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dei, gd li ines taste oe os bshawa Sines _ Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T..L. Wilson, Publisher WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1965 -- PAGE 4 Unscrupulous Operators | Take Advantage Of Yule The Yuletide, unfortunately, rings out more than the Christ- mas spirit of goodwill and concern for our fellows. Smooth-talking operators also make it a habit of pushing their cruel, heartless busi- ness in the weeks before Christmas, Reports are widespread in Ontario 'telling of cases in which persons have been victimized through the devious methods of such sharpies. A prime example has been re- ported in the Guelph Mercury which warns all citizens to be on guard against the nefarious opera- ors. An elderly person in this in- stance was duped into handing over $2,400. ® Posing as a police officer alleged- dy co-operating with bank officials '4n tracing counterfeit bills, the stranger contacted the elderly vie- tim by telephone, She was talked Ynto an arrangement whereby she Qrould draw money from the bank 'gnd have the bills checked to deter- 'mine if they were genuine. Feeling 'that she was assisting in the inves- tigation, she willingly consented and in the process she was eventual- ly relieved of her hard-earned cash, The Spectre The spectre of Korea weighs heavily on the American mind as ithe shadow of the Viet Nam war dengthens. The dangers of a, Ko- rea-type war are very real, but they are unlikely to pressure the White House into retreating from the position it has taken. They are smore likely, as one Washington ob- . 'server notes, to put on pressure for tmassive use of U.S. air power in 'North Viet Nam to bring quick viec- tory. This line is now being 'taken by "retired air force chief of staff Gen- eral Curtis LeMay, by nearly every thigh military officer in Washing- *ton, by the chairmen of the armed services committees in both houses fof Congress, and by Richard Nixon, who is speaking openly of making 'a political issue of Viet Nam in "1968. To these facts should be added "the significant but little noticed recent speech by the chief of staff of the U.S. army, General Harold 'K. Johnson, warning against any She Oshawa Fines T, b, -WILSON; Publisher R, C, ROOKE, General Moneger C. J. MeCONECHY Editor » The Oshewe Times combining The Oshawa Times *(esteblished 1871) and Gozette ond Chrenicle established 1863) is published daily Sundays eid Statutory fticlidays excepted): ot Ca Daily Publish »@m Association. The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau vet Cireulation end the Ontarie Previncial Doilies PAsacistinn. 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U.S.A, end foreign $27.00 per vyeor, ' « Similar incidents have been re- ported and these will continue to oc- cur until such time as citizens are ever on the alert for such. skin- games. Unfortunately elderly folk are usually the main targets and in their unsuspecting way fall easy prey to sharp bands of crooks who travel from city to city. Various forms of swindles are reported to the police from time to time. Details are usually unfolded after the offenders have cleared from the city with their ill-gotten loot. Residents would be well advised to be cautious when answering calls from strangers and particularly those anxidus to make deals in which money ig involved. If they are at all suspicious, they should contact the authorities and outline all the details, If they have older people as neighbors or friends, particularly those they feel might fall for such unscrupulous practices, they would be well advised to caution them to beware of any dealings with un- identified callers. Of Korea repetition of the mistake made in Korea in July, 1951. .At that time, the Chinese and North Koreans, having sworn they would never negotiate, abruptly asked for negotiations because a great American offensive was in the very process of total success, President Truman agreed to nego- tiate and issued a standstill order breaking off the Korean offensive. The results of the standstill order were two more years of needless fighting and 90,000 additional Am- erican casualties. The mistake, it is claimed, was to let a negotiation re- quest lead.to suspension of the pressure on the enemy, So far, the government has' re- sisted the clamor for quicker and faster action to prevent another such mistake, It does not share its critics' easy dismissal of the dan- ger of bringing China or even Rus- sia directly into the war by such ac- tion. But the Korea incident un- doubtedly has a strong bearing on the case. It could account, as The Charlottetown Guardian says, to some extent at least, for President Johnson's persistent refusal to call a halt in the bombing of North Viet Nam in the absence of any definite counter-concession from Hanoi, Other Editors' Views HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION If the NDP had won, and Tommy Douglas had joined the Queen's Privy Council, would he have been entitled to be called the Right Hon- orable Tommy Douglas? Or would 'he have insisted upon being called the Left Honorable Tommy Doug- las? --Windsor Star COMMONWEALTH TRADE DRIVE LOSES MOMENTUM @Y Tht CANADIAN INSTITUTES OF PUBLIC OPINION (World Copyright Reserved) Canadians--are-lest inclined to trade more with.Com- monwealth countries today than they were nearly a decade ego. Fight years ago, 42% of the people felt we should buy less in the United States-and divert some of our trade to Commonwealth countries while 29% said we should not buy less from the U.S. Today the voters are eveniy aivided on the Thirty-six per cent say we should buy less in the juestion, 5. and _ 36% feel we should not buy less. : Only in Ontario do more people (37%) think we should buy fewer goods in the U.S, than think (32%) we should not decasease our imports from that country, The question: "Do you think Canadians should make an effort to buy fewer goods from the United States and more from Co- monwealth Countries or not?" Yes buy less from U.B, cssssesceecennes No do not buy less «... Other suggestions .,.. Yes, buy less ... No, do not buy less "Other suggestions .... senses NO OPINiON cecccccovccecccescegocoes 1957 42% 29 TODAY 36% 36 6 7 23 a1 100% * 100% REGIONAL OPINIONS Total East Ontario West 4% «37% «= «87% 36 32 40 PAR 12 6 . 19 17 100% 100%, 100%, avatar ee EE Apartheid Policy Decried Yet Nationalism Opposed By JOSEPH MacSWEEW LOURENCO MARQUES (CP) South Africa's racial gospel takes a bad beating in the saucy nightclubs of Mozam- bique, her next-door neighbor. When the dance delights and the shoulder-straps snap, South African tourists tend to forget their straitlaced ways and Prime Minister Hendrik Ver- woerd's strictures on apartheid --racial separation. Portuguese Mozambique au- thorities estimate that 200,000 South Africans come to Lou- renco Marques each season to enjoy the sun, the beaches, the nightclubs, the Latin naughti- ness and the free-and-easy ways of a non-racial society. They make whoopee in the night spots cheek-by-jowl with dark - skinned African patrons and all join in applauding the black and white dancers. "The Afrikaaners are the gayest of the lot," a tourist of- ficial chuckled. Fun-seekers from land-locked Rhodesia also heed the call of Mozambique and the entrancing Indian Ocean breezes. Some 80,- 000 holiday-makers from that white-supremacist land come to Beira, north of Lourenco Mar- ques, each season. This is only one way in which Mozambique profits from its richer white - ruled neighbors. Significant revenue also comes from harbor fees and from the wages of the 300,000 Mozam- bique Negroes who work in South Africa. "We regard apartheid with abhorrence but we feel the in- terests of these. three countries are linked inevitably," said one informant. He expects greater co-opera- tion in the future, particularly in defence matters, among the three who despite their differ- ing approaches to racial mat- ters are united in opposition to the spread of African national- ism, REBELS IN NORTH The Portuguese seemed anx- fous to convince a Canadian visitor of two things: A rebellion in northern Mo- BIBLE And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows.--Exodus 3:7. In the darkest hours of our lives when everything seems to be working against us and. no one seems to care about our problems, we know that God does care. zambique has not caused rest- lessness among the native population here. --Non-racialism of Lourenco Marques is genuine despite allegations by critics that it is more '"surface" than real. An official led the visitor on an eerie hour - long prowl through the native quarter on a Saturday night, in total dark- ness except for flickering lights from palhotas (huts) along the way. Sure - footed women treaded homeward in the darkness with laundry and 50 - pound water cans on their heads, stepping easily in the ankle-deep sand. The official stopped to ex- change a few jokes and guf- faws with an African barber, doing business in an _ open- fronted hut in the tropical night. The atmosphere certainly seemed friendly enough but, as one observer later remarked, the mood of the Africans could change in a flash, The official maintained, how- ever, that the Portuguese enjoy a happier relationship with the Africans than any other Euro- peans. Many thousands of peas- ants had come from Portugal since the Second World War and now worked alongside the Africans in equality, not on the master-servant basis so well known elsewhere. There seemed, in any event, an amicable division of labor in the steamy . night clubs. Black girls danced in the chorus while a white girl was in the anchor position with a strip- tease. Summing up Mozambique's attitude to the racial question, a companion recalled a proverb allegedly coined by an African: "God made the white man and God made the black man, but the Portuguese made the mul- atto."" POINTED PARAGRAPHS "Dead Man. Failed to See On- coming Car." -- Headline, This isn't surprising, as a dead man's vision is exceedingly poor, "Tf the inflationary trend con- tinues (and there seem to be indications that it will), it- will take from $35,000 to $45,000 to raise and educate a child born today," says a leading econo- mist. This prediction should have considerable effect in slow- ing down overpopulation. practices usually time for The person who what he preaches doesn't have much preaching. SETBACK A SURPRISE... .. NEW FIGURE EMERGES -DeGaulle, Deflated, But Still Stands Tall European Economic Commu- Sunday's election was the first & But while de Gaulle resigned By BORIS MISKEW Canadian Press Staff Writer French voters deflated the Image of President de Gaulle but he continues to stand tall among his rivals on the French political scene. De Gaulle had expected--so confidently he hardly cam- paigned at all--to be returned to office by a substantial ma- jority for a second seven-year term in Sunday's presidential election. But as things turned out, he had to settle for less than 45 per cent of the total vote. The surprising setback brought smiles to opponents of his polity of seeking to estab- lish France as a force indepen- dent of the United States and the Soviet Union. The French président lost fa- vor among -his- European allies as well as the United States for pursuing an independent foreign policy which ran against their policies as members of the North Atlantic Alliance and the nity. Opponents of de Gaulle ap- peared happy that the president was lowered by the voters from his lofty pedestal and placed on the political plane of mortals. As de Gaulle was being cut to size, a new figure emerged in Francois Mitterrand, the only candidate of the left and a man who has become France's sec- ond-most popular political per- sonality. Mitterrand, with the support of the strong French Commu: nist party, the Socialists and the Radicals, won about 32 per cent of the vote and now challenges de Gaulle in a two-man contest Dec. 19 aimed at producing a president with an absolute ma- jority. Jean Lecanuet, a pro-Ameri- can candidate of the centre, ran only third although he made a surprisingly - good showing by gathering up about 15 per cent of the vote, since Dec. 10, 1848, in which the French people voted for a presi- dent in a direct popular vote, The first such election in French history resulted in a victory for Louis Napoleon, who later. be- came Emperor Napoleon III. Before de Gaulle's return to power in 1958, when he revised the French constitution, French presidents were elected by a vote of the National Assembly and the Senate, ; The. Gaullist constitution «of 1958, which ushered in the Fifth Republic, called for the election of the president by an electoral college of voters but in 1962, at de Gaulle's request, a plebiscite endorsed a constitutional amend- ment. providing for a direct popular -yote. A vigorous campaign by de Gaulle almost certainly would have given him a 50-per-cent majority"and dispensed with the need for a special contest Dec. himself to stand aloof and rely solely on his record of the last seven years, his -five presi- dential opponents campaigned with all their energy. And the French people proved even de Gaulle cannot expect to have un- disputed claim on the presi- dency. The determined effort of the Communist - Socialist Bloc to stand solidly behind Mitterrand, and Lecanuet's unexpected rise onthe French political scene were largely responsible for de Gaulle's reduced support. Anything less than 60-per-cent majority would have 'to be con- sidered by de Gaulle as a sign of his declining popularity. But de Gaulle is considered a heavy favorite in a iwo-way fight with Mitterrand Dec. 19, and only if he should decide to pull out of the race, a remote possibility, would Mitterrand stand a chance of, winning--against a relatively weak Lecanuet, ? "ME TARZAN, YOU WRONG" CANADA'S STORY Laval Hardy Pioneer BY BOB BOWMAN In the early days of Canada many of the high officials who represented France and Britain made themselves as comfor- table as possible. Champlain and his party achieved an amazingly high standard of living at Port Royal in 1605 with their "Order of Good Cheer." Visitors to Quebec, Montreal, Kingston, York and Niagara in later years were amazed at the Ww , rf sina TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS mae, 8 1008 6 a Laval University, the first French - language univer- sity in North America, was granted a royal charter 113 years ago today--in 1852. Its parent body, the Seminaire de Quebec, had been founded in 1663 by Bishop Laval of Quebec. Although the institution now has heen modernized and rebuilt on the Plains of Abraham, its science faculty was founded only in 1921 and its gradu- ate school in 1939, 1694 -- Missionary Noel Chabanel was murdered by a Huron Indian, 1949 -- Chiang Kai - shek proclaimed Taipei, For- mosa, the capital of all. China. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1915--the Allies retreated in Serbia toward the Greek frontier; trenches near St. Souplet, Champagne, were lost by the French and re- captured, Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1940--nine hospitals were damaged in an air raid on London; the German freighter Idarwald was scut- tled when captured by HMS Diomede; the RAF bombed the railway from Addis Ababa, the cap of thi- opia, to Jibuti. YEARS AGO 25 YEARS AGO Dec. 8, 1940 Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church was formally dedicated by Archbishop J. C. McGuigan of Toronto. Rev. Philip Coffey was the pastor. Of Oshawa's 5,515 homes over half, or 3,088 were occupied by owners, ending Sept. 30. There were 42 houses vacant, More tenants than owners occupied stores and there were 26 vacant stores in the municipality. Vacant lots and parcels totalled 3,901. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 8, 1925 Charles A. Lander was elect- ed to the board of directors of the Children's Aid Society at its annual meeting. Miss Charlotte Whitton, MA, secretary of the Child Welfare Council for Can- ada was guest speaker, Rev. Dr. W. P. Fletcher ac- cepted a call to the pastorate of Oshawa, Christian Church (now Centre Street United) succeed- ing Rev, B. T, Cotten, pomp, procedure and gala so- cial life, A notable exception was the first Bishop of Canada, Fran- cois Xavier de Lavel-Mont- morency, a member of one of the greatest and mostly wealthy families in France. He was actually sent to Canada by Pope Alexander VII as Bishop of Petraea, vicar - apostolic, which kept him under the authority of the Pope. If he had been sent as Bishop of Canada, he would have been responsible first to the King. Laval was appointed to the post on December 8, 1658 and arrived in Quebec the following June. The first thing he had to do was find a place to live, so he rented a smal] house that had been built for Madame de la Peltrie who had founded the Ursulines convent. It was a tiny house, 30 by 20 feet, made of stone. It's only furniture was a 'wooden table, a chair, stool, two beds with straw mattresses, and twe quilts. Madame de la Pel- trie was a hardy soul. When the convent caught fire in freezing (vansncrr stat gtneneeripes gegen OTTAWA REPORT weather in 1650, she went out in her bare feet to help rescue her pupils. Bishop Laval carried this dis- cipline and hardiness all through his career in Canada, and died in Quebec in May 1708. OTHER EVENTS ON DECEM- BER 8 1764--Second registration of paper money, 1812--Generals Porter and Smyth fought duel but sec- onds "fixed" pistols. 1838--Nils von Schoultz, who led attack on Prescott; On- tario, hanged at Kingston, 1852--Laval University, Quebec got Royal Charter. 1863--Allan Steamship Line got new mail contract. 1891---Canada placed duty on fish from Newfoundland. 1897--Pope Leo XIV ( urged Catholics to- accept Mani- toba school settlement. 1902--Cable opened from Van- couver to Australia -- New Zealand. 1913--Skilled or unskilled labor prohibited from landing at B.C, ports, nu suurgniggann | Too Many Doors Of Confabs Closed By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--Now that the. nat- ural and political climates have brought frost to our capital, a flight to sub-tropical warmth is the "in" gesture for hep cabinet ministers. Prime Minister Pear- son has joined the crowd, flying . to the Caribbean island of St. Martin, and leaving harassed Acting Prime Minister Paul Martin wishing he could escape to St. Pearson, The prime minister certainly went away leaving the national kitchen in a sordid mess and the dishes unwashed." Nothing has been done to correct the post- election chaos, to fill the cabinet vacancies, to replace the scan- dal-tarnished ministers, or to herald the policies which a hopefully revamped Pearson ad- ministration might launch, With a cabinet shuffle ex- pected shortly, no minister can handle with enthusiasm a port- folio which may soon pass to other hands urging other poli- ' cies. The other side of that coin is that in some fields of the na- tion's business, ministerial ac- tion and pronouncement is ur- gently needed but cannot be undertaken by temporary acting ministers, uncertain in their departmental control and obli- gations, FINANCE FOLIO VACANT Specifically the finance port- folio recently vacated by Walter Gordon should have been filled at once by a permanent succes- sor. The new minister could then have allayed anxiety in banking and business circles by asserting pvhether he would con- tinue Mr. Gordon's._unpepular policies or change theo. He could: and should. have an- nounced, for example, whether he would implement some or all of the recommendations by the Porter royal commission on banking and finance, welcomed by the business community but totally ignored by Mr. Gordon, Meanwhile anxiety in finan- cial circles and uncertainty in business piles up, with inflation, tight money, restrictions on for- sigh borrowing and now 8 large scale alieged fraud in Montreal, all undermining confidence. Nobody would suggest that Canada's prime minister should not enjoy a holiday. But he should, like the rest of us, leave the shop in order. Or did he? His last action be- fore heading south via the Grey Cup game was to distribute to the press a list of "'major forth- coming federal-provincial con- ferences," Twelve of these are pending, including four this month and three next, covering almost every field of govern- ment activity except foreign affairs and defence, This month, for instance, there will be con- ferences on agriculture; on "poverty and opportunity" (i.e. largely welfare measures and job-training); on the economic situation; and on the tax struc- ture, NOTABLE ABSENTEES Notable absentees from these urgent and important meetings will be the prime minister, the leader of the opposition, and 99 per cent of our elected parlia- mentarians, as well as repre- sentatives of the public and their eyes and ears, the press. This raises a pretty point, Prime Minister Pearson has dismantled the Canadian Con- federation into a vaguely - de- fined 'co-operative federalism," in which federal powers are abdicated to Quebec City, while provincial powers are usurped from all other provinces. Is it either proper or desired by Ca- nadians that he now should dis- mantle our two-chamber Parlias ment,~-and~~substitute "govern ment by closed-door conferences of selected federal and provin- cial ministers and bureaucrats? Finance ministers and provin- cial treasurers are to meet soon to discuss the present economic situation in Canada and its eco- nomic outlook for 1966. But surely this is glaringly an im- portant study and debate which should: take place--not behind closed federal-provincial doors but publicly and reported on in our Parliament? - MacDonald has By DON 0° TORONTO---NDP Leader Don t been given an incidental assist from a strange quarter in his continuing cam- Paign on behalf of FAME. Don's main contention is that the government should go to the aid of FAME because it had set a precedent by bailing out Brit- ish Mortgage and Trust Corp. a few months ago. Harold R. Lawson, president of'the National Life Assurance Co. and a former director of British Mortgage and Trust~ and. caretaker president of that company after it got into trou- ble -- discussed in a recent speech the British Mortgage situation. ' He expressed the opinion that government should not have come to the assistance of Brit- ish Mortgage. He based this opinion largely on the belief it was the re- sponsibility of the financial community itself to guarantee the company's deposits, LOOK 8BETTER But the fact this very promi- nent businessman does criticize the government for its action makes Mr. MacDonald look' better. It gives him support in his assertions that the government took an extraordinary step with British Mortgage ., . and that with this precedent it could go to the help of FAME, Whether the government should have entered the British Mortgage situation is something that can be argued, and prob- ably will be at length. It must be agreed that it couldn't permit a run to start at the trust company which could have spread to other sav- ings institutions. (Mr. Lawson said there is no trust company or bank in the country that is liquid enough to stand a full-scale run by its depositors.) THEY SHOULD ACT But there is a question of whether it couldn't have used another approach--such as call- ing in representatives of the financial community and telling them they would have to act. But for Mr. MacDonald's pur- poses the key point is that in preventing a run the govern- ment also gave some protection to British Mortgage sharehold- ers. They eventually took dras- tic losses -- but probably not quite as bad if the government hadn't acted. This doesn't importantly alter the situation regarding the gov- ernment and FAME, There is little likelihood it will come to the help of the meat co-oper- ative and little justification why it should, i But it undoubtedly will give the government cause for thought before it undertakes other rescue operations in the future. Power Conflict For Dominica SANTO DOMINGO (AP) -- Subtle but significant changes in the Dominican Revolutionary party, the Dominican . Renub- lic's largest, have been under- lined by a conflict between two of its founders. There's a swing toward a more pronounced left-wing na- tionalism that may create im- mediate problems within the ranks but which, in the end, could help stabilize the party. This is a consensus among political observers studying the possible future effects of the expulsion from the party of Anger Miolan who, with ex- president Juan Bosch, founded it in 1939. BIG VICTORY Bosch and the party, with Miolan as party president, won the. 1962 presidential elections by a near landslide. What political observers re- gard as significant in the wake of the two-year-old dispute is the readily apparent drift of the Revolutionary party away from its left-of-centre beginnings {o a more fiercely nationalistic and radically left position. This is expected to give the party more ideological depth and therefore more appeal to the exploding ranks of young nationalists, created by the April revolution, who believe the new look gives it truer identity with the country's real objectives. There is a belief, however, the party's more 'conservative elements may be alienated by fears the new leftists' orienta- tion, nourished by anti-U.S. na- tionalism, could spill into ex- tremism. A phiegmatic workhorse, Min- lan moved into Santo Domingo soon after dictator Rafael Leo- nidas Trujillo was slain in May, 1961, and began to organize the party. throughout the country. There was never, however, any real question as to who the leader of the party was once Bosch arrived on the scene, His control was never in doubt. It's believed, however, that Miolan still has the support of some of the traditionalists and party machine chiefs,