eet mec She Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1965--PAGE 4 'Safe Driver Of Week' Project Is Worth While The Oshawa Junior Chamber of Commerce has for years shown a commendable and keen interest in the safety of the streets of the city, -It has promoted various ventures - to encourage more careful and safer driving by Oshawa motorists, and there is every reason to believe that its efforts have produced satisfac- tory results, although the toll of accidents on the city's streets is still much higher than it ought to be. The latest safety project of the Jaycees, that of making an award to "The Safe Driver of the Week" in Oshawa is an intriguing one. From observations made on the city streets, the safe-driving com- mittee of the Junior Chamber selects the motorists who has been credited with doing the outstand- .ing piece of driving in the interests of the safety of the public. This contest, although perhaps our motorists do not consider it as such -- should be a stimulus to Will Unions One of the most interesting prob- lems facing the British people, and the government, is whether the trades unions of the country will accept wage restraint policies which they rejected while the Conserva- tives were in power, and which they are again being asked to accept by the Labor government. In order to bring about stability in the British economy, and to stimulate increased exports, both Conservative and Labor parties are agreed that their must be restraint in wage increases sought by the ' trade unions, and in the incomes of employers. Under the Conservative govern- ment, the unions and employers were asked to limit any income in- creases to four per cent in any one year. This was approximately the amount of the rise in national pro- ductivity. This proposal was re- jected by the Trades Union Confer- ence. Some of the leaders hinted that they might change their at- She Oshawa Zimes T. L. WILSON, Publisher R. C. ROOKE, General Monager ©. J. MeCONECHY Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawo Times {established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle esteblished 1863) is published daily Sundays and Statutory holidays excepted) t © Dait Publish- o pape: ery Association. The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau ef Circulation ond the Cntario Provincial Dailies Association. Conadion Press is exclusively entitled to the use of republication of all news despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, ond olso the tocal news published therein. All rights ef special des- patches are also reserved. Building, 425 University Gffices:_ Thomson Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcert Street, Montreal. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by corriers in Oshawa, Whitby. Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville Brooklin. Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hompton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone Dunberton. Enniskillen, Sreno. Leskard Brougham Burketon Cloremont, Columbus, Greenwood, Kinsale Raglon, Blackstock, Manchester Pontypool! ond Newcastle not over SOc per week. By mali in Province of Ontorio) outside corriers delivery areas 12.00 per yeor. Pr o C Countries 15.00. U.S.A. and foreign 24.00 motor vehicle drivers to show that they are willing to co-operate in this effort to make the streets safer for the public. It is a project which is worthy of a large measure of publicity, so that our motorists will accept the challenge that is implied in it, and vie with each other, not for the reward that is offered, but for the honor of being designated as "The Safe Driver of the Week." That is a distinction to be coveted. There may be many acts of care and courtesy which escape the at- tention of the Jaycees' safe-driving committee, but that should not prevent motor vehicle drivers gen- erally doing their best to be worthy of receiving the title and award. The chief thing is that the goal of the project is safer driving, fewer accidents and fewer people killed and injured in traffic acci- dents. Anything that can achieve that goal is worthy of public sup- port and co-operation. Co-operate? titude towards it if a Labor govern- ment were in power. Now they have the opportunity to demonstrate the sincerity of these statements. George Brown, the Labor minis- ter of economic affairs, has asked British workers and employers to accept a ceiling of three and a half per cent on annual increases in their incomes. He has set up an incomes board to administer this policy. This board, headed by a former Conservative minister of supply, Aubrey Jones, faces a very ticklish task in trying to persuade the labor unions to accept this restriction on income increases. The rise in the cost of living caused by the new taxes imposed on the British people are more likely to produce demands for higher increases rather than the limit set by Mr. Brown. For the country's good, this measure of restraint. is. imperative. It will be interesting to see whether the union leaders will consider the welfare of the country as a whole as more im- portant than their own attitude in opposition to any restrain in wages. Other Editors' Views UNBELIEVERS Brantford Expositor Those few Canadians who would bar all "Godless unbelievers" are apparently unaware. that when the Citizenship Act came into force in 1957, there were agnostics and atheists among the majority of people in this country who became citizens without any formality. These "unbelievers," many of them born here, were not required to take an oath of any kind. Would those who equate belief in our God with fit- ness for citizenship have these peo- ple expelled from their homeland? READERS WRITE... FLYING FOREIGN FLAGS The Editor, Oshawa Times, Sir; My Oshawa friends have brought to my attention your editorial entitled 'Flying Fore eign Flags at Oshawa city hall" April 1, 1965. - No one should dispute that municipal councils, Oshawa among them, must have defin-: ite policies on flying foreign foreign flags of the countries from which their ethnic groups originated. In reaching deci- sions on this matter there should, in my view, be one main guiding principle. Not just any historical occa- sion merits flying the foreign SOUTH EAST ASIA, ALABAMA SQUTH BAST UNITED stated flag concerned. Thus the bat- tles of Bannockburn, Culloden Moor or Bastille Day may be of the outstanding historical significance to Scotch, English or French, Yet they cannot and shouid not be viewed today in the same historical perspective as, for instance, the proclama- tion of the short lived inde- pendence of Byelorussia or Uk- raine in 1918. The reason is apparent: the peoples of the latter two coun- tries are still striving and strug- gling for their independence. The common menace of Russian imperialism, presently in the form of Communism, is para- mount today in the minds of all freedom - conscious peoples throughout the world. The least the Canadians of the other origins could do for their countrymen whose former homelands presently choke in the foreign yoke is support them morally and on occasions de- monstrate this by permitting their homelands' national flags to be flown alongside Canadian flag at government buildings. The subjugated Byelorussians, Ukrainians, Georgians and oth- ers in the Soviet Union certain- ly hear about this and they know the free world appreciates their efforts for liberation. This gives them courage to continue resisting tyranny. On Byelorussian and Ukrain- ian independence proclamation anniversaries an impressive number of the U.S. cities 'honor- ed these gallant and determined people by flying their flags atop municipal masts; number of American states proclaimed Byelorussian and _ Ukrainian days. Representative of ethnic and religious institutions were received in the U.S. Senate. On the Byelorussian anniversary alone over 40 speeches were de- livered on the subject in the U.S. Senate and Congress. This gives Byelorussians, Uk- rainians and other subjugated peoples behind the Iron Curtain a tremendous uplift and encour- agement in their hard struggle for liberation. On the other hand it reminds Americans and Canadians what priceless pos- session they have -- the demo- cratic freedom. To Canadians the heritage of freedom is no less dear. than to our Southern neighbors. Why then should we approve paro- chial attitudes of some of our countrymen and take a second seat? Yours truly, K.: AKULA, Editor "Belarus", Toronto POINTED PARAGRAPHS A scientist says it is ridicu- lous to look for rational beings on the moon. It is becoming hard enough. to find many of them on earth, The code of diplomatic im- munity was entirely overlooked when the American embassy in Saigon was wrecked. A man -can finally realize that he has been a failure when his wife tells him so. BIBLE "Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it for I will give it unto thee." Genesis 13:17. The unclaimed blessings of life surrenders to daring faith, and much work, He spent much of his life with violence but hates it. He has helped to put down rebellions but has a certain ad- miration for rebels. He spent 30 years trying to eliminate his profession--colo- nial officer. And he resigned as a matier of principle from _ Britain's United Nations delegation in 1962, only to come back two years later as its head. Lord Caradon, better known still as Sir Hugh Foot, governor of Cyprus during the bloody years before independence, of- ten is called "the governor who ran out of colonies." j "I've been fortunate in thy life'to be in at the end of colonialism and to see the be- ginning of a hope of an inter- national authority," he says. That attitude, and his own. ac- tions growing out of it, account largely for the remarkable pop- ularity Caradon enjoys at the UN. Probably no other delegate from a colonial power com- mands such widespread respect. ELEVATED TO PEERAGE African and Asian delegates admire him particularly for his decision three years ago to re- sign because he could not agree with the Conservative govern- ment's policy on Southern Rho- desia. He felt London wasn't acting forcefully enough to pro- mote political rights of the Negro majority. Last October, after the labor election victory, many delegates were openly delighted when he was made a peer, named to the cabinet and put in charge of the UN delegation. As a cabinet member--he is minister of state for foreign af- fairs--he has more latitude than the ordinary delegate. Some re- act to unexpected situations by repeating old policy. Caradon doesn't. He tends to be more con- cerned about the underdevel- oped world than about cold war fencing. QUICK WITH RETORT While avoiding controversy, Caradon can be tart when Brit- ain's colonial record is chal- tized. FRENCH-CANADIAN VIEWPOINT State May Exploit Mineral Resources This is a selection of edi- torials on current topics, translated from the French- language press of Canada. Montreal Le Devoir -- Re- sources Minister Rene Levesque recently addressed some strong and singularly justified words to the large mining companies. As well as giving a warning ... he spoke of the future govern- ment mining exploration com- pany and implied circumstances may lead the state to play a much larger role in the exploita- tion of Quebec's mineral re- sources, The importance of mines in Quebec is well understood, The value of production went from $350,000,000 to $600,000,000 in the last-10 years . . . with iron, as- bestos, copper and, far behind, gold, the key ores. Here as else- where the extraction has been and remains the work of foreign capital with little concern for the economic advancement of Quebec or the social progress and culture of the. French-Cana- dian community. Labor unions and public opinion plus a timid A intervention by the government have brought some reforms, but we are far from the respect such companies should show the human group among whom they enrich themselves. To different degrees, these companies have proceeded here as if there existed no such thing as a French-Canadian nation . .. Social progress for French- Canadian workers, the pres- ence of French - Canadians among top management, their right to work in their language throughout the company--these have not greatly concerned them ... In telling them to "become civil", to humanize themselves, the minister spoke what may be the only language certain big foreign management can understand. Ottawa Le Droit -- A French- Canadian born in Montreal and now living in Ottawa feels a duty to tell others of his kind still living in his home province that they would be wrong to act like nouveaux riches just be- cause they have suddenly be- 4 come aware of the strength and vitality of the French-Canadian nation. That strengin and vital- ity are real enough but many French - speaking Montrealers tend to overestimate it... Fortunately, French - Cana- dians still have time to reflect on things. Lack ef understand- ing there may be on the part of Anglo-Canadians, generating a tendency toward separatism in the Quebec government and op- position party alike. But the first duty of these Quebec cle- ments must be to think of French - Canadians across the country and to help them in the realization of their aspirations. The government aia official op- position in Quebec tell us that their province is. the national state of French-Canadians, In that case they should do all in their power to protect and help their fellow "nationals" else- where in Canada. Quebec Le Soleil -- The Ral- liement des Creditistes has clamped down on recent moves within its ranks toward partici- pation in provincial politics. Surely it's significant that the weekend meeting of the Rallie- ment in Quebec City, called to deal with the provincial ques- tion, hardly touched on it, stick- ing more to federal matters. As he has shown at previous meetings, leader Real Caouette retains the support of Creditiste nilitants and is cool to provin- cial participation. He indicated during the weekend that he is more interested in putting the party in shape for a forthcom- ing national vote. The Ralliement's Jan. 26 de- cision to plunge into provincial politics has not yet led to any concrete decisions. Yet this was one of the main motives of the weekend meeting. How long will Mr. Caouette be able to re- strain the will of partisans who are itching to get into provin- cial politics? For the moment it seems that the likelihood of coming federal elections has all the attention of Creditiste mem- bers. They're not ready to spend their energies on the heavy task of founding. a new provincial party, TWO-FRONT WAR One of his most - quoted ripostes came after a Soviet delegate said, tauntingly, that many of the Commonwealth prime ministers had once been prisoners of the British. Caradon snapped back that it was "better to make prime min- isters of your prisoners than prisoners of your prime minis- ters." Caradon's love of speaking grew naturally out of his up- bringing in one of Britain's lead- ing political families. His father, the late Rt. Hon. Isaac Foot, was a Liberal cabi- net minister in the early 1930s. A brother, Sir Dingle Foot, sits in the cabinet with him as solicitor-general, and another, Michael, is a writer and Labor MP. SERVED. IN PALESTINE Michael, Dingle 'and a third brother, John, a lawyer, all were presidents of the.-Oxford Union, Hugh, something of a rebel, went to Cambridge and became president of the Cam- bridge Union. After- graduation he entered the colonial service and arrived in Palestine in 1929 just at the start of its long pre-war period of turbulence and revolt. He was ordered home in 1938--still in his 20s--because his name had reached the top of the rebel assassination list. At the outbreak of the Second World War he went back to. Trans-Jordan, where he once had a close escape after his staff car was struck by a shell. Later he moved on to Cyprus, Jamaica and Nigeria, where an YEARS AGO 25 YEAR SAGO April 14, 1940 G. K. Brown was re-elected president of the Oshawa Hu- mane Society. Dr. S. J. Phillips was elected president of the Oshawa Lawn Bowling Club. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Lauch- lan and their three young chil- dren were rendered homeless when their home at 294 Muriel avenue was destroyed by fire. 40 YEARS AGO April 14, 1925 Stanley F. Everson was elect- ed secretary of the Oshawa Ki- wanis Club. A mysterious cross, believed to have been set up by a Klu Klux Klan group, was burned at Alexandra Park, Miss Lillian Becket of Mea- ford, Ontario, was appointed assistant public health nurse for Oshawa, TODAY IN By THE CANADIAN PRESS April 14, 1965... The huge steamship Ti- tanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage 53 years ago tonight--in 1912 -- and sank with the loss of 1,490 lives. Then the largest ves- sel afloat (at 45,000 tons), the Titanic was believed to be unsinkable and had not enough lifeboats for the 2,201 people aboard. The iceberg stripped off the ship's bilge almost from end to end, and she sank in less than three hours. 1759 -- George Frederick Handel, composer, was born. 1865 -- President Lincoln , Lord Caradon's Career Full Of Contradictions By CARMAN CUMMING UNITED NATIONS Lord Caradon of St. Cleer is a man of many contradictions. assassin once tried to stab him in the back but managed only to graze him. He was on a speaking tour of Canada in 1957 when a cable came from London saying he was being considered for the Cyprus governorship but asking assurance he would not resign - on grounds of policy. He refused to give such assurance but got the job. anyway and spent three years helping bring the island out of a morass of rebellion and civil fighting. After Cyprus he turned to the UN, first as a delegate, later as a staff member, His first months as head of the British delegation have been marked by the continuing peace- keeping crisis that forced aban- donment. of the recent. General Assembly session. But he is im- patient with those who suggest the UN is paralysed,or finished because of the crists.: "The UN hasn't failed. It has scarcely started on its. big tasks," MAC'S MUSINGS We are hearing a great deal These days about equality In rights and freedoms; About equality for all races Creeds and denominations In matters of employment And in the right to vote. There is nothing really new In this agitation for Rights of human beings, Because it has been going On since the earliest ages, But today it is coming Into great prominence Because enlightenment and Education are bringing Backward peoples into a More civilized state. So when we read about laws Being passed to give to Various races of people Equal rights and privileges, It should be recognized That legislative bodies Are merely giving effect To the policies adopted By the United Nations In the Declaration of Human Rights in 1951, While we agree with what Is being done in this way, We feel it is time that More attention is, paid To human responsibilities And duties which go along With rights and freedoms Which all people desire, But in accepting these we Are apt to forget the Other side and ignore the Duties and responsibilities 'That go along with them. --April 14, 1965 HISTORY was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. First World War Fifty rears ago today--in 1915 --~ German ' airships dropped bombs on the north- east coast of England, caus ing little damage; dip- lomatic sources announced Germany would make peace with Japan separately. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1940 -- a blizzard helped Norwegian resis- tance, forming a defensive line northeast of Oslo, as King Haakon called on the people to defend their free- dom; German infantry at- tacks in France were re- Pulsed. QUEEN'S PARK New Regulations For Stock Dealings By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--There will be a move here to take some of the "moose pasture" stigma out of mining development. For years we needed new mining development so badly that the industry was let go high, wide and handsome, When there were great howls from across the border we did cut out the bucket shops down on Bay Street, But the rest of the industry has been left to operate on a very loose rein. Some precautions have been taken to see that new mines aren't an absolute swindle, And Mr. Justice b Windfall. course, still has to be com- pleted), ; Once these two reports have been studied and digested we can expect some considerable strengthening of our securities controls. CONTROL OPERATION One obvious step wil' be to give the Ontario Securities Commission more power over the securities business gener- ally, and particularly over*the Toronto Stock Exchange. ~ The situation now is that the exchange operates almost a3 an t body. This means there have been rds to prevent officers from spending all the money on new Cadillacs. But generally speaking not too much control has been ex- ercised--not nearly as much as in the U.S. GROUND READY Recently the securities busi- fess generally has been coming under. a quizzical eye. Protests aboui insider trading and other aspects of the general securities market, and then questions pertaining to the min- ing market have prepared the ground for changes. And the government will soon be ready to move. It already has in its hands the report of the attorney gen- eral's committee on securities legislation. Still to come is the report of GALLUP POLL a divided authority, and divided pada is never good author- ty. ; * 'But so far as the man on the street is concerned the most striking improvements could come in the mining field. These could even go so far as to cover the actual operation of mining companies, or at least mining development companies. Restrictions now almost com- pletely centre on disclosure. It has been the policy to keep hands off anything to do with actual operation. As a result there is no 4as- surance to the public 'that money invested in mining com- panies is actually being spent in mining development, It seems probable future reg- ulation will- at least go beyond disclosure, Suggest Cuts To Give Education More Money BY THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION (World Copyright Reserved) Having established that one-in-ten Canadians think more money will be needed for education in the next few years, a further question was asked -- for. education? how to raise the extra money Governments should switch their spending patterns, say more than seven-in-ten voters. How? About half the population (49%) point to the cost of gov- ernment as an example of where there could be a- switch in spending. Defence is another example, named by 20%. The question: "WHERE DO YOU. THINK GOVERNMENT SHOULD CUT ITS SPENDING TO FIND MORE MONEY FOR EDUCATION?" Public High ; Total School School University Cost of running government 49% 52% 51% 30% Defence 20 19 19 32 Reduce welfare 7 7 7 il Cut subsidies 5 2 6 11 Highways 3 3 2 5 Other 8 8 8 4 Can't say 16 16 15 16 : 108* = =107 108 109 * -- More than one suggestion given. QUEBEC'S FUTURE End Of U.S. Absorption Fears Changes Thinking By. ARCH MacKENZIE WASHINGTON (CP) -- A "common fear of absorption into the American melting pot" largely influenced the will to compromise represented by Ca- nadian Confederation between French and Anglo-Saxon, says Quebec editor Claude Ryan. He writes on The French-Ca- nadian Dilemma in the April is- sue of Foreign Affairs, an American quarterly published by the Council on Foreign Re- lations, Inc., and devoted to a broad review of international eents by international special- ists. Ryan, publisher and editor of Montreal Le Devoir, while mod- erately optimistic about Can- ada's biracial future, makes his main point on the premise that "the fear of external danger is no longer sufficient in 1965 to warrant. a continuation of a loose compromise which does not take into account the new aspir- ations of French-Canadians."' AWARE OF CANADA His article is another indica- tion of more general American awareness of Canada's domestic problems, reflected not only in press and periodical scrutiny but among Americans little in- clined otherwise to give Canada much thought at all. Says Ryan: "Most modern nations came into being as a result of violent upheavals which were largely determined by the rebellious in- stinct of repressed nature. Can- ada stands almost alone in this respect with her historic depea- dence on the law of reasonable compromise. "The will to compromise was largely influenced in 1867 by a common fear of absorption into | the American melting pot. Both founding peoples were too much attached to their European tra- ditions te be seduced by the American cultural: proposition." The French - language editor says now "there must be a deeper understanding, a more radical mutual acceptance among the two founding peoples of Canada." "Otherwise, the blind forces of national pride will be let loose for good." DIVIDED ON METHOD French Canada has always been united in its will to survive but divided on how to do it, Ryan writes. He compares what he calls the "Canadian" point of view espoused by Premier Jean Lesage and other Quebec- ers, a more moderate attitude, with the "Quebec first' school. The essence of the latter phil- osophy is described as a belief that 'the interests of Quebee must supersede all other. con- siderations." | ACTION! ACTION! ACTION! 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