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She Oshawa Cimes 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited T. L. Wilson, Publisher E. C. Prince, Associate Publisher OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1967 Bureaucracy Balloons External Affairs Budget Canadians generally cannot help being both impresed and proud 'of their country's position of prestige in international affairs. The respect with which our leaders and repre- sentatives are held on the world stage is evident. It cannot be depre- ciated by the jealous jibes of domes- tic politics. However there is another side to the coin of external affairs. And, while it is also likely to impress Canadians, this aspect of our coun- try's business will stir more concern than pride. Ottawa correspondent Patrick Nicholson detail with it elsewhere on this page to- day. The cause for the concern lies in the tremendous escalation of ex- deals in penditure in external affairs. In the four years of the Pearson administration the external affairs budget has spiralled to $215,100,000. Ten vears ago it was something like $60,400,000 -- which in itself was a sizeable figure. The staff of the department has more than doubled in the last four vears, now totalling some 3,100 employees. Canada has 61 embassies or the equivalent, 23 organization posts and consulates; plus a budget of $358,000 and 41 persons for "unspecified new mis- sions". Apparently in this unparalled era of diplomatic expansion Canada "is big" in such places as Cameroun, Senegal and the Congo, Few if any of these countries have embassies in Canada. The community of interest must surely be so slight that Can- ada could conduct its affairs ade- quately with them through a larger neighboring embassy or the United Nation. As Patrick Nicholson notes the value of these outposts to trade cannot be substantiated, In some we suffer a trade deficit, in others the cost of operating an embasy exceeds the dollar value of goods sold. While Canadians may take pride in the influential their country has attained in world coun- cils, they cannot countenance such evidence of bureaucratic extravag- ance is evident in the external af- fairs budgt. The gigantic expenditure cannot position be construed as the cost of paying the piper for Canada's eminence in international affairs. Canada's posi- tion of prominence was well-estab- lished before this ballooning bureau- eracy. The external affairs affluence is yet another reason for Canadians to ask what action has ben taken on the Glassco Commision report on government spending. Land Use Adjustment The Agricultural Rehabilitation and Development Act 1961 gave na- tional recognition to the need for major adjustments in many rural areas, where the resource base of farm land was inadequate to support the existing population. The need for an adequate land base for each farm unit, both as to quantity and quality, was recognized. None of the adjustments could be accomplished without adjustments being made in the lives of many people, both on and off the farms in rural areas. a Gimes She Oshaw 86 King St. E x ote | sher Monoger Liverpoo Grons, Lesk Monehester, Pontypee 5S5c¢ per week. & putside earrier ¢ bse lespeaceh he : $18.00 per year. U.S.A. ond fo oo 00 per year. femme Team tte ea eae entree eet Land use adjustment and farm enlargement programs can only be carried out when the people direct- ly affected realize that it is in their best interests to make these adjust- ments. The rate of progress of these programs for land will be in direct relation to the effort that is put into showing these people the nature of their dilemma, and the opportunities that are available for them to make changes that will provide adequate incomes. The programs of land use adjust- ment. are designed to change land from present use to a use determin- ed to be more effective in terms of national income and the incomes of related people, on the basis of pres- ent day knowledge and economics. This must be recognized as a very dynamic situation. Changing tech- nology and changing demands are constantly affecting the determin- ation of the best use of land. Farm enlargement programs have been 'approved, jointly with four provinces to share costs of $11,- 150,000 over the five-year terms of the present rural development agree- ment, Additional programs are be- ing planned and are nearing approv- al which will greatly enhance this ARDA activity. BLATANT LAND GRAB BY STALIN NE EPEAT ETE eta mm atinata QUEEN'S PARK Value Seen In Contfab On Pollution By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--Premier Robarts has announced a pollution cone ference for December. The first reaction to this is ta say 'What, another conference? The second reaction is to throw bricks at the government for passing the buck again. But still the conference should not be written off. It can do a lot of good , Last year's conference on ag- riculture was at least partly a desperation move, An attempt to cool down a situation on which action was long overdue, HELPED FARMING Despite the motivation, how- ever, the conference was a suc- cess It tied all farm interests to- gether in tackling basic prob- lems. And, most importantly, it started some fresh thought on meeting these problems. The pollution conference can be valuable in the same way Firstly it can help to bring to pollution the prominence it merits as a problem, The people attending, and the publicity coming out of the mectings, will give the problem more prestige. It will help to get across to the public the true gravity of the situation. This should' in- crease the demand for action With the demand it. will -be easier for the government to act MUST Ci) SLOW One of the facts of govern- ment and political life is that government can't get too far ahead of the public It is human nature to resist change. And when government attempts too extreme changes they are resisted and it can be in trouble This is--the one excuse the present government and preceding administrations can give for the deplorable record in the province on pollution con- trol It can say that the public-- and industry particularly-- hasn't been ready for it This really is a weak excuse. For it infers that it didn't give the leadership to awaken the public. Now, however, in this conference it is giving such leadership. So let it be given a chance, The government has been tardy, or worse than that. But as we hack our bad air, and turn away from our beach- es because the water isn't safe to swim in, we can at least say better late than never and hope that at last.we may be on the way to aggressive and broad War on pollution. YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO, Aug. 8. 1947 The Anglo- Petroleum Ltd. fuc] storage tank at the Osh- awa harbor is nearing comple- tion and the first boat load of oil is scheduled to arrive early in Sept. The 700,000 gal. tank cost $45,000 Col. and Mrs. R. 8. McLaugh- lin have purchased the resi- dence owned by Mrs. Mary Hind and given it to the Girl Guides of Oshawa for their headquarters. 35 YEARS AGO, Aug. 8, 1932 Mr. T. Edgar Houston of Cin- cinnati, Ohio formerly of Osh- awa, will present the Ontario Regiment with a magnificent set of colors on Aug. 28. Fishing in the district is very good. It was rumored in the city this morning that a 52-lb. lunge was caught in Lake Scugog over the weekend, orm iA WHAT DO YOU MEAN WORLD'S FIRST? FOREIGN AFFAIRS ANALYSIS ile nn) Menace From New Left By PHILIP DEANE Foreign Affairs Analyst A nuclear attack against American cities to force a 1/.S. retreat from Vietnam and For- mosa is the prospect facing U.S. strategic planners, now they have established that China will have intercontinental ballistic missiles in three to four years. And not only Viet- nam or Formosa but any other confrontation between "the rich white world and the poor col- ored world' could touch off a nuclear war. This is rot an American nightmare only; it also is a Russian nightmare; Moscow at- tacks Castro for his Latin American activities, accusing him of undermining the revolu- tionary work of Communist parties. And indeed he is under- mining the Moscow brand of Communists in Latin America. Castro is the apostle of the New Left which believes that Russia has become a rich coun- try and no longer cares about revolution--which is exactly what Mao Tse Tung believes. The New Left maintains that had Chinese rockets been in- stalled in China in 1962, Mao Tse Tung would not have been stared down by Kennedy be- cause China, not being an urban society .yet, has much less to lose in a nuclear ex- change than would Russia or the U.S. Secure in his knowl- edge of his enemies' greater vulnerabilitv, Mao or his suc- cessor is likely to practice nu- clear blackmail; so think many American strategists. BELIEVE IN FORCE And the Chinese will not con- fine themselves exercising pres- sure in connection with confron- tations near their borders. They believe, as the New Left be- lieves, that the poor colored world must force the rich white world to disgorge its ill-gotten gains and return "what the whites stole from the colored people." Faced With an elusive guerril- la enemy force operating in Latin America, Africa and RECOGNITION IRRELEVANT Lithuania: Individuality In Soviet Sphere By PETER BUCKLEY ILNIUS (CP)--With a the parks Baltic t's an effort to recall the. debate Lithuania's 1 sun dapy ane capital how: impassioned used to be about independence. At the moment, there's a Hittle extra bunting flying in sidewalks of the Lithuanian Soviet Social- ist Republic, a few more pos- ters. u "Long Live the Communist Party", and a lot more building and tidying up in preparation for Novem- ber's 50th anniversary cele- brations of the Russian revo- . lution. But the over-all impression fs not a Rufsian community but of a north European city, a sii provincial old city as contrived to avoid a er-stamp image. Government officials, re- membering their duty to so- cialist brotherhood and equal- jislike compari- ghtly Lithuania and But the com- are inevitabl d, , are often encour- the me govern- it officials in moments of weakness "How do 1 find our city Moscow?" or ask a visitor. Or, --after them may more specifica live been told our people dress with better taste than they do in Moscow. Do you find that true?'" The answer has to be oper', Indeed, for anyone who has seen Moscow, Vilnius will seem almost another world, Iis recent architecture ap- pears fresher and less clut+ tered and its art more imagi- native. Its people look trim- mer and more graceful, There's a more sophisticated air here than in Moscow. This other-world atmos. phere is the surest reminder of Lithuania's recent history. If this tiny, ancient, ex- tremely individual commu- nity had been totally sub- merged by membership in the vast U.S.S.R., it might be easier to forget that Lithua- nia's fate once provoked vi- olent feeling in the West. Canada, the United States, Britain and numerous other non-Communist nations contin- ue to refuse diplomatic recog- nition to Lithuania and her Baltic neighbors, Estonia and Latvia When they think about it at all these days, Western spokesmen still refer to the 1940 manoeuvres which added the Baltic states to the U.S.S.R. as. one of Josef Sta- lin's most blatant and cynical land grabs But anger has softened with the passage of time, By now, the question of dip- lomatic recognition has come to appear almost irrelevant, a generation after Soviet bor- ders expanded in one sum- mer-time flourish--the sum- mer of the Hitler-Stalin pact --to encompass the eastern shore of the strategically vital Baltic Sea. It is the location of Lithua- nia and its neighboring Raltic states, rather than their size, which gives them- strategic importance. Lithuania covers 25,000 square miles, an area slightly smaller than New Brunswick. Its principal re- sources are agriculture and forestry, although there has been considerable industriali- zation since 1940. Government spokesmen speak officially about the unanimous desire of Lithua- nians to remain the brother- hood of Soviet nations, shar- ing their march toward pros- perity and. communism, If Lithuania were elsewhere --and particularly if it did not separate Russia from the Bal- tic--the question of member- ship inthe U.S.S.R. might be academic even though there has been a long tradition of left-wing thought here Given the country's geo- graphical location, Lithuanian officials seem to find amp'e reasons for accepting their nation's present position 4 y which have little to do with straightforward Communist idology Sounding more nationalist than socialist, they speak pri- vately about: --Stable frontiers in an area with a long history of instabili- ty; --Soviel backing against any future designs on the part of Germany or Poland, whose armies have frequently marched' across Lithuania's Soil. Freedom to encourage and preserve Lithuanian as a dis- tinct language and culture, one of the oldest in Europe; --The resources of the Soviet Union to help in industrial de- velopment and economic growth, thereby keeping Lith- uania alive in an increasingly competitive world. Members of the Lithuanian government resent the West's non-recognition but don't ap- pear too worked up about it. Leokadija Dirzinskaite, a striking looking matron and foreign minister of Lithuania, expressed regret recently that Canada hasn't seen fit to extend diplomatic recogni- tion. But she had just returned from a visit to Expo 67 and recalled, for a group of visit- ing foreign journalists, the "warm feeling we had when we saw what interest there was in our republic," Asia, a guerrilla force backed by the explicit threat of Chinese rockets, the rich white world, having no stomach for fighting and fearful of losing everyth- ing, will submit, says the New Left. It believes the key to the white treasure chest is violence which has the added virtue of giving the oppressed self-re- spect and manliness as well as the discipline of guerrilla or- ganization. The latest gambit of the New Left is to explore the possibility of recruiting the rebels among U.S. urban Negroes. Under Cas- tro's approving gaze, Stokley Caimichael, the 'U.S. Black Power advocate, preached in Havana guerrilla warfare by American Negroes and he has been much applauded by Pe- king. Moscow does not take all this as just talk. It has bitterly criti- cized Castro for his support for the New Left. Violence, Moscow clearly fears, could get out of hand. Faced with what begins to look like foreign interference in its racial struggle, the U.S. might--as Moscow sees it-- turn progressively nastier and even prove irrational enough to elect some hawk, New Epidemic Of Cholera On March In NEW YORK (CP)--A new epidemic of cholera is on the march in 23 countries, say the editors of Medical World News, with August as the crucial month for its possible entry into Europe. The last great cholera epidem- ic circled the world in the first 23 years of this century. The present. flare-up began in In- donesia in 1961 and is complicat- ed by the presence of a new cholera bacterium which often infects persons successfully vaccinated against the old vari- ety. Official World Health Authori- ty figures list 42,000 cases and 4,000 deaths from cholera last year, in a belt from the Middle East to Borneo, off the north Australian coast. But W.H.O. officials say there may be as many as 100 times as many, since some governments keep outbreaks quiet, in case tourist and commercial trade is affect- ed. There are no figures from Communist China, where the disease is believed to have caught hold. MOST RECOVER Cholera is a fast-acting dis- ease, varying from diarrhea to dehydration, vomiting and com- TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Aug. 8, 1967 Marshall Foch's armies launched one of the great- est offensives of the First World War, the drive at Amiens, 49 years ago today --in 1918. It was this offen- sive, in which Canadian troops played a major part, that broke the back of Ger- man resistance. In the opin- ion of German Gen. Luden- dorff, Aug. 8 was the black. est day of the war for the Kaiser's armies. 1588--The Spanish Armada was destroyed. 1963--The Great Train Rob- bery in Buckinghamshire, Eng- land, First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1917--British troops at- tacked between the Ancre and Avre rivers; Russo-Ro- manian forces were on the defensive in the Trotus val- ley but Russian troops at- tacked in the Chotin region on the Russo-Galician bor- der northeast of Czernowitz. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1942--U.S. landings in the Solomons continued; the government of India re- fused to negotiate with the All-India Congress party on a call for immediate inde- pendence backed by threats of a civil disobedience cam- paign: RAF aircraft sank two Axis ships off Sidi Bar- rani, 23 Countries plete collapse. It is contracted by taking food or water con- taminated by the fecal matter of other cholera victims. Al- though most patients recover within a week, half may die if treatment is not available. Ease of modern communica- tions and the new variety of cholera germ, named Fl Tor, have speeded up the disease's progress. An Englishman caught cholera recently in ei- ther India or Hong Kong with- out it being diagnosed until he reached his destination, Japan. In the Middle East, outbreaks have been unofficially reported in Turkey, Syria, Jordan. and the Caucasus region of the U.S.S.R. "We fear next month," said Dr. D. S. Barua, W.H.O. expert on cholera. "Cholera always seems to hit hardest around Aug. 15... . Seamen and fishermen could take it across the Darda- nelles and the Aegean, air trav- ellers could take it west through many capitals. I would not be surprised to hear any day of a cholera outbreak in eastern Europe." No carriers of cholera are known to have entered North or South Amerca for many years. The only recent cases were two U.S. scientists infected in a lab- oratory accident. This is de- spite favorable conditions in South America for the spread of cholera, comparable with those in the Philippines, where the disease is continuous and has killed more than 73,000 per- sons since 1962. OTTAWA REPORT Spending Spirals In External Affairs By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--Several over-taxed and price-conscious rea ders have written about the recent disclosure in this column that the average Canadian family is now paying $860 more in direct and indirect taxes than in' 1962. Can it really be true, asks a reader in Guelph, that the bud- get for our external affairs de- partment rose just from $60,- 400,000 to $85,600,000 during the six Diefenbaker years, but has zoomed to $215,100,000 in four Pearson years? Yes. Digest that, and weep. This is a classic example of the prodigality of the Pearson gov- ernment; the cornerstone of our foreign policy is the United Na- tions, not bilateral diplomacy with small powers. Is our recently-snubbed inter- national prestige that much higher than four years ago? And if it were, so what? Pres- tige would not feed one extra hungry Canadian mouth, nor create one single extra job, ex cept for those donning striped pants. Taxpayers should study more carefully the implications of the bureaucratic colossus which is spawning in Ottawa. Daily it draws more able-bodied men away from our productive work force, and daily it piles more taxes on the backs of the fewer remaining workers. GNAWING AWAY This red tape worm is insidi- ously gnawing away Canada's economic guts today. Tomorrow it could strangle individual freedom. How: did our external affairs budget grow to that staggering extent in so few years? In the first Diefenbaker year, we had 1,094 bodies in striped pants staffing posts in 45 foreign countries, at a cost of $10,- 331,801. During the six Diefen- baker years, new foreign posts were opened in seven other countries, 279 bodies were added to the staff, and their an- nual cost rose $3,724,899. But the soaring Pearson phe- more than dou. bled that staff to 3,187 bodies, and we have 61 embassies or the equivalent, plus 23 organi. nomenon has zation posts and consulates: plus a hudget for $338,000 and 41 bodies for unspecified "'new missions." Those highlights show the growth. What is the purpose of such expansion? Why do we need embassies in such coun. tries as Cameroun, Senegal, the Congo and Tunisia--especially when some such countries have no reciprocal. embassy here? One justification would be if those embassies were success. ful trade-promotion cent res, helping our exporters to blast their way into the markets of the world. TRADE DWINDLING Last yoar, for example, we sold goods to Cameroun worth an unimpressive $198,999. It costs the taxpayers $212,000 to maintain our embassy there, We sold Tunisia $195,718 worth of goods. Qur embassy there sts $200,000, Our embassy in 2 costs $290,000, but our exports to Ghana last year dropped to $3,994,185, after being nearly 50 per cent higher the previous year. If the sales manager of a pri- vate company acieved such a huge drop in buiness, he would be fired, not be maintained in his striped-pant, expense-ac. count tax-free foreign post. Could not our diplomatic bust. ness in some such small coun. tries be handled from nearby large centres? Tunisia, for ex. ample, does not have an embas- sy in Canada, and handles its Canadian relationship through its mission to the United Na. tions in New York We keep an ambassador in Costa Rica costing $148,000; but we had a trading deficit of more than $1,000,000 with that country last year, and it han- dies its Canadian business from its embassy in Washington. Canada has grown too big for its striped pants--and the tax. payer pays and pays and pays for this needless conceit, Canadian Army Sustained High Casualties In 100 Days By BOB BOWMAN The tide of war can change very quickly. In March, 1918, the German army began an of- fensive that pushed the Allies back 40 miles on the first day. This was unbelievable after three year's of fighting in which a gain of 40 yards would be hailed as a victory. The heaviest Canadian cas- ualtics in the war were at Pas- schendale.when the Allies gained two square miles of mud after a month's fighting. The so-caliea victory cost 500,000 casualties. The Germans lost 270,000 men. So in March 1918 it looked as thouzh the Germans would break through all the way to Paris and it was perhaps a mir- acle that they were stopped at the second batile of the Marne when Field Marshal Haig is- sued an order that the British must stand "to the last man." The tide turned suddenly on August 8, 1918. It was called "the black day of the German Army" by General Ludendorff. TRICKED GERMANY The Allied High Command used Canadian, Australian and New Zealand troops to trick the eneny Whenever the Cana dians appeared, the Germans BIBLE '. .. great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkencd unto the swords of this book, to do according unto all that which is written con- cerning us."' 2 Kings 22:13. ' Every generation will rise and answer for its neglect of the book of books IT HAPPENED IN CANADA Din COAL OIL {8 tl BEST BAIT For LOBSTER TRAPS THE CRUDE OIL PIPE LINE from EDMONTON, Ai1ATo PORT CREDIT on tie OUTSKIRTS of ToRONT IS 2,023MILES LONG | -- THEWORLDS | LONGEST CRUDE %& Oe PIPE LINE expected an attack. So a small number of Canadians were movea to Flanders and told to make themselves obvious, The main body 'of the Canadian Corps was hidden in the Amiens area. The Germans were completely fooled, When the Canadians and Aus- tralians began the main attack at. Amiens, supported by 500 tanks which were compara: tively new in 'warfare, they found only six German divie sions defending the area. They stormed ahead eight miles on a front 15 miles wide and the im- petus of the drive was never lost until the Germans asked for an armistice on November 11 The attack became known tn history as "The Hundred Days of the Canadian Army' which suffered 16,000 casualties be- tween August and October, OTHER AUG. 8 EVENTS 1619--Jens Munck expedition to Hudson Bay held first Lu- theran service in Canada, 1665--Father Allouez named Lake Superior Lake Tracy. 1686--Fort Albany, Hudson Ray, surrendered to Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville after siege. 1759--British force under General Murray was checked by Canadian force under Gen- eral Bouganville at Pointe Aux Trembles, 1774--Spanish explorer Her- nandez discovered Nootka Sound. 1782--French force under Ad- miral Le Perouse captured Fort Prince of Wales, Hudson Bay. 1863--Death of Angus Me- Aski!l, Cape Breton giant. 1934--Captain L. Reid and J. R. Ayling flew from Georgian Bay to London, England. \ ERAFTSIMANSHID THE CUT-STONE ANCHOR PILLARS oF TRESTLE BRIDGES -MADE BY SCOTTISH STONE MASONS, FOR THE CPR Int BOS ARE STILL STANDING AS SOLIDLY AS WHEN NEW OVEYAMG 'HOGHOT ~ SAMLVAs WOOW cori GINO CADOR Guelph, described "steady winner' by lows, won again Mo he finished first in mile race held in di Whitby for the Du Guelp Bike F WHITBY (Staff) - ond annual 50-mile bic held in downtown V tracted a large numb despite intermitent 1 Gino Cadorin, of Gi has won several ot! cycling events in Ca year, was represente Dunlop Internationa Trophy by Mayor Newman. Several participant race have recently from racing in the | ican games held in Despite the wet cc County Se iJ At Field [ UXBRIDGE -- T District Junior Far Day, at Peterborough by Peterborough Co Ontario County in sec The Ontario County a! the trophy awarde county obtaining the 1 in the track and field Ontario County won war. County athletes seven first place aw second place ribbons third place prizes in events, Ontario and Pe County athletes will the provincial juni field day to be held the University of Gu Other counties co. the Peterborough fie! Prince Edward, land, Victoria, Durt ings, Lennox and Ade BURNING THE GAYLORD, Mich. the opening of this third annual alpine sidents scribbled the on slips of paper an into a fire. Then, ac custom known as ' boog", their probler in a puff of smoke.