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“The strongest memory is weaker than the weakest ink” MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1965.
His Big Chance
“At the Bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy,” said the late Sir Winston Churchill, “is the little man, walking into a little booth, making a little cross on a little bit of paper— no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point.”
That about wraps it up. Today the little man gets his chance again, and it will be his own fault if he doesn’t take advantage of it. An election, on whatever level, emphasizes how close to each community a government is. All elections, in this sense, are local
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. affairs, and in each election a com-
munity applies its beliefs about democracy to its choice of the people who actually take responsibility for making government work.
‘As pointed out in Norman Ward’s “Government of Canada,” the idea behind “representation” is old, for kings a thousand years ago were sup- posed to represent the interests of all their subjects and not rule as tyrants. The idea behind “elections” is old, for the Romans held elections two thousand years ago, and some English kings, such as King Harold, who was killed ‘at the Battle of Hastings, 1066, were elected to the kingship. The idea behind “citizenship” is’ old, too; the Greeks. and the Romans both thought of themselves in this light, as in- dividuals enjoying equal privileges as members of a community united un- der a government.
Modern democracyis the only kind of government that combines all ideas—citizenship, election, and representation. Only in a democracy do the citizens' freely elect represen- tatives to take responsibility for run- ning the government on their behalf. If nobody votes to give this re- sponsibility, there can be no election. If only a few citizens vote, control over government falls into inefficient or unscrupulous hands. Undesirable candidates can be defeated easily in an election, but only if citizens use their votes to do so. Good representa- tives can be elected just as easily, if enough people take an interest in getting good representatives. If they don’t, in a democratic community, they have only themselves to blame. So off with you to the booth, little man, and do your bit!
‘Waiting For Spudnik 1 C
“Let’s hear no more talk now about__|
the “humble” spud; it’s destined for greater exploits than any of us can hope to achieve. The United States space agency has announced that it is planning to put a potato in orbit! In-solar orbit, mind you, all on its own. The project will be known as “Spudnik I”. Already a $75,000 grant has been: used to build a “potato space cabin” for the chosen spud to travel comfortably in.
Such a cabin was scheduled to be sent aloft with a pioneer satellite on a solar orbit in the latter part of this year, but the oxygen system for the potato failed to function. This has been corrected, but the deadline for “booking passage” on the pioneer solar shot has gone by, and there will not be room for the potato on such a satellite. until the late 1960’s. But definitely, it’s scheduled to play an important, even a vital part, in space history.
The theory behind Spudnik I is based onthe fact that a potato, with
grow and sprout. Biologists be- something 'as “durable” fails to survive in outer
receives the “messages” te run its biological clock just as a radio set re- ceives broadcast signals and converts
| them into symphonic music. Such a
“clock” may regulate sleep, wakeful- ness, cell metabolism, hormonal out- put and other things which are ex- amples of daily or monthly cycles. Biological clocks are run with infor- mation received from sources outside the body, such as earth’s magnetic field.
By 1970 the National Aeronautics and Space Administration hopes to send an astronaut to the moon, which is 240,000 miles from earth. About two-thirds of the way to the moon, the earth’s magnetic field becomes all but non-existent. Other earth-related forces that may also help run the bio- logical clock would, of course, be ab- sent. These include gravity, electro- static fields and bafometric pressure.
Biologists have noted that even jet travel round the earth could involve painful recycling of body functions, and that such rhythms were imper- fectly understood. If it turns out that these rhythms depend upon earth’s environment and. must not be inter- rupted, then distant space travel might mean death.
It is figured that if something happened to a potato “out there” in orbit, then NASA should “start work- ing back” in its test of the influence of a completely strange environment. Man is much more vulnerable than a potato. What scientists want to know specifically is: Will the cells in a man’s body take in oxygen and drive off carbon dioxide when he is in space, far from the 24-hour. rhythm of earth? Will automatic response and glandular activity go on when there is no day and night as man knows it?
These are questions that Spudnik may help to resolve—to the gréater glory of the spud race everywhere. Denizens of our “elite” potato farm in Spud Island, you may depend, will be snootier than ever now that this word has gotten out!
Did We Say Mortitied?
Perhaps the wish was father to the thought, but we were entirely off base on Saturday in gloating over Communist China’s mortification in having failed to obtain postponement of the Afro-Asian conference sched- uled to open in Algiers on Nov. 5.. The conference hag been postponed in- definitely, and the news has been
greeted with jubilation at Peking. Among the main organizers of the
_ conference in the first place, the
Chinese be gan to make withdrawal sounds as soon as they realized it might permit the Soviet Union to par- ticipate.
This shows how. far the interests of the two big Communist powers have diverged. In June, Peking thought it could get Moscow black- balled from the Algiers meeting and so have the floor to itself in its strident battle to win friends and in- fluence people. By November, Rus- sian stock was up and Chinese down. It looked as if a majority of the Afro- Asians would vote. the Soviets “in,” and so the only way left to the Chi- nese to throw a wrench into the works was to say that they would boy- cott the conference if the Russians were theré.
. The preparatory committee in Al- giers-has apparently thought-it-better to put the conference off than face | the onus of choosing between Soviet
and Red China leadership. So China
has gotten what it wants, for the time
. being. It may be the Afro-Asians are muttering ‘“‘a plague on both your houses,” but they can't afford to say it aloud.
EDITORIAL NOTES
“Justice Minister Cardin,” notes “exchange, “says he doesn’t think a public inquiry into the’ Quebec bankruptcy scandal would do any good. Well, not until after November 8, anyway.” * * Who pays most taxes? Statistics in- dicate that the trend in Canada has been to a relative decrease in the low-income group and a sharp rise in the number of taxpayers in the middle-income tax bracket. And in terms of taxation, it is the middle- income earners, since there are so many of them, that pay the largest share.
In the last federal election the treasury gained over a hundred thousand dollars in lost deposits. The Liberals lost.28 and the Conservatives 85 out of their 265; the NDP lost 193 out of 232. The placing of a $200 de- posit to show “honorable intentions”
on the part of a candidate was ttre
duced in 1874, so it is no new'regu- lation; it has played a significant part
in our elections over the past 90 years.
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ments to the pension fund, ex- actly matching each deduction | from every employee’s pay | packet. This is in effect a fringe | benefit, which employers will | presumably take into account | when negotiating wage increas- es. So_in_effect.everyCanadian worker will pay 3.6 per cent of his earnings to the govern- ment pension plan. Self-employed workers of | course to pay both employee's | and employer's contribution, or a total.of $3.60 on every $100 earned. In every case, only the first $5,000 of income is asses- sable, with the first $600 ex- | empted. Thus the maximum con- | tribution is $76.20 by the em- ployee and a similar amount by | the employer.
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Our Yesterdays
(From The Guardian Files)
TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO (November 8, 1940)
Former Prime Minister Nevil- le Chamberlain was gravely ill at his country home, Highfield, in Hampshire. The King’s phy- sician, Lord Horder, attended the 71-year-old leader.
The U-boat replaced the bomb- eras No. 1 menace to Britain and with a German sea raider loose in the North Atlantic, nav- al experts in London agreed the Admiralty -had one of the biggest problems of the war on its hands.
TEN YEARS AGO (November 8, 1955) Thomas Joseph Dunphy, Peak- es Station, was selected by an agricultural committee to com- pete in the T. Eaton Company agricultural scholarships at the Royal Winter Fair scholarships in Toronto.
Community Centre Senior Square Dancers, winners of Sen- ior Maritime Championships at -Amherst -WinterFair, consisted_| of: Clifford Morgan, Rosalie,
McGonnell, Pat Connolly,
will be accepted and respected like other note-worthy buildin but it takes a bit of getting use to.
What it has done is reduce the value of other buildings markers. It used to be, ‘Turn left at St. Paul's” or ‘Right: on past the Abbey” or ‘‘Only a fool couldn’t find Leicester Square.” The modern word is ‘‘Just keep the tower on your right’ or
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One good thing about the new tower is that it is government. | owned. London is being plaster- ed by high, ornate office build- hotels and apartments;
ace without being in the vision | of her subjects in high buildings mearby. The land occupied by the new tower near Tottenham Court Road was high enough to
of some sort but Her Majesty’s Government kept it, and, being thrifty, expects to recoup a good 1 of the tower's cost by charg- ride the elevators the view.
will be a restaur-
to see London with hie meal. The meals, reports say,
ing city which is more than could be said for the old Tower
of London, crouched beside the |
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Still Drags His Feet
Milwaukee
France has again made it bluntly apparent that the price for ending the paralysis of the European Common Markét will, if paid, reduce that body to a simple customs union, not much more.
Foreign Minister Couve de Murville told the French-nation- al assembly that powers of the Common Market the executive unit, sharply curtailed and that the system of majority voting for the council of ministers, highest ruling body, which is scheduled to go into effect automatically on Jan, 1, must be deferred or annulled. .
“Here are the two cardinal chapters on which the six must find agreement before all,"’ he said Only then will France end its boycott of the Common Mar- ket. :
This presents a most difficult choice ‘for France’s fifve part- ners—West Germany Italy, Ne- therlands, Belgium and Luxem- =. They can give in and see
Common ae resha: in a Gaullist mold; that is, gli ranational elements reduced to a loose form of intergovernmen- tal co-operation. Or they can hold out for a much tighter political and econ- omic arrangement, which is what the Common Market treaty intended. But this would risk a protracted freeze and inevitable deterioration, while waiting pos- sibly seven years or longer for President de Gauile to leave the political arena.
ORCHESTRA PERFORMS
“STANLEY, England After practising for 20 years, the Stanley Civic Orchestra fi. nally is going to play in public.
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long period of stagnation in the |
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community.
The failure to invite Premier Walter Shaw to a ceremony yes- terday (Friday), held to mark
the New Brunswick — Prince Edward Island coe adios of those graceless
that subtracts unnecessarily from the public satisfaction in the event itself.
Indeed, it may be that no one was invited by the federal gov- ernment to the ceremony, in which Mines Minister J. Wat- son MacNaught was to have of- ficiated by operating a bulldozer. Mr. MacNaught’s executive as- sistant is quoted as saying that “no special invitations” had been
A Poor Show
| Halifax Chronicle-Herald
issued. . If this is the case, a faux pas
Twenty years ago, a group of
ever asked to hear them. But the Urban District Council has invited the orchestra to play at
ithe new Civic Centre. After a final rehearsal,
ig Shirley Costello,. Jackie Blanch- ard and Mary:Claire Smith.
local amateur musicians began | playing together but no one.
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Gullible Really Pay —
Fort William Times And Journal ion | cures, claiming persecution by
Medical Browsing
By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen Salt tends to raise the blood pressure when hypertension exists. It does not cause high much
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ed about. ‘as given extra amounts and his daily resting
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98 to 144 when he received 30 to 37 grams (30 ;rams equal one ounce). The dizziness disappear- when this stage was reached. average intake of sodium by the normal adult is seven to 15 grams daily.
A, stair- cipbing wheelchair
moves with a caterpillar- like tread is capable of sas 1 & passenger in n upright - tion whether it is ale. omg down, or on the level. The new invention, operated by batteries, is controlled by push buttons. It can be adjusted to different posi- tions and, when folded up, fits into an automobile.
Modern contests of gluttony payed involve single items svzh as r, watermelon, or coconut pie. The world c coffee drinker consumed 8 cups in eight hours, William Mungy set 4 record after drinking 80 ounc- es of beer in 45 seconds. A Min- nesotan stripped the kernels off 50 ears of corn at one feast, and Max Baer was said to eat five pounds of steak in less than five minutes.
The emperors and kings of centuries ago were no pikers considering the menus that were handed down to us. Emperor Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus ate 40 pounds of meat and drank six gallons of wine in one day. Clodius Alvinus, a Roman gen- eral, consumed 500 figs, 100 pea- ches, 10 melons, 20 pounds of raisins, 100 snipes, 10 capons, _ 150 large oysters at one sit-
ng.
What do these records prove? Humans can survive more abuse than any other machine.
HOW TO BE HELPFUL B. B. writes: My wife is go- ing through the menopuase and cries all the time. She says she
I can help her? REPLY Be sympathetic and see that she gets adequate medical at- tention. She is depressed and
QUININE FOR CRAMPS E. E- writes: Is old- fashioned
quinine helpful in night leg cramps?
. REPLY Yes. But a close relative,
standard capsule of this drug before retiring; may prevent
VULNERABILITY
D. K. writes: Are boys or girls | |
more susceptible to tuberculosis. REPLY
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Tt is hard to see how the feder- al Government can insist on a strictly legalistic interpretation of offshore mineral rights, when
States, faced with the same pro- blem, had in the end to find a political se
What Premier~ Stanfield has ‘particularly in mind-is the pos- sibility that oil might be discov- ered. If this should happen, the
would be drastically changed.
been to some extent established by long precedent, For genera- tions coal has been mined from under the sea. Nova Scotia's right was never challenged. The determination now of the feder- al Government to take the mat-
up the possibility, supposing the
of oil being developed just
off Nova Scotia’s shores but be-
vincial government.
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economic outlook of Nova Scotia
ter to the Supreme Court opens | court. decided in Ottawa's favor, |
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— DeGaulle’s Appeal
Morrison Staff Writer
the master.
But what if he should die be. fore the voters have the chance to re-elect him to office? Does that mean, under his terms, that France must also perish? Why has de. Gaulle delayed so long im ensuring the political continuity of his country?
The answer may be that de Gaulle believes the country can- not guarantee stable govern- ment by democratic, means without his help. Or he may have found that the successors who please him may not be
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Of greater concern is the pos. sibility that in establishing sta. bility, de Gaulle may not have erased the erratic nature of French polites but temporarily paralyzed the old gyrations which may churn up new con- fusion once his own domination and control is stilled.
Those Offshore Rights
Montreal Gazette
| Court decision in 1947 to “para- | mount”’ rights in off-shore areas, | attempted for a time to vete bills passed by Congress that would have given these rights to the states. But the er regime sponsored a bill to give the states off-shore rights —— their historic boundar- ies.”
Whatever the Supreme Court of Canada might say, it would be politically impossible for Ottawa to adopt a dog-in-the- manger at
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U.S. HIGHWAYS SAFER
If Canadians drove as safely as U.S. motorists, the annual saving would be 1,800 lives | spared and $180,000,000 saved.
The case. of Nova Scotia has |
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A complete stock of furnace parts on hand. Your Shell Agent fer Charlottetown, Parkdale, Sherwood and Eastern
Males are more vulnerable in infancy. During adolescence and early adulthood, the disease | seems to favor females. | PRESSURE NOT AFFECTED |
P. A. P.. writes: Does the) blood pressure go up with arth- |
ritis? REPLY No. High blood pressure and | arthritis may co-exist, but one condition is not influenced the other. : | CHARLEY HORSE | R. W. writes: Could a charley horse be the cause of poor. cir-
culation? REPLY
No. This is a hemorrhage into the muscle due to injury. TODAY’S HEALTH HINT— Remove doors from discarded refrigerators.
(NOTE: All correspondence te Dr. Van Dellen should be addressed to: Dr. Theodore * Van Dellen, co Chicago Trib-- une, Chicago, Illinois.) :
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remains. The project had been urged in past years by many people, Liberal and Conserva- tive politicians included. A sense of the social and political fitness of things required an invitation to such people to celebrate the begnning of the realization of a long-held dream. :
Louis Robichaud. If no “‘special”’ invitations’ were issued, perhaps Mr. Richard got an ordinary
one. The federal government, at the very least, needs a social secre-
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the medical profession, and having bogus credentials and scam records.
“| the | cruelty of raising the hopes of | the patient and his loved ones, | only. to
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