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'm a “Messenger He's i-or Ancl Against Though he has resigned from the Diefenbaker government, former De- fense Minister Harkness is seeking renomination as a Progressive Con-e servative in Calgary North, which he has represented in the Commons since 1945. The convention is sched- uled for tonight, and there have been no reports, to date, that anyone is planning to contest the nomination against him. He will be running, not as a supporter of his party’s nation-

. al leader, Mr. Diefenbaker, but on a

campaign that involves replacement of Mr. Diefenbaker by someone more in line with Mr. Harkness' views on the question of national defense, es- pecially the nuclear arms part of it.

This is an extraordinary situa- tion under our party system of gov- ernment. Mr. Harkness says his allegiance lies first of all with Cau- ada and what he thinks is essential to the security of the nation and the proper discharge of our responsibil- ities. This, of course, is true of every honorable citizen; but in a democ- racy it isn’t necessary to stage a palace revolution in order to prove One’s allegiance to one's country’s in- terests. Certainly not to remain in a party while repudiating its leader.

The Conservative party followed what it thought to be its own best interests, and those of the country, when it chose Mr. Diefenbaker to lead it out of the wilderness in 1957. It has been in power under the lead- ership he has given ever since, de- spite the crisis it faces today. The choice of a successor, Mr. Harkness concedes, “would be up to a party convention"; but until that choice is made, or Mr. Diefenbaker resigns, he is still the leader; and Mr. Harkness, as a continuing aspirant to party recognition, owes him whatever al- legiance is involved in this relation- ship.

That others have left the cabi- net in protest of Mr. Diefenbaker’s leadership doesn’t make Mr. Hark- ness’ position any stronger. They are not running on an anti-leader platform and still claiming to be staunch party men. What the ex- minister is up against here are the loyalties involved in our system of party politics, for which obvious- ly he has no use. But wouldn’t it be better, and more consistent with his protestations, if he sought re-elec- tion as an independent, or quit the field altogether as his former col- league Mr. Hees has done?

However, Mr. Harkness insists that his job is “to remain in the party.” on a platform to which his party doesn’t subscribe and under a leader he has disowned. Which- ever way his campaign goes, it will be a unique one. Nor can we imag- ine how the electors are going to make head or tail of it.

Another Warning Vorce

“Every little fifth rate nation- alism that springs up in the Un- ited Nations wants, if not rockets to rattle, at least tanks, airplanes and an air line. And we are grow- ing Used to this. Let a few gener- ations go by, and so much of soci- aty’i‘ wealth and employment will be wrapped up in this sort of thing that we will get—as we are begin-

: plug to get now—a vested interest in s 1. n ' , I

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"“i'llhla warning came the other i Loren K. Eiseley. Uni- . Pennsylvania snthropoi. in"? M'Iaddress before the ' ‘Mation for the Ad- : be! Science. Going back

speaker cited

' I, w-I with colonial-

ism, Egypt's a .orption with pyra- mids and tombs, India's development of a few social rules into a caste sys- tem that stifled growth—all exam— ples of wasted energies and wealth that destroyed civilization. Today’s combined military and space efforts he compared to gigantic tumors that grow and become monstrous—and in time "to reduce them to normal size becomes difficult, if not im- possible.” Meanwhilo the effort weakens society. '

Dr. Eiseley urged proper concern for human values in the face of technological progress which tends to turn men into ciphers and man- kind into‘ an abstraction. We must remember. he said, that “abstrac- tions bleed”. Computer calculations on how many people a nation would lose in a certain type of nuclear at- tack tend to hide the fact that it is the man down the street and his 1 family we are talking about.

Perhaps our world today will have little more to show for its ef- forts at progress than later day Roman ruins and Egyptian pyra- mids. Probably not as much. if a nuclear war finishes it off. This is the nightmare that every states- man has to live with. Man naturally looks to space as a new ocean to conquer, but he must find a way to control the monsters he creates. More and more it is becoming evid- ent that the real danger for our civilization is that so much wealth, energy and technology will be put into defense and space programs that we may in the end he inundat- ed by them.

Footnote To History

So much attention in the Cuban crisis has been directed to the Sov- iet missile threat that. a couple of other noteworthy results of that affair have gone largely unnoticed. One is the fact that a new rule of the international law of the sea has come into boring and been gen- erally accepted.

Under international law a “block- ade” is an act of war, designed to force an enemy state to comply with the will of the blockading country. The “quarantine” imposed by the United States was a variation on that—a selective effort to deal with a specific threat to peace. It was imposed in accordance with the res- olution of the council of the Organiz- ation of American States and the terms of the Rio Treaty and was respected by all states, including the Soviet Union.

This point is made by a com- mentator in the Christian Science Monitor, who notes also that the quarantine was not entirely 3. Un- ited States operation. The opera- tion included two Argentine des- troyers, tWo ships from Venezuela, and two from the Dominican Repub-

lic. These destroyer types plus the United States destroyer Mullinnix formed Task Force 137, which had the job of establishing the quaran- tine line between Puerto Rico and the northern coast of South Amer- ica.

Incidentally, U.S. Navy records show that 63 ships at one time or another participated in the quaran- tine force alone. and that 183 ships were at sea in the‘Atlantic and the Caribbean during the operation.

EDITORIAL NOTES

A new reading device invented by an Australian and new being produced by a London firm offers several new advantages to people with impaired eyesight. It con- sists of a light metal box about six inches high holding a sloped glass rectangle for viewing. The box is placed on a book, magazine or newspaper and is easily moved down the page with one hand. No lens is used, only a slightly curved mirror as a magnifier which enables the area to be viewed without distor- tion.

O O O

A Liberal member of the Ontario legislature has accused the Roberts government of pouring gallons of booze into a multitude of women at the Royal York Hotel last week. The occasion was a Trade Crusade dinner for 2,000 women, and it is claimed that three separate barn were set up to cater to them, Mines Minister Wardrope, whose con- stituency is Port Arthur, objected strenuously to this allegation. They were all "very, very fine ladies. many of them from my own rid- ing,” he said. It was shameful to suggest that they had gone on an

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extensive drinking bout.

OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson Trapped In Parliament’s Divorce Mill

Did you ever come back home after a vacation, feeling good. and anxious to get together ag— ain with your friends - and then have the zip taken out of you by the mountain of forgotten work awaiting you, like maybe all the dishes and pans piled dirty in the kitchen?

When our new Parliament meets he re this summer. no matter what it's make-up. it is going to find the parliamentary equivalent of greasey frying pans, plates caked with left- overs, arid the dishclothes begin- ning to smell sour.

When our 25th Parliament was abruptly dissolved two weeks ago, it left a veritable mountain of the nation's business unfinish- ed. There was almost no cash in

the government's till, last year's '

budget was not yet approved, next year's estimates were not yet tabled, many bills were not passed. the unemployment in- surance fund was running dry. But the worst of all, in terms of human suffering which need not have been. there were no less than 902 unhappy married coup- les left trapped in parliament’s divorce mi . .

TWO YEAR HANGOVER

Of those, 323 couples were al- ready hung over from the last session of a previous parliament. Thus the misery of those disen- chanted marrieges must now wait to be examined by a third parliament before the now un- "~‘ "one ‘narital ties can brokcn. Such 3

wer happened In Canada before.

Normally a divorce can be launcth a n d completed in around six months, whether go- ing through the courts in one of

the provinces where appropriate -.

machinery exists or g 01 n through the federal parliament in the case of Canadians w h 0 live in Quebec or Newfoundland. But in many of these hungover cases more than two years will

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cruel state of.

have elapsed before the proceed- ings can be completed. This has needlessly delayed many plan- ned remarrlages, deferred the settlement of broken homes, left the luckless children in mid-air, and caused many victims to be cruelly anxious and overwrought.

Critics of socialism frequently

understanding in the socialist system. which raises the state to a position of pro-eminence above the human being. and which sub- ordinates the interests of the pri- vate citizen to the doctrinatire

,demands the state. This : principle was vividly demon- strated and miserably suffered

In Hitler’s Germany; it is th e hallmark of the Communist sys- fem.

But in our Canadian demo- : cracy, the state- is intended to serve and protect the individual citizen, and give him needed

at . NDP BLOCKADE

3 But two New Democratic Par- , ty M.Ps, Arnold Peters fr 0 m l Kirkland Lake Ontario, a n d I Frank Howard fr 0 m Skeena. I B.C.. have alone held Parliament l at bay. themselves master-mind- 4‘ ing and executing this blockade

point to the absence of humane . ' many people are now suffering

on divorce proceedings which 3 caused so much needless suffering. Almost unaided these two socialist M.Ps have elevat- ed the state above just one type of unfortunates. discriminating against the unhappin - w couples of Quebec and New- foundland alone.

“I certainly regret that

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inconvenience and hardship as the result of their divorce cases being held up." om m, Douglas, the leader of the N.D.P. told me. But he did not explain why the majority opinion of his party caucus had not over-ruled the two mavericks in their det-

ermined blockade of all divorce l

cases right up to the bitter end.

Nobody disagrees with the proposition that Parliament should not serve as a divorce court. But if certain provinces refuse this facility to their resi- dents. then Parliament is doing

' the right thing by offering it.

Surely Messrs. Peters and Howard should wage their cam- paign against Quebec's Premier Lesage and Newfoundland’s Pre- mier Smallwood — and not fur-

: ther penalize the victims of those

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omissions.

There are Winter nights when quiet cold settles on the land and the dark velvet overhead curtain is studded with blazing stars. if the cold spell coincides with the full of the moon and the countryside is white, brooding loveliness reminds one 1 of the soft tones of 8 Carol . The countryman knows by 1 still. cold night with the red line well below i h e zero. D a y 's breeze fades away, the honed edge of settling chili is sharp ,against his face as he comes ‘down across the pasture fro m

PUBLIC

FORUM

HOSPITAL REQUIREMENTS

Sin—Some few d aye ago while conversing with a friend who is in the medical profes- sion. the subject of hospital fin- ancing came up. This MD. who is in a position to know, to the last detail, the economic situa- tion of the hospitals in this province was considerably per- turbed. He stated Very definite- ly, that unless some drastic measures taxationwise were promptly adopted one of two alternatives would obtain. Eith- er we would resort to the obso- lete method of passing the hat from house to house, with the usual conscientious and gener- ous members of our society con- tributing, and with also the us- ual number of thoughtless and irresponsible refusing ‘and dele~ gating their share of the burden as always; or we would reduce

'the present high standard of

treatment and service in our in- stitutions to a classification where accreditation would Impossible.

We feel sure that none of wish the latter alternative happen, and as money must forthcoming in order to keep our hospital standards in the top bracket, it will of course have to come from the only available source — the government. re- gardless of party, or any and all pre-electiou committments. The government of course in the last analysis, means you at! me. So as we will definitely have to may however Indirectly why not voluntarily make the gener- ous gesture of asking the govern- ment to accept our rebate aa a present to the needy hospitals. over the province as deterqu by the board or those in authority?

We consider the very grave matter of the financial condition of the hospitals is not a subject for altercation, and with this in mind we would ask Mr. Percy Gay's indulgence. when we point out that his letter might be construed as to suggest the pos-

us to

and turning the sum total of time rebates over to the hospi-

ials. Without definite knowled- ancy in saying that neither this government, nor any 0 t h e 1' would do anything so vulnerab-

le.

We believe each individual taxpayer who is eligible. will be canvassod by circular and ask- ed to state his or her willing- ness or otherwise to have their portion allocated to the needy hospitals and their decisions will be adhered to religiously. We feel almost equally sure that the few who have hitherto from a position of perhaps thought- lessness and supreme good health failed to contribute. will

to gift of God is seldom per- manent, and that unforseen ac- cident or knees m which no one is inmate could make (the continuance of free hospital- ization. veny attractive, and act

according y.

To each individual the gift is comparatively insignificant, but the total will contribute a tre- mendous boost to this most ne- cessary of all our lualtutiona. When we suggest that there be no exceptions to the at mativ- es when the circular comes to your home. if this is the method .that will be adopted, may we say that it is not from a pre- sumptuous position of affluence that we do so. We can use the money as well as any. But when we think of llhe money we have had to spend mrrseli in hospitals. during the depression of the thirties. when it was dif- ficult to spare ii. of the homes that have been wrecked, and the lives blighted, by fire necessity of paying huge hospital bills. we welcome the privilege of contri- buting our small quota.

We suggest that it will be the

part of wisdom, eyeu If not from altruistic motives. to allocate this money _ which you have ai ready paid. and which will not now embarrass you—to hoe- plials. the facilities of whim you or yours may at any time be happy to have available. I am

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C. C. PRATT,

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midafternoon that it will be a.

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Still, Cold, Star-Iii

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chopping wood. When he comes

in from evening chores with milkpail and lantern. he stops in the dool'yar‘d a minute to se- vor the night.

The steel - while moon slices serenely among the slars. From the woodland half-muffled but

liar-carrying reports tell of split-

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ting trees. if one were standing by the river, he would hear the groanings and meanings of the

lice as its changing pressures

moved against the shore.

A man puts another log on the fire and goes to the window to look at night's beauty. Fields and meadows are bright in the moonlight; trees by the meadow creek are grey-brown bouquets. Lights from farmhouse windows across the valley are earth-an- chored stars, signalling to the distant lamps on the sky trails

A quiet, cold moonlit night in February when the countryside is white is one of year‘s mem- orable pictures. This'is still the heart of Winter: this is part of the master plan ordained in ancient eras. A man may not like the cold. may prefer green grass to white snow. But he knows that this is part of the turning year and that before the time of resurrection. earth must go through its Winter.

Fewer Accidents Recorded In U.S.

By Or. More R. Van Della-

Tflllpl was a slight improve- ment in the death rate from all accidents in 1061 and we hope the same will be said for 1001.

We particularly pleased with the decrease in the auto- mobile accident rate, even

though the diminution is less than one per cent. According to the National Safety council. the drop was the first in seven

' years in the number of perqu

injured or killed.

There were 91,500 deaths from accidents in 1961. Of these 13,- 500 died from work accidents. 16,500 in public accidents. 20,500 at home, and 33.000 from motor vehicles. The latter is not an in- Iiguiflcant figure, even though we are a patio of on

driving or fail to apply sound driving techulcs at all, times. More than 80 per cent of the total accidents were associated with violations of rules of the

ma .

Excess speed, driving on the wrong side of the road. reckless driving. and failure to yield the right of way are the most com- mon violations. releeenees was number one on the list of factors in pedestrian injuries. It is the same old story of cross- ing between intersections or against the s’gnal lights. Jay- walking, or stepping from be- hind a parked car.

It boils down to the driver as the most important safety fea- ture of the automobile.- Safety belts minimize injuries. but do not prevent accidents. Human error is the basis for most pe- destrian accidents. The reduc- tion in the accident rate may be the first indication that edu- cation. driver training, and en- , forcemcnt of the laws Is paying

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Statistics teach us what not to do but leave many individu- als cold because of our natural inclination to say, "It never will happen to me.” But statis- tics concern people of all ages and walks of life. World War Ii iflyers realized this when the lcscaped injury. "My luck Eabout to run out" was just ano- :ther way of saying that statis- l ties were catching up with them. Be careful if you drive or walk ‘on busy streets—or you might [become a statistic.

DIABETES lN UNDERWEIGHT 0. Z. writes: Can a thin per- ‘ son get diabetes. where there is is history of the disease in th e E family? i REPLY ; Yes, and ii is surprising how 'many people tell of gaining end . then losing weight prior to th e diagnosis. On the other hand. :diabetes has been detected in 3 people of all ages and sizes and lofien may appear when least suspected.