Oshawa Times (1958-), 7 Apr 1967, p. 5

The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

ial Ohe Oshawa Gunes 86 King St. E., 6 Oshawa, Ontario Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited T. L. Wilson, Publisher E. C. Prince, Associate Publisher OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1967 New Governor-General Faces Grave Challenge Few of the appointments in which Prime Minister Pearson has had a hand have met with the un- animous acclaim of the choice of Ro- land Michener as Governor-General, The new governor-general has at- tributes in his career and back- ground to commend him to the maj- ority of the many diverse sections of Canada, A native of Alberta who achieved success in Eastern Canada he has also turned his attention to the problems of French-Canada. He takes office with a knowledge of parliamentary procedures and con- stitutional complexities held by few if any of his predecessors. And he had the good sense or good fortune to be out of politics and out of the country during the recent years when the turmoil of federal politics made it virtually impossible for a public figure to be uncommitted to strenuous partisanship. The appointment is free from pol- itical motive. Mr. Michener is in the position of being a life-long Conservative appointed to high of- fice by a Liberal government. As Speaker of the House of Commons he demonstrated admirably his abil- ity to rise above politics in the in- terests of the country. His term as High Commissioner in India has undoubtedly added to Mr. Michener's qualifications for the vice-regal role. Through it he has gained diplomatic experience and the requirements of protocol. These will be of immediate value to him as he undertakes the duties of host to scores of world statesmen arriving at Expo within short weeks of his appointment. Along with the high honor of be- coming Canada's third native-born governor-general, Mr. Michener has also been given grave responsibili- ties at a time in history when sep- aratism and republicanism are sub- jects of debate in the country. His illustrious predecessor, the late General Vanier, proved the man at Rideau Hall could exercise a strong influence in the interests of nation- al unity through the sincerity and sageness of personal concern and prestige. This mantle has fallen to Gover- nor-General Michener. It is an oner- ous, at times frustrating even a desperate responsibility. Canadians are indeed fortunate in having a fellow-citizen of Mr. Michener's cal- ibre and capacity to shoulder it, Dropout Future Bleak As students return to classes for the final sprint to June examina- tions there's strong incentive to stick to their knitting in a survey conducted on behalf of the Econo- mic Council of Canada. The study included the manpow- er requirements of 17 companies that represent a cross-section of Canadian industry, employing some 850,000 persons last year. The study showed that the per- centages of employees without a high school graduation diploma will shrink from 64.8 per cent in 1965 to She Oshawa Times &6 King St. £., Oshawa, Ontorie T. L, WILSON, Publisher ©. C. PRINCE, General Manager Cc, J, MeCONECHY, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES The Oshowo Times combining The Oshawa Times {established 1871) and the itby Gazette ond Chronicle (established 1863) is published daily (Sundoys ond Statutary holidays excepted). Members of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish- ers Association, The Conadian Press Audit Bureau Association, The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use of republication of all news despatched in the poper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein. All rights of special des- patches are also reserved 86 Kina St. £E., Oshawa, Ontario National Advertising Offices: Thomson Building 425 University Avenue, Toronto, 'Ontario; 646 Catheart Street Montreal, P.O Delivered by carers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmonville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Tounton, Tyrone, Dunbarton Enniskillen, Orono, Leskard, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Manchester Pontypool, ond Newcastle not over 55¢ per week, By mall in Province of Ontario outside corrier delivery crea, $15.00 per yeor. Other provinces ond Commonwealth Countries, $18.00 per yeor. U.S.A, and foreign $27.00 pa yeor. 55.1 per cent in 1970. But workers with vocational or trade school training are expected to hold their own as a proportion of the work force, even though they did not complete high school. University graduates and those with post-high school education are expected to increase their share of the work force from about 4 per cent in 1965 to about 5.5 per cent in 1970. High school graduates are ex- pected to increase from 27 per cent to 34 per cent. Aside from increased job oppor- tunities, those with higher educa- tional qualifications can look for- ward to greater financial rewards. Statistics show high school gradu- ates can expect to earn 50 per cent more than those who have not graduated. Those with a university degree can at least triple the in- come of workers with only elemen- tary education. Laborers will still be required for certain routine jobs but the com- panies studied indicated there will be substantial increases in their re- quirements for 'technical, profes- sional, managerial, and skilled cate- gories, For high school dropouts the fu- ture's bleak. School's definitely the place to stay for young people in- terested in the greater job oppor- tunities and accompanying re- wards, OTTAWA REPORT Womentolk Row On Inflation By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA --Praise the Lord for our womenfolk! Canadian men have long paid taxes --like sheep. Canadian men have long tolerated silently the annual erosion of our wealth through inflation. But our women have started to howl. They are focussing attention on the two most outrageous confi- dence tricks ever perpetrated on the public--and long per- petrated by all our govern- ments -- namely taxing us through concealed taxes, and robbing us through inflation. Look at the record. Spending by all levels of government, federal, provincial and muni- cipal, has soared from under $4 billion in 1949 to more than $20 billion last year, a five-fold increase. And for each 100 cents our money was worth in 1949, today it is worth only 68% cents. Canadian men, who pay taxes every year and become voters at elections, have not com- plained. They have never cried: "Throw the rascals out; they are too extravagant." But our women have started to complain. Without knowing exactly what is wrong, they sense shrewdly that something has turned sour in this affluent country so lavishly endowed by nature. ARE YOU BETTER OFF Those lavish wage increases have not brought the wealth that was hoped, because rising taxes have gobbled up much of the increase, and rising prices have reduced the purchasing power of what is left. Food prices are the most sensitive to rising costs, be- cause food reaches the market place so quickly. And _ food makes up a large portion of the average family's budget. So it was rising food prices which first attracted the housewives' anger. They boycotted the su- permarkets. Ministers of finance are not fools; and they are ably ad- vised by long-experiencéd civil, service staffs. Between politi- cian and bureaucrat, they have evolved a pretty pyramid of taxes, very complicated, and Raise well hidden from those who must pay them. It is a devel- ishly cunning confidence trick, The only taxes which people notice are personal income tax and the retail sales tax. The former yields only one-tenth of the total tax collected, and it is hidden in several weekly de ductions from each pay packet. The sales tax, except in Que- bec, is sufficiently low that the prayer generally thinks of the few cents as an inconvenience rather than as a levy. IF TAXES NOT HIDDEN But suppose that all this come plex pyramid of direct and hid- den taxes was abolished. Sup- pose governments stopped col- Jecting the few cents hidden in the price of a gallon of gas, the huge burden hidden in the cost of a bottle at the liquor store, the massive grab concealed in the price of a new car, the nickel hidden in a_ medicine bottle, and so on. Suppose these were all abolished, and re- placed by just a single tax--a sales tax levied on everything you buy. Last year our gross national product was $56 billion; total personal income was $42 billion; government spending was $20 billion, Figure it out for your- self. Assuming that raw food would be exempted from this general sales tax, we see at once that, to finance the spend- ing spree now involving federal, provincial and municipal gov- ernments, that sales tax would have to be about 100 per cent. Basic prices of everything would fall; but their cost to you would then be doubled by the sales tax. But you would have a larger pay packet, uncut by government deductions. No government could hope to survive such a revelation of the true cost of our taxes. But the logical outcome of the housewives' howl about food costs is a demand for govern- ment economy. The relationship between government extrava- gance and high prices is the most significant lesson to emerge from the parliamentary committee's enquiry into high prices and the rising cost of living. LBJ Aims To Mend Fences ButLeft Wing Troublesome By ARCH MacKENZIE WASHINGTON (CP)-- Presi- dent Johnson began a push last week to heal discord within the Democratic party and rally sup- port for his harder line in Viet- nam. He personally wooed the sen- jor assistants -- the eyes, ears and often 'brains--of the 535 members of Congress. He spoke frankly and privately to a Dem- ocratic dinner about the need for unity. Senator Robert Kennedy of New York told the same audi- ence the next day he would work hard for the 1968 re-elec- tion of the president and vice- president Hubert Humphrey. This soothed feelings battered by the recent Kennedy dissent on the Vietnamese war, plus temperamental differences of long standing and printed re- ports of a Feb. 6 meeting of some heat. But guerrilla warfare on the leftwing of the party has taken shape. John Kenneth Galbraith, the old Kennedy-court intellectual, became president of the left- leaning Americans for Demo- cratic Action. He warned that a war lasting five to 10 more years, as some predict, "can mean the death and burial of the Democratic party." The former ambassador to In- dia urged a halt to the bombing of the North as an initial step toward a peaceful solution. The group now headed by the Ontario-born Galbraith now has split with President Johnson by expressing "disenchantment and dismay" over his Vietnam pol- icy. MAY NEED PROTEST Martin Luther King, Nobel peace prize winner and the best known American civil rights leader, has warned that if the U.S. continues to increase the military pressure in Vietnam civil disobedience may be "ne- cessary as a form of protest." King, a comparative moder- ate in the movement, has been restrained in war criticism in the past. He said Sunday the war is "playing havoc with our domes- tic destinies. . . ." "In a real sense the great so- ciety has been shot down in the battlefields of Vietnam." mere nsec mnt HeHHINRANMNEN NNN CONGRESS STRENGTH REDUCED rhs WY pnt i INDIANS WAITING Gigantic Tasks Confront Gandhi Cabinet By RAM SUNDAR Canadian Press Correspondent BOMBAY (CP) ~Indians, having expressed their dis- pleasure with the ruling Con- gress party, are waiting to see how the new government tackles the gigantic political and economic tasks that con- front it Thus far, all they have to go by is the makeup of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's 51- member council of ministers. It appears to many to be rea- son for optimism The election has reduced the Congress party's strength in the 521 member Lok Sabha --lower house of Parliament-- to 281 from 365, and has ousted Congress from power in six states. Despite the sharply reduced majority, however, the cen- tral government may be more effective because it has rid itself of some of the reasons for past disharmony The party's top leadership has apparently settled its per- sonality conflicts and this rouses hopes that the job of running the country will no longer be impeded by party factionalism The administration is polit- ically better integrated in the sense that troublesome poli- ticians such as Sadashiv Patil, the former railway minister, and Manubhai Shah, com- doctrinaire attitude toward Kamaraj fell out with the merce minister, are out. Chidambarram Subraman- fam, the food minister and one of India's best adminis- trators, had to be dropped be- cause of his personal election defeat but he is expected to rejoin the cabinet after a by- election One reason for hope is that the government has been given an infusion of young blood, especially at the cab- inet level, for the 'first time. Karan Singh, 36, the former maharaja of Kashmir, has been appointed minister of tourism and civil aviation and has already started work on an ambitious project to stim- ulate tourism and augment India's slender foreign ex- change reserves. What sets him apart is that, unlike most members of the Indian princely tribe, Singh is modern-minded and a polit- ical liberal. Prime Minister Gandhi has also chosen well-known ex- perts to man the ministries of education, health and irri- gation. Qualified observers say the entry of strongman Morarji Desai into the government as deputy prime minister is bound to help the evolution of pragmatic policies at a time wheg the Congresa party's economic planning is being blamed for agricultural and industrial bottlenecks. Desai, 71, is noted for his ability to make quick deci- sions and act with firmness-- qualities badly needed in In- dia today, As deputy prime minister, he will have wide, though as yet undefined, pow- ers of supervision. DESAI MELLOWED There is some skepticism about the durability of the Gandhi-Desai alliance. It has been suggested the prime minister and her deputy are temperamentally incom- patible. But those who know Desal say he is very much a mel- ldwed man and is bound to be a source of strength to a prime minister who has been accused of being vacillating. Jagjivan Ram, the new food minister, enjoys a good repu- tation among the farming community. A man of lowly origin--he's a member of the Harijan, or Untouchable, caste--Ram knows the peas- ants well, Perhaps the most promising move for the administration is the political reconciliation between Mrs. Gandhi and Kumaraswami Kamaraj, the powerful chairman of the Con- Gress party, f, prime minister on some key economic issues last year. It is said the government's de- cision to devalue the rupee on the World Bank's advice was taken despite Kamaraj's warning that it would be po- litically and psychologically unwise. HIT BY INFLATION The food minister main- tains that the party would not have fared so badly in the February election but for de- valuation and its conse- quences. In any case, one of the main jobs facing the Gandhi cabinet is to arrest inflationary pres- sures that have followed de- valuation, and perhaps to counter the contention of Communist, Socialist and Con- servative critics that another devaluation is inevitable. Diplomatic circles say the retention of Mahomedali Cha- gla, a former judge of the Bombay state high court, as foreign minister indicates the new government will follow a middle-of-the-road foreign pol- hey. Observers are inclined to think Prime Minister Gandhi and Foreign Minister Chagla will probably soft-pedal for- eign affairs because of pre- occupation with the domestic economy, paesn'T ANYBODY KNOW AN OQLD-FASHIONEL WALTZ iT'S A GO-GO WORLD CT ee nm FOREIGN NEWS ANALYSIS SU West Abetted Arab Crisis By PHILIP DEANE Foreign Affairs Analyst Israel is as good a starting point in trying to explain the series of misunderstandings and double-dealings which lead to whatever is the current crisis in relations between the West and the Arabs; the Aden crisis now, the Jordan crisis earlier, the Suez crisis 11 years ago. The gentile world of Europe and North America treated the Jew badly. This gave him a case with which to plead that he should be granted a national home in Palestine. We gentiles found it easier to promise the Jew a piece of Middle Eastern Arab land than to shed our prejudices and make him wel- come in-his own home which was, and had for centuries been, Europe. So the Jews financed their re- turn to Palestine and when enough returned they took the land then they used their con- siderable political and moral in- fluence in the gentile world to obtain guarantees that they would not be evicted forcibly by any combination of Arab resent- ment and outside help. This may sound over-simplified, but it is essentially the moral sce- nario of our support for Israel's birth, To Arab revolutionary na- tionalism this was a Western outrage, a seizure of Arab prop- erty, callous, selfserving, worse even than pnequal contracts ob- tained by Western firms work- ing Arab oil fields, SOUGHT ALLIES To protect. its advantageous positions in the Arab world, the West sought allies. The most easily acquired allies were those Arabs who also felt men- aced by the revolutionary na- tionalism sweeping their area; TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS April 7, 1967... The imperial Privy Coun- cil validated the Ontario Rivers and Streams Act 83 years ago today--in 1884-- ending a three-year battle between Ontario and the federal government. De- signed to protect public waterways, the bill had three times been disallowed by Ottawa and each time passed again by Queen's Park. At the same time Manitoba and Ontario were arguing with the federal government over the inter- provincial boundary, even- tually fixed by the British Parliament in 1889. . 1933 -- Prohibition ended in the United States. 1956 -- Spanish Morocco attained independence. First World War - Fifty years ago today--in 1917 -- British aircraft bombed Zeebrugge and sank a German destroyer; Italians routed 5,000 Arab tribesmen in Tripolitania; Cuba declared war on Ger- many. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1942--Prime Minis- ter Mackenzie King opened the government's campaign for release from his prom- ise of no conscription; HMS Havock and the submarine Tempest were announced lost; Malta sounded its 2,000th air raid alarm for the heaviest attack of the war. r thus the democratic and pro- gressive West, allied itself with theocratic, tribal Arab rulers whom it helped stay in power as personal owners of the soil and subsoil rights. Consequently, reforms in Arab lands did not occur; prog- ress lagged. The fight for re- form became a 'protracted vio- lent affair and in such affairs, the builders fall by the wayside and the agitators have their day. With hindsight it would be possible to prove that the vic- tories of revolutionary agitators might have cost the West much less had the West not opposed them. But there always is a stage beyond which even enlightened statesmen cannot correct eéar- lier blunders. Allies, even allies that are bought, become de- pendents and one has obliga- tions towards dependents. Obli- gations to medieval obscuran- tist tribal sheiks around Aden are of the same moral order as obligations to the progressive Israeli state since both the sheiks and Israel were put in their exposed positions by West- ern acts. D'Arcy McGee Murdered For Exposing Fenian Plan By BOB BOWMAN Two of Canada's Fathers of Confederation were assassi- nated: D'Arcy McGee and George Brown. McGee was mur- dered in Ottawa on April 7, 1868, by an American Fenian. Brown was shot in his office by a printer he had discharged, and died from the wound on May 10, 1880. Both men made great contri- butions to Canada, Confedera- tion might not have happened if Brown had not been willing to form a coalition government with his arch-enemy John A. Macdonald. McGee, with Sand- ford Fleming, organized a suc- cessful public relations tour of the Maritimes, and paved the way for the Canadians to pre- sent their case at the Charlote- town conference. McGee was an Irish rebel, and escaped to the U.S, in 1848 dis- guised as a priest. He was only 32 when he moved his family to Montreal 'in 1857, and was elected to Parliament by the Irish population there. McGee is not an imposing figure. He was only five feet three inches tall, and grew a beard to try to im- prove a flat, undistinguished face. Nevertheless, he was a brilliant orator, and John A. Macdonald recruited his sup- port. As a former Irish revolution- ary, McGee knew about the Fenians' plan to invade Canada. They were hoping to be able to trade Canada back to Britain in exchange for Irish ence, McGee warned the House of Commons that Fenian "cells" had been planted in Canada in preparation for the invasion. No doubt this was why he was murdered just as he was enter- ing his Ottawa boarding house. The Fenians boasted openly that they had been responsible and James Patrick Whelan was convicted of the crime about a year later. His hanging was the last public execution in Canada. The House of Commons voted an annuity for McGee's family and his funeral in Montreal was attended by 20,000 people. OTHER APRIL 7 EVENTS: 1604--De Monts left France for Acadia. 1623 -- Avalon, Newfoundland, granted to George Calvert (Lord Baltimore). 1672 -- Frontenac made gov- ernor of Canada, 1766--Sir Guy Carleton ap- pointed lieutenant-governor of Canada. 1845--Toronto Board of Trade appealed to Queen Victoria re- Independ- garding duties imposed by leg: | islature. 1849--Fire destroyed 15 acres in Toronto. 1885--Troops left Toronto to fight in Riel rebellion. 1890 -- Ontario municipalities granted local option regarding liquor, 1914 -- Grand Trunk Pacific purer completed at Nechaco, QUEEN'S PARK Likely Issue Emerges For Election By DON O"HEARN TORONTO--There's a motion on the order paper here for a debate on Premier Robarts' proposed Confederation of To- morrow conference. And when it's called everyone will be watching it closely. For it could be the spring- board for the election. In all the speculation about the date of the election one of the key points of interest. has been how the government tech- nically will bring ft on. Just what issue {if may use as an excuse to dissolve the house and g0 to the voters, The way things are shaping up the Confederation conference looks like the most probable tool. OPPOSITION ON SPOT This is a glamor question, It fs a prestige factor for Mr, Robarts. And it has the opposi- tion on the spot. At least some people believe the premier is presumptious in trying to call this conference; that he is taking over a role that belongs to Ottawa. The opposition parties can criticize the proposal for this, but still they could hardly vote against it. If they did the gov- ernment could accuse them of not being concerned about na- tional unity and several other things. And there are no other appar- ent realistic grounds for oppos- ing the motion, at least to the extent of voting against it. Even if the opposition parties did vote against the motion the government would be in a good position. If they vote for the proposal the government can go to the voters citing it as an achieve- ment in leadership, which has been endorsed by all parties. EMOTIONAL ISSUE But if they oppose it then it could make the conference a real issue... . / And pull a lot of emotional strings in the cam: paign. It seems an ideal question on which to ask for an endorse. ment by the people of the prov- ince. As noted earlier it would build up the prestige of Mr. Robarts, and this apparently is to be one of the key strategies in the PC campaign. In fact, when the conference proposal was first announced in the throne speech there were those who said it was mainly designed as an election build-up for the premier. Confirmation that this build- up is to be important in the campaign can be taken from a speech of Allan Grossman the other night. In it, he said Mr. Robarts ts "the only man of stature today who is doing an outstanding joh to keep Canada from being divided." This was an important part of a straight political speech, and we probably can take it we will hear more of the same. YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO April 7, 1947 Mr.;W. J. Smith, past presi- dent of local 1817 Steelworkers was presented with a pen and pencil set by the local. Mr, Smith retired from the union, _ upon becoming a foreman, Two Oshawa women were drowned while trying to cross an improvised bridge over the swollen waters of the Oshawa Creek today. 35 YEARS AGO April 7, 1932 A five-year-old Oshawa girl, Bertar Ukrop, will travel all alone to Levice in Czechoslo- vakia to take up residence with her grandparents. The coal steamer, Coalhaven, is stuck on a silt bar at the harbor mouth. She is carrying a cargo of coal for McLaugh- lin Coal and Supply. tgnregtnena ne mam IT HAPPENED IN: CANADA MIGHTY METEOR v. SOMEWHERE ABOUT 20000 YEARS AGO A METEOR WEIGHING SEVEGAL TOSANO Tons JNO TBORLLING Mt SednD Kites ns CRASHED OBLIQUELY@ Ti FACE OF WHAT NOW SASKATCHEWAN =/7 ALQUIMED QUT i MW ASTROBLEME 85 MILES ACROSS MEAR DELP BAY, AND ITS lk BOLT CRATER WW HE WORLD. Me. F.K-ROACH AT ONE TIME Oise avon pea ~ LONDON, ORTARIO Beaverton , Ontario CONSTANTLY USED THE SAME LIGHT BULB FoR OVER 40 YEARS 4 ; Du the | Cubs wood Apr enter aries each finals p.m, | Vocat Car and ¢ will | down mond ality, will ¢ The rules follow 1--! Cham built 2-1 three Aln She Perc the : trainin young dresse of tl Churcl duced RK, A speake Mr. bados, atric emplo: pital direct daily Chure! He need ¢ is un busy : tunity He It w ing of Ontari just o from t paign the ce ship ¢ Brook) Git W Re WHI Town year a outside Thurs¢ Mem Union side w increa: tional Outs ceived hour i The in on Apr on Ap furthe1 Othe

Powered by / Alimenté par VITA Toolkit
Privacy Policy