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ye Oshara Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1965 -- PAGE 4 Those Elected Deserve Support In Programs Considerable criticism is being levelled about the generally poor turnout at the polls in this week's municipal elections. To a degree it fi the category of the clergy- man ¢astigating his congregation on the fact that so few are in the pews. It's not likely the voter-apathy tir- ades will reach those it should either. They,are the losers nevertheless: For small turnout or not a mandate has been given to newly-elected and returned representatives to conduct affairs in what they see as the best interests of their communities. Those who failed to exercise their privilege of voting have at the same time weakened their position to protest too strenuously. To those who have been chosen by the electorate to assume munici- pal responsibility, congratulations are in order. In this period in the province's history they have under- taken a big job. Many are the in- dications that sweeping changes in the manner municipal matters will be handled will at least begin during their terms of office, In Pickering, a Reeve has been re-elected who has already demon- strated an awareness of the changes and the wide influences they will have on the life and af- fairs of his community. In Whit- by, a young man has been elected to the mayoralty who has shown keen interest and leadership in planning for future municipal development. Mayor - elect Desmond Newman has expressed laudable intentions of "getting Whitby on the move." He has called for a complete re- appraisal of the town's financial problems and the establishment of new programs of development for his community. Whitby experienced a particular- ly enthusiastic election campaign. Municipal politics were hot and heavy for many weeks. As a new mayor prepares to take over his responsibility it will be important that any bitterness which may have arisen be forgotten and all those elected to office receive the support of the citizenry as a whole. The 'One Cent Miracle' Most Canadian youngsters would consider a snack of milk and cook- les something of a treat. Few if any, however, depend completely on milk and cookies to stay alive. Yet this is the case with the hundreds of destitute and hungry tots who are Dr. Lotta Hitschmanova's charges in the out-of-the-way villages of Dr. Hitschmanova and her Uni- India. tarian Service Committee have brought an extra sparkle to the name Canada in many of the areas of the world populated by the less fortunate. Her good works have gained ready recognition with the cold, the hunger and the forgotten. And through her, we Canadians are also known as good and generous people. At home in Canada Dr. Hit- She Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher R C. ROOKE, General Monager C. J. MeCONECHY Editor Times comb! The Oshawa Times initby Gozette ond Chronicle estoblished is published daily §undoys end Statutory holidays excepted). 3 of Dai paper Publish @r Association, The Canadien Press, Audit Bureeu of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial: Dailics Associction. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitied to the use otf republication of ai! sews despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, ond eleo the tocal ews published therein. All rights of special dee matches ore also reserved. Offices; Thomson Building, ~ 425 ~- University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpoel, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton Enniskillen, Oronc, Leskeard, Broughom, Burketon, Cloremont, Manchester, Pontypool, and Newcastle not over S$0c, per week. By mail in Province of Ontorio corrier delivery | oreo, $15.00 per year. Bie» and Countries, ok per yeor. U.S.A. and foreign $27.00 per schmnnoya's' unstinting efforts merit special attention and support in this season of giving. The cookies and milk she vides work wonders. She terms them "the one cent" miracle. The enriched peanut butter biscuits cost the USC but one penny. In five years they have wrought a remark- able transformation. Village chil- dren and adults have gained weight and strength; a little color has been added to their cheeks; eyes are no longer dead but sparkle with health and interest. The cookies and milk project is of course but one of 70 major proj- ects now overseen by. Dr. Hitsch- manova_ in Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Her work with the USC has entered its third decade providing child care, food, educa- tion, medical and hospital. care for as many as she can of the world's needy. This year she is seeking $840,000 in funds and gifts to carry on her work. pro- Many calls are made for our sup- port today, some certainly much er to home. Yet. in an affluent and fortunate society such as ours, many have something extra avail- able. to assist Dr. Hitschmanova's 'good "and certainiy ~well-budgeted work. Remember: One dollar feeds a child every day with milk for more than three months, or pro- vides one hundred enriched biscuits, Contributions may be forwarded to the Unitarian Service Committee headquarters, 56 Sparks Street, Ottawa 4. OTTAWA REPORT Right Thre atanad oh BBA We OR Bhs Be To Individuality By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- What a debt we » owe to our old soldiers! In peace, as they did in war, they stand on guard to protect the rights of all Canadians to life, liberty and the pursuit of hap- Piness; I am writing this on the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Canadian Legion, and appropriately today I received a letter from Mr. J. H. Orr, of Marisfield, in Ontario's Dufferin County. He tells me that he is an 82-year-old veteran, and is at present, alas, in Toronto's Sun- nybrook Hospital. Referring to government sei- zure of land, Mr. Orr writes: "No government or MP has the right to flood a man's land, just because a hydro commission wants to use it. If they have the money to build a dam, they have the money to dig a canal instead, like the Canal du Nord in France, or the Soo canal, I was a gunner in the first war, and I'd use my training again if the government tries to flood my land." Mr. Orr's spirit is admirable. Our veterans like him are great individualists. They laid their lives on the line, not to protect a few acres of Canadian pasture which are indestructible, but to preserve the more vulnerable Canadian way of life, for their children and their children's children. Equally today they would fight if need be to pro- tect that way of life against the socialists and state - planners who scheme to subordinate the individual to the state. PIONEER SPIRIT Many readers are writing let- ters to me along the same line as Mr. Orr, deploring the creep- ing socialism and grasping bu- reaucracy spawned by our "promising" politicians. This worry seems to be running like an undercurrent through the minds of many Canadians. What is at stake here is our pioneer tradition of self-reliance when possible, or of others' help when necessary. This means our right to our individuality. Every government welfare plan must presuppose uniformity, and in © its rigidity it can cater only to the average, the conformist, The Canada Peiision Plan, for instance, discriminates outrage- ously against the worker who does not marry. The arrogant bureaucrat can get away with this stress on Uniformity, through the compulsive power of the state. in contrast private en- terprise has to permit each in- dividual to seiect whatever best suits his particular circum- stances. That is why private en- terprise offers the consumer a wide choice, whether in automo- biles or homes or menus~ or clothes or pensions or medical care. Vets knowsthe difference: They have had their belly full of government zicals, they have worn uniform clothes, they have slept in tents, they have lives the totally-planned government life, with no individuality and with no choice except that be» tween conformity or pack drill WENT UNHEARD x While all politicians now ap- pear to be engaged in a competi- tion to see who can raise our taxes highest, this great debate between freedom and state con- trol went unheard during the election. But the politicians are raising taxes so that they can bribe our votes by the way they spend our taxes. Remember the Liberal cabinet minister's la- ment: "We gave F.E 1. a $142,- 000,000 causeway, and we didn't get a single seat out of it."' Note that phrase "we gave... " On the contrary, all Canadian taxpavers were forced to pay $142,000,000, but not one cent was "given" from the treasury of the Liberal party Our public fig: , as Mr, Orr and others complain, are too busy scheming how to put their grubby Ittle fingers deeper and deeper into Johnny Canuck's pri- vate life. If those who rate the state as more important than the individual have their way, Canadians will soon have no in- dividuality, no choice, and no money left after taxes. Fundamental Shift Foreseen * In U.S. Food, Foreign Aid Policy By ARCH MacKENZIE WASHINGTON (CP) --The United States since 1954 has dis- tributed $15,400,000,000 worth of wheat and other farm commo- dities to 114 countries, a White House conference on_ inter tional co-operation heard. .usi week. But the honeymoon is over, as President Johnson has made increasingly plain. The U.S. feels there are strong domestic and international reasons for making a fundamental policy shift in food and other foreign aid Nations in need can still count on U.S. food, including the Uni- ted Arab Republic and India where perilous shortages exist. But the pattern of the entire aid program is being shifted to emphasize the do-it-yourself ap- proach. And the U.S. intends to exact undertakings of good be- havior from the beneficiaries, not only in their domestic con- duct of applying the aid but in their foreign affairs attitudes to the U.S. and other nations. How effective this will be can- not be judged. But alternative sources of help from-© ist countries or others do not seem to be available on the needed scale. Ghana's beligerent Kwame Nkrumah is one example. Ghana in effect apologized for a Nkrumah book calling the U S. neo - colonialist amon, other things, but the book had barred any discussion of help for the tangled Ghanaian economy. President Nasser of the Uni- ted' Arab Republic has gone some way to tidy up relations with Washington because his needs are so great--especially for grain. In October, he was udged to | only about 10 weeks' sur ailable. This week, President Johnson authorized the resumption of food shipments worth about $55,000,000 but only for the next six months. He rejected U.A.R. bids for another three - year agreement similar to the one expiring last June. But this was done only after Nasser moved to disengage Egyptian troops from Yemen, expressed willingness to com- pensate the U.S. for the de- struction of a $500,000 library and made other conciliatory gestures. The pending visits of Presi- dent Ayub Khan of Pakistan and Indian Prime Minister Sha- stri offer more opportunities for the new U.S. hard line--this time in putting on pressure to settle the war over Kashmir which embarrassed U.S. plan- ners. - Ayub Khan will. be seeing Johnson Dec, 14-15 and will get the message then. Pakistan has had about $3,- 000,000,000 in U.S, aid--mostly military which it used to attack India It has, in U.S. eyes, tended to use the economic slice of the aid wisely but Pres- ident Johnson will ask, before faerr BIRDS BAMBOOZLE SNAKES... ..» JUNGLE MYTHS EXPLODED 'King Of Beasts Really Just Lazy Coward By JOSEPH MacSWEEN LOURENCO MARQUES, Mo- zambique (CP)--The lion, so- called king of the beasts, is a lazy coward compared with the humble domestic hen. Practically everybody, except the birds, has heard stories about snakes hypnotizing birds. It's really the other way around --the birds bamboozle the snakes. The elephant has such con- tempt for a snoozing lion that he'll step on the cat rather than alter course to walk around him Male elephants are henpecked by their bossy wives, who con- sider the bulls so stupid they can't be trusted with any re- sponsibility. The fearsome leopard, an- other coward, sneaks around at night and will attack a human --preferably a child or old lady only in starvation or desper- ation. These are some of the eye> brow-raising findings of . Joao Augusto Silva, Mozambique in- formation director, who, cam- era-in-hand,--has--been-studying the lords of the jungle for years, moving among them on foot. In his named after tisnal park: 'Stlva sets ont fo ex- plode some animal! myths al- though he concedes it will be a book Gorongosa, y Mara ne tough job considering the "crushing prestige of 400 years of literature." "The myth that wild animals are ferocious is a very old one and it is not merely in one book that it can be destroyed," says Silva. "To bring this about would require many years of revision." The dangers of the jungle are far less than those of any large city, says Silva. 'In the bush everything is siniple. No animal will attack: except in abnormal circum- stances. Apart from these -un- common occasions an attack is as rare as one man assaulting another for no rhyme or rea- son." Backing up his thesis that < wild animals are timid tive and suspicious, Si J that even "the lioness, contrary to what is generally believed, fs not dangerous to man, not even when she is with her cubs."" "When chased she away, abandoning her young. This unbelievable fact can be proved in complete safety with: a car and, although it is diffi- cult to believe I must add that the experiment can be per- formed quite safely on foot. If, fremodl reunite nfalk ~ fant we will run from are a towards a fance" awas se run mother lioness, gesticulating -and shouting, she will take to her heels, abandon. ing her young... . "Among wild animals coward- ice, weakness and selfishness in the face of danger are fairly frequent. The female baboon when chased will brutally free herself of her young, desper- ately clinging to her belly, so as to escape more rapidly. , "Others, on the contrary, will show a stoic courage in spite of their smallness and weakness. Among these animals we find the common domestic fowl wtio will charge an enemy, even though it be much larger than herself, and s0 cover, auda- clously, the retreat of her chicks. "But literature has never praised her unselfish motherly love perhaps because the life of this bird usually ends. inglor- iously in a casserole dish." BIRDS ARE CLEVER Aceording to popular belief, the serpent possesses a fatal hypnotic power over birds and, indeed, there is a charming Portuguese poem about how the Child Jesus once saved a nightingale in such circum- stances. : But the fact is that birds have worked out a strategy for Seanheiea. 288 olen . their nes, "ays Silva' Annar- ently helpless, fluttering, chirp- ing frantically, the bird - prey causes the snake ta strike again and again. "This game, which is cun- ningly controlled by the bird, is repeated while the snake is gradually taken away from a particular place. Then the bird that during all this time has ap- peared irresistibly fascinated by the serpent takes flight and disappears. .. . In this way, a snake rarely succeeds in catch- ing a bird." Perhaps you thought the bull elephant was boss. This, too, is a trunkful of eyewash. "The elephant society is matriarchal and so it is the females who lead ihe herd. Probably due to the fact that they are more activeiy vigilant, it is they who sound the alarm, and initiate the withdrawal, re- treat,;-defence-or---attack.--.--.--, "At the tail end of the mov- ing herd the Warge males ap- pear, as if slee king, their movements as light and silent as shadows. Their every ges- ture is one of politeness, mod- esty and caution." Silva confirms one widely- held" belief--that" animals can sense or smell fear in the hu- man, and then may be encour- aged to attack. in man that one finds individ. uals who are only courageous in the face of weakness." eS CHECK-OUT FOR RIDE ACROSS SKY mmeeMMANHNEANN CANADA'S STORY icone Remarkable Alliance BY BOB BOWMAN After the Act of Union in 1840 joined Upper and Lower Can- ada under one parliament, Governor Sir Charles Bagot had the unenviable task of trying to get a government to work with him. Unit] now the British governors had been able to depend on the Tories for sup- port, but Canada had been shafen by a rebellion for res- ponsible givernment. Sir Charles Bagot found that he must de- pend on the Reformers, and in- vited former rebel leader Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine and reform leader Robert Baldwin to form TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Dec. 9, 1965... Robert Baldwin, one of the early statesmen of Up- per Canada, died 107 years ago today--in 1858--at Tor- onto. In alliance with Louis Lafontaine of Lower Canada (Quebec) he formed. two ministries of which the sec- ond, 1848 - 1851, established the principle of self-govern- ment for Canadians. On sep- arate occasions, Bald- win and Lafontaine were de- feated at the polls and each was able to win a byelec- tion in the other's province. 1842--William Maw Egley, a 16-year-old Engiish youth, made the world's first Christmas card. 1935 -- The five - power London naval conference opened. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1915--Chancellor von: Beth- mann-Hollweg said the war would go on until the Allies asked for peace; Bulgarian irregulars crossed the Greek border; Russia defeated a Turco - German detachment between Tehran and Hama- dan, Persia. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day -- in 1940 -- the British winter offensive in. Kgypt began at Sidi Barrani, tak- ing 1,000 prisoners; HMCS Saguenay arrived at a Brit- ish port with 21 men missing after an encounter with a German submarine. YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO December 9, 1950 Oshawa Tennis Club moved its clubhouse and quarters from the MaeMillan dr. site to new grounds, at the corner of Ritson rd. and Hillcroft st., purchased earlier in the year. The club members undertook the task of building a new clubhouse. The 28th annual staff dinner of McLaughlin Coal and Supplies, Lid... was a fine success, with the company president, L. F. McLaughlin, presiding. M, Mc- Intyre Hood was guest speaker. 30 YEARS AGO December 9, 1935 S. J. Collacutt was re-elected as commodore of the Oshawa Yacht Club, A party of 100 students from the Department of Economics, University of Toronto, paid a pant. G. B. Ansley, W. J, Smith and ©, B. Watt welcomed the visitors, a government together For the first time, Canada had a French Canadian as its prime minister, supported by French and Eng- lish members in the Assembly. The Lafontaine - Baldwin alli- ance brought some remarkable developments. In the first elec- tion for the united assembly Lafontaine was beaten in his constituency of Terrebonne. Baldwin offered him a seat in Toronto, with the result that a French speaking Roman Catho- lic represented the Protestant stronghold of Upper Canada. Lafontaine was able to return the favor two years later. Robert Baldwin was beaten in his constituency, and Lafontaine arranged to have him repre- sent solidly French - speaking Roman Catholic Rimouski! It was one of the first political bridges between French and English in Canada. Robert Baldwin, sometimes called 'the father of respon- sible government in Canada" died on December 9, 1858. OTHER EVENTS ON DECEM- BER 9: 1755--1600 Acadians left napolis Royal by ship. --First post office in Cana- da opened at Halifax. 1843--Bishop's College, Lennox- ville, incorporated, 1878--First train from Pembina, U.S.A., arrived at Winni- peg. 1926--Ist session 16th Parlia- ment opened; brought in Old Age pensions. 1936---Dominion - Provincial con- ference opened at Ottawa. An- 1) 1G NO B.C. Power Potential Great Yet Shortage Dogs Industry VANCOUVER (CP)--In power potential British Colum- bia is probably the richest prov- ince in Canada. But now she's in a power- short position, in a race against time to keep pace with her vast industrial development of the 1960s. She needs still more elec- trical energy to unlock a vast but yet untouched storehouse of econsmic-wealth, Power experts estimate that fully developed, her. myriad of mountain-spawned rivers could produce up to 1,000,000,000 kilo- watts, each representing 1.34 horsepower in terms of energy. Up to now she has barely tapped this potential, Her 1965 power-producing capacity was in the order of a mere 2,000,000 kilowatts. And the demands of great new pulp mills, mining activity, new communities and other ventures, spelling: prosperity in the billions, brought the 'possi- bility of power shortages and even brown-outs during the next two or three years. Electric power is the key to the industrial future of the west coast province and time is vital. But she is on her way. TAP BIG RIVERS Two giant power and flood- control projects, eventually to cost more than $1,000,000,000 and produce a combined total of more than 8,200,000 kilowatts, already are under way. They are harnessing two of B.C.'s mightiest rivers, the Peace and the Columbia. It will be late 1968, however, before the first power from the northern Peace flows into the provincial power grid. And at first it will be a mere 550,000- kilowatt trickle of the Peace's eventual 4,000,000 KW _ poten- tial. Until then the B.C Hydro and Power Authority, the govern- ment agency now producing and distributing 90 per cent of the province's power, faces the prospect of three anxious years, trying to match supply to ever- growing demands. Power from the 645-foot-high, 2,500 - foot - long Mica Dam, only generating installation to be built on the Columbia in the south. under_a-_power-flood con- trol treaty with the United Sates, isn't due until some time after 1973, The Columbia could eventually contribute an trical energy, including future ancillary projects, B.C. Hydro estimates B.C. industry now consumes 30.6 per cent of the province's power output. By 1970 the industrial consumption will be more than 40 per cent at the present rate of increase, Additions have been and are being made to existing thermal installations, Hydro aiteady is purchasing up .to 70,000 kilo- watts a year--at a cost of §$1,- 500.000 to $2,000,000 annually-- from the Aluminum Co. of. Can- ada. The power is in excess of the company's needs for its alu- minum-producing plant at Kiti- mat on a coastal inlet 100 miles south of the Alaska Panhandle, But this may not be enough. Hydro recently said power-gen- erator installation schedules for the Peace may have to be speeded up. Three of the first five sets of power-generators are due to produce power at the $73,000,000, 600-foot-high, 1%- mile - long Portage Mountain dam near Hudson Hope by Oc- tober, 1968. Two other sets, due the following year, now may have to be installed sooner. The project will eventually have 10 sets of turbine-generator units. POINTED PARAGRAPHS "A person is as old as his legs,' says a physician. of course -- nobody was ever born in instaliments. It always pays to be honest but from a monetary standpoint if often pays far less than it costs. : Many -a_ person who . sat around and waited for his ship to come in wound up as a beach comber. "Truth is stranger. than fic- tion" .-- and sometimes these days it seems it's also much rarer, It's such a difficult task for a lot of people to tear themselves out of bed that they're too tired to eat breakfast. Not only do a lot of highways need. la he. broadened bul duc to an increasing 'number of boats being towed by cars they need to be lengthened. OUFEN'S PARK Afforded Sympathy By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--There has been a great deal of sympathy here for Liberal Leader Andrew Thomp- son. When it was first learned. Mr. Thompson had been in an auto- mobile accident involving. an injury, and out of which a liquor charge had been placed, people of all political stripes were genuinely sorry. Sorry to see anyone they knew in trouble; and also in many cases with the understanding feeling of those who could say: "There, but for the grace of God, go 1." And when Mr. Thompson was found guilty of dangerous driv- ing there was further sympathy. Sympathy because it was strongly felt that this would see the end of him as party leader This feeling remains. NON-BELIEVER Mr. Thompson 'himself doesn't believe it. He has said he will continue to head the provincial party, and in his day-to-day activity has been getting ready for this winter's session. But those more detached see his retirement as inevitable; not because the yfeel it should be, but because, through the com- bination of circumstances and our customs, it simply will be. The tragedy in Mr. Thomp- son's case--if it turns out to be a tragedy--is that there was liquor involved. It is true he was exonerated in the one charge that was tied to liquor, and that liquor had nothing to do with the facts per se on which he was convicted. But there was talk of liquor in the evidence. And in this case talk is probably enough. In the custom of ourtimes the combination of liquor and a motor car in the public mind adds up to mortal sin, GUILTY IN PUBLIC EYE And no matter what the find- ings of the court, in this public mind Mr. Thompson will have jeg guilty of drinking and driv- ng. And in the minds of those close to the ways of politics this eventually will force him to re- tire. Forces can be expected which, in the end, will prove impossible to resist _--opinion within his own party fed by the force of gossips in the commu- nity. If he were not a leader the whole thing would probably soon be forgotten. Ironically, even if he had had the image of a playboy leader, he might easily survive. But Mr. Thompson's whole public image has been that of a young man carrying a cru- sader's cross, and thepublic is hungry for the blood of would-be saints who sin. One Day Off, Two On Job FRANKFURT (AP) -- West German workers will have one day off for every two days on the job next year, even as their government calls on them to work, longer. Hard work, a proverbial Ger- man characteristic, has ceased to be a principal aspect of the affluent West German "eco- nomic wonderland." Chancellor Ludwig Erhard has expressed deep concern about the long-range effects of this change in attitude in a country chronically ailing from a labor shortage. He fears more leisure will end the boom that has be- come a sort of national institue tion. He suggested to parliament that the present 40-hour work week be extended by at least one hour. Almost at the same time, the press carried compila- tions that Germans will average 128 days off in 1966, including national and religious holidays, weekends and a paid vacation averaging 19 work days. THERE'S A HITCH A private German polling in- stitute found that 62 per cent of all Germans. were willing to work longer hours if this would guarantee a continued boom. But there was a hitch. Labor representatives pointed out that wage agreements per- mit extension of the work week by up to eight hours--provided the extra hours are at overtime pay, which is 50 per cent higher. Thus, most German employers rely on automation and contin- ued recruitment of foreign la- bor rather than~greater- readi ness by their countrymen to work harder. BIBLE And the children of Israel sighed by reason. of the bond- age, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God.-- Exodus 2:23. No-anatter how difficult our burdens: become, we can be sure that God always -hears our prayers,