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PAGE 4__ SATURDAY. APRIL 10, 1965.

Takes Firm Stand _

year in US.

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~~ “The Pearson Government has

been criticised for its proneness in yielding to various demands of the

- big provinces—notably Quebec..But it

has taken a commendably firm stand

. on one issue of this kind. It has re-

fused to back down, ‘under heavy pressure from Premiers Bennett and

_ Lesage, from its* position that provin-

cial governments have no business getting into the field of commercial’ banking. It maintains, and ‘we be- lieve rightly so, that nothing could

_more quickly lead the nation into fin-

ancial chaos than to have different provincial governments pursuing

separate monetary policies- through |

Having been ‘thwarted by the Senate in his plan to found a provin- _cial bank of his own, the British Co- lumbia government leader is now

trying to purchase shares-in an-exist- ©

ing chartered bank over which he would exercise effective control. His Quebec counterpart, Mr. Lesage, says he hopes to invest some of the Que-

--bec pension plan funds_in private

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bank stocks, but denies any desire to influence. national monetary policies: Finance Minister Gordon, how- ever, has put his foot down. He has reiterated the federal position, in re- sponse to Premier Lesage’s demands, that Ottawa will not permit provin- cial governments, “directly or in- directly,” to enter the banking busi- ness. Why should they seek to do s0,: if it is not their purpose to bring influence to bear on banking policies?

It cannot be simply for the purpose .

of investing dividends, since higher returns could be earned from other

investments. As Mr. Gordon’ pointed out, the

_ British North America Act clearly

makes banking an exclusive federal

_ responsibility, and there it should re-

main. Even a limited ownership of bank shares by another government —whether foreign or provincial— could place such a government “in a special position of power or influence in relation to that bank.” © And suppose —all--10-- provinces should take advantage of this prece- dent? That wéuld create two nation- wide banking systems, one privately owned and the other operated by par- tisan governments. The provincial banks would be-in-a-position-to-com-

bine for joint purposes and bring.

enormous pressures to bear on the federal government and on central bank policy.

Parliament thay be asked to in- dorse measures which will further strengthen Ottawa’s hand in this matter. If so, there should be no de- lay in putting them through.

Inviting. Trouble

' East German Communists ‘have. in recent days, been harassing traffic on the land routes to West Berlin. Tension was relaxed when they re- opened the Berlin autobahn- late Thursday night after closing it twice in defiance of challenging U-S.-British convoys; but there has since been more interference and this will likely continue until the joint Soviet-East German military manoeuvres end to- morrow. -°

It is said that the closings posed

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-a challenge to the United ‘States.

Britain and France to take counter _| measures which would create a new |

East-West crisis. So far, the Western allies have had the sense to confine themselves to protests and it is un- likely, in the circumstances, that they will go further. They are well aware of what prompted the Communist demonstrations ir the first place.

These were quite evidently intend- |

ed as a reprisal for West Germany's decision to have its Parliament and Cabinet meet officially in. West Ber- lin this week. Such meetings had

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improper for the West Parliament to convene outside its own territory. . Regardless of the merits of this

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argument, the fact remains that Ber- -| :

lin is a divided city, and nothing the Western powers can do about it— short of going to war—is likely to change the situation for the present. West Germans naturally find it hard

|. to reconcile themselves to this situa-

tion. They are prompted to make

wprovocative gestures, regardless of

the-consequences to others as well as to themselves. But this is hardly the time for stirring up trouble of .this kind. :

Thanks to wise diplomacy on. both,

"sides, the ‘Berlin situation has been

~Jocated -in- towns and. villages from

‘slowly. Figures for 1964 showed

_that of patronizing our public libra-

calm for many months. A> definite easing ‘in East-West tensions had taken place ‘without compromising Western interests. Now the calm has been shattered, for the sake of a ceremony which had not taker place since 1958 and which. at best, does

—~nothing—to—enhance~West German |

prestige. It just isn’t worth it, as the -Communists haye been at pains to point out.

On The Uptrend The week of April 10 {0.17 has been officially designated Cana

dian Library Week, and there is good |

reason why we should keep the ob- servance in mind in this Province. Speaking of public tibraries-alone, -we- have 24 branch libraries in our pro- vincial regional system, strategically

one end of the Island to the other. |

We doubt whether any part of Can- |

dais better serviced in this im- t respect. ‘

But libraries are of little value unless they are widely used; and here, too, the indications are reassuring. Circulation figures ‘indicate that read- ing is on the increase again after ex- periencing a sharp decline with the advent of television“in 1956. ‘

In 1955, for example—the year be- fore TV became general in the Prov- ince—our public libraries circulated something like 191,000 books, and in 1957.the number dropped to approxi- mately 156,300, a decrease of 34.000 or close to 18 per cent. But circula-¢ tion is moving upwards again, albeit

162,000 circulated in public libraries in spite of the fact that five of the branch libraries were closed for ex-

HE CAN-DREAM, CAN'T HE”

column that the Royal Commis- sion on Bilingualism and Bicul- turalism has 10 commissioners, each paid $100 per day, as well as a full-time staff of 125 and

~also-.24-part-time , workers. The

obvious question which poses it- self is “How does this army oc- ‘eupy its time? Does it justify its cost to the taxpayers now. run- ning at the rate of over one mil- lion dollars per year?” —

~ “Nicholas Mandzuik, the , 62 year-old Ukrainian- born Con- servative MP for Marquette, Manitoba, has asked the. Prime Minister in Parliament why the

themselves the job of psycho- analyzing MPs. Its an step by the Bi- and-Bi and it’s a

The drill is this a phone call from the Bi-and-Bi to an MP asks for an appointment for an

tended periods-during the year for various reasons. In spite of the fact, too, that the Charlottetown Public Library has had a large drop in volume of business since moving into temporary quarters. In addition, circulation in public | libraries in towns and villages where | regional high schools are located has been affected to a large degree since high schools maintain their own libraries. So, in view of all these things, business can be. said to be brisk. But there is plenty of room for improvement. We can still ‘pro- vide services for many, many more book borrowers. From:.library officials we learn | that circulation at Georgetown and . Montagué@ has always. been surpris- ingly high, and North Rustico- has been high for the past five years. Summerside is moving up: St.-Peters has a huge circulation for its com- paratively small size, and this canbe attributed in part to a new library building opened there in July, 1964. It's a grand habit to get into—

intetview. Two females« appear at the MP’s office at the ap- pointed time, and ask him a number of writing down his replies. This has tak- "en from‘ one to two and a half hours. in various cases so far, according to the MPs who have

allowed themselves to be sub- |

jected to this impudent imposi- tion upon their busy day.

The interviewers then leave withthe MP a printed- sheet with 30 statements; they ask him to make one of five differ- ent comments against each Statement; “agree,” ‘dis agree’’, inclined to agree,” ‘‘in- clined to disagree™ or “don't know’. The following day they again call at the MP's office to pick up the completed sheet.

ARE POLITICS

If the questions were relevant to the terms of reference of the Bi-and-Bi._ commission, every MP. would be willing and an- xious to o-coperate. But some of the questions are far out. For instance, Nick Mandziuk picks this statement out as the. prize: “Politics is a dirty ; “Would T be heré if I thought it is?’ was his very reasonable comment to me.

Other statements included in | ti

the 30 are: “‘MPs, inf view of the demands made upon them, are chronically underpaid.” (I sug- gest the Bi-and-Bi should buy itself a dictionary and look up

ries. A salute to all who are engaged’ in- promoting this ‘wonderful: move-

ment, the. possibilities. of which can |

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truly be said to be inexhaustible.

EDITORIAL NOTES

It is to be hoped the federal gov- ernment will not start.its “‘war on | poverty” the way New York City is | said by the New York Herald Tribune | to have done—by hiring a special poverty consultant at $500 a week.

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_ W. H. Herridge, NDP member for Kootenay West, knows how to make a good start on an interrupted speech. “When we adjourned shortly after one o'clock to in some bodily sustenance and get the holes in our head repaired,” he said in the Commons the other day, “I was deal- | ing with” . . . etc., ete. + ‘* . ‘

It’ now appears possible that ‘a parliamentary decision on the plan | for ging .the constitution” home may’ be deferred for a year because of the controversy in Quebec over the future of the provincial legislative council. Before proceeding with ra- tification of the formula, Premier Lesage wishes to curb the powers of the upper house and to ensure, par- |

ticularly, that it shall have no veto >} of constitutional

over questions amendment. .

the meaning of that word). -

‘When you to Ottawa you may have great ideas, but you soon learn that ideas don't get you anywhere.”

“Party discipline is too strict today.”

“The local party organization

Bi-_and-Bi boys have given.

good question by Nick Mand-. tiuk

BILINGUAL? |

game.” |* ka, the: arms~ build-up; —the—ex--

Our Yesterdays

(Front The Guardian Files)

TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO |

‘ (April 10, 1940)

British warships have ‘battled their way to the outskirts of the German- occupied Norwegian city of Oslo, it was reported, as the climax of a day which saw blow after blow struck by the Royal Navy and air force at the German ,garrisons in Norway.

Panic- stricken residents of Oslo. the Norwegian capital, fled by. every available convey- ance today after British war- ships were reported to have for- ced the rocky Oslo fjord and threatened to bombard the city unless it was surrendered with- in a few hours by its Nazi mas ters.

TEN YEARS AGO (April 10, 1955)

The monthly meeting of the Charlottetown Kinete Club was held‘ at the home of Mrs. Clive Cudmore. The president. Mrs. Stewart G. Ives, conducted the

business meeting. Refreshments | ‘ were served by Mrs. Ivan Sin- and

clair; Mrs.. Pius Stewart Mrs. Roland Taylor.

Mr Tracadie, waé a visitor at York yesterday on his way to Chariot- tetown. | s

Bennie Watts, Grand

| ting me elected.” “People tend to judge a party by the quality of its leader.” “Dominion- Provincial confer- ences detract from the import- ance of Parliament.”

ARE THESE RELEVANT? Nick Mandziuk questions whe- ‘ther these topics are relevant to

and-Bi commission: his next “point is how much is this-opera- = coming the taxpayers, and

|...Tucked away in the 30 state-

; ments are a very few loaded

ones with an obvious purpose: “Translation facilities should

the terms of reference ‘of the Bi- |

Why All This Poking And Prying?

I recently described in this , had very little to do with get-'. be extended io all committee -

rooms, whatever the cost.” “The notion of alternating the leadership of tical _ parties _from_ English-Ca to French- Canadians is a-good one and ‘ought to be followed gener- ally." (What about ethnic Can-

adians, | am*one myself— com- _

mented Nick). “A Senate conceived of as a ‘Chamber of Nationalities,’. rep-

resenting English and French in |

' equal proportions, would-be a@ useful reform to our parliamen- tary system.’ (No ethnics or In-

«dians? asks Nick).

“The main concern of English-

_ Canadian MPs is not to rock

| the party’ boat.”

~ Fowl Play’

Is there’s one man we always

ture minister. For some reason or other, he is in a haystack of trouble from the time he assum- | es office until the day he calls it quits and retires to the calm | pastoral life of a big city / apartment A When we think of agriculture ministers and their «troubles, | we always fondly remember the | hate_Rt.-Hon. James G. Gardin- er, former Premier of Saskatch- | ewan and oftime candidate for Canada’s Liberal leadership. As Minister of Agriculture in the | King and St. Laurent cabinets, he was always a man who knew how to handle his farm critics: Except for .the.time. when a | Manitoba farmeh xo! verv riled

~while watching Mr. Gardiner on

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Cyprus is like a live volcano. The ominous rumblings, the

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change of threats between

Greeks Turks and their respec- |

can blow its top any day.

can be seen for what |—a gathering of forces,

been added to the

feel sorry for, he’s an agricul- |

| The long, outwardly calm ted ince thie crisis inet snsigillt now

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TV explaining away the Liberal farm policies ‘of the moment.

With a grunt of rage. the farm- | _ er grabbed a nearby shotgun, _

took aim at Mr. G's image. and | blasted the TV set to smither- | eens

| That wasn’t the last time. by the way, that a farmer showed his disdain for an agriculture ' minister on TV. Just the other

| evening, for instance in London, | | Britain's Minister of Agriculture |

| Frederick Peart, was appearing

| 00 @ program when ‘a disgruntl- |

, ed farmer rushed up to him and

| shoved a disgruntled chicken into his hands.

| Mr. Peart got the message—

| he had just been given the bird

| for.the low government- control-

| led price of eggs.

Volcano

New. York. Times

| dangerous,commander in chief, | Gen. George Grivas.

There was no evidence, said Mr: Thant, that the

| took the issue to the Security Council, the Greek reinforce- ments amount to 10,000 men. The United Nations report sets

enough. -

es to the UN told the secretary general that the Greeks were on the verge of unleashing an arm- ed attack against the Turkish Cypriotes and if it came Turkey would intervene.

| -Ie is agreed on all sides that | if hostilities start up Sgain they | will be much more serious than

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