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TRS ---- dhe Osha gmes * "THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD" Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 Saturday, June 3, 1961 Ontario's Big Program For Technical Schools The short-range effect of the mas- sive program to expand technical and commercial education in Ontario will be to provide jobs for thousands of workers -- 20,000 new jobs is the official estimate. What the long-range effect will be, apart from providing Ontario youngsters with a much bet- ter opportunity to obtain a decent technical education, is difficult to assess. Ontario's secondary school system will be profoundly affected. Techni- cal courses have until now been the starved orphans in the system, with overwhelming emphasis on academic courses. The danger now is that the gituation will be reversed, with the almost desperate attention to techni- cal training working to the detriment of academic education. If a good bal- ance is achieved, however, the pro- gram announced this week will in future years be hailed as one of the most rewarding developments ever to take place in provincial education. The need for such a program can- not be argued. Ontario, like the rest of Canada, badly needs technicians and To Find Lost The mystery of Canada's "missing" dwelling units will be solved by the census now underway. Latest estimates place the number of Canadian dwelling units at some- thing over 4,500,000. But if past ex- perience holds true -- and expecta- tions are that it will -- that estimate falls below the actual level. Central Mortgage and Housing Cor- poration has done its best to keep track of the number of new houses built since 1941. By relating known building rates to the number of old dwellings, together with allowances for old houses torn down or burnt down, the CMHC is able to estimate the number of Canadian homes month by Month. But a census provides the actual number of new dwellings built in in- dividual localities, as well' as house- building rates. Following the 1951 and 1961 censuses, CMHC revised its esti- mates upwards. The same process of revision is expected to begin again this autumn, after preliminary counts of dwelling units are available. Canada isn't the only country un- able to keep track of all its new hous- ing, however. Following the first Na- tional Housing Inventory of the U.S. in 1956, new housebuilding figures were found to have strayed about 15 per cent from the mark. Fewer than 8!4 homes had been counted from year to year, for every 10 that had actually been built. skilled workers; and Ontario like the rest of Canada, has a chronic surplus of workers without any skills and, in many unfortunate cases, without enough basic education to be readily trained. This condition has been a major factor in contributing to the unemployment which has persisted these past few years and which has tended to increase each year. At the same time there are jobs unfilled, because of their demand for certain skills, and there are projects un- started because of the lack of techni. cians. For years Canada has been able to import technicians, but the supply has virtually come to an end, with Europe and the United Kingdom en- joying booming prosperity. The new technical program, therefore, is a necessity. At the same time, whatever their later activities may be, Ontario youngsters will more than ever need thorough grounding in the basic hu- manities. They must, for instance, acquire a better command of language, if they are to absorb and communi- cate ideas. Housing Without a census, estimates on Canada's housing, like those of the U.S., could stray far from the facts. A census pulls the estimates back on the track, every five or 10 years. The Housing Corporation expects that housing conditions have im- proved significantly in the past dec- ade. There is less "doubling up" a- mong families, and fewer houses lack running water and adequate heating. But only a censvs of Canada can re veal a precise answer to the question: How much better are Canadian homes now than they were 10 years ago ? The census will also show where housing conditions are bad, and how bad they are. The nation as a whole may be better off, while some areas may be worse. There has been little new housing on farms in 30 years; have farm homes kept up to stand- ard? And how many aged persons are badly housed ? How many fam- ilies are crowded together with other families ? Only a census can pre- cisely answer the question:How many homes . fail to meet the standards most Canadians regard as adequate in the middle of the 20th century ? The CMHC is the biggest single user of the results of the housing census. In fact, the CMHC helped de- sign the housing questionnaire. The question on mortgage and the value of houses were included at the cor- poration's request. But there are many users -- from government to private industry. Disgusted By Castro Fidel Castro's offer to exchange 1200 prisoners for 500 tractors has generated "a ground swell of disgust" throughout Latin America, according to Edward R. Murrow, director of the United States information agency. And it seems to be so, at least as far as the press and leaders are con- cerned. In most Latin American countries, committees have been formed, just as in the United States, he Oshawa Times 1. &. WILSON, Publisher and Genera! Manager C. GWYN KINSEY Editor The Oshowo [imes combining The Oshawa {established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette Chronicle (established 1863), is published daily (Sundoys ana statutory d Times and ot C Daily Pi Associotion. The Conadion Press, Audit Bureou of Circulation ana the Ontario Provincial Dailies Asso- ciation. The Canadion Press ts exclusively entitiea to the use for republication of all ews despatchea in the paper credited to it or to The Associoted Press or Reutcrs, ond also the local news published therein. All rights of special despatches are also reserved Offices: Thomson Building, 425 University Avenus Toronto Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION "ATES Delivered by carriers In Oshawa Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville Brooklin, |ort: Perry, Prince Albert Maple Grove, Hompton, Frenchman's Bay, wverpool, Taunton, Tyrone Dunbarton. Enniskillen, Orono Leskard Brougham Burketon, Claremont, Columbus, Greenwood, Kinsale, Raglan Blackstock, Manchester Pontypool and Newent not over 45¢ per week. By mail (in province of Ontario) outside corriers delivery oreas 12.00: elsewhere 15.00 per year Circulation for the issue of March 30, 1961 17,363 to raise funds to buy: tractors to ex- change for human beings. Comments in the Latin American press are deva- stating. For the first time Castro is castigated without qualification. Here are some comments: Castro's plan "has shaken the free world with its brutality and utilitar- ianism, free of any human feeling." «It 'reveals in all its hideousness the inhuman nature of the Cuban revolu- tion." Castro erred and "brought into action the most notable characteristic of the North American people, gener- osity." It is "filthy blackmail." Castro's "totalitarian cynicism has exceeded all limits." Castro is shown "to be the vilest huckster among the agents of Soviet imperialism." The Castro regime "has reached a degree of degeneracy and brutality that revolts human under- standing." He has "enthroned anti- humanism in America." These comments are from papers in Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ec- 'uador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Pan- ama, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela -- papers that generally supported the original concept of the Castro revolu- tion and have defended Castro in the past. While some Americans are critical of the effort to save the Cuban cap- tives by paying "blackmail" to Castro, most Americans in both hemispheres seem to put human beings above false pride and a misguided patriotism, The Milwaukee Journal comments, TRYING TO CUSHION THE FALL READERS' VIEWS Sees Necessity Of Information Dear Sir: On Monday evening, as I sat listening to the trustees dis- cussing a school problem; I wondered how many people have ever attended a meeting of the Oshawa Board of Education. Here is a group of people who spent nearly six million of our tax dollars last year and who take care of approximately thir- teen milion dollars worth of property. They administer a staff of over five hundred peo- ple and guide the educational destiny of every child in the city of Oshawa. Surely they de- serve the consideration and con- cern of more than the very oc- casional visitor to their meet- ings. What prompted me to attend? A nagging feeling of guilt which has been developing over a period of time but which mani- fested itself most strongly when I was faced with the decision of whom to vote for in the De- cember 1960 municipal elections, My interest in education was born with the entrance into Kindergarten of the first of our four children twelve years ago. It has increased through my work in the Home and School Associations of their schools. Careful perusal of the Oshawa Times for information on local affairs, along with a study of Toronto and provincial news through one of the Toronto dail- ies and Canadian magazines, was not enough to help me judge the relative merits of the candidates who were running for office. So, I decided to take advantage of the opportunity to attend the public meetings of our local Board of Education in order tc become more informed. What have I learned from my three visits so far? Paradoxical- ly I have learned very little and a great deal. I had hoped to get an insight into the business of the Board, hear discussions and discover why the trustees voted as they did. Very little of this seems to occur at the one meet- ing of the month when the pub- lic are permitted to attend. This is a general meeting and con- sists largely of approving the OTTAWA REPORT Bloc Opens New Vistas For UK. By PATRICK NICHOLSON LONDON--An exciting pros- pect of national affluence, full employment and all the trim- mings of the good life even be- yond Uncle Sam's dreams lie ahead for Britain today. We too could share this pros- perity, blue-printed by Canada 12 years ago for the whole Atlantic Community, but now being established for Western Europe only. Britain almost certainly will step towards this happy future by joining a huge European free trade block this year. Cur officials and leaders here are not so short - sighted that they cannot see the problems which this will raise for Canada. Their anxiety is truly reflected by the ill-judged and ill-founded threats and screams emitted by Finance Minister Fleming and Trade Minister Hees at recent international conferences and elsewhere. SHUNS OWN IDEA But what really staggers the average sage Briton is that Can- ada, having set the Western world on fore with this brilliant idea, has ever since backed away from it. Now, when our allies are actively adopting our idea, we are not clamoring to join 'the party; instead, we are upbraiding Britain for daring to join that party-for-prosperity in- stead of remaining outside in depression with us. Newspaper readers are famil- iar with the jokes about Europe being at sixes and sevens over trade. The Six is the European Common Market, an association of 170,000,000 citizens of six countries -- France, West Ger- many, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Their object is to abolish all tariffs between each other pro- gressively over 10 years or so, at the same time building up one external tariff wall to enclose them in one giant trading block. Their purpose is to increase pro- duction within the six countries to make them completely self- sufficient, and to build up sur- plus production for export to the rest of the world. Britain refused to join the European Common Market on the original terms, because she was reluctant to jeopardise the prosperity of Canada and other Commonwealth countries by abandoning the Commonwealth preferential tariff system, and because joining would compel her to end her agricultural pol- icy based largely on subsidies to the farmer. Instead, Britain hurriedly put together The Seven, or the Eur- opean Free Trade Association, containing 90,000,000 people in Britain, Norway, Sweden, Den- mark, Austria, Switzerland and Portugal. This was intended as a bargaining counter after the failure of her negotiations to cre- ate a free trade area larger and looser than the European Com- mon Market. ONE EUROPE NEAR Prolonged international talks now are finding solutions. For- mal conferences will open within two months and the final result will be to bring the Six and the Seven together into one huge free trade block with 260,000,000 consumers, This new Europe will have a market larger than the United States. It will quickly grow into the most prosperous economic unit ever seen in the world, by stealing the idea which made the U.S. the envy of the world over the past four decades. On several occasions, Canada could have played a leading role in promoting an even larger area of prosperity. Canada could have brought together not only the fix and the Seven, but North America as well. Canada's secondary industries desperately need the larger mar- ket and the cheaper production which that would facilitate. Ca- nadians desperately need the cheaper goods and wider selec- tion which true mass production wil: permit. Today in Britain people are asking with genuine concern why Canada is protesting on the outside, instead of participating on the inside, at the coming joint prosperity which Canada herself blue-printed 12 years ago in the North Atlantic Treaty. minutes of a large number of committee meetings and "spec- fal" meetings, copies of which are not supplied to either the press or the visitors. Most new busines must be referred to one of the committees for discussion and recommendations, requiring the minimum of discussion at this meeting before final ap- proval. Thus, visitors are afforded little opportunity to learn much about the real function of this administrative body, but they do come away from a meeting with a better understanding of the personalities involved. Spirited discussion and con- troversy are to be expected when a number of people must make decisions on important is- sues. Ideas must be encourag- U.K. OPINION Increase In Food Cost Seen Trade Pact Result LONDON -- With senior trade and financial officials of the governments of Commonwealth copntries meeting in London, it is taken for granted that one of the chief topics they will dis- cuss is the possibility of Britain joining the European Common Market. While this meeting is not at ministerial level, it is certain that the officials who are attending it will be well briefed on the views of their govern. ment on this subject.. Coincident with this meeting, some interesting information as to what might happen in the agricultural field if Britain were to join the Common Market has been produced by Colin Clark, director of the Agricultural Ecnomic Research Institute at Oxford. According to his stu- dies, the cost of food in Britain would rise by from 14 to 15 cents a week per person after Britain became a Common Mar- ket partner. Meat and meat products would cost about eight cents a week more, butter and fats, four cents and bread and cereals about three cents more. Cheese and eggs would cost slightly more but milk would drop by three to four cents a week and potatoes by two cents a week. On an individu basis, this does not seem much, but multiplied by the 50 million of population, it amounts to a con- siderable sum per week. FARMERS WOULD GAIN The retail price of food, Mr. Clark estimates, would rise by 3-1 per cent. But the effect on the cost of living would amount to a great deal less, 0.9 per cent. Manufactured goods would cost less. Farmers producing meat ani- mals would benefit substantial ly. Cereal farmers would also gain but potato growers and horticulturists would lose. But taken altogether, - British and Commonwealth farmers would benefit by some $400 million a year. These figures tend to disprove the theory that entry into the Common Market wou'd involve crippling losses for British and Commonwealth farmers. Mr, Clark says, however, that no British government, of either party, would be likely to agree to enter the Common Market without providing for the Com- monwealth producers, who now sell in British markets on pref- erential terms, to go on selling here or elsewhere within the Common Market. EXPRESS OPPOSED Meanwhile, the Beaverbrook Daily Express continues its pol- icy of outspoken opposition to any dealings with the Common Market. Its latest outburst comes in an editorial in which it says: "The Common Market is not simply an economic associa- tion. It has political implica- tions of a serious nature. The intention is to incorporate the member countries in one poli- tical element. The gavernment will be centred in Europe. And the parliament in London, in relation to that institution, will become something like a provin- cial assembly in Canada com- pared with the Ottawa parlia- ment. If that is what you want, just be silent, be tame, be quiet and the government will give it to you. If yu don't want it, speak up in opposition. Let your voice be heard." But there are all too few voices supporting tiie Express and its views. The British Legion, at its an- nual conference in London, was the scene of a bitter atteck on the failure of the formes war- time allies to break up the great steel empire of Krupp's in Germany. A resolution was passed by a large majority viewing with dismay the further year's grace given to Krupp's to dispose of their assets: One delegate, F. Hopkins, of Balham, said: "Krupp is, and always has been, the moving spirit behind Germany's resurgence and Nazi aggression, and we in this great ex-service organization must make our views heard. We fought against Krupp and every- thing he stood for. Do not let it be thought that we have for- gotten." Roy Peters, vice-chairman of the Legion's Metropolitan area, said: "Krupp is a convicted war criminal. He had 80,000 slave workers in his factories, many of whom did not survive." ed if intelligent conclusi are to be reached. By listening to the comments made by some Trustees and noting the lack of participation of others, the vis- itor may gain a fair idea of the effectiveness of the members of the Board of Education and the technical staff who work with them. There is a limit to how much a reader can learn about per- sonalities from the press re- ports of these meetings, but I would suggest that the Board would gain a great deal more respect, understanding and sup- port from the general public if more information on Board af- fairs were made available. This could be achieved by extending press privileges at committee meetings and allowing the pub- lic to attend all three of the regular meetings of the Board on the second, third and fourth Mondays of each month. These meetings could be publicized in advance through the Times and local radio station CKLB, proving that the Trustees are sincere when they express a de- sire to see more of the public attend their meetings. The next municipal election is a good many months away, but this writer expects to approach it with a good deal more con- fidence than the last one, at least when it comes to voting for the Trustees to serve on the Oshawa Board of Education. There is too much at stake for the public to take elections cas- ually. In the democratic pro- cess, we usually get the kind of elected officials we deserve-- good, bad or indifferent. Mrs. Donald. K. Stiles Oshawa BY-GONE DAYS 40 YEARS AGO Most Wor. Bro, F. W. Har- court, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Canada, paid an official visit to Cedar Lodge No. 270, AF and AM, Oshawa. Several thousand dollars dam- age was caused by the flooding of business premises in a severe electrical storm. D. M. Tod attended the Ro- tary International convention at Glasgow, Scotland. R. A. Hutchinson, Public Schoot Inspector for South On- tario, took a trip to Wisconsin where he inspected the consoli- dated schools system in that state, for the Ontario Dept. of Education. A new baby clinic for the benefit of non-English speaking mothers of Oshawa was opened in the Greek Catholic Mission, Albert street. To the memory of 1,704 em- ployees of the Canadian Bank of Commerce who served in the war, a bronze tablet was un- veiled by Col. J. F. Grierson in the Oshawa Branch. Bank em- ployees and about 50 prominent citizens were present. Over 50 members of Oshawa Sons of England Benevolent Association turned out for their annual church parade when they attended church service at St. George's Anglican Church preached by Rev. C. R. de- Pencier. The baseball season was ush- ered in here when Belleville Grand Trunks visited Oshawa for the opening game of the Central Ontario Amateur Base- ball League. A large parade headed by the Ontario Regi- ment band led the crowd of nearly 2,000 to the game. Dr, F. L. Henry, George Miller and Col. R. S. McLaughlin assisted with the opening ceremonies. John McGibbon, Frank Cars- well, Major H. E. Smith, John Rainish, P. H. Punshon, George Timmins and J. K. Creighton were appointed as local enumer- ators by the census commission- er for South Ontario, John Bir- kett of Claremont. Blazing films in the projection rocom of the Regent Theatre in- flicted serious burns to Fred Kinton, operator. The theatre was not open at the time. England is to have four universities, bat a plea Scotland to have one to to its present four at Aberd: st. Andrew's, Glasgow and burgh, has been rejected. Three of the four new universities in England will be established at Canterbury in Kent; Colchester in Essex; and Csventry in the Scottish educatiomsts are up in arms at the decision not to have a fifth university in Scot- land. This has given stimulus to the cry of the Scottish Nationale ists that the parliament in Lon. don is quite oblivious to the needs of the Scottish x Strong protests have been made to the Secretary of State for Scotland, John S. Maclay. The protests are all the more force. ful because of the fact that in addition to the four new univer- sities now authorized for Eng. land, three others are in the process of establishment at Brighton, Norwich and York. But in Colchester, Canterbury and Coventry, there is vab:lation at the government's decision, as announced by Chane :!lor of the Exchequer, Selwyn Ulayd. CUT SPEED LIMITS Ernest Marples, minister of transport, is satisfied that re. ducing speed limits on trunk roads has resulted in fewer traffic fatalities during busy weekends. The death toll at the Whitsuntide weekend was down by about 20 from the figures for last year. Because of this, Mr- Marples has ruled that the road safety plans set up for Whitsun holi- day, will be extend~d for the rest of the summer From June 16 to September 17, covering 15 weekends, starting at noon on the Friday and ending at mid- night on the Sunday, there will be a 50 miles per hour speed limit on some 750 miles of trunk roads. Last year, this lim- it was applied for only six wesk- ends, but with good results. Stopping of motor vehicles on these trunk roads is also for- hidden during these 15 week. ends. THINK BIG! Think of your Future Think of a good position; good salary; good future; Security. 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