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~w OTTAWA REPORT 7 Chevrier Leaves ~ Scene Of Success Flood Effect Still Is Felt PEKING (Reuters)--Some of the worst floods ever to ravage north China are still affecting en area within 100 miles of Pe- 'The Gsbyaron Times 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher rates pedi tanta so ee aw FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1964--PAGE 6 PM's Trips Shouldn't Lead To Exaggeration + ° Prime Minister Pearson has had pleasant visits with General de Gaulle and President Lyndon John- gon, He was undoubtedly able to taake both more aware of various, Canadian concerns in international commerce and other relations, and that alone would justify his travels. Whether he was able to persuade the French and American leaders that the Canadian attitudes deser- ved only their warmest co-operation and support is something else, of course -- something to be guessed at as events unfold in the months to come. The reports about Mr. Pearson suddenly becoming the honest broker between France and the United States, however, can be at- tributed largely to wishful think- ing or over-active national pride. Mr. Pearson is a skilled, experienced diplomat. As such he would be sen- sitive to nuances in discussions with such complex and powerful personalities as de Gaulle and John- Britain's Big The fix that Britain now finds herself in demonstrates the danger of' the doctrine that all a large people needs for defence is nuclear armament. The H-bomb is the ulti- mate weapon, the great deterrent-- but its use means that the ultimate __ war is being fought. Meanwhile, all gorts of little wars are being fought around the world, and the aggres- sors know that they are safe from nuclear retaliation, because the big powers know that they might now be able to stop the deadly reaction, once unleashed. In any case, one does not use a two-inch hose to quench a candle. _ Britain has tried to maintain herself as a power with an inde- pendent nuclear detergent -- a very costly procedure -- while at the game time maintaining the sem- : blance of an adequate conventional 'force to look after British in- terests in various parts of the world. It has been too much of a strain, and the British conventional force _ now is simply not adequate to meet the country's commitments. The Indonesians are attacking Worried By The wartime director of Amer- fean scientific research and deve- lopment is worried about current trends in research, the Milwaukee Journal reports. Dr. Vannevar Bush expressed his concern before the U.S. House of Representatives committee in- 'vestigating government research. "When scientific programs are judged by popular acclaim we inevi- tably have overemphasis on the spectacular," said Dr. Bush. "That is what we have today. The deeply important scientific advances mov- ing today are not easy to under- stand. If they were they would have been accomplished long ago. Outstanding scientific progress, which will most affect the lives and health of our children, is not grasped by many." 425 University Cathcart. Street, SUBSCRIPTION RATES son, and he would naturally be alert to any opportunities to explore with delicacy any new areas of understanding or agreement. But as a diplomat he would also fully understand the great danger of attempting to intrude into diplo- matic exchanges already under way between the two countries, and the equally great danger of being re- garded simply as a tattletale or gabby messenger boy. Too much, therefore, should not be read into the visits. They were valuable because they enabled the Canadian prime minister and the other heads of state to meet in a friendly atmosphere, exchange some views, assess personalities and lay the groundwork for personal com- munication. But it is distinctly un- fair to Mr. Pearson to have him pictured as a suddenly emerged wonder-worker who will sweet- talk de Gaulle and the United States into complete agreement on all the issues that now make them such prickly allies. Burden. the new Commonwealth state of Malaysia, the Yemen is attacking the British colony of Aden, Somalia may attack the new Common- wealth state of Kenya, there has been rioting in Tanganyika, and there could be renewed rioting in British Guiana. British troops are involved in all places -- and there just aren't enough of them. Britain keeps troops.in nine spe- cia] danger areas in Asia, Africa and South America, but to fulfill these commitments she may have to withdraw troops from Germany -- which would mean a further NATO default. Should Britain have to shoulder the full burden of such efforts to keep the peace? Should the United States have to shoulder an even heavier burden? This is propéfly the job of the United Nations, but only in a few isolated instances has the UN -been able to intervene effectively. A UN with a police force . could do it -- but a police force suggests acceptance of the rule of law, and obviously too many UN members are not prepared to accept that rule. Research In part the situation stems from the success of applied research under Dr. Bush in World War II. That led to the fallacy entertained by many that any problem can be solved by gathering together all the scientists you can get and giving them all the money they want. Today's popular image of the scientist is of a man directing a team of researchers in a vast la- boratory filled with costly equip- ment. Some of today's scientific work must be carried on in this fashion, but in runs up costs, tends to support the trivial and mediocre, and wastes scientific manpower, Dr. Bush warns. A man sitting at a desk and thinking is not an expensive pro- position. He is not spectacular, either. But Dr. Bush told the com- mittee: "The great scientific steps forward originate in the minds of gifted students, not in the minds of promoters. The best way to proceed is to be sure that really inspired scientists have what they need to work with, and leave them: alone." Bible Thought And this shall be a sign unto thee from the Lord, that'the Lord will do this thing that he hath spoken. -- Isaiah 38:7. The fulfilment of the promises of ov God are not subject to the limita- tions of even the best of men. He cannot lie and cannot die. | -- nti ey "Z| STILL PRESSING THE WRONG BUTTON REPORT FROM U.K. sue Coal Board Shows Good 1963 Profit By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- Lord Robens, chairman of the National Coal Board, has every reason to be proud of the board's achieve-. well merited, for there was no ments during the year. 1963. In a report on fhe year's (ppera- tions, he estimated that "the board had earned a gross profit of between $160 million and $162 YOUR HEALTH million. This enabled it to meet its annual interest charges, which amount to $127.5 million, and leave over $30 million to be put aside for future depreciation and reserves. Modestly, he said the report represented "quite an achieve-- ment". This description was general increase in coal prices during 1963, and the only pre- vious year in which the board had done nearly as well was in Damage To Brain Permanent Matter. By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, MD Dear Dr. Molner: I read with interest and dismay a letter written to you and your reply to the woman with a brain-dam- child. There is help, there are peo- ple who are concerned, and dren something can be done. My brother has such a child who had been taken' to various doc- tors. Then one recommended -- institute. It has a program de- signed to develop that part of the brain which is not damaged, Due to this program children have been taught to walk, to read and in general become normal. In many cases these children have surpassed the mentality of so-called normal children of equal age. Please pass this information along. -- 8.R. I'm gure you are sincere, but I cannot in good conscience publicize the '"'institute' you mention. I imply-no criticism of it, It may do a very fine job. But let's face facts. Brain damage is a serious and perma- nent matter, It is tragic. I agree that much can often be done for either the retarded or the brain - damaged child. There is no doubt that, in the past, many such children have been shunted aside or "written off" without any effort to de- velop their capabilities. After - all, normal children have to be trained, or "taught" or whatever you want to call the process of imparting knowl- edge. A normal child, subjected to being ignored or thrust aside will not. develop to his potential capabilities. This, regrettably, has happened at times. Perhaps it still happens. Let's take the opposite condi- tion. Either retarded or brain- damaged children can be TODAY IN HISTORY © By THE CANADIAN PRESS Jan, 24, 1964 James Marshall discov- ered gold on the site of a mil] he was building for John Sutter in California's 'Sierra Nevada 116 years ago today--in 1848. The news leaked out and soon the advance guard of the gold rush of 1849 swarmed inot the~ area. Ironically Sutter and Marshall both died poor. 192--Food rationing was introduced in Canada dur- ing the Second World War. 1935 -- The liner Mohawk sank off the New Jersey coast in a collision with a freighter, killing 56. trained,but there will be a limit as to what they) can learn or understand. 4 Frequently a retarded child will have a remarkably good memory. Yet not "understand" But because of. that, such chil- can with patience, be trained to have certain skills, even though they may not un- derstand the reasons. All this is fine. Everybody-- 'don't you think so, too?--should learn to use such abilities as he can, Most of us should be averagely good. The genius should be exceptionally good. The retarded should be as cap- able as their condition permits. Yes, the brain-damaged and retarded can, within their limi- tations, learn to do a great deal. The degree of damage governs what is possible. We have not done enough in the past and we are not doing enough now to help such youngsters to make 'the best use of the ability they possess, - But we must also guard against fooling ourselves into believing that training can make them into 'normal chil- dren." A lame child; with training, braces or whatever, can be taught to walk. He cannot .be- come' a sprinter, or play bask- etball, or become a ballet dan- cer. It is the same with damage to the mind, GALLUP POLL 1956, when the prices of coal went up substantially. Behind this excellent report was the fact that sales of coal were eight million tons higher than in 1962, and the highest since 1958. Coupled with that was the record of exports, which rose by 60 per cent to 7,500,000 tons. This enabled the board to exceed the target which had been set for it by the National Economic Develop- ment Council for the year 1956. During the year, productivity in the coal mines went up by nearly six per cent, well above the target of the Council. Man- power in the mines went down by 25,000. In the last two years, 5,000 miners and their families had been transferred from shrinking coalfields in Scotland and the northeast to booming coalfields further south without any trouble. Strikes were fewer last year than ever before. All of this adds up to a mag- nificent endorsement of the leadership being given to the coal :industry by Lord Robens as chairman of the National Coal Board. His comment was: "The difficult years of the coal board are through. We are now taking the lid off produc- tion. We believe there is every possibility of maintaining our six per cent annual increase in years." BIG NEW DEAL An indication of how the ex- pansion of the coal industry will affect another nationalized in- dustry, the British Railways, Is seen in a new contract which Dr. Richard Beeching, the rail- way chief has just concluded with the country's largest coal consumer, the Central Elec- tricity Generating Board. This contract will mean additional revenue of $300 million for the British Railways. over the next 10 years, for carrying coal to Britain's electric generating sta- tions. The 10-year contract provides for new non-stop trains to take over the present 34 million tons a year coal traffic to the power stations. The new deal will be in addition to the present 60 million a year revenue from this source, because tonnage of coal carried is expected to double by 1970. Of the new revenue, the railways estimate that about $60 million will be net profit. This comes on top of a recent signing of a similar 10-year agreement with six major oil companies which will-double oil traffic by rai! in the period and bring the railways an addition- al $45 million in profit, Because of these and other measures, Dr. Beeching is con- fident that he can now take the railways out of the"*'red'"' before his original target date of 1970. Little Change Reported. _In Support y THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION ( World Copyright Keserved) If Canada went to the polls to- day, the nation would return the parties with almost iden- tical popular vole as in last Federal election. A very close match with the April results is revealed, even: though one-thira of the voters today say they are undecided in their political Election standing, April 8th vuly. October : : TODAY In Quebec province, Social Credit has regained some ground; after a drop-off imnie- diately after the election. On- tanio figures are firm, with a Of Parties preferences. A slight gain for Conservatives appears to come almost entirely from ~ the Prairies where they have pick- ed up some strength from the Social Credit Party. Party favors today, based on the Poll's classic question, show this national stability in terms of those who have an opinion. "If a Federal election were held today, which party's candi- date do you think you would favor?" Soc-Cred. Cons. Lib. NDP And Other 33% 42% 13% 12% 34 43 13 10 35 3 12 10 35 a2 13 10 slight .drop in NDP popularity, going to both Liberals and Con- servatives. In the West, Con- servatives have gained at the. expense of Social Credit. king, five months after the dis- aster occurred. A torrential downpour last summer caused the floods in -- southeast of Pe- From the window of an ex- ries train from Peking to hanghai, this reporter saw a bleak, ice-covered wilderness ton one side of the track. Seventy miles out of Peking, the ice field began. For the next 20 miles, as. far as the eye could see, there was nothing but frozen flood water, which. will not thaw until spring. The ice is- only a few inches High deep now. But the water line on buildings still standing shows the flood reached a depth of between four and six feet over a great area. MUD HUTS CRUMBLE Only villages on By PATRICK NICHULSON OTTAWA --. Parliament Hill and a great parliamentarian have bade farewell to each other with mutual regret and to the ominous roll* of muffled drums representing the cruel facts of politics. The Hon. Lionel Chevrier, Privy Councillor, Queen's Coun' sel, Minister of Justice, Attor- ney - General of Canada, and joint Dean of the House of Com- mons has become His Excel- lency the Hon. Lionel Chevrier, Commissioner to Britain, thus bringing to a close a car- eer of 25 years and four months as a federal politician. Mr. Chevrier can take justi- fiable pride in the successes he won in the political field. He high ground and brick-built structures below survived the floods, Thousands of mud huts, in which most Chi- nese still live, seem to have crumbled. away in the floods. ,This and other parts of the north China plain were flooded after nearly 30 inches of rain fell in a four-day period during August. The downpour caused 'all five major rivers of the Haiho River system to burst their banks. - They flooded one of China's main wheat- and cotton-produc- ing areas. A tremendous battle suc- ceeded in saving the provincial capital of Tientsin, north China's main industrial city and seaport. The Chnese press has given only scanty details of the floods and no inkling of the loss of life or damage to property. People in Peking and in other' unaffected parts of the country are volunteering grain coupons to help feed inhabitants. of the afflicted areas. PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM The average person is more careful about what is put into his motor and gas tank than what he puts in his stomach and head. No one has ever been able to explain why human beings are so intelligent when acting individually and so dumb when acting collectively. -"Women. are better balanced than men," says a psychologist. Undoubtedly they are: other- wise, they couldn't balance on these spike heels. READERS' VIEWS HEALTH SERVICES Dear Sir: I see by.the papers that On- tario is likely to have a health services program. But the plan suggested doesn't seem to be as comprehensive as it should be. Under Bill 163 it looks as if the only health services insured would be the bills of medical doctors. Even. the dentists are excluded according to news re- ports of the committee studying the proposed plan. I noticed that ophthalmologists are in- cluded because they are medical doctors but optometrists, who take a-four-year course at the 'optometric college, are left out, and yet an optometrist is quali- fied to do many of the things that an ophthalmologist-can do. The papers reported that there are four or five times as many optometrists practising in On-. tario as there are ophthalmolo- gists or oculists. People who do not live close to the larger cities can't go to an oculist, but in most towns of only a few thou- sand people there are optome- trists practising their profession. I think you will agree, Mr. Editor, that insured health ser- vices should be as broad as possible and not set up for the benefit of any one profession. The benefit should to the public. A. J. Ockwell constituency of Stormont, and then four in the Quebec con- stituency of Montreal - Laurier. And for approximately one- mest Site Soe pat me! e served as - net minister, in the stedtciatra- tions of Mackenzie King, St. Laurent and Pearson. For one- quarter of those years only, he sat on the Opposition benches, where he deserved the promi- nence he attained as one of the.. giants who carried the frac- tured L'beral Party-on their shoulders, winning from the then Prime Minister the acco- lade of being "The Four Horse- men of the Apocalypse." SERVICE TO CORNWALL Born in Cornwall, educated at Cornwall schools before pro- ceeding to university,-and mak- ing his home there until mid- dle age, his greatest service to his home town was his powerful and effective championship of the project to create the St. Lawrence Seaway and power 5 28 ; Lil : i oF Preity ' 38 : i ' az att eit ju 2" role for which he had i i was a 'white tie" banquet, and the best-dressed cabinet minis- ter enhanced the splendor glittering with the star and lar of a noble order. "My religion would have led project. Appropriately, he was which appointed the first executive of- ficer of the Seaway; he took time out from politics for just under three years to accept this post, which he filled with ac- claim during the difficult teeth- ing period. As a parliamentary new- comer at the age of 32, Lionel Chevrier worked with such old- time poliitcal giants as Mac- QUEEN'S PARK centre of trade and finance, the most important i" ears, Lionel Parliament Hill. Sense Of Urgency Could Be Missing BY DON O'HEARN Toronto: What's wrong here? These days you find yourself asking this, and then wondering why. There is a government which seems quite able. It is a new government, and a young one. It is doing a lot of things. It had a recital of project sin the Throne Speech which was im- -- : pane And yet you aren't easy it, You can't be impressed, And subconsciously you feel there is something missing. What is it? Too Easy? It could be that perhaps the government is too placid. That while it is giving "'good'"' government, it is not the good government that the times re- quire. , That perhaps 'it's pace is too easy, that it is stressing stabil- ity when the great demand of the tinies is for vigor. NO URGENCY: What is missing could be a sense of urgency. When you look at the govern- ment program you find there. is a great deal of "study". Select committees are to be established in some fields. -In others there will be civil- ian committees. In still other areas there is @ promise' of "research", All fine enough. Stuéy and résearch. certainly are needed today as never before. BY-GONE DAYS 35 YEARS AGO Jan. 24, 1929 Thomas Haw kes..returned home to Oshawa for a three -months holiday after having epent the previous five years in Australia for GMC. Alex W..Bell . was elected chairman of the Oshawa Board of Education. Dr. F. J. Done- van was elected head of the management committee, and Rev. Father Bench chairman of the building committee at the board's inaugural meeting. The Goodyear Tire and Rub- ber Co. of Bowmanville, narnow- ly escaped destruction when fire gutted a warehouse near the main building. Only the heroic efforts of the fire department saved the latter. Mrs. Robert McLaughlin, one of Oshawa's oldest citizens, cele- brated her 89th birthday. Dr. P. E. Doolittle, president of the Canadian Automotive As- sociation, who was the speaker at the Rotary Club luncheon meeting, reminisced of the old days when Oshawa's main street was a sea of mud, and horses had to be unhitched and bug- gies drawn to the side of the road to let a car go through. City Council passed a bylaw granting the Board of Education $280,000 to build an extension to the Collegiate Institute for a technical school. Rev. J. H. McBain, former minister of Simcoe Street Unit- ed Church, retired after 4 years in the ministry. The Oshawa Little Theatre un der the direction of John Craig, presented the first of a series of four plays in the Rotary Hall. The selections were 'The Im- pertinence of the Creature", "The Florist Shop", "The Le Pound Look" and "Low e. City Council and the Ontario Railway Board to re move the residential restric- tions on the corners of King street east and Ritson road. Aldermen George Hart, Frank Mason and Alex Hall and presi- dent George W. McLaughlin and secretary Leon Fraser of the Chamber of Commerce were named to comprise a committee to make an industrial survey of the city with a view to ex- pansion in a proper way. municipal affairs has been un- derway for three years. And members are asking to sit again. THE GROWTH: Where is the urgency? Keith Butler, the new P.C, member or Waterloo North, spoke about his home city of Kitchener in his Throne debate speech--he was the mover. He was talking about the growth of the province. By. 1970, he said, the population of Kitch- ener will have doubled. This means sewers, water- mains, roads and sidewalks will have to be increased "not in feet but in miles." .Classrooms and schools will be required. More water will be necessary, "not in thousands but in lions of gallons." We are moving to meet these needs. But we are moving with "studies." And will we move in time? We probably will, as a mat-- ter of fact. But there is a feeling we may meet them like the host who rushes in the back door as his guests are entering" at the front. A MOTION PICTURE YOU MUST SEE! Question | WINNER OF TWENTY-TWO SNTERNATIONAL AWARDS! PICTURE WILL BE SHOWN: AT THE Salvation Army - OSHAWA Friday, Jan. 24 Saturday, Jan. 25 8 P.M.