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ER 14, 1966.
Trailing Tl Their C Coats
The story goes- about: a one-time «
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provincial treasurer who got through his budget speech in our local Legis; lature in a little over seven minutes a.record. But it had nothing on the achievement of Defense Minister __ Hellyer in his speech in introducing. ‘his conteritious bill for unification of Canada’s armed Services. Here, in — - tts entirely, is-his address as record- ed in Hansard:
“Mr. Speaker, this bill provides for the amalgamation of the navy, army ahd air force into a single service and will provide the flexibility to enable Canada-to-meet in the most effective ~ manner the military requirements of the future. It will also establish ae ada as the unqu
$ field of military organization, a.
minister to make a long ‘speech on sentation of a bill. But he was -@kpected to give some indication that jp was anxious to explain it Parlia- jent,-that he was aware That the 7 is deeply. disturbed by ele- ments of the bill. He might also have own that he believed the Commons
~@nelusion that Canada will by this become “the unquestionable leader in the field of military organ-
Those Bacon Prices There are many angles to the problems the food prices committee has to grapple with at Ottawa; but "one of the most confusing must be
+~the ‘question of why the wholesale
price of. bacon: increased by 12’ cents a pound during a three-month period this summer when the price of hogs on the livestock market, fell by $2.22. a hundrédweight. Certainly it’s con- fusing to our farmers, and Senator David Croll, co-chairman of. the com- mittee, plainly found it -flabbergast- - ing. The senator also had.some dry comment to make om the: fact that _about the time the committee ‘began:
' its hearing on food. conte, bacon
prices plummeted.
* He was assured. by packing house officials that the committee hearing had nothing to do with the drop. ft
was -just one of those things. As for.
the. midsummer price boom, it was’ | ” sugges at possibly the chain
stores were taking high markup to
Sicaiae - Croll said this’ did not satisfy him. The country was crying and shouting about; food costs. | “You've heard it too,» he told the packers. “Aren’t you concerned at what the merchants are doing with your product?” He was assured that everybody was: very much concern- ed, but it was the public really that was to blame.
‘The president of one packing company told a woeful tale of how his bacon business was almost ruined when he resisted an industry move to _the more expensive vacuum pack. He had been: ‘happy with the old wrap-
sanaet: which produces an airtight
compahy should spend that extra money on packages when they could sell cheaper the other way. But the provision people got very mad at him; they wouldn't speak to him for a long time! He finally had to give in. “The trouble was with the women,” he mourned. That was what they wanted and that was what they had to get.
Senator Croll asked what automa-
the food consumer. Production costs would be higher, said the witnesses, if it wasn’t for those things. They
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Eater ft reading the Opposition ed whether before second reading “the minister would consider submit-
_ another appropriate committee for the purpose of a detailed examina- tion being made of it.” Mr. Hellyer refused, and that's what the debate «a, nas been about.-ever since. . ‘‘Give.
x your approval now,” he keeps “de - manding in effect, “and I'll tell you later why we are doing it.” Parlia- ment resents this “father knows best” attitude, and it would be re- miss in its duties if it didn’t demand _ # fuller explanation.
Take for example’ this ‘curious pledge written into the bill’s provisions: “No officer or man serv- ing at the time the new act is pro- ~ @aimed will be required-to-serve in 4 combat environment different from ¢hat involved when he« enlisted, ex- dept in case of emergency.” As the Globe and Mail well says, to get to . the bottom of this gobbledegook it Will first be necessary to obtain from Mr. Hellyer some examples of com-
at members of the new force will be required to serve wherever and
henever they are needed, why "T to pretend otherwise?
= Why the bill was brought on at this
me at all, in view of-its controver- 'gial nature, remains a mystery. With only a few weeks left for parliamen- fary business before Christmas, the government still has ‘to ‘secure House
ction on the last stages -of the thedicare bill, the guaranteed income legislation for the elderly, the bank
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before committee and a baby budget is well as. its further interim supply ~ 9f money next month. All this, and the-threat-of-two-major strikes-on its - hands—in the postal service and Air Canada, the latter due to be called to- gay—should be enough to make gny administration move warily. Yet Mr. Hellyer and his palls insist on trailing their coats. Can it be, as nore than one commentator has sug-. ~ Bested, “that the: Tory leadership row has given them the idea that. this would be an opportune time to Yorce- pnother general election?
| ‘That may be wide of the mark. But if the dissident Tories have any poll-
tical gumption, they will remember what a wise man once said about the asininity of swapping horses . in
| cases even lowering prices.- ~ 3
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The senator challenged this state-
ment, pointing out that less-automat-
ed industries did not have price in- creases comparable to those in the food industry. That, replied a pack- — ers spokesman, was mainly- due to “the increase in raw material.” He admittéd, however, that -the-farmer wasn’t getting muctrimore for his live- stock. ‘
Why not? Well, waa was sure just why this was so. At least nobody within range of Senator Croll’s queries. It was, as a leading witness explained in one of the understate- “ments of the year, “a very complicat- ed question.” .
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- Summing It Up- "hese the Tory convention this week, an Ottawa correspondent the Financial. Post—no booster for, John Diefenbaker—notes that work- ing on_ the side of Dief is the old ‘maxim, “You can’t beat somebody with nobody.” Though technically the split is over the right to review
ing down to a straight fight on Dief- enbaker as leader, and no ready-
made alternative to him is in sight. ‘Premiers Robarts, Roblin and Stan-
' field, it is noted, give no sign of mak-
ing themselves available under pres- ent conditions. Among aspirants in the House, George Hees is: waiting for his Munsinger wounds to heal, hoping they are mere — scratches. Davie Fulton has not yet emerged as the national, still less the inevitable successor: The Post cmetaticd ‘recalls Winston Churchill’s famous crack, on refusing to give way to a younger jeader, “I never leave until the pub closes.” As Canada’s most illustrious~ teetotaller, Mr. Diefenbaker would «probably phrase it differently; but he seems to have the same thought
in mind. «©
EDITORIAL NOTE
From Montreal comes word that “the free mass rapid transit system designed for Expo will be automated. | It will speed visitors around the | 1,000-acre exposition site Without a driver. But Expo officials have taken note of some people's feelings con- cerning a driverless-train. So, they have appointed a driver, fo sit up front at the controls_in a “completely
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tion_and_ efficiency were doing for |. right-wing-tradition:
|. fhe “lost” . East, an end to war. crimes
the fact that they have emerged
: SepereNees, “but the era of rap-
the leadership, actually itis narrow- |;
, to ease German pressure on the
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ONCE HIGH NAZIS Nevertheless, many of its elad-. ers were once high officials of
Its platform. calls for a strong- er German army, recovery of German lands in the
trials and an amnesty. for Nazi war criminals, and 3. clean up of alleged “immorality” in Ger- man press and television — which could be a cover for po-
similar groups in the past is less their own effectiveness. than
at a critical point in postwar German history. _ German economic “mir —whichhas-— dazzled the || a for the last 17 years is | running out of steam. The coun- try. is_ still_prosperous, with high
id growth seems to be- over. THE REAL DANGER
tive rule which Chancellor Aden-
auer gave the Federal Republic. The nation now. seems headed for a period of weak, shifting coalition government. These changes are generating at atmos- phere favorable to . extremist parties. : » It would be as unwise to ex-
Our Yesterda s
(rom The Guardian
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (November. 14, 1941)
The end of an era was-reached in tense and dramatic circum- stances when the House of Rep- Tresentatives joined with the Se- nate in repealing all but incen- sequential selections of the Uni- ted States Neutrality Act.. The- United States now may arm its merchant- ships and send them
"The British Government was, accused in. House of Commons debate of foregoing it, chance
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Russians by failing to open a — rica.
TEN YEARS AGO
2s (November 14. 1956)
~ Another investment in the youth of Prince Edward - Island has been made witlr the official opening of the new Morell High School by the Minister of. Educa- » tion, Hon, Kier Clark.
“We are taking the matter of. the: Prince Edward Island causeway seriously and an additional sum of money has just been allocated tu contirue an economic.survey,” said-Hon. Robert H. Winters. Federal Minster of Publie Works
this area during the last half of the nineteenth century.
zi Ghosts Stir In West Germany —~
Torente Daily Star
e- | aggerate the “threat .trom ‘the
National Democrats as to mini-
/years of the Weimar Republic. |
The real danger, # may be,
Faced with a critical shortage *
Tough Times For Statues
. Wameouver Province
The Mary Poppins statue pro- posed for New York's Cen tral Park is labelled by the New York Times as SS art, as New York's histicated Parks Commission- ust know.”
Nearby ate two ‘other statues om New Yorkers are unable te enthuse over.
One is of Alice in Wonderland, which has been called ‘‘not only a dangerous- metallic piothing but an insensitive perversion of Jose de Creefts talents im direct stone-cutting.” -
On the other side of the park pond is what the Times calls | “the banal Hans Christian An-
-dersen statue stolidly cui | possible
and marbles erected a
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critic. It is one realm where man can get his pre: his chest
landscape.” Adds the Times: “It one be
out with equal brutality to the
almost the equal of polities—or the weather.
_.On The. Th ireshold
Now that the eleventh -month is here killing frosts have com- pleted their werk. Grass stems on the -hilisides are drained of
the garden are gray former beauty. Faded leaves are packed against walls.and fenc- Lee onl Gee te ie SOS ear ‘tail heads. ‘are unravelling in the wind. rene are many ‘November days when the countryside ‘\s austere and brooding. Gray’ clouds hang low above the ridges and brittle leaves on the dried: cornstalks’¥ustle when a_ breeze: passes by. This is the threshold of winter and there are: times of snow squalls, pelting rain and
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defect such as “‘leakage’’ of the “valve handicaps the function of the ventricles. Enlargement fol- lows, but because it is a painless — the individual may be
ied into a false sense of secur- ity. The narrowed heart valve is not causing any trouble and the
The heart also fails when the -muscle does not receive suffi- ecient. nourishment to Pa
‘Reeds. This occurs to ol
ple with extensive hardening ot of the coronary arteries.
~The, handicapped heart may
‘function for many‘ years and: oe only when faced with an
extra burden, such as a respira- tory’ infection, overexertion, cér-
| tain irregularities of the beat, a
coronary attack, or thyroid over- © activity.
Most victims of heart failure. are et ‘with— rest, oxygen, oral diuretics. Those aE dropsy may lose 75°! pounds of water in a few days.
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Spectator The practical effect would be
costs | to prevent any individual or
group paying their own money _to ensure the expression of their own feeling during @ cam-
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is a social menace, that should be his right, the laws of defama- tion and libel permitting. By the same token, fa Eroup x Canadian i
be quietly forgotten. It is an ex- cellent example of the futility of trying to overiimit election spending. Regulation, must be piled on top of regulation until the result is éurtailment of free- dom.
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WEATHER HOLDS UP NEWS ~ “MOOSE FACTORY, Ont..— (CP) — The 200 residents of Moose Factory Island, in the Moose River 250 miles north of Timmins, wilt have to wait un- til winter to read the news of the outside world. Paperboy James Tobin, 10, can’t get across the river with his dog- sled from the mainland to de liver his papers until the freeze-
up is complete, probably mid- — He normally sells it 100 copies of the Timmins on m the island.
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