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SATURDAY, JULY 4. 1964.

A US. Landmark

” The civil rights bill which Presi- dent Johnson signed at Washington on Thursday night has been hailed as the most sweeping measure of its kind since the reconstruction days that followed the American Civil War of 1861-65. It marked the cul- mination of a long legislative struggle launched by the late Presi- dent Kennedy more than a year ago. iny an hour‘s debate preceded the fiouse of Representatives vote, and East speakers sounded the familiar

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. emes that have been echoing through the House and Senate since hat June. 3 There was loud applause when due Georgia Democrat, who had Yoted against a similar bill last Feb- ruary, announced that he was chang- ipg his vote and declared: “I would rge building a new South. We must not remain forever bound to another lbst cause.” The Southern leaders (if the opposition, however, showed no weakening in their last fruitless dpposition to the bill. And while of- ficials charged with enforcing its provisions are hoping f or wide- spread compliance, preparations are being made for stiff courtroom bat- ties.

The issue raised by opponents will be on constitutional grounds. it was on these grounds that Senior Goldwater. leading Republican con- tender for the presidential nomina- tion, voted against the bill when it was passed in the Senate. Now Penn- sylvania Governor Scranton, who has entered the fight to stop the Goldwater drive, says he will ask the Republican platform committee at San Francisco next week to en- dorse the new civil rights law as con- stitutional. It promises to be a hot convention!

President Johnson has described the new law as “a landmark in the long struggle of freedom.” At this distance, it would seem indeed to be a victory for enlightenment ove r the forces of prejudice and retrogres- sion. It arms the federal government with unprecedented new powers, but provides many safeguard-s intended to prevent their abuse. Also included prevent their abuse. Also included are provisions calling for heavy re- liance on local and state laws before invoking the new federal powers.

Book On The North

An excellent new book on the North has been published by the Queen’s Printer at Ottawa, making another valuable addition to the growing literature of the Arctic. En- titled “The Unbelievable Land,” and edited by 1. Norman Smith, the book has been adapted from a series of CBCbroadcasta by various govern- ment and university experts, and provides a lucid and authoritative account of what the Arctic means to this couiitry and what has been going on there in the past few years. , Not the least inspiring part of the work is the foreword contributed to it by Governor General Vanier, who recalls that he and Mrs. Vanier had the privilege, a few years ago. of travelling over six thousand miles in the northern regions that are the unknown parts of our country. “It was," he says, “a happy and most memorable experience. The wonderaofthelendmuatb‘eaeento be believed and appreciated. Re- turning to the thin southern strip. of Cenede where most of us live, we were sadly aware of the fact. that ’ - ~- achieve its full w as its unique but. man and

tried

rul beyond measure to the pioneers who have opened up the North and are still doing so.”

The writer reminds us that a century ago there were many who said that the settlement near Lake Winnipeg would never grow into any- thing more than a trading post. Later still. men denied that the Prairies could ever be opened up for grain- growing. The same kind of people have doubted that there is a. future for the one-third or thereabouts of Canada that lies north of the 60th parallel. For those who have seen the Northland. however, there can be no pessimism. The vitality and freshness of the country proclaim its destiny.

The authors of “The Unbelievable Land" have the ability to discuss the essentials of their subject in simple language, understandable to any layman, and the editor has wisely al- lowed them to speak for themselves. The result is an extraordinarily entertaining and informative book which anyone interested in the country’s future should read.

NB. Debi increase

The financial statements of the Province of New Brunswick, releas- ed this week, reveal that despite in- creased revenues from all sources and greater capital assets, higher government expenditures in almost all sectors offset any benefit that might otherwise have been gained. The most disturbing feature of the annual audited report was that the net debt. of the province increased by $14,880,000.

While deploring this situation. the Moncton Transcript maintains that the provincial government is “far from being the villain of the piece.” Both the federal government and the people of the province must share the blame.

In recent years the province has become involved in costly joint par- ticipation programs with the federal government. While these in the main are essential, many are being under- taken at a cost which is placing the province in an untenable position unless increased taxation is resorted to. It is increasingly obvious, says our Moncton contemporary, that taxes will have to be raised if the province is not. to sink into a morass of debt which it will take a genera- tion to escape.

New Brunswick fared better, proportionately, than we did in the al- location of federal aid to the prov- inces following the last two federal- provincial conferences. But that wouldn’t be saying very much. Clear- ly the time has come for a re- assessment. of provincial claims in terms of fiscal need—not on the basis of which province can exert the most political pressure on Ot- tawa. We have had far too much of that in recent months.

So far as tax increases are con- cerned, the difficulty in New Bruns- wick—and to an even greater ex- tent in Prince Edward Island—is that there is a very definite limit to the raising of revenue by this means That is why the fiscal need formula is so important; it takes stock of a province’s tax potential as well as other factors in meeting its requirements, and in determin- ing the extent to which federal as- sistance is justified. _

A Sad Predicameni

The resumption of the flag de- bate hasn't done anything to cool the heated atmosphere in the House of Commons. Forty items of impor- tant public business, some of it ur- gent, lie on the table while members wrangle over this silly issue. The Government must take the responsi- bility for that; but the obstruction- ist tactics of the Opposition are equally to blame for the shambles that have been made of the business of Parliament at this wretched ses- sion.

Commentators are now saying that if only the flag argument could be put aside indefinitely, another election would probably be the best thing that could happen at this time. If it brought another stalemate, a union government might prove the solution—possibly the only feasible one. But such a result could hardly be achieved without the retirement of both Mr. Pearson and Mr. Diefen- baker from the scene.

We are afraid, too, that the poll- ticisne have worked themselves into such a lather over the flag issue that they couldn’t dissociate themselves from it in their campaigning if they

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"i’D SWEAR l SAW IT MOVE”

THE NEW GERMANY

Nazi Victims Still Receiving Reparations

Perhaps nothing reflects how completely the new Germany has broken from the old like reparations that are still being paid to victims of Nazi perse- cution almost 20 years after the collapse of Adolf Hitler‘s evil regime.

A few days ago, in Bonn, Bri- tain and West Germany signed an agreement under which West Germany will pay the equivalent of $2.8 million to British victims of nazism.

The negotiations dragged on for seven years, mainly be- cause Britain was near the end of the line of nations submit- ting claims and the claimants were mostly Poles and other Central Europeans at the time of their persecution, becoming British by naturalization only after the war.

NEW AGREEMENTS

in recent years Bonn has en- tered into agreements with a number of other European countries. France received $100 million for its high number 9f claimants: the Netherlands, $31.5 million; Italy, $10 million; Luxemburg, $4.5 million; Den- mark, $4 million Switzerland, $2.5 million.

These payments are dwarfed. however, by compensation go- ing to individual Jews and to the slate of Israel. Under a 1952 agreement West Germany had paid $3.8 billion in individ- ual Jews as of last Dec. 31.

Currently the Bonn parlia- ment has under consideration a further $150 million for chim- ants who did not register by the deadline in 1953.

West Germany also has sup-

‘ code and services to Is- rael totaling $773 million —— more than $90 per cent of an $825 million commitment. in- cluded have been 49 merchant ships. 14 giant cranes, railroad cars. chemical plants, commu- nications equipment.

ON "‘5 OWN

Money alone can never fully compensate the victims. It can- not bring to life the six million Jews Hitler ordered murdered. Yet the reparations indicate West Germany‘s sincere desire to make amends.

Milwaukee Journal

Furthrmore, West Germany is doing this entirely on its own even though it is only art of the Nazi Germany found guilty of crimes against humanity. Communist East Germany has contributed in no way. Indeed,

in the case of Yugoslavia, It has hindered.

Yugoslavia’s recognition of East Germany in 1957 ended diplomatic relations between Bonn and Belgrade. This has blocked negotiations over Yugo- slavian claims.

Canadians may or may not see the film called "Mr. Pear- son” and if it is not televised they may also never know why they were deprived of a chance to pass judgment on the most- publiclzed movie since "Cleop- atra."

But what seems to have been ‘ overlooked in all the thousands

the House of Commons since this debate began is the fact that the CBC paid an independ- ent producer $35,000 for a docu- mentary film that, according to CBC officials, did not measure up to the corporations's technic- al standards.

if this were true. why pay for the film at all? Does the CBC accept $35,000 worth of camer- as. tubes, typewriters, cable or

Seventy five springs ago, a temporary structure was com- pleted for the Paris Exposition of 1889. Its designer, Gustave Eiffel, and an athletic group of top-baited olfieials struggled up its 1900 steps to plant the French flag stop what was then the world’s tallest struc- ture.

Engineers said the Eiffel Tower certainly would fall. But the "temporary" 1,056- foot spire remains so sturdy that only a few of its 18,038 steel sections have ever been re- placed. - 'MONSTROUS AND USELESB'

The Eiffel Tower, now a ch French landmark. was not always so loved, the National Geographic Society says.

A Whole Oi Whitby

Globe and Mail, Toronto

.“li is spherical in shape With a glistening grey skin, and a 31 horn-rudder down the middle of its back. Its head has two bulging protrusions, re- sembling eyes, spaced about six feet apart. Its every move- ment indicates ferocious and merciless brutality, and its ap pearance is accompanied by a lending, hair-raising roar."

What is this? Your landlord? Your father-in-iaw? Your man- aging editor? Your poppet of 10 years back, who has suddenly shown up in town with four chil- dren and a decree absolute? No, it is a monster which those tireless fellows. the So- viet scientists, have discovered in Lake Labyn r, a y of water a: the far reaches of 51-

I. Since the Russians are drum- hose

days. it is peas they have

led Labynkir monster to com with that leviathan who takes his pui- t-lme in in ass, C -

0am go who emu-sea coils up and down British Columbia's Lelia

aea whale which has somehow adapted itself to a fresh-water leaflet. M

maindeedba‘

the case. Animals. like immune, have been known to change their environment, and perhaps this whale figured there were better pickings to be (and in a fresh-water lake than in the salty depths of the Sea of Oh- otsk.

If this should prove to be the case, it will confhn the fears of one Tmntonian, whose fur- tive imagination has had him in a terrible state since the St. Lawrence away was opened. He is convinced that sharks and whales have used it to infil-

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of words spoken in and out of

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Money Down The Droin

London Free Press

any other kind of equipment that is deficient? if the sound and fighting in “Mr. Pearson" was sub-standard, the film should have been rejected. ‘

course, $35,000 is petty cash to a publicly-owned body that costs the Canadian taxpay- ers $100,000,000 a year. it is about the- price of a weekly CBC variety show, part of whoaecost is picked up by a sponsor. In show business, $35,- 000 is peanuts.

But it is still $35,000 of public money, and if the CBC continu- es to ref-use to show "Mr. Pear- son" on technical grounds alone, the corporation will have to convince us that this film is in- ferior to every other documen- tary the CBC has aired— s ro- position few Canadians will at:- cept.

Paris’s Eiffel Tower.

National Geographic Society

As the steel skeleton rose above the Paris skyline in 1887, prominent Parisians petitioned against the "monstrous and useless" thing. Writer Guy de Maupassant left Paris and urg- ed the populace to "smash this assemblage of iron ladders." Lesa artistic critics attacked

tower as a vantage for spies, magnet for lightning, and threat in migrating bird

Despite the protests, 300 workmen drove 21/: million riv- ets and finished the framework in two years. M. Eiffel’s folly swiftly roved a gold mine in th ky. Financed by subscrip- tion, the tower cost about 31,- 560,000, paid for itself in less than two years, and has never been in the led since.

M. Eiffel bum himself an apartment above tower' top public platform where he studied aerodynamics and an- tertained such celebrities as Thomas A Edison, Edward W! and Sarah Bernhardt. He credited his long life (he died at 91) totheline,hi¢halr he b atbed

to i re.

Since World War II. the tow- er has drawn more than a mil- lion vlaiiora a year, I it Europe’s number one tourist attraction. No man the lower

lean . In World War 1. its radio ata- tlon helped ferret out spies, in- cluding the fame Meta Has-l. The first voice radio signals

new clmta proved a dismal (allure. Planes have threaded ar-

ches. and in m the aeif- pro-

cietned Mayor of Montmartre down

from the first 1 on a bio-

ycle. A German alplnlat climb-

ed the elders cover of

darkness. but was caught and 00 PI!

Herpes Simplex, Glodiaiorium

Dr. Walk. Yen/Della ‘ has bad

implanted accreted skin. A bia~ lory of contact is difficult to obtain became the infection is

four wrestles-a who worked out several evenings a week.

The first victim was a 81- year - old mathematician who entered the hospital because of chills, fever, acre throat. bead-

herpetlc lesions were onthe left forearm Just above thawrlat‘ aodnewoneeaoou

and,bythe

weeks, the man felt. well enough M .

to return to . can . laboratory tests of the fluid in the blisters were negative for rlcbettaialpox, the disease or- lginally euapec .

About the

gnosis of rickettsialpox a a made. It was not until the third wrestler was admitted to the hospital that h e rpes simplex was suspected. 'nie causative virus was isolated by labora- tory technicians.

Blood tests were then done on the first two wrestlers and it was obvious that they had the same condition. The remai. ning two cases also had vesicles on the skin that prov herpes simplex. Lesions occur- red in a sixth member of the group but his were of the recur- rent lype of herpes.

The Boston physicians called the infection herpes gladiato- rum. The initial attack of her- pes simplex is followed by the formation of neutralizing an- -tlbodies in the blood. This de- fense usually is maintained un- less overc o m e by sufficie n t stress. This leads to recurrenc- u of blisters on the lips, mouth, genitalia, or eyes. The precipitating stress factors in- clude colds, to v e r, sunlight, menstruation, and allergy to certain foods.

PAINFUL TONGUE

M. H. writes: What is idiopa- thic glossitfs? REPLY Sore tongue for which the cause cannot be pinpointed.

PAINTING AND PREGNANCY

Mrs. L. S. writes: What in- formation can you give me about paint fumes and preg- annoy?

PL Many pregnant women be- come nauseated by paint fumes or other disagreeable odors.

RED BLOODED BABY

J. K. writes: A baby was

born with too many red blood cells. The moth-er took iron all during pregnancy. Any con- nection. REPLY Probably not. Most infants are born with a high hemoglo- bin content.

PENlClLLIN NEEDED B. W. writes: Is there a good home remedy for gonorrhea? REPLY

. There is no substitute for penicillin in the treatment of this disease. in many in- stances, one injection eliminat- es the infection.

BLEEDING ULCEB A. H. writes: What makes a peptic ulcer bleed?

REPLY Erosion of blood vessels by the ulcer as it enlarges or grows deeper.

Today’s Health Hint.—

Label ever-thing that' is put into a bottle.

(Note: All correspondence to Dr. VanDellen should be add- ressed to: Dr. Theodore Van- Delien, care of Chicago Tri- bune, Chicago, Illinois.)

The Age Old Story

"For as the heaven ia high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward them that tear film." Pealma 103:11.

NAZI MAY 60 "Ill

WESBADEN iAP)—-A police spokesman says West Germany has no chance of anti-editing Hans Walter Zach - Nenntwicb,

tries tion beefy. A vale Jewish in- telligence agency said in Vienna Thursday the MM was seen in Pretoria last minim d was reported livi' with .German blends.

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moat iadi' ant wha using ' 3' 0 It . '3 our 0’ sfléic In M’I but [J ' P 3 5 include pmisioni of escalators-i itics. — Ottawa Journal. for W1; my. .11, "i i a ' schools ' .

New someone-baa W, hum mm m “y we,“ to ,

en alght-dollar toy lineman is a boys} bicycle and makes 'a loud roar like a motor cycle. What a perfectly obnoxious ideal Fer better that something be put on a motor cycle to make it sound like a blcyclei— Fort William Times-Journal.

' Dangerous Summer

Milwaukee Journal

In Oxford. .Ohio. on the cam- pus of the Western College for Women some 200 colic“ stru- denta are week's comes to “freedom Then they will head for Missis- sippi, where they will spend the summer so Negroes

programs involving vot reg- istration, political a'cti and‘ academic and vocational train-

. Next week 15w more

Oxford and the other in M phia, Tenn. .

The students, moat of them white. are being trained by the staff of the Student Nonviolent Nonviolent Coordinating com- mittee (SNICK). representativ- es of the National Council of Churches and others.

James Forman. executive secretary of SNTCK, is making it clear that it will not be an easy summer. It can be a very dangerous summer, and some of the students may even face or suffer death. Forman is not the only one to fear that. His view is shared by some in the