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The Oshawa Zimes Published. by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1964 -- PAGE 6 Medal Might Fill Gap -' Recognizing Service Could a decoration become a positive stimulus to creative citi- zenship? "In a- recent editorial, the Kit chener-Waterloo Record noted that Prime Minister Pearson, during the House of Commons flag debate, in- dicated the government was con- sidering activating the Canada Medal, This decoration was: created in 1943 but never, for reasons un- known, awarded, It was created originally to honor meritorious service by Canadians and citizens of other countries. It was clearly intended to fill a gap in Canadian life, where there is no official way in which such ser- vice can be recognized. "The need is primarily in the non-military field," states the Re- cord, "for the British system of military decorations is available to Canadian servicemen. Something of the nature of Britain's Order of Merit, but perhaps not quite so exclusive, would meet this concep- tion. "Men like Sir Frederick Banting, the discover of insulin, and Sir Charles Edward Saunders, who as the discoverer of marquiz wheat helped create the standards for Canada's great wheat-producing in- dustry, come immediately to mind as men who would deserve such recognition. : "Both these men were honored by knighthoods. Canada's decision to abjure such honors underlines the present situation where men and women who make outstanding con- tributions go without such recogni- tion. "It may be argued that in the present time of national uncertainty something like a medal is of slight importance. But action now would not be frivolous and would be look- ing primarily to the future. « "Not only would it honor those Canadians and citizens of other countries who in Canada's eyes have made important contributions. It should also help turn the attention of today's youth to posiive objec- tives." Wealthy Presidents Guessing games are popular, espe- cially when vast sums of money are . involved. In the United States it is not good form for wealthy presi- dents to tallk about their money-- and a guessing game is usually the result. President Kennedy's financial worth was estimated at $10 million. But F. D. Roosevelt was said to be at least a millionaire, and President Hoover was reported to have ac- cumulated $6 million as early as 1914. Recently a Washington paper reported the Lyndon B. Johnson family as "'one of the richest ever to occupy the White House," with total holdings estimated at $9 mil- lion in stock, broadcasting and other enterprises. This news, says the New York Times, must have come as a shock to a group of Papuan Islanders. Disenchanted with their Australian overseers, they have been saving to buy Mr. Johnson as an administra- tor. All they may have by the end of the year is $11,200 in taxes they have refused to pay. Mr. Johnson would hardly con- sider that a tempting offer. On the other hand, the implied compliment couldn't be bought at any price. 'Qualified Men Needed The emphasis being placed on special qualifications in the auto- 'mated world of today is reflected in a reported shortage of profession- ally-trained in Canadian industry, notes the Kitchener - Waterloo Record. The Technical Service Council, a non-profit, industry - sponsored placement service, says it has more than 700 job openings with firms across Canada. These call for young men in the fields of accounting, chemistry, chemical engineering, civil engin- eering, drafting, geology, electrical engineering, electronics, industrial engineering, mining, metallurgy, personne] and industrial relations and others. Because of a shortage of junior engineers, the council finds, many companies are looking to graduates of institutes of technology and even these are in short supply since so few now to come to Canada. The big demand is in the age bracket of from 20-27 years. The Record feels that young Canada has fine prospects, if it can be fitted to fill the professional demands, Plan For Retirement when they reach retire- ment. And more people are going to An old problem, but one which becomes increasingly important with every step toward automation, has been phrased colloquially by a dis- tinguished American industrialist. "Watch the guy who takes a brief case home at night," he says. "When the job stops, he stops." In other words, remarks the Victoria Daily Times, those people busy and happy in their work who find no time to develop pursuits of leisure are headed for immediate She Oshawa Fines T. L. WILSON, Publisher C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times festablished 1871) and the Whitby Gazette ond Chronicle (established 1863) is published daily 3% and Statutory holidays excepted) Members of Daily Newspaper Publish- ers Association. The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Associotion. The Canadion Press is exclusively entitled te the use of republication of all news despatched in the paper credited to if or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and also the local yews published therein. All rights of special des- sotches ore also reserved. Offices: Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by corriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hompton, Frenchman's Boy, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Srono, Leskard, Broughom, Burketon. Claremont, Columbus, Greenwood, Kinsole, Raglan, Blockstock, Manchester Pontyposi and Newcastle noi over 45c per week By mail (in Province of Ontorio) outside rage on pg creas 12.00 per year, Other » Countries 15.00, USuhe-end forvien 24,00, trouble reach. retirement earlier as modern trend in industry continues. The point made by the American industrialist has been emphasized by many authorities in the field. They are trying to encourage the busily employed to give thought and planning to the years when they will no longer be engaged in the pursuits which occupy their in- terest, time and energy during their working life. The fact should be wisely un- derstood -- and possibly it is -- that when the demands on mind, spirit and energy made by a job are lifted, some other demands have to be substituted to avoid rapid de- terioration, But the fact is also widely re- cognized that too many people con- sider this problem one for somebody else. They do not relate it to them- selves, "How dull it is,' said Ulyssis, "to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use." But, says the Daily Times, it hap- pens to those who fail to prepare for retirement or prolonged Jeisure -- "the guy who takes a brief case home at night." the . REPORT FROM U.K. Tired Of Germany, But Town Soured By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- A year ago, the town of Sutton, in Surrey, re- ceived an unpleasant shock when a Polish refugee family which it had sponsored and for which it had provided, free, a $10,200 house completely. furn- YOUR HEALTH ished, decide to give it up and return to Germany. Their excuse was that they could not settle down in Britain, although a job was provided for the father of the family, and could not stand the British climate. So they packed up and returned to Allendorf, Germany, to live in a converted stable home. Don't Be Alarmed At Plastic Lenses By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, MD Dear Dr. Molner: Recently I read an article stating that plastic contact lenses are harm- ful to the eyes, and that there were eight cases of blindness from using them. We are con- cerned because our son wears them. The optomerist who fitted him said there was no danger. What is your opinion?--Mrs. 0. Dear Doctor: I have been reading about contact lenses causing blindness. My daughter and granddaughter wear them, and I am worried.--Mrs. S.S. Let's everybody relax. I read several of those articles, too, and also some others which fol- lowed them. There's no reason to be alarmed, although I do think people should know what to expect if they adopt contact lenses. The articles mentioned above concerned plastic lenses. There is an obvious reason for using plastic: It doesn't shatter. In the early days of plastic fenses, there were a few which caused a lot of trouble: An im- purity in one. batch of plastic caused irritation, and the irri- tation, in some tragic instances, jed to blindness. Now I am not an unqualified proponnet of contact lenses. Neither do I condemn them. They are excellent for some people and they are a dis- appointment for others. It's sort of like politics. The fellow who always votes a straight ticket, and always the same party, is either a professional politician or a fool. Because neither party has a monopoly on brains or good candidates. It's the same with contact lenses. Use them if they are right for you, and 'don't if they aren't. I'm not convinced that of the "eight cases of blindness," some of these people may not thave had eye problems that would have caused the same tragic result anyway. Maybe yes, maybe no. I have a large area of doubt in my mind be- cause I've seen the same sort of pattern appear in quite dif- TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS July 3, 1963... The city of Quebec was founded by French explorer Samuel de Champlain--the first settlement in New France--on this day in 1608. It had been more than a century since Columbus had reached America. For a number of years after its founding Quebec was no more than a trading post, reached only by a perilous route. Twenty years after its founding, Quebec boasted about 100 inhabi- tants, six families, and an economy founded on farm- ine 1953 Food .rationing.. ended in Britain after 14% years. ferent fields of health. Out of a million (or several million) uses of a drug, a treatment or an appliance, you find a cer- tain number of failures. Report the failures? Talk about them? Study them? Cer- tainly! But find out what caused the failure, and correct it. I'm 'of a conservative nature and I don't jump on the bandwagon when some new discovery 'comes along. I'm hungry to know what's good about it, but suspicious enough to want to know what minor aspects may turn out to harmful, too. So, in this case, I don't see ny reason to be critical of con- 'tact lenses, or of plastic ones. We've learned, from those few early cases, one thing to look out for. But perhaps the biggest les- son we have learned, and this goes for all contact lenses, as well as a lot of other things: If some product, treatment or ap- pliance causes irritation and.in- flammation, don't ignore .it. Don't keep on using it just be- cause somebody else. didn't have trouble. The important question. is whether it bothers you. If only eight cases of blindness came from those early, faulty plastic lenses, there had to be thou- sands upon thousands of people who didn't suffer. Medicine, in short, is very personal, and if you have trouble, say so. Don't assume that what's right for somebody else, even a lot of somebody elses, has to be right for you. Head of this Polish refugee family is Alexander Miechowicz, a 51-year-old mechanic. He took back to Germany with him his wife and five children. Now he has sent an urgent plea to the Sutton Refugee "Committee to return to the town that had previously adopted. him and his wife and family and once again make an effort to settle down in Sutton. PLEA TOO LATE The plea from this Polish family, however, has come too late. As is quite understandable, the action of this family in going back to Germany after all that had been done for-it in Sutton has soured the towns- people from extending so liberal a helping hand to any more refugees, particularly to those who had shown so little appre- ciation of the efforts made on their behalf. Their plea is also too late because the semi - detached house on Brighton road, Sutton, bought and furnished for them out of public subscriptions, has now been sold and the proceeds sent-on to the Ockenden Ven- ture Fund to help -- other refugees. In his letter to the com- mittee, Mr. Miechowicz said: "I know now that I made a great mistake in returning to Germany. We would like to come back to England."' But he has been told, politely but firmly, that the tewn can- not take them back. EMBARRASSING Richard Timins, secretary of the Sutton Refugee Committee, has replied: "We are very sorry that you did not stay in England when all the people of Sutton wanted to help you. Now we have sold the house and do not have any place for you to live. In view of all the public hep given to. you and your family, it would be embarrassing both for your family and the town if you were to return here." This family's return to Ger- many followed the return a few months earlier of another Polish refugee family adopted by the neighboring borough of Car- shalton. Ald. F. W. Thompson, chairman of the committee, said it had been a bitter blow to Sutton when the Miechowicz family decide to leave. "We spent thousands of pounds making them comfort- able. We bought them a house, gave them furniture and cloth- ing and found the husband a good job. We even subsidized his wages and paid his rent - all for nothing." Now Ald. Thompson and several other members have said they would resign from the committee if another refugee family was adopted. BY-GONE DAYS 35 YEARS AGO July 3, 1929 George Hart was elected pres- ident of the Oshawa Rotary Club for the 1929-30 Rotary year. ' Other officers elected were: D. F, Johnston, vice-president; Leon Fraser, secretary and R: S. Morphy, treasurer. President G. D. Conant an- nounced that the Rotary Fair had gross receipts of $10,000, The Ontario Regimental Band, under the direction of Band- master T, Dempsey, presented a fine concert at Memorial Park to start the season's concerts, The Oshawa Street Railway made application to give better service to the citizens of Osh- awa by installing a 10-minute service system. Officers and members of the Ontario Regiment left to attend the annual camp at Niagara-on- the-Lake. City council accepted a gift of a strip of land 4 feet wide on Simeoe street S6uth from Wolfe street to the Oshawa Creek, from Gordon D. Conant, for street widening purposes, Co. W. E. Phillips and his son, Derek, R. W, Millichamp, presi- dent of the Oriental Textiles, Ltd., and W. D_ Elliott,. mana- ger of the local Canadian Bank of Commerce, narrowly escaped death when their motor launch, in which they were cruising on Sturgeon Lake took fire. The occupants jumped into the water and swam a short distance to shore. Kresge Company of Detroit had purchased the Vickery prop- erty on King street' west with the intention of opening a store there, The membership of the Osh- awa Motor Club stood at 270, as result of a drive for new members, C. E. McTayish was president. The Red Cross Cottage al the lake opened for the season. A . arty- of 22 children were: the irst occupants for a two weeks' holiday, Thomas P. Johns, of Oshawa, was a member of the Canadian Lawn Bowling team to tour New Zealand and Australia: 'ations of a Questions Asked On Lyndon Johnson By HAROLD MORRISON WASHINGTON (CP)--A tall Texan, equally at home in a saddle or behind the wheel of a fast - moving convertible, is the man to beat in November's presidential election, Can the Republicans do it? Some have already thrown in the towel, agreeing with the Fase yd that Lyndon Baines Joh may be. querable. The 55 - year - old Johnson sometimes talks of his admin- {stration's aims in terms that sound like cornpone platitudes to the sophisticated voter. His idea of building the found- "great society" in which poverty is abolished, peace is secured and taxes are reduced is a noble, if obyious, ambition. Perhaps it even wins some yotes. But what prompts poll-takers to suggést he'll win by a mar- gin reminiscent of Dwight D. Eisenhower's election victories is Johnson's hard-nosed _politi- ca! acumen, In smashing Congressional op- position to tax cuts and push- ing through the most powerful Negro rights legislation in a century, he has shown he can get things done, possibly more than the late John F. Kennedygp would have accomplished iad he lived. NOT ABOVE CRITICISM The schoolboy debater who rose from poverty to build a fortune estimated at more than $9,000,000 is not above criticism. Some newspapers still ask how much of the family fortune in Austin, Tex., television opera- tions can be attributed to Lady Bird Johnson's business ability and how much to the fact that Johnson, when he was a sena- tor, had a close. association with the Federal Communica- tions Commission, the TV regu- latory agency. Despite attempts to disown Bobby Baker, the smooth-talk- ing fortune-maker who quit un- der fire as secretary to the Senate majority fader, John- son can't shake off the attacks OTTAWA REPORT Liberals Have of Republicans. They remind that he was the man who first hired Baker and who accepted an insurance premium kickback from a Baker acquaintance. Johnson's advisers were aghast when he first bumbled the Panama Canal crisis by re~ pudiating a Latin annoynce- ment of settlement. They moaned when he picked up his beagles by their ears, setting off a howl among dog-lovers. And there were moments of disquiet when the boss was re- ported breaking speed limits by racing his car over ranch roads in Texas. But the president has been able to ride out the criticism. And in little ways he manages to convey a picture of himself as a man who likes people. He endeared himself to tour- ists by unlocking the White House gates to some visitors and escorting them on a per- ae eve ae what. mi ve. de : we pee panic and paralysis mone Po ys pons te conveys phir of confidence, whether: " ' across pet Bonny or penn Pisugre ra making a. serious o Congress to cut taxes. passage of the long -. civil ° ri bill, And hee some mocrats are about the possible loss of. this will mean among serena . tionist white southerners, there aren't many who fear the effect will be great enough to en *s chances of in sonal tour. He of women to government jobs and makes a point of dancing with as many guests as possible the fall, whether his opponent is Senator Barry Goldwater op anyone else. John K. Waller Seen Breaking New Ground -- By ROBERT COLEMAN Canadian Press Correspondent MELBOURNE (CP) -- Fifty- year-old John Keith Waller will be breaking new ground this month when he takes up his new post as Australia's ambas- sador to the United States. He is the first career diplomat to be appointed to a job which by tradition always has gone to a senior Australian cabinet minis- ter. But the 'role of pathfinder is not new to' Waller. In a long, eventful career in the Austral- jan diplomatic service, he has had many tough trail-blazing assignments, Waller is a shortish, slightly built man who dresses impec- Vote Foreseen For October By PATRICK NICHULSON OTTAWA--Will there be an election in 1964--making our fifth in eight years? The current debasing of our national legislative assembly into an electioneering arena suggests that an early election, say in October, is expected and desired. But other factors suggest that the present House of Minorities should be kept alive, with less drastic cures attempted for 'ts Instability and irritability. What would a 1964 election prove? Thinking voters have nowhere to go. The administra- tion of Mr. D. collapsed like a house of cards, and the same old jokers cannot learn new tricks, say some disheartened Tories. The Pearson promise has melted away after 300 days of indecision, to the disappoint- ment of the Grits. So where eould the thinking voter mark his X to obtain a stable and competent government? The powerful backstage influ- ences within both old parties are now seriously examining this impasse. The general agreement in each camp is that both Mike and Dief must go be- fore Parliament Hill can again become a reasonable form for conducting the nation's busi- ness, with confidence restored inside and outside Canada. ELECTION INDECISIVE? But at the same time these influential groups frankly admit that yet another costly and dis- turbing election this year would not be likely to produce a ma- jority government. The Liberals would suffer heavy. losses in Ontario; in rural districts through the plan to scrap the Ensign; in urban districts through disgust . with repeated yieldings to French- Canadian demands, such as the pension plan changes, the tax- sharing give-away, and the con- version of radio station CJBC to the French language. These backroom circles of both parties agree that the slaughter of Liberal MPs in On- tario would total at. least 20, and would include some of the giants of the cabinet, such as Mr, Pearson's close friend,. Fi- nance Minister Walter Gordon, and Trade Minister Mitchell Sharp. The Ottawa Valley, the Seaway shore, Tobaccoland and Toronto would see the greatest massacre; only from Ottawa east to the Quebec border would the Liberals hold an en- clave, A QUEBEC PARTY? On the other rope ain te nd would certainly make substan- tial gains in Quebec province. There they could expect to win niné seats from the Caouettists, five from the Tories and two from the Socreds. Only minor changes would be expected elsewhere, but some of these are individually quite Obvious and predictable. The Liberal party, according to this survey, would sink from its present 128 seats in the Commons to 125, of which more than half would be French-Ca- nadian representation. The Con- servatives, who now have 97 seats, would rise to Iii. The New Democratic Party would . probably gain votes, but de- spite a small number of gains and losses would end up where it now is, with 17 seats. The Caouettists would drop from 13 to four MPs, all: from rural Quebec. The Socreds would drop one seat net, to have eight MPs. There can 'be no unanimous enthusiasm inside the Liberal cabinet or the Liberal caucus for such an election, in which , so many Liberal MPs foresee their personal defeat. Equally, there can be no election fever in the backrooms of either old party, when the strategists fore- see another stalemate resulting from a 1964 vote, This makes it possible that there will be no election this year. : But the urgent backstage Strivings will continue. These now are to replace Mike Pear- son with Paul Martin who, in the belief of Liberal backers, could beat Mr. D. roundly and ensure four years of majority rule for his party. And the Tories still want to displace Mr. D., despite the hotly-disputed open vote of con- fidence in him; they seek some "new look" leader who could promise competent adminis ra- tion instead of perpetual poli- ticking, because such a leader would attract widespread com- monsense support. QUEEN'S PARK cably--often in striped pants and dark coat--and speaks with an accent that is perhaps more English than Australian. He has been in the diplomtie corps since 1936. Melburne born and educated, -- he now is first assistant secre- tary in the Australian depart- ment of external affairs, spe- cializing in Southeast Asian af- fairs. ; 'He succeeds fr Howard Beale, who returned to Aus- tralia recently after six years. in Washington. The post. was te. have gone to Defence Minister Athol Townley, who died sud- denly in December. SUAVE BUT TOUGH A Americans will like' Waller. Beneath his 'suave, elegantly dressed exterior and friendly . manner there is a strength and toughness which has won him the admiration of successive. governments and colleagues. This will. not be his first visit to Washington. He was there as first secretary to the Austral- ian embassy in 1947. Waller has been one of Aus- tralia's top-flight diplomats for many years. He took a leading role in the delicate negotiations which fol-' lowed: the severence of = matic relations between Aus- tralia and -Russia after the Petrov affair in 1954. ie Viadimir ' Petrov, - ---- of the Soviet Can, berra, defected to pres and alleged the Russian embassy had been used to cloak espio- nage activities. In the anxious days that followed, Waller took a leading part. in negotiations to prevent the, Australian lega- tion being detained in Russia. In 1960, when diplomatic re- lations were resumed, Waller went to Moscow. as Australia's ambassador. He has served in many. other countries, including China, Bra- zil, Britain, Thailand. and the Philippines. As a specialist in Asian af- fairs he has guided the diplo- matic approach in recent months to the difficult problems confronting Australia in. this area, particularly since the Ma- laysian. crisis. Waller is married with two daughters, Anne, 10, and Gil- lian, 17. Mrs. Waller, a tall, gracious woman, is an exponent of Australian fashions and plans to take as many Australian clothes with her as possible. Medical Planning Depends On Ottawa BY DON 0O'HEARN TORONTO -- Sooner or later we will have a national medical insurance plan. This is assured by the royal commission report to the fed- eral government, Does this mean that the On- tario plan will be put aside? Yes, it almost certainly does. At. time of writing Ottawa's position on the commission re- port hasn't been made known. We don't know just how far it will go and when. But, so long as it puts in any program at all on a national basis, the Ontario plan is bound , to be forgotten. Not always understood is that the Ontario plan is really only a set of rules. Essentially all it would do, as it has been proposed, would be to order the private insurance industry to make a_ limited medical insurance program available to everybody. The only insurance that would be paid for out of public funds would be for indigents and dis- tress cases. Given a national public pro- gram, this will not be neces- sary. SOME BARGAINING There probably will be con- siderable bargaining, as there has been over pensions. But in the end Ontario will almost certainly quiet'y drop its own "plan" and go along with the federal program. It's to be expected that we will have some howls from the doctors and the insurance in- dustry, particularly the latter. Both will be afraid of the po- tential inroads of state control. Bu that shouldn't make any substantial difference. Premier Robarts was strongly tied to the private insurance concept wien he first took of- fice. But he has travelled a lot of road since then, x The pensions controversy. and the election--caused him te. give a lot of second thoughts to insurance. Andgnow one can believe he would be just as glad if the sub- ject just didn't come up. Not that he-may not still have faith in private insurance. But for a politician, as he has found, it can be such a head- ache. - COMMITTEE REPORT? There has been a_ special committee studying the Ontario plan. It had been expected to pre- sent its report this fall, There still will be a report. It could well be different now, And it could even propose some modified form of the federal suggestions. But it will be largely unim- portant. The course of the fu- ture will depend on what Ot- tawa does.