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Dhe Oshawa Simes Published by Canadien Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawe, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher -- WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27 -- PAGE 4 Wigs iny (on Five Ground In Refusing Inquiry Premier John Robarts of Ontario has squelched demands for an im- 'mediate investigation into an al- 'Jeged incident concerning the rais- ing of campaign funds for the Pro- gressive Conservative party. He 'bases his view upon the fact that 'there is litigation in the courts con- ecrning an incident suggesting irre- gularities and that it would not be proper for an inquiry to be held until after the due procsses of law 'have taken their course. The premier is on firm ground, says The Sarnia Observer. An a- tute lawyer himself, he has studied the case in which a former employ- ee of a distillery claims that a par- ty fund canvasser sought party con- tributions in return for a promise to have two brands from the distil- lery added to the stock boards of the stores of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario. The employee was fired by his company so brought suit and as part of his statement of claim he is introducing the al- leged dealings with the fund raiser. Mr. Robarts who has been doing some sleuthing of his own does not feel there is a case for an inquiry now or in the future. He sees no valid reason for. interfering with the normal processes of the law, even though the case has been pending for more than two years, The government cannot place itself in the position of conducting sub- judice proceedings in a lawsuit already filed. But he has gone much farther, as The Observer points out. He intends to call for select committee, repre- senting all parties, to conduct a full scale inquiry into the whole matter of how party campaign funds are raised and spent. The committee will also study the possibility of allotting public funds for election purposes and to consideration of lowering the voting age from the present 21 years. Again he is on firm ground. The manner in which some party or- ganizations spend money as if it was going out of atyle is disgusting. Too often they overspend and leave a trail of debts which are not paid until the next election comes up. This sort of party financing is far from good and only brings doubts as to the sincerity of those who are thumping the drums for their fav- orite candidate. Citizens have surely had their fill of royal commissions. As The Observer argues, let the legal pro- cesses work in an orderly fashion. If confusion exists after that, then will be the time for a special study. New Pressures In UK. Massive as it is, Prime Minister Wilson's legislative and foreign pol- icy program, announced to the Commons this week, differs little from the program he was unable to carry in the last Parliament. The impression it creates is di- Iuted by the realization that the balance of payments problem -- which is essentially one of paying Britain's way in the world -- must be met by year's end somehow, The Vancouver Sun notes. How the gov- ernment is to meet this will be dis- closed when the budget comes down shortly. This, more than the throne speech, is what will determine what can be done in 1966 at any rate. Previously Mr. Wilson could say The Oshawa Times T,.L, WILSON, Publisher E. 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's SUSCRIPTION RATES ~Sellvered py catriers ih Gsnawa, Whitby, Ajax, "ickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin, Port Perry, Prince ,Mibert, Maple Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's Bay, iverpoo!, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, jano, Leskard, Broughom, Burketon, Claremont, hester, Pontypoo!, and Newcastle not over Thomson week, By mail in Province of Ontario corrier delivery orea, $15.00 per year, r provinces ond Commonwenlth Countries, $98.00 per: year. USA. and foreign $27.00 per jeer. . he was weak in the Commons and lacked time to manoeuvre. Now he has an ample majority and plenty of time. Apart from the balance of pay- ments he faces two controversial subjects --- government support of the U.S. in Viet Nam and incomes policy, which is an endeavor to help the balance of payments by keeping down wages and profits and so prices, at home. Mr. Wilson could have trouble from his voluble left wing over Viet Nam and from his right wing over his decision to nationalize steel once more, But his real difficulties could come from other sources, one of them new and unexpected. It is at the Trades Union Con- gress and at the Labor party con- ference, both set for the fall, that the labor unions can make things hum on incomes policy. They could wreck all the govrnment's plans on this issue alone. The Sun sees a new element en- tering the picture with the growth of professional, intellectual and mid- die class representation in the pa?- ty's parliamentary group. Political analysts have decided that the union-supported candidates, the "men with the cloth caps," are tak- ing a back seat to this element. It could result in greater stability ulti- mately for the party after the inter- nal squabbles of the past several years. Alternatively it could divide the party on new grounds and bring new pressures to bear on the party and government. FARMS GET FAIR DEAL? OPINION SPLIT IN ONTARIO By The Canadian Institute Of Public Opinion (World Copyright Reserved) . General belief that farmers are not getting a square deai from the Government has increased steadily over the past decade. In 1956 only one-in-four Canadians (24%) felt farmers were not g what they should. In 1964 this viewpoint was held by 30%. Today the ratio has risen to 38%. In Quebec half the people (50%) claim the farmer is not getting a fair deal. On the other hand, in the West about the same proportion oe the opposite stand and say that farmers are well treat Ontario opinion is divided tiree ways -- one-third say farmers do get a square deal; one-third say they do not; and one-third have no opinion. The question: "Generally speaking, do you think the farmers of this province are getting a sswuare deal from the Canadian government?" A square deal Not a square deal No opinion "100% Total. Kast A square deal 24% Not a square deal 48 No opinion 28 "100% 1956 47%, 4 30 29 2% 29 1964 44% TODAY 33%, 38 100%, 100%, REGIONAL Quebec Ontario West 23% 4% 46%, 50 31 31 27 35, 23 "100% "100% 190% aver OTTAWA REPORT Talon Founded First Brewery By PAT NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- The old adage that every cloud has a silver lining was illustrated by the recent unfounded charge in the House of Commons that "sev- eral hundred persons have been poisoned in Quebec City after drinking beer." The subsequent thorough enquiry by teams of doctors and government scien- tists has given the suspected beer a clean bill of health. The episode served to focus atten- tion on "the drink of modera- tion" which is the product of Canada's oldest manufacturing industry. During enquiries into the Que- bec City incident, I learned that our ancient capital's only brew- ery, Dow's, is a direct descen- dant of the first commercial brewery in Canada, built on the same site, "La Brasserie du Roe," the Kings Brewery, was built there three centuries ago by the capable and far-sighted French Intendant, Jean Talon, the government official who was a kind of colonial dictator. BEER BEST It is interesting to recall Talon's reasons for founding that brewery. First, he consid- ered that it would contribute to the welfare of the colony by encouraging less consumption of more intoxicating drinks such as brandy "which occa- sions a great lawlessness."' Sec- ond, he knew it would help the finances of the colony, by keep- ing in Canada the money being sent to France to buy costly brandy. Third, it would pro- mote the health of the colon- ists, "because beer is a whole- some drink, and not injurious." And fourth, the brewery would "promote the consumption of the super-abundance of grain which has sometimes been so great that the laborers cannot find a market for it." Today, three centuries Jater, we still suffer from the same problems, which still could be Jargely remedied by more use of "the drink of moderation" in preference to the white man's fire water. We are _ today scourged by the lawlessness of drivers and others who are drunk, by foreign exchange dif- ficulties, by illnesses caused by excessive consumption of drinke of high alcohol content, and by unsold surpluses of grain. Jean Talon was interested in the role which beer could play in improving the health of Que- becers. Today it can help all weight-conscious Canadians, for a glass of beer contains only half the calories in a glass of milk, or one-fifth the calories in a coup of peanuts. Just as Talon established a brewery as Canada's first manufacturing industry to utilize the colony's surplus grain, so today brewing contributes materially to our prosperity by utilizing Canadian products. Of all the materials used in brewing, bottling, labei- ling and packaging beer, 97 per cent originate in Canada. We export six times as much bear as we import. LARGE TA XYIJELD In the latest recorded year, beer contributed $155,327,341 in taxes to the federal treasury, and a further $37,702,388 to pro- vincial treasuries. Thus Ottawa alone collects enough taxes on brewing to pay for our entire diplomatic apparatus including embassies in 61 countries; or twice as much as is needed to support our whole RCMP law- enforcing operation. Canada ranks 9th among the world's industrialized countries in per capita consumption of beer. Belgians and West Ger- mans drink proportionately twice as much as wé do, Over 1,200,000,000 pints of beer are drunk per year in Canada; but the number of beer-drinkers is not known. Assuming that two- thirds of the 11,000,000 Cama- dians aged 20 and over are occasional or regular beer- drinkers, that works out at an average of 164 pints for each beer-drinker a year. Some of the Quebec City victims of the rare heart disease, which had been erroneously linked to a' certain brand of beer, were said to be quaffing as much as 5,840 pints a year each. BIBLE And the king said unto them, "y have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream."--Daniel 2:3. Dreams atill disturb us when their meaning is obscure. If they are message-bearing we too must seek to know their mean- ing. MINK MAKES -MONEY. HALIFA X(CP) -- Nova. Sen. tia's 130 mink ranches, with one exception, bring a total of about $1,000,000 a year to the prov- ince. The exception is Wallace Mullen's breeding-stock ranch at New Tusket. A single all- black male from the Mullen farm costs $1,500. here bie -YUGOSLAVS PLAN REFORMS... ... ETHNIC GROUPS IN PROTEST 'Economy Shifts From Communist Camp By JOHN BEST BELGRADE (CP) --- Mullti- racial Yugoslavia, whose ter- ritory has been an historic cockpit of nationalistic strife, is seeing old differences astir again over government plans for reforming the economy. The reforms are designed to revitalize the country, but they are grating on some touchy nerve-ends of regional feelings. All the massive in- fluence of President Tito is being brought to bear to keep them from: being derailed Yugoslavia is a land of six republics, five major na- tionalities, three major lan- guages. It has a tradition of ferment. The fact that the changes are pinching some re- gional concentrations of par- ticular nationalities more than others has made for protest along ethnic lines The reforms, begun last summer, are among the most profound ever introduced into a Communist country. They will make the face of nomi- nally - Communist Yugoslavia look ever less Communist than now Western goods are being im- ported in quantity to force Yu- goslay manufacturers to pro- duce more competitively. Cus- toms rates have been cut by more than half. Subsidies and export premiums have heen scrapped, to make industries stand on their own feet. All these steps are really aspects of a more fundamen- tal decision that the Yugoslav leadership has taken: To align this country more closely with the West, though recently the Communist bloc's share has been creeping up. Within a few months, Yugo- slavia is expected to be a full member of the General Agree- ment on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and initial steps are being taken to make the dinar currency fully convertible in the West. A saying about the currency unit--that "the dinar needs a visa" to get from one Yu- z0slav republic to another--il- lustrates the country's deep- seated tendencies towards re- zionalism, the idea of peoples and republics trying to live unto themselves. "haves"' nots" among the re- and one of the chief sources of resistance to the reforms is people in have-not areas who resent the closing of uneconomical factories or their removal to other and already better-off regions. Macedoni , Mont rins, Bosnians and Serbs (Belgrade is in Serbia) complain that the new measures will place them in an even more disad- vantageous position than they have been in relation to the relatively prosperous Croats and Slovenes. ENVY CROATS The fact that millions of dollars are being poured into already well - off Croatia to promote the glamorized Dal- matian coast for tourists doesn't help soothe matters. Government spokesmen candidly admit that these are "politically delicate' prob- Jems. But Tito has made it clear that he is wholly com- mitted to the cause of Yugo slavia's liberal economists, whose rallying cry these dava There are "have « publics, and is "Take politics out of econ- omics." One casualty of this philoso- phy has been the power of some local Communist party bosses whose influence has been rooted in the control of the "'political factories'? which now are being shuffled around or closed. Their grumblings are being heard. In a fiery speech to the party's central committee in late February, Tilo applied to the dissenters some of the strongest language he has used in years. Those who aren't carrying out decisions of the Communist League, he said, should get out of it. In fact, sources here said, 2,200 Communists had re- signed over the reforms by then. PRICE BOOST HITS Coupled with regional and individual resistance were fairly widespread complaints about food-cost increases that occurred from a government decision to lift artificial de- pressants on prices of farm product: F, SUPERMAN'S CAPE CANADA'S STORY Tories Lost Leader By 298 BOWMAN When Sir John A. Macdonald died in 1891 the Conservatives were hard pressed to find a leader. This also meant Prime Minister of Canada, because the Conservatives formed the government. Sentiment favored Sir John Thompson of Nova Scotia, or Sir Charles Tupper, a Father of Confederation, and former Premier. of Nova Scotia. Thompson was rejected be- cause he was a Protestant who had been converted to Roman Catholicism. This would annoy Ontario. Furthermore he had been in favor of the execution of Louis Riel. This offended Quebec! Tupper was now Canadian High Commissioner in London, was enjoying life there, and did not want to come home. In fact neither man wanted the job, and Thompson recommended Senator J. J. C. Abbott who wrote to a friend that he "hated politics'. However Abbott took the job on the understanding that he would not have to keep it long, and he resigned on December 5, 1892! Now the Conservative caucus decided that Thompson was the man. Sir John A. Macdonald had written: 'Thompson has two faults. He is-a little too fond of satire and a little too much of a Nova Scotian." An example of his satire, or humor, was a remark he made one night when dining at Govern- ment House, The mosquitoes TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS April. 27, 1966... A force of 1,800 Amer- icans landed at York (now Toronto) 153 years ago to- day--in 18i3--and the out- numbered British garrison 4 withdrew. The town was ; sacked and the Parliament * buildings burned down. It | was in reprisal for this that Washington was occupied four months later and the public buildings there put to the torch. Despite these events, wholesale destruc- tion was not regarded as le- gal warfare in those days. An American general who burned Newark (now. Niag- ara) and left the inhabitants homeless in the December snow was cashiered by the American authorities. 1831--The Royal William, the first Canadian Atlantic steamer, was launched. 1865--The riverboat Sul- tana exploded on. the Mis- sissippi, killing 1,450 people. Kirst World War Fifty years ago today--in 1916--martial law was pro- claimed throughout Ireland when the importance of the Faster Rising was recog- nized; a British battleship hit a mine in the Mediter- ranean and sank with the loss of 124 lives. if Second World War Twenty-five years ago to day --in 1941 -- German troops occupied Athens; Ca- nadian-trained airmen and © Canadian army units ar- rived in England; the pro- duction of the Typhoon fighter aircrafi was an nounced; Axis columns probed across the Egyptian _tfontier were active and Lady Minto went to close a window. Thomp- son said '"'Oh pray do not bother to close the window. They are all in now." Thompson suddenly dis- appeared from the scene when he died while having lunch with Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle on December 12, 1894. The next choice was Mac- kenzie Bowell. He was the pub- lisher of the Belleville, Ontario, Intelligencer, and Grand Master of the Orange Order. He had entered Parliament as a Con- . Servative in 1867. As soon as he got into politics he became less of an Orangeman! According to Bruce Hutchison in his book "Mr. Prime Minister" he help- ed a Catholic prelate to get windows for his church at the expense of the government. On another occasion he advised Sir John A. Macdonald to attend a Catholic picnic and make "an anti-Huxley speech with a slight sprinkling of politics." Bowell became Prime Minis- ter at the wrong time for him. The Manitoba separate schools question was boiling, and he, an Orange Protestant, was de- fending the Roman Catholic pos- ition. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, a Catholic, was opposing the Roman Catholic position and his church. Bowell's position split his party so severely that it led to a strike of its members. One of the biggest filibusters in Parliament Canada has ever known. He resigned as Prime Minister on April 27, 1896, and Sir Charles Tupper came from Britain to replace him. Tupper was beaten in a general elec- tion a few months later, and the Liberals formed the govern- ment under Sir Wilfrid Laurier. OTHER EVENTS ON APR. 27 1628--Sieur Couillard, son-in-law of Louis Hebert, was first man in Canada to use a plough drawn by oxen. 1644--Wheat first sown in Can- ada (there might be an argument about this. Les- carbot raised wheat at Port Royal in 1606) 1813--U,S. forces sacked York 1831--Steamship "Royal Wiil- liam," first to cross At- lantic under steam power, launched at Quebec 1846--John A. Macdonald made first speech in House of Commons 1961--Canada gave Sierra Leon $5,000 for a library on occasion of its becoming an independent nation in the British Commonwealth Israeli Collective Farm Prosperous, Not Primitive By MEL SUFRIN AYELET HASHAHAR, Israel (CP)--Your first glimpse of this community in the lush up- per Galilee is likely to shatter any illusions about the kibbutz --Israeli's unique form sf cst Jective farm. If you were expecting a ra- ther primitive agricultural op- eration peopled by men and women whose idealism prompts them to shun all modern com- forts, you're in for a surprise. You drive into a parking lot Jaid out in front of an up-to-date building that turns out to be a restaurant catering to tourists. Off to the left is a group of two - storey buildings with air- conditioners over each door- way. This is the guest house-- room and bath, swimming pool i three meals a day for $6 to 8. This 40-year-old kibbutz is ad- mittedly one of the most pros- perous of the 225 scattered throughout Israel, There are others that more closely fit the general picture of hard life in the frontier settlement. But Ayelet Hashahar never- theless gives an idea of how the collective farm, Israeli - style, has changed in recent years. When Palestine was under the British mandate, Ayelet Hasha- har was largely a dny-farming operation. Settled by clandes- tine immigrants, it wrestled with a serious water shortage. When the British pulled out and the Arabs attacked in 1948, this kibbutz a few miles from the Syrian and Lebanese bor- ders was a key defence point. It suffered heavily under Syrian guns. Pieces of an enemy air- craft shot down over the settle- ment were left lying where they fell, a reminder of a difficult period. RAISES COTTON After Israel won its independ ence,' Ayelet Hashahar obtained water and prospered. Today it is one of the country's bigzest fruit growers. It also raises cot- ton and livestock, produces large quantities of honey and operates a fish farm with water from what used to be the Huleh swamps. Tt-is one of more than a dozen kibbutzim that have installed facilities for tourists, And although kibbutz - dwel- lers still produce 30' per cent of Israel's agricultural ont put, they have diversified. This kib- butz has added a bookbinding operation. Others have turned to production of such things as plastics, bicycles, plywood and cement. The Kibbutzim are still ideal- istic in the sense that every member shares equally in the benefits of their communal! Ja- bor. For the most part, children are still housed and taught in separate buildings, spending only evenings and non-working days with their parents, But whereas in former days a person leaving a kibbutz would take nothing with him, now some settlements provide a form of severance pay to help him become established en his own. THE ULTIMATE IN LUXURY LIVING! G@ORGIAN mansions 124 PARK ROAD NORTH; OSHAWA ~-LBJ's Man For Expo 67 Knows Job By ARCH MacKENZIE WASHINGTON (oP) ss 3. three times to the House: of fa er ete e's a cut--t $22,500 ie PPiagaon ihe gressional salary when the Montreal world's' (ait closes in Jate 1967, things must have crossed Tupper's mind when the New Englander of "strong inde- pendence of view" was asked personally by the president to handle the $9,300,000 American investment at Montreal. "The nomination . . . offers an opportunity to make a direct contribution toward widening understanding between the two great nations," Tupper told the m ore it speedily gave unanimous approval to the ap- pointment. "I'm starting French lessons immediately," Tupper said aft- erwards. "I took it in school but it needs touching up." Tupper, a 45-year-old married man with one son, comes from English stock that. settled in Maine in the 1600s. He claims common ancestry with Sir Charles Tupper,.the Nova Sco- tian who played a key role in Confederation and was briefly prime minister in 1896. "He and my grandfather were contemporaries and friends," Says Tupper, though his partic- ular branch of the family stayed in the rebelling colonies when the Nova Scotia Tuppers moved east. ' Tupper will handle his elected job as long as he can combine it with his new one of commis- sioner-general for the fair. But he will retire no later than House adjournment next fall and serve without pay until then. f He is enthusiastic about the U.S. plans for Montreal despite a $3,000,000 cut instigated last year by colleagues at least par- tially motivated by Canada's limited participation in the money-losing New York fair. The U.S. pavilion will be a 20-storey transparent geodesic dome in the style of a radar dome, designed by architect Buckminster Fuller, It will be stuffed with U.S. space, scier tific, economic and cultural ep hibits. The new commissioner's Ca nadian credentials are solid, Fot all his six years in the House of Representatives, he has bees a member of the Canada-US. interparliamentary group and now is the ranking Republican member from the House. : As Maine fisheries commis- sioner from 1953 to 1957, he was in touch with Maritime prov- inces fishing interests, Last year he was the spokes- man for a group of Republican moderates who brought out a white paper on Canada-U.S. re- lations calling for 26 ways to improve them. It said Ameri- cans show an "appalling ignor- ance" about Canada and it pro- posed to give a larger role to the International Joint Commis- sion, which handles boundary water problems, Tupper declines to predict what he will do when Expo'67 is finished but there is snerulatian that in the 1968 congressional elections he may be in line for the Senate seat held by the vet- eran Margaret Chase Smith. She was one of the Republicans joining Democrats in pralsing the choice of Tupper for the Montreal job. Certainly, at 45, politics does not seem to be a dead end for Tupper. POINTED PARAGRAPHS There must be a tacit agree- ment that those who are ad- mitted to studio audiences agree to applaud all performances, however poor they may be. Of the many scores of reme- dies for the common cold, liquor is probably the most popular and most pleasant to take. Adult Building Central Location Prestige Address Distinction Beyond Compare Underground and Level Parking By Appointment Only 723-1712 -- 728-2911