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Member Audit Burea of Cireu PAGE 4 Time Of Uncertainty If, indeed, it were “entirely feasible from educational, adminis- trative, and financial viewpoints to proceed immediately with the pro- posal to elevate Prince of Wales Col- lege to the level of a degree granting institution,” then there is no doubt that our people generally would strongly indorse this move in the interests of all concerned. The state- ment in quotation marks is from a brief prepared by a citizens’ com- mittee formed to investigate the matter, which was released for pub- lication yesterday, and which carried the added assurance that the pro- posal “would not constitute a major additional drain on our provincial treasury.” The brief has been under study by the Provincial Government since last April, and presumably will come before the Legislature when it meets in February, for full discus- sion. In the meantime, we do not think much purpose is served by at- tempting to evaluate it, for there are many factors involved in which expert knowledge is required. More- over, we are just now awaiting the outcome of a federal-provincial con- ference at Ottawa which may ma- terially affect our future fiscal ar- rangements, and indeed our chances of survival as a continuing partner in Confederation As Premier Shaw stated yester- day at the opening of this moment- ous conference, there is need for more, not less, federal aid to the provinces on a fiscal need basis. The whole concept of pooling the major tax resources of the country in the interests of all the provinces is be- ing challenged, and if this concept goes by the board Prince Edward Island, with its low tax raising po- tential, could never make up the loss. One of the revealing points made in the brief recently presented to the Federal Government by the Canadian Teachers Federation was i the present disparity in the pro- portion of elementary and secondary teachers with university degrees in the various provinces. For British Columbia the proportion is 37.4 per cent, for this Province it is 7.7 per cent, The average across Canada is 28.2 per cent, which shows how far down in the scale we are. And this is held in the brief to be “the most reliable indicator of the level of the qualifications of the teaching force.” Obviously, there is much room for improvement in our educational setup. The situation at Prince of Wales College is one phase of this problem, but it is by no means the only one. And if improvement is to come there must be stability in our arrangements with Ottawa that will enable us to plan progressive meas- ures with some assurance of being able to carry them out. At present the whole situation {s in a state of confusion. This goes for all our budgetary planning, since there is scarcely a department of government that is not vitally con- cerned with the issues now being y discussed in the federal capital. Guarding The President The assassin’s bullets that took the life of President Kennedy, notes a Washington correspondent of the New York Times, shattered the : proud record of the century-old United States Secret Service and the 400 men who wear its star. It also | ghattered a myth about the men who protect the lives of U.S, chief ‘executives. _ Over the years the myth has grown that the Secret Service can dictate to the President Ss. is | may and may not do where the safety of his person and family ars involved. Actually, a President is | just as safe as he permits himself | to be. Nobody, for instance, was in | a position to tell President Kennedy at Dallas last Friday that he must use the protective “bubble-top” or the bullet-proof side windows with which the rented Lincoln Continen- tal touring car in which he was be- | ing driven was equipped. Mr. Kennedy had let it be known repeat- edly that he wanted no part of the | “bubble-top” on a clear day. Secret Service agents knew even before he went to the White House that Mr. Kennedy was hard to “cover”. He was vigorous and im- pulsive. Movement was instinctive. It was natural for him to leave the mansion with the King of Moroccu and walk across Pennsylvania Ave- nue at the height of the rush hour without a word to agents who were pounding down the driveway in hot ie pUrsui But according to some of those who had known him longest, there | were more profound reasons for the | late President’s apparent disdain for ordinary security measures. As | President, he was also the leader of | the non-Communist world. He con- sidered it important to appear to the world as a free man among free men. What better way to demon- | strate the difference between a frea | and open society and a police state, | than to appear openly before the | public without a protective screen? The same attitude was noted in his | European tcur last summer. | All Presidents, indeed, have shown irritation at the ministrations of | their protectors. But it is expected to be different with President John- | son. Security procedures will, un- | doubtedly, be tightened. If neces- sary, he will be “‘toid” by his col- leagues in the administration, or by | Congress, that the protection of his | life against the twisted mentalities of potential assassins must take priority. And after being an eye- witness to Friday's tragic event, | there is little doubt that President Johnson will concede the point. Those Sugar Tariffs In a recent statement in Parlia- | ment on sugar prices, the Minister | of Trade and Commerce, Mr. Sharp, said that the Federal Government | has been looking into the possibili- | ties of a change in sugar policy “of a | more fundamental character” than | some changes that had been sug- gested. These—which Mr. Sharp | discounted—were government price controls, payment of a sugar sub- sidy, and discontinuance of the | British preferential tariff rate of | 28 cents per hundred pounds on raw sugar brought into Canada. Mr. Sharp did not mention, In | this connection, the more pertinent. fact that refined sugar entering Canada carries a most favored na- tion and general tariff of $1.89 per | hundred pounds. Behind this tariff wall Canadian sugar refiners oper- ate. This, notes the Winnipeg Free Press, was 2 strange omission. There is, despite the present stated world shortage, free sugar to be bought on the open market. Sugar can be bought from the Argentine; it can be bought from Mexico after Jan- uary 1. There is, of course, no point in buying it and bringing it into Canada because the tariff would make its selling price higher than prevailing prices. “But what would happen to sugar prices in Canada,” asks our Winnipeg Liberal contemporary, “if the Government were to suspend this tariff of $1.89 and permit refined sugar to enter Canada duty free? If the Government is sincerely interest- ed in lower sugar prices for Cana- dian consumers it is difficult to understand why Mr. Sharp did not discuss this possibility.” A good point, indeed, and one of very live interest at the present time. EDITORIAL NOTE Plans to change the fuel used in the heating of a court house at Far- go, North Dakota, have come to a sudden halt. The plan was to con- vert the court house heating system from the use of coal to natural gas. The state’s attorney put a stop to it. It seems that it is illegal to heat state or county buildings in North Dakota with any fuel not native to the state. Lignite coal is mined in North Dakota but natural gas has to be..piped in from Canada. PEACE PIPE i i ] \ \ CEREMONY, ‘ed i Lamon | | | hi FAAS \ | a : i ei i Lal ' | i TEN LITTLE INDIANS OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson The New Regime Of Automation Automation has been ca ed as a blessing—because it wi Gntroduce machines W/o mush of the heavy, dirty, unskilled and monotonously - repetitive work in industry; because it will] create more pleasant, better- paid, skilled jobs; because it will bring a shorter work week and greater leisure; because it will raise the, standard of living here and throughout the world. But automation has also been been described as a.curse— cause it will destroy the jobs of those workers who now per- form those heavy, dirty, unskill- ed and monotonously- repetitive tasks Obviously the essential factor in this equation is that automa- tion should create, directly and indirectly, more jobs than it de-/ stroys. Otherwise it will indeed be a curse. Economists reason that auto- | mation will permit an overall increase in production; it will | therefore create more wealth; and more wealth in turn can create more jobs. | DRUDGERY WILL END But such new jobs will be very | different from many of those which now provide workers with their livelihood. The sop-| histicated new machines will} replace large numbers of today’s unskilled workers. But skilled | workers will be required to build | those new: machines, to work) with them, and especially to maintain them. This reasoning obviously im- | plies that, if we are to reap the} maximum benefits from automa: | tion, we must ensure that our) work force receives the approp- riate training to fill those in-| creasedly technical jobs. We must no longer graduate large numbers of unskilled workers | into our work force, either from | school or through immigration. | ‘As an example of the effect! of automation on the work force | of a plant I quote the case of a western Canada company which produces a common mate rial) used in building. Unautomated, | that plant employed 80 produc-) tion workers, each earning $90 tion of 10 workers in the pre-au-| tomation p) Thus the fanuton of auto- mation destroyed 70 out production jobs; but it created in their place 40 better-paid_and| easier jobs for workers with ap- propriate training. It also added one-quarter to the number of work-hours in the production of the plant machinery. Automa- tion would permit a reduction in the cost of the product, too. TIME FOR MORE FUN So much for the direct effects Indirectly, automation will create more jobs elsewhere, by putting extra money in the pock- ets of the maintenance workers, and by saving money for the| buyers of the products. All these will be able to afford better | homes and food, more and bet- ter- clothes, household equipment entertainment and hoi days. | More jobs will be created in all 99| new homes, new these fields by the increased spending power. Trinally, the rising demand for hospitals and Jae Pees might actually cause the plant to expand produetion by adding to its work fc The key is ai new regime of automation will lie in coopera- tion between labour, manage- ment and government in plan- ning for the new conditions. The essential fact in this cooperation must be the provision and the full utilization of training in the new techniques. This will be in part in technical schools, with an increase in apprenticeship and on-the-job training. But before this can be achiev- ed, all Canadians must fully un- derstand the need for learning new skills. Labour, management and government will then be able to cooperate, to ensure that automation will. be a blessing and not a curse. Ottawa Once again it is time to make the prediction. It may be that more persons listen and look at weather news than to any ot her program, but sometimes feels that the scientifically trai- ned meteorologists are unduly cautious. Time was when men gathered around pot - bellied stoves in the general store and spoke their minds without hedging. A man who lives intimately with the weather throught the turning ear has his observations to add to the lore handed down through the years. Did you notice that the husks of sweet corn were unusually thick and tough this season? If you have rambled the woodlands and upland ridges you have seen jornets’ nests that were larger than for severat years. Down in the swales and swamps the cat- tail heads are unusually long, and the muskrats have built larger houses than usual. rediction Journal Coons have been rambunctious in the cornfields storing up extra fat, and the woodchucks were out through September, eating heartily for the long sleep. Acorn shells are very thick and hard and the chickadees have come to the ofd McIntosh behind the woodshed earlier than one ex- ects, But the most reliable indicat- ors are the chipmunks.’ If they carry their tails out behind, it means an easy Winter; if the tails are straight up, it will be normal. However, if the chippies carry their tails over their backs pointing in the direction the squirrels are travelling, it means a long, cold snowy Win- ter. As an objective reported, one must say that afl indications point to a dilly of a Winter, with major storms the last week of December, the third weeks of January and February, and the second week of March. Wise citizens will heap the woodshed and get extra heavy long ones. per week. With the of automated machinery, the staff of production workers was cut to 20. But the ace in automa- | tion is the creation of new jobs, in maintenance. Forty such workers, each earning $110 per week, had to be added. Automa- tion increased output, by an amount equivalent to the produc- ic FORUM | dor Alt er Fablohed be eaten here | accion, ta taati pectoopentseen”rogsee-| ine letiers submitted, | Year Of The Lemmings National Geographic Society It's the dreaded ‘‘Year of the Lemmings” in Sweden. These furry little rodents of arctic barrens in Europe, Asia, powers and then, especially in Scandin- avia, the populations reach such numbers that the animals seem, in good old Viking tradition, to go berserk “Quite suddenly, as though each had heard a warning, they burst from their complex sub- terranean cities and swarm over the tundra in CO-OPERATION NEEDED | Sir.—The members of Bede- que Half Century Club would like to thank those who acceded to their suggestion re trying to keep our streets litter free but there is sti much room for im- wvement. have sponsored the repair ing of the sidewalks, erec- tion of, roadside, tables for the convenience of the public, and street lights to make this village a pleasant and beautiful place in which to live. To this end, we need the co operation of every woman tnd chld and we especially im- pl rents to ask their enideen to comply with our be gm urtail the scattering of litte we wih also to thank those districts, who appar- couy have the ‘same problem, and so kindly wrote their appre clation of our et are, Sir, ¢te., Bedeaue Half Century Club , devouring every ptant | they come to,” bend Revie P. Davis, Jr., graphic Society's beak ‘ty is ] a) Animals of North | Sitertan ‘yillagas. oboe haa. (0 radio for help as lemmings flood- ed inexorably toward it. Towns- people were airlifted out.” SUICIDAL MARCH TO SEA so-called lemming years— awe- some spectacles tegarded by some people as portents of war, | famine, or catastrophe. | 2 Cotoher, 1968, Ostersund, a | lakeside city in: central Sweden, | reported its first femming invas- jon since 1989 when the most | eatastrophie of all. world wars usually shy creatur- es, now as bold as brass, have swarmed onto lake ferries with | people, got into homes, snarled | traffic, and contam streams wellg with dete - | dead bodies. |. The 19th century's outstanding | femming year, Norway's burden Geo- | to bear in 1862-69, coincided with gome of the grimmest battles ot ‘A | the Aaeeican Civil It is not surprising “that | ple tend to relate lemming years | with earnage, With the millions are even more spectacutar,” he writ- es of the type of phenomenon | —birds of prey, wolves, foxes, | Weasels, , cats. Even | caribou turn from. lichens to femmings. Trout snap them up like flies. LARGEST ARCTIC RODENTS Letters Cover Wide Range By Dr. Theodore R. VanDellen Every week we receive thou- sands of letters and all ar different. I wonder what prompted a Chicagoan to ask, “Do you ever get sick? Have you ever had an operation?” T've been ill on several occa- sions and have had three opera- tions — two on my left leg and @ tonsilectomy. A grateful mother from Lenoir, N.C., wrote: “I must say thank you for your column a year ago on black moles. My son, in poe: on ju G happened to paper on his [es ine he ee class of the day. He said he never had read a doctor's col- umn before but the words "black mole’ caught his eye and he read you article. He had a mole on his back, saw a doctor the next day, and had it re- moved. The test showed a mali- gnancy. He has been going for checkups since the operation and the surgeon now tells him he is well. So please accept our grateful thanks.” We were pleased to hear this story with a happy ending, and thankful this young man went to his physician immediately, instead of procrastinating, many do. It never pays to be too dog- matic when it comes to answer- ing medical questions. One of our readers wanted to know whether a woman could have chills instead of hot flashes dur- ing the change. I replied, ‘No, but there is no reason why women in this age group cannot develop infections that bring on chills or chilly saeco w Yorker wrote, “I hate to differ with you “but I Py 56 and never had a hot flash in my life. Instead, I always got chills and my doctor told me some women get hot flashes and others get ieee during the change of 1 ly 50 an cent of alll women cinintts hot flashes during the menopause. They are caused by a sudden dilatation of the sur- face vessels; this brings blood, warmth, and a flush to the skin. The sensation usually be- gins in the face, neck, and upper chest, followed by a wave of heat that may pass over the entire . The vasomotor nerves control the caliber of the blood vessels but we do not know why these disturbances of circulation take place during the climacteric. Chilly sensations could stem ym the opposite reaction constriction of the blood ves- sels. This is speculative. Our reader may be thin or have a low metabolism, either of which could induce feelings of chilli- ness. EAR MASS E.P. writes: Please explain a cholesteatoma tumor in the ear. REPLY This is a mass of dead cells) and cholesterol crystals that forms in the ear canal of a per- son with such conditions as a perforated eardrum. ASTHMA FROM CATS = | S. writes: I have various al-| lergies. If T should get a couple of cats would I develop asth- ma? REPLY Possibly, but you are more likely hd 1a more cats. AND SINUS ES. last Would diet re- lieve sinus congestion? RE! No. Food is not the answer to this problem unless you are al- lergic to a specific item such as wheat, corn, milk, or tur- nips. SURGERY FOR CysT B.A. writes: Is surgery the only cure for wens? REPLY | Yes. These cysts contain a cheesy material that can be ex-| pressed. But they re-form as Jong as the cyst remains. Today’s Health Hint— Be happy. Loe Corner, THE MOVING FLAME A tribute to the late John F. Kennedy, 35th ‘resident of the Unites Seales of America, as- sassinated Nov, 22, 1963, - lan tete at Dal: Beneath the shade of trees In Arlington, He lies: the small flame Above his hea And at his feet, the Nations mourn, glows The ring is in his hand; Tribute of aoa love— The Lady took i From her finge in And in the House of State ‘That was his home, And her: She kissed him. The people came: gazed, they ‘ayed. Columbia. mourns cl death, ations come: Kings from afar; see him to his rest, Envoi Good night, sweet Prince! Now with the young martyrs, Other Lincolns, Dead for other’ causes; You lie in peace. ‘The og 4 flame glows Above his hea ‘And at his feet, the Nations mourn. NOTES BY THE WAY yr sleep, regular meals, aa pleake of exercise will help you going long enough to collect your old age pension.’ Chatham News. Not all women are guilty of ating gossip. One of them to start it.— Philnews. re has An official says profits made from playing slot machines are taxable. So are profits made from selling horse feathers. Guelph Mercury. Everyone has two distinct per- sonalities, one when he is walk- ing and one when he is driving A dollar bill may not do much for you today as it use to, but you don't do as much for dollar, either— Galt Report. er. A Michigan farm fortune to his fou ree his relatives got was merely something to bark about.—cChat, ham News. Dr. Pauline Jewett, MP, has said that a great number of poli. ticians do not stand up for their convictions. The trick is in finds ing cxt what are the convictio —Brandon Sun. of some MPs.— Ottawa Journal New President And Canada: By Don Hanright Canadian Press Staff Writer Canada’s natural _hyper-sen- sitivity to American policies | and actions has led to a brood- ing ¢uriosity about how she may be affected by the John- | son presidency. | The view in ‘Ottawa is that it mai ime before that | curiosity is satisfied — before Canadians can measure anew what they claim has atready | existed, namely a disparity of concern and interests between Ottawa and Washington. | is known in Ottawa He | Little about the new president. has never been to Canada in an official capacity. His | speeches as vice-president have | been scoured in the last few | days without yielding any sig- nificant reference to Canada In contrast, the late Presi- dent Kennedy was regarded in | Ottawa as bringing an aware- | ness of Canadian problems to | the post. | KENNEDY NO STRANGER As a Massachusetts senator, in October, 1957, he had called for frankness in Canadian-U.S. Telatlong and better consulta: | m | Syrian iestated| aa president, Kis first foreign caller was. the ‘anadian prime minister—then Sonn Dietenbater. "His fire trip outside the U.S. as president | was to Ottawa. This background helped to | create what Prime Minister | Pearson recently described as the “continuing dialogue” tween Ottawa and Washington —a dialogue which, in the last | | Kennedy assassination. seven months, was so frank as” to cause irritations in both cap. Mr. Johnson was out of ear-* shot on most of this dialogue CABINET LINK However, the Kennedy cabi."* net remains, ‘at least for the time being, And most of the conversation — ha: with those men—especially Interior Secretary Udall, Commerce Secretary Hodges, Labor Sec. tary Wirtz, and Treasury Sec- retary Dillon In general, Canadian officials | 90 far sense no basic chanze in the Washington attitude to- ward Ottawa. ‘This might occur only if Mr, Johnson changes his cabinet. Within three months of taking (over the presidency after Franklin D, Roosevelt died in office, Harry Truman replaced six of the 10 Roosevelt cabinet ministers. But more than two yeara In office before an election; there are only 14 months remaining in the cur- rent presidential term. In any event, a lull in Caae dian - American relations al- ready was in sight before the As one Ottawa described it, would set in during the U.S. election campaign Meanwhile, there were plans afoot to add to the existing channels of communication be- tween Ottawa and Washington, especially at the technical level. e pause in political dialogue may give the officials more time to organize these. Poses Medical Challenge London Free Press No man. ever ingested DDT voluntarily, except in a labora- tory experiment, but most of the world’s population is becoming | exposed to this insecticide whe- | ther oF not it wants tobe. | Dr. Luther Terry, Surgeon- | General of. the United. States | Public Health Service, has un- | derscored the warning sounded | in Rachel Carson's “Silent Spring” in his Bronfman Lec- | Our Yesterdays (From the Guardian Files) TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO (November 27, 1938) | Superintendent J. 0. Seot transferred from Calgary al command “L” Division Royal Canadian Mounted Police in this province arrived in Charlotte | town last night, Inspector Jam- es Fripps, who commanded the Island Division since the Mount- ed Police were established here leaves next week for Vancouv-| er, where he has been posted. | The students of Prince of Wal- es College expect to have a rink | on the campus this winter, for | the first time in the history of the college. The government | tractor has levelled a piece a ground of suitable size which will later be enclosed by a board wi TEN pS nseged (ocd (November 27, 1953 Members of the Bi EI. Ke So- clety met at the close of their 14th annual exhibition at the Gallery Tuesday evening to hear an account of its success. An estimated four hundred visitors viewed the exhibition and expressed their satisfaction with the quality of the work. Chairman for the meeting w: the Society's president, Vic Runtz, Government House, its taste- ful decor supplemented by ar- rangements of fall flowers, was the scene of a delightful recep- tion yesterday afternoon, when several hundred guests were en- tertained by His Honor Lieut. Governor T.W.L. Prowse and Mrs. Prowse. ture to the American Public Health Association Convention In the twenty- odd years since the use of DDT became almost universal, traces of the polson have been found ia fish fom as widely separated as lean and Iceland, and in witd- life north of the Arctic Circle points out, the tide is already irreversible, and since the cumulative effects ot | DDT are still unknown, “we are just beginning to understand the health hazards that results from the gradual accumutation of minute quantities of chemicals from various sources over a life ‘Miss Carson stressed eae that Dr. Terry refers to. ie use of insecticides and pest- the | icides has proliferated so ripid- ly that the science of medicine | has been left far behind, Physi. clans are not trained to look for or recognize illnesses caused by these chemicals; a whole new a of austin remains unex- plore te may be years before the art of healing can catch up with ese undiagnosed ailments which have resulted from the ever-growing and indiscriminate use of some of the most lethal poisons known to science. Fiscal Investments Appointment 1. Donald M. Aaja Ehret Donald M. Fleming, P.C., oe. DC.Lis of Toronto, as Chairman ot the Board is announced ie Board of Directors of Fiscal ee vestments Limited, : a Flemming ie Couneel, with the Roesorthd STRIDES @ CAR Coats Kennedy's Ladies’ Wear 166 Queen St. zy