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: Let’s Keep Hoping

* Hopes have been dashed that the Christmas truce in Viet Nam could be converted into a permanent cease- fire. No doubt, spokesmen contend, it was the North Vietnamese who were responsible for bréaking the truce, though Moscow chéffges that it was the other way ahont. What is depressing is the setback which peace efforts have received. But the pressure of world opinion is still something to be reck-

as U.S. military.

by dramatists and. spoken by actors).

has become a*grave conference or svmposium. especially of church dig- nitaries. An interview is no longer thorough; it is “in depth.” Nor is there a group of buildings any longer. but a “complex.” And a structure in stich a complex:is likely to be a ‘‘fac- ility."’ To understand one another is passe—‘‘communications” are estab- lished and the person who gains un- derstanding thereby becomes “know- ledgeable.”

We no longer explain the details of a problem, we “spell it out.” We don't, face a situation, we ‘face-up to it.” Better still, we have a “con- frontation.”” A song isn’t uttered loudly any more; it is “belted.” An enthusiast or fan is now a “buff.” He doesn't influence. by ennaciating: what. he does or knows “rubs offt on another. And he shouldn't disparage or belittle, he should “downgrade.” A critical or climactic point is now the “moment of truth,” thanks to bull ring bologna. And the chap who takes too many jobs “spreads him- self thin.” “ :

“Motivation” has long been in stvle with educators. “Automation,” which began as slang in: the Ford plant at Detroit, has become equally respectable. “Gap” flew in with the missiles competition and has stayed

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oned with. and there is no doubt as |

t@ the manner in which this pressure has been building up in recent weeks. On both sides,-let us hope, it is being felt. The Soviet Union now is as

disturbed as the United States over |

the potential power of China, and this is a factor worth taking into ac- count. But Washington must be

- prepared to play its cards with more™ |

diplomacy than it seems to have done im this instance. ' ; Another matter of concern to the - Russians is the final decisions that will be made with regard to provid-

ing a strategic role for West. Ger--

many in the North Atlantic Treaty

Organization. Chancellor Erhard’s™

visit to President Johnson last week was of particular significance in this regard. The communique issued af- tér this two days’ conference assert- ed that “arrangements could and would be worked out to assure mem- bers of the alliance not having nu- clear weapons an appropriate share in nuclear. defense,” and this has been interpreted as meaning’ more than just giving Germany a role in nuclear strategy planning.

The Soviet Union has gone out of its way in recent days to warn

against any German nuclear role. —

President Johnson, because of that and also because of widespread dis- trust of West Germany in eastern Europe and even among some NATO allies, has the ‘problem of trying to satisfy the Germans without giving

them the bomb or any actual con- .

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interval in all other activities. “Thrust” also has been thrust upon us by the space missiles. ‘“Monolithic” was inspired by the stubborn Kremlin. “Fabulous,” like the poor, is always with us. The overworked “meaningful” has become an omri- bus word, almost meaningless. Finally, there is “finalize” itself. The Milwaukee scribe prize comment on this one to a New

Yorker cartoonist in a recent issue of |

that entertaining publication. He drew

a toombstone upon which was the

name of the departed with “Born 1888, Finalized 1965.”

~ Champlain's Astrolabe To add a touch to our centenriial celebrations in 1967, a movement is afoot to bring back from New York City the astrolabe used 350 years ago by Samuel de Champlain for the ex- This instru- ment, which preceded the sextant as a device forletermining geographi-

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Canadians enjoy -visiting the West Indies. They like to Ke on the warm sands and gaze out over the sparkling blue, waters, to listen to distinctive and en- chanting musica! rhythms, and ' to borrow for a time the languid grace of the West Indian ap- proach to living.

The tourist, for the most part

cal position, was a pretty crude af- -

fair; but Champlain used it so: well to investigate and map the country

westward including much of what is

‘now Ontario, that his maps were re- markably accurate. He described his astrolable, made in 1603, im his journ- al. ;

. He lost it in 1613 while exploring the Ottawa River, and it remained lost for 254 years. A woodsman pick-

ed it out of the ground in 1867, the -

year Canada became a confederation. About 50 years later, the scarred but.

. remarkably well preserved device

was sold'for $10. to a United States Eventually it came into the possession of the New York His- torical Society, a private organization.

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sisted last week that Germany is not wedded to any particular plan of TO sharing and that whatever

_s¢heme is adopted will not put nu-

clear weapons under the sole control of his government. He appears to have won his point with President

‘ Johnson on these terms.

: The issue, however, is likely to

prove-a-continuing source of friction —

with Moscow. All the more reason, therefore, for keeping other doors of gommunication as widely open as posable. Those..in the Soviet Un-

ign: who are working for an accom: |

modation with the West may be do- ite ‘so out of self-interest, but that is

mete reason lies—not in a renewed cold war.

= ‘And So It Goes

; Jt used to be that men like Cole

rter and Noel Coward and the late

riierset Maugham. were called “gophisticated,” meaning that they wet@ an urbane, worldly type. Today it's different. Electronic gadgets and complex computers and other ultrare-

- fined ‘ paraphernalia are now the

“sophisticated” ones; and this is but ohe example of how the current age is’ infested with expressions that emerge from relative obscurity, pro- Sorte to popularity and- confront tHe harassed reader at every turn. A riter in the Milwaukee Journal otes a wide variety of these ‘vogue eds.” as he calls them, and our E rs may be interested-in some of e odd specimens he has Aug up. | The Pentagon, as we suspected. is

. responsible for the term “escalation,”

ich means ‘‘more troops in action.” é the: proliferation of vogue words pone on at all levels. The experts

nd-expertise” these days, rath- professional skill. “Dialogue,”

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' A New York dispatch quotes the director of this society as saying that he was. aware of some sentiment in Canada for the return of the astro- labe but had received no official re- quest. Any such request, he added, would be presented to the society's board of trustees and given “due con- sideration.” _ es

Now it is said that “avenues of active negotiation” are being sought by both the Centennial Commission

and the Canadian Centennial Coun- -

cil-with the United States Embassy at Ottawa and the State Department at Washington. That ought to prove ef-

fective in bringing the astrolabe home |

without—as Centennial Commissioner

John Fisher has reportedly suggest-

ed—making a horse-trading deal of_ the matter by offering, in exchange, -

two brass cannon from the Battle of Bunker Hill that are now in the Que-

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EDITORIAL NOTES

The US. Civil Service Commis- sion-is sponsoring English classes for bureaucrats. with an emphasis on using real English, and not the bur- ‘eaucrat’s hybrid version thereof. Judging by some of the releases we get from Ottawa, it wouldn’t be a

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The dawn of the nuclear age has

with the dismantling of the cyclotron

which split a uranium atom for the |

first time in the United States. The atom smasher, designed and built 27 years ago at Columbia University, is to be crated and sent to the Smith- sonian Institute in Washington: where it will join machines that were used to usher in the aviation, automobile, railroad, and—horse-and-buggy ages.

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Essentially the subjects must be those one would expect to find at a conference between a prosperous'nation on the one hand, and two small countries with grave economic difficulties on the other.

Our help to them in the past has been in hits and pieces, and

Trials start near- Paris next January of a pilot-scale proto- type for a hovertrain designed to carry commuters at up. to 0 mi per hour, or more than 1 “mph faster than the fastest existing form of public transport by land, the Tokyo- Osaka express. :

The French government has given a $220,000 grant to the re- search company ewned by 4 Bertin, who designed it. “aerotrain”’

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WEST INDIAN APPROACH

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] none too generous although the ! developed countries and there | income of the average West In- have been oblique references in | dian is about one-third that of | high places to future increases average Canadian in this assistance. We will have | Much has been said-in Cana-| an admirable opportunity in da recently about the modest | this forthcoming conference to scale of our assistance to under- | show our. sincerity. :

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they can fee] even prouder. Al most alone in dignity, common | sense and contempt of hypo- | crisy, they stood Monday in Montreal before the Royal Com- mission on Biculturalism and Bilingualism and gave them — for-the first time — a |

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| it would rather: | alongside that shining | Imagine our. delight when we | discovered that for only $10 we could buy another tape measure. in its own special sterling silver case. Problem solved! :

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when the atmosphere is right; The programs, of course, are mainly in Arabic. Many of them are anti-Israeli. The Is- taeli government feels it must provide programming of its own to counteract Arab propaganda.

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‘Hence the governitient subsidy. Several banks and manufac. turers like ‘Hispano-Suiza and Les Grands .Ttavaux de Mar-

seille have put up capital. The some in Europe French railways, already fight- is feared by. a r

ing to protect. themselves from | "een _Fresch Foreign Minister

competition on roads and canals 6 are followin; the experiment fwithout warmth, Monsieur Ber- | tin is also-developing marine - hovercraft, in collaboration with

| the shipbuilder Chantiers de I'- | The city ‘of Salem, Mass,

Atlantique, and: the s founded in 1626, is now embroil- | ompagnie Generale Transatlan- | ed in a bitter dispute over an | tique. : urban renewal plan. It is the |

This group has a 30-ton pro totype and plans a 150-ton ver sion much or the lines pioneer- ed by Westland in Britian.

familiar collision between com- merce and conservation.~ be- tween history and highways.

The greatly admired O1d Town Hall, now 150 years old, is

| TREE GOES UP IN SMOKE

| PROVO, Utah (AP)—The 20- foot Yule tree set up in the city- county building here wasn't around when Chrisimas Day

dawned, It -caught fire - | project; garage mas Eve. Firemen saved is to fate it. : ‘| building but the tree was burned |. The renewal plan is support-

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each decade up to age 50, when | it declines moderately. It is the usual story of a brown mole

| sign that something is amiss. Now and then the mole throws | off a slight secretion. The most | suspect lesions are slate blue or

‘located on the palm or sole +where easily irritated.

observed. In this stage there is an active growth of dangerous cells and removal is imperative before they spread to other

--| parts of the body. There is no |

cancer more.deadly or as tricky as the malignant melanoma. Sometimes the original lesion escapes detection and diagnosis is made when an enlarged tym- -. gland is removed an biope-

A word of caution: Inadequate or unskilled removal may be more disastrous thah letting the mole alone. Never apply nitric acid. or caustics. This irritates instead of killing the’ cells and may stimulete the growth. The same can be said of the improp- er use of the cautery and elec- tric needle.

Surgeons cut beyond the bor-

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| ruler for $270 but felt that= at

; anoma cells may extend to a | considerable depth and width | beneath the eurface.

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| lack of calcium, and the circula- | tion becomes so sluggish that -| blood Further-

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rest prolongs convalescence and the patient remains on the sick list longer than need be.

TRY GUM O. O. writes: Unless I ‘hide all the rubber bands around the house, I start chewing them. Do I need a vitamin? REPLY No. We all have our little pec- aliarities and cravings and + yours does no harm. On the oth- er hand, the habit should not be encouraged. Throw away your’ Tubber bands or substitute gum or mints MORE SUSCEPTIBLE

onary attacks? —

PLY The female sex hormones play a major role. In addition, men have a different temperament from women and their activities. bring them into more trying ait- uations that produce frustration,

hostility, or anxiety.

NIGHTLY CODEINE _ Mrs. C. writes: Will taking a cough medicine with codeine

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But it would be better to have the cough investigated and the cause treated rather than de- pend upon any medication rou, ine!

tinely- : TODAY'S HEALTH HINT—

If you must smoke, do so mod- erately.

(NOTE: All correspondence te Mr. Van Delien should he addressed te: Dr. Theedere Van Dellen, co Chicage Trib- une, Chicago, Mlinois.)

Television And Propaganda

Milwaukee

Couve de Murville visited the Soviet Union recently the Ruse- jans proposed a French-Soviet communications satellite which could be. used for television.

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‘ The figures are analyzed quite strikingly by Dr. Kenneth W. | Taylor, the former Deputy Min- ister of Finance in Ottawa, in the current issue of The Queen's Quarterly.

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| Our Yesterdays

(From The Guardian )

TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO i (December 27, 1940)

Yesterday, the eighth large contingent of Canadian troops to cross the Atlantic since the war

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1950s the 15 to 24 age group in- creased on an average of about 35,000 a year. In the first halt of the 1960s the average growth rose to 120,000 a year. And in the next five years it will be up te "140,000 a year. The rea! problem {a not to find jobs. The real problem is to find | young people trained for the skilled jobs available. In recent years the unemployment percen-

first or year school has been about twice as | great as the percentage of un- | employed in the other age areas The newspaper Nichi Nichi in-| One of the main reasons ie tha! | Tokyo quoted ‘‘reliable sources” | far too high a proportion o | as saying the United States gov- younger people have had m ‘ernment had been urged ‘‘to ad- , technical training. vise American residents in Jap- The underlying problem le an to leave not later than Jan. | that of education—whether at 31." | the university level, or at the technical institute -level. In Can- TEN YEARS AGO ada, as never before, educatice (December 27, 1955) | and economic progress, are al- Ham Fisher, 54, creator of the | Hed. If Canada cannot provide | comic strip ‘Joe Palooka’’. a | the needed education, the coun- | favorite for decades, was found | try. will be facing extremely ser- | dead Tuesday night in his Mad- | ious economic trouble. |json—-Avenue~etuie, -New York |

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