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She Oshawa Cimes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limiied~ 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Oniariv T. L. Wilson, Publisher WEDNESDAY, AGUST 17, 1966 --- PAGE 4 Need For Diversification Demonstrated In Oshawa An obvious consequence of the reduction of staff by General Mo- tors will be the focussing of great- er attention on the city's efforts to attract new industry ---- to pro- vide a wider, more diversified base for the economy of Oshawa. For those left without jobs, the cutback in the automotive industry is indeed a serious situation to many families in the city and every effort should be made to provide the displaced workers with the pro- tection to which they are entitled and the assistance they need in ob- taining other employment. At the same time it will be recognized that to keep people on jobs who might better be employed elsewhere is not sound practice. In a country ex- panding as rapidly industrially as Canada, new plants are constantly treating a demand for workers. Surely it becomes the concern of city hall to strive to bring these new industries here where the work force' is available. Statistics compiled by the Cana- dian Chamber of Commerce 'show that one new industry employing 700 workers provide for a popula- tion of nearly 3,000, represents bank deposits of $1,603,000, re- quires the services of 819 in busi- nesses outside the plant, results in retail sales of $6,573,000. By at- trateing several such industries, Oshawa could quickly take up any slack which may result from the lay-offs at the Motors. It is not a goal that can be attain- ed overnight. Nevertheless such in- dustries are establishing in Ontario at a rapid rate and Oshawa must be promoted as a suitable site for them if the city is to achieve stability in economic development. Diversifica- tion of industry is a necessity. The prime responsibility rests with the city. However union lead- ers also have an important role in industrial development. An attitude of obdurate: militancy on the part of labor will never sell Oshawa, A constructive and co-operative ap- proach to their obligations by labor as well as management is essential to a productive industrial climate. General Motors, employing near- ly 16,000 workers, remains the mainstay of the Oshawa economy. In the future, the automotive indus- try will undoubtedly provide em- ployment for much greater num- bers. In the meantime, the current cutback should certainly give sharp impetus to a greatly accelerated campaign to attract new industry to the city. Another Of Bevin Stamp The career in the foreign office of Ernest Bevin is recalled with the appointment of George Brown to the prime post of prestige by Prime Minister Wilson in his latest shuf- fle of the British cabinet. At the start, Bevin was criticized by his detractors as being soft on com- munism and making Britain look foolish. He proved them wrong on both counts. As The Ottawa Journal notes Bevin was rough, tough and able. The former union organizer talked turkey to the Communists and any- one else who would disturb the Bhe Oshawa Tins General Manager ONECHY, Editor silding 425. Univers 640 Cathcart SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered + wa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, B c Albert, Mar , $15.00 per year. and Commonwealth Countries, . U.S.A, and foreign $27.00 per peace. He was none the less respect- ed in international councils because he enjoyed brushing his own shoes in the morning, George Brown, the Economics minister may be another man of the Bevin stamp. He has long training in the labor cause, both in organization and in the poltical field, but as Wilson's understudy he has not seemed happy. No labor man, of course, could hope to be comfortable when associated with policies freezing wages and there was talk recently that Brown was determined to quit the cabinet. What he has been given is a pro- motion, in prestige if in nothing else; the Foreign Office remains a plum for an ambitious politician, says The Journal. Yet Michael Stewart, the unknown who became Foreign Secretary a year ago, has been given a rare testimonial of his prime minister's esteem. Stewart, exchanging portfolios with Brown must bring a new drive and spirit to the handling of the wage and price controls considered essential to Britain's economic recovery. Each job is vital to Britain, the Ottawa paper says. If he wanted to try a new hand at the domestic economy Wilson had to consider the man in the traditionally senior post Stewart. If he has found an- other Bevin in Brown so much the better, QUEEN'S PARK Hope Of NDP At New Hich In Province BY DON O'HEARN TORONTO--The NDP and the political future? Today the "'socialist" party-- which it is being called more often these days, and which is a label it doesn't seem to ree sent--is full of optimism. Rather than cloud 99 the cloud it is riding could be 999. It has probably never in all its life in Ontario--except be- tween 1943 and 1945 when it had more than 30 members of the legislature -- been so buuoyant and full of hope. One important point is that it is a more realistic hope than in the past. It is not talking of winning a majority: of seats. As far as it goes is to talk of taking a substantial number of ridings. And perhaps having the largest number of seats in a minority situation and then forming a government My assessment of the NDP naturally is not as hopeful as is its own for itself CAN'T WIN I can't see it winning the gov- ernment even in a_ minority situation But at the same time in our next provincial election it should be the most important force it has been since 1945, which was the only point in its history when you could actually, with honest conviction, give it a sound chance at winning an election (of 'course it failed miserably) The party's optimism is being bolstered by substantial. gains in recent elections, in the fed- eral vote and the Manitoba poll, federally in popular support and in Manitoba in its representa- tion. And the general impression is that its support in Ontario is growing strongly. But the party, or at least its representation in the legisla- ture, and this, of course, is its official image, still suffers from an old weakness. TENDS TO EXCESS This is that it tends to ex- cessiveness. Although the present group in the house is relatively small, it is 'competent. As a group it offers keen anal- ysis and criticism. And about 80 per cent of the time this criticism is also reas- onable. But then from time to time it takes to the high-board, looks up instead of down, and. dives Straight for the moon. On many subjects the party has its feet on the ground. But then get it on labor and some other questions and its thinking is undisciplined and reckless. And I, at least, believe the general public won't accept this. Today it' probably wants imaginative thought. But it also wants responsibility. BIBLE Wherefore, my beloved breth- ren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. -- James 1:19-20 Whenever we hear only what we want to hear and then speak hastily or let our tempers get out of hand we invariably com- mit acts which we not only re- gret later, but. which are con- trary to the will of God. COULD BE DANGEROUS GLASGOW (AP) -- Scottish prisons encourage inmates to take special educational courses but a Glasgow prison warden noted: "We have to draw the line somewhere."' He turned down a convict who said he wanted to study locksmithing. ".,, A FEW DETAILS TO BE HAMMERED OUT" CANADA'S STORY An Atlantic Record? By BOB BOWMAN There is an argument about which was the first ship to cross the Atlantic -- entirely under steam power. It is pos- sible that the honor should go to the 'Royal William' which was built at Quebec in 1830. However, the U.S.A. claims that the 'Savannah' was the first to sail across the ocean using steam, and the Dutch make a similar claim for the 'Cura- coa'. "Savannah" should be ruled out because it used sails as well as steam, "'Curacoa" sailed from South America to Holland in 1827 using steam all the way, and may be the win- ner. 'Royal William' was cer- tainly the first ship to cross the North Atlantic under steam power. It left Pictou, Nova Sco- tia, on August 17, 1833, and ar- rived at London 25 days later. "Royal William" was built at Quebec in 1830 under a subsidy from the government. There was a public holiday for the engines were installed in Mont- real, but sails were added in case of a breakdown. The ship was intended to pro- vide a regular service between Quebec and Halifax although its displacement was only 300 tons. At that time the Mari- times were building some of the best wooden sailing ships in the world. Nova Scotia ranked next to France as a ship-owning na- tion. The sailors who manned the clipper ships did not like the new steamers, and they called the "Royal William' "a smoke-belching, paddle - wheel- ing, clanking steam-kettle"! Eventually the iron men and wooden ships were put out of business by the iron-hulled steam-kettles. "Royal William" ran into a great deal of bad luck. The Quebec - Halifax run was not profitable, partly owing to a cholera epidemic. Then it tried to develop business to and from Boston, and was the first Brit- ish steamship to enter an Amer- ican port. Finally "Royal Wil- Sanaa omen SUEEUNTRINNETT TT GIFT OF TEATS HT GALLIC INFLUENCE, FLAIR The French expect they will be out of French So- maliland in five or six years. Then either Somalia or Ethiopia will take over. Meanwhile the capital, Dji- bouti, thrives on prosperity derived from its busy har- bor. The French atmosphere in this sun-scorched city is described by a Canadian Press reporter. By CARL MOLLINS DJIBOUTI, French Somali- land (CP) -- Djibouti: is an oasis of persistent Frenchness in the hottest place on earth, a gift of Gallic industry and flair on the sun-beaten African shore of the Gulf of Aden. It is also a repository of uns sentimental French logic, which calculates semi - offi- cially that this remnant of empire will remain perhaps five or six years more.. Then it will succumb, at the age of 109 or 110, to the grasp of covetous neighbors The calculation fails to con- clude whether it be Ethi- opia or Somalia- at war over a nez of wasteland -- that inherits French Somaliland's 8,880 square miles of desert and dead volcanoes along with this prospering seaport and rail- way terminus. The Ethiopians conduct is cold, or there is chilled rose wine from Anjou. After sundown, get up and HARBOR HOTTEST ON EARTH the coral French Remnant Of Empire In Somaliland coaling station for ships using the new Suez Canal and found shore of Djibouti more than half their trade through the port, Ethiopia's only outlet to the sea before it gained the Eritrean coast of the Red Sea from the Italians in the Second World War. Ethiopia is part owner of the railway, a contribution of turn - of - the century French engineers that runs 484 miles southwest and 8,000 feet uphill to Addis Ababa. One of Djibouti's primary streets is Rue d'Ethiopie and its main square is named for Menelik II, an imperial pre- decessor of Haile Selassie RACIALLY LINKED But it is much too hot to try to assess just how these points in Christian Ethiopia's favor stack up against the strident claim of Moslem So- malia, which points to racial and religious. compatibility and the geographical neatness of completing its possession of the Horn of Africa Sit quite still instead under a ceiling fan in the hotel that looks like a set from a Hum- phrey Bogart movie and you gan reduce the perspiration ate to merely damp from yaripping. The Alsatian lager shoo away the Somali shoe- shine boys, hand -another franc to the blind Arab beg- gar around for the third time, then break away from the circling sidewalk merchants hawking duty - free Swiss watches and American cigars, Danakil daggers and Bedouin headrests. Make your way past the row of Indian money-changers and across the. square, crowded with lithe Somali men and handsome women, stout Greeks and Frenchmen, For- eign Legionnaires im short shorts and Senegalese police- men glistening black in starched uniforms MENU A DELIGHT At the Restaurant Palmier en Zinc, savor a meal such as you cannot buy for 1,000 miles in any direction -- asparagus vinaigrette, rare tournedos of beef, European cheese's, Everything imported and pre- pared in the French manner. Between courses you can examine the artificial palm tree made of zinc that gives the restaurant its name. It is said to haye been made by Frenchmen: who. came here last century to establish a completely treeless. Now the town is green with trees. Gardens. and lawns lank the tidy bungalows and air - conditioned apartments occupied by 7,500 foreign set- tlers -- French, Greeks, Ital- ians, Indians--in a municipal population of 40,000, half the total for the whole territory. The greenery is created by irrigation. But almost every- thing else except sand must be brought in through the har- bor formed of three coral reefs and a quay. constructed on top of a sunken ship. The port, once a poor neigh- bor of Aden across the gulf, has almost quadrupled its fueling and provisioning busi- ness in 10 years, servicing 2,000,000 tons of shipping last year compared with 600,000 tons in 1955. Some of the ships that call-- an average of 10 a day--are freighters and passen- ger liners frightened. away from Aden by political unrest or attracted to this port's docking facilities. Aden har- bor depends entirely on light- ering service, but: it still gets twice as many ships as Djibouti. liam' was sold to interests in Britain, was converted into a warship, and sold to Spain. OTHER EVENTS ON AUG. 17: 1713--Bishop St. Valier return- ed to Quebec after ab- sence of 13 years, some of them spent in prison in Britain. 1760--Last French ships on Great Lakes captured by British rowing galleys at Pointe au _ Baril near Brockville, Ontario. 1799--General Peter Hunter suc- ceeded John Graves Sim- coe as lieutenant gover- nor of Upper Canada, Simcoe had left in 1796, 1889--Canadian College of Music opened in Ottawa. 1896--Claim staked for gold nga Erhard Cites Plight OfU.K. found at Bonanza Creek, Yukon. 1903--Chambers of Commerce of British Empire met at Montreal. 1913--Ontario Department of In- struction decreed _ that French was not to be used in school beyond Grade 1. 1923--Federal Pension Appeal Board established. 1940--Prime Minister Macken- zie King and President Franklin Roosevelt met at Ogdensburg, N.Y., and formed joint Board of De- fence. 1954--Prince Philip attended British Empire Games at Vancouver. 1959--Oil was discovered at Eagle Plain, Yukon. To Warn West Germans By JOSEPH MacSWEEN Canadian Press Staff Writer West Germany's chancellor Ludwig Erhard has been warn- ing his countrymen that they're in danger of catching the so- called English disease, that chronic economic malady. The reaction in London, how- ever, is that England is a clear winner over West Germany in the scope of its economic prob- lems, just as it was in world championship football a few weeks ago. In citing Britain as a_horri- ble example, Erhard declared: "If we let things drift, then the same is bound to happen to us--namely, a wage freeze, a price freeze, a significant rise in our cost of living, even par- tial control of foreign ex- change."' West German trends, as out- lined by Erhard, seem tame in British ears. German wages and salaries rose by 8.6 per cent annually in the last four years while productivity rose by an average 4.4 per cent. JUST A DREAM Britain's productivity climb reached that percentage only on paper, in the now-abandoned National Plan of Economics Minister George Brown -- it never reached reality. The Ger- man cost of living rose by four per cent in a year, less than the British. Economists point out that Britain is trying to achieve nor- mal growth again after a pro- longed period of stagnation. Germany, in contrast, is striv- ing to establish normal growth after a long period of boom. Nevertheless serious interna- tional attention is being ac- corded Erhard's warnings that his countrymen must live within their means or court dis- aster, Having experienced two har- rowing inflations within a sin- gle lifetime, the Germans may be more alert to the danger signs than others. The mood in industry is gloomy and the fear of inflation real. A report on the economic out- look in various countries, pub- lished by the 17-nation organi- zation for economic co-opera- tion and development, predicts Germany's trade balance will be in deficit this year while Italy and France will be in sur- plus BOOM IS OVER "Monetary policy has re- mained restrictive and condi- tions in credit matkets have been strained," the report adds, "There may be some question of the appropriateness of main- taining such monetary tightness now that the steam has gone out of the investment boom and the main pressure on prices ap- pears to be coming from the side of costs." This is the first time that Er- hard, genius of Germany's post- war economic miracle, has faced real trouble on the eco- nomic front since becoming chancellor and he is obviously finding it a distressing experi- ence. It would be damaging to him politically if voters got the idea he has lost the old magic. Al- though Erhard led his Christian Democrats to a general-election victory last year, the opposition Christian Socialists gained much ground in a recent pro- vincial election in North Rhine- Westphalia, the biggest state in the country. This may help to explain why Erhard is willing to hold Brit- ain up as an example of so- cialist mismanagement, al- though he has insisted his in- tention is not to criticize. He also referred to British troubles during last year's German elec- tion campaign. POINTED PARAGRAPHS An evangelist says the ene trance to hell is in China. It would be bad enough to have to go to hell, without the added cruel and unusual punishment of being routed through China. "Wanted -- One lady for full- time work; telephone exper- ience required but not neces- sary." -- Classified ad. in the Lexington (Ky.) Herald. The foregoing sounds contradictory, but actually in these days and times a lot of unnecessary things are being required. You can never tell about a woman -- and if you could, you shouldn't, "Recent research shows that cigarettes are bad for dogs."-- Press report. For a long time continuing research has shown that they are also bad for dog's best friend, but said friend re- mains virtually unimpressed. "I'm still trying to pursue happiness,"' said Old Sorehead, "But it seems that I'm on a cold trail." OTTAWA REPORT Cy alg hig hy lg lig lg hg "i lly Funds Spent On Food Aid Rated Good Mon, 3. 7. Greene, miniae ter of agriculture and Lib- eral MP for Renfrew South, describes the hungry world's need for Canada's abundant food, today's Guest Column: OTTAWA--Of all man's es- sential freedoms, the most fun- damental -- perhaps the first freedom of man--is freedom from hunger. It is a freedom without which the others are meaningless and one with which, as minister of agriculture I find myself deeply concerned, The population statistics are fairly well known, Every min- ute 110 new mouths come into the world, Forty-four will have a good chance of enjoying the 2,400 calories a day considered by the United Nations as the minimum food intake for an adult, The 64 others will face a lifetime in which their greatest concern wil] not be how to fill the lengthening hours of lei- sure, buy a second car or af- ford a vacation in Europe, but how to still the pangs of hun It is estimated that by 1990-- in only 14 years--the a tion increase in under-devel- oped regions of Asia, Africa and Latin-America will require cereal fouls 29 100 909 por pop an increase in alone equal to tons of grains now produced in North America and Europe combined 3 IN 5 HUNGRY And about three-fifths of the people on earth are already under - nourished and millions still live constantly on the edge of starvation Canada's record of external aid, though a respectable $520,- 000,000 last fiscal year, still has room for improvement. It amounted to just under half of one per cent of four Gross National Product last fiscal the yet RTT TT ATURE NT oem TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Aug. 17, 1966... The discovery that led to the Klondike gold rush was made 70 years ago today-- in 1896--on Bonanza Creek, a tributary of the Klondike River. George W. Carmack and two Indian companions, Skookum Jim and Tagish Charlie acting on informa- tion supplied by Robert Henderson who had spent the preceding two years prospecting creeks in the area, found a rich new strike. When news of it reached the outside world, a rush for the area began. In two years, Dawson grew from a few houses to a com- munity of 25,000 people; within three years, all im- portant creeks in the Klon- dike valley had been staked out by the gold-seekers. In the eight years after the Carmack find, total value of gold - production exceeded $100,000,000. 1807--Robert Fulton. dem- onstrated the first success- ful U.S. steamship, the Cler- mont. 1936--The Union Nationale won its first Quebec election victory. Russia issued a second warning to the Iranian gov- ernment over German in- First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1916--the French captured Fleury near Verdun; the British repulsed German attacks northwest of Po- zieres on the Somme; Aus- trian airmen raided Venice; Bulgarians attacked Ser- bians near Florina, Mace- donia. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1941--Britain and Russia issued a_ second warning to the Iranian gov- ernment over German in- fluence in Iran; German planes raided Hull, England, while RAF planes attacked northern France, Bremen and Duisberg; Russians an- nounced evacuation of the Black Sea naval base of Nikolaev. Investment vear. To meet the minimum United Nations target of one per cent of the GNP, it should be slightly more than doubled. It is anything but sentimental altruism to aim at increasing the Canadian role in external food aid. To put it in terms of cold self-interest, when we in- vest Canadian dollars in exter- nal food aid today, we are in- vesting in our own national se« curity for tomorrow. The external aid dollars we spend today will look like pea- nuts alongside the military costs forced upon us tomorrow, if the world's hungry millions are left to lanquish in a hunger imposed upon them by nothing more than the misfortune of their birthplace, Not for many more years will a richly nour- ished Canada be able to stand aloof from the explosive desper- ation that hunger breeds. AID HELPS CANADA rut there are other more pos itive--though just as sell-bene- fitting--reasons for Canadians to take wp the challenge of world hunger as a part of our national purpose today There is the economic as- t. Every Canadian dofiar in- ted im external food acsiat- also a Gillar invested fature market for Cana- products. This return on investment may not be re- alized in 10 years or in %, but it will come and with interest. There is also the political aspect of this challenge. We never win the political support of .the hungry with gum or speeches, however powerful or eloquent.. The hungry .are not interested in the competitions of political systems. They would rather have bread. The starv- ing couldn't care less whether their governors are democratic or Communist. Their first inte est is in rescue from the tyr- anny of hunger. But there is one other reason for Canadians to take up this challenge, which I believe is the greatest facing mankind to- day, and this is the moral rea- son. For any action professing a belief in the equality and brotherhood of man, it is an im- moral situation that millions should go hungry. while more fortunate millions are over-fed. Drums Of War In Kashmir NEW DELHI, India (AP) --~ The drums of war are beating again on the subcontinent. This sudden--and serious--de- terioration in relations between perennial feuders India and Pa kistan comes on the heels of a steady downhill trend in dip- lomacy since the two countries signed a peace pact at Tashkent in the Soviet Union last Janue ary. It has chilled the likelihood of a ministerial-level meeting over which the two have been par- rying for months. The meeting was to have been held early this summer in India as a follow-up to one held in Rawalpindi in the post-Tashkent "honeymoon" pe- riod. Western intelligence sources say there has been a buildup in Pakistan armed strength, but that there has been no sudden or sizable increase, especially along the Kashmir ceasefire line. And they say India also has been building up, possibly by two more army divisions as well as adding to its air and. sea ar- senla.s The Himalayan state of Kash- mir is at the root of the trou- ble between India and Pakis- tan. The war last fall did noth- ing to solve the problem and events since have not moved the two any closer to a solu- tion. Pakistan says it is willing to pursue the high-level talks en- visaged in the Tashkent agree- ment, but that since Kashmir is the underlying problem, it must be on the agenda. India also says it is willing to talk but that there must be no preconditions. Furthermore, India says, Kashmir is a closed issue--it is part of India and not subject to discussion. tie ance is in @ dian our