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Fhe Oshawa Tomes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 Friday, August 18, 1961 Bad Risks Not Likely To Take Out Insurance While the members of the select committee of the Ontario Legislature inquiring into compulsory auto insurance heard more about the difficulties of such insurance this week, the All Canada Insurance Federation announced that henceforth auto insurance would be available to all drivers, regardless of risk, the only requirement being pos- session of a legitimate driver's licence, The insurance men admitted that gov- ernment pressure was partly respon- sible for the decision. The Federation's announcement does not mean very much. The drivers who are the worst insurance risks are likely to be the drivers who do not take out in- surance--as officials who administer the Unsatisfied Judgment Fund can un- doubtedly testify. Thus the need for compulsory insurance, or a contribution to the Fund at least equal to the average annual amount paid by an insured driver, is not lessened. Government action is still definitely required in this matter. If the govern- ment wishes to avoid the political complications of compulsory insurance, the least it can do is to require the uninsured would-be driver to pay a minimum of $50 into the Unsatisfied Judgment Fund before being issued with a permit to drive. That figure would be a realistic substitute for proper insurance -- which the present $5 fee is not. ' Imperative, too, is action to speed up and simplify the workings of the Fund, particularly if compulsory insurance -- still the logical step to take -- is dodged. An innocent driver injured in a car accident for which an uninsured driver is to blame, should not have to wait for years for a settlement of his award of damages; he needs the money quickly, when there are hospital and repair bills and household expenses to be met, at a time when he is probably unable to wnrk. Moreover, while the insurance cui panies may make insurance available to bad risks, the government should be considering whether bad risks should be permitted to drive. The Plight Of Mr. Benn Canadians who have wisely' barred titles from this country can view with detached bemusement the plight of Britain's Reluctant Peer, the Vancouver Sun suggests. It seems ludicrous to Canada that Anthony Wedgwood Benn, a young Socialist MP, cannot renounce his peerage and remain in the House of Commons. It is less amusing to Mr. Benn, now Lord Stansgate, and to those who wish Britain could adjust at least some of her ancient traditions to ac- commodate the 20th Century A special election court has ruled that Benn legally became Lord Stans- gate when his father died last year. Therefore the court ignored Benn's victory in the Bristol South East by- election in May and ruled that the seat belongs to Tory Malcolm St. Clair (who received 13,044 less votes than Benn). Benn has been struggling for the right to turn down the title since 1954 when he emerged as one of the brightest of young Labor MPs. But no amount of backing has proved enough to pierce the tribal rules of the Establishment The late Lord Stansgate was persu- aded to accept the peerage in wartime when the Labor party needed more members in the House of Lords. But he first gained the approval of his eldest son, Michael, who would inherit the title. When Michael was killed, second son Anthony became the reluctant recipient. Before Lord Stansgate died he supported his son's fight to renounce the title. Sir Winston Churchill backed him. The voters backed him When the Com- mons declared his seat vacant because he had become a peer, Lord Stansgate defiantly ran again -- as Anthony Wedgwood Benn -- and doubled his majority. If Sir Winston's father -- instead of his uncle -- had become the eighth Duke of Marlborough, Churchill would have become the 10th duke and would have been disqualified to sit in the Commons If nothing else, this close scrape with losing the greatest parliamentarian of our age to a political backwater should inspire the Commons to inject a little common sense into an archaic rule. Plague Of Conformity Does the following sound familiar? "In our times, from the highest class of society down to the lowest, every one lives as under the eye of a hostile and dreaded censorship. "Not only in what concerns others, but in what concerns only themselves, the individual or the family do not ask themselves -- what do I prefer? or, what would allow the best and highest xn me to have fair play, and enable it to grow and thrive? "They ask themselves, what is suit- able to my position? what is usually done by persons of my station and pecu- niary circumstances? or (worse still) what is usually done by persons of a station and circumstances superior to mine? "I do not mean that they choose what is customary, in preference to what suits their own inclination. It does She Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher and General Manager C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) ond the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle (established 1863), is published daily (Sundays and statutory holidays excepted). 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Circulation for the issue of March 30, 1961 17,363 not occur to them to have any inclina- tion, except for what is customary. "Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke; even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like it in crowds; they exercise choice only among things com- monly done; peculiarity of taste, eccen~ tricity of conduct are shunned equally with crimes; until by dint of not fol- lowing their own nature, they have no nature to follow; their human capacities are withered and starved; they become incapable of any strong wishes or native pleasures, and are generally without either opinions or feelings of home growth, or properly their own. "Now is this, or is it not, the desirable condition of human nature?" No, that wasn't written by an angry young man in 1961. It comes from the essay "On Liberty" which John Stuart Mill wrote in 1859, Other Editor's Views A DIRTY LOOK (Hamilton Spectator) A young woman went to jail in San Diego, California, for contempt of court because she made a face at the judge who had convicted her brother of a minor traffic violation. Which is reminiscent of the following classical dialogue: "Did you give me a dirty look 7" "You have a dirty look, all right, but I didn't give it to you!" Bible Thought Wrath is cruel. -- Proverbs 27:4. It is cruel to the one who yields to it and to the object of wrath as well. We should learn to control wrath and use it only to destroy evil and injustice, I do remember my faults this day.-- Genesis 41:9. We sometimes forget because it does not please us to remember. A confession Pf ingratitude is wholesome. FIDE OTTAWA REPORT Detective Work On Russian Spy By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- Every journalist hates to be "scooped" by his rivals. How much more would one hate to be scooped by an- other country's secret service! Yet that happened to me re- cently. I write this daily column al- most a week before it is pub- lished, so that it can be dis- tributed to distant provinces and still appear on the same day in all the two dozen daily news- papers of the Thomson group. Consequently it is rare for this column of background informa- tion to be in the lead with news which neither newspaper nor broadcasting station has been able to gather in the interven- ing week. Yet in the recent case of the Soviet espionage ring probing naval secrets in England, I had a world scoop for several weeks on the true identity of the sup- posedly Canadian master-spy. This could not be revealed be- dale applied in Toronto for his birth certificate. Brilliant detection work in : Canada succeeded in proving that Cobalt's forgotten baby was not England's headlined spy. The Royal Canadian Mounted i Police, suffering from a 15-year ban on talking about Commun- i ist espionage in Canada, will y neither describe nor claim credit fore his trial; then unexpectedly British secret service sources leaked most of the details to the press in Loudon. FORGOTTEN BABY The master-spy in. the ring gathering secrets of British sub- marines at the Portland naval base called himself Gordon Lonsdale, and said he had been born at Cobalt, Ontario, in 1924. He had a Canadian passport fo prove it. Enquiries in Canada revealed that indeed a boy-child had been born at Cobalt in 1924 to Jack Emmanuel Lonsdale, reported to be half-Indian, and his wife Alga Bousu, an immigrant from Finland. Two years later, the mother left the father, and took the baby to live at Kirkland Lake for six years; then she re- turned to Finland, taking her son with her, and Canada lost track of two Canadians. Thirty- one years later, Gordon Lons- QUEEN'S PARK Leadership Scrap To Be Really Hot By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--Full of the old razz-matazz? The PC leadership convention could be the most exciting in our provincial history. It has the makings of a bang- up show. Perhaps more like a U.S. convention than anything we have yet seen. This partly because in our conventions we have been trend- ing more and more to the U.S. trimmings--bands, noise, color and excitement. But even more so because there probably will be more real contenders on hand than we are used to. NOT TWO-WAY At U.S. conventions there usu- ally are three or four men who get serious consideration. Ours don't seem to work out that way--either provincially or federally. It's usually a case with us two men, or of one man against the field. Provincially we have had Wintermeyer vs Harris, and back in 1949 Frost vs Blackwell. Federally there has been Pear- son vs Martin, and Diefenbaker against the rest. But it shouldn't work out that way here this time . When the chips are down there should be at least three or four men to be seriously con- sidered. The personalities of the prob- able candidates also indicate quite a bit of showmanship. It would be surprising if At- torney-General Roberts--a sure starter--didn't figure some way of bringing in a fire engine. Mr. Roberts reaches for the moon when it comes to the dra- matic. Energy Minister Macaulay should produce something new and different in the way of tub- thumpers. You could bet now on at least PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM "Missing in your instant cof- fee." From a singing commer- cial. Now how the heck could anything be missing in some- thing. An Englishman preached his own funeral via a phonobraph record. Many a person could save his minister considerable embarrassment by doing the same. one bag-piper for Health Min- ister Dymond. And the others will have their circus trimmings. Actually the 1949 PC conven- tion was the best we have had here, at least in recent years. It took the first real step to- wards the ballyhoo type of meet- ing. There were booths and pen- nants and buttons and some high wide and handsome entertain- ing. The Liberals have never reached the peak the PC's did. At their last convention there were plenty of trimmings. But there wasn't the carnival spirit that goes with them. The bodies and desire were there but the spirit wasn't. This type of campaigning, of course, costs the candidates a bundle. But from the signs sev- eral prospects will have it to spend. for this detection. But since that woefully small force, restricted by an uninformed Parliament to an entirely inadequate budget is our only anti - Communist de- fence in Canada, it is reasonable to assume that the RCMP un- masked Vasilyi Vasilyevich, born in Smolensk, former Red Army officer, star graduate of Russia's spy academy, who was posing as Canadian-born Gor- don Lonsdale. SLIPSHOD OFFICIALS The spy-designate was smug- gled ashore in Vancouver har- bor from a Russian ship loading grain. He applied for, and ob- tained, a driving licence there, then moved to Toronto. Using his driver's permit to "prove" his identity, he then obtained a birth certificate from the On- tario provincial government and armed with that he applied for, and obtained, a passport as a natural-born Canadian citizen. Having thus simply circum- vented the barriers which con- front a legal immigrant acting honestly for five years, he took a bus to Niagara Falls, walked across the bridge to U.S.A., and in due course arrived in Eng- land. Nobody in Canada recalled much about the baby born 37 years ago in Cobalt. Even the father had to admit that he could not recognize the son he had not seen since 35 years ago. But, although there was no doubt that the Gordon Lonsdale arrested in England was guilty of espionage, there was a tech- nical interest in establishing his true identity. All counter-espion- age forces in the free world would be assisted if they defin- itely knew that they should not be put off if investigations of a spy revealed an apparent non- Russian. So. it happened that con- scientious examination in Can- ada finally revealed the fact that the Cobalt baby had under- gone a simple operation often performed on male infants. The spy held in England had not. The traditional Russian thor- oughness had overlooked this significant detail, and police history chalked up the first case of an identity being established by that practice which origin- ated as a Mohammedan re- ligious rite. INSIDE YOU Magic Numbers Theory Untested By BURTON H. FERN, MD Biorhythm could have won you a big fat bankroll recently! With 7 to 1 odds favoring In- gemar Johansson, biorhythm "proved" that he didn't stand a fighting chance. Biorhythm begins ticking away at birth. For 1115 days, invisible transfusions recharge your fading power. Recharged after the whole 23-day cycle, you start over. Your mood varies, too. But its cycle runs 28 days. Gay and high for 14 days, you sink into a depression for the second 14. Even fast minds take 33 days to complete the intelligence cycle, slowing down to recharge during the second 161% days. BE CAUTIOUS During the recharging period, you simply guard against over- taxing your limited ability. But the middle and last day of each biorhythm cycle is critical -- you're changing from souped-up to recharge or back again. If two or all three cycles are changing together, watch out! On a critical intelligence day, read all the fine print before making any big deal. Don't try for a track record when physical stamina is critical. Leading the bicrhythm band- wagon is a Swiss watchmaker who manufactures $35 bio rhythm computers -- the deluxe model costs $45. Biorhythm is hardly proven. Can the human body be geared to Swiss watch accuracy? Calculate your own and see. Total your age in days -- 365 for each year plus 1 for every leap year plus the number of days since your last birthday plus 1. Divide by 23, 28 and 33 to determine each of the three cycles. YOUR ANSWER A perfectly even answer means you're on the last day. Any remainder tell how many days have already passed in your current cycle. Now you can figure the middle and end of future cycles over the next few months. Did it work out? Let us know and we'll print the results! Biorhythm may stand on & foundation of quick sand. But still, you don't want to miss any bets -- especially if Ingemar fights again! READERS' VIEWS Queries Future Of Young Party Dear Sir: You have been more than kind in your comments on the New Democratic Party, the fancy name which has been given the old CCF and which makes no more sense than Co- operative Commonwealth Feder- ation did. In 10 years, if the party is still in existence, will it be either New or Democratic? Can any party based on social. istic ideas be democratic? Khrushchev talks about his party being the party of social- ism, because he understands that there can't be anything like going half way towards socialism. Your editorial comment sug- gests that this may be a new force in Canadian politics. How can it be a new force? The only thing that has been added is tne union slush fund. How many union members really want to contribute to the further politi- cal glorification of their lead- ers? If the so-called New Demo- cratic Party is really demo- cratic, it will have union me- bers contract-in instead of con- tracting-out of the dues collec- tion for the political fund. Too much pressure can be put on a worker by the contract-out method. I know, because I am a union member. You suggest that the NDP may grab off votes from the Liberals and 'disgruntled votes from the Conservatives. Where are these votes coming from? Not from Liberals who can see the great liberal pro- gram being shaped by Mr. Pear- son, Mr. Martin and th eir friends, and not from Conserva- tives who share the great vision of Mr. Diefenbaker. It's just the old CCF all over again, It will go the same way. DOUBTING THOMAS 'Whitby OFFERS CHALLENGE Dear Sir: Recently in a national maga- zine there appeared a few arti- cles on Extra Sensory Percep- tion. In these articles some people were practically called liars. I was one of them. So, to confuse my critics (after 12 years of writing and 44 years of study) I am offering fo do pub- licly an experiment from Zen-- from Japan, as it pervades all their culture and life. With a line drawn 20 feet, I sit in the centre. Then anyone wishing to participate, at a given signal moves slowly to- wards the centre of the circle. A short speech before would give an idea to the group of what is to be expected. But no word would be uttered after the posture is assumed (sitting on a low stool or cushions). Some would feel heavy, others like floating, others as though electrical currents were flowing through their bodies. To others it would mean nothing. To others again a peace steals over BY-GONE DAYS 35 YEARS AGO Board of Education purchased two lots on Brock Street to pro- vide a playground for Mary Street School. Thousands of people attend- ed the annual General Motors picnic at Lakeview Park, at which six-year-old Marie Smith was the winner of a Chevrolet car. Mrs. Maria Pike, one of Osh- awa's oldest and highly esteem- ed citizens, celebrated her 90th birthday. A. E. O'Neill, former principal of London Collegiate Institute, accepted the principalship of Oshawa High School. In the first game of the semi- finals of the South Ontario Soft- ball League, Williams Piano de- feated Columbus by a 20 to 4 score. An announcement was made that the Adams Furniture of To- ronto will erect a store on the site of the old Crystal Theatre, Simcoe street south. Registration of voters for the federal election for Ontario Rid- ing was started in Oshawa with J. A. McGibbon, 0. M. Alger, W. A. Hare and P. D. Hess as registrars. The annual Courtice-Everson family picnic was largely attend- ed. Norman James was elected president; S. F. Everson, vice- president and Mrs. T. G. Mason, secretary-treasurer for the en- suing year. Many Oshawa Rotarians vis: ited the Bowmanville Rotary Carnival, staged on the gaily decorated main street of the town. The mail carrier service in Oshawa celebrated the sxth an- niversary of its inauguration. The carrier system was started in 1920 with seven routes cover- ed by seven carriers, and now, six years later, there are 10 routes and 13 carriers. R. S. McLaughlin, on behalf of General Motors of Canada, presented the city with a new fire pumper and hose wagon. evidenced at healing shrines in France, Canada or elsewhere. . But no preaching would be done at all. It can be outside in daylight, no apparatus, drugs, etc. -- maybe a camera if one cares to take pictures. R. H. THURLWELL Oshawa CONCERTS PRAISED Dear Sir: I feel I must give a word of thanks to General Motors for the delightful and enjoyable Bern Tierney jazz concerts, They have really been some- thing to look forward to, and I'm hoping they will be con- tinued every year. All the credit seems to have been given to the guest artists, but it is Bern and his men who have made these evenings so pleas- ant. Bern, too, has shown quite a gift for being an easy-going MC, just setting a nice pace for a pleasant summer evening, However I must add a brick to the above bouquet. I see that an old favorite of mine and very famous too, landed here in Oshawa with her husband to do some fishing at Peterborough but I had to read about it in the Star. I was disappointed to find nothing in The Times about Frances Langford and her hus- band Ralph Evinrude. MRS. J. HOOPER Oshawa EXCHANGE VISITS Dear Sir: On behalf of our Board of Directors I want to thank you and your newspaper most sin- cerely for the generous public- ity which you gave to our stu- dent exchange project this year. Your coverage of the exchange visits has come to our attention from many sources and we con- gratulate you on the role which your newspaper has played in promoting Canadian unity. The purpose of the exchange visits is to promote better re- lations between English-speak- ing and French-speaking Can- adians and to encourage biling- ualism. This year 600 second- ary school students from 34 communities in Ontario and Quebec took part in this project which is now in its fifth year. And when you include all the members of the families in- volved more than 2500 people were intimately and directly connected with the exchange visits program. We take great pride in this particular project because we believe that it has done a great deal to foster better relations between the people of Ontario and Quebec. The support which your newspaper has given our work is deeply appreciated. Toronto Richard D. Jones, National Council of Christians and Jews, Que. MORE MOOSE A record 12,058 moose were shot during 1960 in Ontario by about 36,000 hunters. What Your COMMUNITY CHEST Means To You! THE CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND Work With the Blind to the minimum. arines. In each a wide E. G. Storie, President ities is carried on, including the provision of hostels for a limited number of blind in train- ing and for @ number of permanent guests. Friday, July 21st was a great day for the blind and for those interested in them. On that day there was the official opening of the "Lake Joseph Ad- justment, Training and Holiday Centre"; one of the newest ventures of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. This fine project emphasizes the fact that blind folk want to be regarded as normal citizens, and to share in all the pleasures and duties of ordinary people to the limit of their ability. They do not ask for pity, but to be accepted as normal and, if possible, useful citizens. This establishment at Lake Joseph is situated on a large tract of wood- land beside the lake, There is splendid pro- vision for the comfort and interest of the blind guests.' It has all the facilities of an excellent summer resort. The guests can in- dulge in water and land sports, hand crafts and diversions of many sorts. Costs are kept It should be remembered that the C.N.I.B. is a Dominion-wide effort to help the blind. Accordingly efforts are being made to esta- blish branches of the Canada. Several are now in operation, at Kingston, Vancouver, Halifax and St. Cath- Institute all across programme of activ- This wonderful work of the Canadian Insti- tute for the Blind can only be carried on with funds provided by YOU through the Greater Oshawa Community Chest, GREATER OSHAWA COMMUNITY CHEST 11 ONTARIO STREET E A REV. DR. GEO. TELFORD Chairman PHONE 728-0203 Doyle, Executive Secretary