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ERE Rep car Araetighes net he Oshawa Sunes Published by Canadian \Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T, L. Wilson, Publisher THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1964----PAGE 4 Rev. David Marshall The passing of Rev, David Mar- shall, for 21 years the minister of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Whitby, has aroused a feeling of profound sorrow, not only in Whitby, but through the whole of this district, in which he was widely known. Born in Scotland, Mr. Mar- shall showed all the propensities of his race for serving mankind in many places during his lifetime. The call of service took him to the battlefield of the first world war, to the mission fields in British Guiana, and then to Richmond Hill and finally to Whitby in Canada, From these varied experiences he derived a broad sympathy for his fellowmen, and this was reflected throughout the whole of his ministry. Mr. Marshall was honored by election to many posts of impor- tance by the church he served. While in British Guiana, he was elected moderator of the Church of Scotland. He also served as moder- ator of the Toronto East Presby- - Is Widely Mourned tery of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, One of the posts in which he served with great acceptance by old wartime comrades was that of padre of the Whitby Branch, No. 112<of the Royal Canadian Legion. He held that post from 1940 until the time of his death, having been re-elected by his com- rades only a week or two. ago to that office. Mr. Marshall was an avid student and admirer of the national bard of Scotland, Robert Burns, and his frequent addresses to "The Im- mortal Memory", deliveréd at many places throughout Ontario, bore the marks of close study of_the poet's life and work, and his appreciation of what Burns means to Scotsmen. Mr. Marshall had all the marks of a good citizen, as well as a good churchman, and his passing will be widely mourned because of the wide circle of friends whom he drew to himself by his attractive person- ality. Make It Safe Christmas Christmas is meant to be a season of joy and happiness. Yet Decem- yer, the month in which the Christ- mas festival is celebrated, is the plackest month of the year in the 'ecords of accidental deaths in shomes. This may be merely a coin- cidence, but it neverthéiess points 'to the fact that December seems 'to hold more accidents hazards 'than any other period of the year. i Calling attention to this sad situ- lation, GayMcLaren, general man- 'ager of the National Safety League, 'has issued some simple, brief and sensible instructions as to how accidents can be avoided at the 'Christmas season. Many of these thave to do with observing common- sense safety rules in the erecting 'and decoration of Christmas trees. 'Invariably at the Christmas season, 'fatalities occur by reason of Christ- 'mas tree causing fires while chil- dren are around. For this reason, much attention is given in these instructions to taking every precaution to have trees well away from heat and flames, to making sure that tree lights have no defects in the wiring, and to placing the trees in a water- filled vessels, so as to keep the twigs and needles filled with mois- ture and less inflammable. Care in the use of step-ladders in putting up Christmas decorations is also stressed as another safety measure at this time of the year. In using ladders care should be taken not to climb higher than the point of balance, and chairs should never be used for this purpose. In a general sense, the safety precautions for this season can be boiled down into a short phrase: "Use common sense; take precau- tions and have a Happy Christmas." On Municipal Reforms On this page today appears ,the Jast of a series of four articles by C. Gwyn Kinsey, former editor of 'The Times, on municipal reforms which are likely to be introduced in Ontario within the next year. Two committees which have been dealing with municipal reform and municipal taxation are likely to report before the next session of the legislature. Their reports will be highly controversial, and already - there is speculation as to what legis- lative measures will be proposed to carry out their recommendations. One of the most controversial 'points expected from one of the committees is a proposal that there be a direct election of members of county councils. This would take ithe place of the present system under which the reeves and deputy- | 'reeves of the municipalities in each county form the county council. -- A message of this kind would be sure to encounter strong opposi- tion from the grass-roots level of 'municipal" government. Township She Oshawn Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher R. C, ROOKE, General Manager C. J. MeCONECHY, Editor : Oshawa Times conning The Oshawo Times Hestoblished 1871) and the itby Gozette and 'Chronicle established 1863) ls published daily S end y Y * Members of Conadian Daily Newspaper. Publish- 'ers Association, The orld Press, Audit Bureou 'of Circulation on Se sontere Brym Dailies centitied of republication of all news iertities SS inthe paper credited to. It er te The Associated or Reuters, and also the focal «news published therein. All rights of special des- {patches cre also reserved. ; 3 Thomson -- Bulldi 425 Univers! 'sian Wee, 'Ontario; 610 Catheart jbee f sMontreal, P.9. | SUBSCRIPTION RATES pg bog meg = pe ped Leskord, os cer' weak BY" mail-in Province of "Ontara) outside corriers delivery areos 12.00 Se ee A age and Commonweaith Countries 15.00, and foreign 24.00, ; and village councils would not will- ingly agree to lose their direct re- presentation on county council in favor of having the county coun- cillors elected from outside their ranks. Their opposition would be justified. The presence of reeves and deputy-reeves of minor muni- cipalities on the county council ensures that the county councillors will be men of experience, men with knowledge of the problems of. ad- ministering their own areas. The value of this direct contact would be lost if there were a separate election for county councillors. The two reports are also likely to recommend sweeping changes in county boundaries and in the powers of county councils. What the spe- cific recommendations are will not be known until the committees make their reports. But any pro- posals that are made will be sharply debated. No drastic changes in our system of municipal government will be readily accepted, because municipal rights are always closely guarded and will not be relinquished without a struggle. / Other Editors' Views NUCLEAR SAFETY (Christian Science Monitor) It will be easy to create a world in which most nations, large and small, responsible and irrespon- sible, are loaded with atomic weapons. It is only necessary to wait. It will be extremely difficult, on the other hand, to prevent these weapons from spreading. It will be as difficult, politically, as it was to create the atom bomb technically. It will require a wholly extra- ordinary amount of effort, devotion, creative enterprise and__persis- tence, . e 1 ae XY @AARGES gewscey | ) Ae a,@2eF ¢ ~ s#eo '0 NOW, THEY TELL ME MUNICIPAL REFORM -- 4 Government Action Seen Likely Early-In 1965 Special to Oshawa Times By GWYN KINSEY (Last of Four Articles) TORONTO -- The Legisla- ture's select committee on municipal law will probably recommend a 'fairly thorough reorganization of the province's municipal structure. The government can then praise the industry of the com- mittee, file the report among all the other dusty reminders of inquiries past, and forget about the whole thing. The expectation is, however, that the government will act. The over-riding factor, of course, is that the present municipal stricture, in southern Ontario at least, is on the point of collapse. Conceived in a rural, horse-and-buggy age, it simply cannot carry the burden of the urban, jet age - an age of human and technological ex- plosion. TREND OF THOUGHT This has been recognized, by Premier Robarts and many of his colleagues, They have not come out flatly in favor of regional government, but their . public statements indicate their trend of thought, Mr. Robarts. a couple of months ago advised municipali- ties to get. together in their planning; there was an unspoken but obvious "'or else" attached. Municipal Affairs Min- ister J. W. Spooner has been making similiar observations. Mr. Robarts and Health Mini- ster Matthew Dymond have been promoting regional plan- ning by hospital boards. Mr. Robarts told a recent conven- tion: "There would seem to be a growing need for some form of centralized planning for hospitals . . . . Urbanization of our population into metropolitan centres has changed the rela- tionships that existed between the individual and the hospital. Thus there is a need to look at the total picture in a region and to develop programs of expansion on the basis of re- quirements of that whole region." What is true of hospitals must also be true of similiar services - education, fire and police protection, for example, SCHOOL BOARDS GONE Education Minister William G. Davis 'has, indeed, moved decisively towards regionaliza- tion, with the elimination of a large number of small school boards. The centralization of schools can be expected to con- finue: Reforms Minister Allan Gross- man has been critical of the county and city jail system. Backed by the opinion . 'of experts in penology, he has urged that the ancient jail system - almost every munici- pal jail building in Ontario is more than.a hundred. years old - be scrapped, and that regional jails with modern facilities take their place. A new grant system is designed to encourage the move towards regional jails; the province, under the present system, does not have any direct authority over the jails. The Department of Municipal Affairs over the past year or so has discouraged municipalities wishing to separate from coun- ties, and has found a temporary Pension Plan In Peril if he could provide an accept- ( LGNDON FREE PRESS) The perils of Pauline had nothing on the Canada Pen- sion Plan for cliff-hanging thrills. The federal govern- ment tried to accommodate the divergent views of various provinces, with Quebec particu- larly concerned, and now seems unlikely to be able to carry the project through. This will not be because of any opposition in the House of Commons, where the principle has been generally approved. The burden rests now, rather unfairly, on Premier Robarts of Ontario, According to Allen Lawrence, MPP for Toronto - St. George, serious considera- tion is being given to setting up a distinctively Ontario plan for Ontario people Premier Robarts would have every justification for doing so TODAY IN By THE CANADIAN PRESS Dec. 17, 1964... With Orville Wright at the controls, the first air- plane flight took place 61 years ago today--in 1903-- near Kitty Hawk, N.C. The plane, the first successful heavier - than - air powered machine, had been built by Orville and his brother Wil- bur -- owners of a bi- eycle manufacturing busi- ness, Orville flew the plane 120 feet in 12 seconds, enough to convince the brothers that sustained flight was possible, and they formed a_ successful aircraft business, 1792--The first assembly forLower Canada was opened at Quebec City 1843 -- Charles Dickens' classic, "A Christmas Carol," was published. able alternative. He should be able to do so as well as Quebec could. In fact, an Ontario plan might well be more favorable to the participants than a na- tional one, because Ontario has more resources {o draw on and the average income is some- what higher than it is in most other. provinces. The first obligation Mr, Robarts has is to his own people -- as he has pointed out. But if both the big prov- inces withdraw, the difficulties of working out a national plan will greatly increase. Nor are the smaller provinces--particu- larly those which are financial- ly weak -- likely to be as suc- cessful in developing individual plans as the larger and wealthier ones. Yet those are the ones where the need is greatest HISTORY First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1914--King George V and Lord Kitchener inspected the First Canadian Division in England; the British gov- ernment proclaimed Egypt as a protectorate. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1939--the Common- wealth air training agree- ment was signed in Ottawa among Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zea- land; the -German_ pocket battleship. Graf Spee scut- tled itself in Montevideo harbor; Finns claimed to have surrounded 10,000 Rus- Sian troops while Russia claimed to. have made -ad- vances in northern and cen- tral Finland. solution in private bills to give the malcontents more voting weight in county councils, In this fashion, Burlington and Oakville have remained in the Halton county council; a private bill to keep Toronto township in Peel county is in the works; and Ontario is studying the procedure as a possible solution to the separation screams of that county's urban. south. OUT FROM SHADOW There are other indications of a change of political climate, presaging at least breezes, if not winds, of change. Mr. Robarts is emerging from the Frost shadow. Younger men are moving into key positions in the departments of government+ and younger men will be moving into cabinet seats, If there. is to be a Robarts Era, as there was a Frost Era, it must be established in-1965 - and early in 1965. Mr. Robarts has been pressed by his impatient young backbenchers to move _more swiftly, more boldly. He is cool and calculat- ing rather than impulsive, how- ever; he likes to know where he is going and how he is going to get there before he starts. The start could well come at the forthcoming session of the Legislature. MAC'S MUSINGS Only a week remains Before the arrival of The festival of Christmas And it will be a busy Week of preparation For family reunions, For the Christmas dinner, And for all the events Which go to make the Christmas season by far The happiest of the year, Folks who are scurrying Around the shops doing Their Christmas shopping Are in the midst of Frantic preparations To make others happy When gifts are opened On Christmas morning. Mothers of families Have for many weeks Been making preparations In the creation of the Obristmas cakes and the Puddings which will grace The festive board on That eventful day. These' things are noticed But we seldom hear of People who are making Preparations for the _ Spiritual and religious Aspects of Christmas On which the foundations Of the festival are laid. People are too busy with Their other preparations To give much thought to The central event of .the Birth of the Saviour on That first Christmas morn, Yet all of Christmas is Bound up in that great Event nearly 2000 years ago, An event often forgotten In the merriment and joy Of the purely physical Christmas observance. Dec. 17, BIBLE THOUGHT The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be strongér and stronger.--Job 17:9. Trusting in the Lord, the be- liever shall go forward from strength to strength and from victory to victory. 1964 OTTAWA REPORT. Caouette Gains Quebec Support. BY PATRICK OLSON OTTAWA--) Caouette and his Social Credit are daily at- tracting more support in the Province of Quebec, An election today, in the view of many ex- perienced political campaigners including some Conservative organizers, would see his strength increase from the pres- ent 13 MPs to something be- tween 35 and 40, The present upsurge of sup- port iat - eloquent 47-year-old car-dealer from northwest - bec is attributed to fee ion The growing disenchantment with the Liberal party in the Quebec federal field, and the welcome pan - Canadianism in his own speeches, especially his criticism of separatism, and his praise for the Queen after. her recent visit to Canada, Real Caouette is a longtime Social Crediter, having joined the movement in 1939, It is often forgotten that he sat here as long ago as 1946 as an MP for the Quebec wing of the party. For more than 20 years, he has headed an intensive pro- gram of education about Social Credit in his province, where a solid vote in excess of half a million has supported the move- ment in 'the last two federal elections, LIKES QUEEN Mr. Caouette is neither a separatist nor a republican. "The Queen represents our way of. life which gives us all the freedom in the world," he told me, "In so far as she is a con- stitutional symbol standing for the freedom of human beings, 1 certainly do not feel that there is anything subservient about the Queen of Canada also be- ing the Queen of England, But 1 would fight any tendency of our monarchy to return to ab- solute authority--that would be dictatorship." Mr. Caouette has advocated "associate state" status for Quebec. In describing what he means by this, he outlined points which coincide closely with the status 'which every province enjoyed before the QUEEN'S PARK Robarts Holds wartime Liberal government of Mackenzie King imposed emer- gency measures to centralize power at Ottawa. These were only temporary measures, the prime minister assured the pro- vincial governments at the time, necessitated by the na- tional emergency of war; full powers would be restored to the provinces when the emergency ended. But they never have been. That is why Quebec's great pre- mier Maurice Duplessis devoted all his energies to fighting the "centralizers' of Ottawa. But nobody: called him a separatist. WANTS FREEDOM Real Caouette insists that his call for "associate state" status is not intended for Quebec alone, nor does it imply any special treatment for Quebec. He seeks a restoration of self- government. for his province, and he wonders why other MPs from other provinces have not been doing the same. He ex- pects that, if Quebec wins back for itself the powers which were "temporarily" seized for the duration of the "emer- gency," then every other prov- ince will similarly demand and obtain a similar restoration of powers of local government. Constitutional experts here argue that the central or fed- eral government should have jurisdiction in only four fields, These are monetary policy, in- ternational trade, foreign rela- tions and. defence. This is ap- proximately Mr, Caouette's po- sition. He talks of certain re- finements: for instance, surely Quebec should control, rather than Ottawa, the immigrants permitted.to settle in that prov- ince? And he feels very strongly that each province should be able to exercise its own control over credit, rather than have this done by private banks op- erating in all provinces, and motivated by their own profit- seeking interests rather than by the interests of the communities they serve. Back On Pension By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--The talk around here these days is that Premier Robarts wants to run his own pension program (if he really does) so as to have full say over the big fund which will be built by contributions. In a national program he would have' the use of the money anyway. But this would be in the form of loans from Ottawa, And this, it is said, isn't good enough for Mr, Robarts. There might be conditions to the loans, But if it were his own program he--or whoever suc- ceeds him as Ontario's premier --would have the full say. The question is what could he want this for. One interesting thought is that he might have in mind a big development program. The main reason Premier Le- sage of Quebec wanted his own pension: plan was for this pur- pose. He intends to boost: the econ- omy of his province by assisting industrial development. To do it the way he wants to do it will require a lot of money, And the pool of funds from pensions will give him a lot of the money he will need. There hasn't been the sugges- tion of anything of the same here. But it's just possible Mr. Ro- barts may have something along this line up his sleeve. MIGHT BE CAUTIOUS Or then again he could be just playing his cards very close, as BY-GONE DAYS 15 YEARS AGO Dec. 17, 1949 Col. R..S. McLaughlin pre- sented a new chimes instrument to the Oshawa Civic and Regi- mental Band. It was used for the first time in the first of a series of "Pop' Concerts pre- sented by the band during the winter months, Reeve William E. Noble and Deputy-Reeve Elmer Powell of East Whitby Township an- nounced they would seek re- election in the forthcoming municipal elections. Over 107,800 Christmas cards were handled by the Oshawa Post Office on. Dec. 16 which was an all-time record here. 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 17, 1934 Fire Chief Wesley R. Elliott was installed as Worshipful Master of Temple Lodge, AF and AM, No. 649. Katharine. Bryce and Stanley Best were named outstanding girl and boy at the OCVI Com- mencement Rev. A. D. Robb spoke briefly at the annual Christmas. con- cert held at St. Andrew's United Church. James C. Young was the master of ceremonies, usual, and bargaining as he goes along. It seems we probably won't know for at least a month yet and probably longer, Mr. Robarts has said that eventually he will make On- tario's overall position on pen- sions clear, but that in the meantime he feels it is better not to discuss it piece-meal. It is to be expected this for- mal statement won't come until the session. And this isn't due to start until January 20. W. Allister Johnston, P.C, member for Parry Sound, has finally been confirmed as chair- man of the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission. Mr. Johnston is one of the veterans of the house, having been first elected in 1948. He has been, acting chairman of the ONR for some time now. It is to be assumed that the delay in. confirming him has been reluctance to name a poli- tician as the head of this big public corporation. This is against the recent trend, which has been to bring in outside men to government commissions and corporations. However Mr. Johnston is not a political type, is a good busi- ness - man and solidly known through the north. He shouldn't turn out to be controversial. POINTED PARAGRAPHS How are the mighty fallen. Yogi Berra is now in the same class as Nikita Khrushchev and Sir Alex Douglas-Home. In the "good old days" par- ents had baby-sitters of their own for all their children except the first one. Many people never pay any attention to the handwriting on the wall until their backs are against it. Young people these days find it hard to believe that years ago most people would not buy or ~ ees they could not af- 'ord. The careful reader of a few good newspapers can learn more in a year than most scholars do in their great libraries, -- F. B. Sanborn, The pernicious doctrine that ft is the duty of the Opposition fo oppose has no respectable basis -- Lord Shawcross. PAPER MISSED? Call 723-3783 to 7 p.m. Circulation Dept. OSHAWA TIMES THE BRITISH PROBLEM The British are again--or perhaps one should say, still-- facing a great political test. The sensational financial crisis, now temporarily resolved, was in a way a crisis of the nation.. Labor under Harold Wilson got off to a poor start after inheriting a difficult situation from the Tories. It was a mis- take on Mr. Wilson's part to promise great things: in "'the first hu ff Minister "Peaeead. : of ft made a_ similar mistake and was badly burned. The prob- lems the British face are not going to be solved in a hundred" days or perhaps even a thous- and days. They have a long, hard pull. A complex process of modernization, with an em- phasis on increased exports, is' required. Britain has yet to carry out her technol Md olution, --New Ton tees NEVER A DETERRENT Capital punishment is not and never has been a deterrent to murder, Today almost the only excuse for it is that it pro- vides the consolation of re- venge, It is a lingering remnant of the philosophy of an eye for an eye, --Montreal Star WHOSE HEADS WILL FALL? Mr. Nielsen has brought seri- ous charges against former ex- ecutive aides and has raised questions about the propriety of the conduct of both Mr. Favreau and Mr. Tremblay, Opposition Leader Diefenbaker entered the debate in full sup- oo 7 Mr. yee, calling for 4 'esignation ministerae 1 If the Dorion inqui the Nielsen charger, tae oe be no question that both Mr. Favreau and Mr, Tremblay will have to go. If the Nielsen charges collapse, then the young Yukon MP and his leader wae their heads on the CK. RECORDS OF SECRET TALKS A timely announcement has been made from London, to the effect that wartime speeches of Sir Winston Churchill, not heard outside the secret sessions of the British House of Commons before, are to be issued on long- playing records. The recordings during the secret sessions are of speeches which some of those who were present regarded as the finest and most stirring Sir Winston ever made. They were never published in the press, for security reasons, but were re- corded by Sir Winston at the end of World War Two from his verbatim notes, The records will also bring the opportunity to hear again the famous broad- cast speeches which rang round bo phe aoe the BBC and ral- ie ain j the last as -- ee (Charlottetown Guardian) MACHINES AND JOBS How many Canadians are be- ing put out of work by auto- mation? NDP Leader Tommy Douglas has placed it at 200,000 a year -- a nice, round, - curdling figure, _-- But statistics published joint- ly by DBS and the ieee Department tell another story. As of mid-October there were 6,704,000 Canadians gainfully employed -- an increase of 128,000 on the figure for mid- October, 1963. In .the same period, the Canadian labor force has grown by 121,000. Thus, during a period of in- creasing automation, the Cana- dian economy had in effect pro- vided jobs for all the new en- trants into the labor force, plus 7,000 of the unemployed-- whose numbers felll from 265,000 to 258,000. That 258,000 figure is in fact artifically high, since it includes thousands of. Canadian auto workers briefly laid off because of strikes in the U.S. The fact of the matter is that Canada has more employment than ever before -- and less un- employment than it has had for the last seven years. --Financial Post FANNY'S REPRIEVE . The Ontario Appeal Court has ruled that 'Fanny Hill' is fit for the public to read. If we have no quarrel with that decision it is because we do not believe that it is possible to write anything unfit for an adult to read. Reading leaves few scars, If it were otherwise we would all be perverts, sadists, murderers, thieves and rogues, We must add, though, that if "Fanny Hill" does not come within the Criminal Code's def- inition of obscenity, we are at a loss to understand what does. (Belleville Intelligencer) Walmsley & Magill OFFICE EQUIP, LTD. 9 KING ST. E. OSHAWA 725-3506 |