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ous he in saa " ve fetter eehs OO ce Saige: She Oshawa Sines Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher READERS OTTAWA REPORT WRITE... Flag Committee nezur Strange Doings The Editor, The Oshawa Times. Dear Sir: se THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1964--PAGE 4 Final Push Is Needed For Community Chest A great push is needed if the Oshawa Community Chest appeal is to maintain its splendid record of always reaching its objective. With the date originally set for Closing the campaign past, and an extension announced, the 'amount subscribed and pledged up to the present is still far short of the ob- jective which has been set, There are, of course, some ex- tenuating circumstances, in that Oshawa's major industry and several others were closed down during the period originally set for the campaign, so that the organized campaign in areas which have always contributed more than gen- erously has been delayed. With these industries back at work again, it can be expected that there will be a large jump in the amount contributed when their returns are completed, Oshawa is more fortunate than many cities in Canada, It is a healthy, growing and prosperous community. Its people have an average income level far higher than most other cities in Ontario, There can be no doubt of the fact that our people, by and large, have the financial resources to enable the Community Chest campaign again to reach its objective. The Chest convassers have. this year had a more difficult task than usual, because of the unavoidable delays in completing their returns, They are to be commended for staying with the job. All they need now is the co-operation of the public in having all remaining con- tributions and pledges miade as quickly as possible, Time Foolishly Wasted It is shocking and amazing: that two days of the time of the House of Commons should have been wasted in bickering and question- ing about the decision of the gov- ernment to send Robert Thompson, Social Credit leader to Africa with an official mission on its behalf. One does not disagree with the right of members of the House to ques- tion this matter. But once the gov- ernment had given its very logical and reasonable explanation, there was no necessity to waste the time of the house by debating the sub- ject on two. successive days. If anything, the government should have been commended for its non-partisan attitude in selec- ting the leader of one of the oppo- oitian Reriiee to undertake a mis- sion on its behalf. In this instance, the selection was a wise one. By reason of his wide knowledge of Africa, his close personal relations with many of its leaders and his understanding of African problems, any unbiased person would say that he was probably be the best-qua- lified man in the House of Com- mons to undertake such a mission, Hence the wisdom of the govern- ment's choice. It was unfortunate that some opposition speakers should have tried to create the inference that Mr. Thompson was being sent to Africa as a reward for his party's support of the government. They tried to make it appear that he was going on a joy-ride, and not on a difficult and arduous task of fact- finding. Such innuendous did little credit to those who made them. They were a gratuitous insult to Mr. Thompson, in suggesting that his party's support could be bought in such a way. The government should be given full credit for seeking out the best- qualified member of the House of Commons for this African assign- ment, regardless of his political faith, rather than being subjected to cheap criticism. . NATO Faces Difficulties The future usefulness of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will be hanging in the balance at its ministerial meeting to be held in Paris next month. Never at any time since its inception has NATO been so badly riddled by differences of views and objectives. It is largely because of the possibilities of dis- unity arising at the ministerial meeting that Dean Busk, the U.S. secretary of state, is in. Europe sounding out the views of the NATO partners on the problems facing it. The change of government in Great Britain is one of the reasons for apprehension. While the Labor government has, for the moment, pledged its support to NATO, its policies on British nuclear disarma- ment and the future role of Britain's nuclear weapons, are bound to create some disquiet. In pre-election manifestoes, the Labor party under- took to abandon Britain's Polaris missiles and to abrogate the Nassau agreement on nuclear defence. Since coming into power, it has not dis- claimed these pledges. Bhye Oshawa Fines T. L. WILSON, Publisher R. C. ROOKE, General Manager C. J. MeCONECHY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawo Times {established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette ond Chronicle established 1863) is published daily Sundays end $ y holid , Members of Cone Daily Newsp Publish- ers Association. The Canadian Press, Audit Bureou of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Associstion. 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Ontario) outside carriers delivery areot 12.00 per year, Other Provinces and Commonwealth Countries 15.00, U.S.A. and foreign 24.00, On top of that there is the de- termination of General de Gaulle to change radically the structure of NATO, to withdraw all of France's armed forces from NATO jurisdic- tion and keep them entirely under French control. Germany, too, is champing at the bit, seeking some way to have nuclear weapons come under German control. De Gaulle is suspicious that the United States is trying to woo the Federal Ger- man Republic away from its part- nership with France, And there is in the background the impasse be- tween Greece and Turkey both partners in NATO, over Cyprus. All of these difficulties will give the December ministerial meeting of NATO an added importance, for the whole future of the organiza- tion and its effectiveness are bound up in maintaining an un- broken and united NATO alliance. Other Editors' Views ABSURD (London Free Press) : The motorist who gets involved in an accident with a farm tractor or any wheeled agricultural im- plement will learn to his astonish- ment that in this province the Motor Vehicles Claims Act neither mentions nor defines farm tractors, and the Highway Traffic Act ex- cludes them from its classifications. This is an absurd situation which can must be remedied. Operators of tractors and similar farm vehic- les cannot have it-both ways. If they are going to drive along our highways, let them be lighted, licensed and insured. If they are not prepared to take the legal and financial responsibilities assumed by others who must travel the same roads, then they should be. penalized accordingly, ) 1 NO DOUBT IN HER M > METRO TRANSPORTATION STUDY AJESTY'S In a recent report in your paper, Crown Attorney Bruce Affleck is quoted as saying that negroes and whites live to- gether in Mississippi in peace and tranquility and that re- / ports of conditions in that state R MIND Provincial' Direction Of Planning Indicated By GWYN KINSEY Special to The Oshawa Times (Last of Three Articles) TORONTO -- Officials in charge of the Metropolitan To- ronto and Region Transporta- tion Study are reluctant to com- ment on what the study will re- veal and what its effects may be. They point out that nearly two-thirds of the work of col- lecting the necessary data, col- lating the information and digesting it, is still to be done. If the Study lives up to its terms of reference, however, it will affect municipal and re- gional planning as well as transportation over a lange part of Ontario for many years to come, It should also pose some delicate questions for the pro- vincial government. A co-ordinated transportation network and a comprehensive transportation policy were two of the objectives set forth in the Study prospectus. The Study will undoubtedly recommend the means by which the objectives can be at- tained. But it is difficult to see how they can be achieved, no matter what the recomménda- tions, without stronger -- provin- cial direction of planning. CENTRAL DIRECTION If a broad transportation pol- icy is to serve the regional com- munity effectively and- economi- cally, it seems fundamental that a substantial degree of central direction will be necessary. One can read this between the lines of the Study prospec- tus: "A' study of transportation policy of this nature will have an important bearing on related matters of provincial concern, such as regional aspects of com- munity planning, transportation subsidies, municipal grants, and sources of revenue," It suggests, too, the possibil- ity of basic changes in the fis- cal approach to public transit. There is an interaction between.transportation and growth. Growth brings trans- portation with it. But forms of transportation can inspire growth. The way a route is laid out can have. a _ tremendous effect on the development or decline of an area, The buiid- ing of a road almost inevitably means ribbon development along it. IN PLANNING AREA The Regional Transportation Study is designed to produce long-range policies, Clearly, these policies will exert a powerful influence on the way the region grows, and on the adjoining regions. This puts the Study deeply in the planning area. Premier John Robarts has al- ready warned municipalities to co-operate in their planning -- or else, Economics and Development Minister Stanley Randall has Said that new approaches to re- gional development in Ontario will be sought through a confer- ence next February. There is no indication at pres- ent that the government plans to extend its planning authority, however. Highways Minister MacNaughton says: "Why not make the best possible use of what we have -- the county sys- tem, for example?" This provides a clue. CAN EXERT INFLUENCE Through its system of grants and subsidies, the provincial government can exert consider- able influence on municipal pol- icy and action. There is, for example, the county roads assis- tance program, a road that does not fit into the broad move- ment pattern is not likely to be subsidized, Traffic studies are underway, are planned or have been done over a large part of the prov- ince, with scores of municipal- ities involved, A municipality gets a 75 per cent subsidy. for such a study. DECENTRALIZATION One can speculate, however, that the Study report could be an instrument of decentraliza- tion. Sam Cass, Metro's traffic commissioner and a man who commands considerable respect among provincial traffic ex- BIBLE THOUGHTS All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.--Isaiah 53:6. Since we are wanderers from the path of God, helpless to find the way back, Christ became our sin bearer as God laid our sins upon 'Him, And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it. again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.--Jeremiah 18:4. Seeing that man spoiled his life by sin, the Lord graciously took his broken life, and through Christ made a new one for His glory. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS 'Noy, 12, 1964... General Richard Mont- gomery took Montreal after a fight with the id of Brit- ish forces under Benedict Arnold, 189 years ago today --in 1775, Montgomery, who died six weeks later at Que- bec, was commissioned in the British Army in 1750 and was sent to America the following year. He returned to. England at the end of hostilities and later emi- grated ta.New York. He be- came a brigadier-general in the revolutionary army and was killed New Year's Eve while attempting to link. up with Arnold's forces at Que- bec, then fighting the Ameri- cans, ' 1944---The German battle- ship Tirpitz was sunk bs RAF bombers in Tromso Fjord. 1955--A landslide caused $5,000,000 damage at Nico- let, Que, First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1914 -- Russian armies threatened Krakow in Ga- licla and advanced on Erze- rum, fortified city in Turkey - in'. Asia; German troops pierced British posi- tions on the Western Front at Ypres., Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day -- in 1939 -- Winston Churchill, in a. broadcast, declared that the Allies would fight Genmany un- til the Nazis had had "enough;" Finnish negotia- tors said talks with Russia were near to breaking down, unless the Soviets reduced their demands; Mussolini ordered 23,000 men into the' Italian Army. perts, says that community planning must have more powers of regulation -- over the location of high generators of traffic, for example, to ensure that the traffic load is dis- tributed more evenly. As he points out, this means decentralization within the urban area. He refers to his own bailiwick, Metropolitan Toronto, but he agrees that this sort of planning must also apply to a developing "megalopolis" -- which is what is growing in southern Ontario westward from Bowmanville and Oshawa to the Niagara Peninsula and northward from Toronto, BY-GONE DAYS 15 YEARS AGO Nov. 12, 1949 Lt.-Col. E. F. Bastedo, com- manding officer of the 11th Ar- mored Ontario Regiment, was the speaker at the Remem- brance Day banquet held by Oshawa Branch 43, Royal Cana- dian Legion. Oshawa's Book Week sponsor- ed by the Oshawa Public Li- brary Board was officially open- ed by Mayor Michael Starr. Hayden C. Macdonald was president of the Hayden Mac- donald (Oshawa) Limited, the new private company which was incorporated to operate the business he established 22 years previously. 30 YEARS AGO Nov, 12, 1934 Col. and Mrs. R, S. McLaugh- lin entertained at a Chrysanthe- mum Tea for 700 guests at "Parkwood". Donald Millard, pupil of King Street School was declared winner of the city-wide Fire Prevention essay contest. A remembrance Day program was conducted in all the Osh- awa Schools. Speakers were: Cecil F. Cannon, Rev, R. Lorne McTavish, Dr. F. J, Donevan, Col. R. B. Smith, Rev. A. D. Robb and A. E. O'Neill. MAC'S MUSINGS The saddest thing about These modern days is That so many people Aim first and last at Material things and Forget about moral values. The greatest problem of Today is how we can Recapture the spirit of Those things that make Life truly worth while, A wise man once said: "We do not need more Material development, But we do need 'more Spiritual development, We do not need more Intellectual power, We need more humility; We do not need more law, We need more religion; We do not need more Of the things that are Seen, but we need more of Things that are unseen," That means a return to Simpler, more humble ways Of living; it means that Veneer and pretence, Selfishness and jealousy, Should be replaced by Sincerity, humility and An honesty of purpose in All our dealings with Our fellow human beings. are grossly exaggerated. This writer would be only too happy if this were so, but I am afraid it is not, | The vast majority of reliable reports indicate that the negro in Mississippi today, 100 years after emancipation, does not enjoy equal rights in politics, in education, in employment, and in Mr. Affleck's field -- law, In education it is only neces- sary to recall the rioting that took place when a man with black skin, James Meredith, ~ had the audacity. to further his education at the University of Mississippi. In politics I don't think even Mr. Affleck would describe the government of Mis- sissippi as representative of all the people, white and black, in that state, It is well known that in job opportunities the negro is relegated to the lowest pay- ing and most menial jobs avail- able. Mr. Affleck must be aware that violence inflicted by whites beatings, bombings and death, are an everyday occurrence in the Mississippi negro's life. Since the death of Medgar Evers, 14 negroes have been murdered in that state and not one conviction has been ob- tained and will never be obtain- ed until negroes are allowed to sit on juries and hand down justice on equal terms with whites, The brutal slaying of the three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney still goes unsolved despite ru- mors that the FBI has suffi- cient information to make ar- rests under normal circum. stances. In other cases, they have been forced to charge mur- derers with a less serious fed- eral offense, that of violating the civil rights of an individual, in order to take the case out of the state's hands where an ail- white jury would be certain to free the accused, Progress is being made in other areas of the United States and the civil rights law, if made to function effectively, could be a further advance towards the end of discrimination. If the goals of this law were achieved in Mississippi, no better monu- ment could be built to the cour- ageous students who are devot- ing their lives to attaining full rights for the negro. Yours truly* JAMES CORSE, 67 First avenue, Oshawa, Ontario MISSISSIPPI CONDITIONS The Editor, The Oshawa Times, Dear Sir: As a former resident of the City of Oshawa, I cannot help but comment on certain state- ments made by Crown Attorney Bruce Affleck as reported in a recent issue of your paper. In a visit to Mississippi Mr. Affleck found conditions between whites and negroes harmonious and peaceful in that state. In an article on the civil rights movement in Mississippi, in the magazine section of the November 8 edition of the New York Times, the following fig- ures are given for the four- month period ending October 21: three persons killed, 80 beaten, three wounded by gunfire in 35 shootings, more than 1,000 ar- rested, 35 negro churches burn- ed and 31 homes and other buildings bombed. The writer also states that there have been "several unsolved murders of negroes that may have been connected with conflict." I am forwarding a copy of this story which includes a pic- ture of a Jewish rabbi savagely beaten with an iron bar during a civil rights demonstration. I would be grateful if you passed this on to Mr. Affleck. The ordinary visitor to Missis- sippi would not be able to equate violence and brutality with the calm and_ serence exterior that that state offers the visitor. However, a person in Mr. Affleck's field should have made a more complete examin- ation before handing down a verdict. Possibly a visit to civil rights' headquarters would have been a healthy antidote and awarded him a more balanced view of conditions in that state. If he was incapable of doing that due to the official nature of his visit then he should not use his position as a platform to air his highly personal views of conditions in that state, Yours truly, D. R. CLARKE. Toronto, Ontario Opinions Of Others NEW-STYLE ARMY (Milwaukee Journal) The lowliest private in the West German army may-now bring suit in a civil court against any military superior who gives him an order which the private deems offensive to his human dignity, Many a veteran remembering his army days will wonder how we could have won the war under a similar regulation, with nine-tenths of the army down at the courthouse suing the other tenth. By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- Among all the emotion and the charges of po- litical chicanery attending the report of the special committee oa a Canadian flag, the true significance of that report has been substantially overlooked. The committee was named on Sept. 16. Forty-four days later it submitted its report to Par- liament, having held 45 meet- in probably unprecedented record of intensive committee work, Its 15 members included seven Liberals, five Conserva- tives, and one each from each of the three smaller parties. --~In geographic spread, it in- cluded five French - Canadian MPs from Quebec, and 10 non- French - Canadian MPs from other provinces, made up of four from Ontario, two from B.C. and one each from New- foundiand, New _ Brunswick, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Three of the five Tories on the committee were former cabinet ministers. The chairman of the committee was Herman Batten, a veteran Liberal MP from Newfoundland; he would only vote in the committee to break a tie, and so in the result he never did exercise his ballot in any of the votes--all, unusually, secret--taken during the com- mittee's proceedings, NARROWING CHOICE The committee first voted on three motions: one, that a na- tional plebiscite should be taken --motion defeated by a vote of nine to five; two, the adoption of only one National Flag--mo- tion carried fourteen to nil; three, that the Canadian Red Ensign be the National Flag for Canada -- motion defeated ten to four. The votes: were secret, but it -- is a reasonable surmise that the four votes in favour of the Red Ensign were those of the four English-Canadian Conser- vatives. Now what has been over- looked is that significant second motion. This surely means that Canada should have just one flag, and the vote on this was unanimous. But at a later meeting on another day, this totality of the committee found itself faced by another motion: "That the government be au- thorized to take such steps as may be necessary to provide that the Canadian Red Ensign may continue to be flown as a symbol of Canada's member- ship in the Commonwealth of Nations and of her allegiance to the Crown." An amehdment was moved to substitute the 'Royal Union Flag", commonly known as the Union Jack, for the Red En- sign. The amendment carried by a vote of seven to two, with five abstentions -- presumably by the Conservatives. The amended motion then carried by eight to one, again with five abstentions. Thus the committee came to recommend, reversing its pre- vious stand, that Canac- should have two flags, That reversal deserves closer study. I would guess that the Conservatives abstained in protest against the committee's irregularity in overriding its own previous un- animous -vote--an irregularity which will surely be interpreted by some as suggesting that the committee suffered outside in- terference in this matter, TRIBUTE TO TEACHER Miss Velma Kaiser One - Of Rare Oshawa Group (Contributed) When the funeral cortege bore all that was mortal of Miss Velma G. Kaiser, long a great and widely respected Oshawa public school teacher, to her last' resting place among her fore- bears in the little village of Delaware near London, there was left behind the memory and the spirit of a truly noble representative of the teaching profession, a woman and citizen of distinction, The late Miss Kai- ser, though born and educated in that prosperous region in and about London and St. Thomas, spent virtually all her adult life in Oshawa as a teacher in King Street Public School, She be- longed to a rare and wonderful group of women teachers who stayed with Oshawa through good times and bad, identifying themselves with the social, cul- tural and educational life of the city. Though her salary was never Jarge, even by the modest stan- dards of those days, and her teaching duties made onerous with overcrowded classes and limited equipment and teacher aids, the late Miss Kaiser's love of learning for learning's and gracious living's. sake found time for travel, attending lec- tures, taking courses and read- ing widely, She kept abreast of the times and enthusiastically and sympathetically but uncom- prisingly imparted her know- ledge and wisdom to those pu- pils who were fortunate enough to find a place in her classroom. It seems pertinent and profit- able in these days to dwell on the life of such a teacher. By some unfortunate statements made to justify a chain reac- tion of salary hikes and expen- sive schools and expansive ad- ministration, we get the impres- sion teaching is a materialistic profession. Such is not the case and the lifelong labors' of Velma G. Kaiser in her classroom where she found her satisfac- tion without a shallew ambition for a more conspicuous place with the resultant higher re- muneration contradicts ft. Her achievement an achievement that should satisfy the most vaulting ambition -- rests solidly on the knowledge of citizens who know and love Oshawa that during the many years she taught in this city, the impact of her personality, tastes and cultural interests pro- foundly influenced not only her pupils who sat in her class, but also her colleagues who. made the name of King Street School synonymous with the best in free public education. Hers should be an inspiring example of what a devoted teacher is and what a place one can prempt in even a rapidly grow- ing and changing community. Let us not forget. POINTED PARAGRAPHS University of Toronto students criticizing the Canada student loan plan said: "This is asking students to put themselves into debt. 'That is usually the re- sult of borrowing money. 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