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She Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited nein ese 60 Ring si. &., Dehawea Ontario / un wsncy T. L. Wilson, Publisher SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1966 --- PAGE 4 Impatience In B and B Even the friends of the Biling- ualism and Biculturalism Commis- sion -- and they are dwindling -- are becoming restive at the mount- ing cost and the insignificant re- , sults of this examination of the two languages and two cultures which predominate in Canada. So far this commission has set a record in spending. public money. At the end of last year the figure was $3,538,523. About the only tan- gible thing the commissioners, ten of them, with a staff of 225, of which 25 are drawing more than $10,000 a year, have produced was a preliminary report turned out February 1, 1965. Done in both French and*English it is not recommended reading for those who drop off to sleep easily. It contains such imagination-pro- voking topics as "A fruitful kind of tension," "A coincidence of oppo- sites,' "Ambivalent reactions," "The same feeling of compulsion." All this may be necessary to get to a final report but what that re- port will eventually cost is any- body's guess, says The Sarnia Ob- server. Even the first one weighed two and one quarter pounds and resolved nothing. The whole commission should be told to stop their spending spree and get down to a report within a given time limit. To have more hearings would only serve to give an additional number of crackpots and extremists on both sides of the Increases Commission question a tailor - made and high- cost forum. If the "by and by" commission members have not enough evidence upon which to base a report to Par- liament and the people of Canada they will never get it by continuing this costly examination. They are somewhat akin of the amateur,auto- mobile mechanic who refused to stop tinkering with his car because he knew if he stopped he would have to admit he didn't know how to fix it. - No one expects the B and B com- mission to write the final answers to Canada's racial, ethnic or lan- guage problems. No commission can sort out the individual prefer- ences and habits of people. The best they can hope to achieve is some sort of guidelines whereby Canadians can get along better with each other. If politicans, would-be politicians and some extremists had devoted their energies to other and more useful channels, the French and English - speaking people would have continued to work out their own concepts of a strong, united Canada. The Commission cannot in one final report undo the damage that has been done. As the Sarnia paper the commission should strip down its over-sized staff, complete its re- port and take a curtain bow before it becomes more of a 'Sour joke among all Canadians or even a na- tional scandal, comments, They're Hitting Ceiling We may think we have troubles in Canada but they are in evidence all over the earth, In Africa there are troubles due to the increasing cost of wives. If you believe the upward creep of the cost of living index cramps your style think what it would be like if you were allowed a number of wives and the price of these was increasing along with the cost of living. In Nigeria the ceiling price on a wife is now 75 dollars and this is. only a token for the work the parents of the bride have had in raising her. The ceiling price, of The Oshawa Times YOKE, General Manager CHY, Editor The Oshawa Times , Audit Bureau Dailies despatched Associated P news pub patches are Offices homs sildi 4 Avia. toreents. Ontar 40 Cathcart Montreal, P.O SUSCRIPTION RATES of special des- versit Street, liver Menchester, per course, makes it easier for young girls to avoid becoming an old maid. Greedy fathers in Nairobi have made the plight of the young man so great that they have adopted western ideas and gone on strike against these avaricious parents. The parents, realizing that after all a daughter could be worth a herd of goats, are trying to stand their ground. Lumber, bicycles and radios are worth more than their weight in female pulchritude. Parents are demanding payment in advance for their daughters and with the wages there the wait for a mate can de- velop into a nightmare. The man has some rights, however, because if the girl of his dreams turns out to be promiscuous he can demand his money back. To counteract this he loses the wife's dowry. When the man is affluent his number of wives is a fairly good indication of his opulence. nI this context The Guelph. Mer- cury seems to think we might be as well off with our own troubles. It makes the point that when people in this country feel. they hate troubles they. can be consoled by the fact that misfortunes strike elgewhere. What we sometimes re- fer to as primitive people do not live without troubles as some feel. but often their way of settling differ- ences is much more drastic and speedy than we are accustomed. ALL TO REPORT BY YEAR END ~ ren rm MARTIN STILL AS PEARSON'S By The Canadian Institute of Public Opinion (Worid Copyright Reser.) Canadians have not bestowed much thought upon whom should succeed Rt. Hon, L. B. Pearson as Minister. resign. Ninety per cent of the voters have no opinion on the quesuion, But, to the average man < on- the-street, the name of Paul Martin is still odds - on favorite to inherit the leadership mantle. However, only one-in-ten Cana- dians (ten per cent) choose him as the next Liberal leader. Since 1963 Mr. Martin has rated high- est as a successor to Mr. Pear- son. Half that ratio of the voters (five per cent) support Finance Minister Mitcheil Sharpe to lead the Liberals and Trade Minister Prime should he © TOP CHOICE SUCCESSOR Robert Winters wins the nod from: 2 percent of the electors. After these three choices, a number vi naiies are montion- ed by less than 1 per cent of the voters -- Premier Jean Le- sage, Walter Gordon, Paul Hel- lyer, Guy Favreau, etc. The quesiioi: "If Mr. Pearson should resign, have you anyone in mind whom you think would make a good leader to succeed him? Percent Can't say 90 Paul Martin 10 Mitchell Sharpe 5 Robert Winters 2 "A younger man" 2 Jean Lesage, Walter Gordon, Paul Hellyer, Guy Favreau, (less than 1 per cent) (Total comes to over 100 per cent because more than one name was given.) / 9 READERS WRITE... SEAL HUNTING Mr. Editor, Seal Hunting 'in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is in the news these days, and we should be grateful if you would publish this letter. Our authority for the facts in it is the interim Reports. of the Agent and of the Consultant' Veterinarian to the New Brunswick Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: both these persons were eye witnesses of the kill- ing this year The facts are these. Many seals are crushed to pulp as the ships plow through the ice, Many seal skulls are not smashed, and this implies that many baby seals are still alive and possibly conscious when their skins. are ripped off their bodies. The baby seals show every sign of distress and' ter- ror during the hunt. The baby seals are slaughtered before the eyes of the mother seals; and the mother seals often re- turn to sniff and nuzzle at the dead carcases of their babies. The conditions ,of the hunt, with the seals spread thickly over hundreds of square miles of ice, and the sealers working in scattered groups often a mile from the parent ship make proper policing imprac- ticable. The conclusions we draw are these. Seal hunting is an utterly cruel and savage practice, com- pletely opposed to humanitarian standards in any civilized coun- try. Seal hunting in the Gulf of St. Lawrence must be stopped at once, and the Government must provide an alternative in- come for the offshore fisher- men engaged in the hunt. We ask each of your ers first to oppose seal hunt- ing implacably. Next, we ask each reader to make his opposi- tion known as widely as pos- sible. Especially we ask him to make it known to his local MP, whatever his party may be. Finally, we ask each reader to write a personal. letter, which the post office will accept unstamped, to the Prime Min- ister, the Right Honorable Les- ter B. Pearson, the House of Commons, Ottawa, appealing to him to have seal hunting in the Gulf of St. Lawrence stopped at once. Yours Truly, A. Murray Kinloch, MA, Ph.D M. B. Moore, BSA Frances Garret Moore Alwyn J. Cameron, P.Eng William E. Cragg, MA read- POLL TAX Dear Sirs: "Poll Tax" of levied on most persons over the age of twenty one, who are not sub- ject to local property taxes. A small group of potential prop- erty owners and community menbers~on-v alfTam writing this letter to you. The assesment notice of Poll Tax liability clearly states more than half a dozen reasons why Poll Tax, "'is", fair. In summary it is fair for non property own- ers to shafe with property own- ers, the cost of such luxuries as a police and fire department, In Oshawa a ten dollars is male ALL public utilities commission, and an industrious city council, etc. No: conscientious person would contradict that, however, this point of view has a rather nar- row line of vision, and must be enforded by rather narrow line of vision, and must be en- forced by rather narrow mind- ed people For instance, a quick look at rough statistics, | was not able to obtain exact figures, but the approximate collection of Poll Tax in Oshawa amounts to ar- ound ten or twelve thousand dollars; and the administration costs of collecting it probably come to 40 or 56 per cent, leav- ing a net amount which mignt pay the salary of one city hall messenger boy. Of the several thousand On- tario communities, I have heard of only three that collect Poll Tax. That puts me in a sub- jected minority of less than one per cent of Ontarig's population, and I think that is very unfair! The local Chamber of Com- merce does it's best to attract people to Oshawa, to create "people traffic', through the city because it iy good for busi- ness, for the development of industry and community. Are not such visitors under the pro- tection of police and fire depart- ments? Do they not make use of parks, roads and sidewalks? Yes, of course they do, but they are not asked to pay; and there are many thousands more of them than there are of us. Someday I shall be buying property and planting roots in the community of my choice, and when that time comes I will be justly liable to pay property taxes, -- and it's not liable -to be in Oshawa. Why can't they leavé us alone while we are young. and relatively free? Our turn will come soon enough! Dief knows, that taxes in gen- eral are outrageously heavy, and for the extra six or seven thousand dollars collected, I think local law 'makers have cost Oshawa many times that amount in good will. Sincerely yours, Peter Salmon Grooms ave., Oshawa, Ont. 277 TAX HIKE Mr. Editor: Please do not blame our City representatives for the small cut-- off in your spending money. The cost of living is not to blame on them. Unfortunate, it hurts just a few hundred fami- lies with fixed and low income, but this will discontinue. They will sell their houses and any further intention to buy a house is. absurd, Nevertheiess, who was building the trap and who supports the idea to build a bigger one? Where could we get our rings for the nose, because like..to be fastened right here on earth? Forget the trip for financial study in Europe, | will collect money for a few one-way tick- ets to the moon! Yours very truly, Horst A. Zimmermann, 583 Farewell ' INVOLVE CARDIN Big Year For Federal Judicial Inquiries By KEN CLARK OTTAWA (CP) -- It's a big year for federal judicial inquir- ies. One has started, two are about to get under way and a fourth is in preparation. With any luck all four will re- port by the end of the year to the federal government. It's cus- tomary to allow an inquiry six months or more to do its job All four been announced since the parliamentary session opened Jan. 18. All involve Jus- tice Minister Cardin He announced the first the day after Parliament opened. Ivan ( Rand; ¢ 'tired Supreme Court justice, was named to in- vestigate the fitness of Leo Lan- dreville, 55 to hold his post as an Ontario Supreme Court Rand, 81, began public hearings in Vancouver Monday into Mr. Justice Landfeville's dealings with Northern Ontario Natural .Gas Company, now Northern and. Central Gas Lim- ited The company was seeking na- tural gas distribution franchises in Northern Ontario communi- ties including Sudbury when Mr, Justice Landreville was mayor. It was putting a pipeline through EVIDENCE OF PROFIT A 1964 preliminary hearing into a charge of municipal! cor- ruption against the judge heard evidence that he made a $117,- 000 profit from the sale of com- workers George Victor Spencer had been violated. Prime Minister Pearson even- tually gave March Wells, 65, of preme Court would examine the case. His limited inquiry would deal with the fairness of Spen- cer's dismissal and loss of pen- way, Mr. announcing Justice Dalton the Ontario Su- over ence to look into Canadian counter espionage procedures gen- erally. The the protracted debate Spencer case raised questions about the handling of national security. Mr. Pearson left it up to party representatives in the Commons to draw up the terms of refer- but said the inquiry could pany shares The sale occurred in 1956, the year of his appoint- ment to the: beneh by the Lib- eral St. Laurent government Although the charge was dis- missed, the Law Society of Up- per Canada later sent a. confi- dential report to. the federal government recommending his removal on the grounds of un- fitness g Having started first, the Lan- dreville inquiry may possibly with a report in June, But there are no deadlines for oe oth hree inquiries sprang from a determined oppo- sition fight in Parliament for an investigation to seé whether the Civil rights.of dismissed postal end first, . * Wells. inquiry sion, insurance and other bene- fits. Mr. Justice Wells, the author of a book on tax Jaw, was auth- orized to hold closed hearings if necessary to protect Canadian security Spencer lost his job and was placed under police surveil- lance after he was linked with spying attempts by two Soviet Embassy officials expelled from, Canada last summer. WILL START APRIL 13 The hearings are expected to start April 13 in Vancouver, the home of the 61-year-old Spencer, who underwent a lung cancer operation during the last year. announced the Mr. Pearson dis- closed establishment of another The day he investigate security as far back as it wanted to go. So this in- quiry won't really get off the ground until terms are agreed upon. In granting the investigations, Mr. Pearson over-ruled Mr. Car- din, the principal target of op- position demands for a Spencer inquiry. Mr. Cardin hit back hard with a demand for an in- vestigation of Conser vative Leader Diefenbaker's handling of the Gerda Munsinger case when he was prime minister. This demand and _ allied charges linking former Consér- vative cabinet ministers with the 36-year-old West German blonde sparked a Commeans wp- roar with sex and security the theme. * f pont THINK A SuPERMAN COULD HELD DOWN THe POST-- AIR CANADA PRESIDENT @ RFR. MSGREGOR. IT IS A PLANE, A TRAIN, A SHIP ? CANADA'S STORY Bluenose Great Thrill By BOB BOWMAN, If a poll were taken to find out what Canadian athlete or team has made the greatest impression on the sports world, there would be many nomina- tions. Lionel Conacher would get the vote for being the great- est' all-round athlete. There would be votes for Tom Long- boat, Perey Williams, Barbara Ann Scott, Ann Heggveit, .Tom- my Burns, Jimmy MclLarnin, some of the great hockey teams, and many.-others. How about the Nova fishing schooner "Bluenose' now engraved on Canadian 10- cent pieces? The "Bluenose" was launched at Lunenburg on March 26, 1921, built entirely of Canadian materials except for her masts which were Oregon pine, Strangely enough, another outstanding Canadian ship was launched on March 26, but the year was 1831, She was the "Royal William,"' built at Que- bec, and claimed to be the first vessel to cross the Atlantic en- tirely under steam power. Her story will be told at a later date. In order to qualify for the International Fishermen's Schooner Racing Trophy, put up by the Halifax "Herald," the "Bluenose" had to be a real fishing vessel. As soon as she was launched and equipped, she went out to the Grand Banks and returned as "Highliner" of the fleet. She came back with the most fish and with more gyeed than any of the other ves- sels. From that time on, 'Blue- nose' won every international race. The first was in October, 1921, when she beat the Ameri- can schooner Elsie by 13 min- utes in a race off Gloucester, Mass. In-later years she beat all the other challengers, Col- umbia, Haligonian, Henry Ford, and Gertrude-b-Theb In 1933, she sailed up the St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes, and represented Canada at the World Fair in Chicago. Later she visited Toronto, where thou- sands of landlubbers, who had never seen a real salt water fisherman, walked her decks, or went out on chartet parties. In 1935 '"Bluenose" créssed the Atlantic and represented Canada at the Silver Jubilee of Scotian sora mr YEARS AGO 25 YEARS AGO E Mar. 26, 1941 Tenders for the development of the Whitby Acrodrome, on farm lands west of Corbett's Point, were called by the De- partment of Transport. The strike of 250 workers at the Robson Leather Co., Ltd., plant entered its third day with picketing proceeding peacefully at Whiting ave. entrance to the plant. 40 YEARS AGO Mar. 26, 1926, Miss F'. E, Baker was elected president of the Harmony Home and School Club, Other officers were: Miss I. Moore, first vice- president;. Mrs. C. Mackie, sec- ond vice-president® Mrs. H, Wil- son, recording secretary C. Jackson, corresponding sec- retary and Mrs. O. Conlin, tre- asurer Dr. T. W. G. McKay, Oshawa medical officer of health, pre- sented the keys of the city to the president when the 5th an nual convention of the Associa- tion of Plumbing and Drain In- _Spectors opened here, Mrs. King George V. In a _ race against 'the fastest schooner yachts of the United Kingdom, she placed third, a remarkable feat against yachts designed for racing. During the war "Bluenose"' was sold to a West Indies com- pany, and was wrecked on a reef off Haiti. It would be hard to beat the sports thrills provided for Can- ada by Captain Angus Walters and the crew of~'Bluenose." OTHER EVENTS ON MAR. 26: 1616--Bylow and Baffin sailed on trip to Arctic 1789--Pictou Academy created by Nova Scotia statute 1821--Hudson's Bay Company and North West Company amalgamated 1885 -- Riel forces attacked NWMP at Duck Lake, Sas- katchewan 1956--Prime Minister St. Lau- rent met President Eisen- hower and Presiden Cortino of Mexico at White Sulphur Springs, Virginia 1961--Heavy snowstorm caused State of emergency in Prince Edward Island Mixup In Wartime History Has Rhodes Scholar 'Shot' PARIS (CP) -- When you've been reported shot, it can be embarrassing to be. found be- hind an office desk in Paris 22 years after the supposed event, A. F. K, Schlepegrell, a Ger- man-born. Canadian, says he can't really understand how his Wartime history came to be so mixed up. "How do you convince people that you have not been shot by Hitler?"' he asked in an inter- view Schlepegrell, a jolly round- faced man, was "assassinated" in a recent book, The Oxford Union, by British author Chris- topher Hollis. But it's not his first unusual appearance in a histery book--he shows up in a footnote in Sir Winston Church- ill's war memoirs. Now head of a department called 'current invisibles and capital movement division" at the Paris headquarters of the Organization for Economic Co- operation and Development, Schlepegrell's popularity with Britisirhiste: 6 i years at Oxford in At the time, he was one of two Rhodes scholars from Germany at the university. He took an ac- tive part in Oxford affairs and became well known to hundreds of influential Britons "The other German there was Adam von Trott, He was hanged during the war in connection with a plot against Hitler "Ile was a great friend of mine and Our names were eften linked. Perhaps that's where the confusion comes from," The Oxford Union says of Schlepegrell that 'he "was. an anti ~ Nazi, though a patriotic German, and was afterwards shot by Hitler," Churchill's memoirs recall that during the early 1930s, after Oxford students had passed their "ever-shameful resolution" against fighting 'for king and country," he visited the Oxford Union to answer questions, When Churchill told a ques- tioner that he thought Germany was responsible for starting the First World War, 'a young Ger- man Rhodes scholar rose from his place and said, 'After this insult to my country I will not remain here'," Describing the youth as "spir- ited,' Churchill added; 'Two years later it was found out in Germany that he had a Jewish ancestor. This ended his career in Germany," STAYED IN BRITAIN In fact, Schlepegrell says, he stayed in the United Kingdom after leaving Oxford -- although making occasional trips to see relatives in Germany--and even- tually got Brilish citizenship He left for Canada in April, 1939, before the war started, and worked at a bank in Mont- real until 1942. Then he returned to London to work for an intel- ligence unit of the foreign office for the rest of the war. Even his Canadian citizenship is mostly a matter of chance. "I 'was back in Montreal for about a year after the war and it was then that the govern- ment. decreed that all British subjects were entitled to Cana- dian passports. "I needed a passport at the time so I took out Canadian cit- izenship." He now returns regularly to Canada as part of his job. Can- ada is a member of the organi- zation and Schlepegrell's work broadly involves ,the. exchange of currency and credit among member countries in such-"in- visible" aspects of trade as tour- ism, insurance and freight charges. Plan Would Curb ee AE OP bf Eh ae nif Von isions ST. LOUIS, Mo. (AP)--Mc- Donnell Aircraft Corp. an- nounced Thursday it has devel- oped a warning device that can eliminate qgid-air collisions of airplanes, The device has been tested on McDonnell's Phantom jet fighter planes and probably will be developed for use by air- liners It provides a 60-second warn- ing to airplanes converging at speeds of up to four times the speed of sound, (640 m.p.h. at level). and even tells the pilots what evasive action to take to avoid a collision, a Mc- Donnell spokesman said. The safety device is called EROS, for 'eliminate range zero system." It gives collision warnings to airplanes 1% miles apart. The rockpit indicator has up and down arrows and a level- off light. "When a collision warning has been evaluated by the system," the McDonnell spokesman said, "the pilots hear a_ beeping sound, sea ACCORDING TO BOYLE.. By HAL BOYLE. NEW YORK (AP)--Tomor- row is hard to climb, But it is always easy to slide back into yesterday, and relive with friendliness the past. The farther vou have gone in life, the more you have to recall, and you are no sopho- more if you can look back and honestly remember when-- After taking a muscle build- ing course from a correspond- ence school to avoid being a 97-pound weakling, you discov- ered you had only become @ *102-pound weakling One of the things you knew for sure was that if you picked up a toad you would suddenly get warts. ; If you were sick, your tongue was coated; if you were well, if wasn't. A girl who wasn't too smart was called a dumb belle. Most children smelled of licorice. A man could win a name for himself by plowing a straight furrow. People would travel for miles by horse and buggy to hear. a_ politician make a speech about the tariff prob- lem. BOUGHT BREAD Everybody in the neighbor- hood knew a wife was lazy if she bought bread at the groc- ery store instead of baking it at home herself, A grandmother. was sup-" posed to have grey hair--and look kind of grey. A dentist would rather pull a tooth than bother with trying to fix it. One of the things a smart girl learned early was never to beat her suitor at croquet. The leading family in town pastured an iron deer on its front yard. Movie fans were stunned by the announcement that Wally Reid was a narcotics addict. After that the only Hollywood actor who wasn't suspected of immorality was Rin Tin Tin. Suspenders were a status symbol. No responsible busi- ness executive would wear a belt. One of the chief problems in a small town on Saturdays was to find a place to park your horse and buggy. Those were the good old days. Remember? TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS March 26, 1966... The racing schooner Blue- nose was launched 45 years ago. today--in 1921--at Lu- nenburg, N.S. Captained by Angus Walters, she raced five times for the North At- lantic fishermen's cham- pionship and was never beaten. Sold during the Sec- ond World War, while the North Nova Scotia Regi- ment's banner still bore her outline, the Bluenose was wrecked near Haiti in 1946. After years of campaigning, when he was 82, Capt. Wal ters was able to officiate al the launching of Bluenose II, built to the same plans the. same shipyard, in 1963. 1674--The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, reopened after rebuilding. 1821--The Savings of Quebec opened. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1916 -- Russian units ad- vanced southeast, of Bitlis in northeast Turkey and to- wards Trebizond; British airmen raided a Turkish post in the Sinai desert. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1941--HMCS Otter burnéd at sea while on pa- trol, killing 19 of 44 aboard; anti-Axis rioting broke out in Belgrade and Sarajevo, Yugoslavia; paper disclosed German inroads on unoccupied Frarice's food supplies. March 27, 1966... First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1916 -- British units at St. Eloi took two lines of Ger- %man trenches on a 600-yard front; German aircraft bombed Salonika; Premier Briand presided over a con- ference of seven Allied countries at Paris. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1941--the Yugoslav government and Prince~= Paul, the regent, were over- thrown and an anti- Axis government was formed by Gen. Dusan Simovic, under King Peter II, aged. 18; Britain signed the treaty leasing naval. bases to the United States in return for 50 destroyers; Presi- dent Roosevelt signed: the $7,000,000,000 British aid ap- propriations bill. 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