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She Oshawa Gimmes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Oritario T, L. Wilson, Publisher TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1963---PAGE 6 Patronage Policy Urged By Civil Service Body The Civil Service Federation's accusation of government patronage should be carefully pursued by Par- liament when it reconyenes, Wholesale firings and hiring of public service employees no longer occur with each change of govern- ment, but it is fairly open secret that some job changes do occur in sectors of the public service not covered by the Civil Service Act. During the long Liberal reign of Mackenzie King and Louis St. Laurent, there was seldom much talk about patronage. It was gen- erally conceded, of course, that be- ing a professed Liberal did not hurt one little bit when certain jobs were up for grabs: But then came the unsettled period 1957, and with it about patronage. Now comes the Civil Service Federation of Canada with its first public charges of patronage, citing specific cases. Involved is the fish- eries department. The Federation says the two officers of a patrol vessel based at Souris, P. FE. I., who had been appointed by the former Conservative government, were dis- More About An American starting in renewed talk entomologist, Dr. George C. Decker, made a plausible argument in favor of pesticides at the International Shade Tree Con- ference in Toronto' last week. The axe, the sickle, the plow and the match, he said, had all exerted a far greater influence on wildlife and other than had natural resources pesticides; while malpractices should not be condoned,. the un- qualified condemnation of pesti- cides was no more justifiable than the equally vociferous condemna- tion of the tillage of fields, "the moving of meadows and the grazing of grassland;" most of the unfor- tunate incidents concerning pesti- cides: have arisen when pesticides have been used contrary to direc- tions on the label; pesticides have a better accident and fatality re- cord than the mechanical tools used qn farms. All reasonable; the facturers could have better, very nus not said it Of course the plow and the match have exerted a much greater influ- ence on wildlife -- they've been missed July 81 without any reason being given; and the two officers, it is charged, have been replaced by two Liberal appointees, one of whom had been fired by the Con- servative government after the 1957 election. The snag is of the govern- that crewmen fisheries vessels are among more than 25,000 federal ment employees who do not come under the Civil Service Act. The Federation charges that patronage still exists among these non-civil service workers, although it has been eliminated in recent years from the permanent civil service, the post office department and the Crown corporations. There are some unpleasant char- ges and counter-charges. Federation vice-president Jean Dumouchel says his field representative heard re- cently that a P.E.I. politician said he would not be satisfied until all patrol boat crewmen in the Mariti- mes are replaced by Liberal porters. Another charge is. that 17 crewmen fired for political reasons after' the took office in 1957, sup- were Conservatives Pesticides around for a lot longer. And we're paying heavily now for their misuse in the past and their continued misuse in the present. No that properly tested and properly plied, are not a tremendously im- portant weapon in man's struggle to produce abundant food of good quality. It is their that brings condemnation, and the evi- dence of widespread abuse is so ex- tensive that the scientific adwisers of the president of the United States have publicly expressed their con- cern. This abuse not come simply from failure to read direc- one argues pesticides, ap- abuse does tions on a.label; it comes, too, from general lack of knowledge or con- cern about the ultimate effects. of large-scale use of certain chemical poisons. Dr, Decker does not know. whether pesticides have a than mechanical is either guessing or talking The U.S. presidential visers found it impossible to make accident he for ad- better record tools; effect. any accurate estimate of the num- ber of people and animals affected by 'pesticides; they could only. say that the number was substantial. Truth Of The Miracle Among the most revealing docu- ments of our time are the memoirs of Charles de Gaulle. They reveal his naked megalomania, his patholo- gical suspicion of the '"Anglo- Saxons", his enormous devotion to France, his obessive dream of some European dominated by a once-more glorious France, his un- sentimental acceptance of "realities" as he saw them, } ception of events which could flow union superb per- from those realities, and his great physical and moral courage. Writing of the situation in 1945, just as the war ended, he said: "Considering the fact that Ger- many's collapse, Europe's laceration and Anglo-American friction offer- ed a miraculously saved France ~<- The Oshawa Times KINSEY, Ed All r ore eiso reserved y niversity Cathcart Street, SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by co S.A. ond foreign 24.00. ceptional opportunities for action, I decided to wait, because it seemed to me t the permit me to achieve the great plan new period would I had conceiyed for my country." Of his intentions, he wrote: "I intended to assure France primacy in Western Eurepe by preventing the rise ofa new reich: that might threaten it@ safety; to co- with east and west and, if *, contract the necessary al- liancés, on one side or the other, without ever accepting any kind of dependency; to persuade the states along the Rhine, the Alps and. the Pyrenees to form a political, strategic bloc (with and to press forward this tion as one of the three powers." economic and France) organize world Rec Speech ling these statements in a reprinted in July An- the American Academy of Political and the nals of Social Pro- fessor Hans Kohn of City Univer- sity of New York, points out that de Gaulle Science, conveniently overlooked What brought about a "miraculously saved France', He says "The miracle was the persever- ance, heroism British and greatness of the people, who stood for one Year alone facing the frightening might of Hitler, before Hitler's at- Ruscis to be n's side. That was a miracu- tacks forced and on Britai ; which France was onlve not was. France of the world was SWALL WE STOP TESTING CLUES 2 EMERGING FROM THE ICE AGE? REPORT FROM U.K. Small Farm Plan Proving Success By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- Through the as- sistance and policies of the Sur- rey County Council, many young couples in that, county, with 50 acres of land, 25 milk- ing cows and a comfortable cot- tage, are climbing the ladder to farming success This is the result of an imag- inative smell holding scheme which is being © developed through the agricultural depart- ment of the Surrey County Council. How well it is work- ing was testified by a spokes- YOUR HEALTH for thé who man department said "A good tenant should not make less than $2250 a year net profit. One of our new tenants has made $2250, $4500 and $3600 net profit in three successive years." By British standards, this can be considered a_ satisfactory rate of income for people liv- ing on a small holding, on which they can grow and raise most of their own food to keep down their cost of living GROWING DEMAND In the county of Surrey there are already 240 of these small holdings, owned by the county Excuses Devised For Weight Gain By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, MD Dear Dr, Molner: Is it true a person 55 vears old has time reducing than. a r one? It seems. as my fat is packed like while in. youth it was spongier though suet I am 55 and 5 feet 6. I weigh 180 pounds and want to reduce to 140. I walk. about five miles a day but still don't I try to keep on a 1,000 calorie diet --Mrs, W.L. And here's another Dear Doctor: I just returned from the hospital having a female Only part of an ovary Everyone is telling sorry. They fat and ornery. Nobody will be abte to live with you, You're. too young--you'll turn cold as ice." Phooey! I may be. too young, mid 30's.. But my health comes first, Now I have just one ques: tion. How do I keep from get- ting too fat? I love to eat, I am 5 feet 4 inches and weigh 140. I would like to lose 10 pounds.--Mrs. W.J. The questions amount to the same thing. No, it's no harder to reduce at 55 than at 25, other things being equa 3ut lose letter after operation was left me I'll be say You'll get othe Ws aren't equal AL.55 you rned to "'let your head your heels." You slow down physically--and unless you gradually learn to eat just a little less, the differ- ence turns to fat The fat isn't you are vo ave lea save when although, of s more sup spongier™ course, your body ple. A "female not make u fat, doesn't you n't "cold." And we'll all calamity | to stop pedd- ling these pessimistic fable At 55 a bad habit (like eat- ing 25 extra calories a day, year in and vear out) is harder to break than earlier. Age slows us Siows met- abolism, makes us sit more and run jess,.But age alone doesn't make us fat. or make r more difficult Mrs. W.J 4 140 at age e¢ habit doas make make you thank the operation" ornery, doc was down and weizhing already has much change her nab- 0-plu too 5, probab f and hence prob- I doubt if she miles a day estimates" that miles a day in And the same i she » 1,000 calories a day (no nibbling, no candy, no snacks, no soft drinks, no cof- fee with sugar, no "just a litile taste'? while she is cooking); she'll lose weight We find easy ways to foo! our- selves. Comfort and appetite come first with most of us, and we don't really exercise; we forget (or honestly don't notice) the nibbles that throw our diets off Not only that, we tell each other that being 55 (or 35 or whatever) means that we: are bound to put on weight. Some people blame 'female opera- tions", and plant excuses in their friends minds No, as we slow down, as all of us must, as the years pass, we have to eat just a little less. Not much, maybe--but even 10 extra calories a day is 3,650 cal- Ories a.year. That's only a couple of pounds a year? Okay. But a couple of pounds a year is 20 pounds in 10 years! counci! and rented out to the occupiers, and the agricultural department reports a continu. ing and growing demand for them In fact, at the moment, there ure 95 names on the waiting list for small holdings. Within the next five years, it is esti- mated, most of these appli- cants will be placed on the land and operating, with. the help: of capital loaned by the council, their own small. farms for the first time The small holdings are not all of the same type. They are put to a variety of uses. Some are used as dairy farms, with pig-raising as a sideline, others for poultry, market gardening and the raising of cut flowers and bedding plants by some who are keen horticulturists. MUST BE QUALIFIED The spokesman for the agri- cultural department outlined the qualifications which are re- quired in order to be placed on the list for a small holding. He said "The applicant must have had five years full-time agricultural experience, including two years at an agricultural college. The scheme is designed to enable, for example, the present farm worker to launch out on his own. The age limit for appli- cants is 50." It has been found from ex- perience with this scheme that it is usually the farm worker's son rather than the farmer's son who desires to start in farming by setting up on his own eccount on a small holding. Offi- cials are ready to give all the help they can to the young men who work hard, save money and want to get on, The applicant has to find 30 per cent of the working capital himself and the remainder is provided by way of a loan from the council usually over a period of 10 years. Many of the applicants get their names on tne waiting list as early as pos- sible and are saving and work- ing while they are waiting. And from the council's standpoint, these small holdings are defi- ritely regarded as the first step, and not the "end of the line" for the young farmers. The county council. owned small holdings in Surrey are located in three areas and vary in type according to the soil. BY-GONE DAYS 20 YEARS AGO H. W. Knight, principal of Ritson School for the past 20 years, received the appointment from the Department of Educa- tion of Inspector of Public Schools for Grenville County Capt. A. C, Hall was appoint- Justice Advocate General with the Third Canadian Divi- sion in the British Isles. Prior to arriving overseas, he was a barrister in the city and held the office of Crown Attorney and later was mayor of the corpor- ation ed Developing engine trouble, a training aeroplane from the Oshawa Elementary Training School made a forced landing in Bradley's field, north of the CPR tracks, slightly injuring the navigator City engineer had. issued 47 permits during July represent- ing an estimated value of $33, 270. Total building since Jan- uary was $213,665 Burton this 87th Charies J. Stone of road, life-long resident of district, celebrated ~ his birthday A report on the Oshawa su- pervised playgrounds, ending July 31, showed that Ernie Cur- tis,. a senidr at Ritson Road, led the boys in points with a total of 140: Peggy Keeler. Ro- tary Park intermediate, led the girl athletes with 228. Several prominetn citizens re- presented the city when the first ancaster bomber aircraft built in Canada was christened by Mrs. C. G. Power, wife of the Minister for Air, at Malton, To- ronto, In charge of FO Dr. F. G Pim, medical officer, a group of 37 members of the Lloyd Chadburn Squadron Air Cadets spent a profitable two weeks at, the Air Training School at Mountain View J. Lance Rumble, manager of GMC Truck Retail Branch of Toronto, was guest speaker at a luncheon meeting of the Osh- awa Kiwanis Club. He spoke on his recent visit to the newly con- structed Alaska Highway. Dr. 0. G, Mills resigned as chairman. of the Oshawa Com- mittee supervising the work of the Lloyd Chadburn Squadron Air Cadets. He was succeeded by J. Norval Willson Rev. C. G. Park, minister of Whitby United .Church was ap- pointed Dean of the Oak Lake Leadership School conducted by the United Church of Canada near Stirling Alex Dobbs of Westmount ave- nue, Oshawa, won the Toronto Conservatory's Silver Medal for obtaining the highest. marks in the province in the examination Grade IX Violin. This was the third time that he had been awarded the Medal. for Khrushchev Has Solid Backing As Russ Chief How popular is Nikita Khrushchev? Who is likely to succeed him when he re- tires? A Canadian Press re- porter who has made a 7,000-mile 'trip through the Soviet Union tells where the premier stands with the people, By ALAN HARVEY MOSCOW (CP) -- Question: Can you wrap an elephant in a newspaper? Answer; Yes whenever Khrushchev makes a speech, Few people, in fact, waste much time worrying about sia- vish press coverage of official speeches in the Soviet Union, and it is apromising. sign that jokes about the man at the top are more frequent than in Sialin's day if anything, the story may re- flect a feeling among some Rus- aluns that Mr, K talks too much and occasionally seems undigm fied Russians can be sticky about outward appearances Another sprightly sally, heard Al the height of the Sino-soviet Mapute, is about an imayinary future listing im the Russian Who's Who. The entry Khrushchev, Nikita Seryeye- vich--obseure art critic in Mao Tse-tung's century \gain, the humor is more fri- volous than deeply felt. In the quarre| between Moscow. nd Peking, people are: firmly on Khrushchevy's side Judgments on his popularity are not easy; People who have OTTAWA REPORT talked deeply with Russians on the subject say there are some reservations on minor points of personality, but that the Soviet leader nevertheless has a wide basis of popular support. There is a genuine feeling of relief that a more flexible man is in charge after the "unna- tural' Stalinist era. It can almost be said that some of Khrushchev's best friends are westerners. I asked one. western student of Soviet affairs what impressed him most during a three-year stay, and he replied unhesitatingly: "My outstanding impression is that Khrushchev is a truly great man," Observers paid tribute to his courage in dismantling the se- cret police apparatus and in moving more rapidly than was thought possible toward a more rational regime, It is thought he wants further liberalization as soon as possible. The word that recurs about Mr. K is flair, in the original French sense of being able to sniff out what is politically op- portune, He has a sharp intui- tion and knows what audiences want to hear, He keeps himself well informed and has an agile mind 'POLITICAL MYOPIA' Amid general approbation, one respected informant struck a cautionary note, saying there is an over - simplification about some of his pronouncements. Pearson Ponders Flag And Anthem By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--Canada will have a new 'distinctive national flag' and an "'official national anthem" before April 8, 1965. Prime Minister Lester Pear- son Says so, One of the promises made by Mr. Pearson during the election campaign was that these two steps would be taken 'within two years of a Liberal govern- ment assuming office."' One of the decisions made by the new Liberal government during its "Sixty days of Decision" was evidently to implement this promise But during the final week of its recently adjourned session, Parliament heard the prime minister report that no sub- committee of the cabinet, nor any inter - departmental com- mittee, had been set up to pre- pare a proposed design for this ag. Last year Hon. Jack' Pickers- gill proposed that the Union Jack should be adopted by Can- ada as the flag of the Com- monwealth, and be flown to sig- nify Canada's membership in the Commonwealth on all ap- propriate occasions. It would be flown beside a new Canadian flag, which would be adopted as our "'official'" and "distince- tive' national flag ENSIGN SUPPORTED Canada is roughly in three moods towards this flag ques- tion, Those of so-called "ethnic" origin, namely those of neither British nor French ancestry, mostly would like to see a new flag bearing no indication of our past history and associa- tions. French-Canadians would like to see a French emblem given equality, or even pride of place, on a Canadian flag; but recognizing the unattainability of that aim, they would prefer a naked flag rather than one in which any British symbol predominated. British Cana- dians, like the Canadian Le- gion, are happy with the Cana- dian Red Ensign, but the younger generation is apt to confuse heraldry with prison bars, and incorrectly assumes that critics of the Red Ensign are correct when they say that this flag signifies our present subordination to Britain. This of course is balderdash. Our flag records our past his- tory: if we abandon the Red Ensign, we should logically also cease teaching Canadian history in our schools. South Africa, smailer and less important than Canada, is now neither a mon- archy recognizing Elizabeth as Queen of South Africa, nor even a member of the Com- monwealth; yet it retains, on its very distinctive national flag, the Union Jack as repre- Senting a significant and in- TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Aug. 13, 1963 . . . Florence Nightingale, 'he reformer of hospital nurs- ing, died 53 years ago today --in 1910. In her youth Miss Nightingale did much phil- anthropic work and visited hospitals .and reformatories in Europe and studied nurs- ing. At the beginning of the Crimean War wounded sol- diers suffered terribly from the inefficiency of the treat- ment they received and she went with 34 nurses to the battlefields. Her self-sacri- ficing services made her name famous 1955--The Canso Cause- way linking Cape Breton Is- land to the Canadian main- land was opened 1946--Writer H. G died. Wells eradicable part of its history. This recognition that heraldry and history should play a part in the design of a national flag rejects the widely-plugged "Ma- ple Leaf" flag, especially since the maple is not distinctive to Canada. Preferable from. this point of view is the design backed by some sections of the Legion: a field of ten horizontal blue and white bars represent- ing-the provinces, with the Un- ion Jack in the upper left quad- rant, and a white Fleur-de-Lys representing France, superim- posed on that irrelevant maple leaf, in the fly. John Matheson, the young vet- eran and lawyer who represents a United Empire Loyalist con- stituency in Ontario in the House of Commons, has shoul- dered the task of preliminary research on the flag question for the Liberal government. He has dug up some most interest- ing angles, and argues that the one distinctive Canadian. design in heraldry today is our coat of arms, This appears in the fly of the Red Ensign. Its upper half is quartered, to show the Lions of England, the Lion of Scotland, the Fleur-de-Lys of France, and the Harp of Ire- land. Its lower half shows a group of three maple leaves conjoined; this, asserts John Matheson with sound reason, is the one heraldic symbol distine- tive to Canada. This, he argues, should therefore be our flag. The Ontario crest . contains the same emblem, but. this could be destructively derided as looking like a sprig of poison ivy on a yellow field, In the Canadian coat of arms the col- ors are different: red maple leaves on a field of silver (white). If you want to bet, you might make money: by backing this as the ultimate choice of the Liberal government. But then listen for the howls of dis- approval! QUEEN'S PARK factual "For all his outstanding quall- ties, he may sometimes be a victim of political myopia," this source said, 'He doesn't always see far enough ahead and some- times he says things he later regrets," Opinions are divided on whether his primacy was really threatened early this year, when there were signs of a power struggle raging in the Kremlin. One theory is that his fast- moving train passed through a very dark tunnel indeed, and that a lot of jostling and dis- pute went on before the vehicle emerged, Others doubt whether anything important happened inside the tunnel, after all, "The thing people forget is that Khrushchev really is in an almost impregnable position," said one Sovietologist, "He has nothing to fear. The top levels of the party and the army are packed with his supporters, and pe is little coherent opposi- 10n, HEIR UNAPPARENT Months ago Khrushchev indi- cated that, at 69, he won't be around forever. But his retire- ment doesn't. seem by any means imminent, and few ex- perts will venture a guess about the succession. Constitutionally the takeover techniques are hazy, and the consensus is that some form of collective leader- ship will be installed, as hap- pened after Stalin's death, For some years Fro! Kozlov, 54, seemed the logical heir ap- parent but he has been in ill- health. Leading contenders now include beetle - browed Leonid Brezhnev, 56, president of the Supreme Soviet; economic plan- ner 'i gin 59; and Dmitri Polyansky from the Ukraine, at 45 one of the young- est candidates for high office. Another coming young man is Dmitri Ustinov, in his early 40s, Anastas Mikoyan, the shrewd Armenian trouble-shooter who has. survived: all the power Struggles, would be a power in any new regime but few rate him likely to take No. 1 job, To those who portray Khrush- chev as determined to jerk the Soviet Union out of the rut, his recent attacks on intellectuals and his pungent comments on abstract are produced a sense of shock. PURITAN STREAK Perhaps he has a streak of old-fashioned purtanism in cul- tural matters; perhaps he was just trying to appease support- ers who fear he is moving too quickly. Those who endured the Stalinist period and never wav- ered in their faith may be afraid of jeopardizing the sacri- fices they have already made, of losing everything they have so painfully built up, all in the name of what they consider a dubious "'Jiberalism." Central power still rests with the party apparatus. can the party begin to shed that power without losing its revolutionary dynamic, its reason for being? Many factor work for change. Younger folk who didn't know Stalin say "fathers can- not chose for sons in dim to- morrow." British politician Sir Fitzroy Maclean, a frequent vis- itor, says that for the first time in Russian history "a ruling class, an established autocracy, conscious of itself and its power, is making its appearance." Stalin slugged and drove Rus- sia through industrial revolu- tion; Khrushchev presides over a period of change and adjust- ment, invyolving greater sub- tlety of approach. The new di- mension of science and techol- ogy entails a less exclusive attitude to the outside world. STILL MISINFORMED Already the closed society is more porous. Press and propa- ganda are less crude than in the days of 'Wall Street lackeys" and 'capitalist hyenas."" Com- ment is more sophisticated and the Soviets are developing their own Walter Lippmanns and Jos- eph Alsops with the appearance of such writers as Polyanov and Kudriavtsev. Smaller Provinces Scared Of Ottawa By DON O°HEARN HALIFAX--Nine of Canada's 10 provincial premiers met here for their fourth annual confer- ence. You will thing about your newspaper much. | % For the premiers are ex- tremely sensitive about offend- ing anyone and they hold their conferences in extreme secrecy. Not even the agenda is re- leased in advance. The sessions themselves are held behind closed doors. And very little is said about the discussions, This is frustrating for the press, of course. And also for some of the premiers. WRAPS OFF? One has to wonder whether the conference mightn't be more valuable if there were fewer wraps. There were two reasons why it was decided at the start that the premiers should meet in closed session. The first was that it was felt this would mean more free dis- cussion, That the men would talk more openly if the press was not present. The second, and most im- portant, was that there be no appearance of the provinces or- ganizing a bloc against Ottawa. The smaller provinces, par- ticularly, are timid about of- fending the federal government And when these conferences have read some- the meetings in But not very were first proposed--by Pre- mier Lesage of Quebec in 1960-- they were- somewhat reluctant to even attend, and wanted full protection against giving of- fence to Ottawa. CAN'T AVOID The original theory was that as Ottawa would not be rep- resented federal matters should not be discussed, Even in theory the reasoning behind this isn't too strong. In federal-provincial matters there are two distinct sides on most questions. On one side there is the fed- eral government; on the other the provinces. From time to time it is claimed that the relationship between Ottawa and the prov- inces is a "'partnership" but in actual practice, of course, this is not so. The relationship is a two-way house; Ottawa and the provinces. And really there should be no offence at all if the provinces Sat around a table and worked out their case before meeting with the federal government on various issues. . P But quite aside from this, today it just isn't practical to keep a "hands off' attitude with Ottawa. For the provinces find that the federal govern- ment is involved in practically everything they. want to dis- cuss. And in future vears there probably. will be new ground rules for these conferences.