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~ Bhe Oshawa Times iy: Published by. Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1965--PAGE 4 Re-Shaping Of Municipal Government Is Essential ' The time is drawing near when there must be a re-shaping of Osh- awa's municipal government. The resignation of Kevin Cahill as "director of operations for the city thas left the situation wide open for *turther consideration. It is doubtful "if any definite decisions as to the "future course of civic administra- "tion will be made this year. There "is too much difference of opinion "within the city council to chart the route it will follow to streamline the * operations of the city's govern- ment with any degree of assurance. * 'There seems to be an inclination eto drop the post of director of + operations to which Mr. Cahill was Y appointed, As an experiment it did t-not, apparently, work out too well. «The differences of opinion which + led to his resignation are such that i they might occur no matter who "was named as his successor, unless *new terms of reference and duties : were devised. . There are two other suggestions which are favored by some mem- *bers of the present council. One is "that the city manager form of civic > government be adopted. Mayor Gifford favors this in principle, as do some of the aldermen. This is something, however, which demands more study, and Alderman Down was right in suggesting that the council should take a long, hard look at it. Other aldermen are in favor of having a board of control for the city. The time is fast approaching when such a step must be taken. Alderman Hayward Murdoch has an interesting suggestion that the counci] should be composed of the mayor, four controllers and eight aldermen. The alderman would be elected on a ward basis, with the city divided into four wards instead of six, and each ward electing two aldermen. This proposal would at least be a starting point for dis- cussion. The changes which are needed will not come quickly, but the present council could render Osh- awa an excellent service by devot- ing some time to study of the var- ious suggestions made during the two years for which it will hold office. 'Legislation Not Enough ! The new voting rights bill intro- "duced into the United States Con- Sgress by President Johnson, and the 'march of the demonstrators from "Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Sto not by any means mark the end 'of the controversy over the treat- Smment of negroes in the southern "United States. The negroes have gained ground by the new legisla- 'tion which seems likely to be passed Sby Congress, but more than that Swill be needed before the principles eof the constitution, that all men are ree and equal, becomes a reality "there. It is merely but one small step ahead in the 100 years struggle «which the negroes have had to fight Sbince their ancestors were freed aA ¢ She O i + :Ghe Osharwwn Times eed < T. L. WILSON, Publisher de R. C, ROOKE, General Monager . C, J. 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In communities where these immigrants are concentrated the situation is tailor-made for disorder and propaganda. Sir Oswald Mosley, whose prewar Fascists touched off riots by marching in the heav- ily Jewish east side of London, is soft-pedaling anti-Semitism these. days. He now calls his group the Union Movement and is trying to sell the idea of a common government for Britain, Europe and Africa ~-- with whites and nonwhites segregated. Sir Oswald, 68, hopes to be the leader of this visionary merger. Aes Ste * r) q POMPE E REET EES CM MED v4 5 SHPAGE HEMET OC eeeee from slavery by Abraham Lincoln. It is one thing for legislation to be passed which will have the effect of giving the negroes equality in law. It is quite another thing to raise the negro population to a status which will give them equality in fact. With the majority of the negroes lacking in education and largely illiterate, there can be no quick transition of the status which is theirs in the southern United States. At the root of the negro problem is the fact that in these states they have been denied access to equal educational opportunities with the white population for four generations. It is only in recent years that there has been any suc- cess in integrating the negro chil- dren with the whites in the educa- tional system. It will take more than the pass- ing of laws to produce the kind of equality which is envisaged in. the constitution, and of which president Johnson spoke to Congress. There is in the south a-hard core of bit- terness against the negroes, dating back to the years immediately after the civil war. This must be rooted out, completely eradicated, before the negro problem can be solved completely. That is something which involved a change in human nature in the states affected, and that is something that cannot be achieved by legislation. The activist prong is the Na- ond World War Adults' Time, Not Money Need Boy Scouts, Cubs, Guides, Tuxis, CGIT, and other groups, organizations and "movements" for children and teen-agers ar@ more important now than ever before. Today's heavily-organ- ized adu't society leaves little room for unorganized and spon- taneous recreation for young: sters. Yet every organized group of youngsters requires an adult leader, and the sorry truth is that there are not nearly enough adult leaders. Adults will spend any amount of money on their children, on expensive schools and play- grounds, clothes, cars and so on, for their children but they will not spend what the children need even more than money, namely, time. Every one of them realizes how important it is that chil- dren be adequately prepared for the confusing years ahead, and they will hire teachers and play- ground supervisors to work with them, but they will not con- tribute their own time in those areas where it is urgently need- ed. Church schools can't find teachers, juvenile hockey and ball clubs can't find coaches, Scout and associated groups can't find leaders, and vast numbers of children are not getting the leadership they de- serve and need, because the adults are too busy. Actually they are not too busy. It's just that they are not using their time where it is most needed and will do most good --Lethbridge Herald U.S. Tradition May Be Doomed "If Lincoln Lived Today -- A Profile in Poverty" is the title of a birteday salute in U.S. News and World Report which closes on this sombre note: 'In the 'Creat Society being pro- jected today, there rise serious doubts that America wil] ever know another success story like that of Abraham Lincoln." Think of that! If we abolish poverty, ihere won't be any more squalor for future presi- dents to rise up out of. What a terrible end for a great old American tradition. --Buffalo Evening News. MAC'S MUSINGS It is a happy thing When a family is able To live in 4 neighborhood Where they are able to Feel at ease and at home, A good neighborhood is A phrase so often used By real estate dealers And in advertisements Of houses for sale, but It is not necessarily a District of large houses And spacious gardens. A family. can be happy Almost anywhere so long As the neighbors are People who understand the Elements of practical Kindliness, coupled with A wholesome respect for Each family's privacy. To be a good neighbor Is quite an art, because One interfering busybody Can make a whole street Uncomfortable, while on The other hand one person With a genuine, kindly Interest in other people, Can draw together neighbors Who might otherwise be too Shy to approach each other. With property changing Hands at the present rate Neighbors can change their Characters overnight, But so long as neighbors Remember to maintain That delicate balance Between friendly interest And gross interference The' quality of any Neighborhood can be Enriched with harmony. --March 24, 1965 the British armed forces, Now Don't You DARE FOLLOW "THEM LITTLE BO-DIEF BRITISH PRISON REFORM Reading And Education Guard Against Boredom By DOUG MARSHALL LONDON (CP) -- The best- thumbed book in most British prison libraries is Robert Serv- ice's Songs of .a Sourdough. Reading is the principal weapon against boredom in any prison, Movies are limited to one a month and few institu- tions have television sets. By law all prisons must offer evening classes but their depth and effectiveness differ widely from place to place. One open prison in Derbyshire, known as the university of British jails because of the high intelligence level of its inmates, has 25 courses teaching everything from basic English to elocution and jazz appreciation to soccer refereeing. SOON LEARN JARGON The system is designed to iron out individuality. Every pris- oner, whatever his background, soon finds himself adopting the in-group jail jargon and accept- ing the hierarchy of prison val- ues, In this hierarchy the confi- dence tickster' is king and the sexual offender is loathed. "You can't help admiring the silvery-tongued con man- who, without any apparatus . at can separate a_ hard-headed businessman from his £1,000," said one governor. At the moment, however, the con men have abdicated in fa- vor of the 12 convicted members of the gang that pulled off the £2,500,000 Great Train Robbery in 1963. The gang's status re- ceived a further boost when Charles Wilson, one of the seven robbers given a 30-year sen- tence, made a. spectacular es- cape from a maximum-security prison in Birmingham six months ago and is still on the run, At the other end of the scale sexual offenders, particularly those who have assaulted young children, frequently find it ne- cessary to ask for protection from: their fellow inmates, Rule 43 of prison regulations stipu- lates that any man must be isolated if he wants to be, British Fascist Movement Being Revived culminating in all, , tional Socialist party, run by an ex-teacher and former door-to-° door soap salesman, Colin Jor- dan, 42. STARTED MOVEMENT Fascism in Britain goes back to 1924, when Miss Rotha Lin- torn-Orman incorporated a com pany known as British Fascists. The Fascists made no point of anti-Semitism but were strongly averse to communism, social- ism, anarchism, free love, athe- ism and trade unions. At one point' they claimed 100,000 re- cruits--including William Joyce, later to become infamous in the Second World War as Lord Haw Haw. Miss Lintorn-Orman dropped into the background and the movement broke into groups. In October, 1925 dissidents formed The National Fascisti, with a black-shirt' uniform. While all this was going on, Mosley was working his way up the conventional political lad- der as a member of the Labor party. He represented Smeth- wick in the Commons for sev- eral years, but in 1931 formed a party which became the Brit- ish Union of Fascists. With the outbreak of the Sec- home office rounded up 1,200 Fascists for internment under defence regulations. Joyce es- caped to Germany, where he broadcast propaganda for the Nazis, At the end of the war he was convicted of treason and hanged. Mosley spent the war years interned in Brixton Prison. That was the end of the Brit- ish Union of Fascists. In 1948 Mosley formed the Union Movement which he said would "build where the old parties have destroyed,"' Its present membership is believed tu be well under 3,000. It seeks to expel all non-whites from Britain except bonafide stu- dents. PARIS (AP) -- President Charles de Gaulle's program to strengthen French military might is approaching a crucial and. expensive phase. But the average Frenchman appears willing to pay the price. French military planners say 1965 starts "a new em in the development of France's arma- ment policy." Basically, the military blue- print calls for increasing ef- forts to modernize French the goal of six nuclear-armed combat divisions by 1970. Work on the program in 1965 will cost $4,210,000,000, one fifth the national budget. De Gaulle insists on develop- ing France's own nuclear cap- ability to deliver an atomic re- sponse if war is thrust upon it by an aggressor. REPORTS ON COST France's defence expendi- tures, including those for atomic research and development, break down to about $98 a per- son, a Western European Un- ion survey reports. In 1960, before de Gaulle set in motion the machinery for re- organizing France's military structure, the government spent about $90 a head on defence. U.S, defence expenditures -- which involve far greater come mitments--amount to $282 per capita, French expenses. for defence in 1964 added up to 6.5 per cent of the tountry's gross national product Comparable « figures for the same period in West Germany were 5.9 per cent; Britain, 7.1 per cent and U.S., 9.6. Despite the internal feuds and inherent class structure among prisoners, the fundamental divi- sion in prison life is between the inmates and the "screws" or prison officers. An informer, called a "'grass," is rapidly de- tected and ostracized, Y TOBACCO IS CURRENCY Prisoners everywhere call a cell a "'peter," possibly deriv- ing from St. Peter guarding the Gate, or in rhyming slang a@ "flowery dell." Tobacco is called "'snout" because in the days of the silent system, which were not so Jong ago, a pris- oner. indicated he wanted a smoke by rubbing his nose. Tobacco is still the universal currency in prison and to obtain it a prisoner must buy it at standard prices out of the $1 or so he earns for his average 32- hour working week. Basically most of the labor force in prisons is tied up in running the system itself. Pris- oners make all the prison uni- forms and most of the prison furnishings. Where possible maintenance and repairs are carried out by the prisoners too. Gradually the home office's prison board -is increasing the number and scope of industrial training courses available for prisoners. Even more slowly trades unions are beginning to recognize the- apprenticeship certificates gained in prison. Mankind's Adjustment To Civilization Difficult By BRUCE HUTCHISON (In the Winnipeg Free Press) Men are only about 5,000 years out of their Neolithic caves. They have iives less than a cen- tury in modern cities. Thus a creature accustomed for several million years to the outdoors, to the soil, the clean air, constant physica! toil, solitude and the company of natural things, is asked, in :ittlke more than a single 'ifetime, to change his en- tire habits of body and mind. He must exist in a new kind of mechanica. cave, in polluted air, in a man-swarm far more lonely thar the wilderness and in a state of tension that would shatter the toughest dinosaur. The consequences appear al- ready in such forms as new dis- eases, crir.e, insanity, the dis- ruption of the family, the col- lapse of morals and the decay of religion which once made a hard life endurable Having politely ushered nature and God out of his culture (with the help of ardent prophets like Mr. Pierre Berton), a man is no happier and apparently no greater He is only more civi- lized, The real BIBLE "And Joeph made ready his chariot, to Goshen, and present- ed himself unto him: and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while," Genesis 46:29. Father and son ought to be close to each other, but closer to Ged. Miles and misunder- standings have separated too many fathers and sons. question, therefore, the Jarges' of all questions and comprehending every other, is not whether man can be richer, as he cer.ainly can if he con- trols the population, but wheth- er he is built physically and mentaily, to stand the wear and tear of civilization in the new phase now beginning, and only beginning. YEARS AGO 25 YEARS AGO March 24, 1940 Reginald Terrett, Oshawa Boy Scout leader, left to take over an executive post in scouting in Regina, Sask. W. H. Moore was elected in the South Ontario general elec- tion, with a majority of 4334 erat Harry Newman, Conserva- tive, The Liberals secured 176 seats, the National Government Party, 38, the New Democracy 7, and all others 10 seats, with six doubtful, in the federal gen- eral election. 40 YEARS AGO March 24, 1925 The General Motors Male Chorus scored an outstanding success in its third annual con- cert. Oshawa's tax rate for 1925 was fixed at 4914 mills, an in- crease of six mills over 1924, and the highest in Oshawa his- tory to date. Plans were prepared for the building of a large modern school at Westmount, TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS March 2, 1965... The Elizabethan era ended 362 years ago today with the death of England's Queen Elizabeth -- in 1603. She was succeeded by James VI of Scotland, who became James I or Eng- land and the Act of Union |, of England and Scotland took effect the same day. Under Queen Elizabeth's _ reign of 45 years, Shake- speare and Sit Francis Drake typified the nation's finest achievements in peace and war. 1808--Egerton Ryerson, Ca- nadian educationist, was born 1938--The first concentra- tion camps were set up in Germany. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1915--the Allied fleet re- sumed bombardment of Turkish positions in the Dardanelles; a battle began between the Russian and Austro - Hungarian armies for control of passes through the Carpathian mountains; and the Aus- trians assembled troops in the southern Tyrol, on the Italian border. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1940--Pope Pius XII pleaded in an Easter homily for "peace, concord, and unity'? among the nations; a British submarine sank the German freighter Hugo Stinnes off the Danish coast and capiured the captain, although the crew rowed ashore. OTTAWA KEPORT Suggests Pearson Might Go To UNO By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- Parliament Hill had a selection of unusual news stories last week, apart from the fracas in its own three rings. One member of Parlia- ment very properly urged that parliamentarians should cease to be a privileged class among Canadian taxpayers, and should henceforth have to detail their tax - deductible expenses like everyone else. The bleeding hearts tempo- rarily forsook the suffering mur- derers in Canada's death row, and extended their protests to faraway Alabama. Even that old chestnut of a headline--The Return of the Warrior to Prince Albert--appeared in a_ novel guise by suggesting that this time he might dump himself. But the most important story of all slipped through the fingers of the eager-beavers with the notebooks. This is that the faith- ful caucus of Liberal MPs, so dedicated and affectionate to- wards their charmingly dille- tante leader, may soon have to chip in to-present him with one of those autographed silver sal- vers 60 popular as farewell testimonials. Mike the diplomat may soon go to his reward, it is suggested, in that Valhalla of dreamers and graveyard of hopes, the United Nations. His experience as leader of Canada's frag- mented and quarrelling 26th Parliament has been his prep- aration for taking on a tougher job in a wider field. HEAD NEW GROUP It is being canvassed in inter- national circles that perhaps he should head up a brand new United Nations organization re- sponsible for the co-ordination, financing and deployment of peace-keeping contingents, sup- plied by many nations including the "Ottawa Group" which re- cently met here to discuss that very topic. After all, Mike received a Nobel peace prize for blueprint- ing that concept; who better to make it work than its designer? And good luck to him. He never * sought the political life; he finds it uncongenial, And now, faced QUEEN'S PARK with the urgency to use the hatchet which feels so strange" in his hands accustomed to the suede gloves of the diplomat. he' is believed to see the simplest way to reconstruct the whole apparatus of government as be ing a fresh start under a new leader. : Unlike the restive Tories. of 1962-1965, the Liberals have a tacitly-accepted heir apparent ready and indeed anxious to be called, and as readily accept~ on to his anxious followers-to- This is "Smiling Bob' Win- fers, who owes his fame and fortune to the happy chance that' an unknown young fishing com- pany executive named Lloyd Crouse ousted him from his "'safe Liberal seat" in Nova Sco- tia in the 1957 electoral upset. TRIPLED SALARY Bob moved off to business, at a salary reputed to be three times his previous reward as a Liberal cabinet minister, and in eight years he has amassed, from salary and stock options, a competence which would com- fortably augment his pay as @ politician. The Paladins of the Liberal party now actively seek his re- turn to Parliament Hill. He himself, now a power company tycoon, might well welcome an early exit from his present en- tanglement with Premiers Le- sage and Smallwood; they each seek for their own province the fruits of Bob Winters' develop- ment of the immense power at Churchill Falls in distant Lab- rador. And Bob himself, it is sug- gested, would he equally pleased to emerge suddenly as Liberal leader and prime minis- ter of Canada--a swift switch to be followed by the formality of a convention which would be no more than his coronation. So, while the Tories are in- creasingly split in their destruc- tive leadership quarrel, it ap- pears that the well-oiled and smooth-running Liberal machine might neatly and surprisingly change gear without pausing on its course, No Enthusiasm In Flag Debate By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- Rev. A. W. Downer has been in the provin- cial: House now going on 28 years. The rotund, jolly and benevol- ent padre from Duntroon was the speaker for four years and is the dean of the government ranks. (Only Liberal Farquhar Oliver out-ranks him in the House.) In his time the Reverend Wally has naturally had a good number of proud moments. But probably none has been more to his liking than that a few days ago when he was picked to lead-off for the gov- ernment on second reading of the new Ontario flag bill. This was something to which Mr, Downer could give heart and soul. : : The most ardent imperialist, loyalist, just straight Queen- and-country man in the House, he was able to extol the new flag in a ringing warmth that made old platitudes sound like new prayers, Quite apparently, however, there were not. many other members who could whip up the enthusiasm of Mr, Downer for the new flag. POINTED PARAGRAPHS Asked it he meant to publish an article on "The. Power Men Have Over Women", a cynical editor expiained that he never published fiction. A report says that Quebec automobife licence: plates are going like "hot cakes" this year. How. about passing on the recipe to the Ontario Department of Highways. The United Nations may re- cess until spring because of its dispute over arrears of dues. But there is no guarantee that the deadlocked situation will be any different in the spring. Several members spoke, But in most cases they were speake ing for personal reasons, or tak- ing roles in'a set-piece debate to back up the flag. ast Liberal Leader Andrew Thompson, for instance, gave a fairly impassioned endorsement of the flag. But as his party was split behind him, a powerful personal plea was called for. And again, P.C. Fernand Guindon of Stormont made a strong speech. But this was to put firmly on the record that the French in Ontario backed the government on the flag. The majority of members re- mained quiet, being content to merely register their voice votes in favor of the flag. Not that they were against the flag. You had the impres- sion they didn't feel strongly one way or the other on it. But they were against getting involved in any flag issues. TAUGHT LESSON Ottawa had taught them e@ lesson on that. Actually the most emotional, and eloquent, speech of the de- bate was made by Sudbury Lib- eral Elmer Sopha who was op- posed to it. As he has shown in the past, Mr. Sopha is not afraid to stand up and be counted, And he and fellow Liberal Leo Troy of Nip- issing had the courage to go on the record against the flag. The key point at issue on the new flag is its effect on the 40 per cent of Ontario of non- British origin. #1s the Red Ensign an affront to them as Mr. Sopha claimed? Or will it be a rallying point as the flag that gave them freedom when they were flee- ing despotism? And who really can say? A. E, JOHNSON, 0.0. OPTOMETRIST 14% King St. East 723-2721 SAVE $ $ ON AUTO INSURANCE $18.00 on your auto See... JOHN DIAL 668-8831 If you are an Abstainer you save up. to insurance. RIEGER. 218 DUNDAS ST. E., WHITBY