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_ = Waiting For What? -
A curious thing about the report of the royal commission into Cana- da’s postal troubles, tabled Wednes- day in the House of Commois, is“ that it was completed back in mid- September. Why then, in view of the urgent need for clarifying this issue, wasn’t it presented to Parliament: at that time? Because, it seems, the re- port had been written in French and
. the past month was taken up in trans- lation into English and printing it in bath languages.
* Sémething here, surely, for that other royal commission—the one that has cost nearly $7,000,000 to date to iriquire into our problems of biling-
*. uidism and biculturalism—to look ~irifo! If the report had to be trans- from ancient Egyptian hiero- giyphics, scholars could have achiev- e& the task in less time than this. Apparently there was no great rush, in the minds of the federal govern- ment, notwithstanding the threat of a general strike of postal employees that is hanging over the country. _ 2 This report, incidentally, does more than criticise senior officials . fof poor handling of staff relations, highlighted in our news columns yesterday. At the same time, ft warns employees against resorting too qbickly to strike action and advises them to_give the government’s:pro- posed new civil serviee legislation a fair trial. “In everyone’s best inter- ———“eats,*~says’ the commissioner;~“they~ will have to learn to be more con- ciliatory, more understanding, and more reasonable.” - > on
: But the whole situation is so vague that it is hard to say who is to
__ bfame. The present Civil Service Act makes no provision for a strike any- where in the federal civil service.
—_—The-.new—legislation,now-- awaiting — third reading, would give the right to strike to all civil servants except those/engaged in work “essential to the:safety and security of the public.” Nothing in the bill says that postal workers fall into this category, >but neither are they specifically excluded.
That, presumably, would be for government to say. But if it did put them in the “no strike” category, they would have the right to object and appeal. Then the matter would go before a proposed public services staff relations board. What the board would eventually decide is so un- certain and so far away as to be be-- yond-all forecast. '
As the Montreal Gazette. well says
“in this connection, under such: con-~
ditions the demands of: post. office workers are naturally encouraged to become as extravagant and as vehe- ment as the restrictions against a post office strike have become cloudy and conjectural. — Ae
“A Real Crisis”
It is reassuring to note that at least one authoritative body is pre-
-vesebared..to...go...to..bat.. for. _more—not |
less—federal _participation in meet- ing problems of higher education. In a brief prepared for the forth- coming federal-provincial confer- on this subject, the Association of Atlantic Universities points out that recommendations made last year by: the Association of Universities. and. Colleges of Canada are still unimple- mented, and urges their adoption by Ottawa. Len : These recommendations include the increase of operating grants by $1 to $6 per capita, the establish-. ment of a capital grants fund, in- creased, amounts of money for re- search, a capital fund for education in the health field, increased student loans, scholarships and bursaries and equalization grants to poorer prov- inces, The brief: also makes a plea for more aid from provincial govern- ments for education. On both levels,
tt seys, Canada has suffered from the - low priority given education “and for this our nation is now paying a high price.” University admission has suffered from inadequate plan- ning. Development of faculty, equip- ment.and buildings has been on a makeSnift basis, graduate work has lagged and research is weak. In fact, “Canada faces a real crisis. that will” mean in today’s complex society either progress or deterioration.” With our limited tax potential, © however, this challenge cannot be _Met-in. the: Atlantic area—certainly not in this province—without in-~ creased aid from Ottawa. This issue was clearly defined in the last annual review of the Economic Council of Canada in which Ottawa was advised, as “an urgent need”, to make avail- able additional financia) resources
|*to ‘the governments of the lower-
- income regions and through the. ap | propriate federal agencies “in order
low productivity, low incomes, low government revenues and low in- vestments in growth promoting ser- vices which are needed to improve the: quality and effective utilization of the available human -and-material resources.” The council report cited
| several of these resources in partic- | ular, putting education at the head ~
of the list.
This recommendation should be called to the attention of federal spokesman at the forthcoming Ot- tawa conference. The report in which it appeared is dated December, 1965, and apparently nothing has been done about it since.. —
Those Food Costs
A surprising bit of information was uncovered at Ottawa the other day, at a session of the Senate- Commons committee on living costs. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics acknowledged that in measuring the, rise or fall of food costs in Canada, they carefully deducted from the re- tail prices the cost of the packages and cans in which they come. As it was explained, better packaging is classified: asa quality change and must be eliminated from the price index. Suen pie
That, comments an exchange, can .
paign of aroused housewives as they . battle for lower food costs. If the Bureau of Statistics is right, and the . cost of food has not risen apprec- ~-dably,.-will_the..women...be...willing..to.... campaign against the modern pack- aging of food? Would ‘they try fo boy- cott the packaged goods? Would they be willing to go back to the old days when bananas hung from the - stalks, herrings and _oysters.came in“ barrels, potatoes could be picked from big bags, or chickens were for | sale complete with feathers and_in-_ sides? ‘ peat a Jt it probably true that we of this modern time have either been spoiled or spoiled ourselves. We want biggef and better cars in which to travel. As considerable portion of housewives shy from the idea of baking as they used to, instead of buying packaged mixes. Instead of buying a whole citron peel and cut- ting it ourselves, we buy in a pack- age already cut, Rolling our own cig- arets is too bothersome. - There is another side to the argu- ‘ment, of course, and it lies in the fact that it is becoming harder now- adays to buy food in small unpack- ‘aged quantities. The trend which has put so much food stuff into attract- ‘ive packages has-created more jobs and put more money in circulation, but that is small satisfaction to the shopper who can ill afford such lux- uries and doesn’t know how to avoid ~ buying them. Perhaps the parliamentary com- mittee will come up with some help- ful advice. on this point, but it is doubtful. “Eliminating” . packaging costs. from the price index as the
does, isn’t much of ; solution.
EDITORIAESNOTES
A USS. congressman, Samuel Strat- ton, has a bright idea for dealing with that recalcitrant fellow, the president of France. “If we stopped buying French’ wines, and bought New York State wines,” he says, “de Gaulle would be on his knees.in a
short time.”
There are about 714 million licens- ed car drivers in Canada. Of them, more than a million got their permits without any form of test. This is the word from Philip J. Farmer, execu- . tive director of the Canadian High- way Safety Council. It should bestir the legislators of Canada’s ten prov- inces into a reassessment of laws that permit such a dangerous situation to
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THE NOT.SO.MERRY.GO.ROUND
Parliament Hill’s number one topic today is neither the medi- care postponement, nor the gro- ce! boycott, nor even the Liberal and Conservative lead- ' ership crises. Despite the impor-
tance of these topics, anxiety in
parliamentary circles is now primarily centred upon the fu- ture of Canes defence forces.
Could Canada fight a war to-
day? If we had to, our forces
would almost certainly be path- etically ineffective, making dis- astrous- mistakes. and. suffering. ‘appalling losses. See
This must be the conclusion from the hij of inex- ~moted to the top. =
Qn January Ist last year, Ca- nada had 90 brass hats— of the
ranks of , naval Commodore, army Brigadier, air force Air
Commodore and above. Since
that date, no less than 79 of
those have-resigned through dis- agreement with Defence Minis-
¢-ter-Hellyer’s -.policies,--or-.-have- been retired. More than half of these have left the services pre- maturely, even younger than the wastefully low compulsory re- tirement ages: :
OUR GREEN BRASS
‘Thus something like 85 per
cent of our commanding brass
today is new to its job, and much of it is totally inexperien- ced in fighting and in high level
command. Yet while we have
high proportion eS: perienced brass hata newly pro- ji)
OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson . - . TooMany Brass Hats Without Experience
Yor Canada’s unified defence force is C.C.C.— Canadian Cola Crusaders.
But National Defence head- quarters has on hand more than enough uniforms of the present designs to equip every NCO and_ below with two com- plete outfits. The inventory price of this stock is around $7,-
be wasted through scrapping? While there was universal ap-
proval in parliament and in the
services to the original step of:
Few brides are so blase as not to be up inthe air at their wedding, or few bridegrooms either. But it was a cool-headed pair of aerialists who exchang- ed rings and vows in the* void
over the Western
Pair reeds nd at London “below a”
helicopter in which a Presbyte- rian minister, the Rev. Jonas Shepherd, played the role of sky pilot with the prayer book as his map. =
But when Mr. Shepherd, in the ehurch ceremony that followed said,‘‘Ruthie, now that you have your feet on the ground, wilt thou take this man...” he touch- ed a point relevant in-some of
000,000. Will this be another ex-% pense to the taxpayer which will |”
integration of command struc- ture and elimination of the was- teful tri-service committee sys- tem, and cheers for the integra- tion of common support servie- es, such as the chaplains and medical ‘services, etc., MPs are increasingly worried by-the spe- ctacle of a minister ignoring the considered advice of his senior ssional advisers against un- pation. Can all those “brass -hats be wrong? And can the pre- viously retired brass hats, who
seem to be unanimously critical, “also all be wrong? “~~ :
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today’s weddings. How many of our thousands of earthbound’ teen-age brides have their feet on the ground as to what they are getting into? How many know or care they. are commit- ting themselves, on a lim-
ple, to a situation perhaps as a trapeze act? Even with the best possible preparation and in- tentions, people who marry sign for a walk on a tightrope. How many fall’ off we roughly know. How many lurch and teeter through the course and wish they
had kept their feet on the ground there is no way of knowing.
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The two-year scholarships re- eently announced by the bank will enable up to 14 recipients to acquire Master of Business Ad- ministration degrees from York
re! able there, perhaps. But what degrees they will be. — In between opening and clos- ing terms at York, students will receive intensive courses at Ox- ford, Harvard and in Paris. They will meet business, indus- trial, and government leaders abroad. If—all that wasn't. enough, there will also be a six
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trained top brass hats as young as 49 rotting on pension.
These facts. were elicited through questions asked in Par- Hament by former Defence Min- ister Douglas Harkness—a for- mer colonel ‘and winner of the George Medal for gallantry—and , other MPs, ~
At a lower echelon, where are our pilots? Defence Minister Hellyer had at his disposal 500 young Canadians newly trained and qualified as jet pilots, after a two year course w hich is said _to have cost the staggering sum of $250,000 per pilot. That is 10 times what it-costs-to train--a badly needed medical doctor. Yet these pilots were thrown out as redundant. Many of them took their expensively acquired ekills to USA, where such a free bonanza was quickly. snapped upto pilot. civil airliners. And Canadian taxpayers are left to shoulder the bill for $125,000,000 which their wasted training cost. BOTTLE GREEN UNIFORM?
Meanwhile drawing board ex- periments are progressing on the subject of a standardized uniform to replace naval dark blue, afmy khaki and air force
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Summary execution of 50 ee ka vera was ordered by Gen. Von Stuelpnagel, Ger- man occupation commander in France, as.a ‘ mea- sure” of reprisal for the killing of Col. Karl F. Holtz, the Nazi commandant at Nantes.
hal» Ki -.Rokossov- sky and the other Stalfhists and raising . nationalist Wladyslaw Gomulka to leadership.
Gomulka, new leader of Polish communism, presented Poles with a virtual declaration of independence from Russie. ise
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Scientists estimate that every day Los Angeles pours more than 14,000 tons of pollutants in- to the air, above it. :
On thé average, a man can live five weeks without food, five days without water— but only five minutes without air. In big cities like 158 Angeles, the cleanliness of food and water is rigorously guarded, yet these enormous volumes of poison belch out into the air.
On ev square mile of New York City, about 70 tons of soot, dust and fly ash fall each mon- th: This, however, is only a re- latively harmless evidence of air pollution. The chief damage is done to human lungs by sub- tle fumes that often are neither seen nor smelled.
North America’s automobiles, ‘for example, emit some 4,000. tons of lead particles (an in- gredient of most gasolines) each
In Hollywood a really big show is shaping up which has some of the best known big- name stars of screen and televi- sion literally lining up for. bit
film actor Ronald Reagan run-
for the governorship of Call- fornia and his political backers discovering that he was the biggest crowd drawer the state had seen since the late John F. as stumped: California in
And this is about where the Hollywood supporting. cast de- cided to get busy. Recenfly a group of actors — kali’ amt Gregory Peck, Gene Kelly an Kirk Douglas —— started their own campaign to tell the p u b- lic that Reagan is a nice fellow when he sticks to acting, but as a politician he is deluding himself. .
Spearheading ~ {meu m bent Democratic Governor Pat Brown’s move to neutralize his opponent’s charm the group will make their political pitch by appearing on television to say something like this: ‘I’m an actor and proud of it. When I appear before the camera I always knew I was just play- ing a part. One of our co}l-
leagues seems to have lost touck with reality.” .
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year. Researchers have found that every human being tested a of lead in his
One of the most common— and corrosive— air pollutants is sulphur. dioxide (which New York releases at the rate of 1.5 million tons a year). Mixed with moisture from the air, it forms a powerful acid that eats into granite buildings and statues. What does it do to human lungs:
Los Angeles is spending more money 6n anti- pollution resear- ch than any other city on the continent, yet the problem is far from solved. In Vancouver the problem, by comparison, is just beginning. But it is grow- ee many tons of dirt and poison enter Vancouver's air each day? How long will it be
eTt was all started” by “former” ning as Republican candidate
before BC has widespread and
effective anti- pollution control? -
How About Hitchcock?
Aiso beesting Governor will be Frank Sinatra, Henry Fonda, Dan Blocker and Robert Vaughan.. - However, Mr. Reagan will
also have his‘own team of jf. — ‘actor - backers, among them: |}
John Wayne, James Cagney, Walter Pidgeon,’ Mary Pickford, Hoagy Carmichael, Fred Mac- Murray, Cesar Romero and Buddy Ebsen. 4 Whether it is a real sense of their responsibility as citizens which has drawn out these per- formers or whether the lure of playing to big houses is just too much for them to resist is not yet clear. ~ However, one thing for . cer- fain fs that they have intre- duced considerable glamor into American politics. And this is a move that Ottawa may well consider worth some study, What a lift it: would give Canadian politics if, say, Mr. Alfred Hitchcock could be pre- vailed upon to introduce and direct our.next federal election. After all,.he is especially well versed in horror and suspense.
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within the Saigon cabinet; ‘of ministers threatening to resica,
resignations to continue a tem- porary facade for purposes of a Manila conferenté that seems to be based mainly on political expediency. a :
This is not the first time Pre- mier Nguyen Cao Ky has faced a cabinet crisis. The history of Saigon politics is scarred by re- peated breakdowns. South Viet Nam is torn by regional and re- ligious differences. Despite all the aid and attention provided by the United States, there is nothing to indicate that South Viet Nam can exist as a tran- quil_democracy under freedom, |
Johnson's words therefore be-~ comes
: meaningless, especially when he argues that behind the
Viet Nam resistance, ‘‘one after. another, the nations of Asia are casting off the spent slogans of earlier narrow nationalism and
terdependent Asia.” There is no indication that such Asian nations as India and
| Pakistan are becoming interde- « pendont. Nor is there any indie °s~
‘cation that Burma, Thailand, Indonesia
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More successful was one aimt Jones of Bryon, , Caernarvon, recently insisted that the appli- -
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provides $6,000 for living expen-. ses. -
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that there are no worthwhile centennial projects? -
The bank hasn't said whether or not the scholarships will be < offered beyond centennnia} year. We hope they are. There has been too much good plan-
end after only one time round. These awards could rival the Rhodes scholarship in prestige ‘and deeply, influence business, industry. -and-<government is Canada.
The bank's initiative mi ght also spur: some other company | te’ establish_a-similarly—imagin- ative program directed at stue dents specializing in’ the hume anities. History, political science,
too important to be left only te
the Canada Council to support.
from the hearts of dead
On-the-spot photos from Toronto’s General Hos- pital accompany Staff Writer Bill Trent’s feature. on one of the most revolutionary developments in open-heart surgery — a new technique in which damaged heart valves are replaced with valves
Great Canadian Painting
In a century of nationhood, Canada has produced some fine artists. A new book, Great Canadian ~“ Painting, ‘pays’ tribute * to” ‘Canadian “painters. Weekend Magazine is happy to present 8 pages of full-color reproductions from this latest publi- cation by the Canadian Centennial Library.
Concentrate on Cranberries
With their tart and unusual flavor and beautiful color, cranbérries add a lot to any dish. Food Editor. -Margo Oliver: features cocktails, pie and pudding among her Cranberry specials fhis week, “ ‘
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