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She Oshawa Fines Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1965--PAGE 4 Voice That Inspired The Free World Stilled The voice whose clarion call aroused the British nation from the depths of despair and led it on to glorious victory has been stilled for ever. The death of Sir Winston Churchill, at the great old age of 90, has removed from the world scene the man who, when the free- dom and liberty of mankind were at stake, bestrode it like a Colossus. In every country of the world today, even in those on the other side of the iron curtain, well-deserved tributes are being paid to the man who rallied not only the British people, but finally the whole of the free world, at the crucial moments when the fate of freedom hung in the balance. Churchill's political career was one of contradictions. At different times he was a Liberal and a Con- servative, serving in governments of both stripes. But his changes of political affiliation were always based on deep conviction. He was inflexible in following what he be- lieved to be the best course for his country. He never compromised with principles. He had his ups and downs in politics,--one year a hero and the next a disgruntled rebel against those in authority. Yet it is now apparent that all that had gone be- fore was a long and arduous period of preparation for the supreme task placed upon his shoulders when he was called upon to lead the British people in their time of dire peril in the spring of 1940. It is impossible to add anything to the tributes which have been paid to this, the greatest English- man of his time, at this hour of his passing. During the war years, he stood head and shoulders above all other national leaders. His voice was that of a man inspired by dif- ficulties and strengthened by ad- versity. The place that will be accorded to Sir Winston Churchill in history is assured. There has never been another like him, perhaps he had to meet challenges such as no other man had ever faced. And we doubt if the world will ever in the years to come see another to match him in the affection of the people he served so well. Legislature Program There has been pointed criticism of the Ontario Legislature speech from the throne by opposition lead- rs. The Liberal leader referred to it as being a mass of pompous plati- tudes. the New Democratic Party leader said it was full of "tedious teasers." While there may be some justification of this kind of critic- ism from the opposition benches, it must be said that it is quite the us- ual thing for those in their petitions to say regarding speeches from the throne. The same could have been said of all such speeches over a long period of years. In other words, so long as it in- dicates the general trends of the legislation it proposes to introduce, and the fields in which action will be taken, the government, which prepares the speech, very rarely, if ever, spells out its legislative pro- gram in minute detail in the speech from the throne. Keeping that in mind, the speech from the throne is quite a useful and informative document. Espe- cially interesting in it is the refer- ence to the fact that the govern- ment, while not neglecting the phy- sical services it has to provide for the people, is now placing them in a secondary role, and placing em- phasis on programs "in the field of human capital and human better- ment." The following paragraph, while dealing in general terms, indicates the direction in which the govern- ment is moving: "My government's objective is to provide every facility for the educa- tion of our people, to develop and conserve our material resources, to improve and extend social, health and welfare services, to enhance our physical environment, and to ensure that the legislative and administrative policies adopted are adequately co- ordinated and sufficiently comprehen- sive to achieve these ends." That is the crux of the speech from: the throne. In fact, it states succinctly the government's inten- tions, and makes them clear with- out even reading the rest of the speech, Veterans Well Satisfied = There are two good reasons why the announcement of the Federal Minister of Veterans Affairs Roger Peillet concerning the future of Sunnybrook Hospital will be wel- comed both by war veterans and other citizens. This announcement states that it is to be converted to ® combined military and public teaching hospital, under the direc- n of the University of Toronto. A new wing of 300 beds will be added to it, increasing its capacity fo 1750 beds. Of these 1200 will be feserved-for-veterans, andthe ad- ditional 550 beds will be available f Metropolitan Toronto for use of the public. * There has been some disquiet in fhe minds of veterans and veteran @eanizations since it was intimated # year or two ago that the federal government proposed to turn over its military hospitals to civilian authorities. Strong objections to Bhe Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher R. C. ROOKE, General Manager ba Cc. J. MeCONECHY Editor in The Oshawo Times combining The Oshawa Times festablished 187!) ond the Whitby Gazette and Ghronicle established 863) is published daily Sundays ond Statutory holidays excepted) & Members of Canadian Daily Newspoper Publish- @-~ Association. 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By mail in Province of Ontario) @utside corriers delivery areas 12.00 per year, Other Provinces and Commonwecith Countries 15.00, . ond foreign 24.00, this policy were voiced by respon- sible veteran leaders, who felt that disabled and sick veterans would be deprived of the special facilities provided for them. The plan announced for Sunny- brook Hospital, however, dissipates these fears. Under the new. plan, there will still be ample accom- modation available for veteran patients. Even long term: veteran patients requiring domiciliary care will be provided for amply. At the same time, the operation 'of the hospital as a teaching hospital of the University of Toronto will place the very highest of medical skill and care at the: disposal of the patients, both veterans and civil- ians. 'There will be no objections from the veteran bodies if the plan to be followed with other veteran hos- pitals. Under the arrangements for Sunnybrook, their interests and welfare will not suffer in the slight- est degree; but will rather be given added attention and importance, Other Editors' Views NOT TO DREADFUL (Peterborough Examiner) Is "our dangerous exposure" to U.S. culture so dreadful? Would we not produce our own rubbish if the U.S. did not do it for us? And do we not already do this in a minor way? Perhaps if we were less con- cerned with Canadian content and more with what is good we would better develop our taste and our value for what is good, so serving to create a climate in which worth- while Canadian works can flourish, CHURCHILL AND HIS CIGAR .. . Firmly Clenched, Familiar Fixture Spirit Most Fully Personified With One Blazing Passage By RELMAN MORIN Associated Press Correspondent In all of Winston Churchill's mighty speeches during the Sec- ond World War, one _ blazing passage most fully personified him and the spirit of Britain at the time. It was the famous fight on. . ." speech. It was designed to steel his countrymen in a critical hour when all hope of victory seemed shattered and Adolf Hitler's ar- mies were coiled for invasion, across the narrow English Channel. Churchill also considered the speech supremely important be- cause, in his view, it had a pro- found effect in the United States. These were the circumstances leading up to it: In the early summer of 1940, the German armies collapsed the left wing of.the Allied de- fence lines. Presently, at Dun- kerque, in France, the British found themselves trapped. The only escape route remaining was by sea. EVACUATION BEGINS Evacuation began. Initially, it was thought that perhaps 50,000 men, at most, could be rescued. But, in a brilliant operation, the total was 335,000 On June 4, 1940, Churchill de- " we shall livered the memorable speech in Parliament. "It was my duty: to lay the story fully before them," he said later. He began by tracing the course of the battle that came to a climax, so far as Britain was concerned, at Dunkerque. "The struggle was protracted and fierce," he said. "Suddenly the scene has cleared. The crash and thunder has momen- tarily, but only for the moment, died away, The miracle of de- liverance . , . is a manifesto to us all." But in spite of the huge num- ber of troops snatched from the jaws of the German trap, Churchill said Dunkerque was not a victory. "Wars are not won by evacuations," he said. LOSSES WERE HEAVY British losses in weapons and equipment were heavy. Church- ill candidly set forth the bitter facts. As for the larger conse- quences, he said: "The whole of the ports are in his (Hitler's) hands, with all the strategic consequences that follow from that, and we must expect an- other blow to be struck almost immediately at us or at France." Utter silence gripped House of Commons. Churchill then painted a grim channel the Laborites Producing "Something Vital" (Kingston Whig-Standard) Whatever may be thought of Prime Minister Wilson and his Labor Government, even the most rabid critic of "social- ism", whipping - boy of the Western world, must admit that something vital and necessary is coming out of Westminster these days. That something is Mr. Wil- son's determination to keep the need for nuclear disarmament alive through constant interna- tional consultation. The British Government has ~ made it~ ca tegorically clear that, in the plan for the future nuclear ar-- rangements of NATO, it will op- pose any proliferation of con- trol. All non-nuclear powers which agree with Mr. Wilson will be asked to promise not to manufacture or seek control of nuclear weapons, There has been a lot of worry over what the mixed-manned force or the Atlantic Nuclear Force might lead to. The determined move TODAY IN By THE CANADIAN PRESS Jan. 25, 1965... The Empress of Canada, a luxury liner of the Cana- dian Pacific fleet, was de- stroyed by fire'12 years ago today--in 1953--in a dock- side fire at Liverpool, Eng- land, The 20,235-ton vessel was formerly the Duchess of Richmond, one of two sur- viving Duchess-class vessels built in the late 1920s, With the extensive losses through ' action during the Second World War, the Duchess of Richmond was refitted to F.mpress standards and used on the transatlantic run 1759--Scottish poet Robert Burns was_ born. 1953--Then federal public works minister, Davie Ful- ton was chosen B.C, Con- servative leader. ; viet threat towards some kind of rational plan should reassure the Rus- sians that there is no intention of permitting the Germans to get a finger on the nuclear re- lease button. Of course, in order to reassure the Germans, in turn, that their security is nvi in danger, there must be a reduction in the So- to Europe. It is be- ing suggested that President Johnson's plan for an end to nu- clear "delivery vehicles" and a program of gradual destruction of such vehicles(bombers and missiles) would -eliminate= the need for inspection, which has been. traditionally' opposed by Russia. The only inspection nec- essary would be to verify the ac- tual destruction. Work is in progress to elabor- ate these ideas and the problem of China is also being studied. Mankind must hope that event- ually it will be admitted frankly that the existence of nuclear weapons of any kind threatens the existence of our world. HISTORY First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1915 -- the German cruiser Gazelle was torpedoed and seriously damaged in the Baltic; French. troops de- stroyed German bridges across the Meuse River, iso- lating St.. Mihiel; the British admiralty announced the armed merchant ship. Vik- nor was sunk off Ireland. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- , day--in 1940--the Canadian Parliament was 'dissolved with. the session less than four hours old, and. a gen- eral election was called; Germans -were reported to be demanding increased oil supplies from Romania un- der threats of resorting to "other measures;" the French navy reported it had sunk a German submarine, picture of the methods that probably would be used in the invasion. Nonetheless, he said, he believed Britain could defend itself. "At any rate, that is what we are going to try to do. That is the resolve of His Majesty's government, every man of them. That is the will of Parlia- ment and the nation." Finally, in a voice alternately growling and thundering, he came to the immortal perora- tion: "We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France and on the sea and oceans; we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. "We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on the beaches, the landing. grounds, in fields, in streets and in the hills. We shall never surrender , , ." There is a story that Church- ill, breathless and panting after this long passage, muttered, "and, if need be, we shall bash their heads with bottles, for this is all we have now." If he did say this, it was drowned im the mighty roar of cheering and applause that ex- ploded in the House. The mem- bers of Parliament rose, as a man, clapping and shouting. No other speech surpassed this one in power and impact. MAC'S MUSINGS We have just received An impressive schedule Of the many activities Which are beings provided By Oshawa's Recreation Commission at its centre On Gibb street, showing The many fields of useful Endeavor in which citizens Are invited to join. We have often stressed The value of hobbies in The development of talents, And in making good use Of -the-leisure--time--which Many people now have to A greater extent than Ever before, but which is Not always employed to The best advantage, At the Community Recreation Centre a wide range of Useful groups and activities Is offered to the public, By which they can develop Native skills, or acquire New ones, and at the same Time find pleasant ways Of using leisure time. While it is true that The recreation centre is A busy place with the Wide range of programs Now being provided, there Is always room for more People to take part. As never before in its History the ORC is making Available to all citizens A wider activity program That has in it something To appeal to all classes, And with the facilities Placed at their disposal It would be encouraging Tq find more people king use of them. --January 25, 1965 SEA HARVEST Quebec stands fifth among the provinces for the amount of fish Janded and value of the catch, after British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and New Brunswick. WASHINGTON CALLING Pearson Had To Be Careful By GORDON DONALDSON WASHINGTON (Special) Prime Minister. Pearson made a cautious promise during his hectic visit to President John- son's LBJ Ranch. He said Can- ada would see what could be done to "help and co-operate" with the U.S. in Southeast Asia. This was his answer to pres- sure by LBJ, his Secretary of State Dean Rusk, and foreign policy advisor McGeorge Bundy to involve Canada more deeply in the messy affairs of South Vietnam. Since last.spring, the U.S. has tried to drag in as many allies as possibie to back the war against the Communist rebels, for the war is not going well and the U.S. is sensitive about its moral justification for pouring in troops and modern weapons, contravening the 1954 Indochina ceasefire agreement. Australia has sent 'military advisors" (i.e. troops); South Korea is offering uniformed en- gineers. Canada has increased its aid to Vietnam by half a million to about 1.2 million dollars a year. We are educating 128 Vietnam- ese students. The Americans fee] this is not enough. We should get in deeper. However, Canada has an ex- cellent excuse for not sending military aid. We are, with Po- land and India, members of the international commission set up to supervise the ceasefire. About 100 frustrated Canadians are in North and South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia watching help- lessly as the truce is violated on all sides. The commission made its last constructive report in June, 1962. Because the members can- not agree among themselves, it doesn't seem to know there's a war on, As members of the commis- sion, we cannot be expected to violate the truce-we are sup- posed to uphold by sending in troops. But it remains to be seen what else Mr. Pearson agreed to do when he was down on the LBJ ranch. YOUR CAR IS LYING WASHINGTON (Special) -- A Canadian motorist in Florida QUEEN'S PARK _ tion. who felt he was being over- charged fo: a rented car set off ai upheaval in the auto indus- try. As everyone knows, the odometer -- the part of the speedometer that counts up the miles -- can be made to lie atrociously as used car dealers spin the mileage back. The unknown Canadian dis- covered the odometer can also lie on its own, Florida state officials tested 36 rental cars and found that all but one were registering short miles, The error was as high as fourteen per cent, which meant the driver was paying for miles he never drove. The U.S. Bureau of Standards in Washington took up the case, tested four dozen cars and found their odometers overregistered by an average of 3.5 per cent. The bureau prodded the Auto Manufacturers' Associa- "Tne odometer is linked to the speedometer and it's bet- ter to think you're going faster than you are." CAN BE MADE ACCURATE The AMA said it would be ter- ribly difficult to make an odometer read accurately. Non- sense, sald the Bureau of Stand- ards. If you can make it read high, you can make it read cor- rectly. The automakers won't admit it, but short miles make it eas- ier to persuade the customer he's getting good gas consump- tion and peppy pickup. They also reduce the length of the guarantee ii it's based on mile- age. To clinch its case, the Bureau of Standards called on the in- ternal Revenue Service. The taxmen reckoned they were los- ing 40 million dollars a year on tax deductions of ten cents a mile claimed for business use of cars. At this, the automakers gave in From January 1, 1965 cars sold to rental agencies will have odometers set at zero error, This means if you rent a brand-new car you may pay less per mile than a slightly used one, But your own private car will continue lying in its odometer teeth. Battle Looms On Medicare By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--A major fight of this session should take place over medical care. In fact it could be THE major fight--though after last year's completely unexpected Bill 99 battle one -hesitates to predict anything as definite as that. Premier Robarts has said he will be sticking closely to his original medical insurance pro- gram. And this means he will bring in a program which will use private insurance companies. OPPOSITION COMMITTED The opposition parties are committed to public insurance. The NDP wants nothing else but a straight government plan --publicly run and partly paid for by government money. The Liberals did not go quite this far in their last official stand. They would have tried to in- corporate non-profit plans, run by co-operatives or the doctors themselves, such as PSI. But both at least are com- mitted to non-profit as against profit insurance. And with the federal Hall report having come down since the last session, it is to be expected that both will YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO Jan, 25, 1950. Knight, of the Association executive Oshawa since Leonard C. commissioner Boy Scout Feb, 1947, a position with Army. the Salvation the . Community Recreation Association in pay- ing for their truck,-a cheque for $600. was presented to the CRA by the Neighborhood Asso- ciations, Ralph Taylor, chair- man of the Central Council, made the presentation to Lloyd Smith, president of the CRA. To assist A double murder topped the list of crimes committed in Oshawa during the year 1949, when a total of 3,633 persons were charged with offences. dur- ing that year. Chief of Police Owen D. Friend stated in his annual report at the inaugural meeting of the Police Commission. 30 YEARS AGO Jan, 25, 1935. F. lL. Fowke, former MP and ex-mayor of Oshawa was guest speaker at the Oshawa Ratepayers' Association. Samuel J. Babe was elected chairman of the Oshawa Public Utilities Commission. Construction was started on the new enamel plant at the Skinner factory, Simcoe street south. resigned to accept: emphatically favor a national public plan. LONG DUE This will which has some years. A show-down battle on public as against private insurance. It looked as though we might have it in the first stages of consideration of. hospital insur- ance. .. But then Premier Frost de- cided in favor of a government plan--and had some not too fa- vorable things to say about pri- vate insurance. Again, a few years ago it appeared as though the battle might be on over pensions. The original government pro- gram on pensions was based on private insurance companies. But Mr. Robarts finally swung around and agreed to follow the national policy of a public plan. This year, it would seem, it is inescapable. The premier may, and prob- ably will, try and avoid this. He has one out. He can say that his medicare program is only a stop-gap... . that he is only bringing it down to pro- vide some coverage until Ottawa presents a national plan. But, if the opposition is de- termined at all it should be able to force the government to de- fend itself on questions such as whether. profit should enter goy- ernment - sponsored social pro- grams and whether private in- surance actually is more costly than public, and how much. POINTED PARAGRAPHS Motorists who drive too quick- ly past a-school are usually those who were slowest in get- ting through it. bring on a fight been overdue for Nothing gives a fool more more pleasure than to be able to ask a wise man a question he can't answer, One disadvantage in having free speech is that the supply of it is usually far in excess of the demand. It is often the case that the bridge club member who. is ab- sent is the one who gets the most slams. PAPER MISSED? Call 723-3783 to 7 p.m. Circulation Dept. OSHAWA TIMES OTHER OPINIONS LIFTING THE VEIL The Ottawa Police Commis- sion held its first open meeting this week and° its chairman, Judge Peter J. MacDonald, promised that future meetings will be open to the press. This welcome departure from traditional secrecy does not mean that certain matters of i business -- personnel, for tance can discussed openly at commission meetings. The public will understand that secrecy will be proper and necessary in such insfances. The effect of open\meetings has already become ident. 'Light and air in the form of facts can dispel ugly rumors made palatable to a public mys- tified by the needless secrecy of the past. Suspicion thrives on Official silence. Any move to improve public understanding of police prob- lems must be welcomed, and commission discussion of per- haps routine but nonetheless in- teresting police matters should have the effect of bringing the public closer to its often mis- "understood protectors. --tOtawa Journal GOVERNMENT'S FIRST DUTY Technology has rendered pos- sible the construction of mon- strous weapons which, if used, would make every trace of life disappear from our planet. The defence of peace thus is the first duty of legislators, men of gov- ernment and chiefs of state. --President Guiseppe Saragat of Italy, in his inaugural address. HAPPY FORECASTING --The editors of Changing Times magazine have given the January forecasting ritual a new twist. Following are some of their predictions for 1965: About 194,100,147 Americans will not be hurt or killed in an auto accident . About 55,503,000 citizens will file tax returns on which the arithmetic is absolutely cor- FRE About 11 million teenagers will not drop out of high school and more than 600,000 of those who go on to college will stay there four years . Nearly 13, '199, 000 girls will outgrow the Beatles. It looks like 1965 will be a pretty good year. --Milwaukee Journal BULGING PRISONS In 1961 England and Wales, with a population of 46 millions, had 29,025 persons in prison and 25,022 convicted offenders out on probation. In the same year Canada, with 18 million popula- tion, had 46,905 locked up and only 12,867 on probation. Are Canadians more depraved than the inhabitants of England and Wales Are the laws tough- er here, the judges harsher, the police more efficient About 70 per cent of all prison- ers placed on probation, which means closely _ supervised liberty, never get into trouble again. The proportion of repeat> ers among those who serve out their full sentence is very muc higher, The more one looks at the Canadian penal system, the more evident its need of a com- plete reconsideration, --Financial Times POLL TAX ENDED Last week Council agreed te do away with the $5 tax levied against single men _ between the ages of 21 and 59 who are not property owners. This thorn in the side of bachelors has been around a long time and no doubt the men who have been paying have griped plenty about it. Now come on men, $5 seems little enough price to pay for a state of unencumbered bliss. All your married 'friends will tell you it is a whole lot more ex- pensive to support that little woman, not to mention the off- spring. In a way, this poll tax was a "penalty" of sorts, not appreci- ated by any who were forced to pay it. Now the footloose and fancy- free single members of the male population can spend that extra $5 on a hot water bottle to warm their feet on those cold winter nights. ~--New Hamburg Independent THE COMMON COLD No doubt man will have set foot on the moon by the end of the century, perhaps on Mars. We hope, though it is much less certain, that he will have solved the problem of preventing colds. --Sir Christopher Andrewes, for- mer head of the Common Cold Research Establishment. BIBLE It shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them. --Deut. 17: 19. God's Word forms the solid foundation upon which national happiness, peace and prosperity must rest. 723- 5241 OSHAWA'S Newest Taxi Oftering Sate, Courteous Service 46 King St. W. Oshawa