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__-____________—_—.—— VH>‘ PAGE 4 WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 4. 1964.

Mr. Johnson's Mandate

The predicted happened in the United States elections yesterday, and the Democrats have been re- turned to power. It looks. indeed. like a landslide. Thus ends a cam- paign which was, in the words of the New York Times. of distress- ingly poor quality but of exceeding importance.

This seeming paradox is explainu able because the American elector- ate fully understood not only that there really was a choice—as the Goldwater enthusiasts liked to point out—but also that if the wrong choice was made, the nation would face foreign disaster and domestic chaos.

The choice was not what it, us- ually is in American presidential elections: 3 choice between two Variations of the middle. This time the choice was such that if Presi- dent Johnson and his administration was defeated, and Senator Goldwat- er and his adherents were elected, the country would be facing an up- heaval of rumor proportions in both foreign and domestic policy.

The Times expressed hope that defeat of the Goldwater-Miller tick- et would help restore control of the Republican party to the ranks of reason and moderation and thereby strengthen a two-party system that has been seriously endangered by their nomination. But more im- portant than this consideration was the fact. that a Goldwater-Miller victory would divide the United States from its allies, would hearten and solidify its enemies. would rep- resent a triumph for the radical right: a defeat of liberalism, a retro- gression from domestic policies that during the past generation have brought the country to its present. state of prosperity.

President Johnson, however. will need all his sensitive awareness of public opinion if he is not to misread the returns on election night. Even his election by a huge margin will not signify that all is well with the country. He will require great skill to assess the submerged discontents and inarticulate griev- ances that found no voice in the ballot box.

His words. on the. eve of the con- test. were reassuring on this point. “Our work after the election,” he said. “will he to heal the wounds of the campaign and rebuild the unity of the people. The nation cannot endure in bitterness."

To the outside world it is reas- suring also-to note his final om- phasis on the commitment he had made repeatedly during the cam- paign: “to preserve peace while pro- tecting freedom." With him he will have in this endeavor the heart- felt wishes of free people every- where.

Through The Berlin Wall

For the first time since the Christmas and New Year holidays. thousands of West Berliners are streaming through the Communist wall into East Berlin, with food and other wanted commodities for rel- atives from whom they have been separated. A small reverse flow Ia allowed, of some East Germans of pension age; but the exclusion of the younger people is a plain con- fession of the Communist regime's fear that they would seek employ- ment in the Weat and never return.

For West Berliners the new ar- rangement. in effect until Novem- bl' 12, permits pass holders to day viaita to parents. child- ren, grandparents, grandchildren. brothers and elaterl, uncles, aunts. mph"! and nieces. It is all care- fully Soldiers armed

with aubmacnfne guns, and travel- ling always in pairs. still patrol the grim wall which seals off the capit- al of East Berlin from the West- erns world—a reminder that the flow through the five crossing points is but. a temporary conces- sion.

More than 50 citizens of Ea s t Germany. trying to exercise the right under their constitution to settle in “any chosen community.” are known to have been killed at the wall since it went up in August, 1961. Most of them were shot. Others. in their desperation. leaped down onto the Western side from roofs or high windows. of buildings standing on the border.

Seen from the Western side, the Berlin wall is an ugly 6-foot bar- rier of concrete. Viewed from the Communist side. it presents a more forbidding picture of tangled tiers of barbed wire stretching far and wide. Behind that lie broad strips of clean yellow sand. carefully rak- ed. A would-be escapee. struggling through the barbed wire to reach the wall. first leaves his tell-tale footprints in the sand.

At night this whole grim com- plex. 15 miles long. stands out nak- edly in the glare of floodlights. And behind the. floodliglns rise the tall watchtowcrs. from whose slitted windows soldiers IOok out with binoculars and guns.

Life in East Berlin is not all terror. of course. People do the normal everyday things they would do elsewhere. But the general tone is one of drabness. despite the bunt- ing that festoons the buildings at this time in celebration of the 15th anniversary of the founding of East Germany. And abruptly. at the turning of a corner. there stands the wall. with warning signs to keep away.

Not even the joyful reunions that are being permitted at this time will blot out that. symbol of tyranny for a moment.

French Farmers Aggrteved French farmers are said to be. up in arms about their role in the national economy. They want. a wider slice of France's current pros- perity, which accounts for their at- tempt. last week to unseat. Prem- ier Georges Pompidou through a vote of censure in the National As- sembly. ' _

As expected. the. government's majority held firm. but. farm spokesmen insist. that this was only the opening gun in a campaign look- ing to next year’s presidential elec- tion and to various municipal and county elections. The heat will be on deputies from rural areas who supported Mr. Pompidou and thus, in the eyes of farm organizations, betrayed their constituents.

This French farm unrest. is re- flected in the French threat to pull out of the European Common Mar- ket unless the six-nation organiz- ation soon establishes a common market for agricultural products. The government’s aim here is to give French farmers new markets in West Germany at prices a cut above thOse now prevailing in France.

The chief grievance of French farmers is about the multipilicity of middlemen. which has resulted in too great. a spread between the prices they receive and those paid by the housewife. A not uncom- mon complaint, but it has reached an acute stage in France. A Paris commentator notes that Napoleon once scoffed at the British as a na- tion of shopkeepers: but from the viewpoint of French farmers the rest of France is a nation of mer- chants engaged in buying and re- selling farm produce. The farmers may scoff at these merchants. but the government must remember that they. too. are voters. as are the consumers in the big cities.

EDITORIAL NOTE

The best. campaign s t o ry from across the ho rd 9 r reaches us via Los Angelcs. It tells about a transient member of the commun- ity—one Ulysee Pryor. a pickpock- et by trade—who was quietly going about. his calling amid the crowds that had turned out to greet the President's motorcade as it passed. According to police offic- ers. Pryor was about to lift another- man's wallet when the motorcade shifted route and the crowd pushed forward to the presidential lim- ousine. He was shoved along with it, and his outstretched hand got— not the wallet but a hearty shake from the smiling Lyndon Johnson.

_”THERE’S A RICKSHAW AT THE DOOR”

"Let's hear about the feel. the look. the expressio- of the Old Country. please." asks a reader writing to corn meni on my recent columns from England "ls Ihcrc any- thing new In Yorkshire Pudding or Welsh 'rabbil‘? What all hap— pened wltcn you walde up and down High Street. ll.l\' '.‘"

I arrived In UK in a glorious

late summer which the records .

show was the sunnlest and driesf September since the year of King George \"s coronation. 1911. The unbroken stretch of its good-Io— be- alive days re- minded me of another exltilarat in: September 24 years ago when the unclouded blue sky was streaked with the vapor trails of Spitfires and fleckf‘d with red explosions and puffing parachutes as so few defended so many. Englishman's

pride anu so tiny. and the Visitor is at once impressed by the floral kaleidoscope of the litth gard ens in front of the massed homes of London's suburbia: roses. dahlias. hydrangea and 'mum still in lush bloom when ear-y frosts had already blackened the last geraniums of ()ttawa'x summer. LAND FULLY USED

South-east England becomes. a fully built-up and car-crowded area. The green pastures and the large gardens arc Increas-

PUBLIC FORUM

‘I’bls column Is open In the dlannsllul

pllndents. All lellrra publlslted arr sII - ject to rdillng and condensation when ueceaaary_ The alter Info any norrreapnndaaee regard- lag lettera aubm fed.

SHELVE THE FLAG ISSUE Sir.—- It looks as though we are going be subjected to another lengthy debate on the New Flag. Again I suggest. as I

column. that the matter be laid aside until the next general clec-

; tion. Let the voters of Canada dc- cide at that time whether they want. to retain the Red Ensign.

or adopt Ihe flag that has been .

suggested by the Flag Commit- tee. It has bcen claimcd by some writers that it was ill arI» vised in the first. placc. for our Prime Minister to bring the matter up at this time. As it looks now. it has certainly done Canada no good. I am. Sir. r W.D. Montague. I’ll].

Ic.. JOHNSTON

ATLANTIC UNION Sin—It is. of course. natural for the leaders of a small pro~ vince to shy away from propos- als of union with other areas. even though logic is against their stance. Fear of being ab-

sorbed by larger land areas. and i

greater populace. were the con- tention of the small states, in I early

but a way was devised by equal- ity of representation in the con-

gress. and the method has serv- =

ed admirably.

A committee of representative people should be set up to study the advantages of such a union. and Its findings presented for full discussion by our people. It Is too serious and vital an Issue to be left for a one man dectslon or even the provincial legisla-

ture.

The fact that our province fails to receive full consideration of lta financial and economlc needs in Ottawa Is sufficient warrant for Immediate action. For It Ia obvious that a "go it alone" po- licy Ia no longer viable.

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OTTAWA REPORT By Patrick Nicholson

Many Changes Noted In Old England

‘ “in-filled" by the 1m pressive building boom. The ‘ country's prosperity and Iu.l

employment are reflected the universal garage w it every home. North American central heating is no longer con ‘ sidercd sissy. but electric b‘an kcls are widely used. The Enu

lit .‘

Iislt kitchen Is acquiring ou . North American look. new! practical and liveable. w i t h

. breakfast nook and all our eIet ; tric gadgets. l One. common new bedroom comfort I noted is the $60 elm:- Iric clock with electric ke”~ {incl teapot. all nesting on a tray. The cloc can be set I switch on the kettle. and then wake the sleeper with its alarm just wth the boiling water hub bles over onto the lea-leaves— not lea-bag— In the pot. Everyone who wants to work can get a job. except in Illt‘ i northeast and in Clydeside. High Stroct. is crowded with shopper with plenty of money to spend from the fattest-ever pay packets. The shops are. wo‘ stocked with high- quality Brit . ish products and with imports so plentiful they threaten the i national economy But prices have risen sharply In'recenl years. in some cases higher than here Popular cigarettes are 70 or 75 cents per packet m 20: petrol is e same price whisky and gin both about 56.50 a bottle. but palatable Iore‘gr wincs abundant at $1 or $1.25 a ‘ bottlc. Fresh sea fish is excztl and cheap. so are trest- ruits and vegetables.

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l The most eloquent change I i noticed is the habit of the newly ‘ affluent Londoner to eat out in the large number of small res- Iaurants~ oftcn Italian. French Indian or Chinese —- wh ch 1 . serve cxccllent meals for around $1.25 of helping: more realistic than our gargantuan ' and wastcful size. That national institution The Pub has had .1 I. face lift. and serves in greater ‘ comfort not just "a cut off the joint and two veg" but a more sophisticated mcal such roast pheasant. Dover sole. Grouse pie. perhaps preceded by potted shrimps or Scotch broth. and followed by soft. rues on toast. stewed plums or black berries and cream. This meal is often accompanied by gin or im- ported wine rather than beer as wealth upgrades the drinking taste.

03! -I:n

More cars than ever before

clutter the week-end roads bumper Io . But Lon- don's frustrating traffic jam'

3 have largely been eliminated by one-way streets and new fly overs. Suburban roads hum with motor-scooters. carrying young people clad in the bisexual unr form of blue jeans. black leath or jacket. and crash helmet or low which hang shoulder-length i ; locks. Boy or 7' " lIs often hard to tell. “I don't like 'm long hair fashion. but we adopt it because the girls like It." onc teen-age boy told me.

Britain‘s best buy? A foaming

pint Iankard of "bitter" at Iii cents. with company. dart

lboard and conversation thrown in.

By Doug Canadian

Once again the European Economic Community has pro- duced an end-ofthe-year cliff- . hanger calculated to keep econ- l omists perched on the edges of their seats 2 President C‘tarles de

Gaulle

did bEIOI‘e‘ In the PUbllc Forum ‘ has threatened to take France 1 ,out of the common market um 1

less her five partners agree on a common price for grain by New Year's eve.

This is a virtual rerun of last .year's suapenaeful drama when the Common Market negotia-

tors in Brussels kept the audi-i

ence waiting until Christmas The hcforc resolving the dead- lock on beef. rice and dairy products.

Although the plot Ia familiar- stern French ultimatums Invok- ing cries of distress from Ger- many—this year's crisis

.added dimensions.

Not only Is a common grain

price crucial to t comm lnity's whole agricultural policy. ‘II is also an essential preilml~ lnary to the succelaful outcome lof the Kennedy Round of world {tariff negotiations In Geneva.

.SOME UNCERTAIN’I'Y

I On top of this. both the Brus- and Geneva talks are un- I folding against a background of

l eels

Britain's relationship with Eu- , ope and Europe's relationship . with the United States.

The grain problem In baa-

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l : ically the same that has dogged inegotiatora throughout attempt. :Io establish a common price latructure for farm goods—the igap between him German agri- icultural prlcea and low French 3

France. w about one half the total agricultural land of the laix Common Market countries, :has effIcIent farming prom-a?- an

lFranch can consume. 1 any. despite massive government aubuldiea. has a

less efficient mm Induc- Ir . The country to heavily deo

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Common Market Problem

Press Staff Writer

has .

l 1 f . American history. such as .“nceflmmy Ind reappnlnl 0

Connecticut. and Rhode lsland,‘

i l l i l l l Marshall ’ lclaims any lowering of prices } .to a level somewhere betweeni j the French low and the German i high would spell ruin for many‘ :German farmers. despite initial‘, financial compensation. .

WOULD STOP BUYING ' On a larger scale It might. 3, mean Germany would stop buy- ring most of her grain from' other regions -— mainly North ; America—and France would be-. ‘come the breadbasket of Eu-' L rope. | In 'Ihis respect Germany is caught in a crossfire between the U.S. and France in the bat- ‘ .tle to decide who should eat. .whose food and at what price. I The-battle will be fought out next monb‘i when the real bar- gaining in the Kennedy Round is scheduled to begin.

The U.‘S. is reluctant. to begln I negotiations on cutting indus-. trial tariffs until it can be sure farm exports to Eu- rope will be s guarded. with agricultural tariffs Included In; the negotiatlona.

The Common M a rk e t slx. i } however. cannot c on s l d e r . ,Amerlcan demands unlll they: war own common price scale for agriculture. 1 COMPLICATING POLITICS Complicating the. entire Iasua’ are the vagaries of politics In. Ge Brltal and that

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Bonn government farm vote In next year's e ‘ tion. Europe as a whole thinks : U.S. farm policy may change. after Nov. 3. ‘ And the change of govern-i ment In Britain has raised questions about the future Brit- lah to n or outside Europe. White In opposition the Labor party op rilaln’s pro- posed entry Into the Common Market.

Several market spokesmen have e reued disappointment Britain. by chobalng a Labor

government. may also have chosen to remain aloof from Em developments.

Varicose Veins Mostly Inherent

By Dr. Theodore H. Van Dolled Varicose veins are another penalty we pay for walking up- right: fourleued animals are not bothered. These enlarged tortuous. dilated blood vessels occur in 10 per cent of our adult population ’and are more com- mon in women than in men. The cause is not known but the condition usually is assoc: lated with heredity. straining occupation. pregnancy. or obel- ily. In 43 to 62 per cent of all victims. the condition runs In the family. The inherited weak- 9 ed or defective veins 1nd valves lead to loss of elasticity and areas of thinning in the

Increased pressure from pro- longed standing or lifting Is more likely to balloon out a weakened than a normal veIn Abdominal pressure secondary to in m or or pregnancy also tends to impede e w of blood toward the heart; dilata- tion of the leg veins results.

The lower extremities have two groups of veins. The deep vessels run down the center of the leg and are surrounded by muscles and fascia, Those near the surface do not have this support and stretch. more easi- 1y when distended with blood. These are the veins that be come varicosed.

But this is only a part of the story. Every vein has valves located at irregular intervals along the passageway. Nor'n~ ally they allow the blood to flow upward when the old Iick~ or contracts but. between beats. they prevent backflow. When the walls of the vein stretch. these valves spread apart. As a result. the blood falls back to-

.ward the feet every time the

heart muscle relaxes. It is the combination of dilatation of tht: veins and incompetent valves that leads to varicositlea.

Mild varicose veins are un- sightly but seldom cause sym- Ioms. Somc persons complain of aching and a sense of heavi- ness or fatigue in the legs. Cramping. itching. and burning may occur. In neglected cases the leg becomes swollen. dI' colored. and ulcerated.

SORE AND STIFF

.T. S. writes: Please explain fibromyositis. I know it has to do with muscles.

REPLY

This condition stems from in- flammatory changes in fibrous and muscular tissue. Lumbaao is an example. The main symo toms are pain. stiffness. and soreness of the involved parts In some instances. tendernes of the mucles makes move- mcnt agonizing. Heat and rest bring relief.