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m1 She Oshawa Cimes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1962 -- PAGE 6 Berlin Wall Year-Old Monument To Failure ume ea Ac la cea wnt « S| } 1 4 i) ' 4 : The Berlin Wall is a year old today. It continues to shock and horrify those who see it; it continues to in- furiate the West Germans and deepen, the hate of the East Germans; it has succeeded in stopping the great flow of people from East to West, but it has failed to strangle the life of the divided city. Above all, it stands as a continuing symbol the "workers' par- adise" that had been transformed into a prison to keep its inhabitants from fleeing to the capitalistic hell; it is monument dedicated to the ster- ility of Communism. The East Germans were voting with their feet. They were. leaving East Germany by the thousands, and the Communist state was being drain- ed of its professional classes and skill- ed workers, its artisans and its farm- ers. In July, 1961, the number of per- sons fleeing from the Soviet zone reached 30,444, the highest since March, 1958. In August, until the Wall was put up, well over a thous- and persons a day left Soviet Zone. On August 13, the official total was 2,400. The Communists had to do somie- thing to stop the drain. They could not make living conditions pleasant enough to keep the people in the -- * country. They tried threats and even folice action, but these meas- ures also failed. Then around two o'clock in the morning of August 13, a Sunday, they began sealing the border crossings in the city_ with barbed wire and cement blocks. On August 14 they hurried the work, and on August 15, cinder blocks were piled four feet high to form portions of a wall. But people were still escaping, so the Wall went high- er, the barbed wire entanglements got thicker, the border guards (those who did not themselves jump the barrier) more trigger happy. The Communists: won their strug- gle to stop the refugee flow. But they lost a great deal more, because the Wall shows them for what they are, the brutal masters of a slave state. Help For Impoverished Lewis Perinbam, associate secre- tary of the Canadian National Com- mission for UNESCO, last week told a seminar organized by the United Nations Association in Canada, that the existence of Western civilization will be threatened if Western count- ries do not come to the aid of im- poverished nations. He said that Western technological and industrial contributions to humanity have cre- ated a division between rich and poor nations. He continued: "It is a division made more dang- erous by the growing gap between the living standards of the indus- trially-advanced nations of the West and the impoverished countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America . .. Unless therefore, we face up to the challenge of this human revolution that has taken place, and to the de- sire of men everywhere to better their lot, we shall ignore at our peril the real danger of the second half of the 20th century." We're getting rather tired of this kind of talk. It contains enough truth to be plausible, but its argu- ment is rarely carried to the logical conclusion. Western nations are in fact doing an enormous amount to help the so- called under-developed nations. The United States has been doing so much it has actually weakened its economy and its currency. It is doubt- ful if either Britain or Canada could or should do more than is being done, This may seem a harsh viewpoint, but the truth is harsh: A substantial amount of the billions of dollars and pounds poured into the impoverished nations has been wasted because of the corruption in those places. Food given to India appeared on shop shelves, while millions starved. Pov- erty-stricken Ecuador bought six Canberra bombers from Britain at an estimated $1.4 million apiece -- and its airmen cracked up two of them within days. The impoverished young nations in Africa have minis- ters living like millionaires, in a style that the Western taxpayers can never hope to enjoy. ; Of course we must help the im- poverished nations. But its time they also showed some inclination to help themselves, Canada And The World Many Canadians still have the idea that the world needs Canada and its resources more than Canada needs the world. That was the impression created during the decade or so fol- lowing the Second World War, when war-stricken nations had to rebuild their shattered cities and industrial plants, and there was 2 voracious de- mand for the materials and goods that Canada, pushed into industrial maturity by the war, could supply. It was an abnormal situation. But things were getting back to normal by the middle fifties other parts of the world began to produce, in <uant- ity and efficiently. The truth we have to face now is that the world could get along quite well without Canada, if it had to. R. A. Emerson, vice-president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, had this in mind when he told the alumni She Oshawa Gimes T. L. WILSON, Publisher C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshowa Times established 1871) and the Whitby Gozette and hronicle (established , "s published doily (Sundays and statutory holidays excepted) Members of Canadion Daily Newspaper Publishers Associction.. The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Asso- tiation. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all news despatched in the poper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein. Ali rights of special despatches cre also reserved, Offices: Thomson Bullding, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchmon's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Orono, Leskard, Brougham Burketon,. Claremont, Colurnbus, Greenwood, Kinsale, Raglan, Blackstock, Manchester Pontypool and Newcastle, not over 45¢ per week. By mail (im Province of Ontario) outride carriers delivery oreqs 12.00 per year Other Provinces and Commonwealth Countries 15.00 USA. ane Foreign 24.00, of the University of Manitoba: "Can- ada has succeeded in making a lot of people in this country believe that Canada owes them a living, It bas failed utterly to convince the rest of the world that the world owes Can- ada a living." In other words, there is a limit to what Canada can do by itself. Can- adians must recognize that they are a nation of only 18 million people, scattered over a huge land urea -- a small domestic market beset with problems of transportation and clim- ate and development, a market far too small to keep our industrial plants working anywhere close to capacity. To keep our mines and our factories, our farms and our forest workers busy we must sell, and sell a lot, out- side our domestic market. And to do that we must be able to compete. The soft days are over. We cannot compete if we load our products with the costs of what we would like instead of trimming our costs to what is practical and feasible. To paraphrase an old saw, we cannot sell our cake and eat it too. Other Editors' Views SUGAR PRICES Brantford Expositor Because world sugar production is about 25 per cent over consumption, the price on the international market is down to two-and-a-half cents a pound. But thanks to government "interference" -- or subsidy -- the US. wholesale price is fixed at 6.4 cents. Yet the housewife has to pay 12 cents a pound' A WEANING PROBLEM YOUR HEALTH cancer growths far from the original site. Early Removal Of Cancer Goal By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, M.D. "Dear Dr. Molner: How can cancer of the bone be treated? Is it usually fatal in itself, or by complications arising from it? If so, what are they?-- L. G."* There is nothing specifically deadly in cancer. If this has a strange ring to your ears, stop and consider a moment. The thought we must fix in our minds is that cancer ultimately proves deadly simply because it makes some vital or- gan of the body inoperative. That is why "having cancer" is not necessarily fatal. There are thousands upon thousands of people, alive and well today, who once had cancer, but it was removed or treated before it had time to reach and ruin any: vital organ. Cancer of the bone is usually a form called osteosarcoma-- not that the differentiation is of immediate concern to us here. Treatment consists of removal of the cancerous portion before it has spread. However, we must also keep this in mind. Cancer of the bone, as of almost any other area, may be "primary," meaning that it started there, or it may be "metastatic," meaning that it has spread from some other part of the body-- the breast or the thyroid, for example. This spreading is what makes the disease so dangerous. If it spread only in orderly progres- sion, from one area to the next adjoining tissue, we would have more success in fighting it. It does, in fact, progress that way at first. But in time it changes to another method. Cancer cells begin circulating through the body, probably through the blood stream or lymph system but conceivably by other means as well, and establishing new -calibre of candidate QUEEN'S PARK Liberals Prepared For Election Test By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- The Liberals held off for some time their for- mal demand that the Huron- Bruce byelection should be called. (Presumably by the time this is read the demand will have 'been made in writing to the clerk of the House, Roderick Lewis, Q.C.). This was not through any de- sre to spare anyone. For some time the party was not too sure just how good a it had available in the riding. However, it finally came up with a man. (Name not an- nounced as yet). And so now it can turn its guns on the government. SELL OUT The November manufacturing opportunity conference being sponsored by the economics and development department in No- vember is develaping into something big, realy big. Even before the formal an- nouncement of the conference had gone out the original space retained for the show had been practically sold out. This was in the Royal York Hotel. Now the Queen Elizabeth building at the CNE also has been hired, And it too is prac- tically sold out. The conference is unquestion- ably going to be a success. And the credit, great credit, goes to one man, the minister, Hon. Robert Macaulay. There have been many com- plimentary references in this space to Mr. Macaulay. There is no love affair on be- tween him and the writer." But when in the field of gov- ernment you come across men of his capacity you automatic- ally give credit. And you find yourself contin- uing to give credit. For he has most of the things that the routine man in govern- ment lacks. He has courage. He has im- agination. He has drive. He is dedicated. He is intelligent. He is deeply grounded in public service. He can admit when he is wrong. He has an open mind. He has confidence. In contrast to the many he has the attributes of stature. He is a big man. IS QUICK In this case he was very quick to recognize that we must manufacture at home. And he was quick to act and to put the excellent people he has sur- rounded himself with to work. This could, and should, have been done half a dozen years ago. The problem was obvious then. But former ministers didn't have the capacity of Mr. Mac- aulay. They dawdled. He drives. That is the point before which we must act if we are to be successful in eradicating a can- cer. After this metastastic pro- cess has begun, there is no way of telling where or how rapidly or how often new cancers will appear. We. know only that they will. This, then, is the dangerous element in cancer--but it also is the characteristic which per- mits us to save one of every three people who have the di- sease. A thorough understanding of this by the public, plus the every - day struggle of physi- cians to identify cancer without delay as soon as a person rec- ognizes some suspicious sign, is the basis upon which we now forsee the prospect of saving at least half of all cancer patients. And some medical statisticians feel that, without any new dis- coveries at all, we have it in our power. to save two out of three. "Dear Dr. Molner: My fiance is sterile. Is it possible for him to take some kind of medication so we can have children?-- Miss C. B." If there is complete absence of sperm or motility of the sperm, the outlook is pretty dim, I'm afraid. How thor- oughly has he been examined? A case recently came to my attention of a man who was told he was sterile because of an accident but tests such as sperm count and study of qual- ity had not been made. Preg- nancy occurred three months after the marriage! In cases of low (but not en- tirely absent) fertility, several things sometimes help: First, wholesome, adequate diet; sec- ond, reduce any excesses of alcohol or tobacco; third, have a metabolism test, because sometimes if metabolism is low, medication to perk it up has proved helpful in fertility. "Dear Dr. Molner: I am 70 and am asking if I am too ad- vanced in years for an opera- tion to remove cataracts.--C, K. B." No. So long as the retina and other "seeing" parts of the eyes are in good condition, removal of the cloudy lens (the "'cata- ract") restores vision. And it's been done with people older than you. BY-GONE DAYS 20 YEARS AGO John H. Beaton was appoint- ed secretary of the Oshawa Blood Donor Clinic, succeeding C. A. Lamon, who served as secretary since its inception in May of 1942. Ernest Parsons, who was as- sociated with the Canada Life Assurance Company in Oshawa for 23 years, resigned as the company representative here. Steps were taken to set up a day nursery for children of working mothers in Oshawa: A committee of six members was appointed to take charge. Approval for the holding of a tax sale of 47 parcels of im- proved and vacant land repre- senting $25,314 in tax arrears was given at a meeting of the city council. Open house was held at the Oshawa General Hospital in recognition of the 32nd anniver- sary of the opening of the insti- tution. The Women's Auxiliary of the hospital was inaugurated in January, 1907, with Mrs. R. S. McLaugiilin as president. The auxiliary took the initial steps that resulted in the build- ing of the hospital. It was for- mally opened on August 13, 1910, A War Savings drive was organized in the city headed by a' merchants' committee with Morley Wyman named chairman of the committee. Rev. George Stafford, of Osh- awa; occupied the United Church pulpit in Whitby for the first time in 50° years, having spent his earlier years there. The staff of Pedlar People reported having sent 250,000 cigarets to the armed services overseas. ' A delegation of Oshawa union representatives including '. Elson, George Thomson, -E. Boote, A. J. Turner ai i Perry attended the UAWA con- vention in Chicago. George Burt, of Oshawa, was re-elected as regional director for Canada. More than 424 citizens of On- tario County remorted to the Harvest Help Committee, in- augurated by Attorney-General Gordon Conant to help district farmers harvest the crops. Albert A. Waller, Colborne street west, was the first sol- dier from "the Oshawa district to be selected for special train- ing with the 2nd Canadian Para- troop Battalion in the United States. OTTAWA REPORT Family Fortunes Built On Lumber By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--The summer tour- ists now thronging through Ot- tawa come here to see Canada's seat of government. But they cannot help being made aware of Ottawa's lumbering activities which predate politics here. From the balcony at the sum- mit of the Peace Tower, the lovely panorama stretches from the uninhabited distant north- land to the booms of lumber being chugged by tugs up the Ottawa River, within the very shadow of that Peace Tower. From the steps of the: Parlia- ment Building, the tourist hears sounds ranging from the mar- tial music ofthe Canadian Guards band to the rumbling clatter of the conveyor belt, stacking pulpwood logs at the mill just across the Ottawa River. One hundred and fifty - five years ago, the tall timbers of the Ottawa Valley were first shipped out of Ottawa. One hundred years ago, the mills of Ottawa were producing nearly 106 million board feet of sawn lumber each year. Fifty years ago, the output was double that figure, or equivalent. to one- seventh of all Canada's total production today. Those are impressive figures; and they led to the creation of impressive family fortunes here. Today Ottawa and district boasts more millionaires than any other Canadian community of its size. But the tourists who circle Ottawa in the sight-seeing buses will not recognize the comfortable homes in the tree- lined streets of the older sec- tions of the city as the abodes of rich Canadians. For, uniquely in Canada, Ottawa's million. aires do not flaunt their wealth by conspicuous consu motion, The 'Old Ottawa Families" live up to their favorite disclaimer: "We could not afford that'. Those OOFs are little known in other parts of Canada; they hold themselves aloof from the bustle of politicians and the panache of ambassadors, both of whom are newcomers to this lumber-town. Yet such names as Booth, Perley, Bronson, Maclaren, Wilson, Cummings, Wright, Sparks, Dollar (later to form a.U.S. shipping line) and others have long been ones to conjure with here. These fami- lies boast fortunes derived di- rectly from the world's finest forests of white pine, While those early fortunes came from the huge rafts of squared timber floated down river to our seaports, today Recall First Landing Of Winnipeg Settlers WINNIPEG (CP)--August 30, 1812, was a historic day for Canada, especially Manitoba and most particularly Winnipeg. It was on that day 150 years ago that Miles MacDonnell led a veary band of 18 men ashore from their little fleet of flat- bottom boats at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers. Fifty-eight days later he wel- comed 93 more persons at the same spot--now in the heart of Winnipeg. The Selkirk settlers had come to Manitoba, or north- west Canada as it was then known. That these hardy Scottish low- landers arrived at their destina- tion at all, or even set out, was due to the dream of Thomas Douglas, fifth Earl of Selkirk, who earlier had outfitted ex- peditions of settlers for Prince Edward Island and the Lake St. Clair region of what now is Ontario. To fulfil his plans for another settlement farther inland, Lord Selkirk acquired a controlling interest in the Hudson's Bay Company and the 116,000 square miles encompassed by the com- pany charter. 61-DAY VOYAGE From Stornoway, Scotland, in 1811 MacDonnell and 35 artif- icers and laborers embarked on a 61-day voyage that was to take them to York Factory on the shores of Hudson Bay. The settlers were to follow after the first group had built a fort and a semblance of a community at the ultimate des- tination. But it wasn't all clear sailing. The first difficulty arose when MacDonnell and the master of the ship that brought the group to Canada had an argument. The ship returned to. Britain with river boats intended for use on the trip inland.still se- cure in its hold. MacDonnell's party suffered from scurvy, allayed in part by scurvy and the fact that Hud- son's Bay Company staff at drinking spruce gum tea. The York Factory used wine to ward off its ill-effects led to the defection of 14 of MacDonnell's men, led by William Finlay. The strong will and iron leadership of MacDonnell pre- vailed, however. The flat- bottom boats were built. When the ice went out on the Nelson River June 21 the men were ready for the 750-mile journey south, SUFFERED FROM COLD Even with construction of Fort Garry and the arrival of the settlers, trials for the group were far from over. They faced the harshest extremes of weather they had ever seen. Then there was the unsettled na- ture of the Indians and later a civil uprising of the Metis led by Louis Riel. They were a hardy group, however, and it wasn't until 1899 that the past of the original settlers, Mrs. Elizabeth Kauff- man, died in Winnipeg. She had been 10 when she left Storno- TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Aug. 14, 1962 .. . Washington and London announced 21 years ago to- day--in 1941 -- that Presi- dent Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill had met and agreed on an Atlantic Charter. The document in- cluded an eight-point plan for world peace, guarantee- ing all men freedom of ex- pression, of worship and freedom from want and fear. 1784 -- Grigori Shelekov founded the first Russian colony in Alaska, 1934 -- London, Ont., brewer. John Labatt was kidnapped and held for three days by Michael Me- Cardell of Hammond, Ind., later sentenced to 12 years. way and was 15% when she married Ulric Kauffman, a for- mer Swiss Guard who joined Lord Selkirk's Des Meurons Regiment in Montreal and came with them to Fort Garry. To mark the 150th anniver- sary of the settlers' arrival the federal government in Mayis- sued a commemorative stamp. Northern Affairs Minister Walter Dinsdale announced a museum would be built at the site of Lower Fort Garry. Some historical groups are still seeking a memorial to the man responsible for it all. A plaque on which Lord Sel- kirk's name is engraved is lost in the maze of downtown Win- nipeg buildings. A statue in- tended to, stand at the corner of Portage Avenue and Main Street was started but only the pedestal completed, and that soon removed. A statue standing at the east entrance of the legislative build- ings is seen by few persons and even it is unadorned with the name of the man it repre- sents. riches are harvested here from pulpwood converted locally into newsprint paper, toilet tissues and match books. Pulpwood is chiefly cut in. winter on the hills overlooking the Ottawa River and its beau- tiful tributaries. The woodsmen sell it for the good price of $26.65 per cord to the mills, whence it is sold in one final form as newsprint for $130 per ton. PAPER IN OUR RIVER One cord of this Ottawa Val- ley pulpwood typically contains 85 logs each four feet long and averaging eight inches in diam- eter. Each cord weighs two tons, of which half is moisture; it will yield one ton of news- print, or 36,000 sheets of paper each making four pages of a normal-size newspaper. Thus each one of those clat- tering logs noticed here by our tourists will yield enough news- print to provide your 12-page home town newspaper to your home six days a week for about six months. From standing tree to roll of newsprint, that log will provide 15 minutes work for one man, and its worth advances steadily from free-by-nature, to 31 cents delivered at the mill, to $1.53. leaving the mill as newsprint; and, at five cents per newspaper, it will reach the reader in printed form at a total price of $7.60. Newsprint and similar prod- ucts made from softwood now together make Canada's most important export; this year they will again achieve new records. This city, poised at the "meeting place of the waters", has long typified this old Cana- dian industry. The commercial exploitation of the forests sur- rounding Ottawa has built greater fortunes than the more widely known political activities in Ottawa. But the "OOFs" re- main quite indifferent that their "sub-arctic lumbering village" was, 95 years ago, "converted into a political cock-pit". PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM "I feel in need of some good laughs," said Satan to his head imp. "Take care of things while I visit a few cemeteries and read the inscriptions on tomb- stones."" "The man who makes love to a married woman is a cad," says a moralist. Not necessari- ly -- he may be an affectionate husband. The reason a person never means it when he speaks ill of himself is that he has to live with himself "World Shrunken by Telstar." --Headline. That so many things are happening to make the world smaller gives rise to the fear by some and the hope by others that it may soon dis» appear entirely. REPORT FROM U.K. Economy Campaign Irks Railwaymen By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- In the opinion of W. H. Rathbone, president of the National Union of Railway- men, the future of the railway industry is grimmer than at any previous time, Speaking to the delegate conference of the union at Margate, he said that if the government continued with its policy of closing all lines that are uneconomic, 150,- 000 railwaymen would lose their jobs. Mr. Rathbone was discussing the government's new Trans- port Bill, which he described as "'yet another stage in the calculated destruction of the railway system."" He com- mented: "At a time when traffic on our roads reaches saturation point all too often the govern- ment is bent on destroying our railroads, The Tories' debt to the road haulage industry must be a heavy one." SETS UP NEW BOARD The Transport Bill provides for the replacement of the Brit- ish Transport Commission by a British Railways Board. Mr. Rathbone said: "The new boards will obvious- ly consist of representatives of big businesses who will faith- fully serve their Tory govern- ment masters. There is no in- dication that there will be an adequate representation of workers engaged in the indus- try. Since 1950, 301 branch lines, serving 3,600 route miles or 19 per cent of 'British railways, have been closed. There has also been a substantial reduc- tion of staffs at several of the railway workshops. WANT NEW OUTLOOK All of this was disturbing to the union president. He called for a new and enlightened ap- proach: to the problem of the men who will lose their jobs on the railways. He said: "There must be new and bet- ter safeguards for surplus staff by way of adequate compensa- tion payments, improvei dis- turbance allowance, retention of pension rights and better travelling facilities. We must stand steadfastly by our union policy of no dismissals." AGAINST STRIKES Sidney Greene, general secre- tary of the NUR, however, warned the conference against the use of strikes as an effec- tive method of resisting the closure of uneconomic railway lines. He said he preferred to put his trust in arousing public opinion against the govern- ment. Mr. Greene, who takes a more realistic view of the rail- way situation than does Mr. Rathbone, put the situation squarely before the dele- gates when he said: "I don't mind people argu- ing about industrial action or the full force of the un"on, whatever that means, but when a man's job is going, he is a bit worried about any sort of action. He is ony hoping the union will be able to safeguard his job, and the only way we are able to do that is to get the enthusiasm of the general pub- lic behind us in a desire to keep the railway industry. go- ing." The conference was a bit confused by the divergent views expressed by the union leaders, but after a three hour debate, it adopted a resolution instructing the executive "to use all legitimate means w¥fh- in the union's power to secu-e acceptance four policies." But opinions differed as to what means were legitimate, as to what the union policies exactly were. Pry 1H the EST WHISKY in the world... 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