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L, Wilson, Publisher WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1963 --- PAGE 6 Shaky Ground Prepared '(For Election Campaign Prime Minister Diefenbaker may ' be developing one of the big themes the will use in the next general Selection campaign: His great pro- : gram of legislation is being blocked i by the deliberate obstructionism of the parliamentary opposition, and | he must appeal to the good sense | of the electorate to send him back * to Ottawa with enough Conservative | eupporters to put through the | measures needed to carry the ! country along the road of progress, / In a speech last week he said there would be a spring election if the Opposition moved to block speedy passage through Parliament of the spending estimates for the current fiscal year, He declared: "Minority though we may be, we intend to place before Parliament our legislation in accordance with the principles of the party, undiluted and unchanged by our minority position... And I look forward then, if they choose to prevent us : bringing in a budget which can only * be brought in providing these es- timates are passed, to an election Window To If the Canadian Confederation is to remain healthy, the fact of bilin- gualism in Canada must be re- * cognized. At the same time, while we recognize the advantages of having a second language, we must ' also be aware of the fact that En- glish has become the most im- portant language in international use. Increasingly it is becoming a "must" for anyone 'travelling or doing business in other countries, Kenya, for example, has decided that English will remain its official language when it becomes indepen- dent, this year or early next year. The legislature has rejected. pro- posals that Swahili, which is spoken by 20 million Africans, be made official. Kenya's education minister, A. Sagini, said: "Unless the people of Kenya are ready to cut them- selves off from the rest of the world in educational development and knowledge, English must re- main the language of instruction." The Milwaukee Journal aptly com- ments: Here is further indication that English is a vehicle for understand- ing and unity in the world, In campaign that will be a tremen- dously interesting one." Interesting, indeed. But Mr, Diefenbaker seems to be getting a bit ahead of himself, or at least ahead of his puzzled colleagues. While it is true that the Oppost- tion has been guilty of obstructive tactics, Mr. Diefenbaker's governs ment has been something less than aggressive in moving forward its legislative program. The estimates are presented an- nually to the committee of supply (a committee of the whole House) in the form of six supply motions. With each motion, the Opposition gets the chance to press for a vole of non-confidence in the govern- ment. So far, only one supply motion has been put before the House, and discussion on this has been limited to two days, the max- imum time allotted to such motions under House rules. In other words, the government is as much at fault as the Opposi- tion in the matter of dawdling about the nation's business. The World country after country it is the second language. It is the basic language for science and _ politics. As was brought out at a recent meeting of the U.S. National Council of Teachers of English, it is the "meeting ground" language of the free world, "English is the major window for India to the outside world," Prime Minister Nehru tod-his people re- cently, He has resisted constitu- tional directive that Hindi and other Indian languages replace English. The United Nations, because it is located in the United States, has been a force in spreading English. The British carried English around the world in their days of empire and left it as the second language of many countries, Now the United States, as a foremost world power with contacts in scores of nations, has spread its own brand of En- glish. Language can be a great unifier. That it is English that is becoming the world language speaks well for the future of free men. Defence Stays Cloudy The parliamentary debate on de- fence has come and gone, with a great deal of noise but little illu- mination. Defence policy, it seems, remains a matter of "if and when", "maybe" and "not necessarily". Much of what Mr. Diefenbaker had to say was sensible; it is diffi- cult indeed to make specific choices of weapons at a time when radical changes are taking place in weapons systems, and also when the two most powerful nations in the world may be closer than they have ever been to an agreement on a ban on nuclear testing, a necessary prelimi- nary: to an agreement on control, reduction and finally elimination of nuclear and conventional weapons. There is, indeed, a need for flexibi- lity in policy. But flexibility pre- supposes a policy, and one would be The Oshawa Times TY. UL. WILSON, Publisher Cc. GWYN KINSEY, Editor Oshowa Times combinire The Qshawe Times The festedlished 1871) and the itby Gozette and Chronicle (estadlished 1863) daity Members of Canedion Daily Newspaper ers Association, The Canedian Press, Audit Bureou of Circulction and the Onterio Provincial Dailies Association, The Conadian Presa is exclusively entitied to the use of republication of ol! news in the. paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein. All. rights of specie! des patches ere olso reserved. Thomson Building, 425 University Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Offices: Avenue, Toronto, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshowa, Whitby, Ajex, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hompton, Frenchman's Bay, hard put today to discover and de- fine Canadian defence policy. That is the heart of the matter. There is a growing suspicion that there is, in fact, no coherent Cana- dian defence policy. And while our allies very nicely assure questioners that they are not at all concerned about the "great nuclear debate" in Canada, they cannot help but wonder about our position, No one seems capable of enlightening them. There is a growing suspicion that the government is trying to squeeze some political advantage out of the defence confusion, It may be smart politics but it is atrocious states- manship. The national security is much too important for petty manoeuvring. The suspicion was firmly planted 'in Mr. Diefenbaker's references to negotiations with the Americans and the oblique suggestion that Mr. Pearson might by unduly influenced by American policy-makers, There was an unhappy flavor of anti- Americanism in these remarks, and it goes too conveniently with recent Conservative propaganda about a "made in Canada" policy. Bible Thought Do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despite- fully use you. -- Matthew 5:44. The best way to destroy an enemy is to make a friend of him. To pray for your enemy is the best medicine for the cancer of bitterness in your soul, 'ALL I SAID WAS, "HOW ARE YOU?"" -- REPORT FROM U.K. Council, Tenants In Tangled Deal By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- The Westminster City Council has decided. to enter into a property purchase deal which is without precedent in this country, At a two-hour private council meeting, it made a decision to buy Dolphin Square, London's largest block of apartments from a_ subsidi- ary of Lintang Investments for YOUR HEALTH a sum of $13,500,000, When the deal has been completed, it will place the management of the property in the hands of a ten- ants housing association and transfer the property to it Some idea of the magnitude of this transaction, in which contracts have already been exchanged, can be understood from the fact that Dolphin Square consists of 1,196 flats, which are at present occupied by about 3,000 people, It was Can't Put Safety Label On Kerosene By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, MD Dear Dr. Molner: As a child and teen-ager, I was given kero. sene atid sugar for a cough, Patent medicines were ineffec- tive. I now have the same problem with my children, Is kerosene harmful? It never seemed to hurt me.--T.H. Kerosene is a hydrocarbon, and chemicals of this class are toxic, Years ago we did a lot of things we wouldn't do now, be- cause then we lacked some of our present knowledge. I know that a lot of kerosene and sugar has been swallowed and didn't do any 'detectable harm, but there is an element of danger in it for some indivi- duals. Today's cough mixtures (both the patent medicines and pre- scription ones) are so much more effective and safer that I would avoid the risk of poten- tially dangerous ones. To give you a further exam. ple of my reasoning, take the famous and tragic thalidomide matter, Thalidomide, it was found after widespread use in Europe, and some in Canada, and a little leakage into the United' States, turned out to be very dangerous, not to the users themselves but to babies whose mothers took the drug in the early weeks of pregnancy. Theresult has been several thousand tragic births -- de. formed children, But there are also thousands of mothers who took thalidomide and yet had normal babies. Using a drug and having no i effects is not proof that it is harmless. Kerosene, in this in. stance, is a "drug." It is a chem. ical of active and sometimes dangerous properties. It harms some people. Others can take it, within small limits, without harm, but too much kerosene could well even be fatal, Medicine is not an exact sci. ence, It may never be, We have to abide by the percentages, or risks, or whatever you call it, and as a physician I can't put a safety label on something | know to be dangerous in some cases, See my point? Dr. Dr. Molner: What kind of examination would I have to PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM If the population explodes, as many predict, maybe our prog- eny will be able to pay those heavy debts we're passing down to them. What a person doesn't know may not hurt him, but one gets a pain in the neck listening to him talk about it. go through before my doctor could tell if I have an overac- tive thyroid gland? Would I have to go to the hospital? Would the treatment be an op eration, medicine or shots?-- AH, The usual test is a BMR, or basal metabolism reading, which means that you go to the doctor in the morning without having eaten anything, and allow time to lie still for perhaps half an hour before the test, The test itself involves a few minutes of breathing through a tube, after which the doctor can measure the rate at which you use up oxygen. Another test called a PBL, or protein-bound iodine test, done with a small blood sample, is regarded as being more spe- cific, And there are still more intricate ones involving isotopes, By and large no, you won't have to go to the hospital; any- way, not for the first couple of tests, Treatment depends on the case: Radioactive isotopes sometimes, or surgery to fe. move part of the gland. In many instances one of the "antith. thyroid" drugs can be used ef- fectively, taken by mouth, GALLUP POLL owned by Dolphin Square, Lim- ited, whose lease still has about 72 years to run, The sale is an important stage in the unravalling of the af- fairs of the Jasper Group and the State Building Society, which were involved in tangled legal actions a couple of years ago. WANTED TO BUY For some time the tenants of Dolphin Square have been con- sidering the forming of their own housing association to buy and manage the premises. This, they felt, would give them a measure of security. for the future at reasonable rents, One step by the Tenants' Associa- tion was to discuss with repre- sentatives of the city council the possibility of securing a loan from the council on the secur- ity of the premises, This effort was forestalled, however, last November, when the present owners offered the block for sale by tender, with the closing date for offers being February 8, 1963, A council statement says: "In view of the difficulties which the association should have in forming a housing asso- ciation in time to make a bid, the council's valuers were in- structed to negotiate for' acquisi- tion of the property. AGREED TO SELL The Tenants' Association had indicated that it would support such a move. The present own- ers agreed to sell their inter- est to the council for $13,500,000, the valuation placed upon it by the district valuer, George Pargitar, Labor MP for Southall, chairman of the Diphin Square Tenants' Associa- tion, welcomed the council's action, He said: "The housing association has been formed. The term on which it will take over and run the block will be negotiated with the council, There will be no question of the rate-payers be- ing asked to find any of this money, It will be repaid by the tenants in the form of rents, probably over a 60-year period." The Dolphin Square block of apartments was built in 1936 by Richard Costain for $3,750,000, In 1958, it was sold to Max- well Joseph for $6,750,000, and later to Lintang Investments, In the particulars given when the property was advertised for sale in November, it was stated that the gross income from rents was $1,587,000 a year and the net income $1,038,000, Big Majority Supports Sales To Communists Ry THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION Canadians are strongly in favor of selling no-strategic products to Communist coun- tries, especially food and wheat, This majority increases as interviewers move farther west, with 70 per cen of West- ern Canada approving, In the national total, more than six to one favor selling our non-war products 'to Communist coun- tries Interviewers of the Gallup Poll asked a scientifically selected sample of the Nation the fol- lowing question: Yes, approve Disapprove Qualified Undecided From east to west, regionally, Canadians become more in fa- vor of selling non-war materials to Communists East Ontario West Yes BH 2H 0% "Do you approve or dis- approve of Canadian sales of food, wheat and products other than war materials to Com- munist countries: such as Red China, Cuba or Poland?" Yes, approve 63% Disapprove 26 ualified 4 Undecided 7 More Progressive Conserva- tives than Liberals endorse sales to Communist countries, although all other Parties com- bined show the greatest ap- proval. Progressive Conservatives 6 Liberal Others 69% 82% Mu Ba 26 & 4 2 6 8 3 100%, 100% 100% No 3 29 20 Qualified. 4 4 5 Undecided 10 5 5 100% 100% 100% 2 et ee empnt eny eftae y E= OTTAWA REPORT SOO Er rw wre Reports Of Life In Frigid Isles By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--Canadians are be- ing envied by Britohs who are suffering from the unaccus- tomed 'Canadian' weather of the most bitter winter recorded for 88 years, Even in the coun- try of Kent, in the normally mild southeast corner of /England, snowdrifts, gale-force winds and sub - zero temperatures have caused conditions described as being "like the Yukon', Even the .sea is frozen on the coast there; while across the channel, at the historic Belgian port ot Dunquerque, the sea froze for nearly five miles from the shore and no passenger ships could use the port, The extreme discomfort of the unusually severe and un- usually protracted cold spell has been aggravated by a shortage of fuel, Coal supplies are run- ning short, trucks cannot move on the drift-blocked roads to deliver fresh supplies, and dumps of mined coal are freez- ing solid, "What do you do about the problem of frozen dumps in Canada?" is one topi- cal question asked by British newspapers of their Canadian correspondents, The answer is that Canadian coal mines either clean their coal by air-blast rather than by water-wash, or else they treat the washed coal with oil; either way the coal is not so wet that frost will con- vert it into a solid frozen mass. HYDRO SHORTAGE Perhaps the worst single cause of misery has been the electricity slow-down, | Feeling throughout the country is very bitter that the operatives of this public utility have chosen this unique meteorological curse to reduce supplies and threaten strikes to implement wage de- mands, Buckingham Palace, the home of the Queen, was not hit by the black-outs and dim-outs which struck huge areas of Lon- don, But nevertheless Major Mark Milbank, the Master of the Household, issued a candle to every member of the staff as a precaution, And then a complete power failure did hit the Palace, and the Queen's TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Jan, 30, 1963 . .., India's apostle of peace, Mohandas .K Gandhi, was shot to death in New Delhi 15 years ago today--in 1948 --as he went to prayer The frail and emaciated Gandhi helped to lead the people of India to independence from British rule at tremendous personal sacrifice, For the cause of freedom he had en- dured prisons and fasts, His favorite weapons for rous- ing the masses were ci- vil disobedience campaigns and hunger strikes. His as- sassin, a 25-year-old Hindu, and a conspirator were later hanged, 1647 -- Charles 1 of Eng- land surrendered to pariia- ment, He was beheaded two years later, 1934 -- The consitiution of Newfoundland was sus- pended and a commission of government took office. daughter was able to do her homework by candlelight, thanks to the foresight of Cana- dian-trained Major Milbank, He was employed in the same job at Government House here after the war, And while in Ottawa, I recall, he experienced the dire consequences of a hydro failure when he was a guest in an all - electric labor - saving house which became a stagnant helpless "ice house," BE PREPARED From one Canadian official, I heard a report of British in- genuity in those unusual diffi- culties, Snow drifts 20 feet dee blocked a rail line. An aircra et engine was mounted on a atcar and backed into the drift Its hot exhaust blast slic through the drift like a knife through butter, and the trains could pags. "And all these em all a EN A het Ag eG ele tla sth ath, ae hh eae ee ee ll ars, we in Canada have been aboriously moving the with ploughs and blowers," commented my friend, Another report etches an icy icture of home life in the rigid Isles, 'We have an elec: tric fire and an oll stove in the living room but have run out of coal and wood for the fireplace, We sit in fur coats, fur-lined boots and mittens, with rugs round our knees, And then we are comfortably warm until they turn down the electric power," ; Power cuts, coupled with the overload of the unusual de- mand, dims the lights, slows the cooking, chills heating and shuts down. television, Another report says: 'The arctic spell has continued for 33 consecutive days and we are having a bad time, Thousands of old folk and the very suffer intensely from co houses due to the electri ages, The 8 swarda' who have organized these cat slow-downs at this time. should be shot." But from all comes the en- vious comment: "Of course Ca- nadians are prepared for such severe cold and know how to deal with it," WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING Windsor Star: In these latter years there has been more and more emphasis on the practical sciences, In this era of automa: tion, space travel, etc, it is essential to have people who an build and manage the machines, It is, however, becoming more apparent that this isn't enough, odern problems require more than managers and machinists, If humanity is to endure, then it requires more thinkers, teach- ers and philosophers, This is the basis of a report submitted at Ottawa by research organizations in the fields of the humanities and social sciences, It calls upon governments, busi- nesses and industries to spend much more. on such advance- ments, The idea behind this is simple, People always are more impor: tant than machines; minds more important than computers, It is not good enough for society to produce men capable of making nuclear bombs which can elim: inate civilization in a few min- utes, It is necessary to have men who can ensure such wea- pons never will be used, Neither is it enough to make explorations on the moon or other planets. These will be empty victories unless we can solve social and other problems on this earth, Vancouver Province: The CBC in Vancouver is searching for the voice that told callers to "Shut your big fat mouth" when they protested about cutting short a CBC late movie last week, The protests were put through the switchboard correctly, and then the insult rang loud and clear for several callers to near, We don't know who owns the voice, but we knew this time would come, It is the machine taking vengeance on mankind. This is an age of the "tape" in which men's voices can be taken out of context, or words insert- ed, and the speech reduced to mockery, It is a day when electronics, supposedly the servant of man, can be used against him, There are dreadful possibil- ities if the machines' rebellion is not crushed, President Kea- nedy might be talking to Mr, QUEEN'S PARK Tory Leadership Ponders Election By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--The government wants to get to the people be- fore a federal election, But it doesn't know how it will be able to do this, Some PC's think they would be better off waiting until after a vote--they have the theory, right or not, that any anti-Tory venom will be expended in the federal campaign. But the party leadership ap- parently doesn't see it this way. Its thinking is that there is a strong danger of further Diefen- baker losses -- and that this could kick back against the pro- vincial party. This is the informed word here these days, and it seems to be more reliable than usual. It also says that money is not a factor in the timing of the pro- vincial vote, Presumably the party war chest is already well cushioned. UP-HILL FIGHT The government today has an up-hill fight ahead of it. And to the observer it must be given no more than an even chance of making it, It is facing the hardest type of fight in the political world-old age. Despite the fact of an injec. tion of youth at the top-old age still is the biggest single factor in the election success of the party, It is not an obvious thing, but it is there. It is there in the party thiak- ing--most of the young men at the top have not been able to break from the thought habits and inhibitions of the old govern- ment It is heavily larded in the ma- chinery of government here, which is overweight and ocrres- pondingly inefficient. And it has thinned the blood of the party organization and ranks throughout the province-- with now tired men of another day still the muscle of the party, and inevitable a flabby one, DRASTIC CHANGE Premier Robarts and his poli- tical masterminds can try and counter this, They undoubtedly will make an extreme effort. But what they are fighting is in effect a form of blight. And experience is that rid- dance of blight calls for drastic steps, Steps which it might be only an election defeat could. bring about, Khrushchev with kindly vigor, and a voice might cut in with fearful suggestions, and in Rus- sian, too, Prime Minister Diefenbaker might be talking to Buckingham Palace, or Premier . Bemiett talking to Wall Street, or a sec- retary talking to her boss, or a man talking to his banker, when the vengeful loud-mouth decided to bring down the world about our ears, The awful words "Shut your big fat mouth!"' could be the last words heard in the uni- verse, And there might be some who would consider it a fitting epi- taph for a civilization that has put too many words into the atmosphere, and set too many electronic brains to work. Those electronic servants won't stay servile for ever, The rumble of revolt has already been heard, CHATHAM NEWS: Canadian postmen are reported voting canny. in favor of adopting a "work to rule' program as a step toward 'drawing attention to their demands for salary in- creases, The "work to rule' p m, originating in Britaln, "seem. ingly had the effect of slowi the postal service to a mark degree -- and this without any open disobedience to rules, but merely' by adhering to the rules, Without looking into the mer- its of their request, most Cana- dians would probably like to see the posties get more money, But sabotaging the postal ser- vice and inconveniencing the public may not be too . The question suggests itself: "What sort of has. the service which make le bad inconveniencing of pub- 2" If the existing ations make it legal to slow down the service to a snail's pace, why not change them before they become a source of trouble? . . It may be that the service would be better if there were some adjustment of both rules and wages, LE DEVOIR, MONTREAL: The Glassco commission is right to denounce the sickness phn portant ny A But the criteria it adopts suggesting solutions are not acceptable. There are many exam of a confusion between administra- tive rationalization and reac. tionary political philosophy which emerges more and more as one of the main character- istics of the work of Mr, Glass- co and his colleagues. Informed observers will prob- ably be able to separate the wheat from the chaff in this mixture, and translate such of the proposals as deserve to be retained into concrete reforms for the health of the federal administration, The pity is that in the eyes of Canadian public opinion the work of administrative reform thy! now seriously comprom: by the ambiguous philo- sophy behind the Glassco re- port. There are few, outside a rather narrow circle, who can accept the idea that the philo- sophy of private enterprise should be transferred, pure and simple, into the administration of government. BY-GONE DAYS 25 YEARS AGO Many honored the memory of Scotland's poet and philosopher, Robert Burns, at a banquet and concert given by the men's or- ganization of St. Andrew's Pres- byterian Church at Whitby. M. McIntyre Hood proposed the toast to "The Immortal Me- mory"', H, M. Gilchrist was elected president of the Oshawa Branch of the Upper Canada Bible Society. A visiting team of curlers from Scotland came to Oshawa and played against rinks skip- ped by R. S. McLaughlin, L. K. Luke, E. Parsons and G, W, McLaughiin, County Council plenned to spend. $6000 on Oshawa subur- ban roads in 1938. Radio license fees were to be increased from $2 to $2.50 on April i, it was announced by Transport Minister Howe. Albert Street, South Simcoe, King and Centre Street schools successful ice carnivals under the auspices of the Home and School Associations. Fire Chief Biliott reported Oshawa's fire losses for 1987 amounting to $30,000 were caused by carelessness with cigarette butts, Arthur A, Gates, one of the city's best - known sportsmen and baseball executives, died in his 38th year. It was recommended that the parking meter system for the city be given a three months' trial with installations along the south side of King street be- tween Simcoe and Celina streets. The farm home of Moses Shields near Whitby was com- pletely destroyed by fire. The direct relief expenditures for Oshawa. in 1937 was $224,638. compared with $337,580 the pre. ceding year with the city's Share being $90,617.