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Fully Justified:

The fact that our causeway pro- ject will -provide-for—rail_as_well as vehicular traffic has occasioned some supercilious comment in mainland ex- changes. The Toronto Globe and Mail, for example. argues that the railway will “admittedly not serve most Is- land passengers. who already travel by bus.” that its freight work could be done as well by piggyback trucks, that the MacPherson Royal Commis- sion on Railway Transportation has recommended progressive abandon- ment of unprofitable railway lines, that railway companies are already following its advice and that “it "is entirely conceivable that the Prince Edward Island line—before or. after the causeway has been completed— could be one of those to go.”

Certainly this is conceivable. It is conceivable, too. that bus and piggy- back services could réplace all the railway lines in Ontario. If indeed railway transportation is headed for an eclipse, a Jot of lines will have to be abandoned. But the latest report of the Canadian National Railway lines in the Atlantic Region doesn’t indicate that we are approaching suc a contingency here. |

According to vice- -president Gray- ston, the main lines through July and

upto now in August have daily been transporting tourists in particularly heavy volume. Revenues in“the fe- © gion-for Tuly have shown a_16 per

cent increase on the figures for the *

corresponding month last year, while _ the August total to date had regis- tered a 14 per cent gain over that for-thelike_period_in 1964. Taking a broader view of the situation, Mr. Grayston notes that for tourist travel over the CNR, the 1965 revenues in July were 102 per. cent. higher than the total in the similar month of 1961.. Freight trafic also has been on the in- crease, regionally and across the country.

__.The..Pearson.. government _ did a “wise thing in refusing to endorse the — proposals for “phasing out the rail- way’ in this province by means of a non-rail causeway. Another point in

his eonnection_is well made in a -re-

resstemnds

cent article in The Atlantic Advocate, in which it stressed that with the fixed crossing the causeway will pro- vide, the bigger the traffic the bigger the profit. With the ferry service the reverse is true—the bigger the traf- fic the bigger the loss. This applies both to rail and vehicular traffic. The economic justification for the huge expenditure involved lies precisely

—here—We-Nave-no-doubt-it-is_what in-—

fluenced the authorities at Ottawa, and not the prospects of ‘‘a vote on ~every~tie”--as—our—Toronto..contem- porary suggests

The government would be well advised. to release a full report of its economic studies on this point, and put the carping critics in their place.

Doesn't Make Sense

It was at Edmonton last week, says a press report, that Prime Min- ister Pearson was believed to have set-the tone for the expected federal election campaign. He stressed ‘the government’s spectacular achieve- ments, charged back against Opposi- tion accusations of weak leadership and spoke in serious but optimistic

tones about national unity.”

Granting that everything: Mr. Pear- son said in this connection was gospel truth, it still doesn’t ‘provide him

with a valid reason for having a fal]*

election. Indeed, it’is hard to see how his words could have “set the tone’ for anything but a resounding affirmation of his previous assurances that he would not allow the lack of a cléar majority to influence him—that

his government did not“need a ma- .

jority to carry on effectively, and would not seek one by an election en normal term of office had expir

Certainly the Liperais' cannot argue

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that this divided Parliament has pre vented them from carrying out their polities, According to a recently re- leased= pamphlet. “34 Ways Your Liberal Government Has Made His- tory’ since April? 1963. it would seem that the country would be better off if it continned to carry on with the minority government it has. There are those, indeed. who maintain that responsible government works bet- ter in practice this way. since it can- not—being a minoritvy—take Parlia- ment for granted but must be on its toes all the time

These people argue, for pe a that if the government had a majority in Parliament there would almost certainly have been no Dorion Re- port on the Rivard scandal that rock- ed the country a short time ago. It was the Opposition that insisted on a judicial inquiry into this matter, not the government. Had it command-

ed a majority in the House, the whole’

affair would have been swept under the carpet.

Be this as it may, we are intrigued by Mr. Pearson’s insistence that things have'been going well, that the government has been making pro- gress with its commitments and’ has ended the session more strongly than it began. Why not carry. on, then,

|; with its still unredeemed. pledges,

into a brighter and still more spec- tacular future’ ‘The government's mandate has nearly three years to run. It makes no sense at all, on the Prime Minister's showing, that it should demand that the people give it a fresh one at this time.

Ain't Science Grand?

Ever heard of the Central Data Processing Service Bureau at Ottawa? This is one of the tangible results. of the Glassco Commission and a logical development of the age of the com- puter which is now about to envelop us. Already. according to an Ottawa correspondent, there are some 30 computers of all ages and sizes in | government. service, and at the énd of this month tenders close for the specifications. of..the--most complex

and advanced. of them all—designed

specifically for CDPSB. . The new electronic brain willbe

the most up.to date in North America

as much work as any present govern- ment computer. This means it_will be able to do a million operations a sec- ond; and it can be “talked to” from places far remote from its air-con- ditioned room. In recent demonstra-

e

and will be-able-to-do- 10 to-12 times. -

tions to deputy ministers, this new |

| } | type of computer, set up in Phoenix, | Arizona, was operated by people at a !_console in downtown. Ottawa. | The new-machine will provide the various government departments with ‘| what has been called a common mem- ory room, where millions of useful facts and figures needed by many de- _ partments would be readily available.

‘At the same time it would help solve

the problems of various government _ research scientists, not now within reach of their older computers:

—National__revenue~ officials note

with enthusiasm that the use of the computer in the U.S. has “improved the memory of the taxpayers im- measurably,” since the word is out that the machine never forgets and cross-checking on the taxpayer’s past | and present status is becoming easier | every year. With the arrival of the new computer at CDPSB the. stage will be set for a centralized storage ofpersonnel-files._financial_and_ac- counting records. file contents and library accession lists, as well as their retrieving-and updating... .,

The programmers, however, must devise a common language for the computers--the figures and letters which, fed into the maws of the ma- chine, cause it to search its tapes, | calculate, compare, test and a nee

fraction of a second produce; niiles | *away, the answers. printed on a card. These are the skilled men who are | being sought everywhere, by. govern- mént and industry as automation | spreads. and who will’ form a new elite in our expanding bureaucracy.

EDITORIAL NOTES

“Our world will be a safer and healthier- place -when-we—can- admit that every time we make an atomic bomb, we corrupt the morals of a host of innocent. neutrons below the age

of consent."—W. H. Auden in the New York Times. * aa -.*

Canada’s action in discriminating against advertising placed in ‘‘foreign- owned” periodicals is continuing to draw disapproval wherever the prin- ciple of the freedom of the press 4s cherished. e Inter-American Press Association has joined the Common- wealth Press Union and the Interna- tional Press Institute is condemning the Canadian measure

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AS OTHERS SEE US~

y Patrick Nicholson

Nation-Wide Program On Drug Reactions

“The advent of the’so- called miracle drugs has enabled our health professions literally to bring about ‘tures which -only a few years ago would have been

regarded as nothing short _of miraculous. This advance ~ in drugs is one of the greatest and most beneficial elements of modern civilization.”

That was Hon JW. “Monte*

then our federaj Min- ister of Health, speaking three years ago, at the height of the -world-wide distress created by a simple tranquilizer, known here as thalidomide. causing unex- pected and tragic side- effects when-taken.by_pregnant women-

Mr. Monteith then taunched—a special committee of the House of Commons to study drug. safe- ty. That committce has been workirg for two vears. and last December recommended _ that the Food and Drug Directorate i the Department of Health should establish a permanent buréau to collect and coordinate reports ~ofadverse reactions caused by drugs, ‘and to ex- change them with other countr- les and with the World Health Organization, and to assist our own doctors by passing the re- sultant information to them. SAVE MANY LIVES

Thanks to ‘the. new miracle drugs, countless millions of suf- ferers from tuberculosis.. mental illness, virus infections and oth- 4n_.countries

Monteith,

ter health, while-in-many—cases they certainly owe their life to But there is a ‘Jat- ent element of danger in the use of any drug. Even commonly-

used headache tablets such as

“aspirin have-in rare cases caus-

ed death,

A recent report “from the. New ;

Haven hospital t.U.S:A. de-

scribes studies made over eight |

months of 1,000 patients being Biven drugs for diagnosis treatment. 198 of those patients suffered a total of 240 cases of adverse side effects. All but 48) cases were com artively trivial. but 16 of the patients died

This risk is amply justified. es- pecially in the case of critical ftiness>-he~thebeneficrat-resuits of the miracle drugs But the risk could be reduced substan- tially throuzth “a national and even -international __network..re-- porting the experience cot doctors

Our Yesterdays _ (From: The Guardian / Files)

OUR YESTERDAYS (From The Giardian Files) TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO | (August 31, 1940) Berliners, who hitherto consid-

ered the war in the air as some- |

thing remote, are making the | acquaintance of their air raid | shelters in earnest now but find peculiar problems arising from the Nazi way of One is the presence of Jews in

the raid shelters. with whom “Aryans” are supposed to have no contact

Marriages in Canada last mor

th jumped 13444 per cent over July, 1939, and were the most in any month since the war be- gan last September. the Domin- ion Bureau of Statistics in Ot- tawa reported. : : « TEN YEARS AGO (August 31, 1955)

The appointment. of GR Greenough as superintendent of the Prince Edward Island Divi- sion of the Canadian N a tional Railways was announced by R. B. Graham. assistant genera! manager of the Atlantic Region.

His Honor Lieutenant nor T.W.L. Prowse was the reci- pient of many congratulations on the occasion of his birthday anniversary :

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life involved. |

Gover- | + even skipping a drink, patrons

treating patients under various circumstances with the 25,000 to 30,000 different single—or mul- tiple- ingredient drugs now on the market.

This: underlines the merit and wisdom of the recommendation made by the Ho&se of Commons special committee on drugs, on which sit such well-known doc- tors as Saskatoon’s Eloise Jones, Oakvite’s Harry Harley. K a m- loops’ C.J.M. Willoughby and Or- illia’s P.B. Rynard, as well as druggists like Sudbury’s Rodger Mitchell. 4

DOCTORS ASKED TO HELP

The head of the Food and Drug Directorate. Dr. -Ross: Chapman, and hig officials have now com- pleted .the organization of a Can- ada-wide program to report ad- verse drug reactions

At first, reporting centres were set up in 14 selected teach- ing hospitals affiliated with uni-

Versities across Canada; now

many provincial hospitals and |

And_ veterans -hospitals and every regis- dentist and drug-

| military aré included; tered doctor.

gist,in Canada has been sent a,

supply of report forms and ask- ed to cooperate in this import- ant. work

As an official of the Food and Drug Directorate said to me, the basic. source of information about adverse drug reactions must be our medical! profession; so the more they all cooperate in Canada’s portion of what is be- coming an_ international ex- change ‘of medical information, the more their own patients and

indeed_all sufferers wiit-benefit—

by this unprecedented world- wide attack on illness. And of course, this step will prevent a recurrence of the thalidomide tragedy on _the same scales.

Passed On To The Farmers

Edmonton Journal

Back in 1932, when the Co-op- erative Commonwealth Federa- tion, now the New Democratic Party. was born, the socialist . midwives were convinced that a lasting marriage between the farmers and organized labor would lay the foundation for a Canadian socialist state That dream has been _trated often enough, an }: thing eft of -it-must further trampled in grain- handlers’ ion clearly could not have cared less about the farmers’ inter- este ree cereale ees The grain-handlers’ are now back at work but the cost of the 72-day walkout has ‘yet to « be totted up. It will be plenty Mr. A.T. Baker, general man- ager of “the Alberta Wheat Pool. says the settlement can- not be justified by any economic Standards. The elevator com- panies simply gave in to mount- ing pressure from the _federal

_frus-

have been the recent

Pe Montre

A New York Times writer re- cently conducted_a modest. re- search project on the conse quences of the relative failure of the New York World's Fair. One of them. conceivably could-be of advantage to Expo °67 | The most pronounced. effect of | disappointment with attendance at the New ‘York fair is the feel- ing, common to industrial exhi- bitors. that_it costs more to he represented at the major ones than it- is worth. Every visit- or costs from a dollar to three | dollars. in terms of expenditure on the display, and the same | amount. of money invested in ad- vertising of other sorts, it is felt. ‘would produce a greater return. Unhappy experience at New York explains the difficulty in

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The Silver Lining.

; government and the intransig- ‘ence of the union

Whether Mr. Baker is right or wrong in this judgment is not at issue here. But the question’ of who must. pay for ment won by the union remains.

Mr. A.M. Runciman, dent of the United Grain Grow- |

ers. says the cost of the in-

the farmers. rather than—the buyers, because Canadian grain prices must be kept competi- tive

He adds that the elevator com-

~ panies, some of Which are farm:

er-owned co-operatives, will be forced to apply for an increase in handling and storage charg- es

How the added costs will he shared has yet to be determined:

But once again it has been de- monstrated that the interests of organized labor and of farmers are often in direct conflict.

al Star

interesting U.S. industry in par- ticipating ina big.wav in Expo So, the centre of keenest interest will not be commercial displays, and in-ah exposition around a theme like Man and His World that may not be a bad thing. Expo may ‘also gain in a more direct and tangible way. Long Beach, Calif., has’ given’ up plans to hold a big fair in 1967. Chicago is out_of the race for the privilege of holding a world’s fair in the 70's. Possible. visitors to Canada's World Fair will not | be distracted by publicity .for others &xpo "67 -might be the last spectacle of the kind for a considerable period, and of in- terest to the public over a wid- er _area in consequence

—Loans Get

Welland Eve

While there seems to he little limit to the ingenuity of Cana- dian finance companies (in sug- gesting reasons for securing | “friendly loans”, it + appears, even so, ‘that their Japanese counterparts are proving even more imaginative. In Tokyo, for instance, there is | in operation what is described as a “cash ambulance”, which distributes emergency care to patrons of night clubs who find | themselves in sudden need of funds.

Without leaving the bar, or

are able to borrow up to double

“Eciandlier!

ning Tribune

| ‘low interest rate” he 3.8 per cent per month. It is not necessary to detail

the reasons why this: inffovation is unlikely to be adopted in-Can- ada. Unshaken shall stand the greater tradition here of seeking out money-lenders after the binge, rather than during it: There's another lending inno- vation in Japan which also looks a little tricky, at- least at first glance. Hostesses at the night clubs also are encouraged to se- cure loatis (up to $27)_under the . “sponsorship” of their patrons. | Advertisement for. the’ plan put

the settle- |

presi- |

crease | must be passed “along to |

Provides MP Retreat_

|e Bx. armer Tissington Special Correspondent, Ottawa

Canada’s parallel to famed Chequers Court in Britain is a six bedroom white clapboard

| home in Quebec's Gétineau Hills

some 30 minytes’ drive from | parliament hill. '~ Formerly the summér home

| of one of Ottawa's early lumber |

barons, the official summer res'- | dence of Canadian prime minist- | ers was acquired by an act of | parliament in 1959

The home is o the shore of Harrington Lake, Feputed to be one of the best fishing lakes in the area, and was originally |} owned by Col. E.M. Edwards | and the Hon. W.D. Herridge. The former Edwards’ house and 13.4 acres of the origina! estate | became the property of the peo- | ple of Canada for use by the prime minister

The Edwards and Herridge families sold the property the National Capital Commis- sion in’ 1951. for $232,000. ~~ but

._members_of both. families retain . amenities| ing

; the right to use the

of the lake. Until it became the | Summer home of the P:M., the | National Capital Commission

| rented out the home at $1,000 a

season

A summer home for Canada's prime minister was the brain- child of Yew Democratic MP Bert Herridge of B.C. a distant relative of one of the original owners. Mr. Diefenbaker was prime minister when the idea was first raised atid he express- | ed persona! disagreement. Mr. Herridge pursued his idea -a | year later and. with all parties Supporting it; the bill was ratif- ied by parliament. Significantly, Mr. Diefenbaker was out of town the day the bill came up for de- bate

The year-round home of the prime minister, 24 Sussex Street in Ottawa, was acquired during | the tenure of Hon. Louis St Lau- rent. He also managed to find a pressing engagement out of town_when__parlfament voted to purchase whaf was formerly the residence of the Australian High. Commissioner to Canada

With prime- ministers in al- most constant demand, even dur- ing summer recesses, the Har- rington Lake home does not get the extensive use one might ex- pect. But -it does provide an overnight or weekend retreat in a beautiful setting, but still with- | IN easy reach of the capital

®& MORE DOWN UNDER The population of Australia increased by 227,987 in 1964 to a total of 11,250,708.

| NOTES BY THE WAY

The new. television seasor ix just, around the corner. We .1j}! prefer our corn on the ¢ob

The -secondday-of a diet isn’t vies hard, because by~that time you're off it.—London Evenirg!

News. Hamilton Spectator. When a man‘who hadn't been Tommy: “Grandnia, if | was able to get his psychiatrist to invited out to dinner, should |

eat pie with a fork?’’ Grandma

diagnose his case received later | “Yes, indeed, Tommy."” Tomm

a monthly bill for $500, he said:

“I know what he thinks—~ he | my: “You haven't got a pie in

thinks I'm crazy’’.—Guelph Mer- | the house that 1 could practies

oe on, have you, Grandma?’’- " From ‘Burnaby, BC., comes monton Journal, .

word that a woman who was

shot in the jaw with a '22-calib-

re revolver slug last April has | married the man who faces trial

for her assault. In the words of

the poet, ain't love grand?—

Hamilton Spectator.

Our Peacekeeping Role

Canadian Press Staff Writer

There appears to be growing , regiment which won't take its disenchantment within and out- guns to Cyprus side the government. with Can-_ There Is wide criticism among ada’s self-appointed peacekeep- | the military and non-military role; j alike in Ottawa concerning the — External Affairs Minister | choice of the CF ="5 fighter- ~~ ‘Martin said Wednesday, how- | bomber, ostensibly to be used ever, that Canada will pursue in limited conventional flareups the subject of more effective anywhere in the world. “a peacekeeping measures at the ‘WHITER CF.5? United Nations General As-| Many officials say they just sembly this fall. can't see Canada becoming em- Despite one disappointment Hed in a situation far fram after another, Mr. Martin hagg its shores where the CF-5 would refused to be dissuaded fr or could be used, whether i his goal’ of a world peacekeep- UN. operation or otherwise. “ ing force. He’ is as relentless. , Prof.James Eayrs of the Uni- in this’ matter as his predeces- versity of Toronto, who has

Adolescence is when You think you'll live forever, Middle age is when you wonder Bew you have lasted so long.--Satpla

Observ er. ss

sor. Conservative Howard written books on Canadian de

Green. was in the field of dis- armament.

John Holmes, director general of the. Canadian Institute of In- ternati®hal Affairs and a former senior official of the external affairs department, said this week that Canada’s reputation is besoming, slightly tarnished after 20 years of. the kind of ac- tive diplomacy that rarely sats- fies anyone

OLD DRIVE LACKING

“We are no longer looked upon as a fresh young force.” he said at the third annual Banff ‘conference on world de velopment

Within the government as a whole, there does not appear to be the same drive there once was. behind the objective’ of

fence and foreign policy, said at Banff Wednesday that Can- ada’s military policy is |n dis array because its military forces are used more for dip- lomatic than defence purposes.

.On the CF-5, he said, “there is nothing to suggest that in Canadian service it can ever be called upon to do what it's designed to do.”

Prof Donald R_ Gordon, as sociate’ professor of _ political science at the University of Al- berta, said too much Stress has been placed on Canada’s role as a member of the UN “fire brigade: "*

UN TROUBLES

The coclness to peacekeeping is probably due, at least’ in part, to the inability of Canada and seme of its friends to swing

the UN generally to the view that peacekeeping costs must be a collective responsibility of all UN members

The special financial. pledges ;by Canada, Britain and the Cyprus next month. The unit | Scandinavians to help meet the was farwbelow strength and it peacekeeping deficit have so will be fleshed out by a 130 far not persuaded other UN man battery from an artillery members to fill the. till,

world peacekeeping

For example, no strenuous effort _was made to find enouvh infantrymen to reinforce the 2nd Canadian Guards Battalion for its scheduled UN duty in

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