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A\Man Of Gumption
«Premier John Robarts has added to his stature by recent statements he has made on various matters of prime concern to the Canadian pub- -lie.-The—Ontario—premier—is; course, a Conservative, but that hasn't prevented him«from coming: out, in opposition to his-federal party leader, for a two-year truce on parti- san bickering in the House of Com-
mons until the new minority govern--
ment gets a chance to show its cap-
abilities. More recently, to those
who clamor for a new Canadian con-
stitution, he has proposed a reason- ~—able-answer:—_It-is-that-we—should
make better use of the flexibility of _ our present system.
Mr. Robarts points out that there .
fs more to our constitution than t he British North America Act.. We share a background of custom and prece- dent which goes into the common law heritage of English-speaking peo- ~ ‘ples. Canadians are indeed a blend of many strains. Our constitution is partly swritten, partly. unwritten. — It has shown a’ remarkable’ capacity for development to meet /changing con- ditions. Any attempt to start afresh would open a Pandora’s Box of trou- bles, and if any constitutional docu- ment emerged it might prove.a rigid constitutional straitjacket.
Again, in an address to food in-. dustry leaders in Tdronto the other day, Mr. Robarts struck an invigorat- ing note. He deplored Canadians’ lack of self confidence and suggested that/they have but themselves. to blame for trade imbalances in food and manufactured’ products and for the lamented massive inflow of for- eign investment capital. Rather than
self-pity and hand-wringing, he pro-
posed that Canadian business raise its sights and get out and compete on the
world market. It.possesses the brains, .
the talent and the ability, and needs take a back seat to none. Further, he counselled that Canadians over-
___ come their timidity and invest in their-
own country and own -business and resources—rather than abdicating in .favor.-of—the-foreign -investor--w-ho reaps the profits.
This is a fay cry from the trad- itional high-tariff demands that. we have heard so often from Ontario
quarters. Mr. Robarts sees Canadian’
problems as a whole—not as a tug-of- war between the provinces and Ot- tawa, or between the province in- dividually.. We don’t know whether he has ambitions: to get into the fed-
eral..Tory leadetship race when Mr.’ |
Diefenbaker steps down; but he is shaping. up, by his statements, as a sound man for the job.
For Limited’ Restraints
Prime Minister Pearson got a cool
reception to his suggestion, some months ago, that the Viet Nam war be allowed to simmer down for a while. It was followed shortly by President Johnson’s announcement of
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a stiffening in Washington’s attitude,
and by which is
the’ escalation of: the war now running at a cost to the
United States of $6 billion a year.
Defense Secretary , McNamara has been arguing recently for “massive ~_ retaliation” that would bring Hanoi ~to the conference ‘table on U.S. terms.
But a new plea for a “simmering:
pte”. policy: has-been’ ‘advanced, this time by George Kennan. distinguish- ed U.S. scholar and diplomat, and
~ a man whose voice carries some
weight with our American neighbors. Mr. ‘Kennan’ S proposal is that
“Washington allow its’ friends to seek .
means of cease fire and negotiation, and that it place “limited restraints” “upon its military efforts as an earn- est of its desire for honorable peace. He points out that there is no sign that the bombings have done more than make North Vietnam more ee just as German
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bombings stiffened the back of srit- ain = World War II.
He argues that the United States has many ‘goals and problems besides
' Viet Nam. There were gains in es-
| tablishing better relations with the “Soviet Union: and eastern Europe |
before escalation in Viet Nam. Now
| relations, at least with the Russians,
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steadily worsen and the two countries appear headed back into the cold
| war, The U.S., too, is losing the sym: | + pathy of its friends, and is building
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up,exjticism in the so-called neutra) world.
« Mr. Kennan recognizes that the United States has legitimate aims in this war;:and that it cannot with-— draw its forces at this stage; but
neither can it pursue the war against |
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| may not work. But he argues that it
agricultural post when former minis-
an impoverished land on the present murderous scale with out bringing greater disaster to Asia.
Few Americans want that to hap- pen, nor can they view with equa- nimity the trend which. events are
taking. A year ago the United States _ had only a few thousand troops in |
Viet Nam, officially termed advisers.
As recently as July. it had only 50.000 |
soldiers there. Today it has approxi-
mately 200,000 and more are’ promis- ‘ed. The estimates of the total’ num- ber of troops who will be sent range ‘from 280,000 to 600,000. This latter number would exceed the total of “U.S. forces engdged in the Korean war at its peak; yet would even that | suffice? Not if Communist China in- tervenes, as is most likely under further escalation.
Mr. Kennan concedes that letting things ‘‘simmer down” while intensive efforts are made to’ find a way out
is the only alternative to a more
disastrous gamble, arid is at least worth a try. One can only hope that it will be given the consideration it merits on that ground.
Mr. Greene’s Job
According to an Ottawa corres- pondent, Mr. Pearsonconsidered | three men in picking his new Minis- ter of Agriculture—all of ther On- tarians. They were Eugene Whelan (Essex South), Bruce Beer (Peel), and John J..Gféene, a 45-year-old lawyer |
from Renfrew South. In choosing Mr. | Greene, he chose the only one of the’ trio who has little actual forming experience.
The new minister, however, estab- | The lished himself as a valuable commit- tee man during his two short years in the House of Commons. Last year he ‘entered the struggle for the On- tario Liberal leadership against Andrew: Thompson and Charles
~ Templeton, and may. be-congratulat-
ing himself now on having failed to get the job. At any rate, he became an. _overnight front-runner for the
ter Harry Hays was wiped ‘out on the prairies. He holds the distinction of being the first easterner to obtain this portfolio in 54 years... =| In a press interview following the announcement of his appointment, Mr.Greene noted the sharp diver- gence which has taken place in east- ern and western farm economies Since 1911. “Today,” he said,. “east- ern farming is Jargely mixed, dairy. and to some degree, beef. But the problems of the west are the very
| large problems of the grain trade.”
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Although recent governments have done a good job on grain, he didn’t think eastern problems have ever
| been effectively legislated in the fed-
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eral area. There are major decisions to be made in this regard. “If the ‘problems of the eastern farmer can -best be met by better marketing, then it’s up to us to get together with the provinces and get better market- | ing,” he added. The government must | decide, too, whether the family farm is to be the basis of our agricultural economy, perhaps with “greater security,” or whether corporate pro- duction was the farming of the future. We have no doubt that Mr. Greene will make it his business to familiar-
-ize himself with our Atlantic area as
soon as possible. He will: find that our farmers.‘here are very much con- cerned with the problems he has out- lined, and are ag anxious as he is that he meet. with success in grappling with them on the federal, Jevel.
‘EDITORIAL NOTE
When astronauts Borman and Lovell * were préparing to complete their space mission. in Gemini 7 last.
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Friday, they were reminded that it |
was that date 62 years ago that Or- ville Wright made the first powered ~
flight—120 feet in 12 seconds, at | wk ond besed ou Maia
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and his . brother Wilbur Wright flew 826 feet
in 59 seconds. It seemed, then, just as ‘ marvellous a performance as the pro- ae moon ae does now.
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‘SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO RUN YOURSELF’
JUPITER'S ANTICS
Slowdown Puzzles World Astronomers
Jupiter is puzzling astronom- ers again. The mysterious giant | planet apparently has started to spin more slowly, and no one knows why.
Jupiter normally takes nine | hours and’ 58 minutes to rotate on its axis, but recent calcuyla- tions indicate that one full revo- lution is taking 1.3 seconds long- er. By astronomical standards, this is “a drastic change.
The slowdown is linked with | | two other Jovian puzzles— the | | the radio. waves indicates an en-
planet’s long-wave radio signals and its Great Red Spot.
| EMITS RADIO SIGNALS
In 1955, astronomers learned
| that Jupiter was emitting long- | wave radio signals. It was- a
surprising discovery, because planets usually transmit only short waves ae by heat.
course of Jupiter’s long
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| waves remains unknown, though several theories have been offer- | ed.
Radio astronomers have var- | fously speculated that the sig- | nals emanate from tremendous | electrical storms; from _ elec- trons trapped and energized by the planet’s ‘potent magnetic field; from the sun's effect on Jupiter's ionosphere; or from powerful disturbances deep with- in the planet itself.
In-any case, the strength of
ormous source of energy— the equivalent of 10 large hydrogen bombs exploding -every second. By the time the signals have completed their half- billion-mile journey to earth, they sound to monitors like surf. breaking on a pebbly beach .
Curiously, the radio signals come from four different places
An Unenviable Job
Guelph
Even those who endorse capi- tal punishment believe execution is an awful thing. You can see this from the way we carry out the death sentence—in the mid- dle of the night, with a kind of solemn ritual that is almost re- ligious. We allow only a few un- fortunate people to, face the or- | _.deal .of. being witnesses-
“E firmly believed in. capital
punishment until I heard the public executioner give evidence before the Royal Commission’’,
said. the late — chairman -ot-—the--|-
Commission that studied capital punishment. The executioner, of course, is anonymous. Who
-wants to. be -known as-an-execu-";
tioner?
When those men in Ottawa | considet capital punishment | they might think of that myster-
Mercury
must be quite a chap. He de- signdthe scaffold, weighs . the criminal, measures the rope, and then at a certain pre-deter- mined time and date releases a bolt and drops a-fellow man through a trapdoor into eternity. That’s really something! Should the state ever employ a person who is ready and will- ing to do this for a sum of money? The government asks people_to_do_some-fairly ing tasks in wartime and even in times of peace, but this job is probably the worst. Remember that.One-whom. the world rever- es and worships, prayed for. his | executioners as a suffered <= | ital punishment. well | might!
History On Wheel
E.N.S. im The Winnipeg Free Press
History, to most people, is dull stuff. Students tend to view it as a long progression of remote events and elusive dates that must somehow be —— paired for exam -papers—-~ an which may be mercifully forgot- ten as soon as @xpedient.
Canadian history, being total- jy innocent of such melodrama- tics as marching legions or foy- al beheadings, seems especially drab.
But suppose would-be students, |
whatever their age, could in some miraculous way be trans- back, could walk through the land as it once was, could
Our Yesterdays (From The Guardian Files)
Anthony Eden succeeded Vis- count Halifax as British For-
| eign Secretary.
After showing its strength | with a record night assault. on axis objectives from the Ruhr to the Adriatic, *
bases at Wilhelmshaven, many and Brest _ Lorient, France.
TEN YEARS AGO ~ (December 22, aaa Lieut. J.H. Hodgson of
| lottetown had been recently | / pointed executive officer
Navy’s HMCS Loom then i
The Supreme Coort of
| ade tuled in eflect tht the |
RCMP was a military organiza-
' tion with ‘powers to enforce dis-
ciplinary measures within its ranka .
Suppose they could hear again the rush,- through silence, of the ‘great Canadian rivers, feel the blast of prairie heat on_ their faces, or watch a proud and _re- gal Indian chief instructing his tribe; suppose they could handle Louis Riel’s revolver. Wouldn't Canadian history take on more Mmeaniig; seem more relevant, more real? Planners | commission in, Ottawa are bet-
cordingly the ceniennial exhibit train (cost over $4 million for six cars) and the eight Confederation carav- ans which will take the Canad- dan story—complete with sound, weather, and piped-in scents—to Lall parts of the country.
The centennial train and the caravans (which in essence ‘dup- licate the train) are to be a hith- exto unparalleled production of Canadi
ana.
The display—made up of photographs, engravings and paintings, with dioramic displays and peephole- viewers; with realistic walkthrough sets, and
», with thousands of artifacts—be- |
gin with Canada as it was be- fore the white man came and | joan oe egeeiiges to the | present
| The battlefields of ‘the Second World War,4 thé Roaring ‘Twenties, the ma of Banting | 'and Best and the discovery of | Seenle, the Sepertope eng |
the centennial, commission’ hopes they should do both: —
QUACKS COLLECT CASH ‘About 25,000 unqualified, = proclaimed “psychological perts’’ collect $375,000,000 a your | im the United Statea
ious figure, the executioner: He.
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once helped to conquer the land. |
on Jupiter. As the planet rotat- | occur to the es, radio beams sweep out into boy.
space like rays from a light- | | house. Until 1961. the radio sources rotated along with the planet at a constant and compat- ible rate. then Dr. Alex G. Smith of the University of Flor-
of the radio signals.
Since the radio signals are be- Heved to emanate from the solid sphere of Jupiter, this could mean that the planet itself has altered its tempo.
RED SPOT SLOWS, TOO
Dr: Smith also recorded a nearly identical decline in the Totational speed of Jupiter's Great Red. Spot. This may indi- cate the spot is a fixed entity on the planet's face.
Astronomers generally have | believed that the oval-shaped spot is not.connected to the sur- face, but able. to drift like a huge raft in the sea, They have further speculated that the spot | is a solid ne like a
mosphere. It could be metallic hydrogen or solid helium.
The reddish oval object in the southern half of the planet was first observed three centuries ago — in 1964 by the British scientist Robert Hooke- When first seen, the spot was brick Ted. Since then, its~ color “has varied from salmon pink to a greenish white. The marking disappeared from view in 1713 | and did not reappear unt: pl...
The circumference of Great Red Spot is greater ten that of the earth. This immen- sity is in keeping with the colos, | sal dimensions of Jupiter, which is not merely the largest of the planets in the eolar system- but bigger in mass and volume than all the other _ Planets: put to gether:
Jupiter’s vast sphere could
| contain 1,300 earths, but it is
only 300 times heavier. The planet's relatively light weight— another Jovian mystery— sug- gests that a large part of it con- sists of gas in forms unknown on earth. .
of the centennial ©
ting $8 million that it will. Ac- | they Nave --designed |
America’s fo ee alliances—— aul sweet to
last week. The vi- ae there of. . Pakistan’s . i- dent Mohammed Ayub
| British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, and West German Chan- cellor ‘Ludwig Erhard testify. to the unique breadth of. the Ame-
Washington faces in keeping its alliance bright, healthy and
happy.
In Pakistan the United States hasan ally which has almost stopped being such. In Germany although there are still far more factors working for Ame- ‘rican-German harmony -than- a- gainst_it, a few frayed spots are | beginning to show up in the post- | war, —— of these two tiands” _/ | In Britain there is America | | Sram te ony eae and strong- | est ( Sei abc Gas ghbour Canada). Between this | spectrum from Pakistan to Britain lie innumerable varia- | tions of light and shade, each of
| which Washington must seek to possible |-
understand, .and;- when. adapt to-
It is no loose use of the word See ie ne ee nique in the modern world. Ti | peaches into every continent,in- cludes some of the most popu- tous as well as some of the tin- dest nations on the globe, en- compasses lands. which are de- mocratic to the core and others on hardly -know the mean- ing of the word.
Z If anything ever lent truth to that ‘ eee eee
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| inch or less when the X-rays are
often- disclose if the child is a-
ida noted an abrupt change—1.3 | in the rotational: rate |
| is a cyst that develops on the | wrist as a result of tissue dege-
in Jupiter's dense ~ at- lmeratl
$3 gravate. the swelling.
Allies Soria Arid Sour
Christian Science Monitor Almost the whole range of ; flux”,
sour—— were in | allies may, in some cases, be-
Predicting Growth.
By Dr. Theodore R. Van Delies
How tall will I get to be? question is of more concern to children who are tall or short
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assess.
Specialists in this field’ are able to predict the adult height of a child with a fair degree of | accuracy. The error will be 1
made before 12 to 14 years of age and less than % Inch after this time. Other body dimen- gions are not necessarily relat- ed to skeletal ago. They X-rays
head or behind schedule so in as sexual maturity 1s concerned.
Predicting growth has many emotional: implications. The tall, athletic girl may. value fe- mininty-and consider herself in- ferior unti] told that she is a fast grower. The reverse may small immature His day will come, but he must wait for it. TWITCHING. EXTREMITIES
I. McC. writes: Please advise me regarding the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. I have
twitching of the arms and legs
bu: no the head. Why are doc- |
tors reluctant to treat this con- |
dtion? | REPLY.
Physicians are not reluctant to treat Parkinson's disease, but they may balk when they do not believe that the twitching is — caused by this disorder. There. | @re many drugs and an opera- tion that lessen the muscle rigi- dity and typical tremor. | TiSSUE DEGENERATION |
E. J. writes: I have a gan | glion-on the back of my wrist.:
My job requires the lifting of |
heavy trays. Is there any -con- aection between my job and the
. lesion on my wrist?
REPLY
This fs doubtful. A ganglion |
Hard work may. ag- TWITCHING MUSCLES:
J. M. writes: ‘What might
cause twitching of the calves of
the legs? I am 65 and walk 10
miles week.
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Irritable. muscles. often. twitch...| -
This may be due to poor circu- Jation, arthritis, arch trouble, or too much coffee, tea, and toba- eco. Many persons of your age “walk 10 or more milés every day. CHEST HERNIA K. B. P. writes: Could a per- son have a hernia in the chest? == REPLY Yes. The most common type is protrusion through an open- ing in the diaphragm and is known as a — or — matic herni Sodas’ Wo Health Hint— Start the holiday house-clean- ing early.
(Note: All correspondence te Dr. Van Delien should be addre- ssed to: Dr. Theodore Van Del- Jen, Chicago, bac Chicago,
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it is the history of Ame- rica’s alliance system. Today's
come tomorrow's foes, while yesterday's opponents may ev- entually come to look to Wash- ington for security and progress Most dangerous of all is the moment when some earthquake- like shift of world conditions brings America’s over-all _ glo bal policies into conflict with the specialized interests of one or. more of its allies.. This today
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ing up of the big British market some Irish interests may suffer, | notably the secondary industfies which have been carefully nurs- ed wens during recent years.
> It is an old grievance of the Irish that their economy was ruthlessly subordinated to that of Britain during the long per- iod of British rule. They never gained as much as the Scots aft- er the Industrial Revolution from the existence of the United Kingdom. Canada Will be particularly in- terested in how the new agree- ment works out, for our econom- ie relationship to the United States is in some ways paralle! to that between the Republic of Ireland and Britain, though our secondary manufacturers are a much more important part of
y our economy.
Regressive Taxation.
~ Winnipeg- Tribune Tax Jaws all ee : part of tax legislators fs not pe-
show a no-nonsense approach
the intimacies of family fe | who-draw con alas
tion regard marriage “as_an un- |
| tidy custém that makes tax-de-_|
duction more complicated than
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They bear with thought that their rulings knock |
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example, that any wife | with the interesting name of Tan
culiar to Canada. Recently a group of members in the Malay- sian parliament suggested to the finance minister that citiz- ens should be given tax exemp- tion for second and ‘succeeding | wives.
The finance minister, a man
Sin, rejected“the proposal. He said, "A second wife is not only
| pleasure, end if you can afford | it, you might as well pay for it.” Finance’ ministers are the
won't recognize the facts of life. 5
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