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WASHINGTON CALLING Viet's Ky Gains In Honoluls_ By Talking LB] Language ye Oshawa Times Published by Conodian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. &., Ganawa, Ontaris T. L. Wilson, Publisher TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1966 -- PAGE 4 Waste In Government Found; How Is It Curbed? ~ A revealing report about anti- quated, wasteful and uneconomical procedures and operations in the federal government was presented by Auditor-General Maxwell Hen- ° derson récently, It posed pointedly much which should surely be re- moved or modernized. Mr. Henderson notes, in this con-.» nection, that Parliament's public ac- counts committee hasn't met since March 25, 1965, and hasn't gotten 'round to considering his 1964 re- port. Moreover, only 100 of the 275 main recommendations of the three- year-old, $2,000,000 Glassco Com- mission report, and less than a quarter of its findings, have been acted upon. There is no way of esti- mating what the savings might be, but it's beyond doubt that the cost of government is continuing to mount, 4 And how! Take those "bomb toss computers," for example, which the RCAF went ahead with pur- chasing for the CF-104 jet bomber though three months earlier it had discontinued training on the type of weapons the computer was de- signed to deliver. The cost: $7,210,- Partnership No matter where the blame should be placed for whatever dif- ferences remain between Ottawa and Ontario over plans to improve the conditions of Indians in this province, the only sensible hope of settling those differences lies in the position taken by Ontario Welfare Minister Louis Cecile. Instead of riling the waters fur- ther with a heated rejoinder after one of his statements had been at- tacked by Arthur Laing, the feder- al minister of Indian and northern affairs, Mr. Cecile said: "I don't think we should argue back and She Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher R. C. 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SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawo, Whitby, Ajox, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, igs Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpeel, Taunton, tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Orono, Leskerd, Brougham, Burketon, Cloremont, Manehester, Pontypool, and Newcastle, not over 50c, per week. By mall in Province of Ontario outside corrier delivery orea, $15.00 ad yeor. Other -provinces and Commonwealth Countries, $18.00 per year. U.S.A. and foreign $27.00 per yeor, 000. Or the 3,400 electrical relays the government bought from a U.S. manufacturer.. It found 3,100 of them unsatisfactory because the maker had changed the specifica- "tions. But the government was un- able to get back the $75,000 it paid for them, it being found that some- one had lost or mislaid the eight prototypes needed as evidence for a claim, Disturbingly, the report notes that fraudulent and irregular prac- tices have been going on in the municipal winter works incentive program. Examples are cited of payments to employees for longer hours than were worked, claims for federal subsidies for wages at rates higher than those paid, additions of fictitious employees to payrolls and inclusion of municipal employees engaged on jobs other than winter works. Many other phases of public ex- penditures are dealt with, many other loopholes of extravagance or mismanagement noted. But, as The Charlottetown Guardian points out, it's one thing to pinpoint govern- mental waste, quite another to get 'the action necessary to curb it. Require quired forth about this. It would be better for both governments to get to work at once in partnership with the Indians in attacking the serious economic problems that so many of them have." Unless such an approach. can pre- vail, there is not the slightest ap- parent prospect of the Indians wanting partnership with either of them. If there is to be any hope of changing this situation by winning the trust and co-operation of the Indians -- no easy task at best, con- sidering how often and badly their trust has been betrayed -- the need now is for both governments to shut up completely about their plans in this area, and to stay that way un- til they are able to speak wisely and In concert about them. As The Welland Tribune notes, it will completely defeat any worthy purposes, at no matter which level of government, unless there is a quick end to the bickering which strengthens the feeling of the In- dians that they are being treated as pawns in power play. And if the scrapping between the two govern- ments arises out of worry over which is going to get the political credit for programs to be initiated, let them turn instead to earning some credit. In this field not enough of it is likely to accrue rapidly to make its division an immediate cause for conecrn. By GORDON DONALDSON WASHINGTON (Special) -- The star of last week's much- ballyhooed Honolulu "summit" meeting was undoubtedly Gen- eral Nguyen Cao Ky, the tough young leader of South Viet- nam. With the help of his beauti- ful wife he upstaged President Johnson and his top team and if anyone gained anything from e three day pailaver it was ¥; He put his seven-month old tee firmly on the map. e was royally welcomed by the President on U.S. soil and as a political bonus he took vice- president Hubert Humphrey home with him to Saigon, In return he had to affirm his faith in democracy -- which. has never existed in Vietnam, And to agree in principle to treat prisoners humanely and express vague desires for peace, A PROFESSIONAL General. Ky did this with charm, flair and apparent sin- cerity, And he handled critical questions fram White House re- porters as if he'd been running for Democratic election all his life, He called himself a poor man who didn't have a house or car and a "Yankee from the North" (meaning North Viet- nami). Although he had fought for 15 years as a professional fight- er-pilot, he yearned for peace so that he could take up a happy civilian life with his wife. (All who had seen the gor- geous Madam Ky, a former air stewardess, believed him on that). When he talked of U.S. - fi- nanced plans for a "better so- ciety" in which the poor would have schools, teachers, hospi- tals and rural electrification he sounded so like Johnson that the President replied "you're talk- ing our language" and reminis- ced about his own days as a congressman about Ky's age (34) struggling to get electri- city for the poor of Texas. VERY FRANK In short Ky's public appear- ances' were a great success. Behind closed doors, in the win- dowless war room of the U.S. Pacific Command near Pearl Harbor, he was embarrassingly frank and not at all awed by the mighty men before him. He told Johnson that the land he was defending as a bastion of freedom had been "a base weakened by corruption, disap- pointment and mismanagement' at least until he took over last summer. 'People sometimes forget that the Communists in Vietnam have certain factors working for them', he said South Viet- nam was fighting for her land and for the lives of her people with ,men who were ready to give up their land if only they could save their lives. We were dying for a cause but we saw little evidence that the cause was worth laying down lives for". This kind of talk shattered mountains of U.S, propaganda which had painted previous Saigon leaders as lovers of peace and democracy whose on- ly problem was the bestial Viet Cong. The theme of the Honolulu- talks and the declaration that followed was that the weakness- es of South Vietnamese so- ciety had to be corrected, not after the war but before it could, be 'yon. SOCIAL REVOLUTION What was needed was a so- cial revolution and an attack on hunger and poverty, It was as important to build-up life in the villages as build-up regi- ments to crush the Communists. Mr. Johnson and several of his cabinet members said this too. But coming from Ky, des- pite his reputation as a play- boy, woman-chaser, reported to have admired Hitler's military methods, it carried a strange conviction. There is stiil suspicion that L. B, J. called the sudden meet- ing to take the limelight and the witnesses away from a Sen- ate Foreign Relations Commit- tee probe into Vietnam policy. If so, it didn't work, because the President had to play a second card by hauling Hubert Humphrey out on the road again and sending him to Saigon and five other eastern capitals. L. B. J, got a mild welcome in Hawaii, it rained all the time he was there and he didn't even get a swim. Resentment Strong In India Against British Newspapers BOMBAY (CP)--Most people in India seem to think British and American newspapers are generally. anti-Indian. Resentment against the Brit- ish press is particularly strong. Angry questions have been asked in Parliament on the sub- ject of "grossly prejudiced" re- porting in the British press of the conficit with Pakistan over Kashmir. The United Kingdom high commission in New Delhi re- cently took the extraordinary and novel step of organizing an exhibition of press clippings to show that British newspapers are objective and not biased in favor of Pakistan Some Indians were moved by the exhibition. One leading New Delhi newspaper published an article commending the exhibi- tion and expressing the view that India had many friends in British journalism. But most Indians were not convinced. They still feel that on the subject of the India-Pak- istan confict journalists in Brit- ain toe their government's "anti- Indian" line, regarded as a hang-over of colonialism. Critics of the British press say that the educated classes in Britain have always been anti-Hindu and. pro-Moslem and that they have never forgiven the ruling Congress party for ejecting them from India. When Prime Minister Shastri died, the London Evening Stand- ard referred to him as the "lit- tle sparrow." The\description was considered by many In- dians as "vulgar, abusive and offensive." Indian correspondents _ sta- tioned in London were mainly responsible for the misunder- standing since they did not point out that the expression "little sparrow" really stemmed from a feeling of affection for the departed leader and was a typically British way of saying things. : Thousands of students paraded the streets of Nagpur in central India. They made a ceremonial bonfire of British newspapers and journals Indian newspapers also are full of letters from readers pro- testing against anti-Indian re- porting in sections of the Amer- ican press. The main target is Time Mag- azine, copies of which have been publicly burned in many Indian cities and towns. REPORTER TRAVELS 20 MILES... ..» BLOOD - CHILLING HISTORY Africans Confident Facing Immense Task By JOSEPH MacSWEEN LONDON (CP) -- Africa, as they say, is on the move-- and much of it moves either on a woman's head or on two wheels, The traveler on his first African foray has read about the surging political and eco- nomic change and, no matter how mpresseid, may not. be surprised. But nothing pre- pared this one, at east, for the apparently ceaseless mo- tion of the Africans on the roads, especially on heavily- laden bicycles. Then there are the unforget- table pictures of women swinging along with inimitable grace, carrying on their heads everything from rolled-up um- brellas to five-gallon water cans or jars. The African woman, when she steps out along even the roughest of paths, has a style that would cause many a Western beauty to look at her feet. New border arrangements in Ghana provided for duty- free passage of one '"'head- load' of products. Officials explained that "'head - load" meant 150 pounds--well over the weight of many African women who carry the load. "Carry," however,. is the wrong word, They wear the load like a hat, whether it is the family firewood or a bun- die of laundry. One woman in Dar es Salaam ambled past with a whisky bottle standing on her head. LITTLE THINGS IMPRESS Africa's story in the last 20 years is. surely one of the wonders of the world and its previous history can chill the blood. But the little things, just as much as the big things, linger in the mind after a 20,000-mile journey through 19 African countries, all but one in the tropigal region. In. West Africa, the so-called mammy wagons or lorries speed along the highways, bearing snippets of advice such as: "Open enemy is bet- ter than secret love."' A small Masai boy, scion of a proud and warlike race, ac- cepts a handshake at Ngobi, Kenya, with a wide sweep of his arm, causing a hearty left. writing at Christian wondered how Pliny, that as- tute Roman sage, would sum up the ages since. Africa was mercilessly bled of its young and virile people in the slave trade, which has been likened to a plague caus- ing agonies of spirit too terri- ble to contemplate. Millions of simple from tribal homes which they would never otherwise have Long before the white man arrived in force, Arab slave traders Middle East markets from the African east coast in a flour- ishing business that may have lasted as long as 1,000 years. Then the dawn of the era. Many have the ing tled folk were wrenched big were African countries. Now, African Unity boasts 36 inde- pendent members, not count- ropean powers, Ai the end of Second World War, there only four independent the Organization of South Africa, scorned as a white-ruled outcast, Embat- Rhodesia, along with Por- tuguese Mozambique and An- gola, remain as the only other white-rufed areas LEADERS EMERGE had been supplying and the Atlantic slave African leaders, in a brief 20 years following a century of domination, had found the means to throw off their Eu- ropean rulers and today such former Kenyatta, jailbirds as Jomo Kenneth Kaunda Kwame--Nkrumah are trade began and continued for more than 350 years. British listened to in the councils of the world. Kenyatta is presi- dent of Kenya, Kaunda presi- smack of palms. "He was astonished that a grownup man offered to shake hands With a boy, a, Masai leader explained. "He tried to shake hands with force so that you would not be embar- rassed, since apparently you thought he was a man." Hotel servants in several countries receive a tip with cupped hands, politely paying tribute to the giver's generos- ity--even though they must often be sorely disillusioned "Out of Africa, always thing new," the opinion of Pliny the Elder, bon historian Hugh Thomas esti- mates that between 13,000,000 and 15,000,000 slaves were taken to the New World, de- populating vast tracts of Afri- can land The 19th century European {imperialist scramble for Af- rica may have included some idealistic motives --such as the spread of Christianity-- but its effect was to carve up the continent in a manner senseless to the native peo- ples. At. the middle of the present i tually all the con- Eu- ers Nye are of can tinent was divided among Tanzania's prere, is that the dent of Zambia and Nkrumah president of Ghana. ' This reporter's impression, after talking wi't many lead- and Julius Africans buoyed up by their vision the future, not weighed including Kaunda President down by a sense of injustice. Yet no simple web of words readily express the feel- ings gained in a long journey - through Africa, with its richly varied ethnic or tribal groups -$00-or so---and its . countless meanings. EDMONTON NOORMAL - CREE SE EI ara doe "GEE! WHAT ARE THEY DOING TO OUR IMAGE?" CANADA'S STORY nner ements Land Sales Spiral By BOB BOWMAN On February 15, 1881, the CPR came into being through an act of Parliament: It was a development that got western Canada booming. The population of Winnipeg increased from 10,000 to 18,000 in one year. People bought and sold land like they do shares on the stock markets today. Lots in Winni- peg were getting bigger prices than they were in Chicago. The land buying craze ex- tended as far west as Edmon- ton. John A. McDougall, whose fascinating story is. told in "The Edmonton Trader' by MacGregor, put down $500 for a group of lots in a Hudson's Bay Company sub-division. The ful price was $10,000 and he was supposed to pay off the balance within a month. He wired Win- nipeg and sold the lots immedi- ately for $20,000, so was able to pay off the investment immedi- ately, and keep another $10,000 for himself Everyone tried to guess where the CPR tracks would be laid, and land values rose and fell MM a Russians Wait, Wait And Wait For New Autos By JOHN BEST MOSCOW (CP) -- Russians who have been waiting patiently for an opportunity to buy a new car may just have to go on wait- ing. Indications are that there is to be no great expansion of pas- senger car production this year, though the expectation is that such an increase will come eventually. The government has given several hints that it wants to put more cars at the disposal of Russians. Tangible evidence of its concern came with a widely-publicized visit "by the bulk of the Soviet leadership, headed by Premier Kosygin and Communist party First Sec- retary Leonid Brezhnev, to an exhibition of Soviet-emade auto- mobiles here in late November, They discussed with Alex- ander Tarasov, automobile in- dustry minister, the models needed to satisfy most fully the 'tmany-sided needs of the coun- try in car transport," said an official announcement. There have also been reports that along with increased pro- duction, the present forbiddingly high prices on cars would be lowered. The two most common cars seen here are the Volga and the Moskvich. The Volga, about the size of a North American compact, costs the equivalent of about $6,500 while the smaller Moskvich costs about $5,100. Even the tiny Zapoozhets crosts about $2,400. Observers read closely the re- port of state planning commit- tee chairman N. K. Baibakov to December's meeting of the Supreme Soviet for. concrete in- formation on the government's intentions regarding auto pro- duction. But though Baibakov talked about other durable goods--TV sets for instance, output of which is to increase by 17 per cent in the coming year, and refrigerators, output of which is to increase by 32 per cent--he conspicuously neglected to men- tion cars This was taken to mean that auto production will rise only marginally if at all, accordingly. At first it looked as though the transcontinental would pass through Selkirk, north of Winnipeg. It was a hard blow for Selkirk when CPR en- gineers decided to go through Winnipeg instead. Edmonton suffered a similar blow when the line went through Calgary, which was hardly in existence. Calgary did not even have a post office until 1883, but 10 years later was a city. It wasn't until 1891 that the CPR built a branch line to Edmon- ton, but even so the future capl- tal of Alberta was growing rapidly. It got a different kind of lift by becoming "'the gateway to wi the north" in the Klondike gold rush. OTHER EVENTS ON FEB. 15: 1625--King of France instructed Champlain to find the short 'route to China 1781--Canal completed to navi- gate Cedar, Cascades and Coteau rapids on St. Law- rence River 1888--Canada and U.S. Fisheries Treaty 1889--Manitoba miitia suppres- ed riot in North Dakota 1873--P.E.1. deegates arrived Ottawa to discuss terms of Confederation 1910 -- Canada signed trade agreement with Germany signed Ottawa On Brink Of Spree Of Spending On Education By MICHAEL GILLAN OTTAWA (CP)--The federal government, which slowly has increased its financial aid to universities since entering the field 20 years ago, appears on the brink of a major spending increase on higher education. Any long-term program must await a federal-provincial con- ference later this year because education falls exclusively within provincial jurisdiction. But as an interim measure, Prime Minister Pearson plans to ask Parliament to increase to $5 from $2 the per-capita an- nual grant to universities for the 1966-67 fiscal year. This would boost the total of federal operating grants to just under $100,000,000 from about $40,000,- 000. Although the federal govern- ment and its agencies help uni- versities through research grants and capital assistance, its main financial aid is through the operating grants started in 1951 by the St, Laurent. govern- ment at a rate of 50 cents per capita. These were increased to $1 in 1957, to $1.50 in 1958 and to $2 in 1962. PICKED UP SLACK The grants were established to pick up the slack in univer- sity revenues after completion of the postwar training program for returning armed services personnel, Universities received $150 annually for each student backed by the veterans affairs department. | Quebec took grants the first YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 15, 1946 Cty Council passed a bylaw striking the 1946 tax rate at 26 mills after deduction of the Provincial subsidy of one mill. This is an increase of 1.5 mills over the 20-year-low net rate of 24.5 mills of last year. the operating year but re- D. F. Wilson was appointed clerk and tax collector for East Whitby. Township. 35 YEARS AGO Feb. 15, 1931 Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath spoke in Simcoe Street United Church and asked for Christians and Jews to work for 'the ideals of peace". Since Jan, 3, the City has paid $17,317 in reief payments for the City Engineers' Department, exclusive of the cost of direct relief. More than 400 men are at work on city relief projects now. jected. them the next on the' grounds this trespassed provin- cial jurisdiction. After Premier Duplessis' death, Quebec took the money in a roundabout way through a corporation tax abate- ment. Other federal initiatives in the last decade saw the establish- ment of the Canada Council in 1956 to support research and graduate studies. A $50,000,000 fund was set up to match pro- vincial grants for new buildings to house studies in the human- ities and socialsciences. The latest study to urge a boost in federal spending for higher education is: the Bladen commission set up by the As- sociation of Universities and Colleges of Canada. ACCEPT ESTIMATE M.r Pearson has accepted the commission's estimate that uni- versity enrolment will jump to 461,000 in 1975-76 from 178,200 in 1964-65 and that total university spending gvill increase to $2,- 032,000,000 from $576,000,000. His jnterim measure is only one step outlined in the recent throne speech. He: proposes to introduce a program of scholar- ships and bursaries and has ac- cepted a commission recom- mendation to continue the Can- ada Student Loans Plan his goy- ernment initiated. The additional grants in the next fiscal year will be paid in all provinces except Quebec in the traditional manner. The As- sociation of Universities and Colleges takes the allotment for each province and divides it among a province's universities and colleges according to the student enrolment. The Quebec government will receive a cash payment, The association will distribute the money in a different man- ner now, taking into account greatest costs involved in edu- cating a full-time student than a' part-time student and the costs for different courses, MUST AWAIT TALKS Until the federal - provincial conference, it is unlikely there will be any federal proposal to increase the grants after 1967 to take account of the growing university population. Bladen commission projec- tions estimate 15.7 per cent of the population between 18 and 24 years of age will be enrolled at universities and colleges in 1975-76, compared with eight per cent in 1962-63. It recom- mended that per-capita grants be increased $1 a year until other arrangements are worked out. Sete rE en rma nem RRM RR Significant | Nuclear Peril Seen By FRED 8. HOFFMAN WASHINGTON (AP)--The So- viet Union will have enough nu- clear._power..and. versatility .by 1970 to kill up to 135,000,000 Am- ericans in a surprise attack, ac- cording to the calculations of U.S. defence experts. The U.S. populations totals about 195,000,000. Yet, officials responsible for U.S. strategy and armament are more worried about China, which still is about 10 years away from ability to mount a significant atomic threat to the 1S This is because American an- alysts believe the Soviet Union will be deterred from a calcu- lated strike against the U.S. by the realization that the U.S.S.R. would be devasted in return. They are much less confident that the same kind of logic will temper Chinese policy when Pe- king achieves submarine launched and intercontinental- range miissiles. Defence Secretary McNamara told the House of Representa- tives armed services commit- tee: : "Obviously, the threat of greatest concern to the United States is that posed by Com- munist China. "The development and de- ployment of even a small force of ICBMS might seem attrac- tive to them as a token: . . threat to the U.S., designed to undermine our military prestige and the credibility of any guar- antee which we might offer to friendly countries. "Phe---prospect-of-an- effective U.S. defence against such a force might not be able to ne- gate that threat, but might pos- sibly weaken the incentives to produce: and deply such wea- pons altogether."' In this connection U.S. offi- cials are heartened by recent progress in developing an anti- missile system of a kind that might be effective against a re- latively primitive menace pre- sented by China. 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