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PAGE 4 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1965.

Frank Walker

Unpromising Prospects

The defense ministers of NATO countries are slated to meet in Paris during the later part of this week to discuss the vexed question of nuclear- sharing within the alliance. Though France is the host country, President de Gaulle has indicated that he will not send a delegate to the conference and without France there is little prospect of any reconciliation of views. Norway. Portugal, Iceland and Luxembourg have also declined to attend the meeting. All are more or less averse to the idea of according © West Germany any political or physi- cal control of nuclear weapons.

Among the suggested ways of granting Germany’s claim to a limited nuclear role have been the multilater- al nuclear force, once pressed by Washington, the British plan for an Atlantic nuclear force and the latest Washington plan for a select nuclear committee within NATO to include the U.S., Britain, France, Germany and perhaps Italy to represent the smaller NATO powers. But these proposals have already been rejected in each case by one or more mem- bers. France will have nothing to do with any of them. .

There will be added suspicion of the efforts to give Germany nuclear status in view of a Washington dis- patch in the New York Times which came out over the weekend. This was to the effect. that U.S..nuclear war- heads have been mounted secretly on planes and missiles of West Germany and other NATO members. The war- heads aré said to have been in place for more than six years, although they remain in American custody. The controls, it is stated, have recently been strengthened but “at times American control has existed more in principle than in fact.” The President has been kept informed of the pro- gram arranged between the defense

_ department-and the countries, but, the dispatch adds, “it is understood that, . at times, he and other top policy mak- ers have been largely unaware of the specific arrangements made.” |

U.S. defense officials declined to comment on this report, maintaining that it was department policy never to discuss the location or. operation of any nuclear weapons. Later they issued a statement to the effect that cusody of nuclear weapons given NATO allies remains with the U.S., that President Johnson is aware of the specific arrangements made and that no such weapons can be used without his specific authority.

To those countries which are fear- ful of giving West Germany any nu- clear role beyond that of strategic planning, this explanation leaves much to be desired. Reading it in the light of The Times article they will suspect that it conceals more than it reveals, and that President-de Gaulle may be right in his view that NATO has become more of a danger than a safeguard and should be reorganized oh a different basis.

‘Testing Time For ARDA

In the short time at their disposal, the Atlantic premiers apparently did not get round to discussing ARDA problems at their conference here

_ yesterday. But according to an Ot- ‘ tawa correspondent of the Financial Times of Canada, this program for agricultural rehabilitation and de- velopment is approaching a critical cross-roads. Although it has been working for more than four years now, events in the next few months will determine just how effective it will be. - The federal and provincial gov- ernments to date have spent almost $84 million jn ARDA projects since the first a: ments were signed in 1962. But so far the emphasis has been heavily on capital works which, it is argued, could just as well have been undertaken under an expanded version of the old Prairie Farm Re-

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habilitation Act or its east coast count- erpart, the Maritimes Marshland Re- habilitation Act.

ARDA’s critics say that the amount | of research has been inadequate; also that there is a lack of coordination and that research findings must be | published if they are to be of much permanent use. But perhaps the big- gest question mark in the whole situ- | ation is how effective ARDA can be

in arranging for the people displaced

by its. rationalization program to be

absorbed into the non-agricultural | economy.

Another problem has to do with | the $50 million fund committed by | the federal government in the new _ agreement to establish special rural ' development areas. These are des- | eribed in the agreement as areas | which “warrant a comprehensive co- | ordinated approach to economic and | social development because they are | subject to widespread low income, have major adjustment problems, and have recognized development potential.”

The $50 million, which is in ad-

| dition to the $125 million Ottawa will | contribute ‘to ordinary ARDA pro-

jects under the five-year plan, could be applied”either exclusively, by the federal government or in cooperation

| with the provinces concerned.

The idea is to undertake really thorough development programs _ in the special areas which would in- volve physical, economic and social studies of the problems and poten- tials of the area; training local people to run their own program by estab- lishing rural development committees or similar bodies; preparing compre- hensive development plans; and un- dertaking “‘a broad range” of projects

opportunities. "

A test case for this approach is the joint federal-provincial task force formed last month to undertake a comprehensive development plan for Cape Breton and rural Nova Scotia. On its success will depend..its ap- plication to rura! areas in other prov- inces. It is regarded, indeed, as one of the blanks in the ARDA picture which will have to be filled in before it can do the job for which it was de- signed.

A Note Of Caution

The parliamentary library at Ot- tawa has some 250,000 reference works on its shelves, and another '‘200,- 000 in storage. Now, to make easier the labors of our members when Par- liament meets in January, a research branch of the library has been estab- lished, headed by an _ experienced British librarian and providing for one research assistant for every ten Senators and MPs. It will be some

sembled, but a start has been made and as the demands for its services grow, it is expected to add more re- searchers, abstractors, indexers and secretaries.

This is a good move, of course. There is a definite trend toward speci- alization in public affairs and mem: bers must become better informed on subjects which interest them. The cabinet: ministers have many facilities available to them through their own departments; but to criticise govern-

| must have equal sources of informa- [ tion. ,

But there is a danger of overdoing it if, as we note from a press report, the new branch will not only provide statistical data and investigate the pros and cons of:any question refer- red to it, but will summarize press comment on public Yssues and provide notes for speeches as well.

Our parliamentarians now are on full-time pay, and we see no reason why their research chores should be as neatly processed and packaged for them as all that. They are expected to put some mental effort into the speeches they deliver, to do some at least of their own homework and to make their own assessment of press comments, too, for that matter. If they are going to have everything handed to them in capsule form— predigested by industrious bureau- crats—they might as well stay home and let the bureaucrats’ make their speeches. We hope it won’t come to that, but we can see a danger here of putting a premium on laziness that would be anything but conducive to the interests of Parliament or the pub- lic at large. .

EDITORIAL NOTE - The Unites States and Britain have joined in a uniqte bffer to sup- ply Saudi Arabia with a ern, $200 i air defense system. It in-

es in parf the sale of American missiles, British supersonic in- terceptor jet.fighters, and a highly }-advanced radar and communications -~ system

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OTTAWA REPORT By Patrick Nicholson Nightmarish Spectre For Poor Grits

“Wanted — a powerful tran- quillizer to enable a score of Cabinet Ministers to sleep soundly, through datkness now made nightmarish bv the spectre of an Opposition Lead- er grown ten feet tall, with x- ray eyes and a tongue like a cat o’ nine- tails.” s

That is the appeal carried au- dibly on the chill Arctic gale how'ing a round —- ‘icrient Hill in this bleak November.

There is no doubt that a reas- sured and reinforced John Dief- enbaker_is_the most. feared of the many unwelcome and un- exvected boc erans striking the Liberals from their “unnecessary election.’”

Top Liberals made no secret of their hope that their main benefit from the election would

be the disappearance from the |

House of Commons cf a mortel- ly wounded Diefenbaker. Their reasoning - which they shared with the less courageous of the

anti-Diefenbaker Conservatives - |

was that the Tcries »nder Dief's leadership would suffer such a Savage defeat in the election that the Pearson government would be secure for the next five years. and a disappointed Dief would be forced to retire.

TERRIFIES GRITS

The less gutful Tory rebels were prepared to pay that des- perate price, with the voters committing, the political mur- der which they were afraid to perpetrate themselves. Many equally gutless’ Liberal Mini- sters had “~velored 2. '%92 17+ gical fear that each day yet an- other of their blunders.or scan- dals would be destructively and

ridiculingly.used. against. them | In their arrogant con-:

by Dief. fidence that they would triumph in the election, the $25 million cost and the four-month disrup- tion of the nation’s business

seemed their only way to free |

themselves of that nightmare. But now both groups find their hopes in ruins and their fears amplified. For John Dief- enbaker is more solidly entren- ched at the head of the Conser- vative Party than at any time since the Cuba crisis of Octo ber 1962. And when Parliament Treassembles in January, he will be supported by the strong-

est Opposition to threaten any | Prime Minister in the past forty |

years. Parliament will not have seen such talent and experience

Our Yesterdays (From The Guardian Files)

TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO (November 23, 1940)

The Turkish Government pro- claimed martial law in virtual- ly all sections of European Tur- key, includifig Istanbul}*‘‘in view of the general political situa- tion.”’ shortly after Germany’s Ambas- sador, Frank Von Papan, re turned from Germany, presum- ably carrying a virtual ultima- tum that Turkey join in the Axis- planned ‘‘new European order.”’

Royal Air Force pilots in Lock- heed-Hudson bombrrs left the Nazi airfield at Stavanger, Nor- way, ablaze in an assault as slick as it was heavy,’ the Air Ministry announced in London.

TEN YEARS AGO (November 23, 1955)

The Atomic Energy Commis- sion in Washington, D.C., an- nounced that the Russians had set off another great nuclear ex- plosion—‘‘the largest yet in the USSR"’—carrying a punch equal to millions of tons of TNT.”

The reguldr bi-monthly meet- ing of the Summerside Lions Club was held at the Birch Hall Lodge,: with the King Lion Herb Schurman in the cheir. Lion Cecil Berry of the Parrs- boro, Messrs. Martin McKenna and Gordon Kelly were guests.

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This step was taken |

N.S. Lions Club and.

on the Opposition Front Bench

_since Conservative Prime Mini-

ster Artscr Meth : and was overthrown in five days, -by the Libera! Opposition under | Mackenzie King in 1926. | TORIES OUTSHINE GRITS | There will be fifteen ex-Cabi- | net “Ministers on the Conserva- tive Front Bench. ‘In experien- ce, ability and even in geogra- phic representation, they will make the Pearson Cabinet look ‘handicapped. Besided John Diefenbaker there wi!l be two former Trade Ministers, as well as former holders of such nt portfolios as Justice Public Works, Immigration, La- bour, Health, Fisheries, Reve- nue, Forestry and Northern Af- fairs. Missing only will be a for- mer Minister of Finance.

True, Diefenbaker has lost

_Servative

STILL OF PRIME CONCERN

three ex-ministers of the last

parliament, by death. defeat

and defection. But that loss is abundantly compensated by the return of George Hees and Dick Bell and Davie Fulton, and also by the very able Quebecker Martial Asselin who had little chance to shine in Parliament but sparkled brilliantly repre- senting Canada at the United Nations.

Every province except New- foundiand and Nova Scotia will be represented among that Con- “Shadow Cabinet”, making it more nationally re- presentative’ than the Liberal Cabinet itself.

Man for man, in question and

debate in the House, the Con- |

servatives should outmaneou- vre and ‘outshine the Liberals impressivel.

Failure In Methods

| ; | A) study of the:huge sums spent on behalf of the Indians | hardly suggest a lack of gener- osity, but does suggest a failure in methods, a failure in intelli- | gent direction. In the past decade the expen- |diture of the Indian Affairs branch has increased 260 per cent. Much of the $100 millions budget goes into a school system for 55,000 children. It has the highest rate of drop-outs in the country. While relief cheques have climbed to $13 millions an- nually, living standards on the reserves have been going | down.

Cape Breton Post

| Situation the branch has engag- ed a specialist heading a group that includes three Indians, a lawyer, a former CBC produc- er, an assortment of Indian af- fairs veterans and some prom- ising young men. They are tak- ing a course to prepare them to work with Indians as _ consul- tants in developing self-reliant programs.

An indication of what can be done is found at a pilot project at Fort Alexander, Manitoba, where a community of 1,700 In-

dians has set up a logging co-op- | erative and its own newspaper. |

At that reserve the RCMP re- ports a “new attitude’’"— what amounts to a eivie revolution.

In an endeavor to improve the

Bases For Astronauts

National Geographic Society

Space scientists are consider- ing the use of asteroids as way stations for astronauts en route from the moon to the beyond.

The asteroids, also called plan- | etoids or minor planets, are en- ormous chunks of rock that or-

| bit the sun like planets. One is |

| named Geographos in honor of the Society. The biggest aster- ‘oid, Ceres, has a diameter of 480 | miles. The asteroid. Hermes has | come within 485,000 miles of the | earth. Significantly, this is only | about twice the distance from the eartht o the moon. Astronauts assigned to vast | interplanetary journeys | conceivably land on an asteroid. | If it~proved suitable for habita- | tion, the asteroid could be con-

verted into a base for the distant |

| goals. Venus, closest of all the

planets, is 26 million miles from | | the earth. Mars @ill never come |

| closer than 33,883,000 miles.

| LITTLE POWER NEEDED Since asteroids are small, an | astronaut’s rocket would need | little power to break away from | the gravitational pull. | The orbits of some’ asteroids | have been established. One of | these, Icarus, which stretches | six-tenths of a mile across, has been seen repeatedly since 1949. | Its path around the sun has been precisély calculated by as- tronomers working under Dr. | Samuel Herrick at the Univer- sity of California at Los Angel- | es; they predict that it will pass | within four million miles ef the earth in 1968.

The asteroid Geographos, | whose orbit also is known, will | di

soon make its closest approach

lump of rock was discovered in | 1951 during the National Geog- | raphic Society-. Palomar Obser- vatory Sky Survey. Geographos

miles in 1969. Geographos can

oid of known orbit—but will not do-so for many decades. Two other asteroids, Eros and

3 earth—closer than any aster-

might |

of the century. The milethick |

will come within seven million |

come within three million miles |

i Ivar, will swing within 14 mil- |

, mion miles in 1967. But most of |

the 1,651 numbered asteroids or- bit between Mars and Jupiter, far beyond earth's ken.

gical samples. Some believe that valuable raw ma-

the low gravity of an asteroid might eventually make it econ- omical to transport rare ores to earth.

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danger to this | minute shift in its | send Icarus crashing inte

| earth.

Some believe | small asteroids actually do col- | lide with the earth about once every 10,000 years, huge scars like Arizona’s Meteor Cra- ter.

Son Natural ‘Stone Former

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen

A Detroit woman has a mar- ried son with a kidney problem. “He is a natural stone former and has passed six BS-sized ~"'>- bles. These are torturous exer- iences, and he is becoming des pondent. His physician says the stones are made of calcium and

else to do?”

should be examined by a urolog- ist to make sure that an infec- tion, obstruction, or congenital defect does not exist. We as-

kidneys are otherwise normal and functioning properly.

These little rocks form be- cause too much calcium is leav- ing the body via the kidneys. The urine is oversaturated, and the calcium salts are crystalli- ing and forming calculi. A ny- one with this

of the urine. The chemical re- mains in dissolved form and does not cfystalize Calcium also remains in solution when

. | the urine is acid, and therefore

acid ash diets and drugs such as ammonium chloride are help ful. These regimens are not rec- ommended for long periods be-

low. The daily use of aspirin is éaid to be of value.

It is more practical to reduce the intake of foods rich in cal- cium including dairy products, egg yolk, green olives, tur nip greens, broccoli, kale, and dry beans. The same can be said of excessive vitamin A intake. Since many chronic stone form- ers also have phosphorous ston- es, they should avoid overindul- gence in meats, milk, eggs, cheese, and cereals. The absorp- tion of phosphorous from the in- testines is lessened by an aluminum hydroxide gel four times a day.

Excessive calcium appears in the blood when the parathyroid giands—are-—overactiveImmobli- ation such as being bedridden for months because of illness or ; an accident is another cause | The chemicals leave the bone, | emter the bloodtre'm nad are | exereted via the urine.

STONE IN DUCT

E. J. writes: Could a stone in the common duct cause a person to vomit after eating?

REPLY . | Yes, but severe pain and jaun- dice ate more common symp- toms-of-obstruction of -this- pas- sageway that brings bile from

| the liver and gallbladder to the | intestine.

A READING PROBLEM E. K. writes: When I handle some books and magazines (not all) my entire body starts to itch. Have you an explanation? REPLY Bookworms?—No. re to ink or molds? — es

OBVIOUS REMEDY D. J. writes: Can nicotine heart be cured? REPLY Yes, if you refer to a heart

| ds obvious. : HOUSEWIFE’S BEER Mrs. V.B. writes: Are six

| @ housewife? REPLY

In my opinion, the daily con- | sumption of six cans of beer is | excessive. TIRED EYES S. R. writes: My eyes feel and | look tired What causes this?

| REPLY

(NOTE: All correspondence te Dr. Van Dellen should be addressed to: Dr. Theodore Van Dellen, co Chicago Trib- une, Chicago, Illinois.)

be should avoid foods rich in| this chemical. Is there anything |

Some people are natural stone | formers, and the cause is not al- ways obvious. The urinary tract |

sume this has been done and the |

problem should |

drink two or more quarts of liq- | uid a day to avoid oversaturation

taking |

that is sensitive to and easily af- | fected by nicotine. The remedy |

cans of beer a day too much for |

You may need glasses. If not, | .). take stock of your. activities.

| NOTES BY THE WAY |

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Canadians have heard much in recent years of the growing damage being done by pollution of lakes, of rivers and of the air. This is a problem which affects the entire Western world. In- deed, it appears as a by-product whérever modern industrializa- tion takes place and large num- | bers o eople congregate in | small areas. | Much has been written recent- | ly about the effects of pollution ‘on Lake Erie. It has been said, | perhaps with exaggeration, that | Lake Erie is in danger of ‘‘dy- | ing’’, that it may soon become | incapable of supporting normal | lake-life. i | . Some scientists have announc- | ed that the same danger is fac- ing Lake Constance, the famous

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| The strange part about the dispute in question is that it centres on one of the symbols of the year when men are drawn together in the spirit of brother- ‘ hood.

that pour into it from the Rhine |river and from nearby cities. | Bacteria are multiplying at: a rate which is endangering health. Ten per cent of its area has become covered with algae and other formations

It is strange that so little | should © Gone adout this ~-d | other forms of pollution. The problem is: international. It is | potentially very serious; and | could become so within quite a short period of time:-Yet there | little sign of a concerted effort |to deal with the problem. The attitude throughout the world seems to be to treat it as some- thing that can be put off until tomorrow and tomorrow. _

People have done this sort of thing before, to their ultimate

| tourist attraction that borders | sorrow. And if they put off an

Germany, Switzerland and Aus- tria. It is reported to be suffoc- ating under the load of sewage, chemicals and other pollutants

attack on pollution indefinitely, | they may find their ultimate sor- | Tow even more warranted than in the past.

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