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One Oahawa CTmneS iccccisi: ORT Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher TUESDAY, JANUARYQ 11, 1966 -- PAGE 4 Agro Chief Ventures Into 'Diefenbakerland' ' The enduring advocacy urging "young men to go West" is unlikely to rank as one of Agriculture Min- ister J. J. Green's favorite quota- tions. Yet this week he's taking Horace Greeley at his word and braving the vast, wide-open and liberally bereft spaces of Diefen- bakerland. The new federal minister -- the first Easterner to hold the portfolio for 54 years -- is making a quick tour of the West as preparation for his first session in the Commons. It is well he is taking the opportu- nity to acquaint himself with the West. But, as he has said on ac- cepting the portfolio, much of his work can and should be in this sec- tion of Canada. Mr. Green has noted the sharp divergence which has taken place in eastern and western farm econ- omies since 1911. Eastern farming today is largely mixed, dairy and to some degree, beef. The prob- lems of the west are the major problems of the grain trade. He has stated he doesn't think eastern problems have ever been effective- ly legislated in the federal area and that there are major decisions to be made. "If the problems of the eastern farmer can best be met by better marketing, then it's up to us to get together with the provinces and get better marketing," he has said, His interest also lies in the government deciding, too, whether the family farm is to be the basis of our agri- cultural economy, perhaps with "greater security" or whether cor- porate production was the farming of the future. e The Prairies he is visiting this week with théir economies diversi- fied into potash, oil and minerals, have few problems in growing crops. Their chief concern is mar- keting bumper harvests,'a problem handled by the Canadian Wheat Board, not a responsibility of the agricultural ministry. His trip will have value in en- abling him to fortify himself with some first-hand facts to fend off the onslaught of the Tories from out of the West which is inevitable. He could then be in a better posi- tion to deal with the very real prob- lems of the eastern farmer so long relegated to second place by wes- tern-oriented agriculture ministers, Education 'Imported' An interesting aspect of the in- vestment required by Canada in education to assure progress in pro- duction is emphasized 'in a recent report by the new immigration min- ister, the Hon, Jean Marchand. He talks of the educational benefits gained for Canada through the en- try to the country of immigrants with professional training. The report illustrates the con- tribution immigration has made to the economy since the Second World War came to an end. During the period between January and October of the last year, 1,924 engi- neers, 654 physicians and surgeons, 72 economists, 2,355 nurses, and She Oshawa Times WILSON, sine gy vad R. < ROOKE General Maneger t ie MeCONECHY Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times ee 1871) ond the hitby Gazette and icle established 1863) is published. daily fundeys cond Statutory holidays excepted). Members of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish- ere Association. The Canadion Press, Audit Bureau @f Circulotion ond. th Provincial Dailies Association, Th r is exclusively entitied to the use o lication of all news despatched in the paper credited to {ft or te The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local mews published therein. All rights of special des petches are also reserved. Offices: Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcert Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchmay's Bay, Liverpoc! Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Orene, Leskord, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Manchester Pontypeo!, and Newcastle not over Oc, per week, By mail in Province of Ontario cutside corrier delivery area, $15.00 per yeor. Other provinces and Commonwealth Countries, $18.00 per year, U.S.A. and foreign $27.00 per yeor, 4,384 machinists were absorbed into the Canadian economy. Mr. Marchand points out that it would have cost Canada an addi- tional $17,000,000 to provide uni- evrsity education for the 1,924 en- gineers who came to Canada during the 10-month period. Similarly, for the 654 physicians, it would have cost the country. better than 7,000,000. If the 10-month figures are im- pressive, the number of skilled im- migrants entering Canada since January, 1946, is even more so, During that time, Canada has taken in 22,500 engineers, 7,222 physi- cians and surgeons, and 22,322 graduate nurses, The value of the training they brought with them and the saving in cost the total training represents reaches astron- omical proportions. And the profes- sional skills brought by these immi- grants is only part of the picture. In the brief period covered in the report for last year, immigrants arriving in Canada brought with them funds totalling an estimated $130,000,000, a significant contri- bution in itself. Mr. Marchand notes the impor- tance of this contribution when he says selective immigration is a dy- namic force in an expanding econ- omy". But he warns also that it must be coupled with a manpower policy designed to make the fullest use of our existing human resources if it is to be effective. OTTAWA REPORT Bac Appie rouna In Benison Barrel ~ By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- The new Parlia- ment meeting later this month will almost certainly give fur- ther specialized study to the ef- fects, regulaiion and cost of po- tent chemicals in our daily life. These are the comparatively new 'miracle drugs' which cure our ailments, and the equally new pesticides which ameliorate our environment. But this barrel of benison has been found iv contain the usual rotfen apple, and this led to the setting up of a special commit- tee of the House of Commons to ex am ine "pesticides and drugs." The specific cause of this spe- cial comnitttee was what be- came known as "the thalido- mide tragedy,"' which hit many western ¢ ries and hurt most of them more than Canada. Strangely it now appears that the new drug, devised as a tranquillizer and seasick rem- edy, was. wrongly accused of causing malformations in un- born babies. Study in Europe now suggests that, on the con- trary, thalidomide helps to pre- vent miscarriages by premature birth, and hence thwarts na- ture's normai practice of dis- carding iis mistakes. EXPERTS TESTIFIED The House of Commons Drug Committee, composed predom- inantly of lay MPs, could not examine the scientific field in depth. But it did hear expert testimony and it was able to make helpful recommendations. For instance, it learned that the indiscriminate and _ untutored use of pesticides and insecti- cides is poisoning our natural environment and upsetting the delicate balance of nature, so should be carefully regulated. It learned of the danger in- herent in inadequate labelling of certain poisonous household remedies. It learned that the federal Health Department was severely handicapped by an in- adequate budget and low pay scales. It was alarmed to hear, from the then Director of the Food and Drug section, that any adventurer can, without seeking approval from or even notifying that section, set up a "manue facturing" plant in a dirty basee ment, and there produce dan- gerous, faulty or even "'looke alike' drugs to menace the sick, The committee has made rec- ommendations to eliminate each of these problems; the Govern- ment, howeve®, has a less im- pressive record in studying and implementing those needed re- forms. DEATH RATE REDUCED The astonishing achievements of drugs developed largely dur- ing the past quarter-century are reflected in the greatly reduced death rate from certain dis- eases, and in the immensely speeded-up cure of other illnes- ses. Canada's post-war increase in productivity has been made possible largely by the introduc- tion of mechanization and by the addition of skilled immigrants to our work force; but a signifi- cant factor has been the ime mense saving in time lost through illness or premature death--thanks to the new 'mir- acle" drugs. Some Canadians are' apt to forget the benefits and remem- ber. only that:a drug prescrip- tion, comparable in size perhaps to a nickel packet of candy, costs say $2.15. This question of the cost of drugs will be ex- plored by the parliamentary drug committee, and no doubt some political opportunists will remember the headlines but forget the travesities of the Ke- fauver committee in U.S. on the same topic. An informative fact book is being circulated in Ottawa and elsewhere by the professional association of the drug industry, the Pharmaceutical _Manufac- turers Association, This indi- cates that the manufacturer re- ceives only 37% cents of the prescription retail dollar, while his profit on sales averages about 6 per cent which is not out of line. From corn flakes to life insurance, from books. to gasoline, the enormous Cana- dian mark-up is the offender which should first be studied by all who complain about prices. Movement To Gain Notice Launched By Hindu Leaders By RAM SUNDAR Canadian Press Correspondent BOMBAY (CP)--Hindu lead- ers have launched a movement to make the world conscious of Hinduism. They. say that Hinduism should meet the challenge of both Christianity and Islam YEARS AGO 20°YEARS.AGO Jan. 11, 1946 J. Lewis Beaton, a trustee for three years, was elected chair- man of the Oshawa Board of Education for 1946. J. C. Anderson, KC, was named president of The On- tario County Bar Association at the annual meeting. Ralph Wallace was the retiring presi- dent. 35 YEARS AGO Jan. 11, 1931 Ernest Marks was installed as mavor of Oshawa for 1931. The following aldermen were appointed chairmen of the standing committees; G. T. Mor- ris, P, A, Macdonald and Sam Jackson. The daily train service be-. tween Whitby and Lindsay via the Canadian National Railways will not terminate at midnight, Jan, 12 next, but will be con- tinued, the Dominion Railway Board announced today. which, they feel, are dynamie and militant while their own re- ligion has become "apathetic." The consensus of a_ world Hindu religious convention held ecently ir Delhi and at- tended by dv.egates from nearly 30 countries was that vigorous action must be taken to restore Hinduism to its 'pristine glory." The: convention decided to send Hindu missionaries to for- eign countries. A spokesman said the idea is not to make converts but only to "impress on the world that Hindu philoso- phy can provide an effective an- swer to the ills of mankind." Convention sources said Hin- dus do not wish to imitate Ro- man Catholic and Protestant missions engaged in conversion work in non-Christian countries. "But," said one Hindu leader, "we must take a leaf from their book and extend the frontiers of Hindu religion to the farthest corners of the world." SEEK CONTACTS The first task will be to estab- The first task will be to estab- lish contacts with Hindus in such far-away countries as Canada, the United States, British. Gui- ana and South Africa. Hindu leaders feel that their co-religionists in Western coun- tries, many of whom emigrated more than a century ago, have lost touch with the mainsprings of their religion. Many Hindu leaders feel the Oriental religion has much to of- fer the West. ree COMMONWEALTH SECRETARIAT... ... NO 'FATUOUS SINECURE' Canadian Provides Persuasive Impact By CARL MOLLINS LONDON (CP) -- Mainte- mance men have just replaced a rust-jammed latch on a gate be- tween the tidy grounds of Marl- borough House and neighboring Carlton Gardens, site of Com- monwealth Secretary - General Arnold Smith's apartment home. Smith asked that the lock be fixed so he could take a 100- ard short-cut among flower br and shrubbery between his modern Pall Mall home and the Commonwealth secretariat of- fice in 250-year-old Marlborough House. The request provoked some hemming and hawing because the gate in the garden wall had not been used for about a cen- tury. But the Toronto-born dip- lomat finally got his way. Opening the rusty gate to Marlborough House has been a minor change in routine. But it serves as a symbol of Smith's persuasive impact on Common- wealth affairs since he became the organization's first chief exe- cutive last August. Some Commonwealth officials predicted that the new secre- tariat would be powerless and without influence -- "'a fatuous sinecure,"' in the words of one, UPSET PREDICTIONS Smith, former Canadian ex- ternal affairs officex who will be 51 Jan, 18, has been quietly proving the jeremiahs wrong in his harassing first four months at Marlborough House. Ironically, a succession of dis- ruptive events that threatened the very existence of the Com- monwealth gave Smith an op- portunity to show that the sec- retariat could be used positively. Smith and his wife Evelyn had just boarded a ship to take up the Commonwealth appointment in London when Singapore an- nounced its secession from Ma- laysia Aug. 9. Four weeks later two other Commonwealth coun- tries, India and Pakistan, were fighting an undeclared war. The white-minority regime in Rho« desia defied Britain and the Commonwealth: Nov. 11 to de- clare unilateral independence and plunge the multi-racial or- ganization into its worst crisis. The new secretary - general Was engaged in an almost non- Stop circle of diplomacy before he had moved into Marlborough House or recruited a staff. "We never did get a chance to establish a systematic working routine," says Joy Tilsley, the secretary Smith recruited on loan from the external affairs department in: Ottawa 'What system we have just sort of de- veloned."' Despite the early handicap, Smith immediately asserted the secretariat's right to take over from Britain's Commonwealth relations office the handling of Singapore's application for Com- monwealth membership as an independent state. Singapore's acceptance as the 22nd Commonwealth member in October was no cut-and-dried matter of consulting other gov- ernments for routine approval, Smith had to use persuasion on some members unsympathetic to Chinese-dominated Singapore. Pakistan, like Malaya a Moslem country, in the end abstained instead of vetoing Singapore's membership. Smith's second major was to keep the Commonwealth organization out of the India- Pakistan conflict despite pres- sure from some members for a Commonwealth peace mission. Perhaps mindful of the loss of prestige resulting from the abor- tive Viet Nam peace mission proposed by the Commonwealth last June, Smith argued that the dispute over Kashmir should be left in the United Nations and pressure for a settlement left to the Soviet Union and the United States, The UN and the big powers would be better able than the Commonwealth tq any move . Indian or Pakistani hostility likely to be generated by out- side pressure for a settlement, Smith contended. MOLLIFIED AFRICANS Appropriately, the secretariat has been playing its most im- portant role in the Common- wealth's severest test--the Rho- desia crisis. Smith's personal intervention has been instrumental in su- spending decisions to quit the Commonwealth by African gov- ernments angered by Britain's failure to crush the rebel whites of Rhodesia. Envoys from Ghana travelled to London Dec, 9 for the express purpose of informing Smith that the West African country was withdrawing from the Common- wealth. The meeting was set for 11 a.m., but at 10:30 the envoys cancelled the meeting after Smith had sent Ghana's Presi- dent Kwame Nkrumah @ per- sonal message asking him to reconsider, When Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda sought Com. monwealth help in replacing supplies cut off by Rhodesia, Smith suggested asking Canada for assistance in the 'oil airlift, then prepared the way by im- pressing the urgency of the sit- uation on the Canadian govern- YES. MAO vee tril AD "n, CANADA'S STORY NO, WAG we Commons Pay $600 By BOB BOWMAN Parliament will reopen in Ottawa next week, and mem- bers might like to look back on the Ist session of the 10th Par- liament which opened on Janu- ary 11, 1905, It was during that session that members' salaries, or indemni- ties, were increased to $2500 a year! Sir Wilfred Laurier was Prime Minister: That was a great improve- ment from Canada's first pare liament after Confederation. Then members got $6 a day for 30 days. If the session last- ed longer than 30 days, they got $600 for the session, Even the most important of them lived in modest. circumstances. D'Arcy McGee, who played a great part in bringing about Confederation, and. one of Sir John A. Macdonald's most trust- ed colleagues, lived in a board- ing house on Sparks street, near where the "Ottawa Citizen' is today. He was murdered there in 1868 by a member of the Fenian organization whose acti- vities he had exposed in the House of Commons. Today members of Parlia- ment get a basic indemnity of $12,000 a year, plus $6,000 for expenses. Cabinet ministers get an extra $15,000. (over their $12,000 for being members) and the Prime Minister gets an extra $25,000. OTHER .EVENTS ON JAN, ll: 1690--Governor Frontenac or- ganized three expeditions I | TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Jan. 11, 1965... Benito Juarez, the consti- tutional head of state in Mexico, occupied the cap- ital city 105 years ago to- day --in 1861 -- after five years of civil war. Because the country was bankrupt, he suspended the payment of foreign loans. This gave Napoleon If of France an excuse for intervention and a French army _ installed Maximilian of .Ausiria as emperor in 1864. Lowever this proved a waste of money and the troops were withdrawn in 1867. Juarez regained power and had Maximilian shot. It was the. last European attempt to rule Mexico. 1861--Vassar College for., women was incorporated. 1946 -- Albania was pro- claimed a republic. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1916 --~ Herbert Samuel be- came British home secre- tary, after Sir John Simon's resignation in _ pro- test against conscription; French troops landed on Corfu; the Russian invasion of Turkish Armenia began. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1941--one German aircraft was shot down in a four-hour raid on Lon- don; London announced 2,041 Italians were killed and 42,827 taken prisoner at the fall of Bardia. BIBLE But seek ye first the kingdom . of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.--Matthew 6:33. Food and clothing are perish- able; but love and service abide. Seek these things first and trust for oux daily needs, Ggainst English settlements in Maine and New York 1726--Marquis de Beauharnois appointed Governor of New France 1815--Birthday of Sir John A. Macdonald at Glasgow, Scotland TIM nT 1909--Canada and U.S.A. ap- pointed International Joint Commission 1914--Explorer Stefansson's ship "Karluk"' crushed in ice 1945--Germans retreated after battle of the "Bulge" Prayers In Nigeria Placard Devil May Care Highways By JOSEPH MacSWEEN ORLU, Nigeria (CP)--Pray- ers are printed on every sec- ond bus and truck, but every- body seems gaily sure of sur- vival on Nigeria's devil-may- care highways. Heaven knows why. "No telephone to God," ad- vises a sign on one careering '"'mammy wagon," the name given to converted trucks used as buses. "The Lord is my shepherd" is the reassuring slogan on another whose driver, how- ever, acts like a black sheep gone wildly astray. "Let our cry come unto Thee, O Lord" is the plea on a timber-laden truck whose bull-charge passage causes other motorists to mutter equally fervent prayers. The stranger who makes-¢ dash across three of Nigeria's four regions--a round trip of 800 miles--can either laugh or ery and he might as well laugh . because that's what everybody else seems to be doing. The mammy wagons, named after the formidable business- women who own many of them, pack in the passengers like yams in a basket, Perched on tail-boards, hang- ing from the sides, the Afri- cans have a jolly time as they jolt along. EVERYBODY IS HAPPY In conditions that would cause whites to curse their fate, the Nigerians revel, shouting at passersby, jeer- ing at vehicles passed, sing- ing, "waving, with an appar- ently inexhaustible vitality. Long - distance taxis bore through the traffic, each car- rying seven passengers at a rate of eight shillings sixpence ($1.27) per 100 miles. Bicycle taxis carry passengers at a penny a mile. "God's time is best" Is the chugging message of a bat- tered old bus that can barely make the hills. This is good for endless hilarity. Some vehicles throw away all restraint. "It's great to be young," proclaims a station wagon as it passes on two wheels. "You too can fly,"' says an- other. . "Onyeocha (white man)," is the yell from a group of school children as our car ap- proaches. The shouted reply "'Onyedji (black man)"' doubles up the company with convulsive laughter in this paradise for comedians. Alec McKennan, 26-year-old British teacher, and Murdock MacSween, 22, a Canadian teacher from Antigonish, N.S., took turns at the wheel on the 400-mile outward leg from La- gos through the Western, Mid-West and Eastern re- gions. BE HAPPY "You can't live in Nigeria i you're unbappy," said Ma- Kennan. "The unhappy man would have to leave.' Anyway, as one mammy wa- gon has it, "no condition is permanent." Inevitably, there is an ugly side and the good cheer can quickly change. if a pedestrian --particularly a child--is hit. An African motorist, a law- yer, 'was slain by villagers after such an accident. The dvice is, do not stop but re- port to the nearest police sta- tion. Mercifully, there are no big wild animals to clutter these highways as, for instance, in Uganda and some other sec- tions of East Africa where the motorist often finds a gi- raffe or something equally distracting in his path. But there are humans a-plenty. The west-east jour- ney was through the lands of the Yoruba and Ibo, tribes which each make up several million of the 55,000,000 popu- lation of Nigeria, the most populous African country. ROADS ARE HECTIC Lagos, the capital city of 400,000, stands on a sandbar with only one bridge to the mainland, Streets are a med- ley of hooting horns, dodging kiddies, weaving bicycles. Through all fhis the stately woman walk, bundles on head and babies on back. The Lagos people in their flowing robes present an ar- resting contrast with the folk in remoter areas where bare- breasted women and naked children stroll nonchalantly along the roads, Towering trees close over the highway in the western region. Rainfall reaches 200 inches a year, creating a lush scene of almost impenetrable jungle. The visitor, reared on Tarzan tales, half expects that athletic gent to swing out of the rain forest. Such rainfall can create a quagmire even on a tarmac- topped road. When our engine broke down after banging over such a stretch, it was re- paired in the dark by Afri- cans who accepted only a few shillings. Primitive dwellings, some- times shared with goats, stand on stilts on swampy ground. But the Yoruba peo- ple have a long political tra- dition centred in city states ruled by obas or kings. _Ont., GENERAL IN PROFILE Rockingham eran Decomes Builder By RON MacDONALD EDMONTON (CP)--'A sol- dier's job is largely destruc- tive," said Maj.-Gen. John M, (Rocky) Rockingham. "In in- dustry the work is constructive. This. appeals to me tremen- dously,"' One of Canada's best-known . soldiers was explaining why he is retiring from the Canadian Army Jan' 15 to take a job with an engineering firm. Another reason is that his sition as officer comman Western Command, which he has held since Oct. 1, 1961, is being eliminated under armed forces reorganization. He decided to leave the army and join Loram Ltd. of Calgary- long-range planning group of Mannix Co. Ltd., a general en- gineering firm. In a career that spanned 33 years, Rocky Rockingham, now 54, displayed dash and elan that won him the abiding respect of the men he commanded, "He's a rough, tough general and that's the way a soldier likes his general to be," says one acquaintance, A striking figure at six-foot- three, he made it a point to be where the action was. Though it was unusual for a senior officer, he was convinced it was good for himself and his men, 'When I get up to the front,'* he said in an interview on the eve of retirement, "I get the proper feel of the battle, the proper knowledge of the ground. And when the troops see the senior officer in battle they say: 'Well, it can't be all that bad or he wouldn't be here.' ADMIRES TROOPS The respect he earned from his men is matched by his own admiration for the Canadian soldier. "T think he's the best fighting man there is. I think we proved this in the Second World War and Korea. In Korea we never failed to capture ground we were ordered to capture. We never failed to hold ground we were ordered to hold. That's a record second to none." When Gen. Rockingham, then a brigadier, took the Canadian Army Special Force to Korea in 1950, he told his men: "If you fight with me and fol- low the rules you won't be cap- tured. If you are captired the only instruction I want to give you is to try to get away." Only one of the 6,000 men un- der his command in the Korean War was captured and that man had been badjy wounded. The general's personal cour- age is attested to by his decora- tions: The Distinguished Service Order and bar for gallantry and leadership in the Normandy campaign and the crossing of the Rhine in the Second World War; Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and, for service in Korea, the U.S. Le- gion of Merit and Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath. . A stickler for the use of proper form in giving com- mands, Gen. Rockingham re- called that once in Normandy he was told to take "offensive action against a hill." "T took a gunner out and fired a couple of rounds and theught that was pretty offensive. Then headquarters asked if I had made the attack. I told them: 'No, you didn't ask me to at- tack.'" SETTLED IN B.C. Born in Sydney, Australia, Aug. 24, 1911, John Meredith Rockingham lived in Halifax, the West Indies and England, learned a little about sheep- ranching in Australia and in 1930 followed his father to Van- couver Island, He still has a hint of an Australian accent. In 1933 he joined the Canadian Scottish Regiment, a militia unit, seeking comradeship, a chance to serve his adopted country and a chance to play soccer with the regiment's top- notch team. During the Second World War he led the 9th Ifantry Brigade through the bitter fighting for Caen, the Falsise Pocket ac- tion, the siege of Boulogne and the drive through Belgium, Hol- land and across the Rhine into northwestern Germany. Between the Second World War and Korea, he rose to be- come an executive with B.C. Electric Co. and its transporta- tion subsidiary, Pacific Stage Lines. Following servic Korea, he commanded the lgt Canadian Infantry Division at Petawawa, training each summer at Camp Gagetown in New Bruns- wick, In 1957, he was made offi- cer commanding Quebec Com- mand, a post he held until he moved to Western Command, DON'T Che Rih Room NOW OPEN SUNDAY 4 TO 7:30 P.M. Continental French Buffet Served Daily 11:30 - GENOSHA HOTEL FORGET 2 p.m. -- 5 to 8 p.m.