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than the weakest ink“ PAGE 4 SATL’RBKY, OCTOBER 31, 19st. _~__________.._.__—f——

Up To The ConservatIves

Just before the flag committee submitted its report to the House of Commons, the chief electoral officer sent out written instructions to returning officers across the coun- try to revise their voters‘ list by December 15, “at which time there would be a distribution of election material.” When this matter was called to Parliament‘s attention by Opposition L e a d e r Diefenbaker, State Secretary Lamontagne said the electoral officer had been act- ing on his own—there had been no consultation before issuing the in- structions. Mr. Diet‘enbaker’s com- ment on this answer was: “He must have been a mind rcader.”

In any case, there is talk now that the Government is preparing for an early spring election. That it an- ticipated Conservative opposition to the flag committee report goes al- most without saying. The fact that the Conservatives are split over the issue, with Mr. Diet‘enbaker reject- ing the single maple leaf design and his Quebec lieutenant, Mr. Balcer, calling for its adoption without de- lay, may also have been anticipated. This. to the Liberals, could present the 'mOst favorable chance they are likely to have of smiting the Tories hip and thigh at the polls.

It is recalled. now, that during the past fortnight Prime Min- ister Pearson and twelve members of his cabinet have been fanning out across the land. making speeches. Justice Minister Favreau, Trade Minister Sharp, Postmaster- General Nicholson, Northern Af- fairs Minister Laing. External Af- fairs Minister Martin. Industries Minister Drury. Agriculture Minis- ter Hays, Health Minister LaMarsh, Finance Minister Gordon, State Sec- retary Lamontagne, Resources Min- ister Benidickson, Labor Minister MacEachen—all have been unusual- ly active in this manner.

The sudden exodus of cabinet ministers for public appearances is part of the traditional process of getting ready for a showdown at the polls. It is generally felt, how- ever, that the Government will in any case carry on until the pre- Christmas end of this marathon ses- sion, now in progress since Feb- ruary. Then it would recess over the Christmas-New Year holidays. Then it would be called back into an early session shortly after the new year, with dissolution timed for as soon as February or March at the latest. with the election following in April or May.

That’s how some Ottawa com- mentators are figuring the score, and it doesn’t look at all unlikely. Unless the Conservatives are able to consolidate their ranks before it is too late, it seems almost a cer- tainty.

The Popcorn Poll

The popular game of forecasting election results has taken a new twist in the United States. We a corny one. as the Associated Press admits in giving publicity to it; but it seems to have been uncannin ac- curate in the past and now its re- sults are being gravely weighed by commentators in the current presi- dential campaign.

Pallster Jim Blevins, who claims tin-be the world’s largest popcorn Vendor, started it all in 1948 by dec- anting-his popcorn bagu with the Democratic and the Repub- Molephanthiajdeebeingtode-

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more scientific—polls were predict- ing a victory for Thomas E. Dewy. To the wonder of everybody except the popcorn eating public, Truman won.

The vendor hit it on the nose' again in 1952 with Dwight Eisenhower. When Eisenhower ventured for a second term four years later, the popcorn poll not only called the vic- tory, it forecast all 48 states cor- rectly. Richard Nixon jumped to an early to- to three-percent pop- ular vote in 1960, but that quickly shifted to John F. Kennedy after the first of the television debates. Ken- nedy held the popcorn poll lead right on through his victory.

In the present campaign, John- son‘s margin has been increasing and Goldwater’s decreasing as the popcorn count progresses. That is pretty much in line with other fore- casts. but it’s reassuring to have this added confirmation. As the AP report says, the theatre mun- chers and the fireside poppers haven't miss yet. Surely they won’t let us down on this occasion!

Hallowe'en Reminders

Hallowe'en is a grand old anniver- sary, and only a sour-puss would want to spoil the fun youngsters are looking forward to on this occasion. But those of a larger growth are being warned that Hallowe’en pranks that involve annoyance to neighbors or passersby, property damage or any other acts of vandalism, are likely to get them into serious trou- ble with the authorities. Both the RCMP and the City police have sounded this warning, and they mean business.

As for the children, many of them will be calling for treats for others as well as for themselves— those others being youngsters they or we have never set eyes upon, liv- ing in far corners of the world un- der conditions that make us uncom- fortable even to think about. It’s not candy or oranges that those children need, but the bare neces- sities of life. The Hallowe’en col- lections our children make on their behalf are to provide, in some meas- ure, for these requirements.

This is what the United Nations Children’s Fund enables them to do. All contributions to the fund are on a voluntary basis. There is no per capita assessment of each country. Therefore, the money ad- ministered by international UNICEF comes from governments, individual donations, the collections of child- ren. and the sale of greeting cards.

Why bring the children into it? Why not increase the government contribution and let it go at that? Because our children’s participation in this humane movement is very important to them. They are proud of being able to help.

Let’s not discourage them in their efforts tonight!

Apple Day

Boy Scouts and Wolf Cubs in the city and throughout the province observe Apple Day today.

Scouts cannot beg for money. They must give something of value in exchange. Money derived from the sale of apples goes to the scout membership itself, helping defray jamboree expenses, camp mainten- anoe and improvement.

Apple Day had its origin here and the public down through the years has generously supported the project. It should be so on this oc- casion.

As the appropriately clad young salesmen make their rounds. the odd 10 or 25 cent piece contributed, for apples, will be warmly received and appreciated.

Behind the scenes in any such venture or organization are volun- teer workers and the public can best put its stamp of approval on their efforts and that of the youth move- ment by making Apple Day a success.

EDITORIAL NOTE

Oldtimers will regret the fate of the "Charles A. Dunning,” which is reported to have broken adrift be- tween Prince Edward Island and the Cape Breton shore while being towed from Pictou to Sydney to be scrapped. This boat served its pur- pose for many years on the Wood Islands-Caribou route, and its name is a reminder that it was the Hon. Charles A. Dunning who obtained this ferry service for us while he was a representative fOr Queens. He needed a seat as finance minister in the Mackenzie King government. We gave it to him, and he showed his ap- preciation in this very practical way.

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THE LONG VOYAGE HOME OTTAWA REPORT By Patrick Nicholson P.M. Discusses Co-Opero’rive Federalism

We have had a "Roads to Re- sources“ program and other federal - provincial road pro- grams, such as the Trans - Can- ada Highway. We now have a “Road to National Unity" pro- gram called “co - operative fe- deralism”. and Prime Minis- ter Pearson chose the “Canad- ian Good Roads 50th anniversary meeting as an apt platform from which to ex- plain this.

“Co - operative federalism." he said, “means the federal and provincial governments working together for the good of Canada, each respecting the other‘s rights, and the weaker assisting the stronger. It means that the Federal Govern- ment should not enter provm- cial fields without the willin g, consent of the provinces: and

that in all matters over which I

jurisdiction is shared in the constitution, the Federal Gov- ernment should co - operate cio- sely with the provinces."

The Prime Minister pointed out that such division of au. thority involves compromises, and these are easy targets for criticism. We must take care that a general agreement through compromise is not misrepresented to be indiVId- ual surrender, else reasonable and fair compromise could be confused with capitulution, and this kind of confusion could be the greatest threat to our Can- adian way of government.

MUST BE FAIR. PARTNERS “By co — operative federal- ism," Mr. Pears o n contin-

ued, “I do not mean turnInR over to the provinces the sole responsibility for action, while the Federal Government mer- ely takes on the responsibility for payment. lucurring only the unpopularity that goes

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with taxation and the frustra- I tion that goes with watching someone else spend the money and bask in the sun of popuiai approval that surrounds the righteous benefactor: t h i s also I do not mean. We in Of- tawa intend to protect the fed- Ieral interest in these matters. We also wish to develop the Iclosest and most co-operalive arrangements possible with the provinces to the general, the national. advantage."

For this objective, he added. the Federal Government must have both the resources and the strength to discharge its constl~ tutional responsibilities, with- out going beyond them. Frag- mentation and diversity must

not be joined in governmental . polices if we are to progress, or even survice. , “Diversity Is the very essen- ice of Canada’s national struc- . ture but it need not. and must not mean fragmentation. That would be fatal to unity and to ICanada. Politically and econo- mically a ba'lkanlzed Canada would be the end of our country and who would gain by that?"

QUEBEC AND UNITY

That remark was obviously addressed to those French- Canadians in the province of Quebec who talk of separa- tism. If Quebec were to break away and form a separate Re~ public of Laurentia. wh a would happen to the rest of Ca- nada? The four Maritime pro- vinces would be cutoff physi- cally: Canada would become a western Pakistan, a divid- ed nation without even a Polish corridor linking its two halves. Economically, the rest of Can- ada coul not survice: ab- sorption into the USA would be inevitable.

No PrizemFor Mr. Sartre

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Why, it is being asked, did Mr. Jean-Paul Sartre refuse the Nobel Prize for Literature and the $53,000 which goes with IL?

Mr_ Sartre's own belated an-

swer that he wants to remain free to bring the culture 0 East and West together is only part of the reason. So too is his earlier statement that he hates awards on principle, whether a sack of potatoes or a Nobel Prize." Mr. Sartre is the ‘Pope of Ex- istentialism.” Existentialism is nothing if not a philosophy mat. insists that men are no more than dull and senseless things until they choose deliberately what they will and will not do

To the Existentialist the es- sence of life is realized— Indeed man only exists as mau— when he makes the fullest use of the freedom of choice.

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All his life Mr. Sartre has been doing that so flamboyant- ly that he usually winds up go- ing against the prevailing orth- odoxy. He takes his philosophy out of the study and through Iia example existentialism becomes part of daily life.

He was in the French Reste- tance in the Second World War. He chose the Soviet side in the first decade of the Cold War but he did not become a Commun- Ist. His condemnation of the So- viet suppression of Hungary’s uprising is regarded as one of the searing polemlcs of modern times.

He was a Frenchman who supported the Algerian: in their struggle for independence.

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though he is. has been close to the centres of action.

Quebec Policg Report

Montreal

The extreme difficulties of me police In Quebec 3 the Queen‘s visit, and the exagger- ation of what took place, are both sound points in the report made by Hon. Claude Wagner, the Acting Attorney General. But It would seem that the re- port would have settled the questions raised more com- pletely had its tone been a little less emphatic. -

The truth would aeem to lie somewhere between the ex. tremes. It Is not in the least surprising that the police, cou- fronted with what was perhaps the most anxious and difficult assignment In Canadian history, actedetttmeewlthadegreeof haste and severity that we: re (tenable. What happened would not be defended. But the cir- cumstances were such that

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understandable, even excusable. A statement along these lln

might have met with general ac- ceptance. Some of the lndldeuts were so widely reported by v - nalIsts from so many parts of the world, many of whom saw what they described, that It is difficult. to claim that they could all have been in error. But What is certainly true is that the lice had set out to make certain the Queen would be safe, situation of the greatest tension and they succeeded. And if they occasionally exceeded modera- tion, the circumstances would provide the background for up- preciating their difficulties. The extent of the provocation, which Mr. Wagner lists, is t um, tnclu the thuu. The effectiveness, efficiency and real of the police deserve recog- nition, and greater recognition than they have received.

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How long then could an inde- pendent Lauren t i a , entir- ely surrounded by the 34 states. survive? It would be only a matter of tim e before Laurentia too was absorbed as the 55th state, absorbed into the melting pot which has no offi- cial second language, no Napo- leonic Code of civil laws. In 5;: search for complete independ- ence, QIebec would suffer complete standardisation with the rest of North America.

are strains bet- ween the English - speaking and French - speaking elements In our nation," Mr. Pearson ad- mitted. “'lhere are stresses in our Confederation. But we we facing them and we will domi- nate them."

Many Reasons Of Infertility

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Delleu

Infertility has many origins and every year we discover a new one. The most sensible plan is to consult the family physio in or a specialist in this fold. The husband usually is studied first because male tests are eas- ler to do. In addition, he la like 1y to be respcnsible in one- third to one-half the cases.

Causes vary from obstruction of the passageway through which the germ cells pass to de- fects that influence the number and quality of the sperm. Social habits, physical and emotional stress, congenital drfects, and endocrine abnormalities are possibilities.

he most common cause in women is closure of .the fallo pain tubes, resulting usually from infection or endometrlosls. Endocrine disorders are next line. the fault lying In the thy- roid, ovaries, or pituitary gland. Abnormal secretions of the :er- le due to increased acidity, in- feclion. or ulceration of the parts so are considered. Tu- mors (fibroids) and retrover sion (tilting of the uterus) are the least frequent origins of in- fertility, although they were blamed most often a generation

ago.

Many special studies, such as the tubal patency tests, are nec- essary to rule out possible caus es. A record of the basal tem- perature is helpful in determin ing whether the woman ovulat- es and on what day of the menu. trual cycle.

When these examinations fall to disclose the reason for lack of conception, the physician us~ ually offers suggestions on how

.to increase the chance of be-

coming pregnant. These include proper timing, nutrition, ade- quate exercise, and relaxation. Researchers are working on a new angle— studying the anti- spermatozal antibodies in wom- en. In other words, is the wom- an allergic to her h u s b a n d’a sperm? Scientists are trying to overcome these antibodies when pregnancy is desired and also to use these substances in devel- oping a contraceptive vaccine.

TENSION AND GLAUCOMA

A. D. R. writes: (1) If a bus- band runs around with othr wo- men. can he bring home a ven- ereal disease to his wife? (2) Could this disease cause glau- coma? (3) Co d crying myself to sleep every night cause glau- coma?

REPLY

(1) Yes. (2) No. (3) Yes, it. could create enough tension to aggrevate a pre- existing glau- coma but this Is an unlikely cause. TODAY’S HEALTH HINT—

Poor vision and poor hearing often lead to tension.

NOTES BY THE WAY

Shocked by the language used by two workmen repairing tele phone wires near her house. an old spinater reported the matter to the company. The foreman in making his report on the In- cident, wrote: “Me and SW was on the job. I was up the pole and let some hot lead fall which went down his neck. ‘He

tried to me and said, "You really must be more carebil. Harry,’ and I said, ‘Iudeed I must, Bill. I will see that it don’t happen again’."— Gulf Report er.

Absent - minded

The young father was wheel- ing a baby carriage around the block on a very hot afternoon.

"My dear!" came a voice from an upper window of h i a house. “Now let me alone!" he called back. “We‘re all right. An hour later the same voice pleaded: “Charles dearl."

'Well, what do you want?" he replied. Anything wrong in the house?" ‘No. Charles dear. but you have been wheeling Nancy's doll all the afternoon. Isn't it time for the baby to have

urn’" — Montreal Star.

Channel Tunnel Plans

By Joesph MacSweeu

Canadian Press Sta

Prime Minister Harold Wil- son’s new hands-under-the-chau- nel gesture to President Charles de Gaulle may take some of the tension out of relations be- tween their countries

The British labor govern-

ment pledged Thursday to go ahead with France on plans 'or a channel tunnel, a project that has been mooted off and on for 162 years. Significantly, the pledge came on the same day that Britain's aviation minister, Roy Jenkins, began a re - examination" In Paris of another Anglo-French project, the supersonic airliner Concorde. Doubts about the fu- ture of the Concorde caused gloom in France.

And the announcement also

coincided with sharp French criticism of the new Labor gov- ernment's import surcharges, which apply to a high propor~ tion of the goods sold by France to Britain. But, if the history of the chau nel tunnel is any guide, the Thursday announcement will mean no immediate or dra- matic moves, although it does to French anxiety that Britain might withdraw alto- gather. COST RISING

The French and British gov— ernments made it clear in Feb- ruary that any cross-channel link would be a rail tunnel, not a bridge, but surveys have yet to determine whether it should be a bored tunnel or an mersed tube. There also are im- pormnt legal and financial prob- lems to be solved.

L_ F. A. d'Erlanger, the Brit- Ish banker who is chairman of the channel tunnel study group, reported earlier this week the estimated cost now has climbed to £160,000,000 from the earlier figure of £130,000,000.

“Our expert consultants esti- mate that a bored twin tunnel, with services in between, will take five years to build and an immersed tube four years.”

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British officials have ap- peared less enthusiach about the tunnel than the French and the Conservative government was criticized by Wilson during the recent election campaign for Its approach to the project.