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- She Oshawa Simes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher TUESDAY, JULY 1 3, 1965 -- PAGE 4 | What Of National literest In Causeway Complex? _ The British Columbian cabinet minister was grossly unfair and ill- informed when he referred to the . federal program to construct a causeway complex to Prince Ed- ward Island as "building a bridge to a potato patch". With its long stretches of red sands and lush green landscape the charming island is one of the most scenically beauti- ful attractions Canada has to offer its tourists. Yet, that charm in itself is not in character with the hurly-burly pace represented by a multi-million dol- lar causeway. Those who like the rectic holiday of traffic turmoil can holiday in Toronto or Montreal or Vancouver. The more peaceful pace has surely been one of the prize at- tractions the Islanders provided. So the question can arise of whe- ther the investment of at least $148,000,000 by Ottawa will pro- vide such a great boon to the real tourist appeal of the Island. While there could be more of them on bet- ter schedules, those ferries plying the Northumberland Strait have helped to set the tenor for an island visit. It Isn't Wha The Duke of Edinburgh has been buntly "frank" when he should have remained non-committally Philip. In consequence he has had his knuck- les sharply rapped by British par- liamentarians, in the public press if not officially. In his off-the-cuff remarks urg- ing patience and understanding in the Rhodesian controversy he was indiscreet. He has chosen his role in life and can be expected to respect the ground rules, a point his cham- pions overlook in applauding his outspoken comment. She Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher R. C, ROOKE, General Manager C. J. MeCONECHY Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) and the tte ond Threnicie Se gy *lahp 1863) is published daily é helid M of Canad Daily Publiah- @ry Association. The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association. The Canad euters, ond also the toca! news published therein. Ail rights of special des- patches are also reserved. Gffices: Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal. P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES , Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajox, , , Bi » Port Perry, Prince Albert, "Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Orono, Leskerd, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Manchester, Poritypool, and Newcastle. not over 50c, per week. By mail in Province of Ontario eutside carrier delivery area, $15.00 per yeor, Other provinces $18.00 per year. year. and Commonwealth Countries, U.S.A. and foreign $27.00 per When such an outlay of federal money is planned for a particular. section of the country, the matter of the national interest is usually a key consideration. It was, for in« stance, in the federal committment for the construction of the South Saskatchewan Irrigation project. Great difficulty was encountered in attempting to convince Ottawa this prairie program had country-wide application -- although the grain-- growing which it will stabilize is a keystone of the Canadian economy. The causeway seems more a make- work project than one which can have long-term significance in the development of the country. If national interest be involved at all it comes in the keeping of a pledge given the Islanders at the time of Confederation. Political lip service has been paid to this com- mittment for nearly 100 years. At a time when all avenues to preserving Canadian unity are be- ing explored, the fulfilling of the promise to P,E.I. may find partial justification at least as being in the national interest, t He Said... While he can be faulted for lack of tact, Prince Philip must never- theless merit commendation on his insight. His comment on Canadian interracial differences, although it didn't stir much of a public storm, showed him an astute student of Canadian affairs. His Highness said the crux of the matter is that we have two cultures, which got along very well for some generations because they lived in isolation from each other. The rap- id pace of development has ended this isolation. He also pointed out that part of the problem stemmed from the "tremendous increase in the power and activities of the fed- eral government" -- a necessity if a single nation is to remain. He went on to say that French - Canadians who claim all this to be a deliberate conspiracy against them "probably overstate the case." And in balance, he suggested that the rest of Canada has been too busy to notice what has been going on in Quebec. In making his remarks the Duke of Edinburgh may have been out of line. In his succinct summary of the Canadian situation he seems, how- ever, very close to the mark. 30-Hour Week Opposed By Six-In-Ten Workers By The Canadian Institute Of Public Opinion (World Copyright Reserved) A majority of Canadian, about six-in-ten, are opposed to reducing the standard work week from 40 to 35 hours. Opposition to the 35-hour-week has iicreased within the past three years. When the trend question was asked in 1962, 57% said we should not have a shorter work week, Today that per- centage is 61%. However, there has also been an increase among those who do want a reduced work week -- from 29% in 1962 to 35% today. Those who express greatest approval for the shorter work week come from the white collar workers. About half of them would like to see a reduction in working hours. In the ranks of labor, four-in-ten want to have a 35-hour-week. In the United States, as in Canada, about six out of every ten persons (59%)are opposed at this time to a shorter working week. Thirty-three per cent are in favor. The question: 7 "Do you think the work week 'in most industries should or should not be reduced from 40 to 35 hours?" Professional White Total Executive Collar Labor Farmer Should be reduced .... Should NGl:. cceniscseccen: OL NO: ODINION iscotcscsessca. S 100 35% 26% 46% 39% 28% 78 53 58 66 4 1 3 6 100% 100% 100% 100% Federal Union, In Beginning, Intended For Common Good Ottawa Le Droii--. . . It would be a good idea to stop for a moment and remember that despite certain legitimate objections by opponents of Confederation, the idea of a federal union of provinces was intended for the common good. The political situation that existed before Confederation was not ideal and what we have had since, especially during the last 10 years, isn't either. Evidently one could oppose this concept (Confederation). This is being done in Quebec, as well as in British Colum- , bia, but respect for democ- racy tells us to accept things as they are and make the best of them. It's true French Canada has extremely serious cause to complain about Confeder- ation. By French Canada we mean not only the province of Quebec but all those' in which there are persons who wish to live in French. The day when they will all be given the same rights, es- pecially in the field of educa- tion, the day when the French - speaking will no longer have to bleed to get their children an education based on their own traditions and beliefs, the Canadian cul- tural problem will be, in large measure, solved... . This completed, there will of course remain the quarrel about fiscal autonomy. . ; While working to settle it, one must remember that the fiscal policy of the federal government "is to bring aid to the poorer provinces while still respecting the fundamen- tal rights of the prosperous ones,"' as former prime min- ister St. Laurent said in a speech to the Reform Club at Quebec City Sept. 18, 1954. Yet even while working in aid of Confederation, French- speaking Canadians must not forget the values that made them what they are. They must remain true to their tradition even while intensify- ing their dialogue with Eng- lish - speaking Canadians. -- Mare Gingras. (June 30) FL La GOOD EVENING Its Time To Tackle It's about time we had some plain talk from high level on the subject -- i.e. Canada's ap- palling traffic accident toll. That anonymous Toronto mag- istrate who sounded off with such candor and common sense on the subject -- while writing in the Ontario Magistrate's Quarterly -- deserves a bou- quet. There is an urgent need for such refreshing plain _ talk, which does not spare the high- and-mighty. : For instance, the irate mag- istrate turned his heaviest guns on members of his own profes- sion, judges and magistrates. But he did not spare the leg- 'Islators, the men who have it in their power to amend the On- tario Highway Traffic act, which he said was "; . . 25 or perhaps 50 years behind the times." He said these people, most of whom drive automo- biles, were '"'pussyfooting"' around on the subject and that their gentle treatment of traffic laws and offenders stems from a "there but for the grace of God go I" attitude. The situation isn't going to get any better if we just sit down and hope it will go away, said the magistrate. He advo- cated severe penalties while driving under suspension, a two-year probationary period for new licensees during which a license could be cancelled for acq@imulating five or six de merit points and stiffer penal- ties for drunk or impaired driv- ing. Traffic dent of the now-defunct Oshawa Safety League, "wholeheartedly" anonymous nnn agrees with the magistrate above. vst tit By Jack Gearin Terrible Traffic Toll topped $1,000,000 last year, should be double that amount at the end of 1965. Could the author of the hard- hitting article be the controver- sial Magistrate Robert B. Dnieper, formerly of Ontario County (who sometimes ruled with an iron hand, if his court demeanor was not always dip- lomatic), for Magistrate S. Tup- per Bigelow (who recommend- ed last week that a driver con- victed of dangerous driving after nine previous offences mever again be issued a licence in Canada)? It doesn't matter. Yet it is some consolation to know that Oshawa isn't the only munici- pality where wayward motor- ists are having a field day, whatever thé reason. Magistrate Harry W. Jermyn made an interesting commen- tary last week. He said at least 35 per cent of the cases in On- tario County traffic courts in- volve teen-age drivers. His Wor- ship did not offer any easy cure- all prescription for Canada's traffic accident mess, but he did have one sound suggestion. > The toll could be "drastically" reduced, he is convinced, if the Ontario Traffic Highway act was amended on one point, as follows: teen-agers with three or four traffic violation convic- tions would automatically have their licence lifted until they are 22 George Martin, former presi- driving . He said the courts were far too lenient, for instance, with motorists convicted of driving while their licences were sus- pended. He said this should automatically merit a jail sen- tence, that there should be no consideration of a fine. Mayor Lyman Gifford sur- prised a few thousand taxpay- ers recently. He said-that the city's most pressing problem currently was traffic, Come, come, Your Worship-- this municipality's biggest head- ache is money, or, more spe- cifically, the city's whopping debenture debt (funded only) which will soar to around $21,000,000 by the end of the year It isn't easy to sweep such things under the carpet by say- ing that such indebtedness will be taken care of by our ex- panding population. This $21,000,000 is a sizeable commitment for a city of 70,000 on a per capita basis. . Undoubtedly' it will give Osh- awa the dubious distinction once again of having one of the highest per capita debts in the province. Did anyone figure what the yearly interest alonc, without capital. payment, will amount? If & be on such ay His Worship in an interview last week pointed out that the biggest imminent traffic prob- lem (and iv: some time to come) will be the. proposed Creek Valley Expressway, estimated cost of which is $6,400,000. How much of this will city pay? It all deperds on the classifi- cation given the expressway by the Department of Highways., If it is a connecting link, the Prov- ince would allow 75 per cent grants for construction and 33 1-3 per cent for property. If it is an expressway, the city would get 75 per cent grants for construction property pur- chases and maintenance. The Creek Valley Express- way (this is not the official name, which will be selected Jater), as recommended in the 1962 Smith, Damas Report, (with a six-iane highway and cloverleafs) will undoubtedly be a great asset to the city's traffic set-up, but it could. be a costly venture, Mr. Gifford also pointed out an important fact which de- serves far more attention than it is getting -- he said City Council is involved in too much detail work and does not have time enough to tackle policy mattara. the YEARS AGO 25. YEARS AGO July 14, 1940 Recruiting was begun for the second battalion of the Ontario Regiment. This was to be an infantry unit under the com- mand of Lt.-Col. R. B. Smith, VD. O, M. Alger, superintendent of the Children's Aid Society, an- nounced over 1,000 homes in Oshawa and Ontario County offered to accommodate child- ren from Britain when they arrived. 40 YEARS AGO July 14, 1925 W. E. Clarke of Oshawa was elected District Deputy Grand Master of Ontario District at the session of the Grand Lodge of Canada. A. E. Lovell was elected Dis- trict Representative at the convention of the Ontario Re- tail Druggists' 'Association. Canadian Story At Finger Tips Available for settling argu- ments about the who, why, when and where of Canada is this 21st annual edition of Quick Canadian Facts, 'the Cana- dian pocket encyclopedia', Revised and reissued each year, the . publication suc- cintly summarizes the facts on virtually every question about Canada that would interest ei- ther the casual reader or the serious student. This latest edi- tion includes a 10-page chrono- logical history of Canada that spans the period from the Norse voyages of discovery in the year 1,000 to events in the early part of 1965. There are many Pages on geography, sections on the provinces, the population, and jobs, stamps and coins, sports: records, transportation and communication, There is a section on government and an explanation of how parliament functions, the record of how the voting went in the coun- try's 26 national elections, and brief biographies' of our 14 prime ministers. In any household or office, this is a book that can encour- age discussion about Canada -- as well as settle debates, BIBLE Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be. as white as snow; though they be red like crim- son, they shall be as wool -- Isaiah 1:18 No matter how deeply dyed in sin our lives may be, here is a promise from the Lord that if we come to Him, He will show the way for cleansing. OTTAWA REPORT ~ Statistics Accurate; Observer Rapped By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God, and the Word was God." So wrote St. John, nearly 20 centuries ago. But today we find a vicar of God, or perhaps the hireling of a vicar, propa- gating from his official plat- form a word which is not God's truth. I have just received from one of our most highly respected MPs, who is a supporter of the United Church, a page torn from that body's Observer. On this he had written: 'Patrick, you should correct the editor." His remark referred to an anonymous article advocating the abolition of capital punish- ment. The. sentence which made this intelligent and level-headed MP so indignant was this: "One ju- nior member of the Ottawa press gallery, a Patrick Nich- olson, quoted the 'statistics' of Ralph Cowan, MP, in a small B.C. paper to support his argu- ment for continuing capital pun- ishment." I had written: "In 1955, 118 Canadians were known to have been murdered; today that rate is nearly double--217 murdered in 1962, 215 in 1963.' That ap- peared in this column three months ago in a paper in Char- lottetown (the cradle of Confed- eration), in Quebec City (Can- ada's first permanent settle- ment), in Oshawa (our thriving metropolis), in Cornwall (On- tario's cheese capital), in Port Arthur (our pre-eminent inland port) and in another score of "small B.C. papers." OFFICIAL COMMANDS ME I also referred to the United Church Observer, and W. H. Huffman, an official of that church, wrote to the Daily News of Chatham, Ont, -- another small B.C. town? -- to say: "Three cheers for Patrick Nich- olson, His reference to the 'elas- tic arithmetic' and 'Madison Av- enue type of brain-washing' are indeed very descriptive of the article in the United Church Ob- server." The voice of the United Church described my figures as **statistics," the inverted com- mas intended to scoff at their accuracy. I did not obtain them from Ralph Cowan, MP, as wrongly asserted by that mouthpiece of God. My figures, which differed from Mr. Cowan's, I obtained from the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. They have since been confirmed by the former minis- ter of justice, Hon. Guy Fav- reau, who published them in a recent government white paper entitled Capital Punishment, in- tended to inform MPs and all Canadians on the facts, The spokesman for God as- serts: 'Actually the murder rate has declined." Yet the offi- cial white paper shows in a vi- vid graph that the rate of mur- ders known to the police, in pro- portion to our population, has increased by more than 50 per cent over the years I review 4, TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS July 13, 1965... Jean Paul Marat, a leader of the French Revolution, was stabbed to death by Charlotte Corday, a young girl of rightwing sentiments, 172 years ago today -- in 1793, Formerly a successful doctor and' philosophical scientist, Marat distrusted all authority and so allied himself to no party when the revolution came. He helped bring about the fall of the oligarchical Girondins and is credited with fore- seeing the massacres of 1792, when no mechanism was set up to try the aris- tocrats on specific charges. 1878--The Berlin Congress * 1919 -- The airship R-34 completed the first round- trip flight over the Atlantic, First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1915 -- Kaiser Wilhelm told German bankers the war would be over by October; German troops pressed on both fronts as Sir Robert Borden told British MPs Canada would fight until victory was won. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1940--Britain called up 32-year-old men, bring- ing the total conscripted to 3,300,000; the RAF bombed landing - barge concentra- tions in Belgium; Romania enacted anti-Semitic regula- tions. 1955-1963. The method of record- ing such totals was slightly changed during that period, but this would not reverse the trend. NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH Nobody has proved that capi- tal punishment is not a deter- rent. But a minority of Cana- dians favors the abolition of the death penalty. I suggested, and again The Observer twisted my words, that as a first step these abolitionists should consider the safety of the public and of peace officers, by proposing some ef- fective alternative to protect the innocent. against the crimi- nal or insane violence of killers. If I am a junior member of the press gallery, presumably I was most recently at my moth- er's knee and at school, where I was properly taught to respect the word of God, I find it a great disillusionment to note that the word of God's vicar in the United Church flagrantly disregards the official truth, and in addition distorts, the facts. However, The Observer now does assert that "'The MPs now have correct data."" What is this data? It is 'clearly printed on page~104 of the white paper. It is exactly the figures which, when I quoted them, were summarily and errone- ously dismissed by The Obser- ver as inaccurate. This junior member of the press gallery is, always has been, and will re- main wedded to the truth, es- pecially in this column. Kennedy Wit Spontaneous The first collection of sam- ples of John Kennedy's wit con- tained most of the familiar sal- lies. A sequel now published called 'More Kennedy Wit" (George J. McLeod, Toronto) is in some: ways better because the humor is fresher and more casual. There is the feeling that here is more of the man him- self, not the products of a speech-writer who has supplied him with some good stories. Many of the remarks are clearly spontaneous. For exam- ple, the comment to Nehru as the Presilent and Prime Minis- er took a boat ride past the luxurious mansions of Newport Rhode Island "I wanted you to see how the average American family lives." At a White House dinner with friends the President jokingly said he doubted that Pope John was all the press pictured him to be. "You Protestants," he said, "are always building him Some of Kennedy's best re- marks were inspired by the re- ligious issue.' He was asked flip- pantly in the presidential elec- tion campaign if he thought a Protestant could be elected Presilent in 1960. He answer- ed "If he's prepared to answer on how he stands on the issue of the separation of church and state, 1 see no reason why we should discriminate against him." ; Another time he reported to nesspapermen that he had con- sulted the Chief Justice about a new education bill. The reply, Kennedy said, was " 'It's clear- ly constitutional -- it hasn't got a prayer'." When he was in Cork, Ire- land, he told a crowd "I would like to introduce to you the pastor of the church I go to, who comes from Cork, Mon- signor O'Mahony. He is the pas- tor of a poor, humble flock in Palm Beach, Florida. There is a quip in the book coming from the state visit to Ottawa in June, 1961. Mrs. Ray- mond O'Hurley, the wife of the then Minister of Defence Pro- duction, toll the president that all her relatives in Ohio and Connecticut had voted for him. Kennedy smiled and remarked, "Well, with a name like O'Hur- ley. they should." 'U.S. Army's special 'Taj Mahal' In Viet Hills By HAL BOYLE KHE SANH (AP)--They call the fortress built here by the forces "the | Taj Mahal of the hills," It is the northernmost of scores of camps of its kind built as strong points t South Viet Nam. It lies 10 miles south of the demilitarized -_ that divides this warring "It's the most beautiful of all the camps---and possibly the safest," said an officer. on the . supply plane that flew me here. Beautiful, yes. But safe? The sibility of being overrun, or trayed from within, makes none of these camps a haven. The Khe Sanh garrison lies on @ plateau only four miles from the Laotian border. A 1,000-foot- deep gorge yawns,at one end of the airstrip and down it tumbles a series of waterfalls in filmy splendor. Reddish-brown berries ripen on hundreds of coffee trees on -- an adjoining plantation owned by a Frenchman whose father was slain by guerrillas. Green hills undulate in a grace that hides their savagery. QUIET COMFORT The camp's buildings, thatch- roofed and cement - floored, squat in serene comfort in their exotic setting. The cheerful monarch of this little kingdom is Capt. Ralph Bostic, 32, of Charlotte, N.C., a short, pleasant - faced officer who seems thoroughly happy to be here. "There's nothing beyond us but the enemy," he said, wav- ing his hand at the impassive hills to the north. "We're lucky. There's enough altitude to make it cool. We sleep under a blanket every night. It gets really cold in winter. We're fixing up a fire- place now." The camp is: staffed by 13 Americans, an Australian, and a bodyguard force of Nungs, mercenary Chinese troops. They are helping train nearly 700 civilian irregulars whose ultimate task will be to protect the hamlets throughout the region. They go out on periodic pa- trols over a mountainous and jungle area that, measures about 30 by 12 miles, No great battles are fought here, but skirmishes with the enemy are growing larger, Chiang's 400,000 Poised And Ready Chiang Kai-shek offered to send Nationalist Chinese ground divisions to Korea during the war there. He was turned down by the United States in the be- lief that such intervention would make it more difficult to ar- range a Korean truce with Red China. A. similar offer has re- portedly been rejected in Viet- Nam. : Recent reports from Formosa indicate that the Nationalists are continuing to modernize their military forces and to re- view their offensive capabilities. Recently Taipei, the capital, went through a practice air raid under simulated wartime conditions. The Nationalist Chinese main- tain an army of about 40,,00, They have an air force which includes F-104G fighter-bomb- ers, F-100 Super Saber jet and F-86's equipped with Sidewinder missiles, Their naval forces. in- clude destroyers, frigates and landing craft. Nike-Hercules and Hawk missile sites dot For- mosa. This formidable force, second only to South Korea's among our Asian allies, cost the United States some $2.5 billion in de- fence assistance since 1949. As Red China contemplates the next move in that shaky area it can hardly ignore 21 well equipped. divisions poised, and ready, not far off the main- land. (Christian Science Monitor) POINTED PARAGRAPHS "People should school them- selves to face harsh reality," says a psychologist. Yes, in- deed. It's far better to face it than to turn your back and get kicked in the pants. Never say, "That's one thing I'll never do! as Fate would make a note of it and later force you into a tight corner and make you do it. 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