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PAGE 4 "WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1966.

= Of Vital Importance

While most of the provinces are desirous of having more, not less, federal Aid for educational purposes, Quebec’s Premier Johnson is sound- ing off more strongly than ever against this sort of thing. The British

- North America Act vests responsibili-

_ty for education with the provinces, , and he wants it kept that way. He in- sists that the federal government’s

“continuous intervention” in this-field -

must stop. His last angry blc3t was given at a Quebec county councils

--eonvention.the-other..day,-in- which he declared: “Never, never, never will this government allow Ottawa to dictate priorities in education, éven if all other Canadian provinces were willing to let Ottawa take the initia- tive.”

With a _ federal-provincial _ con- ference in the offing at which this subject is scheduled for discussion, we may expect that there will be fire- works from the Quebec delegation. Even the Lesage government’s policy of building regional high schools to.

“<“take-full advantage—of--the~-federal--

government’s subsidies to technical

schools is regarded with disfavor by |

~-Mr. Johnson, who terms the program a “monstrous” one and an invasion of the provincial prerogative. _ Surely, if Quebec insists on going its own way on this regard, it should - be able to do so without detriment to the interests of other provinces which - see the issue in a different light, and are not at all afraid of using federal funds to improve their educational standards, How else, indeed, can we in this Atlantic: area hope to cope with our problem of underdevelop-’ ment? As nual reviews of the Economic Coun- cil of Canada, the role of education is vitally linked with the growth of the national economy. No other need is

_.80 pressing here as that of creating —

of professional, technical, managerial and other highly skilled man-power, and this means expansion of educa- tional facilities far beyond our limit- ed tax potential.

‘Progress has been made in recent years in bringing home to the federal government its responsibilities in

. this connection. This has been achiev- ed with a minimum of federal inter-

ference. It has resulted in strengthen- ing, not weakening, our status as

_ partners in Confederation, and it of- fers the best hope we have of putting such partnership on a basis of equali-

_ ty with other parts of Canada.

‘Our representatives .at the forth- .

~ eoming Ottawa conference should be ~

vigilant in safeguarding our inerers in this matter.

A Frosty poe

Fresh from his .ovations at the Liberal party conference last week, Finance Minister Sharp spoke to the ational Industrial Conference in Montreal about taxes the other day.

: Neatly tucked away in the middle of _ his speech, reports the Financial - Times, was a very frosty forecast of the fiscal climate in the next few years. “What is needed,” said Mr. Sharp cheerfully, “is an increase of a few per cent in the share that pub- ' lic revenues must take of a growing gross national product. This will in- volve some restraint on the expansion of private’ expenditures.” __ The combined tax demands of all ‘levels of government, he said, “are not impossible.” Germany, France, - Sweden and Norway take an even higher share than Canada of GNP in taxes and social security contribu- tions. But he admitted that the Unit- ed States takes less.

Mr. Sharp promised “careful con-

rol over the expansion of public ex-

penditures” while his audience mut- |

tered that it was a bit late in the day. But nobody denied that commitments already made by all levels of govern- ment—let alone any new. ones—will

emphasized in both the an- |

tae

_Workers,

er §

require the government te grab a

higher percentage of the national :

income.

As pointed out by” the Montreal financial paper, the minister's fore- cast of “‘a few per cent” leaves a lot of leeway, because one per cent. of GNP is_getting on to $600 million. For the last five years governments have been collecting a larger share of GNP than they ever did in the war. The previous peak, in 1946, was just under 30 per cent: By 1950 gov- ernment revenues were down to 25.4

per cent of GNP. They exceeded 30 ©

per. cent for the first time in 1962. Last year they reached 31.5 per cent.

With Mr. Sharp’s forecast of “a few per cent” more, governments will soon be collecting over one-third

a of Canada’s total output.

Driving Them Overseas

One effect of the “wage freeze” initiated by the British government has been to drive Britons overseas. Thus, at least, reports a London cor- respondent who says the total of those fleeing Britain in 1966 is expected to rise to 200,000, considerably above the figure of last year. The flow of inquiries into -emigration depart-

“ments and “émbassies in London ‘is

continuing at an unprecedented’ pace.

Australia is the one major English- speaking country which takes the un- trained worker. For the most part.

only skilled artisans, technicians, pro-*

fessional people, or graduates and their families can emigrate to Can-

ada and the United States. A total of |

27,308 left for Canada in the past six months compared with 45,000 for the whole of the preceding year. It.is ex- pected some 54,000 will have gone Py the end of the year.

_There is reported to be consider- able interest in prospects in Canada. The Canadian immigration branch held a showing of films about this

country in London recently. The hall

was filled to capacity and 1,500 people were turned away. A’ week

-later,-a-second-hall-holding-1,800.was..-

filled. ‘The number of emigrants taken as

-a- proportion to the population of the United Kingdom as a whole is small, - of course—possibly 200,000 out of -

55,000,000. It is the age group from which they come that is important, The largest number of emigrants are trained people in their middle twen- ties. While many professional people go for a few years and return to re- sume work in Britain, factory -work- ers and skilled artisans seldom come back.

This is causing a drain on skilled workers for whom the British ‘tax- payer fe paid thousands of pounds in trai costs. For instance, where- ever Pe uble spots in the British aircraft industry produce disgruntled North American agents

in the market for British skilled workers are South Africa (building up its aircraft industry), Australia, Holland, West Germany, and. Den- mark.

Piracy Again Time was when even the United States paid tribute to the Barbary pirates, who menaced all sea ‘com- merce on the north African coast until fighting crews and ships solved the problem by direct action. Now,

pesigeie

ening a recurrence of various forms

- of piracy on the high seas, and once

again Uncle Sam is being victimized. An exchange reports a typical situa- tion in-the waters off California, where America’s huge off-shore tuna fleet operates.

American fishing craft are being taken into custody by Latin-Ameri- can countries which claim sovereign- ty over waters far distant from their

- own shores. At Washington, various

remedies have been proposed, only to be discarded. The suggestions in- cluded cuts in foreign aid to the of- fending countries, and the provision of naval escorts to protect the fish- ing craft.

A new proposal would skim 10 per cent off foreign fish-import charges and use the resulting reverfue to pay tuna-boat owners up to 60 per cent of sums they might pay for licenses, permits or other operating fees. This would do nothing - to halt hostile boarding parties, but it would lessen losses of ship owners whose vessels

may be detained in unfriendly ports.” Senator Thomas H. Kuchel (Cali-

fornia) has hailed the proposal as a “novel approach” to helping Ameri-

ean victims of high-handed acts by

other western hemisphere. republics. But to many Americans ‘it must be frustrating, to say the least, to read of such goings-on at the expense of the most powerful nation in the world. It’s like a whale being attack-

ed by sprats, or an.elephant by mice. —

~milk-.and..honey......Our....visitors,..

NMTIONAL GALLERY’ OF OLD FAVORITES

“TF STARTED. ASJUST A BRUSH FIRE...

When the*168 delegites from 22 Commonwealth nations ve- cently toured Canada, they saw that God promised: when he. ap- peared to Moses in the burning bush on Mount Horeb: ‘‘a good land and a large, a land flow- ing with milk and honey.”

Canada is a good land and a large, certainly. It flows with

delegates. to the 12th Common- wealth Parliamentary Confet- ence, were-shown it from coast to coast— the richest and in the-Commonwealth. =

But the greater part of ‘those visiting politicians came ffom the underdeveloped nations of Asia and Africa, lands where

aa REPORT By Patrick Nicholson _ Painful Contrast To Visiting Delegates’

-by some 2,000 calories per day.

Colombo Plan, the Commonwea-' Ith Caribbean program, the Commonwealth African_aid plan and the French- speaking Afri- can nations. aid plan, and the Latin-American program. Wisely, much of this aid takes the form of assisting those coun- tries to increase their own agri- cultural and industrial capacity.

|.But.are we, inthe meantime, | _

giving enough food to our starv- ing Commonwealth fellows? This was one thought aroused by: the conference here.

WHAT CAN WE AFFORD? m. This year we are donating $75,000,000 worth of food. That, I am told by. ‘a dietetic expert, is the equivalent of only three

milk scarcely trickles and hon- ey is never tasted.

The delegates with whoa I spoke their admiration for the plenty and the man-made deve- lopments which they had seen. They could not humanly be fault-

ves. Also —

ed for the touch of envy which they felt for our six inches of rich topsoil, in contrast to their own acres of rock and inches of arid sand. 5 OUR LADEN TABLES

The Conference in Canada in 1966 will long be remembered

host country, perhaps over-gen- erous. For as some of the dele- gates remarked, it will embar- rass them to note the unavoid-

__able. contrast, when it is the turn of some of the less affluent sist-

er nations to serve as host.

> A point of hospitality which many visitors commented upon - was our abundant food, which enabled well-filled plates to be placed before them in the Canad- ian style, but often removed only part-eaten. Their comments ‘upon that waste of food resembl- ed what I once heard Dr. Brock Chisholm, the Canadian ex-di- rector-general of the World Health Organization, tell a par- liamentary -committee: if any twenty million Asians or Afric- ans could migrate to Canada, and be permitted to scavenge on our garbage dumps, they could improve their present standard of living.

These reactions by our visit- ors underlined our fortune in liv- ing in this land of plenty. We are generous with- our plenty, for we give large contributions to various parts of ‘the world, under such aid schemes as the

Our Yesterdays

(From The Guardian Files)

TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO (October 19, 1941) Joseph Stalin issued a decree ing a state of siege in Moscow with intense fighting in the Mozhaisk and Maloyarosla- vets sectors, some 57 miles west and 65 miles southwest of Mos- cow— the closest the Russians have said the Germans have ap- proached the Soviet capital.

Settlement of the ‘China inci- dent’’ and establishment of a Japanese order in East Asia by quick action, not words, plus continued alignment with the axis were by Premier Gen. Eiki Tojo in his first public statement of the policy of the new predominantly military gov- ernment in‘ Japan.

TEN YEARS AGO (October 19, 1956 ) ‘Canada plans to obtain French immigrants from North Africa. The immigration department al- ready has on file applications form French speaking residents of Tunisia, Algeria and Moroc- o for entry into Canada. The number of applications is grow- ing as civil war continues be- tween France and the Algerian rebels.

Twenty-four .Was! versity scientists

outlook as alarming, urged stu- dies to determine what effect continied hydrogen bomb tests

might have os mankind.

C until a the

small slices of bread per’Cana- dian per week, or 1,000 calories per Canadian per month. Yet we exceed their diet on average

In total, our aid, to underde- veloped and hungry nations tot- als some $12 per Canadian per year. In addition ‘to that govern- ment aid, there are several magnificent private aid plans, such as Save the Children, Care, the Unitarian Services Commit- tee, and others.

We have progressed a long way since that day 10 years ago, when a CCF MP deplored in Parliament that our foreign aid was the equivalent of only two cigarettes» per Canadian per week. But there remains room for argument in the contrast be- tween one half of one per-cent of our national income donated for such charity, while more than six times that amount is spent on something less hélpful- to world peace—defence.

The men of the Revenue De- partment, heartless brutes that they are, have struck a savage blow at an important part of the @anadian. way. oflife--with—an announcement in the Canada

for the lavish hospitality of the | Gazette. This states that, from

now on, any company payment of a wife’s expenses for a busi- ness trip or convention has to be reported as an item of taxable income. for..the. husband...

great many wives who formerly went along for the fun, will be dumped-at home. Nor will it avail them anything to pack a pencil and notebook in the hope of passing for working wives.. As the announcement says, the

Interesting To Watch

Toronto Globe. and Mail

rule will hold “even though the wife... makes some incidental contribution to the business as- pects of the trip.”

“The repercussions _ of: the. edict will be interesting to watch ‘—not least_at the time. of the next general election. Election campaign tours are — business trips and presumably the var- ious party associations which fi- nance them would be regarded.

that, with or without the inter- ference of the Revenue Depart- ment, Mrs. Lester Pearson and Mrs. John Diefenbaker have made their final election tours. -But will they be the last of their

kind?

New England lobster prices will keep swimming. up, up, up— if one theory is correcti —

Dr. Hurd Willett, Massachus- etts Institute of Technology me- teordlégist says New England is about 10 years into a 40-year cycle of declining: temperatures.

Marine Research for the Maine Sea and Shores Fisheries De- partment, says lower -air and water temperatures mean small- er lobster hauls.

Lobsters. grew by shedding their shells. But they ‘‘molt’’ as often in colder water. Hence fewer lobsters reach legal size each season.

There’s the catch. This and other factors are pushing prices higher. 6

Maine lobstermen hit a peak

A Silent

Oshawa Ti

Canada’s smal! businessmen have asked the federal govern- ment to back nearly $140 mil- lion in loans since Ottawa offer- ed to become a silent partner in their enterprises.

The Small Businesses Loans Act came into effect in January, 1961. In the five and a half years since then, 15,203 loans to- talling $137,666,117 have been authorized.

The government does not loan any of its money, but it does guarantee Inans made in the normal way by the charter- ed banks. They are intended to assist small businessmen to make a wide range of improve- ments in companiés engaged in the . manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade and in service industries.

The maximum !oan-that can be made is $25,000. They must be secured and may he repaid over periods of'tip to 10 years. . Maximum rate of interest is 5% per cent.

The governmert has exper- ienced a remarkably small num- ber of bad debts. In the first five years of operation, 14,050“loans for a total of $127,116,521 were

Robert L. Dow, director of. |-

Those Lobster Prices

Christian Science Monitor

in 1957 with a haul of 24.4 mil- lion pounds while water temper- atures averaged 49 degrees.

By 1965 the average temper- ature had dropped to 45.5= de- grees (it had been nearly 52 de- grees in 1953), and the catch had slid to 18.9 million pounds.

During this period prices t» lobstermen more than doubled — from 37 cents per pound in 1957 to.75 cents last years

Dr. Willett says cooler tem- peratures are caused by a shift of zonal westerly wirids to low- er latitudes, resulting from solar activity (sun_ spots). It will be another 20 years before warming begins, he estimates.

The price of a lobster dinner in 1986 will be— too chilling to

contemplate.

Partner

ing $139,954 had to be repaid by the. government and $1,453 of this amount has since been Te- covered.

This is a failure rate of just over one-tenth of one per cent of the total loan amount and is-re- garded ‘as insignificant by fed- eral officials.

Interest in the Act has re- mained constant. Since incep- tion, an average of $25 niillion in loans has been approved each year. Average loan size is just over $9,000. ,

The Act terminates at the end of this year. In the fall session of parliament the government is expected to introduce amend- ments. There is a-~ possibility that a higher interest rate may be allowed in view of the rise in rates generally.

But the Act is almost certain to be continued for another three years: The companion Farm Im-

sists farmers in construction and in the purchase ‘of livestock and machinery, has been oper-

ating successfully for the past 21 years. 4

| By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen

= Boa ee by taking his

| United States. According to the

ae Only 25 loans involv-

provement Loan Act, which as-

a

Mild For. Of Smallpox

Variola Minor, a mild form of , smallpox, has plagued England for many years. It is easily mis- taken for chickenpox, esecially when the rash is scanty. In ad- dition many of the victims were vaccinated years before and have just enough immunity to modify the response to the infec-

make in these circumstances,

One of the first cases report- ed this year was a professional her. He helped to ver-

own photograph while the rash was fully developed. About 30 other men and women: became victims and were hospitalized. Recovery is the rule in this mild form,of the disease. .

The initial manifestations of variola minor resemble influen- za with feverl, headache, vomit- ing, aching, and shivering. Of- ten all these symptoms‘ exist at one time. The rash develops a few days later beginning on the face or on the arms or hands. The lesions are more numerous on the. headand : limb¥;thefront of the trunk is frequently spar- ed. The rash is apt to he denser in areas subject to pressure such as under a ring, belt, or garter. All the pox do not drop out at one time, and h lesions may continue to devel or up to six days: The=vesicles-contain—an-+ opaque grayish watery contents of a chickenpox and seldom rup- ture. The British use the elec- tron’ microscope to view the cau; sitive virus particles that,..are present in the secretions or on crusts.

To my knowledge this type of smallpox is not found 8n_ the

British Medical Journal, epide- mics of variola minor were com- mon in Enland between 1923 and 1934. Approximatély 15,000 cas- es were reported in 1927. Vaccination isethe best preven- tive. This is one of the reasons why those traveling in endemic areas must be revaccinated at. three-year intervals.

NERVOUS REACTIONS V.H. writes: When I listen to the radio and look at television, I find myself rubbing ‘my thumb ‘and first finger together. Does this mean anything? :

REPLY

You. may be concerned:

cause you heard or read tt this pill rolling maneuver {8 as- sociated with Parkinson's dis. ease. But most of us have man- nerisms of some type when we are under strain, and rubbing two fingers together is prefer-~ able to pulling out - eyebrows, digging in the ears, or biting

tion. The ‘diagnosis is difficult to |-

es WASHINGTON (CP) — Presi- dent Johnson has begun his. six- nation visit to Southeast Asia with a warning that “we cannot wave any wand and we do not expect to achieve any cles —at home or abroad.”

“We shall mainly devote our _attention to the civil, cons- tructive side of the problem of Viet Nam,” he said. «

The deliberations at Manila next week by the are ‘South Viet Nam military liance seem likely to bare Joa siderable diversity of views. South Viet’ Nam, Thailand and South Korea, for example, want a military ‘victory rather than any conference - table ee with North Viet Nam or the Viet Cong insurgents.

There are other circum - stances working against peace prospects. \

WATCH U.S. ELECTIONS

One view is that North Viet Nam is watching the Nov. 8 congressional elections, ready to declare that any Democratic

party losses—for whatever rea- son—demonstrate U.S. anti-war

reaction. It may be impossible to determine accurately what

| role Viet Nam does play in the

national election results. . There also is the question of bombing North Viet Nam.

from the other side via the Communist bloc, neutral nations®

that the United States-must_call

The most consistent message

atid other pipelines has been’

ahs Unpromising Prospects

“Canadian Press Staff, Washington

off the bombing before any peace talks canbe “content Pipres

sident Johnson reaffirmed last week his determination to refuse to try any more bdmbing pauses until he had evidence of - reciprocal action by the north and the Viet Cong in scaling

_ down their military operations.

Just how the U.S. will meas

ure such reciprocity has not been made public.

The New York Times come —=:<.::

ments editorially that authori ties favoring: an-end*to-or re- duction in the bombing. include Edwin Reischauer, recently American ambassador in Ja- pan, and retired Canadian dip- lomat, Chester’ Ronning, who twice has carried peace feelers to North Viet Nam.

The Times quotes from Ron- _

ning’s recent Edmonton lecture: in which -he-..said he is con- vinced ‘from my visits to Hanol that bombing will not wreak the will of the north.” Ss -

Pessimism about progress on the pacification and reconstruc- tion program for..which Johnson has such high hopes is based on the still-unfulfilled hopes of the Honolulu conference - last spring.

Defence Secretary Robert. McNamara is reported to have brought back from Viet Nam

this ‘month a bleak réport on his ~

findings, however successful the

military speration has become,

“The other day we heard a

friend being told his golf game |.

would be improved immeasure- ably if he bought a new set of expensive golf clubs.

It reminded: us of the story of the sports expert who was asked why baseball players were hit- ting the ball so much farther nowadays, why home runs were so much more frequent than they were in the days of Ty Cobb and Honus Wagner.

“Well,”’ said the expert, know- ingly, ‘it's because the equip- ment is: so much better. The bats are moré reliable, and the baseball itself is so energized that you only have to hit it lightly to knock it a mile.”

~What..about. golf?" asked an_|.

interested observer. ‘“‘How come the golfer of today can hit the ball so much farther?-How-come

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scores are so much lower?”

“It’s the same thing,’’ replied the expert. “It’s because of the beter equipment — the balls, the clubs, everything!"

At that an old-timer glanceé up from his paper. “What about all these swimming rec- ords?”’ he asked. ‘“‘What_do you think they're doing. with the wa- ter?”

South - West Africa exported —

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A PRIZED POSSESSION Mrs. C. writes: After a gall- stone is removed from the body. is it safe to keep it around the house in a jar or’ should’ it be thrown away?

REPLY —

Tt is safe, but after you have shown it around why-not hide it in the attic or throw it away? Most people have seen such stones, and J’m sure no one in + your family is waiting to inherit |

it. ‘HARDENING — OF ‘ARTERIES K. U. writes: Does overwork harden the arteries? -

REPLY No. Many individuals who worked hard all their lives lived to be 100. In this regard, we do =not- know- the-cause- of-hardening of the—arteries-

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