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SATURDAY, JuLY 30 Prince Philip discusses conference with the Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey. BY DON OHEARN HAT is your opinion of H. R. H. Prince Philip? Have you heard that he is snobbish, is rude, perhaps hasn't too much upstairs? From time to time newspapermen have accused H. R. H. of all of these things, Take the word of one who has been around this business for a long time now. They are wrong. Prince Philip is a gentleman, a brain and a "man." And if you have any other impression than this you are wrong. In may the Queen's husband held the first inforinal press conference ever engaged in by a member of the Royal Family. The conference was held at Hart House in Toronto and was attended by some 60 newspaper, radio and TV magazine people. They were a representative average group for this business. The more serious daily men, a couple of writers from the screwball fringe of the perio- dical field and some women who didn't quite know where they were. The questioning was equally representative. Some of it was sensible. Some was right from cuckoo-land. The only restrictions were questions re- garding the Royal Family and politics. The first was respected. A few smarties tried to throw curves around the second. In other words, it was a normal rough and tumble North American press conference. ONTARIO TODAY PAGE THREE For 45 minutes H. R. H. took it, and took it better than anyone the writer has experienced -- which covers a lot of conferences and a lot of people. This was royalty. But that was not the impression that was left. Rather the impression was that of a calm, very capable, confident yet not cocksure, very attrac- tive man of affairs. He was a man of thought when a question re- quired thought, who showed a fine sense of humor, who had the courage not to duck questions and who not once showed annoyance even he well might have. Not even when one gal "writer" tried to bring in Joey Smallwood's threat to have the Russians deve- lop Newfoundland power. He did not think this was relevant to the purpose of the conference, H. R. H. answered with a smile. The conference itself will have a strong interest to us in Ontario. : It is a novel affair. The purpose is to study the effect of industrial growth on human development and to discuss ways and means of meeting the problems of our changing world. ' Scheduled for the early summer of 1962, it will be attended by representatives from all Commonwealth countries. These will be executives from industry and labor in the 25 to 45 age group, the top executives of tomorrow. This is the second such conference to be held. The first was convened in England in 1956. The Cana- dian delegation at it was so impressed it asked that a further one should be held in our country. The cost, some $500,000 to $600,000 is being paid by 300 Canadian indus- trial firms and labor unions. The point in selecting the younger age group as repre- sentatives to attend is to pre- pare them, as potential lead- ers, for some of the problems they will be facing when they are the top men. Of key interest to us in. Ontario is that some of the questions they will be study- ing rank as key problems in" the province today. One of the main subject for study, for instance, will 'be the one-industry commu- nity. With our Elliot Lakes and our automobile centres this, of course, is a matter of very pertiment concern to us. Another question to be gone into is the responsibility industry should have to the community. There is no aim of finding cure-alls or providing answers to these and the other prob- lems to be studied. In fact when Prince Philip agreed to sponsor the first conference an explicit condition was that there should be no formal recommendations out of it (Royalty can not be formally tied to endorsement of any. social or political "idea"). The discussions in them- selves, however, will serve to clarify thinking on these very The Prince in thoughtful pose. complex matters. And out of the clarification undoubtedly will come some progress.