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* She Oshawa Cimes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1963--PAGE 6 Questionable Document Waste Of House's Time Former defence minister Gordon Churchill has not added to his parliamentary stature by reading into the record a questionable letter allegedly sent by U.S. Ambassador Walton Butterworth to Prime Minis. ter Pearson when the latter was Opposition leader last January. The letter read by Mr. Churchill praised Mr. Pearson for a speech in which he said Canada should live up to her commitments by obtaining nuclear-.warheads. for Weapons in the hands of Canadian forces; it also accused the Diefen- baker government of being narrow- minded and unfit to govern. Mr. Churchill gave it as an example of what he claimed was U.S. inter- vention in Canadian politics. Both Mr. Pearson and Mr. But- terworth have categorically stated that the letter is a forgery. Mr. Pearson sdid he received no such letter, and told the House: "My honorable friend opposite must have known that, therefore, the letter was a forgery." Mr. Butterworth denied having written such a letter, and said: "The forgery was brought to my attention during the recent election campaign. I notified the then Government that such a forgery was being circulated and denied to inquirers who asked me about, it at that time that I had ever written any such letter. I re- iterate the denial." Mr. Churchill must have known, before the introduced the subject in the House this week, that the documént he had was highly ques- tionable. He must have known that the U.S. ambassador had branded it a forgery in a notification to the Diefenbaker government; Mr. Churchil] was a member of that government. His introduction of the matter during the Throne 'Speech debate was therefore a piti- ful, time-wasting attempt to em- barrass the new government with a discredited document. Mr. Churchill has still not answer. ed the question put to him by Mr. Pickersgill: '""Would the honorable gentleman say where he got that letter and from whom, and what effort he has made to find out whether or not it was ever written by the purported author?" Public, Guardian Idea The private bill pr intment'of a "public ombudsman for Canada is likely to.cause much of a stir in the Commons, but that does not make the proposal any the less worth while. There is, in fact, a need for an impartia! interceder for the individual who has been dealt with unjustly or summarily by some government body. When he was minister of justice, Davie Fulton argued that the Bill of Rights put through by the Diefenbaker government made an ombudsman unnecessary. That was in 1961. The brief passage of time has proved that the Bill of Rights is a frail support for the put-upon individual. Legal opinion is that it is virtually unenforceable, or that it requires a body of support pro- vided by Supreme Court rulings over a period of years. The ombudsman is a Scandinavian idea, originating in Sweden and spreading to Norway and Denmark. New Zealand also adopted the idea and has just completed a year of successful operation. It operates like this: If a citizen makes a com- plaint. against the conduct' of a civil servant, the matter is inves- tigated and reported upon by the Ombudsman, who is an impartial authority entirely independent of the administration; the impartial authority acts on behalf of Parlia- ment, although he is also protecting the interests of the individual com- plainant; the investigation is con- ducted openly, with all the docu- ments made available to the press and wide publicity given to the in- vestigation in all.its stages; the method of submitting complaints, and of the investigation of com- plaints informal, not bound by red tape: In an article in the Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science several months ago, Prof. Donald Rowat of Carleton Univer- sity made the point that, under our parliamentary system, "because of the executive's dominance over the legislature and its traditions of secrecy, there is no easy way for cases of maladministration to come to light." It Still Doesn't Work The western world's squabbling ever trade and tariffs might lead some people to believe that central planning along the Communist line would achieve much better results. It is an attractive idea, indeed. It is entirely reasonable that the Soviet Union. and its satellites should specialize in producing the goods they can turn out most efficiently ; Economic Assistance. Member coun. tries are the Soviet Union, East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania and Outer Mongolia. This Communist Market's 320 million persons dwarfs the Common Market's 170 million population. Despite its theoretical advantages, Comecon is limping badly, so badly that Come- there are no tariff barriers between gon officials privately admit it will the countries, and central economic planning directs investment of capital, flow of materials and allo- eation of labor. In theory it should be an extremely efficient arrange- ment. 'The Communist countries Jong since .recognized this great oppor- tunity for over-all economic plan- fing. In 1949, eight years before the Common Market, they formed Comecon -- the Council for Mutual Bhe Oshoroa Fimes T, L. WILSON, Publisher C. GWYN KINSEY. Editor The Oshowa Times combining The Oshawa Times (astablished 1871: ond the Whitby Gozette ond Ghronicie 'establishes 1863, is published daily (Sundays 'and statutory holidays excepted) Members of Canadion Daily Newspaper Publish- @ts Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau @t Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dollies Association. The Canodion Press is exclusively q@ntitied to the use of republication of ali news despatched .in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local naws published therein. All rights of special des petches ore olso reserved Otfices: Building, 425. University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cothcort Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by corriers in Oshawa, Whitby, , Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Albert, Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Boy, |, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunborton, Enniskillen, , Leskerd, Broughom, Burketon, Claremont, Columbus, Greenwood, Kinsale, Roglan, Blackstock, Monchester Pontypool and Newcastle not over 45c per week By mail (in Province of Ontario) side corriers deitvery areas |2.00 per year. Other inces end Commonwealth Countries 15.00, S.A. and foreign 24.00. Thomson Aja: Petond e another 15 to 20 years before their trading bloc reaches the state of integration already attained by the Common Market countries. Human nature is one stumbling block in this plan for national in- dustrial specialization. From plant workers to plant managers to top planners there is reluctance to close down a factory and ship its machines off to another country that is supposed to be able to oper- ate the business more efficiently. Decisions that are made on the availability of raw materials and_ skilled labor often overlook the fac- tor of production experience. And it is generally acknowledged that many of the decisions of the plan- ners are mainly influenced by poli- tical pressures. Trade arrangements are another stumbling block. In the Communist world trade deals are not made by businessmen but by government of- ficials, and. mostly on-a_ straight barter basis, Since they not buy and sell for cash, Comecon coun- tries not infrequently end up with a surplus of some unwanted pro- duct, and have to resort to the costly and difficult procedure of re- export, T OTTAWA REPORT Criticism Aimed At Canada's Aid By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- "'Any day of the week you'can stand in any Ca- nadian groceteria and watch Canadian housewives buying cartfuls of food;. and from each cart there will be wasted more food than many an Asian fam- ily will have to eat in the whole week." Bob Thompson, leader of the Social Credit party, made that statement in a private conver- sation at a purely social gath- ering. One of his hearers was H. O. (Herb) Moran, -the dedi- cated chief of Canada's For- eign Aid Office--and he agreed. I call Herb 'dedicated' be- cause he is more than a com- petent civil servant doing that humane job; he was formerly Canadian high commissioner to Pakistan, and while living in that country he was able to see what a huge gulf there is be- tween the Canadian way of life and the Asian struggle for ex- istence. What Bob Thompson. ex- pressed so dramatically was the same thing that another Cana- dian said not long ago on Parlia- ment Hill, in equally graphic words. As guest speaker at the Senate and House of Commons voluntary committee on health, Dr. Brock Chisholm asserted that if 18,000,000 Asians were to be picked at random to be per- YOUR HEALTH mitted to scrat a living on the garbage dumps of the 18,- 000,000 inhabitants of Canada, they would improve their lot. That complacency - shattering remark is the most sensational single statement I have ever heard on Parliament Hill. SO WHAT? This line of thought was awakened by a remark made by Miss Pauline Jewett, the newly-elected Libera! MP for Northumber1and, Ontario, in her speech moving the address in reply to the speech from the throne at the opening of this Parliament. "People talk about the afflu- ent society we have,"' said the brilliant University Professor-- Miss Jewett is a professor of political science. 'It is quite possible there are a few mem- bers of our society who are gen- uinely affluent; but with very large numbers, I should. think close to a third, this is cer- tainly not the case. Many of them live in conditions that should not be tolerated by any decent, thoughtful society." Three-quarters of Canada's trivial and criticised foreign aid is directed through the Co- lombo Plan, Last year, plead- ing financial stringency, our government slashed our year's contribution from $50,000,000 to $41,500,000. That is approximat- _ Rheumatic Fever Effects Assessed By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, MD Dear Dr. Molner: I had rheumatic fever as a boy and have been told it always does some damage to the heart. I am now 45, Does the disease more severe as_ the grows older?--JOHN §&. While rheumatic fever is a dangerous disease because of its after - effects, we certainly cannot say it always damages the heart. Neither can we generalize about the degree of dam-- age.- Sometimes it is severe, sometimes slight. And it does not automatically become more severe with age. \ What happens is that it ma inflame the heart tissues, After the disease has ended, one or »more of the heart valves may be impaired because of scar tis- sue which has formed where the inflammation developed. Repeated attacks of rheu- matic fever, later in life, per- haps seemingly light ones, can keep adding to the damage, of course. That's why, these days, we continue protective medica- tion (usually penicillin) once a month for approximately 5 years after an-attack of rheu- ma'ic fever. Knowing the dangergus after- become patient math, we now realize the im- portance of subduing infection from the first moment rheu- matic fever is suspected. As a result we have less damage and fewer repeat attacks. The profit to health from this is far greater than is indicated by the relatively small amount of pub- licity about it. Now in your case, you surely have had a number of physical examinations -- school, insur- ance, job, military, or just your own general health checkups. Heart damage from rheu- matic fever is usually first de- tected by a murmur, Of course all murmurs don't mean that. If rheumatic fever as a child had damaged your heart, you would have known about it. There is no reason to think it will. show up long afterward x without warning. It doesn't d that, On the other hand, for people who have known damage from this, the faulty valves over the years put extra strain on the heart muscle, thus adding a dif- ferent kind of harm as time passes. It isn't that the results of rheumatic fever grow worse; it's a case of damage in one place putting harmful' stress on a related area. ANNOUNCING the opening of a new branch of CANADA'S LARGEST SERVICE BUREAU FOR TEMPORARY OFFICE HELP OFFICE OVERLOAD CO. LTD. Now serving Oshawa, Ajax, Whitby Areas For skilled office help: TYPISTS, STENOS, DICTAS, BOOKKEEPERS, BUSINESS MACHINE OPERATORS AND CLERKS, Call Oshawe 728-9431 -- Mrs. Chalmers cally-trained eiy half the figure which our government contributed to help finance the operations. of the Canadian Broadcasting Corpor- ation; it is slightly less than was spent on various forms of alcoholic drinks in the province of Saskatchewan alone last year; it is equivalent to less than one piece of bubble-gum per Canadian per day; it is peanuts. DON'T PLEAD POVERTY Whatever else we. may give as the reason for our contemp- tible measure of aid to other countries, we should not plead that we cannot afford to give more. That is the worst form of international public relations. Miss Jewett's remark cer- tainly has validity within the Canadian context; but here again, measured against the in- ternational picture, we must question whether -it is a decent complaint, Even our unem- ployed -- and we must feel ashamed for the lack of jobs for those who really seek them --enjoy: a cash income from the Unemployment Insurance Fund in one month which exceeds what most Asians can earn in unCanadianly. |ong_ working hours in a whole year. In the "'have-not" nations, 99 per cent of the people live, to borrow Miss Jewett's words," "in conditions that should not be tolerated by any decent, thoughtful society." Canada's population alone is far too small to be able to solve this -world-wide problem. But Canada's voice should be raised, and Canada's example should be set, to urge world-wide com- mon sense. Collective security in the long run will be. best achieved, not by nuclear bombs, not by tariff walls, not by self- ish luxury, but by helping the underdeveloped nations of the world to approximate to the well - fed disease - free techni- standards which even Miss Jewett's unaffluent one-third enjoy. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS May 30, 1963... Joan of Arc was burned at the stake 532 years ago to- day--in 1431 -- after being condemned as a heretic. The . Maid of Orleans, one of France's most striking his- torical figures, led an army of 6,000 men against the English invaders and forced them to raise the siege of the city of Orleans. The English army retreated be- fore the French, inspired by her figure dressed in ar- "mor, mounted on a black charger. But her enemies delivered her to the English and her death. She was can- onized in 1455, 1848 -- Fredericton, N.B., was incornorated 1672 -- Peter the Great, Czar of Russia, was born. QUEEN'S PARK _ Public Or Private Medicare Question By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- One of the key points of Medicare is whether it should be carried by private or a public insurer and how much it should cost. This was discussed yesterday, A second key point of paying a low prmium which would be assisted very consid- erably from consolidated rev. enues (mainly through a spe- cial corporations tax), STATE PAY? The essential point of differ- tae is whether today the state ence is how and by. whom é Id pay at least a substan. should be paid for. The government. proposal is that except in cases of dis- tress (welfare and low income groups) it should be paid for by the individual through pre- miums. ' The Liberals would cover wel. fare cases and the aged and the young. The balance would pay a premium to a public agency with some assistance go. ing from the consolidated rev- enues, The NDP wants compulsory. insurance for everybody, with government taking care of wel- fare etc., and.everyone else tial\part of the cost of medical services, That is whether it should pay for part of your and my medical costs, Or taken further it-is-whether you should pay for part of my costs of medical attention. The government says no. The rals say partly yes partly 0, (their main interest would seem to be in getting medical insurance to a point where everybody can have it without it being a burden). And the NDP says flatly yes. The government, of course, would see that coverage was available by legislating that REPORT FROM U.K. Big Cattle Ranch Built By Canadian By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent to For the Oshawa Times FORT WILLIAM, Scotland -- Here under the shadow of Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the British Isles, I have been visiting a cattle ranch which is the largest and only one of its kind in Scotland, and which is reminiscent of the cattle ranches of the foothills of Al- berta. In fact this ranch, the Glen Nevis Cattle Ranch, was established by a Canadian who some two or three years ago sold it to the Hon, Allan Mac- kay, son of the Earl of Niths- dale. The ranch. sprawls over 6000 acres of the Inverness-shire countryside, is bordered on one side by the River Lochy and on the other by the towering mass of Ben. Nevis. MODERN METHODS The Glen Nevis ranch is op- erated on strictly modern me- thods, particularly in the field of genetics. Its purpose is the development of a cross-bred type of cattle, combining har- diness to withstand the winter outdoors, with the fast growth to produce top quality beef ani- mals at the age of 18 months. The herd now numbers close to 1000 beef animals. Its foun- dation is a herd of cows of the Galloway breed from the south- east corner of Scotland. These have the required hardiness and are good: foragers on the hill- sides of their native area. The first cross is made with white Shorthorn bulls. The calves from these are then crossed with Hereford and Ab- erdeen-Angus bulls, and this provides the end product of the distinctive Glen Nevis ranch herd. These animals are of a bluish-grey color, and combine all the fine beef qualities of the three or four breeds which are used in their production. SMALL STAFF This ranch of 6000 acres with 1000 animals feeding on the open and sometimes rugged Slopes of the Glen, is operated by a farm manager, five stock- men, and a boy, seven people in all. Before it was taken over by the Hon, Allan Mackay, it had a working force of 29, but it was then a rich man's hobby, while now it is a purely som- mercial beef-raising business, operated so as to be profitable, BY-GONE DAYS 30 YEARS AGO Thirty-four men, who had been unemployed, went to Tren- ton to work at the Airport camp. . W. H. Gibbie was appointed treasurer of the Public Utilities Commission as successor to P. A. Macdonald. The district Guide Commis- sioner, Mrs. W. E. Phillips, accompanied 175 Girl Guides who attended the annual church parade at Simcoe Street United Church. Lewis Stevenson was honored by having his portrait unveiled at the Oshawa Collegiate. and Vocational Institute. A Male Choir was organized in Oshawa with James Hurst, leader of the Opollo Octette, as director. Its main objective was to represent the city in competitions at the Canadian National Exhibition. *" Josephine Biake, formerly of" Oshawa, and Canada's greatest child violinist, was expected to make a tour of southern One tario, : ake CARPET COMPANY 282 King W 728-9581 RUG CLEANING McLaughlin Public Library e@ ADULT DEPARTMENT e - CLOSED 6 p.m. Saturdays 9 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursday, during the Summer months. e@ CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT e CLOSED 5 p\m. every day during the summer months. idays. a M. Mcintyre Hood was pro- gram director for a YMCA Boys' Camp at Fisher's Glen, Lake Erie. the Rotary Club sent 12 Oshawa boys to that camp, Two parades were being or- ganized for 1933 Rotary Fair. The first, a mammoth parade on opening day of the Fair; the second, a juvenile parade. D, M. Tod was chairman of the parades. The members of the Oshawa Rebekah Lodge entertained at dinner in honor of Mrs. Mabel Disney, president of the Re- bekah Assembly. ) every insurer had to provide a basic coverage at.a-set maxi- mum charge (details of neither point have been giveh out). ENOUGH THOUGHT? There are deep social ques. fons which won't be discussed here and now (except for the comment that at the stage our society has reached today some form of state program medi- ¢al insurance would seem to be generally recognized as one of the obligations of government. As we don't let people starve so don't we let. them suffer for lack of means.) It is in fact questionable just how much these have been @ consideration in thought about medicare jn Ontario, To the observer most of this thought has been based more on political considerations than social need, For instance all parties have shied away from a "deterrent", and yet this would seem to be a logical device. Not to deter people from go- ing to the doctor, But to lower. the cost of the plan--or that part of it which would be paid for from public funds. If only the first $25 of medi cal care in any year had to be paid by the individual it would cut down the overall cost of medicare very considerably. But to propose this apparently would take more courage than the politicians prefer to use, THE PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS COUNCIL female | Doveras A. Ampterorp, F.C.A, The Public Accountants Coun- . cil for the Province of Ontario announces the election of the fol- lowing officers and members: President, Mr. D, A. Ampleford, F.C.A., Toronto; Vice-President, Mr. W. I. Hetherington, F.C.A., Toronto; Secretary, Mr. G. A. MacDougall, F.C.A., ° London; Treasurer, Mr. J. C. Younkie, C.A., Toronto; Past President, Mr. G. B. MacDonald, C.A., Toronto; Member of Executive, Mr. C. 8S. Massey, A.P.A., An- easter. Messrs.W.P. Fazackerley, A.P.A., Windsor; T. C. Kinnear, F.C.A,, Toronto; E. D. 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