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loco mye THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Published by Times-Gazette Publishers Limited, 57 Simcoe St. South, Oshawa, Ont. Page 8 Wednesday, June 6, 1956 Clear-cut Statement Made On British Foreign Policy Speaking in the British House of Commons recently, Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, the new foreign minister of his coun- try, made a clear-cut statement of the viewpoint of Britain in the present cold war phase of the struggle against Com- munism. It set forth very clearly the principles which animate the policy of Britain in relation to the problem which faces the whole free world in dealings with Russia. Here are some extracts from his speech: "Our position is quite clear. We want to live in peace; we have no quarrel with the great mass of the Soviet people and still less have we any quarrel with the people of the Sa- tellites. "It it is to be a battle of ideas, fairly wag- ed, then we have nothing to fear and we fear nothing, but when I say 'fairly waged' fairness would mean that the Russians would allow access for our ideas to their people equivalent to the access which we al- low for their ideas to our people. "We are proud of our freedom to dissent, to vote, to criticize and to write and speak as we like. We believe in the rule of law, impartially administered, and the Commu- nist police state is singularly unattractive to our people. I think the whole materialist con- ception is repellent. "We must not be thought to be unfriendly if we defend ourselves when we are attack- ed. It is because we have learned in the hard school the lesson of trying to negotiate from weakness." There can be no mistaking the impli- cations of this statement. It lays down the essential difference between the free 'western world and the Soviet state. The ideas behind it are such as can be ac- cepted by Canadians and all others in the free world as expressing their own views on the menace of the Communist ideology. Great Building Achievement 'Some time this month, Canada will be able to celebrate the building of its one millionth new home since the end of the second world war. It is under- stood that the home which will mark this achievement will be singled out for some kind of ceremony to mark the event. And this is indeed an achieve- ment which is worth commemorating. The one million houses which have been built in the last 11 'years repre- sents close to one-third of the total number of homes in Canada. The achievement in creating that number of We can recall that in the years immediate- ly after the war there was a desperate need for houses, and it looked as if an impossible task lay ahead in providing them for all those in need of them. There was a great back-log of demand. new homes is an outstanding one. Today, while the pace of home building seems as high as ever, the complaints are fewer, and the demand for new ac- commodation is not as urgent as it was in the three or four years after the war ended. We have not yet reached the stage when there are sufficient homes to meet the needs of all who want them. More and more new homes will be re- quired to keep pace with the creation of new families. People who have pros- pered will add to the demand by seek- ing to build larger and better homes. Yet there is a great deal of encour- agement to be found in the fact that a million homes have been built in the last 11 years. That has meant a great demand for materials and labor. It has made a significant contribution to the prosperity which Canada has known since the war came to an end. Sir Anthony Having Hard Time - We feel more than a little sorry for Sir Anthony Eden, British Prime Min- ister. Hé has had a hard row to hoe eyer since he took over premiership of his country. And, judging from by-elec- tion results, and the results of the Brit- ish municipal elections which are held on a party basis, he and his party have slipped badly in the year or more since he took over office. Of course, Sir Anthony became prime minister under severe handicans. Tt was his sad fate to have to succeed the most colorful and spectacular prime minister in British history. Sir Winston Chur- chill had a dynamic personality which made him beloved of .the people of Britain, even those who were his politic- al opponents. In comparison with him, it is little wonder that Sir Anthony Eden seems colorless and lacking the vital spark. Another disadvantage which has been detrimental to Sir Anthony is the Bits Of Verse REPLENISHED Through hurried indoor days I have been spending Extravagantly, my reserves of sky That others may grow tall But ascending The old hill, I replenish my supply, I take entirely to myself the blue Illimitable distance, letting all The largeness permeate me through and through now, Being again the sky's exultant owner, Until, no longer : I can once more Of tranquil truths, trivial and small become a willing donor with an untroubled grace. Having reclaimed my heritage of space JANE MERCHANT The Daily Times-Gazette T. L. WILSON, Publisher and Genera M. 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Elsewhere $15.00 per year DAILY AVERAGE NET PAID CIRCULATION FOR APRIL 13,667 (Oshawa, Whitby), (established 1871) and Chronicle (Sundays and com- the 1863), is holidays ex- Times (established statutory I rights of special Ontario; 229 fact that he was the victim of a long period as heir-apparent to the prime minister's office. He was given a build- up for many years as the man to suc- ceed Churchill, until the people of his country almost came to believe in him as another miracle man. Since he took over office, Sir An- thony has been the victim of hard cir- cumstances. The state of the nation compelled the government to usher in a new regime of austerity, to impose strict and unpopular restrictions to control inflating. His government did not add to its stature by launching a lottery to induce people to save money. And the frogman incident .which arose out of the visit of the Russian leaders to Britain again placed him in an unen- viable position. It is unfortunte that a man with so brilliant a record in the field of foreign affairs should be so vic- timized by circumstances in his first year as prime minister. Editorial Notes Oh well, we can always hope that June will bring along the kind of weather we hoped for, but did not get, in April and May. A real benefactor to mankind would be the inventor of a hat that would not be knocked off every time the wearer entered a car. British M.P.'s complain that Ameri- cans are buying Scotch whiskey too cheaply. Surely not from the Scots. Other Editors' Views TOO MUCH SECRECY Vancouver Herald A country coroner decides one day that he will hold court in camera. A junior officer at a military camp closes the gates on photographers when a fire destroys a dwelling house. A pol- iceman tells witnesses of a crime they are not to speak to the press. A small-town mayor resolves to hold a council meeting in secret, and, gives the reporters a handout at its conclusion. All these incidents have happened in Con- ada and all are part of a trend. TAXIS WOULD BE CHEAPER (Port Aurthur News-Chronicle) Barrie js planning to discontinue its Sunday bus service, not as a matter of principle but because the patronage doesn't warrant operation. There ave good portions of the Sunday in Port Arthur to' hire too, when it would be cheaper to the city taxis for the few who ride than to continue the schedule service. BEGINNING TO CREAK AT THE SEAMS Stomves 4 | 2 ~ ARMING ------ . Vy, . SDs GALLUP POLL OF CANADA Thirty Hour Week 'To Spread Work Around' Not Approved By CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION While most of the Canadian peo- ple can't agree with labor leaders who recently suggested that a thirty-hour week might be the best pattern for spreading work among more people, about one-third of the adult population think it would be a good idea. Greatest scorn for the suggestion lies on the Prairies where two- thirds of the adults, used to a sun- up to past sun-set work period, can't see the thirty hour week for anybody. In British Columbia, and Quebec, however, only slightly more than half think this way. The question, put to the publie by the Canadian Institute of Pub- lic Opinion was this: "It has been suggested that we establish a 30 hour week in indus- try to spread work among more people. Do you think this is a good idea, or do you think we should have a longer working week?" Averaging the opinions of the nation as a whole, this is the pic- ture: Approve 30 hour week .. Should be longer ... No opinion But with this as the national at- titude of the country, there are evidences of strong contrasts in opinion not only among the prov- inces, but among occupational groups. In the Maritimes, for instance, only 28 per cent of the people would like to see such a plan intro- duced. In British Columbia 'and Quebec this rises to 37 per cent. Ontario is close behind with 35 per cent approval. Here is the attitude of farmers, contrasted with city people: Farmers Urban Approve 30 hour week a cir. 38 35 Should be longer ...63 56 No opinion .... ng 9 100 100 Men and women who are mem- bers of labor unions, or who have someone in the family as a mem- ber, are more prone to like the suggestion than those who are not. In the same way those who are in the laboring groups are more apt to think it a good idea, than those who are in business or the profes- sions, When those people who wanted a longer working week than 30 hours were asked how long they thought it should be, almost seven in ten (69 per cent) voted for the 40 hour week, with 15 per cent wanting a 44 hour, or longer week. Only six in every hundred named as short a week as 31 to 37 hours. World Copyright Reserved QUEEN'S PARK Would Stagger Holiday Season By DON O'HEARN Special Correspondent To The Times-Gazette TORONTO---Tourism is booming. The annual report of travel and Publicity makes good reading. Last year, after a bit of a slump in 1954, a new record was set. Ex- actly 1,549,042 U.S. tourist cars en- tered the province, 57,564 more than the preceeding year. Despite the prosperity every- thing isn't completely hunky-dory in the tourist industry though. TIMING TROUBLE Deputy Minister Doug Crows re- ps that the situation of peak bus- ess is getting serious. Due to timing of plant close- downs etc. the big volume of bus- iness is hitting resorts in late July and early August. The operators are so busy then they're biting their nails, while in the rest of their season they have plenty of room in which to brood. An educational campaign in in- dustry is being attempted to try to correct this. WHY FLORIDA? There are a few rather surpris- ing things in the report. One is that a trial advertising campaign was conducted in Florida last year, and though the response was poor, it is being continued. Why? It was also suggested a similar campaign might be tried in other southern states. The theme is to sell local people on getting away from their beat. Heat? Where could our travel boys have been last summer. Cer- tainly not in Ontario when they start cooking with that idea. Staffing within the department also seems to be peculiar. Official figures show that with 42,156 visitors the Pigeon River re- ception centre in northwestern On- tario had the fourth largest load of the 14 centres in the province. Yet, with only two receptionists, it had the smallest staff of all TO SEE SIGHTS There also was the usual surpris- ing (to some) information on why tourists come to Ontario. The official estimate, for instance still showed that by far the largest number was inerested in sight. seeing. Exactly 53.70 per cent of all vis- itors, according to the report, were in this category. (Varying from 76 per cent at Pigeon River to 21 per cent at Hawkesbury). By contrast only 12.5 per cent came for fishing and 3.5 per fent for hunting. Just over 12 per cent came to relax at resorts. FOR BETTER HEALTH Is Flying Ruled Out For An Ailing Person? By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, MD Even though you are under a doctor's care, it may be perfectly all right for you to travel by air. As a matter of fact, it's esti- mated that about 1,000,000 of the 34,500,000 passengers flown by regu- larly scheduled United States air- lines in a single 12-month period suffered from some disease or dis- ability - COMMON COLD The types of ailments ranged in severity from the common cold to advanced stages of cancer. While there are some important exceptions many of which we have discussed in an earlier col- umn the great majority of am- bulatory patients can fly with no ill effects. Many patients travel the most convenient, fortable and least fatiguing way to gel about. This may be a deter- mining factor when a patient is going somewhere for -a rest and convalescence, may find air com- If you're allergic and sensitive to air-borne allergens, you'll prob- ably find relief while flying be- cause of the absence of excitants, Patients in status asthmaticus probably had better not fly. How- ever, flying usually is all right for those with mild asthma if they travel between attacks. But occasionally an asthmatie may have an attack brought on by tension created by any kind of travel. A word of caution is in order for patients with colostomies who plan to fly. During ascent you will find the colostomy bag tends to fill rapidly. Better be sure to empty it just before departure time. As a plane ascends, the gases in closed body cavities expand be- cause of decreased atmospheric pressure. The expansion of these gases may endanger anyone with appen- dicitis' or deeply eroded peptic ulcers or some other serious weak- ness of the gastrointestinal wall. MAC'S MUSINGS Yesterday we made some Mention of the efforts Of an Oshawa Industry To beautify its property, And today we want to Pay a sincere tribute to The efforts being made By owners of new homes To give them surroundingr That will make them Places to be admired. The other evening we Drove around some of the Areas where many new Homes have been erected In the last few years And we were delighted To note the work that Was being done by thelr Owners to landscape them Into places of beauty. On several streets where There are those new homes, Practically every owner Could be seen at work Creating new lawns or Preparing flower beds That will later give a Worth-while reward in The pleasure that comes From a beautiful garden. 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Estab. 1928 En la ti ia MAC'S MEDITATIONS Darkest Days Of War Recalled By M. McINTYRE HOOD As we sit down at the typewriter to do this piece our mind goes back a period of 16 years, to the dark days of 1940, when we were over in England with the Cana- dian army watching the process of the evacuation of the British army and a portion of the French army from Dunkirk. These were grim days, but with the passing of years they are being forgotten. The events of these days were of ma- Jor importance in the world's his- tory, but today they are only his- tory, although the memory of them remains with vividness. We can recall the arrival of some thousands of the Dunkirk sur- vivors at Morval Barracks, in the Aldershot area, where we had been billeted. The First Canadian Divi- sion was moved out of that area to make room for these heroes of Dunkirk. Our own barracks were occupied by survivors of the For- eign Legion of the French army, who arrived there tired, hungry, bearing on their faces all the marks of the terrible ordeal through which they had passed. And throghout the area were the remnants of the gallent British army which had made the Dun- kirk evacuation possible. Today we celebrate another an- niversary, but it is being allowed to slip past without much attention being paid to it. Today is the 12th anniversary of the D-Day, the day on which Operation Overlord car- ried the British, Canadian and American armies across the Eng- lish Channel, for the invasion which less than a year later brought about the complete defeat and sur- render of Germany. Today we give very little thought to the signifi. cance of these events which have meant so much to our way of liv- ing as Canadians. CHANGED THINKING There was a direct connection between the Dunkirk evacuation of 1940 and D-Day of 1944. Grim as BYGONE DAYS 25 YEARS AGO Mayor Ernie Marks officially opened the Oshawa Tennis Club for the season. Leroy Rennie and John Proctor, two of the prov- ince's leading tennis players, were on hand for instruction and matches. The General Motors Male Quar- ter, composed of J. H. Ballantye, C. H, Toaze, C. W. Lambert and A. W. Bell, assisted the Cobourg Presbyterian Church choir in a fine concert in Cobourg. Whitby post, Canadian Legion of the British Empire Service League, made a creditable show- ing in the Dominion - wide mem- bership campaign when it increas- ed 2 membership by 60 per cent, Mrs. R. J. Andison was elected President of the Oshawa Music Study Club at its annual election night; Mrs. C. M. Mundy was named vice-president; Mrs. W. A. Hare, treasurer; Mrs. J. L. Beat- on, Mrs. Sulley and Mrs. J. Wilk- ins, secretaries. At the annual meeting of the Home and School Council of the city of Oshawa, Mrs. R. S. Mec- Laughlin was returned to the pres- idency of the council and Mrs. B. C. Colpus, only lady member of the city Board of Education, was named vice-president. Dr. F. J. Donevan, chairman of the board of education, presided over the Empire Music Festival given by 1500 children of Osh- awa's public schools. Approximately 200 members of Queen Mary Lodge, No. 97, cele- brated their 18th anniversary in Engel's Hall. Rev. Duncan Mun- roe acted as chairman for the pro- gram and Mr. Henning, the West- mount Ladies' Kazoo Band, Mrs. L. Simpson, Mrs, Snelgrove and Mr. Northen provided enjoyable entertainment. The annual drive for funds to carry on the work of the Oshawa Humane Society and maintain the animal shelter, on Haig streey resulted in $630 being raised. The Ashburn school house was the scene of a gay minstrel show and box social with George Lynde acting as auctioneer. The proceeds were added to the fund for the upkeep of the community grounds in Ashburn. was the Dunkirk incident, it now appears to have been the great turning point of the war. It chang- ed the thinking of defence plan- ners. It had an amazing effect on recruiting. But on bigger scales it did other things. The diary of Gen. Franz Halder, chief of staff of the German army, gives the authentic story of Hit- ler's bungling which made possible the Dunkirk evacuation. Sweeping down from Belgium after the lightning assault on the Low Coun- tires, the German army was in 2 position to use its armored divi- sions at Abbeville to cut across the British rear and trap the Brit- ish army. Hitler held back his ar- mor and ordered a frontal attack on the British. The top military men argued with Hitler for four days about the mistake of such an order. Yet these four days of delay meant the difference be- tween the failure and success of the Dunkirk evacuation. Thus the OTTAWA REPORT British army was rescued, to be come the core of the forces which four years later, 12 years ago today, crossed the channél to bes. gin the liberation of France and the Low Countries. 8, The Dunkirk incident brought the Nazi menace too uncomfortably close to all freedom-loving ie ples. But the bungling of Hitler set the pattern among the Ger- man military leaders of doubts ing his reasoning on matters of military tactics. Balked by Brits ain, he turned on the Russians, and from there on his downfall gan. His bungling continued after the invasion of D-day, when he ignored the advice of his generals, and followed his own hunches, with disastrous results. . GLORIOUS OCCASION Dunkirk was 4 dark but noble affair. The invasion of D-Day which it made ssible was a glorious occasion in the annals of the history of the free world. To- day, as we look back over the events of that time, we mar. vel at the fact that from the ashes of defeat arose the phoenix of vie- tory, because Dunkirk brought Churchill into power as the ral hn ing statesmen who led Brita from the darkest of despair to the greatest of victories. Yet we allow these notable an- niversaries, especially notable to all the Canadians involved in them, pass by unnoticed. Why Selective National Service By PAT NICHOLSON Special Correspondent To The Times-Gazetie OTTAWA -- "We are outstand- ingly undisciplined in Canada on the whole as a people," General Guy Simonds told me here today. "Our national discipline as well as our national security urgently need selective national service." Thus, on the eve of his depar- ture to attend a Canadian Legion convention in Vancouver, the for- mer chief of the army general staff revealed no let-up in his vig- orous but well-reasoned criticism of the government's manpower po- licy. A we sat chatting in the den of the home of this distinguished war leader, I clearly saw the reason why his political bosses found it expedient to sack this brilliant gen- eral at the ridiculously early age of 52. I noticel the command ban- ners. which had flown from his European command headquarters, hanging on one wall; a svmbol of the glories to which he had led Canadian civilians-in-uniform dur- * ing the last war. These contrasted with sheet music by Ivor Novello and other tin pan alley band-maj- ors lying on his piano against an- other wall; a symbol of the un- contributory manner in) which this pensioned general has to while away his working week today. 1 recalled how he had publicly commented, after his enforced re- tirement, "I and my political mast- ers did not agree." The disagree- ment, of course, was on the im- portant subject of manpower. General Simonds believes that, like Britain, France, the United States and'our other NATO allies, we should have a system of com- pulsory military training for our fit youth. He scoffs at the old po- litical shibboleth of the Liberals, that to impose national service would cost the Liberal party those important votes in Quebec prov- ince which keep it in power. Que- bec is the centre of the most anti- Communist organization in Can- ada, the Roman Catholic Church. So it would be duck soup, the gen- eral believes, for our French-Cana- dian prime minister to persuade his province to accept national service today. The general pointed out to me a strange contradiction in govern- ment policy. 'On the one hand, it asserts that s elective national service would imperil our national unity. Yet at the same time, it as- serts that our lack of prepared- ness against modern aerial attack threatens our national survival. Yet preparedness needs compul- sory training. So the standpat gov- ernment has jockeyed itself into the position of facing national disunity or not being prepared for national survival, says the general. WE DISOBEY OUR LAWS On two other topics, the general was frankly critical of the state of affairs in Canada today. The first is our indiscipline. All Canadians, andespecially our youth, tend to lack any respect for authority today. He mentioned the gangs of black leatherjacketted thugs in our cities, such as those who overshadowed our Guards at the ceremony of trooping the color on Parliament Hill on the Queen's bigthday. Sound discipline, he said, means instilling into the individual that there are other things more im- portant than himself: things other than his wishes of the moment may have to take precedence. He agreed with me that a typi cal efflorescence of this indischk pline is seen in the disregard for traffic lights and traffic laws by our bicycling youth today. The general's second point, more serious militarily, is that we are getting very poor value for our tax dollar s nt on defence, and that we should better de-, ence for the taxes we Bi A third point which me was the general's strong en- dorsement of a point recently made by this column. That was that, with some minor exceptions, it is mil- itarily inefficient and slerieally ex- travagant to have serving officers of lower ranks sitting rooted to of- fice chairs at headquarters here for years on end, losing touch with regimental work and active mili- tary developments. It seems likely that the general's valiant one-man campaign to wake us up may lead to another of his vd - hitting speeches at the Vancouver convention of the Cana- dian Legion. with only one payment 17 SIMCOE ST. N. Open Saturdays till 1 p.m. You can borrow $50 to $5000 without endorsers or bankable security to pay all your bills. This gives you @ fresh start month -- in easy instalments. 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