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'She Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspopers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1965 -- PAGE 4 Knights Went On Parade For First Labor Day 1882 The Knights of Labor with their handlebar moustaches and mechan- 7. caps would seem very much out of step, with the times were they to parade down King or Simcoe Streets Monday in observance of Labor Day. Vast have been the changes in tech- nology and the role of unions since they initiated Labor Day celebra- tions with their march in New York on the first Monday of September, 1882. It's also doubtful if their parade would attract much of a crowd for the manner of observing Labor's special day has altered. Some still march but most of the celebration will be informal, at beaches or back- yard barbecues, part ofa traffic congested three-day weekend. It was Peter McGuire as the pres- {dent of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners who pro- posed the first Labor Day obser- vance in 1882 and persuaded the Knights of Labor to march in New York. His idea was that Labor should select a day for a parade to show the strength and "the 'esprit de corps of the trade and labor or- ganizations." Mr. McGuire contended there were days representative of reli« gious, civil and military spirit but none "representative of the indus- trial spirit as a great vital force of the nation". The Federation of Or- ganized Labor of the United States and Canada which later was to be- come the American Federation of Labor went along with Mr. McGuire and in 1884 authorized the celebra- tion nationally. Ten years later, in Canada, Labor Day was declared a federal statutory holiday. Today provides an appropriate oc- casion for The Times to wish well all those in Oshawa and district to whom Labor Day has special signi- ficance. We hope you enjoy this last holiday weekend of the summer and exercise the care"to come through it safely. "Reasoning Together' Labor Day provides a timely op- portunity to discuss a subject of vital concern to union members and the press. Itis the working ar- rangement we develop together. Some of the remarks made by the editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer in an address to the Communication Workers of America are worth con- sidering in this regard. "There are some in organized labor," he said, who have a chip on their shoulders when} dealing with newspapers. Now newspapers are not unaccustomed to the charge that they are not, telling both sides of a story. We hear it when this is labor- management controversy. We are accused of slanting stories, making whipping boys of union leaders and neglecting union news. "T do not think the charges are valid ... if organized labor is going to take its place in society as it sees She Oshawa Times - gta Monae fa R. e 1 Man ROOKE. GQ 3 MCCONECHY. Editor The Oshawo Times combining The Oshawe Times (established tert ond the Whitby Gazette ond - Chypentel 1863) is published daily Sundays end auaery holidays exceptédy.-- of Canadian Daily fh Publish- @ra Association, The Canadien Press, Audit Bureeu ef Cireulation end the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association. The Canadion Press is exclusively entitied to the use of republication of aii news rved Building, 425 University Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, SUBSCRIPTION RATES vered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajox, i Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Sent le Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, '@unten, tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Sane mo Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, perce. M, fonrypecl, ond Newcastle, not over ly mail in argh of Ontarie $15.00 per yeor, vuntries, eorrier gy oreo, be U.S.A, and foreign $27.00 per $18:00 per yeor, it, it must first open itself up to the news media, never be aloof and sus- picious. "Let me concede that if you want to dig back far enough you can find reasons for being suspicious. But newspapers have grown up just as you have grown up. We think it is high time for trade unions to start respecting the respousible press. Even if you have reason, or think you have, to be critical.of your local newspaper, don't lock it out. When you do you lock out a primary means of communication with the whole community. "Have a talk with the editor, and in the style of President Johnson, "reason together". You may very well find that your own shortcom- ings are responsible for some of the things you complain about." At The Times, the editor is avail- able to "reason together" for a good 40 hours every week, He's not ob- liged to always agree with your views but will work with you at all times to bring legitimate news be- fore the public. - Other Editors' Views ELECTION NOT WANTED Federal politics have not been such in recent years as to enhance the reputation of any parliament. The only way Ottawa can earn back the respect it should have is by showing that politics is something more than gamesmanship; in other words by getting on with the public business and not putting the coun- try through a totally unnecessary election. --(Montreal Star) FRENCH-CANUCK FAVORS COMPULSORY ENGLISH By The Canadian Institute of Public Opinion (World Copyright Reserved) Most of Canada's French population is strongly in favor of compulsory English in their public schools, More than nine-in-ten of those citizens livin, like reading, writing and English a required arithmetic. subject, in Quebec want Awareness of the benefits of bilingualism in French- Canada has increased considerably, In 1943, 85 per cent of our French speaking compatriots said English should be compulsory in their schools; today the figure is 92 per cent. Nationally, 84 per cent feel English should be taught in all French public schools and 13 per cent say it should not be compulsory. The western provinces are slightly out of step with the rest of Canada on this subject of compulsory English or compulsory French, Seventy-six per cent say English should be a compulsory subject in French speaking Can- ada and 21 per cent say it should not. As revealed in a previous Gallup Poll, only 35 pér cent of those living in the West approve compulsory French in English-Canada and 63 per cent are against t. The question: "De you or do you not think that English should be a compulsory subject like spelling, writing and arithmetic, in French-speaking Canada?" National Yes 84% No 13 No opinion 3 100%, 100%, 100%, Total Quebec East 89% 9 alone Ontario West 92% 84% 16% 7 11 21 2 1 5 3 100% 100% riety att yn Like Being In The Middle? Then Go To Parry Sound By BOB EXELL TORONTO (CP)--Using 1951 and 1961 census figures, econo- mists have determined for the first time the exact geographic population centre of Canada, pinpointing it in Ontario's Parry Sound district 40 miles south of North Bay and 145 miles north of Toronto. Its co-ordinates are longitude 79 degrees, 20 minutes, 30 sec- onds west, latitude 45 degrees, 47 minutes north, establishing it at a point 444 miles southeast of South River near the north shore of Bernard Lake. That puts the population cen- tre just east of Highway 11, the northerly extension of Yonge Street, Toronto's main thorough- fare. Canada's 'actual geographic centre is far removed in the Keewatin district of Northwest- ern Ontario at longitude 96 de- grees, 48 minutes west and lati- tude 62 degrees, 23 minutes north. Determining the population centre was a painstaking, trial- and-error task for economists in the Ontario department of economics and development. LABOR OF LOVE More than anything else, it was a labor of love--an, "'inter- sting exercise," as it was de- jeribed by Rudy Kogleg, a stat- stician who undertook \the job under the direction of Don Stevenson, director of the eco- nomics branch. To divide Canada's pdpulation precisely \n half for north and south, east and west, the econo- mists began by taking large population chunks at opposite ends and cancelling them off against each other, narrowing down the working area. Then it became a matter of dealing 'with populations of counties, townshi and areas only a few block mn size--the smatlest--geographieal- tion units provided by the cen- sus reports. By drawing north-south and east-west dividing lines in the general area of where it was indicated the population centre would emerge, and by tabulat- ing populations on either side of the lines and comparing them, the researchers were able to shunt the lines backwards and forwards until the populations on either side came out equal. Where the dividing lines inter- sected each other was the popu- lation centré of Canada. The line separating east from west runs right through the heart of metropolitan Toronto. popula-. The line separating north from south skirts the northern parts of Montreal. The population centre was de- termined first on the basis of the 1951 census, and then on the basis of the 1961 census. A com- parison showed that Eastern and Western Canada are grow- ing evenly, The line dividing east from west was almost un- changed over the 10-year per- iod. However, between 1961 thé north-south dividing line shifted 11 miles to the south. The growth of Montreal and Toronto was mainly re- sponsible for the southward movement, the economists said, And if it was not for the pop- ulation increase in British Co- lumbia; which falls mainly north of the line, Canada's geo- graphic population centre might have crept even farther south. The experts doubt that the 1966 census will show much change in the location of the population centre. For the economists, locating Canada's geographic population centre was not the main objec. tive. Their interest was more in determining the population cen- tres of the 10 economic regions of Ontario as part of a regional development study. This re- search was expanded to include the population cetres of. the province and the country. Ontario's population centre has been moving northward re- flecting the growth of Ottawa and of Toronto's northern sub- urbs, principally North York. In 1951, it was located at the intersection of Jane street. and Eglinton avenuue west in Met- ropolitan Toronto's York Town- ship. By 1961 it -had moved north about three-quarters of a mile. The department of economics and development divides On- tario_into 10 economic. regions, and in most of these the popula- tion centres are located in the largest city of the region. For example, in Eastern On- tario it is in the southwestern part of Ottawa, at the intersec- tion of the Rideau Canal and Base Line Road; for Niagara, in the southeastern part of Hamil- ton, two miles west of the inter- section of Highways 20 and 560 for Lake Erie, at the eastern limits of London, Ont., near the intersection of Highway 126 and Commissioners Road; and for Upper Grand River, right on the border of Kitchener and Water- loo, halfway between King street and Lancaster street. 1951 and i FREEDOM'S FINE... ... BUT WHAT OF CONFIDENCE Why Scan Our Leaders For Foibles? EDITUR'S NOTE; Alistair Cooke is a political observer who has achieved prom- inence in North America and Britain. This is part of a British Broadcasting Corpo- ration radio talk he present- ed from Washington which was later published in the BBC's weekly magazine. 'By ALISTAIR COOKE In The Listener A book has been published here which, for once, it is accur- ate to say, is the talk of Wash- ington. It is Theodore White's The Making of the President 1964. The title is familiar; it is al- most that of the book Mr, White put out four years ago, called The Making of the President 1960 Mr. White méans to go.on do- {ng these chronicles, or cor- oner's inquests, on the presiden- tial election campaigns every four years Judging from some of the red faces and snarling voices in Washington, he is going to have to knock at some new doors be- tween now and 1968, because a lot of doors (quite possibly the White House among them) will be closed to him. FROM OUTSIDE This is because his book is not. @ formal, newspaper account by ®@ man looking on from the out- Side. It is that too; but what gipes it its fascination, as a ish This may be because the Brit- libel laws are very much In imitation, in miniature, and in woeful distortion, the profile story of human beings under the extreme stress. of fighting each other for power, is the wealth of direct reporting of dialogue, of private conversations, of quar- rels, of confessions and heart- aches confided by weary candi- dates and their managers and hangers-on at the end of day. You do have the sense of being a fly on the wall of the American political game, in all the essential stadiums where the game was played in 1964. Either Teddy White has an in- visible tape recorder, more min- ute than anything even the ex- quisite Japanese have invented; or, like Boswell, he must have seemed so mild and incon- sequential -- he is a tiny, owlish, inconspicuous man -- that when the battles were at their height, in an auditorium or im a bou- doir, hé was unseen jn a corner, knitting on his notes But aside from the brilliance and seriousness of this book there arises a question, or sev- eral, that I might just shoot at you and leave you to find the answers, The British habit; | know, is to cartoon a leader, and parody bim* mercilessly. as we do foo, bu! not to seek the intimate de- tails of his daily life, his tem- per, his habits and character, stricter than ours. It may be -- I'd like to think -- that an in- stinctive restraint takes hold of a people who have shown a gen- ius for government. On the principle that no man is a hero to his valet, it is at least arguable that if you are going to admire a man enough to follow him, there ought to be a limit to his public exposure, Can any of our leaders be men we would want to be led by in a crisis, if we know, better than our own, all their vanities and foibles and frailties and belches? Mr. White's book exploits, bet- ter than any I can remember, the new freedom, the almost compulsory freedom, in a democracy for everybody to know everything. INNOVATIONS The movement, which now seems to be in full swing in al- most any free, self - governing country you care to go into is a combination of two American in- novations. One was the muckrakers--the serious slum and scanda| re- porters, of Teddy Roosevelt's day. The other was intended by a man named Alva Johnston who began, 40 years ago, in The New Yorker magazine, a feature call- ed 'Profile'. has spread to the best. papers and the worst. We are now quite used to sit- ting down at the weekends and reading how fretful and uncer- tain President Johnson is about Viet Nam, how he fiddles and broods, where and when, I notice that we don't read how the North Vietnamese or the Viet Cong leaders are spend- ing their days and nights, or when and where Chou En-lal frets or Mao Tse-tung fumes. One of our problems is that we tend to pick up as a pre- sumption what the citizens of a dictatorship are taught as. gos- pel; that their leaders are saint- ly, dedicated, calm, and almost superhuman in their ----, and their policies. The Communists make many errors, | am sure, but there is one that they don't make, They don't believe everybody should know everything or -- in vital matters -- perhaps anything. I am not for a moment sug- gesting, at this wildly unbutton- ed stage of our democracy, that we can go into reverse and start a censorship, But I wonder what is the effect on the power of leadership, on one's confidence in any president or prime minis- ter, of seeing him at such close quarters that you can smell him and feel his warts? (veer ccna YEARS AGO 25 YEARS AGO Sept. 4, 1940 City council leased space in the Williams Piano building, for- merly occupied by the militia, to permit two local industries further Canada's war effort. nas Mrs. Emma J. Cornish, pion- eer resident of'the Oshawa dis- trict, died at the age of 95. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 4, 1925 Walker Rowden, T. Miller, G. Cox, Ross Flintoff and Bert Rob- inson, all of Oshawa, were prize winners in a three-day trap- shooting tournament at Ottawa. The new Oakland models were on display in the General Mo- tors of Canada showroom on Richmond street. BIBLE Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. --Ecclesiastes 9; 10 a, Put all that you have into the task that the Lord gives you to do. DRAG RACE German General Election Bodes Rash Of Changes By PETER JOHNSON BONN (Reuters)--West Ger- many votes Sept. 19 in a gen- eral election which may pro- duce the greatest political changes since the federal repub- lic was set up 16 years ago. Pollsters' forecasts indicate that for the first time since 1949 the opposition Social Demo- cratic party has a fighting chance of ousting the ruling Christian Democrats as the largest party in the Bundestag (lower house). Such a result would, however, not necessarily lead to a change of government, The Christian Democrats, with 45 per cent of total votes at the last elections in 1961, would probably be able to con- tinue in office with their coali- tion allies, the Free Democrats, who are expected to win several per cent less than their 13-per- cent poll in 1961, Christian Democrats have 242 seats in the 499-seat Bundestag, the Social Democrats 190 and the Free Democrats 67, But if his party beats the India's Being Terrorized By Thugs On Distaif Side BOMBAY (CP) =" women bandits, kidnappers and thieves are giving Indian police an anx- ious time. The "female monsters,'"' as one newspaper columnist calls them, have earned notoriety by kidnapping housewives, raiding suburban houses and bringing off a series of burglaries. A 22-year-old housewife, Mrs. Avinash Shripat, was kidnapped in broad daylight by a gang. As Mrs, Shripat, whose hus- band works as a cashier in a bank, was on her way to a mu- nicipal maternity home for a checkup, three women ap- proached her and asked direc- tions to the railway station. This is all Mrs. Shripat re- members of her conversation with the strangers, except that one of the women tried to press a handkerchief to her face. When she woke up, she found Verselt ina speeding train some 200 miles from Bom- bay. Police-b eli-eye.that Mrs. Shripat was drugged, robbed of her gold and diamond orna- ments and placed in a long-dist- ance train. Two businessmen travelling home by a suburban train re- ported that a 'well-dressed woman" sitting next to them opened her hand bag. The next thing they remember is they felt sleepy. When they awak- ened, their wallets were gone. Many suburban burglaries have been attributed to women criminals. Some of these burgl- aries have been entirely female affairs, In others, women have collaborated with men. Indian film star Asif and his wife were gagged and robbed by a mixed gang which broke into their villa at dawn. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Sepember 4, 1965... Jean Baptiste de Ram- ezay, commandant of Que- bec at the time of the Brit- ish conquest, was born 257 years ago today--in 1708--at Montreal, where his father was governor. He joined the French army at 12 years old and later commanded units at Fort Nipigon, on - Hudson Bay, and Acadia. Afteg the defeat of Mont- calm' on the heights of Abraham in 1759, Ramezay was forced to surrender Quebec, of which he had been town major for 10 years. He retired to France, which he had never: seen before, and died 12 years later. 1260 -- Battle of Montz- perti. 1929 -- ship. completed its around the world. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1915 -- the liner Hesperian was torpedoed by a Ger- man submarine off Fastnet Rock, near Ireland, and sank with the loss of 26 passengers and crew. Graf Zeppelin air- flight Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1940--King Carol of Romania gave up supreme ~ powers to General lon Ant- onescu; Luftwaffe raids over England continued, as Hitler prom ised reprisals for RAF raids on Germany; the British Fleet Air Arm attacked Rhodes. September 5, 1965... First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1915 -- Czar Nicholas as- sumed personal command of all the Russian armies in an attempt to halt their des- perate retreat across Po- land; Grand Duke Nich- olas, former Russian com- mander, was made viceroy of the Caucasus region. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1940--Churchill an- nounced 1,05 civilians had been killed and 1,261 seri. ously injured in August's air raids; the loss of two British destroyers, Ivan- hoe and Esk was an- nounced; Romanian sol- diers and Iron Guard fase- ists fought near the royal palace; the U.S, Congress began investigation of a Nazi propaganda news service, reitway~ Christian. Democrats, social Democrat leader Willy Brandt, mayor of West Berlin, will be in stronger position to ask for what he calls a "big coalition" --of Christian Democrats and Social Democrats. Chancellor Ludwig Erhard has already rejected the idea, declaring in a speech opening the election campaign Aug. 8 at Dortmund that he would not consider forming a government with a party politically and morally unfit to rule, WANT COALITION The Social Democrats, with 36 per cent of total votes at the 1961 election and with recent state elections and public opin- ion polls giving them several per cent more, have been per- suading the Free Democrats to enter a coalition, While the smallest party is the most strongly anti-socialist in internal affairs, its foreign policy experts and its liberal elements are often closer to the Social Democrats than to the Christian Democrats, whose chairman is still the 'hard line'™ 69-year-old former chancellor, Konrad Adenauer. Both the Social Democrats and thé Free Democrats are strongly "pro - Atlantic' and often critical of French Presi- dent Charles de Gaulle. Both also favor an active and elastic pol- icy---aimed-at-inereasing-Bormn'a influence among the Eastern European countries, Brandt, who spent much of the Nazi period in Scandinavia as a political refugee, could offer Erich Mende, leader of the Free Democrats, a large num- ber of ministerial posts for his party--and a promise that the present electoral system would not be changed. Erhard, hailed for years while economics minister as the au- thor of West Germany's "eco- nomic miracle," in September's election will be given the pub- lic's verdict on shis handling of political affairs. ERHARD BLASTED Although West Germany has continued to forge ahead eco- nomically under Erhard, the chancellor has re peatedly drawn severe criticism both in- side and outside his party for indecision and lack of foresight in the political sphere, In recent months, however, Erhard's personal popularity with the electorate, which has always remained well ahead of that of Brandt, has moved up- ward again, The Social Democrats, who threw overboard the remnants of their one-time marxism at a party congress in 1959, have scored considerable success in elections in all the West Ger- man states since the 1961 fed- eral election. At this level, they topped the Christian Democratic vote. Sec- tions of the electorate, including many Roman Catholics who would never have voted for the Social Democrats 10 years ago, have begun to do so. PM AT HOME ne ieee we OTTAWA (Special) -- 'hk ada's parallel to Chequers Court in Britain is @ six - bedroom white caahoell home in Quebec's Gatineau Hills, some 30 minutes' drive parliament hill. Formerly the summer ho! of one of Ottawa's early barons, the official summer res: idence of Canadian ee we isters was acquired by parliament in 1959, he 'home 1 Harrington Lake, reputed to be of the best 2 lakes in ism bn area,' and was owned by Col, E. M. 'ewraede and the Hon. W. D, sponttge = The former Edwards' house and 18.4 acres of the original estate became the property of the peo- > ple of Canada for use by the" prime minister, The Edwards and Herridge families sold the property to the National Capital Commission in 1951 for $232,000, but 'members of both families retain the right to use the amenities of the lake. Until it became the summer home of the PM, the National Capital Commission rented it out at $1,000 a season. A summer home for Canada's prime minister was the brain- child of New Democratic MP Bert Herridge of B.C., a distant relative of one of the original owners. Mr. Diefenbaker was prime minister when the idea was first raised and he express- ed personal disagreement. Mr, Herridge pursued the plan and a year later, with all parties in © support, the bill was ratified by parliament, Significantly, Mr. * Diefenbaker was out of town the, day the bill came up for debate. The year-round home of the prime minister, 24 Sussex street in Ottawa, was acquired dur- . ing the tenure of the Hon. Louis St. Laurent. He also managed to find a pressing engagement. out of town when parliament voted to purchase what was formerly the residence of the Australian High Commissioner to Canada. QUEEN'S PARK 'Ombudsman' Need Shown By DON O'HEARN 'Toronto--Yesterday 1 noted. that the latest step in farm © marketing-a move towards con: trol of retailers by the peach | board-probably brought an om- budsman closer for Ontario. -- , I think it would be worth- while to extend this thought a pit. 8 Particularly, because. many .. people still can't. understand | why an ombudsman should be necessary in our society. And a | good illustration of this need can be drawn from marketing. The job of ag. budsman » would be to protect the public from abuse from the law. Not > only from administration of the | law - by government agencies ' and others-but from bad law it- self. : The obvious first objection to the proposal is that it is not needed-that there is plenty of protection now, But is there? There are three arms of pro tection-of ~publicrights -in--out----- society: the press, the courts and the legislature. And marketing shows there are some instances where none of these three work effectively. rig situation regarding it is this: The legislature should be, or should have been, the first area of protection with this, as with most, questions. But the fact is, it hasn't acted as a protection at all, For politics has been in the: way, as it often can be, The basic questions behind marketing are not argued in the legislature, and to the. writer's knowledge never have been. DEBATE FEARED And the simple reason behind this is that members are afraid to argue them. Afraid probably even to think of them. Kor farmers generally believe in co-operative marketing. And no member-or no party-is going to risk offending the farmers, and their vote, by even suggest- ing that perhaps there are some offensive features to it. \ The general attitude of the members is to accept it and' not go out on a limb--a "Why bother" outlook. The courts are not much more help. On questions before thém,' they most often make decisions on technical points. On the as- 'pect of principle, once the leg- islature has acted they go along' with its intent. And in this field the press doesn't function effectively either. Our important voice of the press today is the daily, ur- ban newspaper. And to it mare keting is a farm issue, and. it largely ignores the question. Oshawa Winnipeg Montreal Windsor Edmonton Gordon W. Riehl C.A,, R.1A, Oshawa Whitby DELOITTE, PLENDER, HASKINS ® SELLS with whom are now merged MONTEITH, RIEHL, WATERS & CO. Chartered Accountants Prince George Oshowa Shopping Centre Brock Building Hamilton Calgary Vancouver Burt R. Weters, €.A, 728-7827 668-4131 Toronto Regina