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he Oshawa Sines 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited T. L. Wilson, Publisher E. C. Prince, Associate Publisher OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1967 Funds To Fight Pollution Hold Economic Priority The act provides for the grant- ing of anti-pollution funds to be administered at three levels of gov- ernment. The federal government would deal with pollution of national waters. The internation- al joint commission would receive money to cover this country's share of the programs entered into with the United States. A third portion of the fund would be earmarked for programs carried-out in provincial waters. The water act can be passed by parliament without heavy ex- pense. But the fund it will specify for anti-pollution work will be much more than a,drop in the bucket ~ in matter of fact, some $50 million, With austerity at least the pro- fessed keynote to federal actions, It is just the kind of program it is quite conceivable this fund that has for some time been advo- would be one that would be shelved cated by experts on the pollution in the interest of current economy. front. Energy, Mines and Resources The question must be faced by Minister Jean-Luc Pepin said not parliamentarians of whether such long ago that the new water act' a postponement would actually rep- was discussed with the provinces resent true economy at all. Further and the reaction was favorable, al- delay would undoubtedly add to the though there is fear among provin-_ severity of the pollution problem, cial authorities that the new legis- In some cases, the battle might be lation invades provincial jurisdic- Jost altogether. tion. Mr. Pepin feels the act is It is surely only after the gov- necessary to provide a more flex- ernment has rid itself of other ob- ible approach on the part of the vious excesses (which it hasn't as federal Government than that pos- yet done), that the curtailment of sible under the present Water Con- such essential programs as_ this servation Assistance Act. should be contemplated. Such Waste, Mr. Honey Memo to Russell Honey are many, many instances of federal Liberal Member of Parliament departments mailing not just one For Durham County but several copies of speeches to newspapers after the speeches, if at all newsworthy, have already been adequately reported by The Cana- dian Press. The waste is evident in the time taken in preparation of these re- duntant "handouts, the time in mail- ing them and the time of the postal department employees in sorting and delivering them. This is on top of the costs of paper, supplies and equipment. A new Canadian Water Act to give muscle to the many manifes- tations of concern over: water pol- lution has been prepared for House of Commons consideration. The Canadian Water Act is de- signed to set up machinery to study water demands, floods and water shortage, distribution sys- tems, and to provide a framework for planning and research programs with both water and related re- sources. An advisory board made up of officials of the departments of energy, agriculture, fisheries, ex- ternal affairs and health would ad- vise the energy minister on nation- al water policy. The act would over- see such programs as water inventory and pollution research. Your attention was respectfully directed a short time ago to the extravagance exhibited by your gov- ernment public relations people in the coverage of your speech in Rome at the meeting of the agriculture agency of the United Nations, You'll recall that The Times continued to receive postage-free copies of the speech days after your address had been published in the news- paper. At that time, it was also pointed out that such extravagance is wide- spread in government circles. There Today, however, the field of con- cern widened considerably. We're all aware of the need to mail early and considerately because of the Christ- mas rush at the post offices, yet mv * the Canada Council has sent the same news release to the city editor and the editorial page editor. Spe- She Oshawa Sines cial delivery, if you please, at a Gis s oincue, Onions cost for postage of 58 cents each. . The council must surely operate snabee under federal auspices. The , Editor story has to do with Canadian Council grants, information that RATES again is handled adequately -- and SUBSCRIPTION ] without cost -- by the wire services, The Oshowe Times t Gazette ond When that 58 cents is doubled to $1.16 and multiplied by the number of newspapers in Canada it repre- despotched ir red sents unpardonable waste Associated Press or Reuters, ond also the lecel mews published there All rights of special des- pd ghar paleo beatae Finance Minister Sharp spoke t with feeling recently about the need for "an ounce of prevention" in You next financial him at the Liberal caucus meeting of another homily to do with "practising what you preach" easing our woes, might remind OTTAWA REPORT QUEEN'S PARK Practicality Questioned Of NDP Plan y DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- I suppose it Is right, and fitting, and proper, and a sincere gesture but the proposal of the NDP that all the 20 members of its caucus are going to learn to speak French somehow or other brings out one's cynicism. This is abetted by the further proposal that simultaneous translation should be introduced into the legislature immedi- ately. These recommendations ac- companied a blanket endorse- ment by the caucus of the ree port of the B and B commission. Perhaps the cynicism is bred by. the admission of party leader Donald MacDonald when he announced the endorsement that he hadn't read the B and B report. You just can't trust the value of broad endorsements made on newspaper reports But there also--as there is so often with the NDP--the ques- tion of the practicality of the proposed actions. It would be a fine thing if eventually all of the NDP mem- bers could speak French, if all the members of the house, in fact if all of us, could speak French But this just isn't practical. In our time all of us in Ontario aren't going to be able to speak French. And neither are the 20 members of the NDP caucus They all might start to learn it. And some of them will Jearn it. But others won't. And there's a touch of boastfulness in giving an impression that they will for simultaneous transla- tion, the one practical value would be that it could create good-will in Quebec Its practical contribution here would be virtually non-existent, There are only about half a dozen members who can even speak French, And they all are fluent in English. To establish translation faci- liies would be very expensive, And there is no real need for it, at all. In any case it would probably be impossible to pro- vide the translators and ma- chinery for it right away. One day, perhaps. But not now The one practical suggeStion the NDP did make was that the government provide instruction services in French for members and senior civil servants This would be worth-while, would probably be taken advan- tage of--and also would create good-will in Quebec. But the other proposals, while probably sincere, have such an air of haste about them you have to suspect political oppor- tunism. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRES Dec. 18, | | oe RRS PETES Britain proclaimed a protectorate over Egypt 53 years ago today--in 1914-- following the entry of Tur- key into the First. World War on the side of Ger- many. Not only was the vital Suez Canal on Egyp- tian soil but the country had been used as a British base for a generation. Egypt was formally declared independ- ent in 1922, under the threat of Lord Allenby's resigna- tion as military com - mander, but the British bases were not finally evac- uated until 1956, after the Naguib-Nasser revolution 1917--United States Con- gress. submitted prohibition issue to the states 1943--Gun practice caused an invasion scare on the Ca- nadian east coast. BIBLE "Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy." Mat thew 5:7 Try to picture yourself in an- other man's shoes for some day you may be in them. Have mer- cy on your brother, your Heay- enly Father is watching By BePLZa--~a Til [ inh al 1 ) 4 il THIN ICE KINSMEN OF JESUS I John The Baptist, A Loner, Rugged, Influential Ally The family of Jesus was a close-knit one, with progeni- tors and antecedents that encompassed the whole spectrum of human charac- ter. The following, first of a five-part Christmas series about the kinsmen of Christ, deals with the roots of his family and one of its prod- ucts, John the Baptist, a loner who was a contempo- rary cousin and forerunner of Jesus. By GEORGE W. CORNELL AP Religion Writer A prisonkeeper: twisted an eight-inch key in the lock and pulled open the door. He went down 20 stone steps into the black rockhewn dungeon, kicked the prisoner to his feet and brought him out in chains man, clad zamel pelt, blinked unsecingiy into the daylight. He was a cousin of Jesus. Guards led him to a wooden block and shoved him to his knees, clamping his neck down into the stocks, One of the soldiers raised a long broadsword in both hands and brought it swishing down, cut- ting off the head of John the Baptizer. "He was a burning and shining lamp," Jesus said to him. The two were of the same age. They shared in the same movement, John prepared the ground for it, and in its begin- ning stage, came to his violent end under orders of King Herod Antipas of Galilee. Herod 'feared the great influence John had over the people might put it in his power or inclination to raise a rebellion,' writes the Jewish historian of that time, Flavius Josephus. But the execution did not calm the king's fears nor did it stay the work started by 'that pair of contrasting but complementary kinsmen, John and Jesus. "He must increase, but I must decrease," John said shortly before his fateful ar- rest. 'This joy of mine is now full. Out of this' kind of tie, of blood, loyalty and conviction, grew the world-spanning brotherhood which started on that first Christmas. Patrick Nicholson Treatment 'Outside Ranks Of Orthodoxy' The threatened closinzg-down and permitted in Ontario hospi- themselves have benefitted ain's Royal Army Medical of a private treatment hospital tals in Orillia, Windsor and else- from this Resperin method. Corps, said: "I "consider this in Toronto led to a planned where--Mr. Roman announced Looking back over old news- treatment one of the greatest "sit-in" by the anxious patients, he could not continue to provide paper files, I find Ottawa pa- contributions ever discovered in the office of Ontario's Minis- ter of Health, Dr. Matthew Dy- mond. The resultant headl in newspapers were echoed turbingly on Parliament Hill. The hospital had been set up for research purposes and for the free treatment of sufferers from chronic respiratory infec- tions, and particularly asthma, bronchiectasis, bronchitis, em- physema and sinusitis, by the Resperin inhalation method. The hospital was generously bankrolied for two years by Canada's "uranium king," im- migrant Stephen Roman, in gratitude for the cure of his son suffering from respiratory ail- ments which had defeated con- ventional medica] treatment. When the Ontario Hospital Services Commission refused to recognize this treatment as an insured benefit for the purposes of this Toronto hospital--al- though it was being asked for free the treatment of sufferers, which had cost him reportedly more than $500,000 during the last two years. In these circum- stances, the hospital was threat- ened with closure IS TREATMENT EFFECTIVE? The OHSC based its decision on "the absence of any objec- tive evidence as to the efficacy or otherwise of the treatment."* The validity of this opinion is questionable, in the light of the mountain of physical. and writ- ten evidence that this treatment had indeed effected cures, or at least brought appreciable relief, in an impressive number of cases which had not responded to other treatment. It has ac- cordingly been commended by outstanding medica! authorities, who however are not members of the OHSC Active .on Parliament Hill today are many Privy Council- lors, Senators and MPs who pers of a quarter of a century ago contain many gfateful let- ters from cured sufferers. Top medical authorities have paid tribute to this treatment for res- piratory ailments. Professor D. F, Fraser-Harris, former Dean of Medicine at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia said "The evidence is well-nigh un- believable, and once upon a time it would have been looked on as white magic. In fairness, it ought to be pointed out that a large proportion of the cures have been cases declared 'in- curable or hopeless by physi- cians and hospitals for diseases of the chest. We had better be quite honest and admit that asth- ma is one of the reproaches of medicine in that no 'cure' for it has come from the ranks of or- thodoxy." A GREAT CONTRIBUTION General Sir Harold Faweus, former Director-Genera! of Brit- for suffering humanity." Do the distinguished physi- cians on the OHSC consider the treatment to be ineffective? Is that why they took action which might close a hospital? If so, on what evidence do they dispute the experienced verdicts of the "'well-nigh unbelievable" results from this "greatest contribution "for suffering humanity'? Could it be because, as in other cases' of great medical discovery, this came from outside 'the ranks of orthodoxy'? Ontario, like all Canada, is desperately short of hospital beds; many of the insufficient number are occupied by suffer- ers ftom respiratory ailments, With medicare on the horizon, would the taxpayers prefer to see these sufferers treated at home, as is frequently feasible, at a cost of 50 cents a day, or filling a scarce hospital bed at a cost of up to $50 a day without this treatment? It was merged in the human stream. It was generated among men, in their race, their realm. It had an ances- try and a heritage. Its descen- dants are "fellow heirs," wrote St. Paul, "members of the same body. That, in its breadth, is the family tree of Christ. "I am the vine," he said, "you are the branches." It was like a seed sown in a field,. Jesus. said, "and the field is the . . . world." That wider relationship was also reflected in its specific origins, in the comprehensive blood line of that child born in Bethlehem. He had a _ mixed host of relatives, He came of prime stock. It spawned a large intimate circle of varied attitudes in his time, in addition to the rugged ally, John. It also went far back into the misty sources of life. In the recorded geneology of Jesus, Matthew's gospel traces it back to Abraham, the wandering bedouin chief- tain from the remote area of human' origins in the Tigris- Euphrates valley. Luke's gospel traces the line even further back to the pro- totype of mankind, to "Adam, the son of God," whose name means the species, "human- ity," the inception of persons in creation. Those lists of pregenitors in- clude all sorts of people, great and lowly, noble and devious, shepherds and kings, honored monarchs such as David and Solomon and despots such as Rehoboam--a_ spectrum of human character. Assorted racial strains, Hit- tite, Moha bite, Canaanite, also mingle in that Israelite line, including dependable women such as Ruth and scandal-tainted women such as Bathsheba who betrayed her husband; Tamar who tricked Judah into fathering her child, and Rahab, the har- lot flax dyer of Jericho. Since both parallels and differences appear in the lists, some scholars regard Luke's record as forebearers of Jesus' mother, Mary, and Matthew's as those of her hus- band, Joseph, legally re- garded as Jesus' father. Both Mary and Joseph were of the Davidic line, a prolific _ one, with numerous offspring in Jesus' day. One of Mary's older cous- ins, Elizabeth, wife of the Temple priest, Zacharias, was the mother of John the Bap- tist, born only six months be- fore Jesus. It was to Elizabeth's home in the hills near Jerusalem that Mary journeyed to an- nounce her pregnancy, "Blessed is the fruit of your womb," Elizabeth exclaimed, "For behold, the baby in my womb leaped for joy." When John was born, his aged father exulted, "And you child will be called the prophet of the Most High,'"' A short time later in the Bethle- hem animal shelter, Mary gave birth to her son, "wrapped him in bracing cloth strips and laid him in a man- ger of hay. Unlike Jesus, who grew up in the close association of peo- ple and who followed the woodworking trade of Joseph, John shunned his father's priestly vocation and_ with- drew from society. He took to the desolate re- gion southeast of Jerusalem toward the Dead Sea where scrolls of the ascetic Essenes have been found in caves. In solitude and silence, John steeled his character and de- ciphered his callings. When ready, at about the age of 30, he came storming é out of the brooding waste- lands, a grizzled apocalyptic figure, burned dark by the sun, proclaiming to a restive, foreign-oppressed people: 'Prepare the way of the Lord ... all flesh shall see the salvation of God!" "Who are you?" the anxious asked. "IT am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord ... After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.' John had no inkling it would be his cousin, and whether the two had seen much of each other since boyhood is uncer- tain. At first, when Jesus of- fered himself for baptism, John protested his own com- parative unworthiness, but Jesus insisted: "Let it be so now; for thus it is fitting for us to fulfil all righteousness." In that, too, the man of Na- zareth linked himself with his fellow men, involving himself in all humanity's need. This kinsman of Jesus not only stirred such official alarm that the Roman em- pire's puppet King Herod feared an uprising, but John also had assailed the king for violating Jewish moral law by divorcing his wife to marry his brother's wife, Herodias. It was 'she, Scripture re- lates, who advised her daugh- ter, Salome, to ask for the im- prisoned John's head, when Herod, pleased with her danc- ing at a palace party, offered her anything she wanted. The_ baptizer's disciples came and took his body, bur- ied it and reported to Jesus what had happened. "Truly? Jesus - said, "'among those born of women, there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist." The spark John struck in Judea flamed in the ensuing ministry of Jesus, the force of it still haunting Herod. "John I beheaded, but who is this about whom I hear such ru- mors," he worried. 'John whom I beheaded has been raised." It wasn't that, of course; but it was a member of the same family, carrying on and finishing a job, bringing a seed to fruition. maaan Mm IT HAPPENED I j hte HN FOREIGN AFFAIRS ANALYSIS Usurping Knights Prevail Until Next Time Of Testing By PHILIP DEANE Foreign Affairs Analyst Once upon a time there was a charming young king, athletic, affable, who believed, as did the "kings of yore, that monarchs rule by the grace of God and ar- mies are loyal, personal retain- ers, true to the oath of fealty they take to their sovereign. Strong in this belief, the charming young king threw out prime ministers whenever they did not do his absolute bidding for he believed that he was the embodiment of the state and that he had his loyal army to prove it. And then one day, a group of army knights with dubious pedi- grees (people he had knighted, though reluctantly, because they handled the paperwork in the army and as_ everyone knows an army marches on its ledgers) decided to play the king's game themselves, and without waiting for the royal command, took it upon them- selves to throw out the royal cabinet and elevated themselves to ministerial posts. USURPING KNIGHTS The charming young king was chagrined, astounded even. To think that ordinary knights had taken such liberties and even ig- nored the orders of military dukes! So the charming young king bided his time, cunningly ~ pretending he was playing along with the usurping knights and even inviting their low-class wives (ugh) to the palace. All the while he was plotting with the now retired military dukes to turn the tables on the upstart knights. And so, on Dec. 13 which, aus- piciously was not a Friday, but early enough in the month to get the nonsense over with be- fore Christmas, the King issued Swift British a call to his people: Help me, he said, throw out these up- starts. Let the equeries and pur- suivants again obey the military dukes who take orders from me. The king was sure, of course, that all would happen as he or- dained because the military dukes had told him it would. But it did not. The usurping knights prevailed and the young king flew away into the sunset in a roaring winged chariot, to read about Charles I, Louis XVI and all the Roman emperors ov- erthrown by. their upstart centu- rions. It was a little late, of course. Santayana said that those who do not read history are doomed to repeat it. Here ended the tale (for the time being.) The morals to be drawn are these: 1. The right-wing colonels are now divorced from the tradition- al focus of right-wing strength in Greece, from the well-to-do, that is. The colonels will inevi- tably develop a right-wing fol- lowing among the working class and peasants. Such following is principally against.social privi- lege and in many countries it has shown itself capable of going to the right or the left with equal ease; examples: Peron, Nasser. 2. An overt political grouping, the conservatives, tried to over- throw the junta and failed be- cause overt political groupings do not make good conspirators, The communists, professional conspirators, should be the next to try. 3. As for a comeback by the king, he should ponder that Greek soldiers are conscripts, representing the whole people, and were not prepared to fight for him, not thinking him much better, presumably, than the junta he opposes, Retaliation Followed Newark Attack By BOB BOWMAN Last Monday's story de- scribed how U.S. Gen. McClure and his New York militia plun- dered and sacked part of the Niagara peninsula during the War of 1812. McClure ended his reign of terror by burning the village in Newark during a snowstorm while the sick, aged and children had to find what shelter they could in the woods, Then he withdrew his troops across the Niagara River into the United States. The British took revenge just one week later. They were fu- rious when they saw what had- happened and decided to hit back hard. The senior officer was Lieutenant General Gordon Drummond, a Canadian who had joined the British regular army, and fought in. Egypt and Holland. Second-in-command was Major General Riall, a rough, tough soldier with ice- water in his veins. On the night of Dec. 18, 1813, a force of 550 soldiers crossed the river without being seen by the Americans and surprised Fort Niagara. Their orders were to use bayonets. and not fire any shots, so the Ameri- eans further up the river would not know what was happening. Fort Niagara was taken quickly with 74 Americans killed and 344 captured, The British also obtained a large quantity of military supplies including 3,000 muskets and 27 cannons. When Fort Niagara had been taken, a gun was fired as a sig- nal for General Riall further up the river at Queenston, He crossed with 500 soldiers and 500 Indians, and the Americans fled. The only resistance came from some Canadian traitors led by Major Mallory. Riall, contrary to orders, allowed the Indians to burn every house and barn between Fort Niagara and Tonawanda Creek, a distance of 25 miles. Then the British swept on to Black Rock and Buffalo, where they burned every building. General McClure, at Buffalo, told the people that they were perfectly safe, but he skipped nS GAZA ett aa EP fie) MARGUERITE BOURGEOYS ~ 1620-1700 5 FOUNDED tHE FIRST CANADIAN ORDER of NUNS - Tk CONGREGATION of NOTRE DAME of MONTREAL i TEACHING A TEACHING ORDER- BESWES Hés ACTIITIES, S/STER BOURGEOYS RECEIVED nik YOUNG ORPHAN "FILLES Du Rol". GHS SENT UT 70 CANADA 10 MARRY FRENQU SETTLERS AND ESTABL/SH HOMES vw CANADA ~- TODAY HER ORDER 1$ SERVED BY 4000 WONS 1h CANADA, sie US ane JAPAN 4 town before Christmas. Tw@ thousand of his troops were de- feated and scattered by Dec. 29. The year ended with the Ameri- cans victorious at Detroit, and the British victorious at Niag- ara, OTHER DEC. 18 EVENTS: 1603--De Monts was granted fur trade monopoly for 10 years. 1854--Bytown became Ottawa effective Jan. 1. Seignorial ten- ure abolished by Royal Assent, 1874--Federal government ac- cepted Lord Dufferin's propos als for settling dispute with British Columbia. ; 1889--CPii telegraph _ joined Atlantic cable at Canso, N.S. 1893--Archbishop Macray of Rupert's Land was elected first Anglican primate of Canada. 1897---Boundaries_ were changed of Yukon, Franklin and Ungava. Geographic Board of Canada was established. 1901--Territorial Grain Grow- ers were organized at Indian Head. 1939--First Canadian contin- gent for Second World War ar- rived in Britain. 1950--Princess Patricias as rived at Pusan, Korea, YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO Dec. 18, 1952 The pupils of Westmount Public school presented the school with a beautiful oil paint- ing in honor of the late Miss Amelia Lear, a teacher there for many years. Donald Gilchrist of Whitby has been appointed District Scoutmaster by the local Asso- ciation of Scouts. 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 18, 1937 Sussex Lodge, Sons of Eng- land in Whitby celebrated their diamond jubilee yesterday. The Telephone News, a newsy little sheet which accompanied the December phone bills, gives the information that the Bell started operations in Oshawa during 1880, the same year the company was incorporated. ' JAN- Ma PAUL @ COMEAUX A LUMBERJACK * NEAR DROS RUDERT BS m 1910, FELL 120 FEET PROM ATREE AND SUFFERED ONLY A BROKEN LEG ©1%7 ALCOR FEATURES ~ LONDON, ONTARIO FLYING Santa Claus ts a deter- mined jolly old fellow. He had made arrangements to arrive Sunday at the Thun- derbird Golf Club by Late Chi Common A week before Christmas an Canadians are just beginning t be caught up by the spirit o Christmas. A Cross-Canada Survey b The Canadian Press shows the have probably left their Christ mas shopping until late, Gifts Cost ] Variety Gor By THE CANADIAN PRESS The Christmas shopper, a persistent individual, is ap- parently undeterred by the fact that just about any gift he looks at has a higher price tag than a year ago. He's got money in his pock- ets and although inflation has taken some stretch out of his dollar bills he's willing to part with them, even for such high-priced items as color TV sets and furs. A Cross-Canada Survey by The Canadian Press indicates that last year's big Christmas shopping spree is being matched or exceeded in most major cities. A. J. McKichan, general Manager of the Retail Council of Canada, says there has been a nine-per-cent increase in sales in November and De- cember. However, because of a five-per-cent inflation gain, sales have increased in actual terms by only four per cent, he adds. For the first few weeks of the shopping season, women monopolized the store count- ers but now the men are be- ginning to muscle their way in. "It's a standing joke that we rarely see a man shopping until Christmas Eve or the day before," said a_ store manager in Saint John, N.B. The variety of goods to choose from appears unlim- ited although there were a few worries late in November that some high-profit tems from Europe might not gét/to stores in time. ee Montreal Jongshoremen. were on strike, delaying the 1,300 March For Literacy BRANTFORD (CP) -- More than 1,300 persons trudged Brantford streets Saturday in @ "miles-for-millions' march i support of World Literacy 0! Canada and Cross-Roads Africa Majority of the marchers were students, but aldermen members of Parliament and the Ontario legislature and other adults also took part. . Each walker had at least one sponsor, and many have dozen: backing them and paying a fee for each mile walked in the 25 mile route. Canada's Solicitor-Genera Larry Pennell dropped out afte completing 10 miles when he de veloped a blister on one heel However, he raised more thar $60 in the distance he covered Ontario Liberal Leader Rob ert Nixon quit at the five-mile mark because of a prior com mitment. BINGO ot the Columbus Club 133 Brock St. N. WHITBY EVERY TUES. NIGHT Doors Open at 7 P.M. Admission 50¢ . No Children Under 16 Years. of age please Bingo Starts ot 8 P.M. SHARP i