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a eR aera eg eee Sa Ge a She Oshawa Fones Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1964----PAGE 4 Politics Not Wanted In Municipal Elections It has long been traditional in Canadian municipal affairs that elections are not conducted as they are in the United Kingdom, -- on a political party basis. Canadian political parties, as such, have not officially intervened in these elec- tions, although it has to be acknow- ledged that in some municipalities, the political affiliations of the can- didates, when they are known, do have an effect on the result of the election. In the present municipal elec- tions in the Toronto area, however, there is a break away from the old tradition. The National Democratic Party has entered its party can- didates in the elections in Scar- borough township. This is. being done as an experiment, aimed at breaking the taboo against political parties engaging openly in munici- pal politics. Support for this move had also come from Keith Davey, Liberal party national director, who per- sonally favors greater party acti- vity in municipal government. He éonsiders it inevitable that active party participation by the munici- pal level will come in Canada, just as it has in Britain and the United States. To a lesser degree, the fact that in Oshawa there is a slate of can- didates chosen by the Oshawa and District Labor Council has been put forward for municipal office, marks an infusion of party politics into the municipal arena. While the ODLC is not a political party, in the strict sense of the word, it is linked by affiliation, through its political action committee, with the National Democratic Party. It can quite rightly claim that its can- didates are not NDP nominee, al- though supported by the District Labor Council. But at the same time, this looks like the thin end of the wedge towards partisan political action in the municipal field. And regardless of whether the parties involved be Conservative, Liberal of National Democratic Party, we do not feel it would be a good thing for municipal elections to be fought out on a political party basis. The community would be better served by' candidates chosen on qualifications, merit and the policies they espouse in Civic affairs, rather than on the basis of the political tag they carry. New Paper Does Well London, England, has a new daily tiewspaper, the Sun. It came into being as a successor to the former Labor party newspaper, the Daily Herald, which had been losing thoney at a fantastic rate. There was no future for the Daily Herald as a viable newspaper property, so Cecil King, head of the Interna- tional Publishing Corporation, by arrangement with the national exe- cutive of the Labor Party, decided to discontinue the Herald, and to replace it with the Sun, a news- paper which would not be tied to the Labor party. That the move was a sound one, from a newspaper publishing stand- point, is shown by the circulation figures. Started in September, the Sun now has a daily circulation of 1,400,000, which is 200,000 more fhan the circulation of its prede- cessor, the Herald. The publisher of the Sun is hopeful of hitting the 1,500,000 before the end of the year. The new newspaper has, as was expected, broken away from the Labor party, and is now taking on a decidedly Liberal trend. Soon after its introduction, it announced a new columnist, Joseph Grimond, leader of the British Liberal party. This may have been a bid for sup- port from those of Liberal thought since the Liberal party, in the October 15 election, increased its vote from the 1,600,000 it secured in 1959 to over. 3,000,000. In view of the fact that it is tremendously difficult for a brand new newspaper to break into a field which is as completely covered as that of the British national morn- ing paper field. The splendid start made by the Sun, circulation-wise, is interesting. It remains to be seen how long it will continue the growth it has shown since ite inception. Quebec Education Plan A report handed to the govern- trent of Quebec by a Royal Com- mission on Education contains some Startling proposals in the traditione! pattern of education i thet province. Its recommenda- thons are £0 far-reaching that there moust be considerable doubt as to how much of what is recommended an be put into legislative form by the Lesage government. One of the most revolutionary posals made in tile report is that the government make a complete break from tradition and bring about a total overhaul of the pro- vince's school system to overcome a lack of co-ordination which has been detrimental to education. "<The most significant section of the report is its recommendation that the state control of schools gust be substituted for that of the Bie Oshawa Times ®. C. ROOKE, Generel Manager Cc. J. MeCONECHY, Editor the light of ' & The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawe Times tablished 187!) ond the Whitby Gozette ond nicle established 1863) is published daily indays and Statutory holidays excepted), ™ Members of Canadian Daily, Newspaper 'Publish. @s Associotion, The Canadian Press, Audit: Bureou # Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dollies Tuenciation. 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The hope is that a unified system controlled by the Quebec Department of Edu- cation will provide better school opportunities for. all, and help to prepare the young people of the province for life in an age of tech- nical knowledge and economic revolution. The report was particularly criti- cal of the French language Roman Catholic system which, it made plain, has not been giving French- Canadians the type of training needed to cope with the problems of the 20th century, The province's Protestant school system it says, fared much better. It would indeed be a reyolution- ary step for the government of Quebec to accept the views of the commission, take the school system out of the hands of the Roman Catholic Church and operate it entirely on a state basis through the Department of Education. There will be violent reactions from the Roman Catholic Church against any such move, which would take from it the traditional place it has held in the Quebec. educational system. It would require a great deal of courage on the part of the provincial goverment to adopt all that is recommended in the report, Other Editors' Views | HOSPITAL HAZARD (Toronto Telegram) Your hospital insurance bill went up 50 per cent this year, but unless you're gravely ill your charices of getting into a Metro hospital. with- out a lengthy wait have gone down, . turned his attention to Whitby Councillor Ends Long Service To Town By CHRIS DENNETT Of The Times Staff WHITBY -- Councillor .Wil- liam Davidson officially an- nounced his retirement from Whitby Town Council last week. It was a decision he was forced to make through continued bad health. Now 75 years of age "Bill" Davidson has served the town for the best part of 30 years. They have been long and chal- lenging years; but years that have given him immense plea- sure and satisfaction. Perhaps, more than anybody, he can claim to have helped build the town into what it is today. Mr. Davidson has been no idle 'bystander. He has not stood aside and watched the town grow around him. Right from the beginning he has been in there fighting. From a simple country vil- lage of no more than 6,000 popu- lation he has watched Whitby grow into a booming industrial town. Through his own energy and enthusiasm Mr. Davidson has been an integral part of this growth. ENGINEER BY TRADE He came to Whitby way back In 1913 as an. employee of the Ontario Government. An engin- eer by trade his job' was the steam installations at the On- tario Hospital which was then being built. Right from the beginning he liked the town. When his work at the Ontario Hospital was complete he decided to stay. With just $250 capital he start- ed one of the first auto repair shops in town. This' business later became known as Whitby Motors. Working entirely on his business. Then, in the winter of 1917, Mr. Davidson made what he considers the "most important investment" of his life. He took a correspondence course in salesmanship. The following year he opened his 12 months of trading he sold 65 cars nearly all of them to Whitby residents, "T can remember my first customer so well," Mr. David- son said. "It was a woman. I think the car was a Chev, My hands were shaking so much I could hardly sign the necessary forms." It was not until 1923 that he local politics, He stood and, at his first attempt, won a seat. Mayor of the town at this time was R. N. Bassett. "In those days we didn't poll too many votes," Mr. Davidson remembered. "The top placed man usually collected about 60 votes. I think on my first elec- tion I got about 30. I-can't re- member the exact figure. You have got to remember that the town's population was pretty small in those years. HAPHAZARD AFFAIR "Council in those days was @ pretty haphazard affair. To- day's Council work requires a lot more skill. It takes best part of a year before you know really all that is going on." The Council meetings of those days were pretty orderly af- COUNCILLOR WILLIAM DAVIDSON THE TIMES PERSONALITY OF WEEK fairs. There were few contro- versial matters which council- lors could fight over. "All we had to do was keep the town ticking over. That was all anybody wanted," But Mr. Davidson took his council work very seriously. Remembering the success of his salesmanship course he took a similar course in public speak- ing. "T was a very bad speaker at the beginning, I would get up on the platform and hardly be able to speak for shaking.." It was not until 1940 that the town really began to grow at an ever increasing pace. It was then too that council work really began to liven up. "I think it was in 1945, or 1946," Mr. Davidson recalled, that . three small industries settled in town." Following this it was not\long before the bigger fish began to grab at the bait dangled by Town Council. Mr. Davidson played in im- portant part in attracting Dun- lops to build a factory in the town. He was also instrumental Claims Parking Meters Headed For Obscurity Kingston Whig-Standard There are increasing signs that the age of the parking meter js entering its final phase; that the device which was to have solved all our parking problems will, within a decade or 0, join the hitching- post. of another era as a thing of the past. In Winnipeg, for example, City Council has recognized this trend to the extent of ask- ing the Traffic Commission to prepare a study on the desir- ability of removing meters from the downtown area. At least one alderman maintains that the abolition of meters would create more efficient use of parking space and @ better flow of traf- fic, They are not profitable, he argued, and their removal would only entail slight financial loss, Thus we see ai least one sign of this whole parking meter romance having come full cir- cle. We recall vividly much the same words being used here in Kingston in the late 40's when the campaign to install meters began; only at that time, of course, the reverse meaning was intended. Meters, it was argued -- successfully as we all know -- woulg create the more efficient use of parking space and a better flow of traffic. They would be profitable and, furthermore, every motorist would get a fair chance to park his vehicle Undoubtedly parking meters, fn the early days of their exist- ence did provide a more effi- cient use of parking space and traffic did flow betier. But, of course nobody really reckoned with the fantastic growth in ei- ther the human or automobile populations, And people in those days forgot all about one im- portant traffic principles: Streets were built to move iraffic, not to park it Along with the increasing doubts being expressed as to the efficiency of meters, there are other signs, however faint ai the moment, that thal prin- ciple is at last being recognized and that a return to it seems our only hope of preventing the complete takeover of our cities by the automobiles, TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Nov, 27, 1964... The final section of the original Welland Canal from Port Dalhousie. to. Port Robinson' was opened 135 years ago .today--in 1829, The canal took five years to build) Before it was opened all freight moving between -Lake Erie and Lake Ontario was trans- ported overland. The canal was deepened in 1841 and later enlarged, but was re- placed by the.new Welland Canal, with a depth of 27 feet, in 1932. 1942 -- The French fleet ° scuttled itself to avoid Ger- man capture at Toulon dur- ing. the Second World War. 1959 Indians in the Northwest Territories were granted full liquor rights. First World. War Fifty years ago today--in 1914: Russians routed Turks in fighting near Er- zerum and took 9,000 pris- oners and 16 big guns; the British admiralty reported two. merchant ships. had been sunk by a German submarine off Le Havre; Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, told the Commons the Royal Navy was supreme. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1939--Prime Minis- ter Mackenzie King an- nounced a basis had been reached for establishing the Commonwealth air training scheme; the King signed the order - in - council' pro- claiming Britain's blockade of German exports, in getting Bathurst Containers to follow. The Town showed its grati- tude to Mr. Davidson in 1947 by electing him Mayor, He served in that capacity for three consecutive years. He was appointed to the Li- brary Board in 1951 and serv- ed the Board for more than eight years as chairman. SERVICE RECOGNIZED In 1958 as a tribute to his out- standing servicé to the town he was awarded the Peter Perry Award by the late Judge John E. Pritchard. Mr. Davidson also spent four years as a member of the town's Industrial Commission responsible for attracting new industry to the town. Mr. Davidson intends to retire at the end of the year. Doctor's advice has forced him to make the decision. But he does not intend to lose track of municipal affairs, "This is still, and always will be, one of my main interests. The town has. not finished grow- ing yet. By 1980 I reckon the town's population, will have grown to the 37,000 mark. Al- most doubled in fact, They are going to be interesting years," : Looking ahead Mr. Davidson is keen to see an amalgamation between the Town Council and the Township of Whitby. "They should get together now and discuss this. The sooner they do it the better." He can see nothing but pros- perity too for the Whitby Har- or. "The opening of the Atlantie Seaway will mean more busi- ness for@f@ Harbor eventually although it may take some time. In another 10 years I can see it being quite a busy place." Of all his years on Town Council Mr, Davidson considers the last four have been the most exciting. "This is where most of the progress has been made," he said. 'Town Council will go on building too. It is a good Coun- cil and one the town should be proud of," MAC'S MUSINGS Every day we read and Hear about what we call Democracy, especially at The time of elections, And we ofien wonder if Those who wrile and talk About it ever stop to Consider what they mean When they refer to it in grandiose terms. In the world today, there Are two kinds of democracy With lines sharply drawn And the distinction between Them marked s0 clearly ~ That any who wish can Understand the difference, There is real democracy Only in those places Where the people are Willing to accept their Responsibilities and do Willingly the things that Are required of them In a democratic system, But there are also the Imaginary democracies In which the people lack The character and energy To accept their. part in Making democracy real And leave it to others To think and act for them, In the real democracies The people are able to get What they want in life, By working for it, but In. the imaginary ones, The people have to be Satisfied with what Their yulers ate willing To give to them. In either case, the people Get only what they deserve And. that causes us. to wonder In our democracy as we Exercise it in Oshawa --Nov. 27, 1064. OTTAWA REPORT Pearson Recalls University Days By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- Prime Minister LB. Pearson is kept busy by a voluminous correspondence concerned with the important affairs of state. But he finds time to enjoy a perhaps more human correspondence with young Canadians, as I recently showed by quoting extracts from some of his letters. Recently he wrote to a fresh- man at the University of Tor- onto, whom he has never met. This will interest many Cana- dians, young and older too, so I now quote this in full, with permission: "DEAR DON! "T have just learned from my political and academic inteili- gence service that you are ov- cupying, at Gate House, a room which once loomed very large in my life. "IT hope you have as good a time there as I did though I should add that, if you had an oller brother as I did who shared the room with you and kept reminding you that you were nothing but a contemp- tible freshman, you would have quite an obstacle to overcome, I also fervently hope that you won't have to leave that room as I did, with all your best friends in college to go to war. "Perhaps one day when I am in Toronto, I will drop in and see how you are taking care of the old homestead. I must say it used to be very untidy when we lived in it but I am sure you are a better. housekeeper! 'All good wishes, Yours sin- cerely, L.B. Pearson." The letter was addressed to Mr. Don H. Jack, Room 7, Gate House, Victoria College, Toronto, He happens to be the son of Mel Jack, general mana- ger of the Brewers Association of Canada, who was for many years the brains trust of the Conservative party and the most effective and efficient 'back-room boy" seen around Parliament Hill since the war. The older brother mentioned by Mr. Pearson as his room- mate was "Duke" (short for Marmaduke) Pearson. PICTURE GALLERY Of the many extensive 'collec- tions of framed photographs hanging on the walls of MPs' offices, one of the largest: is that of Hon. Judy LaMarsh. Our health minister has just acquired an interesting addi- tion. It is a photo taken on the balcony outside her top-floor of- fice in her department's new administrative headquar- ters, the Brook Claxton Build- ing, which is Ottawa's tallest building except for the Peace Tower. : The photo shows Miss La- Marsh with Prime Minister Pearson and Ottawa's mayor, Charlotte Whitton. It is inscribed 'To the Rt. Hon. the prime minister at "the peak" of achievement, Oct. 7, 1964. With good wishes from Punch, and Judy" Underneath is written "Charlotte Whitton-- her mark." f Then added in Mr. Pearson's handwriting is: "To Judy from L.B.P. with all good wishes to "a pent-house plutocrat." "The peak" and the '"penr- house" are joking references to Ottawa's tallest building, for which Judy took a good - na- tured ribbing from 'Punch' and many others at the official opening on Oct 7. YOUR INCOME TAX Place Of Insurance In Income Tax Plan By WILLIAM C, HALL B.Comm., CA Life insurance often forms part of an individual's estate. A policy may be taken out for the purpose of creating or in- creasing an estate to provide for the protection of one's family in the event of early death or fail- ure of health. Insurance also may be used for other purposes: (a) to provide funds for the pay- ment of death duties; (b) to supplement a savings program; (c) to provide income on re- tirement; (d) to provide funds for a buy- sell agreement; (e) to sustain a corporation after the death of a key person; (f) to provide a corporation with funds to redeem shares of a major shareholder. Mr. George Easeup, our make-believe testator, is no ex- ception. George, prior to acquiring a policy of insurance, is rather surprised by the scope of the topic. He learns that basically there are two types of insurance -- term and permanent. Term insurance, George is told, provides coverage for a limited period of time -- if the person whose life is insured dies within this time, the policy be- comes payable but not' other- wise. This form of insurance is particularly appropriate when the need is for a limited period of time; or, when the need is great but resources are limited. Term insurance is often used to fund buy-sell agreements and to supply key persorfne! with insur- ance where the chief concern is QUEEN'S PARK Toronto Links to provide funds upon the death of the person whose life is in- sured and where savings are of little or no significance. It is effectively used by a corpora> tion in the form of an em- ployees' group term plan where usually each employee's estate or heirs are named as bene- ficiaries. The premium paid by the company is déductible and is not. included in the employee's income if the policy does not ex- ceed $25,000. Proceeds of such policies are not subject to: in- come tax in the hands of the recipients although they form part of the employee's estate. Permanent insurance, on the other hand, gives more complete protection, George is advised; it becomes payable on the death of the person whose life is in- sured, whenever that may be. Permanent insurance may be described as: (i) whole life; (ii) limited payment life; (iii) single payment life; (iv) endow- ment. Each kind is designed to meet a particular need of the person insured. George hears that in the insur- ance field there are' such "things" as third-party insur- ance, insurance trusts, bene- ficiaries for value, preferred beneficiaries, beneficiaries designated irrevocably and or- dinary beneficiaries. Also policies may be assigned and declarations or designation of beneficiaries are possible. Each point, he is told, should be considered, since one's Jiabil- {ty for. estate tax, succession duty, as well as income tax, is often closely related to the type of insurance held. Can Hurt Liberals By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--Toronto is moy- ing in on the Ontario Liberals, This should give heart to the opposition parties (if they need any about the Liberals.) A group of men close to new leader Andrew Thompson has taken control of the Toronto Liberal Association and is get- ting ready to move in on the provincial association. One of the weaknesses of Mr. Thompson is that his political background is almost com- pletely Toronto. After he came to Canada he did the rest of his growing-up in the city, He represents a Tor- onto riding. And the big boost behind his entry into the leader- ship came from Toronto men. It was men from this city who first urged him to run. And then they provided most of the steam, It is true trimmings were added to try and take away some of this Toronto image; such as the naming of Harry Worton MPP of Guelph as cam- paign manager. But this really fooled nobody with any knowhow. Mr. Thomp- son was a Toronto man. OLD CENTRAL If he were smart Mr, Thomp- son would now try to definitely move away from this Toronto complexion. If, by any chance, he doesn't realize this all he. has to do is look at the past. The. one real go at success the Liberals had in this century was' the reign of Mitch Hep. burn, And this started coming apart at the seams when the Toronto influence began working on Mitch. The main party onganization in the area, the Toronto Cen- tral, began to have more and more say, and prominent Tor- ontonians began to sway the Hepburn. thinking. And Mitch began to act with that irresponsible smugness which is typical of Toronto polities. KNOW ALLS The Toronto politician is prob- ably the worst in Canada, with an incapacity, abetted by the fact he thinks he is the best He knows nothing: very much about the world outside Scar- WRITE... WANTS STORE CLERKS' UNION The Editor, The Oshawa Times. Sir, We are hearing a great deal about unions just now, and I have wondered many times why the unions do not get start- ed in the department and chain stores, especially when they are staying open every night in the week, even Saturday, also holi- days and Good Friday. % I worked in a department store last Christmas and never again. You work any hours they feel they need you, even if it is only three hours, and then expect you to rush in the next day if they begin to get busy. I am quite sure that if a union organizer approached the sales clerks they would sign up in a -hurry. There certainly should be something done. We are back to pre-war conditions. The Lord's Day Alliance peo: ple are very much against sports on Sunday, Why do they not get after the chain stores which stayed open on Good Fri- day, and would also like to open on Sunday. Yours truly, --"FOR BETTER WORKING CONDITIONS." Oshawa, Ontario. Opinions Of Others TOURISM HARVEST Prime Minister Pearson issued an interesting challenge the other day when he urged delegates to a federal-provincial tourist conference to set their sights on a $2,000,000,000 indus- try by 1974. ' At the moment, the target ap- pears to be well out of range. Last year's tourist income was $602,000,000, less than one- third of the figure mentioned by Mr. Pearson. This year pro- mises to be only slightly higher. It can be assumed that Can- - ada's centennial programs and the 1967 World's Fair in Mont- real will result in the biggest influx of visitors this country has evern seen, the majority of them from the United States. The trick will be to make their stay so enjoyable that they will want to come back again. --(Hamilton Spectator) BY-GONE DAYS - 20 YEARS AGO Nov, 27, 1944 R. Ray McLaughlin was named as president of a new organization known as the Old Scouts Association of Ontario at a meeting of the Ontario Council of the Boy Scouts Asso- ciation. A report submitted to the Board of Education by T. R. McEwen, inspector of Publie Schools, stated that during Octo- ber, War Savings Stamps and Certificates were sold in the Oshawa Public Schools to the amount of $2,631. G. B. Whitfield, postmaster at Whitby, announced his retire ment with over 20 years' serv: ice in that position. 35 YEARS AGO Nov. 27, 1929 A ten-minute street car serve ice was established by the Osh- awa Railway Company on Sim- coe street with six new cars in use. » The old city hall clock, which had been out of service for several months, was repaired and again put in operation. Oshawa Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion held its first meeting in its new club rooms in the Oshawa Club quarters. borough to the east and West Toronto the west, but he can give you an answer to its prob- lems--on the few occasions he is willing to recognize there are problems that don't centre on Toronto. Mr. Thompson now has strong Toronto ties. It is questionable whether he can break them, He is obligated But, if he can, he might be very smart indeed to take his party out of this city altogether --put its head office in Hamil- ion, or Barrie or Guelph, and make sure its professionals are men from the province who use Torontonians only for. certein necessary things such as raise ing money. PAPER MISSED? Call 723-3783 to 7 p.m. Circulation Dept. 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