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he Oshavon Simes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 68 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 4 Monday, June 8, 1959 Canadian-Led UN Force Shows World Example The UN's secretary-general, Dag Hammarskjold, patiently keeps remind- fing world statesmen that the UN can play an important, perhaps a decisive role, in the establishment of peace. His quiet words are too often ignored, The same thing happens when John Diefen- baker, Lester Pearson and others point to the need for an enlarged, permanent UN force for international police work on behalf of peace. Yet there is a prac- tical example of how such a UN force ean keep the peace In its third vear of existence, the Ca- nadian-proposed United Nations Emer- gency Force stationed along the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula has be- come an example of what eould be tried in other troubled parts of the world. The force is made up of Canad- fans, Danes, Norwegians, Swedes, Yugo- slavs, Indians and Brazilians, and is commanded by Canadian General E. L M. Burns. The UNEF troops are there for the purpose of maintaining the peace be- tween the United Arab Republic and Israel. Whether because of their pres- ence along the border or for other rea- eons, relative peace has existed between the two countries since the Suez erisis of 1956. If full-scale war broke out between the Arabs and the Israelis, there is not a great deal the UN force could do to stop it. General Burns' "pocket army" has no artillery, no effective air power and no armor to match those held by the two hostile powers, But the mere physical presence of the force on the border is undoubtedly a deterrent to spontaneous incidents and even of plan- ned aggression. An attack on the force would be an attack on the UN itself, Part of the force, stationed at the southern-most tip of Sinai, guarantees freedom of passage to ships using the Israeli port of Elath. Thus General Burns' problems range from control of thieves in the night to world issues such as the freedom of shipping. He has had to be a soldier-diplomat, careful to confine himself strictly to his terms of reference; his every utterance may be carefully weighed by diplomats and politicians of at least a dozen sensitive nations. The conduct of the force and its commander has strengthened the argument for its extension--and for Canadian leadership of UN bodies in similar ticklish situations It is encouraging to note that the UN General Assembly recently accepted Hammarskjold's view that the "inter- ests of the United Nations are best ser- ved by the continuance of the force as it has been established," and voted $19 million for its 1959 budget. Job For Professionals It's time the world started asking politicians, instead of scientists; for ad- wice on political matters, according to Dr. C. E. Catlin, head of economics and political science at McGill University "Politics is a field of judgment, of choice and of its own appropriate sci- ence, for which scientists are ill-train- od," Dr. Catlin says. "If we want to judge what should be done in politics it might seem obvious to consult the pro- fessional students of politics, without the illusion that every industrialist who ¥ successful with income and income tax, such as Mr, Cyrus Eaton, any more than the sensation-hunting Dean of Canterbury, has necessarily much to contribute." He quoted a remark by former Brit- fsh prime minister Lord Attlee that "physical scientists have rather less common sense in political matters than the ordinary voter." Politics is the art or science of gov- ernment, and if by politicians Dr, Cat- Hn means the serious practitioners of that art or science, then certainly the professionals are better than the ama- teurs --they always are. But the profes- sional politician is something more than an expert in the business of gov- ernment. He must also, by the very na- ture of our system of government, be an expert in the business of getting elected. And - there is an inseparable eonnection between the politicking needed for election and the politics needed for government, Dr. Catlin may have noted this double aspect of the practice of politics -- we have not seen a copy of his complete speech. Indeed, it would be difficult to discuss the subject of politics without referring to the pressure of the polls on the conduct and opinions of the poli- tical practitioners, professional or ama- teur. And that leads to still another con- sideration: the role of the civil servant in government administration -- the job done by the true professional in the busi- ness of government. The good senior civil servant is the man who strength- ens the strong politician and supports the weak one; he assures continuity in administration; he is the expert, the specialist. Without him, even the good minister would have a very difficult time--and there are seldom many good ministers in any administration, In Canada we have had few profes- sional politicians and a great many amateurs, Lawyers, farmers, small busi- nessmen and the like make up most of the amateurs, and according to Lord Attlee this is just as well, because they have more common sense than the phy- sical scientists. But considering the con- stantly increasing complexity of gov- ernment, it seem: inevitable that the professional class will grow -- indeed be forced to grow--during the coming years Where Are The Ghosts? A brief news story a few days ago told of some odd happenings in a house in New England, not far south of the Quebec border, and this reminded us that Canada has an odd scarcity of ghosts, There are a few old houses, mostly in the eastern provinces, which have their attendant spirits, but in gen- eral this is not a rewarding country for the avid ghost-hunter Canadians perhpas are too prosaic to recognize ghosts and ghosts, of course, must have recognition, must have an audience, or they simply fade away. Certainly the land was well pre- pared for excellent ghosting by the time the white man arrived; the Indian had peopled the forests, the waters and the air with spirits, and the voyageurs add- ed a few of their own But the early promise died This is true, pretty well, of the whole of North America. This continent's ghost lore is not a rich one, which is odd con- sidering that the bulk of the population , came from Britair. and Europe, places packed with all sorts of ghosts, The Oshara Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher end General Menage €. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) ond the Whitby Gazette ond * Chronicle (established 1863), is published daily (Sundays and statutory holidays excepted). Members of Canadian Daily Newspapers Publishers Association, The Canadion Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Asso ciation. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of oll news despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published y therein. All rights of special despatches are also reserved. Offices 44 « 640 Cathcart SUBSCRIPTION RATES NMhitby, Ajox King Street West Toronto, Ontario; Street, Montrecl, PQ Oshawc Port Delivered by carriers in } Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, H ton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, ono, Leskard, Broughom, Burketon, Claremont, + ois. Fairport . Beach, Greenwood, Kinsale, f Raglan, Blackstock, Manchester, Cobourg, Port Hope Pontypool and Newcastle not over 45¢ per week s+ By mail (in province of Ontario) outside carriers y delivery areas 12.00; elsewhere 1500 per vear. AVERAGE DAILY NET PAID 16,306 The European ghost is apt to be eith- er a terrifying or a tragic figure. The English ghosts have a rich variety. Some are merely frivolous, while oth- ers regularly re-enact entire battles -- in TV terms they range from the do- mestic-gituational to the spectacular. At Kifby Moorside in Yorkside, for ex- ample, the second Duke of Buckingham, who lived at nearby Helmsley Castle in the reign of Charles II, can be seen most nights hunting a spirit fox with a soirit pack of hunds, scarcely a serious occupation for a respectable ghost, Near Kineton, in Warwickshire, the battle of Edgehill, fought between the Royalists and Roundheads in 1642, is refought periodically, and Prince Rupert and other Royalists have been seen quite re- cently riding their chargers through the main street of the town. One of the men killed at Edgehill was Sir Edmund Verney, who fought for the Royalists: after the battle his hand, still grasping the royal standard and still wearing the ring given him by King Charles I, was found on the battlefield, but his body was never recovered. Sir Edmund's ghost now haunts his family home -- Claydon House, in Buckinghamshire -- forever seeking his severed hand. The moral is, of course, that one should never leave personal property lying around a battlefield, if one ean help i. Other Editor's Views NOT APPROVED BY RUSS (Detroit Free Press) A few months ago, Igor Moisyev, the Russian dance director, took his troupe to the United States where it received wide popular acclaim and red carpet treatment. Maestro Moisyev was appreciative and when he got back to Moscow he had only nice things to say about the United States and the American peo- ple. The result was a sharp reprimand by his government Obviously, the rule which the Soviets expect their citizens to follow is that if they can't find anything bad to say sbout other countries they are permit- ted to visit, then they «houldn't say anything. ~~ ~\ a BERLIN STEW os ~ NO MATTER HOW YOU SPELL IT OTTAWA REPORT Pride Displayed By Diefenbaker By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- Prime Minister John Diefenbaker plunged the detonator to set off a dynamite blast symbolizing the commence- ment of work on the South Sask- atchewan Dam last month That was 56 years after he had first come to the Prairies, when as the sub-teen son of a hdhe- steading family he had seen the sloughs filled to overflowing as late as August, with duck and wildfow] everywhere in an area which did not anticipate the on- coming of drought. And it was 19 years after he had first come to Ottawa, as representative of the constituency of Lake Centre in which the dam is sited. But between those years had ; tre obviously felt | sensed an equity in the fact that come the barren times, when dust was piled high against the fences; when only the tumbling tumble- weed yielded a bumper crop; when, in the prime minister's own words, darkened fields told the story of blasted hopes Then in 1940, Mr. Diefenbaker was elected to Parliament; and continuously in Ottawa ever since the Golden Voice of the Prairies fought for this irrigation project, which would ensure that there would be less heartbreak and surer hope in future years in that courageously settled area; an area which Captain Palliser proclaimed 100 years ago would never be suitable for settlement. , to the prime minister it was a sentimental duty to initiate "FOR BETTER HEALTH Married Live Longer Than Single Persons HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.D. Want to live to a fairly ripe old age? Then get married While it's not exactly that simple, some rather enlightening statistics recently released by a medical publication clearly in- dicate that married persons have a greater chance of survival than do single persons HIGHER DEATH RATE According to 'Patterns of Disease," the death rate for sin. gle men during 1957 was about 75 per cent higher than that foe married men. For single women, the rate was about 50 per cent greater than for married women. Among the diseases which ap- pear to be fatal to more single persons are influenza, pneu. monia, tuberculosis, peptic ulcer and cirrhosis of the liver, TB, for example, killed four single men to every married man and two single women to every married one, FLU AND PNEUMONIA Influenza and pneumonia ac. counted for three times as many deaths among single women as married women died from these two diseases Twice as many single men as married men died from the fol- lowing: cirrhosis of the liver, peptic ulcer, auto and other ac- cidents and suicide Now why single men should have more fatal ulcer attacks is something I just can't figure out You might sort of expect the married men to be more ready victims of ulcers. But, appar- ently, such is not the case. MORE HOMICIDES Homicides also took a greater toll of single men. Here's the breakdown on that: The homicide rate among di- vorced men was nearly six times as great as among mar ried men. The rate for widow. ers was four times as great and that for single men was twice the total for married men. The publication doesn't state why married men and women seem to get a better deal in re lation to those various causes of death. And I don't see how anyone can come up with any logical reason. PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM "Most of your worries for the future never happen," says a psy- chologist. Yes, and many and often worse things it never occur red to us to worry about do happen In the good old days it wasn't QUESTION AND ANSWER Mr. A. A: Could you tell me just what an "optical blood clot' 18? Answer: An "optical blood clot" probably refers to a clot in one or more of the blood vessels in the retina. This would usually affect the vision. the construction of the three-mile long dam, which will store the equivalent of nearly three drought years of rainfall, to irrigate the bitterly named and often dust- dry Palliser Triangle. The former MP for Lake Cen- a pride but the irrigation dam and power plant, half paid for by Canadians in other provinces, is the largest project yet initiated by his gov- ernment, Cedicated to the prop- osition that Canadians should en- joy the benefit of full development of our natural resources. The statistics of the dam are staggering. It will be the largest of its kind in Canada, nearly the largest such dam in the world. It will create an artifictal lake with a shoreline of 475 miles, offering attractive recreational prospects as well as its utilitarian ends. It will use enough concrete to build a 225-mile super-highway from Prince Albert to Regina. But among those words are the pious hopes that the dam should bring a more stable prosperity to the whole province and hence to Canada and, in the prime min. ister's words so heartfelt, ensure less heartbreak for the cour- ageous farmers. POSSIBLE BENEFITS Farmland now worth only $30 an acre will be valued at $200 when irrigated; the yield of $15 of crops per acre from dryland farming could rise to $400 when artificial watering permits as many as three crops of alfalfa each year; ideal irrigation of some 80 acres in each 640-acre section of farmland would permit diversification and balanced farming, with livestock and mixed crops. Gone will be the days when it took three acres of dusty rangeland to support one head of cattle. BY-GONE DAYS 15 YEARS AGO Rev. Derwin T. Owen, Arch. bishop of Toronto, officiated at the confirmation service in St. George's Church, when a class of 76 candidates were confirmed. L. F. D. Couldon, manager of Selective Service office, estimat- ed over 2500 workers would be needed by high priority industries before the end of the year in this district. Cobourg declared a holiday when the new corvette HMCS "Cobourg" sailed into the harbor on its official visit to the town after which it was named. Com- manding officer Lieut, G. H. Johnson and his officers and men were welcomed by Mayor J. D, Burnet and members of the eouncil Ajax reported 27,000 donors since the clinic opened. Horticultural Society Spring Flower Show was an outstanding success. Proceeds were turned over to British War Victim's Fund. Serving the dual purpose of marking Empire Day and culti- vating a love for trees, a tree- planting ceremony took place in the grounds of Brock Street School, in the presence of school pupils, bers of the Board of Education, and parents and friends. A roll of honor was dedicated at a ceremony at King Street School. It contained names of three girls and 221 boys, all for- mer pupils of the school, and a former teacher, Mr. McRoberts, who were serving in the armed forces. Michael Johnston, son of two former students at the school, Lieut.-Col. Murray Johnston and Mrs. Johnston, unveiled the honor roll. Rev. J. V. McNeely spoke briefly. « A large frame barn, owned by Ernest A. 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