made a com- plaint. He says that in a for room service the association is responsible--that it only asks the privilege for those establish- ments that have full food and bedroom facilities. This is reassuring. However, if the hotel people could get into their heads that government needs public opinion behind it to act they could be better off. Let the public know their case, and the government might find it could act on it. : One thing that was d strated by the select committee on this question was that politi- cal considerations can bar a constructive look at difficult questions. The committee looked at this particular one but it didn't come up with anything really con- crete. There were no feelings hurt. Not by its actions. TAX READY? In approximately 2%; months time you will be paying sales tax. As it looks now there is a 135 SIMCOE ST. 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