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She Osharon Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 Wednesday, June 14, 1961 Dr. Chaput's Freedom Or At what point does freedom become licence? The old question is being asked again in the case of Dr. Marcel Chaput. Dr. Chaput is a government employee, a scientist on the staff of the Defence Research Board; he is also a prominent and vocal member of a Quebec organiza- tion that wants Quebec province to secede from Canada and become an independent republic. Dr. Chaput makes speeches in favor of secession. The vice-president of the Defence Research Board has publicly invited Dr. Chaput to resign, because of his involve- ment in politics. Some members of Par- liament have suggested he be fired, be- cause of his sentiments. Others have come to his defence, claiming that he has every right to express his opinions, no matter who his employer might be. And in this case, of course, the employer is, indirectly, the Government of Can- ada, which could not help but be serious- ly affected if Dr. Chaput had his way with Quebec. In the sense that Quebec's defection from Confederation could ser- iously threaten the security of the rest of Canada, Dr. Chaput's activities outside Speeches: Licence? the Research Board could be regarded as subversive by those who disagree with him. Is Dr. Chaput guilty of licence? If he is, then he cannot claim the protec- tion of freedom of speech. But we do not think he is guilty. If he were not employed by a crown agency, there would be no fuss; but there is no reason why a man should be gagged simply because he works for a crown agency. The question to be answered, we think, is this: Is Dr. Chaput doing his job in, a satisfactory manner, or is he letting his outside interests interfere with his work for the Defence Research Board? If his work is satisfactory, then' surely there can be no question of firing him. He is not trying to overthrow the government, he is not acting as an under- ground agent of a foreign government, he is not a spy. He is simply advocating a course many French-Canadians ap- prove of when they are young and re- pudiate when they acquire more wisdom. Let him talk. In another ten years he'll be embarrassed by the whole affair. Constitutional Secrecy Dr. Frank R. Scott, McGill's recently appointed dean of law, made a strong plea last week for more public discus- sion of the problems involved in amend- ing the British North America Act. The point is well taken, the Montreal Star thinks, The federal minister of justice and the attorney-generals of the pro- vinces have been holding a series of secret meetings on the subject. After each conference they announce progress, but they never explain what they are progressing to, beyond the patent fact that they want to work out procedures which will permit amendment of the act without further reference to the Parliament at Westminster. Admittedly, the present method is obsolete, and we have seen the gradual build-up of an emotional content about what is some- times called "the repatriation of the constitution." It would be, the Star suggests, quite easy to short-circuit Westminster. The really difficult part of the problem is to devise procedures whereby the act can be amended, for the wisdom of the founding fathers was not absolute. Needs and conditions change, even though some of them remain constant. It is important in such circumstances to have flexibility in amendment pro- cedures so that, without too much diffi- culty, sensible changes can be made. Previous conferences on the subject have approached the problem by trying to separate the clauses of the BNA. Act into two main categories, -- those whith should be entrenched and those whigh should not be so protected. There has been general agreement for a long time that the clauses which protect minority rights should be entrenched asd not subject to amendment except ¥y unanimous agreement of the federal and provincial powers. At the other end of the scale there are certain powers which are vested wholly in the federal authority. A substantial opinion believes that amendment of these powers might be left wholly to the federal govern- ment. But, in between these two, there lies the wholly body of the act in which there is sharp controversy over effective jurisdiction. In the case, of unemployment insurance, power was vested in the federal authority with the unanimous consent of the pro- vinces. There is ground for the belief that the provinces have been putting forward the view that unanimous con- sent should become the basic principle of amendment procedure. There is ground too for the belief that Mr. Diefenbaker and his colleagues, eager to "repatriate" the constitution, may con- cede the provincial demand. The national price for such a conces- sion would be high -- too high. The imposition of a blanket Proven veto on all changes would place us in a constitutional strait jacket from which it would be difficult to escape. It is en- tirely proper, indeed essential, to safe- guard provincial rights, and especially those which give minority guarantees. But, in the process, the federal power should not be wholly truncated or un- duly diminished. Our effective national existence depends upon the proper main- tenance of the central power. In these circumstances, Dr. Scott's proposal that there should be sustained public discussion of the issues under debate in the constitutional conference is timely. The issues involved are of the first importance. Beyond a certain moderate point they should be discussed in the open so that an effective public opinion can make itself felt. Franco's Second Sight The dictatorship which keeps its foot on the necks of the Spanish people may EE Ha iT LT CTR 2 Bg SHA world. But Generalissimo Franco still wears rose colored glasses. With charac- teristic modesy he now proclaims that The Oshawa Sines 1. L. WILSON; Publisher ond General Monoger C. GWYN KINSEY Editor The Oshowo [imes combming The Oshawa Times {established 1871) and the itby Gazette ond Chronicle (established 1863), is published daily (Sundays ond statutory holidays excepted). Members of Canadian Daily Newspapers Publishers Association. The Canadian Press, Audit Bureou of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Asso- ciation. The Contidion Press Is exclusively entitiea to the use for republication of all ews despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, ond also the local news published therein. All rights of special despatches are also reserved. Otfices: Thomson Bullding, 425 University Avenues Toronto Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by corriers In Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, ort Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hompton, Frenchman's Bay. siverpool, - Taunton, Tyrone Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Orono Leskord, Brougham ' Burketon, Claremont Columbus, Greenwood, Kinsale, Ragion Blackstock Manchester Pontypool ond Newcastle, not over 45¢ rovince of Ontario) outside eek. By mail (in a . . 2.00: elsewhere 15.00 per carriers delivery oreas veor Circulation for the issue of March 30, 1961 17.363 his is the best government on earth and is the "wave of the future. i. reat bot het eogata. a hos the Milwaukee Journal notes. Spain has no freedom. It is impoverished. The big landowners operate much as they did two centuries ago. Franco is undisputed ruler. The Franco boast accompanied a scathing attack on the west, mainly, by innuendo, on the United States. The west, he said, is heading for disaster because of stupid policies. It is weak- ened hy capitalism, liberalism and de- mocracy. Examples of the fruits of liberalism-- as personified by President Kennedy--- were- cited by Franco as the fiasco of the Cuban invasion, the American stand against oppression in Angola and the assassination of Trujillo of the Domini- can Republic. As a measure of Franco's kind of thinking, the Trujillo slaying was a major disaster for the west. Franco talks much as he did in the days of Hitler and Mussolini, whoze fervent supporter he was. All that kept him from joining their side in the war was growing doubt that they could win. If Franco and his government repre- sent the "wave of the future," the world is on in a mess. fd bow VOU, CLAUSTROPHIA VICTIM OTTAWA REPORT General Election Speculation Again By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- Last week's by- election victories for the Diefen- baker government have given fresh stimulus to speculation here that the prime minister may call a general election this fall, The by-elections were held in four ridings which the Conserva- tives had won in the general election of 1958. Against the gen- eral anticipation, the Conserva- tives retained three of those seats, losing only the tradition- ally Conservative riding of Leeds, Ontario. Never before in Canadian political history, said Senator G. (Solly) Thorvaldson, president of the National Con- servative Association, has a gov- ernment in office won three by- elections on the same day. Jubilation among Conserva- tives here was heightened by the publication of a public opin- ion poll on the following day, which showed that the Canada- wide preference for the Liberal party had contracted from seven to two percentage points during the past two months, chiefly due to a remarkable swing of 13 per- centage points in the province of Quebec. It has, however, been suggested here that the poll is based on too small a sample to was trimmed to a mere 167 ? votes, which nevertheless as ex- pected gave his widow the vic- tory. In Leeds, which the Tories ! had won 15 times in its previous ; 17 elections, a comfortable ma- ij jority of 3,530 votes was turned into a loss. In Restigouche-Mad- awaska, N.B.,, an even larger majority was trimmed to three ! figures. And in Esquimalt-Saan- be relied upon; only 700 voters are sampled, it has been said, while no sample at all is taken in the Maritimes. This seems an improbably narrow polling, but if it is true, then we must agree with the thinking behind certain CCF proposals to outlaw all public polls of political opinion on the grounds that they have undue and undesirable effect upon the thinking of many Ca- nadians who read them. RESULTS ANALYZED What in fact did last week's by-elections reveal? Three out of four seats won by Conservatives is a somewhat misleading summary. Of all the votes polled in the four ridings, the Conservatives received 43 per cent, while the Liberals re- ceived 44 per cent. This was in vivid contrast to the figures in the 1958 general election, when in those same ridings the Con- servative candidates polled 60 per cent of the total votes, to 35 per cent for the Liberals. In every seat the story was the same: A huge swing from the Conservative candidate to representatives of other parties. In Kings, P.E.IL., the late John A. Macdonald's majority of 1,134 QUEEN'S PARK Strike Methods Draw Criticism By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--One of the most shocking incidents in our whole history of labor relations and administration of justice hap- pened here in Toronto recently. Leaders of unions in the build- ing construction trades--separ- ate from the regular craft unions--pulled out their mem- bers, largely recent immigrants on a strike. They attempted to tie up all residential building in the Metro Toronto area And in doing it they used methods which one thought had disappeared with the labor wars - USED FORCE They organized "flying squads" of 12 to 20 cars of workers They descended on jobs. and tried to get them closed down. The press had pictures of them pulling workers off jobs, threatening them with clubs and throwing chunks of wood at them. The whole business was a startling contempt for law. NO PROTEST But the shock enters, not so much in what they did, bad as it was, but in that not one strong voice was raised against them The police made a few ar- rests. Rul iney obviously did not have the situation under control. Newspaper men could be on hand to take pictures, but they couldn't It was a situation that called for top-level action. But nobody asked for it, either locally or from one of the three political parties here. Worse, the old-guard leader- ship of labor apparently lost its head altogether. ° It was encouraging the strikers to the hilt and calling the police "'strike-breakers." CRIME WORSE? One must take a fearful pic ture from this. . Of a society which can't en- force its own laws. Of politicians--our representa- tives of the public interest--who are afraid to say a word against labor, And of labor leaders, who ask to be accepted as responsible, and who blatantly and enthus- iastically encourage anarchy. Organized crime? Why bother so much about it when a threat such as this is alive. It is crime against society it- self--and it can bring it to its knees (where its leaders are already)! ich the Conservatives' 65 per cent share of the poll, achieved in 1958 by Hon. George Pearkes, VC, now Lieutenant - Governor of B.C, was slashed to 31 per cent, which nevertheless proved to be a winning margin since the anti-government vole was split between Liberal, New Party, Social Credit and Social ist candidates POINTERS FOR FUTURE The Conservatives scarcely could have hoped to fight on a more favorable battle ground than these four ridings, includ- ing two in the heavily pro-Tory Maritimes and two other tradi- tionally Tory ridings. In these circumstances it was no triumph to score three victories. But the total of votes does show that the Diefenbaker government is at last saucering out of its slump in public favor. In addition, we must remember that economic indicators foretell an apprecia- ble uplift in the U.S. in the latter part of 1961. This will be re- flected after a short delay in our economy. Time therefore ap- pears to be working for the Conservatives, with both the up- lift of the U.S. and the benefits of the Diefenbaker legislation tending to rebuild our prosperity during the months ahead. Apart from a chance political windfall in the shape of some attractive election issue, these factors indicate that the prime minister will not satisfy the speculators by calling an elec- tion this year PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM "Many people need lessons in how to spend their money," says an economist. Maybe so, but far more need to be: taught how not to spend their money. In the not too distant future man will doubtless be able to control the weather. It seems that man has the ability to learn how to control almost anything -- except man. INSIDE YOrT Fungus Can Look Like Tuberculosis By BURTON H. FERN, MD X-rays showed tuberculosis, but they were wrong! Tests proved that Debbie couldn't have TB. Mom solved the mystery with tales about their trip through Ohio and Michigan. Histoplas mosis -- a fungus disease that travels through the air to be in- haled -- hangs out in this area. Histoplasmosis and similar fungus ailments turn up every- where, but the region north of the Ohio River is one of its favorite hangouts, Histoplasmo sis-causing spores (seeds) lie on the ground until breezes spread them to the four winds. Unsus- pecting victims inhale spores floating through the air Most mild histoplasmosis isn't discovered until routine chest X-rays show the speckled dots of a healed infection ATTACKS VICIOUSLY But sometimes histoplasmosis strikes like squadrons of fero- cious moths eating everything in their path -- especially *when the victim's young, old or weak- ened. Ears, nose, lips and throat look like victims of a maniac armed with a paper punch. Moth-eaten vocal (cords talk with a hoarse, weak whisper. No ulcer-sufferer suffers like the histoplasmosis victim with hundreds of punched-out bleed- ing ulcers in his intestines. In the lungs, histoplasmosis first mimics a mild virus infec- tion, but as infected spots break down into cavities, the illness looks more like serious tubercu- losis. Like TB germs, the histoplas- mosis fungus can be found in coughed-up mucus. A skin test also helps identify the ailment. Your doctor can .prescribe various medicines to kill the histoplasmosis germs but seri- ously infected lungs may have to be left in the operating room. Starlings, pigeons and bats spread histoplasmosis when spores pour out of their intes- tines. Spores have been caught hitching rides on local school buses which rolled across fun- | gus-laden grounds. An asphalt playground and an ordinance grounding starlings and pigeons has reduced the histoplasmosis hazard. Bird lovers needn't ruffle their feathers. Healthy, uncontam- inated flying friends are still welcome. : BY-GONE DAYS 25 YEARS AGO Work was started on laying a acw surface on Highway No. 2 from Oshawa to Bowmanville. The delegates to the Bay of Quinte Conference were offic- tally welcomed to the city by iepresentatives of the Oshawa Ministerial Association, Mayor John Stacey, Chamber of Com- merce and the city council. Maurice G. Hart was named chairman and A. W. Armstrong secretary, of the 1936 Rotary Fair. A new gravel road leading to the Oshawa Harbor was com- pleted. Seventy - eight new General Motors cars stored in Bowman- vilie skating rink were destroy- ed by a fire which gutted the building. W. F. Carson, Mary St, won a Chevrolet car as the grand prize at the 1036 Rotary Fair. At the Home Nursing classes held at the Welfare House under the auspices of the local Red Cross, a total of 61 completed the course and received the Lord Tweedsmuir diplomas. A new musical organization known as the Oshawa Glee Sing- ers was formed here. Eighteen male choristers constituted the choir with Robert S. Stacev Ji., as conductor and Percy W. Mercer, accompanist City council agreed to grant $100 to the Oshawa Community Supervised Playgrounds Assoc- iation, towards the furthering of the work being carried on by that association. The Oshawa Rifle and Revol- ver Club met for its election of officers for summer activities, and range ocr: 8. WMtams, vice-president; L. Hind, secre- tary-treasurer; P. Matthews, R. Locke, D- Burns and G. Robert- shaw, directors. Doctors Harry M. and Allan R. Cooke, brothers, opened dent. al offices in the Canadian Bank of Commerce building. naming T. Palmer, president PY HE CONSOLIDATED AT ALLIED A MAN PROUD OF.. 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