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The Oshavon Tunes Publishe* by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 4 Commonwealth Members Discussing Education More thdn 100 delegates from all parts of the Commonwealth assembled at Oxford, England, for an education conference which is yet another exam- ple of the co-operation within the Commonwealth which has grown so much closer since the war. Prime min- isters have held frequent conferences and foreign ministers, defence minis~ ters, finance ministers and supply min- isters have also met to review policies and discuss problems. Now distinguished citizens of the Commonwealth are meet- ing together--this time on a non-politi~ cal plane --to discuss education and "the traffic of men and minds, within a free academic community whose members ali share the same aim, the pursuit of knowlege untrammell- ed by political considerations. The conference, which stems from a decision taken at the Commonwealth Trade and Economic Conference at Montreal last year, brings together rep- resentatives from all Commonwealth countries and from 15 colonial territor- ies. Oxford, the oldest seat of learning in the Commonwealth, has been emp- tied of its students for the long vacation and delegates occupy some of their rooms in Christ Church College. The main purpose of the conference is to formulate a new program of Com- monwealth scholarships and fellowships which is hoped will come into being soon and will provide eventually a thousand places for scholars and fel- lows. The United Kingdom has agreed to be responsible for half these places, and Canada for one quarter, In addi- tion, the Conference will review the existing arrangements for educational cc -operation between Commonwealth countries, and is expected to give par- ticular attentior. to technical education, supply and training of teachers, and the interchange of university and other teaching staff. The past half century has seen many examples of educational co-op- eration. The Association of Universi- Theories About Trade Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Ben- son believes that Canada and the Uni- ted States must move toward freer trade between the two countries, but judging from a recent interview in Washington, he implies that Canada must do most of the moving. In parti- cular, he cited the "restrictive attitude" by the Canadian government in some farm products, particularly turkeys. Canada does have barriers, of that there is no question. Because of 'the re- latively small size of our consumer market, we need sume protection of do- mestic industry. Indeed, there are some in Canada of 'he opinion that the pro- tection at present offered is not suffi- cient, and they would prefer higher barriers. Undoubtedly, freer trade is the ideal. International trade without any tariff barriers likely is best of all. At present we must be content with second or third best, largely because of circum- stances beyond our controi. In terms of sheer economics, Canada simply cannot afford to set the example toward a Show Faith In Canada The International headquarters of the World Foundation Against Hunger and Misery has been moved from Geneva, Switzerland to Montreal, Canada. Governed by 20 outstancing indivi- duals of different nationalities, with of= fices in Paris, Rio de Janeiro. Geneva, New York and Rabat, the move to Canadian soil is one that should cause great pride and a heightened sense of responsibility to Canadians. In speaking of the transfer of this headquarters to Canada, two world famous humanitarians who are also trustees, Abbe Pierre and Dr. Max Ha- bicht oi Switzerland, stated that Can- ada, with its total lack of Imperialistic ambitions and consequent good stand- The Osha Times 7. L. WILSON, Publisher and Generel Moneage €. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa [imes combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) ond the Whitby Gazette ond Chronicle (established 1863), is published daily {Sundays and statutory holidays excepted). Members ot Conadian Daily Newspapers Publishers Association, The Canodian Press, Audit Bureou of Circulation and the Onjorio Provincial Dailies Asso- ciation. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use tor republication of all news despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters ond also the local news published therein. All rights of special despatches are also reserved Offices 44 King Street West C theort Street, Montreal, PQ. 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An inter-university council for higher education overseas has guided the development of universities and colleges in the emerging Common- wealth countries and in colonial territor- jes, and the Commonwealth University Interchange Scheme has provided funds to allow teachers and scholars to travel more easily. The League of British Com- monwealth and Empire has arranged ex- changes of teachers in Britain and other Commonwealth countries, since 1919, and the Colombo Plan's Technical Co-opera- tion scheme has enabled large numbers of men and women to receive training outside their own countries. Many smaller organizations have made their own contribution to this co-operation. The United Kingdom government is sponsoring the corference, and all dele- gates are its guests while they are at Oxford. Last week they formed study groups to visit educational establish- ments in different parts of Britain. Britain is a fitting centre for a con- ference dealin; largely with higher Za "Of has education. Its universities, technical colleges, and other institutions draw numbers of students from overseas which increase every year and now stand at 40,000. Of these, about 26,000 come from the overseas Commonwealth. Britain grants a higher proportion of university places--now 11 per cent--to overseas students than amy other country. Already many scholarships are avail- able to Commonwealth students--among them the famous Rhodes Scholarships, British Council Scholarships, Nuffield Foundation Awards and the Athlone Fellcwships. The Commonwealth Edu- cation Conference will, it is hoped, so increase the mobility of students that many more can share and profit by the rich diversity of the intellectual life the Commonwealth offers, and pursue their studies in many other countries of the Commonwealth as well as Britain. OTTAWA REPORT Patrick Nicholson is on va- cation, His guest columnist to- day is Murdo Martin, CCF . By MURDO MARTIN MP For Timmins The basic concept of a demo- cratic government is based on the theory that there are two sides to every question and that the best solution can be reached only after a thorough presentation of both points of view. Consequently in a democracy the opposition is like a conscience in a human being, the stronger the conscience, the better mem. ber he is of society--the stronger the opposition to a democratic government, the better the gov- ernment will be. By the same token a government without an opposition is like a man without a conscience and can virtually become a menace. to society. This basic concept of democ- racy has always seemed to apply in Great Britain , whether due to a greater political consciousness, or whatever other reason, the British people have always main. tained a healthy atmosphere as far as their government is con- cerned by always keeping their opposition strong. LABOR PARTY TOOK OVER When the Liberal party in Brit ain became almost indistinguish- able from the Conservatives they were promptly by the British people and the labor party took their place. I think time will show that if either the Conserva- tive party or the Labor party, or both, fail to do their job, then in all probability we might see a re- surgence of the Liberal party in that country. Even in the United States, while they may not have maintained the stability seen in Britain, they have never gone too far overboard. Unfortunately in Canada, par- ticularly in recent times, such is not the case. There seems to be a very unhealthy tendency in this country of everybody wanting to climb on the bandwagon. Every- body wantin g to be on the win- ning side, The initial fault for this may be laid on the doorstep of political parties, particularly the two old parties. This does not say that the CCF might not be freer trade. To do so would expose our economy to ruin at the hand of the massive U.S. economic power. If freer trade is immediately desir- able, it will be up to the United States to set the example. Our agricultural and industrial product: must be permitted unrestricted flow across the United States. There we suspect the American people would raise as much fuss as Canadian protectionists, if their home market were to be invaded extensively by Canadian goods. Free trade makes a wonderful subject for a polite talk, but it is blocked by many sheer problems of pragmatism, It boils down to the fact that the United States doesn't want Canadian competition, and Canada's attitude is exactly the same. Thus customs and tariff barriers line both sides of the boundary and it will take more than polit~ talk to demolish them. Right now there is no demand for free trade, and until there is it is not likely that we can expect any government action, The demand, however, must first arise in the United States. ing in less privileged countries, was the ideal location, The move also had the blessing of Prime Minister Nehru of India and two great Canadians have accep'ed trustee=- ships on the Board, the Hon. Paul Mar- tin, former Health and Welfare Mini- ster and Dr, Norman MacKenzie, presi- dent of the University of British Col- Member Attacks Bandwagon Trend equally guilty, if and when they got the opportunity. They, like others, are made up of human beings with human weaknesses. But while political parties have tended to create the idea "that you must have a man on the gov- ernment side if you hope to obtain anything," this does not excuse the Canadian electorate of their duties and responsibilities. If the Canadian voters remember one small fact -- that their govern- ments are servants of the people, rather than their masters--such an apeal as this could never re- ceive any support throughout the country. TOO MUCH POWER We see such examples as the federal House where the govern- ment has 208 to the combined opposition of 56--such as Alberta where the government has 63 out of 65, and indeed the ultimate as was seen not long ago in P.E.L where every seat was won by the government candidates. Such ex- amples should serve to send a chill up the spine of the people who believe in and cherish dem- ocratic principles. Of such things as these are dictatorships born, and don't ever think that it can't happen here. I believe it was Churchill who said 'Power corrupts -- absolute power corrupts absolutely." Hu- man beings being what they are with normal human weaknesses, it is impossible for any govern- ment to give its best performance under such conditions. Too much power breeds smugness and arro- gance, arrogance breeds care. lessness, carelessness breeds mis- takes, blunders and eventually chaos. This is something people should give careful thought to. No matter how popular a govern- ment might be at any given time, the best way to ensure that that government will perform at its best is to ensure that it has a healthy, strong and alert opposi- tion to keep it on its toes. We canot expect governments or government members, regard- less of party, to work toward this end. The r ibility to 4 race in the Eldon Stacey Memor- ial Cup series to make his second win of the series and put him in a position for first place. The first picnic ever held by the employees of the Robson Leather Co. was a great suc. cess. More than 900 were pres- ent at Lakeview Park for the event. Twenty Ukrainian - Canadians from Oshawa, directed by John Drewniak, assisted in the mass orchestra of 750 persons at the first all-Canadian Ukrainian Na- tional Music Festival held in the Mutual St. Arena Gardens, To- ronto. 1500 performers partici- pated in the program. Several came from as far as Calgary. J. E. Johnson was appointed Director of Sales and C. E. Mc- Tavish, Director of Parts and Service, by H. J. Carmichael, vice-president and general man- afer of General Motors of Can- ada, Mayor Coleman and several aldermen accepted an invitation from the St. Catharines council to visit that city and inspect the buses there prior to the chang- ing from street cars to bus serv. ice here. Whitby board of education fixed the maximum salary for public school teachers, excluding principals, at $900. Appointments at General Motors included that of E. J. Umphrey as general sales man ager of the Chevrolet - Olds- mobile division, and Roy D. Kerby as general sales manager of the Pontiac-McLaughlin Buick division. Oshawa welfare department was concerned because word was received that work would not be continued on the new four- lane highway any further east than Highland Creek at that time. PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM guard and maintain a healthy de- mocracy is the r ibility of Whether a man makes a good the voters and the voters only. umbia. With Dr. Habicht and Dr. MacKenzie on the first board of trustees in Canada are Abbe Pierre, and Dr. Josue de Cas- tro ex-president of FAO with the UN, The Foundation is an international, non-governmental, non-profit organiz- ation whose activities are concentrated on the preservation of human dignity without political, religious or social dis- crimination. Its aim is to help under-privileged peoples and countries to help them- selves. It 1ims tn collect, distribute and administer funds to combat hunger and misery in the world. QUEEN'S PARK By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- When you like a man it is not easy to discuss him objectively. And the writer likes John Win id it i termeyer. Has liked him since his As we have said, it is a matter of cathy days in the house great pride 'hay Canada has been the [jked him for his sincerity. his choice of this foundation -- it is also desire to dc a good job, for his an added responsibility. We must just- lack of "know-it-all" and for his : 3 1g courtesy. yy he Jaith in Canada and Canada's re ding this ment on. the generosity, : Liberal leader's possible future The anomaly of human beings dying this might be borne in mind of hunger, disease and ignorance white4,n ions DIFFER wealthier nations decry a surplus of There are strong differences of food is difficult to tolerate in a civil- opinion on this future. ized world. There are those--and quite a few of them--who say Mr. Win- - termeyer is hopeless as a poli- Bible Thou ht tician, and that the Liberals g should get rid of him now. Her cities are a desolation, a dry Bi: re Taw A Ble ox land, and a wilderness, a land where a good measure of these have n man dwelleth, neither doth any son their doubts about his leadership of man pass thereby.--Jeremiah 51:43, capacity. What happened to Babylon, mistress hg ae perhaps is one "se of the world can happen to any coun- young Kitchener lawyer will be try. that violates the law of morality, around for quite a while--and as decency and human liberty. Self in- '{fer, dulgence never made any people strong. Because he bas "quality." Liberal Leader Quick Learner There is no question the Lib- eral leader has made some big political boobs In the day-to-day fencing of pol- itics he has been as clumsy .as a two-legged pig. As a leader he has been too much of a gentleman to be force- ful with his own followers. But nevertheless we believe he will stay in. WILL LEARN This because he is a man of intelligence and will learn. He came here in 1955 almost a complete greenhorn in politics. Unlike many other men, of whom Premier Frost is a good example, he did not even have the benefit of a political back- ground at home. In addition to intelligence he also has a very strong, if deep, drive (his almost fantastic cam. paigning and the endurance he showed were ar example of this) and he will learn. Perhaps it will be the hard way, but neverthe- less it will be done. More than this, however the reason for the writer's belief is. in turn, a beliet in the public. This belief is a conviction that the public through some special h pends mainly upon the woman who takes the job of mak- ing him one. Both in nature and in econom- ics, the ultimate consumer is the worm. The drug manufacturers are doing their full share to help dis. pose of the cotton surplus. They're filling bottles half with pills and half with cotton. "There are 200 million left handed people in the world." -- Newspaper filler. And far more than that who don . let their left hands know what their right hands are doing. Inmates of the county jail in Clayton, Mo., no doubt, were dis- appointed to learn that a recent book added to the jail's library, "Love Can Open Prison Doors", is fiction. Currently pundits are giving a big play to the expression "an educated guess", a term as un- meaningful as "a risk" which they are given to using "In inflation we have a bear by the tail," says an eminent economist. Wish he'd tell us whether we have the downhill drag or vice versa, quality of the electorate acting en masse almost invariably man- ages to choose the best of what it is offered. And Mr Wintermeyer, we be lieve, has some special quali ties, beyond those of his rivals. Qualities which will keep him sold with his own party as well as with the public. READERS' VIEWS Indian Village Big Discovery 1 note that The Oshawa Times, in a recent issue, devoted much space to an article concerning the Pickering Township Indian village site ("Indian Village Pickering Find'). As one who has done consider- able research on the early In- dians of this region 1 should like to suggest that the site now being excavated is that of Ganatsekia- gon, a Seneca Iroquois village which existed ir what is now Pickering Township in the mid 17th century. Ganatsekiagon is shown on most early French and English maps, being one of the largest (ndian 'villages in the Great Lages region. The Sulpiciens of Montreal founded » mission there in 1668. Ganatsekiagon stood . near the Rouge (riviere Rouge) at the bottom of the early Lake Om- tario-to-Lake Ontario (Simcoe) portage. Ganatsekiagon was a pallisaded village settled a short time after the (roquian tribes de- feated the Neutrals at Otinawa tawa (near Hamilton) in 1651. This may be « major discovery and I'm sure that further re search will show that it is Ganat- sekiagon. Sincerely, Rober! Killough, President Metropolitan Toronto Institute Whitby. THANKS Dear Sir: I would like to take this time to thank you immensely for mak- ing it possible for my receiving a copy of my "hometown paper", the Oshawa Times. Being in the Navy and a thou- sand miles ' away from home, The Times gives me the oppor- tunity to be kept up to date on "what's going on back home". Many other Oshawa lads, sta- tioned here 2t Stadacona with me,' share this newspaper and their thanks comes along with mine. Joseph C. Urie. RCN Halifax. APPEAL Dear Sir: Last Thursday afternoon, I was shopping in a downtown store. While looking at some of the merchandise, someone stole my purse from my arm, The purse contained more than a week's wages, money which supports me and mv children. The money is secondary. The purse contained all my docu- ments including citizenship pap- ers and other effects that of per sonal value only to me. The purse wae found a short distance from the store by police Of course, the saying that fish is good brain food is in error. Fish eat fish and they're dumber than almost anybody. person taking the purse to dro the papers in a post box. 1 v J pay the postage The papers are irreplaceable and 1 need them immediately " After all, you have deprived two innocent children of the clothing by stealing the money. I! you have just a littic pity and com- mon sense, 1 feel sure you will return the documents to me. Mrs. L. 8. Zednik, but the ner wallet containing 1154 Ritson south. the papers were gone 1 would like to appeal to the OSHAWA. Royal. Visit "Port Hope, Ontario TRAFFIC ROUTE TRAFFIC WILL BE .CLOSED OFF AT WELCOME CORNERS FROM 9.45 a.m. to 11.15 p.m. SUNDAY, JULY 26 EASTBOUND traffic will proceed via Highway 106 to Dale, south on Highway 28 to Rose Glen Road, south on Rose Glen to Highway 2 (at AMF Atomics). . WESTBOUND traffic will proceed Rose 'en Road to Highway 28 to Dale to 106 west SOUTHBOUND from Dale. 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