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PN OMS shee PPRA ER, Sa TT et RR TT The Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1964 -- PAGE 6 Defence Department's Associate Defence Minister Car- din has reversed himself once again on the question of 'militia strength. Now he says the militia is to be pegged at 30,000 men -- which means an effective strength sub- stantially less than that figure. We do not quarrel with the decision; a well trained militia force of, say, 15,000 would be much more of a national asset than a disorganized one of 50,000. But the uncertainty of policy indicated by the chopping and changing of the figures is not calculated to raise the morale of the militia or convince the public that the defence department knows what it wants to do about the militia. When defence Minister Hellyer produced his recent white paper, defining defence objectives and proposing unification of the serv- ices, there was general approval and a feeling of relief that at last, after years of fumbling in the defence department, the country would start to get full value for the enormous amounts of money being spent on , nized, Methods Often Puzzle defence. The white paper is still an excellent blueprint, but the manner in which it is being followed is prov- ing something of a puzzlement. In the drastic reorganization re- quired for unification of the serv- aces, some units and some jobs must be eliminated; that is recog- One of the arguments in favor of unification is that the elim- ination of duplication can reduce costs without affecting total de- fence efficiency. The department has been cutting out the units and 'individuals, all right. Senior officers are being re- tired, some of them long before regular retirement age, and the same process is going on all down the line, to include non-commission- ed officers and rankers But at the same time the civilian employees of the defence department have 'in- creased, In other words, more civil servants are being hired to run a smaller defence establishment; we're firing the "fighting men" and hiring civilians. It doesn't make sense. Don't Pick Up Hikers In a Whitby court this week a hitchhiker was sentenced to a year in: reformatory after pleading guilty to a charge of assault with intent to rob. He had used a knife in an attack on the motorist who had picked him up. This instance demonstrated once again that police warnings against th picking up of strangers on the highway. are solidly based on bit- ter experience. One police officer put it this way: "Offering a ride to a stranger, like passing on a hill or a curve, is a dangerous, blind gam- ble. In neither case can the motorist foresee what is ahead." In New Jersey state troopers checked hitchhikers on a turnpike and discovered 162 runaways, 98 servicemen absent without leave, seven inmates running away from mental institutions, and five escap- ed convicts. The fingerprints of 500 othrs were on criminal records. Sheldon Mix, writing in Home and Highways, reports that out of 100 hitchhikers passing through a small town in the United States, lawmen discovered that 84 had criminal records and 12 others were either juvenile runaway or service- men: absent without leave. : Col. G. R. Carrel, chief of the Colorado state. patrol, is quoted as saying: "There are still some driv- ers who feel guilty when they turn down a 'thumb bum' on the high- way, yet there is no reason to feel ary obhigation towards these moochers. You wouldn't open your home to them. Why admit one to your car?" The article deals with conditions in the U.S., but there is no reason to suppose that Canadian conditions are much different. Deadly Weekend Nears The Labor Day week-end, which this year falls on Sept. 4-7, is the geason's final holiday celebrated jointly by Canadians and Ameri- cans. ; Each year, with almost 'monot- onous regularity, the Tuesday morn- ing following, newspapers recite the details of a new high in death and injury on the continent's highways. Last year, in Canada alone, there were 73 persons killed on the Labor Day weekend: if we add the US. total for the same period, we come up with a grim total of 616 lives snuffed out in a three-day period! Last year's total established a new record, as predicted; 1962 totals of 560 deaths were, up to that point, a record too. These records are seemingly only established to be top- pled each succeeding year. Traffic safety authorities hope- fully offer a few safety tips, which, if followed, will help you to still be around on September 8, sound of wind and limb. Remember your chances of death or serious injury are three times as great as an ordinary week-end; to She Oshawa Sines T. L. WILSON, Publisher C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor Times combining The Oshawo Times ( MWeisned 1871) and the Whitby Gozette ond Chronicle established 1863) is pubrished daily Sundays and Statutory holidays excepted). Members. of Canadian Daily Newspaper Publish- Association. The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau 7 jation and the Ontario Provincial Doilies x pero The Canadian Press is exclusively aatitied to the use of republication of all news Scacctshed in the poper credited to it or to The Pvp therein, All rights of special des- patches are also reserved. ffices; Thomson Building, 425 University Preis "Toronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES a q carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, eee cmonwilie, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, } 'ol, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunborton, Enniskillen, See ard, Broughom, Burketon, Claremont, pp hin Greenwood, Kinsole, Ragion, Biockstock, repent Pontypool! and Newcastle not over See per week. By mail in Province of Ontario) outside corriers delivery orecs 12.00 per yeor, Other Commonwealth Countries 15.00, BSA""and forvion 24.00, ress or Reuters, ond also the local © balane this out you must be three times as careful! Don't try to crowd a week's trav- el into three days; if you must travel that far, fly or take the train -- it's safer and more relax- ing. Don't give your fellow driver credit for even elementary driving commonsense; become a defensive" driver by treating all others as po- tential accident-makers. Start back home early; the last few hours of Labor Day shows a sharp peak in accident frequency, each year. Other Editors' Views SAID ABOUT LOTTERIES (Ottawa Citizen) Much has been made of the Hall commission's reference to the pos- sib/lity. of provinces using lotteries to assist them in financing health services, Some opponents of the pro- posed national health services pro- gram have seized upon this aspect of the Hall report to obscure some of the important points at issue. The royal commission had this to 'gay with respect to lotteries: "We do not advocate the use of lotteries. But where a province desires to op- rate a lottery solely to assist in fi- nancing health services, the federal government, when requested by a province to do so, might submit to Parliament appropriate amend- ments to the Criminal Codet." Bible Thought "Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near." Isaiah 55:6, The man, who expects to make it to Heaven, must do something about it while he is on earth. "My spirit will me always strive with man." We LAD ATSIC EA ISS ERE RTE DS I - 'I BORROWED ONE OF YOUR PLANKS, BARRY' REPORT FROM U.K. Bidders Can Gain Impressive Titles By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times COLCHESTER, Essex -- Peo- ple who aspire to become the Lord of the Manor in an Eng- lish village, and who have a little cash to spare with which to acquire the rights and privil- eges of this title, will have plenty of opportunity to have their aspirations satisfied with very little effort about the end of September. All that they YOUR HEALTH will be required to do will be to attend an auction sale scheduled to be held then in Colchester, and outbid their rivals. At this sale, no fewer than 11 titles of "Lord of the Manor" will be put up for auction, so that there is a wide choice. And the domains which are involved are all jocated in the counties of Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk. The successful bidders will ac- quire some high-sounding titles. They could become "Lord of Patient's Attitude Factor In Ulcers By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, MD Dear Dr. Molner: My sister has had a duodenal ulcer for some time. 1--Can it be cured without an operation? She doesn't believe in an operation because she knows some people who had op- erations and still suffer from ul- cers. 2--Does smoking keep it from being cured? She lives alone and says if she can't have an occasional cigarette she doesn't know what she would do. She does not inhale, I can see her point, for if I lived out in the sticks as. she does with no neighbors or any- body to talk to I'd go nuts all day long. Please give me an answer to tell her.--BM If you want me to say no, operations don't necessarily cure ulcers, all right, I'll say so. (But when ulcers reach a certain stage, there isn't any- thing else to do. And whether the ulcers recur depends not on the surgery but on the way. the patient reacts.) If you want me to say that it's all right to smoke, I won't: It isn't all right. If living out in the sticks is unbearable without cigarettes, then the thing to do is move: In blunt language, for every person who has to smoke be- cause of living out in the sticks, there are two who say they smoke because they have to live in the city--it would be so much calmer out in the country. One's attitue toward life Is important--especially with ul- cers. The person who lives out in the sticks and objects to it may be no different from the person who lives in the noisy city and objects to it, Learning to adapt to life is necessary. Some people can be happy and content wherever they are. They rarely have ulcers. _ Others-- well, you know what I,mean. Surgery gets rid of the ulcers, and is performed as a last re- sort. If the patient then learns to relax and learns a few other rules about avoiding. ulcers, they are gone for good. But if the patient thinks that the sur- gery is going tp do it all for him, then new tlcers can form, With ulcers, you have~ to change your attitude toward life, your way of living. The doc- tor can help, but he can't do it all. Dear Dr. Molner: Is there a difference between certain brands of aspirin? Is it all right for a person with arthritis to take six or eight tablets a day | if there are no after-effects? -- MRS. NN Aspirin is aspirin, regardless of brand. Aspirin is a specific chemical: Acetylsalicylic acid. Six or eight tablets a day for arthritis is not an unusual do- sage, so I wouldn't worry. Dear Dr. Molner: Do you think exercise is necessary along with a reducing diet, or is it a lot of work for nothing?-- MAM Any exercise at all expends .eome calories, according to how much effort you put into it. Therefore exercise can be of im- portance in reducing. Quite aside from that, exer- cise is essential to tone up the muscles and tHe body generally. I would not, frankly, expect anyone to achieve much in the way of weight reduction with- out at least moderate exercise. Dear Dr. Molner: I am get- ting fat but because I had a nervous breakdown two years ago and am taking tranquilizers now, my psychiatrist does not want me to go on a strenuous diet--MRS. OWL. I see your psychiatrist's point and I entirely agree. In fact, except in the most extreme sit- uations, I oppose overstrenuous diets. The slow, steady ones get much better results. the Manor of Westhorpe Hall," "Lord of the Manor of Bures at the Mount" or any of the other nine equally pleasant sounding places. Anyone who fancies a double title will simply have to be the highest bidder for the title of 'Lord of the Manor of Colne Wake and Colne Engaine." It is not too expensive a busi- ness becoming a Lord of the Manor at this type of auction sale. The auctioneers, C. M. Stanford and Son of Colchester, conducted similar sales in 1954 and 1955. On these occasions, the average price for a Lord- ship was in the neighborhood of $1500. SNOBBERY PLAYS PART A purchaser is entitled to call himself Lord of the Manor of wherever it is, and have the title engraved on his visiting cards, after his name. A spokes- man for the auctioneers made this comment: "We believe snobbery plays some part in the desire for these titles. Some 'people like them because their families came from the area. Some in- ividual might buy the title be- cause he happens to own the } anor house, and others are interested in the historical as- pects of the titles. With the title go the manorial documents, which date back to the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries." The purchase of the title of Lord of the Manor does not entitle the successful bidder to ownership of any land. But he does acquire certain rights which are traditional on com- mon-land and wasteland. The land may vary in size. from a small patch of a green field to a triangle or two of grass ip the middle of a road or at intersections. VARIOUS RIGHTS Rights include those of cut- ting timber, carrying away turf .and grazing animals on com- mon or waste land. The Lord of the Manor also has it in his power to grant concessions to others. And he can claim wayleave rentals for any telegraph poles and electri- city pylons which may be erect- ed on the land. But these rights do not mean much, What really counts in the minds of the bidders at these auction sales is the honor of taking high precedence in the community as the Lord of the Manor. BY-GONE DAYS 35 YEARS AGO August 21, 1929 As a tribute to Mayor T. B. Mitchell, who was chairman of the Board of Education, when plans were completed for the vocational extension of the Osh- awa High School, his name was included on the bronze plaque which was to be placed in the school. A block of city-owned land in the Simcoe street south indus- trial area was sold to Bathe and McLellan, local contractors. Miss Mary. Oughterson from Eton College, England, was ap- pointed head mistress of Bishop Bethune College. Fifteen building permits had been issued since the first of August, totalling $35,000. R. 8. MeLaughlin Parkwood stables won six prizes at the Cobourg Horse Show. The Park- wood entries took nine prizes during the first two days of the four-day event. Mrs: Maria Pike, Oshawa's oldest resident, celebrated her O4th birthday. The Standard Brick Company purchased land in North Osh- awa for ihe establishment of a brick plant. . The Standard Paying Com- pany was carrying out a pro- gram of paving On several city streets. Joseph Heard and Son were awarded the contract to iay the first sidewalks in Whitby. New equipment was purchased for the project. H. Smith Potteries, located corner of King street west and Alexander boulevard, completed a large two-storey addition to its plant. Apple crops in 'Central and Eastern Ontario were reported above average for the year. Norman Mallett, Dave Fowler, Dr. L, E. Hubbell and Russell Storks of the Oshawa Kinsmen Club were largely re- sponsible for the success of the Kiddies' Carnival at Lakeview Park. Over 1,700 children were in attendance, ; OTTAWA REPORT Distrust Hampers Private Meetings By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--The chaos on Par- lament Hill has led Prime Min- ister Pearson to establish a very unusual annex to the House of Commons -- this is private meetings of the leaders of the five political parties now repre- sented in Parliament, sum- moned to negotiate the terms: and conditions on which they will permit the Commons to handle the nation's business. "We have had useful meet- ings with the party leaders, and I hope the procedure can be continued," Mr. Pearson res cently told tne Commons. Normally this routine negoti- ation is handled, swiftly and amicably, by periodical meet- ings of the House leaders of the various parties. But this system broke down in the present Par- liament, reportedly for two rea- sons. First, the House leaders of the other parties realized that their Conservative opposite number, Gordon Churchill, could not negotiate for his party and READERS' VIEWS BENEFIT GAME Dear Sir: On behalf of the Oshawa Civil Service Softball League, I would like to convey my thanks to all those who participated in the benefit game for the Dean Dilla- bough Fund. Pete Johnson who presented pewter steins to all the mem- bers of the All-Star team. The following people donated prizes for lucky draws: Rundle Garden Centre, Thompson Plumbing, Doug Wilson's Men's Wear, Ontario Steel Co., Murray Johnston's Men's Wear, Mr. and Mrs. John DeHart, Scugog Cleaners, Scotts' Chicken Villa, and the Oshawa Drive. - In Theatre. I would like to thank the Osh- awa Times for their splendid co-operation in publicizing the game, George Campbell and his cohorts. Sid Loscombe, Secre- tary - Treasurer of the League, Jim Hutchinson (MC) who work- ed under adverse conditions, and to all those who donated their time to selling tickets. This was certainly a true com- munity effort and I was very proud to be a part of it. Thank- ing you all for your co-opera- tion. JOHN DEHART, President. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Hitler announced a 10- year peace pact with Russia 25 years ago today--in 1939. Hitler had Jong feared that should he go to war with Britain he would leave his eastern 'flank unprotected. He needed the assurance of peace from Russia before making territorial. claims he thought might lead to war. Less than a year after the pact was signed on Aug. 23, Hitler attacked Russia, by which time the Fuehrer felt strong enough to tackle war on both his eastern and western borders. 1944--Paris residents be- gan an uprising against German troops occupying the city. 1959 -- Hawaii was pro- claimed the 50th U.S. State. for his leader, because 'what they believed to be a commit- ment by Churchill was later broken. A well - known example of this occurred when the govern- ment moved to increase the re- muneration of MPs. And sec- ondly, Churchill has refused to attend meetings of House lead- ers. : DICTATOR-LIKE SECRECY Not everyone will agree that closed meetings of party lead- ers are the ideal way to con- duct -parliamentary negotiations or even that they are in keep- ing with the democratic institu. tion of Parliament, whose pur- pose is to govern by open deci- sions openly reached in public meeting . But at least there has been some hope that such meetings might provide the setting where Messrs. Pearson and Diefen- baker could both withdraw gracefully from their foolishly over-extended positions on the flag. And this despite disagree- ments as'to the past, present and future. For example, one such sum- mit meeting was held two weeks ago, At it, I was told, this three- point compromise was urged: 1, Mr. Pearson should with- draw his three-leaf design, and substitute a one-leaf design. 2. The Red Ensign should be adopted instead of the Union Jack as the flag symbolizing our membership in the Com- monwealth, 3. Party leaders should per- mit their followers to vote freely in accord with their individual conscience, rather than under direction by their party; and QUEEN'S PARK the prime minister would not . consider a rejection of the flag proposals to be a vote of non- confidence in his government necessitating another election. Party leaders were to ult their followers about these hope- ful proposals, and report back to a later summit conference, PUZZLING DENIAL But within a few days, Mr: D. asserted in the Commons: "There was no question raised at any meeting regarding the ba kind and design of a <." Where lies the truth--in the report I quote, or in Mr. D's contradiction? Is there some other explanation? Or had Mr. D., as so often, failed to hear what 'was said because he had not adjusted his hearing aid? To use the word which Mr, Pearson himself uttered in somewhat similar. circum+ stances another day, he--and at least some other party leaders -- appeared to be "flabber- gasted", But nothing was said--why? And still the talk in the Par. liament Building reveals the un- easiness and the lack of trust which this and other episodes or misunderstandings have built up in this unhappy parliament, PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM Wouldn't it take an "exploding population" to pay all those long-term bonds and heavy debts we're passing on down to post- erity? : Indis¢reet women have broken up a number of homes, but prob- ably more have been broken up by can-openers, If a person were as old as he feels, many an oldster would be 50 after a good night's sleep: and 80 at bedtime. Did any women ever pay the slightest attention to a "Ne Smoking" sign? Speaker. Wronged By News Reports By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- Apparently Mr. Speaker, Hon. Donald Morrow, has been done an injustice by the writer and other newspaper- men. You may recall that a while ago there was some comment here about Mr. Morrow report- edly selling drinks from behind the bar in a Quebec hotel. And, as it tuns out now, it wasn't the way it looked at all. COLLECTING MONEY In private life, Mr. Morrow has an insurance and real es- tate business. In the case concerned a man got into him quite deeply for back insurance and loans. To get his money' back he paid weekly visits, by arrange- ment, to make collections. * He would call on the man; who usually was behind the bar in his hotel. On this particular afternoon when he called the man wasn't there when he first arrived. Mr. Morrow stood at the back of the bar, while waiting, and chatted to a couple of the cus- tomers he knew. While he was doing this the man who had been tending bar also went out. A couple of men at a table, also well-known to the Speaker, half-jokingly called to him to get them a beer each. "Sure, I'll get you a bee-," he said, going along with the joke. He did get the beer and as he started out with it appar- ently someone took his picture from under a table, , And the next day the picture was in an Ottawa newspaper, along with a report that Mr. Morrow was "working" at the hotel. And subsequently this story was picked up by The Canadian Press and sent out across the province. It is highly unfortunate, par- ticularly the loose reporting in the first instance which not only left the impression, but actually said, that Mr. Morrow was "working" at the hotel.: POLITICIAN HANDICAPPED A man in public life is par- ticularly hard hit by errors, or looseness, such as this. If a private citizen is de- famed, he can take recourse in the courts and at least get dam- ages. : But the politician seldom can do this. The action makes him look bad. 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