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The Oshawa Times Published by Canaman Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawo, Ontario T. L, Wileon, Publisher THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1966 -- PAGE 4 Apathy's Not Answer To Canadians' Problems It's clear board-room politics are becoming as much of a menace to democratic government (as we used to know it) as the backroom politics of old ever were. The transactions taking place in Toronto this week largely behind closed doors are am- ple evidence, Provincial premiers are meeting this week in secret session to dis-° cuss and probably practically decide on the fiscal future of their fellow- Canadians. Their deliberations will be passed on by their legislatures and Parliament but it will be a rub- ber-stamp proposition. Undoubtedly Canada is approach- ing a major readjustment of finan- cial relations between the provinces and the federal government. The complexities are great but this should not preclude the proper par- liamentary discussion and decision on matters touching the lives and pocketbooks of all Canadians. A current Gallup Poll on the poli- tical mood of the Canadian voter re- ports 40 per cent of the voters un- decided as to which party they would support if a federal election were called. This is a new high in indecision and was termed by the Canadian Institute of Publie Opin- jon as evidence that "consicveranie soul-searching" was taking place. It is a time for soul-searching. We can be apathetic, disinterested, and even disgusted with the manner in which our elected representatives handle the responsibilities we've given them. There's justification based on recent performance for such attitudes. But they're negative and not the answer. For while Cana- dians grimace at government hag- gling, those in office continue to pursue their autocratic and bureau- cratic ways. That dissatisfaction is evident does not dissuade them from sidestepping parliamentary discus- sion and procedures. Rather than lapsing into disinter- est Canadians should be ready to raise a real row. To write letters to the editor, to protest to parliamen- tarians, to button-hole holidaying members of parliament and the leg- islature and tell them we've had enough, There can be no indecision of this score. An admiral has shown he can command national attention, So can every Joe Citizen if he's interested in the affairs of his country. Water Supply On Tap? Senator Donald Cameron has ap- pealed for the establishment of an all-Canadian water resources board, He sees such a board co-ordinating federal-provincial efforts in the field of conservation. It-is of the utmost importance, as The Hamilton Spectator. points out, that Canada should concentrate more attention than it has hitherto on its water supplies. This country has only the vaguest idea of the arnount of water it possesses, A stu- She Oshawa Times €. C, PRINCE, General Maneger C. J. MeCONECHY, Editor The The Oshawe Times itoy Gazette and shronicie (established is published daily (Sundays and Statutary holidays excepted). Mambers of Cahadian Daily Newspaper Publish- ers Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau sf Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association, The Canadion Press is exclusively entitied to the use of republication of all news Oshawa Times combinin: despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associcted Press or Reuters, and also the local news published therein. All rights of special des- cotches are olso reserved. Offices: Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontorio; 640. Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q. 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Almost inevitably, there are the constitutional niceties to be ob- served, and the powers of such a board under the British North Am- erica Act would have to be sharply delineated. The need for a national water board is pressing because in recent years, the increase in popula- tion and industrial demand, not omitting the scourge-like spread of pollution, has suddenly brought wa- ter supplies to the forefront of peo- ple's thinking. It seems almost certain that in the vears ahead Canada will be ex- porting water. To do so without being absolutely certain that it has ample for itself projected into a re- mote future would be suicidal, says The Spectator. What was once an almost worthless abundance has be- come a valuable asset. The time has come to count the treasure and take strict care of it. OTTAWA REPORT 'Freedom Fighters' Deserve Support By PATRICK NICHOLSON Many thinking Canadians have long been unhappy--as Parliament Hill is well aware-- about the drift of our country, about the lack of inspired lead- ership in many fields, and about the anarchist-like campaigns to destroy our standards and val- ues. The motive of those who are damaging our country may be otherwise, but the effect is ex- acuy as if Communists were demoralizing the country for a take-over: ridicule the family, mock religion, scoff at our con- stitutional institutions, ignore the law, give the police a bad name, .belittle personal moral- ity, and encourage the use of such anti-social artifacts as nar- cotics, liquor and the pill. In the consequent mood of malaise, there has been wide- spread talk about the need to create a new nationwide leader- ship movement, to which all men and women of goodwill would lend their support. Call this a political party if you like, it would be a party whose plat- form is to preserve Canada and to maintain Canadianism; to strengthen Canadian sover- eignty; to protect the freedom of the individual, to make Can- ada the best place in the world in which to raise our children-- as it could be. OLD PARTIES FAIL So on Parliament Hill there is talk of such a movement, pos- sibly called the Confederation Party. Confederation Clubs have already been formed, and meet regularly, in many cities. It would bring French and English - speaking together in understanding, and help all Ca- nadians to move forward to- gether towards the great future which could be ours, and which Sir Wilfrid Laurier promised us this century. This would be Canadians' an- swer to the failure of the two old parties; which now are pro- viding only doubt and political carrots, We had the divisive issue of the new flag, intro- duced prematurely. Now we have another highly + charged emotional issue in integration of the armed forces. Associated with that is the determination, already made and being imple- mented by the defence depart- ment, to drop the word "Royal" from all names in our armed forces. Not even concealed un- der a cover of discretion is the plot between Liberals and Cred- itistes from Quebec to make Canada a republic by the year 1970. This the Liberal hierarchy seemingiy goes aiong with, partly as the price ft must pay for its support and domination by the huge French-Canadian parliamentary wing, and partly because this is another step along the road to the Macken- zie King target of breaking Canada's ties with Britain and the Commonwealth, and shac- kling us firmly to the U.S. in a policy of continentalism. So now the intervention of non-politicians in political ac» tivity is emerging into the open. One keystone of this is the new National Public Affairs Re- Search 'foundation, supported by many Canadians who have previously been divided as sup- porters of at least four parties, These are not professional poli- ticians; they are ordinary Ca- nadians in every walk of life right across Canada who are exceedingly worried by the way our professional politicians are drifting. This is a grass-roots move- ment, and among its supporters are some household names: the western sportsman and néws- paper owner Max Bell; a son of former Liberal Prime Minis- ter St. Laurent, Renault; Bob Brown, a Calgary oil operator; Basil Dean, publisher of an Edmonton newspaper of the Southam group, and many such. This is not a group aiming to protect special privilege, it is a Jonnny Canuck movement; these people are not specifically talking about forming a new party, although some believe they may stage a take-over of the Conservative party. Pri- marily, their task is to awaken Canadians to our slipping birth- right. Canada Can Come Of Age 'Only As Canadian Canada' By AKIO OGAWA TOKYO (AP) -- Canada can come of age only after winning a struggle to establish a national identity, says a young Japanese in a book on his two years of studying there. Misako 'Kaneko, 28, 'Canada is struggling to be- come a Canadian Canada in- stead of a French or British Canada." He adds "Canada will have a bright future only if it can mobilize greater manpower and achieve higher industrial capability to develop abundant natural re- sources for a harmonized Can- ada." The 204-page book Studying Abroad And I now is on on sale. About 3,000 copies have heen sold in the first three months. Kaneko came home in No- vember, 1964, after completing a two-year post-graduate course in journalism at Carleton Uni- versity in Ottawa on a scholar- ship He now works for the plan- ning section of Nippon Frue- hauf, a maker of truck trailers Although he specialized in public relations, Kaneko said in an interview that he felt plan- writes: ning was more challenging In the interview he amplified his view on Canada's future. He said; "It has rich natural resources in the North. But it has had to call in foreign enter- prises to develop them. .. . "Higher pay and bigger op- portunities draw young Cana- dian technicians across the bor- der to the United States. A har- monized Canada is far away "Tl don't think Canada's ture is very bright from way things look now." Kaneko made a_ two-month four of ihe United States and Mexico with a Japanese friend during the summer of 1983. A year later he made a 40 day coast-to-coast lecture trip of Canada with another Japanese friend to introduce Japan with movies and talks. He devotes about 30 pages of his book to the U.S. and Mexico trip and the rest to his life in Canadas. In the book Kaneko "Canada today is completely Americanized." He notes U.S. programs on television, what he ealls the Wall Street influence on industry, and housewives shopping across the border. fur the Says: si IRRIGATION IN EGYPT COSTS RUN HIGH Young Pines Rise From Shale Like Miracle Egypt has embarked on Irrigation programs in an effort to bring desert land under cultivation and re- duce its dependence on food imports. How an arid coun- try is working to boost food supplies for a fast-growing population is described by a Canadian Press reporter who visited Egypt. By CARL MOLLINS ROUAD, Egypt (CP)--Sixty miles or so northwest of Cairo in the direction of Alexandria, you leave the fertile earth and activity of the Nile Delta and enter the desolation of the Western Desert \ few miles farther and a windbreak of young pines rises out of the grey shale like a miracle, enclosing a field of short-stemmed wheat with no visible means of sup- port under the incinerating sun The wheatfield is the south- ern vanguard of a creeping desert reclamation project in Al Tahrir province, a stretch of sand and shale 65 miles long and 20 miles wide hope- fully colored green on the of- ficial map of 'Egypt Rouad district 1s the oldest and biggest. at 40,000 acres, of a series of reclaimed areas in Al Tabrir that total more than 100,000 acres so far. The Tehrir operation, begun a year after the 1952 revolution is one of a dozen irrigation programs under way 'trom the Mediterranean coast to the Kom Ombo valley in Nubia, from the Sinai bank of the Suez Canal in the east to the man-made oases of the New Valley deep in the western wilderness. COST RUNS HIGH In Rouad, grids of concreie water conduits diminish into a pattern of rock-lined ditches and, finally, into ranks of sprinklers. The system is sup- plied in one section by water diverted from the western folk try to make a life on a narrow crowded with mud-brick vil- hungry children the cattle, goats, donkeys and camels that devour the prod- uce of one-third of the limited farmland. CAN'T GROW ENOUGH Only Egypt's total area of 386,000 square miles can be cultivated lages, strip of Nile silt and Redistribution of land own- ership, rent reductions, rural welfare measures, co - ative farming and mechanization the problem of poverty on the land during the last 14 years, oper- some have dented TRY BIRTH CONTROL three per cent of Birth have been initiated during the last year to stall a population control programs ~--roughly the relation of Van- couver Island to the whole of British Columbia. Six million growth rate that Egypt's 1962 National Charter describes as "the most dangerous obstacle that faces the Egyptian people arm of the Lower Nile through a canal 18 kilometres long, in another region by a gush of artesian water pumped surprisingly from less than 100 feet beneath the dehydrated surface. The water nourishes orange groves and wheatfields, corn, Mangoes and the deep-green fodder crop called bersim. It quells the thirst of 100,000 chickens, 1,000 head of cattle, 200 young engineers who roll back the desert and 8,000 fell- shin who own five precious acrés each but farm the new land co-operatively The effort involved in do- mesticating such wasteland is immense: in places the cost of reclamation is $800 an acre. The result is often patchy: Rouad crops would win no prizes at Toronto's Royal Winter Fair. But it is an effort judged worth making in a rainiess land where 20,000,000 farm acres, cultivated more inten- sively than almost anywhere else on earth, fail to feed a population that numbers 30,- 000,000 now and grows by al- most 1,000,000 a year. The High Dam at Aswan is adding 1,200,000 acres to Egypt's farmland. It is con- verting another 700,000 acres of riverside to year - round cultivation by irrigation in- stead of once-a-year planting reaches the river below As- wan now that the High Dam is almost complete The most optimistic cast is that careful husband- ing and distribution of the Nile waters, with the help of the Aswan dam, can eventu- ally increase 'the cultivable area to 10,000,000 acres. But this new, man-assisted gift of the Nile would be consumed almost as fast as it was cre ated at the present rate of A population growth. ] fore- is a pit this But Tahrir they have forced the desert to grow food. The wonder is that in their drive towards raising the standard of production." Perhaps however, grams as those in Al Tahrir or in the New Valley, where engineers are tapping an un- derg seeping at a speed of 30 yards a year in a 500-mile are from the Kharge to the Siwe oases in the Western Desert Viewed against hunger, the effort here at Rouad single raindrop in a sand- the lies in main hope, such pro- round river discovered Egypt's entire the excitement of Al is not alone that here ancient land, stagnating after centuries of confinement in the Nile Valley, has found a frontier. ppropriately, Tahrir means liberation. mri CANADA'S STORY OTTAWA PEACE PIPE Ys OPN EP NN Navy Formed By B.C. BY BOB BOWMAN British Columbia had its own navy on August 4, 1914, It con- sisted of two submarines! There was great alarm in Victoria and Vancouver a few days before war was declared on August 4, A German naval squadron in the Pacific, under Admiral von Spee, was in a position to attack Victoria and Vancouver. In fact there was a rumor that the Germans would land and try to capture British Columbia with the help of former German citizens living there. Some very respectable citizens of German origin were given a rough time The British Admiralty sent out a general warning on July 29 that war might be declared. A group of businéssmen in Vic- toria learned that a shipyard in Seattle had built two sub- marines for Chile and told Premier McBride about them. The premier did not waste time. He sent Lloyd's represen- tative to Seattle to try to buy the submarines. If they were not delivered before war was declared, they would not be allowed to leave U.S.A. terri- tory. Lloyd's man managed to per- suade the Seattle shipyard to move the submarines to Trial Island, just outside Canadian waters, and they were in- spected by a retired officer of the Royal Navy. When he re- ported them to be satisfactory, the submarines were taken ' Hopes Diminish Of Break In China Issue Ere UN Sits By CARMEN CUMMING Canadian Press Staff Writer Hopes of a break in the China issue before this fall's session of the United Nations General Assembly are rapidly fading away. After last year's tie vote, Ca- nadian officials said they were hoping a channel could be opened for discussions with Pe- king before the perennial prob- lem came up again. Nothing has come of that hope and the whole question re- mains just where it was: Hung up on the problem of National- ist China's independence Officials of the external af- fairs department, doing an an- nual study. on the pros and cons of China's admission, say little has changed during the past year One factor they're weighing is the changed climate of opinion in the United States where politicians and scholars are arguing as never before the case for bringing China out of isolation. TERMS TOUGH On the other side, there is no indication that China is will- ing to ease its terms for join- ing the world organization. As for the voting pattern, of- ficials here say Peking may have less support this year than last if the same sort of resolu- tion comés up, demanding that the Communists be seated and the Nationalists thrown out. Factors such as the revolu- tions in Ghana and Nigeria could bring a shift in the votes of at least four or five African nations that either voted for Peking or stayed on the side- lines last year, A shift of only four votes could have passed last year's resolution to seat the Peking government. The Assembly voted 56 to 49 to label the ques- tion a major one, requiring a two-thirds majority. The vote on the resolution itself was 47 to 47 Canada voted against, on the grounds that. China's price for coming in--the explusion of Na tionalist China--was unaccepl- able. NO CHANGE SEEN How Canada will vote this year is still unknown, but there is no sign of any new factors that might bring a change in the Canadian position. Nor is there any indication that Can- ada will follow the lead of France and recognize Peking even without a solution to the UN problem. There have been reports that Canada may recognize Peking in 1968, if the Chinese are will- ing. Officials here insist they're not even sure what will happen this year, let alone two years from now, One thing is clear Both Prime Minister Pearson and External Affairs Minister Martin would be delighted to have the old problem settled, if a fair deal can be made on Formosa Both men have argued con- sistently that China's isolation is unhealthy and that she should be exposed to the "currents and cross-currents of international opinion." They also have warned thet chances of such a deal may be slipping away as China's strength grows. 'Trying For White' Dangerous Game CAPE TOWN (AP) -- For years "trying for white' has been a kind of racial game played by some South Africans of mixed blood--those people known here as coloreds. Many with light skins have been able to slip across the color line into the more privileged world of the white man This is to become ingly dangerous. Prime Minister Hendrik Ver- woerd's all - white government demands that by early August every non-black citizen must register and possess an identity card stating his racial group. Blacks have always had to carry reference or passbooks which rigidly contro! their right to move or seek work in white areas The coloreds, numbering 1,- 742,000, are the racial group likely to be most affected by the new registration. It will be- come increasingly difficult to quietly tip-toe across the racial color line into the white world. POINTED PARAGRAPHS Perhaps too much stress is being placed on tolerance these days. Moderation should apply to all things -- even tolerance. enough: increas- Many people wish Ma Nature would use a far better method of delivering spring than by blowing it in. over by Commander Bertram Jones, In the meantime, Pre- mier McBride sent the chief janitor of the Parliament build- ings to Seattle with a cheque for $1.5 million. There was nearly a tragedy when the submarines appeared at the entrance to Victoria har- bor on the morning of August 5. The whole deal had been kept very secret and the shore battery had not been notified. It was about to. open fire when word was received to let them through. If the Germans had attacked, the submarines would not have been much help, because there were no crews for them, and practically no ammunition, Fortunately the German squad- ron sailed for the south Pacific and the federal government took over the submarines for the British Admiralty on August 7. OTHER EVENTS ON AUG. 4 1701 «Peace treaty with Iro- quois signed at Montreal Prince Edward Island separated from' Nova Scotia and made a sep- arate colony U.S. force repulsed while trying to capture Fort Mackinac Mobilization begun for Canadian expedition- ary force for World War I. Ottawa School Board re- placed by commission when it refused to insist that teachers be qualified to speak English Beginning of "Canada's 100 Days'? when Cana- dians began attack that led to end of war on November 11 Tea and coffee rationed in Canada owing to World War Il Parliaméntary library damaged by fire. It was the oniy part of the orig- inal building saved from the 1916 fire. 1769 YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO, Aug. 4, 1951 Miss Marie Armstrong, of Oshawa, recently arrived in Johannesburg, South Africa. She will work in the South Africa General Mission. A total of 16 district residents swore allegiance to Canada as they received their citizenship papers 30 YEARS AGO, Aug. 4, 1936 W. P. Plunkett appointed Separate School representative on Board of Education to suc- ceed Rev. P. J. Bench. The Ontario Regiment -- headed by their two bands -- paraded from the CPR station to the Armories on arrival here Sunday from their summer camp at Niagara-on-the-Lake. _AUSTRALIK ALARM Drug-Taking By Truckers Widespread _ By VINCENT MATTHEWS Pres: Canadian s Correspondent MELBOURNE (CP) -- Aus- tralians -- already alarmed at one of the world's worst high- way death tolls -- have been shocked at disclosures of wide- spread drug-taking by the coun- try's long-distance truck driv- ers, Acting premier Arthur Rylan of Victoria state has ordered an inquiry into the drivers' drug racket and has called on other states to act jnintly to stam it out. Union leaders have been complaining for some months that there was such intense competition among long - dis- tance truck haulage companies that the business was like a "jungle." They claimed drivers were forced to take stay-awake drugs and pep pills so they could race other drivers on journeys between capital cities, 'The taking of the drugs was so common that drivers were given the drugs with their pay envelopes--and were expected to take them. Police made night road-block checks on the drivers and the result has been a series of court cases in which long-dis- tance drivers have been fined heavily for being in possession of drugs and for driving many hours longer than they are al- lowed by law without taking time off for rest. BLAME OPERATORS In one case in which a driver was fined $200 ($242) Canadian) for having been found with a drug, the magistrate said: "Greedy road transport opera- tors are more to blame for ex- cessive driving hours and drug- taking than the drivers them- selves. It is unfortunate that the drivers and not the ruth- Jess operators who force them to break the Jaw are brought to court, The pressures of the transport business lead to driv- ing for such long hours." The driver's lawyer said that unless a truck driver was pre- pared to break the law by tak- ing drugs and driving for ex- cessively long hours he could not compete with ether drivers and would lose his. job. Australia's truck drivers have to make some of the longest and loneliest journeys in the world, From Sydnéy to Perth, for instance, is 2,700 miles by road. Yet every night, trucks leave in both directions, For 800 miles the road is across the Nullabor plain, a virtual desert, TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS August 4, 1968 .. . The Babington plot by Roman Catholics to agsase sinate Queen Elizabeth I of England was uncovered 380 years ago today--in 158f, Anthony Babington, a sup- porter of Mary Queen of Scots, joined with other Catholics in a plot to mur- der Elizabeth and her min- isters, organize a general Catholic uprising in Eng- land, and assume power-in the country with the aid of ery forces. The con- s pi acy was uncovered when correspondence be- tween Babington and Mary was intercepted and one of the plotters confessed, Bab- ington and six other Roman Catholics were condemned to death for high treason, and the reign of Elizabeth was made more secure. 1285 -- Prince Edward's royalist forces defeated Si- mon de Montfort, earl of Leicester, in the battle of Evesham. 1798 -- The U.S. Guard was founded, First World War Fifty years ago today-- in 1916--the third year of British war on Germany be- gan; a Turkish force of 14,- 000 attacked the British po- sition at Romani, 22 miles east of the Suez Canal, but was repulsed with heavy losses, ending the Canal campaign. Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1941--the Germans reached Kolm in White Rus- sia; Axis troops withdrew from advanced positions around Tobruk, Libya; Ja- pan suspended regular di- rect steamship service with the United States. BIBLE The world passeth away, and the lusts thereof; but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever. -- I John 2:17. "Only one life, 'Twill soon be past, only what's done for God will last.' Coast 725-6553 RENT-A-CAR DAY -- WEEK -- MONTH $8.00 PER DAY 725-65 RUTHERFORD'S CAR AND TRUCK RENTALS PLUS LOW MILEAGE CHARGE 14 ALBERT ST, Oshawa