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zest rn etiam Bini ym " OTTAWA REPORT -- Bhe Oshawa SNCS Literary Returns Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawo, Ontario 1, hen Publisher eal be Ames i, t¥ea -- face + Time's Fast Running Out 'On Pearson Whether or not the reports from Quebec of the impending resigna- tion of Prime. Minister Pearson prove reliable, for the practical purposes of government his tenure in the leadership of the country is 'running out, And this is regret- table. Mr. Pearson's position in history as a great Canadian is assured. Other party leaders with a record of political faux pas such as those in which he has been involved would long ago have lost stature, yet, even among the most partisan, Mr. Pear- son is held in high esteem. His pres- tige is firmly established through the distinguished service he has rendered to Canada and the world in his true calling as a diplomat. While his achievements in inter- national affairs undoubtedly played prominently in the decision giving him the Liberal leadership, the very skills which led to these accom- plishments seem to have thwarted his endeavors in the rough and tumble of national. politics. Decis- iveness rather than reasonableness appears the prime requirement at home. Despite the almost constant tur- moil in Canadian affairs--in which the Opposition Leader has been a most active accomplice--the Pear- Leadership son government has managed to contribute many measures of merit to the progress of the country. Mr. Pearson has shown courage in tack- ling programs and projects a more politically astute leader would have endeavored to keep quietly on the shelf, However the cost has been too great. It is not necessary for us to "like" a government, to approve of it or agree with it. But to function in the best interests of the country, a government must have the re- spect of the people. And it is in this respect that the federal govern- ment is being jeopardized through the bickering, backstepping and backbiting in Ottawa today. Mr. Pearson has often indicated he shares none of the Opposition Leader's .consuming. ambition for office. He has said he has no wish to contest another election. He has given his party and the country am- ple time to select a suitable succes- sor, thus if he should decide to move ahead the date of retirement, he's leaving no one in the lurch. While the timing of his resigna- tion is wholly Mr. Pearson's deci- sion, it will be the responsibility of Canadians, particularly those of his party, to make certain his abilities are not lost to Canada and -his con- tributions are rightfully recognized. .[rip Really Necessary? The setting of guidelines for travelling and convention expenses for council members and civic offi- cials represents a businesslike set. Attendance at such meetings with the taxpayer picking up the tab has long been considered one of the fringe benefits of public office, by the public if not by the officials. It provides reassurance to know that it will no longer be carte blanche. With regulations now set as to expenses, a future consideration She Oshawa Cimes T. L. WILSON, Publisher R. C ROOKE, Generali Moneger C. 3. MeCONECHY Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times festebiished 1871) and the itby Gazette and Chronicle established 1863) is published daily Sundays end Statutory holidays excepted). Members of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish- ers Association. The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Associotion. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use ot republication of ali sews despotched in the paper credited to ft or te Ba Associated Press or Reuters, and al mews published therein. All rights of special -- patches are also reserved. GUttices:_ Thomson Sullaing, Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Montreal, P.O. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajex, PA owe jowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, iple Grove, Hampton, Frenchmon's Boy, Liverpoel, Tounton, Tyrone, Dunbarton. Enniskillen, Orono, Leskerd, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Manchester, Pontypoo! and Newcastle net over 50c, per week. By mail in Province of Ontarie cutside ecorrier delivery area, $15.00 per yeor. Other provinces and Commonwealth Countries, $18.00 per year, U.S.A. and foreign $27.00 per yeor. 425 Universi Cathcart Stri eeprom nee might well be the initiating of a definite system whereby those who attend conventions at public ex- penses would have the opportunity to pass along the information they glean to their fellows on council. A resume at a council meeting of the pertinent proceedings in which they took part might prove useful--and of some edification to the public generally. For unfair although it may seem, skepticism does persist of the value of conventions. Earlier this week it was voiced by the mayor of Oak- ville who said his attendance at the Canadian'Federation.of Mayors and Municipalities would be a waste of taxpayers' money. He said he at- tended such a meeting four years ago and, although some work had been done, there were too many overtones of good fellowship and conviviality. As he put it: "Quite frankly, when you can gather 1,500 munici- pal officials in one meeting place, there is bound to be an excess of hot air" Perhaps a_ personal prejudice prompted his remarks, Neverthe- less when the Oshawa council fi- nance chairman receives the list of conventions aldermen plan to at- tend: this year, scrutiny on a basis of "Is this trip really necessary " might be politic. msn IMAGINATIONS STAGGERED... Indonesia Gripped By By WILLIAM L. RYAN hunger stalks the homes of a part in the nation's develop- Low For Politics By PATRICK NICHOLSON there has been 2 welcome increase in books written by Canadians about our politics and politi- cians. These range from con- scious and scholarly research to instant reportage rewriting the current newspaper headlines. A prime example of the for- mer is Joe Schull's 623-page biography .of Sir Wilfrid Laur- ier, who ceased to be prime. minister over half a century ago. The latter class is cur- rently typified by Richard Gwyn's The Shape of Scandal, which covers the dramatic un- folding of the Rivard affair be- tween November, 1964 and July, 1965. The lacuna in this spate, of history-in-hard-covers is the ab- sence of significant personal memoirs by leading actors re- cently retired from our political stage. The authors of books on_ politics plaudit for their for they derive nancia! reward from their ef- forts. This inevitably . follows from the essentially local inter- est of the topic, coupled with our small population. Yet their contribution to our nation's his- torical records is invaluable for tomorrow's readers, as it is interesting for today's. LOW RETURN Professor Frank Underhill's In Search of Canadian Liberal- ism, published by Macmillans in 1960 at $5, had two. printings totalling 4,150 copies, If those were all sold, and if the auth- or's royalty was at the normal scale of 10 per cent of the retail price, his reward would have been a mere $2,975. A larger sale greeted Bruce Hutchison's Mr. Prime Minister, published by Longmans in 1964 at $7.50 Its two printings totalled 17,000 copies, of which 2,500 were sold outside Canada. This compares with sales to date of nearly 12,000 for the recent Laurier, and over 7,000 for Scandal. Donald Creighton's two-yol- ume biography of Sir John A. Recently these many deserve a public spirit, inadequate fi- Maedonald really was the first of this post-war wave of topical books. First published in 1952 and 1955 at $11.90 a set, rising costs have forced the price up to $15.95. Yet, including a large reprint last year, 20,000 sets have been printed and more are planned. This classic polit- ical biography may well have brought its author a deserved $25,000 in royalties. Heath Macquarrie, MP from P.E.1., wrote the historical sur- vey The Conservative Party, published by McClelland and Stewart at $4.50 in cloth and $2.95 paperback, Its sales in Canada perhaps apprgache 3,000 copies in its first y this is equivalent to sales 40,000 for a book published in the much larger United States market, which would deservedly rate this scholarly work as a best-seller Overshadowing these political books was Pierre Berton's view of religion, The Comfortable Pew, which has sold 135,000 copies--largely in paperback at $2.15. It will soon be published also in Britain FICTION REWARDED Fiction of course easily out- sells public affairs, and living here in Ottawa is one of the world's best-selling fiction writ- ers, Nicholas (Cruel Sea) Mon- sarrat. His 17th book, The Pil- low Fight, was published in Britain late last year, and al- ready sales exceed 100,000 of which three-fifths were in Brit- ain and less than five per cent in Canada. It now is being translated into eight other lan- guages. Pillow Fight will soon be published by Foyles Book Club (250,000 copies) in Britain, and in paperback by Pan Books (400,000 copies) in Britain and by Pocketbooks in the U.S. Roy- alties and film rights on a best- seller in that class come near the $200,000 which Sandy Kou- fax, the world's greatest pitcher, asks for one season's work with the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team. Which could explain why junior prefers playing baseball to studying. Johnson Strains Accord With Labor, Management WASHINGTON (CP) -- Presi- dent Johnson's efforts to keep the lid. on qa war - quickened economy have strained the ac- cord he has nursed fairly suc- cessfully .with both labor and management. Business feclings were ruf- fled by the president's talking down of price increases in alu- minum, steel and wheat. There also has been some grumbling about the use of voluntary eco- nomic guidelines as a means of combatting the balance-of-pay- ments deficit, squeezing investment abroad Labor's disenchantment seems to run as deep and, for various reasons, it's expressed a lot more yocaiiy now. "TI don't buy the idea that we have to toady along behind any political party,' AFL-CIO Pres- ident George Meany told his executive council winter meet- ing in Florida. American labor has professed not to have any special political ties. And when the AFL-CIO's counterpart in Canada, the Ca- nadian Labor. Congress, for- mally threw iis support behind the New Democratic Party in 1961, Meany and other Ameri- cant r-leaders disapproved But the record shows a long bacon-and-eggs relationship be- tween the AFL-CIO and the Democrats and support for Johnson was novapviy fervent in 1984 when labor determined to fight to ensure that Barry Gold- water didn't become president. Why, then, is organized labor becoming restive? rm HEN For one thing, it's still wait- ing for its three major demands to be approved by Congress and one has just been sho down by filibuster. That was an amendment to remove the so-called right-to-% work provision under which a number of states bar the union shop. It stalled twice in Con- gress and has been dropped. Now, Meany complains, there are signs that Johnson wants a much smaller increase in the national minimum wage than labor will accept. The minimum is $1.25 hourly and the AFL-CIO favors $1.40 now, $1.60 in 1967 and $1.75 in 1968. Strong discontent has . been voiced by -labor leaders, too, about the presidential wage and price guideposts urging that wage increases be limited to 3.2 per cent without price in- creases. These limits are deemed vital by the president and his advisers to stave off inflation as the economy con- tinues to expand, war stimulus increases and employment, es- pecially in the skilled category, tightens steadily. Some key bargaining sessions due later this year threaten, a showdown that could; if lost by the president, pose the prospect of mandatory restrictions. Meany and the AFL-CIO have been among the strongest sup- porters of the war in Viet Nam, and well to the right of the business community in bucking any trade with communism of whatever stripe. ... MAJOR EXPLOSION LIKELY last summer, National Madness Aidit was accom. AP special correspondent For five months, a story to stagger Western imaginations has been unfolding in Indonesia, a country of 105,000,000 whose fate ultimately could be at least as important to the West as that of Viet Nam. Responsible people who re- cently left there say Indonesia is gripped by a sort of national madness and seems on the edge of a major explosion. These sources report a tense struggle for power backstage. Civil war remains a possibility, There are tanks in Jakarta's streets. Soldiers with sten-guns guard each government min- ister's house. All streets leading to President Sukarno's palace are blocked and he travels by helicopter. The nights are punc- tuated by gunfire. Behind Sukarno's persistent apologies for them, the Commu- nists, though severely hurt, are reported gathering forces for a new attempt to assert domina- tion over the archipelago which skirts Southeast Asia and strad- dies vitally important world wa- terways. mae Sukarno's dictatorship is n igopardy and a showdown is puting. A year ago, say the in- en nobody would say a word publicly against him, Now Wage earners. Many complain they have no hopes for anything better until Sukarno is gone. While military trials unveil a picture of deep intrigue involv- ing Chinese and Indonesian Communists, Sukarno is being opposed by an anti-Communist student underground which charges that arms are being dis- tributed to pro-Communists. Sukarno has said that a blood- bath after the unsuccessful Com- munist coup attempt last Octo- ber took 87,000 lives, Some re- ports. say this figure is an un- derstatement. One source says many other tens of thousands of Suspects have been detained. Inflation seems beyond hope of control. Last June, a 20-pound sack of rice, the national staple, cost 5,000 rupiahs, Today it is 60,000, The black market in currency is wild. A dollar brings 20,000 to 40,000 rupiahs. The official rate is supposed to be 500 to $1. Wages cannot keep pace. Re- cently the government ordered schools, hospitals and all state institutions to double staff salar- ies as an emergency The people are bewildered. Su- karno continues to be the father+ figure of Indonesian revolution, and despite the coup attempt, he saya communism must gtill play measure, ment, A clash is developing between the Moslems, headed by the in- creasingly strong Nahadatul Ul- ama (NU) and Masjumi parties on one hand and the pro-Com- munists on the other, Indonesia is predominantly Islamic The armed forces themselves seem divided on support for Su- karno, who has sacked his long- time friend, Gen. Abdu! Haris Nasution, as defence minister. Communist ranks, once. esti- mated at 3,000,000, have been slashed by five months of army mop-up which left tens of thou- sands of Communists, including many top leaders, either dead or in custody. But they are.try- ing for a comeback. Official reports of military court trials, quoting Communist defendants, give the public an eerie picture of what went on before and after the Communist coup. From what was quoted publicly from official versions of the proceedings, the public got this stoty piece by piece Dipa N. Aidit, chairman of the Communist (PKI) central committee, travelled abroad last vear with Sukarno, In Cairo, Aidit made contact with French Communists, and in Peking with Romanian: Communists. When he retyrned ta Jakarta panied by a team of Chinese Communist doctors. Aidit told his politburo that the doctors felt Sukarno was so ill that either. death or paralysis was near. Aidit suspected that army of- - ficers, thinking likewise, planned a coup to get rid of the Communists, The army would be first to know of Sukarno's death, But Aidit relied on "pro- gressive"' officers pvilling to col- laborate with the PKI. He moved up the takeover time- table, originally set for 1970. OUTLINED COUP PLAN The politburo held 45 meetings in 45 days. Aidit outlined plans for taking power, saying he ex- pected help from the air force and navy, opposition from the army. The Sept. 30 movement was, organized under Aidit's com- mand, to be supported by units armed by the PKI from Com- munist - dominated organiza- tions of youth, peasants and indus{rial workers. Njono, secretary - general of .the labor federation and a polit- buro. member since 1946, fied later at his trial that he promised 5,000 well - trained hard-core Communists for the takeover. Nj ono subsequently was sentenced te death, testi- TS HAPPENED a OD consensus? ? SOO CLT LATTE WHERE SELDOM IS HEARD ENCOURAGING WORD CANADA'S STORY Ambush Near Batoche On March 11, 1885, Superin- tendent Crozier of the North West Mounted Police at Prince Albert, was on the spot. For months he had been in touch with negotiations to get Louis Riel out of the area, and pre- vent an uprising that threaten- ed to be more serious than that at Red River in 1870. Now it was clear that Riel had no in- tention of leaving, and further- more it was known that Gabriel Dumont. had a plan to incite the Indians to go on the war- path. Crozier telegraphed head- quarters for help, and learned that Inspector Irvine was bring- ing reinforcements from Regina Negotiations to try to per- suade Riel to return to Mon- tana had started in December. Riel said that he should have $100,000, but if the government would give him $35,000 he would guarantee to make his follow- ers agree to any reasonable wr , his settlement. He also said that he would go back to Montana and never return, Father Andre and D. H. Mac- Dowall, member of the North- west Council, had been doing the negotiating with Riel, and agreed later that Riel would probably have settled for $5,000. Unfortunately the money was not forthcoming although the federal government agreed on February 4 to investigate the grievances of the Metis. Crozier did everything in his power to avoid a clash between forces and the Metis and Indians. The militia at Prince Albert wanted to come to grips with Riel and Dumont and kept urging Crozier to 'get on with the picnic". However he knew that he was up against 500 skill- ed buffalo hunters, while he had only 53 police and 41 volun- teers. Apart from their rifles, they had a 7-inch gun. Crozier decided to move to New Plates Reflect Light: New Fees Reflect Concern By JOHN LeBLANC Canadian Press Staff Writer Canada's first use of light- reflecting plate colors plus some fee increases--including a stiff jab in the pocketbook for errant Saskatchewan drivers--are the main departures in the 1966 edi- tion of automobile licences. Fees have been raised in Sas- k Newfoundland_and Mani oba. Newfoundland also is introducing color with a high reflecting quality as a_ safety measure. So is the government of the Northwest Territories. In other area, a Cross-Canada Survey by The Canadian Press shows things largely undisturbed from last year except for the customary shuffle around the color spectrum. And even there the plate artists are falling into a rut. Three provinces -- Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia-- have chosen blue characters on white background. Quebec and New Brunswick have white on red and the Yukon red on white. Nova Scotia and Manitoba are black on yellow. Prince Edward Island is white on green and Saskatchewan is green on white. Only Newfoundland among the provinces is breaking into flam- boyancy with eye-catching blue on orange. The Territories' plates, too, will be vivid--black on orange. The so-called "re- flectorized" colors are supposed to be visible up to 1,500 feet in rain. Newfoundland also is moving to catch up with the other prov- inces in revenue from licences, Up to this year, passenger-car fees were a straight $18 for any car on the island and $4 in road- scarce Labrador. Now they go by weight, with $18 the mini- mum and $24 the top all over the province. Manitoba has reintroduced, after a one-year withdrawal, a 50-cent levy on all vehicles to help fatten its unsatisfied judg- ment fund. The regular Mani- toba rates were increased about 25 per cent in 1965. Saskatchewan is leaving its charges for plates--between $10 and $20--basically undisturbed but the accompanying charges for the compulsory government automobile insurance are rising between $1 and $7 per passenger car. Drivers with less than three demerit points will cogtinue ta pay $4 for operators' licences but those with three to five points will have their fees dou- bled to $30, and those above that will pay $60 compared with last year's $30. HIT $200,000,000 Total revenue from the sale of plates is expected to go over $200,000,000 for the first time, on_the basis of official and--in some cases -- unofficial esti- mates. Not all provinces esti- mate the take in advance, and some have not yet worked out the 1965-66 income, Individual provincial figures will range be- tween around $1,000,000 in Prince Edward Island and the neighborhood of $80,000,000 in Ontario. Relatively tiny will be the contributions from the sub-are- tic, though the figures show cars pushing the traditional dogsled out of the way. No 1966. esti- mates are available, but last year the Yukon collected $184,- 841 on 4,006 passenger cars, 2,- 332 trucks and 1,377 trailers. The Northwest 'Territories had 8,950 vehicles of all kinds registered. On the plates themselves, the. provinces are divided 50-50 on whether to carry distinctive pro- vincial insignia or slogans ad- vertising their attractions. B.C. bills itself as Beautiful British Columbia, Quebec as La Belle Province, New Brunswick as Picture Province and P.E.I, as The Garden Province. Man- itoba's plate bears a black buf- falo. However, the two northern districts outdo all the senior administrations. The Yukon's plates carry the slogan Land of the Midnight Sun and -- on pas- senger cars -- the image of a gold miner. The Northwest Ter- ritories calls itself Canada's Northland and the plates display its sports crest. Saskatchewan reverted to a plain design this year after car- rying a line last year saying Diamond Jubilee to draw atten- tion to that province's celebra- tion of its 60th year in Confed- eration, Ontario, which in<he past has held that extraneous=~matter would make the numbers less visible, is planning a 1967 plate to tie in' with the Confederation centenary. It will bear the de- sign 18 Confederation 67 across the bottom of the plate. Fort Carlton, which was closer to Riel's headquarters at Batoche,. and from there he hoped to be able to negotiate with Riel. There was a large amount of government stores at Duck Lake, about six miles from Batoche, and Crozier sent a detachment to bring them to Fort Carlton. In the. meantime Dumont had moved into posi- tion, and Crozier's force was ambushed, and forced to retire. Then the fat was in the fire. Crozier brought all his men to Duck Lake, and met the Melis en route. While negotiating was taking place, somebody fired a rifle, and before the fighting stopped 12 of Crozier's men had been killed and more wounded, Rebellion was in full flame. OTHER EVENTS ON MAR. 11 1848--Second Baldwin - Lafon- taine ministry 1850--Richard Blanshard pro- claimed Vancouver Island a British Colony 1935--Bank of Canada opened Hunn YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO March Ll, 1946 The Durham Masonic Lodge-- founded in 1846 -- celebrated its 100th birthday in Newcastle at a special banquet last night. asta atte Rev. Ralph 'F. Wilson was welcomed to the pastorate of the First Baptist Church. 35 YEARS AGO March Il, 1931 Oshawa's case for freight rates was present d to the Canadian" Freight A tion at a special hearing hare by the Oshawa Chamber of Commerce and some manufac- turers, The .Oshawa Kiwanis Club heard its first woman speaker today -- Mrs. R. B. Smith, president of the Oshawa Hu- mane Society, told of the work of that organization... lower - QUEEN'S PARK NDP Leader On Attack Over Beans By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- Don MacDonaid {s on the warpath again. Or the skypath. The NDP leader goes for quite long stretches when he is' mellow and reasonable. The years have shown there are three questions that send Mr. MacDonald orbitting: Scan- dal--in any form; labor mat- ters; and farm marketing. It's the latter that has him off the launch pad this time. He has grasped the govern- ment's takeover of the bean growers marketing program, DESTROYS FOUNDATION The takeover, Mr. MacDonald said, means "the democratic base" of farm marketing has been destroyed. The takeover, he says, means representatives of farmers on marketing boards become re sponsible not to the farmers "who elected them" but to Queen's Park, When you hear "democracy" used in some context by. Don you know he is breathing fire and leading us with a crusad- er's flag. Mr. MacDonald is apt to wave "'democracy" with the verve that a failing husband waves a marriage licence, He believes that ' democ- racy," under his interpretation, justifies all sins and all privi- leges. In the current issue on "democracy," Mr. MacDonald believes that because the bean growers voted for a marketing program, their directors should be able to spend the compul- sory licence fees in any way they wish without government control. RECOGNIZE RIGHTS However democracy extends beyond the "majority."" A more important cornerstone than de- cision by the decision of the majority is the recognition of the rights of minorities. In this case there is a min- ority of growers who don't want the program but who are forced by law to pay for it. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRES§ March 11, 1966... The Great Blizzard of New England began 78 years ago today--in -1888--~ as two feet of snow fell on the Atlantic states. Winds of 84 m.p.h. caused huge drifts, reaching 53 feet deep at New Haven, Conn. Tratfie was paralyzed by noon of the following day and nine New York pilot ships were lost with all hands. About 200 ships were sunk, dam aged or swept away be- tween Chesapeake Bay and Nantucket. More than 400 people lost their lives before communications were re- stored six days later. 1702--The Daily Courant, London's first daily news- paper, first appeared. 1931--A steamer exploded on the Yangtze River, China, killing 300 people. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1916--German troops gained ground near Reims; Rus- sians occupied Kerind, Per- sia; British fought rears guard actions against Turks along the River Tigris, Mes- opotamia. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1941--a bomb in an Istanbul hotel where George W. Rendel, British minister to Bulgaria, was staying, killed six people and injured 20; France signed a treaty with Thailand on Japanese instructions; a British sub- marine sank a_ 10,000-ton troopship in the Mediter- ranean; President Roosevelt signed the lend-lease bill into law. People with a keen sense of taste and value buy Corby's ...and they wouldn't dream of buying any other Canadian whisky. Corby's Special Selected Canadian TRUE] CANADIAN WHISKY H, Corby Distillery Limited Corbyvilla, Can, Ss ithe "NNR ST. 5