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The Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 2 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario i T. L, Wilson, Publisher SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1965 -- PAGE 4 If It's Public Business, | Then Public's Place For It! " The treat represented by public business being discussed in secret sessions is a timely topic this week. The danger signals have flashed at several levels of government. In Ottawa, millions upon millions of dollars of our money as taxpay- 'ers has been earmarked for pro- grams discussed behind closed doors at the federal-provincial confer- 'ence. Aware of the rising criticism throughout Canada of the rather backroom practice, Prime Minister Pearson instituted daily briefings in depth for the Press. However, in %%6 doing, he followed the general fallacy of public officials. He acted on the erroneous assumption that it is only the Press that it disturbed at closed meetings. In fact, it is the people who are short-changed. As the Globe and Mail has point- -ed out, "the press is nothing, ex- cept as it is the extended eyes and ears of the Canadian people, look- ing and listening to see what Cana- dian business is done and how it is done. Those eyes and ears are still on the other side of the closed door. The result is a complete betrayal of the Canadian system of self-govern- ment", Basic to our system of govern- ment -- at any level -- is the prin- ciple that we elect representatives to handle our affairs. Because we all cannot go to Ottawa, or Queen's * Park, or City Hall, we choose these representatives. It is essential that their decisions be made in public, af- ter public examinations so that we can be fully aware of how we are 'being represented. Closed meet- ings and secret discussions rob us of this right. Indications that the importance of handling public business is open meetings is recognized by some municipal officials has come this week from Kingston. The mayor of Kingston and the reeve.of the town- ship both have declared in favor of making meetings public of the new- ly-appointed airport commission in the city. The reeve declared that "the public should be aware of what is planned ... it is their money we're spending and (they) are en- titled to know what is being tran- sacted". The Kingston mayor said he agreed "100 per cent" and sug- gested the reeve make a motion to that effect. In comment. The Whig-Standard said it is hoped the decision reach- ed by the new commission is an unanimous vote to share all deliber- ations with the public. The King- ston newspaper also took the oppor- tunity to restate its stand on closed meetings in the conduct of munici- pal affairs. "With few exceptions," Thé Whig-Standard says, "We believe that all meetings pertaining to the handling of public business should be held in the open where any inter- ested citizen can avail himself of the opportunity to learn all that he can about his affairs are being con- ducted". It is a statement in which The Oshawa Times concurs completely. And, as a policy, it is one the public should insist upon, settling for noth- ing less. T's A Woman's World * The family togetherness demon- _strated by Oshawa Automotive 'Club enthusiasts and their wives * could get them in trouble with hus- bands who follow other recreational pursuits. They may easily see the start of a disconcerting trend. A news story from Mosport this week told of the important roles She Oshawa Fines T, L, WILSON, Publisher R. C, ROOKE, General Manager C. J. MeCONECHY. 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Other provinces and Commonwealth Countries, $18.00 per year. U.S.A. and foreign $27.00 per year. wives were playing in the motor racing field. They're taking a keen and active interest indeed, accom- panying their husbands and joining in the spirit of the motor racing sport. Now it's quite conceivable that this could give ideas to other wives whose husbands still hold it is a male prerogative to "get out with the boys" (alone) to the golf course, the fishing camp, the bowling alley or just perhaps "a night out", The writing could be on the wall. How- ever, who's to say it would be a bad thing? In fact, by the evidence giv- en by the drivers and their ladies, the togetherness bit adds rather than detracts to the enjoyment of the outing. What is shown very definitely is the truth of a view expressed re- cently by The Guelph Mercury that "it used to be that a woman's place was in the home but now a woman is at home almost anything place. And it would be pretty old-fashioned to say there was anything at all wrong with that. U.S. POLICY APPROVED BY ONLY BARE MAJORITY Ry The American Institute of Public Opinion (World Copyright Reserved) President Lynden Johnson wins majority support for United States actions in Viet Nam, but his majority is less than impressive. Fifty-two per cent think the U.S, is handling affairs in South Viet Nam as well as could be expected, but almost as many -- 48 per cent -- have yet to be convinced, with 27 per cent claiming America is do- ing a poor job in dealing with the situation and 21 péer cent have no opinion. Almost six-in-ten Americans think the U.S. should con- tinue to bomb North Viet Nam and two-in-ten think the bombing should be stopped. As to future policies in Viet Nam, the number of people who would like to see the U.S. stop military action is almost the same as the number who would like to ste such action stepped up -- about two-in-ten, Three-in-ten have no opinion or no definite views. The main question: - "Doe you think the United States is handling affairs in South Viet Nam as well as could be expected, or do you think affairs there are being handled badly?" As well as could be expected Badly No opinion Communists Likely To Continue To Import Wheat From West WASHINGTON (CP) -- The United States agriculture de- partment says future East-West wheat movements will probably be uneven but "it seems likely that the Communist countries as a group will continue to be importers of Free World wheat." It says China seems to be "resigned" to continued wheat {mports and there is economic logic in China's current policy of buying wheat from Canada, Australia and other countries and exporting higher-priced rice and: soybeans. The department has published a special report on Communist wheat buying, which it says has become a major factor in world trade and which has stepped up production in Canada and else- where. "It is a development that could well be with us for a number of years to come," says the study after a statistical look at wheat movements to Com- munist countries over the four years from July 1, 1960, to June 30 last year. In that period Communist pur- chases from the West have to- talled 1,440,000,000 bushels which compares with Canada's record wheat crop in 1963 of 720,000,000 bushels. China leads with purchases of more than 615,000,000 bushels followed by Russia which is credited with 375,000,000 bush- els for its own use. About 240,- 000,000 bushels of this was lined up in the big deal with Canada in 1963 after Russia's crop fail- ure. Other customers. includ- ing Cuba purchased 425,000,000 bushels for the four years, says the U.. department. | For the year which expired last June 30, the department estimates total shipments of an- other. 410,000,000 bushels--175,- 000,000 to China and the rest to Cuba and East Europe. The U.S. has furnished about 273,000,000 bushels or 19 per cent of the 1,440,000,000-bushel total up to a year ago, most of it to Yugoslavia and Poland, Canada's slice is estimated at 547,000,000 bushels and Austra- lia's at 348,000,000 for a com- bined aggregate of 62 per cent. "The Communist market un- questionably has helped stimu- late increased wheat produc. tion in both those countries," says the American report. The U:S., France and Argentina have expanded less if at all, it says. FUTURE UNCERTAIN The future is uncertain be- cause of Russia's "high risk" Crops in' the Soviet-bloc states the so-called Virgin Lands to the east and even the longer- established 50,000,000 acres in the Ukraine and_ elsewhere. Crops in the oviet-bloc states also are a factor because Rus- sia is a back-up source of wheat. The department calculates Russia's average yield since the Second World War has been 11.5 bushels compared with 21.2 bushels in the U.S. This reflects higher-yielding soft and winter wheats. Canada's hard spring wheat yields higher than the Russian average but below the U.S. average. Two or three good Russian crops would meet all Russian needs -- reserve buildup, home demand and commitments to the Soviet-bloc nations, says the department. But otherwise, re- serves dwindle. It says much of Russia's cur- rent purchases go to reserves or Communist allies. China shares the same prob- lems and both countries face poorer crops than last year. Both also have rising popula- tions--Russia's having gone to 226,000,000 from 215,000,000 in 1959-61. It will be close to 245,- 000,000 by 1970, the agriculture TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS July 24, 1965... Simon Bolivar, the hero of South American libera- tion, was born 182 years ago today--in 1783--in Ven- ezuela, After two defeats, he led an _ independence campaign in 1818-1819 which freed his native province from Spanish rule. He founded the republic of Col- ombia and added to it. Ec- uador and Peru. The north- ern part of Peru . adopted the name Bolivia in his honor. However Bolivar's autocratic methods brought discontent in peacetime and he resigned his power in 1830, dying in the same year. 1704 -- Sir George Rooke captured Gibraltar for Brit- ain, 1958--The CCF convention accepted a Canadian Labor Congress proposal to found a "people's political move- ment"'--the NDP. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1915 -- the British ad- vance up the Euphrates River captured Nasiryeh; Austro-German forces took Poltuisk and forced the passage of the Narew River; Berlin announced Germany and Austria held 1,500,000 Russian prisoners. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1940 -- Lord Beav- erbrook said the U.S. would supply Britain with 3,000 aircraft monthly; Ro- mania confiscated the larg- est British oil firm in that country; Berlin announced the capture of Herschel Grynszpan, assassin of Otto Strasser; 46 were killed in an air raid on Haifa, Pal- estine. : Fit) "WITH THIS LIGHT | WOULD HAVE SHOT AT AT 400 USING A RED FILTER..." ATE LITTLE MEN THAT WEREN'T THERE YEARS AGO 25 YEARS AGO July 24, 1940 Lt.-Col. R. B. Smith, VD, announced the appointment of Major J. A. B. Mitchell as second-n-command and W. G. Gifford as Adjutant of the Sec- ond Battalion of the Ontario Regiment. Oshawa citizens were con- cerned about the amount of damage being done to shade trees by the sugar maple borer. 40 YEARS AGO July 24, 1925 ing Ben Regis, T. Johns and Charles Peacock; won the T. Eaton Co. trophy at a tourna- ment of the Oshawa Lawn Bowling Club. R. S. McLaughlin awarded the contract to W. J, Trick Co. Ltd. for construction of an arena for the training of saddle horses and jumpers at '"Park- wood." anasysenntencrsaanrittteegeeete nT POINTED PARAGRAPHS "There is a lot of space in the universe; we'll always have as much of it as we need," says a physicist. Yes, fortunately, space is not only plentiful, but it doesn't shrink, deteriorate or become worn with use. What Report On Earthlings Had Mariner Come From Mars? What news would Mariner have sent back had it come from Mars to make our earth the object of its cruise of dis- covery? 'There's life on earth' would be the first news: flash. But then the commentators, and still later in more sonorous words the learned journals would have their go at making head or tail, or their Martian equivalents, of the sights the ship filmed and the sounds it recorded. (We are assuming a slightly more ad- vanced Mariner.) SIGNIFICANT TALE The commentators' assign- ment would be to find what life is as it is lived on earth. If they were lucky they would get a good start by finding, among the tape recordings, an old and long story of an_ earthling, healthy, wealthy and wise, who dedicated all his energies to a search for the meaning of life. After ruining his health, his fortune and his reputation, after hardships uncounted, he was referred to an ancient lama who lived in a remote Hima- layan fastness. "Life," said the wise old lama when the exhausted questor reached him at last, "'life is a waterfall." The pilgrim was dis- gusted with this answer and said so, The lama was dumb- founded, At last, embarrassed, he asked, "You mean life isn't a waterfall?" German Version Documented Of Ill-Fated Invasion Of Russia When Hitler broke his Soviet "friendship pact" and launched a full-scale invasion of Russia June 22, 1941, the world was shocked. Why did the Russian defences crumble so rapidly in the early months of the campaign? Why was Stalin's German front so ill- prepared on a 1,000 - mile line? Did not Dr. Richard Sorge, the master Soviet spy in Tokyo, in- form him at least four weeks in advance that the Germans were coming and was this informa- tion not augmented from Paris and Bern? The 3,000,000 attacking Ger- mans (146 divisions) were faced by 139 Soviet divisions and 29 WATER SESOURCES SURVEYED... - 'Covetous Eyes' Turn By MICHAEL BLAIR MONTREAL (CP)--A_ study of Canada's water resources will be the first major task undertaken by the Canadian Council -of Resource® Ministers, created two years ago with the support of the federal and pro- vincial governments. The council, which receives $150,000 a year from the 11 gov- ernments to operate a secretar- fat and research branch, was instructed to undertake the study at a recent meeting of resource ministers in Victoria. For its first two years the council drifted along with no specific task other than a few preliminary studies on varied resources and in the words of Rene Levesque, Quebec minis- ter of natural resources, to act as a "clearing house" for re- sources information. ' The study of water resources will include examination of the ibility of diverting northern dian rivers into water-short areas, such as the Great Lakes. Christian de Laet, 'Belgian- born secretary-general of the council's secretariat, feels the study of water resources is a good tart, He said Canadians must look into this because "covetous ..» FIRST MAJOR ASSIGNMENT was estab- To Canadian Rivers The secretariat the current jurisdictional prob- lished following Resources of f lems (between federal and pro- eyes" are turning northward, referring to elaborate U.S. plans calling for diversion of the northern rivers flowing into James and Hudson bays and the Arctic Ocean, into the Great Lakes and parts of the U.S. to help that country's water short+ age. PROVINCES MUST LEAD "The Victoria meeting was the first step in the considera- tion of the future development and use of Canada's water re- sources,"' he said, "a step which hopefully could lead to the es- tablishment of national and re- gional water policies for Can- ada." Walter Gray, information and education director on.the four- man secretariat, said in an in- terview: "This is the first at- tempt by all governments to look at the status of natural re- sources, "The council is unique in that the federal government has an equal say with the prov- inces and recognizes that re- sources belong to the provinces and they must be the ones to initiate planning." Tomorrow conferences held in Montreal and Toronto in 1961 and 1962, with a primary func- tion to maintain communication both with the resource depart- ments of the governments, and non - governmental organiza- tions concerned with resource development. "We are trying to co-ordinate this development on a regional and national basis," said Mr. Gray. He said each of the govern- ments involved had shown in- terest in the council and its sec- retariat, including Mr. Leves- que, a leader in the Quebec drive for economic independ- ence. TACKLED POLLUTION The Quebec resources minis- ter was absent from the last two council meetings but said that didn't mean he wasn't in- terested in its work. He ex- pressed his opinion of it in this way: : "The secretariat is no more than a clearing house .. . and on that score it is useful. How- ever, I don't see @ way, with + vincial rights) that the council can make up for the lack of pol- icy in the field." In addition to water re sources, the Victoria confer- ence dealt with water, soil and air pollution and a_ national wildlife program. Regarding pollution, the coun- cil would like to co-ordinate the multiplicity of agencies working in the field, which raises juris- dictional and administrative problems. This will be discussed during a conference on Pollu- tion and Our Environment here next year. & The wildlife program, under which the federal government proposed to spend $5,100,000 a year for 10 years on preserva- tion of waterfowl habitat on the prairies, was proposed by Ar- thur Laing, northern affairs and national resources minister. "The atmosphere of the coun- cil is unique," said Mr. Gray. "We don't make policy, just Suggestions, and this way none of the governments feel we are ee to override their: author- pendent brigades with some 4,700,000 men. The Soviet Air force had 6,000 aircraft in Bye- lorussia alone. Many were ob- solete, but 1300 to 1500 were of the latest types. Tht Luftwaffe started the campaign with no more than 1800 machines opera- tional. FIRST TIME For the first time, a well- documented, highly readable German version of this bloody conflict -- one of the key turn- ing points of the Second World War and known at Hitler's head- quarters as Operation Barbar- ossa"' -- has been published. It is a transaltion fromthe German best-seller "Operation Barbarossa" by Paul Carell. The English title is "HIT- LER MOVES EAST, 1941-1943" (Little, Brown and Co.) It is based on official military re- cords, memoirs of both German and Russian commanders, and extensive interviews with sur- vivors. Carrel writes with scholarly objectivity, points out that Sta- lin for months disbelieved the Sorge report because he thought it was "'planted" British propa- ganda designed to rupture the Soviet-German friendship pact._ Stalin distrusted the Germans," but believed Hitler would delay any attack until a much later date. He would not permit Sa- viet manoevres within 200 miles ef the German border lest they 'climaxed by irritate Hitler. Stalin later rea- lized his error; when Sorge in- formed him later that the Japan- ese would not attack Manchuria, where 500,000 Soviet troops were on guard, Stalin returned these men for the crucial battle of Moscow. Carrel weaves an_ intricate story in superb style somewhat reminiscent of "War and Peace" as he follows the Ger- man panzer divisions on their trail of death and destruction the humiliating German defeat at Moscow. » GRAPHIC VIGNETTES There are graphic vignettes of Colonel General Heinz Guderian, the great tank strategist who earlier chased the Allies to Dunkirk in his lightning thrust through France, Carrel says Hitler panicked when "Opera- tion Barbarossa was so success- fu) at the half-way mark. In- stead of pressing on to Moscow, he headed his forces for the oil of the Caucusus and the grain of the Ukraine, a far reaching strategic blunder that infuriat- ed Guderian who was supreme- ly confident Moscow would quickly capitulate. This is an unforgettable and epic story of death and destruc- tion on the grand scale. The desperate Russians trained dynamite-laden dogs to carry their packs under German tanks, The German army was so ill-prepared for a long winter campaign in 40-below tempera- tures, there was only one great- coat for each gun crew and those German hob-nailed boots uickly froze to the feet. Hitler lost 230,000 dead and wounded at Stalingrad which was a hand- to-hand combat in the cellars, sewers and factories. The Ger- man supply system faltered badly when the crisis arrived. Guderian knew how to advance, but the Russians' great Mar- shal, Timoshenko, knew how to . retreat so that his men could live and fight another day. Carrel must rank as one of the top war historians of the Second World War era on this performance. It is a book to be read and treasured. (J.G.) All the galaxy knows that one good anecdote, especially if it be apocryphal, makes an expert and so the Martian having found it would sit down and write roughly as follows on life on earth. BASIC DIVISION Life on earth may be divided into two parts: on the one hand living; on the other hand find- ing the meaning of life. Living itself is more or less simple and straightforward. Men go about it rationally unless this is inter- fered with by their search for the meaning of life. Men who hold like views on the meaning of life unite sep- arately into what are called re; ligions. Each religion, because it embodies that which is most precious to its members, is im- placably opposed to other re- ligions, THE CHIEF RELIGIONS At present the chief religions are called communism and anti- communism -- although the lat- ter includes a number of differ- ing sects united only in opposi- tion to communism. There are also organizations called "churches" which, we may guess, were once religious insti- tutions but are so no longer. For they are not in the least implacable in their opposition to one another. Hence we may be certain that their members no longer con- sider the differences between them worth disputing and thus they do not hold for their mem- bers the key to that most sacred thing. There is also an institu- tion called "philosophy". It was, perhaps, once a search for the meaning of life but its leading exponents are now concerned only with the meaning of words or even with the meaning .of meaning. We noted that many earthers have passed up seeking under- standing in favor of seeking facts, a fact being only that which can be measured or pho- tographed or felt, or perceived in some concrete manner, What their artists are seeking we can't make out from the glimpses we caught and the fragments we heard. Their fashionable poets seem fond of making lists of depressing things they have seen and the painters lean to patches of colo or optical illusion. . FE WARE SURE We might guess there are some new thinkers who are against reasoning and think that what is just is, and that there are some still newer thinkers who say that even what is ain't necessarily so. But, fact is, we're not sure what they're up to down on earth and we're not sure that they're sure, For the answers to some of these questions we must await the reports of future earthshots, (Ottawa Journal) STUDY ROAD HAZARDS The University of California has a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Public Health Service to study the contribution of break- ing glass to injuries and deaths in road accidents. READERS WRITE... Mr. Editor: ; ? Re the article 'Creek Valley © Plan Irks City Group", in Satur- day July 17 issue. It is hoped that this city's committee is op- Posed to any encroachment on any of Oshawa's park lands or potential park land. I am cer tain that all responsible citizens of this city would join with such a group in its opposition to any Project that would deprive our children of the joys of a wooded wonderland, such as the Oshawa Creek Valley. It is surprising that conservationists have not proposed a Centennial "Bruce Trail" through this area with a Bridle Path and -a footpath for the Sunday stroller. ' G. A, RUNDLE, MD. PROVOCATIVE Mr. Editor: Your editorial, A Provocative Parallel, was aptly titled, al- though one may well question the value of proyocativeness when the price that must be paid for it is (1) the appeal to wild and totally unsupported so- ciological hypotheses, and (2) disregard for even the most minimum standards of scholar- ly honesty. As regards the first point, there is no evidence whatsoever that "the decay of religion" is a cause of the decline of a civi- lization. Indeed, one might well contend that precisely the re- verse of that is the case: Only when religion has been com- pletely abolished will it be pos- sible to eliminate the super- stitious and irrational modes of thought which it encourages, and thus open the path for a society in which human poten- tialities may be fully and freely realized. ' My second point concerns the claims that The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire "sets forth five basic reasons why that civilization failed'. This claim is simply false, for as D. M. Low notes in the introdue- tion of his abridgement of Gib- bon's book: "Later historians have rather busied themselves in discovering the causes of this fall than in plainly narrating it. There is no certain agreement among these investigators. One may turn to Gibbon's cool ob- servations on the extinction of the Empire in the West. There we find him not so much look- ing for the causes of the fall as "expressing wonder that such a complicated organization could have cohered for so many cen- turies." (page xv). MICHAEL TOOLEY Student, Graduate Philosophy, Princeton University, DISCONCERTING Mr. Editor: As a taxpayer I find it a trifle disconcerting to read in Mr. Gearin's column that council is Preparing to spend $2,000,000 of our money to provide an Ex- pressway for non-residents of' ga y should our valley cree! be put to this riers why should out-of-town drivers, who pay no taxes here, benefit at the expense of Oshawa's golf 'club and best residential area? Surely with undeveloped land to the east and west this Ex- pressway could be built outside the city limits, leaving Oshawa valley creek for the enjoyment of Oshawa residents, and this at far less cost than if expensive residential property has to be expropriated. Yours. very truly, R, W. J. R, 124 Elgin Street W., Oshawa, Ontario SHORT-SIGHTED mo Editor: egarding the Valley Express- way which is Merwe dane with an eye to the future. Aren't the plannets being a bit short- Peo he : Prey oar the road is scheduled to go through the golf course. . We have two courses to serve the leisure needs of over 66,000 people. The leisure hours of to- day's' working populace are longer, and in 1980 will be longer still and the population still bigger. What about the recreational needs of 1980? Why not plan for those now, too! This is not mere- ly a summer recreational area, Have the planners visited the golf course in the winter months? Perhaps their children and yours go sledding and skiing on the slopes, Surely, with all the exit routes from the city that exist now, it would be a sacrilige to destroy such a beauty spot that the future citizens could enjoy. W. MURPHY, 'Oshawa BIBLE Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance; for they disfigure their faces, that they may ap- pear to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. --- Matt. 6:16. Fasting should be occasional, secret, and joyous, as with gifts of charity. CITY OF end culverts; su end Materials Testing Section of the En, end seerovine of cone! related administrative respons! CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER Salary Range - $8,350.00 to $10,240.00 P.A. Duties to include Contract supervision and Contract administration of Municipal Public Works such as sewers, roads, sidewalks, bridges rvise and direct @ staff of Construction fr 'echnicians; Sree the op rage 'ios nen pincer 9 Departmen' wi footing such i ggregctes, aspha mixes, sewer pipe, a ere - contractors, bekt OSHAWA suppliers and subdividers;, pr] Civil & Applicants must be a the Association of and «@ ber of of Ontario with 4 te 8 o years related experience. lease forward complete resume deta, educetion and experience Personnel Starting salary will be based on qualifications and experience. by August 4, 1965, Officer, City Hell, Oshawa, Onterio, in first instance, siving personel