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Optimism In The Dark |

' ‘We are still pretty “much in the |

_ dark as to what went on at last week’s closed ‘conference on fiscal affaits at Ottawa, but we are assured that as a‘

| in finances.” Instead of the $200,000 } “gunk bounty” offered as an in- | efease under the new equalization

/. igguls

at the September conference,

Premier Campbell figures we'll get a $4,600,000 boost in unconditional '. tion of vocational training centres. | ” This is not as much as.we should be getting, he says, but it does provide

more leeway than we had before.

|. “Tt-enables the Premier to.give as

| surance, for example, that the Con-

- federation Centre definitely he closed, |

tenance, operation —tion’”’ of the centre as a

will not ~ ding that Ot- '. tawa’s proffered assistance-will fall + —~ far short of the total needed for an- nual operation and maintenance. On the Preitier’s own showing, from an __erder-in-council dated Nov. 1, 1962, | bone.

Confedera-

tion’ memorial; in which cease, one

* ean only ‘wonder what all the uproar —

has been abou. =

says “the Tryst was well aware of

the legal

ility” implied in this agreement, “but it never was in-

_ should bear the full burden.” Then

- what was the intention, and why this

_ whole agitation to foist the full responsibility on Ottawa under threat of closing the centre down this week?

The public is entitled to more en-—

lightenment on this point than has

heen forthcoming. 5

Perhaps, too, we could be told

‘more about the mysterious fransac- __tions under way between the provin-..

- edai government and the Georgetown ~ §ndustries, Gulf Garden Foods and Bathurst Marine Limited. As a result

of a five-hour meeting Saturday ~

‘night, it is expected that “new f

cia] arrangements will result in the néar future which will resolve the

- existing problems of the company.”

- gut it is not stated precisely what

these problems are,.let alone wha’

solution will result.

dase.” What do the “pfillistinés” know about art, here or. in Toronto

; where they raised such a rumpus over sculptor Henry Moore’s $100,000.“Three-Way Piece No. 2.”

|-whatever that means, which was un-_

veiled last week in front of the city -hall?-The-civie authorities regarded

| it with disfavor, and refused to pay ‘for it; but it was purchased by /*-

anonymous donors as a_ gesture “toward an ideal higher than utili

in our architecture” 5; ‘In a way, our plaza piece has it over the’ Toronto masterpiece be-.

weighs only two and a half. Quality and quantity combihed, so to speak!

should present a harder surface than

be able to sneak up, some dark night,

_| and carve “Shaw Centre” or other

such opprobrious words surface. a sei :

The Toronto sculpture is all sen- suous curves, with bony. otitcrop- , pings; ours all flat surfaces and angles. But both achieve the modern- istic aim of being completely in-,

on its virgin

comprehensible to: the “uncultured” - multitude. As their admirers. proud-

ly explain, they are “abstract forms, reaching down into exper- ience for shapes of unive signifi-

cance, and -emerging as. works of grandeur.” Look on them, ye un- sophisticated, and despair!

At the Toronto unveiling ‘cere- mony, the chairman of the civic art “gommittee said in his speech that this was a moment of triumph. “The ~“philistings;” he chortled, “have re-~ tired in disorder.” - But -not all of them, it turned out. One young man

Moore’s view of man, “then he ‘be- longed in a mental. hospital.” A woman said, “It looks like an old | bone.” Others it resembled more a headless

| dream. = _ :

__ And just as the chairman was say- ing the creation would enable Tor- ./ place with London and Paris and New York,” some students, 15 yards

ers scurried in their dirertion; every-

-men—nine of them, by a¢tual count —wheeled in perfect formation and _ advanced on what seemed to be an uprising. The junk sculpture vanish- ed and the ceremony was resumed. |. Later, when the Mooré work was’ displayed, the students raised their sculpture again. It turned out-to be a collection of bicycle tires, old shoes, a bedpost and a piece of chair. They.

a kind of anti-Moore; titled “Archer Tester.” They held up a sign: “Six out of ten pigeons prefer Archer Tester.”

— That’s another thing, too, about our wonderful new plaza decoration! . It provides. ample accommodation for the pigeons, and its critics will be hard put te disparage it on ‘this

cause it weighs four tons and theirs |-

Ours is made of cast iron, too, and | stone or marble. No-miscreant wil]

elephant, or a bad |.

one turned and suddenly the white’ |

tectural students and their piece was‘| |

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—aagervien tp the Toronto Star, this | % excitement, notes | $e. ment.is__ misleading. Bathurst |. * °°" *€W B0vCt eee ~~ Marine was commissioned—to—hbuild — to. x

nine steel-stern fishing trawlers vn ge, h $7,800,000; but-half.| Woeful contrast to its. ~ of this amouiit is in federal subsidies.

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said the source had “a definite

_.reason for starting the rumors.” The = $tar also quotes Bathurst presidént

Thomas Sanderson as denying his company .was_in-.any_financial .diffi-.

culty. Government auditors, he main- tains, had scanned the books of both. companies and had reported that

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tr: ing all right. But we would appreciate

neither firm was in financial

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thinking and policy ‘making. taxes, in short, may depend ’ on ' quality of DBS figures.“

lion a year to operate DBS, yet the . flow of statistical information -pro-

most of the major economic decisions mental in deciding how the $9,000 - million a year of federal spending is to be divided up. Business manage- , ments also use DBS figures as the jumping-off spot for their own. fore- _ casts and budget plans. - Canada and the Royal ‘Commission on Government Organization have in recent years recommended ‘substan- tial expansion of the bureau, and to

: ".. some extent the call has been heed- The new sculptural adornment to . the- provincial administrative build-

ever the viewer may see.” He calls it

“Paulia,” which is a Greek word’

meaning “birds.” There will be some * , eritics who will say that it is strictly

hensible piece of extravagance.

for the birds, and. that going so far for such a monstrosity was a repre-

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ed. But a still greater exploitation of many .technical improvements in statistical analysis’ would be! possible

if DBS had more staff and the money, .An increase of between million ~and $5 million a year {ofthe depart-

ment could, it is claimed, produce benefits far in excess of their costs. .

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dodgers during the years before the United’ States came into the last war. vs

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