The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Page 6

-The Ottawa Journal futluma kj T)W Journal PuklUhlnf Ca. Otl.r. Lid, til ftu lu. li aparfca St, Ottawa. Onlarla, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1961 The Case for Civil Defence Last week 70 mayor and reevei of Canadian cities and municipalities (pent four days in Arnprior learning about civil defence.

That was an impressive number of busy people spending an Impressive amount of time on a subject which much of the public treats with conspicuous uninterested-riess or bored skepticism. Our own conscience In this respect is not too easy. Upon the close of the meeting we sought out Mr. J. F.

Wallah, the deputy-director of the Emergency Measures Organization, who had so vigorously attacked the public's defeatism. He kindled a live respect for what civil defence is now trying to do. It has been easy enough to -belittle the pamphlets on. building bomb shelters. The prospect of evacuating a whole city seemed impossible even as a nightmare, considering the daily chaos at five o'clock when part of the population tries to go home from work.

Yet it may indeed be that the civil defence authorities are the realists, not the cynics who throw up hands half In despair and half in hope. The defence authorities are now lng to sell their product like life insurance. The argument is this: Against the direct effects of the blast no defence la really possible. But we must not assume as so many do that an i i a i i atomic weapon wouia inevimuiy explode directly overhead. If one should explode somewhere over New York State, the difference between life or death for Ottawa might be the adequacy of shelter from the radioactive fallout Should a bomb burst over the centre of Ottawa, it is believed thousands on the perimeter of the blast area could live by using a fallout shelter.

Canada i in civil defence as she has never been before. Last year the Federal Government spent $36,000,000 building a central organization and contributing to provincial and municipal efforts. The year before the spending was $10,000,000. The. amount of money distributed is of course not the measure of the sue cess of tiie civil defence effort The number of persons who are preparing themselves for the emergency we pray will neVer come is the vital statistic.

Canadians must stop and hear the case for civil defence. It is a strong case which the prudent man may not ignore. There is enough terrible persuasiveness about the CD arguments that they cannot be dismissed in easy conscience. There is also the matter of human dignity! A lady from Port Arthur, writing to headquarters here for information, put it this way: "We feel that we should do something; even if we don't survive, at least we would die Disorder In th4 Arenas A few persons who masquerade as nocney ians disrupted a game in ine Hull Arena last Sunday by throwing debris and firecrackers on the ice. The xiuu coacn, Air.

win skov, said ii 'was "nothing" compared with "the tuff they throw in That may indeed be true. And it may also be true that wherever hockey is played today audience participation is growing. If the Auditorium were, attracting spectators this undoubtedly some indigenous and ingenious flora and fauna would be scattered. But this justifies There has been far too much easy toleration of these The feeling seems to have arisen that a hockey admission ticket constitutes permission to disorderly conduct. Mr.

Edward 3. Houston, the president of the Eastern -Professional Hockey League does not think to and he has urged police to escort unruly -spectators out of the arena. He 'is right The curious thing is that police should need to be told by a hockey official to maintain order in a public arena. The harassment of players by, some pcuiauors is iuu oi poienuai danger not only to the fans and players but to the "sport What prudent person will continue attending games at which riAt mnA vlnlpnra era nrnViahlp will leave hockey to the hoodlums. And fortunately there are as yet not enough hoodlums who by themselves could make hockey or any sport profitable.

But there arc enough hoodlums to spoil a sport If they are permitted to be themselves. Chnnaec Af Hydra The appointment of. Mr. W. Ross both a personal compliment and a tribute to the depth of executive excellence within Ontario, Hydro.

For Mr. KtBTKV tlVlitrA mnvrtm nf hfa KwlaMb tors, is a Hydro man, being a sioner since 1944 and vice-chairman for five years. He is known and respected in Hydro offices and plants throughout the province. He also knows, the province. Eastern Ontario can feel particularly cfose to Mr.

Strixb for he practised law In Perth for some years. Mr. James S. Duncan needs no valedictory, He has earned his reputation1 In many fields of accomplishment His term with Ontario Hydro was, as Premier Frost suggested, one of unselfish service to his country. It was also good for Hydro.

Mr. Duncan Was a businessman who could easily have earned more in other fields but he was willing to take a tour of public duty. As he ends that duty he has the gratitude of his province. Meddlers in the Temple Of the Bible Perhaps at Easter time we need make no apology for returning again to the matter of the new English Bible. In our letters rolumn today is reprinted from the Manchester Guardian a letter from a Cambridge man' which touches on our own reaction.

Modern the new version may be, and in some places to good effect. But to be modern can also mean to be wordy and given to jargon. Let us take but two more examples, not from Easter which is close to the heart now but from Christmas. How long have we rejoiced in that multitude of the heavenly host who joined the angel in praising Cod, saying: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men!" Now we are to believe that in their moment of jubilation the heavenly host sang thus, as from a sub-section in an Act of Parliament: "Glory to God in highest heaven. And on earth His peace for men on whom His favor rests Observe the hesitant, begrudging grant of peace only to those who enjoy His favor; observe, too, that in 1960 it is no longer adequate to speak of heaven, there must be a highest heaven.

We resent this muddying meddling. We dislike, too, the tampering with what has often seemed to many one of the gentlest and dearest lines in the Bible. When the shepherds ran to the inn and found the baby lying in a manger they told Mart and Joseph of the wondrous things the angel had told them about the Child. We could imagine the excitement and awe "But Mart kept all these things and pondered them in her The new version has it that "Mart treasured up all these things and. pondered over Now that may be much the same thing, but is it -an improvement? Did it perhaps trouble the editors that Mart had been said to have pondered something in her heart; can we hear them wisely observing that of course someone ponders not in the 'heart but In the mind? Alas for improvers, and specially when they set their fussing fingers on lines whose very sound and familiarity have become a part of their message, part of their music.

It may well be, as we have said, that some of the new work is worth the doing, that some rough spots have been made smooth, some obscure parts have been made clear. But look again, for instance, at the song of Mart. "My soul doth magnify the Lord and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Ah yes, long dear to us all, intimate to Mart in its simplicity. But the modern manipulation of that natural statement is to render it pompous as does a bad organist trying to give "sweep" to Bach: "Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord, rejoice, rejoice, my spirit, in God my It is a pity the meddlers injbe temple didn't confine themselves to the things requiring their attention. It seems to us that they have done much they ought not to have done.

That 'Sfush Fund' Mayor Whitton, who was against any monetary vagueness in the capital budget, apparently sees no inconsistency in putting aside more than in the current budget for nothing more specific than "unforeseen Common prudence makes it essential for a city of Ottawa's size to keep such a reserve fund handy. Whether it is provided for in the capital or the current budget is not important. It was only unfortunate that Miss Whitton's instinctive crusading spirit left the impression that something Improper had gone on in other years in the use of the so-called "slush The fact is that a slush fund is no more liable to misuse than ny other fund. When extra money is needed for unexpected shoW removal expenses, for example the spending must be approved by City Council Notes and Comment Hull's unchanged tax Vate must arouse the admiration of Ottawa aldermen and the envy of Ottawa taxpayers. There may be two sides to every But sometimes they are the right side and the wrong side.

It has been suggested that someone with a sensitive nose be recruited to trace foul odors in Ottawa. We had not thought great sensitivity, necessary. When the American balloonist, Mrs. Alfred Wolf, makes an' ascent, she always takes along an angel food cake. 'Do balloons go that high? We read that the pognophore is a deep-sea creature with brains but na mouth.

Man's ancestors may have been sea-creatures but, clearly, the pognophore is not one of them. FELL WE MOST KtEP SOME CONTACT WirUTHoSE UNHAPPY CUBAHS Tat D3. Botvinnik: Chess Masters Meet By LEONARD BARDEN Written for the Manchester Guardian and The Journal has begun in Moscow between a chance of regaining the title, Mikhail Tal, the 24-year-old and one reason for this is the tiUeholder, and Mikhail Bot- general fact that chess ability vinnik, aged 49, the former declines after about the age of champion who lost to Tal last 45. This is most obvious in the year. Playing 24 games at the older masters' tendency to tire rate of three a week (assuming in the closing stages of a five- the match goes the full dis- hour session and in their tance) they will be hunched diminished visual imagination over their boards for a good and increased frequency of two' months.

Audiences of sev- blunders. eral thousands watch them play Most strong players are prion the stage of a large Moscow marily either strategists, excel- of the "illness" time which allows each competitor to postpone a few games on production of a doctor's certificate to the referee. It even occurred on occasion immediately after he had won a game. But if Botvinnik appears liable to headaches and other complaints "THE return match for the THERE are hardly any chess peculiar to harassed intellect- woria cness cnampionsnip experts wno give noivinnin uais, i not, as you migni think, because his horizon is confined to his chessboard and bis scientific bench. In his writings he has always emphasized the importance of physical preparation for a tournament, and before his first match with Tal he would be out on bis skis daily for a trip of a dozen kilometres through the forest near bis country home outside Moscow.

Tal's obvious nervous energy LJJffS EL" youth make him better board enabling to of weaknesses in tion spectators exploitation follow the moves. the opponent's position, or Some chess experts believe tacticians, whose successes that If Botvinnik loses again, stem from their imaginative this match will prove to be vir- treatment of unusual situations tually his farewell appearance, and their flair for calculation. Other Views Letters to LAW UPHELD Cape Breton Pott Had the Supreme Court allowed Mrs. Yuet Louie to stay in Canada it would have been a party to her desertion of her family In Hong Kong, and it would have set a precedent making more difficult th effort of the Immigration Department to maintain a consistent and si anybody is bound to obey. SOME CLEANING UP Brockville Recorder Earl Winterton bas said in the British House of Lords he intends to raise the question of discnminsuon In Canada and Australia.

Canada practises discrimination by limiting the number of Immigrants from areas like the West Indies and there is evidence of discrimination by the Canadian public against Negroes. Australia gets round the problem by limiting immigration to Europeans only. Who can tell though that the Afro-Asian group won't try to place Australia on the rack too? What is clear is That others besides South Africa are guiltless; there is still some cleaning up to be done in the Commonwealth. Side Lights Washington Too Baltimore Sun Not all modern is sterile, by any a ni But good modern has been forbidden to cross the District of Columbia line. A new Federal Government building, if it doesn't look like a repository for dead paper (archives), looks like a place where they make basketballs on the production line.

Either way, the offices inside are the same. They are the offices of a small successful airline. Not Only In BC Victoria Colonist One thing can be said The Editors Of The Journal NEW NEW TESTAMENT Front tht Manchttttr Quarilan. Sir: The new New Testament it a dismaying document. Hniv well knnwii' from MOf- orderly policy to upholding law down at uneasy but which the department as much confident mixture of prim col-loquiality, timid daring, and old-fashioned literariness; and what a shock to the hopes of those, after so many years of publicity in depth, who hoped for something better! The effect of "But now that this son of yours turns up, after running through your money with hit women, you kill the fatted calf for him." is typical: it is ludicrous the Imitation contemporary jargon (so up-to-date, you know, "his but the biblical fatted calf still there This is in no known language; but anyone who thinks that "you scoundrel!" is contemporary English will also probably think that "fatted calf is.

These contemporary translators can't even, in the Magnificat, avoid the Grand Style: 'Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord!" This noncontemporary piece of work aims all over the place. It haj to be modern and up-to-date quick about it" for and it has to be dignified arrogant of heart and mind" for "the it must be scholarly and yet (easily understood; it must be accurate and yet in concise current English. It tries to be faithful to the Greek yet it cannot wholly ignore the 500 years of English experience. The one aim it appears to have consistently is to be journalistic; and its one con. sistent effect is that it cheapens.

"It win" (aa you yourself say) "make Christian teaching easier. It will reach with truth about the present new generations more readily. session ol the Legislature, it That is its purpose." But it is won't go down in history as not easy to read the truth an example of good manners, about God: one cannot expect The kind of rational discussion that should attend the conduct of public affairs has been sadly lacking. The stranet thing is that ne nas lor years mauv plain na auau.s.uia iui w.vrei, BrrtU-aHv iiwzhauitihla. V.

by his reluctance tp compete usually main their capacity for VrhVn.I SPU. tion Internationally thathess defl- consistent planning but lose the XZi MM il ta in which he lost to nitely comes second to his eye for detail and super-scientific work (he is an elec- accuracy which transforms a trical engineer, with a high alight advantage into a win reputation in his special field of rather than a draw. Capablanca synchronous generators). He and Flohr both declined from equipped to stand up to the strain of a long match. If the world champion has something of the air of the genius liable to burn himself out, at the present time his chess stamina to which they might belong would members tolerate the boorish behavior to which they subscribe so readily in the House.

If ever there was an institution that should be marked by a degree of the zig, Pen- 0f the people. rose, lai went to me American players' rooms in hotel and games with Fischer. The world defended his title both against Botvinnik and against the next challenger in to read about God in the same sort of language as on reads even in a great liberal paper, bout Mr. Macmillan and though this version is certainly more ready than the A.V. its language is apparently rather more journalistic than that of your leaders.

C. ROBINSON. Downing College, Cambridge. FLUORIDE TESTIMONIAL Sirs: There have been several letters In your paper recently, regarding fluoridation. The majority have been dislikes travelling abroad, and great strategists into drawing hf 1963.

He had considered, he it I would like to the Russian team's victory with in toite of his long chess career masters, and recent results in- and air of self-containment he dicate that Smyslov, who was is easily rattled by a noisy world champion for a year in audience or any irritating man- 1957-58, may be doing the nerisms of his opponent same. In last year's match he twice Tacticians usually become complained to the English more variable to performance referee, Harry Golombek, about with advancing age; they still T.p h.ki rj rins at him nroduce brilliancies but a exeat- after making a move and of er tendency to let their fantasy un and dnwn the i tic outrun a basic soundness in- 25 Years Ago ma Tki Mml IT WAS reported from Berlin that in a plebiscite 99 per Botvinnik ha used cent of voter of the Reich en- dorsed Hitler' remilitarization -of the Rhineland. 7 Premier William Aberhait, addressing a rally of 1,100 at the Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute, asked for- a showing of hands from those who had at. tended church service that Sunday morning. A total of 130 held up their hand.

It was part of the premier' "Go to. Church" campaign. N. Stewart Dowd, president, was in the chair at a meeting of League of Nation Junior, Pioneer in Ottawa. Dr.

James Norman Taylor, 66, died In Victoria, BC. A native of Ottawa, he had been a member of the. Ottawa lacrosse team which won the Dominion championship in 1892. Mi Dorothy Shaver of Ottawa was (elected a Canadian beauty queen at the annual festival to St Petersburg, Florida. Hon.

Norman McLeod Rogers was elected president of Ottawa Branch of the Alumni of Acadia University. Attorney General B. M. Vin cent of Kentucky ruled that 17,000 would have to relinquish the title of colonel, and become plain l' A a a 444 kAaVjiVaV am a taa a wine, and this made his play fuller than ever of dating attacks and speculative sacrifices of material. He was so light-hearted that Fischer, who was usually beaten by Tal during their Leipzig blitz sessions, defeated him in most of the while Botvinnik was thinking, creases their likelihood of in- BOUT five in the morning, states championship for the Tal had gained some 'notoriety curring crushing defeats; this the American were ex- fourth year running, Is a grey, for these quirks during the happened in the careers of hausted and wanted to sleep, beard compared with a child Candidates tournament, and Tchigorin, Alekhlne.

Bogolyu- Tal, however, was still full of called Ernest' Kim. Kim has they had not disappeared even bov, and to Bronsteln in our energy and insisted on playing already beaten many of the when two of his. rivals com- own day. for a while longer. By this best players of his native town plained about them in Belgrade time, too, the effect of the of Tashkent in Central Asia at newspapers and a third don- AGEING strategist seems Wine had worn off and it was the ripe old age of six.

ned dark glasses when he had to be specially at a dis- Fischer's turn to lose several to play him. However, when advantage when confronted games in succession. Hardly Iy10re IJoril fGr Botvinnik remonstrated and with a younger tactician. In had Tal stopped playing with i-igni lor Golombek gently pointed out important chess events each Fischer than he returned to the The CitY of Light to Tal what was happening, he player has to make 40 moves tournament room to take part was most apologetic; it was in 2ft hours on his own clock, in a great five-minute contest noticeable during the world and when the crisis in the open to all (he competitors in team championship at Leipzig game occurs, usually in the the team event that Tal was not roaming flfu the strategtst is Tal's year as world cham- around the room as much or often both mentally tired and pion has clearly increased his glaring at ms opponents as short of time and therefore often. specially vulnerable.

1 1 The preliminaries of all present-day contests, i be- they general confidence and maturity. He has 'taken on new re sponsibilities, as a father, as returning to his re- Pl for it. search work on an obscure We have a daughter who Russian novelist But he was was eight years old this sure that some new young and month. She ha been going powerful challenger would ap- to the dentist, since she was pear in the meantime In an two. We noticed her baby age when chess prodigies ere teeth were deteriorating.

This becoming younger, this is an condition was not caused by apposite comment; for even 17- not ftt proper pUU and year-old Bobby Fischer, who eating the proper food before has lust retained the United Trim FruM Aelarik) PARIS, long famed as the "City of Light" ha become dimmer than other cities of Europe, notably Berlin and Brussels even' though (he candle power of it street light ing in the past decade has in- editor of the Latvian chess lrnm w. om mii. she was born. Two dentist have agreed that it is hereditary. She lost her baby teeth, early and now has ten of her permanent teeth which we are-anxious td protect Besides having had these painted with fluoride, she ha taken a pill containing 2.21 milligrams Of sodium fluoride every day for over a year-and-a-half.

This has not affected her health in any way. She visit the dentist approximately every three months for a check-up. Since she has been taking these pills, the cavities have been greatly reduced. She also drink great quantities of milk, eat proper food and brushes her teeth at least three times a day. This is only one case.

I'm sure there are many similar. sporting or political, seem to magazine, ana as a oeputy in iion nr demand an inventory of the the Riga Soviet At Leipzig I miiUnH in.trf rf -nr ih. contestants' state of health. In asked this youngest champion all his last three matches in the history of the gam up some what he would do if he sue 1 MOPSY HERE COMES MY EX-BOY FRIENP S3 WALK OM YOUR TOK AND i ii. -i -iy kJi 1951' )0 million.

So the Municipal Council ha appropriated about $5 million to bring the city back to competitive brilliance" in the course of this are opposed to having this tasteless substance added to the water. Two year go; City Council decided to go. ahead with fluoridation, a soon si the may be unhappy, to learn that provincial Government agreed. me laei program, involves replacement of all the 300 remaining gas I a is for instance, on the place de la Concorde, the. boulevard Haussmann, Raspail and des Invallde.

Bright fluorescent lighting Is being extended to 20 more main thoroughfares. Including the avenues de Versailles. Marceau. d'lena; boulevards Ney, Victor, Mont-pa masse; and the rue Royale. Tourist may be particularly pleased to know that the new Now it seems they don't want to accept the responsibility of this decision.

It is not one for the people. Too many of them are not educated well enough on the JOAN McCOSHEN. -2286 Fox Crescent, Ottawa. March 28. lighter Vein During a week when her husband and three children were .1.1.

I A an, mi limine, uiv iwiaanau French fashion, all Important betog a Pari. monumi.U Are de that Triomphe. Place de la Javeno place to home eorde. Louvre Museum, the rom- Invallde. Notre-Dam and the Madeleine, etc.

each night "Aren't you ashamed," roar, from May I to October 15, ed the indignant judge, "to which prevlouly have only have your wife support you been Illuminated weekend and by doing such menial labor?" holidays. And a If to re-crown "Well, yes. In a way, your Pari a the "City of Light" honor," answered the man." a red-whlte-and-blue tricolor "But It's not my fault she's beam Is to be projected on to too ignorant to do anything the top of the Eiffel Tower. else," rv.