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The Oshawa Times 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited T. L. Wilson, Publisher E. C. Prince, Associate Publisher OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1967 Medical School Needs Rates Prime Concern There has been an awareness for some time in Canada of the serious and growing shortage of doctors confronting the country. To as grave and even more basic a problem -- the growing shortage of teach- ing staff in medical schools -- not as much attention has been given. The message was however brought home sharply recently by Dr. J. C. Laidlaw of the University of Toron- to. Dr. Laidlaw revealed that four of 12 accredited medical schools are in danger of losing their accredita- tion. The joint U.S. - Canadian com- mitte on accreditation reported that the four schools didwfét have enough teacher-scientists and teach- er-coffSultants qualified to give training in new techniques. The seriousness of the situation in the medical schools has a direct bearing on the training of doctors as well as the medical schools. Dr. Laidlaw also pointed out that in the next five years Canadian medical schools will only be able to turn out a third of the 1,300 full-time teach- ing staff needed for the schools. There is some luring back some of the Canadian scien- tists who have gone abroad. Dr. Laidlaw made it evident that prospect of the chances of attracting these spe- cialists is not very good. It would require comparable research facili- ties to get the scientists to return, There are also the major require- ments to ensure Canada is going to keep its scientists at home. He.said that the Canadian government has lagged in this country. In this field it is spending 90 cents per capita compared to $9.50 per capita by the U.S. government. Commenting on the situation, The Kingston Whig-Standard has also referred. to a question put to Finance Minister Sharp of whether the government would increase its assistance for medical research to ensure that there would be no loss of accreditation. He indicated that allocations to medical research would be increased. However it was not revealed whether the increase would remove the discrepancy with U.S. spending which is close to a 10-to-one figure. The Whig-Standard points out that with Canada entering the field of medicare the success of the serv- ice will depend on the doctors avail- able which in turn hinges on teach- er-consultants and medical-scientific research facilities. Adequate provi- sion of funds by the federal govern- ment is an essential prerequisite, Inequality In Apartheid The policy of apartheid continues to draw to South Africa the critic- ism and outright condemnation of much of the world. Recently severe criticism has been levelled in a re- port by scholars and researchers of international repute working for UNESCO of education under apar- theid. The report concludes that the edu- cational policy in South Africa is intended to make the African ma- jority "hewers of wood and drawers of water" while the white minority enjoys more orthodox education. She Oshatwa Stes 86 King St. E., T. L, WILSON, Publisher €. C. PRINCE, General Monager C. J. McCONECHY, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle (established 1863) is published dally (Sundays and Statutary holidays excepted), Members of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish- ers Associotivun, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau Association. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use of republication of all news despatched in the paper credited to It er to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein. All rights ef special des- patches are also reserved, 6 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario Nationa! Advertising Offices: Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 646 Catheart Street Montreal, P. Delivered by corners im Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton Enniskillen, Orono, Leskard; Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Manchester Pontypocl, and Newcastle not over 55¢ per week. By mail in Province of Ontario outside carrier delivery oreo, $15.00 per year. Other provinces ond Commonwealth _ Countries, $18.00 per year. U.S.A, and foreign $27.00 pa QOshawo, Ontarie It is a sad story of inequality the report reveals. The number of Afri- cans attending primary schools is increasing while the percentage of national income spent on _ black schools is decreasing. Africans with only one-tenth the per-capita in- come of whites are obliged to fi- nance most of their own schools through special taxation. Expansion must be paid for by increased taxa- tion not on the whole population but on Africans themselves. African education, according to the UNESCO document, is hamper- ed by overcrowding, underfeeding, poor teachers, poor equipment, over- taxation in proportion to income and a curriculum geared to subser- vience. For Africans to escape their lot is made virtually impossible. Only three colored people have grad- uated in engineering in the last five years from African universities, an indication of the almost total lack of opportunity to prepare for higher education in scientific, managerial and technological subjects. Such a policy of discrimination cannot help but sow the seeds of re- bellion for the future. But more, as The Guelph Mercury has noted, it denies the country the use of much of the skilled labor and brainpower it will increasingly have need of in the future. OPPOSITION'S PERFORMANCE SPLITS VIEWS OF VOTERS BY THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION (World Copyright Reserved) Canadians are evenly divided in their opinions on whether or not the official opposition is doing a good or a bad job in Parliament. Forty per cent of the voters say the Conservatives are doing a good job, as opposition to the Pearson government and 39 per cent say they are not doing a good job. While the Conservatives cannot take much comfort out of these figures, at least they are no worse off than the Liberal government. As reported previously, the public is equally divided in assessing the Pearson government's performance 43 per cent satisfied and 40 per cent dissatisfied, Not unexpectedly, greatest satisfaction (46 per cent) for the Conservative opposition comes from the western provinces; least satisfaction from Ontario voters. The question: "Generally speaking, would you say that the Conservative Party in Ottawa is doing a good fob, or a bad job as op- position to the Liberal government?" CANADA East Good job 40% Bad job 39 Can't say < 21 100%, HNN 'in r OTTAWA REPORT Women Blaze Trail Into Public Life By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--A royal commis- sion has been established to examine the status of women in Canada, and to recommend steps to ensure their equality with men in all aspects of Ca- nadian society.. Since the federal government alone is collecting some $500 in faxes from every woman, in addition to a like sum from every man and child this year, I suppose that is not much more foolish than many other ways in which it wastes our money. But I hope that the royal commission will not overlook the special privileges accorded to female trail-blazers on Par- ' liament Hill. A mini-statue of Ellen Fair- clough has recently been placed in the Parliament Building, to commemorate her appointment as Canada's first woman cabi- net minister in 1957. Yet no mere male cabinet minister has been thus honored. In fact only those men who have attained the top rung of the political ladder are thus statuarized on Parliament Hill; and of our 14 prime ministers, to date only four yet stand there immortal- ized in bronze, and that long after their death. Yet Ellen Fairclough is still very much alive, and probably kicking too. Also on permanent view in the Parliament Building are similar mini-statues or busts of Canada's first woman senator, Cairine Wilson, and first MP, Agnes Macphail, What those three women have in common is that they were 'firsts' and alas too few have followed the trail they blazed into our public life. Yet they have equality of opportunity there, without any royal com- mission having to recommend how it could be ensured, HONOR FOR ELLEN In a short ceremony before a surprisingly large and distin- guished audience, the bust of Mrs. Fairclough was recently presented to Parliament by the Zonta Club of business and pro- fessional women. Being com- POINTED PARAGRAPHS It's probably just as well that with some exceptions, which are specified, there is no general prescription, either in the Scrip- tures or in secular law, against plain and fancy lying. Wane iene nT UD QUEBEC EDITORS COMMENT Total Ontario West 40% 35% 46% 35 45 38 25 20 16 100% 100% 100%, realistic such women, it is of course a like- ness in human proportions, and not an enrecognizably distorted' product of today's new concept of so-called art. Officiating at the ceremony missioned by was Cornwall's Mr. Speaker Lamoureux, who on behalf of the douse of Commons accepted the bust. '"'What an unfortunate and inaccurate word to describe a head-and-shoulders represen- tation,' quipped Canada's sec- ond woman cabinet minister, Hon. Judy LaMarsh, who also graced the platform. "And how exciting our debates in Parlia- ment would have been if Ellen had appeared in the chamber wearing as low-cut a costume as she wears in the sculpture!"' DIEF GOT THE LAUGHS John Diefenbaker, as the prime minister who had ap- pointed our first woman to the cabinet, paid her a short trib- ute, and of course stole the show as his wit and oratory al- ways enable him to do. He compared the even - tempered Ellen to Britain's first woman MP, Nancy Astor, and delighted his audience with the story of Lady Astor snapping angrily at Winston Churchill: "If I was your wife, I would put poison in your food.'? To which Church- ill calmly retorted: "And if I was your husband, I would eat | edd Just as the ceremony com- menced, three ladies walked into Parliament's railway com- mittee room and stood near me. "Here comes what should have been the royal commission ex- amining the status of women," I said, and was rewarded with smiles and knowing winks from Quebec's Senator Josie Quart, Prescott's Jean Wadds MP, and the former Thomson News- - paper columnist and Mayor of Ottawa, Charlotte Whitton. Sen- ator Quart added the wise thought that the enquiry could aptly have been undertaken by women senators--"well quali- fied for the work, and. it wouldn't have cost the taxpay- ers $100 per day for each com- missioner,' she shrewdly re- marked. BIBLE "'Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools." Romans 1:22. The individual or nation that leans solely on the wisdom of man is not using much wisdom, The truly wise men still come to Jesus, NAH eea te FRENCH TEACHERS NEEDED Cultural Agreement Program Will Proceed Montreal La Presse--Every- thing indicates that the cul- tural agreement negotiated last year by the premiers of Ontario and Quebec will not be compromised by the change of government that has since occurred in Quebec, a change which led to fears at one time that such an agreement would be impossible because of the separatist tendencies of some of the cabinet ministers. Hap- pily, the fears were ground- less and a joint committee of the two provinces soon will be formed to draft a program. The recent appointment of Prof. Charles-Edouard Rathe, director of French teaching at Victoria College at University of Toronto, as first full-time member of the future com- mittee should be greeted with an enthusiasm equal to that which Mr. Rathe appears to be showing in his new task as co-ordinator, . . . One of his main tasks will be to recruit .here French teachers for Ontario. . . . Que- bec long ago should have es- tablished a reservoir of teach- ers of good French for the other provinces. During the school crisis of recent weeks, one saw the haste and the avidity with which several he invited dissatisfied rench-language teachers to settle within their boundaries to teach our language. : "We need teachers on the spot."' said Mr. Rathe. He would like to see our young graduates, fresh out of normal school, for instance, go and give . . . French courses in Ontario while Ontario graduates would do the same thing among us in the teach- ing of English. Mr. Thomas Campbell, ex- ecutive assistant to the On- tario deputy minister of edu- cation, is very happy about the interest a large number of French - Canadians have al- ready expressed. Many have even added: 'If Ontario takes the lead with such a program, it could save Confederation." Let Quebec also do its share and the day will come when the heart of French Canada and the heart of English Can- ada will be able to beat in unison. -- Renaude Lapointe (Feb. 25) Trois-Rivieres Le Nouvel- liste--The problem of govern- ment information made head- lines . . ..when the leader of the opposition, Mr. Jean Le- sage, accused the Union Na- tionale government of using the information office for par- tisan purposes. This reproach, these accusations -- we have heard them frequently during the last few years, except that the accuser now has become the accused... . In our opinion, the govern- ment should . . . establish a real ministry of information such as exists in many coun- tries, notably France. Obvi- ously the Opposition would should loudly and would im- pute to the government the blackest of motives, including that of wishing to establish a dictatorship, a controlled press etc. But in fact, in act- ing in such a way, the govern- ment would simply be giving official status to a shame- fully hypocritical system which, under the guise of the frankest democracy, is noth- ing more than a creatue serv- ing the government in the Same way as all other nor- mally constituted depart- ments... . A government should have sufficient maturity to estab- lish a very clear demarcation between propaganda that serves its party and official information, Official informa- tion must or should deal strictly with projects officially undertaken by the govern- ment and sanctioned by the legislature The establishment of a ministry of information would have the advantage of .. . ( making it responsible not to a single minister or the cabinet, but to the legislature and even the people. The eventual minister of information would have to account to the elec- torate in the same way as other ministers. . . .--Sylvio. St-Amant (Feb. 27) ; Quebec I'Action--The prov- incial government is prepar- ing to place before the legis- lature a draft law which would authorize the holding of referendums on specific ques- tions and under precise cir- cumstances, By adopting the referendum formula, the government di- verts until the subsequent election the ever-present dan- ger of going to the people and being defeated. When the people vote in favor of a project in a referendum the government won't have any worries. If the people vote against a project the govern- ment then need only withdraw it and continue to govern. The law must protect demo- cracy and not permit an abusive use of referendums. To this end, the legislature should be very exacting in de- termining the circumstances under which use of the law will be permitted .. .-- Roger Bruneau (Feb. 23) 2 WHOS THE 4ECOND FAIREST OF THEM ALL ? Be MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL -- detract pnt BIG, COLD POLICE BEAT Pe AAD Arctic Will Stay The Same FREDERICTON (CP)--A vet- eran of 12 years' police service in the Arctic, William G. Fraser doesn't hold with folks who en- visage big cities in Canada's northland. Nor does he see a Klondike - type rush for the North's mineral wealth. Bill Fraser knows his Arctic well. The coldest, biggest police beat in the world was his for about one-third of his 35 years with the RCMP. The Loggieville, N.B., native was director of criminal investi- gation with the RCMP in Ot- tawa when he retired in Jan- uary. After a series of speaking engagements and a period of research work for the Vanier Institute of the Family, he plans to take up residence in a new home he has bought at Baddeck on Cape Breton's picturesque Bras d'Or Lakes. In an interview here during a speaking engagement, Mr. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS March 4, 1967... The third International, known as the "Comintern," was established by Lenin 48 years ago today--in 1919-- under the presidency of Zinoviev. It became the central authority for all the world's Communist parties which followed the "Mos- cow line."' Stalin announced the abolition of the Comin- tern in 1943, to reassure his allies about their own safety from domestic rev- olution, but no great differ- ence in policy was noticed until his death. 1789--The constitution of the United States went into effect. 1861 ---- The Confederate States of America adopted the stars and bars flag. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1917--British divisions took over the whole Somme bat- tlefront from French units as the Germans retreated five miles from Gomme- court; the U.S. House of Representatives passed President Wilson's resolu- tion for arming merchant ships. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1942--an Australian convoy of seven ships was sunk by Japanese warships; U.S. aircraft on Bataan sank three Japanese troop- ships; the first Canadian Ram tanks arrived in Eng- land, March 5, 1967... First World War Fifty 'years ago today--in 1917--British cavalry scouts were 15 miles from Bagh- dad; Russians attacked a retreating Turkish column in Assadabad Pass, Persia; a German attack at Verdun was halted -in Caurieres Wood. 'Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1942--the Japanese captured Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies; Gen. Sir Harold Alexander was put in command of the Burma front; the U.S.-Ca- nadian defence board ap-, proved construction of the Alaska Highway. BOOZE STILL KILLS More than 5,000 Frenchmen die of alcoholism every year, Fraser questioned the validity of comparing Canada's arctic reaches with Siberia where large cities have been estab- lished. "The Russians have had a lot more people for a longer time than we have, and they popu- lated the Arctic with people they didn't want around,"' The former RCMP superin- tendent said Siberia also has the advantage of wide, deep rivers and a northern coast that is much more accessible to ship- ping than Canada's. LAND PLENTIFUL "Why should we fight the isolation, the distance, the muskeg, the permafrost and the cold to try to develop towns in the North when we've got thousands of square miles lying idle farther south., Our. popula- tion will have to grow a lot faster than it is before we see any metropolises on the Mack- enzie River or on Baffin Island." The veteran Mountie doesn't think mining companies would spend millions "getting some- thing out of the rocks on Elles- mere or Resolution that they can get a lot cheaper further south." There was, of course, the pos- sibility of a "big find" of rare mineral and "'that would be a different matter." As for modern incursions into the North, some of the old methods still win out. There will always be a place . for a long time to come for the dog sled because there are places the aircraft can't land and the snowmobile can't go. Bill Fraser has lived off the land and eaten raw bear meat on 1,000-mile patrols and thinks it's far better to adapt to the Eskimo's life "than try to take modern habits north." No cloth, he says, ever equalled furs for arctic weather, Confederation Problems; Train Off Tracks In 1865 By BOB BOWMAN Canada's Confederation train suddenly went off the tracks on March 4, 1865. The delegates who had taken part in the con- ference at Charlottetown, Hali- fax, and Quebec had ended the year with high hopes. They had toured a good part of Ontario, where they had wined and dined as their ladies watched from galleries, and had taken part in parades with bands playing. Then the troubles began. Railway promoters in the U.S.A. did not want to see the Intercolonial Railway built from Halifax to Montreal, which was an important part of the Confederation deal. They poured money into an election in New Brunswick to defeat Premier S. L. Tilley who had found the name "Dominion of Canada" in Psalm 72--during the negotiations in London. One of Tilley's opponents in New Brunswick was A. R. Wet- more of Saint John, who made emotional speeches: 'New Brunswick has been betrayed by a set of office-seeking poli- ticians who are willing to give up our independence in ex- change for a Canadian subsidy of 80 cents a head". Then he would go on to say that his young son had asked him "Daddy, what country do we live in?" to which Wetmore re- plied "What could I tell him? What reply could I give him? Only the truth, 'Son we have no YEARS AGO 25 YEARS AGO March 4, 1942 Col. R. S. McLaughlin and T. K. Creighton, KC, will offi- ciate at the formal opening of the Sykes Memorial Wing of the Oshawa General Hospital to- morrow. Mr. Stanley F. Everson was elected president of the Oshawa Branch Life Underwriters As- sociation 1942, 40 YEARS AGO March 4, 1927 Mr. L. L. Unitt will conduct the General Motors Musical and Dramatic Society in a con- cert at the Regent Theatre. Proceeds will go to the Chil- dren's Aid Society. Jack Miner, the famous naturalist, will give one of his noted lectures in King Street United Church on. Friday. country now for Mr. Tilley has sold us all to the Canadians for 80 cents a head' "'. When the election was held on March 4 Premier Tilley and every cabinet minister were defeated. Only: six Confedera- tionists were returned in a legislature of 41 seats. Later in the month, Confed- eration was defeated in Prince Edward Island by 23 votes to 5. Premier Tupper wisely avoided an election in Nova Scotia, but began to work for the original plan, a union of the Maritime colonies. Confederation might not have taken place if it had not been for the British government which did not give up hope and continued to work for it. The American Civil War ended in May and it was feared that the powerful U.S. army might be turned against British North America unless Canada were united. OTHER MARCH 4 EVENTS: 1791--British House of Com- mons began debating the Can- ada Act 1814---Battle of Longwoods be- tween London and Thamesyille, Ontario 1836 -- Reformers resigned from Legislative Council of Upper Canada 1838--Bank of Upper Canada suspended specie payments 1868--Toronto Y.M.C.A._ in- corporated 1870--Thomas Scott executed by Louis Riel 1871--Sandford Fleming was appointed to survey C.P.R from Fort William to Pacific 1881--St. Thomas, Ont., re- ceived city charter 1925--Government of Quebec rejected Newfoundland offer to sell Labrador for $30 million 1938--Supreme Court of Can- ada ruled against Alberta con- stitutional changes READERS WRITE... LEAVING FEDERATION Dear Editor: The vice-president of St. Francis states 'There is a growing feeling in Oshawa that Federation is an unnecessary expense and of no benefit at all."" We, the presidents of all existing Oshawa CPTA's are very happy with Federation, satisfied with the help and co- operation they offer and giv- ing no consideration whatever to leaving Federation. We believe any unrest that exists is limited to this one small group of 19 members who do not understand the organiza- tion. He claims to have urged others to leave the Federation. This no doubt refers to a sug- gestion he made at a panel discussion meeting at St. Greg. ory's in January. However, the representatives there were not in agreement with his sugges- tion and it was explained to him that CPTA operates at four levels. The Unit derive their assistance from the Re- gional; the Regionals all be- lohg to the Archdiocesan Coun- cil; the various Archdiocesan Councils form Federation creat- ing a group representing all units. He erred in expecting organizational help from Fed- eration and was told at that meeting that Regional was where they could expect the most assistance, It seems to us that, Mr. Wallace, if dissatisfied with snow removal or garbage col- lection on his street would go to the Prime Minister of Can- ada instead of a local alder- man and then start a move- ment to leave Confederation for lack of assistance from the federal government. He says the other presi- out being able to g00d reason for offer any aining."* dents "refused to Ofer with-~ We were all members of that panel and felt that he was given. any number of good reasons for belonging. No pres- ident complained of lack of co- operation but rather praised the work of the staff and execu- tive. As to supplying "several good speakers" this is not the purpose of Federation but as presidents we can only vouch that they are most willing to come, or send a represéntative to any meeting or function as well as being most generous with suggestions and material sent out. Federation welcome new units and will put forth every effort, as would any pres- ident or executive member of any existing units, to assist St. Francis in any_way possible. This last paragraph we ex- pect to see deleted from our letter but it annoys us that our secretaries send accounts, of local interest, of good meetings and content of good speakers material from various meet- ings and functions to our local paper and they are so edited and cut down as to finally end up as a small item in 'Here and There" yet when a dissi- dent voice is raised it rates dark headlines and a two- column report, Thank you for your space. Mrs. Wilfred Ottenbrite, President of St. one Ne Mrs. Joseph Pilkington, President of St. Joseph's CPTA Mrs. Anthony Kuttschrutter, President of St. Gregory's CPTA South America Buying Wheat MELBOURNE (CP) -- Aus- tralia is carrying out a trade drive in South America, with wheat as its main commodity. The Australian wheat board will sell 5,000,000 bushels of its record wheat crop to €hile this year if Chile can sell goods worth half the wheat value to Australia. The South American trade campaign has particular signi- ficance because there are some fears that the current upheaval in China might affect wheat sales to Peking at a time when Australia's wheat acreage has been expanded to cope with the bigger China trade. The sale to Chile would be worth nearly $8,500,000 in Cana- dian funds. It is Australia's first substantial contract to sell wheat to Chile and the first suc- cess after trying for years to break into the South American grain market. The sale was ne- gotiated by an Australian wheat board mission which returned to Australia optimistic about trading prospects with. the west coast of South America. Australia's minister for trade, John McEwen, said the deal showed the need for a direct trans-Pacifiec shipping !ink be- tween Australia and South America, Oshawa Winnipeg Montreal Windsor and other Oshawa DELOITTE, PLENDER, HASKINS & SELLS with whom are now merged MONTEITH, RIEHL, WATERS & CO, Chartered Accountants Edmonton Associated Firms opie States of America, Great Britain cuntries throughout the World Oshows Shopping Centre Toronto Hamilton Regina Calgary Prince George Vancouver 728-7527 St. A joi Tea' v Anglica Senior took th Mrs. and thz for dist ing clo' thes, to to head Rev. ed the Mrs. crest I buffet s Ann Ki and Mr: is to be Warrow Anglica' Several and she a comp Dund: ool As: executi' the sch preside. 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