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Hero Ne To Fill Bill For Liberals . OTTAWA REPORT Davey Spotlighied In 'Absentee Role' ~-- She Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1966 -- PAGE 4 Let's Not Overlook Facts In Civic Campaigning In their enthusiasm to offer their services in high civic office it is understandable that some can- didates may overlook a detail or two while endeavoring to make a point with a broad brush. Such seems the case in the discussion of the $160,000 money bylaw at the Junior Chamber of Commerce Civic Affairs Forum. Ald. Christine Thomas who is again seeking the mayoralty spoke in scathing terms of ihe passage of the bylaw as an ill-advised action by council. In reality the bylaw represents a venture in long-term planning which merits commenda- tion rather than criticism. . The bylaw provides funds for the purcliase of property to make way for the establishment of a new bus terminal in downtown Oshawa. Such a project would be welcomed as a constructive step toward the redevelopment and rejuvenation of the downtown business area. The passage of the bylaw was hardly a spur of the moment action. Last February when the budget was set provision was made in the five year capital forecast, general mu- ni-ipal capital expenditure section. The entry reads "Central Bus System: Depot, Land Purchases (Three Properties) $160,000". At the same time it is interesting to note an extract from the minutes of council in which it was "moved by Ald. Pilkey and seconded by Ald. Thomas" that the five year capital expenditure forecast (in-. cluding of course the $160,000 pro- vision) he submitted to the Ontario Municipal Board for approval. It was approved. The bylaw provides the means for the efficient, businesslike as- quisition of property as it becomes available for a most worthwhile and much-needed Oshawa redevel- opment project. In these circum- stances, it would seem Mrs. Thomas is on firmer ground in her recorded position of requesting approval of the bylaw. And with all respect due her de- sire to serve as mayor, Mrs. Thomas might be well advised to stick to specifics in her campaign. Let's have the wunembroidered facts, Ma'am, please. Busy Shopping Days Christmas this year is expected to be a multimillion dollar business. Canadians will probably spend $875 million on presents. The typical family will buy 27 gif's at an aver- age of $6.50 a gift - - approximate- ly $7 more per family 'than last Christmas. One quarter of all watches, fine jewels and cameras are bought in December; 22 per cent of women's and children's gloves; 24 per cent of all robes, negligees and sporting goods;.28 per cent of all candy; She Oshavon Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher &. €. PRINCE, General Manager C. J, MeCONECHY, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES 'The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) and the itby Gazette and Chronicle (established 1863) is published daily (Sundays and Statutary holidays excepted). ibers of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish- ers Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau Association. Canadian Press is exclusively to the use of republication of all news despotched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the loca! n@ws published therein. All rights of special des- Odtches are also reserved, Offices: Thomson Building, 425 University Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street Avenue, Toronto, Montreal, P.O. Delivered by corriers m Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Oromo, Leskard, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Manchester Pontypoo!, and Newcastle not over 55¢ ¢ week. By mail in Province of Ontario outsh corrier delivery area, $15.00 per year. provinces and Commonwealth Countries, $78.00 per yeor. U.S.A. and foreign $27.00 pa yeor, more than one-third of all toys and games, reports a Readers' Digest Survey. Whole .new_ industries have sprung up around Christmas. We shell out $6 million for paper and ribbon to wrap presents. Another $28 million goes for lighting to brighten our homes and. businesses and the trees under which we pile our presents. The trees themselves are a major item: $9 million for 3.5 million Scotch pine, Douglas fir and balsam from Canada's natural for- ests and 100,000 acres of Christ- mas-tree ~'intations. addition we buy 500,000 artificiai trees -- some costing as much as $80 per tree. Canadians now buy 425 million greeting cards and hand the gov- ernment close to $11 million for postage. The post office sorts and delivers 203 million letters and 12 million parcels during the two weeks before and two weeks after Christ- mas. More than 56,000 extra work- ers help handle the holiday rush. Oshawa will undoubtedly share fully in the Yuletide largesse. The criticism of the commercialization of Christmas will continue, in some aspects, with justification. Yet a situation that provides more jobs as well as joy can't certainly be all bad. OY PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--lIs the profitability of a professional football league more important that the eco- nomic well-being of Canadian families? This question is prompted by 'the senatorial attendance record of the commissioner-designate of the Canadian Football League, Keith Davey. Mr. Davey, formerly national organizer of the Liberal party, was appointed on the eve of his 40th' birthday to his .reward--a 35-year no-cut contract at $15,- 000 per year--likely to rise later --to serve as a Canadian sena- tor, This not very arduous task calls for perhaps 80 daily at- tendances during the year at the short Senate sittings, plus vari- ous fringe jobs such as sitting on committees. Senator Davey was appointed to the joint Senate and House of Commons committee on con- sumer credit, which is conduct: ing a special inquiry into the rise in the cost of living in Canada, and factors which may have contributed to that recent tise, In the first 12 meetings of that important committee, Senator Davey did not show once, The party coach then rushed in as substitute for him, PEI's 74- year-old Senator Elsie Inman. LIKE YOUR BOSS? Obviously it is very important to the football league that the man who will assume the post of commissioner next Jan. 1 should travel around Canada to attend games; that is important to the league which will pay him a reported $25,000 per year on a three-year no-cut contract. But is it not equally important to his tolerant employers, the Ca- nadian taxpayers--whose pre- vious offer of $15,000 per year he had already accepted--that the new senator should attend to their work? Senator Davey happens te be a spectacular example of the no-show attitude taken by many parliamentarians to their work; there are other equally bad ex- amples on the same committee. In the first 18 meetings, News foundland's Senator Hollett, Nova Scotia's Senator Urguhart and Quebec East's MP, Gerard Duquet, also had a zero attend- ance record. Dick Cashin, 29-year-old MP from .Newfoundland and the baby of the Commons, attended only once. In total the 12 sena- tors and 24 MPs on that com- mittee have only a 41-per-cent attendance' record. (Every "show," however brief, counts as an "attendance.") In some cases, there may be a valid ex- cuse, such as illness; but pro tracted absences should lead to a substitution. At the other end of the scale, one of the co-chairmen of the committee, Senator David Croll, had a perfect record of attend- ance at all the first 18 méetings. Galt's New Democrat MP; Max Saltsman, missed only one meet- ing. Co-chairman Ron Basford MP aad Senators Ches Carter and Clement O'Leary each at- tended 16 meetings. Yorkton's Drum Clancy attended the first 10 meetings in an unbroken se- ries. 0" PART.TIME POLITICIANS I mention the attendances at this committee because this is now the glamor committee on Parliament Hill, which is at- tracting the most headlines. An astute politician would not mereiy recognize its national importance; he would also be aware of the political kudos of active participation and regular attendance. The whole committee system of the House of Commons-- much more so than that of the Senate--is going thrgugh a pe- riod which could not accurately be described as its finest hour, Guelph's MP Alf Halés, chair- man of the important public ac- counts committee which checks on the spending of the taxpay- ers' money, has recently had to cancel two meetings because in- sufficient MPs showed up to con- stitute a quorum. When one couples this sort of committee attendance with the very poor house at debates in the chamber--so adversely com- mented upon by the many visit- ors--one must question the con- scientiousness of MPs. The chief reason for the recent 80-per- cent increase in their remuner- ation was that Parliament has now become a full-time year- around job. There is probably no other full time job in Canada where at- tendance records of such shame- fully Jow levels is tolerated. Cuba Begins New Purge, Shows Ideological Split By MICHAEL ARKUS HAVANA (Reuters)--A new purge is under way in Cuba amid indications of an ideologi- cal split in some circles. Unlike previous purges, which successively eliminated counter- revolutionaries, petit bourgeois and political elements, and peo- ple held guilty of high living and la dolce vita, the present drive has affected officials whose rev- olutionary zeal had never be- fore been doubted. ' Five journalists of Granmia, official organ of the central committee of the Cuban Com- munist party, including. the sec- retary of the newspaper's party branch, have been removed for ideological reasons, while cer- tain officials of the foreign min- istry and foreign trade ministry have been transferred to unim- portant, non-political jobs In general terms, the ideologi- cal errors apparently refer to those who oppose the indepen- dent Communist line pursued by Prime Minister Castro and would prefer to see Cuba follow a more orthodox Soviet-orien- tated policy. More specifically, two major policy lines--one external and the other internal--are in ques- tion, say usually reliable sources. The first concerns Latin America. Castro recently attacked some Latin American revolutionaries and Communists, apparently in- cluding sections of the Venezue- lan Communist party, for reject- ing the line of active armed Struggle and accepting their countries' present juridical structure. He called them pseudo-revolutionaries. He also vehemently attacked Chile's President Eduardo Frei as an imperialist reactionary and in July indirectly criticized Russia for offering economic aid to Chile and other Latin American countries. Some levels of the country's revolutionary hierarchy are re- puted to oppose this line. The second point at issue con- cerns the internal economy. senynapnmatnR ND PLANNING ON UPSWING mmr SO rm NN LAND MISUSE HORROR Conservation Authority Role To Expand By GWYN KINSEY TORONTO (Special) --The responsibilities of conservation authorities are being eroded, an authority chairman gloom- lly wid the Uniariv 'égisia- ture's select committee on con- servation authorities. "The department of agricul- ture took our farm ponds," he said. "The Water Resources Commission is getting more and more control of water. Lands and Forests is buying parkland in Southern Ontario. , And ARDA is promoting more and more conservation schemes in our area. Pretty soon there won't he anything left for us." It was an "unnecessarily gloomy view. While it is true that there appears to be an in- creasing amount of duplication by government agencies in the area of land and resource uses, it's likely that the responsibil- ities of the conservation author- ities will be increased rather than diminished PLAN OF ACTION The Hon. J. R. Simonett, Minister of Energy and Re- sources Management, has indi- cated he hopes the select com- mittee's report "will provide my department with a plan of action for effective support of conservation authorities by the province". Moreover, the conservation authority concept is of the type that appeals to the Ontario gov- ernment: a regional organiza- tion supported by several mu- nicipalities with a local finan- cial commitment. Finally, the concept has and many recommendations to There are sizeable chunks of proved itself in practice.. De- spite all the headaches, the au- thorities have in the main ac- complished a great deal. It is obvious, from the evidence put before ths ¢ committee that with some amendment of legislation and procedures, they can accomplish a great deal more. They could become -- al- though it may be too much to hope for -- one of the great in- struments in a well organized, imaginatively directed plan of land use for the whole proy- ince PRESENT PROBLEMS The select committee in its report may not do much peer- ing into the future. There are certainly enough problems of the present seeking solution -- as previous articles in this series have indicated. To carry out their current responsibilities the authorities need a stronger financial base, some structural changes, the help of technical experts in an enlarged conservation branch, and better arrangements with other departments of govern- ments. They need, for example, a better deal on management of forests with the lands and for- ests department, a clearer un- derstanding on water use with the Ontario Water Resources Commission, possibly a return of a, portion of the farm pond program, and a closer connec- tion with ARDA. These are all matters about which the select committee will undoubtedly have much to say clect make;.Government action after the committee's report could result in a much stronger con- servation movement. BROADER ROLE One does noi fave ig isck very far into the future, how- ever, to glimpse a still broader role for the authorities -- or for some agency similar to the present authorities. There is a vast amount of planning and studying going on in this province, There are mu- nicipal planning boards, region- al studies, planning branches and sections in government de- partments, studies and reports by private. consultants, and al- most daily rulings by the On- tario Municipal Board that are in effect planning decisions What is lacking is co-ordina- tion -- and then, of course, ac- tion based on the co-ordination. In the meantime, land is being developed, sterilized, zoned, ex- propriated, used and misused. Farm land which cannot be re- placed is vanishing and unique 'physical features are being whittled away -- examples are the Niagara fruit lands and the lovely escarpment that swings north from Niagara to the Bruce. The horrors of land mis- use are in front of everyone in built-up southern Ontario. Proper land use is, in any sense of the word, conservation. Is it possible that the conserva- tion authority can be developed into the co-ordinating agency that is clearly needed The answer is: Certainly not - at present, Southern Ontario not covered by conservation authorities. There are only five authorities for a tiny portion of Ontario's great North, If the authorities are to be Significant insirumenit ii con servation planning and action, their boundaries must be re- vised and new authorities es- tablished to form a coherent provincial pattern. The pattern, and the plan- ning, would have to be flex- ible. What is workable and log- ical in Southwestern Ontario may be neither in Eastern On- tario and almost uncertainly not applicable in Northern On- tario. There are areas which do not have the population or assess- ment to support a conventional authority, and areas made up mainly or wholly of crown land. But many, perhaps most of them, need conservation work of one sort or another. Perhaps the answer in these cases is a "trust" authority set up by the provincial govern- ment. Perhaps, too, a shift in de- partmental responsibilities and the establisnment of a "conser- vation integration board" - are required. The select commitiee may not go that far. It would be very surprising if it did. But almost certainly its thinking will be to strengthen rather than weaken what has the makings of a superb instru- ment of regional and provincial planning and action -- and the rest may come later, NOW COMES REAL TEST OF HORSEMANSHIP vA UT CANADA'S STORY TR | John A. 'Hard To Follow' Early in his career Al Jolson had to follow the great Italian tenor Caruso at a benefit con- cert in New York. The audience would not let Caruso go and brought him back for~ encore after encore. Something had to be done to enable the show to go on, so Jolson stepped on stage, held up his hands, and TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Nov. 25, 1966... Alastair Ruadh Macdon- ell of the clan Glengarry was captured by a British ship 221 years ago today-- in 1745--while attempting to join Bonnie Prince Charlie's campaign to seize the Scot- tish throne. Because his clan had been refused per- mission to fight on the right of the Jacobite line at the disastrous battle of Cullo- den, Macdonell changed sides and became a spy for the English under the code name "Pickle," after first pocketing all the Jacobite fi- nances he could find. He succeeded to the chieftain- ship of the bankrupt clan in 1754 and died seven years later, living in a croft beside his ruined castle. 1783 -- The last British troops left United States territory. 1915--Norway created its labor court and state medi- ation service. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1916--the German-led Aus- trian armies of von Mac- kensen and von Falkenhayn linked up on the north bank of the Danube in Romania; Trepoff succeeded Stuermer as Russian premier. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1941--the battleship HMS Barham was torpe- doed and sunk off Libya with the loss of 800 lives; British advance units reached El Agheila, Libya; Moscow admitted 2,122,000 casualties, and loss of 7,900 tanks, 6,400 aircrait aia 12,900 guns since the war began, YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO, November 25, 1946 Don Jackson, Patrol. Leader of the Wolf Patrol of the 7th Oshawa Boy Scout Troop was presented with his King Scout badge. Robert Flett, RR 1 Oshawa, will be a member of the party of 23 junior farm boys and girls from Ontario who are go- ing to the National 4-H Club 'Congress in Chicago. November 25, 1931 35 YEARS AGO, N. .F. Tonkin, Oshawa, was successful in winning the gold medal for the highest score, donated by the Dominion Marksmen's Association, during the Oshawa rifle and Revolv- er Club contest. The new highway from Bow- manville to Blackstock was of- ficially opened today by the Hon. Leopold. Macaulay, Mini- ster of Highways in Ontario. said: "Folks, you ain't heard rothing yet!"" Then he went into his act, and got away. with it. In fact he was a tremendous hit. ; When Sir John A. Macdonald died in. 1891, the other leaders of the Conservative party must have felt like Jolson did when he followed Caruso, but they did not get away with it as well. Within the next five years, Can- ada had four Conservative prime ministers: Abbott, Thom- pson, Bowell and Tupper. Sir John Thompson would have succeeded Macdonald un- der normal circumstances, but was not chosen because he had recently become a Roman Cath- olic which caused resentment in some quarters. Instead J. J. C. Abbott was elected party leader against his own wishes. He agreed to serve for a year, and then resigned. Now the party turned to Thompson, and he became prime minister Nov. 25, 1892. Sir John A, Macdonald said once that Thompson was "the great discovery of my life." Later he amended this: 'Thompson has two faults. He is a little too fond of satire and a little too much of a Nova Scotian." It. is possible that Sir John Thompson might have become one of Canada's best prime min- isters, but he died two years later in Windsor Castle a few minutes after Queen Victoria _ made him a privy council- or. OTHER NOV, 25 EVENTS: 1657 -- Marguerite Bourgeois opened a school for Indian and French children at Ville Marie (Montreal). 1758 -- General Forbes cap- tured Fort DuQuesne and named it Fort Pitt, now Pitts- burgh. It was the end of French rule in the Ohio' valley. 1783--Sir Guy Carleton com- pleted evacuation of New York. 1837--W. L. Mackenzie pro- claimed a provisional govern- ment in Upper Canada. 1847--Railway opened between Montreal and Lachine, Que. 1851---YMCA was organized in Montreal. 1857--Prime Minister Tache resigned. 1885--Rocky Mountain Park established at Banff. 1918--Prince of Wales sailed from Halifax after visiting Can- ada from Aug. 12. Bavarian Vote Stirs Vision Of Nazi Ghosts On March By ROD CURRIE Canadian Press Staff Writer By any other standards, 7.4 per cent of the total vote and 15 seats in a 204-member leg- islature would not be consid- ered much of an electoral sensa- tion. But, coming as it did Sun- day to the so-called neo-Nazi National. Democratic party in West Germany's Bavarian dis- trict where Hitler gained some of his early prominence, it caught the world-by surprise. Although the party formed only two years ago was ex- pected to pick up a handful of seats, the extent of its backing --coupled with a similarly sur- prising showing in the Hesse State elections two weeks ago-- tended to arouse visions of Nazi ghosts again on the march. RETAINED CONTROL Tt alsa overshadowed some- what the fact that the Bavarian branch of the Christian Demo- crats, which vied with National Democrats for the ultra-con- servative vote, retained state control with a slightly increased over-all majority. This is bound to strengthen the hand of Franz Josef Strauss, Bavarian party chairman and former defence minister who engineered the nomination of Kurt George Kie- singer as the party's choice to succeed Ludwig Erhard as chancellor. The Free Democrats, who brought about the fall of Erhard a month ago by quitting the coalition, did poorly in Sunday's elections. Thus they lost some of their bargaining power in seeking to come to terms with either Christian Democrats or Social Democrats, second largest party in West Germany, on formation of a new coalition. There now arises the possibi- lity of a "grand coalition" of the two major parties, although there is. dispute between them over Kiesinger because of his former Nazi party membership. One possibility seen is that the socialists might agree on the Christian Democrats keep- ing the chancellorship -- pro- vided it goes to someone other than Kiesinger. For most outside observers, the alarming thing about the National Democrats' success is not so much the number they have had elected, but the sud- den and swift growth of the party. Since the war, far-out rightist parties have sprung up and then crumbled just as suddenly. But the new party, much better organized and financed, has sought to bring together all the splinter rightist parties -- and apparently has had a good measure of success. If its showing Sunday were repeated in a national election, it would claim about 40 of the 496 seats in the German par- liament--a remarkable showing for a-party two years old. Strangely, political and edito- rial comment within Germany and in countries which suffered most under the Nazis generally was remarkable restrained. Monv influential German papers emphasized that the re- sult was simply a local revival in a single government district. Other European quarters warned against exaggerating. the importance of the National Democratic showing. NAZIS DISMISSED The party denies it is Nazi in spirit and, to deflate critics on its 18-man executive. committee. Much of its support is be lieved to have come from younger voters, including 500,- 000 voting in Bavaria for the first time, who ery out for a firmer, nationalistic govern- ment -- a "Germany for Ger- mans" free of United States "fetters."' But despite the fact the party shows no explicit racism, no outright anti-Semitism, no glo- rification of the militarist im- pulse, many remain wuncon- vinced. Said the London Evening Standard: "There. seems to be some strange and eerie law of na- ture that insists that every 20 years or so Germany should stir from her ponderous bour- geois rectitude and do some- thing that gives the world the creeps, It has haunted Europe for three generations--and here we go again." By DON O'HEARN TORONTO-- wants to be a hero? Whe The main question of interest, and confusion, here at the mo- ment, is who is to be the next Liberal leader. , ; And as it appears now it to be a hero. ; A man who for the sake of his beliefs will invite defeat, and probably public disregard, As the situation is now, any man who takes on the leader- ship of the Liberal party faces political misery. With the way the party has been dropping, and the appar- ent advances the NDP has made, there was only one a parent chance for the party revive. This was to have a really . intense leadership contest, which would have excited spire ited interest in the party ranks and a great deal of nublicity in the press. There was the ready - made chance of this happening if Charles Templeton had run, Mr. Templeton is a colorful figure--his name alone breeds controversy, And he was sure to be opposed, and violently op- posed. Those against him' would definitely have dug up a candidate of stature, But Mr. Templeton declined. And his refusal is the worst of the many blows the party has suffered over the last 20-odd years. After the period of Mitch Hep- burn, the party was in a great doldrum. Then, as not too many realize, after many years John Wintermeyer really re-built it. At the start of the 1963 elec- tion the Liberals and the Con- servatives -- on a Conservative survey--were only one-half of a percentage point apart in public opinion. The campaign of Mr. Winter- meyer, who was never a "pro" himself and who suffered from bad advice, knocked this down to a difference of 17 points, Then the party had an {ll- advised too - early convention. And ever since then, under Andrew Thompson's leadership, it has been going down. So how can it come back Mr. Wintermeyer had built up the support, The base is prob- ably there. But it was built mainly on his own intensity. And it is a support that prob- ably can only be nourished by intensity. A good fighting contest by ry -ag the public respect could lo it. But a man who takes on the: party now and leads it on what will be called a "united campaign will know he is just passing time for the party, and his only real purpose in doing Se eae ee eee ve, POINTED PARAGRAPHS If you have been wondering what decomes of your money, if you'll check up you will probably find you have been spending it. Regardless of what direction a tax is hurled, it always hits the old ultimate consumer. When you are bearing another person's cross, be careful not to let him get a chance to nail you to' it. A woman writer asks where man would be if woman hadn't been created. If he were still living, he'd be in paradise. Money still talks, but in these days there's little time between its saying Hello and Goodbye. Of course, a woman can stand more cold than man can. If she couldn't, she couldn't sleep with her feet in winter. It seems to many that the United States if fighting a war that it doesn't want to win, lose or draw. BIBLE But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. --Amos 5:24. It is easy for us to support causes ich henafit ue Tha Bible calls upon us to support those causes that promote jus- tice and righteousness rather than those causes which benefit us at the expense of our fellow- men. ,