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Ohe Oshawa Times 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited T. L. Wilson, Publisher E. C. Prince, Associate Publisher OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1967 Supervision, Control Needed In Credit Plan A report was tabled in the Com- mons last week, after lengthy study (more than three years) recom- mending a new deal for the consum- er buying on credit. The main recommendation is that "the total cost of credit both as a lump sum and in terms of simple annual interest" be given to the user of any time payment plan at the time of sale. There can certain- ly be no argument on this score. However as the report is carefully considered there are questions which can and should be asked. As The Welland Tribune notes, for in- stance, the committee did not rec- ommend a specific ceiling on inter- est rates and service charges but said the government or govern- ments -- since jurisdiction is di- vided between the federal govern- ment and the provinces -- should consider a ceiling. The report called exorbitant the interest of 18 per cent a year and more, involved in some department store revolving credit plans, and these plans were sharply rapped in the report. There has been a burgeoning de- mand for government action along the lines suggested by the commit- tee, and in some areas is already a "fait accompli". There will be wide- spread support also for other pro- posals submitted by the committee, headed by Senator David Croll of Windsor, such as a maximum rate of interest that may be charged in financing used car purchases, and establishment of central registries recording the history of each auto- mobile. The committee, however, gets into a highly controversial field when it proposes a plan of federally guaranteed low-interest, long term consumer loans for families with in- comes of only $4,000 or less, claim- ing this as necessary for the war on poverty. The committee specifies that loans would be made "only for prov- ident and, productive purposes re- lated to the preservation of home and family" and the maximum be $1,500. The loans would be repaid over an extended period of time. The report made repeated refer- ence to the problem of low-income families who become mired in debts from which they can never extri- cate themselves. The committee's concern for the problems of this seg- ment of our society is understand- able. But who, asks The Tribune pointedly, is going to pass on the applications and decide on whether they are "provident and _ produc- tive", and what yardsticks will be used. Until some workable plan is introduced to supervise and exer- cise control, it is doubtful whether the humanitarian concept implied in the recommendations will be translated into legislation. Classroom Wiped Out If newspaper headlines told in any one week of one complete high school or university classroom be- ing wiped out, the story would at- tract national concern. Yet. that's the toll of young people in traffic fatalities tallied during a six-week period by the All - Canada Insur- ance Federation. A test survey of traffic fatalities among young Canadians reveals that 234 of them between the ages of 16 and 28 died in automobile ac- cidents during a six-week period last Fall. The survey was taken by the She Oshawa Times 86 King St. &., Oshawa, Ontorie T. L. WILSON, Publisher &. C. PRINCE, General Manager C. J, MeCONECHY, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) and the itby Gozette and Chronicle (estoblished 1863) is published dally (Sundays end Statutary holidays excepted), Members of Canadian Dally Newspoper Publish- rs Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau Association. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use. of republicotion of all news despatched in the paper credited to it er to The jated Press cr Reuters, ond also the locai news published therein, All rights of special des- patches are also reserved, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario National Advertising Offices: Thomson Building 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 646 Cathcart Street Montreal, P.Q. Delivered by corners m Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunborton_ Enniskillen, Orono, Leskard, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Manchester Pontypool, and Newcostle not over 5Se per week. By moll in Province of Ontario pe Ping carrier delivery crea, $15.00 per year, Other provinces ond C 'lth -- Countries, $18.00 per yeor, U.S.A, ond foreign $27.00 pa year. automobile insurance industry in order to gather detailed information for its Centennial project -- the All- Canada Conference of Young Driv- ers, to be held in Ottawa, August 7-11, The fatalities, compiled from stories appearing in daily and week- ly newspapers across Canada, occurs red in 191 accidents. Ontario suf- fered the largest number of deaths, 119, with Quebec second at 66. Brit- ish Columbia was third with 24. "The figures startled us," said Merlin Donald, President of All - Canada Insurance Federation. "It means that one complete high school or university classroom is wiped out every week in automobile acci- dents if the incidence runs this high throughout the year". In addition to the 234 deaths, the press stories showed that 155 young people were injured in the 191 accidents that recorded a fatal- ity. Of the dead, 154 were male and 80 female. The survey also revealed a num- ber of facts on how the 191 fatal accidents occurred. A total of 81 involved only the death car, either in it hitting an obstacle or leaving the road. Seventy-three involved more than one car, or a car and a truck. Nine fatalities were record- ed in three railway-crossing acci- dents. The others took place for miscellaneous reasons, or the rea- sons were not reported. INTERPRETING THE NEWS Britain 'Bungles' In Bid To Bonn On Common Mart By HAROLD MORRISON Britain's courtship of the So- viet Union, accompanied by ev- idence of diplomatic bungling in relations with West Ger- many, may cost it friends in Bonn and make British entry into the European Common Market harder. Prime Minister Wilson main- tains that his Bonn mission, to press for German support of Britain's Common Market brief, was a success. A Bonn spokes- man appeared to back him up by saying the West German ad- ministration will continue its at- tempts to persuade Common Market partners to favor Brit- ain's entry. But behind-the-scenes reports suggest the Anglo-German sum- mit meeting, while cordial and correct, lacked the warmth and comradeship of the Anglo-Ital- jan summit last month, And it certainly did not bubble with that mutual admiration so fre- quently expressed during Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin's eight- day visit to Britain. REMARKS WERE SHARP Kosygin said some nasty things about the Germans in public appearances in London. He warned of a rise of neo- Nazissm and thundered that the Soviet Union would never allow the Germans to join the nuclear club. Not once did Wilson or Foreign Secretary George Brown publicly challenge the Kosygin position. Brown said he replied to Ko- Sygin privately. But that would not make much of an impres- sion on a West German adminis- tration whose support Britain wants in trying to get into the Common Market. Equally damaging may have been Brown's off-hand remark that, "in a way," Briitain recog- nizes the controversial Oder- Neisse boundary between Ger- many and Poland. There are many Germans who believe the old German lands now within Poland ought to be returned and this is still the official position of the Bonn government. Coming diplomatic, to say the least. Wilson maintained the boun- dary issue was cleared away to Bonn's satisfaction. Later, it was announced the British posi- tion still is that determination of frontiers must await a Ger- man peace treaty wrapping up the Second World War. REACT TO AMITY The British government had scored a big hit with Kosygin and this seemed to give Wilson and his cabinet added cconfi- dence, even to the point of cockiness, in dealing with their European colleagues. There was evidence, however, of a Labor cabinet split on the merits of seeking Common Mar- ket membership, The president of the Board of Trade, Douglas Jay, created an awkward situa- tion by talking against the Com- mon Market while Wilson was in Bonn. There was much speculation, even before Wilson embarked on his European pilgrimage to gain Common Market support, that it would be years before Britain could gain admittance. Events suggest that the odds against Wilson have, if anything, in- creased. TRIUMPH IN TITANIC BATTLE First Taste Of Waterloo Given To Napoleon By Russ By JOHN BEST BORODINO, U.S.S.R. (CP) The Russian army retreated 80 miles after its collision with Napoleon here Sept. 7, 1812, yet the Russians see the ti- tanic one-day struggle as a glorious triumph. a Without going quite that far, it can be said that Borodino gave Napoleon his first taste of Waterloo. It was a victory in the sense that it made in- evitable the ultimate destruc- tion of his Grande Armee. This peaceful farm commu- nity, in and around which the battle was fought, lies 70 miles west of Moscow. The terrain is rolling and open. Here and there are patches of forest. Spotted around the field are some 50 monuments to the memory of Russian units and soldiers who fought here. They testify to the hallowed place the heroes of Borodino hold in the hearts of Russians. For sheer, concentrated car- nage there has seldom been a battle to match Borodino. Tol- stoy, in his epic novel War and Peace, tells of a horse- back ride Napoleon made along his lines toward the end of the day: "In the slowly dissipating gunpowder smoke that spread all over this terrain . . . in the pools of blood, lay horses and men, singly and in heaps. Such a horror, such a collec- tion of slaughtered men, nei- ther Napoleon nor any of his generals had ever seen in so small a place." RETREATS FROM MOSCOW Russian guides say the French suffered 58,000 casual- ties in the battle out of a strength of 135,000 while the Russian army lost 38,000 of 120,000. Western historians say, how- ever, the Russians lost more than the French, both in num- bers and in proportion to over- all strength. And even Tolstoy wrote that Field Marshal Mik- hail Kutuzov lost fully half his force while the French lost a quarter. ae Napoleon staggered on to Moscow while Kutuzov's army fell back 10 miles or so be- yond the city. However, the French emperor didn't even attempt to hold Moscow in the face of oncoming winter. After five weeks he began his dis- astrous retreat during which almost his entire 500,000-man army perished. : For the first time Napoleon had come up against an army that withstood his heaviest blows. Two thousand miles from home, swallowed up in a strange land, his communi- cations overextended, the chubby Corsican must have begun to have premonitions of doom. Tolstoy, who lived on the battlefield for several months while doing research for War and Peace in the 1860s, granted the Russians no more than a "moral victory' on "he day's activities at Boro- dino. But although he was the ac- knowledged expert of his time on the battle, the years have turned Borodino into a Rus- sian victory, pure and simple, in the eyes of this nation. STIRS EMOTION "It was not a rout of the French army but it was a de- feat," says a guide at the Borodino historical museum. Brochures on public sale re- fer to "glorious heroic deeds of Russian warriors who de- feated a ferocious enemy in the battle of Borodino," and laud "the heroes who de- feated the mighty army of Napoleon and saved their motherland from foreign slav- ery." The very name of this sleepy hamlet exercises an emotional spell over the Russian. During the Second World War, when every effort was being made to arouse his pa- triotism, War and Peace was turned into an opera with mu- sic by Prokofiev and Borodino forms a prominent part of the action. Watching and listening to it, Russian spines tingle with pride and hearts beat faster. arr GOLD RUSH DAYS ANOTHER DUE IN 1971 Centennial Celebrations 'Old Hat' For B.C. By TOM CARNEY VICTORIA (CP) -- This is Centennial Year in British Co- lumbia as it is elsewhere across Canada, but the prov- ince is getting used to such celebrations. British Columbians also ob- served centennials in 1956, 1958 and 1966. And they've got another one coming around in 1971. History backs up the vari- ous events. In 1956 celebrations and spe- cial events marked the cen- tennial of the Fraser River gold strike, which brought vast numbers of pioneers to this area, and the calling of the first political assembly. in the Crown colony of Vancou- ver Island. Two years later the drums were beating on the Lower Mainland. The occasion was the 100th anniversary. of or- ganizing New Caledonia into the Crown colony of British Columbia. Last year centennial proj- ects throughout the province Many of this year's events much more lasting nature, marked union of Vancouver Island and the mainland col- ony, a union proclaimed Nov. 19, 1866. While celebrations were the rule, there were Vancouver Island municipal councils such as Wellington's which, conscious of a century of one-sided rivalry with the mainland, suggested wakes would be more suitable to mark the occasion. 1867 U 1967 And less than two months into the official Canadian Cen- tennial Year, Premier Bennett announced that more centen- nial observances will be held in 1971 to commemorate Brit- ish Columbia's entry into Ca- sadian Confederation. i are actually annual occasions which have swung to the tune of the times with a centennial twist, such as the fourth an- nual B.C. International Trade Fair in Vancouver May 17-26, billed as "bigger than ever to help celebrate the Centennial Year." Other listed 'centennial events" include Uclulet's Par- ent - Teacher Association Scholarship Dinner held Feb. 5, the Hedley Annual May Day Parade May 20, and a wide variety of barbecues, boat races, fiddlers' festivals, flower shows, stampedes and even a Centennial Club Rally. The Danes will be given a erack in Vancouver, which will celebrate Danish Constitu- tion Day as a centennial event June 4. The local centennial committee in the north-central B.C. community of Lac La Hache has designated March 4-5 a centennial Ice Carnival and Fishing Derby Most of the money spent is going for monuments of & The almost 400 local centen- nial committees formed by municipal governments in B.C. have come up with a long and impressive list of local projects. Senior governments have approved more than 270 local projects at an estimated total cost of $8,179,433. Most expen- sive to date is a $1,950,000 museum of natural and hu- man history planned by the city of Vancouver. Greater Victoria is spending $519,967, including senior government grants, on a centennial sta- dium. Burnaby municipality plans a $317,000 recreation centre, Golden, a village in eastern B.C. with a population of 1,800, plans a $125,000 curling and skating rink. Penticton is building a $43,500 centennial fountain, Nanaimo a_ $159,- 000 museum and tourist build- ing, and Kamloops an $89,000 project to develop a swim- ming area on the fast-flowing Thompson River. BIRD WATCHER FOREIGN NEWS ANALYSIS a Superficial Democracy By PHILIP DEANE Foreign Affairs Analyst Inexorable, abysmal misery expressed eloquently even by statistics, matters much more in India than the parliamentary elections which take six days-- from Feb. 14 to 20--in what in- formation officers call the world's largest exercise in de- mocracy. There are 500,000,000 Indians, living for the most part in 500,- 000 backward villages, tilling less than 350.000 acres of un- fertilized, badly watered, over- worked land, Two hundred thou- sand sacred cows roam freely, stealing the, people's crops. The average income is less than 16 cents per person per day and of this sum the moneylender takes four cents and the tax collector two, leaving each Indian, on an average, 10 cents a day to live on. To the Indian, starvation is the human condition. His aver- age age for dying, a worn out old man, is 40. And these are only the economic facts. There are 17 major languages in India, 120 major dialects so that to understand one another, a northerner and a southerner must speak the former master's tongue, English. Hinduism, the religion for 80 per cent of the Indians, divides them into mu- tually exclusive subcastes which consider it polluting to share meals with one another. SIN TO DISOBEY The greatest sin in Hindusim, bringing certain damnation, is to disobey the rules of caste, and these rules forbid changes or progress, enshrining the status quo in which a small minority TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Feb. 21, 1967... Robert Southwell, the English poet, was hanged in London 372 years ago today --in 1595--the day after his trial for treason. He had been in prison and repeat- edly tortured for three years. Southwell's crime was being a Catholic priest. The law forbade any Eng- lishman in the Roman priesthood to stay more than 40 days in the country under penalty of death and Southwell, trained in Paris, volunteered to defy the ban @s a missionary. He was beatified in 1929. 1901--The first republican constitution of Cuba was proclaimed. 1922--The airship Roma burned at Hampton, Va. killing 34 people. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1917 -- Britain proposed to stop and search neutral ships on the high seas; Gen. Allenby's army cap- tured Turkish posts at Bir- el-Hassana and Nekh! in the Sinai Peninsula. Second World War Twenty - five years ago today -- in 1942 -- neutral Portugal protested against Japan's occupation of the island of Timor; the Rus- sians landed troops on the Crimean Peninsula behind German lines; Malta was oe 12 times in the ay. FISH CURE LEATHER Cod liver oil, besides being consumed by humans, is used fe tanning leather. ( is priest, landowner, money- lender and political leader, all in one, the true government, in fact, with which the destiture villager must contend, in terms of whether there will be a next meal. The system excludes, as outcasts, more than a quarter of the population, the untouch- ables and the non-Hindus, rele- gating them, if they live in vil- lages, to cleaning excrement and eating cattle that have died. Whatever the outcome. of In- dia's parliamentary elections, the village structure will reform only slowly--only a brutal Com- munist Mao Tse tung-tung would kill the sacred cows that com- pete with people for food and do not even give milk, and it is not certain that even a Communist dictator would succeed. The central government, once British and now Indian, has only been able to put a thin, wide- meshed net over the country, roads, rail, tax collecting, armed forces. Most of the land is uncovered by this net. Here and there, the government has also sown seeds that have borne hope of future change--some in- dustry, some education--but the seedlings are too few yet and too small to be seen by the aver- age Indian, the peasant. Certainly he does not know enough to judge candidates. He may be tempted to vote for right wing religious parties, but he most likely will vote for the party in power, for when one is terribly poor and weak, one does not challenge established au- thority. Youth Robbed Employer, Took 25 Cents; Executed By BOB BOWMAN There were cruel _punish- ments for petty crimes in Can- ada until the middle of the 19th century. In some cases the death sentence was mandatory. On Feb. 21, 1828, an 18-year-old boy, Patrick Burgan, was hanged at Saint John, N.B., for stealing 25 cents from his em- ployer who made ginger beer. An account of the trial before a jury of 12 men says: "As evi- dence of guilt was clear, no other course was open to the jury than a verdict of guilty, with a recommendation of mercy. Yet, the judge, in sen- tencing the prisoner to be exe- cuted, told him there was no hope of mercy and he should jose no time in preparing for death". The trial was in Janu- ary. A petition for mercy was sent to the lieutenant governor, Sir Howard Douglas, but he refused to intervene and the boy was hanged from the second storey of the old jail. The executioner was Blizard Baine, an English- man who was undergoing a two-year sentence for robbery. For acting as hangman Blaine received a pardon, was paid £10, and told to leave the city. GUS uu It is difficult to understand now why 18-year-old Burgan had to be hanged for robbing his employer of 25 cents, but Blaine had been sentenced to two years in prison for another robbery. The fact that Burgan took 25 cents but Blaine was paid in pounds is an indication of the ee in currencies of those ays. OTHER FEB 21 EVENTS: 1642--D. Aulnay Charnisay was commissioned to arrest Charles LaTour as a traitor. 1731 -- Gilles Hocquart was made intendant of Canada. He was one of the most successful. 1812 -- Parliament of Lower Canada met to vote money for war. 1875 -- Commercial Travel- lers Association of Canada was formed at Montreal. 1891--Explosion at Springhill, N.S., killed 125 miners. 1935--Prime Minister Bennett and Opposition Leader Macken- zie King agreed on John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir) as Gover- nor-General, 1949 -- Newfotindland com- mission government approved Confederation terms, -»-- QUEEN'S PARK Davis Loses Popularity, Still Ahead By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- With Premier Robarts ailing, there has heen a flurry of speculation here as to who might succeed him if he is forced to retire. This may seem a but un- seemly, but politics has never been a seemly business. Anyway, seemly, or not, there is a widespread acceptance that if Mr. Robarts does retire and the PCs hold a_ leadership "convention, Education Minister William Davis will win ft. POPULARITY DOWN The writer goes along with this to a degree. At a conven- tion, the 38-year-old Mr. Davis would be the likely winner, But his election probably wouldn't be at all as automatic as so many people think. Even a year ago ft probably would have been, At that time Mr. Davis was very much the crown prince in the party, the white-haired boy whom it was assumed would step into the Jeadership. when, as and if Mr, Robarts stepped down. But since then circumstances have changed. Most particularly Mr, Davis' popularity has waned. It is down with the private mem- bers, who have been complain- ing about him for some time now on the grounds that he is not available. Most important of all his stock has gone down with his cabinet colleagues--gone down so far apparently some minis- ters would be not only willing but eager to join a movement against his candidacy. Their feeling, it appears, is largely resentment against the promi- nence Mr. Davis has had, and particularly the build-up that was being given him, and which he still is getting in the paess, as the heir-apparent, NOT OWN FAULT Very little of this is the young minister's own fault. He is still a capable, likeable and reason- ably humble man. It is partially an outgrowth of his important and time-con- suming job, and also somewhat due to over-zealous efforts by some supporters pushing him for higher rank. (They are mainly responsible for him alse being mentioned as a possible national leader.) Nevertheless it. falls back on him. Despite this, it would still appear most probable that if the leadership did open up Mr. Davis would get it. He is the most man in sight now. There isn't any one in the government who would seem to have a chance of beating him. One interesting possibility would be that Robert Macaulay might return to politics if the leadership were open, promising YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO, The first ladies bonspiel at the Oshawa Curling Club took place today with 60 lady curlers par- ticipating. Dancey Bros. on Simcoe St. South wil open their new mod- ern shoe store here today. 35 YEARS AGO, Mayor P.A. MacDonald, will officially open the Oshawa School of Cooking and Home Economics being held under the auspices of the Oshawa Daily Times. The congregation of First Bap- tist Church King St. E. cele- brated the sixty second anni- versary of the church on Sun- day. BIBLE "And even to your old age I am he: and... . will carry you ... and will deliver you." --Isaiah 46:4 The God of all the ages has pledged Himself to care for every age. 'I will never leave thee -noe-forsake thee." tna ear IT HAPPENED IN CANADA JOHN (1880-1926) MILES IN Sheree HOURS. 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