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, seas aad ee ETS: EI age She Oshawa Times | Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1964---PAGE 6 'Lord Beaverbrook Left His Mark On History The word "genius" is frequently applied to men who acquire great wealth, but not often is it justified; most 'of them could better be des- cribed as cunning or ruthless or lucky or dedicated or a combination of these qualities. Comparatively few of them combine the qualities needed to make money with the vision, broad intellectual curiosity and demanding creativity that mark genius. These few are the truly great ones, and in their com- pany William Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, ranked as high as any, A penniless Canadian youth at 20, he was a millionaire before he was 80, and at 37 was a peer, a British newspaper magnate and a power in British politics. But that recital gives only one measure of the man. Historians of Britain in the first half of the 20th century will not be able to ignore him. He pulled the strings that put Asquith out of the prime minister's office and put Lloyd George in during the On The Use An amazing speech was made to the recent convention of the Amer- fean Waterworks Association in Toronto by Samuel Baxter, vice- president of the association, It was amazing, because it took such a complaisant view of the destruction of one of our three most vital resources -- water, the other two being soil and air. Mr. Baxter's theme was that authorities should try to use water to its full capacity for absorbing waste material instead of trying to keep it as clean as possible. "Clean," he said, is a word that has several degrees of meaning and such cleanliness should be measured against the use to which the stream is put. He went on to describe sur- face water as "a natural resource which is replenished every year; we can use it, we can damage it, we can pollute it, and it will come back." Such talk by a man whose job, presumably, is to provide people with usable water, is enough to give one the shudders. One gets the impression that he has not moved First World War -- with far- reaching effect on British politics for decades to come. He inspired a spectacular campaign for Empire free trade in the late 1920s and won a partial, temporary victory. He reached his greatest stature in those ominous months of 1940 when Germany was subjugating much of Europe and Britain and the Dominions stood alone against the Nazi juggernaut. Summoned by Winston Churchill to become minis- ter of aircraft production, he fired the industry with the vigor that provided enough planes for the Battle of Britain waged later that year. Many regard that as h's greatest achievement. Had the Nazi air onslaught not been turned back, the war might well have been lost. New Brunswick in particular will feel the loss of his death. Although born in Ontario, he regarded New Brunswick as home territory, and his philanthropies there ran into the millions of dollars. Of Water out of the 19th century, that the lessons of the 20th. have been lost on him. Surface water can be used, damaged and polluted only to a point. After that point has been passed, it does not come back, be- cause its environment has been changed. There are deserts today where there were once lush fields; the water supply was misused, and it did not come back. The ecology of Lakes Erie and Ontario have been so changed by pollution that they are different lakes now from what they were 50 years ago -- and the change is permanent. All over this continent rivers have disap- peared or become dismal trickles, because they and the land about them have been abused. It is indeed possible to rescue most of the surface water, but the cost is high. One way would be to remove all human beings from the watershed to be rescued. The other way is to halt pollution and under- take the complicated and expensive task of restoring the natural factors which preserve the water flow. Free Mailing Attacked Should our members of Parlia- ment, now extremely well paid, re- tain their. free mailing privileges? We agree with Senator T. A, Crerar that the time has come to curtail those privileges. Senator Crerar told his colleagues that he had seen instances where MPs would send thousands of copies of 'some speech they think is earth- shaking" to all their constituents. The free mailing privileges all too \ often merely contributed "to pro- paganda from individual members." When Senator Crerar left the Ot- tawa cabinet on his appointment to the Senate in 1945 the members of Parliament were receiving $4,000 a year in sessional indemnity, Cabinet ministers received $10,000, plus a $2,000 car allowance. In 1945 a bill was introduced in the House of Com- mons to permit the payment of Dhe Oshatoa Simes WILSON: Publisher é enn KINSEY, Editor The Oshowo Tirnes combining The Oshawa Timea (established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette ond Chronicle (estoblished 1863) is published daily (Sundeys and Stotutory holidays excepted Members of .Canadion Daily Newspaper Publish- ers Associotion. The Canadian ss, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontary 'Proving io! Dailes Association. 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Bible Thought "And if ye walk contrary unto me; | will bring. seven times more plaques upon you according to your " Leviticus 26:21. Its a risky to be out of the will of God and on our own, "Our ways are not His ways nor our thoughts His thoughts. sins, matter Zi, | = : oe MN NA: MAYBE IT'S A FLAGPOLE WE NEED REPORT FROM U.K. Monorail Planned For London Area By M. McINYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent to The Oshawa Times LONDON -- A. J. Hill, chair- man of Taylor Woodrow Con- struction, Limited, in .an an- nouncement made in London, declared that within a year a start would be made on Brit- ain's first overhead monorail railway, and that it would be completed about three' years from now. Mr, Hill was announc- ing that his company has ac- quired the licence in Britain for the SAFEGE overhead rail- YOUR HEALTH way system. This system has been developed by a consortium of French companies, including Michelin and Renault. Mr. Hill said it was too early as yet to say where the first British system would be built, but he suggested that it might be a line linking Central Lon- don directly with the London Heathrow Airport. Initial dis- cussions have already taken place between his company and London Transport and Southern Railways, who were "'definitely interested'. He said his company had been smoke Inevitably Will Be Breathed By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, MD Dear Dr. Molner: Why does a physician recommend no smok- ing for a heart patien: (coron- ary thrombosis) who has never inhaled? --H.G.M. Don't think that inhaling is the only way smokiag can have an effect on the body. The lung cancer controversy is only one part of the whole pi -ture, The nicotine itself may, fer all we know and suspect, have nothing to do with cancer, but it, and perhaps some. ingred- jents, can be absorbed other than through the jungs--for in- stance, the mucus surfaces of the mouth, nose and throat. Smoking has known effects such as increasing the heart rate and the amount of work the heart is required to do. This may be of little conse- quence in most cases, but it is not advisable for a patient with coronary disease. As to "never inhaling," in- variably some smoke will be breathed, even though you are not conscious of it. Dear Dr. Molner: Does em- physema nave anything to do with asthma? What relation- ship is there to the nerves or psychosomatic factors?--S.S. There is a distinct relation- ship to asthma--or rather, there can be. The interference with respiration, and the struggling for breath can, in time, con- tribute to emphysema, which is a breaking-down of the tiny sacs of the lungs where oxygen is transferred to the blood. Since emotional upsets often trigger attacks of asthma in susceptible patients, you can say that the nerves -have an in- direct ' effect on emphysema. However, sheer nerves do not cause emphysema, TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN June 11, 1964... Reports read at the Ameri- can Medica! Association meeting in Chicago eight years ago today--in 1956-- predicted thaf the use of Salk triple antipolio vaccin- ations would eliminate the threat to children and adults of paralytic polio within three years. The re- ports were submitted by Dr. Jonas Salk, originator of the vaccine, and Surgeon Gen- eral Leonard A. Scheele 1488--King James ILI. of Sectiand was: assassinated 1903--King Alexander of Serbia and Queen Draga were assassinated in Bel- grade, . PRESS Dear Dr. Molner: Is it healthy to keep small plants in the live ing room and kitchen windows, or, as a friend of ours claims, do they take our oxygen away and affect our health?-- MRS. D.C. Such oxygen as may be used is so slight that you needn't worry. Some people have a cat. Some have a dog. Some have children. Some have 'relatives living with -them. Sonie have visitors. Any one uses a lot of oxygen, but there's still enough for everybody,. So don't worry fc, a minute about your plants. If plants really robbed the at- mosphere of oxygen, then for- ests and farms would be un- healthy places, wouldn't they? QUEEN'S PARK in touch with the county sur- veyor of Burckingham s hire. There the county planning com- mittee has published a report pointing to the building of a city built around a free mono- rail service. Although Mr. Hill said that Taylor Woodrow were willing to finance an overhead monorail system running out to the Lon- don airport, he made it clear that he thought it. should be publicly sponsored and paid for. He added that such a. service was not a dream of the future, but was a realistic necessity for today, Prof. Colin Buchanan, consul- fant to the company on_ the scheme, said that it involved several problems which needed study. But he was convinced that there was a limit in the larger cities to the amount of movement that could be con- trived by cars. He said: "Here somebody has produc- ed an extremely ingenious me- thod of getting around. The problems of urban movement are getting to be such that any mew method deserves very care- ful consideration and examina- tion." COST OF PROJECT Taylor Woodrow quoted an average building cost of three million dollars a mile, including carriages and equipment. They describe a construction speed of a mile a month as conservative. The carriages used in the sys- tem can carry 150 passengers each; and are capable of speeds up to 75 miles an hour. A carry- ing capacity in each direction of many thousands of passen- gers an hour is claimed. Speed, comfort and the silence of oper- ation are among the advantages claimed for the system. The English Electric Company is to co-operate with Taylor Woodrow in the supply of the carriages and traction equip- ment, Taylor Woodrow have also ac- quired the exclusive licence for Canada, with option rights for the rest of the Commonwealth and South Africa. Grants To Racing Good Investment BY DON O'HEARN TORONTO These. days thanks to Northern Dancer all Ontario is yery race horse con- scious, Most people are so proud of the little horse you might think they personally had weaned him. Which brings up a matter which should _ have . been straightened out some time ago. Back at the end of the session the NDP made considerable noise, and got a good press play, over government grants to the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society. NDP ACCUSATION NDP financial critic Kenneth Bryden charged that the gov- ernment was subsidizing E. P. Taylor--a man who, in the pop- 'ular mind anyway, has so much money he might subsidize the government, The alleged subsidy came out of a grant of $70,000 a year which the government makes.to the society. Not many details were given by Mr. Bryden or the press, and, not. unintentionally, one more than suspects, the im- pression was left that Mr. Tay- jor--and Mr, Taylor alone-- benefited from this little bon- anza. So let's have the facts BREEDING NEEDED For years the province has taxed race tracks, and they have been an important source of revenue, After the war the tracks were in poor shape, and on a steady decline. There were cheap horses, and a generally cheap operation. Some interested people, in- eluding Mr. Taylor, set out to revive the business. An essential was that there be better horses. And one of the steps they took to further this was to agree that five per cent of all first place purses should go to the breeder of the winning horse in a race. The government agreed to do its part by making a grant, which also would go to the breeder. GOVERNMENT WINS Mr. Taylor has built a huge breeding onganization, And, in recent years, he has received the biggest share of the govern- ment grant. But 160 other breeders also have shared in this money. And it has been an important boon to them, More, it has been a good in- vestment on the part of the gov- ernment, Racing has made a spectac- ular comeback. Breeding has been part of this, Once again, just look to the little Dancer, And this has had avery healthy reflection in the govern- ment purse, Income from race tax is forecast at $9,090,000 this year. This is more than twee what it was 10 years 'ago. This is in no way a defence of Mr, Taylor. He doesn't need it, and envy alone would pre- vent it, OTTAWA REPORT Students Get Poor House Impression By PATRICK NICHULSON OTTAWA--The. greatest show on Parliament 'Hill is being watched every day by gallery- filling crowds which include very many school children, The daily example of '"'the elect of the land" at work must demoralize the industri- o.. students and break their teachers' hearts. I will tell you about a typical afternoon in the House of Com- mons; eg: to give our MPs a break, I will pick last Thurs- day. It was not so late in the week that the "long weekenders" had already flown off to distant homes at the taxpayers' ex- pense, while the absentees of the previous weekend had pre- sumably returned. Nor was it the mid-week half-day. Nor was it a warm, sunny day, when the first tee and the 19th hole might have been beckoning. So, with all the conditions fa- voring a full house, our politi- cians heard the bell summon- ing them to attend in the House of Commons at 2:30 p.m. When the late, late arrivals had straggled in by 2:50 p.m., 173 of the 262 seats were filled. (The three seats bringing the total' to 265 await by-elections to fill them. READER'S VIEWS PRIDE IN CANADA Dear Sir: I hope you will allow me to answer Mr, Sevink's recent let- ter in which he stated, and I quote, 'Canada is a great coun- try. Phooey!" As one unmigrant to another I hereby dedicate this letter to all the Mr. Sevinks in Canada. I am not English but have al- ways been proud to be a British subject. When I was a child at school, Canada beckoned to me because our teachers taught us al! about the great north, strong and free. My forebears got the call as I did by the thousands down through the centuries and an- swering this destiny built the railroads, cleared the forests and tamed the rivers. They. also planted a flag of freedom, a Christian faith, and a way of life, Mr. Sevink, that you are living under ioday. Why didn't you raise your objections about Canada when you applied to enter this country that "has a dilly of an inferiority com- plex"? I write this on the evening of the 6th of June, 1964 On this evening, twenty years ago, a great many young Canadians had already paid the supreme sacrifice. I don't know if they came to liberate you or conquer you, Mr. Sevink, but I do know they didn't die for an "unreal, phony national pride', nor with any sense of an "inferiority comp"ex". There were no inferiority com- plexes in the breasts of the men who served on the land, on the sea, and in the air. They served to destroy a system that was unacceptable to them, They were defending a way of life so that people like you could live in dignity and self respect protect- ed by the laws of democracy. These laws, Mr. Sevink, were hammered out, fashioned and tempered by generations of men and women living in the cockpit of democracy, by "the mother of parliaments'. If you think a Canadian feels inferior to an Amer'can then I would suggest, perhaps 't is you that has the complex and not the Canadian Personally I think the average Canadian doesn't feel the least'bit envious about our neighbors and a little glad to turn the old car north to the Canadian way of life. You can say you are 'waiting on a new flag before appiying BY-GONE DAYS 30 YEARS AGO June 11; 1934 The first Ontario conference on sea scouting was held with the opening session being held in Christ Memorial Church, and subsequent sessions being held in the Genosha Hotel. District farmers feared for their crops as a long drought continued. Wells were almost dry and it was believed that unless there was rain within a short time, crops would be ruined by the excessive heat. Helen Fletcher, erry, Jean Wallace and Ruby Armour, all of Oshawa, were among the 12 members of the 1934 graduating class of. Osh- awa General Hospital School of Nursing under Miss Eliazbeth MacWilliams. The circulation of books in the public library totalling 9,557 was well maintained dur- ing the month of May. The Ontario Ladies' College in Whitby celebrated its dia- mond jubilee, Rev. Charles Carscallen, principal, was praised for maintaining the high standard set by former heads of the school. Miss A. A. Maxwell, dean of the college, had been with the college for 17 years. Lester Claude Roper, Bever- ley street, won a softball, auto- graphed by Lional Conacher, in a contest, Marguerite A large party of gypsies was seen passing through Oshawa in loaded cars among which were, a Packard and a Pierce Arrow, While their mode of travel had changed, the colorful attire of the Romany people was evident. Miss Adeline Fowke,daughter of Mr. and Mrs, F. L. Fowke, was awarded her Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Toronto, with honors, Dr. J. F. Lavery, governor of the House of Refuge in Whitby for 27 years, was honored with a presentation of a gold-headed cane at a banquet on the occa- sion of his retiring from his post. for citizenship". Remember, the conferring of Canadian citizen- ship is a privilege and come to think of it, you may have to wait a long time for an oppor- tune moment. But why wait, Mr. Sevink? Apply like thousands of other lucky people and you never know, you may be accept- ed as a citizen of the greatest country in the world, I have served under this old banner for 25 years, and am still serving. This fact has al- Ways given me a great deal of satisfaction and a sense of be- longing. Canada's history in four wars and her current efforts in the e@ause of freedom allows a real Canadian to walk with his head high anywhere in 'he world. I know, I have tried it. But I am a citizen, you see, W. CLARKE Oshawa GIBB STREET THRILLS Dear Sir: It is not necessary to go to Mosport to see the thrills of cars racing, tires squealing, noisy exhausts and reckless dare devil driving, etc. You can see it all on Gibb Street Speedway, any hour of the day, and under the lights at night, And it is all free. Members of the traffic control are we'come. H. BENNETT. Oshawa By 3:05 the meagre attend- ance was thinning, as some MPs could wait. no longer to drift out for a smoke. The total attendance of 159 then included 83 Liberals, 54 Conservatives, eight New Democrats, six So- cial Crediters and eight Quebec Rallyists. The Social 2 ted ait nttend per cent of their pr loa which was the best recone: the h Conservatives with 56 per cet and the New Democrats with 47 per cent were the worst. "Question Period' dragged, on, with wrangles and infrac-' tions of the rules interspersed as usual, until 3:55-p.m. Then the day's business proper com- menced, and immediately more than 70 MPs dashed for che exits. By 3:57 only 83 MPs, of a eg 262, remained in the de ating chamber, attending to the nation's business. One hour later, the attend- ance had dwindled further to 45 MPs, of whom only 17 were viously present in. spirit. others were reading cae pers, writing letters, gossiping together, sleeping, pecking through files, and in general failing to pay heed to the MP who was speaking. This example, which can be repeated daily, is certainly de- moralizing to the students whe fill the galleries to see "demoe- racy at work'; to their elders, it is disgusting. It is roughly equivalent to a school classroom in which three quarters of the students are ab- sent, others read the comics, jive in the corner, patronize a coke bar in the back of the room, or do their homework-- while less than 10 per cent of the class attend to the lesson being conducted by the teacher. MPs HAVE OTHER WORK Certainly our MPs have much ~ work to do outside the cham- ber, in committees and in their offices on Parliament Hill, in their constituencies back home, while. some fall ill and others take holidays at times of their own choosing. But even so, a peak attendance of 173 out of 262 MPs during the most im- portant hour of a mid-week sit- ting is not impressive. There can be no wonder that the poor attendance and scant dignity in our House of Come mons today disgusts the taxpay- ers who must pay our MPs--by order of those same MPs--an annual salary such as most tax- payers can never attain, namely the equivalent of almost $22,000 per year subject to tax-- plus fringe benefits, GREAT CANADA-WIDE PITTSBURGH Regularly up to "Sit now only 6a. FOR A LIMITED mi ge SUN-PROOF OIL BASE EXTERIOR HOUSB PAINT is Pittsburgh's regular first quality house paint, It's available at a special low price during this sale in 9 wide range of clean whites and crisp colours. See your Pittsburgh Paints dealer soon for best selection. ASK ABOUT NEW SUN-PROOF LATEX EXTERIOR HOUSE PAINT. NO PRIMER NEEDED AVAILABLE AT THESE STORES: OSHAWA BATHE & McLELLAN BUILDING SUPPLIES 81 King St. W. JACKSON & RAIKE . 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