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She Osha Times . . Published by Canodion Newspapers Limited : 86 fe. Ss € Dibawe, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1965 -- PAGE 4 QUEEN'S PARK Will Loss Leaders Bring Ombu By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--Will loss leaders Canada Needs Election Whether Like It Or Not The federal! election date has been set for November 8th. That nagging uncertainty has ended. It is no long- er a question of whether Canadians want an election campaign. We're . to have one, probably one of the bit- terest in our history. And, like it or not, a strong case can be argued that the country needs it. Canada needs to return to truly responsible government -- a gov- ernment responsible to the people electing it, not a government de- pending on the support of mjnority groups to retain office, This, of course, is contrary to the contention better legislation is produced in a House of minorities. A majority government, however, forms its own policies, it does not have to water down or sweeten needed legislation to satisfy parties woefully lacking in the public support required to form the administration themselves. Many of the grandiose give-away measures which are so taxing the economy today must stem from so- cialist influence, They cannot rep- resent practical Liberal policy. Canada needs an election to "clean up the mess" as the catch phrase seems to be for the allegations of scandal in government. This situa- tion is surely one for the electorate to judge once and for all at the polls, tot one on which politicians can harangue endlessly. No government can operate effectively with such clouds hanging over it. Canada needs an election to give voters an opportunity to pass judg- ment 'also on government members and other representatives who have been severely criticized in the last parliament. November 8th will be the day of decision on the perform- ances of the Gordons, the La- Marshes and others whose state- ments so often have been subject of public concern, Many may contend that such mat- ters might be held in abeyance un- til redistribution has been accome plished. The present system une doubtedly has wide areas of unfair- hess and inequality but it is not a situation that has arisen overnight, Those being robbed of adequate rep- resentation have been in that posi- tion during the terms of several governments. The problem of en- deavoring to obtain more effective and stable government for them -- and the country as a whole -- is more pressing at this time. Prime Minister Pearson's plea for a majority government is much more than an election campaign bid. An inflationary trend is appearing to dim the rosy hue of the Canadian economy. Highly significant nego- tiations are in the offing with Que- bec and other provinces. New and grave crises loom on the interna- tional horizon. A majority govern- ment -- freed of the need for con- stant politicking for sufficient sup- port in the House -- could more competently cope with such develop- ments, The Centennial must be a consid- eration too. From the outset, the election campaign gives evidence of acute acrimony. As long a cooling off period as possible following it will be required if the spirit and importance of the celebration is not to be marred by politically-stirred bitterness, An election campaign can be greeted with enthhsiasm by few -- with possible exception of Opposi- tion Leader Diefenbaker -- but this is one Canada needs, now, Matter Of Civic Concern Just as one swallow does not make a summer, one tenement dwelling hardly constitutes a slum area. In attempting to focus atten- tion on sub-standard accommoda- tion about which city officials have expressed serious concern, The Times did not intimate Nassau street was a slum area -- in fact the She Oshawa Zimes T. L. WILSON, Publisher R. C. ROOKE, Generali Monager C. J. MeCONECHY Editor The Oshawa Times hitby Gazette and is published daily The Oshawo Times combinin: (established 1871) ond the Chronicle established 1863) ys end Members of areas Daily per Publish we Association, The Canadion Press, Audit Bureau of Seeuiarion, sg liegt in Provincial Dailies ress Ld entitied 'te the use of republication of ell news despatched in the paper credited to it or te The Asscciated Press or Reuters, ond also the 'toca! mews published therein. All tights of special des patches cre also reserved. as bl gag berets pid iwcerney wenue, Toronto, lario; cart Street, Montreal, P.O. : SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, yong Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince Fe vaeid opie Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, iverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, oon Leskerd, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Manchester, Pontypool, and Newcastle, not over SOc, per week. y mail in Province of Ontario outside carrier delivery area, $15.00 ir year. Other provinces and Commonwealth Countries, sd tg per year, U.S.A. and foreign $27.00 per word slum did not appear in the ar- ticle describing the situation. That some of the other residents of the area interpreted the article in such a manner is regrettable. In a letter to the editor published here today several have taken exception to the report. They also say they "are all in favor of cleaning up the tenement building". It was to this end The Times interviewed persons directly in- volved, photographed the dwelling which is the subject of concern and published the report. We believe in a city such as Oshawa where such general pride in property is exhibit- ed a clear picture of the situation to which Nassau street residents ob- ject was presented in the public in- terest. While it is indeed unfortunate that some residents are upset by the interpretation they chose to give The Times presentation, they may - be certain no such slight was in- tended. It is the function of a home- town newspaper to put before its readers matters which are shown to be of civic concern. This is a case of The Times endeavoring to fulfill this important role. fs hes bring about an om- budsman? Probably not, but they prom- ise to help. For some time now peach growers. have been worried about supermarkets selling peaches at less than cost, as a come-on. They felt this degraded the price of peaches generally. So the Peach Growers' Mar- keting Board took a_ pretty fancy step. It took a elose look at the Farm Products Marketing Act. It saw in one section that it could pass regulations on the control of "marketing."' And an- other section of the act said that "marketing" covered "ad- vertising." The board then made a bold move. It passed a regulation which prohibited advertising peaches for sale for less than was paid for 'them, The legal authority for the peach board to do this is ques- tionable, to say the least. The actual wording of the act, under a broad interpretation, might technically justify it. But you can say definitely, I think, it never was, or has been, the intent of the' legislature, within the Farm Marketing Act, to give boards representing growers any control over re- tailing. And this is what the peach board is attempting to do with this regulation, which presum- ably, it is to be hoped, will be challenged in some area. an it would seem to be bad Ww. : SUGGESTS OMBUDSMAN Which brings up the ombuds+ man. The essential point in estab- lishing an ombudsman would be to protect: the public from abuse in the law. And this step by the peach board is as good an illustration as we have had of why such @ safeguard is needed, For there has been practi+ cally no protection of the publie interest in the processing of this regulation, which amounts to very extreme law, and is abus- ive of the rights' of at least a section of the public, the retail- ers. Most important of all, the regulation, so far as the general public is concerned, was put through in secrecy, and quite legally so. There is no requirement for local marketing boards to pub- lish notice of their regulations, or otherwise alert the public. In fact, they are specifically ex- empted from publishing in the Ontario Gazette. That this can and does hap- pen in government today is a strong argument for a defender of public rights. . Strikes, Restrictive Practices Jeopardize U.K. Trade Program LONDON (AP)--Frank Mur- ray, 30, a truck driver, was con- victed of dangerous driving and was fired from his job--moving new cars from Ford's Liverpool factory. His 300 fellow drivers imme- diately went on a protest strike. New cars quickly filled up the Ford yards and production had to be halted for lack of room. As a result, 8,000 Ford workers were thrown out of work. Welder Terry Williams re- fused to take orders from a foreman in a body works in Wales and was suspended. The protest walkout that followed soon tied up the British Motor Corp., with 20,000 men laid off. Strikes like these, together with restrictive practices by both management and trade un- ions, have brought Prime Minise ter Wilson the biggest single threat to his urgent drive to get Britain's foreign trade out of the red Unofficial walkouts, often touched off by trivial disputes, provide paradox for Wilson's Labor government: That of being forced to take action to prevent strikes and to get trade unions, backbone of the Labor party support, to give up some outdated but revered practices. The prime minister's first act on returning from his vacation was to convoke representatives YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO Sept. 9, 1950 Evelyn Robson, member of the Oshawa Skating Club, achieved her "Gold Test', the highest award possible to. ama- teur figure skaters, while at Schumacher summer skating school. Norman C, Millman, chair- man of the Oshawa Planning Board, reported the progress that was being made in the zon- ing of the city, for planned use of land. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 9, 1935 R. M. Holtby of Port Perry, was nominated as candidate of the Stevens Reconstruction Party in the coming federal election. J. B. Spencer won the Osh- awa Golf Club championship by defeating Bruce Bradley in a keen 36-+ole maich, of management and labor to dis- cuss means of halting tieups in the automotive industry, The prime minister was pre- pared to take his case to the floor of the convention of the Trades Union-Congress, which opened today in Brighton. The 1,000 delegates to the con- gress have a bone to pick with Wilson over another paradox: A government-provoked reces- sion that has sent industrial production tumbling and thrown 58,000 workers out of jobs be- between July 15 and Aug. 15. Three big corporations, Ford of England, Hoover Home Appli- ances and the Vauxhall Motor Co., have Git work schedules because of "feclines in business attributed to government credit restrictions. The prime minister's case is that his government inherited a chronic deficit in British foreign trade, Britain was buying and investing considerably more abroad than it was selling. The trade deficit in 1964 was $2,000,- 000,000. Loss of confidence abroad in the Labor government's ability to cope with the crisis started a run on sterling late last year. That sent the pound to its low- est level since the Cuban crisis of 1962. The government had to seek short-term loans abroad in -order to stave off the crisis. British industrialists were ask- ing why they should strive to compete with foreign manufac- turers in the export market in order to earn 10 per cent, when they could make 50 per cent at home and sell all they could produce. But imports were pouring in to compete with more expensive British goods, produced by an inefficient industry suffering from the effects of restrictive practices and a plant badly in need of modernization. As the government saw it, there was just too much money around with full employment. Instalment buying had soared, The government estimated ex- cess purchasing power at more than $800,000,000 a year. After it took office last Octo- ber, the Labor government slapped a surtax on most im- ports and began tightening credit restrictions. The aim is twofold: To curb imports by making them more expensive, and at the same time force British industry to export in order to suryive when the home market loses part of its purchasing power, sath Luana A FIRST OF THREE en ... LIVELY CLOSEUP OF U.S. CHIEF With Johnson At Helm, It's One-Man Show! first of three A.P. articles that present a lively closeup of the U.S. president's ways, public and private. By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL WASHINGTON (AP) -- Presi- ident Johnson probably would flare up at the idea that his is a@ one-man administration. Yet perhaps as much as any man who has occupied the White House, he is the U.S, govern- ment. It is Johnson who has the power. And it is Johnson who ultimately decides on all the major and many minor moves on the chessboard of domestic affairs and foreign policy. How does he operate? This is a man who puts in many a 16-hour day practising persuasion and what he might call enlightenment. He bounces 'from one chore to another in seemingly tireless fashion. It helps, though, to do it in shifts »there's a mid-afternoon nap. He consults. He seeks consen- gus. He requests and receives advice. He schedules conference Bt Contresh, Roveroors, mazer, leaders in all sorts of fields--~-- and guests receive autographed person who rose to the presi- civil rights, education, business, labor,. the professions. He has been known to con- verse with officials or guests behind a bathroom door, or in a shack on one of his more re- mote properties in the Texas hill country. As for those tales about his arm twisting, he dismisses them as fantasy. But he does some effective wheedling and needl- ing, preferably in face-to-face chats or on the telephone. There's never been anything like the telephone consoles with their lights and push. buttons spread all over the White House and the LBJ ranch in Texas, FREQUENT HOST The president can. be a de- lightful host too. He is a fre- quent one, Never before have so many people seen so much of the White House so often--even the presidential bedroom, There are big parties and little ones, outside and inside, and on boat rides down the Potomac River, _ A photographers hovers nearby pictures of themselves and the president, often in color. Or they are given pens used at bill signings, or cards showing John- son and his dogs -- with foot- prints at the bottcm--to take to the kids. Guests at the ranch are treated to a ride on the range in a High-powered convertible, with a special horn to call up the blooded Herefords, or to a speedboat spin on nearby Lake LBJ. Yet this president at other times can be domineering and unforgiving; and he can resort to language blistering enough and profane and earthy enough to make an artillery sergeant shudder. A staff he drives with an iron hand gets the brunt of the John- son anger at times and yet gives him unswerving loyalty. The president not only has power over his staff. He has power, period. Ik is a power backed by guile skills, down- right ability, and a know-how and experience in Congress and gov: unmatched by any dency. The power is based in part on the dimensions of Johnson's landslide 1964 presidential elec- tion victory. PUBLIC SUPPORT In addition, by most measur ing rods, Johnson has the weight of a large cross-section of pub- lic support behind him. He isn't content with it, though, He always tries for more, tries to improve: his sta- ture with the people, tries to stay in the public eye. Nothing from the past equals the drumbeat of presidential statements, ceremonial pr o- nouncements, speeches and press releases. From the White House now come offerings of news items previously left to various de< partments--such as the number of loans by the Farmers Home Administration or statistics on what the justice department's civil division has doing From the movie theatre in the White House east wing, Johnson can command almost instant television. ew cepeny or ¥ thn te, sa, si in tas ie Bits stituency boundaries Liberal Leader. son says this work be finished in time for an ste pos before 1 Leader John Diefenbs that this is a lie, "An election could early in 1966," Ste is enbaker. CANADA'S RELUCTANT ASTRONAUT . READERS Canada Gazette Published 'Extra' To Declare War WRITE. NASSAU PROTEST Mr. Editor: We, as residents, home own- ers and tax-payers of Nassau street, highly resent the recent splash in the Times, to wit, that we are living in a slum area. Granted there is one eye sore on the street, mainly the tenement owned by Mr, Collis, we feel that we should not all be automatically lumped as slum dwellers. The majority of home owners on Nassau street take pride in their properties, paint their houses and care for their lawns like anyone else in Oshawa. We feel that a public apology is merited by the residents of Nassau street. This choice bit of advertising has done noth- ing except to embarrass the residents, and lower the value of their properties. While we are all in favor of cleaning up the tenement build- ing, we certainly do not appre- ciate being called slum dwell- ers. Not one of the following had their homes inspected by any committee member what- soever. We feel as the story was air- ed on the front page, this letter should get equal rights. Mr. and Mrs, W. MacDonald, 21 Nassau, Mr. and Mrs. James Pierson, 22 Nassau St. Mrs, D. Carswell, 19 Nassau, . DeVylder, "7 Nassau, Mr. and Mrs, ih Wilson, 21 Nassau (tenants), E, Luke and Julie Luke, 27 Nassau (owner), POINTED PARAGRAPHS It seems many children these days are being raised by remote control, without even inertial guidance. Mr, and Mrs, Of course, you can't have your cake and eat it, too -- but if you keep it to eat later, it gets stale. "Mr. McCracken sang Bee- thoven in his first aria from Fidelio while the orchestra play- ed Con Weber." -- The Atlanta Constitution, The result prob- ably sounded little better than rock'n roll or folk singing. BIBLE The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it. -- Proverbs The blessings of the Lord are a constant source of power and will never turn or spoil. By WILLIAM NEVILLE OTTAWA (CP) -- In some ways, it was an ordinary Sun- day. But in the capital on Sept, 10, 1939, therewas at least one un- usual development -- a special Sunday issue of the Canada Ga- zette, official publication of the federal government. It was enough to make that Sunday a very different one. **A state of war with the Ger- man Reich exists and has ex- isted in Canada as and from the tenth day of September, 1939," the Gazette said. Seven days after similar dec- larations by Britain and France, Canada was officially at war. It would be six years less 26 days before the country was out of it--at the cost of 42,000 lives and 22,000 permanently handi- capped, billions of dollars of ex- pense and a disruptive' argu- ment over conscription. When Hitler launched the in- vasion of Poland Sept. 1, Prime Minister Mackenzie King an- nounced that Parliament was being summoned Sept. 7 to de- cide on Canada's course. This decision, to withhold any formal declaration until Parlia- ment had recorded its will, con- stituted a crucial political de- parture for Canada. In 1914 there had been no such decis- ion and this country had entered the First World War on Brit- ain's declaration and without one of its own. LITTLE OPPOSITION King's, Liberal government was pledged to aid Britain and said so in the throne speech opening the special session of Parliament. But it wanted a parliamentary decision--and a declaration of its own--before swinging into action. It got them both within four days, but not before a few voices were raised in protest. King told the Commons he hbe- lieved Canada must co-operate fully in the Allied war effort. Conservative Leader R. J. Man- fon said this country was "bound to participate in this war" while Social Credit Leader John Blackmore pledged his group's full support. Two Quebec MPs, however, pleaded the opposite course. Li- guori Lacombe of Laval-Two Mountains moved an amend- mentto keep Canada out of the war--and got only one support- ing vote, from Maxime Ray- mond of Beauharnois-Laprairie. When the debate ended at 10:25 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 9, only one man stood against the war declaration. He was J. §. Woodsworth, the leader of the Co - operative Commonwealth Federation, who had been the target of shouts of "'traitor" for declaring he was a_ conscien- tious objector to war. QUICK TRANSFORMATION Canada was remarkably. ill- prepared for the task that lay ahead, The country went on a war footing with a mere 9,000 armed servicemen and @ meagre military budget. With proclamation of the of- ficial war declaration, the gov- ernment moved swiftly to fiil the gap. On Monday, Sept. 11, Finance Minister J. L. Ilsley presented a $110,000,000 war budget, pro- viding, among other things, for a private's pay of $1.30 a day. On Tuesday, a department of munitions and supply was cre- ated and Mr. Ilsley added a 20- per-cent. surtax on income tax and an excess profits tax to fi- nance the war effort. Four days later, a Canadian Army division, dependent on British equipment, was desig- nated for shipment to Eaplead, From then on it was a pro- cess of continual growth until, by V-J Day in August, 1945, there were more than 700,000 Canadians in the armed forces and a defence budget of more than $2,500,000,000 a year. Idea Of Segregating Foreigners Taken Seriously By Russ Official By JOHN BEST MOSCOW (CP) -- There's a breach in the wall outside outer! apartment block that just won't be closed, Every time a policeman seals it off some passing Russian or a mischievous foreign young- ster living in the block opens it again, It's a little daily drama that perhaps could only happen in Moscow where authorities take seriously the idea of keeping foreigners segregated. Our apartment block is one of several in the city occupied al- most exclusively by foreigners --mostly embassy people and newspaper men. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Sept. 9, 1965... The king of Scotland, James IV, and the flower of Pacific coast. 1954--1,460 people died in an earthquake in Algeria, First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1915 -- the United States asked Austria to recall Dr. Constantin Dumba, its am- bassador, because of at- tempts to sabotage Ameri- can munitions factories. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1940--the first U.S. destroyers of the ships-for- bases exchange were handed over to the Royal Navy at Halifax; 400 peo- ple died, and of them in -- ene directly + hit shelter, in the third night of heavy air raids on London; the U.S. Navy ordered a record 201 vessels, costing $3,861,053,312. Scottish chivalry died on * Flodden Field 452 years ago today -- in 1513 -- at the hands of the Earl of Sur- rey's English soldiers. While Henry VIII of Eng- land was at war in France, James had declared himself an ally of France and in- vaded England. Lord Sur- rey tempted the Scottish army to attack and envei- oped first one 'flank and then the other, In the cen- tre, the Scottish 'soldiers fought to the last man, de- fending their king. 1850 -- California ae T the tirst 0.6, state on Outside every such residence stands a sentry box with a po- iceman in it, The Russians say he is there to protect the for- eigners, though it's never made clear what they're being pro- tected from, These days the policeman at our building can devote only part of his time to protecting us; he's so coricerned about the hole in the wall, The wall, made of cement, runs around the back and one side of the building. A couple of months ago it was breached to allow the laying of underground pipes for a new building going up nearby. 3 The piles have long since been laid but the hole is still there. Russians living in the area have been using it as a shortcut to Kutuzovsky Prospect a main thorcughfare. Many also take the opportunity to satisfy their curiosity, showing an un- proletarian interest in the shiny foreign cars parked in the apartment compound. ERECTED BARRIER The Russians cutting through the compound on their way to rk or shop obviously consti; Ried a grave threat to the se- curity of the foreigners living in the apartment building, so .it was decided to close the breach in the wall. Slabs of wood planking tied together by rusty wire or tin stripping were used to: plug the hole, But the trespassers simply leaned on the barrier and it pent enough for them to step over it. "The prime minister '4s delib- erately lying fo ddioda the Ca- nadian people for @ mea a purpose." : What are the facts" I have analysed the swiss of the new Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act, and dis- cussed them with constitutional lawyers and with top electoral officials. John 'Diefenbaker is correct, absolutely correct, when he says that an election would be pos- sible early in 1966, In fact, as IT recently wrote in this column, Mr. Pearson could reasonably and practicably plan to dissolve Parliament at the end of April for polling Monday, June 27, next year, TIME LAID DOWN The time table for completing the formalities of redistribution is rigidly laid down in the new act, Each of the 10 provincial commissions must complete its! report within one year, namely. by, say, Jan. 23 next at latest. These will be passed to the Speaker of the House of Com- mons. Within. 30 days, any 10 MPs may lodge an objection in writ-' ing to that report; then within 15 days the House must 'ton? sider the matter of the objec¢ tion" and report back to the representation commissions. « Then, within 30 days, any pro+ vincial commission concerned must consider and 'dispose of'* the objection if, by decision of the. House, it has been upheld and forwarded to the commis« sioner, With or without atveridment, the commissions' proposals are to be returned to the Speaker within another 30 days, and then within five days these. pro- posals, which cannot be further disputed, must be proclaimed to be in force by the governor in council, We must assume that the gov- ernment would not unreason- ably defer, nor MPs protract, any discussion on the decisions by the quasi-judicial _commis-, sions, : SET OUT NEW POLLS But in addition to'this redraw- {ng of the: boundaries of constit- uencies, there is the adminis- trative work of the "second re- distribution" involving the a" sion of the country into, s 50,000 polling divisions with the new constituencies. hyped will also be 262 returning o cers to appoint. But there is no possible rea- son why provisional work could. not be already under way in the redistribution of polling divi- visions; the tentative form of the new constituencies is al-/ ready public knowledge-and any: changes will probably be only minor, and will only affect a few constituencies, LISTEN HERE: Gordon Pi clair "KEEP INFORMED..." gree with not many miss his twice daily assault on inl So disa; "Sine", hypocrisy and aes that comes into the "Ps news' blunderbuss, "Oe the best baseball umpire, Sinclair calls 'em as he sees 'em and if toes are trod on... well, that's life. The comment you hear most about Sinclair is "I can't afford to miss him be- going to do next He's heord going to He's at 11:50 a.m. and 5:50 p.m. (as if didn't know) -- and with his "Let's Be Personal" at 11:45 a.m. and "Show Busi- ness" at 5:45 p.m. CFrRB ©1010 ONTARIO'S FAMILY. STATION