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dhe Oshavon Gomes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 Wednesday, January 13, 1960 Fear Of Economic Blocs Inspires Paris Parley Talks have opened in Paris on the course to be taken by trade within what is essentially the North Atlantic com- munity. Canadian and U.S. missions are sitting down with representatives of the six-country Common Market (which includes France and West Germany) and the seven-country Free Trade As- sociation led by th United Kingdom. When the Common Market was first proposed, the hope was that it would include all the trading nations of West- ern Europe, including the UK. But it had political undertones -- economic co-operation would be the prelude to political co-operation. The UK. was wary of such a development, and also wanted an agreement that would not disturb its relations with the Common- wealth; Austria thought its delicate position in relation to the Communist bloc did not permit it to co-operate in what could develop into a political federation; traditional neutrals were suspicious of political entanglement. So France, West Germany and Italy joined the Benelux countries to form a Com- mon Market -- which, incidentally, covers the most populous and produc- tive part of West Europe. The United Kingdom sought a bal- ance to the Common Market and ulti- mately found in the European Free Trade Association, a much looser or- ganization without the political under- tone. Such countries as Denmark and Sweden joined it because they depend heavily on sales to Britain. Canada and the United States fear two developments: a trade war between The Six and The Seven, and the possi- bility of exclusion of North American products from Western Europe. Thus we come to the Paris talks, with Canada eager to find a solution that will bring about an expansion instead of a restriction of trade, and the U.S. look- ing for ways to create a new economic forum that would eliminate the possi- bility of competing trade blocs within Western Europe--and, of course, within the North Atlantic community. Some U.S. experts are even proposing that Congress the president ordinary powers to reduce tariffs--a big stick to be wielded in case of anti-U.S. protecttionism, and a carrot as a lure to move the European competitors along the road to a broader economic organ- ization. The difficulties could be largely solved by a broadening of the NATO concept. Canada realized this from the first, and pressed constantly for co- operation in economic and cultural, as well as military, spheres. give extra- Optimistic Eisenhower President's Eisenhower's "state of the union" speech was designed to please a lot of people. It was soothing, it was rosy. There would be peace, security and prosperity in 1960. There were a few rough spots, yes--something should be done about prolonged labor disputes, agriculture and civil rights, and every- one must guard against inflation and be alert to Communist tricks; but all in all, things were in pretty good shape and getting better all the time. Articulate members of both the Re- publican and Democratic parties, how- ever, could not share the president's optimism. They do not think, for ins- tance, that the nation is as secure, in & military way, as Mr. Eisenhower would have them believe. They cannot forget that the U.S. still lags behind Russia in space research; that a retiring secre- tary of defence recently admitted that the Russians were two or three years ahead of the U.S. in missile output; that there have been repeated warnings from retiring military leaders that conventional defences are not being properly main- tained. Hhe foreign policy of the Eisenhower administration still lacks cohesion and direction. The president's travels, along with those of other world leaders, have resulted in an easing of tension, but the problems that cause the tension remain --Berlin, German reunification, disarma- meat, nuclear testing, and the troubles of NATO. U.S. foreign policy still con- sists largely of reaction to Russian ini- tiative. More than that will be needed to strengthen the tottering structure of NATO and prepare for this year's sum- mit talks. On domestic policy, Mr. Eisenhower's critics are particularly harsh. They point out that it is not good enough simply to note that something must be done about the agricultural mess, labor dis- putes and so on. The administration should be able to state definitely what it wants done. Moreover, the U.S. faces two big challenges: the growing needs of the population in the way of educa- tion, health and welfare, and the moun ting economic competition of the Com- munist world. The Rockefeller Fund report, and others like it, have declared that U.S. gross national production must have a higher rate of annual increase if the U.S. is to maintain its position of economic strength and leadership. The central government has the means to help promote the increase, but has done little about it. The critics will be heard more loudly from now on--this is an election year. But so far the Democrats have not produced an exciting alternative to Eisenhower's sweetness and light. Amateur Bank Robbers Bank robbery by amateurs is the newest phenomenon on the American crime scene. Since 1943, reports For- tune magazine, bank robberies have multiplied 15 times, with 80 per cent of the current holdups being pulled by lone bandits. What is even more start- ling is that half of all these lone bank robbers have no serious criminal re- cords. Recently arrested bank robbers have included several little old ladies, well-paid salesmen and engineers, a chorus girl, a civil leader and a preg- nant housewife. In 1943 there were 24 bank robberies Fhe Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Puphsher and Generel Maneger €. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times cumbining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) ana the Whitby Gozette and Chronicle (established 1863), is published daily {Sundays and statutory holidays excepted). Members of Canadian Daily Newspapers Publishers Association, The Canadion Krew, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontaric Provincial Dailies Asso- ciation. The Canadian Press is exciusively entitled to the use for republication of all news despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the locol news published therein. All rights of special despatches ore also reserved. Offices Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, PQ SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in 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, Columbus Fairport each, Greenwood, Kinsale, Raglan, Blackstock, Manchester, Cobourg, Port Hope Pontypool ond Newcastle not over 45c per week, By mail (in province of Ontario) outside carriers delivery oreas 12.00; elsewhere 15.00 per year. Average Daily Net Paid as of Nov. 30, 1959 16,560 in the United States; in the 12 months ending Aug. 31, 1950, there were 81; but in the statistical year ending Aug. 31, 1959, there were 346 with a total take of $1,407,000 -- more than. three times the total proceeds of nine years earlier. The 1959 activity was not a flurry, according to police authorities, with FBI chief Edgar Hoover predict- ing that the 1960 figures will be "even more appalling." The U.S, police blame the banks and the courts for much of the increase. Hoover says that the poor preventive measures taken by U.S. banks invite robbery. Banks think it unlikely they will be held up---even if the present annual number of robberies were doubled, any one of the 25553 bank- ing premises in the U.S. would not, statistically, be held up more than once in 36 years; the average take ($4,000) is small, and the loss is in- sured. The "law abiding citizen" who gets caught robbing a bank may be handed 'a very short sentence, the magazine notes. One man who held up four banks in Los Angeles -- to pay his mother's medical bills, he said -- was ordered to repay within five years $2,474 of the $4,095 he had stolen and was placed on probation, Bible Thoughts He did not many mightly works there because of their unbelief. -- Matthew 13:58. Unbelief ties the hands of God. we eT CARDING DRWILTING 70 RISK THEIR WONEY On A See Tine. PARAGRAPHICAL REPORT FROM U.K. Residents Resist Plans For Casinos O. STIARKING SURE HE'S R GAMBLER GALLUP POLL OF CANADA Peace Single Greatest Wish All Across World By CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION "Which one wish, over every- thing else, would you like to see fulfilled during the next 10 years?" When this question was put to citizens of 10 nations in almost as many languages, by the World Gallup Polls, the longing for Peace edged out family ambi- tions on a concensus of national opinion. However men and wom- en in the various countries re- acted quite differently in many cases. The column below shows the world average, as compared with the points of view as ex- pressed in Canada alone, when thousands of responses were grouped into four main heads. The one wish over everything else to be fulfilled in the next 10 years. World Concensus Peace Other political and social ambitions Family ambitions Personal ambitions No wish; don't know Taking the concensus in the 10 countries as a whole as a yard- stick, individual nations show strong contrasts. Only in France are the people more concerned with Peace than in Canada, while Switzerland is close to them. Proportion who speak of Peace first in France is 53 per cent; in Switzerland 47 per cent, In Germany and Great Britain about three in ten speak of Peace hopes as their greatest wish for the next 10 years. In Holland and Norway about one in four do so. At the low end of the scale is every hundred are concerned, most of all, with Peace. Austrians are the most interest- ed in personal or family ambiti- tions. These two groups account for about three-quarters of the Austrian nation's wishes. Propor- tionately Norway is next, with six in ten thinking of these hopes. The scale slides down through Holland and Germany to Uruguay where about four in 10 do so, and to Great Britain where three in 10 fit into this category. The tally shows that Canadians are least likely to answer in terms of personal or family ambitions, for as the column above reveals, a total of 23 percent speak of these hopes first -- little more than two in 10. Political and social ambitions are heard most often in France and Great Britain where about a quarter of the adult population thinks of them first when they dream of the thing they want most during the sixties. OTTAWA REPORT | Opening Of House Significant Occasion By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- Three o'clock Ot- tawa time Thursday, when the Governor-General drives up to the Hill to open the new session of our Parliament, will mark the beginning of the most significant annual occasion in our national capital. The setting for the occasion has been created by nature, and em- bellished by man, to come as near a fairy-tale picture as one could see. The stage is well- known to many Canadians, who come here in ever greater num- bers each summer to tour our beautiful capital. The impressive group of grey stone Gothic build- ings, generously spaced on the open crown of Parliament Hill overlooking the Ottawa River, rises against the spectacular background of the Gatineau Hills. But the little extra touch added by nature in January is not fa- miliar to the summer tourists. That is the immense sweep of fresh snow covering the huge lawns, beneath the brilliant win- ter sky, cloudless blue and crisped by the zero air sweeping over the empty spaces stretching from Ottawa to the North Pole. THE COLOR OF CEREMONY Bright splashes are provided, and dramatic touches. The buf- falo-robed Mounties, the Gover- nor-General rugged in fur in the horse-drawn landau, the honor guard of soldiers outside the Par- liament Building, and the glitter- ing crowd inside the Senate cham- ber. There the seats, increased from 102 to nearly 400 for the oc- casion, are filled with diplomats in uniform, the red-robed judges of the Supreme Court, and the wives of official Ottawa in gay evening dress. Enter the Governor-General in procession, accompanied by his wife, followed by the prime min- ister and the Senate leader, and the uniformed chiefs of staff and aides. When he has taken his seat on the throne in the Senate cham- ber, "Black Rod" is bidden to summon the members of the Commons. Led by their Speaker, they enter and stand outside the bar of the Senate. The galleries are crowded with visitors. The whole chamber is brilliantly lit --and uncomfortably heated--by the television lights, PARLIAMENT'S MENU Then the Governor - General reads the speech from the Throne, in English and then in French. This tells the members of our two houses of Parliament why they have been summoned to meet; it outlines the business which will be laid before them for their con- sideration; and it reviews the state of the nation. This speech .of course is pre- pared on the instructions of the prime minister, for delivery by the Governor-General who, as the representative of our Queen, is the figurehead at the summit of our pyramid of government, not its executive chief. For our mon- arch I but does not rule. Under our democratic form of government, we ourselves from time to time may choose the per son who shall effectively rule us, and by. a polite fiction we call that choice the chief adviser, or prime minister, to the monarch. Then, to show its rugged in- dependence of the monarch, each House proceeds to give symbolic consideration to some entirely ir- relevant piece of legislation--and the ceremony draws to its close. Bonhommie takes the place of ritual. The Speaker of the Sen- ate and the Speaker of the Com- mons each hold a reception, to which are invited politicians, dip- lomats, officials and friends These receptions, quent informal evening gather- ings, are an occasion for renew- ing old friendships, as our sena- tors and MPs get together for the first time after the six - month Jong parliamentary recess. They have plenty to talk about, each returning from his own section of our far-flung Dominicn, The emphasis of this happy, bustling and impressive day is not on ceremony, for we are not a pompous people; it is heavily on friendliness, for we are a friendly people, and with few ex- ceptions our politicians are friends together, despite their animosity on the hustings and their disagreements in the Com- mons, and their critical debates in the Senate, and subse- BY-GONE DAYS 25 YEARS AGO Dr. W. H. Gifford was installed as pre:zident of the Oshawa Kins- men Club, The nine Orange Lodges of Oshawa announced that an Orange Temple would be built on Eruce St. It was expected that work would begin in March, Ben Jacklin was elected presi dent of the Oshawa branch 43, Canadian Legion, The first cruiser built in Whit. by by the Canadian Boat Indus- tries Ltd. attracted much atten- tion at the National Motor Show, Toronto, A. H. Allin was appointed chair- man of Whitby Public Utilities Commission, Judge Hawley Mott of Juvenile Court, Toronto, addressed the an. nual meeting of the Oshawa Chil- dren's Aid Society. Ernie Parsons, skip, H. C. Lan- der, R, R. Gay and H. Morison comprised a rink which reached the semi-finals for the R. S. Me- Laughlin trophy in a bonspiel held at the Oshawa Curling Club. With an average of 37 years each as employees of GM, the following men were honored by the presentation of long service badges at a banquet: E. Thom- son, W. H. Moyse, N. Catudal, S. Gummow, R. 8S. McLaughlin, president," John Gibon, R. H. Hyndman, Alex Browne and George Ansley, The presentation of successful reports indicated that the Vie torian Order of Nurses was firm. ly established in Oshawa. Ald. Alex C. Hall was re-elected as president WISDOM "Even if it were against the law," says Old Sorehead, "I don't believe I could enjoy drinking coffee more than I do now." It was a mistake not to give a Christmas present to the person "who has everything", as he al- ways wants more of everything. Because of recent revelations of contamination of foods, instead of asking her husband what he wants for dinner, she says, "Name your poison". . "Human speech will eventually vanish from the world, as it will be replaced by mind reading," says a British neurologist. If and when this happens, the human race will soon vanish from the world. A nurse who read that a physi- cian had taken a whale's pulse wasn't greatly impressed. 'So what!" she snorted. "I've often taken a shrimp's pulse." Now that John L. Lewis has retired, somehow we can't help thinking of him as an extinct vol- cano. A press reports that archeo- logists are searching in South America for a lost city but fail to state who lost it. "Human legs will eventually disappear," predicts a biologist -- Press report. Probably so. There are times even now when it seems the human race is on its last legs. The Future may be lacking in quelity, but not in quantity, as there will be enough of it for everybody. By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON Holiday resort owners who are looking hope- fully to the new betting and gambling laws to enable them to establish casinos for gambling, are not likely to have matters all their own way. Considerable resistance is building up to the idea that hotels might be able to operate casinos under the new laws, and residents of areas near them are already taking steps to forestall applications for such privileges. It was reported recently that an island in the River Thames, known as Eel Pie Island, w ere King Henry VIII, according to legend, held pie eating contests might become the site of a gamb- ling casino mot far from London, if the new law permitted such establishments. But this will not happen if the 60 residents of the island, in the Thames at Twicken- ham, have anything to say about it. Learning of plans to use a dance hall at the island's only hotel as a casino, their reaction has been -- "We will fight it all the way." LONDON PLAYGROUND The man with the casino plan is Michael Snapper, who built the first bridge to connect the is- land with the mainland when he bought the hotel five years ago. Mr. Snapper is quite frank about his plans. He says: QUEEN'S PARK Leadership Needed To Unite Provinces By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- A belated com- ment on the death of Premier Sauve of Quebec. Needless to say the Quebec Premier's death was a shock. Although he was not known well personally to many here, from a distance he had made a strong impression. He seemed to be a leader with whom we could work more easily than with his predecessor, Pre- mier Duplessis. And he also appeared to be a politician who could emerge as one of Canada's all-time greats. A LEADER The most singular loss so far as Ontario is concerned, however is that there were indications that Premier Sauve might emerge as a leader of the provinces. There was good reason to be- lieve that he might be able to consolidate the 10 provines and lead them as a strongly united body into their discussions with Ottawa. Such leadership is badly needed, Though it might seem a logical position for Ontario, due to natural jealousies on the part of other provinces it is one which we might hardly expect to take. But + Quebec, under Premier Sauve, most probably would have been acceptable. W. Ross Strike, secretary of the Bay of Quinte Laymen's As- sociation of the United Church, was accorded a second term as mayor of Bowmanville, There is strong testimony to the strength of personality in pol- itics in the quite remarkable pub- lic impact the late Quebec pre- mier had made in only a very short time before the national public eye. There is no question he had risen to "'star" status. Why was this? For one thing, the chserver would say, because he gave the impression of breadth. He left the feeling that his mind was open and that he would gen- uinely consider all sides of a question, Then he exuded a humaness. There was the impression that he genuinely liked people and his Job. Finally, he was a gentleman. His public life was full of many acts of consideration and cour. tesy. A SECRETARIAT The question is now--what is the next step in unifying the prov- inces? There does not appear to be a man in sight who could bring them together, unless it is pos- sibly Premier Roblin of Manitoba. One hope would be that over the next year or so the prove inces might get together and set up the secretariat they have so long needed. i do "I have given this a lot of thought and the outline of my plans is now complete. If a casino becomes possible when the new bill is passed, I shall be ready to open for business on the day when it becomes law. It will be a pertect apportunity to put the island back where it was in the early days of the ce tury, when it was one of London's more expensive playgrounds, THE OPPOSITION The residents are by no meaas in agreement with him. One of them, Frank Alan-Hill, says: "It is bad enough for the re- sidents to put up with the noise from the dances. With all the unacceptable people that gam. bling would attract, it would mean the end of the hopes that the island could ever again be a peaceful and desireable place to live." Mrs. Lillian Jones, who has lived on the island for four years, says: "This is a horrible prospect. It would mean I could not move quickly enough." And Mr, Snapper comes back with the retort: "Some of the islanders would probably turn out to be among the most frequent patrons of the casino when it is opened." The Eel Pie Island objections are not the only ones being heard. Down in Eastbourne on the south coast, there are many citizens who are expressing hor- ror at the idea of having a gam- bling establishment as one of the attractions on the sea front. Probably the fears being ex- pressed are quite unnecessary. I not believe there is the slightest possibility that the new betting and gambling law will be sufficiently broad to permit ca- sinos to be operated in the Un- ited Kingdom. LOUGHS - new treatment idea! Ever tried gargling to ease a cough? It is one of those ideas that make you ask "Why didn't somebody think of this before?™ Well, they did, but the idea of gargling with Pinex has suddenly become more noticeable. Why not? The soothing properties of Pinex go to work right away. Just keep Pinex in your throat as long as possible. The best way is to gargle then swallow. This way, Pinex is more effective in casing coughs. Try it. 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