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Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 Friday, June 30, 1961 Parents Pressing For More Student Leisure Probably many students at our schools have been somewhat perturbed when someone suggests that their school holi- days should be reduced, and in fact some suggest that the students should put in more time at school each day. Some might form the idea that parents were responsible for the suggestions in order that the teachers would be re- quired to look after the children, giving more freedom to the 'mothers of the students for household duties or more leisure time. Any students who hold this idea should change it right away. Their big- gest supporters for more leisure time comes from their parents. This is proven in a Gallup Poll of parents across Canada. The result of the poll showed the majority of parents did not want to see the holiday periods for the students shortened. Neither did they want to see their children spending more of their time each evening in trying to finish their homework. Sixty-seven per cent of the parents, when asked whether they favored in- creasing the number of days spent in school, said they did not, while 24 per cent favored the idea, and nine per cent had no opinion to offer. For high school students the feeling of those interviewed was almost the same, with 64 per cent being opposed to the idea and 25 per cent in favor of fewer holidays. Eleven per cent had no opinion to offer on the subject. The percentages were about the same on the question of more school hours each week, and also about the same when the question arose over giving the student more homework to do. Students can rest more at ease now, as they find that the parents are opposed to any reduction in their long summer vacation, and other holidays in the year, and also are opposed to the amount of homework that they are now doing, being increased. Slow Down, Live Longer Slow Down and Live is the name of a campaign conducted by the Canadian Highway Safety Council. Needless to say, the primary object is to promote traffic safety, although slowing down and living longer could apply to a good many things besides highway hazards. "Generally," says the Council, "drive relaxed and with patience. Annoyance with other drivers is senseless." This is so right -- yet refraining from an- noyance at the conduct of other drivers is sometimes a difficult matter. About as difficult as forgiving the sins of others usually is. But driving relaxed is a point worth remembering at that. For reasons which must be deep in human nature, the exact time when we have least reason to hurry is the moment when we do most of it. How many people drive to work each morning at anything like the rate they travel while on holiday? For some reason there is a subtle temptation to speed when we are merely out on the highway heading for a resort or some other distant point on the map. Even when a slower rate would help us enjoy the scenery we nominally came to look upon at leisure, we tend to dash right by. The man who has enough self- control to resist that temptation to get somewhere, perhaps another motel or resort area without overwhelming at- tractions, will have a far safer holiday and a much more restful one as welll. A good driver keeps up with the traffic but never tries to beat it. And on holidays, we do have a little time on our hands. What a pity that some people ruin their holidays, perhaps even kill themselves, just to go nowhere in particular a little more rapidly. A Form Of Provocation, The ancient Greek fabulist, Aesop, on whose brief animal anecdotes so much of the modern world's wisdom is based, wrote of a hungry wolf and an inoffen- sive lamb, who chanced to drink from the same pellucid stream. + As we recollect, the wolf, eager for 'breakfast, reproached the lamb with offensive conduct toward him. He ac- 'cused the lamb of interrupting him, when the lamb was merely drinking quietly from the same stream; of muddy- ing the waters, though the lamb was downstream from the wolf. Till, angered by the lamb's provocative conduct, the wolf terminated their peaceful coexis- 'sance by eating the lamb. From modern Europe comes a stoly of just such "provocation". Through eight years the West Ger- 'man Bundestag or lower house of par- liament has held annual sessions in West 'Berlin to symbolize the ties linking that city with the federal republic. Last year it postponed the usual session: but now 'the upper house or Bundesrat, proposed to hold the commemorative meeting in June. Instantly the foreign ministry of the Fhe Oshawa Times 1. L. WILSON, Publisher and Genera! Manoges €. GWYN KINSEY Editor Oshowa fimes combining The Oshawa Times Lastoainnad 1871) ond the Whitby Gazette and hronicle (established 1863), is published dally {Sundays ond statutory holidays excepted). , of C Dety Publishers y jotion. The Conadion Press Audit Bureou of Eireiation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies ciation. The Canadian Press ls exclusively entitled to the use for republication of ell ews despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Reuters, and also the local news published All rights of special despatches are also Press or therein. taserved. Offices: Thomson Building, 425 University Avenus foronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES . 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Attack on Padong is, it seems, an incident of peaceful coexistence; but for a calm deliberative body like the Bun- desrat to gather in a city where it has been repeatedly welcomed is provoca- tion. Putting aside the question whether West Berlin is a part of West Germany, the city should surely have the right to invite official guests if it so desires. Last year Mayor Willy Brandt warn- ed that yielding to Soviet press against a parliamentary meeting in West Berlin could have serious effects on the virtu- ally besieged city. Of what does provocation consist? Who is it that is moving to change a situ- ation? That pressure comes not from Bonn or the West but from Premier Khrushchev and Moscow. If the West gives up the exercise of one right in order to allay Communist displeasure, will there not be immediate demands 7 Bhat precisely 1s meant by that tamitar phase, Yreedors of the press'? [Rll ncamentatty 1 1 not = spectat privitege reserved for newspaper pub- lishers. It is rather a phase of a much. larger freedom -- the freedom of all men to speak their minds openly and without fear. The press claims no right which should not belong to every citizen in a democracy. But freedom of the press is an all-important part of this larger freedom because under modern conditions, the press is the principal agency by which the ordinary man receives the infor- mation he needs to judge the actions of his rulers and make up his mind on public affairs. Without newspapers, or with only gagged and blindfolded ones, he is in the dark, and helpless. An unfettered press is therefore one of the essential bulwarks of a democratic nation. BE any eroot be needed, ts supplied by the record of the totalitarian dictatorships which have darkened the twentieth century. Rigid control of all of public inf jon, and esp tally of s, was the cornerstone | dh on which all these regimes -- Nazi, Fascist and Communist alike -- were founded. Without it, they could hardly have lasted for more than a few months. With it, they could keep their peoples in blinkers and drive them on any course they chose. The calamities of our age, its fear and insecurity, stem in no small measure from the simple fact that at critical periods great sections of the earth's popula- tion have been prevented by their rulers from learning the real news of the world, EBrese examples should provide a warming against any attempt, by govern- ments or by private interests, to restrict the essential freedom of the press. A free people must stand on guard not only against direct censorship but also against more insidious encroachments. Normal freedom is not enough. The only truly free press is one which can record the news faithfully and comment on it frankly without fear of direct or indirect punishment. Neither the press nor the public is safe with anything less than this. It must be both i liberty, of course, involves obligations. That of a free newspaper is to be truly free. It must strive to be thorough, accurate and unbiased in its report- ing, sincere and thoughtful in its editorials and resistant to all outside pressure. and bold until it knows all the facts, bold when it is sure of its ground. It must above all be inspired by devotion to the public welfare as its staff understand it. fio Nuch a newspaper is worthy of the privileges which the free peoples of the world have traditionally granted to their press. Such a newspaper is also the best guardian of the liberties of the people. Prepared by the Canadian Doily Newspoper Publishers Association QUEEN'S PARK Frost Rumor Heard Again By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--Well, they're say- ing once again that Premier Frost will retire. One day the premier is going to really fool them and actually quit. But for now, one would say not so, not so. Barring something unknown--- such as a serious ailment--one would rate the chances of him cleaning out his desk for some time now as slim indeed. PARTY DOWN-FALL Mr. Frost can be pretty dim in his judgment of men at times. This is recognized as perhaps his greatest political weakness. But even with this he must know what it would mean if he were to drop out of the leader- ship now. His beloved party would turn into a bit of prize meat for a bunch of Kilkenny cats. Provincial Treasurer Jim Al- lan probably would take over the leadership on an interim ba- 81S. But it is assumed he wouldn't want it permanently. And there is nobody else around who could handle the job at this point -- despite the number who. want to try. FEEDS APPETITE It was Godfrey Hudson of the Globe and Mail who started this latest speculation Godfrey is a nice person. But he should be given a few belts over the backside for the high hopes he is going to breed here. For some time ambitious members of the cabinet have been straining their gussets in trying to build up their chances for the leadership. Health Minister Dymond has been travelling around with a photographer who snaps him as he speaks hither and yon all across the country. Attorney-General Roberts has been hitting the north harder than Dan McGrew. Commerce Minister Nickle's public relations staff have heen turning out press releases by the handful. But what will they do now. There could be just enough chance of truth in the rumor to set their dream-tubes alight-- Mr. Frost would not tell them if he were quitting. And Lord only knows where the dreams may end--and how. Half a dozen men all ambi- 144 tious for the same job may be able to get along for a while-- and in this case there are at least half a dozen cabinet min- isters with an eye on the leader- ship--but it can't go on for ever. Perhaps one day there will be a riot in the cabinet room. And in that case, of course, Mr. Rob- erts would be the winner. For he controls the police. THE GALLUP POLL Trial Fair, Survey Says By CANADIAN INSTITUTE of PUBLIC OPINION As Adolphe Eichmann takes the stand in his own defence, a three-nation study reveals that most people in Canada, Great Britain and the U.S. think it has been a good thing for the world to be reminded of the grue- some details in Nazi concentra- tion camps. Moreover, the majority opin- ion in all three countries, holds that Adolph Eichmann is get- ting a fair trial before the Is- raeli court on charges that he committed "crimes against the for other concessions endangering the oJewish people". Only a very very lives of West Berliners? Is not that pressure itself a form of provoca- tion and aggression? Bible Thought As he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.--Genesis 32:31. Men whom God has touched limp a little--their walk is different than that of those who have never known Him. How then can I do this great wicked- ness, and sin against God? -- Genesis 39:9. All violations of the laws of moral , purity are not only sins against others, but against God, our Maker. small majority in any of these nations has some question about the way in which the Jerusalem tribunal is conducting the trial. Canadians, in particular have shown a very high interest in the trial with 97 per cent aware of it in some way, compared to 87 per cent in the U.S. Affiliated Gallup Polls asked this question of all those who knew something of the trial in each country. "In Your Opinion, is it a Good Thing, or a Bad Thing, for the World to be Reminded of the Horrors of the Nazi Concentra- tion Camps?" As the columns below reveal Canada and the U.K. share re- actions very closely, with the U.S. rather more convinced than either that the trial has been good for the World. TAKE IN TAB 2 col While U.S. citizens incline more to the opinion than either Great Britain or Canada, that it has been a good thing to report horrors of World War II, they are not so sure that the trial has been a fair one, with a con- siderably larger segment in the undecided group. Interviewers in each country asked: "Do You Think Eichmann is or is not Getting a Fair Trial?" Reminding the World of Nazi Horrors is: A good thing ...cceecvsenes A bad thing ..eeeecesssscees No opinion .....ecveesee Is the Trial Fair? No opinion . UK. Canada 56% 29 15 U.S. 62% 18 20 100% 100% u.s. 62% 7 3 UK. 70% 25 100% 100% World Copyright Reserved BY-GONE DAYS 35 YEARS AGO Canada Bread Co. called for tenders for the construction of a distributing plant in Oshawa. Oshawa Board of Trade rep- resentatives took part in the organization of an Eastern On- tario Board of Trade at a meet- ing held in Belleville A. E. Garbutt, supervising principal of Oshawa Public Schools, who was leaving at the end of the school term, was hon- ored by the teachers at a fare- well picnic at Lakeview Park. Oshawa Rotary Club sponsor- ed a movement seeking appoint. ment of an industrial commis- sioner for Oshawa. Cedardale Home and School Club held their third annual garden party on the spacious lawn of Mrs. F. Robson, presi- dent of the club. Wor. Bro. W. L. Pierson was installed Wor. Master at a meet- ing of the Lebanon Lodge AF and AM. A life membership was presented to Wor. Bro. H. A. Saunders who after several years of service relinquished the secretarial duties of the ge Work was started on improve- ment of Highway No. 2 between Oshawa and Toronto. George Jacobs and J. Gerald Kennedy, local golfers, entered the annual Ontario Golf tourn- ament at York Downs, Toronto. County Council voted $1500 to- wards building an addition to the Children's_Shelter. OTTAWA REPORT Judy LaMarsh May Liven Budget Talk By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--The debate on the budget promised to be enlivened by Judy LaMarsh, a newcomer to the Liberal opposition who certainly raises its average in intelligence and eloquence. This former party officer from Niagara Falls has made many speeches since being elected last October: Her tongue yielding hard-hitting par- tisan orations outside the House, and her head offering balanced contributions to debate inside. But on the budget, she as- serted, she was going io deliver her first "political" speech in Parliament. In this she faced a consider- able challenge, since a New York newspaper had recently written her up to a size unrec- ognizably larger than life. The few Ottawans who happened to read that paper must have been puzzled to guess the identity of the person headlines thus: Woman M.P. is Diefenbaker's Nemesis. 'STOPPED COLD' "A lone woman on the oppo- sition side of the Canadian House of Commons," said that news from New York, 'has the most powerful government party in the country's history stonped cold." But Miss LaMarsh has never attempted to achieve that im- possible parliamentary scene so imaginatively described; and ¥ the many friends whom the Lib- eral Judy has already made, evenonthe Conservative benches, would expect tha whilst opposing their policies, she would not want to stop them cold. Niagara's 36-year-old MP has stood out among the Liberal back-benchers particularly for two contributions. Thanks to her experiences as a modern Portia, she has been prominent in the debates about capital pun- ishment, introducing a bill which would replace "the noose" by "the whiff" for con- demned murderers, and propos- ing an amendment to the capi- tal punishment bill which will help to protect prison guards and policemen against murder. She has also capped her long- time interest in the welfare of the first Canadians by her prominent part on the Indian af- fairs committee. She will aptly be honored at the Red Indians' annual Border Crossing celebra- tion at Niagara Falls on July 17, when she will be created a princess of the Mohawk tribe, with the Indian name Ga-Da- Dia-Se, which means "I speak for someone." Speaking for the Liberal party in the budget debate, Miss La- Marsh, who was a sergeant in the CWAC during the war, branded the baby budget of last December as "stillborn", later REPORT FROM U.K. Old Clyde Canal To Be Abandoned By M: McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times GLASGOW, Scotland -- The government has announced its decision that the Forth and Clyde Canal, which was opened in 1790, is to be closed to navi- gation. The announcement, made in the House of Commons by the secretary of state for Scotland, has been received with mixed feelings in the Scot- tish areas which it has served for over 170 years. Closing of the canal to navi- gation is to be effected by put ting through parliament a bill relieving the British Transport Commission of its obligation to keep the Canal open. Mr. Ma- clay, secretary of state, said he could not say when the bill would be introduced, but added: "After careful consideration of the factors involved, includ- ing the urgent need for a deci- sion on the design of an impor- tant and costly bridge over this canal, the government has de- cided that the balance of ad- vantage lies in its. closure to navigation. Industrial water sup, plies will not be affected." TRAFFIC HAS DECLINED The Forth and Clyde Canal took 22 years to build. At one time it had a fleet of horse- drawn boats for passenger traf- fic. When the railway line open- ed between Edinburgh and Glas- gow, goods continued to be car- ried on the canal, but the traf- fic steadily declined from the early part of this century. The canal, which runs from Bowling to Grangemouth, is 38 miles long. It has a branch of nearly three miles to Port Dun- das, Glasgow, where it connects with the Monkland canal. The closing of the canal is likely to involve some hardship for seine-net fishing boats, which use the waterway in both directions. This fish boat traffic has not been heavy, but boats from a wide area found the canal a very convenient short- cut from the east coast to the west and vice-versa. The alter- native route would be the much longer sail through the Cale- donian Canal, to the Moray Firth. DECISION WELCOMED Private pleasure boats do not make a great deal of use of the canal. Perhaps about half-a- dozen would pass along it in the course of a month at this time of the year. Councillor Peter Meldrum, leader of the Glasgow Corpora- tion Labor group, however, said: "Mr. Maclay's decision is to be welcomed. If, however, the canal is to be left as a derelict waterway, it will in future create dangers which are being experienced at the disused Monkland Canal at the present time" Mr. Maclay has consulted the fishing Industry on his proposal, but has decided that the sav- ings on the government's roads and waterways program will outweigh any loss which the fishermen might suffer. animating it as "a deformed child". Continuing her allegory of misfortune, she claimed that ing at the church." SCATTER-SHOT HUNT A facile and mellifluous speaker, of that rare and wel come type who does not a typewritten text, she fazed by interruptions. were prompted by like criticisms of the budget. When she tried to revive that %. discredited and historically in- accurate Mackenzie King refer- ence to 1930--that the Tories bring hard times--Finance Min- ister Fleming echoed the evie dence of the "Hidden Report to interject a crushing "That is utter nonsense". But no contradiction met one pearl from Judy, which de. served the attention it got: "This is a Parliament; this is supposed to be a forum for de- bate, not a political arena." And at the same profound level, reflecting the nation-wide soul-searching about our foreign trade, she warned: "This gov. ernment went to the UK. and shook its finger under the nose of the prime minister of that country and said: 'Oh no, you will not join any economic un ion in Europe, and we in Can- ada will not'. Indeed, we will not join any economic union, we will sink alone." In her first session as an MP, this stormy petrel has made evident her knowledge as a lawyer, her skill as a speaker, her talent as a political warrior. It is a strange coincidence that she began her parliamentary career in the office so long oc- cupied by another MP who made his mark through those same qualities -- John Diefen- baker. . PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM Overhead: "I have to talk about myself, but . . . " "You don't hate it one-tenth as much as I have to hear you do it") Overheard: "If the tax collec: tor and the stork don't quit coming to my door, the wolf will soon be there." The solution to most of the world's troubles is simple, to wit: Eliminate human selfish. ness. This could be done by eliminating about 98 per cent of the people. The cause of most traffic ac. cidents: High hp. and low 1.Q. To keep a paper napkin from sliding out of your lap, wad it up in a tight ball and toss it to the farthest corner of the room. A newspaper correspo says the only diffe : tween Libya and hell is that hell doesn't have sandstorms. Newspapermen certainly do get around, don't they? 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