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Oshawa Times (1958-), 2 Jul 1966, p. 4

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She Oshaton Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawo, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher SATURDAY, JULY 3 1966 -- PAGE 4 Prompt Action Required To Avert Labor Disputes When J. M: McAvity, president of the Canadian Export Associa- tion, said last week that govern- ment, business and labor leaders should get together to try to pro- duce machinery for prompt discus- sion of labor disputes before they get out of hand, he was echoing concern felt in many quarters for the growing mania for striking. Mr. McAvity pointed to the ob- vious results of continuing labor strife -- a reduction in the competi- tive advantage gained by Canadian producers when the Canadian dol- lar exchange rate was lowered. The fact that a similar rise in cost levels in most other major nations has taken: place is the only thing that has kept Canada's competitive posi- tion relative in regard to the export market. But: Canadian wage bene- fits, Mr. McAvity warns, have been alarmingly high when compared with permissible increases allowed in certain countries where wage guidelines are applied. Labor Minister J. R. Nicholson said recently the government is studying legislation to curb strikes and toying with the idea of estab- lishing compulsory arbitration. Ca- nadian Labor Congress President Claude Jodoin has come out strong- ly against compulsory arbitration and with a good deal of justifica- tion. Mr. McAvity agrees with Mr. Jodoin when he suggests most thinking Canadians would _ likely agree with most labor leaders that it would be dangerous to give to. governments unrestricted power to enforce binding arbitration. So where are we left on this vital question? The Guelph. Mercury says it is up to Mr. Nicholson to explore suggestions such as those present- ed by Mr. McAvity; to get manage- ment, labor and government to- gether to see what can be done. Cer- tainly labor and management have a mutual interest in not only main- taining Canada's competitive posi- tion on world markets, but in mak- ing it still more competitive. With government assistance they ought to be able to come up with a work- able solution. New Bible For 1970 From London comes notice that the English-speaking world is to get a complete new Bible in 1970. The 800-year-old King James, or Auth- orized Version of the Bible, written in the stately English of the 17th century, will then be replaced by a Bible written in the everyday Eng- lish of the mid-20th century. The new New Testament was published in 1960, and so far has sold six mil- lion copies. The Old Testament sec- tion is now being prepared for the printers--the. Oxford and Cam- bridge University presses. The Oshawa Fines T. L. WILSON, Publisher & C. PRINCE, General Manager Cc. J. MeCONECHY, Editor The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times yesteblished 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and "hronicie (established 1863) is published daily (Sundays and Statutory holidays excepted). Members of Conadian Daily Newspaper Publish- ers Associotion, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau sf Cireulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Associotion. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use of republication of all news despatched in the poper credited to it or to The Associsted Press or Reuters, and also the local mews published therein. ! rights af special des- catches ore also reserved, Offices: Thomson Bu Avenue, Toronto, Ontario Montreal, P.O. SUSCRIPTION RATES Ajax, 425 University Cathcart Street, Iding 640 Delivered by carriers in Oshawa *ickering, Bowmanville oklin, rt Perry, Prince Albert, Mople Grove, Har pic Frenchman's Bay, -iverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, itbarton, Enniskillen, Srono, Leskard, Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, Manchester, Pontypool, and Newcastle not over SS¢ per week. By moil in Province of Ontario sues corrier delivery areo, $15.00 per yeor. Other provinces and Commonwealth Countries, $18.00 per year. U.S.A. and foreign $27.00 per yeer. Whitby Much of the translation fs still secret. But it is known that many of the old and familiar words will be that archaic words, doth and saith, replaced, and such as thee, thou, will disappear. What the translators are trying to do, according to Pro- fessor Godfrey Driver of Oxford, formerly professor of Semitic phil- ology at the university, who is in charge of the translation, is to clear away the "incomprehensible" and the "nonsense" in the old Bible. During the next three years pan- els of litrary critics will scrutinize the new style, Hundreds of sugges- tions and recommendations in the New Testament section are also to be considered, and it is realized that the Old Testament section will have to run the gauntlet of very severe examination, The Washington Post notes that the late T. S. Eliot, perhaps the most distinguished poet of our age, was a strong opponent of the new Bible. He called the first, part of it "vul- gar, trivial and pedantic." He be- lieved it was "a sympton of decay in the English language in the 20th century." It be another four years, when the whole translation is available, before it will be possi- ble, in turn, to form a full judgment on Eliot's judgment. will CANADIANS SHOW FAVOR FOR FOUR - YEAR TERMS BY THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION (World Copyright Reserved) A maiority of the Canadian people would approve @ four- year term for every elected Government in the House of Commons, irrspective of any votes of confidence against that Government. This suggestion was made in the House of Commons re- cently by a member of Parliament and has the backing of the man-on-the-street, who hd lready indicated his weari- ness of more elections. (In March of this year, about eight- in-ten people were against another election.) Fiity-iwo per cent of the voiers in this: country say they would approve four-year terms for Federal governments, 32%, disapprove; and 16% have no opinion, More Liberals (62%) than Conservatives (50%) tke the four-year term idea, Other parties are split down the mid- dle -- 42% approve and 44% disapprove. The question: "IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED IN PARLIANMENT THAT EVERY ELECTED FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD HOLD OFFICE FOR A PERIOD OF FOUR YEARS, WHETHER OR NOT ANY VOTES OF CONFIDENCE IN THE HOUSE GO AGAINST THAT GOVERNMENT. WOULD APPROVE, OR DISAPPROVE OF THIS CHANGE IN. OUR. PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM -- SO THAT A GOVERNMENT WOULD HOLD OFFICE FOR FOUR YEARS WITHOUT CALLING AN ELECTION?" NATIONAL Conservatives Liberal Others Approve 52%, 50% 62% 49%, Disapprove 32 40 26 44 Can't say 16 10 12 14 100% 100%, 100%, Somme, Mass Butchery', Spry Veteran MP Recalls By KEN CLARK OTTAWA (CP)--In the "mass butchery" of the first Battle of the Somme in the First World War, 24,029 Canadians. were killed or wounded, One -of the casualties was a wiry sergeant named Bertie Herridge Today H. W. Herridge, a spry 71, is the veteran New Demo- cratic Party MP for Kootenay West.. Talking to a reporter in 100% een yeep ttrese were more than 1,000,000 casual- ties on both sides, The Allied offensive in the Somme started July 1, 1916. Sgt. Herridge's unit, the 54th Koo- tenay Battalion, came down much later from Ypres, where it had been blooded "There were tanks in the bat- tle--huge, lumbering things that travelled only three miles an hour." But they weren't a major his parliamentary office, he re- factor, tending to get stuck on called that he was hit at the' trenches, Mr. Herridge recalled. edge of the French village of "It was a straight slugging Pys. match--Allied infantry against It was a late afternoon in No- German machine-guns." vember, 1916, in the dying days And infantry use: bayonets. of the five-month battle of at- HANDY WITH BAYONET trition. Sgt. Herridge's platoon 'Before we entered the Battle was walking along the Mirau- of Somme we spent the whole mont Road and had just day sharpening our bevonets." reached a sign that said "En- Sgt. Herridge had used the tering Pys" when a German dexterity picked up as a light- strongpoint opened fire weight boxer in college to win The sergeant got four bullets the 4th Division bayonet-fight- in. his right arm and side--"it ing contest. 'I was in the finals felt like being stung by a wasp against a Black Watch ser- each time." geant,.He slipped in the mud A British tank and I won."' him lying there hours later, Another: member of the Koo- piggy backed him to Desire tenay battalion was a tall of- Trench and dumped him in ficer, Howard Green, who later That was the end of the war became external affairs minis- for the 21-year-old English-born ter in the Diefenbaker govern- soldier. ment. Later in hospital he was given "Green was up for dead, he says, but he by his troops lived, and his arm was rebuilt him 'Speed' to allow partial use at a faster clip than the others. RETURNS TO SCENE Listening to Mr. Herridge This week Mr. Herridge will. reminisce was his wife Ellen. walk down that road again. With A Red Cross battle nurse, she other members of the Commons -- met him in an English hospital veterans affairs committee, he where he was recovering from is touring Canadian war ceme- his wounds. Mrs. Herridge is ac- teries and memorials in Europe. companying her husband on the It is his second return visit to European tour, Pys; the first was in 1946, There are still about 50 survi- The committee will attend vors from the 54th, Mr. Her- ceremonies June 30 to July 3 ridge said. "Most of those left marking the 50th anniversary of were the original members, not the Battle of the Somme. They those who joined later. They will be held in the Arras- must have been tough." Amiens area of northern Mr. Herridge said: the mas- France sive casualties at the Somme It will also visit a memorial failed to kill the soldiers'. mor- erected with money collected in ale; nearly all were convinced Newfoundland honoring the they were fighting for iight in Newfoundland Regiment, which this last "sentimal war." was all but wiped out during Col. Nicholson provides bhis- the bloody battles tory's footnote. At best, he The term 'mass buichery" wrote, the Somme campaign re was used in the official history sulted only in a "costly stale- of the Canadian Army in the mate."' But it did shatter the First' World War, written by illusion of German invincibility Col. G. W. L. Nicholson. There on the Western Front. officer found very well liked They used to call because he walked orn QUEBEC EDITORS COMMENT TWO PATHS OPEN March Of Inflation Held Dangerous One This is a selection of edi- torials on current topics, translated from the French- language press of Canada. Montreal La Presse -- era did not invent protest marches, but it has learned to use them to the utmost as a means of pressing ial, economic and political claims. . , During Our soc the weekend, hun dreds of Ontario farmers put away their tractors, thus giv- ing the motorists of our neigh boring province a few days of respite It is easv to draw a parallel between this farm- ers' uprising and the huge demonstrations of farmers Quebec experienced last year, much to its surprise The same. causes almost al- Ways produce the same ef- fects. In Ontario as here, the tractor marches indicate the malaise in agriculture. Mr, Robarts' government, whose majority rests on the vote of rural] areas, should take care- ful note of it and act accord. ingly. As observers in have indicated, it would with- out doubt be preferable for him to lend a more attentive ear from now on to the de- mands of the farmers, who seek an increase in the pro- vincial grant for milk. The team in power would thus prevent a farmers' march on the legislature, with the uhfortunate electoral con- sequences which could follow. In this domain, the example Of Quebec should serve as a Toronto -(June 27) . But when do people really it, to profit from the experience of others? Governments solidly installed in power have a tendency to create their own idea of the truth, which some- limes is situated rather far from reality... . There is no doubt that the social conflicts which have for months afflicted Quebec and, to a certain extent, On- tario have one great common cause: the constant rise in the cost of living. It seems that the warnings that econo have not spared for he years have had only little ef- the fect on the central govern- ment. As NDP Leader Douglas said at the recent convention of international textile unions, Ottawa has not done much to check the gradual rise in prices. Deprived of protective organizations at the consumer level, the producers are band- ing together with a view to obtaining justice for them- seives. In the agricultural sector, the protests are being ex- pressed by tractor marches on public roads; in other pub- lic or private sectors, the malaise which keeps on being aggravated is reflected in prolonged work stoppages. This long nightmare will probably not end until the central government puts 4 halt to another march, that of inflation Cyrille Felteau. years mists other us IS by we by a own res We adult Monjreal Le Devoir Two jaths are open to the new government and, through French principal called upon to be A first path is clearly cated by the events of recent and lidnale's must find before long a satis- factory solution to the tutional troubled two communites that make up Canada Premier mitted himself to changes in depth must he general becers and Canadians of other provinces We must understand, on the hand, theoretically field of choices available in practice, geographic, social factors which we could not forget with impunity Whatever give ourselves in ture, we will live on a continent dominated culture different Far need of our immediate neigh- bors in proportion to our prog- we will have to accept living, they and we, and more obvious situation of interdependence have cumbed in recent years to the temptation of have often said more than we wanted or could attitudé consists in making one's Janguage one's real means pin true ins tentions. thought, He words based who speaks strong with the strength on clay foundations, exposes himself sooner or later to contempt. He who speaks with moderation based on a real strength is listened to and respected Let build on a solid foundation and bring to a con- clusion the works we are un- dertaking. Such is more than ever, on the threshold of the second act of the "quiet revol- ution," our unavoidable and difficult destiny. -- Claude Ryan (June 23) Canada whose driving force it is indi- by own the Union Na- program It constl- which lias evolution of the us malaise the Johnson has com- promote To do this, able to count on support of Que- even of Frencn- Ottawa Le Droit Re- elected in Manitoba, the Con- servative government of Dutt Roblin today finds itself in a situation almost identical to that of the Johnson and Shaw governments in Quebec and Prince Edward Island There exists in these prov- inces, as well as at Ottawa, what one could call political instability, and the situation is hardly better in Saskat- chewan Faced with this fact, one is led to believe that John Turner, federal minister with- out portfolio, was right in saying at Toronto June 15 that "we will never return to a governmental stability." "Perhaps we will again one day have a majority govern- ment, but we will never again find the stability that we once knew," Mr. Turner said The If the minister is right, it rather is unfortunate and the public fit must, more than 'ever, get interested in public affairs at . ' all levels of government. that unlimited, although the to conditioned economic and system the fu- definitely always political from from having less in a more sometimes suc- verbosity, We THE RED CARPET -- AND THE GREEN CANADA'S STORY Ma Rh A Fraser's River Perilous By BOB BOWMAN Although a number of impor- tant events have taken place in Canada on July 2 through the years, the highlight almost has to be Simon Fraser's trip down the river in British Columbia that bears his name. It was one of the most dangerous journeys ever undertaken. by man The North West Company, in sharp competition with the Hud- son's Bay Company, wanted to extend its trading area to the Pacific coast. Simon Fraser asked to find a route from the Peace River to the ocean. 'He made his way through the Rockies until he thought he had reached the Columbia River, and began his great adventure on May 29, 1808. Fraser was accompanied by John Stuart, Jules Maurice TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS July 2, 1966 . The battle of Marston Moor was fought 322 years ago today--in 1644--seven miles west of York, Eng- land. The Parliamentary armies, numbering 27,000, defeated the 18,000 man Royalist force under Prince Rupert, wiping out most of it by nightfall Although Prince Rupert escaped with 6.000 men to rejoin King Charles in southern Eng- land, the Northern Army, the main hope of the Royal- ists, was destroyed. 'The rest of the King's forces were defeated and disarmed the following year and Charles was tried and executed in 1649 1865--The first Salvation Army meeting was held by William Booth in London, I881--U.S. President James Garfield was fatally shot by Charles Guiteau, First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1916--the Allied advance on the Somme continued, with 60 square miles of territory occupied; Britain raised the blockade of Greece; Ger- mans were driven from the Ubenda area of East Africa by British forces Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1941--heavy fighting broke out in the Minsk and Dvinsk areas on the Fast- ern Front; the RAF attacked Beirut and the Palmyra air base; Canada's forces were strengthened by the largest contingent to arrive in Brit- ain since war began, and by . the Ist Canadian Tank Bri- gade under Brig. F. F. Worthington July 3, 1966... Fifty years ago today--in 1916--British troops cap- tured La Boiselle and the French approached Peronne as the Allied advance on the Somme continued; the Rus- sians attacked German forces at two points on the Eastern Front, with heavy fighting in the Lutsk. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1941--Joseph Stalin announced the Germans had occupied Lithuania and much of Latvia, White Rus- sia and the Ukraine, and called for a "scorched earth' policy and guerrilla warfare: the German-dom- inated Danish government ordered the withdrawag of U.S. consuls in Denmarh. Quesnel, 17? canoemen, and two Indian guides. He had some help from information compiled by Alexander Mackenzie who was the first man to cross the continent by land in 1793. Mac- kenzie gave up any idea of running the river after a few days experience on it, He walk- ed from the Fraser to Bella Coola! Simon Fraser kept a diary in which he made some disparaging remarks about Mac- kenzie, although Mackenzie was a senior d of the North West Company. The story of the trip down the river is well worth reading. It was a battle against wild rapids and whirlpools. When they got to Black Canyon, one of the Indians climbed to the summit of the precipice along the river, and pulled up the other members of the party on a rope hung from a long pole. Then they made their perilous way past Hell's Gate by hanging to ropes fastened to trees. They practically crawled on_ their hands and knees past Spuzzum and Yale. On July 2 they Indian Village of Musquéam only a few miles from New Westminster. Fraser could see the mountains of Vancouver Is- land, and Mount Baker in what is now the state of Washington. He took a reading for latitude and learned that it was 49 de- grees. It was only then that Fraser realized that he was not on the Columbia River, because its reading would have been 46 de- grees. It was a great disappoint- ment after risking their lives. reached the MMC The Indians at Musqueam were hostile, and they could g0 no further, So Fraser did not actu- ally reach the Pacific although he was that close to it. After a near mutiny, he got his men back to Fort George, from where they had started on Aug- ust 5. Fraser named the Thompson River on the way down, and Thompson later named the Fraser River. OTHER EVENTS ON JULY 2; 1578--Martin Frobisher discov- ered Hudson's Straits 1603--Champlain reached ids above Montreal known as Lachine 1679--Du Lhut (after whom Duluth is catled)claimed Red River area for France 182l--Imperial act of ment regulated fur trade, civil and criminal juris- diction of western Canada 1851--Lord Elgin laid corner- stone of Ottawa Normal Schoo! 1860--G rand Trunk Railway completed from Quebec to Riviere du Loup 1885--Northwest rebellion ended with capture of Big Bear 1887--Americans seized Cana- dian schooner Anne Blick in Bering Sea 1926--Conservative government under Arthur Meighen de- feated after being in office since only June 29 1955 --Charlottetown celebrated its centennial 1959--Canada and , pact re energy rap. now Parlia- Japan signed use of atomic tit " Glowing Political Stature Of 'Kennedy Again Shown BORIS MISKEW new "YORK (CP)--The force of Senator Robert Kennedy's personality may have launched him on the road toward control of the New York Dmeocartic party -- an importanf stepping stone to the U.S. presidency. Kennedy more than anyone else stood to win or lose in Tuesday's New York primary election--a system used in the United States to select party candidates--even though he was not a candidate himself. Kennedy saw in the primary a chance to display once again his growing stature on the American political scene. And it was his ability to transfer his voter-appeal that emerged as the decisive factor in New York Supreme Court Justice Samuel Silverman's stunning victory in the Manhattan surrogate pri- mary Kennedy, who was elected U.S. senator from New York state 14% years ago without the blessing of President Johnson, intervened in the selection of a candidate for an obscure judge- ship because he smelt a deal between the old line Demo- cratic and Republican party leaders PICKED BY KENNEDY After the Manhattan Demo- cratic party unanimously se- lected, and the Republican party endorsed, Justice Arthur Klein, a long-time Democratic party stalwart, Kennedy picked the unknown Silverman to contest the candidacy against Klein. Kennedy received the support for Silverman from the reform Democrats as well as the Jib- erals--both groups being wn- happy with the way in which Klein had been picked--and the fight was on. The senator's argument, as well as that of the reform Democrats and the liberals, was that the unanimous selection of Klein had been arranged to allot surrogate patronage and perhaps to assign various judgeships to the oild-line ors ganizations of the two major parties. The Surrogate's dies such matters pointment of guardians to look after the interests of minors and of estates, and guardians' fees can run into the thousands of dollars. The appointments of such guardians have on' many occasions gone to judges' rela- tives and _ politically-connected lawyers. Although Kennedy has denied Democratic party changes that he is trying to seize control of the Democratic party machin- ery in Manhattan, the senator undoubtedly will play an_ in- creasingly active role in the November elections, especially in the choosing of a Democratic Court han- as the ap- ACCORDING TO BOYLE By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP)--Are you forging ahead in life's rat race? On ava Set ausat = tama demill mouse that has fallen behind? Surprisingly, many people don't know for sure. They still think they are climbing up- ward and onward when ac- tually they simply are the last to find out they are on the skids. It isn't always easy to tell. 'The size of your pay cheque is one tipoff, of course. But a lot of executives with large salaries. are merely marking time. - 'They are well-paid barn- acles that sooner or later will be scraped off. There are, however, certain symbols of status that show you are still moving up the ladder of conventional sue- cess. Here are a few un- mistakable signs: Your wife raises by at least $1 the amount she daily doles you as lunch money. You can afford to drive @ small car because your neigh- bors are well aware you can afford to buy a larger one. One of the two or three tele- vision sets in your home is a color set. Some of the officials ai the bank where you keep your account recognize you. when you enter. If your account is occasionally overdrawn, they don't make a federal case of it At quitting time you don't have to tote home a briefcase stuffed with newspapers just to prove how hard you are working. THEY DISLIKE YOU Instead of talking about of- fice problems, the boss likes to chat with you about his golf scores, The senior vice - president hates your guts and regards you as a conniving young whippersnapper. All the other ambitious guys your age in the office secretly dislike you, too, although they try to be publicly palsy-walsy, You have become so im- portant that no one else in the organization any longer can steal your ideas without at least giving you credit for them, The boss's wife confides to your wife what an old meanie her husband is around the home, The boss's secretary alw ayy smiles when you enter. You no longer address her as "Miss." You call her "Pet" r 'Sweetie,' and 6@2 eats it up, You feel free to have a martini at lunch without gulp- ing three packages of mints afterward to. kill your breath. The new friends you make dress better than the old friends you now see less often, but every once in a while you wonder if you really like them as well or trust them as much You gé™paid once a month instead of once a week like the office peons, and the office mails your cheque directly to your banl-, The office sycophants try te buddy up to you by telling you what everybody else is saying behind your back. YEARS AGO 25 YEARS AGO Children of the First Baptist Church will present their 1941 picnic money to the British War Victims' Fund, William J. Bragg, 83, former MPP for Durham, was fatally injured in Toronto when hit by milk wagon drawn by a frighten- ed horse. 49 YEARS AGO July 2, 1926 Tenders called for building which Canada Bread Co. will erect at corner of Park road and King street. Durham farm group holds bus tour through 'part of Ontario and Munroe County, New York Siate. candidate to oppose Governor Rockefeller, | Kennedy has never seen eye- to-eye with President Johnson and has come up with strong criticism of the president's ad- ministration regarding Vietna- mese policy. The voter unrest over the Vietnamese war ap- parently played a significant part in several congressional primary battles. The senator's vote - cafchin qualities were demonstrate during his campaign for Sil- verman, People noticing' Ken- nedy walking the streets and speaking support of Silverman often asked each other: "Who is that next to Kennedy?" And said Silverman in his victory statement: "I'm grate. ful. . . to my host of support- ers, to Senator Kennedy whose last-minute vote, as you know, put it over." 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